skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In particular with how advanced Gift Card Theft-Clone-Return Activation fraud is

Completely self-inflicted problem, happy to see such schadenfreude unfold. There's already a gift card that's pretty much immune to fraud (or at the very least makes fraud the bank's problem): money.

Gift cards are horrible waste and scam and ultimately only benefit the store at the expense of the buyer or the recipient of the card - you're turning good, actual cash, in something that's less valuable because now it has usage restrictions on them.
Any context, reasoning, or background?
Seconded. Do write it up.

I see vast.ai listing interruptible instance with a single A100 80GB at $1/hour which is pretty reasonable. ChatGPT plus is $20/month which would be roughly 20 hours of use and I wont't be lectured like I'm in a kindergarten or something.

A bonus point would be to make the writeup accessible for AI challenged developers. Asking for a friend.
Day the Earth Stood Still and Forbidden Planet are ‘required’. Haha. Robinson Crusoe on Mars is great.

The Black Hole is a Disney movie.

How about some TV?

Classic: Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, need I mention, Star Trek?

Current: Lost in Space, …

(Yikes. If 2001 is slow and boring, Solaris (1972) is watching paint dry. Sheesh)

… age appropriate is difficult, ahaha. You could also try your local library, the might have DVDs of TV shows and staff usually have kids section, and classics separate.
I both love these and hated them. At The Planet (before the Softlayer founders left) we had a wall of these that were so neat to look at. My 16 year old self thought they must be the best.

These things taught me that a web based control panel is hard to do right. We had so many that I often needed to do something and used the web UI at first. That didn’t last.

The Planet was generous and let me rack one for myself but I ditched it for an old 2u running Solaris not long after.
MD5 signatures don't mean much now that hash collisions could be created instantly on consumer hardware. MD5 is only good for checking for unintentional data corruption.
> Water molecules are the same everywhere and whatever tiny traces of soluble salts are in it could be added back and pass a double blind taste test.

waste discussion aside sounds like you have no idea what you are talking about. tons of waters taste differently and that comes fro the traces you find in it precisely because taste and smell work at the ppm level
I get “hmm, your browser isn’t supported” on safari mobile.
Yeah it's like they've never walked around a college campus and noticed that every other building is named after some alumni that has made large donations.
While I do think an opinionated template would be good; I do also hate how some languages pretend you don't need a package manager.

Back when code was shared more in ideas than implementations, this was truer. All too often today, first thing you need to do is import a package.
That sounds like a really cool experience. Could you expand further on the differences you saw?
Wooly thinking begets wooly thinking, I see.

Even if you hate all cryptocurrencies and financial use cases, the space has spurred a ton of new and interesting applied research. Ignoring eg BLS signatures and multiparty computation because of affinity with cryptocurrency isn't rational.
The US lost a war against Afghanistan FFS. A China in terminal decline is probably still a "threat" to the US in the sense that American Imperialism still wants to believe it can enforce its values by sheer military power.
The liability equation is massively different on the pharmacy side where there are strict penalties involved with distributing controlled OTC meds even, let alone prescriptions and controlled prescriptions.

Nobody is going to come down and slap a fine on you for having a dozen cameras stolen. They very certainly will if that cough syrup wasn’t distributed correctly.
Incorporation is just governments franchising. Before you have a massive central administration, you use "tax farmers" to collect revenue. Before you have the technical ability for a total centralization of surveillance and control, you have corporations.
Amazon Go was even more incredible than that.

Walking out without even having to deal with those pesky self-service cash register, their sometimes finicky scales, and some supermarkets’ more than annoying rules, feels like a weird magic trick.

You would just walk in, pick stuff up, and walk out. That’s it.

Each time I couldn’t help but feel like I was shoplifting.

And then the invoice came in by email, always accurate.

Truly bewildering.
Happens with a lot of websites, unfortunately. Also experienced this with Samsung when trying to manage my account for their SmartThings app.
Uniqlo does the same, at least in the UK.
Long time ago my bank used to block it, a simple change of User-Agent fixed that problem.
Yep, there's a reason why I credited Golang with mainstreaming the concept, not inventing it. The model goes back quite a ways, but Golang brought it into the mainstream.
Why do I need to do that to defend the specific, factual point that DEI efforts are common in American workplaces? It’s not a value judgement, it’s just a fact.
I hope this doesn't signal the end of the entire business model.

I know there are still speed bumps and problems to address, but cashier in a convenience store is one of those awful jobs I don't think anyone should have to do if we can avoid it.

I've had plenty of friends and family work those jobs, and briefly did it myself (at a gas station). Often these friends worked overnight, with the risk of being held up at 3am when no one is around. Usually it's just standing around waiting for a customer, with occasional chores to be done.

