skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This crime would work with cash or wire transfers. Eradicating cryptocurrency would achieve nothing at this point.

These same gangs have extensive infrastructure for stealing millions from US bank accounts, BEC actors are still making more money than ransomware crowd.

If a company really wants to pay, they won’t have a problem bringing suitcases full of cash on a private jet to russia. Especially since most of these payments are not made directly by the victims, but third parties who earn their living by facilitating these payments.
rev.ng | Compiler Engineer | Milan HQ or remote in CEST-friendly time zones | Full-time | https://rev.ng

We're looking for a developer with experience in modern C++.

We're developing a next-generation decompiler and have a series of projects related to dynamic binary translation.

Topics/technologies you will work on:

* LLVM, JIT and compiler techniques in general
* Emulation and dynamic binary translation (e.g., QEMU)
* Binary analysis
* Qt

Reasons you should work for us:

* rev.ng is on the forefront of binary analysis technology
* rev.ng firmly believes in openess
* We regularly attend conferences as speakers
* We encourage employees to employ one week a month for research/open end projects, see our blog (https://rev.ng/blog)
* rev.ng employs modern C++
* We fully support remote working and have the necessary infrastructure to make it effective
* You will spend very little time in meetings
* The work environment is:
* Very friendly
* Informal
* Flexible in terms working hours
* We do not expect you to work overtime
* You'll have 26 paid holidays a year, excluding public Holidays

If you're interested, drop us an e-mail at jobs@rev.ng
Sometimes I wonder if there's secretly a FINRA fine high score amongst fintechs. Sure seems like all that it's good for at times.
Clickbaity title, there's nothing new or timely in this article about her "trouble". It's recounting how she's under no new trouble actually.
I'm not sure. I thought it was nothing short of a miracle that it could be done at all. I tried, hard, in Tensorflow, to make it work. But there was also no way to communicate directly from TPU to TPU; I had to serialize to GCE buckets as a middle step, which added massive complexity to the code.

The ray solution here is so simple. It was a joy to use. But I don't know anything about Dask.

By the way, if anyone wants to see how the loss graphs turned out: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1406171487988498433

(I wish I'd uploaded the logs to tensorboard.dev for posterity. But you can see quite clearly in the screenshots all the information you'd want to see anyway, with apologies to blind engineers. Oh lord, is there a single blind engineer working in ML? Suddenly it's an appealing idea to try to make tensorboard accessible... I wonder how blind people could interpret graphs. Averages, probably.)
Crypto Trading Mistakes
I can't quite parse the imgur instructions; in the first image, the pink lace enters from the left of the image; next image it enters from the right, then from the left again. And the images on the archive aren't loading for me :( Really want to try this one out - any other references?
Well I have to give him credit for one thing. He let me know what valley salaries were like. He is the reason I came to the valley. Now, it kind of sucks that all of my vested RSUs are worth what I would have if I'd have kept my old house in SoCal, but assuming I can hold on to my FANG job for another year it will be worth it. It also got several of my friends to look for higher paying jobs outside of SoCal, and a couple of them are now millionaires after choosing a better company than I did. So hey, thanks Tech Lead.

I also have to feel sorry for him since his wife left him and took his kid. Maybe it was deserved... I don't know. As a fellow survivor of a California divorce(why I needed a FANG income to begin with), I can't help but pity him. It could be why he's pushing the scams so hard now.
"investment" is vague

The SEC regulates how companies represent themselves to investors and how certain things representing ownership are traded and represented. The exact surface that fits inside the SEC I don't know exactly and one has to be an expert to know (and the SEC doesn't necessarily know itself).

Cryptocurrencies went from being completely outside regulation to somewhat inside, but the laws, courts, and regulations are starting to slowly catch up. Everyone is still figuring out things as they go along.

When cryptos are used to represent a piece of ownership though, it is cut and dry, they are securities and subject to existing regulations.

