skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the heck does that mean? Credit cards in the US are a dollar based instrument, and they extend credit to consumers and simplify payments for merchants and consumers both.

Crypto isn’t credit. Or much of a payment means at present. So what specifically do you mean by “other option”?

This seems like a dodge. The common meme is that crypto will be valuable because it will be the money of the future and appreciate along the way.
A few of the open source ones actually use OpenRGB under the hood
I suppose if you're not bothered with wasting lots of time, do the following for a precise sum: Select the two smallest numbers from the list, remove them and insert their sum. Repeat until only one number is left.

[Ed. smaller meaning closer to zero]
holy shit

I weren't aware of that

It's weird af that I've never saw map where America/Asia is in the center
Seriously, TFA is basically a refutation of modern anti-immigrant sentiment in (essentially) post-Roman states, but let the triggered show themselves for what they're really thinking.
The weaker position concedes reality and let’s you build an argument on the nuances.

China does have a reason to want to detain and control the population. Even the US has detained 22 Uyghurs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_detainees_at_Guantana...
The Uyghurs have many individuals who have joined terrorist organizations. Maybe we are looking at China’s Guantanamo.

China has the ability to suppress knowledge of any abuse. The United States has Guantanamo, which was the site of many “enhanced interrogation” techniques. That torture took a long time to surface, with years of lawyers involved to get the details out.

China has an interest in covering up any abuses. Of course they would. The US wouldn’t want details about torture in Guantanamo to come out either. It’s a blight which will be used against the US for hundreds of years.

Now that a baseline is established, why would the “West” want to use this situation against China? Political points at home? Taiwanese separatists trying to make China look bad? Trade disputes.

Sure those are all possibilities. Unfortunately, those motivations can exist, and China could still be doing something other than making shoes in those camps. They weren’t making Nikes in Gitmo either.

But we aren’t talking about 22 people in a Chinese terrorist prison. The accusation is millions. And yes, maybe 22 are being tortured, and the other million are making shoes. Allow hundreds of reporters loose, and one of them is going to find the Chinese Guantanamo, and suggest that all million are subject to that level of detention.

But how else do you assure the west that China is just making shoes around a tiny Chinese version of Guantanamo.

That’s really the argument.

Denying that China has the motivation, the means, and the ability to cover it up - those are all weak arguments.

And I really am trying to help you with your arguments. If the end game is war, it’s my children who will be fighting. Your arguments need to be stronger.
The Atlantic is generally considered center-left. They like to think of themselves as aiming for the intellectual center, which kind of places them at odds with the American right wing (given the sense in which both of them think of the term "intellectual").

I find that means that they sometimes go out of their way for "balance", to subject the left to what they consider fair critique. (They'd consider that the right isn't really capable of properly critiquing the left at this point; even valid criticisms are swamped by invalid one.)

If you read the entire thing I believe you'd still concur that they're still overall slightly to the left of center. Other articles on the front page include "The Right to Vote Is Under Assault", "How America Fractured Into Four Parts" (one of those pieces that try to explain right-wing thinking to left-wingers), and "Republicans in the States Are Proving Joe Manchin Wrong" (about right-wing anti-voting measures, focusing on the most right wing Democrat who is preventing the Senate from acting against that).
This is known as the boy scout principle. Nice pictures, so still an upvote!
https://archive.is/92B40
Just because it is slow does not mean it is not a rubber stamp. Bureaucracy tends to take awhile whether it is effective or not.
In Europe, strong customer authentication is now required when making credit card purchases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_customer_authentication

So Klarna delays having to authenticate with the bank which issued your credit card from the time of purchase, to the time of paying your Klarna "credit card bill".

They also delay sending your invoice until the item is actually shipped, and you then have a 14 day due date. This means returns and refunds have no money exchanged from any of your own accounts, so you don't have to worry about how long it takes for the refund to enter your credit card.

Edit: They also remember you address based on your email and name, across any vendors, so check out is really quick even if it is the first time you shop at a specific site. This is of course great for smaller vendors.
> How do you effectively ban circulation of certain types of information?

This is an important question for our right to privacy too. Lets say that we succeed in replacing law with code, which we are doing but not very successfully. We can not rely on hardware like DRM does. We need to integrate a censor into the network.

Something that might work is a system like Ethereum's distributed virtual machine, and a much more involved version of smart contracts. Then you could fingerprint your private data, upload your fingerprint to each smart contract platform, and financial penalties are applied to those who transfer your data on the network without your permission.

I think we can replace most of government functions and services with a selection of apps that you subscribe to / tax you. I recently started working in earnest on the idea after being inspired by Project Cybersyn's planned economy.

