skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not any sort of conspiracy theorist and am very offended at your insult. Why do you go online if you aren’t going to be nice to others? Intent is obviously unknowable, but here you are doing exactly that to me.
The article notes (and the linked article particularly does so[0]) that it was likely a "glycogen body", similar to what is found in birds.

However, they have no idea what the hell it does in birds, so even less so what it'd do in a dinosaur.

[0] https://svpow.com/2009/12/15/lies-damned-lies-and-clash-of-t...
Hopefully this is competitive with the A1. I would really like to use something non x86 as my daily driver just for the feeling of moving forward.
Anyone knows if EU supports these operators or not? Financially or different ways? The EU does support some vital infrastructure projects as far as I remember.

I wouldn't be worried about fines. I think the EU is very reasonable and flexible when it comes to enforcing these type of legislations.
This article would be significantly better if it introduces what PSD2 and 3DS actually are, for those unaware of the abbreviations.

PSD2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive#Rev...

3DS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure

Furthermore, I want to note that the author works for a company that sells products that "eliminate unnecessary 3DS friction" (in their own words).
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I'm surprised that companies would have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy towards meth, Adderall and other stimulant drugs on a warehouse floor. Isn't that a set-up for big liability issues?

But, regarding meth, nobody menthioned ephedrine and pseudoephedrine ... high accessible and (I didn't know this) frequently used to make meth:https://fherehab.com/learning/drug-profile-ephedrine/.
Well duh. Apple released a laptop processor last year, so of course Samsung are doing one.

Samsung tags soon no doubt.
and /norestart too
Also, what's your take? Do people use citus for analytical workloads as well as production at scale?

I'd assume yes, but I haven't personally used you guys. I'm just aware of you and broadly how you scale Postgres.
Hopefully this means ARM chips will finally have a good GPU option that has high quality open drivers
I would honestly do 70 hour work weeks as long as it was in software (which I enjoy anyways), and I got paid appropriately for extra time and had a month of vacation time.

I would bank money/pay off mortgage agressivley, and then as I got older I would just quit and work part time or do contract work, not having any major financial obligations and plenty of money in reserves
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I agree, the change needs to be viewed overall. The liability shift is a godsend, it also decreases customer support contacts to verify if the order is fraud or not.

Also, paired with 3DS2's frictionless flow we actually saw a small uptick.
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Can't wait until when eye tracking is "required" to access advanced features of a service...
Are you currently ten feet away from a fuzzy 24” consumer CRT television?
The 3DS is a handheld console by Nintendo.

Just kidding, 3DS is short for 3D-Secure and is an approach to make payments with credit cards more secure. Things like 3DS are mandated by the PSD2 which came into effect a while ago.

PSD(2) is short for payment services directive, its a set of rules to make online payments more secure and reduce the risk of fraud. It has some requirements, such as two factor authentication (3DS) etc for basically any service that is processing payments online.
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3DS is 2FA for credit card transactions. PSD2 is the law requiring it in EU.
I think a developer presenting themselves as unqualified for the job, via being an asshole in a job that requires good communication skills and teamwork, you have a pass to say you have not gotten a qualified candidate yet.
3d-Secure is basically a form of 2FA for payments. It has been around for almost two decades. US banks seem to have happily ignored it, as well as EMV/NFC cards even when good ol' magstripe had been shown to be hackable with a potato, and thus companies who lived in the US come to do business in Europe, find an "impenetrable wall" of having to integrate correctly with a 2FA process they don't understand. Same as GDPR, really. "How come it's opt-in and not opt-never?"
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For the uninitiated, this: https://www.16personalities.com/intp-personality
I'll link up Stripe's docs for SCA[1] as they have been very helpful for me in getting Leavetrack[2] set up for SCA.

PSD2 is the Second Payment Services Directive from the EU. A directive is required to be implemented in national law no more than two years after it is passed and whilst there have been delays, the past 12 months have seen a ramping up of banks implementing Strong Customer Authentication.

3DS (3D Secure) is like 2FA for debit/credit cards. In my case, I bank with Monzo and if a transaction requires 3DS, I have to open the Monzo app on my phone and confirm it. There are other aspects to SCA e.g. if I have used contactless payment frequently, I am more likely to be prompted to enter my PIN to confirm I still have my card.

[1] https://stripe.com/gb/payments/strong-customer-authenticatio...
[2] https://leavetrackapp.com/
Those governments are directly converting the bitcoin to US dollars, thereby creating demand for US dollars when they spend it. The result is exactly the same.

