skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I edited my comment to tone down the implication that it's only loan sharks.

That said, the "traditional" payday lenders all turn out to be quite predatory, don't they? (I understand that's what the original founding premise of LendUp was intended to address, even if they couldn't make it work.)

But aside from that, will the traditional payday lenders lend to everyone and anyone, no matter their circumstances? If not, what are the options for people who they won't deal with?
What you are describing are regulatory hurdles, do you think MySQL automatically shuts down at 9PM?
Do you think stock markets dont function on holidays because, their software refuses to?
Do u think govts will silently and watch while people are exercising their will on blockchain. Brother we’ve gone thru that already. Its called the internet, internet was decentralised and unregulated. Once govts and corporates started sniffing money and propaganda. It became Ad Powered, regulated, censored and controlled.
Whats stopping ethereum from being taken over by US and run only smart contracts allowed by them. All pipe dreams with optimism and failure to learn from past. For me blockchain fintech is just a clumsy database for a solved problem.
You don’t need to crack the keys when it’s much easier to take them.
Then again, the CCP under Mao was a lot worse, without any hint of collapse.
Everything is stored unencrypted somewhere. Getting access to that somewhere might be easiest.
I often wonder how different perception would be if people ran around with the equivalent of a Geiger counter for air pollution. It's easy to argue that parts of Germany are still contaminated by nuclear radiation, but they are by air pollution too, which is also incredibly dangerous. But no one would think about not letting their children play outside because of it.
It's about Apple's plan to add content-scanning to phones and reporting to the government if content matches images in the database. The concern is that it will be used by governments to identify political enemies who share memes, which is exactly the point. Apple's excuse to the world is that they want to protect children by identifying people who receive known CSAM and reporting them. There's no money in that, however, so the most obvious explanation is that Apple wants to keep operating in various countries whose governments want the feature.
He previously worked in a senator’s office so I do suspect he knows how the sausage is made. And yeah, the staff writing bills do look at this sort of material. It is just one part of a bigger picture but it isn’t just throwing research into a void.
Where can I see that data?
That’s a silly trope of new urbanists. It mainly relies on a false narrative of current revenues paying for infrastructure.

New suburban infrastructure is typically paid for by debt instruments, either directly (municipal bond) or indirectly (costs passed by developers to a new home’s first owners, usually paid via mortgage). Same goes for future major repairs or replacements: financed by new debt. No big deal.
Fast for history, but not for people. Just look at North Korea. They've still got plenty of runway for more audacity. For CCP it's like infinity ahead.
Must has been a really shitty bank. And they do exist for sure. Lot of people were at fault here. I know if it were my bank, I would be getting a call from them asking them if something is up. "Hey, just wanted to make sure, you are actually authorizing all this cash right?"
> I hear the "w" very clearly in this counting video:

I'm curious how you think a video with an edited audio track could have any value as evidence. If you're willing to truncate and splice your recorded audio, you can easily transmute some sounds into other sounds.

> I think there is a lot of irony in this subthread

Yes, we talk about the things we think are interesting, often even when there are other people whose opinions differ.
American worker?

Shein sells worldwide. H&M (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) and other US brands don't ship to most countries in the world, if they ship overseas at all.
> What makes it really challenging to leave Apple is all the integrations it has with its own products. If a friend of mine has an iPhone, I can share my wifi password with them from my iPad. If I want to send them a photo from my MacBook, I don’t have to ask for their email. If they’re nearby, I just airdrop it directly onto their phone.

It's interesting that you feel this way; I don't feel like either of those things are hard for me to do with friends without using any Apple devices or services, but obviously these sorts of things are very subjective. On my Android phone, I can either manually show them the password or read it out to them or even show them a QR code to scan to add the network from my phone's wifi settings. It's a bit more work than automatically adding it, but I feel like it comes up so rarely that having it take ten seconds instead of one really doesn't matter. For photos, I don't really ever email my friends; I generally have their info on any number of potential messaging apps which deliver faster than email and don't have nearly as small a limit on the attachment size. It's kind of surprising to me that there's nothing more significant than that stopping you from migrating to a new ecosystem.
yes but the Mac laptop screens are built-in, and the signalling to the monitor goes through very special connectors with many more pins than HDMI or DisplayPort. Apple can do things here that others can't, because they design their own hardware.

this external monitor must work with pretty much any HDMI 2 or DisplayPort 1.2 (maybe 1.1) connector AND the device it plugs into must be able to drive it.

this pulls the display bandwidth requirements down to where a "retina"-class display just can't work unless only the very latest DP or HDMI versions are supported, and that would minimize the number of people who could use this monitor.

expecting monitors to be like apple MacBook retina displays because "apple can do it" is overlooking the realities of external monitors.

we'll get there, but we aren't there yet.
Of course not. It can only work on formats that the team head written parsers for.
Did it ever hit you that all the illegal money flowing into crypto IS ILLEGAL PRIOR TO BEING IN CRYPTO?
"This is why killing the industry as a whole is so important. It'll mean going after the owners, suppliers and employees/contractors with naming/shaming, coordinated sanctions, criminal charges, designated persons lists etc. until their reputations are trash. No bank would fund it, no parters would supply it and no one with any talent would ever contemplate such a catastrophic career move in future."

