skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swatting someone doesn't make any money. It doesn't do anything useful. And yet it still happens. The notion of people on the internet using tools solely out of malice should not be a novel one.

> I can order a fridge with cash on delivery. There is a hundred of other examples.

But again, that's an example of a corporation choosing to trust you. This is about a policy requiring it. The corporation can trivially stop sending fridges if this becomes an issue, but government policies are a lot slower to react.

I still doubt you can actually meaningfully order a large quantity of anything without providing substantial proof of your identity, to avoid exactly this sort of abuse.

You keep saying you can, but you're not providing any actual concrete examples - what specific store are you ordering these fridges from, and we can compare their policy to this proposed law. If I can really order a thousand fridges, I will happily concede the point, but I somehow doubt they'll let me.
It’s paywalled but the main issue I see is in getting useful labels on data. For example, we might know that dolphins make all sorts of noises but without any information about what those noises are it will be basically impossible derive any deeper meaning.
I wonder how much better this would work if the network had been trained with blurring as the noise function instead of noise (or with a combination of both)?
heck, Henry ford started this buy increases wages so much his employees where able to buy the product they themselves have build.
My friend's phone died while we were out in NYC, during one of the times with partial Covid restrictions. It was funny at first but then it stopped being funny because we really couldn't do a single thing together!

Charge phone at a Starbucks? Can't enter, his vaccination card was on his phone!

Slightly better now, but this is really an over reliance and the ubuiquity of having a phone. I get they are doing some sort of fallback with the OMNY machines, but I know how these contracts are cut.
I’ve thought it would be a good idea for states to issue “licenses” for many vices. Want to buy alcohol or go to a casino? You need to take a short course on the dangers of it and how to be safe. If you act irresponsibly by over drinking or driving drunk, then you can get your drinking license suspended.

For gambling, you could limit how long a person stays inside a casino over a period of time, limit how many bets they place over a period of time, or how much money they lose. Yeah, it’s a little nanny state-ish in the case of gambling, but there’s clearly some social harm going on there that states recognize by already controlling gambling.
Why is this being submitted to HN four years later?
> it is fun trying to find lines that have positive expected value

I've never gambled before, does this happen often? I would have assumed gambling companies wouldn't offer any bets like this, since it implies their EV is negative.
We can replace the X in "X should be legal because criminalizing it will just drive X underground" with (heroin / crack / glue sniffing / child porn / whatever).

Not all of those substitutions work. It seems to be a difficult thing to process, for some people, that outlawing things does reduce their usage, and some of those things are really harmful.

Conversely, at least some of the people who are now gambling on sports really would not have done so, when they still had to know a bookie. No, they wouldn't fuel the Mafia instead; they just wouldn't gamble.
I think it's way more common in USA than in europe because here you can't just phone a bank and open an account with your tax agency code. Normally the first time you need to go and show your id.
Nit: the idiom is "large swath"
Openship is wrong name.
This looks really nice but it's really hard to tell 'what it is' from your website.

I can't make heads or tails of it.

You have:

A powerful new standard for fulfillment
Multi-channel fulfillment at scale

And then kind of a complicated diagram.

"Get Started!" <- with what?

Who is this for? What problem does it solve? 'What is it' and roughly how does it work?

Mid way through your landing page you have this UX experience where 1,2,3 etc fade in and out with some kind of relative diagram at the bottom - this is also confusing and counter-intuitive. I see why you'd want to do that, but don't. Just find a way to express the concept without that oddity.

"Let me know what you guys think of the idea "

80% of makers fail to express their idea in digestible terms. It's shocking and uncanny but the reality is 1/2 of ideas fail because they are never communicated properly.

I think from the comments here on HN this looks pretty neat - congrats - please work on communicating it.
in order to reverse the incentives that brought us the current system design, the net of road-taxes/tolls vs public-transit-fares should be re-balanced until transit is free and driving has incremental costs, as opposed to the current effective inverse.
I don't personally remember the government "willingly" giving up anything. They had to be dragged kicking and screaming to end the TSA Mask Mandate, and only did so after they were ordered to terminate it by a judge. The same thing happened with the vaccine mandates for private employers, and several other measures.
Good to know. We are a bit more established (~125 people) so I’m hoping the vision can keep moving forward without me there. Thanks for sharing.
Briar does this.
Definitely an illusion, banks are about making a buck, or lots of bucks, full-stop.

Bankers are the greediest of the greedy of humanity. Don't trust them to look out for your best interests any further than you can throw 'em.

