skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing that watching PAL/SECAM requires slightly slower phosphors that NTSC and you'd see flicker on a modern computer monitor designed for 60-75 HZ ....
> Google needs to step up and deal with the consequences of its own size.

This is where regulation can help.
As enjoyable as this post was, i recalled my history with static site generators as follows: hand-code html pages --> hand-code html but w/ server-side includes (yes, back in the apache days) --> use php w/own custom templates and mysql db --> move to wordpress --> love the intent of wordpress, but regret the needed maintenance, so move back to custom php and custom templates --> move manage content via Lektor (python SSG) --> learn that i don't need a UI, and am content crafting my content in markdown --> start using pelican (python SSG) --> get bored, so move to Hugo as new SSG flavor of the month --> get annoyed with templating language --> move back to pelican --> realized i spent too much time bouncing around, just did away with any SSG tool set, and hand craft html pages whenever i want to publish something...and now only craft journal entries for my own private diary (with an occasional post on the fediverse). :-)
> I wonder what basis they use to determine "likely to be fake or non-economic". Seems highly unlikely they have any concrete evidence.

I suspect what they're classifying as Wash Trading are actually tumbler services that essentially launder the source and destinations of transactions. Strictly speaking, those are arguably economic because the tumbler takes a (sometimes substantial) cut but it would fall out of the line of thinking of "buying goods or services" that people think more traditionally.

That said, the methodology is right there at the end of the article[1]. It does seem rather open to thumbs on scales.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/javierpaz/2022/08/26/more-than-...
Google and Stack Overflow launder your code, too. People can and do search for something that uses ScheduledExecutorService, find some code that uses it on github and copy the incantation used by the code, in much the same way as copilot does.

Bug or feature? Open source is a gift, IMO.
They mention "LGBTQ+ (and atypical heterosexual relationships)"
Yep how many of space x's early attempts went up in flames?
What people seem to miss in this conversation is that fraudulent ACH TRANSACTIONS can be reversed for up to 60 days if I recall. This is different from WIRE TRANSFERS that can't be reversed.

So, it is not a fertile ground for fraud.
Thanks for your feedback and I'm glad that the official extension works well for you. All I can say is you probably are not my target customers.

Most of the time, the official extension doesn't work for me. And I'm not alone. You can check their recent reviews[0]. A lot of 1 star.

I'm aware that there are other alternatives such as Push to Kindle, P2K, Instapaper, newslettertokindle etc. They provide much better conversion quality than the official extension, and better deliverability. I'm confident that KTool is on par with them, maybe better in some use cases (such as Twitter threads, HN, sending pdfs...). And their paid plans range from $2.99/mo to $10/mo.

What I'm doing at KTool is to support all those content in a single subscription.

I hate subscriptions, but until we found a better model, I can't sell it as one time payment. My expense is recurring (CPU for parsing & image processing, email + bandwidth to send articles to Kindle, Apple developer program, core parser maintenance as sites structure changes...)

But I will definitely do more experiment with pricing though.

Again, thanks for your valuable feedback. Much appreciated

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-kindle-for...
It's courtesy
As the sibling replies illustrates, this is now more akin to paying the Danegeld, than paying for a service.
> it would be trivial to measure any current flowing into or out of the patient

How would one do this, assuming the patient isn't a sphere with uniform resistance and an evenly distributed charge density?
Meta’s sunglasses partnership with Rayban is actually pretty neat looking. A relative traveled through Europe with them recently and said they were awesome for recording short memories without creating a 4th wall.
If your feature requires a tutorial _for all users_ then it shouldn't be shipped.

I'm strict on this; I return video games with unskippable tutorials. It's cause for an immediate Alt-F4 and return to store.
Why doesn't ERoEI matter?

And I think it's unfair so say he assumes mining requirs fossil fuels, he just highlights how dependant mining is on fossil fuels _now_ and for the forseeable future.

Also, I had to check about how mining electrification is going, and I was pleasantly surprised to find a lot of electric mining vehicles currently available! https://www.epiroc.com/en-in/products/loaders-and-trucks/ele...
I usually think of it as someone hundreds of years ago playing with a tighly stretched string and noticing stuff:

- Half a string's length is the same thing, just higher

- The harmonic at half a string is the same thing, just higher

- The harmonics at 3:2 and 4:3 are really loud and distinct

- If you chop up the rest of the string at the same interval as the 3:2 and 4:3, some have strong harmonics that match tones on the string, some don't

