skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time I see I have a meeting with MS Teams, I get annoyed.

- Most of the time, people don't setup a dialin number, so I can't use my phone

- There's no way to display both the attendees list and the chat at the same time

Those are two examples of things that just cause it to be an "also ran" in my mind. It's just missing a lot of the "nice to have" features; much the way Zoom did when it was first release... it feels incomplete and unpolished.

There's another one that I forget the name of that used to have the mute and hang up buttons right next to each other. I would constantly drop off calls because of it. Video and sound quality are important, but so is UX.
Curious if the value of a truck exceeds the value of a human life that police routinely extinguish.
As an aside, if anyone knows why Australia has 100% contactless payment penetration I’d be interested to know
Yeah, if you want the dropping animation and you can't start typing before then, then don't start the timer before the animation finishes.

There is also the age-old argument about British-English vs American English e.g. Armor is not spelled that way in British English so it takes a lot more effort to work these out.

Pretty slick though.
> Traffic is a bit of text, extremely basic CSS, no images, no tracking, no bullshit means that load times are probably instantaneous even on a 56k modem.

In other words: they are serving exactly what the people who come here are looking for, and little else. Don't get me wrong, there are cases where images and moderately more complex CSS improve a website. On the other hand, many websites go to an extreme that degrades the user experience.
I meant I check in Signal. It does indicate whether it's received or not and whether it's read or not.
It does stop their subscriber numbers dropping by 2800 in Q1, regardless of whether the subscriptions are used or even paid for.
I'm not sure I have much hope for Taiwan remaining independent once we don't need them to make chips for us anymore. I think it's a great and necessary move for Americans to manufacture at home though.
I'm not waving it away, this isn't a discussion about the legal system.

If someone steals steal a fiver from your back pocket then there's no magical wand that the police can wave that teleports the cash back into your hand. They need to come and get it from the kitchen table or wherever the thief has put it assuming they haven't spent it.

Most cryptocurrencies are explicitly designed to act as digital cash in this way. The system is structured such that a coin is fully under the control of the owner of the private key, there is no third party involved to effect some sort of return like a bank can.

If the coins are sitting in an exchange or some other custodian i.e. not exclusively under the control of the owner of a private key then you can effect this change by leaning on the exchange (in a legal sense).

The exchange is the bank, the coins are cash.
They definitely do not ship globally.
Grin raised $110M on a new narrative [audio]
Google Meet is so much better than Zoom & MS Teams, that being said I think Zoom has entrenched itself in plenty of businesses and people won't transition away.
Thin red line between scamming and hustling.
Payment digitization is inevitable. The benefits outweighs the costs for 95% of people. The realistic options are payment through dystopian surveillance apparatus payment processors, or payment through bitcoin lightning (or similar).
To be fair, their failings were almost entirely a result of bad financial projections, resulting in an unstable balance sheet for an otherwise-solid business
What does "stolen cryptocurrency" actually mean? For example, if one person says it was stolen from them, and the holder says they legitimately acquired it, then how is any solution supposed to decide who is correct?

For fiat currency, there's usually a court system that can be used to determine ownership. Though often they explicitly exclude cash from that - if somebody legitimately acquires bank notes that were previously stolen, they can keep them and they are valid as legal tender.

For cryptocurrency, which jursidiction's justice system is going to determine whether something has a "stolen" marker or not? What if that's not recognised by a different jurisdiction, or someone else comes to the opposite conclusion?
I love the fact that both are represented on HN and yet there is - in most cases - a great disscussion culture.
There is no solution because you would end up punishing innocent people. E.g. if a thief buys a car with their proceeds then it's not fair to punish the car dealership by confiscating the originally-stolen coins. This was decided in Scotland in 1749, cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawfurd_v_The_Royal_Bank
What would you suggest as idiomatic server code which is not Laravel, in PHP?

I had the "pleasure" to work a bit with a PHP legacy server written in Laravel, and I thought that the framework was alright - the problem was in the PHP code written with it (specifically its typing). I think laravel is opinionated and can help to have a consistent codebase... curious to know why you had such a bad experience, and where you were happier :D
Anecdotally, it appears that Zwift usage is still growing. It's more race and social oriented than Peleton, and less of a "spin class simulator", but it's only $15/mo and doesn't require as much of an up-front equipment investment.

I think Peleton believed too much of their own BS and flew too close to the sun.
You asked him whether he ever reflected on database visualization and query tools (that's what Palantir is) and considered that he had brought a previously unimaginable capability for destruction into this world?

Non-answer seems about right -- how do you treat nonsensical questions?
Well you don't want to lose those keys ... there is a bit of a conundrum there (granted you don't have to do it the way they did either).

