skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The chase operators told me a few times that ‘something is weird about these payments’ but couldn’t be more specific

Wonder if it got flagged as suspicious? Some banks aren't even legally allowed to tell you some things about your own account.

But it does seem banks are still brick and mortar. There's a bank that won't let you reset your pin online or over the phone, so have to psychically show up and show your ID to someone who presses something in their computer and tells you to type a pin into the USB key pad facing you on the other side of the desk. I guess it's just a small annoyance if you live near by, but the same bank doesn't have branches all over the place so if you end up moving across the country probably should get a new bank anyways. I guess tech wise could be done online as they could let you scan your ID and do a quick picture or video chat or something to make sure it's really you maybe. Plus some of the online only banks seem to pay higher interest too but not sure if people really care about interest as not sure if it really makes a big difference to some people. The local bank doesn't even pay 1% and hides the interest rate in the fine print somewhere while some of the online banks pay 1% and openly advertise such.
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We have plenty of evidence already showing the concentration of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere going back many thousands of years (from core samples). There really isn't any room left for debate, because the facts are clear, the only question is "just how bad will it be with all this extra carbon in the atmosphere?".
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I’ve collected a bunch of accessibility resources over the years, from colour apps to guidelines. Hopefully you’ll find it useful: https://www.uxlift.org/topics/accessibility
So did E. M. Forster[1], who in 1909 published The Machine Stops.[2]

In it, Forster predicted something like a proto-Internet, chat rooms, video conferencing, and internet addiction.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster

[2] - https://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Machi...
> Mathematicians divided

I see what they did there.

I recall in grad school that there were still a few remnants of the loyalty oath controversy around in dusty corners. There's nothing new under the sun.
That is the whole point. Germany and Russia could have knocked each other out. That would have allowed allies to take both of them.

Instead allies did the absolutely stupid thing and propped up Russia making it strong enough to take over half of Europe! Wow brilliant move there.

Helping Russia was a major strategic blunder. It helped create the cold war.
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We've had to ask you a ton of times not to post like this. If you keep doing it we're going to have to ban you.

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Melatonin should not be offered by NHS to treat jet lag – review
Lubos Motls is a theoretical physicist and is probably classified as a denier. Though, I think this definition is applied too liberally. In his latest blog post he claims there is 1-2 deg of warming per century and this from contributions by mankind (he doesn’t break down the proportion). He doesn’t think the warming will be an issue for 200 years.

https://motls.blogspot.com/2019/12/rss-amsu-acceleration-of-...
Ask HN: I struggle to write code from scratch
Generally most of my learning has come from my CS degree and reading other people's code. Yet, when I have to start something completely from scratch I still feel like I make beginner mistakes or write sloppy code.

This hasn't really been an issue at my work, however I'm still at a loss as to how I should learn to start from scratch and "architect" code in a way that makes sense and is complex. By this, I mean sometimes I'll look at a repo that's just a complex rest API and I'll be thinking "there's no way I'd be able to come up with this elegant structure or nested code in one sitting".

Is this a sign I just learn slowly or should I just resign myself to doing product management and non-coding stuff?
> Uh, what? you think eating veg instead of meat is bad for the environment? you're wrong.

Another vegan who knows nothing about farming. But then again, that's probably why are you are vegan.

> look, I like meat, but this is expicitly wrong, and it doesn't even really make sense.

You like meat but you sound like a vegan activist regurgitating the same trite nonsense all over social media. So I believe you 100%. It doesn't make sense? There is a reason why herbivores have to eat 24/7. There is a reason why carnivores don't. There is a reason why omnivores don't. Meat is nutrient dense. Humans can survive entirely on their locally sourced animals. Humans cannot survive on locally sourced vegetation.

Omnivore diet = optimal diet for humans. Most human societies are omnivore.

Carnivore diet = suboptimal diet for humans because accessing meat is difficult. The only carnivore societies I know of are the groups of inuit who live on the tundra where vegetation are hard to come by.

Vegan diet = worst diet for humans. No human vegan society has ever existed in history because it would be suicide. Prior to oil/coal fueled globalism, a vegan diet was impossible. Nobody on earth can survive on a vegan diet from local sources and without vitamins. And even if they survive, they are living suboptimally. Brain function and muscle mass deteriorates, you have gastronomical problems because humans weren't designed to be herbivores, your libido disappears, you get irritable and irrational, you are sick with parasites since most parasites/eggs/etc come from feces on plants, etc.

