skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Pick anybody from anywhere and they'll tell you they've been able to do everything they ever wanted to do (with regards to payments) using the already-existing systems of their country.

As an American, this definitely isn't true for me. I've found so many large organizations fail to make auto-pay work, transferring money is mind-bogglingly slow, and going from magnet to chip-and-pin instead of straight to tap-and-go was a regression. Some companies are able to bill you after you no longer wish them to bill you, while other organizations make it difficult to find out how much you even owe them in the first place when you want to pay them. Not sure how much the last couple can be solved with incremental tech.
I'm curious what your thoughts are on iNaturalist, as a computational biologist. I'm a frequent user of that platform and I often wonder about the biases involved with user-generated content like that (people probably have a higher propensity to upload observations of flowering plants than they do of ferns, or bacteria, etc.).

So I guess I wonder: is it a common resource for a computational biologist (or similar), or is it just considered a source of mostly garbage data?
I have a prompt from February pre chatgpt and now I just use the models functions support, it's built for exactly that
No, US bank to bank transfers/payments are quite slow, and not commonly used for small transactions. But there are a couple substitutes that are used:

* Zelle is basically better bank transfers and is already supported by many (most?) US banks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelle_(payment_service)

* Random 'third party' money transfer services like Venmo, Cashapp, Paypal, etc.

But similar to messaging in the US, the main issue is fragmentation. There's isn't quite a national consensus like some other countries have.
"Would the United States welcome Chinese and Russian nuclear capable installations in Mexico or Cuba?"

Puin was flying nuclear bombers down the California coast in 2014, 50 miles offshore.... nobody overreacted.

If you are referring to the Romanian ABM site, Putin could have just put an ABM site in Cuba, or in international waters off the coast of the USA...

The Romanian site doesn't have nuclear weapons....
> Reddit is the first place they look.

And how the hell do they "look" Reddit? Don't tell me the high-schoolers actually prefer Reddit's search than Google? If it's true I'm deeply worried about humanity's future.
Window dressing, use something like https://www.typingmind.com/ and get way more flexibility.
If there is no such thing as good code, why does it spark so much discussion? Why care at all?
I slightly disagree - it's the verification and integration of knowledge. The integration part - that is, reading papers and assessing them compared to all the others you've read, is quite hard, but it performs the useful function of creating a weighted average in your mind of what is real, and where the boundary is. This is part of graduate training, but it's basically what review papers do, so there is a time lag built in. AI for this would be huge, and it seems like it's not far off. And I want it to cite sources and point me to the real references, please.
The point is that it's a problem where "9 women can't make a baby in a month". It's a slow, iterative, grinding advance in many different directions more than something that could be cracked in a decade with sufficient resources.
I don't think it's unfair to consider the opportunity cost of pursuing these things versus providing social services. Eisenhower points to a similar tradeoff in his Chance for Peace speech:

> Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Now admittedly this is talking about about the cost of the military industrial complex rather than the cost of scientific pursuits. But I'm sure someone could make a case for the Apollo program merely being an ICBM manufacturing program in a trench coat.
It's nerd humor and nerd aspiration. It's a novelty song, but it shows what people want.
They have in Germany, turkey, netherlands
Sticks and stones
Can you double check the title and maybe add the author? I’d like to pick a copy of this up for my dad.
This is pure strain Russian propaganda, nothing you have shared here backs up Putin's claims that NATO is some existential threat to Russia. Everything since the invasion of Georgia has shown Russia to be the aggressor on the world stage, countries like Ukraine that Putin considers to be owned by Russia are right to run to NATO for defense.
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Then prosecute them for it? Our society probably shouldn’t depend on credit card processors to maintain law and order.
Given the occasional hallucinations, best to have a computer in the loop for validation.
Well, it still seems to be sitting up top, so I had to pick on this comment when I made a demo of the proggy:

https://youtu.be/jDwy8Js4FiU
And then void the warranty by water cooling it.
And have since before I was born - but what does this have to do with invading Ukraine now?
People can debate till the cows come home. But it's worth remembering that hacker news is about stimulating intellectual curiosity.

There's no reason for this to have a fixed flow, either - it's got a hint of diagonalizability to it - by which I mean, you can get the model to build a schema for dynamic flows, given a 'bootstrapping' schema. No different than what has always had to happen for someone to write a compiler for a programming language in the language itself.
Oppenheimer was a genius, but his superpower was being good at both theoretical and practical physics. He did Nobel-prize level work and also ran the Manhattan Project. I think that’s comparable to getting the gold medal at the Olympics for 2 different sports.

