skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Our product was not in any sort of legal gray area (e.g. crypto) and fit within the bounds of existing law. From the day we started until the day we shut down, we’d spend millions of dollars to build a best-in-class compliance program to sit alongside our offering.

I worked in AML for a short time, and this:

> There were myriad buckets of n users who loved having a financial account designed just for them. A few examples from our own data: coparents, houses, art collectives, extended families who get along, teams, people who share livestock, churches, punk bands, weekend hustles, extended families who don’t get along, wiccans, and our team’s personal favorite, firehouses.

sounds like a compliance nightmare. Who is the beneficial owner of the wiccans collective bank account? What happens when one of the punk band member turns out to be an Iranian national? If three art collective members all deposit 5000 in one day, is that "smurfing" (splitting transactions so that they are under reportable thresholds)?

I think there is a good argument to be made that our current regulatory regime is bad, I'm not defending it. In this current regulatory environment though, "business style accounts but for informal small groups of individuals" cannot possibly make sense as a product. Their sponsor bank obviously didn't care when they were pulling minuscule numbers (10mm in monthly volume on a business account is really not very much to most banks.) Once Compliance finally decides to look at that Braid account, I'm sure it makes perfect business sense to offboard it for risk reasons. I'm shocked they didn't realize this.

ETA: If you are going to build a Fintech, please go listen to The Dark Money Files podcast first,

https://www.thedarkmoneyfiles.com/

Maybe hire them to tell you if your product makes sense. You can't "move fast, break things" with FINRA, it's NOT easier to ask for forgiveness from OFAC, etc.
Show HN: Privacy-respecting analytics for nonprofit org Horizontal
I have this exact setup but with the ADS-4300N. I'm new to it and it's still a novelty.

My only complaint is I've had the odd letter get scanned upside down and there's no way to rotate pages in Paperless-ngx.
They often get handed a website in wordpress with a bunch of random plug-ins that break during future updates (or require ongoing license payments they didn't anticipate)
The plug-ins being a mixture of free and proprietary that can't be easily extended to add features
The easiest way is probably

winget install shellcheck shfmt
brew install shellcheck shfmt
It won’t be your bank, it will be google. To some extent it already is.
Gloomy weather? Lamps on in the office? This creates a bird death trap.
Yeah, I tend to take 3 months between jobs, it's great for your mental and physical health. And I'm honestly said people in other fields don't have this opportunity.
Is this some kind of poor shaming or what's wrong with Wish.com? (I don't know the brand.)
I don’t think Gen Z cares about this. They want Bugatti’s and private jets.
I think this is the most disgusting fossil fuel ad I've ever seen: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AI2zKNNoUic
I do not understand. How are you losing money by being paid more?
You definitely didn't say that, that's true. What do you think is the reason that a company might choose to deploy a CAPTCHA and alienate a percentage of their users, rather than make their backend run more efficiently?
Not sure about everyone else, but I write one word at a time.
we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas
He's not wrong.

It doesn't matter, when liberty goes, so will the lifeblood of technological change.

The company founder types are building their own mausoleum.

When this is all said and done, the matrix, star trek, ect will only be populated by those guys. The rest of us will be happy and free from it, with real resources and real likes.
Personally I avoid buying direct from China whenever possible because I want parts quickly so that I can make progress on the project.

The cheapest solenoids I can see on Amazon Prime are about £5 each. 24 of those would be over £100.

Plus, the stated goal of the project is to learn a bit more about electromagnetism, so making your own solenoids is not even a bad idea.
Don't. Install code-server on a remote server. Your chromeOS device is a just a front-end, you don't need to actually run anything on it besides a chrome browser pointed at your code-server instance and an ssh connection.
India and China are both investing heavily in renewables, this is a tired trope.

Renewable energy is also cost effective compared to fossil fuels in many cases and has been for years. This also excludes the massive externalities of fossil fuels.

True, making it cheaper is the best way, which should involve not subsidising fossil fuels and subsidising renewables.

Alas, none of this has anything to do with fossil fuel companies advertising to children, not sure if your a contrarian or a shill but your take is totally off topic.
No, it doesn't bode well =(. To be honest, I wonder if the webbrowser 'market' has been fundamentally broken ever since the Netscape days.