If you are an intelligent and sane human being, the omnivore diet is what you want. A bit of very nutritious meat with a lot of unnutritious veggies to balance out your diet. If you care about the environment, the omnivore diet is what you want.
From my fast food flunky days: Look busy.
"Citizen Kane of gaming" is a memetic joke in game criticism. Go check out Critical Distance if you want to see an aggregation of lengthy deep thoughts about games.

All art is borne of appreciation - and thus literacy.

Games are still in a place where literacy is relatively low and the popular vernacular changes with every incoming freshman class and generation of consoles. That doesn't mean that the art does not exist, it means that most people can only temporarily agree upon the most recent instances of it; the others are "not real games".

But on the design and development end of things, the vocabulary is gradually establishing itself. Colleges are churning out fresh blood for the industry at a torrid rate now. There are bonafide career veterans with decades of experience guiding them and offering words of wisdom. The industry often gets in the way of the learning by putting so much focus on product(and the subsequent disposability of that product in turn creates a vast catalogue of attempts that go unstudied), but the learning is taking place regardless.

I don't think the predictions the article makes are exactly what will happen, regardless. The increasing emphasis on customization is atomizing the production process into ready-made software and assets; in so doing, that inches everyone slightly closer to being developers. It's a gradual philosophical shift that's in motion, here.
I wouldn’t say that’s my experience, though I’m sure that’s true. I’m referring more to the stresses imbued to a family from something like lack of money.

It’s more of an internal preservation thing than a fear of externalities.
Non-interactive fictional media - I want someone to tell me a story.
Interactive fictional media - I want to be in the story / make my own story.

I think we're living in a golden age to be honest.
Because it looks like Lex is reading comments here, I would suggest that an adequate compromise for going into more technical detail on podcasts might be to link to external resources and cover them in a more high level on the actual podcast itself. It’s my general belief (admittedly experience based) that rigor is best developed in isolation; however, the podcast format is great for developing a high level intuition.

Keep up the good work lex. The quantity of content you put out at the level of quality you do is very impressive.
What does a "hard core climate change denier" look like according him though?

I took an environmental law seminar at Northwestern, and one of the invited guests was read the riot act by faculty who accused him for being a climate change denier. But he didn't actually deny climate change, he just had a model that predicted 50% as much increase in temperate at IPCC average models. And, for that, many called him a denier.

So just because Teytelman makes this claim, doesn't mean its true. Teytelman might also be 100% correct.
“debunked”, in the sense that nobody here wants to believe facts when they get in the way of a nice theory.

As soon as people view “San Francsico” and “the valley” as the same place, you might have an argument. Right now, the only people who believe this are people who haven’t spent any time there.

Building more housing in Palo Alto might help Palo Alto, but it won’t do much for prices in SF.
That’s an interesting assessment. Rogaway just gave a talk at RWC about APIs for secret splitting schemes. IIRC he said that the API needed to be closer to what symmetric crypto was. But from the diagram it seemed like you were obtaining some associated data back to check that the secret was correct (not sure if this would work/is relevant with more recent DKG schemes).

A signature verification returning an actual AD would be interesting as well.
Do what you are told. If you have nothing to hide, you will not get into trouble.
You are right. That's because muddying the waters, obfuscation, saying "the science isn't settled" has been used in bad faith in the past. It's tainted an entire branch of scientific thought.

There are certainly individual claims of climate change that are probably not entirely correct. That's how science works - hypotheses are made, experiments run, some are disproved and others continue to stand. Anyone who works to disprove those claims runs the risk of being tagged a denier due to the actions and motives of those who came before them. I don't have much sympathy.

EDIT: Apparently this isn't even true. Individual claims are rebutted all the time and the theory is adjusted according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22050728. I'll leave my original comment up for posterity.
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SLAPP suits are by definition lawsuits filed against little guys that can't defend themselves. NYT is not such a defendant.
By all means: make yourself some one-time pads. Maybe you can convince Google to accept one from you at a dead drop somewhere in Mountain View.
I suppose it's not a broadly discussed topic, but it's definitely a thing. HR or recruiting teams would speak best to it. But you can spot this pretty easily. A recent example is Uber. When you do a big lay off followed by accelerated hiring, it's signaling the end of a talent drought. You can't performance manage very aggressively in a period of crisis since it's really hard to hire. So the bar goes down. At some point you clean up, and bring the bar back up. Uber couldn't hire well at all for several years as they went through their culture struggles.

