skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve heard stories like this about PayPal, I have a friend who claimed Chase Bank bankrupted his business in the 90s …

I’m thinking all financial players sometimes do stuff like this?
Tech makes jobs obsolete, but the new jobs introduced in the last few hundred years only add up to a small part of the overall workforce (programmers excluded). CGP Grey went in depth on human replacement automation, and almost a decade later it still holds up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

The bottom line is that automating a job is obviously a net positive because it frees up a human to do something else elsewhere, while still providing the same added value as before. There will always be something for that human to do, even if not a traditional style job.

The gap, as you point out, is making sure that newly created value gets taxed and provided to that freed up person as UBI, so that they can continue to live and consume those products that the machine makes in the first place, otherwise there is no demand for them and capitalism doesn't work. There is no point in having an army of robots making hats if there's nobody to wear them.
Released after being held several times over the maximum allowed limit, and they took his law license away.

The judge responsible should be disbarred.
I never tried CoffeeScript since nobody pays me for it, though I am curious about ReasonML as an alternative, there's a Neovim front-end[0] coded in Reason that compiles natively[1], and supports existing VS Code plugins from the VSCodium plugin repository[2] which I still have yet to look at how the heck they pulled that bit off, but it is pretty interesting.

My thinking is, not only can I do amazing front-end stuff on the web, but I can do front-end GUI applications that aren't reliant on Electron thanks to OCaml magic.

[0]: https://github.com/onivim/oni2#introduction

[1]: https://github.com/revery-ui/revery

[2]: https://open-vsx.org/
did they come up with their structures independently of the x-ray crystallography, or was that part of a ML dataset for predicting structure
currently in the US, Fox is blaming Biden. That might be enough for some, esp any Russian apologists.
Can someone put AlphaFold's problem space into perspective for me?

Why is protein folding important? Theoretical importance? Can we do something with protein folding knowledge? If so, what?

I've been hearing about AlphaFold from the CS side. There they seem to focus on protein folding primarily as an interesting space to apply their CS efforts.
Yes. The almighty "computer that isn't a computer for the user".
the solution isn't to blackhole your customer for 180 days.

it's to provide a human being to talk to or ask for clarifying information
This isn't surprising to me, and I don't think less of Stripe for doing this. It appears everybody is jumping to conclusions. Saying Stripe is "stealing" is laughable.

There is a tremendous amount of fraud abound. Payment service providers like Stripe sit in between businesses and credit card companies, who proxy banks, who proxy customers.

Banks are pretty solid, as are credit card companies, so the transitive nature of these transactions means Stripe proxies customers. A significant feature of modern payment processing is the ability to reconcile fraud for either party, but typically these measures are structured in a way to protect the customer.

For example, you buy a $3000 computer and the business goes under before they can ship it to you. It's likely you can get your money back by calling your credit card company but it's not like they're being generous. What happens is exactly what is happening here:

Money is held until it can be safely cleared without dispute; money is clawed back from merchant bank accounts and held until it can be cleared (there is practically no limit to what can be clawed back out of your merchant bank account).

If this makes you uncomfortable, don't deal with credit card companies, and only take cash. It doesn't matter who your payment processor is, this can and will happen with any of them.

I'm sympathetic to the OP here, but from a business perspective, the fact that this is such a significant event is a red flag. Shit happens -- your credit card could be stolen, you could be robbed, you could be defrauded -- it's prudent to have a safety net for when such things occur. And while realistically such safety can be unreasonable to secure, that just signals to me that so much of society is living at the edge of a knife. It's easy to be angry at Stripe here, but I believe that's misguided.
There seem to be a few companies with this model, e.g. https://en.trucksters.io/
"Circle Confirms Freezing $100K in USDC at Law Enforcement's Request" https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/07/08/circle-confirms-...
Sina is great, it's a shame the device output is so much louder than his microphone in the video.

I didn't hear him mention the lack of skip links on HN's home page (skip links are more for sighted keyboard users than blind screen reader users like him), I did hear him mention that the stories on the home page are not headings. Yes, a screen reader can navigate link to link but there are ~7 non-story links between each story link so being able to navigate from story to story as headings would be really helpful and semantically accurate.
Docker and docker-compose also make it really easy to store all of the data in a single location, which opens up easy snapshot management with something like ZFS or Btrfs, and backups that way.

This is a thing I've found throws people off - you don't need the OS at all, just those volumes.

/srv/docker_data
name_of_project/
docker-compose.yml
volumes/
my_project_db1/

Just for example.

