skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, lets put it in laymen's terms.

The headline says the customer's threw away their wallet that holds their cash.

In reality, they through away their debit card which, if everything goes right and their accounts aren't seized and their bank stays honest, they can pull out a wad of cash. They probably threw away this debit card because they already transferred their cash to a different bank.

A debit card is not a wallet of cash. Throwing away the debit card doesn't tell you anything of what you did with the cash the debit card could possibly access. Chivo is a debit card for maybe, hopefully controlling the ability to trade bitcoin held in custody somewhere else on the lightning network, not a wallet containing bitcoin. Calling it a bitcoin wallet is intentional deception, if not by the author then by the person that told them that.

Now if I told you everyone threw away the wallet that held their national cash, that would paint a very different portrait than saying they all threw away their debit cards to a particular insecure bank that they already transferred their national cash out of. The first would imply they gave up national cash (bitcoin), the second would just imply they gave up on one particular stupid bank that might give them access to their national cash (chivo).

>Not a single person in the general public would even know half of the buzzwords you just used and the other half isn't interested in technicalities. The wallet is used to pay and receive bitcoin. It's a bitcoin wallet at least for 99% of people on the planet.

And yet apparently many El Salvadorans apparently did. Because they chose to transfer their assets to 'more secure' apps and actual bitcoin wallets. The thing is, when it concerns someones money, they tend to learn very fast. The same country boy that may laugh at nerds and chemical terms and academic 'buzzwords', may actually learn and know a ton about chemistry when it comes to maintaining their crops. People in Central America are not stupid.
The Billionaire Running for US Senate to Ban Elon Musk’s Self-Driving Cars
interesting, that's the first thing I also thought of! (in fact I grep'd "hamachi" on this thread)
I totally agree - it's a shame hamachi just gave up
Denmark wants to build two energy islands to supply renewable energy to Europe
It's unlikely Stripe has access to any APIs that Plaid doesn't also have access to.
Beaker creator here, that's correct, but Agregore is still going
> Firefox 105 planned release on August 23rd

I think you're reading the beta version number to the left instead of the release version number to the right as that date is for the release of 104.

Both are on a 4 week release cycle now so it's up to any delays to change the gap.
If they do this it would indeed be huge. Screen scraping and the like to get around a proper API sucks. In the EU we have PSD2 but the APIs aren’t all amazing.
Yes I agree it's a nice language. But the FFI situation is mildly infuriating.
Ask HN: What's the best biohack you've found?
As a founder, I've noticed I continuously have less and less time to focus on my health. I'm interested in what biohacks other people rely on to stay (relatively) healthy while super-busy!
Ape holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single ape
> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
Interesting timing given the Heroku breach. Any correlation?
You'd be able to reach FIRE money as a SWE. Possibly FU money if you get to vp level at a FAANG and then work for 10 years.
The WordPress gatekeepers will see you now
Same. Maybe it's my bias from having played piano for going on 25 years, but this notation is just irritating to look at, and has way more ambiguity than the standard system to my eyes. It also seems like it's less compact, which is a _huge_ problem. If you ever look at older ürtexts and the like, music notation is traditionally very dense to save paper and engraving costs. I don't think anything that makes music less dense is going to fly in the industry.
Why combine two problems working overtime without compensation and promotion focused culture?
What are DIDs: Device IDs?
A Scalable Integrations Story with Asana, Google Calendar, and EveryAuth
> judge this hype train more severely than younger ones.

Meanwhile the EM's are afraid to hire us because we're "tired" and not "team players" (ie have a back bone when we've seen this pattern 20x across our career with 0 successful outcomes)
If you're running malicious code it doesn't matter which directory you're running it from.

And I hope noone is using http.server to deploy their python webapps. the documentation even has a warning right at the top

https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html
That's because lean companies can leverage either price, regulatory moats, etc to avoid externalities. JIT has been demonstrated to be incredible profitable in good times, yet extremely brittle in bad times.
> GitHub’s internal research shows that only around 16.5 percent of active users (roughly one in six) currently enable the enhanced security measures on their accounts
Has anyone tried turning the entire grand staff 90 degrees counterclockwise and animate the notes toward the player, Guitar-hero style?
There are TTRPGs built for solo play.

Is Solitaire sad? Are single-player games? When did using your imagination become sad?
Maybe they pointed out as an indication that some financial institutions in the US are not modern technologically speaking, and that may be a cause for lacking better APIs?
I'd agree. A startup looking to use Stripe Atlas now has access to this for standing up their services? Plaid is basically disqualified from the start, given how cohesive the Stripe platform is.
Infrastructure Engineering at 1Password
Isn't there a tax deduction aspect to a lot of these donations?