And it always pays as little as legally possible.

Let's destroy this job.
Not just nightly. Stable is blocked as well.

Seems we're in the next IE-era.
The proper way would be "hold '.' and pray nothing shows up to one shot you"
> Standardized tests are much easier to prep for than GPA and extracurriculars.

Based on comments so far, I'm curious what you mean by this. My own take is that you are correct because standardized tests are 'easier to prep for' because, in many ways, they are IQ tests that you can't prep for, or rather that Bang for the Buck of prepping is low. So, poor, smart kids with no prep can take the test hung over and do well, as the author says. Rich folks can get tutors to spend tens or hundreds of hours prepping, and have only a modest impact on their score.
> is that you don't have to remove stuff from your cart, making it way, way quicker.

I don't understand the mechanics. You need to put the physical item back and also remove it from the barcode reader, no?
Indeed. But that’s a separate problem to the one the GP raised.
Firefox ESR as well.
"any quantifiable, OBJECTIVE framework"

The whole contention is that these measures are not objective, and that they're biased in favor of certain groups.

You can't just base the core of your argument on the assumption of objectivity when that objectivity itself is what is in question.
Is it blocking Firefox entirely? At least on an M2 Mac, it shows "Your browser isn't supported" running Firefox v110.0.1.
It can be a failure on Amazons part without it being a failure of the cashierless store concept.
"Vast" has subjectivity to it, and neither of us will bother doing this per capita, but China, as well as the US, Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines have massive populations and it's not the most popular in them.

I suppose if the low-hanging goal is better than iMessage lock-in then sure. Saying Facebook has a lot of data already doesn't make it excusable--especially with younger generations not even having or wanting accounts (though Instagram, same parent, yadda). I actually don't think this is marginal either as it's not difficult to use Facebook from a browser or just not share your contacts, but a requirement is a different story, if this data wasn't valuable, why would they have payed billions to acquire a chat app with E2E enabled?
Why not use stable FF for your business meetings?
Books came from a Seattle-based company and not South America? Your shoes came from an Oregon company and not a Greek goddess?

At some point, a brand is just a brand.
If hosted Gitlab is so easy for contribution, why is the larger social graph on GitHub?
The same issues of high construction cost and NIMBYism that doomed california's highspeed rail project ensured that the hyperloop was doomed from the start, only doubly so since the other project was already started.

Really though, I feel the US has pretty much the optimal rail system. Every rail line devoted to moving people around is another one that can't be used for high efficiency freight transport, resulting in freight being moved far less efficiently by trucks.
What examples force not using an editor? Many have a "natives use this" choice, but few lock you to it.
Based on above it seems you want to test the hypothesis that 'there is a python-like functional language in the space of FP'.

Is there anything ~technical you can share beyond desires and disappointments that leads you to believe this is a reasonable hypothesis?
If you introduce proprietary seeds into the marketplace with considerably better yields, you can easily destroy the markets for the free-to-replant crops by lowering prices of the produce.

It's not outlawing a technology really, it's outlawing a middle-man who takes a sizable chunk of the profit.
What? Doesn't Debian come with thermald by default?
You can run your own resolver
Pasteurized lemon juice or fresh squeezed?

For example, when tenderizing meat with pineapple or lime, only fresh squeezed retains the enzymes that break down connective muscle tissue. Cans of pasteurized fruit or juice have no effect.

I wonder if this effect requires the same fresh source.
A suggestion: Judge the parent who did the action, not the child who was along for the ride.

Unless you have some specific knowledge that the child insisted on their parents taking the action, it’s not really fair to blame the child. A lot of children don’t have much choice in the matter at that age.
It's probably a mistake to think of Java's classes as being types.

They can types, but most of these "classes with funny names" are more often than not just a logical grouping of functions.

It's probably more informative to view them as a bundle of parametrized functions, than as a record of data.
As someone who's dabbled in Clojure: the project manager scene (lein vs boot vs deps CLI) is not nearly as bad it is may seem. They are different project workflow runners, not completely different ways to write code and use dependencies. They are not radically different in their core job of taking your code, downloading dependencies and running it.

If you're a beginner, you can choose any one and there's very little you're missing out or getting locked into. You only need to worry about the choice when you start having complex development workflows.

In comparison, the JavaScript ecosystem is much, much more divided. There are different ways to write modules, different ways to build them, different package repositories, etc..
I guess it makes sense. It just feels like there should be a separate bus for that rather than dumping it all on the same bus used by the engine controls.
How can we quantify "not actually much"? Here's my attempt for multiply:

You'd have to do a imul instruction followed by a right shift. On, say, Ice Lake, the imul has a reciprocal throughput of 1 and a latency of 3. The shift has RT of 0.5 and a latency of 1.

