skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> imagine how easily our friends and family -- who are often far more vulnerable -- can be taken advantage of.

FUD. Hackers and scammers exist, sure, but your friends and family are always most likely going to be victimized by friends and family.

Outsiders have to work to collect intelligence, gain access and obtain your trust. Friends and family already have all three prerequisites.

Bernie Madoff didn't become the most prolific con-artist in history by cold-calling strangers. And consider what demographic is most likely to try recruiting you into the latest MLM scheme.
scammer plays a dial tone after the 'hang up' and while dialing.
Oh neat, I assumed my PVR remote just had an infrared emitter that controlled the TV at the same time as the PVR.
This isn't really directly related, but close enough that I feel it isn't off topic: what are the 3-5 best books a new staff engineer should read? I realize that reading 5 books on the subject generally puts you 4-5 books ahead of just about everybody else, but I like books.

Also: this needs (2020) in the title.
Not having to use bouncers, being able to use it on multiple devices at once, SSL-only. Using IRC on a phone is a giant PITA.

I wouldn't wish having to use EFNet on anyone, either.
You do understand that bitcoin's inflation rate is algorithmically defined to halve every 4 years and trend toward 0, right? It's already 1.74% per year an will half to 0.84% in 2024.

https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/7c08d81e119570792648...
Wheat is a winter crop in India FYI, a lot of the mass grain production switches to rice in the spring/summer season.
I would argue that if two people brought me magic boxes of light saying they used physics, and they each told me about two vastly different "physics" involved with creating those magic boxes, I would instead introduce them to each other in the hopes that they might reconcile their understanding of the fundamental concepts involved and make an even cooler magic box!

What you instead want to look for is:

"MANY people who are familiar with magic boxes tried to make this guy's magic box and couldn't replicate his method."

You are looking for valid contradiction to stated facts to invalidate claims, not for a widespread consensus on the claims.

This is important because, as a single example, two people can use different methods to achieve the same outcome based on their own respective theories that have minor flaws but present strong evidence that they are in their entirety true. It is only by reconciling & finding the contradictions between the two that you can come out with a single VALID theory.

If I were a scientist I would probably have some examples of this occurring in the past, but off the top of my head I would suggest it is improbably that there has never been a situation where two competing theories that each had strong evidence were both eliminated in favor of a single unified theory that reconciled differences between them.
The author is right. If one reads Umberto Ecos essay about Ur-fascism (https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf), Putins Russia checks all 14 signs of fascism listed in the article.
Those are surprising claims. Browsers and their video/image codecs use SIMD. Other usages in office/productivity apps include Photoshop/Lightroom, video editing, compression, CAD.
Apple adds another subscription product, this time for companies
and I can't wire USD anywhere because my government confiscates any foreign currency deposits and only authorizes outbound transfer for specific operations of specific companies.

what you have is a financial privilege that you are not aware of.
I mean for most users, Rosetta + the ever expanding number of apps/games build for MacOS over the last decade, means it really isn’t the barrier it used to be. Plus there’s always parallels.
Amazon today is a street side flea market. You really don't know what you'll get. I've started ordering more stuff from traditional retailers. Their online operations these days are really good, and at most a few dollars more than Amazon. Clothes from macys.com, home goods from homedepot.com and target.com, and so on. You're not flooded with choices with these stores that are mostly garbage, instead you get only 1-3 choices that are reputable.
The value of other assets can change. Only the USD is USD.

It's still the case that users take all the long tail risk, and earn none of the reward.
Especially words against willing public figures, living above average lives
mine works decently, except something seems to often be sending an errant ‘on’ signal to my a/v receiver: i hit the power button (on any remote) and everything turns off (as i want), only for my receiver to wake up 1-5 minutes later (my dvd/blu-ray player also comes on for a second, but then turns off automatically). super annoying.
> I guess that's the job of a journalist to ensure what you are publishing is true.

I remember having a stupid little blog about torrents and filesharing, it was basically a drama blog. People would go on and on about how I had to ensure things were correct and I wasn't a proper journalist because I didn't fact check and stuff. I kept replying, I wasn't a journalist, I was a dude with a blog who people kept telling stuff. So if I was getting that, I sure as hell expect a proper journalist to deal with the fall out if they got it wrong and it cost a company money. Like I would expect a newspaper or tv show to pay out if they cost me money and what not.
If you go to more generalized (ie. Tech) or especially crypto related servers and you'll get flooded with DMs.

The spam is kinda neglaceable 8f you just ignore all DMs, the smart scam I've seen is outright dangerous tho.
Thanks for the explanation.

