skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>TBF, is there any way to do fraud protection on personal transfers ? Imagine you sent 100 bucks to your cousin and 10 min later requested your bank to get your money back because you sent it to the wrong cousin.

When it's easily verifiable that actual fraud has taken place I would say yes. It would've taken them literally 5 minutes of their time to investigate by going to the website, seeing it presents itself as a retail furniture store, and to go through the checkout process and seeing that it ends up at a form for a personal transfer, and that no goods ever end up being delivered, all of which clearly indicate the transaction is 100% intended to be fraudulent by the supposed seller.
I think you would be very interested in the experiments and results shown here: https://dion.systems/blog_0001_hms2020.html

Dion Systems were working on changing the format of text to an AST format, that can be represented in different forms of text as needed, and the changes and implications it creates for developers.

I think I heard that these developers are now working for Epic on a new programming system replacing the node-based blueprint programming system (think Scratch) for UE5 (probably using an ast based programming system that can be viewed in different text/node forms).
Meh, hardly the only attack vector, not even the biggest one these days. They made a lot of things. VBA Macros are very powerful and useful in the Excel world, those people are not learning python and writing scripts.

O365 wasn't a thing then to make key distribution easier. But they do have signed macros now. The need for users to have smart documents that interact with the FS and processes on the system and talk to the local network was there and continues to be there. Evem libreoffice has their own macros that do similar things. The crappy part here is email, the almost 4 decade old tech they slap features on to no end. If there was a well thought out modern async federated messaginf service it should require attachment capability declaration so if the recipient org has a "no process exec" policy an attachment of any kind when opened would not be allowed to have child processes(zone indentifiers already enforce policies like this in windows).
Be aware that bash doesn't like being piped, and changes some of its behaviour. I work around that using expect:

- Here's the script itself https://github.com/Warbo/warbo-utilities/blob/master/raw/wra...

- Here's the accompanying expect file https://github.com/Warbo/warbo-utilities/blob/master/raw/wra...

- Here's my patched version of GNU fold, which removes some buffering https://github.com/Warbo/warbo-utilities/blob/master/raw/fol...

- Here's the resulting Nix package (along with some tests) https://github.com/Warbo/warbo-utilities/blob/master/scripts...
None. When an American uses a rewards card the merchant pays 3% interchange so the customer can pocket 1%. These are high fees compared with a local using a card with the fee capped at 0.3%.
They're not talking about using an exercise bike! It's an hour spent on your commute/errands/etc. :)
Loneliness before the age of twelve predicts alcohol-related problems later
HN's dupe detector only kicks in if a story has already had significant attention (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). We leave it porous to partly mitigate the randomness of what gets noticed on /newest — we want good stories to get multiple cracks at the bat!

In the future we'll have some sort of karma sharing so earlier submitters get credit also.
Some arbitrary policy they happen to have about personal transfers doesn't absolve them of the responsibility of policing their platform to ensure it's not being utilized by scammers, and shutting them down when they find them, or when they are EXPLICITLY REPORTED TO THEM. That's what I was referring to when I said they're a joke about addressing fraud. The website is still up, it still directs you to the same form to send money to the same exact account. I highly doubt my brother was the first person to call them and complain about this person, but their account is still active and apparently in good standing. What a fucking joke. It would take them literally 5 minutes of investigation to go to the website, see how it presents itself as a retail store, and to go through the checkout process that eventually leads to a page for a personal transfer, which is clearly not correct, and no goods are ever delivered, and clearly it's entirely meant to fraudulently separate non-savvy buyers from their money. But they clearly have zero interest in doing any of that, since they still get to collect their percentage on every transaction sent to him, they couldn't care less.
Brad Pitt’s housing dream for Hurricane Katrina survivors turned into nightmare
I'd like to see:

the concept of the network should become tightly integrated - I should not have to jump through hoops to send network requests and evaluate their responses

handling errors should be extremely standardised in such a way that the programming language defines how it is done and all programming languages do it the same way

a programming language like Rust - inherently safe to do sophisticated multithreaded low level coding, guaranteed ot be memory safe and guaranteed not to have race conditions, but without the complexity of Rust

a programming language dramatically better at team coding - the idea of microservices is a terrible way of solving this problem

an internet that is type safe from top to bottom and all the type safety is the same typing system or at least compatible -all data and applications should talk through a ubiquitous type safe way of communicating

a much more obvious way, perhaps visual, of connecting data/functions/interfaces together - the typing systems I describe above should make it possible to just click code together
Regardless of whether it's another record year overall, I don't think there's evidence that GHG emissions are accelerating.

