skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's absolutely top notch.

Here's something that got a lot of attention in Sweden yesterday: A small housing co-op/tenant-owner's association (BRF Vinkelhaken 12 in Stockholm) decided to donate $3500 to a Ukranian defense cause. In return they got a video showing a signed shell being fired towards the invaders at the front.

Of course something like this will go viral in the source country because of the sheer absurdity of a co-op building "arming" a country being invaded by Russia. Genius.

Screenshot: https://static.cdn-expressen.se/images/00/b5/00b54a16e2314e6...
Banks are not arguing that Zelle isn't covered by Regulation E.

Regulation E talks about liability for "unauthorized transactions". Those are transfers "from a consumer's account initiated by a person other than the consumer without actual authority to initiate the transfer".

If you initiated the transfer but were misled into doing so or provided the wrong payment information or whatever, it's still an authorized transaction from Regulation E's perspective; so you are still liable for it. The only exception is if you were induced by force to initiate the transfer.
Too many people think life is a Reddit post, so they're karma farming, expecting some sort of positive outcome from playing a "GOTCHA!" card.
I use s5cmd, it’s a fast parallel s3 cli client: https://github.com/peak/s5cmd

Haven’t heard of rclone before so can’t compare yet but s5cmd is supposed to work against GCS and other s3 compatible apis.
I would love to hear your list of 40 drugs because I did a lot of them in my 20s but I still couldn’t name that many. My list would be nicotine, marijuana, alcohol, cocaine, LSD, shrooms, ecstasy, adderall, oxy, dmt, 2cb, tramadol, percocet, ayahuasca and mescaline. Other than that the only things I can think of is heroin, crack and meth. That’s only 18.
So, that's pretty wrong.

Spiking neural networks are possibly closer to being biologically analogies, but they kind of suck to train and don't have good performance.

It takes a lot of computer "neurons" to simulate a single human neuron, and we can't simulate it perfectly in any case.
Ukraine is at war with Russia. Japan has a claim over the islands, which are currently held by Russia.

For Ukraine, formally recognising Japan's claim to the islands might achieve a few things.

First, it might cause Japanese public opinion to change in favour of Ukraine, potentially increasing material Japanese support for the Ukrainian cause.

Second, it might cause Russia to divert military resources to the east, in order to forestall any attempt by Japan to re-take the islands by force (though this is very unlikely).

Third, it might be a bargaining chip in any future peace treaty between Ukraine and Russia. Most likely, both sides will have to agree to respect the territorial integrity of the other party, so Ukraine might withdraw its recognition of the Japanese claim as part of a deal with Russia. It's unliklely to be a significant factor, but every little helps in a negotiation.

I'm sure these are other reasons, but these are the ones that occur to me.
>Is there a way to measure this though. How can I tell what my current level of damage is.

It's a cumulative thing. There are ways to ascertain the damage, but not through routine tests.

>GP got the usual indicators into shape. Is all the 'racking up damage' reversed in OPs case ?

Particularly in the case of cardiovascular damage like atherosclerosis and resulting kidney damage, narrowing arteries, etc, no it's not reversed.
The US has five or six different ATM networks, and many banks are part of more than one of them, but a small credit union may be only part of one, and they may change which one that is.

Depending on how they have it setup, it may mean that the ATM near you suddenly no longer works for you for free and you have to switch up with another one.
> I wish... but how do you transfer money internationally?

Wise.com. I lived abroad for a bit and relied entirely on Wise (well, they were called transferwise then). Could send money abroad faster than I could send funds to anybody in USA.

Of course, any international financial service is very KYC heavy and can suspend access to you/lock your funds at any time so always have a backup plan ready as wire transfers are really scary (foreign banks don't want to release funds? no recourse for you!)
I have no nostalgia for System 7 as my first computer was a Windows 95 PC, however it is my favorite OS ever made. Whenever I have to use a new computer, be it Mac or PC, I always aim to make the OS look and feel like classic Mac OS.
Ah yes, the mythical customer that can tell you exactly what they need, and even prioritize it. This customer probably also can be bothered to give usable feedback on what you have built in a timely manner. But I've yet to see such a customer...
Only if they seed more than they leech. It has little to do with time. If you take a year to seed more than you leeched, you're a positive contribution to the swarm.
This was a quality web log! Wholesome simple computing. The quintessential glass of milk filled 3/4th high on the kitchen counter.
Matthias Felleisen co-wrote a book on Java, elegant uses of class-based inheritance, and elegant design patterns.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262561150/a-little-java-a-few-p...
The Medallion Signature™ - I had to abuse the fact I had a Chase credit card to get one of those once for Vanguard.
Omg NN “research” is just heuristics on top of heuristics on top of mambo jumbo.

