skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate seeing comments like this because Stripe’s hands are tied here. Anytime
a bank or payment processor has frozen or shut down an account and you’re getting stonewalled it’s almost guaranteed to be an AML related issue and it’s against the law for them to tip a customer off that their account is being or might be investigated for suspicious activity. This isn’t Stripe deciding that you’re a fraudster and so you’re undeserving of help. This is Stripe doing business in compliance with the law. I’m not saying that makes it acceptable but if you’re upset about the behavior described in this post call your Senators and Representative to complain about the Bank Secrecy Act and the USA PATRIOT Act; they’re to blame for this sort of frustrating non-response.
It's not very anonymous in the US. You're required by law to identify yourself if possible*. Your party affiliation, registered mailing address, and registered phone number are all publicly visible. Someone knows your votes too, and they try to keep it secret, but I have little faith in that.

* In all 50 states AFAIK you can register with no ID and no home address, but it's illegal to lie.
> General graphs are, as I noted, better handled by decoupling ownership from connectivity, as is almost always quite easy.

Let me reiterate once again. Decopling of ownership from connectivity does not solve any correctness problems. Instead of "use-after-free" you get "use-of-object-in-some-random-state" which might be even worse, since no tooling like address sanitizer or Valgrind will help you.

> Runtime assistance coupled via the type system is fully as legitimate as GC. Your example with "up" pointers in a pointer-linked tree (or DAG) structure is very easily handled that way.

> Runtime assistance coupled via the type system is fully as legitimate as GC.

You do understand that this particular article is exactly about it? Runtime assistance comes at a cost, though. Actually very measurable if you for some reason want to get max performance. (atomic refcounting is expensive).

More generally, any memory management approach is fully legitimate, including fully manual a-la C. But rigorous refcounting in C++ and Rust comes at a very high cost, and to make it as useable as tracing GC you have to actually implement cycle detection which makes it even more costly. So people generally cheat, and for some sorts of performance-sensitive code, that makes a lot of sense.
It wasn't needed because the STS wing area achieved the goal of not overflying the Soviets after dropping off a military satellite (once-around mission out of Vandenberg SLC-6), and the US had many politically friendly potential landing areas, while USSR did not.

Catering to NRO and USAF wartime requirements doomed the STS to cost overruns. Sticking with Faget's designs and the NASA requirements may have salvaged the program's cost goals, but I'm no expert.
Plane designers figured out long ago that for the best aerodynamics you don't actually want a pointy nose - a big hemisphere like the bottom of a raindrop performs best.

So why does this have a pointier nose? Just for PR?
Had you acquired chocolate bars from some hippies by any chance?
> React or any other framework is not designed for interactivity.

I thought that was the whole point. Are we using different definitions of interactivity?
I am terribly sorry! English is not my first language, I meant astrologer not horologist. Considering its real meaning, I have to admit it is as funny as it should be-
> RVN just just saw a decent influx of those ETH miners based on recent spike

That influx won't increase the revenue though... more miners doesn't produce more coins, it's just more secure.

Considering how thin theses margins can be for miners, some will need to stop their production.
I assume this consistent fog is an function of higher latitudes with dry hot inlands and cool oceans. Especially in the desert, fog will form near the coast.

As SF Bay adds a lot of coast line, meaning more cool ocean closer to more hot land than most coastal cities, I'd imagine that has a large effect on why fog forms.

If ocean temps rise faster than average land temps, the average difference between them will shrink, perhaps bringing on average less fog?

Interesting reading: https://ggweather.com/sf/narrative.html
Costco Merchant Services did exactly this to us way back in the day( 2007-ish?). We switched from our previous merchant account bank due to better rates near the beginning of that year.

Everything was fine, up until right after Thanksgiving. This was an ecommerce company, so a sudden 500% increase in authorization volume is pretty normal and expected. Well, not to Costco ( or rather, the bank whose services they were reselling ). Our account was immediately deactivated, and we ended up having to spend a week begging our previous bank to reactivate our previous account.