When cryptos don't correspond to the value of something external though, they are somewhat new and just don't yet fit into the existing regulatory framework and the attitude of regulators is generally wait and see while going after the most clear abuses and easy cases first to build up a framework for whatever the future will hold.

"common sense" of what cryptos are or aren't doesn't work, whatever regulators do, there will be high profile lawsuits for the courts to decide what they are and aren't, shaping this process and doing things which are clearly legal or illegal first in the best interests of the regulator is what happens. (in other words, they don't want to go out on a limb right away in tricky edge cases, they want to get things in a pattern and decided with the easy cases first)
MVP landing page for my startup
Hey hackernews community! I am trying to build out a quick landing page for my startup. Is there any recommendation of framework for building it quickly and deploying it for free. I have explored the path of angular, and deploying it on heroku. But it seems like the learning curve for angular is quite high for me. Any suggestions are welcome
https://www.jqueenwatchwinders.co.uk/best-jqueen-watch-winde...
Imagine digging that dirt polluted like a small country. That’s how I view Bitcoin.
This is my favourite of those: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GIwTG8V-Ko
A week in and I'm already bored of Copilot submissions... It's not perfect. What do you expect?
Home computers in the eighties weren't that expensive. That was the whole point – you could actually have a computer in your home now. Kids got them for Christmas.
Tell them; it obviously means that you already know physics by heart! ;)
The MM coin is clearly launched as a joke and to inform about how he created it.

I like his channel.. been following him for quite a while, and I mostly agree with the things he says. He makes it sound like it's all a joke or made up, but it's really not.
> A government employee can sexually harassed someone, commit minor crimes, steal, and they are for bidden from being fired.

If they're a union employee and they're protected by the union. There are government employees that aren't in unions, and there are private sector employees who are in unions. So again, why hold only public sector employees more responsible?

> consider why should employees in the public trust be given greater protections than the private?

Well first of all, the employees we're talking about aren't in the public trust. The public trust refers to elected officials (or that some resources are being held for use by the public). You don't elect teachers; they're hired by the school, given too little resources, too many students, too much work to do, put at risk daily, and then we threaten to fire them quicker than we'd fire a hedge fund manager who stole 500 billion dollars of the public's money.

Second, we're not talking about whether they get more trust, we're talking about whether or not they should get higher penalties than private-sector employees. You're conflating the two because you don't like the fact that government union workers are protected, which is actually a third thing: 1) should government workers in the public trust get more protections than the private (that depends), 2) why can government workers not get fired easily (because they're in a union, not because they're govt workers), 3) government workers should be fired more easily than private-sector workers (...why?).
"504 Gateway Time-out"

Good idea, crap tech !
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Why not? University is hard, especially if you have a job and other responsibilities. In my humble opinion who cares if you got a 2.0, if you enjoyed it, and you think you’re up for the challenge of graduate school, do it. GPA is nowhere near an accurate assessment of a persons ability, I think often it is the luck of the draw; professors, assignments, structure, life challenges, it all has an impact. If you’d like some thing a little more pithy go with this: you are more than your GPA.

Godspeed
And even a bit earlier, 1977 was the year of the "holy trinity" of early home computers -- the initial Apple II, the TRS-80 Model I, and the Commodore Pet. There were even earlier machines, like the Altair, but those were generally sold as kits and assumed knowledge of electronics, but the 1977 machines were consumer products that you could just buy and use.
How is it better to have "simple" emails?
You can't have a four-day school week until a normalized four-day workweek (everyone off on the same day).
Forensic architecture is known for years to make visually fancy stuff (e.g. the films and exhibitions which they show for roughly the past decade in the art context throughout Europe, for example at the last Documenta). For them to develope a website that uses a lot of javascript is somewhat ironic, but not surprising.
Nah, scam debunking is a good and fun genre. There are so many YouTube ads promising so many false get rich quick schemes that it’s shooting fish in a barrel. Exposing the affiliate marketing, fake guru, forex, dropshipping, class hustling frauds of social media is an entertaining public service.
I'm not really convinced.

Proof of Stake has a startup issue that Proof of Work doesn't have.

