skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once a "business" person contacted me under a pretence he was interested into an open-source devtool project I am working on.

It turned out to be false, as he was only interested into hiring me for his new startup idea - for which he spent 30 minutes explaining it to me first.

At the end he tried to convince me to abandon my project because no dev would use it (although he has no knowledge of the topic).
I really like the design of Heroes of Might and Magic 2 spells:

https://www.pngkit.com/png/detail/204-2044131_spells-heroes-...

Clear, quite colorful, and they communicate the spell function well. In the worst case, they're easy to memorize. I still like the black&yellow style.

HOMM1 is also good.

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 made them more decorative, but they're still clear:
https://www.spriters-resource.com/resources/sheets/38/41309....

HOMMIV spells - what do these do?
https://images.gog-statics.com/e0b6ea10a02d03060d95cb9f79ebc...

Might and Magic Heroes 5 - you need an art historian to figure these out.
http://www.heroesofmightandmagic.com/heroes5/spells.shtml
Record numbers of bees died last winter, and we've continued to do nothing to address the problem: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/06/19/733761393/mo...
Good point and I will agree to that; I am pretty much the target audience for Pluralsight, but unless my employer offers it, every time I took a subscription, I felt a strange "pressure" to utilize it (turning learning into chore rather than fun), as well as pressure to unsubscribe unless I can really justify it.

I find it strangely easier to buy a course on either Coursera or Udemy because of seeming lack of pressure :-/
Judging by the example string on the website, `LEHV6nWB2yk8pyoJadR*.7kCMdnj`[0], you cannot use these hash strings as filenames because they can have disallowed characters.

You could save a step by just sending which image to download and use the filename as the hash you use to render the result, but this algorithm requires you store the relationship between the hash and the image somewhere (unless I am missing something obvious).

[0] source code: https://github.com/woltapp/blurhash-python/blob/7469c813ea64...
I’m not sure what brightlines exist in society for when lives are on the line. Lives are already on the line for human driving, so what is the moral story one would extract from the big picture of how people relate to driving today?

The only story I see is politics and complexity, as opposed to moral clarity.
Inserting rows with ~500KB blob columns (JSON data) on a single connection w/ WAL enabled & pragma synchronous == NORMAL or OFF.

I will admit that it would be very difficult to saturate a disk that can write on the order of gigabytes per second if you are trying to insert rows that are only a few KB in size (at least without batching these into larger entities or requests).
On the other hand I'd say that having them be that is more incentive to keep things safe.
Are you implying that public equity is some sort of government-owned entity?

My best guess is that you are confused as to what the term "private equity firm" means. Your post is so entwined with implications that I have no idea what you really mean.
In the case of Google we have a supertanker full of anecdotes of them ignoring customers with problems. In the case of Stripe we have no evidence their customer service is non existent outside social media flareups. To the contrary,they seem to have a pretty good reputation.

So no, not like google at all. That somebody gets a response from a VP on hacker news is not evidence they will get no response outside hacker news.
Flutter – The Cure for Everything or a Myth?
You're probably referring to this incident back in 2015: https://web.archive.org/web/20151129084740/https://blog.udem...
Voice controlled lights with a Raspberry Pi and Snips
Deploy Kubeflow to a Pipeline managed Kubernetes cluster
Upthread people are saying is not recommended. Not because of the radiation when eating off it, but if there's any chips or anything you should end up with uranium inside of you, which is significantly worse.

