skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a service like this in Australia, POLi. It's used almost exclusively to facilitate EFT transactions to vendors that can't use the regular channels like PayPal, local Banks, or Mastercard/Visa. ie. Porno, gambling, bitcoins, drugs.

I learned about it by working in gambling. I cannot believe that people are OK with just giving their online banking details to a company. It's insane! but people are willing to use it because there is almost no other way of getting the product they want.

Take the legislative risk out of handling those types of transactions, and shit like this will disappear.
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Speaking from experience, of all 3 major US card networks, I consider Visa the most advanced in terms of their tech.
I was one of the members of 3dbuzz early on. It pretty much shaped my career. I now run my own video tutorial site (codemy.net) because I was inspired by 3DBuzz.

I got my first job because of content from 3DBuzz. Later focussed on web development and now I'm here working in a very good job / able to start my own projects. Most of it started at 3DBuzz. So this is a very sad day for me.

I remember when Jason passed away that was devastating. I reached out to some members (who are now working at Epic / Microsoft). 3DBuzz set me (and many other people I know) up for life.
Thanks.

I've had ... different ... experiences, though could well see others not.
Google Services commonly exempt themselves from those kinds of "privacy protections". Google's happy protecting your privacy from other companies, just as long as they continue to get special access.
Do we know that MS TLS implementation parses self-signed certs only after successful validation? Many implementations offer an option of showing their contents (eg to see what CA it claims to be signed by), or offer the user a choice to accept it, or log identifying fields from the cert for diagnostic purpouses. Same for the CA server offered CA chain.

I'm also not convinced that the fields-allowed-by-CAs set is safe, especially when you consider the set of all browser-accepted CAs, it's historically been a fraught field.

Also with x.509 you have to decode the ASN.1 before you can even get to the signature, there have been historically been lots of vulnerabilities in ASN.1 parsers.
In the US, it is.
Of course you include them - the whole point of VC investing is that even if most of your companies exited at $0, the 1 10,000%+ return made up for it.
Do you have advice for finding code snippets that would most benefit from being re-written in C and called with Cython? I know how to find slow functions in Python, but obviously not every slow function will be a good candidate for rewriting.
Yes, I guessed it was about visualizing dependency injection or data flow in Spring application ...
Every time Plaid is mentioned on HN, people want to hate. My take is: don't use it if you're scared ?

A few of my friends were talking about Plaid the other day, and I told them I like the company/product, but "many people on HN hate it." They were perplexed and when I explained it was because you guys were nervous about entering your bank password into a third-party (yet reputable) company's interface (that's encrypted), they wrote it off as "being paranoid." Can't say I disagree...
I consider myself one of those. I don't run a custom android rom, I haven't even set a custom wallpaper. When I get a new phone I install fdroid and install a set of open source privacy respecting apps I know to work and do exactly what I want.

I like the app store model of having a 3rd party do quality control. I just want the option to select the 3rd party which is best aligned with my interests. Google and Apple do not have my best interests in mind.
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The title should add [IN USA]. Also this article should contain two sections for the whites and the non whites
"FUD" isn't so uncertain when there is known widespread android malware. iOS malware only happens in extreme cases (like ransomware via a bad profile https://i.blackhat.com/briefings/asia/2018/asia-18-Zhu-and-L... ), via something like XcodeGhost, or via safari tech support scams. Just look at how stark of contrast there is between the lists of malware for both devices - https://www.cyber.nj.gov/threat-profiles/android-malware-var... and https://www.cyber.nj.gov/threat-profiles/ios/#list-of-known-....
Its more or less what i said in a different narrative. So the groups that did the right thing went on to survive, and the process to abstract what is “right” continued.

I think the need to abstract what is right is born out of the local phenomena of suffering .. just like the diety of medicine and healing Sekhmet or Hepius.

Death and disease would have still been universal, independent of which tribe survived. Im not arguing for the morality of disease here, but i am saying its a universal trait the system has, and we seem to try and minimize pain/suffering, much in the same way we need food.

I actually kind of agree with ur tldr, but only because i don’t see a real differences between hunting and eating. Its one process, and its discreteness is a local illusion - its actually happening everywhere at once, which we seem to be bad at imagining.
Static typing is ceremony. That is anti-Python.

If you want Java, write Java. Don't try to make Python Java.
It does works on LCDs. Funny enough, it didn't look like a shark at first to me; turns out my eyes overshot, and aligned two layers in, creating a quite different shape.

