skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I scanned a cheque from a US bank in the app (to deposit into my USD chequing account), only to be informed that cheques from US banks cannot be deposited using the app and that I'd have to go to a branch.

Dunno if Canadian banks would be game for this, but back when AdSense only mailed cheques in US$, and inexplicably refused to e-deposit to my US-based bank account, I’d mail my cheques in.
Things are only going to get murkier when leveraging ML. All of this needs to become open source.
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I think everything you said is correct about Bitcoin, but is that true of cryptocurrency in general?

I think Bitcoin, which has its obvious flaws, is sort of the de facto flag-bearer of crypto, and more of a harbinger of things to come. I'm not yet convinced that Bitcoin will be the only cryptocurrency in widespread use, in the same way that the USD isn't the only fiat currency used in the world today.
Microsoft and IBM are also companies with a lot more humans available. I have solved lots of things with phonecalls be business or as a customer. You need to be really big to get humans on Google side.
In places (such as here, Turkey) where local currency has much less value than the USD, Western Union is simply beyond affordable.
Not strange considering where and what the Jimmy is used for.
For a low volume slack bot, why even have Cloudflare front it?
Jib is also great because it integrates into your existing build system (Bazel is a big lift for most projects, especially JVM ones) and takes care of the important parts of building a good JVM image like separating the dependencies into a different layer etc.

Also it doesn't require a Docker daemon to build and push the image which is a huge win.
I'd say yes, but with a better business model for the authors. There's some really good stuff on there, though discoverability isn't great.

Overall I like it, seems to re-strike the balance that Medium was going for and missed. I'd still prefer personal websites instead of centralized hosting, but this seems like a reasonable compromise.
Gotta love that those bogus 1-star reviews stay up, but Google instantly came to the rescue of Robinhood when it was getting flooded by 1-star reviews that had an actual legitimate basis.
>(at least in tech industry), apparently the automated filtering systems are a myth

Sounds like horseshit. There's no shortage of graduates in tech, on top of graduates of various "bootcamps", as everyone and their dog has been telling young people they just need to "learn to code!" and they'll have a luxurious, joyous future.
It does increase the risk for you, the same way using Google or Facebook account does.

Once the bank won't authenticate you for some reason, all the accounts bound to this SSO provider also go the way of dodo.
>To me, the more likely conclusion about these products is that they were better products, and that they created fundamentally different user interactions.

Maybe they are better products, I don't know, but how many people used it because it was free, then realized it was better? How many of those wouldn't have used it if they didn't have a free offering?
Gentle reminder that a good 100 years ago all freight ships were wind powered. I once had the pleasure to talk to someone who served on one of the German Flying P-Liners until the late 50s. His stories were more than amazing. He said that once they failed to pass Cape Horn for 100 consecutive days. On another, more pleasant trip, they had the greatest weather that a sailor can dream of, tailwind and sunshine from start until end. Things have certainly changed a lot, but relying on the weather for shipping is certainly still a challenge.
Absolutely not! Please, if you want to know why, look into expert witness testimony as a whole, possibly can start with “burn pattern experts”.

Not to mention we have a constitutional right (6th amendment) to face and cross examine witnesses against us in the US, a black box should not void that right.
Animals are liable for their actions. The punishment is usually death by lethal injection or firing squad.

The stronger argument is that animals aren't as aware as humans which actions will have consequences. Animals do have customs about what's okay and what's not, but they often don't align with human society's laws.

It's "ignorance of the law is no excuse" taken to an extreme.
Probably. Check out materialize, which is also based on differential dataflow.

https://materialize.com/docs/demos/business-intelligence/
That's because it's not a currency. It's a store of value.
> Amazon will bend over backwards to ensure that the customer is taken care of and will even eat some costs or make concessions to make sure that the customer experience is top-notch.

I think this narrative is false. Amazon will certainly refund money or eat costs but they have seemingly done little to stop scams, review bribes, or counterfeit products. Their UX is also increasingly user hostile (try cancelling Prime).

I would put them on par with WalMart, which also has a very liberal return policy.
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Bitcoin is currently accepted by a large number of companies including Microsoft, Newegg and Namecheap. We've seen greater use in counties like Venezuela.
This was specified in my original comment: "At the very least, companies must be legally required to present you in writing with the so-called violation of terms they're accusing you of, evidence of the violation, and a phone # or other immediate contact so that you can dispute the accusations." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26063313

Except for the part where someone has to answer phone calls, it could be automated if the account suspension itself is automated.

