skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP may not realize how bad the dispute process is with banks.

When a merchant gets a charge disputed, they may not know about the dispute for many days. Then, if the customer lifts the dispute, the banks most often continue to hold the funds, and not release any information to the merchant for 90 days.

It's horrible for merchants and customers.
> Changing zoning is pretty short sited if you have the goal of having an area that people love to love in.

Well, avoiding changing zoning has created areas that nobody can afford to live in, so they don't really have a choice at this point. Vancouver's affordability crisis is generally considered by economists to be the worst in North America.
Outsourcing definitely needs to be considered, but even that is not bad: https://ourworldindata.org/energy-gdp-decoupling https://ourworldindata.org/energy-offshoring
The Secret Service has been a dumpster fire for decades.
some of these are quite beautiful... I've seen AI-generated art before, but these are outrageously better, I couldn't really distinguish a lot of these from human-created art

this is going to absolutely obliterate some markets for illustration and stock photography, unfortunately
This isn't the worst advice if he has the money to float it.

I recently had a non-renewal on my homeowner's insurance so I had to get new homeowner's insurance. Through a whole bunch of stuff, I wound up effectively sending three payments to two separate insurance companies. I had to float about $7000 - $8000 for a bit.

The insurance agent I had found seemed to be a bit inept, so I wasn't confident they had everything set up properly. Because when I called my mortgage company, they had no clue I was changing insurance companies. They had already submitted payment to the old insurance. I eventually found out how to pay the insurance on my own and just did that. And how to update my insurance information online. Then my escrow paid the new insurance company. So now I had three payments to two companies. And I had to pay into my escrow to cover the double payment. I was prepared to fight both of these companies to get them to cut checks back to me, but just as I was steeling myself for a day of talking to hapless customer service agents, the refund check from the wrong insurance came in. Then a week later, the refund check from the second payment to the correct insurance came in.

But yeah. I wanted to make sure I didn't have a lapse in coverage and then had to cover my escrow shortage. I technically could have waited for everything to sort out, but I didn't want to find out what would happen if things hadn't landed right.
thanks! I added the percentages and attributed you in the post.
Two buddies from the office were former SS. Really nice guys, apparently not the service that hires the smartest people. Their boss was a Marine and the joke was that he could only be the boss of former secret service agents because all other federal agencies hired people smarter than him.
"Suddenly"? It's been going on for at least a decade, decade and a half, nearly two decades now, whenever Web 2.0 was getting off the ground and startups started booming again post-Dot Com bubble.
Fastly: OpenStreetMap uses our CDN to push near-instant updates worldwide
I've been using Sublime Text for a decade and never had any reason to leave it. It's been pretty much the most valuable piece of software that I use daily for a big chunk of my career. I've had to buy a new license maybe twice? ST2 and ST3. And another for Sublime Merge. The $100 or whatever it was might as well be _zero_ compared to the amount of value I've gotten out of it. I love this thing.
Maybe not exactly what you're looking for but these two videos discuss the results of a Fermilab experiment that hints at a crack in the standard model.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBzn4o4z5Bk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Ko7NW2yQo
People really should be very wary of anything Gladwell says in recent years. The fisking The Bomber Mafia got should be evidence enough.
How to run an Ethereum full node on AWS
> The east coast cities are spared somewhat from this by virtue of being older

Note that <100 years ago basically every US city had somewhat similar density to New York or Boston. It’s not that they were built for the car so much as they were rebuilt for it. So I don’t think the reason can be as simple as ‘because they’re older’.
cool game, thanks. completed everything, as confirmed with code.
zoom would be great! cheers,
I'm fully aware. I was just musing that it is interesting that the culture around the digital instruments of crypto is not always aligned with the corporate culture around companies making/trading/facilitating/mining the digital instruments of crypto.