Hopefully someone who knows math will enter the field one day and build the theoretical basis for all this mess and allow us to make real progress.
UK defies climate warnings with new oil and gas licences
> A book should be as long as the content merits. A lot of self-help books in the 200-300 page range (including index, notes, etc.) could be summed up in a decently long blog post.

People repeat that all the time, but I'm skeptical. I think a "summing up" would likely be less effective or persuasive than some version of the full, "repetitious" book. Repetition is usually key to actually absorbing and idea. Also, a particular formulation of an idea is unlikely to connect with every person, so if an author wants to connect with the maximum number of people, they would have to express the same idea in different ways. It's not like a book can customize itself to its reader, so every reader is exposed to all those versions, including the ones that don't connect especially well with them.

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I present you: The Hacker News Self-Help Guide to Weight-loss:

Eat less food. Exercise more. Any reasonably competent person should be able to figure out the rest from those key ideas.
Most banks are borderline negligent in cyber security. Using 2fa via text is less secure in many ways than using a regular old password.
At least it’s my fault if I compromised my bank password. A Sim swap attack can’t really be protected against
> I'm personally very opposed to forcing them to trust, to ramming the truth down their throat.

They may feel no such scruples about doing so to you, though. Reciprocity is a good heuristic for many social situations, but when it goes wrong, it can go really wrong.
That’s a good point, thanks!
Unfortunately I think 10 page expositions/derivations are the highest quality math and physics pages. I think the wikipedia style is fundamentally incompatible with communicating this kind of information unfortunately.
This was my perception too. I have been asking a few companies and it seems that some small companies (5-10 developers) have one important service that they develop independently like a monolith on one VM/container/desktop. The rest of the services(ingress, load balancer, autoscaler) are just scaffolding to put the SaaS(or some other product) together around that one monolith.

And I am guessing there are other companies where the product is so big (Google Workspaces) that one cluster per developer is very cost prohibitive.

It would be great to know how different companies do it.
Emmet – the essential (snippet) toolkit for web-developers
Google's stated reason for shutting down Google+ was on account of security issues.

That said, Google's stated communications regarding Google+ had and have been questionable from the start. I'd had my own part in this in addressing the true size of the active community on the site, which was far below the 3--4 billion listed profiles and many hundreds of millions of active users touted. In practice, probably closer to 4--6 million true frequently actives within 30 days or so (itself not unsubstantial), and perhaps 100 million who'd been active at some point.

<https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/naya9wqdemiovuvwvoyquq>

But I'd take that stated reason with a large dose of salt.
"They only look better if you're not a photographer and/or don't know what you're doing"

That would mean they look better to the majority of people who consume photos...
American apartments in general are shoddily constructed and thus are a lower quality of living. There's no getting around that. Walls that are paper thin with no insulation so you can listen in on your neighbor's phone calls. Poorly done ceilings/floors so the upstairs neighbors' kids running around wakes you up in the morning. Single pane glass so heating/cooling bill is expensive, and the sounds of the street are audible throughout the day (you never want to live above a bus stop). Neighbors from all walks of life, which can be a nightmare if those walks of life include drug dealers and addicts and domestic violence, with norecourse from the police. No elevators up to the fifth floor. No trash pickup for large items. Shite public transportation and no good parking options. Horrible corporate landlord management company to contend with.

I would love to live in an apartment complex in,
say, Sweden, but there's a huge cultural component to apartment living in America that would have to change before it matches apartment living elsewhere. Even if building codes changed tonight it would still wouldn't address the issues of city design/public transportation that hurt the very notion of living that tightly together to begin with. It's just not at all convenient to live in an apartment complex that's miles away from the nearest public transportation hub or even a strip mall.
> Chrome mv2/3 hubris and implementation clusterfuck

I'm not sure why you think MV3 is a clusterfuck, it seems like it's doing exactly what Google wants. If you're confused by that, remember, you're the product, not the customer.
Funny enough, it doesn't work is Desktop Safari.
3COM NETBuilder II routers had 2.88MB floppies. I once spent an entire day tracking down a local supplier with a 2.88MB floppy drive and floppies in stock, so we could upgrade the software on a few routers being affected by a Vines/IP bug.
Oh that’s cool. I should consider that for my org.
I switched from System Engineer to Software Developer when I was 40.

I need to make another jump now when I'm 50. You should be fine when you're 43. Just try to keep a lid on the imposter syndrome for a few years. Try not to be inflexible as well. And change up little things that you do from time to time. Try programming in an IDE if you've never done it. Try a new programming language. Change the shell you use. Whatever. Don't necessarily hop on the latest greatest trends on HN headlines since that can be exhausting, but there's lots of well worn technologies out there to stretch yourself with.
No, it unironically IS useless. You're welcome to bark up the symbolic tree along with Chomsky, Gary Marcus, and others who are about to fade into obscurity.