But as long as it's intact, no big deal. (I guess, I'm not an expert, why are you listening to me?)
This article has a copy: https://www.open.online/2020/02/20/chi-e-tobias-il-killer-te...
You're right -- we just put it in double quotes to convey the meaning. It's not entirely accurate. The idea is that you write the script based on what you see, and now what in the HTML. I guess we could do better with the description.
The fee is only $1 when the transaction amount is $24.14. The fee is $29.30 for a $1,000 transaction. For industries with lower margins or higher refund rates, Stripe's refusal to return the fee on refunded transactions is a problem. Regardless, Stripe's nickel-and-diming is not something to be grateful for in any industry when there are competitors that don't do the same.
Who is this for? It requires the JDK and Node.js to be installed, telling me that this is targeted to developers. If I'm a developer, I'm OK to use a browser automation framework that requires a bit of code (at least one that has conditionals and loops...).
Well "even my Tesla" has a collision prediction system (spoiler; it's paranoid) so - yup, you're right
> Banking is in an ebb of consolidation.

All businesses are consolidating due to economies of scale and low marginal costs from automation and computing power.

> I am somewhat surprised nobody offers an abstracted savings account, that handles 401k, IRA, HSA, paying rent and bills, and access to credit.

There are numerous differing laws for each kind of account and required disclosures. You also can’t have joint tax advantaged retirement savings accounts.
I haven't used apple pay since touch-less cards came out. It'll be interesting to see how they pivot to something beyond pure convenience. I highly doubt the target consumer cares about security. It'll also be interesting to see how far tech companies are willing to partner given increased regulation and scrutiny when finance is involved
Insurance premiums are calculated based on loss rates. In some hypothetical future where level 5 autonomous vehicles are available, there is no reason to expect that the remaining human drivers will have more collisions than they do today. Rather the reverse, considering the increased availability of advanced driver assistance systems.

There's nothing wrong with driving a newer car and relying on the dealer service. Sure it's expensive, but if you can afford it then so what.
you are missing the sarcasm tag...
I just heard that they allegedly had backdoors for security agencies implemented. Is this refering to that?
Appreciate the explanation. We actually noticed a huge improvement since last summer with charges made with Stripe.
Still, we lost a few thousands €€ in these years because of customers' banks rejecting our transactions. I hope that one day this problem will be gone.
It’s running on my pi4 down in the basement, no issues.
In the past Google and Facebook supported xmpp(jabber) protocol. That was real step in right direction. You could use your client and OTR plugin to encrypt all communications. It all ended in 2015.
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We can do this with Canopy in F# (repl/interactive style too!):

//go to url
url "http://lefthandedgoat.github.io/canopy/testpages/"

//assert that the element with an id of 'welcome' has
//the text 'Welcome'
"#welcome" == "Welcome"

//assert that the element with an id of 'firstName' has the value 'John'
"#firstName" == "John"

//change the value of element with
//an id of 'firstName' to 'Something Else'
"#firstName" << "Something Else"

//verify another element's value, click a button,
//verify the element is updated
"#button_clicked" == "button not clicked"
click "#button"
"#button_clicked" == "button clicked"

https://lefthandedgoat.github.io/canopy/
That’s an UI issue with the tool.

The underlying behavior is correct though - people with open handles have the priority unless they have explicitly stated that deleting a file while they use it is OK.
There are a lot of interesting case studies I remember reading about logos about 15-20 years ago, where the big thing was dropping the company name from the logo and using the logo image only. A couple of the examples I recall are target, Starbucks and maybe McDonald's. A lot of this was justified on "globalism", to your point, where the logo conveyed the brand universally unlike a company name or tag line.

One thing to be aware of with both names and logos, is potentially what the name/logo may mean in other places throughout the world.
Are there any nav/driving apps that show current weather overlaid on the map?

Seems like a useful thing but I don’t see it in Waze, gMaps, or aMaps. Why is that?
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Synology

A Raspi-NAS is nice for the learning experience, but if you want a real NAS, just get one. Or build it with proper hardware and FreeNAS or a similar solution.
Looks promising but I don't want to install the JDK (and it's not practical for CI). Isn't it possible to do without with something like Puppeteer?
I would be careful in assuming competence in such a new dev area. Think: rules vs predicting vs rise in false positives

Heard of control systems waiting for seconds before acting on new information? So don't assume flawless, perfect technology.
I don't understand.
1. The problem is that the GP prediction was wrong
2. You need to make sure predictions are right.
3. All predictions are wrong.
4. So add error bars.

