skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's $0 for both credit and debit, under Visa and Mastercard "zero liability" rules.

Even under Regulation E, it would only be $50 as long as the issuer is notified within two days of losing your card, and $0 for other types of fraud (e.g. unauthorized use of your card number online) if reported within 60 days of receiving the corresponding monthly statement.
Omg, I know I did this, but throw a double proxy. I thought a special education pupil howto remote shutdown and wrote a script.
I told him they'd know it's him. So we scripted the Internet Explorer icon with a pre-exec command script, that basically did a network-scan for IPs and shutdown each one remotely. Poor fella sitting there didn't even know what's happening. Was a bully, but still. They interrogated him and he didn't even know what happened.

We sat there and saw every computer at the school turn off with a custom message. Except his computer. He really looked dumbfounded.. I get a smile when I think of it.. it wasn't anything evil or bad, but just fun.

Good 'ol times. He didn't get into any trouble, just disciplinary extra curricular work. Which I think was good for that bully anways.. he was lacking behind.

Also I remember accesing everyone $C drive and copy a counter-strike map of the school I was modeling into. So, the next time anyone went to a LAN-Party (THOSE were GOOD Times), everyone would see the school name as a map and nobody would know who made it. Obviously no violence intended. I just wanted to play in an environment that I spent most of my day and have fun afterwards at they way we could have some fun. Asking everyone to download it would've just led to trouble. Of course I heard of school shootings, but counter-strike was harmless. Those who did think of worse had this in mind anyways.
How do you know it won't?
Great April 1st gag. Seems to have gone over everyone's head.
Cory Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech, beating Strom Thurmond
https://aws.amazon.com/verified-permissions/ (AVP) is a team and product which uses the formally verified Cedar language. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04651
Rust like any language can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. The complexity raises with the performance of the code you write but that’s also true of C. Unlike C that complexity is combined with guarantees that your code won’t crash in weird and unpredictable ways.
Machine learning (AI) is used everywhere in astronomy. That's how they made the black hole image. Don't confuse the broader 60+ year old world of ML with transformers and diffusion models.
Corey Booker breaks Senate floor speech record
what was the process of getting each of the shredded pieces scanned for your program to use. I'm guessing that process could have a write up on it just as much as the solver. there's definitely a personality type that can handle that type of mess
A candle is an exceptionally unstable light source. The flame continually moves location as it burns. Any air currents in the room will disturb it and cause flame shadows to be cast. Adding magnification will just make this all worse.
Because credit cards are a scammy middleman that has dug their nails deep into the political and financial worlds that lets them bully merchants into using them while pretending to be a benefit to consumers. In reality they just drive the price up for everyone, and then push a few percentage of the markup they pocketed onto consumers to appear useful. Consumers lose in paying higher prices, merchants lose by money being siphoned away to a 3rd party.
From what I've read (not your links), roughly about 40% of Americans with credit cards don't carry a balance month to month. That's not most, but it is many. Which is what was said:

> MANY folks carry zero credit month to month

Even if 40% is 10x too high, and I'm pretty sure it isn't, 4% of all credit card holders is still a hell of a lot of people. As far as I can tell you haven't actually contradicted the claim.
"If you're in the US I understand that you may not understand such a thing, or it may seem extreme to you because there is effectively no political left wing in America"

In America, almost all corporate outlets are Progressive left, most universities are, their politics were pushed into many big firms, and most of the government was liberal. They force their views on others in most places they control, too, with dissent not allowed.

A newer trend we saw during elections was them saying the same things in sync like they had a script. Recently, they all said positive things about Biden and Harris while saying negative things about Trump. They were willing to lie together many times. Like how liberal media reported Harris was the border czar in the past but all said it was a myth when Trump pointed it out. They also constantly misquote and lie about Trump which annoys me because I hate wasting time on lies or doing retractions.

The total, leftist control of major institutions and media... along with their games and lies... is the largest cause of the rise of Trump. It's why we now have kore accurate, but biased, reporting like The Daily Wire. Many people have left the Democrat party as a result of these things. Liberal news is lower rated by liberals than in the past.

Their control of media is proven by the fact that whatever you watch led you to believe they weren't in control of the media and country for a long time.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/politics/booker-senate-floor-...
https://usa.visa.com/pay-with-visa/visa-chip-technology-cons...

Process your debit as credit and bam.
The New Marriage of Unequals
It sucks when school administrators are needlessly punitive.

In my school, some jackass kid made a photocopy of a $20 bill, on a little mid-1990s HP Officejet in the library. Even in those days, they were programmed to make bad copies of US currency (I think they were enlarged and the color messed up). It was more of an innocent “woah look at this thing”, there was no intent or effort to glue it together and try to use it.

