skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think ordering on amazon has become a little like getting your car towed.

Towing companies appear to be a large shell game where your $200 tow is handled my one or more middlemen who eventually get some poor independent towtruck driver to tow you for $75

Amazon should do something that would allow partnering with decent brands. Customers would be happy, brands could keep their reputation, amazon could get a reasonable cut, and they would still sell stuff via flea-market brands and the made up word-salad amazon brands
Do you have a link to your project?
I'm not convinced that meditation can get one even remotely close to the spaces that powerful doses of psychedelics can get you to... and I'm not willing to invest 20 years of heavy meditation practice to find out.

As for "quality", who's to say? Many meditators have never been heavy psychedelic users, so if they claim that meditation can get them to the same place they don't know what they're talking about.

That's not to mention that psychedelic experiences vary widely from person to person, and often even from trip to trip taken by the same person, so it's really hard to make generalizations that apply to all people, all substances, and all circumstances.

Also, some people dismiss psychedelic experiences as illusory, which to me just signals that they have nothing interesting to contribute to the conversation. I'm interested in exploring these substances and spaces, not in trying to sweep them under the rug or wishing they would go away.
@sokoloff had a point i greatly love, in a post about being asked to work weekends. they said they love having major nerd out time on the weekends, unencumbered by the typical work bullshit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30862513

there's a chorus of agreements and heck yeahs. i love the highlight about a company that tries to let developers find their own interest, that tries to create autonomy.

this strategy of keeping the good people socially unblocked, giving them interesting problems, letting them do tbeir thing... it's the only winning move.

most organizations quickly disempower their employees, create reistance to good, and there's no reconciling it. we can keep padding the blows but the dissonance is going to keep growing, the drift between the organization which is asserting it's legitemacy while ongoingly doing delegitimizing & pointless acts.

this isnt the Gervais Principle exactly, but it's quite close. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

it's problematic that we can sometimes all be right but have different conflicting views. dealing with other engineers is often like this- they actually somewhat get (& can genuinely assess) what another engineer is saying (unlike many other relationships an engineer might have) but there's different biases, different priorities, different comfort zones for different people. i generally feel like normative & safe & simple wins a lot, and a lot of times i get it, but a lot of times i want to stand up and scream- we are the geeks. we were supposed to be winning against the normie world, we were going to do better, go deepe, see & understamd further. dont reduce us to such normative & unambitious boringness, dont accept mediocrity. be bold, try for better!

but conservative sensemaking sells. it's much easier to socialize, to beat down better. i strobgly espouse democratic systems, but i also think, even when we do come together & vote, and individual still needs a lot of liberty, a lot of permission to try their thing anyways. perhaps/ideally in parallel. most organizations have an urge to commit, a desire to decide & pick, and i think a lot is lost in morale & just as much again in limiting what the org sees, in refusing experimentation & contest.
Doh, I submitted this twice, fully unintentionally. Came across it on Amy's feed again and well... forgot I'd submitted.
So we just don't build GUI applications unless we understand all of the nuances of layout, text rendering, graphics programming, etc sufficient to implement it ourselves (and without the bugs that even domain experts have introduced but which have been found and fixed over time in libraries)? Or maybe we just say "fuck users who speak languages that aren't easily expressed in ASCII"?

There's a reason libraries exist. It's not like they were the default state of computing and no one has tried to write applications without them. On the contrary, we tried to build applications by writing everything ourselves, but that doesn't survive encounters with the real world. And "well if you can't do it yourself, you don't need it" (which may or may not be your argument, I genuinely can't tell) is just technologically regressive ideology.
Having worked on golang code bases for several years now, I assure you it's not a theoretical problem. It's not fun to have ignored or overwritten errors that keep the program going as if nothing is happening.
Spend the time writing paragraphs reading about the adoption of cryptocurrency at the corpo level, you'll see the stuff you're asking for taking shape.

Bitrefill, movie theaters taking majors + Dogecoin, etc
He "relayed" an "Apple Authentication Code" from an email to this Daniel fellow, right? Presumably he read it into the phone?

That's where (I hope) I would have stopped; if X sends me an authentication code, the only reasonable place to send it back to is X.

Also, I think the real fraud department would be completely OK with me saying "Oh, thanks for spotting it. I'd like to call you back now please - give me your name and the name of your department, and I'll look it up and call you back - what do I do to bypass transfer hell?".

Getting on the blower to Wells Fargo on the other line was smart, but you need to have multiple lines at your disposal.
I never pick up the phone if it's a number that's not in my contacts. You can leave a voicemail.
Or PowerBI, VB, F# actually.
This seems to be the classic underdog problem. The traditional retailers that you like today will become third party marketplaces tomorrow if they grow. So the issue is that we only get good service from underdogs and it is destined to fail once the underdog is not an underdog anymore.
You end up with a far less merit based hiring pipeline. I work at a top tech company and don't have any degree at all. The current process gives people like me a chance, yours wouldn't.
> The space shuttle used a hardened 386 (or something similar) that cost a bazillion dollars.