Effectively ever since IE broke Netscape's back, every single major web browser has been funded either off the back of other business units (IE, Chrome, Safari), or funded by search engine deals. No customer has actually had to really contemplate 'what is the value of a browser' in like 25 years. No one actually has a sense of how valuable a browser actually is (except through the perverse metric of how many ads can you serve to the user via default search...).

I think it's telling that all of Brave's new revenue streams aren't actually -from- their self-professed mission.
If I had to place bets on which lab will invent agi

I'd bet against "invent AGI" being a coherent or agreed upon thing, and I'd also bet against the "wake-up" scenario of a system saying "I'm AGI"

Which lab invented deep learning? Certainly U Toronto had the breakthrough that made a 30+ year old field exciting, but there was a lot of work in Montreal, NYU, Google, DeepMind, OpenAI, and many other places
The theory of what’s possible seems less important here than the practical reality of what the lowest common denominator is capable of, and what they will choose out of convenience.

The average person, or even the average developer, isn’t going to use homomorphic encryption or be on point with their opsec.
a $200 chromebook blows away a $1000 ipad for develompent. It's got nothing to do with raw horsepower but rather software support. for example chromeOS has developer tools. the ipad doesn't.
No we should do what we are doing today. Help to change the economics with investments and subsidies.

And do it in a way that the poor people do not revolt and topple the governments because of the crazy high prices in goods.

The valid debate is how fast can we go towards this direction(aka how much should we ask people to pay to fund the transition). And there is no single right answer for this.
They're using the science fiction definition, which is "sapient" and has been around for years (unfortunately). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sentient
For buildings that don't have permanent bird strike mitigation measures built in, I wonder if temporary whitewash applied by window cleaners would help.
Cheaper by some narrow definitions. Expensive considering inconvenient externalities.
I've used ts-node before to run Typescript and my experience has been good, I've generally managed to do what I wanted. However with ts-node the speed is low (specially startup time) and I've always had problems with different module formats, dependencies etc. With bun everything just worked and it is so fast.

I cannot say that fetchbook would not have been possible without bun, but I am fairly confident it would not have taken me 3 days from idea to this HN comment.

Maybe give it a go?

Edit: maybe using deno would have been as easy... but I chose to try bun and I felt in love with it instantly.
And is MAD improved by having more participants? Maybe throw in one or two religious death cult states?

Pretending there is a general rules that applies equally to all roles of "relationship" is naive, an idealistic oversimplification of international politics.

> Look at how Russia has acted since it stopped being a superpower.

so let's give them more nukes and money to calm them down? or alternatively, don't let any new Russias emerge.
When someone wants to "bring urgency", this generally implies that it's already quite urgent to them, so I understood this as that question.
Fuck that’s a deeply funny way to deal with attacks.

You hardly have that letter somewhere?
In 2015, I worked for a youth-focused and progressive news/“content” organization that posted their videos exclusively on social media. Let’s call them “Know That Event.” It made/makes its money by doing the occasional advertorial video on behalf of a company and mixing it in with its typical content.

They announced to the staff one day that they landed a deal with Shell to produce videos about their science investment initiatives. I was disturbed by this and had chats with various decision makers. I was told that it would have a positive impact and celebrate the good investments, which would encourage Shell to do more good things! I wish I wrote down details, it was ridiculous. But they went ahead and did it. Shell never exerted any control over other content and all the news/editorial people were smart and committed, but this left a bad taste in my mouth about the company for the rest of my time there.
Well then do not update to Sonoma. Otherwise your boat will sink.
I don’t really understand the pull. It sounds like push is the shoulds and pull is the musts. As far as I understand it, push is the ‘do X’, pull is the ‘hold accountable when they don’t do X, or praise when they do’.

But these seem as two sides of the same coin, not as orthogonal concepts.
> I don't get easily offended, but I've honestly never seen anything more disgusting in my entire life.

Try watching some documentaries about Tiananmen Square or Uyghurs. I am curious if this statement will still hold.
Sonoma's log gets briefer and more secretive
This also works for humans, who have a tendency to walk through glass sliding doors if no pattern is applied.

https://www.purlfrost.com/blog/stop-people-walking-glass-pat...
"Importantly, the shingles vaccine shared a key ingredient with the TB shot, a component that enhanced the effectiveness of both but was in limited supply.

From a business standpoint, GSK’s decision made sense."