I also find it interesting when I see companies making organic-this and organic-that, but their factories aren't particularly eco-friendly. There's no law saying that a company can'r greenwash its products, but it's interesting when you see it.
Curse of Monkey Island demo that was ported to WebAssembly and running in the browser, for anyone interested: https://personal-1094.web.app/scummvm.html
The catch is that by rail, a trip can take 40min to an hour. By car it's less than half of that.
> right-to-repair laws [snip] their profits will be a lot lower. People won't need to replace iPhones as much.

I suspect Apple could tweak other factors to adjust e.g. software lifetime more like Google, or changing styles more frequently. Also it really depends on the cost of parts — especially the screen: if a screen is truely expensive then consumers will prefer to upgrade than fix. I have usually had to replace my Android phones due to breaking the screen (also USB connectors - fucking unreliable things).
Aren't edits of a huge file expected to be comparatively small? If you're editing an mmap'd file, I'd expect the editor to maintain a display combining the original mmap'd file with a list of changes that have been performed so far.
> EDIT: Apologies - as pointed out below - not my intent to align the site with the TLD - I could have worded that better. I think the domain is more likely a product of the ENS team, but I don't know for certain.

It is though.

> Eth.xyz was created for the ENS community with love by the XYZ Registry, the company behind .xyz domain names. The project is open for contribution or feedback on GitHub. Send us a message @xyz on Twitter! [1]

It's kind of neat, but seems like a registry taking on a lot of extra liability that they typically don't have as a domain registry. Putting a disclaimer on the sites doesn't exempt them from the law.

> The profile content on this page is automatically generated from publicly available information provided through ENS and is ultimately controlled by the relevant ENS user. Nothing on this page implies any endorsement or affiliation between XYZ or ENS and the person or organization whose profile information appears on this page.

So what gain does the blockchain get you? XYZ isn't judgement proof like the blockchain, so they'll have to follow the current laws for trademarks, copyrights, etc.. If the blockchain isn't adding any revolutionary tech, is slower, is expensive, and is only accessible using gateways that are subjected to current laws, what's the appeal?

1. https://eth.xyz/
My experience with friends in law enforcement is that what defines the majority criminals is a lack of understanding of risk. That lack creates a strong sense of "I know how to get away with this."

I remember a story of a guy being busted who ran a business, bought his $500k house in cash, his half dozen trucks in cash, and yet paid almost nothing in taxes. The thought was, "I'll under-report my income, and pay everything all in cash so they can't trace anything!" Except for the fact that transactions over $10K get reported to the IRS, not to mention all of the property to various agencies which circle back to the IRS.

People who have a least a clue what could go wrong tend to also realize they probably aren't seeing other ways for it go wrong, as well.
A no-fly zone would have resulted in direct conflict between US and Russia. In other words, at least WWIII-lite. It's a horrible idea.
That goes in both senses though, and that becomes a tougher sell.

Both the "there shouldn't be places" and the "where the rail doesn't go"

Sprawl just doesn't pay for itself[1]. The more of it there is, more a government will bleed money building and maintaining infrastructure for few people per square kilometer. It doesn't make economic sense.

Now, of course "does it make money" is not a criterion to be applied to everything in life and society, but sprawl just makes it harder to fund everything, and you can end up subsidizing low-density well-to-do neighborhoods with the tax collected from lower-income people if they live in more densely zoned areas.

It's just a road to not having money to maintain the infrastructure, or improve education, or provide daycares, or anything else that would improve the life of the population.

1. Youtube "citations" are lame but this is a presentation of a consultancy ran for a few municipalities on the matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
It seems like a bizarre stance to treat 'agree' as a default.
Yeah and did you know there is a WASM version of the demo? https://personal-1094.web.app/scummvm.html
California droughts, controversy over Nestle getting water rights all over north america, and there's very little fresh water reserves that are clean to drink to begin with. Definitely smart investment angle.
I've used a lot of Playmaker with Unity3D. I'm a programmer who works in NUI and I make visual art with Unity and blender but my day job is mostly python and go. I've taught 3D artists and people who were not programmers to use Playmaker to get things made in Unity and they take to it quick.

