skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Silk Road.

But in all seriousness, if you are a vendor then any purchase by a customer that is not associated with a legally accountable entity must be settled with finality, because you have no way of preventing charge-back fraud yourself.

In cryptocurrency marketplaces, the customers vet the vendors, not the other way around. This is because the vendors have a higher upfront investment in their business and reputation. The customers are not expected to maintain a reputation (for sake of their privacy) or an investment (outside of an multisig escrow) so any attempt to vet them is prone to sybil attack.

The process of vetting customers is usually assumed by some monopolistic intermediary like PayPal. These companies are able to vet customers by implementing a mass surveillance system.
> Have scientific journals ever _not_ worked this way?

It has never supposed to have worked this way and we have supposedly made progress in making the process as Scientific as possible. The bias that exists has never really been expressed this blatantly before (at least in modern history).

What is essentially said here is that irrespective of how good the Science is, it will not be published if it upsets people. There are many, many, excellent and necessary Scientific studies that may be blocked by this.

I have actively watched studies about an ethnic group being blocked because the ethnic group would react badly (in this case it was insanely high domestic violence and factors that may cause it). Some truths may hurt at the time, but ultimately we become better by publishing them.

> They're generally curated by an editor who curates the articles the journal peer-reviews and publishes.

The editor is arguably the worst part of the process. Some of this can be negated with double-blind peer review for example, where the editor is limited in their ability to override the opinions of multiple reviewers.

One can only hope that with more online publishing we can move towards a better, decentralized journal system.
10k is the limit on most forms of ACH to consumer accounts. You're also hitting reporting requirements there, so it's not likely to go through in the first place without scrutiny. However.

Most likely, the originating bank will release the money to the account that requested it a day or two later. 3 business days is pretty typical. More if they're high risk.

You complain, make a statement under penalty of perjury that it's Unauthorized. Your bank sends a return (R10 or one of the other shades) to the Fed. The fed debits the originating bank, and sends them the return message. You've got your money back, and it's the originating bank's problem.

The originating bank then has a potential problem. They go after the company that initiated the debit. Depending on things, that might be a company or a 3rd party payment processor. If it's a 3pp, then they probably still have money from that originator or another, and now it's their problem. They may have a reserve or rolling settlement against such things.

But generally, it's the fact that there's a trusted third party (The Fed) that makes sure that banks pay up on returns that makes it not your problem.
My edtech startup was contacted by an English-language school in a country where we have never advertised and have zero presence. They had a few questions but within 2 hours, they were ready to make a several-hundred dollar purchase.

I was a bit suspicious because the sale was so easy (selling to schools is normally a slog, even inbound), and because they immediately asked for our ACH information. I contacted my bank to ask if I give them my ACH info, is there a chance they can do anything bad to me?

My bank offered that I could give just the last 4 of my account number, which could be matched to my account based on the business name that would also be provided.

This seemed like a good solution, but after trying several times we gave up. They paid via PayPal instead, and we've never had an issue with them. But the experience made me think about how ACH works, and the risks involved!
Where do I go to find out when Twitter is down when Twitter is down?
So basically, their self driving software assumes that stop signs are all the same size and is using some simple scaling algorithm to judge where to stop?

And this is what passes for AI? The singularity is upon us folks.

Just give me a simple car with analog guages and a Bluetooth radio so I can talk hands free and listen to the 100+ albums I have stored on my phone. I'll provide any "intelligence" required, thank you very much.
You can now. I looked at your profile. I'm impressed. You got to downvoting capability in 51 days. It took me like 12 years. Of course, I left HN for like 3 years, but still!
Twice I've sold an old car to somebody who answered my ad. I wanted cash on collection only, because I was selling the car to someone I didn't know, couldn't reliably trace and therefore could not trust. If they'd reversed the payment afterwards, I'd have been down a car.

Both parties to this kind of transaction understand why finality is required, and don't have a problem with it. It's a second hand "sold as seen" transaction. The buyer knows where the seller likely lives. The seller doesn't know anything about the buyer. Neither party typically carry that kind of cash around, so there are two trips to the bank (with their own risks) that could be saved if there were some sort of easier digital equivalent.
It was removed during some Comedy Central marathon lmao, it’s still a part of the series, no episode was renumbered, and it’s on Peacock which might as well be the canonical streaming source
Yeah, you'd think it's common sense, right? If two multi-gigabyte files have some thirty-odd bits in common in their SHA-256, they've just got to have more content in common than files with completely different SHA-256 digests!

:)
It is possible to separate security updates and other critical bug fixes from functional/UI changes. At least it is if you're any good at software development at all. The world would be a better place for users if more software developers still did that.

Of course you do need a strategy for maintaining multiple versions of something in that case instead of just forcing the latest version of everything you do on users whether they want it or not. With the lock-in effects of the always-connected web applications of today we all know which option makes more money.