GHG emissions are dropping year-over-year in developed nations, and developing nations will follow. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/carb...
The US population may not be decreasing, but the US has a lot of immigration. Essentially everyone else is far worse off, from China to Germany.
We're a small startup that switched from Mixpanel to GraphJSON for our internal analytics dashboards.

Amplitude and Mixpanel were the go-to's I had heard of when starting my company. Amplitude makes you schedule a sales call, so Mixpanel it was. One of our engineers filed a bug affecting our dashboard in a significant way, and after many months, no movement. That + some other persistent bugs, I was having a bad time.

I was able to migrate everything in one call with JR. He's responded to all my emails in O(hours). I'm paying way less than I was, and have 100% parity with what I was using Mixpanel for. I'm sure there exists features on Mixpanel that don't on GraphJSON; we just haven't hit it yet. Highly recommend.
I believe there was an MIT study done after the contentious 2000 US election that compared election methods and their error rates.

None had a zero error rate. Fully electronic was not preferable because of the lack of audit trail. The best system seemed to be paper with scanners. The error rate was among the lowest and it is fully auditable.

After this study came out I was disappointed that my state chose fully electronic.

But before this last election we went to paper with scanners. The big advantage of course is the ability to recount by hand to your heart’s content. Which of course we did.
This is what is desperately needed.
Desalination advances in California despite opponents
> AND it isn't any more distracting than adjusting a mirror

You shouldn't be adjusting mirrors while you're driving, they should already be adjusted before you even put the car in drive. Do you really start driving first, and then once in busy streets decide that's the time to adjust your mirrors? It's incredible the number of things you don't even realize distract you while you drive and think it'd entirely normal and fine to be distracted.

Next thing I know you'll be telling me you need to be buckling your seatbelt while driving highway speeds and that everyone eats sandwiches while behind the wheel.

It's not a matter of handling it or not. You are less focused when operating distractions on the center console, no matter who you are. I'm not saying the moment you look away to press a button you're guaranteed to die, don't put words in my mouth.

Why do you think it is OK to be distracted with buttons and knobs when driving your car?
>A ton of the achievement has to do with Western investments.

To be fair, a fairly big reason why China became poor was because of western imperialism. Look up "Century of humiliation".

And if you go back in history far enough, China was the most advanced country and had the highest GDP in the world for long periods of time.

But I think you're not open to these ideas.
I just tried it:

$ type type
type is a shell builtin
Jonathan Blow: Software Is in Decline
I think a few years ago there were rumblings about a 2/3nm Apple fab being made in Berlin, but I've heard nothing about it since, so it may be a lie.

That being said; the other commenter is right. If Apple had to release the M1 on 10nm or even 7nm, they would end up sacrificing at least >200% performance-per-watt; a death blow to either the battery life or performance. Apple's move to dominate the 5nm supply was another demonstration of their manipulation of supply chains akin to their iPod hard drives. There are indeed interesting parts of Apple Silicon, but the performance is driven wholly by their exclusive 5nm ARM cores.
I have a habit of singing publicly. I did not realise this was socially abnormal until I was about 21.

I suppose it helps that I have a pretty decent singing voice (baritone), but I'm also quite loud and my voice really projects (so I'm told).

I can't stop though. I made a compromise - I won't sing in public places (eg train, walking through the city), as people will think I'm mad. But I will whistle. And I'll sing at home, in my neighbourhood, local shops, people's houses, in the office - basically everywhere else.

Fortunately I married someone who has the exact same habit. At home we just walk around singing, sometimes not even the same song.

I understand some people are tone-deaf, and just cannot sing. But for everyone else, I genuinely don't see why you're not all walking around singing! It's fun, it's elating, it's expressive! I even sing sad songs when I'm sad, and it makes me feel better.

Putting aside shyness, there's people that don't even sing alone. That I'll never understand ...
> Unlike many developed countries, the U.S. does not offer free tax filing services for taxpayers, who instead pay billions of dollars every year to highly profitable private tax prep companies.

> The industry has tried to block or subvert a government free tax filing system for decades. ProPublica has reported for years on how companies have sometimes even tricked customers into paying for services that they should have gotten for free. Those articles led to investigations by federal agencies and states as well as a barrage of consumer legal actions. The reporting was also cited by Senate Finance Committee chair Ron Wyden, who was behind the new provision. The companies maintain they did nothing wrong.

Propublica has really done a tremendous job driving this forward.
Presumably like the UK? Unwashed eggs keep at room temp, but washed eggs need to be refrigerated.
Oral creatine monohydrate supplementation improves brain performance (2006)[pdf]
This is assuming that China's rapidly evolving navy cannot do anything about these blockades. They have massive shipbuilding capacity and currently the most advanced destroyer (type 055) in the world.
"Markets" here means some limited ability to transfer to/from India, but nobody uses UPI for domestic transactions in these places.