General Leslie Groves thought very highly of Oppenheimer, and if you got the stamp of approval from Groves, you were doing something right.

Oppenheimer was dragged through the mud during the red scare and his name is still tarnished because of that. It is ironic and a little sad that he was awarded the Fermi medal once his name was finally cleared because Fermi worked for him during the Manhattan Project. It probably would have been the Oppenheimer Medal if it weren’t for Senator McCarthy.

Oppenheimer beat Heisenberg (also a pretty smart guy) to the bomb and not by a little either. And thank whatever higher power is out there he did.

(I am reusing most of my comment from a different story)
> The intent was good, the execution was bad

Without being mind readers all we can know is what Manning claimed about intentions. People who break their oaths aren’t the most trustworthy cohort. Regardless, good intentions do not absolve anyone from high crimes and precipitating mass murder.

> ISIS was the direct result of the US invasion of Iraq

Without weakened or destroyed regimes across the region due to Manning’s actions there wouldn’t have been as much freedom for ISIS to spread. Manning shares the blame.
Putin flew nuclear bombers within 50 miles of the US coast. And they weren't shot down....

And there are no nuclear weapons installations in Ukraine.
Los alamos used a room full of women for doing simulations when their IBM machine was out of order:

We needed a man to repair the machines, to keep them going and everything. And
the army was always going to send this fellow they had, but he was always delayed.

Now, we always were in a hurry. Everything we did, we tried to do as quickly as
possible. In this particular case, we worked out all the numerical steps that the machines
were supposed to do — multiply this, and then do this, and subtract that. Then we worked
out the program, but we didn’t have any machine to test it on. So we set up this room with
girls in it. Each one had a Marchant: one was the multiplier, another was the adder. This
one cubed — all she did was cube a number on an index card and send it to the next girl.

We went through our cycle this way until we got all the bugs out. It turned out
that the speed at which we were able to do it was a hell of a lot faster than the other way,
where every single person did all the steps. We got speed with this system that was the
predicted speed for the IBM machine. The only difference is that the IBM machines
didn’t get tired and could work three shifts. But the girls got tired after a while.
More war will increase deficit spending, regardless of our income tax contributions. Why contribute further?
I was just reading this earlier today:

"“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.”
― Richard P. Feynman "

Regardless of the source, these (and yours in the same vein) are some wonderful ideas.
> Is this the first US implementation of "Faster Payments"?

No, there's already Zelle, which is fairly popular now, though not as ubiquitous as instant bank transfers in other countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelle_(payment_service)
https://archive.is/Lud9f
I actually go out of my way to say “oh my golly” etc at work just because I figure invoking any specific deity might upset some people, but I can curse like a sailor in an appropriate setting with friends. Being respectful of others with your language just seems like a basic element of civility to me, and as far as I can observe it is for the people I know as well.

So, yeah, I “actually care” about treating others respectfully, and I don’t think it’s an uncommon trait among people accused of “pc” views as described by the parent commenter.

And that’s why, like that commenter, I’m often just mystified by the griping about what boils down to something simple as “respect people even if they’re different”. I think I learned that from Richard Scarry’s Busytown so I guess I was “pc” way before I knew what politics were.
True, though this may mean many things. The only part of CFR 14 that mentions that a certificate is required for operating aircraft is CFR 14 61.3 which states that an unexpired certificate is required to `exercise the privileges' of that certificate. So if the PAO does not require the certificate to begin with, this part does not apply and one only has to comply with part 91 rules. Again, feel free to disagree, the sheriff told me this so who knows:)
It's relative, of course.

Even if it was a fundamental property of the universe that humans were tools, my personal philosophy would not change.

It is interesting to consider though, and I am also willing to update my philosophy to include non-biological intelligence one day. We're not there yet.
const schema = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, "sentimentSchema.ts"), "utf8");
const translator = typechat.createJsonTranslator<SentimentResponse>(model, schema, "SentimentResponse");

It would have been much nicer if they took this an an opportunity to build generic runtime type introspection into TypeScript.
Yes, but nobody has violated Russian sovereignty.
Desperation born of ~100% market share in the mobile space
that’s a pretty slick deal ;)
Never heard of Susanna Clarke or her novel. My first thought at hearing the name Piranesi is Brian Ferneyhough's Carceri d'invenzione cycle of works. Just goes to show that Piranesi, like other artists, inspired quite a lot of people and one can't expect a journalist to mention one's favourites among them when he/she is interested in the artist himself.
https://archive.is/gmhxj
And how is generative AI leading to large increases in productivity?
They believe it anyway though.
> Oppenheimer was dragged through the mud during the red scare and his name is still tarnished because of that. It is ironic and a little sad that he was awarded the Fermi medal once his name was finally cleared because Fermi worked for him during the Manhattan Project.