I’m very aware of the possibility and methods of a number of different organisational structures, but mostly from sci-fi which has always been a breeding ground for these things (probably the biggest and most well done example I would think would be the Mars Trilogy, but also anything by Ken MacLeod, Ursula K Le Guin).

I take your points but am not convinced that the scale of the decision making entity, or the important capabilities an entity must have (ie territorial defence) are capable at the scale you’re talking. I also think the transition to some such state would be messy as hell (but mostly for reasons tou identify like the desire of groups to maintain authority). You can see how A potential collapse of the US could lead to these sorts of groups (ie well armed local communities).

I’m also not convinced at all that we are living in the worst of all possible worlds. Things could be significantly better if the cowards in power made better decisions, and some places are vastly worse than others, but such a stunningly large number of people compared to all of human history now have education, electricity, food, shelter, etc that it’s hard to make an argument that this isn’t the best point to be alive in all of human history.
I really loved his approach to art -- crap art! http://crapart.spacebar.org/
You think insults used to not be abuse?
Bees swarms are pretty much the only organism that consents to how it is treated. They stick around because it is easier that way.
Took us a few months but we're now wrapping up last investor for our Seed/SAFE round.
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My friend booked one international flight with departure and destination having 12+ hours timezones difference. The email listed the departure time & duration of journey and arrival time, all in local times (as expected). Gmail auto creates an event about flights and hotel bookings, and thus shows the correct departure time, duration & then that AI simply added that duration to departure, and showed departure city's time flight lands. Wrong. My friend, no blame, believed it; until I pointed it out.
I don't know about you but Linear Algebra was the first abstract mathematics I was ever exposed to.
Point me to one competing laptop (Windows or ChromeOS) with:

- 10+ hour battery life even when working on periodic compiles, and easily 15+ hours web browsing

- high DPI display

- faster multicore CPU performance than a Ryzen 5800X desktop CPU

- less than 5 lbs

- good trackpad and keyboard

- decent build quality

I believe this doesn't exist outside an M1 Pro/Max MBP. My MBP14 uses less than 0.5W package power during a Zoom meeting, that's less than what modern AMD machines use at _idle_. My old MBP15 used over 2 watts package power at idle. I can hit all threads with a big C++ or Java compile and the fans won't even be audible, and my laptop fits in a backpack and is small enough to use anywhere. The extra cost (~$1000) is not really that big a concern when you make software engineer salaries and your laptop is a tool you use every day on side projects to improve your skills.
Well, the answer to "why" is "they don't put me in charge of the hiring process."

Related, interns are a fantastic way to hire because you get WAY better information about them. Instead of an hour or two of riddles, you've got a three month work history which a couple of trusted employees have witnessed. That's WAY better signal than any whiteboard interview problem could possibly get you.
Regarding the complex phone arrangement: There's an effect, the name escapes me, that adding security can make threats less frequent but more dangerous. Sounds like he was more complacent because he had trust in his phone system.

And I agree about author - if he had said that he violated an easy rule and owned that I would take his credentials more seriously. Everyone makes mistakes, but he didn't list this simple, well-known rule as a way of preventing this.
> Said he was calling from Wells Fargo's Fraud Prevention Department, calling to verify some transactions. He verified my name, he had the last four digits of my debit card number, and everything generally seemed to follow the normal script of a transaction verification call.

I recently had to speak with the Zelle FPD because it had frozen my ability to send (but not receive) after I had made some small trial transactions. Also, I use a Google Voice number with Zelle, which Zelle seems not to like.

I was shocked at the depth of questions that the Zelle FPD agent asked me. My SSN, DOB, address and recent transactions were expected. But then it went deeper: state where my birth certificate was issued. Fine. Car loans I had. Okay, this is all stuff on my credit report. But then it went past me: where my kids were born and their DOBs; my brother's DOB and age; my wife's DOB and age; my mother-in-law's (!) maiden name. Keep in mind this all after I've authenticated myself to my bank including a phone password I have setup. And, it's for a secondary checking account that I have less than $1000 in.

Real bank FPDs have a crazy amount of information on not just you, but also your family members.

I personally would hang up if any of my financial institutions called me and I'd call them back.
You didn't even read the blog post, did you?
It's not just "hurting someone's feelings". It's dehumanising and demoralising to a culture. It benefits groups to use terms like the n-word to have power over minorities.

If you've ever lived with depression or anxiety, you'll know that these things can lead to financial ruin and suicide. The "hurting someone's feelings" idea is so harmful and belittling to this idea. And is another way that these abusers get away with it.

