skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Props to the honesty
Concepts you described can't happen without a Step 1 in even approaching linear algebra. These types of explanations help many take that first step.
I'd argue that's not a helpful take.

This appears to be downloading and executing new code, and potentially returning results back to the mothership.

That there is no explicit opt-in, or even much information about WHAT this is doing, is sadly what I've come to expect from Apple.
One problem: unless you have an endless amount of time, money, patience, and...did I mention patience? that just isn't a viable approach for anything but the smallest of hobby projects
> if it was a scam, then this was clearly a bluff to try to reassure me, but he had WAY more information about me than I would expect an average scammer to have

you can purchase FULLZ from darkweb marketplaces, these contain name and address and social security number and often come with credit card details too

with that, you can do social engineering like this, you can also remote desktop into any computer nearby to their zipcode (from a different darknet marketplace of compromised computers being rented out) and purchase things online from that, making it less likely to be flagged

the idea that "scammers intentionally do obviously red flag things to weed out discerning people and just target susceptible people" is just one segment of the market. doing smarter more cunning things is entirely available and entirely lucrative
> Its my entire company, and its with the open source ecosystem. Its naive to think that language constructs dont influence dev's decisions. You need to make it easy to do the right thing, not hard, and go makes it easy, which java fails at.

Go makes it pretty easy to ignore errors, it's even worse than Java. An uncaught managed exception will not compile, and an uncaught unmanaged exception might terminate your program.

_ := YieldsAnError()

will will never terminate your program. Go makes it pretty easier to do the wrong thing.
I could see this working if the other end played a click followed by and dial tone sound.
I don't love the marketing "feel" of this source but it is a good and comprehensive guide on what failure means in a lifting context: https://athleanx.com/articles/should-you-train-to-failure

You don't "train your body to fail". You may be training bad form - and form failure is failure.
This isn't the first weird machine exploit used in the wild, and the people who respond to these kinds of things are quite familiar with them.
> There's no inherent reason why 3D spatial representation would be a worse medium for a calculator.

The main inherent reason why 3D isn't as great as it seems is that human vision can't see through solids. We don't perceive an entire 3D volume, we just perceive the part of its surface that faces us. We can obviously get more information from stereoscopic vision compared to 2D, but it's not a full other dimension of complete volumetric data. We mostly see a 2D surface with some depth information.
Git Rev News Edition 85 (March 31st, 2022)
The constant zooming is straight from a specific level in the game. The next level is similar and constantly zooms out. Those are the only two I've experience so far with that mechanic.
Look, I certainly believe that as you get larger and larger groups of people, law of large numbers it becomes inevitable that someone becomes scammed.

And I certainly don't doubt that I could be scammed at some time, especially by a phishing email or something of the sort.

But I don't think I'll ever give out a 2FA code to anybody that's not me. It's a really simple rule of thumb. Just never do it, there is never any reason for anybody besides myself to know my 2FA. If there is a reason, that is unfortunate that they've designed their system that way because, again, I am never going to give out my 2FA code to anybody.

The person in your anecdote never gave his 2FA to anybody, so it is not relevant to what I am discussing.
And there's no reliable way on Firefox Mobile to force reader view, either. This was possible on earlier versions with the about:reader?url= hack but not any longer.
20 years ago, we came across this tiny CRT display. I think it 4 X 5 inches. We pranked a coworker with it, replacing her large display with this tiny thing.

And left a note explaining how the black and white display was an upgrade. :-)
NFT != cryptocurrency
Many things that Numbers seems to me to be better than Excel from a formatting perspective:

* Freeze header rows & columns.

* Naming header rows & columns.

* Graphs that don't overlap the sheet.

Things that I find Excel does better than Numbers from a data perspective:

* Data validation

* Large tables

* Formula Error checking
Side note: if unexpectedly getting a new card, call the support number on your old card. A friend of mine almost got taken about 15 years ago by a scam where someone got his address and bank name, then sent him a fake credit card from that bank with a letter saying something like fraud had been detected and they were sending him a replacement card. When he called the number on the new card's activation sticker, something seemed off and he balked when they asked for his SSN. He called the support number from his old credit card and confirmed that he had in fact not been sent a new credit card by them!

Hopefully we can at some point stop treating a SSN as a universal password that can never be changed. At least mother's maiden name stopped being a universal security question.
Soon this will be used to put people critical of corrupt politicians in jail.
We've seen time and time again the corrupt oligarchs and politicians bend well meaning rules to hold onto power.
> Not sure how you can use an asset whose price is fluctuating so wildly (and is correlated/anti-correlated to indicators and trends having little to do with your local government) as an effective hedge against incompetent/corrupt government.

If you don't plan on leaving your country, useful land is a much better hedge.

