skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mastercard/Visa are required by law to not knowingly allow the purchase of illegal goods/services (they can't facilitate the payment of illegal activites).

> This seems totally fair, commendable and hard to disagree with - if you ask me.

This goes a few steps further than that, which is what makes it scary.

Pornhub's customers pay subscriptions which enable access to exclusive content. The illegal content in question was user-posted and made available for free without a subscription. So Mastercard and Visa were not "knowingly allowing the purchase of illegal goods/services." Instead, they took action against one of their customers because that customer was unintentionally guilty of unrelated illegal activty. That sets a pretty scary precedent IMO and demonstrates the frightening power of modern payment processors.
Egypt's Enduring Cassette Culture
Turbografx 16/PC-Engine has Hu6280 CPU that's an extended 6502 ISA, with some awesome instructions. Ran at 7Mhz too.
But it’s not. In no other case is one human forced to sacrifice their own body to keep another human alive.

The fetus is welcome to continue living. It simply can’t live in this particular womb.

If ‘pro-life’ people genuinely cared about the unborn (rather than controlling women) they would have invested in researching artificial wombs and pregnancy transfers. But they don’t.
Or...an example of someone writing a sensational, mostly invented story using classic twitter thread growth hacking techniques (ending each tweet on a cliffhanger, etc. etc).

I'm immediately skeptical of tales written by someone who works in "growth" and has 60k followers from writing twitter threads.
There's a lot of hand-picking going on in the examples we see.
This is really the most realistic answer. As they get closer and closer to FSD (and it is quite close now), they will need fewer and fewer people.
I was looking at KH-11 imagery in Janes and Aviation Week in 1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_KENNEN#/media/File:Janes...

The NRO farms out most of it’s work product now to commercial firms.
I dont want my mail client eating 4GB of ram just to get chat notifications.. Thank you thunderbird!
People do have guard dogs, yes. But guard dogs aren't always pitbulls and pitbulls aren't always used as guard dogs.

I'd say most pitbull owners aren't using them as guard dogs. That would be a stereotype. As is stereotyping the actions of pitbull owners.
Much better than the startup culture buzzwords in the article, thanks.
> We usually feel like there is a person inside that has control and almost extra-physical ability to override, but surely this must be result of physical inputs and processes?

I know of no rigorous evidence against the idea that we're purely matter and physics, nor do I know of any rigorous evidence showing that's all there is to humans (or living beings generally).

It's arguably a "mysticism of the gaps", but the "hard problem" form of consciousness still seems like a pretty weird outcome of evolution to me if that is in fact what it is, and not something that's adequately explained by, say, the anthropic principle. I realize opinions will vary, and I'm okay with that - this one happens to be mine at the moment.

It seems to me to require a decent amount of faith in the idea that only matter exists to conclude that consciousness and free will must be illusory.

It's certainly a defensible, reasonable stance, but I don't think it's the only plausible one.

> There have also been some (contentious) scientific experiments pointing towards this.

If you're referring to Libet's analysis of the Bereitschaftspotential experiments, there has been some acceptance in the past few years that this paper shows he misinterpreted the data:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1210467109

Popular summary of the debate in The Atlantic:

https://archive.ph/SHH0p
You also could connect SCSI devices to it, which made it a pretty mean sampler.
Wouldn’t the charge leak away, like any other capacitor? How much power would be needed to overcome natural losses?
I think that comes down to which IRC servers you were joining.
>> time theft

But her time is not their property, and so there is nothing illegal about her doing with it as she pleases. You can’t steal something that is already yours.
There is also a terminal application if you don't like electron https://joplinapp.org/terminal/
My only current grief with Thunderbird is minor.

I recently circled about RSS feeds again and looked into "not Browser Addon" RSS clients - Feedbro as an extension is pretty good, has some shortcomings, and requires the browser to be left active 24/7 to catch ALL of a few of the feeds I follow.

Thunderbird accepts RSS feeds but, for better or worse, is extremely strict about only accepting fully compliant RSS | ATOM spec verified feeds.