The assistant principal, who was a petty drunk who was uniquely unsuited for her job, flipped out and called the secret service. The kid was arrested & had a lot of issues over nothing.

It always stuck in my mind and accelerated the development of my contempt for petty tyrants who experience joy from the pain of others.
https://archive.ph/WMAdC
The dynamic difficulty indeed sucked bad. And it was multiple settings to disable it.
1. Disaster detection is a user toggle-able option that uses motion sensors to detect extreme shifts.
2. SOS signal is a BLE broadcast along with an alarm-like audio (generated from a sine wave).

+1, I usually have it off, but toggle it on when I'm in a bad setting.
It can be made more accurate with time, especially with onboard ML models.

It is a Bluetooth protocol (BLE Scanning and Advertising, if you'd like to learn more about it).

I'll be sure to update the readme. Thank you for the great questions!!
I think people who are using these models and trying to claim they are artists for clout are not a very large group. Have you really seen a significant number of people doing this? Otherwise it just feels like you're nutpicking
They say two points but it was really three. The ammoniac mixture at 0F, water freezing at 32F and body temperature at 96F.

Also Celsius, for whatever reason, originally put boiling at 0 and freezing at 100. Maybe Sweden is just that cold.

Jame's Burke's "Connections" series covered this in series 3 episode 10. Here's that clip:

https://youtu.be/w4ujTt0gDx8?si=XUV9J3srYdaBwqwm&t=1227
Letting Experts Be Experts
You have a 5 horsepower vacuum? That’s impressive.
You have to be responsible though. If you can’t deal with your money that way, don’t get one. Even if you are responsible, don’t get the most credit you can. I have enough for monthly expenses and a bit extra for emergencies.
You can put <span>s inside an <option>. The <option>'s `innerText` is used to populate the native control's label, meaning the inside of the spans are too.

The problem is that you can't target the span in the original parser.

But, you could use a template, since it's contents are ignored by text content parsers.

You can have your option as:

<option value="red">
<span>Normal Difficulty</span>
<template>- The way it's meant to be played</template>
</option>

With the original parser, this will be parsed as:

<option value="red">Normal Difficulty</option>

And with the new parser (so long as you opt into it with the `appearance: base-select` rule):

<option value="red">
<span>Normal Difficulty</span>
<template>- The way it's meant to be played</template>
</option>

---------------------------

Then once you've opted into the new parser, you can target both the span and template to render how you want. (e.g. Give span a larger font-weight, give template a display mode of block and italicised text)
Search-as-you-type UX with Sphinx's built-in client-side JavaScript search tools
I liked this a lot. I'm in the process of moving to Italy and am deep in learning Italian. I loved the different speeds and accents from the speakers.
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, TypeScript, Go, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, GitOps (FluxCD, GitHub Actions, SOPS)

Résumé/CV: https://copey.dev/copeland-royall.pdf

Email: copeland [at] copey.dev

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Early career engineer with a passion for infrastructure, backend and cycling (last summer riding 3030 miles from CO to LA!)

And if you enjoyed Severance you might like https://wellness.copey.dev/ ;)
Man, this is awesome. I've been obsessed with this idea since reading up on end-to-end RL used in reasoning models and OpenAI using it with Deep Research.

Seems like the most powerful agents will make use of some form of RL or advanced learning.

I'm not from an ML/DL background but these ideas are fascinating and I've begun self-teaching myself some RL.

I'm curious as to how long this took to build and any advice for someone wanting to learn more about RL in this context?

Thanks!
The zero marginal cost makes fixed prices even more important.

You production cost per unit is basically the cost of creating the book. The more units you sell, the lower the production cost per unit. So bestsellers make bank and are profitable even when sold at extremely low prices.

In comparison a book with a limited niche will need to sell at a way higher price to be profitable.

People will only buy a fixed amount of books. The idea is to give books of niche audiences a fighting chance.

> Conceivably the combined works of JK Rowling or Tolkien could be sold as a single unit.

Yes there is always pitfalls and loopholes to watch out for when defining such laws. I don't really see how this adds much to the discussion, as something like that would clearly violate the spirit and intention of the law. If it is legally possible it is because the law is implemented badly. Which could be but is another discussion.
The legacy symbols are still around. It's just that the linker won't use them by default.
Do smart phones support "LE Long Range (Coded PHY, S=8)" Perplexity says it can transmit up to a 1km in ideal conditions. Otherwise it's 10-30m indoor.
"money be green, fool!" --D'Angelo Barksdale, The Wire

the only people to be fooled by B&W money are most likely drug related, at least, the only ones willing to attempt to fool others with it.
Some amount of buffering is inevitable in any packet-switched network, even in a pure Ethernet network with negligible packet loss/corruption, due to the nature of packet switching statistics in general and the TCP congestion control algorithm in particular [1].

