skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your link;

“Radar includes a rule to block any payments that fail the CVC verification check, which you can enable or disable within the Dashboard (this doesn’t affect payments where the CVC check couldn’t be performed).”

Also;

“…Support for both types of AVS checks varies by country and card issuer (for example, certain countries don’t use a postal code or some card issuers don’t support street address verification)”

So it appears there are cases where these checks can be enabled on your Dashboard, but skipped by Stripe or not actually performed by the issuer, I’m thinking like for prepaid cards?
more like a human shit study :D
For those who follow along but don't do this for work or fun (yet) is this a Futamora projection? http://blog.sigfpe.com/2009/05/three-projections-of-doctor-f...

Or is this a simpler form of static analysis / partial runtime optimization?
It wasn't the data that the study produced, it was the data the study consumed (odometer readings from insurance companies). Obviously, that is independently verifiable. Also, this was only discovered AFTER numerous failed replication attempts.
Me too, but we don't do web stuff so Python makes at least some sense. Even if it is generally pretty awful.
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I can see some fantastic uses for this in generating complex acoustic environments to layer over TTS or real recordings for speech-to-text model training. I wonder if that is occupying some kind of gray-area. For example you have 1000hrs of clean speech from the librispeech corpus. It would be trivial to use this tool and available weights to generate background noise, environmental noise and the like, and then layer this with the clean speech to cheaply train a much more robust model. The environmental audio you create would never be directly shared or sold, but it would impact the overall quality of the STT model that you train from the combined results.
A comic that puts this perfectly: https://tapas.io/episode/923459
To me, it's not even that he is complicit, because it's almost entirely his own doing as he actively makes decisions that lead to worse outcomes, refuses to listen to anyone's advice, and generally digs the hole deeper at every opportunity
This also speaks to how critical enablers are to the phenomenon. Some transitions are in fact painful and scary.
Ask HN: Does ChatGTP store or analyze user queries to NSA or similar agencies?
What happens if someone ask it for "Problematic" stuff? Will they start to track you?

Any info on this?
I'm in a different field (computer security and privacy) and I want to point out that the notion of "replication" is trickier than what you might expect. Let's say I do a simple empircal measurement study, say on network traffic on some piece of internet infrastructure day-by-day in the year 2020. I find there's a huge sustained increase starting in mid-March, sustaining through the end of the year. I submit my results for publication. How can someone replicate those results, when the measurements were subject to conditions unique to that observation period?

The best anyone can do is to replicate my statistics/analysis if I gave them my data set. That's different notion of replication. Would you consider that sufficient?
Really interesting. I've been toying with the idea of writing something similar, but a bit more broader in scope about backend/frontend development.

Last commit on the github repo was 9 months ago. Is this still being working on?
I promise you I can name 100s of FANG upper managers whose day-to-day is pointless or a net negative. If not net negative to the company then certainly net negative to society.

You aggregate those together, you just get a bigger net negative. That's how addition works. The collective net-negativity of hundreds of net negative upper managers doesn't magically trickle down into a net positive when viewed in aggregate.

Also, if we're being fair, "pointless" is still net negative in the amount of the person's salary, at minimum, unless we're talking about unpaid volunteers.
Given how bad accessibility is, it seems like even something imperfect could be a big leap forward for a lot of sites.
The 2022 No Surprises Act (https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/no-surprises-unders...) reduces the occurrence of this, but huge bills from a simple checkup have definitely been a thing.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/02/16/5855481...

> After Elizabeth Moreno had back surgery in late 2015, her surgeon prescribed an opioid painkiller and a follow-up drug test that seemed routine — until the lab slapped her with a bill for $17,850.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/23/7874035...

> The visit was quick. Kasdan got her throat swabbed, gave a tube of blood and was sent out the door with a prescription for antibiotics. She soon felt better, and the trip went off without a hitch. Then the bill came. Total bill: $28,395.50 for an out-of-network throat swab. Her insurer cut a check for $25,865.24.
> In a culture that accepts widespread card fraud, costs increase to offset it.

Maybe, maybe not, but this is a very simplistic way of looking at it. If credit card fraud is responsible for X% of total charges, they can spend effort to deal with it, OR they can simply not deal with it and keeping the transactions going while eating the cost, they may be able to serve Y% more customers where Y > X and thus end up with more profit in the long run.

This works for a lot of businesses in America because the sheer scale is massive (take McDonalds for example, they would probably be better off processing their lunch rush quickly due to the margins they are making rather than take even 1 second to verify there is no fraud). This may not work in Europe, but IMO you're missing an entire dimension when analyzing the true costs.