There are a number of older "RSS feeds" that are compliant XML but missing a few recent feature fields - these work in Feedbro and other more accepting clients but fail in Thunderbird.

It's a minor quibble, I should write a note to the devs I guess, but it did dash my idea of having the one email+RSS feed hub active 24|7.
> All I'm saying is that by you not looking at it in a moderated compassionate understanding light

I'm very sorry that the current head of the Republican party is a criminal. That's about as much compassion as I can show, and it's more than they deserve.

The sides are not equal, and the way to healing is not "aww, what's a bit of seditious conspiracy between countrymen, water under the bridge".
Huh! I would seem like with the rest of the thoroughness of your post, you would cite some of these other studies. Ah, well, nevertheless.
China looks to outer Solar System with nuclear Neptune orbiter
From Hong Kong, and I rarely even pick up phone calls from unnamed sources anymore
Hehe, I really like this answer. I feel a bit cursed and also lucky at the same time in my current role... I was given ownership of a project that is solving a $100M problem at a big company, but now that it is working well... random people from other teams are showing up to take control of it and kill it with their idiotic ideas.
Memory in Infancy and Childhood
Many kinds of fraud mentioned in this post and the original article hinge on the fact that fraudsters can easily withdraw the money from the destination account.
Just close this loophole and a bunch of fraud schemes will go obsolete.

Require physical presence in the bank with machine readable biometrics passport for account opening (just like everywhere else) and boom, half the fraud schemes are gone.
US forced all other countries in this world to require physical presence in the bank (great initiative, btw), but made an exception to themselves.

Require machine-readable passport with biometrics for large cash withdrawals (just like everywhere else).

Create a centralized, machine-readable, PKI-enabled proper identification infrastructure (just like everywhere else) instead of painted plastic which they call driver licenses, create a centralized, unified, secure registry of all people instead of using SSN and boom, the rest of fraud schemes become useless.

Just start with this, easy to implement, simple solutions which will pay for themselves in a few years. No need to invent a bicycle, numerous countries went this way long time ago, there are no unknowns on this path.

Alas, again, politics.
What makes it "time theft", whatever that means?

US employers have worked very hard to make many of their workers "exempt" [1] such that they don't have to pay for overtime and can make people work egregious hours without getting in legal trouble.

If that's not "time theft", then I don't see why an exempt worker who can do the work of two people shouldn't get paid for doing the work of two people. It would be different if they were hourly workers and they were double-billing for the same hour, of course. But I don't think that's what's happening here.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/exempt-employee.asp
I'm referring to cancel culture as a tool, not an ideology.

Visa actually did temporary halt political donations, so they were definitely entertaining the idea. However, they aren't really threatened by activists because nobody is going to stop using their credit card because Visa processes donations to Trump. Internet companies are much more vulnerable to activists, who can bring enough bad negative attention to dissuade companies from advertising on a platform.

In Visa and MasterCard's case, it's likely regulators or politicians pressuring them.
Long Live Thunderbird
I am curious: why shipping on iOS store makes it incompatible with GPL ?

I mean I respect your decision to make it open-source or not, but why does the store matter ?
You could still handpick here unless the author hasn’t. Is it DALLE2 though? The author specifically says DALLE.
‘It’s dopamine’: why we love to track our watching and reading habits
Citibank also tries to regulate the firearms industry:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/citigroup-tried-and-failed-to-r...
LDVs are the gold standard for noncontact vibration measurement and are widely used in acoustics. The main problem is that they’re pretty expensive (I think on the order of a few 10s of k$)
> if I truly did buy a gun for someone else (as in, purchased and delivered the same day) and he waits ten years to commit a crime, was this also a true straw purchase?