I'll also point out my later comment: "I'm not saying that companies shouldn't be able to suspend accounts temporarily. I'm simply saying that there needs to be a way to get your account unsuspended if you're innocent. The way it "works" now is that innocent consumers are without any recourse whatsoever." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26063399

And to forestall any replies that providing information to suspended accounts would help the spammers, I've already responded to that point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26063660

Temporary account suspensions that you can quickly reverse on appeal are annoying but could be justified to fight abuse, as long as they don't happen too often. On the other hand, indefinite account suspensions that are impossible to reverse, such as the case of Andrew Spinks of Terraria, are simply indefensible, there's no justification whatsoever for that.
Bitcoin solves the problem of a trustless money system. If you do trust the current money system I think it more importantly kickstarted research into decentralized finance.

For example with cryptocurrency I can within seconds get a loan. That is just not possible with the current financial system. This also leads into the concept of flash. loans where you can borrow as much money as you want as long as you return it in the same transaction.

Another thing cryptocurrency allows is for micropayments. Images hiring someone and paying them per second where they can instantly spend what they have earned instead of having to wait for a payday.

Another thing cryptocurrency allows for is trading digital assets atomically such that you don't need a middleman. Imagine you wanted to buy a video game item from someone. Instead of having to worry about being scammed you can setup a transaction where both assets are exchanged at the same time avoiding a potential middleman and avoiding getting scammed.

Now most of this could be done with the old financial system, but the decentralized finance space is just moving faster than what the centralized finance space can keep up with.
Definitely if an excel macro determined my guilt based on a dataset, I would like to be able to read that macro.
To some aspect every asset is part pyramid scheme.
You buy "useful" things out of gold only to show other people you have gold.
Crypto at this point makes zero sense as any future of finance. It doesn't work. It's pretty much vaporware that has been hyped to the point that people didn't realize it will never work mass-scale as is.
The hype drove early holders to massive income (like an MLM scheme) but ledger uses so much massive energy and power to process transactions that it is HORRIBLE for planet earth. Like running Crypo on the global scale would involve power use on the scale of multiple first world countries combined that would get worse and worse as hardware limitations hit. In a few years of mass-scale use Cryto would use more power than pretty much planet earth. The only solution to this is developments in Eth. but thats still far off and has its own downsides.
> Second, even if it did take a full 8 years, is that a good reason to deny the defendant due process?

No, but the person that wants to have it analyzed will have to either spend the time themselves, or pay the expert witness for their time; it could be a costly affair.

But I think it's warranted. An independent software review, and a double blind assertion with the exact version of the software used in the conviction to test the accuracy and reliability of the application.
The Shepard init system[0] for Guix and most of the Guix plumbing are written in Guile Scheme. There's also Guile Emacs.

[0]https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/
Yeah this confused me for a long time as well. I then realized that there is tremendous value in something that acts as a reliable store of value.

For example, rich people are known to buy expensive art and then lock it away in a warehouse. Why do this? You're not getting any value out of the piece. The reason is that the sole purpose of the art piece is to be a reliable store of value. You're paying a lot for something that you know will hold its value.

This is what Bitcoin has become. It's valuable because it's valuable. And the fact that it has become more valuable over time (despite volatility) makes it even more valuable.
The parent said that bitcoin was a "paradigm shift". Being slightly more convenient is not a "paradigm shift".
>Question, does take-out still work with a banned account?

No clue, my friend; I am not a Google employee.
I am sure. The nearest listed physical shop that accepts Bitcoin is 160 km away from me and it sells custom-made mugs.
> Last I checked, major American newspapers barely run corrections anymore.

I'm not so sure about that, I see them fairly often and I'm not even looking for them.
As someone who recently did this, you can link a Fastmail account to your existing Gmail account, and it will load in any email data you have into Fastmail. I think from there you can delete your google account provided you have Fastmail all setup properly. It took maybe 2 minutes and was part of the guided setup Fastmail did for me.
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I've used Western Unions in Morocco and a village in rural Laos where the staff couldn't believe I was a slightly lost passing tourist and invited me for dinner with them. Both of them were easy: the most difficult bit about the Moroccan service was using my UK bank's online banking service to set the transfer up.

I didn't see any Bitcoin ATMs in either place, or Vietnam for that matter, and can't imagine the process of turning Bitcoin into spendable currency there would be easier, especially not for somebody without a local bank account.
Consider for a moment that there's a world outside of your country with governments that are not trustworthy.
Not directly, but the problems and engineering that go into building one are very similar. Qubits are analogous to regular bits, at least on 'measure'. They're either in 1 state or another, and all the interesting stuff is in how you get to that state.

Source: building a quantum computer.
> Though you could make a similar argument for domesticated animals like dogs. Especially larger dogs. Or humans! There are a lot of things that can be dangerous to humans, especially children, when they fly off the handle.