Singapore has an equivalent system called PayNow, which is equally instant and ubiquitous.
Have you done any anime or western animation or are firmly in the ebook & commercial spot camp?
So stop cycling? :(
What are the downsides? I am not sure if its a valid concern, but first thing comes to mind is PG&E becomes too dependent on a system like this and instead of having centralized control, you've exposed the entire grid during peak hours to things like activism and collectivist strikes, etc.
If it has a screen it probably knows how bright it is as it can probably change between night and day modes. If it can tell it's bright, it can guess you're getting more radiant heating. It's been like that on every car with a screen built in that I've owned, more than a decade of model years.
A string variable named M in QBasic, I imagine.
Or just design the manual controls to be easily replaceable.

Not hard to make an insertable switch component that snaps into a slot, and which can be removed and replaced in 10 seconds using a simple tool (or maybe no tool at all).
This boost only really pertains to people on vegetarian diets.
I know it's so small-scale by compare, but it still feels like a really obviously bad plan to sap energy from the magneto-hydro engine deep inside spaceship earth that we probably can never recharge. The scale of drain might remain small across millenia but it's still not something I feel ok messing with. "Nearly limitless" is at some indefinite expense of some deep future, especially if it works & succeeds & scales.

And we're dumping the heat into the atmosphere which also doesnt really need additional heating.

I acknowledge these sensibilities are mostly, well, wrong. That there are just so many orders of magnitude difference. But the doubt is still there too.
>Also China capitalism includes things like stealing tech secrets from the companies that manufacture there[0], is that part of the "ideal capitalism" you advocate for?

Sure, China has copied/stole tech from the West, just as the West has copied tech from China long ago. It happens when an economy is playing catchup.

But in my humble opinion, the idea that China could only steal western tech is rooted in racism and a lot of western media propaganda.

Ever had a Chinese co-worker? Did they seem dumber than you? Are they only good at the job because they're copying you or stealing your work?
Do you mean elementary school?
Can I get a 2 for 1?

It seems like no net benefit as a 1 to 1.

What does 1 hour of walking give for ROI?
Tell that to an air conditioning heat pump!
Repeat business, perhaps?
"Reduction in force", similar to a layoff. A layoff happens when the company can no longer afford an employee they'd otherwise like to keep, a RIF happens when the role no longer makes sense and is closed permanently.
I’m really here to just boost this because it’s awesome and I’ve known about it for years. Years right? Covid time is weird
which would be fine, if it weren't for the fact that FAANG companies have a massive lobbying spend.

The issue is that some systems are invasive. If we don't make any collective decision to restrict some behaviors (like lobbying) all the (legal) freedom in the world is meaningless, because the options available have been reduced anyway. If we, say, allow intel to install hardware-based binary signature checking, it doesn't matter how legal it is to run X piece of software, cause where the hell are you gonna run it?

The primary argument I hear against this thinking is "so the market will correct because you can just buy elsewhere". Free markets have been the norm for a while now, and it's not gotten better, it's gotten worse. Go out and buy a phone that 1) does all you want it to do and 2) lasts more than 4 years. Have fun with that.

There's more than one way to exert control over other people's business, and governance isn't even the biggest offender. Yes, we should keep the government from overreach and it is indeed overreach. But we should also reinstate glass-steagall and drive over K street with a fleet of bulldozers.
Online payment?
Those are protocols, not necessarily cryptocurrencies[0][1]. They were originally designed as improvements to the bitcoin network, but that never came into fruition due to stubborn bitcoiners like you who refuse to improve the network.

The Cryptonote[2] and Zerocoin[3] whitepapers were published back in 2013/2014 and made some pretty important security improvements to the bitcoin network. I suggest giving them a read. Many of the systems that were once designed for Bitcoin, such as P2Pool now work on projects like cryptonote[4]. We have also designed a proof-of-work system that is completely CPU-bound (you can mine it on your home computer as satoshi intended)[5].

Also, the cryptonote/zerocoin-derived cryptocurrencies are hardly shitcoins seeing as they have effectively displaced Bitcoin's original use-case as of this year.

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CryptoNote

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

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20190214045623/https://cryptonot...

[3] https://spar.isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/ZerocoinOakland.pdf

[4] https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool

[5] https://github.com/tevador/RandomX
All things being equal in code correctness: the preference is cleaner parseable (by humans) code, as opposed to for example: having a while(true) loop with no exit condition, no way to get out of said loop - and have the code work perfectly exiting the loop due to esoteric features that take weeks to figure out, and are brittle to system changes (no code is static).

