skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't see MasterCard threatening to cut off credit payments here.

This is because these places can't accept credit card payments, only cash. Debit cards (and cash) were the only payment they accepted.
Well hold on. The problem with attestation is you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

If you use a browser which supports attestation you will be denied service by companies who disapprove of what you run on your computer.

If you don't use a browser which supports attestation you will be denied service by companies who disapprove of what you run on your computer.

So everyone loses. If this goes live everyone in the world loses.

It is an utterly heinous proposal. It is perhaps the worst thing Google has ever produced. I use Firefox and will never use any browser that implements attestation, even if I have to stop using most of the WWW one day.

But unfortunately individual action is not going to be enough here, because no matter what you do, you lose.
> It’s easy to verify that they are real.

Okay, I'll bite; how?

(In all sincerity - I don't believe you, but if there really is an easy solution, that would make my life better and would be appreciated)
Someone reading your profile will have to parse whether the not-paid answer actually answered the question, before they can determine whether it's a "non-paying customer" or just someone refusing to pay for an irrelevant non-answer.
We have self-balancing bicycles. We clearly know it well enough to replace the human with a computerized machine.

Maybe we don’t know how humans use the bicycle but we know how bicycles balance, we can write programs to balance them physically.

0: https://youtu.be/Ya7iacmVjUM

1: https://youtu.be/2Z67NkvXIF4
There's no personal income tax in Tennessee.

I suspect that it is cost-beneficial (where-ever the funding source) to have a technical/trade -educated workforce. "Rising waters lift all ships."
Is shared hosting at all relevant these days? A VPS costs only a few dollars and gives you complete freedom.
Game theory shows that being uncooperative gives weaker parties the upper hand
Wouldn't they just be able to look up who is the owner of the LLC? Wouldn't this only keep you out of a subset of automated systems?
I've heard the Greyhound level of service plummeted after they acquired their competitor Trailways, but that was before my time so can't comment first-hand.

That + plummeting prices of air travel due to deregulation likely gutted the industry profits, which led to less reinvestment in their capital assets, which led to poorer experience, GOTO 20.
`char` is both unsigned and less than 32-bits.
Not a lawyer, but I’d strongly suspect that funds flows crossing state lines and using Federal Reserve wire transfers for settlement would make Fed jurisdiction quite possible.
With SD you have a lot of control over not just basics like image size and prompt complexity, but also things like how many iterations of which different sampler(s) get used.

So speed can vary wildly depending on how you're choosing to use it. And that's without even getting into the wide variance of hardware.

But generally speaking, it will usually be significantly faster than one image per minute.
Meaningful enough that whole businesses have been based on it.

The trouble with payment processing isn't equivalent to legality. See adult entertainment.
So here's the thing. Apple's moves on #4 moved adtech stock prices down.

You don't need to believe me, info on the authenticity of their effort is priced into the markets.

Or, you can believe those lined up to fight Apple on these capabilities.

This is really outdated: https://images.apple.com/safari/docs/Safari_White_Paper_Nov_...

But boy did it get Meta mad:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/09/facebook-warns-about-apple-i...

But they did more:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/07/apple-beefing-up-...

And now more:

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/ios-17-will-stop-websites-fro...

Every time generating letters to Washington and Brussels how Apple's taking food out of the mouths of data and ad brokers.

I'd have run out of tiny violins if I didn't have GarageBand to make me a loop.
Yes. They used a commercial verification service for that program. One that can't be bothered to verify using all forms of payment cards.
But they are being used. They are not going "boom", but they are being used for deterrence. Ukraine used to have nukes, was duped into giving them up, and now they are in an unenviable position.

As for roads, schools and hospitals. Are you saying the US is not spending on them? I think we are spending more on roads, schools and hospitals than pretty much any other nation.

In NYC, the Department of Education has a current annual budget of $31.5 BN [1].
That's just one city with a population of 8 million people, in a nation with a total population of 330 million.

