skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there is a super well defined criteria for what's a civil war and what's a military coup and so on. Military coups can turn into civil wars (Caesar's coup is an example). Doesn't always happen, sometimes they fail (or succeed) so spectacularly that there isn't much of a war to follow.

I do agree that speculation is sort of pointless. I think circumstances may increase or decrease the likelihood of such an event, and circumstances look like they are more conducive to one now than in 1992, but I don't think you can say that when such-and-such happens, civil war is almost inevitable.
Googling the FCC ID is usually a really fast way of working out what frequency a device operates on.

(Except for that suspiciously cheap gadget you got from AliExpress which shows up in the FCC database as an iPhone 4S...)
Trees sure aren't enough if they're surrounded by vacant lots and abandoned houses. You can't fix everything with landscaping, but improving areas into nice communities that are more in line with the rest of the city goes a long way.
Guess I'm only using my Amex from now on.
Note that the study being cited is by Sift, a YC company that has been heavily monetizing your own transaction history: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/technology/data-privacy-l...

Max Levchin sort of tore apart Sift trying to get it to spit out money. I’m sure being able to play chargebacks from both sides was always his dream.
No money is created by QE in fact for the most part QE’s only effect is to tighten an already strained system struggling with “money” shortages.
As a small business owner that deals with chargebacks, we never win these disputes - even when providing the evidence. How is that okay?
Change for change's sake? What do you have to gain from deepfakes etc? You really see a lot of benefits?
What books from the 30s-60s would you recommend?
> Woah. This comment is hilarious, but it's not the writing.

Hence my confusion at the compliment. And now, at people who find it, in any way objectionable, to express such confusion.
You should show up to the US Open with a tennis racket next year and see if they'll let you have a go, too.
Why do you feel this way? Can you link any studies. I think you are right with GME/AMC/BB, there is something about the short float.

The crypto part I am not too informed on.
As a Guix user who also dabbles in Nix, I am still confused by how to use flakes as a "package consumer". I have a flake (non-declaritively) added to my nix-profile, along with some packages that came from my nixpkgs/config.nix. However, after adding the flake, I am unable to update my profile's packages: `nix profile update` becomes essentially a no-op, even after updating the channel.

* How does declarative management of user nix-profiles work now with flakes?
No, most dry cleaners use more friendly chemicals locally, and only send out things like leather goods. Otherwise, how would they be able to do sub 8-hour turn arounds?
Neither can a formal spec.
Can these things be used for commercial purposes? Which ones?
Depression Linked to Consuming Inflammatory Diet and Increasing Risk of Frailty
Okay, so I'm doing it wrong. Interesting story!
"Association of pro-inflammatory diet with frailty onset among adults with and without depressive symptoms: results from the Framingham Offspring Study"

https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/advance-article-a...
> If you are being honest, why are you posting this using a throwaway account?

Maybe he's new?

edit: I see you edited your phrasing to make it nicer, but... It looks like the dude posted under his real name (with a handle that he uses many other places).
This is a great post.

You could write a dedicated blog post (or something) with your insights. (It would be easier for me to bookmark, from a pure selfish perspective). I would love a ping if you do so.
From a security point of view, it sure makes for an interesting attack surface
Yeah. The dirty/ugly truth is that, economically, the real answer to this problem is not very pretty. Loans would be given out to people with demonstrated academic success, and with a pathway to a job with a proper income to support repayment. You would probably have parents cosigning for loans.

The practical affect would likely make college much more difficult to access for minorities and other individuals low on the socioeconomic status spectrum. It would likely have a net effect of slowing upward mobility and create a college aristocracy.
This includes customers refuting valid purchases such as long-forgotten recurring subscriptions...

You said the quiet part out loud here, VISA.

If their subscription has gone unused so long that they've forgotten about it, it's pretty clear they wouldn't keep paying for it if they knew. There's certainly no intention to defraud here on the part of the customer, if they've forgotten about it - arguably, if the merchant should reasonably know that the customer has forgotten about the subscription, they're the one acting at least unethically (consider "has not logged into the service for 2 years").

You could drastically reduce the number of these particular disputes by requiring recurring subscriptions to be actively acknowledged by the customer eg. every 12 months.
No disagreement on what you write, but the CMB spectrum is about as useless as radiocarbon dating for deciding which of two Hydrogen maser clocks on opposite sides of a university laboratory is wrong when they differ by ten nanoseconds.

However, we can generalize your point and say that real configurations of matter let us make those decisions reasonably and with good accuracy. (The BIPM UTC Circular-T contributors seem to manage fine, as do the various GNSS operators).