It's ironic to me that this is the first time I'm hearing that he was caught up in the red scare. I mean I'm no historian but apparently didn't tarnish his name all that much! :-)
Dart, but this is true of my various hobby languages too (though those have the delicious advantage of almost no users to worry about breaking).
Developers love to debate about these things, but everything has been said already. I've noticed that the better the developers, the less they engage about these topics.
The link says:

> The United States is responsible for the war in Ukraine, and that's not Putin's
propaganda; it's just history

Which is obviously incorrect on its face, Putin claimed to invade Ukraine because Ukraine wanted to be liberated and is part of the Russian Empire, wrongly let go of by prior rulers of Russia. It is disgusting propaganda to lie and say the US or the west caused this war - Putin caused it, fullstop, that's it.
Yes, Congress passed a bill 110 years ago to give a private group broad authorities. The third central bank of the USA.
It is not bits, but weights
The ultimate hacker hero of the ‘90s. RIP Kevin.
Hmm, surely there's some kind of support for a pull request that has to be approved, no?

It seems like requiring the consumer to manually set up a push payment to a company would probably be annoying and error prone, compared to having them entering their details on a website and then the company requesting payment.
> The machine is mine and I do work on it.

> My employer doesn’t dictate how I get things done and paid for the machine I want.

That is very much not your machine. If your employer ever gets sued, or runs into some investigation, or some internal dispute escalates enough, all the data on it is now likely available for them for review.

Given large enough company and enough people, you'll get that "preserve documents for discovery" email one day. It happens outside of the US too.
Sadly it is no longer commercially available after he died of a heart attack at the age of 41 in 2005

If it's an exacting replica of a preexisting typeface it shouldn't be covered under copyright and thus you should be able to freely share it.
You right we cannot. Because you have lied.
There's always a possibility that a bad metaphor can be made, but this doesn't mean that metaphors themselves are bad. They require at least some consideration in order to communicate and relate the relevant details of something to another thing. It would be like criticizing multiplication because sometimes people forget to carry extra values
That's called malware I think.
They got it from India and then took it Japan.
https://archive.is/fjQ7b
> the overwhelming majority of papers in most disciplines will hold up very well under scrutiny

I guess you didn't get the memo about the replication crisis?

But even leaving that aside, no, your statement here is not correct.

Even in "hard" sciences, many papers don't end up holding up under scrutiny. That's by design. The purpose of publishing a paper is not to document a result that is already known for sure to be right. It is to push the boundaries of current knowledge. Many such pushes don't pan out. We non-scientists don't see that because we never hear about those papers. We only hear about the ones that do pan out--or the ones that somebody hyped and marketed even though they hadn't panned out yet, and then got caught.

To take an example from a century ago: if you just look at Einstein's published papers on General Relativity, it looks pretty straightforward. He made a few tries all tending in the same direction and finally ended up with the right field equation, the one that we now know, a century later, to have extensive experimental confirmation. What you don't see is all the papers published by all the other physicists that were working on a relativistic theory of gravity--all of which were wrong and were dropped. But they were still published papers, because the standard of publication wasn't "this has to be right", but "this is worth considering to see if maybe it's right".

> We need scientists talking directly to the public, explaining what they're doing

We already have that. Scientists write books, do videos, have blogs. Unfortunately, scientists don't do a good job at communicating with the public, because they don't take care to distinguish what is actually established--by experimental confirmation and replication--from their own pet hypotheses that haven't yet been confirmed. (String theory in physics is a prime example: string theory makes no testable predictions at all, yet string theorists routinely talk about it as if it were proven fact.)

> and listening to screwball ideas from the peanut gallery.

No, we don't need that, because nobody from the "peanut gallery" (meaning people who are interested in science but don't have a good understanding of our best current theories) has ever, in the history of science, come up with an idea worth pursuing. Tales to the contrary are myths. For example, Einstein is often given as an example of a "peanut gallery" person who came up with a great theory; in fact he was nothing of the kind. He got a doctorate in physics right around the time he published his classic 1905 papers. He had a thorough understanding of the best current theories of the time in physics, and that was recognized by the top physicists of the time. He had close connections with top experimental physicists who kept him up to speed on the latest discoveries, and he worked with them to develop theoretical models for them (for example his work on Brownian motion and on specific heats). He was no "peanut gallery" person; he was a working scientist.
Let’s be entirely honest, it would be unreasonable to assume they aren’t going to log every bit of data they can.