Here's the trick I recommend to train the eye muscles: practice the "magic floating finger" eye trick: https://michaelbach.de/ot/sze-Frankfurter/. As you alternate between looking at your finger trips, and looking at the distance, you can start to feel how focus controls the floating finger appearing and disappearing. This is the same thing with stereograms; you want to make two matching components overlap, at which point the eyes should snap it into place.
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We had an article about Debitor’s Prison existing again yesterday too.
The phenomenon that a small percentage of patients comprise the majority of health costs is not unique to the US, nor is it unique to this moment in time. There are many studies from other countries -- in Asia, Europe etc -- and even of the US decades ago -- that all highlight the same phenomenon
This is strangely framed. The choice is, at the very least, between a job, games, and a library. And a trillion other things. Long walks. Gardening.

I’m not sure where the games narrative comes from. From the image on top of the article?
You can be perfectly successful without a degree from a top school.
It's income, which in the USA is generally taxable.
I wish Animal Farm were higher on the list..
Jesus Christ I was getting paid $500K base, arranged to get at least $250K bonus and I barely showed up to work. I hope you were getting at least double.

I should be clear that I was one of the best coders they had at that time. My work didn't suffer.
Letting the search happens only makes it worse. Force them to have probable cause or violate your rights. Know your basic rights and assert them. Not doing so only helps the police state.
This sounds fantastically interesting, and I could see it being successful. Basically — go live in a (literally) college like setting, but you have a source of income. I would do it. Hit me up if you want to chat about this idea.
> We all agree that inequality is bad
False

I don’t like blanket moral labels like “bad” and “good” used for things like inequality. It’s simply a fact of existence... it is what it is.
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Can you expand on this? It sounds plausible, but then so does the narrative being pushed by the “new law” firms – that clients want alternative fee structures because they don’t like the open-ended cost of time billing.
Conspiring to steal classified data isn’t a thoughtcrime. He isn’t being punished because of what he thinks, he is being punished what what he did. Conspiring to obtain classified military data isn’t the same thing as thinking differently.
Essentially that’s how nature works, starting at the encoded amino acid level and building itself up to increasingly complex structures and life forms.
You only pay tax when you sell your shares or exercise options.
>Generators are not inherently faster as they were made to allow for lazy computation, which saves memory rather than time. However, the saved memory can be cause for your program to actually run faster. How? Well, if you have large dataset and you don't use generators (iterators), then the data might overflow CPUs L1 cache, which will slow down lookup of values in memory significantly.

Can someone chime in about the L1 cache? The claim is made without measurements, so I am skeptical.
Isn’t that what they are now?
I disagree with this analysis. Every community that depends on normal members policing each other will eventually degrade.

It's only because the very competent HN mods put their thumbs on the scales that it works out.
Sure - I'm not disagreeing. In the same way that you don't have to start rich to end up being rich. I'm just saying you will likely have a more difficult time getting to the destination.
Ezra Jack Keats isn't a poet, he wrote children's books.
Youre assuming the context of that decision was purely an engineering process, when in-fact it was a political process.

You seem to think we should value one kind of good decision over the other.

I honestly don’t think the world works that way. Check out the O Ring & Feynman. Our social dynamics are often very terrifying and seemingly draconian, if it wasn't for a general trend of improvement and increased quality of life.
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Ask HN: Should I make a lower cost replica of niche software?
I've recently been looking into making some software for small to medium sized businesses and someone I know mentioned how there's software used for a part of the real estate world where there's only a single big player and they're quite expensive.

I am hesitant to build software that already exists because it seems sort of pointless in the grand scheme of the universe. And it seems like a tough spot to compete only on price. But it does seem like a pretty safe bet for making some income and the scope of the project is feasible for a single developer over some months.

Any advice or opinions appreciated.
And Orwell's Homage to Catalonia...
It sure is, but I think it's pretty clear that "using YT Vanced/other apps to watch all of my YT content" (or ad blockers for that matter) is effectively stealing by using Google's bandwidth, server time, data redundancy, etc. without giving them anything. Maybe you're fine with that, maybe even Google is fine with that (since, at least with only ad blockers, they still get the data to build their human-level intelligence ML model in 20 years), but not everyone wants to do so.
I grew up nearby and have never heard of the Renaissance Center. I'll go check it out soon!
Paul McCartney said Yesterday came to him in a dream. I think about this a lot in that there is something the unconscious mind seems to unlock.
Maybe because we’ve had a decade long bull market in stocks due to zero rates?
“Does talking about unaffordable rents in many major cities "diminish" the efforts of the homeless as well?”