If the video had taken care to set their experiment in vacuum flat spacetime (perturbed only by the experiment), as the shown Einstein 1905 work <https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/> (top of p. 3) did, it would be better. That's because that setting offers no convenient-to-agree way to slice spacetime into space and time. The CMB does, but we suffer from practical limits on measuring the CMB's blackbody temperature.
Rush hour in a private car is a very unpleasant experience to most people as well, it doesn't help much that you get sit inside your own metal box. Cars take so much space that vast amounts of taxpayer money has been poured on infrastructure in order to try to keep traffic flowing – and we still have congestion.
> I understand the benefits of LVT, but how do you solve this?

Georgism[1], which I'm fascinated by. One way to organise it is to ask people how much tax they're willing to pay, from which the land value can be derived (as that's the real point of assessing land value for someone who isn't willing to sell that's the real order of things). However, if someone bids on the land for that price you must sell.

> Are there any good examples of governments that use LVT in practice?

I thought there were only one or two places using LVT but it appears there are quite a few[2], but it's rarely pure LVT.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax#Implementation
Anyone know how much USD that was equivalent to? The "75%" number seems like more of a half-truth than a usable piece of information. Was that $1 million or $1 billion worth? Can someone theoretically track this back to wallets known to be held by Telsa? Since I could sniff the winds and felt the correction coming, I too recently liquidated 100% of my bitcoin holdings; from zero bitcoins to zero bitcoins.
> Only a minority, and for that they often get told to "Cut down on the wall of text/gish gallop" because anything that's longer than a Tweet is nowadays considered something bad.

tl; dr. was a thing long before Reddit.

I have nothing against long-form writing, but most people lack the writing and editing skills needed to make more than a few sentences enjoyable to read.
They switched from DVDs to streaming and then stalled. They should have diversified and kept going. Why doesn’t my Netflix include music and video games at this point? Who don’t I see live sports? Why am I not able to Netflix with someone in a video chat? Why don’t we have any crowdsourced content I can watch? Why isn’t Netflix used for virtual learning the world over?
It's also desirable to nudge owner occupied properties towards efficient uses.

For instance, there's loads of large family houses being occupied by empty-nesters, while those trying to raise a young family are squashed into undersized townhouses.

Shifting the cost-base from "pay a huge mortgage and a tiny property tax" to "pay a moderate mortgage and an moderate property tax" means it's more likely to be worth the hassle of moving to a smaller house when you no longer need the space.
Sure, but that data doesn’t fall under your right-to-be-forgotten, so any obligations that apply to the right-to-be-forgotten are irrelevant.
YouTube has ads?
I have no plans. What difference would it make if I did?

There were plans we could make to prevent climate change, and I did as much as I could manage to participate in them. This obviously made no difference, and there is nothing much more I can do, now that we're in for it.

I will adapt to whatever climate-driven chaos comes my way when it arrives; there's no meaningful way to predict what it might be, so I'm not bothering to try.
But in that case, it's not the same work, no? You can simply pay more for exceptional talent regardless of location, just as how org (theoretically, at least) already differentiate pay based on skill level within the same location.
The oldest surviving building on Earth (arguably) [video]
> My strong suspicion is that this will completely fuck over the elderly and marginalized communities.

People who are hoarding a huge house in a desirable area to do nothing but slowly die in need to be fucked over. They're worse than speculators.

> Many of them literally can't (ex: my 87 year old Neighbor Phylis doesn't care what her house is worth, because she plans to die in it, and isn't seeking to maximize utility. Instead she wants to pass peacefully in the house she remembers raising her kids in, and has lived in for the last 50 years. She has no car, is in a wheelchair, and uses basically no online services - how is she going to go evaluate the right value for her house?).

She should quote how much someone would have to pay to make it worth her moving out - that's something she should be able to figure out for herself. If she wouldn't move for less than 3 million, quote it at 3 million.
It really depends on whether the degree is actually relevant to their employability.

If one has a degree in winemaking or philosophy, does rescinding their degree have a significant impact on their employability? If not, then they could just tell the bank to rescind it while still getting the education.
Sad to see regex101.com left out in your list.
No I'm excited about a world where I can use one chat app for all of my contacts, a world where I don't have to deal with Safari's shortcomings, and many other improvements.
Another random thought. Just wait till we are living in the crypto utopia, and your degree is an NFT. And you can’t use it until you pay it off.
Black doesn't know it's getting two moves in a row when it makes the first move. And on the second move, it can only take advantage if white's first move reduces white's optionality in a specific manner, e.g. by blocking another piece essential for response to a certain tactic, which by construction, would mean it wasn't really an opportunity to transpose the game to hand over the initiative.
An odd time to finally decide to join HN. With no account history, how can the community distinguish between legitimate discourse and shills for a controversial big business agenda story like this?

This is the kind of story that gets picked up by HN first and then ends up published in mainstream media the following week.