So yeah: code readability becomes the deciding factor for both what to accept: and what will be (most importantly) the most efficient use of development hours on fixing…

Or a better way of putting it…
We are monkeys that bribed rocks and copper to think for us with electricity: design code and systems that even a monkey could maintain.
I don’t know, I think there are a lot of people that might not want to be owners anymore, but they just can’t bring GM themselves to sell and pay the taxes. Especially if they are, say, 60 and in dubious health anyway. So they hold, and hold, and hold some more for decades. I could see my own parents on this situation possibly.

Or I have a neighbor house that’s a rental, but it’s still owned by the same (now) 90+ year old woman who used to live there, but who moved out 20 years ago. Her 70+ year old son is managing it now… Does she really still want to own this house, or is inertia and fear of taxes holding her back from selling? I don’t know.
If you are taking over a company it may be too late! The takeover is probably done for strategic reasons benefitting shareholders only. Staff normally get fired or quit due to fit in or F off policies.
Oh wow, there is! Long press on a tablet. You can finesse parts of the randomly generated stuff and change the look.
An ATM only card lacks the Visa or Mastercard logo. It can only be used on interbank networks like NYCE PLUS STAR. Or maybe only at that bank’s branches. You always have to key in your PIN and there is often withdrawal limit of $500/day because a debit card and PIN is immediate cash.
I don't know. Do Americans see Christ as the disagreeable symbol of their corrupt and unjust rulers? The intersection of politics, religion and culture is complicated, and calling it all propaganda would probably be too reductionist. According to Wikipedia dragons as a mythological entity likely predate their use as a political symbol[0].

I do know only the Imperial house was allowed to display symbols with a five-clawed dragon. All other dragons depicted anywhere had to have fewer than five fingers. [1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon

[1]https://scalar.usc.edu/works/exhibiting-historical-art/five-...
Apple literally owns CUPS and use it on mac.
If your printer works on linux without special filters, it should work on mac
Have a look at this: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/109

if you have been following bugs in xamarin you would have known. It's good that you haven't encounter any that's blocking, but for those who did it's very frustrating

it seems like it's catching up to MAUI as well, look at the number of issues that's growing for the past 4 months...
Having equivalents like ociTools.buildImage and ociTools.streamLayeredImage functions would certainly be nice; but at the moment there's only ociTools.buildContainer, which doesn't use images.

I'll see if Nixpkgs is receptive to having such functionality, as a unification of what I've done with what exists in dockerTools (although I need to check that my employer's happy for it to be upstreamed first!)
Ask HN: Independently Recreate Zone Records?
Hi, we discovered that our registrar had nearly tripled our prices by adding thousands of dollars of services to our dozens of domains without permission (privacy, hosting, etc)

When we called them to ask when this was authorized, we were told they would refund up to three days' worth

So, we took one of the three accounts and moved all the domains off of it.

When we said we felt that it wasn't appropriate that they wouldn't tell us when the costs were authorized or refund us, and we'd already closed one account in protest, our other two accounts were locked, we were given the transfer codes, and we were told to hit the bricks

The thing is, the domains are complicated. There's a lot of records on them. And the registrar refuses to give us the zone records. This seems like a real problem.

Is there a tool to recreate the zone records from the outside using things like dig and nslookup?

We really don't have the ability to remake these domains by hand
Life is not a matter of chances in my opinion and observarion. You will die when you will die. You have as much control over your death date as you did over your birth date. Even a suicide attempt can fail and people that take care of themselves the most still die early from some random cancer.

Not to say your destined cause of death won't be lung cancer from smoking or a freak bike accident but that good choices prepare you for good outcomes, they don't guarantee them.
Is "no shit?" a reasonable comment here?

My wife's new car, too many screens. My old car, buttons I can touch from memory without looking. The worst part about her car, you can customize the screen in front of the driver but not really. 3 items on the screen - circular thing, status thing, circular thing. There are a total of ~12 versions of the stuff in the circular thing. The information in circular things would work just fine on either side. However for some reason they spilt it 6+6. You want item from right circle to be on left side, nope! There is no reason why. It is a flat display (ie, on flat screen, not 3 screens) and it is just software. No reason for this. It is a display.

For everything that is normal, like AC, etc. please just stick to buttons!
"Best Programming language" = Javascript, wow, bias much
True, but SQL and “any language” are two different languages.
Yeah it really feels like we’ve moved backwards in some dimensions since the era of Flash.
Super interesting idea to help tackle the mental health crisis in students today. Was wondering what everyone thinks about this?
What about F#? Often seems underappreciated
Might depend on the country. It happens a fair bit down in Australia
Methanol, or perhaps dimethyl ether (which is a liquid at room temperature when compressed, similarly to propane.)