skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem of lacking credit history has been around for a long time, I remember getting a credit card, which I paid off in full every month, just to increase my credit score ~ 20 years ago.

For people without a good credit history in the UK there is meant to be "basic bank accounts" which don't require credit checking as they don't offer overdrafts (https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en/everyday-money/banking/bas...)

That said, you will still need proof of identity/address. If a bank is taking you on without those, I'd struggle to see how it's meeting KYC (Know your customer) requirements.
> If the test succeeded, it would be foolish of them to not roll it out widely and make more money off of its now-measured success. It's very likely the product didn't meet their expectations, but it's hard to say by how much.

I don't think you can safely assume that. There are lots of reasons to not immediately turn a trial into a full run: logistical and supply chain considerations, contract negotiations for the ingredients, running surveys and tweaking the items based on customer feedback, &c.

This is true in almost every industry except software: you put space between the trial and full deployment because there are physical and logistical considerations that cost time and money.
> I can picture the manager after back and forth playing telephone with blockee sand blockers, believing that an efficient way to handle this is to have all the relevant people in one spot

And... it likely is more efficient in those scenarios. If something can't be resolved via 1-1 in less than, say, 3 exchanges, get everyone together for a synchronous meeting. But have that be the exception.
I'm not, like, against the idea of sanctioning North Korean hacking groups. But the regulators here aren't really prepared for the crypto endgame.

I could clone Tornado.Cash's contract code in half an hour; would my new deployment also be sanctioned?

What about if Ethereum migrated to some kind of ZK-EVM and _all_ of the transactions are suddenly private and untraceable? Other chains already have some of these properties.

I dunno. I don't think I particularly want to live in a world where it's essentially impossible to regulate money. But I don't really see how to avoid it anymore.
You could be getting hate with vehemence because you are doing something genuinely hurtful to society, or wrong, or illegal. You said that "if most of the audience [...] universally hates something, [...] you are probably doing the right thing". I restated it a little bit earlier, but surely you see how overly generic your statement is?

What is even the point of soliciting feedback if you will take a universally negative response as a positive?
> "People tend to think of Amazon as an online-seller company, but, really, Amazon is a surveillance company. That is the core of its business model, and that's what drives its monopoly power and profit," Evan Greer, the director of the nonprofit digital-rights-advocacy organization Fight for the Future, told Wired. "Amazon wants to have its hands everywhere, and acquiring a company that's essentially built on mapping the inside of people's homes seems like a natural extension of the surveillance reach that Amazon already has."

> ... "I think this feels really intrusive to people — and it should," Knox told Insider. "Like, when people buy a Roomba, it's because they want clean floors. They don't buy a Roomba to have a little robot inside of your house spying on the layout of your home and whether or not you have a crib in your house or whether or not there are pet toys and a pet bed in a room of your house. So then it can funnel that information to Amazon, and Amazon can push whatever dog-toy ads to you the next time you log on."

> ... "When the company that has its cameras and microphones in your speakers, your doorbell, your security cameras tries to buy the company that knows the shape and contents of your home, it's bad in all the ways," Knox said.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/amazon-bou...
> The website for X1 advertises "End free trials automatically with auto-expiring virtual cards" [0] - if that takes off, would services just start blocking folks from signing up for free trials with X1 cards?

I use a Revolut card exactly that way, and it made my life so much easier. No need to phone someone between 8:30 and 9:45 on the first Saturday of the month to cancel subscriptions. No risk of paying for a month extra or lose access for a week after in-subscribing (all of this happened to me). So there are real benefits to this approach.

Now, I use Revolut because I like my online purchase to be completely isolated from my main bank accounts, but both my French and my British (traditional and old-fashioned) banks offer the same single-use virtual cards for a modest fee. So filtering by issuing bank would not be really effective.

I don’t know if these cards have numbers that can be used to recognise them, though, but I never had any trouble using them.
I'd love to know what you all think is a good method to store these digital files at home in such a way that they can be:
1. easily viewed at home.
2. easily passed to the next of kin.
3. optionally: easily and selectively shared remotely with others as the owner sees fit.
I love the fact that they haven't thought out a lot of how this needs to work. You can't even decide if it's worth sticking with GitLab because they don't even know how they are going to handle half of this stuff.
Seems to be most important that this amp is small and sound okayish. Still better spend your money on old serviced piece of kit that will likely survive several decades. I haven't had any new amplifiers that sounded as good as my old 70s Sony TA over-engineered amp.
It really would be, and we need to fight that. It's definitely a trend I've been seeing and it worries me.

Do a search on Upwork for Rust gigs. Almost all crypto.

LinkedIn jobs, very similar. Putting "Rust" in my profile there has also led to a lot of recruiters pinging me about web3-ish jobs that I have no interest in.