And no government of any geopolitical significance would ever support such actions. These kinds of people, and their skills/tools, are FAR too useful.
If I could give you all my karma points, I would.

I have made the exact comment to many over the years and I hope that more people such as yourself are as eloquent and succinct in conveying this point.

XO
But did you check how much chemical did they put in the clothes that make the cloths your kids are wearing? Highly likely is the amount they put in exceed the safe limit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQdonJ8yE1k
In aggregate it's a jerk move. For any single individual it's the purpose of that statute, from what I can see. Asking, as an individual, for how to make requests like that isn't what I would consider a jerk move or frivolous use of the law.

It's for that reason I think people should be prepared to answer these questions if presented, and being presented with them and having to account is for them not a waste of time.

I think people are too caught up in that the people performing the study were being jerks in how they went about it when the actual email is perfectly formed as what any random person on the internet could legitimately send (at least with respect to what damage this caused).
The mail reads:

To Whom It May Concern:
My name is … , and I am a resident of Paris, France. I have a few questions about your process for responding to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data access requests:
Do you process GDPR data access requests via email, a website, or telephone? If via a website, what is the URL I should go to?
What personal information do I have to submit for you to verify and process a GDPR data access request?
What information do you provide in response to a GDPR data access request?
To be clear, I am not submitting a data access request at this time. My questions are about your process for when I do submit a request.
Thank you in advance for your answers to these questions. If there is a better contact for processing GDPR requests regarding zylstra.org, I kindly ask that you forward my request to them.
I look forward to your reply without undue delay and at most within one month of this email, as required by Article 12 of GDPR.
Sincerely,
The USA is a big supporter of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which have waged a destructive war in Yemen. Ergo, the USA and it's leaders are largely responsible for what has happened in Yemen. Yet I am sure that you would argue that Uganda is authoritarian but the USA is a "mature democracy".

Lol.
> Federal Plus loans were 8.5% until that program was shut down in 2010.

Federal PLUS loans were never shut down, are still available [0]; what was shut down was non-Direct federal loans, including the non-Direct PLUS loans, which had a higher interest rate than Direct PLUS loans. [1]

[0] https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/loans/plus

[1] scroll down to “Interest Rates on Federal PLUS loans” which shows historical direct and non-Direct (FFEL) rates: https://www.savingforcollege.com/article/historical-federal-...
Alibaba shared the vulnerability with Apache Foundation directly.

China's Ministry of IT wanted the details and are mad it didn't happen. (Unclear if this means "first", "privately / exclusively", "within a week", "cc us on the email", etc.)

> Alibaba Cloud recently discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in the Apache Log4j2 component, notifying the U.S.-based Apache Software Foundation, according to the statement.

> Alibaba Cloud did not immediately report vulnerabilities in the popular, open-source logging framework Apache Log4j2 to China's telecommunications regulator, according to 21st Century Business Herald, citing a recent notice by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-regulator-suspends...
Agreed.

Watching ADV China really helped me understand how bad the government is over there: https://youtube.com/c/ADVChina
I used to carry a bunch of these around on a flash drive 15 years ago. Great to see they're still going!
Pointing out that you can get be thrown in jail for breaking the law isn't really a good argument. The alternative to rule of law is anarchy. Just because you don't agree with specific laws doesn't mean freedom is a lie.

Besides, the point wasn't about platonic freedom, but instead about a specific flavor of "freedom" that exists in US culture. In the dinosaur park analogy, the electric fences can be likened to government safety net programs. As you may be familiar with, there is a political faction in the US that dislikes the idea of being "forced" to pay taxes to fund programs to help the less fortunate, and a lot of the issues related to various forms of crushing debt stem from that ideology that a rich person should be "free" to be selfish.
That’s not even close to true.

There’s tens of millions of people with that name. The WHO did not want to stigmatize all of them which is why they skipped the letter. It had little to do with Xi Jinping alone.

The WHO moved to Greek lettering to avoid stigmatization faced by people who were being associated with different variants. It wouldn’t make much sense to do the same when you can avoid it by just skipping a letter.
The "free market" is a sham
It's a bit messy in JS.

