skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the premise of the article is flawed:

> KYC, or “know your customer,” is a process intended to help financial institutions, fintech startups and banks verify the identity of their customers

vs Wikipedia:

> * Know Your Customer (KYC) guidelines and regulations in financial services require professionals to verify the identity, suitability, and risks involved with maintaining a business relationship with a customer. The procedures fit within the broader scope of anti-money laundering (AML) and counter terrorism financing (CTF) regulations.*

> KYC processes are also employed by companies of all sizes for the purpose of ensuring their proposed customers, agents, consultants, or distributors are anti-bribery compliant and are actually who they claim to be. Banks, insurers, export creditors, and other financial institutions are increasingly required to make sure that customers provide detailed due-diligence information. Initially, these regulations were imposed only on the financial institutions, but now the non-financial industry, fintech, virtual assets dealers, and even non-profit organizations are included in regulations.

Generative AI isn’t going to help people that have been intentionally excluded from the monetary system obtain legitimate bank accounts.
Goal-Oriented Action Planning: Ten Years Old and No Fear [pdf]
> Guideline: the durability and availability benefits of network-attached storage usually outweigh the performance downsides, but it’s worth keeping in mind that PostgreSQL can be much faster.

I think it often goes overlooked just how slow network attached block storage is though, and some organizations get very surprised when moving from an on-prem data center to cloud.
that would be a sad day, i'm so glad apple gave me a warranty replacement for laundered airpods
The European Union was a major landmark, but it looks like more and more countries are breaking away.

What's this supposed to mean?
I have paid for several courses. I was amazed by how many students don't even show up for a single class, but I guess this is normal (especially for online courses).

One course had weekly assignments. Hundreds of students; less than half did the first assignment. Each week even fewer students did the homework. (We all submitted our homework to a publicly shared google drive folder)
Yeah but instead it'll just be used to show ads and track you, and photograph and video and track everybody else. I already find it offensive enough that most people wander around with a fully enabled GovCorp surveillance pod recording everything all the time. Last thing I want is some dweeb going through my 20 year old Reddit posts when he glances at me, my face being analyzed, current outfit and / accessories fed into my ad profile, etc.

We have to have a conversation about this as a species, it's already gone way too far.
Well the git repo is decentralized (everyone has a copy of it). PRs are not. All the PRs are living on one centralized server (usually github.com), such that if that server is down, nobody has access to the PR.

When you send your patch to a mailing list (with `git send-email`), then that patch is immediately distributed to all the mail servers. This is decentralized: everyone gets a copy of your email (which is the equivalent of a PR in the email workflow).

> Or, maybe you mean that it's "centralised" in the sense that it's all on github.com?

That's the other thing: the PR workflow tends to naturally push towards a monopoly. It is annoying to have to create an account on every GitLab instance under the sun just to send a PR. More and more, if your project is not on GitHub, people will not bother to create an account for you.

With the email workflow, you don't need an account: you just send your email to the mailing list (you don't even have to subscribe to the mailing list) or to whoever you want to send it. This makes it much easier to deal with different servers (contributing to 100 projects on 100 different servers does not makes you create 100 accounts).
Relatedly, we had one of ours break in a thunderstorm in Austin. We had a contract w/ a local place for maintenance and quick repairs. They quoted us 2.5k to fix it, then 4.8k to replace it. We shopped around and had a brand new unit purchased and installed from a different company for 2k flat, 3 days later. I share this often because I am still shocked at how disparate the quotes were, esp. from a "reputable" company we had an existing relationship with, and feel many people are taken advantage of in these situations when all you really need to do is call around. I also suspect as their popularity increases (I assume) the repairs and parts will perhaps become cheaper and more available.

(Our overall experience with them has been very positive).
It's not bias when it's based on a pattern of past behaviour. Perhaps you need to reconsider why you are unable to accept this.
For a certain idea of what's going on in the world –– the author mentions horserace coverage, “behind the scenes” features, and punditry –– that's true.
Sausage?
This doesn't explain how they work though? I've found the following simplified model of how heat pumps work useful, and why they have > 100% efficiencies (Typically 300% - 400% or more compared to burning/ resistance heating which can only reach 100% efficiency).

Heat always flows from a high temperature to a low temperature. However, we want heat to go the opposite way (i.e. from the cold outside to our warm houses). There's a technique to do this. We use a gas (the refrigerant) to transfer heat.

We first expand the gas (which cools it) until it cools below the cold outside. We then bring it near the cold outside where it now starts absorbing heat until it matches the cold outside temperature. We then move the gas and compress it until it's temperature matches/exceeds our desired warm inside temperature. Then, we bring it to the warm indoors where heat will now flow out of it.