Dogs, regardless of size are safe to coexist with humans provided they are treated appropriately from a sustenance and behavior/training perspective. That's the result of traits associated with being an animal living in a pack social structure, along with thousands of years of breeding. When dog behavior crosses a line, the dog is euthanized.

> You wouldn't lock up a human either for having the capacity to harm someone else.

We do. When humans demonstrate a lack of control that puts others at risk, we apply progressive discipline to discourage future misbehavior. Fines, probation in various flavors, jail, and finally prison. If you steal a phone from an unlocked car, it's usually misdemeanor theft, if you break down my door to steal a phone, it's a felony burglary.

> So if you end up with an orphaned gorilla in your care, morally you are between a rock and a hard place.

It is really a ranking of priorities. I'm not an ethicist, but generally speaking, the preservation of human life is usually a primary moral imperative.
Culture has done the same to humans, generally selecting for pro-social traits. (Yes, there are outliers.)
You can’t have transactions without mining though and the block size is limited, so there’s an upper limit to how many transactions can go through in one block.
Would new shots adapted to novel strains have to pass the same trial process as the first versions of the vaccine? Or are there some provisions for an even faster approval? I don't know how it works for the flu vaccine.
When a DNA lab issues a false positive, its CEO doesn't go to prison, nor do they get hit with a charge-back for all the tests they've done in the past year.

Their reputation doesn't matter as much as you think. Police procurement isn't based on the reputation of the vendor. It's based on whether or not the vendor delivers the results they want.

In fact, government procurement in general, isn't based on the reputation of the vendor. This is by design.
Healthcare professionals are first in line in the South African vaccine rollout. It's possible that not protecting against moderate to severe illness is an inadequate outcome for this group. Skipping this group in order to vaccinate others may not be politically palatable.
All bitcoin transactions are public. It does not allow for anonymous payments.
The mental gymnastics people will play to behave like Bitcoin is anything but a FOMO ponzi scheme is extremely entertaining. They’ll proselytize this fancy new currency that'll eliminate central banking and revolutionize money transfer, while also slipping in the price they bought in at.
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In crypto you can make smart contracts based on stable coins that emulate a fixed interest loan.
Next don’t-be-evil step: Having a Protonmail account proves that you have something to hide! Ban!
There's also the Arbeitszeugnis thing (a summary of how they see you as an employee, given when you leave the company). If your boss doesn't like you, they can fuck up your future a bit by giving you a bad Zeugnis (future employers typically want to see those).

It's effectively illegal to complain about employees in Zeugnis, but they can reorder words and skip some phrases to imply that you're a bad employee. If you're not German you might even think you got a good Zeugnis because it looks well on the surface, but there's the entire code you need to learn to read these.
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Coinbase is about to release a debit card [1] that you'll be able to use everywhere.

[1] https://www.coinbase.com/card
Everything you say is true, but right now there is no obvious way to protect against the downside except to sit in cash. If the market rallies for another 10 years we will all look rather foolish doing that.

Yields are falling across all asset classes, and correlations between them are growing.

The overriding feeling no matter how much analysis you do is that nobody has a bloody clue what is going on.
Literally every play Musk makes is for subsidies or tax dodge file this one under tax dodge.
Good on you, mate.

It would be great if you gave them feedback along the same lines, although chances are it would just get ignored.
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Here is a BBC article on Bitcoin use in Venezuela: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47553048
a statement like this is exactly why people still don't understand the value of Bitcoin. The usefulness of a store of value has no relation to its actual value. The value comes from the network effect of others also agreeing that it has value.

What usefulness does a $100 million painting have?
Sorry but I disagree about your analogy with an art piece. An art piece is unique, especially the antique ones made by an artist who is no longer alive. And that artpiece will always be the only one to ever exist. There are many other cryptocurrencies which can do what bitcoin can, dogecoin was made just to illustrate that point.
And it absolutely bites them in the ass. Google's awful reputation at the enterprise level is probably why GCP is struggling to make it among that sector.
Western Union is a nightmare to use. You need send and pickup in a physical location, sometimes the recipient needs specific forms of ID, and the fees are insane.

I once sent $100 to someone in South America and it cost me $13.