You can make the cybernetic system democratic by treating likes/dislikes as votes; data to feed a recommender algorithm with. If the algo is expensive like NNMF you can use that as proof of work with real value. With enough data, the algo becomes a personal agent which can predict how the digital citizen will vote, and possibly able to do work with real value. It could perhaps negotiate a smart contract for you without interactivity.
Does it pale in comparison? We already have buses and trains. We don't have any auto pilot driving better than a drunk guy.
yeah, nothing but ad hominems, people with your level of ignorance don't have much else.
So, do you think people should be allowed to take ivermectin and "that drug" (the one that rhymes with mydoxyborofin) for COVID-19 if they want to, given that both of those have been studied for years and are known to have very little side effects?
If science believes they are proven safe so hard, then why did governments have to grant full legal indemnity to the pharma cos to get them?
I'd be ok with certain smart phones as the exemption, but not electronics in computers, home electronics, cars, tractors, etc.

And if it's truly about waterproofing, the companies better include water damage in their measly warranties.
No it doesn't and yes you can. Counting your beans in a different currency doesn't prevent you from needing to do tax accounting and from having to comply with tax laws if you sell beans in a country.
Got it, so you're separating out the energy requirements into two buckets, then pretending that those two are unrelated. I agree that in general, processing transactions is not an energy-intensive task. This is why traditional payment processors with trusted nodes are able to do so efficiently. In the case of cryptocurrency, where the assumption is that all nodes are inherently untrustworthy, the resource requirement is stapled onto the transaction processing.

When people say "transactions cost X amount to process", they mean "in the current state of bitcoin", not in the past when there were very few transaction validators. The more transaction validators (typically called "miners") there are, the higher the cost of validating a transaction, due to Bitcoin's difficulty scaling.

I'm not sure why you separate out chain security from transaction validation and treat them as separate, when the chain security is there to protect against invalid transactions. It's sort of the entire point of it.
Try steelmanning it. Their argument is that crypto is as worthless as an investment with Bernie Madoff. Therefore, the Netherlands should exit early so its citizens aren’t left holding the bag.

That’s their claim to argue against.
I don't think OP is advocating making yourself SoP. I think what OP is saying, is that you should not waste your precious mental effort or free time to unmake yourself as SoP for the company, unless you're tasked to do so and paid for it. I.e. if it's in your job description that you'll be documenting all the things, then you'll do it, on paid time.
The main argument against crypto is actually an argument against the way we generate power. If our power generation wasn’t so dirty, this argument against crypto goes away.

Banning crypto isn’t going to fix the root cause.
Well, the article is about a first time someone died in a competitive "world championship" thing with constantly humidified 100+C air with a race about who can tolerate it the longest.

Probably people die in saunas all the time in countries where it's popular, like they sometimes do when eating, walking, or sleeping or watching tv.
It sounds outrageous when phrased like that. But turns out there's ways of describing what happened that make it sound like a completely reasonable decision as well. See e.g. this forum post:

https://forum.quartertothree.com/t/wtf-is-going-on-at-the-fd...

Which of the two groups of experts is right? I certainly don't have the experience to tell. But it seems plausible that both are acting in good faith, and there is no need for outrage.
Show HN: Long Term Calendar Visualizations
I find that Google calendar isn't particular useful for long term planning, so thought up some better long term visualizations, based on some Linear Calendar concepts.
There's a third rule set where switching always makes you lose:

Guest selects a door. If it has a goat behind it, the host opens that door and says "you lose". If the guest initially picks the car, then the host opens a different door and asks the guest if they want to switch.

For the player, if you've reached the point that the host is offering you to switch, there's no way to know whether you are in the case where switching improves your odds to 2/3, keeps them the same, or decreases them to zero.
I agree. The FDA should be a watch dog group that provides us with the knowledge to make our own decisions. How many people have died because a drug took too long or never made it to get approved?
Not to detract from this project, but what's the deal with RGB lighting?

It just seems garish to me. I also imagine it must be quite distracting to have a bunch of lights flashing out of your PC.
I agree. And regardless of where you stand on the issue, the current regulations with regards to off-label usage are totally inconsistent. Doctors are perfectly free to prescribe drugs for conditions that are completely unrelated to the what they were approved for.

Drug X is proven safe but not proven effective. It's illegal to use to treat condition Q under any circumstances. Drug Y is proven safe, proven effective for condition M. It's perfectly legal to use for unrelated condition Q. How does this make any sense?
depends if it gives you anxiety. I think the healthy approach is "Prepare for the worst, hope for the best"

I don't need to live in constant fear of the worst, but it helps to be prepared for it
Sometimes people will insist that sticking beans in their nose is absolutely necessary.

https://archive.uie.com/brainsparks/2011/07/08/beans-and-nos...
This would likely lead to a pharmaceutical landscape that is more like the supplements industry -- no thank you.
I'm close to multiple people with Alzheimer's. I think the worst thing you can give them is nothing as their personality evaporates and they become a husk of who they once were and a burden on everyone around them.

