skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ecofin, a cutting-edge fintech product from Ecofin Services India Pvt Ltd., enables short-term personal loans to the young salaried professionals through a simple yet, unique powerful app powered by a proprietary predictive algorithm, assessing creditworthiness profile.
> eg: owning a domain name

I just want to comment on the only tangible use case you mention.

What happens the day a rogue actor gets ahold of .gov, NSA/CIA/DHS, or Google's/Microsoft's domain and sends it to /dev/null?

The "no central authority" point of Blockchains is too risky.

Ps, saying that Blockchains solve the double spend problem is like saying the iPhone solves the "running-out-of-battery" problem; it comes with a charger. Nowhere else do we have the double spend problem, simply because we have a CA.
It’s ok, people like you wondered why would anybody need to speak into a tube with a wire instead of meeting in person, why would anybody send a radio broadcast to nobody in particular, why would anybody send email when post and fax are ubiquitous.

Some just need time to process the upside of new tech.

But please, write down your thoughts and re-read them every couple years.
> bitcoin is the biggest invention in financial world since sliced bread

Puzzling. Is sliced bread a financial invention? The sliced bread thing has always puzzled me every time I've come across it. Is it saying that there's no real added value, or that the added value in convenience is really big?
I would have loved to see how a HAMT or a CHAMP works!
Well, I only meant it as very conditional advice. The if in 'If you want to be an active hobbyist investor,' is a very big if.

Other hobbies are less dangerous.
Because it is a big claim. And there are many different kinds of photographs you can take in many different situations, so something what is an advantage in one situation is a disadvantage in another.

Computational photography can overcome some of the optical limitations of the small sensor. E.g. you need a really good camera to get the dynamic range that is available with iPhone HDR.

Old camera (I am not aware of any modern cameras having 6mpx sensors) is an old camera. Cheap glass is a cheap glass. The bigger the sensor the better your lens has to be optically, because light is bent at the bigger angles.

The two most obvious areas (ergonomics and interchangeable lenses aside) of advantages of the "proper" cameras with bigger sensors are low-light performance and "bokeh". Otoh, if you want to have as much in focus as possible small sensors win.
Nice, but I wonder if it's apples to apples comparison with other EVs? This was constant speed no breaking flat ground test, real-world mileage will be significantly lower.
Find and replace China with US and reality still makes sense.

Then the US expects the rest of the world to follow their rule based order, where no one knows what the freaking rules are except rules for thee but for me(US).
The major companies steering the market likely just won’t participate, leading to no meaningful change whatsoever.
GitLab is the best alternative feature wise. https://sourcehut.org/ is great too if you are into this kind of things
A thermoelectric generator is to heat what a hydroelectric plant is to water. Neither one of them consumes its respective resource; they just capture some energy as it naturally flows from one space to another. Seeing water at the bottom of a dam, or heat on the exterior of the RTG, doesn't mean that any energy has been wasted; it just means it's reached its resting point.
I think for me the disconnect is that in developed financial systems most of these points are not a big issue or not even desirable given current regulation and supervision.

Few examples: (i) immutable data can clash with privacy laws, (ii) double spend is generally not a problem in centralized systems, (iii) distributed ledgers means you don't have full control of your books and records, (iv) ownerless contracts cause problems with KYC/CFT/AML/sanctions, (v) there are still courts and government force that can compel people to do things etc. ...

In order to really use these it would need a sizeable shift on how the financial structure looks like. That might happen but a lot of what I see is just a fast run through the best errors in finance over the last hundred years. For example, I see mispriced contracts because people don't understand forwards, free options being giving away etc., stuff that to me (not a lawyer) looks like ignoring securities laws, ...

