skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is they take a transaction fee in the same way Visa do.
I wonder why this happened. Visa is primarily a technology company - not a financial institution. It's incentivesed to keep fraud on visa cards low (so that merchants continue to accept it) and keep its ecosystem of issuers + acquirers happy.

If I'm not missing anything, I believe this must have happened because of unusually high levels of fraud on Bitcoin visa cards. Certain acquirers might've complained about abnormal amounts of "shady" volume from WaveCrest BINs.

Alternatively, Visa might have seen a settlement risk on WaveCrest's end. I.e. Visa might be worried that fluctuations in BTCs price would put WaveCrest in a position that they wouldn't be able to settle funds with Visa (and consequently the acquirers + merchants).

Any other ideas on what could've prompted this? I think if this was anti-BTC regulatory action, the prompt to turn off these cards would've come from WaveCrest's banking partners and not Visa.
Nothing todo with crypto, all Wavecrest prepaid cards impacted. New law in effect in Gibraltar since Jan 1.
Ugh, I hear you. That B-word is what really grinds my gears, and frankly makes me a little frightened at how society's tastes are seemingly permanently changing. Anything that doesn't have continuous in-your-face stimulation nowadays is boring. Nobody can tolerate a movie anymore if it has any "slow" parts. Everything has to be a Vin Diesel explosion-fest. Nobody can sit through a full 60-70 minute CD unless every song is 130BPM+ and full volume. Nobody but me even buys full albums anymore really, it's just 2 minute blips on iTunes. My own 5 year old daughter can't even make it through any of the old Disney movies that are specifically made for kids because as soon as the action slows down and the characters start talking, her mind wanders off and she wants to go do something else.

We've lost the concept of sitting down for the sole purpose of enjoying a single work that is more complex than a 3 minute YouTube clip.
The value that rests with the publisher is mainly the reputation of specific journals it maintains. In some (most?) scientific fields, publishing in a high-reputation journal is of primary importance for grant funding, author's job prospects, attracting top talent, etc.

For example, the Journal of Membrane Science is one of the most highly regarded journals in my field. Anyone in the field can be pretty confident that an article in that journal is a high-quality work, meaning it's scientifically rigorous and representative of the state of the art. Researchers want to publish in that journal so that they are associated with 'the best' in their field.

Articles in another journal, Membranes, which I just discovered now on Google, would not receive the same amount of credence from professionals in the field. This is partly due to practitioners themselves unwilling to trust lesser-known journals; however, professionals are busy and need an easy way to filter feed from the chaff. The value provided by Elsevier in that sense is that they maintain a type of filter of quality.

I'm sure all of the same authors and professionals could start a new journal and immediately stop publishing in Journal of Membrane Science, but it could be a less-than-optimal career choice. In a sense, timing would be everything.
As I don't have enough karma yet, I cannot flag this. I've been a frequent visitor for a while though. Anyway it doesn't seem appropriate here. This is ground that has been tread a thousand times. As much as I'd like to give my .02 on this topic and the claims therein.
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> Enquiry officers do not have any legal powers to enter your home without a search warrant granted by a magistrate (or sheriff in Scotland).
> You have no obligation to grant entry to an enquiry officer if you don’t wish to do so.
We’ve entered an unquantifiable mish-mash of superlatives but I’d reckon that uber, as a mainstream pioneer of the contemporary sharing economy, has had more of an impact than you’re willing to admit.
> In the end I just gave up, and let some French band monetize my video that contained a song written and recorded by my friend's dad. Enjoy the 25 cents you earned!

I would have elected to not post the video. NEver let anyone profit from your efforts if they have done nothing to contribute. Don't cave to these bottom feeders.
One of the most important features in TeaVM is its inteprocedural dead code elimination algorithm, which allows to produce very small code for simple Java programs. For example, Hello World produces about 40 kb JavaScript, TodoMVC (http://teavm.org/live-examples/todomvc/#/) is only 125 kb.
So in the case of the demo, is their server is hosting the content for 4 days?
See the GC proposal: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O.... Here you get structs, arrays, and tuples (that can be used for multiple returns). I am not disappointed that none of these features made the MVP personally.
https://blog.trello.com/why-context-switching-ruins-producti... . This might not apply to your situation, but it's worth examining whether or not trying to fill the time would negatively impact your productivity.
This claim is analogous to one like "Bill Nye is not a race car driver, so we should take his account of how centrifugal force acts on a race car on a bank with a grain of salt."