If you want to have your coin begin as proof of stake you have to have some mechanism for how the initial coins are distributed and that method is usually going to involve the creators giving themselves a lot of coins. A lot of crypto projects have all sorts of ways of obfuscating this or claiming that the intial coins will be destroyed or whatever, but I don't think that anyone has really succeeded in establishing trust on a large scale for this yet.

The other method of getting Proof of Stake going would be migrate an existing Proof of Work coin. This is like what Etherium 2.0 is trying to do.

The problem with that is that it's never going to be in the interest of the miners to actually change to it. Etherium 2.0 has been supposedly just around the corner for years and it never really arrives.

Proof of Work on the other hand doesn't have this issue. The creator has the same ability to mine coins as anyone else does, so it doesn't have the same initial trust issues as Proof of Stake does.
FWIW £18k in 2001 is ~£30k in today's money which is on the upper end of graduate starting salaries even for today
I have a symmetric gigabit connection in the SF Bay Area from ATT fiber for $60/month. I never even have to think about internet speeds anymore.
I think there are also qualitative reasons why outsourcing didn't prove as successful as many companies thought.

One being, that business requirements are often complex, and contain ambiguity, which requires communication between developers and the business, which is hampered by differences in timezones and culture.
Maybe it's humor, maybe he's serious, maybe it's both. When you do both, you can always run for cover when you go too far and claim it was humor. The problem is, after a while you're not so sure who you are anymore. Are you saying things because they're funny, or you really believe them?

For the record I always thought he was somewhat on the spectrum but much of what he does is his attempt at humor(and I often find it funny).
> I guess I disagree with your premise then? In my experience someone who is likely to think that anyone can learn CS is likely to also think that anyone can learn art, car repair, or chemistry.

That isn't my premise. My premise is that saying such a thing isn't a bold claim, it's a commonly accepted claim.

When you said "This is a bold claim", I replied with "I disagree", because "Some people just aren't any good at $DISCIPLINE" isn't a bold claim.
> Also, wasn't there a data science YouTuber recently that was busted for more or less plagiarizing their content?

You might be thinking of Siraj Raval?

https://mobile.twitter.com/AndrewM_Webb/status/1183150368945...

(Or not, I’m sure there’s been a dozen other cases of this in data science alone)
I was curious which lead me going over your resume, and I was wondering if you tell us more about how you use PyCharm over text editor for improve code quality. Due to slow responsiveness I am slowly moving towards *vim from IntellijIDEA - it is challenging, but I am enjoying the process.
Mildly related: https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/
Chinese Government orders Didi ride-hailing app removed
There will always be people who choose a field for success, and they are more likely to flee when it seems unsuccessful.

I was once connected with someone who was just getting started in his career. He was entering the tech industry as a software engineer, having graduated w/ a CS degree from a UC in 2000 or thereabouts.

This person had majored in CS because of the late 1990s tech bubble, yet felt strongly at the time that it was not a good field once the tech bubble burst. I was aghast, not only at the reason he chose his path and the waste, but also at the idea that a bubble pop would send him out of the field so easily.

He ended up going into real estate just as that field bubbled into insanity, God bless his soul.
Ian's secure knot (https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm) has been my go-to for similar purposes, it holds up even to running and other exercise quite well though I re-tie those each time because I like them too tight to slip off. But for daily shoes (which I leave looser and just slip on and off) I've now gone through 3 or 4 pairs in the last 10 years and the shoes or laces always break before the knot comes undone.

Super easy to untie, as well, if needed.
Exactly. He shouldn't be able to just go to SNL and shill his bags to his followers.

EDIT: wrong thread nevermind
It's a nice summary of the current situation, but I was a bit disappointed to find no new information.
Why? Also I'm not convinced self-hosting is really that feasible without ISPs offering static IPs and barely any do.

Sure you can work around it with dynamic DNS but that's a hassle and hassles like that are what make it infeasible.
What you wrote is "Fred Brookes is just one US academic." That is not a positive statement or an acknowledgement that he has made big contributions, that is a dismissal of what he wrote.