In Ruby the map/filter/reduce handling is very smooth, readable and useful!
In fact, humans can adapt more quickly to new situations than computers can, which is one of the reasons we're still around today.

Anyone else find that slightly chilling?
At first glance, this does not look obviously machine-generated: it looks like the sort of argumentation that is widespread on the internet (unsurprisingly, given how GPT3 works), and is rather better than what seems to be the norm in, for example, comments on newspaper articles. Perhaps the biggest single crack in the facade is this passage:

"For example, imagine you're in court defending a client accused of murder. Your job is to convince the jury to acquit your client based on reasonable doubt. However, during cross-examination of the prosecution's main witness, you realize that he has a history of lying under oath. You could argue that his testimony was unreliable and attempt to discredit him, but you also know that the prosecutor intends to call another witness who will testify in the exact opposite manner. In this case, the best thing for you to do is switch strategies and attack the second witness instead of the first. The key is to understand what the opposing attorney is thinking and adjust accordingly."
That's silly; voluntary scans aren't voluntary if they're to work, and no scans is always an option. Human decisions to do things one way or another have never been set in stone.
I had a check stolen in the mail. It was cashed in the Dominican Republic. It was a real check but not to them. My bank stopped it, alerted me and blocked the transfer. I guess it depends on the bank a bit, but that had to suck.

What was surprising to me, is that my legacy account# were still in the system (My bank was bought and then bought... 4 times.. over the years).
A big problem I have with this site is that there always seems to be Windows downloads. This makes the site useless to me.
Because Im wondering how an opensource digital visual effects software would be different than closed source.
I can understand frameworks, privacy critical and security risk software but why such a huge software be made open source. If you are asking for Free thats a different discussion. If you want it to be opensource (with a reason) and still pay for it, thats different. My intention is not to mean people can’t afford. Genuinely curious what they’re expecting from such a huge software.
I think LogQL might be the language you seek; I'd try using Loki, the setup might not be as heavyweight as you think.

See for example something like: https://blog.ruanbekker.com/blog/2020/08/13/getting-started-...

You can run a couple of docker containers (loki + grafana), import the data you need (a bit of promtail config). That's not saving anything inside of that stack, you'll want to save your work in Grafana, but for loki maybe you don't need to save much, just import what you need via promtail.
> I don’t want Apple to do client side scanning.

Do you prefer the server-side scanning that every other “big player” that stores end-user data in their data centers is already doing?
What I have noticed in Shein's app is that their pictures are meticulously done. Average stuff looks great with professionally done pictures with professional models. Not saying all their stuff is ordinary (they generally have good variety/design) but there is no hodgepodge mix and match of images of varying quality ranging from potato to great (e.g. compared to Alibaba/Shopee/Lazada/Aliexpress etc) - they all look awesome.
You don’t even need to go to a foreign country for this experience. I read bullshit about how bad conditions in California are all the time from right-wingers who just want to propagandize for their own political benefit.

However: you seem to be telling a native Chinese person that they’re wrong about their impressions of their own country. Do you want to maybe add some nuance to that?
Walk, run, bike, boat, fly, swim, cook, talk to strangers, write, draw, sculpt, play,
The big player here is Splunk. Aside from a free trial, $40/mo minimum I think for their cloud offering. They get very pricey. I loved using it at my last company. You can search and find relationships in the logs, add monitoring and graphs and reports and and and ....
I guess I was thinking a little less dramatically, making it look more like an accident.

IE rather than biding time for multiple days and sending threatening ransom notes, if the money simply turned up a day later with a transaction description of "I don't think you meant this for me."

But then, it isn't exactly hard for people to guess the motive behind a days holding of large sums of money and the "business email compromise" is pretty blatant.
The premise seems to be that IPFS takes too many resources because of DHT, and DHT takes too many resources because it opens too many connections.

Possibly a single setting needs to be tuned based on a discovered connection thruput? If the entire and sole argument is that is opens too many connections, well, you know, just open fewer connections. This isn't a valid complaint about BitTorrent (in which every client allows for max connection tuning and good clients tune connection making behavior dynamically), and it's not a valid complaint against IPFS in general, just the current state of the code.
This is why for all the fear of China, the country cannot succeed on its current trajectory.

Things look great until the leaders are doing well, but all it takes is for 1 bad set of leadership for all to fall apart.

And Xi Jinping has guaranteed failure by removing term limits. Term limits meant that other ambitious political leaders were willing to wait and try their luck next turn. But with no term limits multiple generations of leaders are locked out of even the possibility of becoming the party leader, which means they have become a threat to Jinping.

And since so many people are now a threat to him, his selection criteria for people to lead different parts of the party and government has to be based entirely on loyalty rather than competence.