Then I figure with the Octave, 5th, 4th, and M3 as the strongest harmonics that matches other lengths (or octaves thereof), they went from there...
SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) [pdf]
The video platform part is neat. The censor/uncensored stuff so you can see. Wish I could have more controls but I like the visualization.
This seems like an example of something similar to the no true scotsman fallacy. (it's inverse) These ideas are supposed to be aspirational, akin to asking "is it a true democracy" or "is it really capitalism". I don't entirely object to the notion of trying to be more precise, but gatekeeping "devops" or "agile" also seems to sort of miss the point.
I plan on trying https://luapress.org/ one of the next weeks. Looks good at a first glance -- give it a quick check if you get a free hour, would be interested what you think of it.
Is credit card fraud not?
I don't really agree with this, but consider this argument : Is it really a bad thing if different countries have different understanding of what's allowed/not allowed? If the whole world had the same system of governance, that could be dangerous too.
Wow, you can't do crime because it's illegal!

How do you explain the widespread availability of "drop" accounts in the US? Cybercrime forums are full of people offering services to "cash out" illicit bank transfers into cryptocurrency.
I think we mostly use emergent social media effects for that now. Puppeteered by popular pundits, superhero movies and the usual marketing.

Unpopular opinions can lead to censorship, firing, lawsuits and death-threats. It works pretty good.
Small thing, but I asked Garry in the comments of his YC videos what his production setup was. He took the time to answer and I remember & appreciate that.
Ah. I missed that on the first read. The visualizations lump them all together.
The author touched on it, but I don’t think they addressed it enough - there is a societal rebellion amongst different cohorts as well. I think the “EOT” may have some truth, but to ascribe it as the source of unrest in society is in bad faith and politically motivated. The idea of reality vs expectation makes sense universally, and the bit about why free college is seen as a political objective makes sense and is an interesting idea.

One such rebellion is American uneducated white people voting for trump - and much more dramatically, later a small subset of them storming the capital. Lots of press ink has spilled over “white plight” and how the stagnation of the growth in quality of life among rural and blue collar white people. So I think saying EOT is the source of all unrest is wrong, but EOT could have truth to a specific democratic’s experience in america.
I really liked the reactive pattern, so one of the best static site generators I found was docpad. It used (backbone?) collections, so you could subscribe to changes on things like "new files under this path" and then rerender the part of the page that needed to change. I haven't seen this done in others. Then docpad was rewritten in ES6, and I lost all love for it. Things were so expressively concise in Coffeescript.
In the United States, money transmission is a regulated space. I.e. you must meet a minimum set of regulations in order to hold that license. That license requires you be able to do things like handle fraud, chargebacks, dispute resolution, etc...

Everyone implements these processes, and if you get a money transmitter that doesn't, generally, every other money transmitter in the space will mark transactions from that actor as high-risk, either rejecting tx's from them, or sibjecting them to longer holds, or just straight out rejecting them.

If you don't have a license of your own, your on ramp is through someone who does. They can underwrite the risk of your membership in the financial system as a whole, but if they find out (and they will, because their business contracts come with audit, FWA, and due diligence clauses) you will find your access cut off, and if it's brazen enough, lawsuits getting served.

Now, what does this mean?

If you hand someone a blank check, they can absolutely take you the cleaners. However, if someone crafts a malicious ACH payload, the origin of that can be traced from your bank, back to the clearinghouse, from the clearinghouse, back to the originator, who will have their processes scrutinized/investigated.

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and double-entry accounting is the magic glue that ties everything together. If you follow the rules, you will have a transparent trail to follow.

If you don't, you've entered suspected money laundering land.

As a customer...

If you're deposited somewhere that is FDIC insured... You're golden up to $100,000ish.

If they aren't FDIC insured, if there's a dispute department, you should be good. You should still treat it as higher risk though in that if they get bank run'd, they do not guarantee at all you can get any money back. These are regulatorally speaking, not banks. They can take deposits, do transactions, dispense/administer interst bearing accounts (and do often pay higher interest due to the higher risk involved with depositing funds there), and do bank like things, but they are not banks.

If you can't get in contact with a human being, good luck, and godspeed. You are braver than I.
It’s Not Just You – Blank Street Coffee Is Suddenly Inescapable
Its the use of the musical concept of Fifths that's the key here: We just derive the notes from what sounds good, not what makes sense mathematically? I'm just using Python to mirror the author's analysis -- you can derive "12 notes" pretty much just by using your ear and listening to the Fifths.
I'm in a similar boat. I appreciate static typing and although I don't have any strong objections to TypeScript purely as a language, I can't get past the way it's transpiled into a dynamically typed language with source maps... Seems like a hack.