Some individual ones might be nice enough people, but the system at large encourages and rewards certain very self-interested behaviors.
AFAICT they are learning some lessons. Its not supposed to be called USB4 V2. It's USB 80Gbps. But whether vendors get with the program...
It sounds similar to a trench radio, in which case it is entirely passive (like a cat's whisker radio), and used a flame source to treat the surface of a razor blade upon which the needle was sat.
The $3.33 / month option has no ads.
Maybe I didn't succeed at getting it across, but my anecdotes about SAS are not only by proxy. (I.e. my friend's experience and that alone.) I worked there.
The Long 2022
to add to this, a ton of houses are not build for heatpump based systems.

Most radiator style heating (aka, anything build prior to the 2000's) will not work with a heat pump because the water temperature cannot get high enough to get proper cooling coefficiency.

Replacing your entire radiator based system in many houses is not possible without an extreme renovation of the home.
It’s not going to work for everything. Most (not an exaggeration) men have wanted to sleep with 13-14 year olds in pretty much every society in history. How do you propose we satisfy that need?
I didn't complain about anything. I'm using an iPhone from 2018, but I have to charge it every day. Would be nice to not charge it at all from the time I buy it (like a nuclear power source)
I'll forgive it for being designed a long time ago, but as a tourist I found the MetroCard machines very frustrating because they insist on a 5-digit postal code when paying by card, but I have a 4-digit one. I tried left- and right-padding it, and entering all zeros, but it wouldn't let me pay. It reminded me of "falsehoods programmers believe about addresses".
In slovenia, you have your name, surname and date of birth, but also unique citizen number (EMŠO) and your personal tax number.

They tell you not to tell anyone your EMŠO... but EMŠO is generated from your date of birth, gender, former yugoslav republic you were born in (slovenia=50) and the sequental number of your birth that day (0-499 boys, 500-999 girls)... plus a checksum. So if you were born in slovenia, are a boy, and were a third boy born on 20th december 1970 (970... because why waste numbers?!?!), your emšo would be 201297050003K (K=checksum, too lazy to calculate).

We also have a tax number, that they also tell you not to share... but then you open up an independent contractor business (technically, it's a not a seprate company, but "you" are the company), and your personal tax number is published in many many online systems, info pages, you have to put it on receipts, ads, you have to tell it when you're buying toilet paper for work use, etc.

But yeah... if you want to open a bank account, you need a government issued id card (or passport), and they check it very very throughly.
I'm not sure about abuse statistics, but these are the U.S. stats for kidnapping: https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/2021-ncic-missing-person...

2021 missing-person stats:

- 94.5% (231k) runaway

- 1% (2,555) abducted by non-custodial parent

- 0.1% (331) abducted by stranger

- 4.3% (10k) adult
You're 100% condescending and unduly harsh. Obviously the dude is not 'replacing amazon' that's a mischaracterization on their part, but they are doing something definitely legit, and within scope of what a small team can do to start with.
Volumio is ok, but I much prefer moodeaudio.org. It is also open source.
> ”…who just wants to build cool stuff and not rip anybody off.”

I think it’s a scathing indictment of the entire crypto industry that this is how its key figures are introduced.

It’s like introducing a mafia boss and starting off with saying that he hasn’t killed anyone.
Sorry I'm still confused.

You think it's an advantage to companies to post more accurate pay bands - right? You said "It will be obvious that if a labor buyer is putting out $min wage to $1B pay ranges, that they should be ignored and/or they will get the worst applicants."

But they can post narrow bands right now if they want to - they don't need to wait for the law to tell them do it.

If it's an advantage to them, then why aren't they doing it anyway?

I would guess that the answer is it's not an advantage, because most of the time their pay is bad, and telling people up front does not help them. I've seen this with companies like ThoughtBot and GitLab that make a big deal out of pay transparency... problem is they're being transparent about how bad their pay is.
There are a bunch of lists along the lines of “Made in XYZ” but that’s not what I’m aiming for. I’m looking for projects built by individuals who consider themselves Pakistani by whatever definition they choose
Lived in Amsterdam a few years back, the AirBNBs made it freaking torture during summer.

The old wooden buildings where one could hear everything, people arriving and talking loudly in the stairwells then banging their suitcases up the stairs etc.

We left, couldn't deal wit it.
Their goal was to increase security more than speed.
The solution, clearly, is to move to Somalia. Only half joking.
We don't satisfy it. Lots of people want to kill their enemies, too. They seem to find the criminal penalties sufficiently deterring.
It would be nice if they added to the relevant legislation that no bet can be more than negative 1% EV. There is some nuance to figuring that (and perhaps you'd have to regulate the total winnings / total wagered instead) but a decent part of the problem is that folks are making really crappy bets in most cases. Making a lot of $20 bets at -1% EV is very different than the same thing at -15% EV.
“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”

Thus begins one of my favorite Ian Banks novels, starting with exactly this event.
Oh most of those videos are obviously staged; but they are well-done and entertaining.

