skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lawsuit is not about credit cards or instant electronic fund transfers.

Visa (and MasterCard as well) have colluded with banks in multiple countries (not just in the US) to eradicate national debit card payment networks that cost consumers either $0 or a very small flat fee per a transaction (e.g. $0.10) and replace them with their own branded debit cards that attract fees for the consumer, for the merchant and generate revenue for the payment network. The revenue is tiered (e.g. premium debit cards attract higher interchange fees that go directly to Visa/MC), hence the proliferation of Platinum debit cards. And consumers are now left with debit card transaction surcharges that have been passed on to them whereas Visa is profiteering from every single party involved in the end to end payment processing.

National debit card payment networks are now dead, courtesy of Visa/MC.
FBI: After dad allegedly tried to shoot Trump, son arrested for child porn
If it's one tweet that's blocked, is there really much damage/slander? If people actually start talking about it then the affected person will get notified anyway from one of the non-blocked accounts responding.
Added more options for ensuring data is loaded.
Made Playwright the default due to its speed.

Uses Playwright / Selenium to bypass most simple bot checks.
Uses AI to extract data from a page and save it various formats such as CSV, XLSX, JSON, Markdown.
Has rich console output to display data right in your terminal.
I suspect eventually Elon is going to sell Twitter to Tesla under the guise of combining their AI research. Cue Obama awarding Obama a medal meme.

Just a shoot from the hip theory based on him stooping to new lows.
My understanding that being a convicted felon is terrible because it can make it difficult to ever secure a decent job. Does she ever need to work again?
Sounds like some OS dependency / shared library problem. Maybe caused by MUSL libc vs Glibc or different versions of e.g. libpcre2.
At least if it is not something as simple as an uncomitted file.

Disclaimer: I have never used CloudFlare Pages or Netlify.
70004,562, and 70006,621, and 72375,1271. Bonus points if you remember the types of the first two.
Most published results in medical journals are not false
You should look up railroad vouchers and why they became illegal. This is basically the same shit, different century.
> people use published results to justify all sorts of government policy, business activity, social programs, and such.

That would be a reason to expect those results to be false, not a reason to expect them to be true.
> According to the same prosecutors whose DNA was found on the murder weapon.

I'm not sure what this is meant to imply. That the listed witness statements and evidence was fabricated? I agree that life instead of death is sensible, but that doesn't mean we should mislead on the case for innocence.
>So all diddy needs to do is get on the stand and describe every single party of his and he’ll get a slap on the wrist?

Do you honestly think this is how the legal system works?
Before Stadia came out, I specifically warned people not to get invested in it because Google will just shut it down in 2 years, and all their games and save files will be gone forever. I was dead right, and as far as I'm concerned that's the final nail in the coffin for trusting anything Google makes. Anything that isn't a major core product will be abandoned immediately, it's just not worth the risk.

Unfortunately my TV is built on the Google TV OS, which probably means all smart features will be unusable in six months.
CrowdStrike Overhauls Testing and Rollout Procedures to Avoid System Crashes
Would you trade years in prison and being a felon for a few million buck? Genuine question.
They do almost no ready-to-buy business; if you didn’t order it, it’s probably not going to be there. And few people are going to buy multiple cakes at once. And they don’t have a tip jar. Order cake three days ahead, walk in, pay for cake, leave.

So it very much fits the mold of “95% of sales are single items”.
nothing wrong except that it might be a distraction, which sometimes is good and sometimes would be better avoided.
Nope. My brother was on the hook for $900 because his debit card got skimmed.
Early Hunters May Have Used Ground-Anchored Pikes Against Charging Predators
Kansas Water Facility Switches to Manual Operations Following Cyberattack
Oh okay, yes I see your point and it's a sensible one. Not conspiratorial, sorry if I insinuated that.

The sentences are still all at the low range of what I'd like to see, and it's fine for people to quibble about the relative treatment & how much the cooperation should count for, but yeah, the total is useful context for perspective here.
> ... Tesla is providing battery storage.

This supports my theory that Elon has become a right wing warrior in order to gain credibility and political capital in right wing states, allowing him to obtain massive contracts for electricity storage (and production, too?). And I think it's worked extremely well. 5+ years ago Tesla was a California, tech-weenie company, and that in itself is gonna keep a lot of doors closed in red states.
Things changed with the NAR settlement, it's 1.5% to buy and 1.5% to sell in most markets now
Publishing to NPM Is Down
503 Service Unavailable - PUT https://registry.npmjs.org/package-name - Service Unavailable
Is incompetence fraud? Or just incompetence? I'm asking because a fair number of the molecular biologists who get caught by Elizabeth Bik for copy/pasting images of gels insist they just made honest mistakes (with some commentary about the atrocious nature of record-keeping in modern biology).