Anyways, 100 more Nature-level articles about climate change is not going to change the situation if there is no political will (or if it seesaws every 4-8 years at best).
Yep, that's why the visualizations do not run on my hardened Firefox. I disabled WebGL.
it's c-x followed by c-e although no need to release the control key that I'm aware of. The c-x is in the same family as alt-x (sometimes called "meta-x") which is a similar Emacs "mode switching" leader keystroke

You can read about the gory details in "man 3 readline": https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/en/man3/readline....
How does { "type": "huge union of types" } help you here? You still have to read the whole thing as a generic Map just to find the type key and then dynamically unmarshall to your real object.

Like what even is the return type for parseJSONBlobToOneOfFiftyMessageTypes(String json)? Guess you could return a generic APIMessage and a type object so the caller can cast it but now you're back to playing dynamic games.
i'm continuously astounded by how accurate the Omega Aqua Terra is. it will be within 90s over a 30 day period after 4 years of daily use with no servicing. the fact that something mechanical and so tiny operating at 3.5hz can do this is mind blowing to me.

it has a cool [8800] co-axial escapement: https://www.kapoorwatch.com/blogs/through-the-scope-the-omeg...
Top five (non-stable) crypto assets:

1) BTC - PoW
2) ETH - PoW (but the Beacon chain PoS merge seems to be going well)
3) BNB - PoS-like
4) XRP - PoS
5) SOL - PoS

So of the top five really only BTC & ETH are PoW and soon it will just be BTC.
Can we now, finally, stop thinking that everything Google does is smart? In the 90s, everyone wanted to copy Microsoft culture. Maybe we just always need to have one company that’s worshipped.
Risky ‘gain-of-function’ studies need stricter guidance, say US researchers
I haven't checked the numbers lately, so I could be wrong by now. But while I was a student there and for some years after (administrators / (students + researchers + educators)) got worse at a rapid pace. It's hard for me to imagine that Stanford is the best marginal bang for more bucks.
... and I'm pretty sure a majority of banks here still runs COBOL, but it didn't stop them creating a consortium and simplifying things!
Of note, the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in LA (near LACMA) has a very well done exhibit on Hayao Miyazaki, including copious sketches, story boards, concept art...well worth going. It's up until June 5.
> Bad Python looks like good python.

Never used Perl, so I can't really make an honest comparison. I do use Python at work, though, and I can assure you that is FAR from being true.

In fact, I think this is so untrue that I urge you to check out essentially any code written in academia (especially projects involving numeric computation and data science). If you come back and make that same statement with a straight face, I'll eat my hat.
Yeah discard use to be slow because it flushes pipelines or mess with branching predictions I don't remember which, I just assumed they "fixed" that by now.
Using few-shot learning language models as weak supervision
Does Apple even promote on solving "hard" problems?
Caddy is great but there sadly isn't anything like nginx-proxy-manager for it. The proxy manager is actually a full little identity provider and authenticating proxy--it's very slick and perfect for simple home self-hosting scenarios with a handful of users.
> if you have a climate-related degree, can you really compete with Stanford CS majors for a SDE job

For this specifically: Yes, depending on your extra curricular activities and interests. And if it was a graduate degree, then yeah almost certainly.
Over 200 Spanish mobile numbers ‘possible targets of Pegasus spyware’
There's an old Malcolm Gladwell podcast where he interviews (and attempts to skewer) then President of Stanford University John L. Hennessy precisely on the topic of Stanford continuing to solicit donations and increase its ambitions despite having a very large amount of money. I actually think Gladwell's arguments are mostly ridiculous, especially his "accusation" that Hennessy is a "strong link" thinker. But the topic and the interview are interesting.

That podcast episode:

https://omny.fm/shows/revisionist-history/my-little-hundred-...

I found a partial transcript of the episode:

https://www.simonsays.ai/blog/my-little-hundred-million-with...
I would have loved this article to dig into the details about how these products compare, you know, the author actually putting in the work figuring out what differences there are of these products at different price-points.

If they went into detail about the financials of these companies and how they compare to the companies selling their cheap products in Walmart, that would be interesting.

Instead, it boils down to "I haven't tried these products, but I don't think they're worth it, they're probably all just sales and marketing" What a waste of server space.
The parts last quite some time if properly maintained. If you're worried about replacement parts availability, stick with the most popular movements such as the ETA2824/SW200 series or Seiko's NH35 series.
You've made a pretty strong statement with an appeal to authority.
Economic "authority" figures have gotten the economy wrong for 20 years.

