skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Sell! Even if you dont have a product, you need to sell. 'Build 'em and they will come' : I've never seen this happen.

- Always be hiring. Every person you meet, always be fitting them into a hiring pipeline.

- You have to be 360-degree. You may focus on areas that are core competencies but you cannot 'divorce' yourself from areas you have no idea about. You need to upgrade and have meaningful discussions with folks you put in positions of responsibility.

- Dont wait for the perfect person to show up! Start with whoever you get, often folks you did not think much of will surprise you.

- Be clear about redlines and communicate them clearly. If people violate red lines, let all hell break loose. Else be nice and chill.

- No one shows up to work and says 'ok let me do the worst possible job today'. every one does the best he/she can in their personal contexts. if it is not enough, communicate clearly. help where can.

- Be transparent with your team. Be fair to them. These are still valued.
If you scroll further down, they just moved those bits around.

The main difference seems to be a name change from Twitter International “Company” to “Unlimited”, and removed references to super hearts and some other feature I’ve never used or had an interest in.
From HN's guidelines[1]:

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."

"Eschew flamebait."

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
im thinking "main stream medicine" maybe?
I have full confidence that the people working on it can deliver an incredible product. I have severe doubts that this will be sustainable as a business though, which really sucks
They're probably busy with their local pedophile-rings in Brussels.
Even with a database of hashes the risk remains. If someone gets off on nude children, then there is nothing stopping them from collecting innocent photographs from social media¹, reposting these on seedy or oniony websites, and have the hash ending up in the huge black box of CSAM hashes by an automated scraper. I am not under the impression that such a database is curated too closely.

1: This is not something I'm personally at risk of, because my parents are tech savvy enough not to post nude pics of a toddler anywhere but in a private chat with his parents (i.e., me and my wife).
I feel that in the near future, we'll have a campaign against E2EE with the intensity of the current campaign against guns in the US
The big miss for me is a shell into a running cloud run container, which you can’t do even with reserved cpus yet.

Getting dramatiq (a python sidekiq equivalent) running on the CPU-reserved containers was pretty excruciating. They recommend that functionality for background jobs, but cloud run still needs an HTTP-bound port to know whether apps are running, and also the sandboxing in the gen1 instances didn't work with dramatiq (not sure what, something about forking I imagine?). The error trail was useless for it. Gen2 instances worked. They're also pretty expensive, start at like $40/month for a tiny 1cpu/256mb instance? It's a non-shared CPU, but that's pricey! Memorystore is pricey for bootstrapping too, the cheapest instance is like $35?

Other than that it has been okay. There are some weird surprises, like needing to spin up a VPN connector to hit memorystore on non-public endpoints. (Because surprise! GCP serverless doesn’t run in a VPC you have an iota of control over.) Some friction like that they need to have better defaults for.

Suffice to say, all these things mean the experience is still way, way higher friction than heroku was a decade ago. I'm hopeful they'll keep iterating though.
And are those Teslas self-driving?
The problem that international fund transfers require currency brokerage is not solved by introducing another currency.

Why do you need to convert currency when transferring to someone in another country in the first place? Because the banking infrastructure in that country is denominated in their currency. Because their bank account only permits them to hold balances in that currency. And because only funds in that currency are guaranteed by the banking laws in that country.

If it weren’t for that, currency conversions could be ignored! If everyone in the world had bank accounts that could handle euros, say, you could transfer funds globally; people could make purchases by transferring euros, etc etc.

In fact there’s not a lot stopping you from doing that. You can have an account denominated in whatever currency you like. Provided you don’t care about things like deposit protection.

And that’s all Bitcoin and other crypto really add to the mix - a uniformly available currency for denominating non-deposit-protected balances.
I don’t understand your poker sentence.

Playing poker professionally is not a retirement, and no one really playing poker for income is addicted, I can assure you (at least not for long).

These days, playing live is the only way to get an edge (correct me? Been a while), and that would be a boring, nauseating job, right around the pay scale and routine of “club bouncer” if you’re good.

I played poker for my sole income for three years after college, traveling the world playing online. It was occasionally a lot of fun, morally painful, so stressful and not very well compensated. I would be rich now if I’d gone straight into programming instead of spending my 20s “avoiding work” by working my ass off to monetize my hobbies.
To call Dutch Toeslagenaffaire a failure of discriminating algorithms, when the main criteria was: Manually identify innocents based if they were born outside the Netherlands or married to somebody born outside the Netherlands, or if they were born in the Netherlands, had Dutch nationality but grand parents born outside the Netherlands....Is a very strange characterization.
"It worked" is not the phrase that comes to mind when I think of WWI... yes, where was that outcome, but at the cost of tens of millions of deaths[1], years of trench/chemical warfare, exacerbation of the 1918 pandemic.