That first night was, personally, an all-nighter writing janky code to encrypt cardholder data with ephemeral keys and store it off-database on an isolated, firewalled host (in order to pass the PCI-DSS SAQ coming to us in January), ship the product anyway, and hope that we'd be able to authorize a reasonable percentage of that unauthenticated cardholder data in the future.

This is what happens when you make business decisions based purely on price -- or in the case of Stripe, developer convenience.
Walking on pavement is particularly hard on joints, as every footfall places exactly the same stresses on your legs. It's better to walk on broken ground, which distributes the stress and helps to develop stability through a broader range of motion.
That's interesting. I've read that one of the reasons that bipeds are more efficient runners than quadrupeds is because our breathing is decoupled from our stride. Quadrupeds' lungs are anchored within their chest cavity at the top and bottom, so as they stretch and contract their bodies, they are forced to inhale and exhale correspondingly with each stride. It sounds like you don't enjoy the same benefit as the rest of us bipeds.

That being said, when I do try to maintain a regular breathing pattern when running, I usually also do two-in, two-out. Feels pretty good to me.
There's also the "fog 2.0" we're seeing now, which is really smoggy air which is visible because of the particulate matter from wildfires.

I'd say we see this type of "fog" more often than real fog in SF today.
I read somewhere that you gotta bike twice as long as jogging to get the same benefit.

Also, stationary bikes are about half as effective as road biking. It seems that the necessity to maintain balance improves the results.

The same with weight machines. Lifting with barbells is more effective, and dumbbells even more so. This is because these require your muscle stabilizers to be engaged, while the machine stabilizes the weight for you.

Weight machines are an expensive waste of time.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/dramatic-decrease-in-birth...

https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/new-data-from-germany-birt...

The effect we are talking about is something that necessarily only shows up within the past year, 9 months after young people started getting the shots.

A line chart going back 70 years is not useful here.

If you look at the data, linked above, where it is possible to see the effect I’m referring to, it is not something to blithely dismiss with a chart where it isn’t even possible for the effect to be visible.

Birth rates may be down over the long term, but year to year they are fairly stable, we are seeing moves to the downside hugely outside the range of normal year to year variability. And we are seeing it in a wide range of different populations with the commonality that we are seeing this hugely statistically significant effect occur in all these various populations like clockwork nine months after the young people in those populations started getting the shots.

>This is a continuation of my post from yesterday about a massive 13% decline in births in Germany. Such a decline is a nine-sigma event, meaning that it is so unlikely to occur by chance, that it would naturally happen as rarely as an asteroid striking the Earth

…

When expressed in “sigmas”, units of standard deviation, the 23.24% drop in the birth rate in Taiwan is a 26-sigma event!

This is can be described as “unimaginable” in terms of the likelihood of happening due to random chance

https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/depopulation-of-taiwan

https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/taiwan-birth-rate-cratered...

https://igorchudov.substack.com/?sort=search&search=Taiwan

Regarding “excess deaths,” I maybe should’ve mentioned I was referring to what has come to be called “non-COVID excess deaths.” The excess deaths are found in statistics of “all cause mortality.”

Is data for non-COVID excess deaths available for Russia and Iran?
To be absolutely clear, it is only the second booster shot which is not offered to people under 50. The primary vaccine (two shots) and first booster is still offered and recommended to anyone over 18.
This is an impressive level of transparency. Usually when you get government "transparency" it is in the form of a PDF of poorly photocopied documents as images which are effectively useless from a analysis standpoint, unless you have many humans ready to read/transcribe.