So they stopped developing a vaccination destined to save the poor from dying and instead prioritised a vaccine to help rich people feel better. As horrible or amoral as that sounds, it's kind of exactly what people are hoping for when yet buy stocks and want the line to go up.
And often unsure about where I'm going until I get there, ha ha.
Is this in reality a German cry for help, disguised as tech talk?

As one of the least digitized countries in Europe, and the digitalization budget recently cut 99%, it seems like they still need to use paper in their lives, and it's not gonna improve soon.

This feels so incredibly archaic to me as a Norwegian, I would have to print out documents to have anything to fill paperless-ngx with.
Indie hacker? Isn’t that just the approach of a good development team, solo or multi-person, in general?
We Finally Have Proof That the Internet Is Worse
> Guns are just a part of our culture regardless of whether we want them to be or not.

"Owning slaves is just a part of our culture regardless of whether we want it to be or not."

And I know what you're thinking: "comparing owning guns to owning human beings is wrong". Yes, but saying that something is "our culture" and can't be changes is just plain silly. Especially when it comes to guns.
Why Static Typing Came Back (2022) [video]
Maybe Unicode should add a new code block for these fleurons. They'd all be combining-characters, and you would build effectively a mini-DSL for describing fleurons as geometric compositions of radicals.
The Early Days of Id Software: Programming Principles [video]
Google’s standpoint likely saved many from identity theft given how getting access to the average person’s Google account can compromise half the services they have or more if they’re using gmail.
Opera did have a business model that worked monetizing the browser itself through sales - until smartphones fully supplanted feature phones.
Oh cool, I wrote the package the author links to. I believe the person that implemented the version built into Emacs used code similar to mine, so both packages should behave more or less the same (it's not a lot of code, in any case).
As they should. If you're going to propagandize to kids, it's only right that the side you're opposing should be able to do the same.
Brave has a long, long way to go before they even get close to becoming Google.
Wow. Quack products like this usually just do nothing. Poisoning people with hydrazine is impressively bad.
> You know what the solution is, reader? Either support pro-nuclear policies until something better comes along, or shut up about climate change.

Renewables are already cheaper than fossil fuels in many cases.

No one thinks fossil fuels were not essential in getting us to where we are.
No.

Guns literally are part of the founding od America. We got the second Amendment precisely because England tried to do things like take guns and quarter soldiers. Guns are and always have been part of American culture. I would also research the history of gun control the U.S, it may surprise you.
So you're willing to let the world burn, unless we go with your favorite energy source?
Well, first off, while you can configure it that way, I don't think that is the primary use-case. The primary one is adding a "something you have" factor to the "something you know" factor.

If you have servers in a controlled surveilled environment, you might be less worried about someone carrying a whole machine away, and you might be more concerned with someone just pulling a disk out and intentionally or unintentionally leaking the data.
If someone can infiltrate your DC and take out a 4u server, then you have bigger problems to worry about.
It really depends on how you calculate this, but fossil fuels are not cheap by any means. The IMF has some staggering numbers for direct and indirect subsidies of fossil fuels, https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/08/24/fossil-fuel...: “… explicit subsidies (undercharging for supply costs) more than doubled to $1.3 trillion.” If we just got rid of those subsidies, we’d see a faster shift.

Then there are all the externalities that are not part of the cost of fossil fuel costs today, start charging for the pollution and make the real costs explicit. The next thing, stop subsidizing road construction and maintenance for car drivers, and make only car owners pay the costs of all the roads, people would again see more explicitly how much more expensive cars are, which would get people to shift to other options (the vast majority of which are not EVs and won’t be for a long time). People might opt to bike for anything shorter than a 3 mile errand, deeming the car to be too expensive, or use the local bus or transit system…

Point being, these fossil fuels are supported directly by our governments and many of the primary users of those fuels are also supported by our governments (some more than others like here in the US).
Full time jobs decreased, part time jobs increased. They added those together and declared a net positive job growth.
I see a positive side: It's a sign that change is happening right now.

Big oil never had to advertise the "benefits" of fuel, people just bought it. This slowly starts to change. And oil companies are crapping their pants, because in some countries a significant amount of cars on the roads will be EVs within a few years.

In Europe some corporations already switched to a 100% EV company car policy. All new leases need to be electric only, and within 3 years they will have >90% EVs in their passenger car fleet.
> Unfortunately that means that you have to waste time by writing those imports

This is time well spent in my opinion. Everyone, including future you, benefit from it.