As far as how exactly they got caught, there was a reward offered by the company it was stolen from. It may have been someone tipped the feds off for the reward.
That's only TLDR for the headline... you're missing the point of the post.
And there's no fallback for when you have to make multiple payments and don't have the cash on hand already. There's no fallback for an ATM outage where you can't withdraw the cash. There's no fallback for a communications/network outage at the bank where they can't query your balance and withdraw funds for you.

There are problems with any system. This one has the advantage of convenience.
I quite agree with most of what you are saying, and you are saying it quite well. My main thrust is that we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater by saying, 'Some people aren't rigorous so let's abandon rigor' (I don't think you're saying that, it's a strawman). Even in the paper critiqued in the original post, there was some rigor (in the midst of clear blindness and hubris), sufficient for the team in the article to take it apart on its own merits.

There's real examples of cases where no rigor is applied at all, and some facsimile of rigor can improve things in a psychological context. For example, much ink has been spilled in Hacker News about traumatic interview practices adopted and popularized by the FANG companies, such as so-called 'brain teaser' questions. Included in these practices was the widespread notion that interviewees needed to be 'put on the spot', or 'think on their feet'. Interview practice has been studied by the field of organizational psychology for decades, and such practices were from day one counter to several findings (such as that putting the candidate off-balance or in a state of discomfort during the interview and having them successfully navigate that would somehow predict job performance). Eventually several large tech companies conducted internal studies and concluded that the practices had no bearing on job performance.

I too have seen BS titillating psychology results, but the antidote is almost always to review the literature. For example you might often hear "conscientiousness on a Big 5 personality test correlates with job performance". Yes it does, but review the literature: it is quite weak and will not do a good job of explaining individual variance.

Let's say I had heard about this magical ratio in the OP's article in a job context. My BS meter would have gone off, most certainly. Some actionable number that can explain a tremendously complex and poorly understood set of dynamics? Hmph! I would have reviewed the literature and found the paper in question. I would have seen the large number of citations. Ok, that gives it weight as an idea, but let's see if the idea has legs. Where are the meta studies showing multiple independent corroborations of the number in different contexts and performed by different researchers? Non existent. As someone who takes science and applies it, for me that puts it firmly in the area of 'very interesting finding, but not actionable'. Honestly I think that's probably what was quietly happening with that ratio even before the retractions. Such findings make for great media news, corporate power points, motivational speech meetings, annoying HR meetings, etc., but hopefully (I do say hopefully :) ) in almost every real world setting if someone told a senior manager, "Your team is going to be measured on this positivity ratio, because science!", that manager would make a stink. Of course, maybe not. I do believe an important skill that needs to be increasingly taught is the ability to parse and understand the landscape of papers on a subject.
There's also this:

https://youtu.be/YmJ4ULncNwg // https://i.blackhat.com/asia-20/Thursday/asia-20-Galloway-Fir...
> Always use their new name. Consider if you were talking about someone who recently got married

So if I'm reading the text of a plaque awarded prior to a transition (or text from a history book describing a person prior to transition, etc.), you're saying that I should not read it verbatim but that I should be substituting in their new name on the fly?

Also, I don't see how it's the same thing as changing your name after getting married. Deadnaming has social consequences like getting you banned from Twitter, using a maiden name will not.
>Seems so amateur to use a simple password that could be brute forced. Especially with so much on the line.

There's selection bias going on because only dumb criminals get caught, so you only hear about the dumb opsec practices of those criminals. Conversely, you'll never hear about the opsec practices of that professional crew with perfect opsec that hacked an exchange/difi contract and disappeared into thin air.
ApertureData is building a database focused on images with $3M seed
All of the video conferencing apps have web interfaces. I work with a lot of different companies and end up using whatever conferencing system they use. I refuse to install any of them on my computer.
I like it! But my one criticism is that it wastes too much time on animation, especially when transitioning from one round to the next. I'm anxious to get started, but have to wait at least 5 seconds for the current puzzle to dissolve, and then all the tiles for the next round to move into place one by one.
Green startup Allumia lands $7.5M to offer no-money-down commercial upgrades
It's the exact same UX as SMS, Telegram, WhatsApp Facebook and (partially) Twitter...
Eh, I disagree. Remote work might become more common for things like software engineering, but I fully expect most others to shift back to how they were pre-pandemic. It's just a question of how long that shift takes
So basically apple is trying to move into square’s business model? What about chips and swiping? Will apple provide a solution for that?
It's only a proxy in front of YT, but does seem to address several immediate issues with the service.
Speculation, self-sovereignty, ease of use/trade/leverage/exchange
Exists, already linked in another comment : https://github.com/deuxfleurs-org/garage
Looks very worth checking out! Will this be made available for installation via Cloudron some time in the future?
I got Micro Snitch [1] as part of a bundle with Little Snitch years ago and have just had it running for cases like this. I'm fortunate to not have run into this issue, but I like the peace of mind of knowing exactly if I do.