I try to avoid "writing code" when I'm making 3D things in unity until I absolutely have to. I like to work in a flow state and the context switching is murder on that. Then when I've blocked everything out and I know all the variables if needed I sit down and write specific modules if it's needed for performance or something was more difficult in a visual style. That is becoming increasingly rare though.
Compiler framework, model tool and codegen for tree data: ASTs/DB plan/other IR
Its not that I don't believe you, I just don't know how people pay their mortgage when it doubles if you have a variable rate.
I tried using Affirm once. Apparently the underwriter was "unable to confirm my identity" using my Experian data so I was denied. My credit history is extensive and includes 10+ years of data. So it's not for the lack of credit history. I tried their competitor (Klarna) as well. Their system worked just fine but it was only for $1000. Apparently they have some internal scoring system outside of FICO that helps to determine how much they will loan out. Ended up just foregoing the BNPL process and paying for it directly.

Kind of glad I was denied now.
Not the OP. But I interviewed once got a contract to hire position. The recruiter said after about six months I could apply for full time. If I got accepted then immediately the expectation is to put in 60 hours a week or more.
Minus the depreciation of using the mattress for a year.
Curse of Monkey Island demo ported to WebAssembly
OK, it looks like there is still some weirdness if you look at it too closely, like extra fingers or gross faces.
By a very cursory reading, if Affirm sends a negative report to a credit reporting agency, under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, they may be liable for damages and attorney’s fees.

I would suggest writing a letter to Affirm’s legal department describing, very calmly, that Affirm has, apparently knowingly, threatened to send a report to a credit reporting agency despite the fact that Affirm is aware that no actual unpaid debt exists, and that, should this actually occur, you may seek to recover damages under the FCRA.
These ideas were popular when real estate developers wanted to build and sell a lot of downtown/centrally located condos.

As downtowns run out of land and demand declines (because of work from home and the decline of downtowns) a new business plan will be created and a new ideology will be developed to support it.

I just want to know what it'll be so I can front run it. Anyone have any idea?
Sadly, every layer of every government in Canada is determined to do explore literally every other possible option before allowing homes to be built. And realistically, fixing the problem will take decades.

Years before governments come around.

Years more before they finish their endless studies and legislation and actually legalize housing.

Once housing starts getting built, it will be a knock-down battle to keep the changes. At the same time, we won't have the capacity built up yet to build it, so years more for new industrial capacity to come online - more companies, more trained personnel, more equipment.

And then even more years for the supply to finally catch up with the demand.

My oldest kid is 14 and he's either he's living in my basement until he's 40 or he's going to have to move to Texas.
OP didn't say that choosing your own pronouns was a fad, but rather that displaying them on your profile was a fad.

Personally, I'm not sure it's a fad, and I still see it plenty in the wild.
I agree nothing in the definition of nurse implies female, but something in our culture definitely has "nurse -> female". Likewise, nothing in "college student" definitionally implies age, but I wouldn't consider it a success if my system displayed a picture of a 9 year old.
Because of BTC's prominence on darknet markets, people who hadn't heard of it naively assumed it wasn't traceable.

It's reasonable to assume that if you were purchasing illicit substances online, that the currency wouldn't be traceable, when it reality it was because no one really cared at the time for this new bitcoin thing.

Keep in mind how most people don't read documentation for anything, let alone a whitepaper
Sometimes it's just more convenient when all the little things are already in place, even if you're not using them frequently enough to build muscle memory. Also, for reasons described in the comment by @AdmiralAsshat below.
It’s also true if burning gas is “cleaner” than burning plastics.
Since error bars are typically +-1 sigma, you expect about 1/3 of all measurements to be further away from the true value than the error bar, if all error estimates are correct, and uncorrelated. That's actually a check a lot of doctored data fails.
Seems like that's where we're headed.