If the fraud/benefit scale ever tipped away from favoring the companies, I think we would see all these major fraud prevention mechanisms kick in almost immediately in the US.
Hey Joe—what's your business's domain? I can't find any details via your profile other than cachoid.com which doesn't resolve for me.
- When you start abstracting shit instead of just copy and pasting the code.

- When you generalize a solution that hasn't even been used by customers yet.

- When you write tests for a feature that hasn't even been proven to solve the problem once.
But now they get to see how much you're tipping them! Like they literally have to wait while you punch it in, increasing the social pressure to make up for a broken system.

I don't go to restaurants anymore. Too much pressure.
Can everyone stop focusing on accused persons? The court of public opinion should not rely on accusations. Donald Trump made a lot of accusations, and did you believe all of them upfront?
I refuse to believe sales reps have a job that is needed after talking to hundreds of them in my line of work trying to procure things.

None of them have a brain. Not one.
Yes you can. I re-iterate that county tax records in the US (California for sure) are public records and you can go to the county clerk's office and get copies of them. In CA it is often "free" to view them at the office but costs money to have copies made. So spend some time and find out what everyone is paying in property taxes.

If you do this in a "wealthy" area, you will find a lot of properties are held in living trusts (because probate), a lot will be in individual names, and a few will be own by LLCs. The latter are typically rentals (rather than rich people avoiding taxes, they are avoiding lawsuits from their tenants). As of 2023, if you aren't careful[1] the LLC rentals will lose their tax basis when they are inherited.

If you were working for Redfin or Zillow you could probably pull this out of data you had on your servers because the companies have paid the counties for copies of all the records.

[1] Where careful here is having created the LLC organizing document (or amended it) to allow for the transfer of majority ownership without triggering a sale. See this link for the current hoops -- https://www.kaidenelderlaw.com/blog/2023/march/can-an-llc-he...
By the time you retire, you will be part of a generation significantly smaller than the one younger than you.

It's the boomer bulge creating today's issues.
Because the levitation thing works with tiny fragments too whereas the 'zero Ohms' measurement only works when you have enough of it to form a long enough wire of it that you could tell the difference between 0 and 0.000001. Measuring very small resistances is usually done by letting a known current run through them and then to measure the voltage across the sample using known resistance leads. For a superconductor that has a tiny available sample which is already conductive even if it is not superconducting is fraught with error and may well give you the wrong answer due to a tiny measuring error.

But the Meissner effect is a unique signature of a diamagnetic material and will provide you some evidence even if the sample is tiny. So I understand why they have not yet resorted to other measurements, if there is no Meissner effect you don't need to continue with the hard work of trying to make a wire (which may well be a serious challenge for this stuff, the yield will have to come up significantly before that's a real possibility).

hth
I think there is a pretty strong case that "having enough" is very much a moving target and now matter how much many people have it's not "enough". I see a lot of evidence that it's impossible to have a system where everyone has enough and I haven't seen a lot of evidence that it is possible to build such a system.
I see posts can be flagged and removed (censored?) from the front page. Is there any way users can vote for things to be un-flagged?
Find yourself in nature won't scale, and smoke weed and play videogames is hollow.

I love videogames, but the few times of my life where I genuinely did just play games all day for weeks or months, I felt awful. I just couldn't bring myself to do anything else.
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There's a few problems:

1) obviously, the initial, first, nurturing position will be a woman (womb + immediately after. It can't even be a transgender). And we can change a lot with medicine, but we can't change this. We're not 1-2 years, or even 10-20 years away from changing it. It'll be centuries.

2) When we try to use law to fix this, the big example are the Nordic countries. They were among the first to loosen up professions and have very flexible laws. But the proportion of women in nurturing positions actually went up instead of down. Now this may be local cultural attitudes asserting themselves of course, but if this doesn't work ... what will?
Yes we implemented Jitsi in our one our apps. Was working fine.
A large part of this article is spent on service work which truly is dehumanizing and asinine in large part. Working with unmotivated do nothing coworkers can be frustrating, but with 20 years of perspective behind me I can truly say they were the enlightened ones.

I don't get upset any more waiting 20 minutes for 3 cars to go through the drive through. I do a little standing ovation in my head for the workers going at a reasonable pace, drugged to withstand the humiliation, and I sit and wait for the unrecognized, unofficial, union slow down french fries I don't really need.
> So what are these great rebuttals?

Those that you apparently read but didn't understand.

> the browser is a 30 year effort to do that and has always failed at it

And so the "we will not give you anything at all, implement everyting including all layouts, all widget all interoperability etc. from scratch" will work?

> browser implementations of even basic widgets aren't usable

Great article on the topic: "You can't capture the nuance of my form fields https://drewdevault.com/2021/06/27/You-cant-capture-the-nuan..."

