skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of this is legal advice, but I'm a student of negotiable instruments like checks and the history they have in our system of law and finance.

Checks are negotiable instruments governed by UCC Article 3, which has been adopted in all or nearly all states in the US. The drawer of a check, in this case Paypal, is normally liable for when an impostor presents the check or when their employees forge indorsements in the name of the payee. The thinking is that the drawer is best positioned to protect against that kind of fraud.

Depending on your state, you can probably take them to small claims court over this on the theory of a fraudulently indorsed instrument. You might also have a claim for breach of contract for failure to return the balance on the account, although you'd need to show how their failure to give you your money breaches a contract or statute, and that might be hard to do without a lawyer. The claim for fraudulent indorsement of the check is probably cleaner and less fact intensive.

Small claims is really accessible to non-lawyers, and PayPal probably won't even show up. You could get a default judgment and then, if you really wanted to, execute that judgment against their bank, which you can probably see from the copy of the cancelled check.

Again, none of this is legal advice! It's going to be time consuming and maybe not worth $270 but if you have the time and will, I'd say go for it.
What makes you think PayPal would behave differently in case of a stolen Ethereum wallet?
Thank you very much @fnordpiglet for addressing my questions directly and thoroughly! Makes a lot of sense. I still don't understand why a16z wants us to do that though. what's in it for them?
I use Firefox on Linux with uBlock Origin, as well as Enhanced Tracking Protection.

Unfortunately, it works fine in the browser -- if it didn't, I'd be $270 richer right now!
Also its 50 year anniversary according to the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-66471617
Thank you for this hint. I have saved a history file from a remote session i did yesterday, some interesting stuff there but also a lot of clutter from all the mistakes I did and asking the free chatgpt to unclutter it for me just made it a lot easier to read and went from 133 lines to 39 lines with added comments and line spacing.

It's not perfect but it removed a lot of useless stuff like all the times i mistyped '--recurse-submodules' or the times I went into a folder only to realize it was not the correct folder for what I was trying to do.
That's a good thought. `sudo` is needed for writing to `/usr/`. The service being set up does not have root access. The value of `User=` is $SUDO_USER (hp- my regular non privileged user who initiatiated sudo) instead of $USER (root).

https://github.com/servicer-labs/servicer/blob/762801e3c07b1...
Pitfalls nerds fall into when thinking about society
I think the GP is more disappointed that Microsoft choose to use Blink rather than Gecko as their rendering engine. Not that they abandoned the closed source EdgeHTML.
I disbelieve that capital one gave this dude someone else’s check images without any court order. There is absolutely no way they walked into a bank with and came out with the images.
> If anybody in the company pushes a huge blob you mess up everyone else and so on

Again, this is really only a problem at larger scale. The segmented number of people that pull this large blob at Google may be higher than the entire engineering team at other companies.
Neural Progressive Meshes
I've thought about this quite a bit. I'm a big fan of the record label Bear Family, a German label that specializes in releasing boxsets from R&B/Rock&Roll/Country artists from the 20's-70's. Want to hear every song The Carter Family ever recorded in their original incarnation? They have a 12 CD boxset for you! They generally do this be acquiring the original master tapes from the labels, which often include a lot of previously unreleased songs or alternate takes, and remastering them.

Hip-Hop probably has a higher percentage of this material than almost any other genre, especially once you get to the mixtape/blog era. Unfortunately, most of this material was only released in unofficial forms, often on low-quality MP3s and often with some random dude shouting over the intro. A lot of these tracks were also recorded over unlicensed beats/samples, so even if clean recordings were available official release would be impossible.
>t I am trying and how can I make that happen with the fewest lines of instructions as possible

Isn't that the compilers job?
Sure, if I'd had the option of receiving these funds via crypto instead of PayPal, I 100% would have taken that.

Ethereum would probably be the worst choice of any major crypto, though. Still better than PayPal, of course, but even mostly obsolete Bitcoin would be preferable to Ethereum.
what's the difference in having a 120v->5v wall wart vs 48v->5v one?
People start complaining something is a monopoly when the business starts squashing potential competition from the position of power, using bully or shady tactics, or screwing their customers by being more and more greedy.

In case of Microsoft and IE, even if you don't read up on the history and details of it, it's obvious that they were just trying to do what Google is doing now - gatekeep the web and get some of that toll money. I don't think many would have issues with Microsoft just including a simple web browsing tool and leaving it at that. Instead, they were actively working to kill the competition, took over the majority of market share and then just killed off innovation basically completely, and held back the web for years and years afterwards.
The article spends a great deal of time explaining why streaming services can't be relied on to preserve the history.