I don’t know why anyone would assume they aren’t going to link it with the IRS, and make it available to any agency that asks.

If the plan is to offer a “money request” service and offer much the same functionality as Venmo, there will be a “for” line.

Even with credit card payments now, they are coded at a minimum.

Everything is logged always.
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> the overwhelming majority of papers in most disciplines will hold up very well under scrutiny

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Most_Published_Research_Fi...
Actually saw this comment before reading but the article gives sufficient context for the comparison in my opinion.

> Well, he was no Einstein. And he’s not even up to the level of Heisenberg, Pauli, Schrödinger, Dirac, the leaders of the quantum revolution of the 1920s. One of the reasons for this was his birth date. He was born in 1904, so he was 3 years younger than Heisenberg, 4 years younger than Pauli. Those few years were enough to place him in the second wave of the quantum revolution and behind the main wave of discovery, in what [philosopher of science] Thomas Kuhn called the “mopping-up operation,” applications of the new theory.

Edit: not saying I agree or not
wrong. when i said immediately i considered including the phrase “as quickly as logistics etc allows” but i thought it was way too obvious. do you think i meant it would happen instantaneously in front of our eyes like a f*ing magic trick?
One of those "confirmed" suicides occurred in Japan and the individual was also a US citizen. The US State Department doesn't list any suicides when it was said to have happened (June 2021 - there was one prior to that in May and another in February 2022). Reporting the death of a foreign national to their respective embassy is mandatory in Japan.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...
If I never plan to visit the UK, then I would expect to be able to ignore the lawsuit entirely, right? Or does this represent a new threat where the US would extradite its own citizens for trial in the UK? Would some treaty bind me to a default judgement obtained in my absence?
u know it ;)
The problem is that for hundreds of years, the vast majority of your communication was in person, or it was not recorded. Now almost every thought you have is permanently recorded. I have no problem with actively suspected criminals having their current communications intercepted. What I have an issue with is having everyone's historical communications stored and open for taking
Turns out it's harder to break into a field when failing means breaking the half million dollar piece of equipment until the vendor can ship out a replacement part!
Right, a pull request is called a Request For Payment (RFP). It is an important feature and it's already online.
IRS e-file software would not have to pre-fill every source of data they have, making them vulnerable to fraud if a taxpayer notices some income wasn't reported and realizes they can get away with "forgetting" to report it.

All they need to do is offer free e-file software and fill in W-2, 1099, and any other standard information that everyone knows is going to be reported anyway because it comes from employers or financial institutions. IRS could still leave it up to individuals to self-report any other sources of income, even income the IRS knows about through other data sources. They don't have to show all their cards.

Other countries already have systems like this. How do they handle it? Do they tell taxpayers what their tax bill is based on all data sources, or just the standard ones (incorporated employers, financial institutions) and expect taxpayers to fill in the rest even if the government already knows about them?

I think it's more a theoretical problem than an actual problem. Getting away with not reporting income at the time of filing because the government doesn't know about it sounds fun, until the government discovers that income later through updated or alternate sources, and then you have to pay that plus penalties. Betting that the government won't know about it ever because they don't know about it now seems like a bad strategy. Any income the government very likely doesn't know about, like cash transactions, is already reported on the honor system, and only because of personal ethics or fear of audits or employees whistle-blowing on their employers' tax fraud. None of that would change.
> The moon landing transcends race

Perhaps aspirationally, but empirically, the Apollo program did not transcend race. It's not racist to call out racism - the "He who smelt it, dealt it" defense is intellectually lazy.

> But that's not what the poem critiques,

I don't see how you can say that, when the poem is literally titled "Whitey on the Moon". One would have to assume the decision to highlight whiteness was deliberate - it easily could have been "Neil on the Moon" or "Man on the Moon" if the author/perfomer so desired.
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As I understand it, eventually this should lead to ubiquitous, cheap/free, instant payments, similar to UPI in India. That can be very convenient and useful.

Now, obviously there are various competing services for this kind of use case already: Venmo, Cashapp, Zelle, etc. So maybe it won't be better enough to feel like an improvement, but that's the aim.
Should they withhold the feature entirely because they can't deliver it to China?