skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a certain "budget" for losses like this. Beneath a certain amount, you just take the loss, as it's more cost effective than spending man-hours on it. Their fraud systems and dedicated fraud teams are better off alerting on the "whales", so to speak. And in these cases, if you're gonna lay accusations and ban people, you'd rather be more certain (i.e. minimize false positives).

All that is to say, it's understandable if they only pounce once it gets to a certain level of badness.
My understanding (that might be out of date) is that the tools are weak. Ideally you would have tabular data and it would give you a digraph for the causal structure between variables. You can try this but the tools don't work reliably yet. Otherwise everyone would use them.
Because it directly references and answers part of the GP comment.
On a somewhat tangental note, I've wondered about doing something like this in a desert area: piping seawater into a hot and arid climate, spraying into the air but managing salt collection to avoid salting the earth.

My (limited) understanding is that there's a feedback loop (both positive and negative) between vegetation and rainfall -- so why not kickstart it in the positive direction?
Otoh, companies chasing the highest dollar value customers or differentiating via service may want to take it. Higher ticket prices, more revenue, despite the aggravations.

It’s almost as if a business needs to decide if it’s mass market or high end. I would only buy certain classes of goods with my AmEx due to how confident I am that Amex customer service has my back.

For example, the Amex platinum card will reimburse you for items the merchant won’t accept as a return. I recently bought an electric screwdriver that sucked, but wasn’t able to make a decision until I’d used it for longer than the merchant return window. I paid with amex and just got it refunded.

As a consumer that has real value.
Ad 1) I was perhaps not clear enough that I was talking about the main transit routes. I agree that especially the situation in northern Switzerland could be described as being more complicated and the route from Innsbruck to Zurich should have been included. The area between Basel, Bern and Zürich is indeed the place where traffic from different origins and destinations intermingles.

Ad 2) True.

Ad 3) Perhaps a better map to support my point is this one about the core Trans-European freight train network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-European_Transport_Netwo... Of course this map is limited, as it does not cover passenger transport and does not show transport volume. However, the fundamental topological problem of the network in Germany should be quite apparent as there are a lot of options were traffic is changing directions and a congestion in a specific place may easily spread to other hubs. -- It is perhaps no coincidence that Europe's two largest marshalling yards are in Germany: Maschen Rangierbahnhof[1] near Hamburg and Mannheim Rangierbahnhof[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maschen_Marshalling_Yard

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannheim_Rangierbahnhof
Well that put a dent in my respect for Twain. Obeying your parents, the more experienced humans, is generally the better advice. There are exceptions of course.

I wonder if Twain had particularly difficult parents, hence his view.
Good luck getting support from google/youtube if you have issues with your premium account. Like a friend of mine who recently decided to setup a family group on his google account, so he can include immediate family members in his household so they can access youtube via premium family plan. Nope. He got a message saying he can only switch to a new family group once every 12 months. He spent a day looking around trying to figure how to get support from an actual human being at google to resolve the issue. No luck so far. In the end, he cancelled his youtube premium.
Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, JCB are the five that started PCI-DSS

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Sec...
[2]: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/
Do you mean Office Space?
I published that damn app a few years ago. I was experimenting with Processing at the time: https://processing.org/
I thought it could be funny to use the javascript version of it https://p5js.org/ in a web page and then wrap it in a Unity app, since Unity was and is the environment I use for making apps.
Yes, I know that Processing can export to Android natively (but not to iOS, by the way)
Being a shitty and useless app that no one use, I should have unpublished it years ago. I have kept it updated all these years because "oh, well, one I day I will improve it, when I have time".
And now this shitty and useless app has caused the destruction of all my other "real" apps. Lesson learned the hard way.
That makes sense. However, the article seems to indicate it's how they identify themselves.

Perhaps it's a chicken v egg question? Is depression the disease or the symptom to some as yet unidentified / unnamed malignity? Yes, I understand that's a stretch but this article lends itself to such questions.
> To opt-out from our anonymization of your personal information to perform data analyses, please provide your Mastercard or Maestro payment card number

Does this mean you're opting out of the anonymization, but not the collection of personal information?

The wording here could definitely be improved.
The power output of dams like these is negligible. The Grand Coulee Dam they are not. Besides, they were reaching EOL. It would be homicidally negligent to leave such aging dams in a very earthquake-prone area.
> Would the EFF feel any differently if the data were pseudo-anonymous and open to everyone?

I think having data visibly public and open to everyone is a lot better than having it seemingly private and quietly selling it.

> Have there been consequences or harms? I mean maybe in some isolated case I can imagine it.