The Rust PL group I'm on, also on LinkedIn, has a steady stream of 'smart contract' etc discussions. And people advertising themselves for crypto jobs. Or crypto jobs advertising looking for people.

That's not to say there isn't plenty of other Rust stuff out there, but it seems like this is where a lot of the use is right now and I really hope the language as a whole doesn't get typecast this way.
> I really don't like this. Why is it useful if your car beeps at you when you doze off? You're either going to recognize that you're falling asleep, and pull off the road to rest, or recognize that you're falling asleep and decide to power through.

I fell asleep once while driving without recognizing that I was falling asleep. I only know I fell asleep while driving because that is the only plausible explanation for waking up while driving.
The problem is, these tools always feel like they should be "the way" it's taught. I feel complex numbers should be taught as a special case of geometric algebra, though I suspect that would make things much more difficult. My understanding is that lots of university level maths _is_ taught like this: start from the most general case.
I am surprised by and appreciate Son's public humility. Seems quite rare for any billionaire to publicly admit they got greedy and express remorse or regret.

Anyone know what is different about him?
User Interface Development in the Next 5–10 years (2018)
Realistically? It's an additional static analysis hoop to jump through and another brick in Apple's walled garden in terms of trying to lock-out generic programs written by anyone who can't be arsed to fiddle with cryptography.
Isn’t this the case with all sovereign countries, though? You can never guarantee that a government won’t demand a company in that country to hand over data, that is what it means to be sovereign.
I also wish tools like GitHub had more `--first-parent` oriented views as an option.

On GitHub itself I find it means that I mostly don't use the Commits views on my own repositories. If I require things to be PRed and always use merge commits, the Closed PRs view sorted by time is a much better view of the main branch than the Commits view. (And vice versa, the `git log --first-person` view is the PR log in the command line.)
The phased enforcement of the limits are a part of the technical rollout plan for this change that was added to our docs. Related comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32387597.

The communication sent to impacted users via email and future in-app notifications includes only the applicable enforcement dates and limits.

Issue to follow: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/368150
We could have general purpose electric motors by now but the corporations are instead pushing proprietary formats that we can't retool ourselves upon us. More money for them this way.
Because a browser is very complex and does many things simultaneously. Not going to list them here. We all know the many things a browser has to do right. It’s a bundling of many separate components.
That's pure conjecture. Even though this forums is anonymous, I would still be embarrassed to write such baseless nonsense.
> No, they shouldn't, unless their constituents actually think it's a real issue.

Then they've decided to suffer an account of what those "weirdos on Twitter and in elite college administrations" say, and I guess that's their call. People can be forgiven for assuming what the "party" thinks is what their coalition members are loudly saying.
Xerox PARC and the Origins of GUI
>Will "turning sideways to spot a deepfake" be a valid test in 5 years? Prolly no, so don't base your secops around this.

We'll just ask them to do "the Linda Blair". If they can turn their head 360 degrees, prolly a deepfake ;P
"European countries doing poorly when it comes to modern tech" has never been an opinion.

You're confused, and your petty vindictiveness is unmotivated. The EU as a space of commerce is not yours to do with as you wish. You have to follow rules and regulations just like our own companies have to. And if your country had not been engaging in espionage and sabotage then there would never have been a need for these "unfair" and "underhanded tactics".
No. That's like flipping a coin and then saying the probability of getting heads is 1. The fact that something happened is not proof that it was guaranteed to happen.
There's a historical marker in Echo Canyon about this. It says, essentially, that the army was sent because they thought Utah was in rebellion, but Utah was not actually in rebellion, and therefore it was not right/legal to send the army, and therefore it was legitimate for Utah to resist the army. (It's in Utah, so no surprise, the historical marker is a Mormon-view spin on what happened.)

So, wait, let me make sure I've got this right. It's legitimate for you to fight the US army because you're not in rebellion? Um, hello? The moment you start fighting them, you're in armed rebellion!
From my experience PayPal sucks for paying anything as (at least for me) it constantly triggers fraud alerts and then blocks whole account for days.

Currently I have virtual Visa card provided by my bank in EU. I can load this card into Google Pay and pay with NFC in phone, use it on Amazon/AliExpress/other eshops etc.
BeReal and the Doomed Quest for Online Authenticity
Someone who invented and designed gas chambers in Auschwitz concentration camp is partially blameworthy for their use.

(less if they were forced/unaware or there are somehow other mitigating reasons)

The same goes for other designer of things that could be clearly put into primarily or only bad use.
Either way, it's silly that Sonos doesn't have a simple un-amplified receiver for similar setups.