Anyhow, I don't defend cardholder fraud, and at the same time I've been ripped off too many times by merchants. They tend to err on the side of themselves, perpetually fleecing masses of real-life flesh and blood human beings.

@mlyle: I appreciate you taking the time to dig into it more and raise the controversy to my attention. This is a helpful way to be, you are great.
For a generative model to hit the quality threshold you see on this site, it’s going to need so much training data that you can presume there’s already a ton of stock photos that match that description that it scraped from the internet.
> I worry that we end up in the situation where if you need to use a particular app, you can only get it from a third-party store that you don't trust.

This works both ways. Some people want to use iOS exclusive apps but can't justify buying an iPhone because of how restrictive it is. This act alleviates that.
And if you built even a conservative 5 story building, it would generate significantly more value.
Samy Kamkar who did Opensesame on the Radica Girltech also did a DefCon presentation about attacking rolling code remotes as well: http://samy.pl/defcon2015/
In case no one said it yet, take your ui and perform every sensible action path one hundred times. Most of the fancy animations, drawers, pickers and beauty-based designs get old long before you’re halfway there.
>I've managed P&L at multiple companies. Salaries are inevitably influenced by cash flow projections and revenues, and are absolutely aligned in multiple dimensions to revenues.

How mature were those companies? Did they have investors willing to accept extended periods of time without profit like many VC and Wall Street investors have come to accept from many tech companies? Did increases in cash flow or revenue lead to across the board raises? Or did cash flow and revenue exist purely as a cap on salaries?

>No, they're going to pay whatever their margins can tolerate while competing for labor. If Google can manage the salaries they have with staff living mostly in high cost-of-living cities, so they can also support those margins with staff living anywhere else in the world.

Yes, Google can support those margins, but why would they? Why would Google pay a developer a dollar more than they need to? If they can get the same work out of employees in low cost of living areas, they will expect to pay all employees low cost of living salaries.

>Why is it only capitalism when the company is greedy?

I'm not sure what you mean by this. There was no positive value judgement on my use of the word "capitalism". I was not praising companies for this behavior. I was making a value neutral observation on their behavior. Don't take my observation of behavior as and endorsement of that behavior.
The more euphemisms and acronyms used, the worst it probably actually is for you.
It would be interesting to see if there was a market for a monthly newsprint version similar to the old https://weeklyworldnews.com/

Can DALL-E render Bat Boy?
Dramcorp requires you to stay on brand.
Fines are "UP TO" 10% / 20% of global revenue. I doubt actual fines are going to be that high.

Also, it has to be global revenue, because otherwise they would just use funny accounting tricks to hide their revenue (they already do that).
Citi offers virtual numbers too. Mercury does too. And many others.
That doesn’t sound like a wedding it sounds like a money bonfire.
As a country, particularly one with an advanced economy, we need to subsidize education in order to remain competitive. Generally the left would have preferred to just directly subsidize schools by giving them money, but instead we have the compromise plan of student loans. And boy is our system compromised!
Right, so then location does affect the quality of the work provided. Although it then still is weird to base differentiated pay on cost of living / local market rates; surely those don't all correlate with the quality of the work delivered? If you can get an engineer with the same skills from Spain for less money than you'd pay for the equivalent in Germany, why would you hire the latter?
I don't think that's extremely low at all. Prius forums are full of users who share their mileage costs.
> And why do you think it is fair to make a bank pay for your fees

Because if the bank broke their legal obligations to the customer and the consumer had to use a attorney to recover their money, the attorney deserves to get paid.

Banks are expected to know their customer and to take measures to prevent fraud, rather than watching money go by and shrugging because they made a few nickels.
My thoughts exactly. One game away from playing for the world championship. Would have been awesome to see, and I think he would have had a very solid chance against Ian.
The classics: ethnic rifts, religious rifts, ideological rifts. A good old fashioned economic shock is all it takes.
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If sites actually obeyed the GDPR (i.e. if national governments actually devoted enough resources to enforcing it) then all those banners would have a "Reject" button that is just as clickable as the "Accept" one.

Yeah, but there isn’t. There is no incentive, or a stick, to make them comply. It’s a dumb regulation. The regulator doesn’t care to enforce and has no resources to enforce.

It’s obvious that people who benefit from tracking will do anything to make people click that accept button. It’s obvious that they will also make it as obnoxious as possible to reject. It was clear from the beginning.
Because that's the law...
Whilst they were objectively “wrong” in their actions, what they did was clearly for the greater good. Requesting a summary judgment reminded me of that. Respect to the IA for upholding their position.
The structure & scaffolding can also liberate you to focus on getting really good at the things you care about.
Lol. Always nice to know we’re not idiots (or, at least, idiots together). I mean, seriously, “Ae.com”
Right, right, but fundamentally that attitude is irrational. If startups with actual long-term value are going under for want of $N million in a down round, that represents a big opportunity for anyone who can successfully combat the “narrative”.
> Uber is a prime example of a company that seems destined to fail.