There have definitely been people getting outed against their will because they didn't realise their play history was visible. I'd be amazed if there wasn't at least one case where someone has been attacked as a result.
His arguments against absolute open-mindedness weren't grounded in discussions of his faith - even just the full version of his quote shows that, it was in reply to a metaphor for theory of mind his friend told him:

"For my friend said that he opened his intellect as the sun opens the fans of a palm tree, opening for opening's sake, opening infinitely for ever. But I said that I opened my intellect as I opened my mouth, in order to shut it again on something solid. I was doing it at the moment. And as I truly pointed out, it would look uncommonly silly if I went on opening my mouth infinitely, for ever and ever."

Other variations of the quote he told included an addendum: "The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. Otherwise it is more akin to a sewer, taking in all things equally."

Neither of those relate to grounding his epistemology in Catholicism.

While I definitely agree his Christian apologia means a heavy dose of salt with intellectual claims, he's not even arguing for a moral center in this metaphor. Simply an intellectual self, to not be a gaping maw of consumption, as you wouldn't be physically.

Discernment with respect to ideas you're willing to entertain isn't exclusively the domain of religion, as far as I'm aware.
It’s probably on some dashboard somewhere that nobody looks at
At a terminal, when I type on my keyboard the key that physically has the symbol "-" written on it:

... $ echo -n "-" | hexdump -C

I get 2d. That's ASCII. It's minus sign.

Case closed. Anyone arguing for Unicode hyphen should be shot dead on the spot, no trial.

P.S: I hope it's not lost on people that both echo and hexdump took a parameter here, and that that parameter was passed preceded by the ASCII minus sign. Which is the whole point.
Agreed. Afaict, in practice, you setup your own casual graphs and test them. This seems very academic 1950s.

Interestingly, folks are finally doing more realistic experiments in the casual equiv of arch search, and genAI is giving these efforts a second wind. Still feels like at the toy stage or for academics & researchers with a lot of time on their hands, vs relevant for most data scientists.

I'm still on the sidelines, but keep checking in in case finally practical for our users..
(russellbeattie... I recognize that name... small world. Sorry for digressing. Russell: I've got to thank you for https://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/1008770. We all felt so proud after reading that review! Finally someone who got it. I was the person who led the product design/engineering effort during its first decade.)
power-saving feature?
Well there goes MumboJumbo’s attempted Minecraft retirement.
There are some benefits, but it does complicate the transaction significantly. It's no longer between two parties (a consumer and a merchant), there are now at least two more: a lender and a credit bureau.

And that's why we're in this mess to begin with. Credit card transactions are reported to credit bureaus (from a quick web search, it looks like debit card transactions aren't) and this normalizes the idea that your financial data should be shared freely amongst finance companies.

There's really no such thing as a free lunch, or a free loan. When someone offers you one, it's good to understand how you're going to be paying for it.
> Most of the EU competitors to Amazon are single-country, apparently.

Weird - so regardless of the Union part of the EU, European companies have not expanded beyond their home countries?
Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks (2017)
Lots of apathy and people that gave up on politics and dont vote. Yet they don't support the current government. For example they sit out because only able to chose between two terrible or undesirable candidates. Or maybe they feel the political system is rigged, or voting is fake.
There's going to be discrepancy between who wins the voting game, and who the people support.

Sampling Errors, where the method of voting favors only certain demographics would produce such results
GRC ValiDrive
What’s kinda poignant is that there was one tree left where there should be a forest, and you’re directed to feel angry when it is cut down
Funnily enough (re GP), apparently Stage Manager was actually originally prototyped in the OS X days (2006). https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/stage-manager-was-a-thi...
My hunch is that all your moving doesn't help. I'm a similar age and it feels impossible to make new friends. Virtually all my current inner circle are friends from ~20 years from High School and College.

It's much easier to lose friends then gain them. So as people marry, have kids, move, keeping the close allyship becomes more difficult.

The kinds of activities most US 30+ adults are open to are relatively small and easily prone to be disrupted. For example, I might invite someone to watch a basketball game, but it will take a fairly long time for that kind of contact to blossom into a strong friendship. Moving just resets everything.

Also consider I would never call up a coworker I might have known for years and invite to something more personal, like a ski vacation. If I was in college, I wouldn't think twice about doing that with someone I didn't even know that well.
> Fox ... Axel Springer ... Daily Mail

Let me clarify.

When I speak of influence, I am not speaking about the influence tabloids have on people and their voting patterns. Instead, I am referring to "newspaper of record" type influence; news sources that will be used by academics and historians of the future to write the history of this era.

To expand on this a bit, the problem with right-wing media is that it is not taken seriously and a lot of it has to do with a lack of serious reporting. I find it very funny when right-wing media of one country refers to left-wing media of another country in their articles and programs because they are either unaware of local right-wing sources or simply do not trust them.
I'm the person who submitted it. I thought it was interesting in part because it talks about some of the cities with a significant number of such people.