It doesn't make sense; kind of like transpiling lower level assembly code into higher level C code. You could always argue that there is value in forcing arbitrary constraints onto developers but in the end, you need to ask the question "is it worth the complexity?"
The main service provided by banks is that they sell trust.

Only banks and financial institutions can directly send ACH transfers.

Unlike wires, ACH transfers take time to settle.

Banks are tasked with only allowing authorized transfers. Any bank that does not take adequate precautions will be kicked out of the system.

The profit banks can draw from participating in the financial system is much higher than the amount they can steal once before they get banned.

That's why most banks ask for verification (logins via plaid, micro deposits, etc), before allowing ACH withdrawal requests from other accounts.

But the most important reason why people don't do this, is that it's very easy to get caught. To actually submit an ACH request to a random account, you have to appear somewhere in person (unless you do small checks up to your daily bank limit via picture, which will quickly have you caught since your phone and account is linked to a real person).

Some CCTV tapes later, and you'll be put in jail for a very long time.
In an econ book I read once, there was a wonderful analogy: Imagine you are given a room in your house that was filled waste high with pistachios - you could go in and eat as many as you wanted, but the shells will always have to be left behind. They start out easy and plentiful to grab, and you could easily do some math about how long this room of pistachios will last you. So on paper you are sure to run out.

But in practice, you'll just spend longer going into the room every time to get what you want, and gradually stop going altogether - actually running out of nuts is pretty much impossible.

You will almost never naturally run out of stuff. Low prices make them leave it in the ground - high prices makes people find substitutes. We're just in a weird place were China might be dumping money to artificially keep some resource prices low and still extracting tons of it.
This is my understanding too. I have a Kurzweil K2500 keyboard from around 1999 that has a bunch of the alternate tunings, including three from that era. The Bach-era tunings weren't what we know of as "equal temperament." Truly equal temperament didn't come around until well after Beethoven was dead. I've always interpreted the "Well-Tempered" in Bach's title to mean that he was brining out the strength of each key. Some of those keys sound really "out of tune" to modern ears -- I have a friend with perfect pitch who legit can't listen to them.

Owen Jorgensen's "Tuning the Historical Temperaments by Ear" is good bedtime reading on this topic, if you have a couple hundred bucks burning a hole in your pocket. https://www.amazon.com/Tuning-historical-temperaments-ear-ei...
Yeah, that's the main reasons why I rarely use the Web on my phone. It's just horrible, for every new site I load I have to click at least 2-3 dialogs before I see the content.
And reader mode doesn't auto activate during page load...

If I have to wait for all the ads and banners and fonts to load anyway, most of the benefits of reader mode are removed.
"Great UX"

If HN had such great UX, there wouldn't be multiple browser extensions (and clones) that focus solely on fixing the UX. I'm not saying the UX is terrible, but I wouldn't call it great. I think the best term for it would be "consistent." It's basically Craigslist. It's fine if you've been using it for years and have adjusted your behavior to work with its quirks, but it does not provide a smooth experience that would work for a community you're starting today.
I wonder what would happen if an artist got their stuff legally removed from the sources, and then you asked the AI to produce something in the style of their main influences.
> How are you supposed to provide a consistent appearance for A/B testing changes without being able to store which group a user is assigned to?

You're not supposed to A/B test at all. Users are not test subjects.

> How are you supposed to count unique users that visit your site? How are you supposed to figure out why most users bounce?

You're not supposed to. You simply aren't entitled to any of that information.

> These are legitimate questions a publisher may want to know to improve their site

It doesn't matter how "legitimate" it is or how much money it costs publishers. The attempt to learn these facts requires collecting identifying information and that is harmful to us.

The least you can do is ask permission.

> There are many cases where what publications consider "essential" for their business do not match what the EU has decided is "essential".

That's by design. Nobody really cares what an industry that's being regulated thinks. Obviously adtech considers it "essential" to collect as much personal data as humanly possible.

What matters is what society thinks and we think sites work just fine with all the tracking disabled.

> publishers assumed advertising would be allowed under "essential" business uses

Advertising is allowed. It's just the abusive adtech model of targeted advertising that requires consent. Nothing stops people from signing a deal with some brand and serving static images or something. As long as it's not surveillance capitalism it's fine.
Ask HN: How do you stay focused on work for 8+ hours?
By the time 1-2 PM comes around, I am usually too mentally tired to keep producing high quality work/code. How do you get through the work day without crashing?
As a crypto sceptic I'd still love to have been the person who wrote that check
I think this is only true for small biz.