One of my biggest gripes in Rails is not being able to do this.
I agree with your first paragraph and with the fact that there is a need for new lines of evidence establishing who these people were and where they ended up.

>We'd also expect things like charcoal... ...have not detected human presence), floral changes, etc.

In addition to this type of evidence perhaps they should focus on locating DNA evidence from coprolites or similar traces of the humans who left those tracks. One track-way has been described as a young female carrying a baby and occasionally setting the baby on the ground. Perhaps there is a sample of human DNA from the child somewhere along that track set.

The geological situation in New Mexico before their arrival created natural shelters for these people during the vulcanism related to opening of the Rio Grande Rift which led to formation of a number of volcanic features across the region including lava tubes which would have made excellent shelters. The tuff from eruptions is easy to dig and as you can see in Bandelier National Monument northwest of there, durable shelters capable of being utilized for generations can be dug with simple tools.

During this time period, in present-day western New Mexico there was also active vulcanism. It's apparent that natural, durable shelter was available as was food and water so they would have no need to maintain a nomadic lifestyle. Excavation of some of the lava tubes nearest this ancient lake may provide some of the materials that help place these people in time relative to the rest of us.

Thanks for the discussion. I appreciate your insight.
According the article the data base consisted of about 3 billion faces, in 2020 when the article was published. If you go on their web page it says that is now consists of 30 billion, quite an increase
I wonder if people know about Google's Stacks app? I don't know if it's as powerful as Paperless-Ngx, but it lets you organize docs pretty easily and some of it is automatic. I have "stacks" for insurance, id cards, receipts, medical records, etc. Whenever I get paper mail, I snap a photo and immediately toss it. I can then organize it in the Stacks app and easily be able to pull it up later. It's a pretty useful, easy solution IMO.
Downloaded files will be on your local drive, and also business emails if you use a mail client like Outlook to access business email. I heard of cases where lawsuit discovery requests needed legal to sweep employee laptops to respond.

It's a liability for the company because they cannot ensure basic security is in place, like the OS is being updated or a competent antivirus is running. Or Bitlocker enabled on all drives. It'd put business data at risk and open up liability. Some companies may turn around and sue the employees claiming they didn't follow basic security practices. Not to mention cases in the past like personal phones being wiped by MDM from ActiveSync when the employee leaves or is fired.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90440073/if-you-use-your-persona...
So, in any tragedy of the commons are we just going to accept that the only solutions are going to be to change the concrete circumstances that make it a one?

If not climate change, then there'll be other instances like this where what's good for the individual (country) is bad for the world.
I would love a petrol voucher. 90% of Australians have a car so it would be useful to pretty much anyone's family. It's also a somewhat inelastic good, meaning if I gave you a petrol voucher you probably wouldn't considerably change your driving habits. Maybe you would use it to go on an extra family trip, which yes gasoline bad, but it's not exactly conspicuous consumption. It would just give you some extra money in your pocket. I would much prefer that to something like a vacation voucher or a new car or some useless stuff that I wouldn't pay my own money for.
> in the 20th century.
Until they cancel it.
Can those vouchers also be used for charging your EV? Shell is operating a lot of chargers already.
This and noticing a bunch of accounts are suddenly being logged into in mass in a way that is obviously an attack. It cannot be hard to detect such an event if you cared to notice. So it’s 100% negligence and 100% the result of putting profits over safety. A terrible management failure.
I'm not listening to them I'm listening to science, the discipline that has given us pretty much all our quality of life improvements.

It's suspicious how many in this thread are pointing out that fossil fuels are an essential component of society reaching the point it has. We know, that's not a revelation.

It is not the point.
What I don't really understand is, do people really have than many physical documents that they need to keep track of, that such a system is worth it? E.g. to file my taxes (in Belgium), I think I only ever need a few (maybe even only 1 or 2) digital documents. Or is this more a mentality thing? I know my parents have folders and folders, e.g. my father kept all expense notes from his work even after retirement... I throw everything away once it's handled.
Ozempic and other weight loss drugs could reshape the food business
Both Chicago and Illinois have bird friendly building ordinances but the building in question was built in 1960 long before they existed. It’s also massive so mitigations will take a long time to be applied.