If we could avoid its equivalent in the 21st century, that would be good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
But the black market has black market exchange rates. You can probably get something a little more reasonable on the open crypto market.
You've nailed it. RIP WordPress and websites. <sarcasm>Delete that Safari icon, it's annoying.</sarcasm>

Fewer people are opening web pages on their phones. I was wondering why someone would pay so much for a website, and then realized accessing twitter through a web browser on a laptop is not the way. We won't talk about relinquishment of rights, privacy and freedom. I am a curmudgeon doing it all wrong. The way into the walled garden is through the ease of use of popular Apps on the most popular platform: the phone.
There is also the issue that by failing to build low-cost housing it’s your community’s responsibility for pricing people out and not giving them the option to downsize within their community. Giving artificial tax breaks to subsidize bad housing policy seems to me more like a cause of Bay Area problems than a solution to anything substantial.
I've always thought that "density at the edges" would have interesting implications for moment of inertia. Euler's column formula depends on moment of inertia so that would seem to imply a "Flatland-but-in-11D-instead-of-2D" would have significant mechanical engineering problems compared to our 3-D world.

I think macro-scale higher dimensions as a hard sci fi topic would also have weird aerodynamic and heat exchanger effects. How would the ratio of radiative cooling to convective cooling vary if the world had 10,11,100,100000000 dimensions instead of 3?

Intuitively if we had 4 dimensions of space I think automotive-type radiators could be quite a bit smaller for a given heat exchange?
Learning Rust – Day 4 – Understanding Modules
Preventing genocide next door is defense, not offense. Just like in Ukraine now. The most Offensive thing here is your defense of genocidal wars of aggression.
The term "STEM Pipeline" is depressing.

The funnel end of the pipeline sucks in bright young children and the business end of the sausage factory spits out sausages.

Along the way, most kids are winnowed out as failures.
> I send stablecoins to family member (worth noting this would be difficult to do in FIAT due to the amount) and when he pays me back I can then withdraw my $TOKEN.

While you're on your high horse about the taxes comment, you should know that in the US what you're describing here is illegal. You can't give someone an interest-free loan and have neither party pay taxes on it. Your options are roughly either to classify it as a gift or structure it like an actual loan, with a minimum acceptable rate published by the IRS each month. https://www.lindsayandbrownell.com/beware-of-the-interest-fr...
Couldn't Romania do that without involving the Bosporus?
With the US alone investing 40 billion dollars in the war, they're simply wrong if they don't see it this way.
I had a little script on my .bash_profile which computed the value of my RNWK options. It went up... up... up... half a milllion, a million, $1.5M!? I was thinking about retirement - at age 24, while making $65K/year! Then my imaginary fortune evaporated, all in a day or two, and that was that. (I have been skeptical of all non-salary-based compensation ever since.)

I was fine; I could smell the layoffs coming, but I hated my job anyway, so I found a different job working on some non-internet-based software that was right up my alley, and that worked out well for many years after.

At one point the following year I estimated that fully a third of my friends were out of work. Programmers mostly survived, but there were lots of designers, testers, and admins living on unemployment for a while. My wife lost her job, too, when her startup lost its funding; she went back to school.
Oh Lord ...

The last couple of years have been a breath of fresh air ...

The only time I notice Trump now is from his loser supporters posting Shorts on Youtube believing he'll make a come back.

Anyone who believes that taking him off twitter didn't stabilise the political temperature is in la la land.
The tricky part for this is there are products for specific ethnicities and gender based products.

filtering on zipcode is gone. what about small restaurants that don't really want to advertise to everybody in the city?
> Your government who wants to control you

How exactly?

In Italy we had 67 different governments since 1946.

What can they do with CSAM data?

Government can't blackmail citizen, they can't use CSAM scans for other purposes, they can't even authorize a scan, because that's the justice system prerogative.

Do you really believe that in Europe governments are in control of everything like it happens in Russia or in North Korea?

They are as weak as they can be.
- The cheaper you price your product, the cheaper customers you attract. I get a lot more support tickets for customers that paid $45 than those that paid $1500. Discounts often lead to the same issues.

- Your competition is not better. Even if your competitor has 1000 employees, that doesn't make them better, they more likely work a lot slower and less efficient than a smaller company. Also, a big company is more likely to ruin a perfectly good product trying too hard to squeeze profits.

- If a customer wants a refund, just accept it, even if they try to scam you. Often times, the trouble of trying to convince a customer not to leave is not worth it. Also, if the customer feels trapped, they are unlikely to buy from you in the future.
It's not really a story as it is now though. Someone did something better than this guy. It's just a stream slightly coherent gonzo ranting.
I wonder if this tech could be used to make adjustable VR lenses.
Yeah, that's one of the worst cookie notices I've seen in a while, no reject button for what is essentially a page of Markdown.