During the entire cycle, the gas is inside a closed loop. It exchanges heat through radiators. The compression & expansion cycles uses energy (technically they can be offset against each other a bit) which is added to the gas (conservation of energy) raising its temperature.

Thus by supplying a little electricity, we're able to move heat from the cold outdoors to the warm indoors. The high efficiencies are because for using X units of energy, we're able to heat the house by X+Y units where Y is the heat transferred from the outside. Typically Y >> X.
A quick web search found a few PDFs from various construction firms that deal with Aldi. Every single guide has some verbiage in there saying "prep the floor in the following manner, then step aside when the German tile subcontractors show up"
I love the description in the draft PR:

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the code
Not a core dev was merging, not even Guido;
The CI was spun on the PRs with care
In hopes that green check-markings soon would be there;

...

...

...

--enable-experimental-jit, then made it,
And away the JIT flew as their "+1"s okay'ed it.
But they heard it exclaim, as it traced out of sight,
"Happy JIT-mas to all, and to all a good night!"

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/113465
Does this matter for the average flyer? Sure, if you're in Hawaii and flying daily for island hopping purposes you should probably estimate your risk as being higher, but the average flyer is still going to have average risk per miles flown (by definition).
but given the risk, it's safer to take the VC money.

I agree that the risk exists, but I don't necessarily by that it's a fait accompli that taking VC money is the safer route. Consider that taking VC money comes with it's own risks, including:

1. VC's who think of themselves as "smart money" and want to be actively involved in running the company, and wind up muddling the vision and taking the company in non-productive directions.

2. The need to adhere to artificial timelines w/r/t spending, fund-raising rounds, etc. which are inherent in the VC model for structural reasons (funds are time-boxed, etc)

3. Taking VC money acts as validation of the idea on a much broader scale, prompting even more competitors to enter the market

and so on.

Keep in mind, as another commenter mentioned, if you stay private, focus on talking directly to your customers, don't get caught up in the "attract massive attention to yourself at all costs" cycle, and fly under the radar, you can most likely get yourself pretty well entrenched before this hypothetical "idea thief" even becomes aware you exist.

I'd also argue that most people - especially the actually talented ones - aren't just sitting out there waiting to steal someone else's idea. If they're talented enough to execute your idea, they most likely have plenty of ideas of their own. That's not to say that "idea thievery" never happens, but I think this notion is over-stated. YMMV, of course.
Yet another reason to travel with multiple credit cards not all issued by the same institution.

ADDED: And there are a number of such reasons even if you consider this one an edge case. I have absolutely triggered fraud detection when traveling and most banks don't even want you to enter your travel plans any longer. (And I've even had a trivial purchase rejected in the US when traveling--admittedly this hasn't happened recently.)
I must be weird, because I very rarely search for news. I just go to the sites I trust.

I think the only time I search for news (usually on Google) is to find a reliable article about a celebrity death.
Why pushing STEM majors is turning out to be a terrible investment
The Moai are cool.

The history of Easter Island ... really depressing.
That’s a lot of racism you think you’re being clever about, jack. You are not welcome here
Genuinely baffling "article." Just seems to be a Quora user complaining about how the website stinks now. No insights into the economics that drives that, and how it's a reflection of the economics of advertisement/referral based media on the internet in front of paywalls.
Unless workers can become fabulously rich because a company they joined becomes multi-billion dollars, it will never be an answer to Silicon Valley. The ability to become fabulously wealthy is the reason why Silicon Valley is currently unmatched anywhere in the world.
»LuaJIT is undoubtedly a "full" JIT compiler.«

Yes, and it's practically unmaintained. Pull requests to add support for various architectures have remained largely unanswered, including RISC-V.
I read both of them recently and agree with all of that. They drew me in instantly. Something about how peaceful the world in those books is, I think.
Seems like this one is broken? https://postimg.cc/T5hVQCXd
> "I personally should be able to say and do whatever I want without consequences"

I think it's more "I'm not accountable to you people". At least that's my position. Left wingers seem to think I have to care what they think about what I say on the internet. I do not, and I will not.
"Should"? No.

"Could"? Yes: auth, load balancing, etc.
I think it's sad that "conservatives" seem to think that they're persecuted when in fact the "previous regime" bent over backwards to accommodate them and amplify their voices.

