skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Useless Ruby sugar": Argument forwarding
A23a: World's biggest iceberg on the move after 30 years
The TMT site was chosen because archaeological surveying showed that that particular location does not have any ancient artifacts (such as burial sites).
Boiling the frog. They suck a bunch of data so it's okay to suck more...
I wonder how many are false positives though. Sometimes people fat finger the CVV/CVV2 code and bank will decline it.

Does that count as a “blocked fraudulent charge”?
> That's what the religious and philosophical concept of a soul is.

Yes, I hope that it exists but it clashes with research that shows that brain damage can change a persons behavior and personality. So this take tries to combine both concepts.

I have no idea how the signals are transmitted but I believe there is some room for transmission mechanisms we have not discovered or understood yet.
If you obtain funds illicitly and transmit them round-trip through a 3rd party, lossily, such that the 3rd party and any outside observer such as the government are unaware that you are both sides, you are laundering money.

But please tell me what money laundering is and is not. It's not like I have a close to a decade of real world experience in an industry whose primary goals include combating it and working with relevant authorities.
Uhhh… how exactly were these transactions supposed to even take place without the banking system?

I have no interest in bartering or sending ounces of gold around.

And don’t say crypto - last time I tried to figure it out, I ended up sending ETH, and more than half of it evaporated in “gas money”. What a joke.
This comment is engaging in the exact same behavior that caused the first trial to get thrown out: conflating consensual prostitution with sex slavery and human trafficking.

> In 2021, an Arizona judge declared a mistrial in the case of Larkin and Lacey after they found that prosecutors’ arguments hinged on the horrors of child sex trafficking even though neither defendant was facing charges related to it.

Backpage was never on trial for facilitating sex trafficking. They were proactive in reporting cases to law enforcement.
> However, there's a tendency to undervalue PHP-based applications

I don't think there's that. In every thread about PHP, many people come in to explain this (edit: this = how good PHP is for use-case X, or how good it is holding up). Every time.

"We" all know PHP has its very well-fitting sweet spot. Its use-cases where it shines.

I do think, though, that the list of use-cases and the size of the sweet spot is not as big as the usage of PHP makes it out to be.
What I mean is: there are many situations in which PHP is the best solution. But in many places where PHP is employed, it is not the best solution (anymore).
I like my power and my water and that's why I make sure I don't need the government to do this for me.
Nice spot, it is.
There are easily available statistics of the tens of thousands dying in traffic each year, and the multiple millions being injured.

No estimates for the "lives saved while driving pregnant wife to hospital drunk and speeding" will ever get close to those numbers.
It loaded perfectly fine on Android/Chrome though.
Paul Reuter
Copyright Bot Can't Tell Difference Between Star Trek Ship, Adult Film Actress
You chose the most expensive "routing", otherwise you would only have spent cents to send any amount.
Sounds like a good business killer. First you fire all the back end folks cause they don't know nothing about the business and tableau is the new backend (nevermind that the backend folks have been absorbing and helping refine business requirements). Then when the business folks get tangled up in the web of shit they call in the tableau consultants who suck em dry and produce nothing of value.
Since statehood, Hawaii has been much more democratic than it was during the Kingdom. Under the Kingdom, a large share of the population was made up of migrant workers without much rights. The initial US takeover was illegitimate, but Hawaii later became a US state with much greater rights for the general population.
My workflow was broken by the changes.

Maybe I could have done a bunch of customization to get it back.

But it would not have been back because my workflow didn’t involve a bunch of customization.

The changes force imposed a mass of non-artistic complexity into my workflow.

The changes didn’t improve my pictures because my results were already good enough for my artistic intent.

Nobody ever looked at a print and wept because it was developed with scene referenced workflow…
SomaFM got me through 9/11

I had moved to a new city about a year before the event. No work, no friends, money dwindling, and suddenly the world went bananas… my most vivid memories of that period was hours of reading about anthrax and bin Laden and groove salad and that secret agent station.

I picked up the habit again during the lockdown.
Plane or I.S.S.?
I feel like someone ought to acknowledge the Ghost reference for you. Thanks.
Well, I'm very skeptical about whether it's possible to do this passively. Analyzing driving behaviour seems unreliable, and more importantly, it's too late. Analyzing ambient air in the vehicle includes passengers in the test and won't work with open-topped vehicles. You need something that singles out the driver before the car starts driving.

Maybe, if the car requires a button press to start, that button press can also be used to analyze the blood somehow?
It sounds like you are a luddite.
It's a cool thing to add to your company website.
> For the average medical emergency, everyone would probably be better off with the car stopping by the roadside: heart attack, stroke, confusion, … are not improved by hitting other cars, buildings, pedestrians.

Why are you assuming the person with the problem is driving? That’s not what anyone is talking about. The point was that someone driving a passenger to the hospital would be in a justifiable rush.