The problem with these terrible CPEs is that their buffers are generally much too large, but just making them smaller isn't trivial either – the "correct" size, as suggested by queueing theory, is equal to the product of bandwidth and end-to-end latency, but the latter is impossible to know to a router and varies from connection to connection!

The key insight of CoDeL is that transient queues are good (because they avoid packets dropped due to transient congestion), but standing ones are bad (because they avoid nothing and just increase latency). I believe it's now fortunately mandatory in newer DOCSIS CPEs (but I have a lot of faith in CPE manufacturers to somehow still botch it).

[1] In fact, negligible packet loss for reasons other than congestion is a critical assumption for at most older TCP congestion control algorithms!
This is the problem with typescript enums, they're close enough to "normal" enums in other "real" languages that there aren't any hard edges at first glance. Luring you in with a false sense of comfort and familiarity.

Then abstraction starts leaking everywhere because it's trying to bridge between typescript and javascript and you start wishing you had either made an object (pure JS) or a literal union (pure TS).
Zooming out, 80-90% of a computer's lifecycle energy use is during manufacturing, not pulled from the wall during operation.[1] To optimize lifetime energy efficiency, it probably pushes toward extending hardware longevity (within reason, until breakeven) and maximizing compute utilization.

Ideally these goal are balanced (in some 'efficient' way) against matching electricity prices. It's not either/or, you want to do both.

Besides better amortizing the embodied energy, improving compute utilization could also mean increasing the quality of the compute workloads, ie doing tasks with high external benefits.

Love this project! Thanks for sharing.

[1] https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/embodied-energy-in-comp...
My Dad still uses WordPerfect on his windows XP machine. He recently called me up because he wants to convert one of his "books" into a resizable EPUB.

I feel like this legacy format might be the death of me. The USB is in the mail (Dad doesn't even know dropbox exists, gulp).
Greed. Capitalism.

Mostly because people keep agreeing to pay a premium for the convenience of spending before the money comes in.
Wish I had neighbors as hilarious as you or op =)
This is slowly changing, but will take time as merchants switch to accepting instant payments ("pay by bank"). My understanding from the merchants my org interfaces with is they are surcharging credit cards to drive spend to cheaper rails (when available).

The big pay-by-bank projects launching right now - https://www.americanbanker.com/payments/list/visa-mastercard... - October 25, 2024

Walmart Plans Instant Bank Payments, Cutting Out Card Networks - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-19/walmart-p... - September 19, 2024

FedNow Is Live - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36801491 - July 2023

(if ACI, FiServ, or Jack Henry processes your payments today, you can accept instant payments without much more effort, inquire with them if interested)
Interesting. I never knew there were not as many deals. Some of the deals in the USA are crazy. 2% cashback all the time(!)
You seem to suggest that writing altogether is economically unviable, so the author should not have chosen to do that at all.

Sort of, yes. Or at least don't do it expecting to be immediately financially successful. The same way that you shouldn't go into game development and then be outraged that you're not making as much as SAP consultants.

The issue is that certain talents are not recognized at all

It's more that there's tons of aspiring authors, and supply and demand is a thing.
Undortunately the trend set by google is becoming extremely antagonistisc for modders. It's becoming a tradeoff between security and convenience, arguably that was not the case back in early android version, actually it was nearly the opposite. i remember hiw CyanogenMod features were surpassing the state of Pure Android at the time, it was fun to see the innovation happening in that space. Then came the ostracization of modders, from GApps restrictions to Play Integrity, all of those made it nearly impossible to have an android OS built to your taste, while able to run useful apps like banking and payments. It's sad that I have to carry 2 devices with me because Google took the greedy way.
Clearly DSE (Death Star Events)
AR Computers to Terminate Eyestrain and Myopia
"Inheritance tax, is broadly speaking a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their Heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue"

- Roy Jenkins MP
It is the date that Trump has planned a fascist coup. Also the anniversary of Hitler's birthday.
We have LOTS of lithium
I can't affirm knowledge of steganographic identifiers in B&W printers. I wanted to state I would be surprised if B&W printers did not embed tracking information. There's too much national security value in spamming origination details on everything. There is always, always a safety or security argument to do so, followed with "but what's the harm, you're not doing anything you shouldn't be doing... are you? "
> Despite feeling like a "let me draw it for you" answer is a tad condescending, I want to address something here.

I didn't mean it to be condescending - though I can see how it can come across as such. FWIW, I opted for a diagram after I typed half a page worth of "normal" text and realized I'm still not able to elucidate my point - so I deleted it and drew something matching my message more closely.

> This would be great if LLMs did not tend to output nonsense. Truly it would be grand. But they do. So it isn't.