Absolutely. This is actually a topic that I have moderate-to-substantial real world knowledge of.

Long term homelessness is not primarily caused by high rents per se.

Although in some cases rents can be a contributing factor, it is more commonly an issue of mental health, addiction, unemployability, and lack of access to a familial or similar safety net that are the proximate causes.

Usually a combination of those issues.

Pointing to homeless people sleeping on the streets and bringing up high rents is at best an uninformed opinion, and at worst using a suffering and marginalized population as rhetorical pawns in a political game.

There was a lot more in what I said that you seemed to gloss over, but I appreciate you providing the opportunity for us to discuss a concrete case.
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” - Anatole France

Besides, what does equality under the law mean? Arguably we already have that, but we see massive inequalities that cannot be entirely chalked up to inherent dispositions of the people that face them. Either the law, in its equality, does not do as it should (in which case the justice system needs strengthening), or the pure bluntness of law is insufficient for change.

How does one encode "meritocracy", into the law without being unjust and interfering with private life?

What if we were to find an inequality that can be remedied with law? Would it mean that we should use the law, to imprison people?

Or how about conflicts of rights? Many feminists (rightly or wrongly) claim that the pornographer's right to freedom of speech interferes with women's equality - some (Maitra, Langton, Hornsby, et al.) claim that it interferes with womens' right to be understood (and thereby freedom of speech)?

Is justice blind, as is often claimed? There are reasons to doubt that even Rawls himself considered the current system of justice as near his theory of the veil of ignorance.

The law, considered alone, does not do a great job of reducing inequality, except as a gesture.
Thanks.

Linus knew, damn it. He knew SHA-1 was obsolete.
that's a special case in my opinion since the gameplay revolved around your location
As far as I can tell, Kan fundamentally misunderstood the nature and value of automation in the legal services industry.

Kan was quoted in 2018 as saying "The goal with the tech side has always been...to help attorneys spend more of their time on meaningful work and less of their time on crank-turning work."

Time spent on "crank-turning work" constitutes a relatively negligible portion of billable time for any attorney billing at a reasonably high rate. They delegate as much of it as possible to people who bill at lower rates, like assistants, paralegals and junior associates. So you're not really automating much of the attorney's work at all. Even if you build an ergonomic software platform for routine tasks (like Atrium's glorified Dropbox), the amount of time/money it would save over the course of a large engagement is de minimis. And if you aren't dramatically saving time, you can't dramatically reduce client costs under any fee structure.

So they end up with this software group making tools that don't help the legal side make more money. And the tools don't contribute meaningfully to the legal side's pitching for work in part because they don't save the prospective client much money. Meanwhile, the software side can't sell the tools to other law firms because the software side is tied to a law firm. Ultimately, they end up with a bunch of lawyers and software developers who can't help each other. This outcome is so predictable that it's downright hilarious they ever thought it would be a money-making strategy, and apparently the investors didn't understand or think it through, either.

What Kan mostly got wrong was thinking that automation would be profitable for a law firm. There are lots of automation tools that would be extremely valuable to a law firm, but that usually means you should be selling them to a law firm, not from a law firm.
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Yeah. I think he (HS) was joking. He had a Nobel, and (co)invented AI. I’m pretty sure he knew what a proof is.
Shouldn't you find the current state of things to be equally frustrating then? It's just another example of the same thing.

We never got to choose how our economic/productive output is valued or disposed of, we just were born into this highly unequal and unfair system and had to play along or die. I'd find that a lot more frustrating than the proposal that, if the technological and resource capacity exists to provide enough for all, it should be shared relatively evenly.
> Unless you're suggesting that LTS enterprise support offerings should co-ordinate additional feature work on python 2, which is both unusual and again I claim actively harmful to the ecosystem.

If you have a large amount of Python 2 code that doesn't make sense to rewrite as Python 3 but does make sense to keep developing as opposed to just keep running as-is, it makes sense to want compatibility-preserving improvements to the language.

That such improvements are considered actively harmful comes from a point of view where there's a top-down imperative to shut down Python 2 in order to make Python 3 succeed. It's not harmful from the point of view of the code people have written in Python 2 being valuable.