I take some comfort in knowing that eventually most of the developers that force unwanted changes on their users will probably see their market share erode and lose their dominant positions. It's just unfortunate that we have so many quasi-monopolies in both essential and niche software products that it's going to take a long time for that to happen.
I think Instagram is actually quite fabulous considering how navigating stories has become muscle memory for hundreds of millions of people. And even after they have been around for some time it is still satisfying to tap that profile pic with the ring around it.
If anyone is interested, Andrew Millison and others are putting together the Permaculture Water Summit in Oct. https://permaculturesummit.online/?

(Millison is the guy doing the interview in the video the OP linnked)
Does it hide, or does it actually clarify the relationship if after you do that BMI is negatively correlated to mortality at the same fasting insulin and level of c-reactive protein?

It also means that if we can control people's reactions to sugar, their weight becomes irrelevant (or possibly even protective.) Losing weight is usually the way to fix your sugar, but plenty of people who aren't fat have sugar problems, and sugar problems might not be reversed by weight loss in a particular individual.
The whole thing reads to me like Smith is click-hunting.
> We're not at equilibrium temperature for our current CO2 levels; if you stopped generating CO2 at an industrial scale and we kept the atmosphere to 420ppm CO2, you'd still expect to see the mean global temperature rise

Exactly.

We're really in uncharted territory. The IPCC et al can show the results of models etc but nobody really knows how bad things are going to get, even if a miracle happened and we reached zero emissions today.

Last time the Earth was above 400ppm of CO2 was during the Pliocene Epoch (2-5 million years ago). Temps were 2-3ºC higher and sea level was about 30 feet higher. We're now at about 420ppm and rising.
Interesting to learn about the history but why aren't they pushing funds today? It's technically all possible and presumably would have less fraud? Or in other words, why do most of the rest of the world favor pushing funds through their ACH-equivalent systems?
When I saw this I was hoping for something that was more about the articles themselves as well as the main page. Would love to have an e-reader experience in the morning versus use my phone.
What happened is they have gotten better at identifying worthy targets and they spray instead of bruteforce. I have dealt with compromised cloud VMs recently enough due to bad ssh password, it was a crypto mining worm, the cloud indeed is a better place to spend your resources as an attacker because most people are lazy enough to allow entire /8s of their cloud provider and because the internet can't reach it, who cares?
Plus <title> tag is valid in SVG context, where it does what `title` attribute does on HTML elements (provides content for HTML tooltips and screen readers). And since inline SVG is valid in HTML, you can get valid title tags (from SVG namespace) outside HEAD element

Plus if there wasn't TITLE in the head and is encountered inside BODY (not valid), it is adopted into the HEAD from document object model's perspective as if it was hoisted there (but it is not, just its value):

data:text/html;charset=utf-8,<head>
<!-- <title>not here</title> -->
</head>
<body bgcolor=dimgray>
<svg viewbox="0 -15 80 20" fill=cyan>
<title>SVG Tooltip</title>
<text>Some SVG<text>
</svg>
<title>Title For Adoption.</title>
<title>Second late title.</title>
<p>And the title is: »<output id=o></output>«.
<body onload="o.value = document.title">
<body text=snow>

Resulting paragraph reads: "And the title is: »Title For Adoption.«."

("Yet unseen attributes" of the consecutive BODY tags are physically "hoisted" to real body node, but it's a different chapter.)

Plus both <head> / </head> tags are optional — and implied — so "selecting title in head tag" can become very hard task, if taken seriously.

Making HTML parser ain't easy.
If customers demand reversible transactions, you will choose reversible transactions or you will not have customers.

There are, for instance, no longer many mainstream online merchants who accept only irreversible transactions. There once was a time when online transactions were primarily paid via money order, but PayPal and credit card processing has made that obsolete.
It's impressive how all of this is quickly picking up steam thanks to the Stable Diffusion model being open source with pertained weights available. It's like every week there's another breakthrough or two.

I think the main issue here is the computational cost, as - if I understand correctly - you basically have to do training for each concept you want to learn. Are pretrained embeddings available anywhere for common words?
I don't have a free hour unfortunately. And I know I'm not going to use that because I don't want to setup a Lua environment. Indeed, I have enough Lua experience to know that they break the language in big ways for what seems like every release. That's a liability. What happens when luapress stops getting regular maintenance and the version of Lua it uses is no longer packaged in my Linux distro? Oops. Ticking time bomb.

I meant it. I'm done with static site generators built by others. They have caused me too much pain.

EDIT: That "oops" is already reality: https://github.com/Fizzadar/Luapress#luapress-v4

Static site generators are just too easy to build and too easy to let die. And the ones that don't die grow big and bloated. That's my experience. The only remedy I see is to build my own and simplify ruthlessly through tight coupling.