Other than that, the thought is that you can always flee your country with a digital wallet. IMO crypto is a terrible "societal collapse"/"dollar collapse"/"fleeing authoritarianism" for Americans.

A much better hedge is a set of skills that allow you to easily emigrate, a globally distributed personal+professional network, and a portion of your portfolio held as hard assets outside the reach of your country (eg a new life startup fund held as physical currency in another country outside their banking system -- or a personal network that has the same effect). But that's a very difficult set of things to cultivate for most people.
Not an isolated incident. My mother was transferred to an Amazon employee who tried to scam her as well. This was years ago, and I reported it to Amazon. No idea what eventually happened, but I was shocked that they'd be so brazen about committing fraud as an actual employee.
Despite all the caveats / problems on statistical significance and methodology, 1 key takeaway:

“Unemployed” engineers communicate better than those at Uber, Twitter, Amazon, and Google.

:)
And thats the come down after popping a pill or two at some rave in the middle of field in Essex. Fortunately the body doesnt stop making new brain cells provided one's diet is adequate.

I was surprised to learn the US Military resurrected MDMA in the 50's and then in the 70's Prof Alex Shulgin got hold of it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3931692/

Other country's handled it differently.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6435835/

But it does lend credence to the conspiracy theory that the British security services started flooding the football terraces to reduce the football hooliganism that was blighting the British isles, as "documented" by later films like Football Factory starring Danny Dyer and many more.

Still without it, would the world have what the US call EDM and what others call the Rave culture?
> I'm so skeptical of these "experts" especially if they write a blog post where they hate their bank.

There is a nearly endless list of legitimate reasons for one to hate Wells Fargo.
Unless both sides hang up, there's something like a 10-20 second window where the call is held open. Hanging up, picking up within 10 seconds and dialing, means you're still connected to the original caller. If they're clever, the might even detect the click of you hanging up, and play a dialtone for when you pick back up, and stop playing it when you start to dial.
Had this happen to me when I was in IT. I got a cold transfer of an angry customer who wanted to talk to a guy who had a very similar name. I told the customer that they wanted the other guy, I was in the wrong department, and they wouldn’t believe me. They said “I know it’s you from yesterday, I recognize your voice!” How was I supposed to argue against that?? Eventually I convinced them and did a warm transfer to the correct guy. We do have similar voices…
If you want to banish dead spots you should get a wired router and get a few of these

https://www.ui.com/wi-fi
Alice Blue
> view the ocean as far more important to human understanding and survival than space

Funny enough, I always thought calling groups of coördinating satellites “constellations” belies their true complexity. They’re fleets. When you think of fleets of satellites in orbit, the need for ancillary services becomes obvious. (On your narrower point, we are seeing major breakthroughs in oceanography and maritime surveillance from these constellations.)
https://rust.godbolt.org/z/zM58dcPse

And look, putting a limit that the compiler and guarantee once outside the critical loop eliminates it. You're already using unsafe. If you really want to shoot yourself in the foot with this nonsense you can use a get unchecked or an unchecked assumption

https://rust.godbolt.org/z/naeaYad5T

On top of that, noone would write rust code like that. This version has one bounds check at the beginning and is a lot more idiomatic

https://rust.godbolt.org/z/1s9zsMx36
Inventaire.io Adds Support for Activity Pub (12/2021)
Here is how I think about it: your cognitive processes are accustomed to certain biochemical biases. You’ve grown and developed your brain in response to stimuli under a certain set of conditions.

One set might be jacked adrenals due to your propensity for epic soundtracks and caffeine or chocolate consumption.

Another set might be alcohol and social feedback.

If you spend a lot of time in these states, your unbiased function diminishes because you are optimizing for a different chemical bias.

If you are not so far gone, or are exceptionally motivated or introspective, you can integrate those experiences, and it might expand your awareness. If you can’t, or don’t, it might increase your function while using but reduce your sober function. This effect will increase as you spend more and more time ‘high’: you are transitioning function within your own constrained cognitive capacity to a different bias.
Into the wild: Animals the latest frontier in Covid fight
Yeah. A friend was playing with a group in a room and one of them was trying to read out the questions. Not a problem with 800 gorillas but it is with bigger numbers. Hmm, not sure what to do. The Greek prefixes I find really hard to remember! For simplicity and debugging it was easiest to just slap the numbers up.
This is true for the industrial size farms and industrial sized beekeeping operations.

Smaller local farms and beekeepers can work together without these problems and without having to move hives, or at least not very often.
Yes, CEC can do much more, but IMO the basic requirement is to power TV on/off properly and control volume, so that I can use whichever HDMI device's remote alone. Everything should be extra.