I'm a demographic outlier with zero social connections via HN. No one on HN routinely emails me, chats with me on the social platform formerly known as Twitter, meets me for coffee in person, etc.

So the only feedback I have is upvotes, downvotes, flags and comments and that's frequently difficult to decifer.

I submit things I think are interesting and accept that most of what I submit will be roundly ignored. But then this seems true for most submissions, so it's not a strong signal (shrug).

I have no idea why this got upvoted enough to briefly make the front page.

Which of my submissions does well and which doesn't frequently baffles me. I no longer waste a lot of time trying to figure it out.
Twain was smart enough to know most teenagers will never listen to someone that says "Your parents are more experienced humans and you should obey them".

Those rare kids that would listen to such advice have plenty of people telling it to them anyway.
From the paper[1] since the website fails to explain this (!):

> Earables are ear-worn devices that offer functionalities beyond
basic audio in- and output. In this paper we present the ongoing de-
velopment of a new, open-source, Arduino-based earable platform
called OpenEarable. It is based on standard components, is easy to
manufacture and costs roughly $40 per device at batch size ten.

> We demonstrate the versatility of the prototyping
platform through three different example application scenarios.

The three example apps are:

> Measuring motion on the ear is a common application in the earable
space which can be used for a number of applications

> A popular ear canal pressure application is the detection of jaw
motions

> It is possible for the ultrasonic microphone to pick up an inaudible
signal from the speaker. This information can be used to understand
the shape of the ear canal because the sound is reflected differently
depending on the shape, a principle which can be used for authentication

The paper also mentioned ClearBuds[1] which looks interesting too.

[1] https://open-earable.teco.edu/OpenEarable.pdf

[2] https://clearbuds.cs.washington.edu/
> Usually there's some little footnote on the menu or sign on the door stating the fee, so it would be impossible for a prosecutor to prove fraud.

which is, of course, an outcome of the current regulatory regime.

US prices are not advertised with taxes included either - even locally, where it is obvious what the nexus is. But this is not legal in the EU. We can outlaw random footnotes being an excuse for random fees too - there is a number on the menu, that should be the price of the item. Require all prices to be inclusive of fees/taxes etc so that people can see the full, final price before they get emotionally invested/etc.

Frankly this probably would result in lower total prices for consumers - people decide to buy based on the advertised number, people are not (reliably) rational/efficient about purchasing decisions, especially in situations with highly opaque information (is the other restaurant going to tack on an even higher fee? etc). Forcing all the fees to be rolled into the final price is, just like healthcare, a win for enabling people to have the most information to make the most accurate decisions, which helps drive costs down.
Even if it goes both ways, at the very least it evens the playing field.

Today it’s lopsided in the companies’ favor.
Because cars are inefficient. So much so, that I'm pretty sure if you tasked an engineer to come up with the least efficient way of transporting people, they'd come up with something resembling a car.

Electric cars are a good step, but they only alleviate a few downsides of cars.
In the old days young people (mostly boys) would to stupid things to make their friends laugh; i can help to feel like that social networks elevate that behavior up to eleven.

People now a days do all kinds of stupid shirt just to get views. I think the destruction of this tree was an example of that.
>But an organization like a co-op or a government would built the lines with no concern for profitability

No, they are absolutely concerned about staying in the green. Apart from the federal government, local governments have to make enough money to avoid bankruptcy. Co-ops are even more constrained.

This makes them even less likely to invest in risky cutting edge technology or anything approaching R&D.

The only place these works are well established technologies. We’ve hit the point in the last decade where fiber is pretty well understood and future proof, so it now is low risk to lay a bunch of it and relatively cheap to upgrade endpoints as needed.

Make no mistake though, the only reason fiber has reached the commoditization point is because of a bunch of very profit driven networking gear manufactures dethroning each other over who can pack the most bits over wavelength.
Also sounds fairly problematic if they sweep the beam back and forth across people a bunch of times.

After all the skin layers are gone, it's not like the beam will stop working... :/
Derogatory? Against what? vehicles? Optimus Prime?

What a time to be alive.
He was just trying to present the advice in a form that would be believed by his audience. As for his audience, he likely assumed that they were like him when he was young.

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

Twain is an interesting character. But he shouldn't always be read in a straightforward manner.
Sometimes, an app really is just as good as it looks, and that's all there is to it. I like it better than Pocket, better than Instapaper, respects RSS, integrates email newsletters, even lets you convert your google/apple login to an email login with a click. Even support for a private library of PDFs and EPubs! I seem to be having a little bit of trouble adding highlights to Epubs, but this is just about the perfect app.