"You either live long enough to see yourself become the villain, or you die a hero."
Nope. You chose the word; you made the claim. It's your definition we're arguing about; mine is irrelevant.

So if you've got a definition where your claim makes sense, state it. Then we can argue about whether your definition is reasonable. My definition is a distraction. (I don't know whether you were trying for a distraction or not, but my definition isn't the point.)
I used to run hackathons when I was a community manager for local developers group. Apart from being technical and challenging a successful hackathon will present a lot of opportunities for networking between the participants and help them make connections. Not only within a team but also cross-team and amongst the whole participants.
You speak as if China and the West are hermetically sealed-off from each other. The West is worried because, just like every other strategic industry, China will try to take over the global market.

Yes, that's exactly what the West also tried. That doesn't mean it doesn't imperil the West to be on the receiving-end of these tactics.
Amd's integrated gpu together with the processor.
>Paul Erdos once famously said that ‘a mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems’.

Wrong. It was Alfred Renyi.
Someone with an English degree explain, why did Victorians back in the day think that degree of wordiness was good writing?
Hacker News apparently.
the article even references it:

> Ian and Natalie refer to the ranks of abandoned yachts in the depths of boatyards as the “graveyards of dreams”. “I’ve seen it over and over again where people run out of money or they get scared and have to give up the lifestyle,

for anyone thinking of doing this for some romantic notion, consider how rapidly a $100,000 or $250,000 sailboat depreciates and what the real dollar figure is per year in maintenance cost.

boat = bust out another thousand

in any major city one of the major challenges will be finding moorage that allows liveaboards, it's very nearly impossible in seattle or vancouver without a 5-8 year wait list, and even then you'll get a less than optimal location.
It's not quite at that level yet. The paper introducing it recommends using only 5 images as the fine-tuning set so the results are not yet very accurate.
Get over yourself buddy. I was very clear about my position and even acknowledged that it was plausibly a semantic debate:

>To me asking if AI generated images are copyrighted implies the latter issue. If you're trying to answer a different question it's just an uninteresting semantic debate.

I think it is important to note that works by the ai are not inherently copyrighted, and they certainly aren't copyrighted to the ai. It is different to by copyrightable.

It's ok if you think that's not a meaningful distinction. But I explained it multiple times and you didn't get it.

> it looks like that is your modus operandi judging from past posts.

Looks like yours is get tilted over nothing
are you moxie marlinspike?
I’ve been through many many interviews myself, but the toughest ones in each recruiting processes is the one where you have to speak to a CTO/VP of Engineering or even a CEO/Founder. Here’s an article that helped me out a bit with the last iinterview I’ve had: https://blog.nextonlabs.com/9-questions-to-ask-a-startup-ceo...
it's so funny how everytime services are down, their status page is like everything is normal here. I understand that there are internal politics around such things but still...
I love the implicit assumption that everyone is only a sufficiently convincing argument away from going gay.
Those people could find other jobs actually doing something useful for society with their skills but they wouldn't get paid as well.
Thank you and smoldesu for letting me know it should work, I'll have a better look into what's going on - it didn't immediately work on Windows in full precision (probably a batch size issue as you suggested) and I gave up...

I shouldn't have given up so easily, but my tolerance for annoyances on Windows is pretty low (that Windows machine is kept for gaming, the last time I used a Windows machine for anything but launching Steam was when Windows 2000 was the hot new thing...)
Ask HN: What's a small example of some of the best code ever written?
I want to be able to hold some smallish number of lines of code and say "it is generally agreed that this code is amongst the best examples of programming that there is".

Does anyone have any suggestions for such examples? Any language is fine. As long as there's some way to say "look, here is where people say this is great code".
Obscenity is one of the (very few) exceptions to the First Amendment. What exactly makes something “obscene” is somewhat unclear (see the Miller test), but in practice explicit pornography, for example, is not legally considered obscene, in part because the definition is somewhat dependent on community standards and porn is very, very popular.

The FCC can and does regulate over‐the‐air broadcasts to a stricter standard, thanks to its exclusive authority over the inherently limited wireless spectrum. It restricts not just obscenity, but indecency (explicit sex) and profanity (bad language). However, this power does not extend to (e.g.) cable TV, which is not broadcast over the publicly owned airwaves.

The US really does generally have stronger free speech protection than the rest of the developed world. There is no equivalent in the US to a work being “refused classification” as seen in Commonwealth countries. The First Amendment would prohibit it. Some retailers won’t sell unrated or X‐rated films or AO‐rated games, but others can, because the ratings systems are formed by industry groups and are not compulsory.

