skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry if this is too long form for HN, but if you read the article you clearly have some patience as well.

I'm surprised all the comments here seem to be solely around the technical details with blockchain and crypto. It's HN, I get the technical bent and find it interesting as well, but the human side of this one is pretty rough, and it made me appreciate that there are people -- likely sorely underpaid relative to what they'd make elsewhere -- following these (sordid) threads, often at significant emotional cost to themselves.

I did appreciate the odd bits of relief like 'Bitcoin Jesus' and 'Octopus Guy':

> At one point Faruqui remembers a German official asking him, as they stood in the cold outside the Seoul hotel where they were staying, how the Americans had gotten the Koreans on board so quickly. “Oh, Octopus Guy,” Faruqui had explained. “You don’t have Octopus Guy. We have Octopus Guy.”

But mostly, humor aside, it made me wonder for the 1000th time if I'm making the right career and life choices myself in a comfy, well paid job where I'm probably near the top of the pyramid in terms of professional respect, working on problems that I think have reach and import in my narrow speciality ... but am I really solving the problems that matter? I'm not in advertising (thank whatever god you imagine), more in security lately, so the work isn't meaningless ... but I work with some brilliant people whose technical capacities I admire, and I wonder what would happen if a bit more of that gray matter was directed at solving some of the terrible problems described here?

So much money is invested in understanding the psychology of how to force better engagement and squeeze out every last penny of hapless consumers in whatever social network. What would happen if a fraction of that went into trying to focus on influencing the people making these awful, life-destroying choices and somehow (re)sensitizing them to the costs of their actions and navigating them away from that preventatively, even if the success rate is only 1-2 percent? Or identifying victims of abuse through posting patterns to try to make sure they're potentially being flagged to receive content and help they may not be able to believe even exists? How much is invested in psychological profiling to maximize profit for the most banal advertising ends, when maybe for once some of that gray matter making those algorithms could do something positive identifying patterns indicative of abuse, beyond just the current simple fig leaf approach to pretend the owners of your social network of choice cares about your well being.

I'd love to do better, and I'd take a decent pay cut if I felt I could do something for that, and maybe even get to feel a bit better as a person in this weird world as a side effect. Seems like we not only should but could do a lot more here, before this gets to the criminal investigation level.
I work on payments related systems. At Amazon, this meant connecting to banks and being dependent on them. At Snap, we use payment processors to facilitate things relating to payments.

What I've learned is that the U.S. payments infrastructure is quite far behind, it's complicated, and frankly makes building with it more difficult than it should be.

For example. There's this new (as of like 2017 iirc) payment rail called Real Time Payments. Think "ACH transfer" but in <10 minutes 24/7 instead of 3-5 business days.

It's advertised as 24/7 however banks are actually allowed to go offline from 3am - 6am on Sundays (it may be once a month, memory is a bit fuzzy). So if you initiate a payment to a payee who's bank is offline, the payment is "rejected". So now you have to tell your customer "hey sorry, the payment has been rejected, it's not actually going to be available for a few hours".

Also there's no centralized way to tell when banks are down and as far as I know, there was no system built to track which banks are down and which are not. So if you want to avoid sending payments to a bank that's offline, you need to look at the history of payments to see for recent reject codes, have a direct line of communication with the banks, or use a third party API which probably does one of the prior mentioned things.

There's also some fun (sarcasm) edge cases in the state machine for a payment and there's a state of payments where it's said to be completed but actually the payment is in limbo and hasn't been received.

Remember, this is a payment system that was released in the last 5-10 years. Also, only ~70% of banks are onboarded to this payment rail so you have to look at payment destination routing numbers to validate if it's an option or not.

I mention all of this to try and convey the complexity and difficulty of working with the U.S. payment rails directly. I don't know if charges applies in the same manner, but I bet it's just as complicated.