I am not totally bearish on some of these ideas and technologies, but right now I think they are used and envisioned too narrowly by trying just to replace things that are often poorly understood. Example: I think the idea of making market making directly investable is great (i.e. not just being shares of an investment bank or similar). There are probably real applications outside of crypto (index components vs ETF maybe). Similarly, for DeFi to really "make it", I think it needs to be able to do unsecured lending.
It's an easily falsifiable claim if it is indeed false.
Yes. So I would suggestion people not be active, hobbyist investors.

I suggest you get some hobby that's not in finance. And put your money in index funds.
This. I've read many accounts of people advocating for use of blockchains in industry or government, which mostly boil down to different entities emitting documents in a verifiable way, e.g. for property ownership. As you've said this can be handled using boring PKIs and the like.
Then you surely remember how important layout is for cross signaling, high frequency and and and. All this will be missing from the schematic.
Why would anyone want a 16-inch iPad?
My "contribution" appears to be "pending".

Same story as last time.
Mozilla should stick to making good open software

Support for censorship which this is doing is not a way to support the free and open web
Poll: Headphone Wearing ENDED
ABANDONED DUE TO FORMATTING ERRORS.
0-1hr per day
1-3hr per day
3hr-6hr per day
6hr or more per day
But Hubble wasn't a one-off design. It shared a lot of design elements with other space telescopes that are more earth-focused :) So it had a lot more benefits of scale than JWST.
Most American rules don't apply overseas.

Eg they can spy on foreigners all they like.
As a Sydneysider, I'm disappointed and feel betrayed by Gladys. I'd have preferred a swift and tight lockdown rather than this pissweak setting that most of Sydney seems to be flaunting. It's clearly not going to work, and she'll open up NSW with infections to sky rocket.

I'd vote for Dan if I could.
I went to an ear doc in Belgium. Not a general practicioner. She did the micro-suction thing for me just fine and i believe it was covered.
China, China, China. How about US-based companies such as 23andme? They have been doing the same thing starting from much much earlier.
>The bigger the sensor the better your lens has to be optically, because light is bent at the bigger angles.

The angle that the light is bent depends on the angle of view, not the size of the sensor.
I don’t know how to approach this. As a human I can read all public code and learn from regardless the license and come up with new solutions. Machine can read everything too, but can't create new ideas or approach. How is copilot defined then? Should it be only smart system for general code snippets?
All of the technologies you mentioned gained wide adoption much faster than blockchain has.

> why would anybody need to speak into a tube with a wire instead of meeting in person

I am fairly sure the value proposition of instantaneous vocal communication at a distance was extremely obvious even before the telephone existed.
The existence of a dispute resolution system is usually enough to keep the vast majority of participants in a system honest.

In the case of card payments, merchants incur a fee for every transaction reversed through the card scheme, whereas voluntary refunds are essentially free. They are accordingly incentivized to understand and follow the scheme rules.

> And the one time I had a dispute, Visa claimed that the transaction was out of policy somehow (timeframe, region, etc)

That's unfortunate, and mistakes or seemingly unfair decisions do happen – just like in a public legal system. But you are essentially basing your opinion on a sample size of one.

Practically, some banks just seem to be better (i.e. more consumer friendly) at dispute resolution than others. As an example, in the case of a high profile airline bankruptcy in my country, some banks have proactively reached out to their customers, letting them know they're happy to pursue disputes for them, while others were declining them outright due to a – likely wrong – understanding of scheme rules and bankruptcy law.
I am not a lawyer but I am sure that any legal standard for ML has to be different than "isn't it just doing what humans do, but faster?"

GitHub scanning billions of code files to build commercial software is different than you learning at human pace, even if they're both "learning" and in the end they both produce commercial software.
Ha, a LinkedIn post copy-pasting a tweet that screenshotted a reddit comment.

I guess some people play the "I want to be a LinkedIn influencer" game...
https://twitter.com/ultralinx/status/1411807406728925196

This is credited at the bottom of the LinkedIn(??) post and the tweet itself (as pointed out elsewhere and ref'd in tweet) is just grabbed from reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/odmy22/di...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

Seriously, fuck ppl who don't declare upfront that what they're posting is not original work - truly the bane of the internet.
If I were a billionaire I would pay the same company who developed the technology to develop an ad-blocker for me :-)
Harley-Davidson LiveWire.