./sentiment.st 'Fred Brookes is just one US academic.'
{
label: neg;
probability: {
neg: 0.5681116649451591;
neutral: 0.4912856963089782;
pos: 0.4318883350548409;
};
}

The key is the "just one":

./sentiment.st 'Fred Brookes is one US academic.'
{
label: pos;
probability: {
neg: 0.4517101153187268;
neutral: 0.4880877595448765;
pos: 0.5482898846812732;
};
}

And replacing the "one" with "a":

./sentiment.st 'Fred Brookes is a US academic.'
{
label: neutral;
probability: {
neg: 0.4032643317660632;
neutral: 0.7398809320488215;
pos: 0.5967356682339368;
};
}

So we go from -0.57/+0.43 for your formulation to +0.6/-0.4 for a neutral formulation, a swing from negative to positive of 34%. Pretty substantive, if you ask me.

The sentiment.st script:

#!env stsh
#-sentiment:text
(ref:http://text-processing.com/api/sentiment/ postForm: #{ #text: text })

Anyway, glad to hear that this statement of yours was not a reflection of your actual views.

[Caper Jones: Smalltalk twice as productive as Haskell]

> I never made any claims about Haskell

You made claims about FP and OO in general, and in particular questioned my statement that "OO gets the job done" and also claimed I provided no evidence for my claims. Haskell is an FP language and Smalltalk is an OO language, and both are considered premier exemplars of their respective genres. Being twice as productive sure sounds like "getting the job done" to me and there is empirical evidence for this being true.

> I'm sure many static type systems are bad, but it doesn't prove all are bad.

Nobody claimed that all static type systems are bad. However, the evidence is in that any claims of "obvious" superiority of static typing over dynamic typing for safety are plain wrong. Such as your original claim:

> Static typing is (obviously) safer than dynamic types.

Glad to see that you're now walking that earlier categorical statement back to "not all static type systems are bad", something I can agree with. I am actually pretty sure some are fairly good, particularly the non-bondage-and-discipline ones (gradual/hybrid) have a decent chance.

As a matter of fact, I am currently in the process of improving the fairly minimal type support in my own programming language. And I even have some ideas in the back of my mind of how to do non-horrible generics, but that isn't the primary focus.
End of the Dinosaurs (Photoshop Art)
I knew about it but I didn't know about the clever name.
AKA the OpenAI definition of Open
Super Kamiokande
The real dark bit there is that if someone else posts something publicly, but your own stuff is "obscured" in some way, they may be able to (falsely) claim prior art, as the original author.

Amongst other things, hosting something on github is a public ledger of authorship.
It's all working! Well, apart from the reset button for the cassette tape's counter, but that's what inevitably happens with mechanical parts after time.

It's true that BASIC is aging, however, as we've seen on this HN thread, people do enjoy the nostalgia and it's a great way to introduce newcomers to what it was like in the early days of computing!

Yup, I do say 'cursor'! But I'm British, hence the spelling of colour. I did take extra care to avoid ambiguous command naming in atto by having `bg` and `fg` instead of a `colour` command.
By this time a significant pprtion of the varangian guard were actually anglo saxon.
Job Market
Horrifying and beautiful at the same time!
NFS is broken in Linux 5.13.0
Book prefaces commonly acknowledge the libraries where the author has done research; sci-hub deserves to go there if they have been using it.

It's a shame Elbakyan hasn't written a paper about sci-hub that people can cite. Many software packages do that, to give academics an obvious way to cite them.

On nominations: the Nobel nomination process is very open (iirc, any relevant professor can make a nomination). For that reason it is also largely meaningless, but that doesn't stop many people boasting about it, and chunks of the media enabling them. So this is leaning a long way towards fake news, but is also something a single person could do.
The description circulating the internets is very vague, involves some obscure personal(?) hotspot...