For comparison, the other DoE, the Department of Energy, has a budget that allocates $27.2 BN to nuclear weapons [2]. That's less than the budget for schools in a single city in the US.

We could give up the nuclear weapons and with the money saved we could almost double the school budget of NYC. Would that help? The NYC school budget is extraordinarily inefficient. The K-12 public schools have 1 million students [3]. So the city pays more than $30k per student. You did not misread that, and I did not make an arithmetic mistake: the city of New York pays (from our taxes) more than $30k per student. That's more than tuition at private schools in all other countries other than the US. All right, I didn't check that, maybe private school tuition is higher in Monaco or a handful of other ministates. But in the UK for example, the average private school tuition is about £15k, which is $20k [4].

What do kids get for $30k in NYC? Not much. For example [5]:

>The percentage of students in New York City who performed at or above the NAEP Proficient level was 27 percent in 2019.

So, only 27% of the kids in the public schools in NYC are deemed proficient in reading. That's what $31 billion gets you.

[1] https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/spotlight-school-budget-...

[2] https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-energy?fy=2...

[3] https://www.schools.nyc.gov/about-us/reports/doe-data-at-a-g...

[4] https://thinkstudent.co.uk/how-much-does-private-school-cost...

[5] https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/d...
Maybe regulate the substances, but regulating the interstate trade of those substances which can be significant is certainly Constitutional. Sure, the power over interstate trade has also been stretched, but that is ubiquitous across all products.
That's the parent's rights to be hyper-religious nuts which in the US is not just parental right but the 1st amendment, the first right anyone gets to have (religion along with freespeech). Indoctrinating kids with whatever wild and extreme view is their right. The only thing they can't do is compromise the safety and wellbeing of their child, if you think belief you don't like qualifies then forget their internet access, have the kids taken from them!

Nazis are raising murderous traitorus kids and religious children is your worry! What an insane world we live in.

Parent's aren't handed their children by society or the state, they brought them into the world and have both rights as well as responsibilities over them. And you don't get to say you have the right to free speech or have beliefs like the one you are holding now and be allowed to raise your kids one way and them try to legislate away the rights of other people to raise their children their own way no matter how vile it is.

This society thing is a two way street.

> I would like everyone else to have the same opportunity.

You don't have the right.

You can discourse with adults and change their views though and provide them the opportunity of your alternate viewpoint.

Influencing other people's minor children is no one's right. Not even the government. No matter how correct your view is. This is what libery looks like, because today you speak from a position of power with your views, tomorrow others get to do the same with your children.

Exigent circumstances aside, it is your civic duty to respect the rights of others and appreciate that right while vocally disagreeing with it.
This will almost always be the case with cheap things with a Usb-C port, even from big brands like Sonicare (toothbrushes and water flosses).

If you don't see USB PD (Power Delivery) on it, chances are it won't work with your usual chargers. Even with PD on it, it can be hit or miss, but at least at an 80% success rate vs 0% without it.
Give merchants an excuse to avoid credit card processor fees, and give the customers someone other than the shop to blame for it? Is an ill wind indeed that blows no good.

If there was some CBDC scheme that worked at all; how long would the credit cards last? They'd lose so much of the business the currently have as the default electronic payment system. Perhaps that has something to do with how hard it has been to get digital banking / payments to happen for the last 20 years?
Show HN: AI Web Co-Pilot that understands natural language and executes tasks
Hello, HN community,

Excited to share a Chrome extension we've been working on for the past months: iMean.AI, an AI web co-pilot that contextually understands natural language and executes tasks

The journey to iMean.AI started with an automation tool that imitates how we use software. iMean can interact with different elements on a webpage and perform various actions - clicking, hovering, typing, copying and pasting, etc. From there, iMean has the ability to understand human instructions in natural language. Now, iMean can understand instructions in context, break them into tasks, and execute them automatically.