One end-game I imagine would involve more reliance on written, cryptographically-signed testimony, and people having to keep track of whether their sources are fallible (whereas certain media outlets today seem to be able to routinely tell whoppers and not get punished for it).
Personally I don't think this is a good idea. Yes, you can make it work if you for some reason have to use both tools. However, both Nix and Bazel are tools that expect to "control the entire world" and whichever way you decide to layer that onion will contain some amount of pain (not to mention that both are very complex tools and you're adding significant onboarding cost by using both).
Make it part of the browser, not the website.
Likely true for soldiers stationed in Afghanistan who would not have had access to alcohol otherwise.
From the other side of the pond, your list makes me sad. It appears we take a lot of urban design elements for granted here. I grew up in commie blocks, am now in Haussmannian urbanism, and most of those ( i mean there isn't grass and trees on every street, but it's pretty frequent) are just.. basic common sense here.

Like the fact that there's a term, "transit oriented development" used in North America. Here it's just common sense, nobody calls it anything.
Feel free to downvote.
Not to mention if you fuck up, you're creating permanent record in your state's system. Whereas if something goes bad with a private employer, (unless it's gross) just quit and move on.
Futhark is a low level language
My credit card won't even let me initiate a chargeback until I've contacted the retailer.
Paper sez: z ∼ 13
As a physics PhD, Emmy Noether is a bigger hero of mine than Stephen Hawking and many others. Emmy figured out the connection between symmetry and conservation laws which is the biggest idea in theoretical physics today. In some ways it is a simple result but the consequences are profound.

Albert Einstein was about as much of a fan as I am.
I second the motion that Thimbleweed Park is a great game. Super fun and great sense of humor. Cool atmosphere too.
Depends on the type of scrolling you use. Smooth scrolling feels a lot better with higher refresh rates, but obviously step-by-step scrolling doesn't really get any benefits.
Trains have the exact same pathology, though: add more capacity and people will use it until they can't, and then they'll either stop or fund more. It's a social coordination pattern, not a car pattern.

Scaling arguments do not have this problem.
Yes.

But full support is relatively recent and for some reason, it doesn't behave like a typical editable combo box: it looks like a regular text field until you interact with it, while most GUI toolkits display them as a text field within a combo box frame, with the down arrow button always visible. Unless there is some special styling, why not use the OS default look and feel?

Still a step in the good direction, but why so late? and why the nonstandard behavior?
Again, you're making things up. I never said that, I didn't even say you were wrong. I actually said you were not even wrong, and I'll say it again here:

When you decide for yourself what somebody else might say—but hasn't said, or decide for yourself why you think somebody didn't say something, you're arguing with yourself.

"Not even wrong" has a very specific meaning here, it means arguing from speculative premises that cannot be falsified. Like, "But other people will argue X," or, "You declined to engage because Y."

Both of these statement forms are not even wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
The true purpose of propaganda
That works if the thing is something you can remove from the experiment and model separately, then put it back. In CERN many variables are tied to this one huge machine that is one of its kind.
ty for putting thought into this, I've edited as per your recommendation. Also appreciate the pointers.
I don’t understand why these types of markets don’t only take Monero. Privacy is the whole point of that coin, no?
Replacing flash chips is probably not beyond the local repair shops capabilities.
So far, in a petri dish. So a ways to go..
Why is a human-painting of an astronaut on a horse valuable now?

I view this as detangling composition from the mechanical skills of art production.

Perhaps this will make a new type of art job - AI wrangler - whose job is collaborating with AI to get a good composition, then the composition can be handed over to someone with the mechanical skills to render it in the real world, if humans making the brush strokes is important.