The best motorcycle I have ever ridden, and I’ve ridden most.

It’s that good. But it’s still too expensive and short-legged.
Two of your 3 problems solved by Bitcoin only exist because you have Bitcoin.
And they have a special rule that they’ll invade The Hague if US war criminals are ever tried there. All those presidents and generals and spooks are safe from justice.
The ransomware has code which avoids computers that use Russian[1]

[1]: https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/14129099009512202...
Edit: Oh my, it seems that:

a) randompwd and subsequently hiq here has pointed out the same thing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27769773), it seems to be posted at the same time as my comment, and

b) as kiruio pointed out, the video was from https://www.adi.tv/projects/bundesliga-digital-perimeter. The explanation on Reddit (https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/odmy22/di...) seems to be the original explanation though. What a rabbit-hole.

Original comment:

Credit to where it is really due:

The image: [Twitter link, removed because it came from the above website]

The explanation: https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/odmy22/di...
I have very low EQ, so yes, it's still acceptable (to me).
In my experience with dual camera it does portraits and HDR with sky good, but not so great with greenery. I’m enthusiastic about larger sensors like in Sharp Aquos R6 https://www.phonearena.com/news/sharp-aquos-r6-camera-sample...
Not entirely surprising. The Taliban is mostly comprised of Afghan refugees who were raised in the madrassas of Pakistan. These were funded by the gulf states and the CIA and controlled by the ISI. With foreign money the Taliban bribes the tribal leaders. The tribe is the fundamental political unit in Afghanistan and always has been. In the early invasion US special forces found every foreign fighter was carrying something like 10k USD.

The 'pitch' is as follows. The Taliban are Afghani's returning home to help their people. They have the legitimacy of islam and bring money to support the locals.

They are neither fringe nor unpopular.
There's always pragmatism though - it's possible to say that your end state involves no workers being alienated from their labour, but to allow it for some large number of years on the basis that it will help you get to a good version of the endstate quicker.

A state that governs with a communist endstate in mind might still be regarded as communist, even if they use capitalist policies to get there.
I would agree that case 1 constitutes a potentially interesting use of block-chain. 2 and 3 assume the value of BTC, which I would not take as a given.
You may also be interested in:
https://github.com/timkpaine/tributary/blob/main/docs/exampl...
Congratulatuions on launch! Models monitoring is really important and there is huge lack for tools to do this. How would you notify users (model owner) about potential problems? Are you going to use email notifications?

Does user need to manually set threshold when alarms should be triggered?

What to do if there is a data drift?

What is the most difficult to detect drift example that you see?
Last name contains invalid characters [2010]
This seems to be the source: https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/odmy22/di...
What about Tamil food? There are lots of ethnic Tamil in Sri Lanka
http://mangrove.cz/diffmark/ (full disclosure: I wrote that), for example...
It costs real money to buy back tokens from the market and to burn them on the blockchain because they are provably scarce. Because new tokens cannot be created, burning them on the blockchain permanently reduces the remaining circulating supply of tokens so the value of remaining tokens goes up (supply versus demand).

Someone could potentially funnel money out from the stream of profits but anyone could independently check expected earnings (looking at the assets in the portfolio) against the on-chain buyback amount. At least, it significantly limits how much money can be funnelled out.

On the other hand, with a regular company, the directors can make up any numbers on the books and funnel out all of the profits and could keep this going for years undetected. That is far worse.

Altogether, it's not 100% trustless but it's orders of magnitude more transparent than a share-based system. As a small business with directors located in different parts of the world (some of which only met over video chat), this model was essential for us to get over the trust hurdle. Now that we can see tokens being bought and burned, it is building trust within the community. Many community members have already sold some tokens back and seen them burned. Some small investors already made a profit over their initial investment and still have half of their tokens left.