It's definitely less of a problem for lower skilled jobs. And that makes sense since the labour is a lot more replaceable. But it's also why unions are there to prevent abuse.

I won't pretend to claim the system works perfectly. My point is just that there are levers there already that work pretty well. And we should decide as a society how to play or add levers. Managing by mod is really a dictatorship run by the angriest twitter users. If that's who we want running the show - I think that should at least be put to a vote... I'm definitely against it.
Those aren't vulnerabilities NSA created, unlike Dual_EC, which is.
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#WindowsInsider #Error404ACADEMY

Desvelado el no-misterio. Efectivamente el fallo que acaban de corregir en la función CertGetCertificateChain de la cryptoAPI de Windows (crypt32.dll) permite que cualquier certificado falso no sea bien validado y parezca bueno. Grave. Ojo que afecta Chrome y por supuesto a Edge e Internet Explorer. Además, aunque parezca importar menos, también hace que no nos podamos confiar de los binarios firmados (Authenticode). Es una librería muy usada por terceros, pero todos se corregirán con el parche de Windows
Lo único que lo "mitiga" es que el certificado tiene que ser ECC (con curvas elípticas) y no RSA... pero hoy son bastante populares y la verdad no consuela mucho como Insider de Windows lo principal es informar los fallos a Microsoft y luego hacerlos públicos

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I use a VPN to "go home", regardless of where I am in the world.

There are many uses for VPNs and we have to be careful about why we use them.
And this has what to do with San Francisco?
Problem is, if you always give it to the two-day developer your two-week developer might miss out on chances to improve.

One place I worked just billed the client what we would as the reasonable rate and tracked the rest as training.

I guess pair programming is one approach to get around this, you'd probably consume a week of dev time total in your example but it's better than two.
Will this require government approval?
It's barely got any support ATM.

https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/wiki/Implementation-Status

I doubt you'll see a lot of good tutorials for it until you start seeing it land in stable versions of browser (or even nightly builds tbh).

While starting to show it's age, WebGL should have a lot of tutorials and you can start working with it today.
Huh? Airlines have a long history of self destruction through price wars. When I was in college, I would fly southwest to catch baseball games in Baltimore, for less than $100.
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Cassowary – Modern cross-platform HTTP load-testing tool written in Go
This is not true. Things are published all the time that show we are wrong in previous estimates of climate change.
I think it's impossible to properly evaluate Putin's assets as they are not economical property in classical sense of the word. If Putin loses his power, his assets could very well be $0. If he doesn't, he probably could control a lot more than he nominally owns, and a lot of stuff he controls is owned by all kinds of figureheads. So we'd have to exclude autocrats and such from the equation - what they have isn't really what we mean as property, at least in Western world.
I’m writing a book on how I do this! I’ll be sharing here on HN once it’s complete.

But the TL;DR for the chapter on motivation and energy comes down to: work on things that improve your own life, set clear objectives, and work in small chunks. The book itself is being written in 30 minute chunks throughout my week because that’s all the time I can spare.
It's just a skill; practice it. The author of that complex API probably didn't write it all in one sitting, or even come up with the skeleton all at once. Likely they cribbed from some other project they worked on, perhaps making improvements or mistakes.
Not sure why you couldn't find it but Disney Crossy Road and Crossy Road are both available on the major app stores.
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There are a whole new generation of games that are breaking that issue. Overcooked is a coop “cooking” game where you and your friends have to take actions in a kitchen to make orders as they appear on the top of the screen. My 60+ year old parents picked up the 2 button controls with ease. The game is more project management and communication but gamified.

There is a huge population of people who are mobile gamers and it’s not the demographic of 10-20 year olds. It’s middle aged folks.
This is completely the case with Chase. I had several accounts with them over the years and increasingly had issues (i.e. false positive fraud alerts, unexplained account locks, etc...). At one point the closest branch was an over an hour away from my home (I had moved since opening the account). When I would call the phone support they would tell me I needed to go to the branch. I would then make the drive to the branch only to have the branch manager call the same phone support I had. It's so bad that I once was locked out of online banking for over 6 months on one account and no one, both at the branch level and corporate level, seemed to know how to fix the issue. When I would go to the branch they would call support, support would tell them it is a branch level issue with needing to verify my identity, and the circle continued. I finally just gave up and closed all my accounts with them.