Most definitely yes. It makes no difference even if he never commits a crime, it's still a straw purchase. Per 18 USC 922(a)(6), you cannot lie to a federal dealer when purchasing a firearm. Question 21(a) on the mandatory Form 4473 (Firearm Transaction Record) asks if you are the actual buyer and not buying on behalf of someone else. If you answer no, the sale is denied. If you answer yes and it isn't true, you have violated 922(a)(6).
This is DALL-E 2. The original DALL-E isn’t released by OpenAI.
Solana still regularly goes down because it has little rate limiting or DDoS protection. Until that is fixed it's unlikely many will adopt it for payments.
I don’t want to use decorators. They’re another band-aid to keep OOP on life support. They are disguised functions applied to mutable objects in order to enhance their capabilities (or maybe to comply with type interfaces).

Dependency injection is the exact same thing, only with different syntax.
I like the creativity these generated stories can have. It varies a lot, but the AI can potentially come up with some ideas or mash things together that an author never thought of. The synergy of a human author with the AI has a lot of promise.
> so e.g. I can listen to youtube playlists even if the phone is locked

Coincidentally, there's an addon for that, which is in the ‘recommended’ from its early days, and you don't need the desktop mode for this feature. The addon is called ‘Video Background Play Fix’.
Defeats the purpose of MAD if you keep it a secret. Only good as a first strike.

It's possible but I think (hope) unlikely.
Mmmm, I don't think so. The Apple had only blitting, whereas the Atari, Commodore, and TI had hardware sprites.

And I have no idea what you mean by "C64 had awkward graphics." It integrated ideas already present in the Atari computers, with some advantages and some disadvantages. Both those platforms utterly crushed the primitive graphics and "sound" available on the Apples, with their hardware sprites, fine scrolling, redefinable character sets, and multichannel sound. The Ataris also used intelligent, daisy-chainable peripherals.
Thanks! Updated that to point at the URL you suggested. Didn’t do much for their rankings, but I’m pleased it’s pointing at their news website.
True. I should have been more clear. I meant it's like Chrome in that it prioritizes being a javascript OS for e-commerce applications from corporate persons over a browser for HTML websites made by human persons. And with those priorities come inevitable design decisions re: ability to customize.
They used to do this with sandalwood in India until the government crushed the poaching. There is very little now. Of course the “crushing” was very unethically which basically involved executing poachers on sight.
Considering pregnancy can result in death (at a higher rate than kidney donation as noted elsewhere in the thread) as well as countless other long term conditions your 9 month limit doesn’t really make sense.
But let’s say you could loan out a kidney for a few months, would you really find it acceptable for the state to forcibly seize your kidney to keep someone else alive?
Nothing compared to the GPT3-scripted Batman short comic: https://youtu.be/fn4ArRmzHhQ
(safe-for-work, etc.)
Government could provide a national photo ID and develop standards for its secure use as part of regulating interstate commerce. As it stands the US has know your customer laws but allows businesses to initiate lines of credit to people without actual proof of identity.
'Real' audiophile equipment is the stuff that sells to recording studios like powered studio monitors and rackmount solid state transports. It costs a lot less than the consumer audiophile stuff, too. If you're buying 'consumer' audiophile products like huge floorstanding speakers made of whatever wood of the day is in favour then you're buying status symbols, not audio reproduction quality.
Improving biodiversity protection through AI
In this case, it is, nevertheless, correct. There's simply no clear-cut objective boundary here. You can arbitrarily define one as N% of mutual intelligibility, but then your pick of N is itself a political question.

Keep in mind that many of what we today consider distinct languages historically formed a dialect continuum - usually geographic, where you can observe gradual changes as you travel, which may add up to the extent that there's no real mutual intelligibility between the beginning and the end of your path. Are they different languages at that point? If so, what does that make of all the gradual steps in between?

The stark language boundaries that we're more familiar with today are largely due to states aggressively encouraging (or outright forcing) some kind of language standard on what was before a dialect continuum area, smoothing out the differences within it while sharpening them at the borders. This process kicked into high gear with the rise of nation-states, which would often do so for ideological reasons - basically, to force conformity and reify the abstract notion of "one people". But it hasn't happened everywhere to the same extent as it did in Europe, and there are still plenty of places around the globe where clear language boundaries don't really exist.
Not to mention that the Ataris were way earlier, and were at one point regarded as the MOST popular computer worldwide. That's why the learning platform PLATO was released on the Atari first.
If only there was a decentralized, permissionless payment network that anyone could participate in...
The real resource is the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The problem is that you need to give them the number for the document you want and then pay up to $4 per page.