I alter Ionnides's conclusion to be instead: "Roughly 50% of papers in quantitative biological sciences contain at least one error serious enough to invalidate the conclusion" and "Roughly 75% of really interesting papers are missing at least one load-bearing method detail that reproducers must figure out on their own" (my own personal observations of the literature are consistent with these rates; I was always flabbergasted at people who just took Figure 3 as correct).
They do but usually your money is gone until the dispute is resolved. With a credit card, some fabulously wealthy company’s money is gone and literally nobody is gonna cry over that.
Nvidia Mellanox Linux Driver Spearheads Multi-Path PCI "Sign of Things to Come"
It sure is nice to have one's political opponents define words for oneself, hmm?
As I’ve transitioned to more exploratory and researchy roles in my career, I have started to understand the science fraudsters like Jan Hendrik Schön.

When you spent an entire week working on a test or experiment that you know should work, at least if you give it enough time, but it isn’t for whatever reason, it can be extremely tempting to invent the numbers that you think it should be, especially if your employer is pressuring you for a result. Now, obviously, reason we run these tests is precisely because we don’t actually know what the results will be, but that’s sometimes more obvious in hindsight.

Obviously it’s wrong, and I haven’t done it, but I would be lying if I said that the thought hadn’t crossed my mind.
It is also frustrating when a papers summary says one thing, you pay for the full thing only to see it is a complete opposite of the claims. Waste of time and money, bleh!
Nice! Sort of like Langsmith without the Langchain, which will be an attractive value proposition to many developers.
I think the main reason is the rapid development of web technologies, which has significantly reduced the cost of developing software with a GUI. And web technologies are best suited for the web itself, whereas running locally would introduce additional development costs.
I suspect the same number of people want a real OS as before, the difference is that everyone now has an OS of a weaker kind that gives them access to the same web that we're all on. So it's a similar problem that we have on the web as a whole—it's not that there's less good content (there's actually dramatically more), it's that it's hard to find it in the deluge of bad content.

The trick that we have now is that young people with potential to be highly technical won't just come to us automatically like they did when we were 60% of the web. Instead we have to make a more conscious effort to do outreach and give people a taste of the power of real computing.
I've been using Google maps for a decade, and when they started offering a $200 credit, it was fine until my bill started going up to $200-300 after the credits.

It's for a hobby project that's outlasted well-funded projects, so the traffic kept increasing as competitors folded.

A few years back, I tried to run my own tileserver, but the difficulty of creating an updated vector tileset put me off, and I just continued paying the Google tax.
Last month I finally got a really nasty bill, and it forced me to cancel my weekend plans and change to Mapbox.

I like Mapbox for its other API features, but I'm wondering if I could alternate between this and Mapbox, so I keep my overall costs lower. I'd prefer to donate a fixed amount instead.

Question: Does anyone have experience with switching the underlying OSM mapping services either programmatically or by webpage? I'm more asking around the end-user experience. I suppose I have to check what features of mapbox-gl 2+ I use that won't be available in the libre forks.
Processing cash might cost retailers even more than cards (miscalculations, keeping change, counterfeit bills, cash collection every day) unless it allows them to evade taxes.
Right but those countries are comparable in size and GDP to US states. The US had wire transfers since the 19th century, credit cards as we recognize them today since the 70s, online shopping since the 90s and online money transfer like Paypal since the 2000s. That eurozone countries would want to standardize on something and happen to largely escape regulatory capture is fairly predictable.
Study uncovers shared genetic factors between ADHD and risk-taking behavior
[Please consider the following with an open mind]

Just because a study doesn't replicate, doesn't make it false. This is especially true in medicine where the potential global subjects/population are very diverse. You can do a small study that suggests further research based on a small sample size, or even a case study. The next study might have a conflicting finding, but that doesn't make the first one false - rather a step in the overall process of gaining new information.
> complimenting me on specifics about my work experience.

First off, that to me is a sign that it is a bot who contacted you - recruiter bots are absolutely sophisticated enough to pull details out of your profile to make it sound like they are not a bot (Thanks, LLMs!) Actual recruiters tend to be short and snippy, just to see if you respond before getting into any conversation at all.

That being said, even if this does turn out to be legit, you are just signing up to be part of them scamming their customers. If one person does interviews, while someone else does the work, that is what we call a lie.

And even if somehow that turned out to be reasonable, splitting profits 50/50 just for being part of a sales effort? Too good to be true.

This whole post sounds like a big old pile of red flags to run away from.
You are confusing the DOJ (here) and the FTC (lina).

Lina in fact, has repeatedly lost in court and is widely viewed, by both antitrust hawks and doves alike, as being remarkably ineffective.

You'd be very hard pressed to compare her record to any effective FTC chair (IE in reigning things in) and say "yeah she's doing great"

Instead, she's showboated and lost repeatedly, which has only emboldened most companies who feel that she is so inept that they having nothing to fear.