I watched one of them recently with my 3 1/2 year old, who loved it, displaying amazing attention span through the whole thing and making comments like how they nicely made this and that.

Why would anyone waste their energy debunking that; but go, go, you champion for the egregiously gullible, I suppose ..
> the Allies could exact revenge and gain incredible wealth + continental power over their biggest economic rivals.

That's what the Germans wanted everyone to believe.

Now, if you compare Versailles (1918) with Brest-Litovsk, Sèvres, or even Versailles (1871) (or even the Septemberprogramm), it's far from awful for the time. Germany had to pay reparations that were in the norm for the period, and lost territories that were basically ethnically either Polish or Danish. It was still the first powerhouse of Europe, and had an intact land- and industrial base, especially in comparison to France or Belgium, where – on top of battle-caused destruction – they carefully destroyed economical infrastructure (e.g. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44575822?seq=3#metadata_info_ta...).

> And the real poverty and unseemliness of the Weimar Republic?

If that's what you learned in your history books, think about changing them. The only thing that led to the infamous economical failure of the Weimar republic is its aversion to pay reparation (~B150$ today) in a normal manner. Instead, they printed stupid amount of money to buy foreign currency to pay reparation with. Of course, this led to a monetary crash – out of wich Germany promptly got out by simply switching to a better handled new mark[1,2,3,4]. It was a pure product of the hopeless German economic policies, that they went back to being the economic powerhouse of Europe as soon as they got their duck in a row, and the difficulties they met thereafter were the baseline for all the nations after the war[5,6].

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/economic-research/conferences...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41377814

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/41377814
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_R...
[3] Wages of Destruction, Tooze
[4] Confessions of the old wizard, Schacht
[5] https://www.jstor.org/stable/41377814
[6] https://slidetodoc.com/europe-between-the-wars-the-economics...
List of Programming Languages by Type
A number of years ago now, I had some RBS notes in my wallet and a young clerk in a London store told me she couldn't take them. (Her manager quickly came over and corrected her.) I did also have to get some older English paper notes exchanged at a bank for newer plastic ones.
There are optical Thubderbolt 3 cables made by Corning/Wero up 100m ($$$$). While not TB4, I've used regular TB3 cables with TB4 devices without issue. I assume it would be similar for those optical cables given same bandwidth requirements.
I've also seen TB4 5m cables being sold with the listing saying they are rated up to 30gbps instead of 40.
ARM for instance has pointer authentication built into its hardware since version 8.3 of the ISA. While it's not the same implementation as OpenBSD, it has the same practical effect of making sure the return address is valid.
The reparations certainly did not help the balance of payments, but printing money as such did not really help the German government pay the reparations — they were not denominated in Reichsmark, after all, and could not be inflated away.

Printing money was a domestic political decision, because the government could not agree to raise taxes (or cut social spending). Much of the seed of fascism was laid in the strength of parties who never believed in democracy in the first place (discussed in some detail by Daniel Ziblatt in _Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy_) and unchecked activity of political movements who never accepted the defeat in WW I.

The latter started right at the end of WWI, when Ludendorff and Hindenburg, the German military (and for much of 1916-1918 de facto government) leaders, refused to take responsibility for the armistice and pretended that it was the politicians who had forced it on an "undefeated army". Arguably, the German military command was treated too leniently after WW I. Hanging those two (like their counterparts were after WW II) might have saved millions of lives.
There are similarities but I'd disagree with this:

> Despite ”design for knowledge based organizations” being the title of the article in the PDF, this is perhaps more about approach and capabilities for organizing flow from capture to use to pruning of knowledge, more than the organizations working on knowledge.

I would agree that without the tools, an organization wouldn't be able to collaborate effectively in the way he advocates for, but I think unlocking group productivity should very much be more the goal here than single-person productivity. From the second page: "Englebert realized that they key to dealing with increasing complexity was human collaboration."

No amount of methodology will let a single person keep up with a team using a similar methodology.

Another key line from me: "Englebert is not advocating that we perform artificial acts with documents by superimposing structure on them. Instead, he advocates that we capture the inherent structure in all forms of human expression in order to make them easier for people to navigate through, view in different ways, and hyperlink."

As you note, there are a lot of similarities in there to Roam Research and those similar systems, especially the cross-linking/blocks type stuff vs just having a single hierarchical document structure. But don't just think of it for your own navigation and recollection, but for others to learn and get up to speed and then offer their perspectives.

But I think it's a big disservice to think about it only from a single-person's POV vs a way of capturing knowledge inside a group.