As far as scanned Apollo documents, archive.org has a bunch.
Might be, though all places I went had services stating upfront they record the call, so recording in itself wasn't illegal.
Show me a non-imperative, in-place, efficient implementation of textbook quicksort and we'll talk.
PHP, Mobaxterm, VSCode, Firefox Devtools -- I that /anything/ python can do, you can do in PHP and faster. I might be a old fart, but I can make all kinds of stupid shell applets, desktop GUIs (Did you know that PHP has SDL support using FFI :V), hacky scripts to do the cash flow for a point of sale system using serial and tcp based daemons. Hell I once wrote a rather nice IRCd in PHP a few years go.

Mobaxterm is a treat to work with in windows and really improves my workload when working on several servers at the same time that I need to bash out some commands on.
Yea there's many that do this. https://www.gelato.network is one.
> In no other case is one human forced to sacrifice their own body to keep another human alive.

Here's an analogy: if you're flying people somewhere in your helicopter, are you allowed to push them out, or are you required to "sacrifice" your own helicopter to keep them alive until you land safely?

> The fetus is welcome to continue living. It simply can’t live in this particular womb.

Your passengers are welcome to stay in the air. They simply can't in that particular helicopter.

> If ‘pro-life’ people genuinely cared about the unborn (rather than controlling women) they would have invested in researching artificial wombs and pregnancy transfers. But they don’t.

If people genuinely cared about helicopter passengers (rather than controlling pilots), they would have invested in jet packs and antigravity devices. But they don't.
It could be that the loss in heat storage can be compensated with heat pumps, powered by solar power, to keep the heat reservoir full.

I mean, the process is simple, clean, does not require special materials, provides lots of jobs and really seems long term.

The holy grail of energy storage will ultimately be a similar form (compressed gas, fuel generated with solar power, heat reservoirs, etc).

No matter how much you root for batteries, they will not provide grid scale power.
Ah, just to clarify: she was also working far fewer hours. The meetings really were the primary time sink.
The scifi channel miniseries from around 2000 is pretty enjoyable. Has bonus appearances by a then-unknown actor or two, James McAvoy being the one I remember.

The most recent Dune movie I consider the best so far though (besides the book), by a pretty wide margin, so our tastes may differ some.
Totally agree. Automatic tax withholding from your paycheck makes it way to easy to forget how much big brother is taking from you. If we all had to write the IRS a check every quarter, the pitchforks would come out.
I've been using Thunderbird on and off for several years now, but I'm repeatedly confused by the search feature. Has anyone else found it inadequate?
New concentrator could help solar panels capture more sunlight without tracking
Solutions that add more security without more pain, always feel like double the win. Thanks for posting.
If you want something topical, abortion. Parents who've had enough children already
The 65816 is a fascinating chip, even though it's a dead end in the evolution of home computing. It falls in a category with the Z8000 and maybe even the 80286: backwards compatible with their predecessors, but extending them in odd, idiosyncratic ways. Processors evolved and mostly discarded the vestigial weirdness of the original 8-bits, but its a special kind of fun to revisit assembly language programming in that style with some of the oppressive constraints (address space, addressing modes, minimal registers) lifted.
My guess is that parent's family members aren't using Alpine, so they don't have this problem.
They usually look at your website and find some names - if you have buy-in you can create a fake president or CEO to catch many of these.
Good suggestion! “Largest general news website in $COUNTRY” is worth shooting for.