They do have that, the Sonos Port, but it's extremely overpriced at $449. They very gracefully do allow you to get a full two channels of audio (stereo) though.
I have to assume these people are being intentionally dense to paint a picture that does not match up with reality.

Won't anyone think of the poor facebooks of the world? Cry me a river.

I trust Apple with targeted ads about a billion times more than I trust Facebook, Google, or any of the scummy fly by night ad networks. This entire twitter thread seems to start with the premise that Apple's ads are the same as FB's and I'm sorry but I just don't believe that for a minute. From the outside looking in it would appear that Apple's moves, while beneficial to them, are also very beneficial to end users. Facebook being hurt by these moves is simply icing on the cake, they are a terrible company doing terrible things with impunity, I won't shed a tear for them.

People keep pretending that Apple is doing some kind of bait and switch and as if they are pulling back the curtain screaming "See!!! Apple's making money off ads!!! The hypocrisy!!!", spare me. Apple has never said they are anti-ad, they are anti-tracking and selling user's info which almost all these ad networks do (directly or indirectly).

Things are not black and white, Apple can be anti-scummy ad networks AND have their own ad network at the same time. Those positions are not mutually exclusive. Wake me up if Apple starts selling data and/or if they break their own rules on how an ad network is allowed to run on their OS.
Literally every single "weird" or novel feature in this article is also offered by mainstream banks. Those banks are way less likely to collapse and leave their clients out of luck (remember most startups fail). The "weird" features mentioned in the article include: secured credit cards (or charge cards) for those with little to no credit, 'elite' metal cards with bundled subscriptions to Priority Pass and TSA Pre (which you can buy cheaper directly), split repayment, and virtual / one-off account numbers. Yawn.
Not counting the myriad regulations that need to be followed the moment you cross country lines.
I think your understanding of how consumers come to the decisions they do is sorely lacking in terms of stripping agency from the people that consume. We're not blank slate robots.
I can only dream. While at first I was excited by the mini and the mega versions of DALL-E 2 people were hosting, even if they were blurry and often a little dumb, by the time I got my DALL-E 2 invite, I had ideas ... most of which were swiftly rejected. Not only that, it suggested that I would lose my asking privileges if I kept it up with the weird prompts.

Sigh, when will I have a nightmare generator of my own?
It's not empty, it's just way, way! too politely phrased. It's not advice on how to find ideas or how to become that person, but advice on who is ready to give founding a startup a try.

During my career I did freelance mobile app and web development for about 10 years.

In that time I came across many people who wanted to found a tech startup because "that's where the money is" and being a tech startup founder being a status symbol. Some enthusiastic youngsters, but mostly people who had a successful non-tech small business. And they were not the right sort of person and did not have the right hunches, they didn't use what they learned from their non-tech business, but instead sat down over a beer with friends to brainstorm "social-local-viral" app ideas.

The advice instead should be that if you are struggling to come up with startup ideas, you probably aren't the right sort of person at this time. You should do something entirely different for a while until you find a product that just has to exist.

Unfortunately, they had never read HN or PG, nor could I do more than politely refuse their business.
I've definitely heard of times where gyms continue to attempt to charge you, claim that you owe them that money, and then send you to collections after months of failed payments.
And so they won't. Facebook will sell it instead.
While I'm sure some of that does occur some places in the region, my experience in the Utah/Idaho region is very much the opposite. Friendly and very merit oriented work environments.
Not sure what to say to this one. Women can get sensitive, if requests of them can be seen in an unpleasant light. Women have also been historically tricked into posing for cameras, had their images misused, and are often quite sensitive about it.

I thought my comment was legit, and on topic. If one is going to implement a policy where people have to slowly move their camera around their body, there may be severe misunderstandings ... and an inability to clarify if a bad response runs-away on twitter and such.

Support persons should be carefully coached on how to handle this.

I guess all I can say here is, I didn't mean this to be so controversial.

Sorry.
Seems like a good way to accidentally get your account sent to collections; disconnecting your payments doesn't necessarily excuse you from any contract you signed.
The procedure and requirements for obtaining a warrant under the CLOUD Act is not sufficient due process according to EU law - which is law which matters when operating a commercial business in the EU.
Tell me about your plans for fraud.
Let's take a look at some of those realistic timelines. A quick googling gave me a very helpful listicle by VentureBeat from 2017, titled Self-driving car timeline for 11 top automakers. [1]

Some examples:

Ford - Level 4 vehicle in 2021, no gas pedal, no steering wheel, and the passenger will never need to take control of the vehicle in a predefined area.

Honda - production vehicles with automated driving capabilities on highways sometime around 2020

Toyta - Self-driving on the highway by 2020

Renault-Nissan - 2020 for the autonomous car in urban conditions, probably 2025 for the driverless car

Volvo - It’s our ambition to have a car that can drive fully autonomously on the highway by 2021.