Not to mention that a lot of early hip-hop might not have its samples cleared. These songs would not likely be on streaming services due to copyright issues. There is also the issue we've seen with streaming services disappearing huge chunks of the catalogues to avoid paying residuals. If we don't put effort into saving history, it can very easily get lost.

On top of this, there's a distinction to be made between Top-100 pop music, and the artists who influenced them in their youth. If a random mixtape from the 80s had a huge influence on you as an artist, those who enjoy your music would love to get a listen of it.
Ah please help us by submitting a PR! I noticed the rust build failed last night but didn’t get a chance to look into it
I've been thinking about hosting my own LLM to see if I can hyper customized it to me basically, kinda like an AI companion. My main issue is building the hardware, there so much fluff in that space, it's hard to know what to get and what works well together
This is a bit weird to me since I never thought someone would just go and read source code of some program from start to finish. It would be something like reading an encyclopedia starting from the letter A.

That said, I personally DO read code. Besides code reviews that were mentioned in the article I read the code that my code depend on. Especially when I want to better understand some API, I read not only the headers, but the actual implementations of the functions that I'm using.

Sometimes I read code to better understand some algorithm. I only understood how Transformer architecture worked when I read some of its implementations.

So yeah, reading code is cool. We just don't read it as we read books.
ah okay, this makes sense!
> I still could not accurately identify one of her songs by audio if my life depended on it OR if someone offered me $100 million I'd definitely lose out on that money.

Lies.
It is likely that these will make it into dbt since there are many dbt users who also use snowflake. The main thing to consider when deciding to some something other than dbt is:

* can you apply software dev best practices, CI/CD etc
* is it proprietary or can you use it with other dbs
* is there a large community behind it e.g. dbt packages and dbt python libraries
* will you also get docs, dq, lineage or will you need additional tools\ing
* will you need to orchestrate other aspects of your data flow e.g. EL, then T, then activation, etc

Databricks also has delta live tables and for the reasons above I usually suggest people consider all of these and not just go all-in with one vendor
If you heard her most popular songs you would probably recognize having heard them before, even if you don't know they are hers.

These each have multi-billion views on YouTube. I suspect if you listen you will recognize them. And if not, well here you go! Now you've heard Taylor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ORhEE9VVg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIy9NiNbmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuNIsY6JdUw
I thought this would be about how both are reissuing / remaking their old content instead of making something new. Consumers seem to be eating them both up though.
All PR's greatly appreciated! Is this on the Rust TVM bindings?
Update: I've implemented a simple TS library around this: https://github.com/TimonLukas/ts-websocket-compressor

I will add wrappers for WebSocket/WebSocketServer in the future to allow using this without the library having to support it, like in the PoC with trpc.
Okay, time to risk a switch back.
What I love about this article is how little I care

When I’m being excluded from job descriptions because I have react on my resume I’ll revisit this article
I think that benchmarks are made wrong way. They typically calculate how many times per second a browser can run some code. But this causes browser vendors to do trade-offs, for example, increase memory consumption which increases the probability of swapping which causes everything to stall.

A more fair way would be to account for memory usage:

score = speed ÷ (RAM usage)²

Or they should run their tests at 2Gb system with lot of other applications running in background.
Omitting commitment details may simplify pledges, but it also makes pledges almost meaningless. I'd take pledges much more seriously if they still had details
Do you have information on what you're working on? It might help me or my friends (though I don't know if it would also help with trauma and running into hurtful roadblocks and struggling just trying to function at a basic adult level).
"Google has a total of 111,911 patents globally, out of which 69,905 have been granted. Of these 111,911 patents, more than 70% patents are active.

Google's technical innovations and diverse business initiatives have contributed to its portfolio of over 50,000 patent assets worldwide."

https://insights.greyb.com/google-patents/

"Apple Inc: 2,541 patents granted"

"Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC: 2,418 patents granted."

"Qualcomm Inc: 2,149 patents granted."

"BOE Technology Group Co Ltd: 2,135 patents granted."

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/02/14/apple-ranks-seventh-wit...

If the richest and smartest companies are patenting their algorithms and software, you probably should too, if you don't want people copying your software code, and it gives you the right to sue those who do.

Always good to protect yourself, no matter where you are starting, or where you are going.
That "solar activity" graph completely contradicts the graph in the article. I'll wait for better data.
So having a monorepo?
Have you heard the phrase "vanishing middle class"?

It was easier to be in the middle class then, for myriad reasons.

In the 60s you'd be given kitchenware just for filling up your tank at a gas station...
"is more [...] surprising than predicted"

What would it mean for it to be less surprising than predicted?
I was at one point very interested in the Remarkable. Since then it seems like they've shifted in a much more locked down proprietary direction with their cloud services. My (not thoroughly researched) instinct is that I'm not sure I could just buy the device and use it offline, at least not without serious downgrades to the functionality that I'm not willing to take.