It's true that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has been largely discredited. But practical use of a language and analytic understanding of the principles that allow it to function are not strictly related.
There still seems to be 10% gap between these ML APIs to miss-classify images, might be a case where they have been trained very conservatively to filter out even a little bit show of skin.
Wonder how others are moderating their UGC images? (Seems social networks like FB don't do any moderation, have been embarrassed many times when an explicit image shows up on my wall :P )
Sometimes appreciating something old requires digging into context. For example, most books released in the 1800s will seem like gibberish without an understanding of the sociopolitical climate. And then there's that whole situation where those same books were padded in a way that makes the modern one-book trilogy look concise because they were paid by the word.

I couldn't enjoy 2001 until I knew about all the detailed model work that went into it. The uncut version is still super boring, but it's easier to stay awake knowing what to look for. It's kind of the same situation with the various '90s Star Trek series. I am no longer impressed by long scenes of a ship passing by planets, so the intros are boring.
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> Obviously because they don't work

In the days of analogue TV, they almost certainly did. Analogue CRT televisions put out a tremendous amount of spurious RF. The intermediate frequency from the receiver's local oscillator was easily detected from some distance, even with inexpensive amateur equipment. With more sophisticated equipment, it wouldn't be difficult to see exactly what was on the screen using Van Eck phreaking. With modern technology, you could build a working TV detector bicycle using nothing more than an Android tablet, an RTL-SDR stick and a home-made yagi.

I think that the secrecy was about how often TV detection technology was actually used. The BBC research department could have knocked together a working TV detector van in a spare afternoon, but it would have been prohibitively expensive to operate. Why send out two skilled broadcast engineers in a van full of equipment, when an empty van being driven by a debt collector will do the job?
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Kotlin/JS does not allow to reuse Java code and Java libraries. That's the main difference.
There are some really interesting features in some of the constructs of mound-building termites (Macrotermes spp.) Air flow, thermal control, and water management have been the subjects of some research; it's clearly a fertile area for cross-discipline cooperation by human researchers.

Whatever one makes of the mental capacity of these individual eusocial animals (they're not too bright; you can lure them into termite windmills), collectively they substantially alter their local environment to their benefit.

There are whole valleys full of mounds rising a couple of metres above ground level in places where they are endemic:

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/06/79/d5/55/...

https://www.experiencethewild.com.au/Images/CathMound-300-PM...

and here's a a whole mess of such mounds in a field:

https://photos.travelblog.org/Photos/87121/530935/f/5448597-...

That's a lot of biomass with a lot of total neurons, and even though aren't as tightly coupled as the ones in our skulls, they still manage to coordinate a lot of constructive activity. I think it's reasonable to wonder if culture and aesthetics emerge as termite numbers grow large.
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This seems to be the relevant law for New York, as an example, found under 19-506 of the New York City Administrative Code, which was passed by the city legislature, which was given its power by the Constitution of the State of New York:

Any person, other than a person holding a driver's license issued pursuant to section 19-505 and a New York state class A, B, C or E license, neither of which is revoked or suspended, who drives or operates for hire a licensed vehicle in the city except a commuter van, shall be guilty of a violation, and upon conviction in the criminal court, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisonment for a term not exceeding thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment.

Obviously courts can impose fines - do you honestly think the only thing a court can do is throw someone in jail? Fines are not for torts - penalties are, and there's very strict rules around penalties (they can't be punitive and can only be used to recover costs incurred by failure to perform a contract). You have no idea what you're on about.

The process of fining you is literally a court procedure. The city official doesn't have any authority to fine you - they bring a prosecution against you in court, and provide you with the details by which you can either plead guilty in front of that court (possibly via mail or an online form) and take the sentence that the court gives you (which is most likely to be a fine unless the judge has more information), or plead not guilty and make a defense. Anything else would be a violation of due process.
I'd be surprised if he paid the rack rate either, but that does not diminish the generosity of his gift.
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There's no remote exploit though, right? So the only way an attacker could turn this into a botnet would be to somehow get Android apps to run attacker controlled code or exploit existing code that fits the pattern described in the attacks (seems not to exist in practice). These aren't super high bars, but they do make the exploit significantly harder.
I've seen it in the cinema a couple of times over the years, and you're right, it's a truly amazing thing to experience; previously I'd only watched on VHS or on the BBC.