> I would say if this is anything more than a movie trope it would be solved better by fixing your medical system, and not having to drive dangerously and illegally in the first place. Planted into a tree is not a great way to give birth.

It’s not a movie trope, rushing sick people to the hospital is a real thing that happens.

It’s not a problem with the medical system. It takes longer for an ambulance to drive all the way to your location first and then to drive to the hospital than it would for someone to put you in their car and leave for the hospital immediately in most cases.

You’re taking the most bad-faith interpretations of what people are suggesting, but you’re really just setting up straw man arguments and missing the point.
and the newest games keep getting worse and worse. barely playable junk and people still buy it like crazy, sad
A lot of the fee goes to the customer's bank that funded the transaction, which is what enables Credit Card rewards programs. If you limit that fee (like the E.U. has), Visa et al. don't go out of business, but then you won't see any similar level rewards programs like we have here in the US (e.g. 2% back on everything, or 3-5% on specific categories, etc).
This is really cool, and (unlike the Stripe one) doesn't crash my browser nor does it lag on my devices.

The city facts are a nice addition, but most of the cities I search for don't have enough data despite showing up in the suggestions, which is annoying. The customization options are fun to play around with though, and especially airplane mode is a nice touch.
> Apologies for the gender specific terms,

It doesn't make any sense to apologize for using a language in its current form.
All of those things have value if they are allowed to provide value.

None provide value if management do not allow it to have value.

> t-shirt sizes

The whole point of planning poker is for people to guesstimate how much they think a task will take, and the poi t of doing it in a group is to allow the team to discuss the things they may not have thought about.

> 2 hour sprint reviews

I would agree that 2 hours is vastly excessive, but a sprint review is just a time for people to regularly meet and say what things are pissing them off, and what can be done to fix them.

If management know best and you have to use a shitty Jenkins pipeline with someone else's scripts, then it is pointless. But that's not the fault of the sprint review.
>I think these should be installed in cars in such a way that they can be removed by owners. And then make removing it a crime.

>In the foreign invasion (or US govt goes full fascist) case, people can remove these devices.

I don't follow this logic. Would it stop being a crime then? If anything, it'd start being more severely punished.
GP got it wrong. These are transaction counts, not $ totals.
AI model Aitana after becoming sick of influencers
There's plenty of things about modern finance you're free to complain about. Things we're largely forced to do with onerous and useless fees attached - Realtors taking 6% of multi-million dollar transactions for doing nearly nothing has been in the news recently.

Pretty sure nobody is forced to buy info products on Black Friday for an 80% discount.
At least initially, any AGI is likely to be limited by compute capacity. Ie. it might have greater-than-human intelligence, but is only able to make a certain number of decisions/actions per day.

However, we have seen with other AI models that as soon as something useful is proved possible, we can expect rapid reductions in the amount of compute necessary to achieve the same.
EVs are a better experience if you have a place to charge at home and aren’t constantly going on road trips. I strongly believe that most Americans with an ice car would prefer an EV if the cost made sense.
Competitors of stripe would, to set their own targets. Creditors of stripe can use it to get a general idea of whether they made any money to pay their loans with. Investors of stripe for the same purposes but in expectation of dividends or increase of market value of their equity. Academics for research, journalists for reportage… there are plenty of people out there other than design nerds.
> Sorry, but to me that reads as 100% as a problem of the UK NHS for underpaying it's workers in the first place. EU workers taking those lower paying jobs is only the effect but not the cause.

> So why blame eastern European workers for a problem created by UK institutions? To me it read as targeted xenofobia in disguise.

I think you misread what I said? Low wages in the NHS are a good thing. We're exploiting foreign workers for our own gain – I'm not a nurse so why would I dislike this? I celebrate the suppression of NHS wages. I don't blame the eastern European workers we're exploiting in the slightest.

> Answer me this: Now that eastern Europeans don't come work in the NHS anymore, did NHS wages rise? Or are they now importing cheaper labor from outside the EU by rubber-stamping work visas like crazy, meaning UK workers are now also wagedumped and also without EU membership benefits? How do those apples taste? Xenofobia has its price you know.

Yeah kinda. We can't find enough workers willing to work for the crappy wages we pay so unfortunately we're now upping their wages to prevent them striking.

> Or are they now importing cheaper labor from outside the EU by rubber-stamping work visas like crazy, meaning UK workers are now also wagedumped and also without EU membership benefits?

Not sure what you're point is here? Low skilled UK workers have always had wages suppressed and never had the luxury of moving to the EU. Middle-class people who might want to live/work abroad are impacted though, yes.

> Higher wages for workers means cost increases up the chain and from what I saw Brits love their cheap prices and services and any small increase in prices leads to a dramatic increase in people living below the poverty line in the UK.

