skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Greece isn't a country.

That's an interesting world view. I can't say I've had anyone argue this way.

>It's a component of the Eurozone. In that system the ECB is the government.

Greece doesn't have a government?

>All countries issue currency as spending because that's how banking works - even if they settle up into something else by the end of the day. Intraday banking can't work any other way.

I don't follow sorry. Could you explain this a little more in depth?

>Politicians are elected so they are entitled to spend what they can get past the legislature - and nobody else should be able to stop them. Otherwise we don't live in a democracy.

The Greek socialists who caused their current predicament absolutely had every right to do what they did.

>You don't need Revenue and taxation. Taxes for revenue is an obsolete concept as Beardsley Ruml pointed out in the 1940s.

Honestly have't seen any of you MMT folks in over a year.

>As is the idea of fractional banking systems. They don't exist. Loans create deposits, and always have. As the Bank of England explained very clearly in 2014.

They don't exist? Just like Greece isn't a country?
If all strings use the same interval, you have less variety in fingering; everything is the same everywhere.

The M3 interval between the G and B string is useful; you can allocate fingerings between those two strings to play certain things that don't work for a pair of strings that are a P4 apart.
Or your university might have it's own backup system. We have a massive central tape-based archive that you can run nightly backups to.
Those are addressed in the episode as well and nuclear is at the bottom of the list. The order of deaths per unit of electricity were Coal > Oil > Gas > Hydro > Rooftop Solar > Wind > Nuclear[1]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...
I believe myself to be a pretty security conscious person, and I hate webdev as much as the next system programmer, but even I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with what papa johns is doing here. I chose to use their website. Any interaction with the site should be assumed to be input that they are allowed to take and use how they want. If I don't want these inputs to be sent, it's my responsibility to configure my browser to 1) tell me it's happening, 2) block the site from seeing those inputs or 3) just shut everything like that off (disable js).

Browsers sandbox websites for a reason, whatever I put into the sandbox is my own responsibility, and whatever happens in that sandbox is allowed.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/10/report-big-u-s-banks-are...

top of HN today

EDIT: link to thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33125442
> These days you could pull out your phone while in the voting booth, or have a small slip of paper in your wallet, purse, or pocket.

You're completely right about the possibility of bringing a slip of paper, and I was probably over-estimating the scale of the burden there. I would like to point out, though, that we really don't want to normalize the idea of people bringing out their phones while in the voting booth, as that seems like a way to encourage vote buying or coercion (even though the victim/voter may have ways to circumvent this problem, and even though phones aren't the only way someone could take a camera into a voting booth).

> This might surprise you, but many many people aren't terribly informed about the candidates and still manage to cast a vote under our current system.

In fact that doesn't surprise me, as I was already aware of this fact, but I see it as an existing limitation of democracy that shouldn't be made any worse. The simpler and less ambiguous the question on the ballot paper, the more of an even playing field there is for all voters. I used to think that to maximize the chances of finding the optimal winner, an election should try to demand that voters enter as much information as possible on their ballot paper, but my view has completely changed on this. Even under FPTP, the election algorithm is being fed with thousands of bits of information, and the output only needs to be roughly 1 or 2 bits of information, so there is no harm in making the ballot papers as uninformative as voters are uninformed (as long as the algorithm encourages honest votes, and combines them fairly).

> there's never been an easier time for illiterate people to get informed.

I agree, but my reference to "literacy" tests was meant to convey the fact that supposed literacy tests have in practice been used as pretences to exclude voters who were likely to vote for a party other than the one administering the test. As such, my objection wasn't that illiteracy itself was a major problem, but that any unnecessarily complicated process could be seen as having a disenfranchising effect, which would undermine confidence in elections even if the effect were not significant, or be used as an argument to prevent the adoption of the reform before it was even used, either by people who genuinely care or by concern trolls. Anyway, for completeness, here is an example of a literacy test issued by the state of Louisiana:

https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/question/2012/pdfs...
Zelle is essentially the same as Faster Payments here; the legal structure of it being a third party seems more or less irrelevant. I don’t think regulating it will be a problem for the CFPB or other US regulators.
And, I'd add that past experiences greatly impacts tolerance to risk. A person who had no money for food and/or was homeless as a child, and a person with a financially secure family to fall back on so there are no consequences for failure are going to have very different risk tolerance.

Even when we are aware of it, fear can control us. And, previously poor people know, from experience, what the consequences of failure can be.

This was demonstrated on a macro level by the generation that grew up in the Great Depression having a high savings rate (emergency fund), repairing rather than replacing things as long as they could, and being otherwise thrifty almost regardless of income.
All TikToks should have a tl;dr, so I don’t have to waste my time watching those long-ass clips.