"Just man up! It's just a joke! It's your fault you got offended". If that person is now afraid to leave their home, who's fault is that really?
Same thought. That made it something to watch.
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I have a minor quibble with the term 'subsidizing', since it is still being sold at a profit. It's just a lower margin, because the point of maximal profit in the lower end of a segmented market is necessarily lower than the point of maximal profit in a non-segmented market. It's not going to go into negative profit (and thus enable the customer to buy it "at a loss" for the business, whereby the business is effectively paying part of the cost of the thing on behalf of the customer) as a result of segmentation. So it's neither costing the business profit, nor is it offering the good at a per unit loss. It -is- offering the good at a lower margin than would make sense in an unsegmented market.
also, when you socialize the high speed across all internet users, there is no HFT unfairness / advantage.
Respectfully, Americans don't care at all what other countries think of America.

China had their chance to challenge America in the 21st Century, but they threw it away the moment Xi became too obsessed with his own power and ambitions. The focus on building a Han ethnostate is costing them dearly, both in the eyes of the world and in terms of population growth. Without immigration, China's demographic window is closing rapidly and they will grow old before they grow rich.
I think holy grail is ai-assisted system where you can ask by plain English queries. Something like Wolfram alpha + gtp-3 + erp.
We just need a good recession to shake us up. We’re so comfortable that no one is motivated to make good decisions (or advocate for them). Murdoch definitely has a lot to answer for though.

I don’t know - I feel positively about a bunch of the independents that I’m aware of - I have a friend working with a group to try and get 4 elected, the thinking is they would hold balance of power and climate would be back on the agenda in a big way (and hopefully a bunch of other things).

Also, the nutters are out there. We import shitty ideas from the US and everyone is comfortable enough in their bubble they don’t have to be confronted with reality. Having minor parties with shitty ideals, and the horse trading on preferences or even if they end up in parliament, is actually beneficial. Infinitely better than having the crazies infiltrate your party and take it over, like in the US. It’s a pressure release valve whichever way tou look at it - lip service must be paid to the shitty ideas because they represent the (outrageous) views of some proportion of the electorate
Define expert?
It's also the theme of Carl Sagan's Contact. Skip the movie in favor of the book, which is much better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(novel)
Well, you're right about that... human stupidity never ceases to surprise me, so weird things could happen.
I think that more precision over application of formulas would solve a lot. Arrays are mapped over by copying the code for each array element by dragging it across a row of cells, and the arguments to the formula are automatically mutated based on where the code is dragged to. This can be error prone.

More concrete definitions of where a formula should apply would be good, for example, leave the formula cell in one place and specify that one argument should come from this range of cells and the other from this range of cells, and the output should be mapped to this range.
> Most of the world does not have a First Amendment.

Almost most of the world lives under a constitution that guarantees freedom of speech, they just also live under a constitution that contradicts in another way

and I'm not talking about an ambiguous place like the UK where they is no one specific document outlining rights, clear modern constitutions

I'm thinking 3.5 billion out of 7.9 billion live in a place governed by a document that contains the same text as the First Amendment

I'm sure we can get it to over half. I just added the populations of China and India to the US, as I'm only familiar with their constitutions.

So just helping you strengthen your argument in the future, by maybe saying it differently.
I've been in interview rounds where if ONE interviewer doesn't like how you did on the stupid coding test, you're out. So what you are saying is pretty much BS.
He almost certainly meant that sha256(card number) can be bruteforced to figure out what card number was hashed. 10^12*256 bits is only 29 TiB.

So providing a hashed card number to a potential scammer is just as bad as providing the card number.
It's a concept. Plus, the original German article didn't even get some of the basics right: "The processor is an ARM Cortex-A72"
Since a good bit before 2014, even. They used to recruit very heavily from MIT (while Palantir was overrepresented at Stanford and Quora at Harvard--all of these reflecting the almae matres of the founders). Note that this was before the popularity of Leetcode and the whole cottage industry around trying to game algorithmic-type interviews. I'm not sure if similar companies founded today would push these algorithm-heavy interviews as hard, since they've probably lost some signal now & prevailing attitudes have changed a bit.

At any rate, it doesn't surprise me at all that Dropbox engineers do better than FANG engineers on these technical metrics. The average Dropbox engineer is almost certainly a bit smarter and a bit better at algorithms than the average FANG engineer. Of course those attributes don't automatically translate into being a better engineer, though, nor do they automatically translate into company success or anything.
The fact that the extension of NSFunctionExpression in Leopard and the launch of iOS happened around the same time is interesting to me. Clearly one side of Apple was continuing to do everything they could to make their platform more attractive to high-level application developers, continuing the focus on this area that went back to the early years of NeXT [1], unaware (or unconcerned) that another part of Apple would be using this same framework in a consumer device where any way of abusing all of this power could be weaponized.