All the big names quietly or publicly abandoned their efforts to fully migrate to React Native, focusing only on the most simple use-cases/views if they do keep it around. Even with the smartest people working on it, it's tough to keep React Native performant.
If there was a headline syndicated internationally every single time there was an ACH fraud, you would think crypto was a godsend. But right now its the opposite, only headlines when a fraud occurs in crypto.

Its all perception. The potential for reversibility improves the customer experience, but often times nobody is being prosecuted, the thieves often get the money for themselves, and the banks/insurance eats the loss.
Average cost per square foot (low end) is $130 in Tennessee[1].

130*800 is: $104k.

[1]: https://innovativebuildingmaterials.com/how-much-does-it-cos...
Yes, they do? I thought the entire idea behind "release early, release often" was to shorten the feedback cycle between code changes and user reports so that it's easier to fix the issues?

However, not every code release needs to include a UX change. I agree that changing the UX every week is a solid anti-pattern.
While I can see the logic behind how long it would take to melt all this ice, what about the risk that it will suddenly (in the long view) slide off and start floating around? That will raise sea level by the same amount without needing to melt.
Technically, Chinese doesn't have words for "a" or "the". It's only in English and other Western languages that the distinction makes sense.
Love the site. Thanks for sharing.
This is not how it works in real life. Contracts are made to the lowest bidder, there are promises to keep or heads will roll.
By iteration 10, your customer is fuming that the half baked idea has more exceptions than handled scenarios and the finger pointing begins. Also, forget about architecture, performance, security and other pesky little problems. I have never seen it play out differently.

The biggest problem is that the person footing the bill does not care about your story points or retrospective- and I don't blame them for that
Are GPUs Worth It for ML?
> how much of the inflation is caused by lack of supply for relatively inelastic commodities. If the way out of shortages is to invest in more production, higher interest rates seems detrimental in the face of that type of inflation

I'm no economist, but is it really a problem in practice?

Shouldn't stuff with both high prices and inelastic demand be a really attractive target for investment? If you can produce that stuff (before the situation changes), you're almost guaranteed to be able to sell it and at a high profit. So getting capital for it should be relatively easy.

I'm sure higher interest rates will have some effect, but it seems like it wouldn't be enough to discourage investment that much.
I'd be willing to bet most Windows users probably haven't even thought about Windows costing money - somewhere in the high 90 percent range. For the last 13 years upgrades have been free and new purchases have the price built in. The only exceptions are those that actually know about other operating systems and look for the option to buy without or people that do custom builds.

At least when one signs up for e.g. Hulu you're forced to realize different rates include different things. With Windows most don't even realize they had a choice.

It does lead to the question why people are fine buying a PC then having ads but again I'm not sure many really understand (or necessarily care) about the difference between ads in the start menu or ads in something like the browser, it's all just "the computer" and ads have just always been a part of a computer for most so what's to make them expect otherwise.
I mean, if they can't 1 out of 5 dentists to recommend brushing your teeth, surely there can be kooks in academia.
I'm not sure if you're kidding but if not, you most certainly would.
>As company shareholders, BlackRock and Vanguard can vote on behalf of their clients at company shareholder meetings. Both firms also have “investment stewardship” functions, which enables the proxy votes.

>BlackRock’s spokesperson said the votes can also be carried out by a portfolio manager – and in some cases at BlackRock, can be carried out by the clients themselves (here).

>BlackRock and Vanguard do not “own” all the biggest corporations in the world. They invest trillions of dollars into leading companies on behalf of their clients, who ultimately own the shares.

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-business-investmen...
The simplest explanation is: ACH is reversible. If the consumer notifies their bank of an unauthorized debit within 60 days, the money gets yanked from the originating bank and put back in your account.

The originating bank will then do the same to the merchant who debited your account, with feeling and 4 part harmony. If they do this too much (>1% unauthed, or >5% overall), then they get cut off. (Exact thresholds depend on the bank and their risk tolerance and what they've underwritten the merchant for. But those are about the highest numbers you'll see, though sometimes NSF returns can be higher. )

ACH never settles. There's no security as such. An ACH transaction happens overnight, on trust, and may come back (by agreement) 60days later, and longer in cases of extreme fraud. So any time you're seeing a 2-3 day hold on ACH, it's the bank doing risk management decisions, not something in the underlying transfer. (note, that may not be strictly true for some correspondent small banks in alaska or other odd time zones, where there really is a day+ delay on things)

The only thing that's keeping fraud under control is the banks doing underwriting on the merchants who can do debits. They're on the hook (ultimately) if there's fraud, so it's in their interests to keep it clean. They're also not likely to cut and run, because banking connections to the ACH network are not cheap/easy to come by.

(source, I've worked in this space for 18 years)