But I haven't looked into it deeply enough to know if that's actually the case or if I just had a knee-jerk reaction to their changes. It's just tricky to add another locked-down device to the ecosystem, despite what people say about circumventing those locks. It makes me nervous that the APIs aren't more supported and that the locks need to be circumvented. It makes me nervous because I've used devices that start getting more and more aggressive about pushing me into a cloud service over time -- and it's usually an unpleasant experience.

I highly agree with the author that "less is more" but I'm finding that I still want radically open ecosystems where I can do a lot. The problem with having a full-featured OS with apps like Android/iOS is that it's annoying and difficult to pair that stuff down to being so basic that the device only does one thing and does it well. I want a device that can do a lot of things that I can then pair down into a device that does one thing well.

I'm lightly following the Librem Note but even though the hardware seems good I'm worried that there's not going to be the same software focus on getting as physically low latency as possible out of the pen? My understanding is that there's a lot of custom logic happening on the Remarkable to make that happen, and I'm worried that the Linux side of things is just going to eventually get drivers pen input and call it a day.

Latency is one of those things where... you can get it to an acceptable level where it feels OK to write on. But even the Remarkable itself is boasting 21 milliseconds of latency and that is noticeable latency -- it's still in the area where I would be tempted to just keep using paper. Especially if you've ever gotten used to writing with a fountain pen or good ink pen where writing just feels good, latency on a screen really, really matters and every millisecond you can shave off is worthwhile.

And I still need to look into the writing feel and what textures they use for the surface. It's really important for a casual notetaking device that it actually feel like I'm writing on paper. But if I could snap my fingers and make software and firmware magically appear out of thin air I'd love a Librem Note with similar latency that had an extremely paired down Linux OS that was less focused on porting Gnome and more focused on being just a notepad/E-reader. It's still just very early days for the device and a lot of its potential seems very theoretical right now.
> Taylor Swift doesn’t understand supply and demand:

I think that's a poor reading of Swift & her team. They've clearly got a rock-solid understanding of supply & demand, and other economic concepts, to the extent that their behaviour subverts textbook economic thinking.

Spotify acts like a textbook perfectly competitive marketplace: all actors have perfect information, there are no monopolies, the market price for all items is the same, and all vendors are price-takers (the platform controls the price). Within this framework, Scooter Braun's masters of Swift's work, and Swift's "(Taylor's Version)" re-recordgins are homogeneous products. A textbook reading of this setting should assert that, through supply & demand, both versions should attract an even split of consumption. But most consumers willingly choose to listen to Taylor's re-recordings[1] over Braun's masters.

[1] https://www.billboard.com/lists/taylor-swift-taylors-version...
> Call me a pessimist but I don't think Mozilla is managed well enough

No disagreement there.

> We'd need the Linux Foundation

Who spends a whooping’ 3% of their total spending on actual Linux? [1]

Call me a pessimist, but I might look for a better candidate.

[1] https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-foundation-spends-just-...
> Bragging that you can't understand the difference between useMemo and useCallback after reading the docs (one is general memoization and the other is function-specific)

Right, the first argument to useMemo must be a function, but the first argument to useCallback need not. That's what you meant, right?
I remember reading the following quote about music in the 1950s and 60s:

"Prior to this era, there was no distinction between music adults and teenagers listened to. E.g. Frank Sinatra was popular with multiple age demographics.

Starting in the late 1950s, being a cool teenager meant that you liked music that was different than what your parents listened to. This was first seen with rock and roll."

It's interesting to see this come full circle to the point that Taylor Swift crosses multiple age brackets.
Who is the "serious audience" and what is the "core product" they've given up?
The story could just as easily be "Improved understanding of antipsychotic action means we may be able to design better antipsychotics"

And that would be a more accurate understanding of it - and I hope its true. Current antipsychotics are helpful but imperfect.
Whoever writes the checks (PayPal in this case) can get images of the cashed checks easily.

He also stated PayPal sent him the checks.

> After some back and forth (...) I am even provided with a copy of the canceled check
It was not the scientific method which outed the Stanford president. It was not the scientific method which outed Francesca Gino. I am not faulting the scientific method, I am faulting the institutions which perpetuate the fraud.

Just so you know, whenever someone begins with "genuine question", it never is. You will completely disregard what I have written and come to some completely ridiculous caricature conclusion.
Analytical techniques are extremely sensitive and quite capable of determining their quantitative floor. A quick literate search shows PFAS LoQs of somewhere between 0.2-2.0 ng/L.
One more reason why browser extensions should die. I tell people if you install too many plugins you die from pluginitis. You should install an ad blocker and maybe something anti-tracking but that is it.
I mean...it's Stratechery. Hyperbole is what you get :)
I’m confused why people would move away from Firefox to Chrome because of Manifest v3. If anything, it should convince one to move even harder in the other direction.
Try filing a CFPB complaint and maybe your state attorney general.
yeah, weird. I read a lot of code. I often read code to exactly understand what's going on, how specific functions are used or how the API was intended to fit together. That may mean that I read random code on github, code of my dependencies etc.