Should the downstream system trust the error bars with certainty?

It's hard to define what a right prediction is. The correct prediction is whatever makes the car safe and effective. If an action leads to a situation with a low probability but very catastrophic outcome, the system should not take that action, even if the prediction correct with its error bars.
FreeNAS, a supermicro motherboard, ECC memory, an i3 if it’s just a pure NAS or a Xeon if you need more power. I have the above setup with 6 WD Red drives in a NFS pool.

It’s hard to justify using a Pi for a NAS unless you don’t mind your SD becoming corrupted.

Are you looking to build a real NAS or a Pi NAS? You could by off the shelf but it’s not as much fun.
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A few insecure choices here:
* fail2ban installed but no mention of actually setting up the rules. Additionally out of the box fail2ban won't work with docker containers
* Wide open ports. Only open what you need
* In the DNS script you are putting the username and password in the URL. This means even though you are using https anyone can see the username and password you're sending. Pass these options some other way.
I do, for the sole reason that at the end of (almost) every private equity deal is an exit, and in order for the company to be sold at a higher price than it was bought, it still has to be good/better at what it is supposed to be doing. Also, from my experience for these sorts of Tech deals, the level of due diligence conducted before an exit by potential buyers can be extensive, so I doubt they'd let the security parts of a security business go bad.
I would like to compare with a "normal" rent:

1) you are given (by a human) the keys of the car in exchange of providing your driver license and credit card

2) you do (within limits) whatever you want with the car

3) after the agreed upon rent period you bring back the car and keys (giving them to a human) and then the rental company checks how many miles you did (and if you exceeded the included amount you are charged, unless you got an all inclusive/unlimited mmileage contract)

I.e. the renting company actually "trusts" you (backed financially by your credit card).

And this formula worked seemigly just fine for the last 60 years or more.

A "natural" evolution would IMHO be:

1) you get pre-approved (i.e. you provide your driving license and credit card before and outside the actual rent) when you start the rent your smartphone is somehow allowed to open and start the car

2) you do (within limits) whatever you want with the car

3) after the agreed upon rent period you bring back the car in a designed area, you notify the renter of it and somehow your smartphone cannot open or start the car anymore (and at that time the mileage is checked remotely, etc.)

If this was the case the need for coverage would only be needed in the designed pick and leave area.

I fail to see any practical advantage for the renting company to collect data "realtime" (and thus need the anytime coverage).

I.e. it seems to me more like a "because I can" reason than anything else.
Firefox deprecates support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1
Did you know that in English, you can end a question with just a single question mark?
COBOL Developers Want to Stick with the Aging Language
My team which manages our company's ecommerce website inherited maintaining an iOS app that was being developed by a contracting firm. No one on my team had much experience in iOS. My company is extremely frugal. I bought an intro to iOS course on Udemy for the five of us for about fifty dollars total. It was excellent. Was definitely blown away by the quality and the price. It got us quickly up to speed on xcode, debugging, swift, view creation and publishing to the app store among other things. I am sure there is junk content on udemy, but there is also really good content that is worth more than the price.
Visa Sponsored Tech Jobs
Being an Immigrant often got rejected in the very last round since the company didn't sponsored visa. So created this job board dedicated to spnsored visa tech jobs exclusively.

https://www.visabyte.xyz
Yes I hope it is SFTP and not FTPS.

There are some things we could easily give up to get encrypted mail. For example, setting a max delivery time to allow ephemeral keys.

But there are other problems with encrypted messaging, and I'm particularly thinking of spam. How does Signal/WhatsApp manage to keep a lid on it? Would that be possible in a federated system?
Seth Rich.
Podesta got phished.

There was no hacking. It was all leaking.