The EU is a bit different, but broadly the director of the ECB is chosen by the European Council, which is part of the EU government, which your government is part of, and also spends some of the money collected directly, and instructs national governments to implement and collect quite a few taxes
The biggest thing with PSD2 seems to be the introduction of mandatory 2FA (CVC code/card number are not sufficient).
> DNS has worked perfectly for decades

I know a few people that would disagree. In fact, Google maintains a list of such opinions on the topic at [1].

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=it%27s+always+DNS
I agree about not underestimating the needed effort, but to be fair that service nowadays is absolutely crucial/important for a lot of stuff, private & commercial, involving $$$/lifes (maybe e.g. police etc... run some services over it)/whatever.

Probably the criticality/importance of the service must be balanced by appropriate controls/checks/procedures/etc... .
Its already built. You can buy one retail: https://gravity.co/

But yes, not really sure of the real world application of this in a military situation. It seems all you can do is fly, any effort to manipulate a weapon wearing these things seems like it would go poorly.
I'm not sure what you mean by "cannot be understood well". Either the type annotation is correct or not. If there is a genuine bug in mypy, the recommended convention is to use "type: ignore" (ideally with a reference to a bug tracking id). If you are genuinely subverting the typesystem, then use a cast(). If the code is too complex to type correctly or the type cannot be expressed in the typesystem (e.g. recursive types) then use type Any.
If 20 years ago, you told me people would use a digital map on their phone that activily tracks their real-time location and habits and then associates that with a unique 'user profile', I would also say: Really hard to pull this off, people won't accept... yet here we are.

All these companies have consistently managed to creep the limits of what we allow by alluring people with frictionless convenience (at the cost of privacy).
Not that much as they all follow pep 484 + a few other peps. The number of type features unique to each one are generally bugs/recent peps they haven't implemented. The biggest one is mypy plugin ecosystem although the hope there is to either do more peps that plugins become no longer needed and the type system is strong enough to cover more things or make a plugin pep.

If you are using the most recent pep features possible than yeah you might have an issue. That's similar to clang/gcc both taking time to implement new c++ standards and not being compatible there. If you only use pep 484 which covers most basics well then you should be good for any checker.
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PSD2 is an initiative/set of laws that force banks to have some kind of API available to trusted parties so other companies can access customers' financial data (with explicit consent by the user, of course). This allows the banking app from bank A to work with the bank account of bank B, if bank A implements bank B's API. It also includes some other stuff, like adding security requirements to online payments, like the 3DS system is doing.

Companies that make use of these APIs need to fulfil some requirements so that not just any shitty company can ruin your life by hiring shit developers that accidentally add zeroes to the amount of your transactions.

3DS probably refers to "3D secure", a way to secure credit card payments online. I don't use a credit card for anything but paying for American services so I don't know the details of it, but it seems to be a way to redirect credit card users to the checkout page of their bank so that extra security (like 2FA) can be added to online payments.
I find this interesting, as it actually emphasizes baseball's role as a _passtime_. One of the key aspects in sabermetrics is that activities that carry the risk of an out are disincentivized because baseball is not time-limited, but out-limited. Therefore all the activities that are interesting, but carry that extra risk like stealing, are taken out of the game.

Basketball is time-limited, and therefore the strategy of maximizing the number of shots within that time period as well as maximizing their value, make sense.

I'll note that I don't necessarily think one is better than the other, as each game can have a different approach. I also think that maximizing purely for excitement (from a rules perspective), can lead to gimmicks rather than genuine improvements to the sport.
So, some VP at a fraud prevention company recommends merchants to avoid using 3DS and use a fraud detection platform, got it.

I don't know if we can find better data somewhere else but I would assume that abandonment rates will decrease thanks to PSD2:

- SMS tokens are finally on their way out; more and more people are installing their bank's mobile app, which is used as the second factor (you get a push notification, you have to unlock and accept the transaction).

- We'll see some harmonization across EU/EEA merchants. No more cases of "the German website doesn't trigger 3DS but the French one does".
Also of note -- building that lighting rig is actually not that hard if you have a spare walk-in closet and a bunch of WS2812 lights. You can programmatically turn on and off combinations of lights and automate the photography. But you'll probably want several subjects of multiple races and genders if you want it to work reliably though.

There's also this free dataset, although I haven't dug into it to see how good it is:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10luekF8vV5vo2GFYPRCe...

( and the associated paper: https://zhhoper.github.io/dpr.html )

Are there any decent collections of human portrait Blender scenes? If so lighting would be easy to change in a pinch, and programmatically create a simulated dataset. A collection of images of this quality would be awesome:

https://blenderartists.org/t/felicia-blend/701475
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How many of these 3DS failures switch to an alternative payment method?