Maybe you should question your first principles more.
>Data leak reveals scale of potential surveillance by NSO Group client believed to be Morocco
> The vast majority of users of music notation are amateurs

I'm not sure the claims you and OP are making here are actually in tension. They said:

> the most common users of music notation (experienced musicians)

which is ambiguous, and might mean something like "of all the people that ever do any music-reading at all, the majority are experienced musicians," which would indeed be the opposite of your claim. But it might also be "of all the people that are reading music at any given moment, the majority are experienced musicians," which would be a proxy for "most hours spent reading music are spent by experienced musicians"; this could be true simultaneously with your claim (it stands to reason that experienced or professional musicians spend comparatively more time reading music than do novices or amateurs).

I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that the thing you want to optimize for is maximizing the average quality of experience for all users regardless of how much they use the thing, vs. maximizing the quality of the average hour of use.
> California Senate candidate Dan O’Dowd will not talk about taxes. Or homelessness. Or climate change. Or inflation. Or housing. Or jobs. All he will talk about is how much he hates Tesla’s self-driving cars and the existential threat computers pose to humanity.

Could he be trying to protect the car industry? Because if we have self-driving cars parked everywhere, we might not need to own cars anymore...
Because it is repeating theme on these boards: someone expresses a nonconventional or old-school way of doing things, and someone else always jumps on with why overcomplicated cloud shit should be the solution to everything.

Most businesses are never going to be a Netflix or a TikTok or whatever. Yet their businesspeople are absolutely infected with this mindset. And don't get me wrong, it is a disease and its primary symptoms are exactly what OP is complaining about.

So instead of building practical, easy-to-maintain systems we cater to the dreams of excessively optimistic (can you even be anything else as management?) nontechnicals who think every idea is going to require the kind of scale and tooling that someone like Facebook has at their disposal. And they're backed up magpie engineers more fascinated with interesting than functional infrastructure.

Ironically, that very tooling and scale ends up demanding even more resources which demands even more tooling to manage. What a virtuously (hah!) profitable phenomenon for the vendors of these tools.

Good grief.
A lot of those bugs are in C code...
At least in my own small company - I'm hoping to promote the concept of the T shaped technical leader ladder.

You're rewarded/measured on two metrics - breadth and depth

- a depth metric - leadership in your own specific project team where you add features.

- a breadth metric - you've demonstrably shown that you've gotten other teams outside your own to contribute to your project effectively. Additionally and perhaps more importantly you must show that you can act in a supporting role on multiple other projects outside your own core project. Supporting other projects outside your core project include signing up for triage support, updating documentation, improving testing, etc. without frustrating the primary maintainers.

IMHO - focusing on depth as the only way to technical career progression leads to feature creep, ball of mud codebases with high barriers to entry and silo thinking.

Would be curious if/why this is controversial.
Where “hands out” means “responds to a legal warrant from the FBI.”

I have no love for Google, but even I am not going to blame them for not defying an FBI warrant.
OP here. Since January, we've been working on a simple yet powerful idea: a platform to buy and sell physical products with crypto.

The idea came after I tried to find products sold with crypto online, and didn't have any luck. I had been working in the web3 space as a dev for a few months, and had accumulated a couple thousand dollars of crypto. When seeking to spend it, my only options were converting to fiat or buying NFTs, not buying real products.

That's why we built Diremo — right now we have algorithms to aggregate 50K+ products sold with crypto from across the web, already from reputable shops with proper return policies and terms of sale. Returns and fraud are a huge concern for us, and we've targeted this upfront by verifying sellers manually, and we're looking into a more decentralized system of verification too.

Diremo has no fees, and shipping for native products is completely free for the next few days. Go check it out when you have a chance!
It actually does make more sense to pursue a physics degree with an emphasis on fluid dynamics (atmospheric and oceanic circulation being of great interest to future climate forecasts), or a chemistry degree with an emphasis on analytical measurement and kinetics (global elemental cycling, particulate dynamics, oceanic and atmospheric chemistry all being similarly important), or a biology degree with an emphasis on ecology and biochemistry (changing species distribution, methane biochemistry etc.).

This all goes under the rubric of 'planetary sciences' of which 'earth system science' is a sort of special case. Also means you could work at NASA on Jupiter's moons etc.
> They keep eyeing goals like turning `strict` on by default

Not unless you declare a version. Old style perl will continue to work as before.

If you declare something like:

use v5.40;

... then, and only then, you'll get strict/warnings/whatever turned on.