So compared to regular integer multiply, a fixed-point implementation on Ice Lake would be 0.67x the speed if you were throughput bound and 0.75x the speed if you were latency bound.

But most (all?) other operations wouldn't be any slower than regular integer operations, so a real program would slow down by less than the figures calculated above.
ADT's and exhaustive pattern matching are in Rust. The way you wrote your comment makes it clear that you know that, but might as well make it explicit.

IMO, people come to Rust because of memory safety, but they stay because of ADT's and similar features.
The ivy leagues combined are half a percent of college students. They are not representative of the system as a whole.
Or why not program them to wait (or whatever other behaviour, from turning around/re-routing to fighting) when they see the cell in front of them is already occupied by another turtle?
It's interesting that you're putting out that Jacobin article as a good description of conservatism. It is describing a bunch of characterizations that are often invoked by liberals, but would seem to be convenient straw men. (I'll circle back and read it again to see if I can pull anything else out of it, but that's what I've gotten so far)

Running with what I've gotten from it - if we're not supposed to question power structures and just let them be, then why all the criticism and hate for the Cathedral? Isn't it just another power structure that actually came out of the Church and has existed for a few hundred years in its own right - pretty much all of modernity? And similarly with the bureaucratic state - it is what it is.

Furthermore - trying to invoke a "better" power structure from some arbitrary time in the past as the way things should be - isn't this solidly venturing into the territory of trying to use reason to organize and change society? How else can you judge that a previous power structure was better?

It would seem that starting with that article's description of conservatism's foundations, it's a quick leap to get back to my working definition of resisting change rather than trying to go backwards.

---

For my perspective, reading Unqualified Reservations has informed my own thinking. The "alt right" seems to have descended from it and its contemporaries, so I don't think it's particularly wrong to reference it. For example, https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2009/01/gentle-intr... has what I thought was a good mostly-above-the-fray attempt at describing left vs right, if you can stomach the hyperbole and overstatement. FWIW that post was part of my switching from seeing myself as an unaligned libertarian back to being liberal (thanks Yarvin!). I don't necessarily like the Cathedral, nor the direction it and the blue team tend to pull in. But I certainly don't want to go backwards and try to shoehorn society into more prescriptive hierarchies!
so is this the ie11 user agent matching thing?
In my view it might be possible to distribute resources to a greater extent by making it explicitly a lottery. For instance, a college could assign a "score" to each applicant, using their existing process, but then deliberately add a certain amount of random noise to the score. Socially, everybody would know that acceptance was decided by a combination of "merit" (by whatever measure) and luck.

The degree of randomness could depend on the school. For instance, community colleges accept virtually 100% of applicants anyway, and a random factor would not change anything.
I’ve taught at Tulane and I promise you some of these 31 ACT kids can’t add fractions or understand how exponents work, leave aside integrals.
Ask HN: Jailbreaking iPhone getting ever harder. Should EU sue Apple?
I think when you buy a device, you own it and should be able to do whatever you want with it (unless it's harming others). I've been a long time iPhone/iPad user and used to jailbreak my iDevices, but recent versions of Apple chips make it almost impossible to jailbreak the device. I understand the risks, but who is Apple to decide what I can and cannot do with my device after I purchase it at their premium prices no less?

I think the EU has focused on the wrong problems, namely, USB C. Whereas a truly open device must in fact provide a jailbreak switch deep in the settings app where users can freely toggle should they want less restricted access.
There is another angle here besides copyright and that is the sharing of prop/trade secret data. This model is only available to specific orgs who request it (i.e. it's non-public) and I imagine that there are confidentiality terms for the orgs that get the access.

Not too familiar with the drama but I believe what happened was that someone with access leaked the torrent used to download the weights. In a legal sense this would be similar to someone say leaking a Google Drive link containing prop information that was only intended to be shared with vendors.
That implies that OOP and FP are excluding each other, when they both can be used at the same time.
Why? That makes very little sense in an OOP language. E.g.

var v = new VeryLongClassName();
v.op1();
v.op2();

Alternatively:

var v = new VV();
v.veryLongMethodName1();
v.veryLongMethodName2();

More code for the second option, doesn't increase readability.
A day spent in nature is never a lost day
Then there is an error. Teams supports FF stable, they have even made efforts to improve support

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filter...
The link is https://teams.live.com/_#/unsupportedBrowser

I imagine this is what Teams forwards you to when it sees FF Nightly as your browser.
> is the only water I've ever tasted that has that smooth texture

My head hurts.
I think I framed it at the time as requiring some "V For Vendetta"-esque takeover of democracy. (which in itself no longer seems to remote).