It wasn't until the blu-ray release came out that I felt the same experience and immersion in the film as I did with viewing in a theatre.
I did a quick angelfire search and to my complete and utter horror a few of my sites still exist from over fifteen years ago. Still waiting for time to erase them!
I guess nobody here has taken that course?
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Currently, if you run TeaVM with 'debug' (-g) option, and WASM target, you'll get both '.wasm', '.wast' and '.c' files. C file is compilable with GCC and you should write several trivial functions manually to get working binary, either '.so' or '.exe'.
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In 10 years they will love it and they will brag in front of their hipster friends for having watched it as young kids :-)
I would strongly disagree, moderators apart from filtering nudity also apply a lot of business rules while filtering content even the report says that the best recall is around 90% which leaves a fair bit of stuff that still needs to pass human evaluation. May be that's why folks like youtube employee ten of thousands of moderator in countries like India or philipines.
Related: I'm constantly amazed that Google Books is still alive.
The XPS 15 had a "known issue". Dell refuses to admit an issue with the XPS 13, so it refuses to replace the battery out of warranty, despite the safety concern.
No desktop/laptop screws up a lot. No consistent access. No feeling I will not be persistently made to make mistakes re: worse than prior...
Non-commutative spaces are definitely not sets as well. That might have implications for foundations in the next century.
Hyperloop, if it isn't just hype, is a step in the right direction.
Better than the Emotiv locked down software I hope? Worst part of the Emotiv experience is simply registering to be able to use their software...
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If you're considering another bootcamp, don't bother. You don't mention if you have a degree or not (even one in an unrelated field is valuable), but if you're considering further education/training, I'd suggest doing so at an accredited institution and earning a degree for your efforts.

Otherwise, leverage your free time to work on your skills/portfolio. Structure your time; get disciplined. Read: http://calnewport.com/blog/2015/09/29/deep-habits-three-rece...

And as others have said: do not to work for free under any circumstances. Don't sell yourself short.

Best of luck.
> Nobody can tolerate a movie anymore if it has any "slow" parts.

As someone (from several generations ago) who watches plenty of "slow" movies (try a Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes or some of the early monster movies), I found 2001 to be profoundly boring and dull - to the extent that it's only one of three films that's caused me to fall asleep in the cinema (the others being "Transformers: The Last Knight" and "Avengers Apocalypse" - neither of which can be said to be "slow".)
You can't have dug too deep into IPFS without knowing that because it's one of the fundamental aspects of the design.

Try reading their documentation. https://ipfs.io/docs/
I dearly thought it was an anarchist group burning strips of land preventively..
If you look at how much their demos in their gallery downloads, it's in the hundreds of kilobytes on average. Granted these are not full web apps but even still it's roughly on par with the latest web app framework's demos.

Performance is not too shabby either
I meant that under Markovian assumption value iteration used for Bellman equation is guaranteed to converge. So it makes math people happy, even if such property doesn't hold in the real world nor in the problem they try to solve, and the "deep" in DRL is just heuristics, though surprisingly working in many cases.
Nice idea, here's a little WebGL version inspired by your post. I just used a noise function rather than the polygons though. https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lt2BRm
Yup, I use those unsigned methods, e.g. https://github.com/cretz/asmble/blob/3cb439e887245f23bf876e8.... Luckily WASM only has 32/64 bit integer arithmetic.
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To compare it with the most impactful companies that the world has ever seen, I compare it to companies that did things like, for example, pioneer electricity distribution across the US (and other countries), or turn antibiotics from an exotic, expensive lab experiment into something that could be economically manufactured in quantity. They had top tier impact. By comparison, Uber is basically invisible.
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That's not a meaningful question; it needs selection pressures over time to make sense.
GC is only about 300 lines of code. There's no JNI in TeaVM (and never will be), instead of JNI there's JSO to interact with JavaScript, and still no interop layer for WebAssembly (that's why I claim WASM support to be experimental). JSO is rather lightweight, and I hope I'll be able to implement a lightweigh interop for WASM.

As for Java libraries, TeaVM is able to throw away unused parts of it, producing relatively small binaries.
If Intel pulls this off i'll applaud
May be Apple should acquire them? Google already has its own WiFi and it seems the idea of Eero fits Apple perfectly.
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Why not draw the line at consciousness? don't eat animals that science has proven to have IQ that approaches human 1-3 year old IQ, like parrots, crows, dolphins, etc.
all other animals are fair game.
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> NEver let anyone profit from your efforts if they have done nothing to contribute.