[1]: See in particular the part of the original NeXT presentation right after intermission, with demos of gluing together high-level components using Interface Builder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92NNyd3m79I
I accidentally won a radio contest many years ago in this way. I heard "you are caller 2" and then the DJ hung up. I stayed on because I was confused and then a few seconds later he picked up again and said you are "caller 4". So I just stayed on and eventually said I was caller 10 and the 10th caller won the prize. I assume he was switching back and forth between two internal phone lines.

I was confused because I was calling to make a song request and had no idea that this contest was initiated because they had just played a certain song.
Different countries value different things. I see a lot of comments here saying this is dystopian or the first step to hitler 2.0 or something equally as bad.

These are equally as vacuous and empty as people from other countries asking “why can’t you just get rid of all the guns” or making other comments about school shootings.

It’s more complex than that, as a society we’ve said we’re comfortable with not allowing people to say some stuff, just as other countries are OK with high numbers of gun deaths.

I find one pretty natural and the other pretty abhorrent, and i expect a fair few commenters here may have the exact opposite view.
Airtable really ought to be killing Excel, but the SaaS model combined with a stupidly low artificial row count limit (over 50000 rows is listed as "contact us for pricing") means that it will never achieve penetration into weird and wonderful use cases like Excel has.

Like, my default is to throw a dataset I'm hacking on into an SQL database so I can actually query the thing. But no I don't want to upload my 400MB log file. I'll just use grep, or build a CSV and deal with Excel filtering.

Airtable should be awesome at reducing the cost of database-ifying these random datasets to zero. But the sales constraints put it in this niche where it's not the default tool of choice.
It should work with the very oldest Mac client, which I'll test just as soon as I find a 68k emulator with serial/modem emulation.
Yes and no. There is a part where you're responsible for the direction of the team but the real trick is knowing when to step away and let the teams executing own it and discuss with management what metrics are needed to track success.

There is also another part where you are free to work on activities that are 12-24 months out. So, prototyping new ideas, setting up the pilots and mentoring sr. s/w engg. resources to be able to execute on them.

The little secret no one mentions is that most of the time you're not needed. If you are then you're too much in the weeds and cannot be an effective staff engineer.
Honestly, how do you know what the right number is though? Everybody outsources their stuff. The real website is at jordans-eatery.outsourcedsite.com. Or maybe the guy at jordans-eatery.seo.com is taking calls and placing orders to the real site at a markup. Or maybe the real number is on jordans-eatery.com. Or maybe it's none of those.
Unpopular Answer: Paid Google Workspaces.

Really boils down to how many users you need. I am your stereotypical 1 user with a catch-all, and I just make up email addresses on the fly. For $6(+tax)/user/month, for a single user just paying them made the most sense.

But I wouldn't make the same decision if I had e.g. 10 users on the free tier, and it is over $70/month after tax.
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Except KISS is subjective, as are most things. Please don't take this the wrong way, but anyone who touts any one, true "religion" in sw development I have learned to take with 6 grains of salt. There is no one magic way or solution. Everything is trade offs and I've learned this over the last 30 years through trying every new magic elixir that was going to "save us all".

That said, most sw projects are determined by business need. I can't think of a single one I've ever written that hasn't needed dependencies or would have been viable had I not used some. Going to a theory level, there is no reason to think the stdlib is magically immune to the issues of a very popular dependency either. Shun absolutes and make the correct trade offs based on your business goals.
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It makes a big difference everywhere else, though.

I personally know people in the US who are buying large quantities of wheat and other food in preparation for the pending food crisis. They expect food prices in general to go through the roof because 1/4 of the world's wheat has suddenly gone missing.

While there will be famines because of this war, if Sarah Taber's numbers are accurate then the reporting within the United States has been horribly irresponsible, and it's important to call it out and spread the real numbers.
I'm excited about the new functionality and find the cause of not defaulting to Cloudflare Workers commendable, I worry a little about the long term viability of Deno Deploy - is there a backup platform that Supabase edge could deploy to in the event of a Deno Deploy acquisition, or even better, is Supabase going to acquire Deno Deploy?
I recently learned about evdi, an out of tree Kernel module that can add as many virtual outputs as you want. Ideal for things like this, or where you'd normally use a dummy plug.
I blame Kurt for getting me to hedge that sentence, which originally read differently. :)

(But if you liked this article at all, I also blame Kurt for the feedback that got it from the tangled mess it was to the slightly-less-tangled mess it is now).
DOB is often just to make sure they have the right person, and not an alias. But yeah, SSN, I wouldn't give it out like this.
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