WU is a relic that targets and takes advantage of the less fortunate and those in 3rd world countries.
You may be forced to use Scheme as as shell when encountering an error booting GuixSD. Back in 2016, support was apparently not good for the AMD bulldozer systems I was trying to install on. The systemd alternative they used, GNU shepherd, crashed on me, and left me in a Guile REPL.
Except JavaScript, for all of its faults, is actually incredibly useful. Unlike bitcoin.
It refers to a github repo, but that is non-existing. A murder victim?
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Which of these flaws were solved by the government?
I would be more concerned with deliverability.
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Right. There's more than 20 western countries. If P is around 5% we would expect the result just from random fluctuation. If you start looking at other factors, such as number of children, when you have children, age gaps between children, etc., let's say 5 different potential scenarios, you would expect to see things that only have a 1% chance of happening. If 5 other groups are doing similar analysis, one of them is likely to see trends that only have a 0.2% chance of happening. I would take this result with a huge grain of salt.
None of that is required unless you can only send in cash. If you're in a third world country and don't have a bank account or a debit card, I'd assume you would speak the local language.

https://www.westernunion.com/us/en/home.html
Fun fact: Pymetrics has hired a lot of former C64 game programmers.
This makes a lot of sense. I've been telling people building something in the cloud is like trying to get healthcare: You can't make good decisions up front because it's impossible to figure what something will cost and somebody else ends up paying the bill anyway.
Until some major goods start being priced in Bitcoin as the base currency instead of a fiat, then it’s always going to be secondary.

When the amount of goods and services you can buy in any country swings by 10% in a day, you’re nowhere near being treated like a currency.
In theory a smaller economy might be able to run this sort of scheme by hand. Just depends on the crypto scheme used.
Canva is very successful in marketing circles. It allows you to trivially generate visually appealing images to accompany social media posts. I.e. it's a domain-specific tool for bottom-feeder marketing spam.

You could replicate everything it does trivially with most basic features of Photoshop, or even Paint.NET - its main selling point is that it comes with lots of templates and images you can use with one click, and has a very gentle learning curve (because there isn't much to learn there).
Bravo. Genuinely well done..
Please tell me his name is Tom.
One or two years ago a Chinese guy contacted me asking me if I wanted to put an app or multiple apps on the AppStore for his company. In return I would receive 1.000 USD per month or so. I found this really suspicious, so I never accepted the offer. I also didn't want to risk getting banned by Apple for an offence like distributing malware.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are app developers that actually do accept these kinds of offers though.
Residential construction exists in an entirely different universe from commercial construction. The team sizes allow for much easier collaboration and generalists who can paper over impedance mismatches between groups.
It seems really volatile based on your analogy and you're underselling the untraceable untaxable aspect that lets down on their luck financial industry boys who unironicly say fugazi to deal directly with human traffickers and other higher tier criminals.
It is not an issue of emails on our end. We don't even use DO for emails. We use 3rd party providers (sendgrid/SES etc). The issue is that our client's email service is being blocked by some of their customers who are using this list. So basically we are being punished because DO allows spammers in general. So yea, only option is to move to AWS etc for hosting.
Yes, that’s my point! The person I’m responding to is saying they’re like analog computers, which don’t use bits. Quantum computers are a bit more like digital computers.
I'm not sure what you mean. You can't program the dollar bill. It's a piece of paper.

If you are asking why stable coins pegged to the dollar don't exist, well they already exist.
Look into smart contracts. If you find the possibilities of smart contracts boring, I'd like to hear what makes you excited about the future? My lawyer friend who makes derivative contracts mind got blown away by the possibilities of smart contracts replacing every derivative contract he writes.
I think tunneling is a good way for individuals and small companies to implement BeyondCorps-type systems. That's what I personally do rather than using WireGuard, ZeroTier, etc. Obviously there are tradeoffs either way.
I would love to find out that ESP really is possible. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any proof so far.

I believe that the CIA used to experiment with it, but nothing useful came out of it.
Good point. I wonder as the world goes more towards serveless, if users will slowly become used to per call (or maybe per comment, or as you say per re-run) pricing
Andrew Spinks isn't famous, but Terraria is. This probably cost Google a few million dollars for botching a simple customer support case.
Man I came up with that username when I got my first Nintendo DS for christmas when I was ~9 years old. The only game I had was the Sword of Mana GBA cartridge, and that game asks you to come up with a name for both a male and female character when you start. Being a hilarious 9 year old, I wanted to give the female character an ugly sounding name, so I just started making random ugly noises with my mouth and trying to transcribe them into the text field. That's how I ended up with "bogwog"

It wasn't until a few years ago that I stumbled upon an Urban Dictionary entry for it. That was so disappointing because I always thought I was so creative coming up with that unique and interesting-sounding name...like Tolkien!

I'm definitely not important enough for anyone to bother cancelling me over it (especially considering how mild and obscure it is), but I've stopped using it just in case. I still have a lot of old accounts lingering around that use it though.
Excited to try it out :)
I have jotted down a few lessons I learned in crafting a good PRD for new PMs who are just getting started.

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