In addition snarky wording which I can't work out if I hate more than the faux caring "oh you don't mind if we use cookies do you?" language.

FWIW You can use uBlock origin to remove ##.alert-dismissible.alert-info.alert from the page to avoid having to deal with it.
I find it quite enjoyable, everything is just a walk away and good public transport makes sense.

You have enough people that even niche cultural offers will find an audience.
There are always bugs. Turns out almost all customers are ok with bugs.
That won’t happen here but sure, US type of police overreach makes a better soundbite with horribly vague proposals like this. And people should be scared so I guess it’s good; maybe they will protest (probably not though because the children the children).
Is it the casino foult that their customers loose money

Casinos are very strictly regulated and must post the exact rules and probability of winning for all their games. If the casino lies about the rules of the game or your chances of winning, then yes it is absolutely their fault and they will be held liable.
I can't speak about other countries but the idea that Russia could use its influence to convince the UK to veto Finland or Sweden's entry into NATO is absurd. The Conservatives may have been happy to take russian money before the invasion but it would be hard to do so now and political suicide to be seen as bowing to russian political interests.
Lenses are already quite cheap to make. You can get prescription glasses fitted to a knockoff designer frame of your choice in half an hour for less than $50 in e.g. Shanghais knock off malls. You don't even have to bring your prescription, they use a laser device to measure the glasses you brought with you.
In reality Finland has been neutral for only very short periods of time. Basically only after we got our independence and WW2 and the small amount of time between Finno-Soviet treaty of 1948 ending with the fall of soviet union and us joining EU.

If you ask Putin being part of EU is very much not being neutral no matter what Finland says and under the Finno-Soviet treaty we were quite clearly under Soviet influence and neutral only in some legal fiction.
Flying a single engine prop plane seems easy. Anyone who has played Flight Simulator has thought about this, I could probably land a cessna but not a commercial jet. What I’m sure I would get wrong is stuff on jets like multiple engine speeds, cowling settings etc.
Unless the exact algorithm and data used is described in the law you don't know what the implementation will look like (or what it will look like in ten years).
I don't know enough whether to agree with it or not, but I loved the zinger at the end:

"
I still don’t think I fully understand why these miracle years keep showing up in the lives of great scientists, except that it has something to do with them being young, concentrating intensely on the right problems, and remaining open to fresh perspectives.

Given how many of the great scientific discoveries have come about during miracle years, we should do everything we can to help smart Twentysomethings have an annus mirabilis. We should free them from rote menial work, prevent them from being overexposed to the current paradigm, and give them the freedom to explore far-fetched ideas without arbitrary deadlines or time-draining obligations.

It’s depressing that I have just described the opposite of a modern PhD program.
"
Or they leave
Microplastics (in cosmetics for example) seemto harm ocean life, the more ocean life the better :)
Let's put on some tinfoil hats & speculate a bit: What groups might have the resources to attack the peg on UST & USDT? Is anyone out there bragging about the $$ they're making by demonstrating that these coins aren't quite so stable? (Personally I have no idea, and wouldn't even know where to look to find chatter about it, hence the question)
> There was a complete lack of solidarity

You seem to remember things that are arguably untrue, I wonder why. The EU, ECB and IMF spent something like €300 billions for loans at extremely low interest rates (€30,000 for each Greek citizen) to keep Greece afloat and prevent it from going down in the way that Lebanon or other places outside the EU's aegis did more recently. And that despite the fact that Greek officials conspired to lie about debt/GDP numbers to get into the Eurozone, immediately broke Eurozone guidelines about deficits and debts to start fiscal giveaways, and after the crisis broke every promise about raising cash through privatisations.
Thanks - agreed, release manager signatures are nice to have.

The reason I ask is that I think it'd be nice if third parties could also voluntarily sign releases.

For example: the author of a library -- or one of their users -- could fund a security audit of a specific version, and then the auditors could sign to attest their findings (issue and severity count, perhaps) in a way that's visible to package users via the command-line and web.

It'd add useful information for people trying to select appropriately-secure code, and also help foster a marketplace for open source security code review.
You can't argument that security trumps privacy and/or freedom without being absurd, so it's kind of expected.
It’s disgusting, that’s why. People stacked on each other living in shared filth breathing each other’s farts and hearing noise all the time… not to mention the obvious problem of how diseases spread in tight quarters.
Does your definition of "woke" only include current culture war issues?
There's a subtle difference. The straits weren't "closed", one of the Russian ships was allowed passage because its home port was registered as Sevastopol prior to the present conflict.