"In separate discussions verified by Motherboard, that employee said Twitter hasn’t taken the same aggressive approach to white supremacist content because the collateral accounts that are impacted can, in some instances, be Republican politicians. The employee argued that, on a technical level, content from Republican politicians could get swept up by algorithms aggressively removing white supremacist material. Banning politicians wouldn’t be accepted by society as a trade-off for flagging all of the white supremacist propaganda, he argued."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3xgq5/why-wont-twitter-trea...
Another detail I think others might have missed, heat pumps need to defrost sometimes, during which time you effectively can't provide heat. In other words, you need to trust the house to be a good enough thermal battery so that you aren't having to continually heat it
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Luke Stackwalker: call stack sampling to collect profile data
It Takes Two to Think
Worth mentioning that Aldi has owned Trader Joe's since 1979. I have barely been to Aldi's, but it seems like they have similar products if a bit different themes.
There are a ton of situations in which you can't just use cash. Pretty much anything online, many things related to travel, etc.
> huge wings for the low-speed takeoff and landing

For military aircraft, at least, large wings aren't just for low speed takeoff and landing, they're also for greater agility and maneuverability. I'm assuming that one of the goals of this X project will be to see whether those performance characteristics can be maintained or improved.
You Don't Need More Resilience. You Need Friends. and Money
Not sure if that counts, there is also the lua game engine Moai [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai_(software)
Debug RAG AI Apps with Conversational Memory [video]
If you fear the consequences of your speech, then you are likely to self-censor, and (one can argue) you no longer have free speech. This is the argument that "Free Speech Absolutists" tend to use to justify trying to protect people from the consequences of their speech... which necessarily infringes on others' speech.

You fundamentally cannot enable people to speak without fear without infringing others' right to speak freely. In the context of a government, it is possible (only very barely, and frequently governments are unable to rise to this level) to create systems that punishes neither party and exit any and all attempts at moderation. But when you are running a social media site, this isn't a feasible option, and trying to punish people who are causing fear and limiting free speech will only cause the next wave of free speech sites to arise. Techdirt has a nice article on speedrunning content moderation: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...

Is it a rhetorical sham? Not necessarily, in the sense that I think its proponents could very well believe in what they say. But it is a belief whose consequences hasn't been fully thought-through, and I can't see anyone who still hews to that belief after fully thinking it through.
It is quite strange that you give this reply as they are having to pay out exactly because they wanted their customers to think their phone wasn't up to the task anymore instead of their battery dying.
That's a really interesting perspective that I hadn't considered, thank you for answering! I have what anyone would call a General American accent, so your experience isn't one I'd ever been personally exposed to growing up. I remember a lot of older sitcoms and cartoons using "exotic" accents for comedic value though, like you said, and it's obvious that can be damaging to anyone's self-esteem.
iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall from AS1282
Does Astrobotic have the cash to try again? This is their first mission, and most of their money has been contracts from NASA, and such.
I think the phenomenon you're describing is just a big part of the engineering skill set.

In my field, Civil Engineering, I get paid mostly to figure out all those things that could go wrong and mitigate or account for them within the budget and constraints available.

Experience is valued in engineering because you can see the probable future on things are likely to break/fail/go wrong, BEFORE they actually do.

It's not surprising to me then that a bunch of engineers who spend all day thinking in this way do the same in different contexts where it may be less appropriate because they are less knowledgeable.

I don't think it's necessarily a way to try to look smart or something.
Knowledge Through Time
I had heat pumps added to my home this past summer, primarily to provide air conditioning. This article is a good overview of what I learned in the process. I'll add a few lessons:

- Get a few quotes and iterate on the plan. Save the contractor you'd most prefer to work with for last, because you'll have a much better idea of what you want by then, and your knowledge will save you money.

- There's a fun puzzle to retrofitting older homes (no existing ducts): where you place the lines, where you place the units, and where you place the heads are all variables to play around with. This is part of the reason for getting different quotes. Only the last two contractors I spoke with were able to come up with ways to keep all the external lines on the side of my house and away from the street. Only the very last contractor offered a ducted system for bedrooms, so I have head units downstairs but the upstairs is vented.

- No one will run a real Man J calculation, they all use proxy calculations. This should be fine but you almost certainly want to slightly undersize your system. If your system is always turning on and then turning off (because it is oversized and heating / cooling the room very quickly) you'll end up with humidity and mildew problems, you want it to be running "low and slow" while it's on.

- They work amazing for air conditioning. For heat, your existing boiler + radiators is often nicer and more cozy. It's also often cheaper — heat pumps are electrically efficient, but natural gas costs vary significantly by location and for me (~Philadelphia) heating with my boiler is a lot cheaper than doing it with the heat pumps.