Beeper messages are where it’s at. If you can’t fit the intel on those two lines of screen, I can’t be bothered.
I still run a 2008 iMac, booted off an SSD over Thunderbolt. Websites are slower to load than on my M2 MBA, but for most local tasks it is perfectly snappy.
After much struggle, I reached the same conclusion. And it gets around the problem of downloading collections only to find that they don't support the version of python on the system you're trying to use it on. But since those collections get stored in python site-packages instead of anything in ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH, it's still kind of confusing. And I still haven't checked what happens if a teammate accidentally installs the latest collection version locally in their home from Galaxy as well (a stupid default imho).

I understand why collections got split out due to development needs, but the switch over to them has been pretty crappy from a user perspective.
I've always found the Mitchell and Webb take on identity theft/bank robbery to be a very interesting take on who's responsible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
Oh, he loves to push against the hype alright. To his credit, he’s very smart - I think he sold an AI startup to Uber several years ago. And I agree with a lot of his criticisms and general AI philosophy.

Still, it’s impossible for me to shake the feeling that he just likes to hear himself talk and doesn’t want to see progress in AI.

I think I trust him more than Sam Altman though, not that anyone’s being asked to make that judgement.
Pytorch belongs to "... libraries written by the GPU druids..." on my comment.

And still requires specific skills to use, and is constrained to Python, C++ and Java based languages.

GPUs need to be exposed like SIMD, something that the language runtime takes care of, even if not perfect, better than not using them at all.
If I read the article correctly, this doesn't quite rise to the level that I outlined in the post you are responding to; they haven't actually identified an ancestral form of the virus that exists in a wild population (thus relying on statistical methods to make inferences about its evolutionary history, whose reliability I think is a little suspect), and even if we assume that all conclusions they draw are in fact correct it does not rule out something like the original poster's multi-hop human-animal-human-animal provenance, starting in a lab leak.
Ask HN: What is the biggest bullet you ever dodged?
The recent "What is your biggest regret?" post had a lot of insightful responses and was quite an interesting read. In the spirit of "thinking like the bronze medalist, not the silver medalist"[1], I thought the flip-side of that question could reveal similarly interesting anecdotes.

I'll start- the biggest bullet I ever dodged was when I decided not to go to business school. At the time I was living and teaching English in Shanghai, China, and I had originally moved there because I thought that learning Chinese would look great on my grad school application.

After awhile, however, I realized that the best-case scenario of holding an MBA was that I'd go to work for a big-name company and become a middle manager who wears a suit and commutes to work everyday. That sounded like a slow death to me, so I coasted in a job I disliked for a few more years until a friend told me about coding bootcamps. I applied, was accepted, and attended a bootcamp based in Chicago, and today I'm a senior software engineer who loves the creativity inherent in the craft of coding.

I saved myself $100-200k in grad school tuition and 2 years of sitting through multi-hour lectures that I knew I'd hate, as well as a career trajectory that would have added little if any value to my life or the lives of others.

1. https://sive.rs/bronze
But it also wasn't homeless people being legally housed there. If your point is "people who live there take better care of the space", then that's what Austin is trying to do. Convert squatters stealing copper to the kind of people who live there.
That's not evidence, that's a series of disconnected vague complaints from a publisher who is salty that they're not considered a reliable source. They complain about conflicts of interest, but I didn't see them even acknowledging their own. I also couldn't find any financial transparency, so it's not clear to me who is funding this or their other writing.

And I'll point out for the last time that you still haven't answered my initial question. If you're just going to keep dodging, I think I'm done here.
Would good opsec for these services be to open another checking account for them to limit the blast radius?
I think experiences vary greatly based on company and domain. I work on a team supporting features for an app that is used by tens of thousands of people every day. Yet, what we plan to produce at the beginning of the quarter rarely matches what we actually produce. Example: my team spent months working to integrate our app with a new data gateway service. We were, I dunno, 75% of the way there when executives decided the data gateway should not be used (this months after they said this same gateway was the future of the company). So, I'm not pretending when I say sometimes, I don't know my destination. Sometimes I think I know my destination, only to find that both my course and the destination have changed.
"Nothing to excess." The Oracle at Delphi in Ancient Greece had wisdom that would help some of today's libertarians (and socialists).
If you start posting promoted content on a Mastodon server, many instances will immediately defederate with you and/or add you to Fediblock. It's fine if that's something you want to do, and there's nothing in the protocol that stops you from doing so, but everyone else will stop "being your friend" so-to-speak. That's probably why most people wanted to leave.
I have a friend that wrote a unique iPhone app—related to a hobby of his. The App was a bit expensive for an iPhone app; as I recall it might have been around $100.