But yes it can do much more: You can program records over CEC! You can directly select broadcast service! (i.e. not just through key presses, but indeed say which channel you want) You can display some message on TV's OSD! You can discover another device's language! You can make audio 0.1% or 0.01% slower (or 1% and 0.1%? I don't remember)

I don't think I've crossed any device that supports any of the command I just mentioned however.

Though "Dispay some message on TV's OSD" from CEC bus would be perfectly on point based on TFA.
Sadly, no longer works on Firefox Android. I used to use this trick a lot.
The video goes into great detail about cryptocurrency
Yeah I meant generally. I don't know that site well enough to say. Although that particular story is pretty content free as it relates to the title.
SearXNG allows to remove domains: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/d1334beb4fb16beec298...

As far I understand, an improvement is to allows an URL like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/h-matsuo/uBlacklist-subscr... in settings.yml, so there is no need to update settings.yml.

Disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers of SearXNG.
Sounds like they’re not an expert after all, never give out information over the phone unless you initiated the call.
"do you have a link to something Shulgin definitively wrote on this?"

Read the first part of PiHKAL (ie. the part that's deliberately not published on the website the parent HN post links to).

It's all there. He goes in to great detail about exactly how he did what he did and why.
At least one can respect Go for being consistent, even if requires a little extra manual labour. The languages that require you to manually bubble up some types, but not others, are just bizarre. Like, they're onto something neat, but why stop halfway? I don't want to put in the manual work for any type. If I've decided the manual effort is worthwhile, I don't want weird exceptions to worry about. Pick a lane, programming languages.
Absolutely do not cheap out on this, this will have to run for some time without hiccups. Make sure you've got a digital signage supported TV such as NEC or Samsung that supports 24/7 operations. NEC even offers a built-in Raspberry Pi which is awesome. I've implemented over 400 NEC monitors for 24/7 ops and it will stand the test of time most cases even for 10 years.
These kind of TVs have low-glare and the picture will not burn into the monitor while providing enterprise security. Samsung do offer digital signage approved TVs as well.

If you choose RaspberryPi just know that it usually uses an older version of Chromium. Other devices might not have a modern browser so all of your fancy code wouldn't work.

I've got some good experience with Yodeck and Screenly. Dakboard is also pretty cool as it offers you to directly fetch data via REST API calls.

I've used Dakboard and Yodeck together to be able to quickly implement custom dashboards to dozens of TVs
Forensic analysis of allegedly leaked alien footage, participation welcome
Are you suggesting that these jobs don't mainly consist of quickly banging out dynamic programming and DFS/BFS traversal algorithms as quickly as possible while a stranger stares at you? From interview experience, I assume this is what engineers mostly do at these companies all day.
No dial tone and no ring… Seems a difficult mistake to make but then again, I regularly surprise myself with my errors.
> And lastly, if you're reading this, Daniel Coffmane #1687979, whoever you really are: Well played.

I went to read the comments here to see if Daniel somehow acknowledged this
This reminds me, a friend of mine recently indicated that Dropbox has become an Amazon graveyard due to the mass exodus of talent from Dropbox to other companies that feel like Dropbox did about 5 years ago. Without their perks and fancy food, Dropbox is a boring product company with not much upside at this point.
You're arguing a technicality, which is a waste of time. We should focus on reality, not imaginary theoretical issues. In reality, that never happens. And people even develop linters (frankly unnecessary) to guarantee it, if you're really paranoid.

This is a social problem, influenced by language design. You need to be thinking about the way humans actually behave in practice, not how they theoretically might behave.

In practice people do not accidentally skip errors in Go. In practice people do not handle errors at all in Java. This is the responsibility of the respective cultures and language designs.
Agreed. No matter how tired and annoyed I was, I'd have stopped dead at the confirmation code that they asked for. There's absolutely no way I'd have given that to them, even if it meant cancelling my account and using a different bank.

That seems a bit extreme, but if their procedures are so crazy as to require circumventing another system's security procedures, I'm not going to bank with them.

I actually had a bank send me an email asking for information that came from another domain, had a header that looked liked it had been badly scanned in, and had links to domains they don't own. When I ignored it, I eventually got a notice that my car loan was in jeopardy because I hadn't provided that information.

They had no clue why I was so upset about that email.

I paid off my loan immediately and never looked back, even though the interest was less than I make off the stock market.
I dunno, my dad spent 6 months researching his new truck.
"I don't think I am ever gonna job hunting again."

That's what I thought about the job I came to SF for 20 years ago. Then 6 years in they got bought out and I got laid off. They weren't even a tech company. My career has been somewhat downhill ever since. Best of luck to you.
> a specific and credible threat of violence

But that doesn't seem to be the case here at all.
My degree dedicated an absurd amount of time to software engineering. And I graduated a while ago. Two of those courses required completed projects in groups, with documentation, a project management plan, VCS, deployment, testing, and a presentation at the end. Plus, we had a capstone engineering project which was essentially all of this, but solo.