Or you can embrace the bitter lesson, which is that symbolic techniques are considered harmful, like the future winners of the AI race have: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
I have the nagging sense that what we're seeing amounts to throwing one's hands in the air and exclaiming "There must be a way!"

As others have pointed out, turning off 2FA is available. Apparently that doesn't work either because the people in question forget their passwords. So I guess we should add passwords and biometrics (not available on all hardware) to the list of things that aren't going to work.

Like you, I'm left wondering what there is to anchor any level of security.
Among the many, many mistakes Putin made was picking a fight with someone with a great deal of professional entertainment experience.

Modern wars are fought with blood, money, and message. Putin picked a fight with an opponent that is beating him on 1 and killing him on 3, and the international community is stepping up to provide 2 (partially because of how good Zelenskyy and his team have done on 3).
Except with bank security it’s like there is a local ordinance that you can’t put bars on and must use a really weak door.
I heard one author of a business book say his book was a page of content, and 200 pages of stories just to get people to read it.
> Btw crypto is worse on this in every way

In a technical sense you're correct; in both cases the transactions are effectively irreversible. That said, I think there is an important difference:

Everyone (well, kinda) knows that a crypto transaction is irreversible; that's basically the point. Because of this, it is expected and normal to layer on extra systems to cope with the risk of not having an authority to dispute stuff to. Consider darknet markets: they use escrow and reputation systems to protect both parties.

But everyone (well, kinda, in the same sense as the above) also knows traditional financial institutions are "safe" and that transactions are reversible. That false sense of security means other security/resolution methods aren't considered, so when the centralized authority has a bad day the end user is out of luck.

But isn't an escrow system just another centralized authority? Sure, but at least I can choose what escrow system I want to interact with. The banking cartel behind Zelle doesn't afford me the same degree of choice, and using small credit unions isn't a panacea either because they farm out everything complicated to one or another of the payment cartels. Quality of escrow system is an important discriminator when choosing a DNM; I wish I could assess various traditional financial institutions' likeliness to rip me off as effectively.

If centralized financial institutions want to act like crypto in terms of irreversibility, fine, but I think the scale of the problem described in TFA indicates that some "are you suuuuuuuuuuuuure you want to send money to Joe Blow" popups in the app aren't enough to overcome that aegis of "this is a safe institution" floating around in the public consciousness. I see it as more a problem of false advertising than anything else, really. Copy from the landing page of their site:

> Zelle® works between U.S.-based banks. Which means, even if you bank somewhere different than your friends and family do,1 you can still use Zelle® to safely send and receive money straight from your banking app.

> safely

Obviously it's not a legal doc or anything, but I'd argue the service is both explicitly and implicitly casting itself as akin to a bank-provided service like a credit card, not something as wild west as cash.
The reddit founders bailed it within a year.

Then Aaron Swartz took over and made it successful until 2013.

After he was killed by the US govt the original founders came back and have been running it into the ground ever since.
Check paperswithcode's State of the Art leaderboards for the tasks I care about (sound classification, style transfer, etc)
Thank you for the tokens-to-words factor! Much appreciated.

I'm definitely in agreement that multi-task models represent an ability to learn more than any one specialized model, but I think it's a bit of an open question whether multi-task learning alone can fully close the digital-biological gap. Of course I'd be very happy to be proven wrong on this though by empirical evidence in my lifetime :)
I'm not too surprised the fraud claim was denied. You definitely made the payment, you paid a [technically] legitimate business, and they completed some of the work, i.e. it's hard to say they accepted the payment with intent to defraud you. The fact that they didn't fully complete the agreed work isn't really a matter for the bank's fraud department to resolve. Dunno why NFCU couldn't just communicate that though. Sounds like a shamefully poor support experience on their part.
Is "RUP" Rational Unified Process here?
> ...I’d prefer a TV show end on a high with more still in the barrel, than fizzle out into drawn-out mediocrity.

Except the TV show traditionally exists to get you to watch ads. A network that did what you ask would be a failure, because it would have fewer ad slots to sell.
Well a lot had to be configured especially for non-standard hardware. But generally it was far more stable and snappy than Windows. Also constant reinstalling and rebooting wasn't necessary. The QNX demo was nice but to be fair you couldn't do much with it unless you wrote your own software I guess...
Correct, it was the iphone 7 that launched in 2016. Iphone X or thereabouts hits about the sweetspot for me.
Not to offend, but there are plenty of these sorts of live cultural experiences for Gen Z that maybe you aren’t aware of and captivate millions of young audiences. Kissing and holding hands in the 60s seems like an artifact of a decade of undoing centuries of Christian religious repression in the west. You’re right that rock and roll is not novel anymore. Things change.