His friends wanted him to give them the app, because they were his friends. His interesting perspective was that they should be willing to pay him more for the app because he was their friend (but he was willing to sell them the app for the official price).

If your friend wanted to he could gift you an interest in the start up if he wanted to. Isn’t it a kind of symmetric situation.
One of the more interesting things I have seen recently is the combination of different domains in models / datasets. The top network of Stable Diffusion combines text-based descriptions with image-based descriptions, where the model learns to represent either text or images in the same embedding; a picture, or a caption for that picture, lead to similar embeddings.

Effectively, this can broaden the context the network can learn. There are relationships that are readily apparent to something that learned images that might not be apparent to something trained only on text, or vis-versa.

It will be interesting to see where that goes. Will it be possible to make a singular multi-domain encoder, that can take a wide range of inputs and create an embedding (an "mental model" of the input), and have this one model be usable as the input for a wide variety of tasks? Can something trained on multi-domains learn new concepts faster than a network that is single-domain?
What's the issue with paypal and venmo?
I also imagine FedNow might become apart of your workflow, depending on just how well it works (Releases May to July 2023) https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_about.h....
> I can edit my website and manage my servers from it...

Ironically, isn't an old Mac even more secure than today's computers? Because it's so old that so much of the attack surface (e.g., libraries) just don't exist on it. If there's no code, there's no exploit either.

Moreover, hacker groups might have a much less practical knowledge of dealing with these old machines. In contrast, a 2015 MBP might be even less secure than the one used in this post.
PJ's has 5,500 locations in 49 countries.

Hotjar had just $25M in revenue last report.
>I'd rather live in a world where banks are solely responsible for fraudulent withdrawals than one where banks can shirk responsibility to their patrons. That is only possible through regulation.

I'd rather live in a world in which effective security measures prevent fraud than a world in which there are weak security measures and endless debates as to who should be blamed when they fail. Regardless of your political stance, I think we can agree that the system is more technicially-broken than it is socially-broken.

I think understanding the problem in solely in terms of more/less regulation is a bone-headed thing to do.

I think what we have isn't a free market but a duopoly of mastercard/visa each with control over their respective domain. You can't upgrade the security, privacy, or efficiency of the network because the big players benefit from the insecurity, surveilance, and inefficiency.

Decreased regulation will probably increase their stranglehold on the industry, as you've noted. Increased regulation will cement current ineffective practices and make different buisness models impossible.

People turn to cryptocurrency, not because it's more private/secure/etc but because it is the most private/secure/etc system that works without the permission of the big rent-seekers.
Auto Safety Tech Adds New IC Design Challenges
I think the Context proposal is rather "send function to data" style data flow. (there's another one, more like plain client-server data flow; req-res) Not really "prop drilling" like its docs say.

I guess `.value` | `@click` is pretty much all tag template literal based libs do. The static parts need parsing, right? Though regex would be slow (if they do), a tiny parser would suffice.
It might sound weird to say it just this way, but I had to forgive myself for not being there. My presence wouldn't have made any difference to the outcome (it's not like if I had been there she might not have died), but had I made a different choice, I would have had those last few days and those last few memories with her.

I honestly haven't forgiven my dad for my not being there, though, even though my choice was my own. Perhaps if he had changed at all since then, it would be easier to feel differently.

I've recently heard forgiveness defined as "letting go of all hope for a better past," though, and I might be able to get to forgiving him by that path, for my own sake, not for his.
It seems fundamentally different from a certain perspective (maybe not from the layperson's). As much as one person might think that I'm "visiting their website" I think that I'm just requesting them to serve me some information and they include with that a spying payload.
Musk suggested that for Twitter and responses were not positive at all.
I don't think you need to distort Scrum for it not to work.
If they were scared NATO was about to preemptively attack them, they probably wouldn't be moving air defense missiles out of Russia (including as far away as St. Petersburg) [1] to move them to Ukraine.

But if you really want to worry about this, you don't need to consider the current war in Ukraine. You could look at this article from 2017 that describes a long-term plan to equip the U.S. submarine missile fleet with "superfuze" warheads that can accurately destroy hardened missile silos, which completely changes the strategic balance against Russia, in a way that might make things more dangerous for everyone [2].

[1] https://bnn-news.com/russia-moves-missiles-from-st-petersbur...
[2] https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...
I just recently ranted about this exact thing in an Ask HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32767277
Jesus that loaded quickly. Hats off to the author for creating such a snappy site.
I would expect the banks to talk to each other in good faith and reverse the transaction.
Ah sorry, you're right. That allows FAT32 to be used for larger partition sizes, but the file size limit remains in place.
Musk Blames Everyone but Himself for the Twitter Deal Hold Ups
Nah for us it was the department IT guy who set up once everything (a full cluster of 50 r720s) and works like a dream.