I can walk 5 minutes down the block and buy an eight ball of fentanyl from a guy named TJ but I can't get Alzheimer's treatment made by a team of scientists in a cutting-edge lab because it doesn't meet some government worker's idea of "good enough"?

I don't care what your bureaucratic panel thinks about how inconclusive the data is. My mother is dying.
Boosting Textpattern CMS with democratic match funding at FundOSS
Sorry to burst your bubble (unless that was a joke in which case carry on), but as a foreigner, American currency is one of the most boring I’ve seen.

More seriously: the USA really needs to retire the $1 notes from circulation a decade or more ago.
> we could ban all cars because there are bicycles

I would actually support this for urban areas. I wish more people would see that this would significantly benefit everyone.
In some more generous states, the maximum benefit plus the 300/week supplement comes out to 25/hr. That's hard to beat.
The difference being that the harm caused by Bitcoin (or at least the negative effects pointed out by GP) is externalized from the investors to society as a whole.
But this would force your laptop to be a whole 1.8cm thick! Unthinkable!
That's not really relevant here.

Safe drugs can be sold OTC with all the homeopathics. FDA approval here is about fraudulent claims of effectiveness.

You argue that unsafe drugs should be available for sale too, but that's not what happened here and IMO it ignores the societal risks of unsafe things floating around were they can harm non-consenting people, as well as the rights of people who want to be free from transient temptation to make irrevocable decisions.
This is why I like reading the comments on HN. I'd never heard of Grobots, it's brilliant!
Seconded. I've never had a place where I wasn't supposed to bill a full 40 hours and it's hell. Any distraction or disruption ends up eating into your not work time, or you fudge the numbers and bill for work when you're not working. I could absolutely be fully productive and provide the most value to the client for 20 hours a week.
I am pretty sure I got nocked back for a job at EBAY because I have an atypical career path.
Update! 50% of ES has internet access, and this will only increase with companies like Blockstream coming in

https://megaphone.link/BLOCK5279366544
I'd love to get your take on two challenges I've encountered:

(1) Being the only remote person on a team. It was really hard to get other members to include me in meetings, etc. Perhaps your status as a consultant prevented such exclusion?

(2) Inability to stand at the same, physical whiteboard during technical discussions / design sessions.
I am a smart person, and I am not remotely qualified to make decisions about the risks associated with an untested drug. I’d like to know when I get a prescription that someone else went through the process of being a willing volunteer in a clinical trial.
> Consider this: if your home had only a 56k dialup modem and your office had gigabit fiber, would you still prefer to work from home?

Perhaps you underestimate how much I hate being outside of my home. If given a realistic choice, there is no situation where I would ever prefer or enjoy the office. Nothing is worth it, and most of it is an active detriment to my quality of life, especially the people. I'm not asking for everyone to be remote, unlike the many people who want to force everyone to be in-office, I just want the option for myself and others to be remote based on preference.

> it’s brutal to be a people manager in an org that was designed around office work and leading through the conversion to remote-only.

It's brutal to be an introvert/misanthrope forced to sit in a chair 8h a day, and the point is that it's not necessary. Let people who want to be in-office do so, and let the rest stay home. I still haven't heard a convincing or legitimate reason why things should be otherwise except for people who are stuck in the 1940s office mindset.
Big Government != an effective FDA.

Regardless of the size of the government, you're always going to have problems.
LUMA Reports Distributed Denial of Service Attack to Authorities
Defining a Platform Is Hard
The article goes out of its way to specifically say there are no exceptions. Like, it literally says "if you think some managers aren't like this, you're wrong and part of the problem".

This makes sense in the mind of the author because their core thesis is that middle management as a concept is broken. According to him, "middle managers are rewarded when they can take work from those who are good at their work but aren’t paid a manager’s salary".

Fundamentally, their view of middle management is the workplace equivalent of economic rent seeking; "In my profession, middle managers usually worked the longest hours but contributed the least, but were somehow graded based on _my_ performance". Rent seeking that requires being physically in the office to be visible: "so many people have gone so far in their careers through the nebulousness of 'management' that has basically no value in a remote setting". And so remote work breaks this model: "Remote work mostly destroys the ability to appear busy, other than having a full calendar."

There's no equivocation or qualification, here. No attempt at nuance. The second last sentence in the article goes so far as to claim "They [middle managers] don’t want to make the office a place where things actually get done, because that’s not the point to them - the point is that they own you."

Had they not gone out of their way to flat out state 'someone insufferable will read this and say “NOT ALL MIDDLE MANAGERS,” and let me tell you, if you’re thinking that, you are probably part of the problem' I suspect I would've found the article a bit narrow-minded and extreme, probably the byproduct of someone who'd been in too many toxic workplace cultures, but I might've understood.