Twitch live streamers share experiences with tens or hundreds of thousands of folks. For example, I can guarantee any millions of young kids who played Fortnite learned about the musician Travis Scott through that.

Perhaps the era of mass media where 10-50+ million all tuned in at once is over, but there’s plenty of music and media that captivates many millions for live events.
Jurisdiction.

If everyone could wormhole between countries, first world houses would be ransacked pretty damn quickly.
> it never begs for your attention and its applications never try to distract you from what you are doing, begging you to look at them instead.

This.

In the modern world, it feels everything and everyone’s apps have a good reason to beg for your attention. I think it even transcends OS. On GitHub, my notifications are spammed by Dependabot. Who cares if my benchmark repos from 5 years ago have security issues.
Listen to everyone. Just don't do what they say if it doesn't suit you.

This is not a regret, just an opinion.
Exactly – we can't expect banks to pay when their customers get themselves scammed.

I think the solution is escrow. I am biased, because I work for an escrow company, but I've never seen a more effective approach. Hold the money until the buyer has what they paid for, and only then release the money to the seller. (To be fair, escrow does tend to be more expensive than simple money transfer, so it's not all upside.)
Can someone smarter than I explain this to a mere computer scientist?
Koptimism is the practice of the religion of Kopimi.
> Yes, and those accusations are stupid

Your original claim was "nobody accuses the proponents of those laws of being motivated by racism.". You were wrong. Now you are moving the goalposts.

> Do you accuse abortion advocates of being motivated by racism?

That is indeed something that conservatives accuse pro-choice people of quite often.

In all these cases you need to look at:

1. How recent the original motivations were and if they are still in place.

2. Outcomes.

In the case of the drug war, the motivations were recent and include several modern presidents from both sides of the aisle. Starting with Nixon but including Reagan and Bill Clinton.

And the outcome is jails filled with black people arrested on drug charges when the reality is that white people in the US both deal drugs and use drugs at a higher rate than black people.

You have recency, motivations still in place, and outcomes.

With abortions you neither have recency nor outcomes. The black population in the US is growing at a healthy rate. In fact, the black population in the US is young. Over a third of the U.S. Black population was 22 years or younger in 2019.

> you recognize that there are independent reasons for those policies

A policy can be motivated by both racism and other reasons. They aren't exclusive.
I used to hold that belief. Then I went to an organization with no managers, where nothing management related got done except by people who were already doing 40 hours a week as ICs. Now I have slightly updated my beliefs: fire all the bad managers, throw parades for the good ones.
I used to be able to provide very accurate play-by-play commentary on someone's game of Addams Family Pinball from the next room, based on sound alone. I doubt I could have played well blindfolded but I bet I could have played better than a pinball n00b, at least.
What's the defense against abuse of #1 - that's the usual problem we see with perfectly reversible transactions.
I'd love to buy my own servers for small-scale (i.e. startup size or research lab size) projects, but it's very hard to be utilizing them 24x7. Does anyone know of open-source software or tools that allow multiple people to timeshare one of these? A big server full of A100s would be awesome, with the ability to reserve the server on specific days.
I honestly don't understand how any self-respecting software developer wouldn't be excited by programmable money. I have wanted programmable money for almost a quarter of a century now, ever since I was consulting for a bank on their first website back in 1998. The centralized banking system simply refuses to do it... they barely even give me API access for taxes and accounting purposes, much less being able to automate moving money around or responding to payments :/. I've anxiously followed attempts by startups to build their own credit cards with better APIs (all of which end up sucking and eventually just fold), I've abused the hell out of the mostly-undocumented OFX endpoints offered by traditional banks, I was the largest mobile/phone customer of Amazon Flexible Payments up until they shut it down and replaced it with a lame Stripe competitor, and I have built an entire empire of tooling on top of PayPal... which somehow is the closest thing we still have here in 2022.

In contrast, crypto is this almost futuristic mechanism that centers developers by giving you a serverless transactional database system on which you not only can work with money but you can implement your own money. I can build my own mechanisms for authenticating access to that money, including--if I wanted to--replicating whatever features I liked from traditional systems. It offers functionality similar to ACH and wire transfers, but as a truly federated system that allows anyone to participate. Does it allow scams? Sure... but only in the same sense that other open systems like telephone networks, e-mail, and the web allow people to run scams! Are you really so closed minded as to not think everyone should get the power to automate their own lives as they see fit? God... I bet you are also one of those people who insist no one should be allowed to write or even install software on their own devices without going through Apple, or who insist that private end-to-end encrypted messaging is going to end civilization by mostly empowering terrorists, child abusers, and "Drug Cartels" :/.
Nuclear is too expensive and slow to deploy to address climate change, it is being used as a distraction in order to slow down the transition from fossil fuels, just like hydrogen was.