So now, it's just a question of when the other shoe drops and they look at monetization. How much will it cost, what will the free version lose, what data of mine will be sold, etc? As long as its good enough and stays true to what appears to be its current vision, I can't see why I wouldn't pay for it, so it's just a matter of trusting that it will stay good over time.
iPadOS’s hand-me-downs
(sighs and hangs head down.)
The already limited authority of the UNSC is almost meaningless without the consensus of the great powers. An UNSC with only (pro-)Western powers sanctioned US intervention in the Korean War, did it make any difference beyond the use of the UN flag?
> Having said that, here is a list of potential reasons:...

I don't want to sound too ignorant, but the list provided seems like a list of common / known symptoms of depression. So are these things driving the disease or the result of it? Both??
Good question, I'm not personally sure.
It was a stupid experiment. A useless app I shoud have unpublished years ago. I used Unity because I'm familiar with Unity and didn't want to deal with Android Studio and native development stuff.
Isn't STIR/SHAKEN analogous to reverse path filtering? Is that also a violation of net neutrality?
Frankly, it's an obscenity that these people can hold so much wealth when there are millions of people who have to live hand to mouth on a daily basis out there. People working for these multimillionaires made all the profit for them. They must pay more in taxes to spread the wealth. Trickledown economics simply doesn't work and increases inequality.
I think in practice most of these techniques are useless (or worse, confer a false sense of precision) because they require so many nuanced judgement calls that they become little more than a way to launder biases.
i think even just masking the background with a static image for a few of the scenes would be a gigantic improvement to hide the inconsistent quality of each frame
I guess I'm definitely a #1 person, because I don't understand how #2 relates. By all means, standardize all the things to remove variation -- that resonates pretty strongly with me. But I don't get how "standardize" shifts to "zero-out."
Google fiber got bought out?

No, the issue is that nobody can compete because of NIMBYs and regulatory capture. Comcast doesn’t buy competitors, it just picks up regional cable providers in areas it doesn’t already own. Companies that try to compete without government intervention are doomed to fail.
It's still got all the noise and shadows frame-to-frame. It wouldn't be historically accurate, but it strikes me that an ML algo could probably smooth the noise and shadows, colorize, and even add frames into a more immersive video to bring Twain even closer to the viewer.

There's always the ethical and artistic arguments around colorizing and so forth, but if one of the values of old video reels is to connect our conscience to the past, it's my opinion that smoothing, colorizing, de-noising and so forth can be benefits in that goal, even if the frames are no longer "authentic". (It's not like the real Twain was choppy and black-and-white)
Same here, I check in every year or so because it would be fantastic to have.
It was just a couple of weeks ago that I got annoyed by "man ascii" on some Linux system showing me a dash instead of an apostrophe for character 39. Of course it wasn't actually a dash, but it was an apostrophe converted somehow into a character 180 (which in ISO 8859 is an acute accent), at least that's what "man ascii | hexdump -C" told me. My terminal settings were set in such a way that it came out as a dash.

How exactly it got to be a dash is not really the problem. What it should show is a character 39 apostrophe, because that's exactly what it should be showing there! Ironically, the character 45 dash is shown for me as a character 45 dash, just as it should.
Barer Metal Space Invaders – Tayfun Kayhan
It has a powerful ability to seduce people and when they are under its spell people overestimate what it can do.
There used to be a site that had desktop themes showcased in the late 90s or early 2000's that was popular, csnt remember the name of it now.

I used to look at the windowmaker and KDE themes in that daily.

Nostalgia, would like to see them again.
Linux in 2024 may run DirectX games well enough.
The vast majority of the mass in most galaxies is dark matter anyway, so the number of stars is not so important. Remember, normal matter is only about 5% of all the stuff in the universe.
FWIW, after using it for a few months I like it more than I thought I would. I decided to try it after my Average User sister said she liked it, and I wondered what I was missing. As context, I’ve used Mac OS since the late 80s and have permanently (to the degree possible) disabled the dock.
All transactions on most crypto networks are pseudo anonymous and publicly accessible.
I could. But I could also write the whole thing in assembly or go. I want a language that does everything I want and that includes a clean async api. I think there's a hole here because what "I" described as what "I" want is what a lot of people want.
Or the new Preferences.app.
Backflip
Not "they". He. I'm only person. And yes, I use Unity because it's cross platform. Well, at least it was cross platform, until they closed my Google Play Developer account 2 days ago :-(
>I thought that Beagle Company was more tied to TI chips than this, I didn't expect a non-TI chip to come out of their boards.

I would say it's simpler than that: TI failed to release a RISC-V chip in a timely manner, whereas BeagleV (correctly) identified the direction the industry is moving towards.
Imagine if we applied the same logic to white people when projects like rural electrification bills were debated.