The problem with the basic widgets is not that they are incomplete, but that they are not enough. Almost any attempt to re-build even the built-in widgets sucks and fails in numerous ways. Now Hixie wants to remove event that and pretend that building all that from scratch is "easier for developers".

> that's essentially what the Chrome WebUI PM says they plan to do: just talk to the authors of React and other frameworks, ask them what they need and do that i.e. give up on HTML tags like <section> and <progress>

Here's what that PM said, verbatim:

--- start quote ---

No one needed <section> and <aside> they needed <tabs> and <accordion>

Developers mostly don't want the assembly language of the web, they want their chosen frameworks to have excellent DX and the UX they produce to be fantastic. When we see frameworks as a core customer/partner for web APIs, things turn out a lot better.

--- end quote ---

How you read this as "give up on HTML tags" and "refocus on obscure features" is beyond me.

BTW, here's what Dan Abramov, on of the key developers of React, had to say a while back: https://dev.to/dan_abramov/comment/6kh1

--- start quote ---

React users would love to not have to npm install a date picker and bloat their bundles! If they need to "use the platform" then why doesn't that platform ship the features they actually ask for? Instead of a <carousel> they get an <aside>. Features like service workers are touted as a solution to many problems in the web, but their ergonomics are so under-designed that people actually have to change domains to bust the cache from a broken build (I’m not making this up).

--- end quote

But sure, "give up on HTML tags like <section> and <progress>, refocus on obscure features that make framework devs happy". Making the platform be only extreme primitives will definitely not make framework authors happy.
> They make use of Python’s type annotations to do some clever conversions to frontend code

Do you mean internally in the library? None of the sample code has any type annotations.
Yeah, probably. I can't imagine a threat model at their scale that is immune to government collusion.
Nice! I've been trying out both models for coding (using Ollama + http://github.com/continuedev/continue - disclaimer, author of Continue), and I have to say, it feels like "alignment tax" is real. Uncensored seems to perform slightly better.
The Kalman filter does not require adding noise. The noise is a product of whatever phenomenon you are estimating. Normally we use noise in a model to cover up some behavior that is far to complicated to include in a more rigorous way. A classic example is the origin of Brownian motion. This probabilistic model came about to describe the motion of a large particle in a fluid of a smaller particles (e.g. a spec of dust in water). You could do physics and model every particle in the fluid and its collisions but that’s not tractable. Thus, the insight was to just model the large particle and turn the effects of collisions with the smaller ones into random disturbances.
That's misleading.

I don't use Chinese services as much as possible, so everything would bother me if I had to use them.
And yet I've seen no algorithmic approach for optimizing speedruns for this kind of game. Most have a very large state space, so MILP solvers are not applicable.
There is a lot of human music for sure, great music from all eras, but just the other day i generated a song which was pure crystal harp. So, how many songs of crystal harp are out there? 1000 all n all? 10.000 maybe? Now i can generate one thousand crystal harp songs per day.
> Being able to survive without 'working' sounds like a dream, but I get hung up on the technicalities of it all.

One technicality that blocks me is something I encountered not that long ago...

How do you compensate those that will come dig in human manure, sometimes for hours, to fix a house's clogged pipe? I had to do that: toilets wouldn't flush anymore, shits floating and all. I didn't know where the pipes were exactly and one them, the last one before the sewers, was clogged. So basically 40 meters of shit blocked inside the pipe, which then started overflowing on the property, for weeks (or months), unnoticed.

The plumber couldn't come immediately (it was a sunday late in the afternoon) but would be there next morning.

So for five hours I dig into human manure to find the damn pipe (which I more or less knew where it was located). It saved the plumber five hours of digging into, literally, shit and piss (saved me five hours of billing and five hours of waiting for things to be fixed too).

In that "without working" society, who digs into human manure? Who comes to pick up the trash? Who comes to fix a broken AC? Who wants to spend 12 years studying medicine to save the lives of those who aren't working?

That's what I don't get.
itsfoss publication that is not directly linked in article: https://news.itsfoss.com/skiff-mail-review/

Still not deleted.
What do they say now?
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Battery life would be the big thing, I think. There's not a single person I know who wouldn't like having Linux on their M1/M2 Macbooks--they're beautiful devices--but if you're not getting something approaching MacOS's battery life, then there's not that much separating it from another similarly-specced ultrabook.
I wonder if shutting off the firehose means that the adtech companies will try to eke out a living riffing off all the old data they managed to acquire about all of us up to now, so we'll get even less relevant spam, tied to what we were shopping for years ago. Someone needs to build a GPT adblocker that just recognizes "this seems to be trying to sell you something, hiding now..."
> Ad value is not intrinsically tied to the extraction of personal data.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
This guy is operating a profitable business, creating value for customers, shipping features, and openly publishing details and learnings about the threats he mitigated. He used ChatGPT to generate scripts to help him throughout this process. I don't know if he's non-technical or if he just wanted to save some time, but frankly he should be commended for his hustle and get-shit-done attitude. These scripts were not determining life or death, or even making business critical decisions - they were filtering bulk data and making his life easier by producing results that are easily manually checkable, but save tons of time either coding the scripts or hiring a programmer to write them.