On the other hand, I have an account at BB&T, and their in branch help is phenomenal. Most issues are resolved direct in bank without having to call outside support. Only time they have contacted outside support is when they don't know the answer to a question. On the other hand, if I call support they are quick to answer questions and provide detailed explanations.

I have other accounts at another local bank and the same holds true. In branch support is where it is at.

There is no question that as a bank grows in size and territory the level of support at the branch level and via phone support seems to degrade rapidly.
Absolutely not. This actually happens all the time, and it just get incorporated into the literature. Thats what science is. Climate research is actually very competitive between the modeling groups, everyone trying to show off that their model is better then the other guys. Everytime someone comes up with a new method that disproves a previous assumption, its just folded into the models to make them better. See this recent publication from one of my colleges: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/the-latest-generatio...
Yes, that’s true. It’s also true that vertical construction is significantly more expensive than sprawling outward.

It’s why it’s cheaper to live in Brooklyn than Manhattan, even though Brooklyn is mostly low-rise construction.
In practice this means rejecting the "specifiedCurve" choice in ASN.1 ECParameters. ASN.1-based protocols are the only ones I'm aware of that permit specifying an arbitrary curve. For the PKIX ASN.1 standard(s) old-style EC public keys are specified with an ECParameters field:

ECParameters ::= CHOICE {
namedCurve OBJECT IDENTIFIER
implicitCurve NULL
specifiedCurve SpecifiedECDomain
}

PKIX, which is what TLS and most other standards use for ASN.1 message grammars, already mandates that "implicitCurve and specifiedCurve MUST NOT be used". See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5480#section-2.1.1 (There are many other related RFCs. It gets very confusing, especially once you take into account obsolete and draft RFCs.)

Newer curves, like EdDSA curves, are always each specified with unique OIDs and have a simpler public key grammar. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8410 Older public curves share an OID and a more generic ("flexible") syntax, thus the ECParameters field. (RSA public keys also have a parameters field, but it's unused. However, annoyingly, some implementations omit the field altogether, others set a NULL value.)
How to Secure a Webhooks API
Huh, Wanderlog looks a hell of a lot like what I've been playing with for the past few weeks, after unexpectedly gaining much free time just before Christmas, and failing to find something similar for my own use!

I'd definitely be dropping you a line if a) I was anywhere near North America and b) a Javascript guy...
I've seen a corollary in my work with legacy system migrations and technical debt.

Often scoping the work and taking so much care to not cause any issues grinds the work to a halt. We could do well with taking a bit more of a risk&fix attitude (after all, leaving it as it is constitutes a BIG risk over an infinite time frame).
In Europe we have really innovative Fintechs which build awesome apps like e.g. Revolut (which are also in beta in USA) or N26.
But guess what: Also fintechs have to comply with regulation and need to comply with AML (Anti Money Laundering) with their software and you also can get in trouble there. When you have problems there then sh*t hits the fan too: You don't have a branch were you could go, not even a telephone number, only chat in the app and maybe twitter. It's like Google for finances.

Ideal would be a combination of both worlds I guess.
It does to certain business travel platforms (search for "swabiz"), and I believe they're expanding that exposure through their integration with Amadeus. Whether they plan it make it available on consumer sites eventually, I don't know.
Parent comment:

> extremely strong, emergent cultural pressure against certain results and certain questions, which has been holding back a wide range of fields and ensuring pursuit of severely one sided science for decades.

Your comment:

> Once you start trying to attack climate change, you lose all your credibility

I am a firm believer in climate science, but this reaction suggests that the post you're replying to is correct.
I doubt that. Googling "google customer service" gives me this https://www.google.com/contact/ How about starting there and telling us what happened? I don't see any mention of any attempt to figure it out.
Chinese Model 3 production only started in November. Check back in February, you’ll find it’s the highest selling vehicle (perhaps by model, though I am betting also by manufacturer).

Europe-wide, Tesla Model 3 is top of the charts by a wide margin. The articles you linked mentioned this, France and Germany are behind because the vast demand for Tesla in Netherlands and Norway is sucking all the supply up before France and Germany get a seat at the table.

As Fremont production improves and the German Tesla factory opens, we’ll see that lead grow as Europeans switch to BEVs en masse to escape the cheating ICE manufacturers.