The DNC server has never been examined by the FBI. Only an "image" of the server was evaluated by CrowdStrike for the FBI.
Obviously because it's awesome in so many ways. The only thing I miss when using SQLite are implementations in high-level programming languages. In many cases (e.g. with .Net WinForms) using a native library is a pain while the speed native code provides is not always necessary.
SAS vs. WPL copyright case filed in Eastern District of Texas
A real NAS but I see the Pi isn’t up to it yet; too bad.
Twirp – A simple RPC framework with protobuf service definitions
Investing in ChartHop
I would argue that driving in traffic is essentially a physically social activity, like a pack of wolves or a flock of birds or a school of fish moving together. There is a tremendous amount of communication happening between the individuals, but not overt language. It's physical communication which requires empathy (i.e. seeing things from someone else's perspective) to accurately interpret and make predictions from.

A simple example is to be in a lane next to a lane that ends. Everyone sees the same signs that indicate that lane is ending; everyone knows the cars in that lane are going to get over. But there are a variety of strategies for doing so: get over early; wait until the last minute; accelerate to merge; slow down to merge; use the opportunity to pass; etc. Some drivers are nervous and cautious; some are aggressive. The way the cars move on the road, the signals they provide like brake lights and turn signals, are a form of communication that you, the potentially yielding driver, can interpret and make decisions about how to deal with the merge. Or prevent it! If that is your inclination.

This seems like a hard problem IMO. Perceiving objects is essentially about physics--detecting and recognizing. Next step harder, making physical predictions e.g. how far a moving object will travel in 200 milliseconds. Maybe that's enough to keep a self-driving car safe, but it won't make it very efficient in heavy traffic (which is the norm in urban areas). To interpret intent as part of a prediction seems way harder than even that. Reminder that when humans start driving they typically have 16-18 years of continuous social learning... and even then it usually takes years to become a comfortably safe driver in traffic.

Of course this would be way easier if all the cars were self-driving, all at once, but that seems like a really hard way to implement this technology. I think you'd have to have a city with very strong leadership that defines a small area that is self-driving only (working with one or more private companies to provide the vehicles), and then slowly grow the boundaries of that zone.
You find Scott Lynch crass and obscene? It's been a while since I finished those books but that doesn't ring a bell.

Do you mean metaphorically like a crass analogy or like full of swear words? The former would bother me much more than the latter tbh , especially since we're following orphan street urchins - seems in character almost.
Git-number to the command-line-typing rescue
outside of the flashy app, is there really anything Robinhood does better than Schwab or Fidelity? And in the realm of newcomers, M1 offers a better feature set.
I'd be surprised if someone wrote "rule of thirds photography of gray concrete shed" for this one:

https://unsplash.com/photos/c_s23W8ZqFg
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Strange advice to not use Alpine, but then recommends an empty image or busybox...
If it were true.
"Get into the car" but not start the car?
The issue is that the overwhelming incentive for these sorts of buyouts is towards very short-term decisions leading up to a sale. If things line up correctly, this can have good results, but usually it involves compromising the product, long-term business, cutting corners, etc. People on places like HN are especially wary of this sort of thing because a lot of us are tech professionals who end up in the trenches first hand when those corners get cut. This is especially dangerous in the realm of security.
Brands like Alibaba, Xiaomi came by their names
Someone probably told the developer to implement it that way.
you're right! The icon i selected was an example, i intended to use the drop like shape, without the word. I now realize it wasn't at all clear.

But even without the text it still has some problems, since without context you may think it mean body hydratation level or blood, unless you use colors (yellow, blue and red ) to distinguish between them, but even then, they are not always available/possible and pose accessibility problems, for visually impaired (is the correct word?) etc...

you could also use the text, if you target a specific locale, or also localizing the icons may make sense.

Since i don't know where this icons will be used i don't know what the best solution and i don't have a perfect solution.

I hope I have explained myself better.

edit: grammar
Interestingly enough, Waymo (back than Chauffeur) attempted the Tesla approach - and threw it out once they saw how people behave when the car "drives itself*".