Example Use Cases We Currently Support Well:

1. Schedule Google Calendar / Zoom meetings: (example prompt) Set up a weekly call with arthur@imean.ai to talk about UX roadmap on Friday at 1pm ET; add an agenda in the description

2. Draft mail in Gmail: (example prompt) Email zhi@imean.ai to welcome her to the iMean team and walk her through the key onboarding steps. Also cc arthur@imean.ai

3. Copy & paste info from Amazon / FB Marketplace to Google Sheets / Notion: (example prompt) Copy top 20 AI research positions from LinkedIn to Google Sheets

4. Reply to Craigslist listings: (example prompt) Reply to top 20 $2,000-$3,000 1B1B Craigslist listings in SF. In the email, mention I'm free this weekend to visit

Benefits iMean Provides:
1. Simple setup: Utilizes nature language to generate workflows no need to use APIs or build your own automation
2. Accuracy: Achieves higher accuracy than competitor products completely built on LLMs
3. Speed: delivers quicker results than competitor products completely built on LLMs

iMean is still in the early stages, so there might be some bugs, and we’ve yet to achieve 100% accuracy. We are improving it every day.

I appreciate your patience and any feedback. We’re particularly interested in hearing about use cases we haven't thought of and any suggestions for improvements.

Our discord channel here! https://discord.gg/YD9fSeM9Gu
I think it'd be valuable for anything that conducts electricity, and where resistive losses are significant or where strong electromagnets are desired.

So, long distance electricity transmission, motors, generators, MRI machines and magnetic confinement nuclear fusion reactors for example.

That said, the material as synthesized might not be very good for some particular application. The current handling capacity might not be good enough, or it might not be physically strong enough to use as motor windings.

I don't know enough to do the comparison, but I'd be curious how this new material holds up when compared to copper or aluminum wire in terms of current capacity, weight, strength, and cost of materials. One of the big reasons for skepticism about humanity's prospects for converting to a non-fossil-fuel based energy system is that there just isn't enough of the important metal resources to build all the batteries/EVs/transmission lines/solar panels/windmills we need. I myself am skeptical of the skeptics because I think the resource bottlenecks are overstated and there are usually acceptable workarounds, but I do think copper is going to be in very high demand over then next several decades. If we have a good, cheap copper alternative then that solves that problem. (It also introduces another, as we would then have to deal with enormous quantities of lead-based cabling.)
I built one of these as a hackathon during undergrad. It was surprisingly easy to get something working, even before modern DL techniques, in under 24 hours. I'm not surprised this has taken off.
> doing that sort of thing is almost certainly a waste of time.

A waste of time for both parties, because the author is wrong.

As Wikipedia helpfully points out: "The designation C refers only to the connector's physical configuration or form factor and should not be confused with the connector's specific capabilities"

From the write up it looks like he was able to get it working with the minimum 3A required by the cable spec. You don't actually have to support C-to-C cables if you choose to not to communicate with the e-marker.
Rolling Stone's look back, from 2021:

"Flashback: Sinead O’Connor Gets Booed Offstage at Bob Dylan Anniversary Concert"

<https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sinead-o-conno...>
Sony already owns a patent on that exact scenario from Black Mirror.

https://www.creativebloq.com/sony-tv-patent

> In it, TV viewers are only able to skip an advert by shouting the name of the brand. Yep, crying 'McDonald's!' is the only way to make the Big Mac disappear.

Companies will do the most insane, terrible things if not stopped. This will happen.
Monoprice's own website
Does Nothingness Exist?
The situation is more nuanced than that. Porn is sold online which introduces fraud issues. Much more importantly though it has an extremely (extremely!) high chargeback rate due to partners seeing a bill, confronting the payer, and then that payer claiming the charges are unauthorized and doubling down instead of admitting the purchase.

Cannabis is physical retail with the most stringent ID verifications of any purchase in US history, so the fraud issue is almost nonexistent.
You’re agreeing with me.