Properly provisioned linux machines need no maintenance. You drive them until there is a hardware failure.
One defense is to just have two banks, one for "real bills" and one for Zelle/Venmo "play money" bills.

Then at worst you're out the play money. Make sure it's set so the real money can only push into the play money account.
All in all, it doesn't mean much. Mastodon makes the domain part of your ID, so moving to another server isn't different than, say, moving to Twitter. Even if it's possible to move your existing content, it doesn't have significant value on an ephemeral timeline. You might as well save your backups and keep going.

Mastodon might be able to force your followers to follow your new account, but AFAIK it doesn't do that either for reasons I don't know. That would've been cool.
Bias is not the same thing as being correct or incorrect.
I don't think he was saying either Facebook or Twitter is going to close soon. Heck, MySpace is still around. But sooner or later, centralised systems either shut down or become something completely different: think about Tumblr as a good example of that.
I can’t talk for the US, but in the EU under GDPR there absolutely is an expectation of privacy.
Probably due to the paypal horror stories; note that Paypal acquired Venmo in their Braintree acquisition: https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/19/venmo-now-lets-you-find-an...
It is the intentional decision of zelle to be like using cash in terms of rollback guarantees. This is so that payees can accept it like cash. There's no way to balance the scales -- the payment system that can be rolled back has its own issues.
Personally I think Turtle is just fine, but RDF/XML is a disaster.
Not sure about the intentions of the reddit founders, to be honest, but at the beginning there were no subsections and the like. When they did show up they were implemented as sub-domains, for example http://programming.reddit.com . I can't exactly remember how much that lasted, but it was for more than a couple of months (I'd say for at least half a year) before the directory-thing was implemented.
German BSI Chief has direct ties to Russia
zdf royal magazine reports on a german cyber security association that pretends to be an official german institution with direct ties to russia. German BSI Chief was formerly president of this associatin and poses openly with them on twitter.
Because google funds campaigns
I usually win disputes, but not the ones categorized as "fraud" (as in, "someone stole my credit card and signed up for this thing"). When it is accurately categorized ("I forgot this subscription would renew"), I rarely lose. It's just a bunch of time I have to spend getting together the information.

But it's funny that someone can win on a "fraud" claim when it's a renewal of a subscription that they themselves signed up for. IIRC to win on fraud you have to show proof of signature or ID or something, to prove it was that person who signed up. Of course, there is no reasonable way to do this online, and the banks just happily rule in favor of the customer.
> Just because something works to solve a problem, doesn't mean it should be used.

Sure. I can agree on principle. But I want to call out anyone willing to throw a stone on this but then have ever complained about bad UX.
I see, thank you for pointing out the classifications of policy-like writings.

I still disagree in the narrow bounds of this conversation, which is articles about technical topics. The prohibition there seems to be on accepting someone's claims about themselves, which is different from an expert on a subject making specific fact-based claims in their field.
Somewhat similar to MenuetOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31290789
> And every time I use these fragile services I'm opening myself to having my entire bank account wiped out with little recourse.

No. Sending money with Zelle does not expose you to having your account wiped out.

Receiving money, there is a minute chance a transfer might be reversed. But that’s all. Don’t use Zelle to accept payment for goods/services.
Do you think? What I see is that it's a useful way to move money and, as expected, crooks wanted to use it to steal money.

It's more remarkable when we invent things that move money and don't get used for crime.

For example the UK's Direct Debit turns out to be almost useless for crime, because it can be unwound, so, if you use it to steal money you run into two closely related problems:

1. When the victim realises they just undo the transaction, and get their money back

2. Because the bank doesn't want to be on the hook for that, their capital requirements to allow Direct Debit are eye watering. Out of reach of ordinary crooks.
By same logic, UUCP never died.
If you want to cycle renewables up, but can't because of limited capacity, the one simply hasn't installed enough renewables or storage.

Same answer for nuclear, if you can't turn it up enough, then you simply haven't installed enough.

Storage can help mitigate the ramping concerns about having lots of nuclear on the grid. For France to be able to have 70% of generation as nuclear, they depend on using the continents grid for balancing, in addition to having some very high priced fast damping nuclear plants. But charging storage with solar, and using that stored electricity, is cheaper than using nuclear in the first place.

And at current prices of roughly $200/MWh for nuclear, and $20/MWh for solar, you can throw away an awful lot of solar capacity before nuclear makes any sense financially. And at $160/MWh for storage, which is a levelized cost which includes charging at ~$50/MWh, there's even room to not use all the battery capacity everyday and still have a firm energy source cheaper than nuclear.