- I live in an older home, so before I installed heat pumps I had to replace my ancient windows for modern ones that didn't constantly leak energy. I'm happy with the results but it adds a lot to the startup cost.
Process Dump
Building an e-ink picture frame that displays an iCloud photo album
I've played it a bit with my kids. It seems to be a game version of the Nand 2 Tetris course: https://www.nand2tetris.org/
ah, fair point, thanks!
What context are we talking about here?

In financial context (e.g. verification for a bank account), usually banks will only accept ID that they can verify as primary ID.

In an immigration context, the agency is often able to verify passports even with countries that government is at war with.
Estimates of GPT-4 parameter counts are ~1.7 trillion, which is approximately 20-fold greater than the ~85 billion human neurons we have. To me this suggests that naively building a 1:1 (or even 20:1) representation of simple neurons is insufficient for AGI.
Dunning-Kruger sponsors all HN threads about aviation, military strategy, and the education system.
Quora was a breath of fresh air at first--I think it was '10 or '11. Too soon though it was flooded with meme questions and SEO-smelling answers. Ironically then they wouldn't let you view answers without being logged in.

I moved answers I was proud of to my website and I moved on.
That has less to do with being vegan and all to do with being aware of what micronutrients your body needs to thrive. Everyone benefits from B12 supplementation as it's no longer possible to derive it from the natural environment; even farm animals are routinely injected with B12 and a cocktail of other vitamins.

Non-vegans have just as many nutritional deficiencies, if not more, like a total lack in fiber. And for every neglectful vegan, there are ten unhealthy animal product-eating individuals with even more debilitating diseases, like diabetes, for example.

Also, DHA/EPA is synthesized in the body; it's not necessary to supplement them, nor any other vitamins you had listed, other than B12 and possibly D3 (depending on your latitude).
Contributing to Open Source for Designers – Complete Guide
I help with some small open source things, would this be a thing I can use to scan a public GitHub repository and see what it found?
I'm glad that Elon's free speech brigade is here, as usual, to censor this discussion by flagging it to death.
Job mobility declines significantly with marriage, kids, and mortgage. I've toughed it out before, mostly to keep the good healthcare benefits. (This was prior to ACA eliminating the preexisting conditions BS. We didn't want the hassle, uncertainty of changing insurance during a pregnancy.)

Also, it's hard to job hunt when you're already over worked, both at home and the office.

Also, the devil you know. Every new job is a gamble. After a while, all the jobs kinda smell the same. So what's the point in playing frogger?
I'd happily take 150K/year and go live in nowhere Wyoming or something. As much as I loathe Musk I'm sure I could get by on something like Starlink

Except oops Amazon would absolutely decimate my yearly comp because they base it entirely off where you live, and adjust it if you try to move somewhere cheaper

Though of course that's all moot anyway since we've all gotta go back to the office because the people who own all the realestate are weirdly chummy with all the management of these companies. Weird how that worked
By having a really low range of inventory and really high turnover of that inventory so they focus on bulk buying only a few items. Walmart sells everything and there is a cost in supporting being a one stop shop. In Aldi it's typical to have 1 type of smoked back bacon for example while Walmart might have 10 types of smoked back bacon.
Apple is saying, separately, «our reason to run iMessage isn't selling hardware» and «funding for running iMessage comes from customers and we won't provide it to non-customers». Both paraphrased by me. I've no idea why they do develop and run iMessage, but I also don't necessarily see a conflict between the two sentiments.
https://callannie.ai/ may have some trademark issues with your choice of name...
After reading the complete Shakespeare, it is a natural continuation to go on to read the complete Milton. Outside the core of Paradise Lost/Regained, Samson Agonistes is another gem, and Lycidas is of course a classic poem.

The way Milton uses English the language exalts it into the profundity of Latin. One feels Milton's words are of sanctified origins; it feels as though they are coming from a higher power.

One random connection: In the same way Milton dictated his writing, Debussy dictated his music. To some extent this method may free the mind's work from the tedium of transcribing thought, and allow for more free-flowing expression in creation.
Unfortunately, headlines are frequently contradicted by the text in the article. For the headlines that are enticing enough to get high on social media, it seems like more than half are misleading.
I think the SEO problem would be harder. Even though there's definitely a network effect, a few dedicated users can curate a thousand interesting web sites, and that's probably enough to draw in anyone moderately interested.
Good. Random sites like Reddit asking verification and asking for a govt ID is ridiculous.

Banks will still get KYC done through face to face.

The internet needs to go back to being anonymous and weird.
My recent comment comparing the two: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38740170
We all use tools that are not “necessary”, but are very useful. Most developer tools fall into this category.
What other ID would a company that does business globally (eg, a cloud server provider) accept?
OS updates on iPhones frequently list new emoji in the release notes. It would be interesting to see what the most mundane reason for an iOS update is.