The fact that it's in a modern data-friendly format, is super impressive. I would have been happy if they'd even managed to put it in a CSV without headers
Funnily enough I just dealt with this scenario today. I had to fix a database which was storing phone numbers in an int column. The phone numbers start with a 0 so no surprise querying it didn't work! It's now a string.
Okay, and that's great and all, but the DOJ basically doesn't go after big fish anymore. As the commenter above you points out, lot's of these kinds of things still end up being revenue positive
It could be a way of giving 'legitimate' income to friends/family/conspirators.
Anybody has any idea about how this compares to Kong (what I've been using for years)?
Depends on age. If you are under 40 running can be beneficial for joints. Especially if you start running at later age then it could cause problems.
It is trash

France won't sue the German employer, If anything illegal occured, "France" will sue the person exporting the labor, not the person buying it.

The jurisdiction of France encompasses French people, and French entities.

If a law was broken in Germany about importing labor, then it's the German goverment enforcing the law.

Which only means you have to follow the laws of your own country only. Which includes your own countries sanctions, but doesn't include all countries sanctions.
Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/6A136
Just about anything done with poor form or in excess is going to cause issues. Not sure it's a useful point.
yeah its 2020 thinking "I believe X so everyone everywhere should always have to do X".
It's sure nice that humans don't need any sort of social contact during the day to be satisfied. We evolved to spend all day quietly reading a small glowing rectangle all day after all. Spending most of one's life at a small desk in the corner of a living room is the most comfortable environment we can aspire to.
"if you think there aren't bad bosses in the trades"

I never said that.

"My grandfather died of cancer he got from working in a steel mill, my dad has bad knees from working as a laborer (now an electrician.)"

Yeah, you can get diseases working in an office, or higher risk of cardiovascular events and cancers from being sedentary.

"He worked his life away to provide a better life for me."

Sounds emotional and possibly a source of bias being that you don't want cognitive dissonance if the life really isn't any better.

"It's not about being "better." or elitism - It's just simple - cost/benefit analysis."

Yet I see none of that here.

"I remember when I was less mature,"

Thanks, really love all the backhanded insults and belittling. I bet I'm older than you (neither of us is mature based on this exchange). It's pretty shitty of you to assume my current salary is over $90k. Plenty of trades can earn that or more and not be sedentary.
So how many Wh/mile can it do?
The pictures just look bad compared to old ones from my pixel 4a. I'm not sure if it's a signal processing thing or what. I will try booting that up and posting a side by side in a bit.
Because people know how sex works and how filming works. The debate is about organizing the space, how to divide the already revealed map.
==I would bet this deduction does not benefit anyone who is struggling to decide between renting or buying.==

I can tell you from personal experience that you are wrong.
This seems very interesting. I wonder how will they make their money? I have put my email in their limited waitlist. Hopefully it isn't a scam.
Doesn't work with i18n (some countries use , instead of . as the decimal separator).
Why those web services don't leverage from the fact/data that a real bank has already vetted you? And you use a real visa/mc/ae cards. They anyway block you.
More that you can go deeper in context / detail, with images, styling, better links
You know? It's called a vacation... We used to have those, even in the USA ;)

Notice taxew are not a big deal for small companies... If Thailand wants to send my small restaurant a tax bill, I'd just drop it in the round file.

If I'm a big company and do business in Thailand, then I have to abide by their laws.
> In the blog post she references (but, tellingly, does not link)

This is standard procedure for most journalists - they prefer to present only their interpretation (or spin) of events, rather than let their audience form their own opinion.

See for example how many stories of someone making offensive statements omit quoting those statements. And if you'll allow me to reach a bit, it seems the cruder and more unpersuasive the statements are, the more likely they are to be quoted, while any more intellectual, compelling reasoning gets omitted.

Edit: Flimm points out that in this instance, there is a link. So the article merely misrepresents it, and does not also omit it, which I maintain is the norm.
Patagonia – Earth is now our only shareholder
Even the motorcycle helmet laws didn’t start to to into effect until the 80s/90s. that was about when airbags started getting added to cars so they were roughly parallel efforts along slightly different lines.