Your 20 year old script can continue to run just fine.
Tailscale's CEO has been tweeting a series of "rejected headlines" for their fundraising announcement. They're pretty funny. I thought the HN crowd would like this one:

> Tailscale raises $100M to do what any Hacker News reader could have done in a weekend [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/apenwarr/status/1521873453921583105?cxt=...
I know that may be convenient, but you'll want to exercise caution because $'' turns on inner escaping that wouldn't otherwise happen inside single-quoted strings

$ echo 'hello \"world'
hello \"world
$ echo $'hello \"world'
hello "world
I'm curious if you apply the same argument when the mother wants a child and the father does not. What should happen to the child in that situation?

if it was consensual then the case is the same. both parents are responsible for the child they conceived. there is no option to change their mind later.

but if the father was raped, it gets more tricky. i haven't thought this through, but effectively the burden of whatever choice is made is carried by the mother, which means, if there is doubt then the mother should be allowed to keep the child because we should choose what has the least negative consequences for everyone involved.

but if the father can prove that he was raped then the mother should loose the right to her child.

the only remaining challenge is if the father was raped but neither wants the child. based on the above, abortion should not be allowed because the mother consented to get pregnant.

the mother could of course claim that she was raped, but assuming she doesn't, then what?
i don't know...
Putting each "sentence" of code on its own line is actually the crutch that leads to low density and high line counts. As humans en masse become more comfortable parsing and writing machine inter-languages I imagine things will trend the other way.
For Second Straight Year, California Sees a Population Decline
At my previous company, productivity increased on some teams. Other teams saw a significant drop in productivity, and for certain high performers, it meant they changed teams or left the company.

As we continued hiring managers and engineers, we realized building a culture where everyone was remote was hard but not impossible.

Again, seem teams thrived. Other teams were disasters. Difficulty getting a roadmap straight, engineers coming to standup habitually late and with fake updates, delivery constantly getting pushed, and entire sprints where the work load simply gets pushed to the next sprint.

Several engineers I spoke with, who joined during COVID, told me flat out they’re not very productive, and they had come to understood this as being “normal” for their role.

My take away is that working from home is not a universal solution. If you have strong teams that can continue their culture remotely, you should do what keeps them happy and work from home.

If you have teams who cannot deliver remotely, then SOMETHING needs to happen. I am convinced that having those teams come in and show productivity is a pre-requisite. It might just be that we need to replace managers. The solution might be coaching or replacing certain individuals, and coming into the office makes the underlying problems very visible.

At Amazon, I had three different women Senior engineers (my mentees) break down into tears during 1:1s. Their teams weren’t progressing on delivery. Their stakeholders were directly reaching out to the senior SDEs and applying pressure.

Their SDMs seemed careless but then happy to throw the senior SDEs under the bus.

The company didn’t want to ask anyone to come in, because they were looking at this as an opportunity to hire engineers from other companies. The companies asking employees to return.

Other engineers on the team were skipping team meetings and not showing progress in their sprints. I spoke directly with one of the managers trying to understand his concerns, at one point asking if he could walk me through his top 3 challenges.

They involved getting promoted to the next level, and complaints about his partner teams who were frustrated with his team not delivering.

I’ll stop this long story here. One take away is that companies who are struggling to hire engineers, especially because of their toxic culture and other gaps, are ready to offer remote work as a perk.
> if you have a climate-related degree, can you really compete with Stanford CS majors for a SDE job?

Thankfully there are fewer Stanford CS majors graduating than there are SDE jobs available.
There is catsql[1] but it barfs in my Python environment.

[1]https://github.com/paulfitz/catsql
Interesting article history! Does your site have a RSS feed to keep up with updates in a feed reader? I couldn't find one.
Every post from this site is gold. I've learned so much from it.
Drink lots of water
Self-Report a Security Change or Concern
Oh Jira, why do I hate you so much, you bloated monstrosity?
We don't have to imagine very hard
I think maintenance requirements are overstated. I wore a relatively cheap (~£120) mechanical watch continuously for about 8 years, and never had a single problem with it. I only stopped wearing it about 2 years ago when I finally bought a smartwatch. It still works fine, I just don't wear it except on special occasions.

If your watch is a sizable investment then maybe you care about maintenance more, but otherwise I wouldn't worry that it's going to stop working in short order.
Or incentivize them with a form of profit-sharing that isn't tied to "promotion" per se?
I would use web tech with electron and call it a day. But if the plan is to have fun with a side project, rust is probably better unless you also want to finish the project.
It makes me trust them more when they use old software that I never got to complain about.
A much simpler solution is to buy the GL.iNet GL-SF1200 (https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-sf1200/ - costs only $30) which is powered by the opensource OpenWRT router OS and offers VPN support (both as client or server) with built-in OpenVPN or Wireguard. Other costlier GL.Inet routers with more CPU power and more RAM are also available.
You should considering enabling it for this site. I don’t see what the downside here would be.
I do agree with your observation. It is generally difficult to find a non-toxic gaming community. This was actually a battlefield group, which brought a lot of older folk. In the 20 years of gaming (jesus, can't believe it has been that long). I have only found a few good communities.