Their main computers were a custom variant of the IBM 360 mainframe. They also duplicated it 5x: 4x with majority vote for error correction, plus a backup running separately-developed software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/4_Pi

> The drone currently on Mars used commidity off the shelf chips (snapdragon IIRC). The harsh conditions thing is not something to laugh at, but I also think we might have over-engineered somethings a bit.

It should be noted that drone is 1) an engineering experiment and 2) no one will die if it malfunctions, so they can afford to be a bit sloppier.
I’ve also seen that there’s a whole sub industry of companies that build a platform on top of a spreadsheet by assuming a certain structure of the data. Aside from myself, Julia’s Pluto.jl, ObservableHQ, and a few researchers, there aren’t many trying to invent a new spreadsheet replacement with a fundamentally different conceptual model.
Nice! If there's any aspects of growth in the games industry, it's definitely in making the artist's workflow more collaborative and efficient (of course, game infrastructure is also growing a lot too but it seems like AWS/Azure/Unity are on top of that).
Don't discount how long it takes for a company to uncover a mistakenly hired "Brillant Paula Bean"[1]. I know someone who literally can't code but can talk a good talk and has those soothing and smooth "Ivy Leaguer" mannerisms that executives and hiring managers just love. A total bullshitter. Most BigTech can filter these people out at the interview stage, but evidently smaller companies can easily be fooled. As soon as you're discovered, you can pretty easily hop to another "victim" company, especially during times like now when the job market is hot.

1: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the_brillant_paula_bean
> Also whats the point of replacing the battery of an out-of-support phone? Even excluding Android being out of date some applications will not let you even connect to their servers if your application is too out of date.

Call me paranoid, but simply having a way to turn a phone definitely off is already a valuable feature, I believe.

Also, the ability to quickly swap out a drained battery for charged one was an extremely useful feature. The whole product segment of power packs basically exists as an inferior replacement for that.
I guess that's the true Turing Test, can an artificial general intelligence determine the complexity level and relative risk level of infinite loops for an algorithm written for a Turing machine.
sure, just don't use Postgres, OAuth, payments, RPCs, metrics, non-standard crypto, or anything important
It is an individual thing is what I was trying to get at. One artist who paints sunsets will see many of them and paint a few in great detail while another may paint each one he sees, selecting the best for his galleries.

If you want to talk on the phone with your pharmacist for 20 minutes after confirming your prescription will be ready at 2PM, thats great. For someone who values efficacy and the reduction of "unnecessary" expenditure of time this would however be unacceptable.

I find myself struggling to let more of the former in my own life than the latter, but in this case I wanted to try and illustrate the *internal* dynamic I saw being expressed by the two viewpoints.

My writing was colored by my own belief of what is best in life, so it leaned towards minimizing the value of leisure, but to be clear, that wasn't the message I was trying to convey.
Amazon US used to be as you describe. But now its mostly just cheap knockoff stuff. I hardly purchase there anymore. Its really sad because they used to have such a wide selection.
We are trying to answer this with CloudTables (https://cloudtables.com) - which is effectively a GUI for my DataTables library with a Postgres backend. Current work is to address the row limit and allow millions of rows without needing to contact "sales" (me), while also not charging per user (I hate that as a customer). If anyone fancies giving it a go and dropping me some feedback that would be most welcome! There are some rough edges without question that are still being worked on, but I think it has some advantages such as being able to self host with your own Postgres instance.
Can I get scammed? Sure, but in this specific case, that Wells Fargo scam wouldn’t work on me because I know firsthand that Wells Fargo fraud prevention is terrible. Case in point, a few years back I had in-store mall transactions happening 400 miles and 2600 miles away from my current location within an hour span of my lunch transaction. No fraud alert. It even took me weeks to contest these transactions. This is abysmal compared to virtually every other credit card provider.
I don’t think that’s the causality. Still-existing web forums, mailing lists, places like HN and (to a lesser degree) Reddit show that it is possible to have public forums without them being overrun by spam, bots and trolls, given adequate moderation. This is particularly true for special-interest topics. (The dynamics tend to be a bit different in bike-shedding territory.)

The reason Usenet died is because it didn’t have an easy moderation system, and because web forums were more accessible (no special client software needed). Mailing lists died because people moved from desktop/TUI mail clients to web mail, which didn’t provide good usability for handling mailing lists. Web forums died because they didn’t translate well to mobile and because chat-like platforms appear more accessible to novices.