At upgrade time I can snapshot that whole project and test, and revert if it goes bad.
Incredibly amateur hour if true.
in the Middle Ages, we need separation of Church vs State, as one would balance our the tyranny of the other. We kind of need the same with Big Tech vs Big Govt, keep them as independent of each other as possible, and always support whichever side is weaker, in order to keep the balance
30 years.. I wouldn't be surprised when a bigger and better telescope launched 10 years later arrives there 15 years before this crazy contraption.
I think that, nowadays, it’s more likely that fonts use quadratic Bézier curves (as in TrueType and its derivatives), rather than cubic ones (as in PostScript and Adobe’s Type 1 fonts), but since OpenType supports both (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType#Description) I may be wrong.

Similarly, SVG supports both quadratic and cubic Bézier curves.
For those looking for a live look at Voyager status: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
And the thing about their tech stack is its old..but absolutely workable. They have examples in pretty much every language, decent documentation, and support. And they are very slow to sunset things because their customers are slow moving traditional businesses. So code you write for a customer may work without tweaking for 4, 5, or even 10 years.
Title on the piece is "Why GNOME happened". The reason why GNOME happened is QPL, not legal threats from elsewhere years later.
There is a big difference between valuing it, and acting as if it was a wonder that Go brought into the world never achieved before.

Which is how most in the community act like.

There is also a lesson on why dynamic linking is used, and why in its absence one needs to resort to IPC.
> the box kite (1893), which greatly improved the lift to drag ratio of early gliders;

Ah, that Hargrave! In the age of carbon fiber spars and sewing machines, box kites are very popular among amateur kite builders.
> really believed it or just thought that the researchers are massively exaggerating.

Particularly in a period of time, the '60s/'70s, where a lot of things were happening and lots of stuff was shouted in the street as "inevitable" (the proletariat rising, the age of Aquarius, the arrival of aliens, or even good ol' biblical apocalypse...).
The first is Zeno's Paradox, or a variation thereof. The solution is that passing through infinitely many midpoints is fine, since the sum of an infinite number of positive numbers can still be finite. The example that solves the original Zeno's Paradox (you run half the distance, then one quarter, then one eight, etc, and never get there) is the fact that 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + ... sums up to 1, since it's a Geometric Series.

The second comment touches on how just because the limit of something approaches 0, you can't treat it as 0. If you divide a line into infinitely many segments, the length of those segments approaches 0, but if you treat them as if they were really 0 you get wrong results when summing them back up. Usually that gets relevant with integrals, but in this example it happens with a simple 1-dimensional sum.
Discord is not a public space. It's not indexed by search engines.
I'm sympathetic that 3k can be huge for small businesses, but if you can't tolerate a loss of 3k, isn't your business practically doomed?
The important metric here ahould be average health of the population, not total number of new drugs developed.

I dont have those stats handy, but given how unhealtht the American population is as a whole I dont expect that we'd end up on the better end of that comparison.
It's a good thing there are other places to look than porn for compelling story driven content.

However, there are so many instances in films where the lead characters start getting frisky, and then suddenly it cuts to the morning after. Surely with deep fake technology and other tricks you could have a third party produce the scene that Hollywood knows belongs in that slot, but won't produce themselves.
Look at country side in Eastern Europe. You think that people are driving around in cars made between 1990-2010 because they are fans of old tech? No they drive those cars, because they don't have money to buy something better.

And those guys are going to support anyone who is going to oppose ICE ban, because for people living on country side it will be absolutely unaffordable to have BEV with range of their current old ICE car.
I've always spelled it "nybble".

But I've seen "byte" used to refer to other numbers of bits lots of times, although primarily in the old days. Not so much anymore. I think the meaning has changed with time and has become fixed on "8 bits", but it was not always so.
Serious question: what's the alternative?
i too feel like we see any modern deviation as a statement and not a meaningless preference, like food or people attraction.
I was there too - hell I was using newsgroups when Miguel posted his Gnome post.

And I'd note Miguel says the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32258035

Just because The Register was posting something it didn't make it true then, and still isn't. The Register always posted random anti-MS scapegoating articles, and it was nonsense then and remains nonsense now.

The article you post at the end of the linked article is typical ignorant nonsense. Patents don't cover visual appearance - Design Patents can, but they are very specific and MS didn't have them.

So it's both ignorant of IP law, and of the history of the projects.
You are basically made of proteins, which are basically folded sequences of amino acids, proteins are molecular machines that are the fundamental building block of animals, plants, bacteria, fungi, viruses etc.