I agree. This is why I'm pro mass migration and pro wage suppression. Like I said, suppressing wages in the NHS makes a ton of sense because it results in lower healthcare costs for British tax payers. Same is true for the cheap foreign agricultural labour we import – it provides us with cheaper produce.

I feel like you've completely misread what I've said because I think we actually 100% agree here?

Like you, I also want low wages and cheap immigrants. This is why I'm in favour of mass-migration... I didn't vote Brexit so we could reduce migration I voted Brexit so we could reduce regulation and bureaucracy.

I think where we might differ is that I understand why people disagree with me on this. If I were less privileged and competing against migrant workers it would probably annoy me much more – and it's those people I'm arguing for here despite that not being my position – I can understand why people voted to reduce the influx of cheap labour.

I guess to clarify:

> Do you want cheap immigrants

Yes, I do, but do you see how this might upset those who must compete with the "cheap immigrants"?
Ground-based telescopes have capabilities that space-based telescopes do not. You can build much larger telescopes on the ground, attach much larger and heavier instruments to them, and perform regular maintenance and upgrades. Space-based and ground-based telescopes are not interchangeable, and you need both in the modern day.
Can I ask how you feel about the larger proposition/regime I'm suggesting? Do you feel criminal trials are the best forum to dea with impaired drivingor or should we maybe update the social contract and traffic policy/car manufacturing etc so we can move on to more practical interventions that stop it before it "happens" (please don't nitpick about "well u already are guilty cuz u started the car", like just answer rhe darn question with as much good faith as it was asked ny me which is completely in)
Such fees just encourages bad incentives. Such as terrible security because reimbursing people / financing organized crime is cheaper (cheaper for the bank, of course much more expensive for society).
Is it just me who'd prefer they just didn't take my money in the first place...?
> If they are driving like a drunk driver

This is the core problem: If we assume that the drunk driving protection is 100% accurate and there are never any false positives under any conditions, the bill seems more reasonable.

But I’m struggling to understand why people on HN of all places are assuming this drunk driving protection will be absolutely perfect and never trigger unless absolutely justified. Anyone who works with technology doing fuzzy classification or detection tasks knows how impossible it is to get the accuracy being implied in this thread.
> There are some things markets are very good at. This is one of them.

Ironic in a thread about the market making up a totally imaginary generation surplus.

10-20% of Finnish retail customers are on spot market based contract, and stand to save up to something on the order of 0.40€/kWh consumed (net after taxes and fees) off their electrical bill for the reminder of the day. I suppose every market-rational consumer would have a 10kW electric space heater outside melting snow on the ground, maxing out their supply.
See, that's the thing. People dismiss this as being "just Photoshop users". No, it's not, people listed Corel, Krita and 3-4 other photo editing programs here. And those are probably used by 95% of people editing photos.

So Gimp's user base, while existing, is minuscule.

Your is the other common defense, the Emacs defense. "What about the existing users?" (All 4 of them? :-p)

Yes, even the worst programs in the history of mankind (not saying Gimp is horrible, just going for reduction ad absurdum) have their loyal users. That doesn't make them right.

This argument is flawed, in my opinion.

Gimp receives a lot of TLC from its developers. That TLC would help more people if it were better guided in the UI/UX department. My 2 eurocents.

At the end of the day, the Gimp devs can do whatever they want.

But my bet is on this discussion happening in much the same form in 2050.
> Writing can have such a better signal to noise ratio

It can, but in my experience with employers who push async as primary communication, the noise is MUCH higher than regularly scheduled stand-ups.
But, but... Rails doesn't scale!!!!!
There are different kinds of co-ops. Most in Finland at least are consumer co-ops. You join the co-op by buying a membership/share at a fixed price from the co-op (the share is created at the spot, there's always as many shares as members. The price is typically mostly nominal, e.g. 50 eur). The share can't be resold (you can end your membership and you get the share price back) and one person can only buy one share. Each share gets one vote in the co-op election.

The co-op can run a profit, but typically the charter is to provide some service (e.g. retail or banking) for the members (and typically for non-members too). Profits can be shared as dividends for the shares, but this is quite rare nowadays, and more often used to invest in new stores etc and/or lower prices. It typically doesn't make much sense for the members that e.g. your grocery store is moved to Bangladesh, so that quite rare.

Worker co-ops are a bit different. You have to work at the co-op to have a share, and the payout is typically the salary. But crucially an investor can't just buy shares and just move the production to Congo and kick out the employees etc what for-profits do all the time if it gives the owners a higher profit.
The reincarnation of totaled North American Teslas–in Ukraine
LLM Finetuning Memory Requirements
Good point regarding .NET! The .NET CLR / VM is clever in that way.