With that said, this is Affirms bread and butter for their business. They should be aware of these things. Build the tools to enable their support team to do their jobs and help customers.

p.s. can't forget that ACH transfers are built to be done in batches for business hours only. That's a whole other topic.
OP could have initiated the chargeback through Affirm. I have used this process with Affirm before with much better luck. That being said, this does not excuse Affirms alleged poor customer service in this situation.
Because they are illegal to build in residential areas, per zoning laws.
The Future of Deliveries [iOS Delivery tracking app]
My dad is like that. I'll stay on a veranda for five minutes wearing short pants, I'll easily get two or three bites. He stays for half an hour, he's invisible.
Hasnt that been mitigated with firmware updates and OS patches?

I know I isntalled both specifically for Spectre mitigation and it slowed down certain things that I thankfully do not use much. My CPU and Mobo are from 2014
Those are great examples of prompts it wouldn't be able to produce.

It could potentially spew out a grainy black and white photo of a shooting of somebody by someone somewhere. But it would not be Oswald and JFK and not the real Dallas.
Make sure you are using BOSL - http://openscad.org/libraries.html

Also all of your base points should be variables and your placements operations on those variables. Anything that is dynamically sized should also be built from variables. I usually use a single function per distinct piece of geometry, then use composition.

The geometry is the effect, not the cause.
Evidence of “highly irregular practices” in procurement of organs in China
Hi, I am the CEO at Affirm. I am sorry for the bad experience you appear to have had with our customer support — it is certainly not what we strive for.

Please email me at max.levchin @ affirm.com with either the transaction ID or the email address you used to register, and I will track down exactly what happened here. I realize you may not care at this point, but I’d greatly appreciate it, as it will help us prevent poor customer experiences.

Thank you. —Max
> already have several that I kind of want to analog-paint copies of so I can hang em on my wall.

I've been doing that with VQGAN-CLIP with prompts of things like "line art", "watercolor", "linocut"[1], and "woodcut" - have got a stack of things waiting for some free time to render into the physical world.

[1] "Dark Souls in the style of linocut" makes some really fascinating possibilities.
Yup. This was LA: https://twitter.com/dmtrubman/status/1512498617831018497?s=2...
Another answer that assumes "close" is synonymous with "close by car".

>Given that, why would I want to go to a store that has smaller selection and higher prices, if I can get to a proper one in 5 minutes?

Because you might not have a car.
Yeah Notepad++ asks you too. I don't know of any editors that silently discard changes by default.
Anyone know how this compares to other factories? It's a brand new factory by the highest valued car company in the world, so I expect it to be cutting edge. Is it far ahead of others, or just catching up? My uneducated opinion is that it's really cool.
The fact that this is behind some bizarre invite-only pay-to-experiment exclusive club is disappointing and sad. Funnily enough, it brings me nostalgic memories of the days where I had to wait for hours just to get a chance to use the school's only computer for 30 minutes.
I... promise it does. I mean yeah, it can't run untrusted programs at the same speed as before, but it's still perfectly serviceable. And since it can run mainline Linux, it will continue to get those security mitigations with or without the manufacturer helping.
It was, loved it.
I think the previous comment was being sarcastic. And sort of making a joke that whatever you go after, you're going to upset some big corp somewhere.
As I hear more and more sycophants say to tech leaders these days: "Thank you for the insights".
you have quite a low view of people's ability to make decisions for themselves if you think being shown ads is manipulation. And I struggle to see how targeted ads are somehow worse than the same sort of 'manipulation' inherent in using an algorithmic feed like HackerNews or Twitter. Both are exposing you to things they want you to see. Yet you don't seem to have such strong opposition to those as you do targeted ads.
Finance is like this. Nothing happens most of the time but lots of people are writing about it furiously. Email lots of people, hope they read your email at a time they are going to do a trade, and then you make money? It is all quite pointless (but Levine's stuff is good because I don't think it pretends to have a purpose...UK brokers sometimes have research people like this, they don't really produce anything valuable but people read it because it is a bit of a laugh...dying breed unf).
I had actually got this to build and run. These are the changes I made to get it to compile under gcc 4.6.3 with -std=gnu89:

--- stoical-0.1.8-old/src/debug.c 2002-05-05 06:41:19.000000000 -0400
+++ stoical-0.1.8-new/src/debug.c 2020-10-01 14:32:34.000000000 -0400
@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@
else if ( strcmp( (*p)->name, "l()" ) == 0 )
{
p++;
- st_pcell( ((cell*)p)++ );
+ st_pcell( ((cell*)p) );
+ p = (cell*)p + 1;
p--;
}
else if ( strcmp( (*p)->name, "r()" ) == 0 ||
diff -ru stoical-0.1.8-old/src/help.h stoical-0.1.8-new/src/help.h
--- stoical-0.1.8-old/src/help.h 2002-04-25 16:06:20.000000000 -0400
+++ stoical-0.1.8-new/src/help.h 2020-10-01 09:26:45.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
-const char help[] = "S t o i c a l %s
-Copyright (c) 2002 Jonathan Moore Liles.
-Released under the GNU General Public License (see COPYING)
-
-usage:
-stoical [ option ] ... [ file ] [ arg ] ...
-
-The available options include:
-
--h - Print this help and exit.
--v - Print version information and exit.
--e code - Exectue the instructions 'code'.
--l path - Change STOICAL root library path.
--f file - Run 'file' (useful when file begins with a '-').
-
-";
+const char help[] = "S t o i c a l %s "
+"Copyright (c) 2002 Jonathan Moore Liles."
+"Released under the GNU General Public License (see COPYING)"
+""
+"usage:"
+"stoical [ option ] ... [ file ] [ arg ] ... "
+""
+"The available options include:"
+""
+"-h - Print this help and exit."
+"-v - Print version information and exit."
+"-e code - Exectue the instructions 'code'."
+"-l path - Change STOICAL root library path."
+"-f file - Run 'file' (useful when file begins with a '-')."
+""
+"";
diff -ru stoical-0.1.8-old/src/words.c stoical-0.1.8-new/src/words.c
--- stoical-0.1.8-old/src/words.c 2002-05-07 06:54:02.000000000 -0400
+++ stoical-0.1.8-new/src/words.c 2020-10-01 14:33:49.000000000 -0400
@@ -2009,8 +2009,8 @@
begin(hash_put)
/* Place character represented by the value at TOS into
* the buffer. Decrement the pointer, and increment the count. */
- *(--(char*)hash_ptr.parm.v.p) = fpop(sst);
-
+ *((char*)hash_ptr.parm.v.p) = fpop(sst);
+ hash_ptr.parm.v.p = (char*)hash_ptr.parm.v.p - 1;
hash_cnt.parm.v.f++;
end()
begin(hash_a)
@@ -2789,7 +2789,8 @@
ip++;
a = (cell*)ip;

- ((cell*)ip)++;
+ ip = (cell*)ip + 1;
ip--;

push(sst,*a);
Aren’t they using 3D? inside the first machine for example, a human can’t monitor, and the pieces falling off seem to have lunar gravity.
Modern Marketing and Hustle
Very clean presentation. What frontend technologies were used to make this?
Please don’t forget about social security, that one year would make up the largest contribution of your social security benefits, and if you worked at least 10 more years after that, the AWI-adjusted Gross Income would drastically increase your Average Indexed Monthly Earnings (AIME). Anyway I don’t see why you wouldn’t use your savings from that first year to lawyer up a case for child support modification, there is no law that promises past earnings indicate future earnings.
Is that a direct competitor to something like Notepad++ ? Looking into it myself
Looks like a really handy tool and essentially the logical endpoint of all the various hacky manual file watcher / scripted copy type sync things we end up doing to work across environments if they were developed into a full solution.

We work quite hard to maintain unified production/dev config for our docker-compose setups. Mutagen looks like it could simplify some of these since a whole layer of complexity comes from trying to optionally map ports and volumes in such a way that it works for development, while not being inappropriate in test/production. If instead, mutagen can virtually connect / synchronize these it'll be a lot simpler.

I do wonder a bit how debugging works .... if something is running in a container, it's great I can hot sync my code there, but what happens when I put a breakpoint in the code in my IDE?
If only James Randi was around. What a fantastic example of cold reading.

Gather round, gather round, give me a text, any text at all and I will produce you an image of some kind. And you will call it "good" if it looks like anything at all.