They did OK scoring a 62.

https://legiblenews.com/speed/websites/cbc-news
They've been trying to do that for quite some time. It's no easy feat.

https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13
I use this site a ton to the point where I've bought both the hardcover and paperback versions of the book (hardcover now out of print due to COVID troubles). It's a fantastic resource for woodworkers.
Burnham is a terrible officer, but also always trying to talk up Starfleet as if she isn't constantly acting like Starfleet doesn't know what the fuck it's doing.
I would say it depends a lot on your background. The whole thing is very detailed, but ideas can be lost in detail-oriented proofs.

Reading the first few sections, it seems that the ideas are there - especially in the proofs - plenty of motivating ideas, and the kind of "raw index crunching" that the paper begins with gives way to more ideas. Doubters might read section 1.6 about the power method for finding the largest eigenvalue. It convinced me that the ideas were worth reading.
just out of curiosity, if we take a very simple, very narrow and in my view obvious case, and i'm just wondering what do you see there. This is a video of Rogozin, the Putin's favorite who is the CEO of the cornerstone of Russian nationalistic pride - Roskosmos - and who is one of the most prominent political voices in the today's Russia, and what i see in this video is him leading a Nazi salute and the end of his Nazi speech at the Russian Nazi march in Moscow (the specific phrase they all give Nazi salute to is "Glory to Russia!"). So what do you see here?

https://youtu.be/xkXVVcPWSU8?t=87
Reminds me of this recent Scott Alexander post about DALL-E 2 to design stained glass windows, it's a pretty interesting exploration of how various phrases are interpreted. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-guide-to-asking-robo...
Babe, it's 4pm, time to have your surplus value extracted
Link to the actual paper: https://nocamels.com/2022/06/israeli-scientists-grow-sperm-o...
I feel like you are speaking without knowledge, because it usually take an extraordinary amount of blatant repeat theft for the loss protection team to act against an individual. Solo one-time shoplifters have close to a 100% chance of success without being apprehended.
Subreply is a simple to use, English-only, global and public forum
> Overall, the main secret of reverse engineering old stuff is to spend way more time on it than [any] sensible person would.

quote of the week.

so many things have been laid bare to me by just putting in the time. even just staring at the thing(s) will often help me realize something important, somehow.
I would guess that safety measures require multiple sections in the dome and multiple safety valves, not to mention CO2 detectors and the likes.

Also, I would guess that regulations mean these are built in remote locations.
All the news stories say "leak", but the URL looks pretty official, and has "firearms data portal" built right in. Sadly, the site is currently down, so I'm not sure if they meant some other kind of firearms data.
No. Forcing children to live in Hell is demonic. Unwanted children live a Hellish existence. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Working on "remote jobs" filter first but could be good idea having filters for metro areas in addition to filter by city!
I Like Imperfection
Can someone tldr how exactly consumers lost money here?
Yeah, it's a baffling omission that undermines the whole thing. The Atari 8-bits were pretty incredible, combining the 6502 with not only a way better graphics co-processor than the VCS, but also dedicated sound and I/O chips.

The Atari 800 had S-video output, in 1978! Come on, that's pretty forward-thinking. I still have my 800 and Commodore (JVC) 1702 monitor, a state-of-the-art combo in its day.
Yeah, but this can scale up.
How many warnings did you get regarding rule violations? Anything involving violence risks triggering the flag, and it sounds like your battle scenes would have been a bit iffy. In my own experience I find DALLE2 pretty heavy-handed with its rule violation flags.
Rogue planets could incubate life for billions of years
Maybe I’m in living in the past but I would’ve thought it was IRC
I don't really see why the comparison is comical. I need a box with wheels to get me from place to place like many Americans. Right now I've got a manual 2016 Chevy Cruze because I got a really good deal on it. I like the idea of my next car being electric so I'd probably be cross shopping a Bolt with a Model 3, but that idea made a lot more sense when the 3 was supposed to be $30K. Now the Bolt is going to be something like $27K and the 3 is what - close to $60K? I'm sure the model 3 is faster, but I drive in traffic so I don't get to go fast anyway. If Ford makes an electric Fiesta for a reasonable price I'll throw that in the mix. I'll gladly look at the Asian makers too if they come up with something - the Ioniq looks nice by all accounts.