Essentially the car becomes the helmet and does a more complete job on the whole body than just the helmet on the motorcyclist.
Biking across the golden gate bridge when the fog and wind is blowing through from the Pacific is one of the most immersive (and scary) experiences ever. Highly recommend!
If it required the energy resources of a small country to produce 20 images per day, it would be considered completely absurd by most everyone.
I think pointier noses and air flow matter more for tunnel travel due to the piston effect, so it does matter here.
Gimp and Inkscape are incredible PhotoShop and Illustrator alternatives. I'll have to check out Hugin, thanks for the tip!
does that mean we can keep entropy in check?
Seems pretty clear that RCV had (another) Condorcet failure here- Begich is the clear Condorcet winner. This is the same issue that famously happened in the 2009 Burlington mayor's election, leading to an angry voter recall of RCV.

Pairwise Preferences

88222 Begich > Peltola

79574 Peltola > Begich

Begich wins with 52.5% against Peltola

101530 Begich > Palin

63681 Palin > Begich

Begich wins with 61.4% against Palin

91418 Peltola > Palin

86271 Palin > Peltola

Peltola wins with 51.4% against Palin

Edit to include all of the failures here. I am copying this from a comment on r/endfptp, analysis is not mine (link below):

Condorcet Failure:
Begich beats Peltola by 52.5% and Palin by 61.4%.

Favorite Betrayal Failure:
If 2913 Palin voters that preferred Begich to Peltola betrayed Palin by strategically ranking Begich 1st he would of won instead of Peltola.

Monotonicity Failure:
If Peltola were able to gain the support of 5825 Palin voters, she would of lost to Begich.

Participation Failure:
If 5825 Palin voters that preferred Begich to Peltola had forgotten to vote, Begich would of won.

Consistency Failure:
If 5828 Palin>Begich voters, 2915 Begich voters, and 2914 Peltola>Begich voters were removed from the election, Begich would have won and if you counted just those removed votes, Begich also would of won

https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/x9oupk/2022_alaska...
This is so true in practice ;-)

Also a problem I encountered in the wild, is that a potential attacker tries to trick a user into installing a malicious CA Public key as requirement to be allowed past the captive portal.

Unfortunately mitigating this is hard(er) and only mTLS could solve that issue.
> So smart for both Adobe and Figma. Figma posed a serious threat to Adobe and it makes sense for them to do it. The losers are all of us poor sods who were happy Figma customers.

It's utterly fucked up that "so smart for the companies: the losers are the customers" is baked into the system we use to transact culture.
Sorry about that - not sure what happened here. Sent you an e-mail so we can resolve this for you.
This is because we don't find out about 3rd world corruption because they happen in a framework of lower accountability and transparency.

How long would the world have gone on thinking Putin had a world class military if he never failed to invade Ukraine?
I'm OK with being downvoted for irrelevance but in case anyone doesn't get the reference:

A great deal was made of the change to Proof Of Stake, enough that it sort of became an end to itself, and the conversations about how exactly it would be safe or even a smart thing to do -- national energy output of country X notwithstanding -- got very hand-wavy.

And yet it came to pass.

The sci-fi reference linked here is about that, precisely. A big decision is made, the affected parties think they know all the implications, and yet -- well, see the movie.
Are being fed a wonderful meal and engaging in sexualized power play interchangeable experience for you?
Yeah... I don't think those will work in the US until roundabouts are a lot more common.

The issue I've seen with them in the US is many US drivers ignore pretty much everything about the painted circle which creates a really dangerous situation. They treat those intersections like 4 way stops (including driving over the circle) and that's a major problem.
Thanks for the response! Here's the code for our use case:
https://github.com/pamelafox/faded-parsons-static/blob/maste...

It calls jQuery UI sortable() with a "grid" of [50, 1], to mimic Python indentability. Here's their documentation for grid: https://api.jqueryui.com/sortable/#option-grid
> The logic behind labeling digital nomads as illegal immigrants completely eludes me. I genuinely don't understand why you would make that assumption.

Close to 100% of them are on tourist visas and are explicitly not allowed to work in the country. What else do you think an illegal immigrant is?
How to Build Rock, Paper, Scissors in Rust
Looking at the result for others, mines doesn't look so good.