Not going to torture my gadgets, but looks like saving networks with ESSID "%p%s%s%s%s%n" causing wifid to crash on WFLog:message

Should also work with configuring network with such ESSID manually. The other sprintf specifiers in ESSID should work too.

> factory reset

Not that bad, Reset Network Settings fixes.

https://blog.chichou.me/2021/06/20/quick-analysis-wifid/
If their customers are being refunded, it's better than expected.
> It generates a nastily complex regular expression that is hopelessly wrong.

> [...]

> The author makes no comment on how hideously bad it is[...]

I mean, it's coming up with a solution that's about as good as the average programmer who's going to validate E-Mail with regexes would, so as a crowd-sourced machine learning solution it's not too bad if you think about it.

In other words, Having a co-pilot doesn't mean you're guaranteed to get Chuck Yeager.
He got early into the app boom and made a ton of money selling his mobile games, which definitely gave him the credibility to enter FAANG.

https://guruscoach.com/techlead-patrick-shyu/#Making_over_a_...
Im especially glad I’m not British - in America my $150k TC out of undergrad was mediocre.
Goodbye C developers: The future of programming with certified program synthesis
Skylark Drones raises $3M in pre-Series A from InfoEdge and IAN
If university isn't vocational training, why do employers prioritize hiring people with university degrees?

They seem to think it is.
"Once you work around the problems they aren't problems at all!"
>>The problem with that is that it's never going to be in the interest of the miners to actually change to it.

Miners have no way to stop a hard fork. That is entirely dependent on what client users and service providers run, and miners have no control over that.

And Ethereum 2.0 has already launched its Phase 0 (first of three phases), on December 1st, 2020.
> I can’t tell if this guy is trying to be a parody/using dry humor or if he’s a narcissist sociopath.

That's his shtick.
Is the use of jetpacks finally about to take off?
How can one just remove liquidity? Why is that even technically possible?
We've been arguing about the "Hawthorne Effect" since the term was coined.
Of course it’s not ideal, but in the real world the designs are often impossible or impractical to build. If work halted every time construction workers came across a design that didn’t work, instead of tweaking the design onsite and keeping going, nothing would get built.

Source: multi-generational heavy construction family business.
Also it is fairly popular for ~1cm accurate indoor localization solutions...
It is possible, but it is much much harder to make 70 mio USD disappear through the regular financial system. It is much easier with BTC.

It is hard to get away with suitcases of cash without getting arrested.
wcmatch – enhanced fnmatch, glob, and pathlib library for matching and globbing
Greece is truly embarrassing when it comes to data services, both for wired connections and data on mobile contracts. Why is that? Is the market cornered by some monopoly/oligopoly?
I never enjoyed TechLead's main channel content but respected him (and still do) for covering the 2019 employee suicide at Facebook when they tried to sweep it under the rug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbEQriZEfoI

Backstory: an H-1B Facebook Ads-team employee was on a PIP, was denied internal transfer, and had a SEV follow-up task he was called to present at a SEV Review. I don't have any first-hand knowledge of pressure-levels within Ads, but considering that's where the money comes from I assume it's pretty high. He tried to request more time, but a task nagbot kept changing the task "due date" back any time he tried to adjust it. He never made it to that SEV Review #JusticeForQin
If the kids are off school, you have three-day weekends every week to do small trips. If the kids are still at school, parents have an extra day to go out to lunch, run errands, work on side hustles, clean the house, etc. Both are good options.
It’s depriving journals from money they could make from publications when they have already charged the authors to publish them.

There is no moral dilemma here : accessing an article thru Sci-Hub deprives nobody from getting its due money. Scientists unfortunately continues not being paid for the paper, journals continues being paid by universities to review the paper, but nobody wants to pay just to read a paper from the journal when it already has been paid for.
After watching his videos on this, it's pretty obvious to me that he created the coin as a joke/satire to show the absurdity. Yet most comments are talking seriously about this and comparing it to actual pump'n'dump scams. What's the deal?
I like a good bit of his content, but this is not the first time he got implicated in shady stuff. https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/kmqirv/t...