Mobile plays a major role here. Mobile is more accessible (approachable) than desktop software/hardware, and at the same time is ill-suited to long-form discussions because of the small display and worse typing experience. Platforms want to maximize their audience and therefore tailor their application/functional design to work well on mobile. As a result, their design is ill-suited to long-form discussions.
Agreed. Last example was LED grow light I purchased and description said had a grounded plug. When it arrived there was only a 2 prong plug. I’m weary of everything I buy there now and try find a manufacturer direct order when possible. Fulfilled by Amazon should read as a warning sign.
Absolutely, but ElasticSearch is a $9b company, and there are many examples of companies that are built off just wrapping open source functionality. In fact thats a preferred business model in many ways.

Docker just seemed unable to produce products that enterprises would open their pocket books for. Their new pricing model around dockerhub/desktop may work
So what we needed the whole time was a digital settlement layer, not solely a currency?

Hm.

buys ETH
Please don't buy into the idea that you can write a worthwhile blog post about 'Web3' by telling us how confused you are. If that was my blog post I'd delete it.

(Simply by using the term 'Web3' in sequence with 'Web 2.0' and ignoring that the W3C was using the term 'Web 3.0' 10 years ago shows that you haven't been paying attention and don't have an informed opinion to share. Alternately you're qualified to be the annoying salesperson who points out the 'confusion' of anybody who walks into an audiophile store... Except for the fact that nobody has walked into an audiophile store for 20 years because we don't want to see that salesperson.)
High-order crossover filter?
Another solution would be to find out who the scammers parents are and write them. Worked for me

https://blog.haschek.at/2016/how-a-scammer-stole-500-dollars...
It is a lot of things, mind mapping one of them - just as you can probably use excel for mind mapping as well (never tried that:) )

The calc part is not missing, see here: https://strlen.com/treesheets/docs/images/screenshots/screen... - it's more basic than what excel has.
This does seem to be contrary to, at least, many people's intuition about how pricing does or should work. I've seen an awful lot of small business owners start out pricing at what seems fair to them, as a professional in their space. Turns out market price was 50% or more higher than what they were charging, every single time, and getting over "I feel like I'm ripping people off" is sometimes a significant hurdle for them. In fact, it's my understanding that notions of fairness hold greater sway over pricing in some cultures than they do in the US and similar places. That seems to be closer to how people naturally want to operate, from what I've observed.
That would prevent using a pre-generated lookup table but doesn't help much with brute force attacks. All possible card numbers is a finite set, and if you have the sha256(card number + salt), you can figure out which card number was used as input given the improbability of sha256 collisions within that set.

Keep in mind this in the context of an account holder asking the bank to authenticate themselves on a phone call using data only the bank and the account holder should know. sha256(card number) was an example of something that is obviously inappropriate, and I don't think sha256(card number + salt) is any different qualitatively.
When you buy semiconductors on digikey or whatever, there are several different 'classes' of performance. Everyone imagines milspec being the top one, and it's true, but for most people the ideal class is 'automotive'... Because precisely of what the parent said: tolerances of temperatures to 140F or more. Think of a car sitting in a baking parking lot in Phoenix, no shade.

You don't build semiconductors for that purpose by using 10nm process then adding a lot more redundancies when all you need is a simple opamp. You instead build the thing beefy and resistant to the environment.

And all the excitement over new chip plants by TSMC etc, won't do a thing for these automotive applications.
> In terms of popularity, depending on which survey you look at, Rust is stalking or eclipsing C++

The full quote is in reference to popularity. Which if you look at the stack overflow developer survey is definitely true
Thank you, it sounds like you have a lot of experience in this domain, if you’d like to contribute we’d welcome more of your perspective.

https://github.com/d3fend/d3fend-ontology

Otherwise we’ll get this reference added.
I don't see how not liking chocolate could be by any stretch of the imagination "rational".
> You have to register to download the HDMI spec which is more effort than I have for this

Wait, what? Register where? Is the HDMI spec behind IP bars?
Time to catch up with modern Excel.

Formula and macro debugging is available for years.

Lambs functions are a thing

Power BI
Does anyone know whether these might be remotely exploitable?
This is good advice, despite it being a pain sometimes! I once got a voicemail from the fraud department at my bank, with a number to call back. I googled the number and all that came up were stories about being scammed. So I was 95% sure it was a scam, but called my bank directly just in case. The person who answered assured me they hadn't contacted me, and it was indeed a scam. I later got a follow-up voicemail from the "fraud department", from the same supposed scam number, which I ignored.

Then, the next time I went to use my card, it was blocked. I called the bank again and spoke to someone new, who informed me that the original calls had been legitimate - they had the same reference number and everything - and the card had been blocked due to lack of response!

Obviously a false positive on the scam detector is less of a problem than a false negative, but was still pretty incredible. No idea what was with all the people talking about being scammed from that number online; I can only assume that they (like the first rep) assumed it was a scam, since if the bank needs to call you, they should tell you to call back using the number on your card, not some random number they give you. But apparently that's exactly what they did.
In the monthly Who Is Hiring thread and the Who Wants To Be Hired thread, can you sticky at the end of the thread, a list of corporate spammers/scammers that people should block and put into their spam list?