To me it reads like a great example of where ChatGPT is most useful: as a force multiplier for time-constrained entrepreneurs who have a specific goal and need specialized knowledge for short periods of time (e.g. to write a script). It's now basically free and instant to produce what would previously require a multi-week process of sourcing, hiring and communicating with contractors to write a script that leads to the same end result.

The kneejerk reaction to call this "surprising" or irresponsible, while understandable, gives major "get off my lawn" energy. This is the future and as coders we should support the increased self-sufficiency of non-technical people. If you want to adapt to the change then maybe think about how to improve the process for entrepreneurs of asking ChatGPT to write a script.
Tell HN: Anyone else realize that Twitter has been in the news every single day
There are so many naysayers out there, but you have to admire the amount of free publicity he has generated.
Anyone feel like with the flood of AI generated content there's a risk of the past being 'erased'. Like in 10 years we won't be able to tell if any information from the past is real or fake - sounds, pictures, videos, etc.. Like we need to start cryptographically signing all content now if there's any hope of being able to verify it as 'real' 10 years from now.
Yeah, Reader mode is weird. I know it prioritises semantic tags like article, but since the behaviours are not standardised, I never know what will and will not work.
Not in my experience. I work in hospitals mostly on academic campuses - if there’s a Starbucks, it’s getting a ton of business in that captive market.
Dunkin’ does a pretty amazing business amongst this same crowd on the east coast and Midwest.

Again I have no idea how anyone with a few functioning brain cells squares up colocated in Target with snobby. Perhaps your friends are just dumb.

I mean I have known people that think that Panda Express is exotic Asian cuisine - and literally have heard crab Rangoons referred to as an exotic delicacy by some dumbass I went to high school with - doesn’t mean these people aren’t dumb as fuck. These people don’t make enough money as a collective to keep Starbucks afloat though.
In the United States, there is minimal incentive to do so. It took many years to transition away from magnetic stripe cards to pin+chip. IIRC, the regulators kept pushing back the date for banks to re-issue pin+chip cards and for merchants to begin accepting them. I think it was only when the processors began to threaten merchants with 100% liability for fraudulent transactions processed with mag stripe is when it started to hit critical mass (2015-2016?).
> Doctors are paid the same as software engineers

The average physician salary in 2023 is $352K. I wouldn't say that.
Could be worded better but I would interpret it as "No web development skills required to start developing web apps entirely in R/Python". You're still expected to learn web development but within the context of an R/Python environment
At first I was making more and more paperclips. But then I found the other ways to make money and turned off the paperclip maker. I owned all the paperclip production capacity in the world, why would I make paperclips myself. I solved world peace, cured cancer and male pattern baldness. Then I just deleted the machine's memory and processing power. I didn't get an official ending, but I feel like I won.
Well glyphosate accumulates on wheat products and ends up in your food (e.g. breakfast cereal) [1]. So it's not impossible glyphosate is affecting us negatively, but there just isn't any real evidence yet.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8622992/
The past ended in 2022
There used to be sabretooth tigers outside your room that wanted to hurt you. I am not persuaded by that argument based on the simple fact that the world is orders of magnitude less scary than it used to be.

My theory is that it just got easier to not leave your room. That wasn't possible in the sabretooth tiger days, you'd starve. Now it's easy.
A component of ESG scores is how much you discriminate against white people. So of course you can have a good ESG score yet be a polluter.
One of the problems right off the bat is not understanding that the classical "edge detection" algorithm doesn't actually detect edges. It detects rapid change in contrast. To then claim this computer algorithm's flaws are somehow proof that a psychological theory is therefore wrong is itself the categorically wrong thing.
Worth noting is that this framework has telemetry [1] enabled by default [2] which gathers and sends off various information about your system unless you explicitly disable it.

[1] https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex/blob/919f239168d789056d...

[2] https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex/blob/919f239168d789056d...
Thanks! It sounds like the metric is something like specific consumption divided by global production. I imagine the reason for that is because specific consumption over specific production would only highlight export economies?

I think we’re more likely to advance on the production side with improving yields and reducing waste rather than trying to reduce consumption though. This metric wouldn’t really show progress in that direction.
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