Hyundai - We are targeting for the highway in 2020 and urban driving in 2030.

Daimler - large-scale commercial production to take off between 2020 and 2025

BMW - highly and fully automated driving into series production by 2021

Tesla - End of 2017

It certainly wasn't just Tesla who was promising self-driving cars any second now. Tesla was definitely the most agressive, but failed to meet its goals just like every other manufacturer.

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[1] https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/04/self-driving-car-timeline...
I was anti-memorization until I went back to graduate school for mathematics. I had forgotten (or never learned) a lot of things needed to pass qualifying exams. At some point I ran across the spaced repetition idea (maybe from the Wired SuperMemo article [0]) and I gave it a try. I ended up using it to memorize large portions of baby Rudin and Munkres' Topology, as well as some algebra and a bunch of qualifying exam questions.

The qualifying exams were difficult until I reached some "critical mass" of knowledge. Then I could regurgitate proofs and even attack novel problems easily.

There's an analogy here somewhere to the "leetcode" style of software engineer interview. On one hand qualifying exams and leetcode questions are a stupid gatekeeping mechanism, but on the other hand the best researchers/engineers I know have a huge number of facts and examples memorized and ready at their fingertips. I didn't think I needed to do so, but perhaps there is something to suffering through the rote memorization phase to make what comes next that much easier.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/
Uuuuh, yeah, that's kinda what his comment was saying xD
Right, that's why I included my last paragraph. EU companies can also be forced by the US government to spy on European citizens. It happens all the time.
Good point! I had previously assumed this was considered a form of "garbage collector" although not tracing.
I thought it was going to be about the whitespace programming language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...

"Indentation to Lisp" would be more accurate.
Japanese vs western business culture?
Wow. The X1 card is a terrible deal in a nice looking package.

Compared to the Chase Sapphire Reserve, it's just a step down in every way. You have lower rewards (about half) and fewer perks.
Just read off the axis on a unit circle. If you need more precision, draw a bigger circle.
No good, you need a capable party for KYC/KYB to ensure compliance with international sanctions, terrorist watchlists, crime investigation, etc. This is an expensive apparatus to maintain.
https://archive.ph/ii4RE
> And furthermore, even nuclear bombs had a plausible ethical use (end the war sooner).

Some things have no real ethical use.

At least in some cases inventors are unethical to invent some things.
I find Mormons to be truly remarkable people. We visited Salt Lake City recently, and headed out to the Great Salt Lake. Brigham Young wasn’t kidding about “land nobody wants!” There’s almost nothing there, except swarms of flies. (I have no idea what they eat in the middle of the desert. As an aside, my wife’s family apparently went through Utah on the way to Oregon in the wagon train days. They noped the f—k out of there.) But these Mormons built civilization, a lovely society, in the middle of nowhere.
This is generally how you’d make this kind of encryption/decryption work for apps that don’t have documented/open interfaces.

In fact, it’s what I’ve done to reverse engineer the encryption for Zwift for example (and a ton of other apps)
Gyms are terrible and often do sneaky things to take your money. But if you agree to a one year contract then you shouldn't be able to get out of it by just not paying.
" It's not likely we will have such protections in the US."

It is generally safe in the US to assume consumer protections don't exist until an incident forces an industry change, or a regulatory event materializes.

The US generally does not care about consumers at all, except in terms of keeping or upping the rate of consumption.
The surveillance capitalism model is a non-starter in the EU.
> We are capable of doing that ourselves.

Then do it.
If its cheap it will be used, doesn't matter what people think. People hate palm oil but its in everything because it has good properties and is cheaper than alternatives.
At that point why not just 3d print the house? Why need a robot laborer at all?
Generally speaking, we look at the legal system in the country and decide whether it is /legal/ for the state to do such a thing, and whether there are appropriate safeguards to prevent it from doing so. Yes, they could change the law - and at that point it would become illegal for companies in that country to do business in the EU.

Usually most countries are smart enough not to damage themselves economically by preventing their companies from selling to a large, reasonably rich union.
Any chance you have any links to the talk you heard with the above transcript? Or any other links for further information?

Really interesting quote, would love to know more. Thank you.

Edit: I did some google-fu and found some interesting/relevant links:

https://www.sciencealert.com/science-discovers-human-brain-w...

https://www.wired.com/story/the-mind-boggling-math-that-mayb...
Yup it is good to not be toxic and mean in business. http://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html
Maybe it's just, that the European law makers understand the risk of being are to transfer sensitive persona data into other legislations, and that a local registered company doesn't mean there are technical bounds.
This is EU law. That is why you are seeing similar court rulings / administrative rules coming out of Denmark, France, Italy ...