That said, it's not going to be ideal until we we multiple real estate companies (run by different people) hooked into the LSH blockchain. The more companies there are, the less trust there is.
Can you give us a link to your tool?
Mm, I think as long as you’re not using the cookies for advertising purposes, you don’t have to pop up a banner. But if you’re using any kind of cookie for ads, you do.

GitHub recently published a post called “no cookie for you” or some such, which made that distinction clear. They said they were able to get rid of the popup by not doing any ads.

But still, it feels… wildly unhelpful to inform users that cookies are being used for ads. I’d love to understand the other viewpoint, though.
> poorer countries in Africa aren't taught that.

Well, this is not the type of thing I'd expect to find on HN.

So in Africa, STDs are linked to lack of hygiene and more specifically dick cheese?

Because it isn't taught correct?
23 and me does this explicitly and with permission.

This comment is a rather egregious example of how surreal the false equivalences drawn between these two countries can be.
Qu'est-ce que la JAMstack et pourquoi devriez-vous l'utiliser?
It doesn't really matter how you call it; the problem is that there could be CVE's in your devDependencies that affect your production build, and pruning those dependencies after using them to create that build doesn't remove the risk.
One day, hopefully.

Currently it's more acceptable to set the ocean on fire than it is to protest against the ocean being on fire.

So might be a while
I think reversibly combining hydrogen with nickel to form nickel hydride is one solution that's been proposed for hydrogen vehicle fuel tanks.
Just as true for the 6S (and friends' more modern iPhones) in bright sunlight which should be at ISO 100 in my experience...
800km ≈ 497.1km. You’re not likely to round that to 496.
The "Git" application is a blockchain for decentralized management of the Linux kernel source code.

The "Bitcoin" application is a tool useful for buying and selling recreational drugs without exposure to the physical risk posed by cash transactions. Edit: That is, the physical/financial risk posed to you by the other party or third-party robbers. Legal risk is probably also reduced: law-enforcement deanonymization attacks seem much less frequent than busting people with drugs on the street.

Blockchain-based markets in general enable transactions without revealing personally identifying information to the counterparty or platform while circumventing regulatory restrictions on conventional transactions.
You can get mRNA (or even DNA) made to-order. People aren't quite making RNA at home yet, but it's not unavailable either.
I don't see how this is wallpapering over a hole in the design. Far from it. Java has supported async IO since Java 1.4 using APIs like java.nio.channels.AsynchronousChannel. That's a more or less conventional wrapper around epoll.

What's being introduced now is a way to use that API without needing to touch the whole concept of async code. From the developer's perspective blocking calls and threads is pretty nice. It's async that's awkward and hard to use. Making the existing threads facility scale much better is a very clean approach: virtual threads introduces "virtually" no new concepts at all, in fact, if you aren't working with native code via JNI or Panama then you can act as if virtual and physical threads are the same. You literally just upgrade Java and maybe flip a couple of switches and you can now assign one thread per connection yet handle millions of connections (assuming you don't run out of other resources of course).
I guess that the hyphen is not the only problem that the author encounters with automated systems.
So I would agree that this marketplace is creating profit for artists. Whether there is real value creation happening I would consider debatable. NFT's themselves are a highly speculative asset, and I would not count on this marketplace continuing to grow and thrive a decade from now.

In other words, a lot of people probably made a very good profit operating tulip markets in Holland in the 1600's, but that doesn't mean they were creating value.
It does not have to be different but it certainly can be different, a difference in quantity can certainly be a difference in quality. People watching other people walk by and a camera - maybe with face detection - doing the same are not only a difference in quantity but also in quality.
I usually c14n them and then diff
Retail Sales: Brace for Landing
Dan Price on arguments for remote work and what Gravity is doing
I have very low EQ, so yes, 100m globally (Actually 77.9m) vs 7.8 billion is totally acceptable (to me).
If we learn how to remove mass from the Sun at a large scanner, we can extend its useful life and fuse the hydrogen into more useful materials. We can prevent it from going red giant in the first place.
A good time to also point out https://tekin.co.uk/2020/10/better-git-diff-output-for-ruby-...
Is that article correct? How do the images not result in blurring of the players, as they run in front of the ads?
The training question seems much more difficult.