> The black/white conflict is different from any other racial conflict in America.

More precisely, the conflict between British and Dutch enslavers and their descendants and enslaved Africans and their descendants is different from any other racial conflict in America. The ordinary prejudice faced by everyone from Germans to Vietnamese to Guatemalans is not merely different in degree, but different in kind.

If you limit CRT to enslavers and their descendants, and the enslaved and their descendants, I agree CRT is observational rather than reductionist. But it hasn’t been so limited. “White” has been generalized to encompass Italians, Irish, etc., and “black” has been generalized into “people of color.” And it’s that generalization that I’m calling reductionist and nonsensical.
The recent testimony says it started with the Italians and the Vatican helping out in the 1930s.

Your point stands though. If these things are crashing then surely they would have crashed on some Third World hell-hole where the population would happily collect the debris and sell it to whoever wants to pay. It would be hard to cover something like that up. The US likes to think they are everything, everywhere, all at once, but it's not entirely true.
Article III.
> She was a nice lady, but clearly was having a pretty rough go of it. Most of the people on the bus seemed like that.

This pretty much describes my long-haul Greyhound experience (Atlanta to Texas).

It's also why I think everyone should travel more Greyhound for perspective. Take a book, some shareable food, some alcohol (concealable) and an extra cup, a willingness to have a conversation with a stranger, and an open mind.

There's a LOT of America and Americans we don't see these days.
NASA, DARPA Partner with Industry on Mars Rocket Engine
Any chance they were actually pulling and using credit reports for this? That would explain debit cards not working.

I’m not aware of any name/identity verification method natively based on Visa/Mastercard payment cards.
I'm 100% with you, and I think you're setting an example in your community that has a positive ripple effect you could never calculate. It's also fulfilling in its own right.

At the same time, we need to acknowledge that DIY making/repairing is a drop in the ocean when it comes to climate change. Industrial megapolluters would love for us to believe that it's our responsibility to save the world by sorting recycling and darning socks. Meanwhile, they're flattening 10,000 year old forests and setting goals to go plastic-free by 2070.
Avi is part of the Ufo Cult
There was more of a sense of community in those days, for good and for bad. People cared about their neighbours, but the flipside of that was a willingness to exclude the antisocial from society entirely. The article mentions racial segregation which is one prominent case, but more generally, 30 years ago if there had been a junkie or someone who stank or what have you on the bus, the driver would've thrown them off and the "decent" passengers would've supported them in doing so, and conversely if someone who seemed respectable had mislaid their ticket then that same driver would've been more understanding.
> Why do we buy so much single-use packaging

It's designed to be that way by the PR guys that created the plastic recycling logo.
This video is under 10mins and features a lot of the PR adverts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnJ8mK3Q3g
Heck, you wrote an init on bash with the LNX-BBC (at least in some versions of it).
Unfortunately, most companies seem to have little compunction about exposing workers, consumers, or the environment to toxic materials. The use of lead is not in any way a blocker, for better or worse.
No, it's not a huge issue within the OSM community. But surely you see why it's an issue for large companies looking to use the OSM basemap in their projects.
The documentary, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II, contains an authoritarian woman speaking how heavy metal music was associated with the devil, due to a hand sign. (Also featuring a younger Ozzy Ozbourne!) Very humorous to look back on now, as this all was merely a form of fashion and self-expression.

(warning NSFW, language, sexuality)

https://youtu.be/ivSQcG4rb5M?t=3295
Noice. Good job. I'm glad to see people still developing for TW. argon2ian is a neat surprise for me as well, assuming I understand it correctly. There's something to be said for keeping tools slim when you want to pack so much into a TW.
Taking them at face value though, they're saying they're disallowing payments here specifically because it's illegal, rather than a disinclination to be associated with it for PR/as a value judgement:

> "The federal government considers cannabis sales illegal, so these purchases are not allowed on our systems," the statement continued.