"Australian Recording Industry Association" to "National Register of Historic Places listings in South Carolina"
Time: 285.376 Seconds

Number of links visited: 16

The path you took:
[ "Australian Recording Industry Association", "Australia", "Oceania", "Region", "List of regions of the United States", "Grand Strand", "South Carolina", "Fort Sumter", "Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park", "National Historic Site (United States)", "National Register of Historic Places", "List of U.S. National Historic Landmarks by state", "List of National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina", "St. James Episcopal Church (Santee, South Carolina)", "National Register of Historic Places", "United States National Register of Historic Places listings", "National Register of Historic Places listings in South Carolina" ]
This is super true. Also, the reverse relationship exists with the company and the workers, but we workers often imagine it's different.
How quickly did Adobe fold the Macromedia products into their own product eco-system?

I ask because Adobe have been sitting on their Substance aqusition without making part of the Creative Cloud Suite.

Hopefully they may leave it alone.
Thank you for the input, and for the link to the commentary. It certainly raises some interesting questions.

I'm glad there are people out there that still care more about the well-being of their children than their own convenience. "Crying it out" does feel like a lazy way out from my perspective. The fact that so many parents are willing to do it, and yet become defensive in discussions like this... "Oh, you've never been a parent, you don't know what it's like"... Well, nobody forced them to have children. I don't know what they expected when they decided to have a kid. It's a massive undertake, and requires almost complete dedication. Yet it's so easy to just have a change of heart, feel trapped, blame the child for being a child. I can empathize, but I can't approve. If you have a child, its well being is more important than yours.
Already had that happen. Employee moved out of NY to FL. Did nothing except categorizing him as a FL resident in our HR system. Did not have to form a new business in FL or register as a foreign entity there. Employee lowered his taxes because he is no longer paying NY taxes. Great for everyone!
> One thing I don’t understand is the tax implication and where you’re allowed to work from.

You do understand that's basically the entirety of the thing, right?

And the tax and legal liability is NOT just on you, but on your employer too. It's not that they legally have to know where you are as such, nor that they care, but that in order for them to follow laws they have to know which laws apply.

> The physical borders don’t make much sense in a digital world.

Yet that would be hard to argue when you get caught with weed in Saudi Arabia, or when the french police knock on your digital nomad door in south of France.

At some point this becomes like the "sovereign citizen" crowd, and their "your laws don't apply to me" don't tend to work out very well.
I suppose you could make the inner part something safe and non destructive to drive on but still uncomfortable so trucks could still make it through. Maybe Make rumble strips? Still have a structure in the very middle to prevent head on crashes though.
This seems similar to anti-trust in a way. Taking a wider view of anti-trust, the goal is to keep the market healthy by ensuring there are choices available to consumers; there are no unhealthy monopolies and anti-competitive practices. Well, as a consumer I would like to be able to choose tech products where I can get effective support. Customer support is lacking in some markets, it's not healthy. The anti-trust fix is to bust up a company, but I don't see how that would help here. This is a new economic problem where dominant companies are run by computers and algorithms that serve 95% of the people, but if you're in the unlucky 5% you're screwed.
I thought the SNCF *was* all the regional authorities and also the owners of the rail lines.
> Interest rates have been declining for 400 years

This is surprisingly easy to explain: interest rates are a combination of the time factor of money (a dollar in hand is more useful than a dollar tomorrow) and the risk of default. Geopolitical stability and security has increased in the aggregate over the past few centuries, so it follows that interest rates have declined in aggregate.

Makes you wonder what the implications are, now that we've hit zero. ;-)
> free tier? That changes everything.

Does it? To me, that just says "Locking my data in a platform that can suddenly decide to charge me for functionality."
In the drag-and-drop context, an interactive element is an element that can traverse the DOM tree and change its position without causing a layout shift and with a proper reconciler and transformation mechanism.
What if they put a flexible bollard in the center?