The main problem that has been the topic is a simpler one - about the produced work. If you exactly reproduce someone's existing code (doesn't matter if you copy by flipping bits one by one or which technology you use), isn't it a copyright violation?

I'm kind of imagining a Rube Goldberg machine that spells out the quake invsqrt function in the sand, now...
1) Granted, but also EURUSD pricing does not work like any AMM (i.e. not formulaic exchange rates). So right now this does not work from both sides (no place to do and no method to do it). And no, it will not change to formulaic unless you have insane amount so liquidity in (but even then, central banks could just steam roll over you)

2) Lending can be regulated, so might or might not be ok for you to lend - not a lawyer. What about KYC/AML etc.?

3) Aren't there specialized prime brokers that do that? (maybe Genesis?)
The entire planet could be described as an ancient volcano, so this discussion is a bit misleading.
The linked paper doesn’t seem to exist :/
Very cool I hope it catches up. I prefer one excellent camera over 3 or 4 average ones.
Git isn't a blockchain.
Apart from multiple opponents, those all seem like fairly minor variations on MMA technique in the sense that defending against the legal MMA attacks naturally defends against the illegal ones as well, and similarly the same skills that allow a fighter to land legal attacks would allow them to land illegal ones in a non-sport situation. It seems unlikely an overall inferior MMA fighter could win just by focusing on specific illegal moves.

For multiple opponents, I could certainly see that changing the optimal strategy, but it seems like the odds of winning would still mainly be a function of how strong a fighter is one-on-one, since the only hope is to quickly neutralize the additional opponent(s).
Usually zero, but over-the-ear headphones when practical. Your poll doesn't differentiate between in-canal earbuds, flat earbuds, or other.
Couldn't something like this be based on e.g. Sublime's syntax definitions? Then it would work on all languages/formats that had such a definition.
Why not? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
Oh, I give the iPhone a ton of credit. It generally looks good enough, the HDR on video makes shit look better than reality, the low-light performance beats the absolute pants off of anything else I own by a _huge_ margin.

I bought an iPhone 12 Pro pretty much entirely as a camera to use to capture a bunch of photos of my kid because (1) I don't have my DSLR within arm's reach in the house all the time and (2) our house isn't very well lit. I have zero complaints about it. I probably take photos with my iPhone versus my actual photo gear at least 20:1, if not more.

The photos look great on a phone screen.

But even just printing a 4x6 photo from the iPhone and a 15 year old DSLR and putting them side by side, the difference is immediately obvious. The iPhone photos are disgustingly oversharpened while somehow being weirdly smoothed, but in all the wrong spots.

I grabbed a couple of my own photos taken on the same day in the same place under largely the same lighting conditions (it's never exact) and zoomed/cropped them to help demonstrate and for privacy. Neither have been adjusted at all (I did try and improve the iPhone photo best I could, but really managed no substantial looking improvement so posted it as-shot), so focus more on the definition in the hair: https://imgur.com/a/7bn8W5S

See if you can guess which came from an iPhone 12 Pro, and which came from a Nikon D70 (about a $100 camera body at this point).

That all said, the entire point was... expecting anything more than 12MP out of an iPhone is absolutely pointless because the sensor size and optics simply aren't there to actually produce a better photo.
Good point. Something I've been thinking about: would we find people are more ethical in societies where the quality of life is higher, basic needs are met, and inequality is lessened? My guess is yes. From what I recall, the corruption index closely follows the opposite.
Do you have a link to the design? I'm assuming it's a radio telescope?