I don't fully understand the US system but it feels weird to me that the power to legalise could be both devolved to the states but still federally illegal… Is it that it's illegal on an interstate level, like you can't purchase from out of state?
Eventually, it should put downward pressure on house prices. Who knows on what timeline.

Current homeowners don't want to give up their current low rates, which would happen if they sold. Less inventory.

It's probably the worst time in history to be a buyer(so far...).
Wow TiddlyWiki reminds me of how I got started with web development in all the wrong ways.

I told my Dad I wanted to make a website for my favourite computer game so he sat me infront of MS Frontpage and got me started. After I while I got to the point i've made a forum but all the comments where dummy text in static HTML, so my Dad setup PHP on the computer and basically left me to it with a single index.php file and a intro to PHP book. The problem was when I looked things up, I was always asking the wrong questions. So instead of asking, "how can I store comments in a database and then fetch them for displaying?", I asked "how can I append a new comment to my HTML file?". I wound up with some crazy (working!) forum where every time a comment was added it would append to a HTML file. Then I wanted a more complex layout I had to figure out how to use a regex to append it in the right place. Then even more crazy regex to handle editing and deleting comments. Then when the file got too big I wanted to add pagination and this took me ages to get right shifting comments between pages when a comment was deleted so there was still 10 per page.

Eventually I discovered that databases exist and i've been a web developer for 18 years now.

Crazy to think there's now a cool use case for an entire app stored in a single .html file. Maybe I wasn't as dumb as I thought back then.
Look up Kaveh’s CL tutorial videos on YouTube. They’re really good.
> I don't think the actual proposed superconductivity mechanism is the relevant part of this paper.

Plus even if the proposed-mechanism is incorrect and even if the effect is not strong enough for practical engineering... There's value in a "real" (if weak) superconductor which is both easy to fabricate and easy to run tests on.

It could become a starting-point for dozens of other tweaked formulations, enabling all sorts of not-so-expensive experiments and fresh data about how different parameters lead to different electromagnetic outcomes.
Google Web Environment Integrity Is the New Microsoft Trusted Computing
Some projects add project/.cargo/config.toml which is unfortunate, but cool to learn about a global config for this purpose! Ty
Glyphosate affects the human microbiome and its effects are not understood well enough. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9145961/
Ample announces partnership with Mitsubishi Fuso to implement battery swap tech
You can ride around Taiwan in less than a week on a regular pedal bicycle (I've done the twin ride around Shikoku).
By that logic, we'll need to ship bare metal, to avoid differences in processors.

You've gone from being exposed to OS and kernel differences to being exposed only to kernel differences. For most apps, that's acceptable. Others will need to ship VMs. Some will even need to ship bare metal.

It's a tool, not a dogma.
In some sense, doesn't the existence of that site kind of strongly indicate that the GP's point is correct. That there are spotty incompatibilities?
The fact that people enjoy sex means we will never hit zero. Plenty of people will always remain.
Might surprise you to learn there is precedent to refute that. Flow of money isn’t material to the law: flow of good and staying within State boundaries is the point.
This is great, I had been wanting a framework like SAM or Serverless for Lambda functions but for running LLM apps.
It was pretty amazing that CNN didn't seem to cover it at all online. I couldn't find any reference to the hearings on their web site while they were ongoing. It might (or might not) be bullshit, but it is still interesting to have congress talk about little green men, so I would have expected something. They were more interested in Biden's son's failed plea deal.

OTOH the BBC in the UK ran it as their headline and dedicated an entire live feed and various articles to it.
It was definitely an out of control scientific balloon. Doesn’t mean the US didn’t also shoot it down to stoke the new Cold War.
Excuse me?

Isn’t the stereotype (and possibly reality) that Irish women are full of moxie and maybe or maybe not respected for it depending on who cares?

Like she experienced IRA bombings and you’re saying she’s supposed to be intimidated by reggae artists who smoke weed and practice non-violence and/or intimidated by their fans who do so?