Don't focus on the "bottom feeders". Focus on those to whom you have brought joy. Github would be an empty place otherwise...
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Well Zeus might be real. If you worship him there’s no cost to do so. It’s a mild inconvenience to go to Zeus temples every Thursday for the rest of your life and pray to him. If you’re wrong, no harm. Oh and apply this thousands of other gods too.
These instructions are just a more convenient (and faster) way to manipulate the cache. An attacker can still manipulate the cache without these instructions by manipulating their access patterns.
Widely eaten animals are those easy to farm. This limits them mostly to land herbivores, like cows, and water herbi/omnivores, like shrimp or tilapia.

The level of intelligence plays little role, as long as the animals don't use it to actively try to fight back or escape. E.g. pigs are no less smart than dogs.
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The mainstream media is pirating my attention with their nonsense about piracy.
I never though about it, but thinking about the last movies I've watcher, I agree that the mental setup/mood at the time can have a great influence on how much I'd be drawn into a movie.
I’m not close enough to that action to know but I understand (from rumours) that he pretended to support a problematic successor who proved to be a dud to get the attention far from Dara, the person he actually wanted to take over.
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Well... The value Elsevier provides is that it attracts the people who maintain the filter of quality - namely the editorial board.

An interesting case is Lingua, an Elsevier journal. A few years ago, its editorial board (i.e. regular researchers not employed by Elsevier) collectively resigned and founded the new journal Glossa. That is now the journal that provides that stamp of quality, proving that its not Elsevier itself that provides it.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossa_(journal)
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Saying "it is not a flaw, it is working as designed", when that design has led to a demonstrated exploit, marks one as either clueless or duplicitous. Why would a company as large as Intel choose to present itself as such? I guess it thinks we are too dumb to notice (Intel did say it is not a flaw in its press release; I don't know whether it explicitly tried the "working as designed" excuse, but the no-flaw claim by itself is nonsense, regardless.)
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Considering actual firearm violence has actually shrunk a lot in recent decades, I feel you have just a hint of bias based on a political agenda there.
The code was uploaded to GitHub later: https://github.com/thinkuped/thred
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That's incorrect, because loading music on iPods didn't require you to re-encode anything.

Sony's early digital players required your music to be in Sony's proprietary format, which was a whole additional step. And remember, 20 years ago, re-encoding took longer, so it was meaningfully less convenient.

There's definitely a case to be made that requiring iTunes to load iPods/iPhones is annoying and needlessly complex, but I think it's clear Apple did this to make it more accessible to normal humans, not to exert control or in a quixotic attempt to sideline open codecs.

(That Apple's current path is clearly away from iTunes sync and towards independent device connections to Apple Music kinda bears this out, I think, even if that's not something I'm interested in using.)
I'd guess most researchers use libraries' copies of these pricy papers. So it's mostly about tax money Elsevier forces university libraries to pay all around the world. And also independent researchers.
I wonder how much of this is because we are increasingly watching movies at home or on portable devices with lots of distractions around us?

I've seen 2001 in 70mm a few times in recent years in a nice theater (and I'll see it again when it comes back), and it's very engrossing in a dark theater with no technology. You can let the entire film and all of its implications just wash over you. You can't get up, nor can you check your phone. You have nothing else to do other than just be in the moment.

This is harder to do at home. People should see more seminal movies in theaters, and I wish more theaters showed them. I live by American Film Institute's theater in the DC area, which is how I am able to see all of this stuff, but many other people do not. I think it's a big miss that more theaters don't show older movies year around.
Your point is valid that giving your html tags id's are like defining global objects.

In fact some browsers give you warnings if you have two tags with the same id defined.

However this is by no means a new 'feature'. Maybe it's time to take a brush up on the DOM model.

Oh. And yes. The web technologies are a whole pile of worms in itself. Just think of the hacks that Javascript frameworks go through in order to render things just somewhat fast.
They sent an email yesterday that they have a backlog and are working on getting wires out just yesterday.

https://status.coinbase.com/incidents/p9r8swts79xd

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As a long time Lynch fan (I discovered Lynch from watching the original Twin Peaks series back when it was first broadcast in the early 90's) I'd probably put Inland Empire aside for a bit if you're just getting started.

What have watched so far?
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I really appreciate how coinbase is addressing this like Chase has sent nothing about this, coinbase in contrast is telling you how they handle transactions to minimize the potential damage and what they are doing to mitigate the issues on their end. Big thumbs up to coinbase for being aggressively and open about their response to this threat.