[1]: https://obdev.at/products/microsnitch/index.html
There is the subjective experience of suffering and the objective experience of suffering.

Pain, disease, death, grief, injury, etc. are all real.

It is usefull to calibrate the subjective to be as close as possible to the objective so that we do not inflict additional suffering on ourselves on top of the objective suffering already there.

Callibrating the subjective to ignore the objective suffering, to just want things to be the way they already are, is harmful because it causes more future exposure to objective suffering.
Cars would also look a lot safer if you didn’t look at the top slice of riskiest drivers. Apples to apples.
Shouldn't be nothing, otherwise anti-trust has some major hole.
If the value is denominated in dollars, why did the acquisition price go up from 40B to $87B as the price of the stock rose?

From the source:

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-acquire-arm-for...
"The number of NVIDIA shares to be issued at closing is 44.3 million"
[this is the pre-split amount]
At least they know to inform readers what MMT stands for. Not every viewer does and abbreviations and acronyms often conflict across different industries.
strong passwords. aes256 with even just 7 word password chosen from a 1000-word dictionary cannot be cracked with existing tech
Well, you'll be surprised to find out that gofmt has exactly zero configuration. Ok, they (wisely in my opinion) decided not to mess with breaking lines automatically, and the job was far easier to do with a new language than with an already-established one where most developers have their long-treasured preferences.
So they're cutting 60% of their workforce give or take - from 3600 people or so down to 835.

I have to wonder what on earth those other 2800 people were doing?

I would expect a company like Peloton to have a workforce of around 700-1200 people, just based on the market they're in.

20% of that in Manufacturing, Manufacturing Engineering, and Logistics
40% of that in Operations (web, sales, marketing, productions, IT, etc)
15% of that in finance and accounting cost centers
25% of that in management, supervision, product management, general executives.

I guess if they had showrooms or retail operations that number might make more sense, that could add an additional 20-150 people per store (retail is headcount expensive - and how expensive varies based on square footage and desired customer experience).
Most Airlines quit accepting cash for on board purchases.
"For our convenience"
How many raids? 1 on him, 5 on family, 20 on friends?

Isn't that impractical? Also how were the police supposed to know that he used this system?
You could try LUMEN which is a lite version of Laravel. Took me around a day or two to fully get what was happening. I'm at the point now where I want to switch a big project I've been working on over to Laravel but it's a bit of a PITA.

Anyway, for hello world stuff or a small api project try beginning with LUMEN.

https://lumen.laravel.com/docs/8.x
Website has an interesting 404 page
Medicine is crazy hard... way harder than ML/CS I think. Particularly emotionally hard.

Regarding a PhD, I am a Mexican who was "just ok" in a no-name Mexican college where I studied my BSc Computer Science.

I got a scholarship for the UK to do PhD in CS on a 'red brick' university. It was amazing and life changing. So you being on eastern europe surely can easily get somewhere good as well.

Dont give up your dream! Specially when your dream is so fucking profitable. (If you told me it was arts or something similar I would have doubts).
If a random disheveled looking person comes up to you in the middle of a store and says "I can take your cash and give you a receipt", and they they show you a legit looking receipt, do you feel that it would be ok to give them money and take the receipt?

Sure, it's the store's job to make sure people aren't impersonating their employees and stealing their receipt papers, so that's on them right?
Surgical masks use static electricity to attract particles, they aren't as good as N95 but still offer protection compared to nothing.
I don't really think it's fair to just say right wing media is the only reason people hate inflation. I certainly hate it, because well for one, the CPI is bullshit and doesn't include key items such as college tuition and housing prices. It's a common refrain in my generation that nobody will be able to afford a house, and you hear it on the right and the left.
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The police don't know that you split the key. But I get what you mean. I am sure there are better ways to hide private keys.

Encrypting it with a good password that you remember and then printing the encrypted keys comes to mind.
This is very frustrating. It's like Wordle but without any of the nice or enjoyable elements.
The pandemic isn't over, FYI.
Complex solutions are mostly prebuilt, are used by thousands, and still are horribly buggy. Your typical app or website - say, GMail - is much more buggy, from the user point of view, than its counterpart, say, twenty years ago.
We've just learned to be blind to most of those bugs.
Lumen is mainly feature complete and its mostly recommended to just use Laravel and unload the service providers you dont need.
If I understood that something was a scam, and kept getting it pushed on me by a wide variety of people both credulous and crafty, I would probably develop a reaction that would be pretty close to "vehement hatred", too.
ha! Well the leaderboard and live stats and gamification where you can see where you are compared to your previous best at this point in a ride of the same length is IMHO what has made me get on the thing consistently and constantly push PRs. After being a couch potato for years, I am now on a 100 week streak and probably in the best shape of my life. High fiving people keeps me engaged through a class and prevents me from getting bored.