Because all art is subjective and your mind will work overtime to connect it back to the text you provided.
Feels like most people want a ethical system for guiding people like this out of the street and to a place that is safe and healthy for them and their community. This is impossible when you need to argue over who’s gonna pay for it.

So instead, poor systems are put in place, forcing the police to deal with these situations using the few tools they have at hand, including arrest, sweeps, etc.
I could turn the question around, what evidence do you have they aren't?

I'm not going to search for every single article.
Or are you seriously suggesting that Reuters is 100% free of propaganda, especially in war times?

The answer your question: "common sense".
Theranos Interview Notes (8 years old)
> and other people can verify that it's doing the right thing by comparing results

You're essentially describing the solution I outlined in my original post. What is the proposal in this article actually adding that's not painfully obvious?
Would it be possible to integrate this with a browser editor (like codemirror) to create something like replit?
I do it out of spite
What I meant was that an uptick in 0x account names is not in and of itself a signal on if there's an increase in Eth-related usernames
Just FYI, but depending on your situation, you do not need to pay for homeowner's insurance (or real estate taxes) via escrow. You can handle it all yourself so you'll only have yourself to blame if the payments get screwed up.
It's far from perfect; I lived there for twenty years and only moved away last summer.

For starters: it's gone quickly downhill in the last 5 years or thereabouts because the street-level outreach services were placed within the downtown and high-density mixed use areas of the city; and so city promenades and parks have become unsafe for children and other vulnerable persons. I got tired of having to sweep the grass and sand for broken glass and needles before my kids could play; or having to explain why their favourite playground was closed/spray painted/burned down. My wife and neighbours didn't feel safe walking at night; probably because of the _numerous_ murders in the immediate neighbourhood.

But more to zoning: the Queen's Park Heritage Community is an affront to affordability and heritage both! It secures and defends the white-favored, post-war housing that was constructed in the Queen's Park area that replaced the high-density housing that existed in the area pre-war. The tenements that were there prior would never pass the heritage committee now. Good luck trying to convince Queen's Park to build anything remotely affordable.

The whole of Brow of the Hill is a low-income residential area that council, even the current self-declared progressive council, seems determined to completely ignore. It has some of the highest density of children, but parts of Brow are a half hour, or longer, walk from a public playground. There was a playground, 10y ago, but the School Board paved it over to put in parking for teachers.

Last spring, I knew it was time to leave when I was walking my kids to day care at 9am on a sunny day and I had to divert their attention _yet again_ because a man was running down the street with knife wounds. It's funny, because when I first moved to town I did so because it was cheap; and one day leaving the Columbia Sky Train station a man lunged from a bush, covered in dried blood, and asked to use my phone. I let him, thinking he'd call 911, but instead he called his friends and ordered a hit on those who tortured him.

Since then things got better, the neighbourhood cleaned up, but then they rapidly declined again because council thought it was better to embrace than resist.

And so I packed up my family and left.
I certainly can critically assess Geico's ads - just like you did in your analysis above

So your real issue is that people are spending their time and energy on something you don't like
Affirm doesn't respond to emails and it's incredibly difficult to get anyone on the phone. So no, I don't think he could've charged back through affirm.
This is very useful for small projects with 'Github pages' project frontpage, thanks!
2700 core-years is about 21 128-core c6i instances, $3.59856/hour each.
One year costs about $665000, can be done if one really needs it
I'm not a fan or opponent of crypto, but the pervasiveness of child pornography is insane. I started doing sex work at 11 and was later human trafficked, and got a tattoo when I turned 18 near my groin, in large part to know what images and videos were of me underage. I consume and love porn, and have no shame in that, and I'm sure a lot of reposters think they are posting a barely legal image, but I have seen myself as a child online so many times in legitimate places, Tumblr, twitter, reddit, etc. This is a reality for so many people who have been abused, there was an article recently on here about MindGeek, and there efforts to make sure they didn't have child porn on their products, and the takedown of x tube and all of that change, but it's fucking hard. It's so much easier to tell if it's an 8 year old than a 15 year old, even though the trauma is similar for the victim. I don't know, I'm rambling, consume ethical pornography.
You could also do arrow keys for selecting column/row and wasd for moving it.
Shit man I might even be alive by then
I think that depends on where you choose to live. To give the ideal case scenario, in a city like Atlanta which has sprawl, you can choose to live close to midtown/downtown, and you'll get that proximity. You can also live further away and drive. This is far more sustainable in terms of quality of life, cost of living etc., than forcing everyone to make one trade-off v/s the other. Personally, I like the choice and options that this brings, rather than shopping at an overpriced corner store or a high-end local grocery store in cities like SF.
There is a massive and overwhelming amount of evidence that political prisoners are having their organs harvested in China.