So yeah the applications are enormous, from medicine to better industrial chemical processes, from warfare to food manufacturing.
Tetris is challenging because TS escapes newlines in type output, so you'd end up with a bunch of\nwhich makes it\nhard to read the output. It could probably be done using arrays instead, but that gets truncated so you'd have to have a very small "screen"
> Maybe one day non-custodial and permissionless payment rails will prevent this situation, for those services that choose to use it. Shame that HN is so polarized about blockchain that they refuse to entertain the idea.

It's a shame that we've only figured out "pay $200 to the guy using a derelict coal plant to run the world's fanciest space heater" and "pay $200 to the guy who hoards the most of your 'currency'" then and not "non-custodial and permissionless payment rails" then.
On Firefox page is just going into an infinite loop.
Sounds like they also closed the account as well.
Usually you can find survey/review articles, or textbooks and look at what they cite. You can also try to find websites of research groups in the area with good reputations and check out their recent works and the citations therein. Especially works that you see multiple times using this approach will be important core works, from which you can go further. General Google searches and Google Scholar keyword searches and exploring the citation graph are also useful.
Interesting article. I wasn't even properly familiar with triangulation of (convex) polygons. I knew it was possible because 3d games triangulate things all the time. What I didn't realise is that there is a fixed number of triangles in a triangulation of a polygon. I had assumed the word "minimal" had been missing at first, but looking at the pictures I realised it would be impossible to add an extra one (unless you introduce a vertex by intersecting a line with the middle of an existing line)
> somewhat pointless to discuss before the prerequisite technology is developed

From the article "The study reveals elements of such a challenging mission, but it is nevertheless found to be feasible with technologies that are either extant or in active development." (emph. mine)

It's pointless to discuss the application of technologies in active development?

> there would be a thousand applications with a better return on investment than this

You veered into a baffling non-sequitur, there. ROI in a unique science mission to image an exoplanet 100 l.y. distant to a resolution of 10s km for potential human habitation? The successful ROI is incalculable.
This video goes some way to explaining how they know the structures are correct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXZzftX03VY
This was the raison d'etre for Bézier curves. Its inventor and re-inventor worked at car companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve#Invention
> ...anything that can hold the input of a user, that a scraper or content mechanism will eventually naively come across

Good way to put it, and I'm going to share this.
It doesn't really work fine beyond a single file.

I tried the experiment of .js files driven by typescript in JSDocs for around 10k lines and there is a night and day difference in what you can express, how and reuse it at the type level.
The casp competition that they won consists of a bunch of new proteins, the structures of which havnt been published. So the test set is for brand new proteins in that case.
You may be right. The developer does, objectively, write good code. Was it so much better than the old code that it was a worthwhile endeavor? That is debatable. Some of it was style change, some of it was idiomatic changes. There was, as far as I know, no performance change or refactoring that eased code maintenance or anything like that.

Rather than being a "bad dev" he may be simply a "bad value" -- good, but not worth the pain.
Thank you for your answer. I take it that's a no to the "fairly straight forward" part of the question, but I'll look into TrueNAS if I'll decide to build a NAS.
Recently when I wasn’t merging into traffic fast enough I was told “More acceleration.”
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger#Kaplan's_2014_...
I mean… yes? I thought this was common knowledge; there’s certainly no shortage of documentation available: the ROI from lobbying efforts is insanely high, on the order of 75,000% by many estimates.

I find it amusing that you dismissed this in a sibling comment as “just comparing spending to returns”… that’s literally what lobbying is: spending money to secure political favor. If our elected representatives simply agree that something should be a priority, companies wouldn’t need to bribe them to do it.

(Not so clear, personally, how you justify transposing this semiconductor handout to the more superficially defensible “national security”; but see also fossil fuel subsidies, corporate tax breaks, barring negotiated drug pricing: https://visual.ly/community/Infographics/politics/amazing-ro... )

As for “why is it so cheap”? I always assumed it was at least in part because there are a limited number of politicians competing with each other for the same funding sources.

It’s very low effort for a corporation to threaten to offshore and ask for a handout to not follow through on the threat. And it’s a very easy call for the politician to take the bribe, because then they can go back their constituency and say “We saved your jobs from going to China!” Everybody wins except the taxpayers. (And the corporations will go ahead and offshore, or not, just like they would have anyway, because one of the services they pay their lobbyists for is ensuring there will be no consequences for accepting the handout.)
This is not my experience of Stripe. I've found their support has always been responsive and awesome over email.
Can confirm! Same here with my Firefox on Windows 10.
This "rant" is in general, and not related to OPs case

I would strongly recommend to not rely on stripe, their service level has become a joke. I get it, they have a nice API, their system is technically nice in many ways, and they are (or atleast were ~5 years ago) way easier to deal with for developers than the "old" players on the market.

but they are kinda like google, their support is pretty much non existent when things arent on the "happy path", they will GLADLY ignore any inquiry for months if they feel like it, I know this for bitter personal experience.