Think of "git" for software dev too, which is very along the lines of the logging/journaling of changes discussed in the article, but which differs from some previous iterations by being far more multi-user friendly (remember fighting over SVN locks?).
Taking the question literally? People who believe democracy makes correct choices.
Is this true if they are not the counter-party, but the facilitator?
Hard disagree. Environmental and consumer protection regulations are highly important and would not be followed because they cut into profit.
I read that comment as a sarcastic take on it's parent, not a continuation of the sentiment.

FWIW, I think therapy is awesome and should be embraced by more people. Probably a good thing for founders to have their own version of it. Renowned therapist Esther Perel has (had?) a podcast called How's Work? where she mediated conversations with business partners.
Well the mattress would have to be inflatable to be delivered by bicycle
Amazon's losing it, here and there, on price as well. Their price for my cat's l-lysine supplement is 3/2 what it is from a well-known pet stuff supply. The price for my new sunglasses was matched by the manufacturer which also ships faster.
I totally understand not wanting to use a "fintech", which is usually not a chartered bank.

But Chase, BoA, etc. etc. all have very good mobile apps. I still don't see why you would hardly ever have to go to a branch if you used one of these apps.

The right answer, as pointed out clearly in the article, is generational. Older generations normally have much more wealth than younger generations, and that's on top of the fact that millennials have a lot less wealth at this stage of their life than baby boomers did.

So the vast majority of wealth held by retail banks is for people who got most of their wealth, and certainly most of their banking experience, before online banking existed. I have a strong sense that once that generation passes that bank branches will go the way of the dodo, or else completely transform into something else (e.g. like what some banks are trying to do with "coffee shop" branches).
If we don't come up with sustainable ways for those metaphorical family members to consume, we'll end up there anyway.
Ask HN: Is Inflation Affecting You?
I am struggling to make ends meet with 6 figure salary. Anyone else experiencing it after the inflation hike?
Trigger warning: not a Minecraft video.
It seems that you are saying your rescheduled meetings were taking time away from work: if you are a manager, meetings are, usually, the work you need to be doing.

What you probably wanted to say is that you were part of a bunch of useless meetings: you should have solved this in a different way even before switching to 4-day weeks: stop attending them (if they were useless for you) or stop the team from having them (if they were useless for everybody else too)
Russia shuts European gas pipeline indefinitely as energy crisis escalates
This is actually not a terrible idea, but enforcing it might prove hard. I don't think your average casino right now keeps a young parent from gambling away the rent money. On the other hand, bars can and do refuse to give you any more alcohol.
Stereotype much? Pretty sure a relatively small segment of cannabis users out there are embedded in bar/party culture, although it might be safe to say that a significant number of people in party culture are also cannabis users.
As Devil's Advocate here, I will pose this question: "What benefits are there in Full Disk Encryption?"

I see the use of Full Disk Encryption as being akin the problems faced by users when their disks are encrypted by Ransomware Hackers.

Do we really need Security by Obfuscation for 99.999% of machines? How many of us really need our disk drives to be encrypted?

I have looked at this question often. My verdict is that the potential problems of My Own Access to My Own Data and being locked out of it due to Full Disk Encryption are more of a pain than the minute possibility that some nasty 'other' person might make off with my data.
This is a great article. Buterin's critique of Bitcoin was very interesting.
1080p rips are found within hours of the content first airing on NetFlix. You don't need to download Linux ISOs in full quality to enjoy them.
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Stable Diffusion Finetuned on Pokemon
Finetuning Stable Diffusion seems to be really powerful.
It wouldn’t. It could support USB 3 or some lower standard. But the key is that under a redesigned versioning scheme, every new standard is fully backward compatible with the old, with no optional bits tacked on. This makes it easy to understand for an end user (“okay, my headphones have USB3, and my computer and cables are USB4, so I know it will work fine.”)
It's not free software, it's freeware.
> Transgenderism is not really verbiage we use and seems to be used by mostly anti-trans people, same with the word transgendered.[..]

What is the word to use?
Maybe the cure was worse than the disease. Just because something was previously banned, doesn't mean it was the right call.
Or Could it by in addition to the recession
"No Soft Landing Ahead to Save Stocks, Goldman’s Oppenheimer" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/no-soft-l...

"Brace for ‘Recession Shock’ as Outflows Rock Equities, Bank of America Says"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/bofa-says...
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

From the site guidelines. The most plausible interpretation by far is that the comment referred to the time between charges; otherwise, what would nuclear power do to extend the lifespan of a device?
Well I did find the irony of your reply delicious; sure, I'll just leave it to you to decide what is justified and what is rude.