A drop in EU e-commerce sales between 20% and 50% would be big news we wouldn't have missed, so where are these sales going ? Or are these transactions still a tiny bit of the overall e-commerce value? If users opt for a cheaper (and not easily clawed back) payment method because they can't complete the 3DS challenge, the merchants may still win.
Activists have a radical plan to fight rising rents by seizing apartments
It is absolutely real [1][2], and was quite the scandal at the time. If the reporting is to be believed, PepsiCo paid about $1 million for the branding strategy. All to arrive at a blob that looks like a fat person with a red shirt and blue pants separating from each other at the waistline [3]. So yes, it is a bit unreal.

[1] https://adage.com/article/agency-news/breathtaking-word-purp...

[2] https://www.fastcompany.com/1160304/pepsi-logo-design-brief-...

[3] https://www.cannotunsee.net/post/730928004/pepsi
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> don't do anything that would get you on a terrorist/cybercrime/pedo list in the first place?

This is going to be difficult: <https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/the-n...>
Over the years I've needed high end gear in a hurry mostly for emergency work after hurricanes or wildfires. I have dealt with all the rental houses in the US and the one the author of this article founded is hands down the best (lens rentals., on) .

Its interesting how much effect the founder can have on a business even after its grown large. You can tell if the company exists primarily to fulfill a mission or just as a money making exersize.
I was denied, but now I know why instead of just guessing. I could see that my "willingness to pay" (unsure what that means) etc and income were all fantastic, their manager just didn't like that I was on contract instead of a permanent employee.
"Good for you! Mobile Infantry made me the man I am today!"
Sorry, I am not familiar with citus.
How? Even if you were to host a website on a satellite the government could launch a rocket and blow it up. If the website is hosted on Earth they could physically cut cables if they wanted to. There is no way to fully prevent the government from preventing access to a website. The internet is decentralized, but not fully immune from governments.
Logging (for Certificate Transparency) isn't a policy requirement. In fact last time I looked, there are (special purpose, typically in industrial settings so their clients aren't web browsers) Intermediates under some roots that just aren't outfitted to be capable of logging at all. Their existence is not a policy violation.

Clients (most particularly, popular browsers such as Chrome) can and do require SCTs (effectively proof the certificate was logged) to accept a certificate, but that just means if you issue a certificate under a trusted root without logging it, it just won't work in such browsers until somebody logs it.

You can even do this intentionally, if you're Google for example you get yourself (unlogged) certificates for shiny-new-product.google.example and shiny-new-product.example on Monday, and you don't need to worry that some eagle-eyed journalist spots that in the logs before your official product launch on Thursday evening, live in front of millions of people. You can log the certificate yourself minutes before launch, then attach the SCTs and it'll work.

[Google even got this wrong once, mistakenly using a certificate they didn't have enough SCTs for due to a bug. Chrome rejected these certificates and so, for a brief period until they fixed the problem, Google's own sites didn't work in Chrome]

Now, that last part is technically not trivial to do correctly (chances are your existing web dev tooling can't do SCT stapling, or at least you'd need to go read a bunch of instructions that you aren't going to bother with) and so when you get a Let's Encrypt cert, or you buy something cheap from a reseller, it is already logged for you, the SCTs are baked inside the certificate you get -- but that's just because there isn't a big market for unlogged certificates, not because such certificates can't or mustn't exist.
I love this, true modern art. My favorite bit is on page 26, illustrating the "gravitational pull of Pepsi".

Is it just me, or do all the pepsi logos look like second place? I can't see them from a blank slate, but the smooth curves and contrasting colors scream #2 to me.
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>The dark side of this is that many of us won't. And, in particular, in many areas, the total number of brass rings is relatively fixed and we can't all get them. A hundred years ago, most people didn't even think of becoming an author.

It's worse: a hundred years ago (say 1921) there were less people (in the US for example), and more succesful authors.

Now it's more people (350 million vs 100 million in 2021) AND less absolute people reading books (perhaps as today they also compete with tv, the web, youtube, netflix, social media, videogames, and so on as everyday entertainment options).

So it's much much harder to make a living as an author today than in 1921.
Do you go around asking people if they've won a Nobel Prize?

Really, what's appealing here is living modestly in a time before it was so easy to find out who someone was by typing their name into a search bar. Bardeen did his work out of a genuine drive for scientific discovery, not the pursuit of wealth or fame. That's what that anecdote shows me and what appeals to me about him.

I'm sure Bardeen was not sweating about his "legacy" after winning a Nobel Prize, lol.
A few more items I've encountered:

- Citus data, not Citrus data.