But it's not a continuous reading of code. I don't read the code of my dependency from start to finish.
Throwaway idea: Maybe it can be an energy-storage flywheel at the same time?
> Won't a photon climbing out of a huge gravity well have a huge redshift

Yes. Though see the sibling comments on why the (remaining) gravity well the emitted photon has to climb out of is not particularly huge here.

> thus confounding estimates of distance from us and estimated age?

Generally speaking: No, because people are not stupid. :) See the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect for a very similar situation (CMB photons traveling through gravitational wells) -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachs%E2%80%93Wolfe_effect
Suggest reading some Garett Jones. Hive Mind is a great book.
PBS should be embarrassed at how slanted and devoid of citations this article is.

This is propaganda, plain and simple.
You can enable "on-device encryption" for Google password manager. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/11350823?sjid=178...
> Taylor Swift's claim to fame is that she is an attractive white woman from affluent parents, who is both highly malleable and a very hard worker.

I don't think you understand Taylor Swift whatsoever.
Marcin here, co-founder of Spacelift.

Even though I strongly believe the OpenTF fork could open up incredible possibilities for the community (I could go on and on about it), it is an equivalent of a civil war. It doesn't serve the community and our only interest is in the continued strength of the community that we continue to build for.

Based on my immense respect for what's been built under Hashi's umbrella I'd rather see a change of mind, and an opportunity to honor our pledge of resources (5 FTEs for 5 years) to the common rather than partisan cause.
I have been using Firefox on a daily basis since 2005-2006.

When Chrome leaped far out ahead in terms of speed, responsiveness, Firefox nearly lost me as a user (as it was quite slow at the time). Since Firefox largely caught up all has been well. I'd give Firefox an 8.5 out of 10 in terms of how happy I am as a user. They would have to do something atrocious to lose me at this point. I also prefer their engine over Chrome in terms of visual rendering.

The sole meaningful complaint I have about Firefox is its memory usage, which still seems high. It wants 1-2gb of ram no matter what I do.
> I disbelieve that capital one gave this dude someone else’s check images without any court order. There is absolutely no way they walked into a bank with and came out with the images.

It sounded like PayPal provided the images to him.
It seems to me that PayPal's responsibility ended when they delivered the check to the correct recipient, and that's what they paid for with the $1.50 fee.

But that didn't happen, so it's PayPal who's been defrauded and separately from that they still owe the funds to the account holder.

But IANAL also. Being USPS there are probably special laws about it.
I don't think they really do. Firefox, at least after the rewrite, is what made browsing on low-powered android machines bearable, in my experience.
Firefox with uBO is more than 100% faster than Chromium based browsers.
uBO doesn't properly work on Chromium based browsers due to their limitations
It's an open access research article so you can see the full text of the original here:

"Mechanochemical destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in aqueous film-forming foams and contaminated soil"

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/VA/D3VA0...

This is the most relevant paragraph for understanding the mechanism:

We have recently studied the degradation of perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) standards under mechanochemical destruction (MCD) conditions on quartz sand, which highlighted the radical-mediated degradation pathway of these compounds ultimately resulting in the formation of stable Si–F bonds embedded in the silica matrix. Other studies have also established the effectiveness of MCD to destroy a variety of topical persistent PFASs under laboratory conditions. This degradative phenomenon can be explained by the mechanical activation of the matrix and the generation of highly reactive surface sites on freshly formed surfaces which initiate and propagate the mineralisation of organic substances, such as PFASs.

Naturally occurring minerals in sandy soil form very reactive surfaces in the instant after they are broken into fragments by milling. Normally those surfaces quickly react with other materials in the immediate environment (natural organic matter, moisture, other minerals). That's why you can't just grind up a bunch of silica and add it to PFAS afterward to get a decontamination effect. But if the contaminated soil is ground up, minerals and all, part of that reactive mineral surface reacts with PFAS contaminants. The organic fluorine chemicals get turned into thermodynamically stable mineralized fluorides, so a little change each second compounds into near-perfect PFAS removal with prolonged application.
The article does mention Knuth, the author of three of the books you mention.
I remember jumping a bit when I saw the authors: Dale Doughterty and Tim O'Reilly. In all honesty, I should spend more time with the book as I have only used it to get a good introduction to troff in the past. Another tool which it is difficult to "modern" documentation for.