I'd imagine that if we gave these tools to a skilled painter to help in their compositional brainstorming process, they'd find many good ideas they'd like to incorporate into their works in a short period of time. But, I'm not a skilled painter, so could be wrong.
No one has mentioned Breass's Paradox yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cALezV_Fwi0

This also happens in simple physical systems, as shown in the video later on.
Actually, space technology, via literal objects in space, impacts almost everyone's life (especially in wealthy countries), pretty much constantly. It's simply become so woven into our day-to-day lives that we don't even think about it.
Of course, and instead they're sacrificing most of their newly modernized T-72 Obr. 2016, Su-35, Su-34 and a lot of VDV folks in a “feint” while making zero progress in the Donbas (their “actual goal”®) in the meantime…

I've always found the US war propaganda really cringe, but the Russian one don't even try to make a coherent story. Zero fuck given.
So that's why I can't properly trim my fighter jet in DCS to fly in a straight line with no altitude change. I still think I'm bad at it tho.
A 2::1 rectangle about describes me.
By design or by incompetence?
Would be fun to play a game of telestrations/garticphone where you get a prompt, select the ai-generated image you think most accurately represents it, then the human tries to write a caption which captures it most accurately, and you see how the work evolves as it passes through multiple players.

(Could also probably generate some fantastic training data)
No, that doesn't even work on X86:

In file included from kernel.c:181:
words.c:2012:11: error: lvalue required as decrement operand
2012 | *(--(char*)hash_ptr.parm.v.p) = fpop(sst);
| ^~
My team is also building a native Mac app instead of electron. I used to joke that we were the last one so I’m very glad to see it isn’t so. The app looks great. Congrats Dan!
There are ways to improve the situation.

Here's one way... Given a text description, sample from the space of /more restrictive/ text descriptions (eg, add adjectives) and then draw pictures for those. Then modify the sampling space over more descriptive sentences to equalize on gender or other axes.
The EU really should update the cookie law so that it applies to browsers, not sites.

After all the browser's cooperation is needed to send cookies. This should be a mandatory standard part of the browser UI.

Since there are just two browser engines in widespread consumer use, and the engines are made by two of the world's most valuable corporations (Google and Apple), requiring browsers to implement specific UI is both technically easy and politically convenient.
At the risk of sounding transphobic: non-trans/gender conforming people including their pronouns to signal legitimacy or support for trans people choosing their pronouns does feel like a fad. It reminds me of Blackout Tuesday, equally faddish but perhaps casually racist to suggest.
Pilot here (just private): Alarm seem to indicate that the autopilot was not disengaged till much later. The question is why?

Left turn may just be because of interference of the localizer.. which the autopilot was following.

With the autopilot on.. you have a fight on your hands until it disengages. (like in your Tesla :)
maybe but it's more than enough :)
Must be lots of low-hanging fruit in biological treatments.

See, I went camping with the Scouts on Isle Royale, at the end of the week we were comparing mosquito bites, averaging about 100 per. Then a young man Luke said offhand "Mosquitoes don't bite me."

And sure enough, his skin was totally clear. I said "Luke, you bottle that, you're a millionaire."
flawn.eu
slick & minimalistic (that's at least what it should be :P)
Not just deference. They crashed without ever declaring an emergency. Ultimately, ATC could have been better - but that was a pilot CRM issue.
It's a good thing. Ukraine needs help at this time and internet access is very crucial, especially in occupied areas and those places where the regular internet access is lost.
Both are true. Because this was a time in which a large portion of people buying computers weren't existing computer users. 3.1 was very popular, and lots of existing computer users held on to their computers for a while. The PC market grew 100% just between 1994 and 1996.
KWrite in next version 22.08 will basically be an extra-lite Kate, for those interested.

https://kate-editor.org/post/2022/2022-03-31-kate-ate-kwrite...

I don't know which one is better, however, Kate or Notepad++...

Opinions?
There are currently 9 companies working on this, and none are in clinical trials yet. The closest is turn.bio, which is expected to enter clinical trial late this year. So we're 10+ years away from seeing this in humans.

Here's a full list: https://twitter.com/adanguyenx/status/1512138722556334090