- In tables, column order matters. Order const-width non-null columns before all other columns (best so that there's no unnecessary alignment padding). Then maybe some low null fraction fixed-width columns, then ordered by query access frequency. A lot of time can be spent extracting tuple values, and you can save a lot of time using the offset caches by correctly tetris-ing your columns. Note that dropped columns are set to null, so a table rewrite (by redefining your table) may be in order for 100% performance.
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I absolutely hate 3DS, for two reasons:

1) I now have to do the 3DS procedure for amounts as small as 1,80€

2) My bank's 3DS "website" requires me to enter my online banking PIN (the one for my entire account, not just my credit card PIN!) and since that website gets opened in an Android WebView I can't even be sure that the app invoking the WebView doesn't actually obtain my PIN through a key logger. Fantastic.
Samsung Galaxy SmartTags exist since January 2020
They do in WSL2, as I understand it.
Given ITSM their weak spot - what's a good alternative for IT Service Management?
> No doubt there is also discrimination.

Then what are you arguing about? You're calling into question the entire concept of equality activism for job/housing/education opportunities, and you don't disagree that discrimination exists?

> but perhaps because the interventions are just bringing out latent childhood abilities that normal kids don't get the opportunity to use

That is an extremely worrisome trend if you're trying to argue that IQ tests measure innate intelligence and not training. The whole point of an IQ test is that you shouldn't be able to "cram" for it, you shouldn't be able to "cheat" and temporarily influence the results so that they don't accurately reflect intelligence.

So at the very least, this puts your claim that IQ is a permanent number that can be accurately measured before adolescence into question. You're admitting here that you don't believe IQ is a static number. You're suggesting that external interventions can bring out latent abilities that won't be captured or accounted for in a normal IQ test. That's an idea with pretty big implications. Essentially, what you're saying is that given the right environment/early-education/nutrition/etc, that test results can be artificially primed.

So given that claim, why are you so certain that IQ is set in stone before preschool? How do you know that there aren't external factors that can lower IQ over time? What makes you sure that an oppressive or high-stress environment couldn't suppress or encourage those latent abilities even later in life?

You don't really have any way to know that IQ tests given later in life wouldn't be subject to environmental effects that could dampen or inflate results, do you?
Meanwhile in Poland I use BLIK [1]. Simple and reasonably secure, the downside being no chargeback facility.

The bonus is that Przelewy24 is often presented as a payment option in global shops like Steam or AliExpress, so I can use it there as well.

[1] https://blik.com/en
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What, their chips aren't good enough for their own phones, but they think they're good enough for dedicated laptops?
I don't think I want to compare them - I dislike them both! One is too basic and cryptic, the other one is overly complex for a shell, and in the end, I want to use neither.

I'm not sure what the ideal shell would look like though. Maybe an actual (simple and expressive) programming language with a way to 'lift' statements ?
Putting my hiring manager’s hat on, I recommend asking for more, without hesitation. There is practically no downside. Especially if it’s your dream company, because you are likely to be extra motivated, and this is a case you can genuinely make. Once an offer’s already on the table, the worst possible
outcome from asking will be “sorry, that’s as high as we can go right now” without any rancour.

If instead the response
is in any way affronted, then run the fuck away because that’s a clear early warning sign of toxic, bullying management; avoiding such environments is also on my list of good outcomes. The only exception context being, if you don’t currently have any income at all.
I believe most authors of technical books get most of their payback from it in the form of enhanced status for consulting gigs, being as they are the person who "literally wrote the book" on topic [x]. I have heard that has been the case for quite some time.
I'm curious why you assumed it was more due to cultural exchange?

I always assumed the reverse because agriculture increases surpluses that lead to more births, more specialization (which leads to improved warfare vs hunter gatherers), and more land pressure that forces outward migration. AFAIK most of the hunter gatherers didn't convert to farmers, but they were squeezed out by those that did because they grew much more slowly. I didn't think cultural exchange was a major factor until much later when large agricultural societies started to colonize and "modernize" the rest of the planet.
Is it possible that the code on the shirt was deliberately altered to avoid legal issues?
I wonder perhaps too if the more prestigious resumes start coming from companies that embrace these trends, further reinforcing them across industry.
Alternatively a remote pilot
Does your bank not have a phone app? Consider switching to one that has.
> For a lot of use cases, the kernel / OS doesn't make a huge contribution to overall performance. As long as you don't use something tragically bad, it'll be fine.

This is what I was thinking, but did a poor job communicating. I think that Linux, because of all the work poured into it, will usually be good enough. Even though its been less meticulously constructed than DFly and didn't have as much forethought put into picking low overhead SMP algorithms and data structures and what not, in the end, the differences between Linux and DFly in performance will be pretty minimal.

So when faced with using a strange and novel platform with software incompatibilities and possibly a slight performance gain in certain situations, or using the familiar, most people will pick the familiar, and for justifiable reasons IMO.