In fact, she's lost so much she has been getting asked if she's doing it on purpose to try to get more power (lol):

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4490640-internal-ftc-ema...

Career FTC employess, who (despite what HN may think) are very very good lawyers and very good at antitrust law, have no faith in her "honesty and integrity":

"The annual OPM poll of federal employees shows morale and respect for the “honesty and integrity” of FTC leadership plunging from the highest level among federal agencies to the lowest levels under Khan."

That's not really a great sign.
The biggest win they've had is basically "A settlement that blocked anticompetitive harms of pharma giant Amgen’s $28bn acquisition drug maker Horizon"

In the same time period, they lost 6 much more major cases in a row (microsoft/activision, etc). That's unheard of.

If you want someone who cares about the press, and will file lawsuits at the drop of a hat, take Lina. If you want someone who is actually going to achieve meaningful change, she ain't your person. I'd rather have an FTC that anyone is actually afraid of.
Aren’t the regulatory agencies all under the executive function? Isn’t the President the head of the executive?

That seems entirely reasonable.

I find it interesting that HN posts so many article about how the intelligence agencies are “loose canons”. A big part of that are the tens of thousands of employees that never change when the President does.

Seems like a great idea that a new President could clean house.
I also didn't realize it could be used for all syscalls, but storage access and networking seem to be the biggest use case for it.

Depending on the exact setup, storage IOPS can be increased by up to 100% versus the older asynchronous IO kernel API [1], only beaten by pure user-space implementations that aren't as feature-complete.

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3578353.3589545
It seems flawed to assume that he was the mastermind, especially given the actual outcome.

There is a lot of room for manipulation in the justice system in determining the hierarchy and who gets to be offered a sweet deal. Had Caroline been labeled by the media as 'the mastermind' and Sam as 'the help' by the media, the outcomes may have flipped.

The media could totally construct a story where Sam was just the helpless front guy who knew nothing, misled as to the source of the money which Alameda Research was providing.
I will always call it twitter & always call them tweets.
Take a look at Red Hat's guidelines, based on the open-source Model Trademark Guidelines (CC-BY-4.0), for comparison. They advise they consider it acceptable for you to claim "[Your brand] software is built from modified source code derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux." However, without additional permission you cannot "Use the Red Hat Marks in a way that expresses or implies sponsorship or endorsement by, or affiliation or a relationship with Red Hat when one does not exist."

[0] https://www.redhat.com/en/about/trademark-guidelines-and-pol...

[1] http://modeltrademarkguidelines.org/index.php/Model_Trademar...
Research fraud is likely very rare but it's not about a few stories that show up about unreplicable studies that stick out. There was a study a few years where they tried to replicate a bunch of top cited psychology papers and the majority of the experiments were not replicated. Then people did the same for other disciplines afterwards and, while it wasn't as bad as psychology, there were plenty of papers they couldn't replicate.
That's both unfair and untrue.

The FTC has been staffed with very good antitrust lawyers for a long time. The career employees give a crap or they wouldn't be there - every single one of them could make a lot more in private practice.
They are at the FTC because they give a crap and are good.

As such, there's no need to denigrate them without any evidence.
Costco in the US used to only accept Amex.

I assume they changed to Visa because Visa offered a better deal.

Seems like the opposite of a monopoly.
Can you point to his statemetns that were conspiracy theory?

I know about Barrington and many of his other claims, but I don't recall him actually saying anything that I would classify as conspiracy theory. Certainly in my world, a credentialled epidemiologist questioning the accuracy of government statistics during a world health crisis, and suggestion that perhaps our strategy could be different, is not conspiracy theory.
Whoah, I totally hadn't taken the thought experiment this far. This is fantastic! I'd like to explore this further, interested in a quick research chat/sync some time? My email is linked from the paper.
Hello. This seems like exactly something I'm looking for to save cost for my project: https://golfcourse.wiki

I'm currently using Stadia Map Tiles from when they went from free to paid.

If I'm understanding you correctly, I can switch to your instance to serve tiles to my site for free once again? I'm very happy to pitch in some cash to help keep the servers running.

I am running leaflet.js and I guess I should be able to figure out how to migrate, but if you already have a tutorial somewhere, please let me know.

This is really cool.
I am confident that this happens all the time. Note that a bad actor does not have to completely change the outcome, but can "shave points" so that the outcome is not as one sided. Every generation has to re-learn this. Every generation has the arrogance that they will not repeat the problems of their predecessors (if they even know).
"I wouldn’t serve 30 days in jail for a billion dollars."

That would be a no brainer for me. I would do a year, no problem. Probably more.
O1 alternative with infinite recursion, visual tracking, and Python integration
I think this is a great place to start for a OSS CoT framework.