My personal option was they were wasted courses. The learning was in the coding, not project management and documentation.
I can only speak for myself, but I've never met a (CS) candidate from an accredited Scandinavian university / college that simply could not write code.

There are obviously candidates that struggle with performing under pressure - even those that have gone completely blank, but through some simple guiding have bounced back.

To be frank, at the schools I studied at, it would be impossible to fake your way through a whole degree, unless you either got someone to impersonate you and take your exams, or you cheated your way through every single exam...but even then, your grades would be a big red flag.

Sure, there are bad programmers out there - but not being able to punch out a line of valid code, after obtaining a whole degree in the subject...seems extremely unlikely - sans the extreme edge cases.

Even the straight E / D students I've worked with managed to cobble together working stuff, without the aid of search engines or stack exchange.
I use it for messaging, events and birthday updates.
Oh I didn't mean to suggest the brevity was your doing. I've seen it the short way first-hand, but yes, more typically it's pretty decent, as you've clarified.
You're much better at it than me then :-)
I still use Gmail/Calendar but I do so through Fastmail. I like the Gmail client but I am happy to know I can ditch it anytime without drama. I have a number of domains and email aliases routing through Fastmail which has a copy of all my messages. So if I need to use another mail client, no biggie.

I also went back to Dropbox and love it. No Google drive client for Linux is bizarre.
Well, I just filed FB9971057: triald should have a man page explaining what it does ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Unsure it would help against a person who is dead set at reading logs to figure out what a daemon does, but it might provide some basic insight to the casual reader.
It still does have alcohol[1]:

> Q: How much alcohol is in NyQuil?

> A: NyQuil Liquid contains 10 percent alcohol. NyQuil LiquiCaps does not contain alcohol. Alcohol-Free NyQuil Cold & Flu Nighttime Relief Liquid does not contain alcohol.

https://vicks.com/en-us/safety-and-faqs/faqs/vicks-nyquil-fa...
An Introduction to Grafana Loki with MinIO Object Storage
What if we had multiple sandboxes instead? Then we could make the rogue malware 'think' it has escaped by using a decoy environment, and then it has to break another sandbox. Having just one sandbox is a SPOF and once that's breached, it's fair game. (Good) security has always been about /layers/ of security.
Even with a first amendment, free education is indoctrination. Without it, it's indoctrination you get jailed for disagreeing with.
You can tell that Jobs' permanent drive for being ever thinner, lighter, and less adorned with ports

More Jony Ive. MacBooks had useful ports during Jobs' reign and several years thereafter (until the MacBook Pro 2015). It's only after Ive left Apple in 2019 that the ports came back (well, in 2021, but products are in the pipeline for a while).
> Do the functions "freeze" once the response body has been sent back?

Just checked with the Deno team. These functions should not be used as "background workers" - perhaps that is something we explore in the future. It will work for a short time in theory, but it's not guaranteed.

> How does keeping a connection pool work between function invocations

Supabase offers several options here. You can either use the API (PostgREST)[0] - an autogenerated REST API, or the connection pooler (pgbouncer)[1] which we offer with every project.

> For example using Prisma

Supabase is a popular database hosting service for Prisma users because of the built-in pooling - it's a great product, especially their typed interface.

[0] PostgREST API: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/api

[1] pgbouncer: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/connecting-to-post...
This makes no sense as crypto doesn’t have the same feature set as currency. It is like comparing a small number of razor scooters to the transportation network. They don’t belong in the same sentence.
Well the PS4 was released in 2013 and still plays modern games, sure they could look better and run faster but it gets the job done.
>Presidents who started these wars are no longer presidents.

That's unrelated though. They're limited to 8 years, and Bush served all 8. Obama carried on the wars and he served all 8 as well. There has been no accountability.
This is on point! BTC in general is a threat to bad government. Maybe we will see days when governments are way weaker than today, much more effective, and citizens willingly, voluntarily and happily pay taxes a la ancient Greece.

I believe the current US Gov strategy is to get entities submitting under their control to work in controlling bigger and bigger stakes of BTC. If they outright ban it before it is the case, they will create a scenario where people withdraw their BTC to private holding instead of using exchanges. The only way USGov comes out unscathed is if the exchanges are under its control and they control most of the BTC in the world.

However, I think even this scenario is not ideal for them, as BTC outside the system will be worth differently than the one inside USGov. The question will be which one will be worth more, and the bigger the diffference, the more the other BTC will flow in that direction