When the Christchurch shooting happened, the New Zealand government banned both the shooter’s manifesto and the livestreamed video, making them illegal to possess or distribute. I doubt such a thing could happen in the US. (I remember my surprise that NZ actually has a government office named “Chief Censor.”)
Our vision only works because of "brains" and "optic nerves".
The danger occurs when a human body is touching surfaces at different potentials. In fact, shorting all electric points together during a strike (using gas discharge tubes or something else similar) is the way to avoid accidents. You could ensure that the same applies to you when you're grounded - that is, anything else you're touching is also grounded.
Women in industries under threat from AI and automation urged to 'upskill'
There are as few faces as the size of that parameter space you're willing to quantize them into (provided that space is large enough not to fail to distinguish variations that are glaringly obvious to the eye).
> Where Kunal Nayar grew is insignificant.

Not when it comes to his accent. It's wholly unsurprising that someone who grew up in India speaks English with an Indian accent. That isn't "mocking" his accent. That's just what his accent is.

> I am not sure whether you are Indian or not, but if you fail to see

Weak. If you can't demonstrate where this supposed racism is in the show then I'd suggest you need to start considering the very real possibility that it's not there.

> Yes, I am sure there are Indian men who lack confidence with women

Well, there's some small progress.

The only ignorance and bigotry that's been exposed here would appear to be your own. Work on that.
Bravo! Subtle enough to begin with but but descends into hilarious absurdity by the end.
>A lot of energy was imported from Russia via Nord Stream 1 & 2 pipeline

Nord Stream 2 was never in operation.
I think that's the idea by diving by 1000. The math is assuming that you won't work half the time.
>It’s true that these groups are slightly more likely to suffer from heart disease and some other life-threatening conditions in the first place. But many factors influence the likelihood of a person getting heart disease. And a strong link between weight and disease only emerges among people with severe obesity.

That seems like a place where the article should maybe have a citation or two.
TIL of Hero Turtles! That literally blows my mind.

On this, Dragon Ball is heavily edited too
The two most widely-used sayings about boats are that they are “holes in the water, into which you throw money” and “the happiest day of a boat owner’s life is the day they buy the boat and the day they sell it.” 5 quid a day doesn't work.
Very cool, but snowflakes don't work for some reason.
This is priceless.
I got that part. Still doesn’t justify a comment that starts with a paragraph implying that illegal things can’t happen because deterrent. That doesn’t help.
Quitting Sales, Becoming a Developer
At least in Switzerland pretty much all the banks offer a service called LSV+ trough which you can authorize a third party to pull money from your account. Supposedly (personally I don't know anyone using it) it is often used for recurring bills like utilities, credit card, internet etc.

But as far as I understanding you have to submit a form with a wet signature to the bank for each third party you want to authorize before they can withdraw. Also, you have 30 days after a transaction to dispute it.
Oh brother... if vague prophetic visions of doom to come is enough to impress you then maybe you consider the people who write the horoscope columns in magazines to be divinely inspired?
I think that why so many supports UBI is that there are different UBIs for some it is a replacement for welfare programs, for it is a complement to these welfare programs..
Sorry I missed that. Whoops. Sorry.
My very first prompt to Craiyon was to generate a self portrait. In two of the outputs it showed me a picture of someone holding up another persons picture in front of their face.
RIP promptbase.com - they had a good run.
Just be sure to get your soil tested.

Ars had an article recently about urban backyard chickens making eggs with lots of lead in them due to soil pollution.
There aren't people who are fat from salads, except for the loosest definition of the word.

Weight gain is caused by an overconsumption of calories, barring a narrow range of medication side effects.

Insulin tells your body to uptake glucose into cellular bodies. If glycogen stores aren't depleted (in the liver from normal/basal metabolism, in muscular tissue from activity) and there's nowhere for it to go, it's converted via de novo lipogenesis and stored in adipose tissue. If there's no free room, new fat cells are created. Lipogenesis and the creation of new adipose tissue are not instantaneous processes.

Insulin resistance is because your body has continued to see that blood glucose is high because it cannot be taken up quickly enough, so it sends out more insulin. As high circulating levels become more normal, the alpha channel on the insulin receptor requires more insulin to activate a signal transduction pathway to open the GLUT4 transporter for glucose.

Very strictly, excess blood glucose causes insulin resistance. That excess blood glucose is caused by caloric overconsumption, which causes obesity. It is not the inverse.

Carbohydrates have poor satiety, so when the stomach is empty (fats and proteins have a longer processing time in the stomach), ghrelin is released, which stimulates hunger, and the person eats again. Probably more simple carbohydrates, possibly before the previous ones have been taken up by cells.

Caloric overconsumption -> obesity

Insulin resistance is a side effect here, one which is seen because simple carbohydrate consumption is part and parcel of obesity in the western world. It's very hard to become clinically obese without cheap sugar. The same mechanisms (overconsumption of calories) cause obesity and insulin resistance, so they're two sides of the same coin.
I didn't care for the Jewish stereotypes in the "Big Bang Theory" and I disagree that I'm not disadvantaged.
Most authors were paid by the word at the time.