Which almost guarantees a lot of counter productive incompetence.
Would love to know where you're meeting all these amazing girls. Online dating absolutely sucks for men with the exception of the ones who look like cover models and are over 6 feet tall. Everyone else might as well go die in a ditch.
Controllability, safety, carbon emissions, NOISE, better forward flight performance in some cases. Flying a helicopter is VERY hard and that is a huge barrier to public acceptance, but you need a VTOL craft for a practical everyday air transport. What problem does OS X solve over raw FreeBSD? This is a vastly smoother experience.
Without the permission of the property owner, conducting a fire alarm drill is no different than pulling the fire alarm.
> Did they want to protect themselves before alerting anyone?

Probably yes.

> Did they want to use this to infiltrate others?

Also probably yes.

The NSA does the same thing. They stockpile security vulnerabilities and selectively tell the software vendors about some of them. They like to keep the "high value" vulnerabilities to themselves for use in exploits.

The WannaCry ransomware (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue) did worldwide economic damage and was built on an NSA developed exploit. The NSA knew about this vulnerability in Windows for years and never told Microsoft.

Unfortunately all intelligence agencies everywhere will continue to take this cowboy approach. Until we can get these bad actors under control, their constant undermining of internet infrastructure will continue to hinder efforts to improve internet security.
Cross-AZ bandwidth is far from free and the biggest reason companies avoid it (IMO). Also latency is not near zero but I don't think that's the primary reason.
Probably both? It may not even be so much about this particular vulnerability, but rather just setting the law that any future vulnerabilities must first be reported to the party which can then decide to either defend from it or weaponize it.
If you haven't already, you might want to build a prototype of the UI on a desktop machine first... iterations can happen far, far quicker that way. Once you've settled on a design, then you can work on adding the other layers that make it a web app.
Quantum or not, any type of propagating and interacting particle or force can be used for communication. We primarily rely on electromagnetism but neutrinos, gravitational waves, charged or neutral particle beams etc. could be used as well. All of them have unique states that can be used to encode information. Spin, charge, neutrino flavor phases, etc.

As for entangled pairs, which I presume you imply by quantum communication, it really isn’t a hidden dimension with magical properties of superluminal communication, it just implies that two particles can have shared/correlated quantum states (assuming you can keep coherence). The coherence requirement basically means that the longer a particle is exposed to the normal world, the bigger the chances of some kind of stray interaction with other particles or forces, that will break entanglement. Further, for using this for anything, we’ll need to store the local particle for the duration of flight of the emitted one. That is also a technical problem of some magnitude if the distances are light years.

The short answer is that we don’t even come near to monitoring all “propagators” let alone all possible encoding schemes for these, for SETI.
It’s called a patronymic, and is also part of the legal name in At least Ukraine and Russia . Interestingly in those countries the last name is something which only really shows up in official documents, instead the patronymic is used in much the same way as a last name is in English. For instance the Russian equivalent of John Doe is Ivan Ivanovich which just means Ivan son of Ivan.
“fundamentally broken”? How?
Good luck finding actually portable linux software, unless it bakes in every dependency.
But why focus on the cryptocurrency portion of what happened when what happened first was all fiat based?

A single person controlled the transfer instructions via email for a $150M insurance transfer.

By falsifying the email instructions for the fiat transfer $150M was sent directly to his personal account (no red flags there).

Then he was able to transfer $150M from his personal account to coinbase (no red flags there).

Why is your focus on the coinbase conversion from fiat to Bitcoin?
Just yesterday in the discussion of Internet Archive, a user made this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29639814 I truly wonder if Internet archive crawls this and recuses to delete it, whats the implication. Since its public now.
This is not how China works. Previous leaders only exited power because they were pretty much ousted, and their power was never really institutionally checked.

Mainland China never been ever close to constitutional rule. It's unbelievably naive to think that term limits would've ever been something other than a decoration, and a propaganda point with communists.
There is a rule that requires cloud providers like Alibaba Cloud to report vulnerabilities within 2 days. Alibaba violated this rule.

Note that the article is misleading as the rule doesn't require the disclosure must be made to the government first.
People’s expectations were also lower. And there wasn’t any incentive for other countries to be involved.

Both those factors have changed. The Chinese people are not gonna tolerate an extended reduction in their quality of life. Anything short of rapid quality of life growth may be catastrophic for the people in power.

And on the other side, other countries have a lot of incentive to further make things difficult for China and it’s leadership.
Whats the alternative ?
Is there not a type for things that were fun to do at the time but are unhappy memories?

I have a few of those ;)
Honestly this comment is the problem with the western world.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. The U.S is not even on the same plane of evil as the Chinese government is.