The notion that there user community needs to work for Python (by porting to Python 3) and that Python 2 needs to be shut down as opposed to Python development valuing the existing code that had been developed is the core problem with Python 3.
That is exactly what a puppetmaster would say.
I got one of those today for Waze. I set it to only collect when it's in use.
Can you read?
A great many things that were facts of existence (such as warlordism and human sacrifice) no longer are, at least partially, I think, because people go as far as to apply those labels, in order to change them. Recognition of what is and isn't does not go as far as what will be or could be.
The problem mostly with CSV beyond the lack of standards, character encodings, and lack of compression, inability to efficiently write or read, and problems handling multiline freeform text, is that ultimately the structure is inband with the data, which is what makes all problems probable.
That's news: they removed downvote penalties? 8 years back I asked a question to make a poc virus for college, it received 2 downvotes, then a high rep guy quoted a Meta post saying it's consensus to answer such questions and I got a good answer.
Actually that’s a great point. Depending on your company and your role in the company I’m sure there are ways to get around that, but that would require your company to play ball and get creative with you.
A wonderful system were the tech illiterate remains an everlasting source of personal information for sale on ad exchanges.
We can't really yet design organisms on a genetic level to fully control their phenotype. But if we would - and wanted to - something like this seems like a step to that direction.

I'm not sure what you find nauseating about this. If you want muscle and skin cells frog embryos are as fine source as any, I suppose.
8 cents per kw/hr is nearly the cheapest rate in America.

And most people will not be on track to drive 200k miles in their car before the loan is paid off. Which leaves them upfronting a very large percentage of the savings.
My attorney has advised me (over social beers, not while preparing me for a court appearance :-) ) that while I can lie to the police, if I do and the prosecution can prove it, they will beat me like a drum with the fact I lied throughout any prosecution. Basically, there are no direct consequences, but if things get hairy, there can be indirect consequences.
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Yet that environment is probably much closer to the original purpose of a university than most others. Philosophy students at a small liberal arts school are much closer in spirit to Renaissance-era Oxford, Sorbonne, or Bologna. At least compared to STEM majors at an urban campus in a work-study program.

The point of a university pretty much is to hole yourself away from the broader world and engross yourself in the life of the mind squirrels away from practical concerns about the real world. It's kind of weird that we shoehorned this whole idea of career preparation for mass populations into an institution that's uniquely unsuited for that specific purpose.

Then we get pissed off because when those same universities don't do a good job preparing students for the job market. But that's like complaining that a winter coat is uncomfortable to wear to the beach.
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Some may find this trite, but for me, the best part of the article is how one of the twins, James, gets absolutely thrown under the bus for being a stoner. Utterly savage.
I think the first option is a very constructive path. The second just leads to a dull and combative forum (albeit not quite as combative as starting a reply with "what an obnoxious thing to do...").

I'd prefer just downvoting and moving on before doing that.
This story is a bit weird. The company is trying to repress publication of their catalog that was obtained from a FOIA act request directed at a small police department. Well this company is emailing their catalog at police departments nationwide. Fair enough but the catalog is certainly not a matter of national security as they are abusively claiming.

Their items are fairly boring and things that anyone here with a modicum of competence could hack together easily. Camera and transponder in a gravestone, child car seat, etc. basic stuff. Nothing is a big secret, why are they acting like it is? I guess to get attention. If a police department needs any of their items, they can save money hiring a high school student with modest skills and awareness of what's available on aliexpress.
Step one:
Be born into a upper middle class to uber wealthy family with connections to even more money & power (was in an incubator out of 10 of us 1 succeeded; sold his company for $350 million & his father was a VC)

Step two:
Try your hand many times with your ideas, each time hitting up your built in wealthy network (VCs) you were indirectly or directly born into

Step three:
Maybe you the rich get richer and you get to invest in startups or you give up and become a VC cause they are your people. If you become a VC or an angel you invest in rich kids because you want to make money; safer bets then investing in the poor kid.

Those who don't follow the above mold.. go ahead ...startup while working a full time job.. oops first, 2nd or 3rd didnt work.. damn now i have mouths to feed there go my startup dreams while richie richie is on his tenth living off other people's money. Now if your poor go ahead startup but you need to feed yourself.
Would a phone wide adblocker like blockada be more to your liking ?
It's the other way around. Strings always have meanings and always reference the same characters. You use encoding to encode strings into bytes.

Bytes without encoding, don't have any meaning, they are just... random bytes.
The AirPods might not be iPhone huge but I’d say they’re pretty huge for Apple