But I now see that things don't need to get comic-book bad for Schmidt's statement to be dangerously wrong.
Works for me with the Office 365 Teams. Is the one on live.com different?
Parallelism is concurrency (+maybe a little SIMD) done for speed's sake.

Haskell is by far the best programming experience I've ever had (all aspects included), and it's damn fast. It's just not C/C++/Rust fast in nearly all cases.

Having said that, going functional for 'parallelism advantage' (speed) is a fool's errand (for now).

The same thing is said about how incredibly fast JIT has become. (But AOT is faster!)

Want speed? C/C++/Rust.
Farmers have nothing to do with DST. Farmers don't live their lives by clocks anyway. Farmers universally think DST is stupid, and the ag industry is usually opposed.

https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/not-a-...
Only problem is that this relies on a loyalty card, at least for the ones I've seen, which makes it a non-starter for many people.
Then what do you do for children coming from wealthy families who don't support them? Just because the parents have money doesn't mean they spend any of it or time on their kid, and with your system, those kids get screwed.

It's difficult.
No, that's the fancy part. You pick up a barcode reader at the entrance, something like [0]. When you pick something from the shelf, you scan it, and put in the cart. You don't remove the stuff from the cart until your car, so you can already fill up your bags in the cart!

[0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Barcode-...
I agree this has been a prerequisite for full NATO ascension so far. However, The process starts with a promise of NATO membership which was given. Since 2014 NATO has has operated several trust funds and aid packages to modernize the Ukrainian military. There has also been a NATO/US presence in Ukraine, training, and joint exercises.

Prior to the war, Ukraine sought entry despite ongoing conflicts, claiming "NATO is the only way to end the war in Donbas".

Since the start of the war, Former US Ambassador to NATO and others have called for Ukraine to be offered membership, despite territorial conflicts.
Neat! Must just be compring the distance of embeddings?
Thats also blocked. But what did you expect from a greedy multi-million $ company, that already forces their browser on your system. Yust recently there was a post on here that pointed out how Microsoft forces Edge on their Windows Users. So yeah, what did you expect...
DMCA in Germany?
Then any trusts that benefit you should be counted as part of your wealth.
No, there is something wrong with their browser detection. Teams supports Firefox, Chrome and Edge https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filter...
Some parentheses languages are much easier to use if you're familiar with a structural editor, for example.
I used to think standardized tests were the way to go, but...

My kid recently went through another testing gauntlet, which is the 11+ test. For those who aren't in the Southeast corner of the UK, this is a multiple choice type test that looks a lot like an IQ test in some ways. It's a single sitting and determines whether you are allowed into something called a Grammar School, which is just a selective school, and the test is taken the year the kid turns 11.

So the thing about this test is that nobody will admit to it, but everyone in the middle class will hire tutors to help their kids pass the test. Furthermore, private primary schools will spend a lot of time prepping for this test in the two years before the kids take the test. Plenty of people do both: send their kids to a fee-paying primary school, and pay for tutors.

Guess what, the pass rate for fee-paying (aka independent) schools is way higher than for state schools. It's hard to break down which parents went for state + tutoring, but it's not exactly a stretch to suppose those kids did better than state school kids with no tutoring. Furthermore state schools that do well tend to be in certain wealthy areas.

If you have a look at one of these tests, it's pretty clear you benefit from practicing. Like just about any test, if you've done it before you are at an advantage, the more the better.

I don't see how this isn't gaming the test. The idea with a test is to uncover which kids will get the most out of the selective school, but how is that going to work when a select few are prepped for the test?

Now just for the record I did the SAT back when I was a kid. It's pretty much the same as the 11+, for a slightly older age group. Again, it doesn't make any sense to say it's hard to game. People are gaming it as we speak.

I think what might actually be hard to game is teacher recommendations. After all these people have been with the kid for a long time and know what they can do. They also tend to be distanced enough that they don't have to say good things about every kid.
Start with a small company to establish precedent, like patent trolls do.
> Why is naming your product after a place that evokes characteristics you’d like to emphasize a lie?

Try to replace "place" by "brand" in the sentence above.

In Europe _places are brands_. Sure, in the US I might want to name my product "Coca Cola chocolate" or something, because of the sweet brown characteristics I'd like to emphasize. Doesn't mean I'm allowed to.
To be fair, it may not have been the dual boot itself that was risky.

Unless they had a dedicated harddrive, they would also need to resize existing fat32/ntfs partitions and add a couple of new partitions for Linux. This process had a certain risk.
Spending time in Haskell really improved my programming in other languages. I now use a functional style by default. I program imperatively when I have to, as a conscious choice, like a code smell.

It's nearly always better for the project to choose a widely known and supported language, which will be Java or Python or some such. But learning how much can be done functionally when the language compels you to changes the way you look at it even when the language has imperative features.