In that way, you make the consequence highly visible, serious, and known in a way that the corporate spammers/scammers want to avoid getting their email addresses and domains being added by hundreds of people onto the email provider spam lists.

Example:

PSA: Add these domains and email addresses of corporate spammers/scammers to your spam mail list:

- optimhire dot com

- OptimHire <jobs.invite at optimhire dot com>

- OptimHire <partners at optimhire dot com>

- myremotedevelopers dot com

- contactus@myremotedevelopers dot com
You can swap it out for any other preference - that's not the important bit.
What a terrible site to complain about being scammed when you don't even bother to serve over HTTPS!
You gain money & perhaps some rank, but I reciprocally think the Alice's of the world will mostly encounter the same sad problems again and again and again, will rarely find paths of wholehearted engagement. Maybe they'll eventually luck into a high empowerment spot, a calling where they are unoccluded & can do the joyous good work. Good luck Alice & Alices.
How do I know what product that is for? I can't see a vendor name or product name on that page.

Ironically, when I open https://www.cvedetails.com/product/4933/Apple-Airport-Extrem... or https://www.cvedetails.com/product/4932/Apple-Airport-Expres..., I see many less reports.
Great question. But related to this, what is the best "always" ON digital Photo frame with an API/wifi connectivity?

I want to make a screen which my kids can see every morning. It will pull interesting pics from reddit or from NASA, for example.
I interviewed at GitHub last year for a Frontend role, I went through this process then at the time.

I have to say as a candidate it was extremely off putting being asked to create a CRUD API for a Frontend role. It wasn't a hard ask, but I feel like the skillset being tested is not the same. After reading this blog, it seems it would be easy to automate the exercise toward creating a CRUD API versus a drop-down menu component for example.

Another downside I disliked about this approach is that I never spoke to a hiring manager or an engineer from the company. It went from Recruiter straight to automated tests. I understand it saves the company time, but it felt very dehumanizing. How far along the process do I have to make it to before I know if it's a team I even want to be on? I didn't bother and focused on companies where I spoke to someone technical first. Got a better sense of the company culture immediately and knew which interviews to focus on.

At least with other companies like Facebook/Meta they stick another Engineer with you when doing their technical assessment. Felt like they had skin in the game when conducting interviews at least.

Aa an aside, companies that use Karat [1] for interviewing (basically outsourcing the technical interview to a 3rd party) get a hard pass from me. If you read around other SWE communities, it's a common sentiment. If you can't even conduct your own interviews, what does that say about your culture?

[1] https://karat.com/
Congratulations on the launch Supabase-team!
Can't wait to try it out. I love that you went with deno for that.
> Here is some trivia: did you know that the mouse cursor is rendered by hardware?

Ah! That perhaps explains why often the cursor moves around just fine when other elements of the stack have completely given up.
> If a community wants a bookstore to remain they'll probably need to set it up as a non-profit of some sort.

That doesn't solve the problem.

Space costs. So does someone working in the store. The latter is true for both owners and employees.
That sounds plausible in the general case...but we’re putting it up against C++ here, which is at least as (probably more) complex.
This would be wonderful but isn't what I gather from the docs. I only really see that the pipelines are written in Cue
Any thoughts on acquiring the skills needed to understand linear algebra so it’s possible to read Axler’s Linear Algebra Done Right

https://linear.axler.net/

… or Mathematics for Machine Learning

https://mml-book.github.io/

There are YouTube videos for both books:

Axler: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGAnmvB9m7zOBVCZBUUmSinFV...

MML: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiiljHvN6z1_o1ztXTKWPrShr...
> I don't think there's any clear argument you can make on first principles for which of those is actually the case.

I don't understand why someone would try to argue from first principles here, it just seems like such a bizarre approach.

Anyway, it's not just a security issue. Malicious packages and security fixes are only part of the picture. Other issues:

- Despite a team's promise to use semantic versioning, point releases & "bugfix" releases will break downstream users

- Other systems for determining the versions to use are much more unpredictable and hard to understand than estimated (look at Dart and Cargo)

https://github.com/dart-lang/pub/blob/master/doc/solver.md

https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/blob/1ef1e0a12723ce9548d7...
Amazon hasn't been usable in a long time for me. It takes more time to find non-counterfeit/trash products than it's worth.
They didn't even define SRS on the site. At least not where search could find it.
I'm not convinced that an airtight grain storage facility filled with carbon dioxide is impractical. A quick search turns up several manufacturers of airtight grain silos.
Wyze Cam flaw lets hackers remotely access your saved videos
This is also an interesting one: https://openpaper.work/en/
Excellent and past due. More GUI and low code solutions are needed desperately.