https://chinatribunal.com/
If you use Docker/vagrant you should be able to do your editing/version control on the host machine and handle only compilation on the VM.
ZX Spectrum Raspberry Pi Cassette
What sort of demand side solution are you considering? Housing is a basic necessity of life. Perhaps by reducing demand you mean that instead of one family living in a single family home, demand for living space is reduced so that two families live in the same space?
> (future "show HN - scp replacement written in $FANCY_LANGUAGE that works even when sftp is disabled")

Too late:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files_transferred_over_shell_p...

In KDE this is implemented as a standard protocol handler ("ioslave") and you can access it from most KDE apps using URLs like "fish://user@server/":

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kio-extras/kioslave5/fish/ind...
is any chance of wapo bias against starlink/spacex?
bezos owning wapo and bezos owning oneweb
Yeah, they literally told me if I didn't cash it their system was just going to keep sending checks every 90 days so I might as well cash it now.
>> this is how Java, .NET, etc packaging is done for interop with Electron

not certain if this should be the status quo for the longer term.
What are the biggest and most reputable darknet markets currently? Do they still get taken down frequently? My understanding is that it's easy for state-level actors to unmask hidden service IPs through traffic correlation attacks
Isn’t that because there is a 400-year tsunami of 60m high, and they’re trying to de-densify?
No.

You only need consent if there is absolutely no reason for you to have that data. Consent is the emergency hatch, only to be used in exceptional circumstances.

"But what gives?!", I hear you think. As a law professor said (roughly): it was truly amazing to see how an entire industry colluded so swiftly and completely to undermine legislation.
all those are very edge cases. Normally anybody anywhere would easily make "braga" - a precursor to moonshine - you just need anything with sugar-like carbohydrate (bread, sugar, sweet fruits, berries or even cabbage, etc.) and a bit of yeast and in like 3 days you have it, a wine-like level of alcohol which is already consumable though taste isn't for everybody. If you have a couple hours more and several pots of varying size and access to a boiling heat (gas/electric stove, camp fire, etc.) you can make moonshine out of that "braga".

In that Netflix Mars-flight show the most hard to believe to me moment was when supposedly experienced Russian cosmonaut failed to repair water filter and they were going to die because of this - a Russian cosmonaut would have known about
"braga"/"moonshine" distillation and would have been able to build a distilling device out of anything like it had been happening across all the USSR back then.
Reminds me a bit of this AWS builders post about doing constant work as variance can lead to instability.

https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/reliability-and-cons...
https://foldimate.com/
Parenting is work.
Thank you for this. I'm adding your schema point and your priest/priestess point, both to the big list.
Is this creativity, or is it remixing pieces of the creativity from the authors in the training data samples? Would it come up with anything that seems creative if the training data isn’t creative in the first place? I guess it’s a philosophical question, how to define “creativity”.
You're missing the boredom and desperation of a deployed soldier
I probably am not alone, but if I hadn't wasted money on drugs a decade ago and had just kept the bitcoin I would be a rich person. No one I know read a white paper back then, we just found the Wild West, snorted, shot and popped it up
You're correct, rsync operates over SSH (or its own native protocol) but runs a copy of the rsync binary on the remote side rather than using the SFTP subsystem.
Our local equivalent has bacon wrapped steak, potatoes, with some avocado on the side.

Or you can get the 1.5 lbs of chicken breasts (boneless) for $7.

Of course I’m actually only a block from a normal grocery store so I don’t need to worry.