Regarding your experience with readability in Go, I have to agree in some way because the known (and controversial) explicit error handling, but what you may realize sooner or later is that handling both the happy path and erroneous path is actually a net positive. That's the difference between seeing `if err != nil {` as code pollution or actual logic. I've realized the latter.
It's a logical trap to assume we have to pick who develops an AGI rather than deciding if we want one developed at all.

Even in that scenario, I'm not really sure what the distinction would end up being. At least in the US, our government and corporations are so tightly coupled at this point that we're really toeing the waters of Fascism.

If a corporation develops an AGI our government can have access to it whenever they deem necessary. And if a government wants to develop one they will almost certainly partner with corporations to do it. I'm sure the military and intelligence agencies have their own projects running, but they'd accelerate by partnering with and funding corporate projects and research.
You can just cap it at 10-20KM/H (or miles) extra if that's the argument.

Im not necessarily for it. But there is definitely an argument to be made, speeding is the cause of 30% of all traffic deaths:
https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/speeding#:~:text=Dangers....
You have to know the history to understand why this argument is communist.
Shopify has been able to scale to this using a Ruby on Rails monolith and a few Go/Rust services.

Impressive.
Chinese factories transform Nvidia RTX 4090 gaming cards into AI accelerators
Next time you buy food, remember that's traditional farming system taking money out of your pocket.

Seriously, if the whole crypto scene taught us anything, it was that a global transaction network isn't an easy service to provide.
The fact that what the cycling layer shows to me is useless is a data problem, yes. However, As I mentioned in my comment above, as a cyclist I care about seeing a visualization of my surroundings. OSM tells me at a glance if an area I want to cycle through is a forest, if there is public transit, etc. None of that is part of Google's cycling layer, or any other layer - apart from transit. But the faint lines added by the transit layer are not helping, either. The maps are an unreadable low-contrast mess.
Are you saying Microsoft doesn't have enough money to make Bing better? How many dollars would it cost to make Bing better?
thanks I'll have a look through that thread
This isn't really the case. The Ariane 5 was selected because ESA agree with NASA that ESA would pay for the launch. And of course ESA would use the Ariane 5.

Had NASA paid for the launch, both the Delta 4 (Heavy) and the Atlas 5 has the necessary NASA certification.
That sounds better to me. I still think it's a bad idea to have the tech in the possession of the driver as that means that persistent drunks would find a way to bypass it (e.g. cover it in metal foil).
Fraud is typically very small dollar amounts used to test the card. Partially to try to go unnoticed but also to leave as much of the limit available as possible for intended purchases later.
Why it's important to remember that AI isn't human
> Meanwhile many if not most high-speed chases won't happen any more

High-speed chases don't happen anymore, unless you are talking about helicopter chases in uncontrolled airpsace. There has been no reason to chase a car for at least half a century.

That is, unless you have adrenaline-hungry cops that care more about having fun than actively hurting people. Car chases only happen if you don't criminally persecute cops for them.
There are some legitimately questionable design decisions in GIMP’s UI.

One of my favorite is the layer palette which contains what looks like a bog standard list/table widget like a user has encountered countless time across desktop platforms and software since the 90s.

That illusion breaks when you try to use it as a bog standard list widget — no, you can’t multi-select with Shift and drag the selection around, GIMP has its own unique process for that for no good reason.

Things like that will cause friction even for users who aren’t coming from Photoshop, being different from established desktop UI conventions.
Running Firefox 115.4.0esr here and there is no problem, you may be running a different version (debian testing). My four core cpu is at 23%, even with thinkorswim running.
It's simple. Cats aren't fetching per se. They're playing Chase the Ball, and they bring the ball back so their human can throw it again.
have you seen the google history of a child?
I assume you have not otherwise you'd not find it confusing.

You have enough impressionable people on the internet that will soak in anything and it's fairly important how that is presented and that you have decent control over it. You CAN'T have an AI advertise suicide, even if it may be a solution in edge cases.
Heh, I can remember the signs "there are -no- Pokemons inside this building".
Killer robots. Call me nuts, but then smart autonomous killing machines appear, which don't require human control (so zero empathy), then it will come, slowly. It's already hard to protest against anything with police in control, and when army steps in they can take complete control (see army coups in some other countries). Taking humans and their 'silly' empathy out of the equation would just make that even easier. Just don't cause too much unrest at once.

And some countries already can't be stopped. See Russia, a mafia state. They just beated protests until 'morale improved'.
How much do these traits lineup with autism?
They did and they got what they voted for. Brexit at any cost.
That is true, but if the cops get the proceeds from the fines they become just another gang pretty soon I'd suspect and lots of non drunk people would get the fine :)
Pulled a funny on the developer in the cube across from me. Plugged in a second mouse into his computer, and would occasionally wiggle it a bit. He was absolutely sure the office was monitoring everything he did. "It moved again!" Walk around to his side -- nothing. "I'm not crazy. It moved"