I find this critique to be tiring at this point - it's just as wrong as assuming LLMs work perfectly and all is fine. Both views are too definite, too binary. In reality, LLMs are just non-deterministic - that is, they have an error rate. How big it is, and how small can it get in practice for a given tasks - those are the important questions.

Pretty much every aspect of computing is only probabilistically correct - either because the algorithm is explicitly so (UUIDs and primality testing, for starters), or just because it runs on real hardware, and physics happen. Most people get away with pretending that our systems are either correct or not, but that's only possible because the error rate is low enough. But it's never that low by accident - it got pushed there by careful design at every level, hardware and software. LLMs are just another probabilistically correct system that, over time, we'll learn how to use in ways that gets the error rate low enough to stop worrying about it.

How can we get there - now, that is an interesting challenge.
> Why are we assuming facts here before we know of them

Because we should’ve been given the facts already. That’s the law. The fact that we haven’t been given the facts indicates that the people responsible are not reliable and deserve all scrutiny.
>It's another dead cat on table smoke 'n mirrors distraction play.

I remember people thinking he'd never do something like try to overturn the 2020 election with fake electors. I mean it didn't work but he kind of gave it a shot.
Wasn’t this Pandoras original claim to fame - that they used 30 or 40 different aspects of music to categorize music and help you find what you liked?
PDF reflow is one of the major reasons I am using Koreader. The whole thing is very clever and works extremely fast given the limited nature of these devices.
There's a sequence of stories by different authors that allude to one another that I find to be an interesting read in that order.

First, there's the BLIT stories by David Langford. Several of these are online.

https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

https://www.nature.com/articles/44964 (did you know that Nature did science fiction short stories? https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=futures )

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-o...

Then, you go to Accelerando

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...

> Luckily, infowar turns out to be more survivable than nuclear war – especially once it is discovered that a simple anti-aliasing filter stops nine out of ten neural-wetware-crashing Langford fractals from causing anything worse than a mild headache.

This is followed by its sequel-ish Glasshouse https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17866.Glasshouse

It's not technically a sequel, but one can see the universe of Glasshouse following from the ending of Accelerando.

A quick diversion to Vernor Vinge with Peace War and Marooned in Realtime https://www.goodreads.com/series/57273-across-realtime (there's a short story in there titled The Ungoverned)

Implied spaces Walter Jon Williams https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2059573.Implied_Spaces which takes another approach to the unexplored events leading into Glasshouse and a possible path of escalation. The reference passage in this book is:

> “I and my confederates,” Aristide said, “did our best to prevent that degree of autonomy among artificial intelligences. We made the decision to turn away from the Vingean Singularity before most people even knew what it was. But—” He made a gesture with his hands as if dropping a ball. “—I claim no more than the average share of wisdom. We could have made mistakes.”

This then ends with... {spoilers}.
When is it OK to panic in Go?
It’s not possible for Alice and Bob to be within each other’s light cones but observe galaxies that aren’t in the other’s light cone? That seems wrong - there are galaxies that disappear from our light cone due to the expansion of the universe and they have neighbors that are still visible to us which would imply that the neighbors can still see the galaxy that became invisible to us.

I’m willing to concede I don’t know enough about the actual math of cosmology and relativity to say. How certain are you in your reasoning? I’m willing to admit either case could be possible and neither is a testable prediction at this time but maybe my first principles reasoning is outright flawed?
I get that, and think that "pretty" is a dumb goal because what's "pretty" is usually just cargo culting of whatever works. But I think reading your customer is a useful lesson, but probably should be taught intentionally not accidentally via bad teaching.
This is wonderful. I have wanted to make some version of this for years. Thank you for sharing!
Receiving signals doesn't. Advertising likely does.
So if someone has proper equipment, they probably can identify the signals.

Ideal conditions is likely open spaces with no interference.
Walls and concrete lower that as you mentioned.

I'm hoping it can help if people are standing right next to the rubble, whether BLE or the "siren" sound.

I have no guarantees though. I haven't properly tested because I haven't thought of a low cost option yet.
You clearly have no practical experience because no company would agree to those terms. You can get access to source code, but the provision about “owe me double” is straight out of a comic book.
Credit (and debit!) cards solve the trust problem of online shopping and as such are vital to competition: I know I can get my money back if I don't receive good or services anywhere; if that weren't the case, I'd probably only shop at a very small number of highly trusted merchants.

Credit cards, in the US implementation where the issuer collects ~2% from the merchant and pays their cardholder a kickback from that, are both a cost to cash payers and very inefficient in general, but that's not the only way of doing things. The EU capped interchange fees at 0.3%/0.2%, for example, and purchase protection is still available just like before.