I'm not a fan of Uber, both as a company and as an investment thesis, but I think this is far too strong. Uber isn't prioritising profitability at the moment, so obviously the unit economics isn't going to work.

I think the important question to ask here is if people continue to want to pay & hail taxis from their phone? If the answer to that is yes then Uber will be fine so long as they're one of the apps that people continue to use to hail taxis. Personally I don't see taxi hailing apps going anywhere and I don't see Uber losing significant market share to its competition if they price competitively.

Where I think you have a point is in regards to Uber's potential operating margins. Is it reasonable to assign Google / Facebook sized margins to a company like Uber? Probably not imo, and that's where I have problems with it as an investment. I think as an investment it's more likely to end up like a Twitter or Snapchat. They'll make a bit of money and as a company they'll be fine, but I doubt they'll ever reach the levels of profitability that other big tech companies have achieved. The stock seems likely to trade fairly flat as they continue to see decent demand for their product, but continue to struggle to achieve significant profitability.

I'd argue taxi hailing apps (as they currently exist) are basically commodities. There's no real difference in experience between the different apps and if I'm being made to pay then I'll just pick the cheapest. Only if they're all pricing around the same will I use Uber and that's just because I know I can trust them and there's a friction in downloading and signing up for something else. They have a viable business, but very little operating leverage.
> The biggest issue here is that the "proof" allowed essentially means recurring billing scams can run rampant without any recourse.

Yup, every gym and pest control company just got aroused thinking about all the recurring charges they could now slip in.
I think that using systems with bad UX teaches you a lot on what not to do.
I was unlucky/lucky to use Lotus Notes for about 4 years, and that changed my perception on how much suffering software can inflict on its users. If you have a friend/relative that happens to work with it, try interviewing them.
I'm really curious how well this works on highly stylized sources like anime where landmarks aren't equivalent and in some cases may not even exist

Aside, this would be sick for realtime apps, like, imagine you just get a good professional photo or two done and then drive those with your webcam? It'd be like making a vtuber of yourself
The list of sound defeats is kind of a who's who from back in the day: Black, Hawk, Robison, Klein, Leo the Jap, Price, Stein.
Thank you. I can’t count how many people in those days attributed (for example) Japanese manufacturing success to visibly foreign things like karaoke and radio exercises when the real story was something vastly more interesting about factory management and how you coordinate the efforts of a lot of people to make a good car.
I think this is the wrong model to think about companies like Uber. Their business model is not based on unit economics, but on becoming a monopoly. Their goal was to seek rent permanently on the taxi business by putting all other taxi companies out of business. If you look at it that way, losing money to put competitors out of business seems like a viable strategy.
It was actually two pairs of shoes by the time I paid for tax. But it was one style of shoes in two different sizes, intending to send back the other size. if it was some $10 trinket that I was excited to get from Amazon, I probably would have remembered it immediately. But, shoes. Boring
Exactly my point: banks should be responsible for doing the job they are paid for, processing transactions, and should not be liable for someone else's lack of judgement.
The fact that it is legal to make banks pay for such things does not mean it is just, moral or ethical.
Nice work - can you share how large your training datasets are in terms of number of images? And did you train your models from scratch or fine-tune them from an existing model?
Ah, Marvin the Paranoid Android syndrome.
Just think of the memes.

You'll be able to convert from video into a screenplay, edit some text, then render to video again.
Buyer biased dispute resolution is a ultimately a good thing for merchants. Without it scummy merchants will gain an advantage, the average trust of the whole industry declines, and customers pull back their spending. Soon bad merchants are the majority. Seller biased dispute resolution would allow the classic scam of taking payment but delaying shipment for weeks to re-emerge.
Read a lot of sketches from this brilliant woman: https://uxknowledgebase.com/
the cookie law should have ended up with a browser setting. but eu bureaucrats apparently don’t know the first thing about web standards (and why would they) so we get every single website in the world having to code a custom dialog, and billions of users having to click through them forever. this legislation is the eu cookie law writ large: well meaning, ill conceived, government overreach by bureaucrats who don’t represent or understand the companies being affected. it’s a sad state of affairs when the most significant contribution of europe to technology is not technology, but bad legislation with massive global implications.
He means I let you win with white, and you let me win with white, and we both end up ahead by doing so.
> objectively “wrong”

How so? Can you explain?

Are libraries, too, "objectively wrong” in that analysis?

cheers
Legality and morality may be misaligned. It is important to never equate the two in a society of man made laws. This is doubly true when wealthy and powerful interests have so much ability to influence laws through legalized bribing (i.e., "lobbying").