As written? Sorry, but I see no reason to give this a charitable reading. The author is clear on their intent, and their intent is to impugn the work of people like me who are honestly just out here doing our best for the people we work with during some of the toughest circumstances imaginable.
Grobots looks like RobotWar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSdCtxN96_o
I prefer not to get killed in a traffic crash. Even personal mobility requires infrastructure like fully separated bike lanes and multi-use trails. A white paint line or sharrows is a joke.

We have level of service standards for roads and highways. But for pedestrians and bicyclists there's no standards for sidewalks on every street, bus stop quality, tree canopy, protection from speeding SUV drivers, crosswalks, bike racks, etc.
RISC-V Adventures II: hex0
Unlike other posters, I think this is a valid question. I mean, it's heart rate and temperature, not your porn habits or diary or whatever. If the availability of that data could potentially save many lives, why is it so bad to gather it?

I mean, if we're in favor of universal health care where, by some rhetoric, we're forcing people at gunpoint to give their money to save others, why is this so bad?
Pretty low on the income inequality though, isn’t it?
Hey but at least it keeps the oil lanes open to all those authoritarian regimes we prop up. Especially when we deny our neighbors to the north a pipe.
Just as long as you are clear that nothing I said was incorrect, even though I was using both terms.
An Air Force Pilot Became Friends with the Man Who Shot Down His F-117
There is money wasted in all parts of the gov because of inefficiencies everywhere. That doesn't mean we stunt the budgeting. That means we make sure the money is being spent to its maximal potential so that American military dominance in the world is never meaningfully contested. And if more is needed to guarantee that, then there's more capital that can be raised.

You don't solve inefficiency problems by gutting the budget. I also don't care what you personally believe about "cut 25% of the budget with no real hit to our readiness." Who are you that I or anyone here should care what you personally believe about cutting 25%? lol. Looking at your site in your profile, you're hardly even old enough to drink. You're just a kid and you're talking about stuff you don't understand.

Go read the news about Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Koreas, Ukraine, and the general ethos driving China's debt-driven expansion and get back to me.
On the contrary, the core thesis of Wealth of Nations is that a free market in an industrial economy is not zero-sum.

Creation exceeds destruction, and the former does not require the latter.
This reminds me of a reddit r/nosleep story, "The Life in the Machine"

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/u7zc2/the_life_in_...
IMHO that's pretty far from OP' description of a viewpoint.
Their main selling point is offering high interestrate credit to sites customers and paying the site the money directly, taking the risk.
Rumor: Intel May Buy RISC-V CPU Designer SiFive to Fend Off ARM
You're drawing a false comparison. The options in that case are {trust military leaders to give accurate $ figures that will lead to the safety of the US}, or {to not trust them} because there may be _many_ reasons not to (organizational incentives, demonstrated incompetence, lack of resource efficiency). Nowhere in those choices is "take the advice of internet randos" -- internet randos just happen to be making those other reasons known to you.
Exactly. Leadership/management love to complain about how they want to be in office because it's better for them, but then couldn't care less when people work better at home.
>Let’s just engage this for a moment.

Please no.
Klarna in Europe I think for most people I know is a "i made this mistake once" experience. I know nobody who picked the Klarna transaction type more than once.

The checkout is super quick only to be frustrated with the payment process later. And since it's Klarna that comes after you to collect payment it can eventually backfire on the business that you ordered from as well.
The blog post doesn't say much more than the headline. I'm curious about the specifics of what could of actually happened here.

In my limited experience working with CDNs wouldn't you just cache the responses of unique URLs and have some sort of cookie check at the edge before serving it.

So my own app would request something like /api/account?id=123 with my own id in there.

How would you end up getting other people's data in your app if your app only calls that unique URL?
Slow regulators are pro industry They keep competition out by bleeding then out of cash before they can go to market
Doreen has been around on HN for a lot longer than this account. She's definitely one of the OGs. I would believe 12 years, that's about how long I've been here and I don't remember a time when she was not a member.
The cells in the packs can be replaced.
If anything the poor reasoning (almost all of which is weak correlations) on display on that page makes the criticism even more justified.
I use an Android app for this called "Simple sleep timer";
I set it to Fade out and close the youtube app after 30 minutes.

I've listened to the episodes of the same production for almost 3 years now; The Ricky Gervais show / podcast.
Hilarious and lighthearted, always takes my mind off of anything else.
> LUMA Energy, the operator of Puerto Rico’s electric power transmission and distribution system since June 1, 2021, has become aware of a targeted Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack

Who would DDoS the Puerto Rican power utility?
> The DoD and all of its sub-departments, is exempt from EPA regulations

Ho-ly shit. I mean I know blatant corruption is basically under ever political rock ever everywhere, but that is... wow.