Yeah, their fees might be slightly lower than the older players, but the old ones you could call if it comes to it, and they will NOT be doing the same shenanigans on a whim, as it appears Stripe do.
How is it mandatory? You can just not install the hooks
Not necessarily. There were secret trials and jailings of Australian whistleblowers (Witness J and K), and we only found out about them almost by accident. The government went after the lawyer in a way reminiscent of the guy in the article.

Now that we know the Aussie government does this kind of thing, how many other cases are there that we don't know about? US black sites around the world? Everyone knows about Guantánamo, but how many others are there that don't make the news?
Sending money to an arbitrary IBAN is much more difficult than sending money to an arbitrary crypto wallet address. There is far less friction, to the extent that it's closer to the difficulty of clicking a link on the Internet (not difficult at all, in other words).
I am not sure if the other options are much better.

Having armed militias / mafia organizations that operate state-like, working for those with the biggest wallets is not ideal either.
Easiest bet to win.
It's always the same arguments : fud or concepts from 2010s

The ecosystem has vastly improved since
You don’t even need to write your own functions: the JavaScript ecosystem has the concept of packaging functions and publishing them as useful libraries!

https://www.npmjs.com/package/jquery
I know you didn't make things up and I didn't see correcting the terminology to be worthwhile. But most people don't think simply everything makes a worthwhile article while, at the same time, I for one generally don't think articles should be deleted even if they're a bit thin on detail and notability so long as they're reasonably sourced.
https://sumup.com
Proteins are what makes everything in a cell work. They are produced as a "linear" structure that must fold into a proper shape to execute its function, such as acting as a pore that only lets a specific chemical through the cell membrane.

The importance here is to figure out potential targets for treatments that take into account particularities of certain proteins. That could produce better drugs with less side effects.
Because lynch mobs are better? That is what a democratic state is supposed to replace.
Not all clinical trials are done just to get approval to sell. Some are exploratory, or to create datasets for meta-analysis/other research.
I'm not on board with VR, but I think that the sales pitch is very clear and you are missing it.

It is Roblox. It is a collaborative building environment where the content that people create and share for one another is the interactive world rather than text, photos, or videos, done through VR rather than traditional computing.
The state isnt infosys in the free market of violence. By definition it's the entity with a monopoly on violence.
Same on Edge/Chromium
This kind of stuff happens more often than people want to admit. For example, I have discovered that I have no constitutional right to a trial or due process. A multi year long Federal investigation was done based on a false accusation. My career and everything was taken. I have never been charged with anything and it is implied that there is no crime to even charge me with. I have taken all of this to Twitter recently (link in my profile). The past few weeks I have been asking the state and federal to arrest me, even though I didnt do anything, just so I would have a right to an attorney to be honored and begin the process of defending myself. But they havent even replied now for months.

Good luck out there when you run up against real power structures. You do not have the rights you think you do.

The Government can and will kill you without even charging you or proving anything to a jury.

This isnt even political as both left and right wing controlled states, CO and TN have gone along with it.

We simply do not have any rights in the U.S. Truth seems to be based simply on how many political connections and how much money you have.
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Does anyone have any suggestions of what to use instead? Lots of "don't use Stripe", but I'd love to know what the alternatives are!
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DeepMind has predicted the structure of almost every protein known to science
Maybe your business is not your primary source of income?
Your file structure is interesting, I like the fact that the data and composition are together.

I actually went away from separate docker-compose files and use a large one (and wrote a small utility to start, stop, pull, etc.)

I will have a deeper look at that, if I managed to combine this with the caddy configurations that would be pretty much awesome :) EDIT: caddy supports globs, this si won-der-ful. I will switch to your configuration and rewrite my tool accordingly (adding a way to bootstrap the docker-compose file and the caddy config).

Thank for having chimed in!
You happen to know if there are libs/utils to achieve the reverse (JSON-schema -> zod)? Could be useful for one of my usecases (form validation via rules recievd as JSON)
Happening on FF, Chrome and Edge for me
Ask HN: What was your most successful marketing tactic/experiment for B2B SaaS?
Like a GitHub issue tracker? The concept of forums is not lost on me, but I think the point of a chat service solves different problems.
I see your point. The interest rate in isolation is not the derivative (an exponential function is), but it does uniquely parameterize the derivative.