Came across this post on X: https://x.com/pranavmarla/status/1838590157265539307

It can solve:

Comparing 9.11 and 9.8

Counting the number of 'R's in "strawberry"

The "marble in a cup" problem

Has:

- Full transparency with visual tracking on graph network

- Infinite recursion

- Self-healing with continuous testing (can test each step)

- Python interpreter
If you're gonna use Gen AI, I think you should run it locally.
> Why? How does the situation look in Java?

jdb is part of OpenJDK, and doesn't try to implement any such restrictions. Neither does gdb, for that matter.

But there is also a cultural difference. .NET libraries (including the standard library) are notoriously poor at implementing useful .ToString() overrides, because it's all designed to assume that you will use a debugger.

For comparison, Scala and Rust have cultures that emphasize printf-friendliness, and I rarely have to reach for a debugger at all. The difference it makes for my sanity is immense (as someone who wasted years on the shitshow that is .NET).

> It also seems you have not read the original reply. So to reiterate, there is https://github.com/Samsung/netcoredbg too.

I spent way too long trying to get netcoredbg to work, and couldn't get it to do much of anything. Maybe it's less of a shitshow now? Given that your original reply wasn't "yeah nobody uses the MS debugger anyway", I somehow doubt it.

> and the reply is posted simply as bad faith engagement

I mostly get annoyed when I see bad faith arguments that old problems are irrelevant because they're old, even if the problem has never actually been addressed.
I don't think that is getting at the main confusion. It is pretty clear how, if someone can't pay their debt back, they're worse off. The confusion is that a credit card is a short-term smoothing tool. The point is to let merchants assume customers are good for it instead of going through the whole process of checking with a specific bank or expecting people to carry physical proof that they have the money. Using a card can't get someone ahead, the bank is expecting to charge the customers more than they give them.

So why is it necessary for these people to be using a credit card if they can't pay it back? Especially if they have an average income that is sufficient to cover their lifestyle. If they're going to be strictly worse off after engaging with a system, why are they engaging with it?
I got that, but it's not a good analogy. It's the parser that is to the language what the CPU is to the instruction set
They don't control most FTC employees actually - i'm not sure why HN always gets this wrong.

The set of political employees at the FTC is very small.

As for the rest, much like other critics, i don't believe Lina is competent, and i dont' think she's been effective at all.

I think she's showboated a lot and made plenty of press, but in the end, that just hides that they have achieved, in practice, far far less than almost any FTC that gave a crap.

When she's gone, she will leave behind a legacy of crappy precedent it will take someone years to clean up to get things to a state where the FTC can win antitrust cases again (their win rate under Lina is remarkably low).

The DOJ, on the other hand, has done a great job.
https://therecord.media/epa-says-litigation-from-republicans... (“EPA says litigation from Republicans, water companies forced withdrawal of cybersecurity memo”)

> But the rule quickly faced lawsuits from Republican lawmakers who claimed the cybersecurity improvements needed to pass the assessments would be too costly for suppliers. The lawmakers expressed concerns that water companies would simply pass the costs of cybersecurity protections on to customers.

> The lawsuits were then backed up by two powerful industry groups — the AWWA and the NRWA — before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit struck down the rule in July. At the time, the EPA said the ruling “undercuts EPA’s efforts to protect the safety of the nation’s drinking water from malicious cyberattacks.”
I block people on Twitter all the time, but I can't even remember the last time I had to block anyone on reddit (it was years ago). This speaks to the different models between the two -- on reddit I'm only interacting on specific subreddits, which because I've chosen them, have much nicer and more reasonable people than "all of Twitter". Twitter is always just nonstop fighting and yelling.
Having a billion will override any stigma of a convicted felon. Throw a few million at charity and you will be a celebrated and respected member of society. You will get more respect than most people who work a regular job without breaking laws.
How it should be.
you guys are acting like the incognito window doesnt exist? literally one click away
A lot depends on the individual and the likelihood of something terrible happening to you in jail. Assault and sexual assault are common, and some people are more vulnerable to that than others. You may not be willing to endure PTSD for any sum of money, for example.

Let’s also consider the fact that in terms of day-to-day experience, a billion dollars is not worth much more than a few million. I have floated in an infinity pool at a five star resort and I’ve also floated in a temporary aboveground pool in my backyard and the experience is 95% the exact same. A billion dollars sounds like a lot but what exactly is it good for? SBF had billions and also said he derived no pleasure from anything. I’d rather have my unjailed normal experience.
Reading through the comments and I think this is the worst reception I’ve seen on HN, I seriously hope you guys consider some of this feedback. Good luck out there
Well sure you have, you've had your available credit reduced by that amount. If you have a surplus of cash or available credit then this makes no major difference in either case. If you don't and then try to make a transaction, you get whacked with penalties etc.