Its kind of like saying "Quake is cool, but I don't know why I would ever want to play multiplayer..."

If you have the motivation to keep yourself on a bike with just some headphones or a video on a tablet, more power to you, but there are many of us who can't do that. Add in that this has replaced my wife's multiple times a week soul cycle habit, with each class being $40, and Peloton is actually a significant cost savings in my home.
Technically they were charged with conspiring to launder money, completely unrelated to any mention of theft or hacking.

From TFA: "Court papers filed against the couple did not accuse them of the hack itself; officials declined to say if the pair are suspected of stealing the money."
That's one way to boost subscription count.
This can also be a classic case of why coding interviews are often a poor approximation of real world tasks.

Imperative (and especially dynamic) languages typically make it easy to get something "working", but it can take many iterations or lots of unit tests until it's robust enough to be worthy of handling a production load. That time spent futzing around with it isn't often capturable in an interview. If it is, chances are the interview isn't asking something representative of real-world scenarios, or it's taking a very narrow slice of one where someone's approach is going to change a lot of they're not just working in the narrow slice.

Functional (and especially typed functional) languages do make it harder to get something up and running, but they tend to have a nice side effect that if the compiler is satisfied, it won't need more work. That usually happens because you can capture the domain in a type declaration that the compiler requires you to account for all cases of. And if you're missing something, it's easy to adjust because the act of adding another case to your domain makes your compiler point out exactly where else to update your code.
I rented a bicycle in Florida a few days ago where the merchant took an imprint of my card (yeah, in February 2022). I'm not even sure how that can possibly be cheaper than one of those Square devices at this point.
Excellent.

The LTS nature of this release is good news (because presumably it involves the Laravel team committing to supporting the version of Symfony they use for some components).
I understand why early stage products don't list pricing (the least of which is that they are in flux) but it makes me sad when I see interesting products that don't give me pricing.

I end up having to writeoff/ignore the product because I don't have the mental space to remember it without pricing. and these days ill never sign up for someone's newsletter if I can help it!
> I don't really think it's fair to just say right wing media is the only reason people hate inflation.

Agreed (and that's not what I said).
I somehow managed to get the right-hand side of the equation correct on the first try, which made finding the left-hand side fairly easy. I guess I'll have to wait until tomorrow to try the game out for real.
Frameworks are useful for working in teams, and on long term projects. This is because they provide a set of idioms, patterns and decisions that everyone can learn and know, without having to invent them all yourself. It doesn't have to be the perfect way, it just has to be a way, so that you can focus on your domain specfic problems.

Likewise, when a new developer arrives, they know exactly where to find everything because it has a place that it belongs, and they can reference the docs if they are having trouble.

It's less about the code and more about treating the project as a whole ecosystem.
Laravel definitely is everything, but light-weight. It's the slowest of the large names in PHP.

see http://www.phpbenchmarks.com/en/comparator/framework or https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...
One possibility is that almost all exchanges require KYC today.
I'm surprised no one tried to hook up a GPU to the NVME connection.
I've used Laravel on and off. But I always run into uncertainties when doing large refactorings. How are you doing large refactorings?
I have a Peloton and a Tonal. The Tonal monthly cost is more, but it's far superior to Peloton. Tonal does hide some feature behind the paywall which is a bit sketchy. All said, both devices are worth the $100/month combined expense, and my health improvements I've achieved has been incredible for me. This is all achievable with other stuff, but my schedule usually has me working out after 11pm. And I have 2 other family members that use both.
BTCs recovered by centralized institutions (legal system, special agents). Wonder if crypto bros see the irony.

Long live the state!
Talking about someone laundering money doesn't mean that they are. You are assuming guilt without any cause.

Talking about mixers (such as tornado_cash) is a worthy discussion on a post about laundering cryptocurrencies.
Much much larger, albeit distributed across multiple datacenters and completely isolated environments. The site I was giving as an example was going possibly serving around 10-20M/day, and it isn't an isolated case: I know plenty of companies that allocate such resources for something like that.
a) good new products: they know they don’t know their products value yet, so you can actually offer what it’s worth to you and they will accept that.

b) bad products: it’s an extortion play and they will get what they can.

solution:

a) if you need their product buy it, and plan how to migrate away from it

b)buy their stock and hope that not much people plan how to migrate away.