W.r.t."self driving winter", I think Waymo are aiming to protecting themselves from that situation by developing close relationships with regulators, highlighting the "we're not them"-part and sticking to their safety-first approach.
> Stop using that thing that mostly works as intended and is integrated into lots of email clients and systems, and has a number of independent implementations, and has the decentralized properties that match email.

I want to be sure I don’t misrepresent your point. By the thing that works as intended and has plenty of implementations, you’re referring to GPG/OpenPGP?
Can't you take object instead of TInsert and call .GetType to lookup the (cached) way to serialize it? I assume this is what json.net etc do.
PCoIP has been a huge shift in the landscape for remote access protocols for this reason.
>All businesses are consolidating

And a lack of trust busting. Government deregulation, cheap cash, big exits.

>There are numerous differing laws for each kind

Thats why I said an abstraction. All the underlying accounts exist, but are hidden behind a layer. You can peak in and see individual balances, but thats not how the data is presented to you. You dont interact with it and make decisions based on the components. You set parameters, percentages, and targets, and it autobalances the rest. It would need to be able to tap into employer 401K's to make holistic decisions, doing something like blooom combined with automatic tax efficient fund placement. Automatic output of tax documents.

Automatic HSA tagging. Scan and digitize receipts. Maybe even a more advanced "invest the hsa, keep track of the receipts, set targets for optimal reimbursement (potentially years down the road.)" There is so much innovation space left on the consumer experience side of banking.

Like Personal Capital, I have to think Credit Karma is an attractive buy as well, getting into life management: a bank that does your taxes for you, that comparison shops your auto insurance. Personal Capital, Credit Karma, M1, Blooom, Angieslist, HomeAdvisor, and TrueCar would be a really slick bundle if some VC wanted to make an Office 365/AdobeCloud of life management.
Limit orders can only execute at the limit price or better. Are you saying that you were getting better prices than you expected, or am I completely misreading this?
I work on developer experience at Stripe. If you'd like to email me at my HN handle @stripe.com, I'd love to hear more about the trouble you've run into.
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I read this more as a condemnation of email itself, and less about PGP.

PGP aligning with how email actually works and the author not liking the effects is a pity, but by comparison it's a whole other dichotomy from something like a mediated end-to-end crypto scheme. Those kind of systems have the exact oppose set of problems from PGP conceptually, and note this ignores the geriatric architecture of PGP to some extent.

Assuming PGP were re-invented right now, I'd still like it to mostly stay the same. That is to say, I'd like to be able to have private/public keys stored in something conceptually similar. I'd like to see slight ease-of-use improvement in signing objects, encrypting objects, etc... but the basic functionally be the same. Finally I'd like to see integration with other transports made more modular and around an API versioning system that moves forward. That is to say, If I sign my emails, I'd like to be able to communicate that the other end should be on an API above some level, or similar setup.

Finally, there would bee some more thought put into people who want to advertise their keys on public directories. The aforementioned API versioning and modular remarks head into this direction. People want to communicate their keys, and it should be easy for social networks, or whatever directory lookup providers that would be created can be accommodated. This is key

People like things like the signal protocol, but they want to manage all the stuff in the middle themselves, or whatever that entails. Some people may want to fly bellow the radar, and not have anything to do with an automated system, or run sneaker-nets like some old school cloak-and-dagger stuff from KGB or CIA.

Anyways, email is terrible. But to conflate the problems of email over to PGP is a bit weird, but it's nice to recognize the real issue of using both.
Why were all the instructors volunteers?

If your for-profit bootcamp company asked me to teach but not pay me I'd tell you to go fuck yourselves.
There's some good work being done in small niches on bees [0] [1] and others. Are any HN folks working on bee-focused projects that would give their work a shoutout? I'd love throw in on research, data collection or product development work using my own hives if teams are looking for help.

[0] https://apic.ai

[1] https://pollenity.com

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