"pursuant to the terms of the agreement, Turkey cannot block Russian warships based in the Black Sea from returning to their registered base."
If somebody tells you: "I'm going to beat you up if you ask for help", you should probably ask for help. It's not an effective kind of threat, because he's probably going to beat you up at some point anyway.
same! I’m vaguely interested in the idea of programmatically creating music, but I don’t think that’s the TE products are for, but still…I want one.
They are effectively low resolution hashes - obviously they would be completely useless if they fail to detect a re-encoded or slightly transformed or cropped image. In this sense it's a hash with a very high collision rate... probably even higher if you limit it to innocent but otherwise visually similar image of parents and grandparents sending pictures of their own toddlers as GP describes.

This is when it gets scary, demonising people based on a hash collision with no evidence or context.
Yes I thought that so many people that it’s so obvious but they didn’t believe it and still did Invest in crypto. Their FOMO had total control of them. They didn’t want to understand the concept they just wanted to be part of something bigger
And if this passes, we will have plenty of examples from the EU too. Here it was not as easy to crack down on people because we take privacy very seriously, but it will happen as soon as the state gets the power to do it.

See for example how we treat people who have few grams of weed on them. We protect innocent people, you say? Bullshit, we crack down on gardening shops if they're even just slightly connected to the weed culture!
Basically some excuses to increase bureaucratic power.

Step 1: Find some excuses (climate, gender equality, CSAM, all legitimate)

Step 2: Create layers and layers of committees and legislations (happy lawyers and maybe accountants), increase social cost in general

Step 3: Extend to other purposes if possible
Having an actual person see those pics is totally fine. No one in their right mind would see anything but normal child raising there, and the judicial process has checks to prevent abuse by any one actor. It's algorithms I'm concerned about.
I use Google Maps for biking around the city, if I'm going somewhere unfamiliar. It often seems to take non-optimal paths that presumably many hundreds of peoples worth of data should have told it could be improved. But it does eventually get you where you're going at least.
If NSA has a backdoor or has broken the encryption you are using, they will want to keep that secret for as long as possible to get the greatest possible use out of it. They will use it covertly (using parallel construction to keep it out of court cases) on important cases like (actual) national security, mafia or people running dark net marketplaces, spying on friendly and hostile governments etc.

But they won't risk it for someone with a CSAM match or anything similarly uninteresting, and local authorities won't even be aware that it's something their government can do.

Still, don't do anything illegal, but I think for most people it's legitimate to have a threat profile that assumes that encryption is effective.
"Family goes through seven months of hell falsely accused of child porn charges after Spanish police misread US-style date in tip-off from American group"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8731961/Family-goes...
Once they know what you talk about with your acquaintances, they can just trigger your (on subscription) car to drive into a tree and rewrite the car's black box so that it will look like an accident.
Of course that would happen only if your social credit score is very very low.
That'd be great to watch. It is amazing how quick people turn on each other once shit hits the fan. They'll all be pointing fingers at each other full circle.
To call it a star for "Kutcher is known to older millennials for movies such as „Dude, where’s my car“." is a bit too much.
Denmark controls access to the Baltic Sea. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Baltic+Sea/@55.685476,11.0...

And Estonia and Finland control access to Russia's only ports in the Baltic Sea. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Baltic+Sea/@60.5931556,25....
Event Horizon Telescope collaboration to announce Milky Way results today
And yet 10 years ago GPUs paradigm shifted software development by parallel processing neural networks - skipping ahead ~30 years of Moore's law.

Change is often sudden and unexpected :-)
I don't see any references to reverse engineering in the previous version.
> The automated filter won't care about the context though

That's why we have a justice system.

Specifically not a common law based one, which is kinds scary per se.

People are innocent until proven guilty and the burden of proof's on the prosecution.

We are talking about EU here, not Sudan.
Really? In the Soviet Union, prohibited ideas still spread. In China and modern Russia, dissidents still exist. The spread of ideas cannot be stopped unless people don't want to hear them in the first place.
What is interesting is that running such software on my systems would breach all the NDA I have with my customers. As a company, it would not be possible to work anymore from the EU.
I like "fascist." The dictionary definition works and you're already using it.
Yeah also not, they will need to have proof of at least connections with some criminal networks to compel you to do that.
Easy, then we'll just add additional tracking to everyone's personal devices that tells the government what is on your screen and for how long. For the children, of course! /s
I don't have much understanding about Tether/Crypto.

You can go to Tether and they will give you 1 dollar for 1 USDT?

Then, who was selling 1 USDT for $0.95 ? Why didn't those people juts go to Tether and get 1 dollar for 1 USDT?