skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spitballing here:

You can place ACH blocks on accounts, at some banks anyway. I don’t know if the bank will give you the transaction information if a transfer is attempted. If they will, shouldn’t it be possible to set up a honeypot account in order to get the ACH info? Is that info enough to trace back to the spammers?

This opens up other legal questions though. It’s entirely possible that you could then be on the hook for non payment or something.
I see, so do you modify your directness, or are you still direct in a German way? Going by your tipping analogy, I would infer that the equivalent is you being indirect to go along with mainstream Swiss culture, but avoiding typically Swiss people and preferring to interact with people who are comfortable with directness
That’s great to hear. Option 3 is the best choice too as it allows for the FTS results to also be constrained by the object level security access logic. Thanks for the great work and replies!
the twitter account is deleted
I assume FOMO means ”fear of missing out” in this context, but the article never actually spells it out.
Why don't they already do something about the low performers without needing such an initiative? What I've read about layoffs also implies that its not necessarily only the low performers who are let go, that it can be quite random which I don't understand -- why would a company randomly let people go if it has information about who are its lower rung performers?
So person breaks into your house and squats it, or shoots up there, bith crimes. Your house should be forfeit?

What "ethics" you following?
No definition of stupidity is given, no criteria for identifying stupid behaviour, no evidence for any of these ramblings. I checked out a few other article. More flat statements with little or no reasoned or evidentiary support, and what references are given if you actually read them, in the cases I found are being mis-interpreted. They often don't actually support the position taken.

The whole thing is stupid.

Having said that, I think we do sometimes overestimate how clever we are, as a species. If you think about it, we literally just right now, in evolutionary terms, put together a technological society. The last 10k years of advances since agriculture and cities are 3% of the last 300k years since our last common ancestor.

That means we only just barely have enough intelligence to develop a civilization, the bare minimum required. Otherwise we'd have done it sooner. We're jumped up plains apes.

Still, this article contains no such discussion, no analysis, no examination of evidence or reasons why any of what is asserted might be true or if it is true. It doesn't even properly explain what it's talking about. Nothing you could even hang a discussion on. Pure rubbish.
Successfully Installed Chrome OS Flex on CN60 Chromebox
I tried to duplicate what "notyourday" described in this thread (5 months ago, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30354398 ) and was able to successfully install Chrome OS Flex on an ASUS Chromebox CN60. His instructions were pretty much spot on but I do have a few comments:

1. Suggest creating boot USB first. It takes a while and you can be doing other things while that is going on.

2. Had trouble getting Ctrl D to work on my keyboard. Finally figured out I need to use a different (wired) keyboard.

3. Had trouble figuring out "-LO" in the the series of inputs while in text mode of Linux. To be clear the "O" is a capital "oh", not a zero as I had initially surmised. Always have trouble with that. And you can use the enter key between the three commands even though the instructions in MrChromebox.Tech say to only hit enter after third line is typed in.

3. I had to stop what I was doing overnight and reboot the next day and it seemed to me that the second time around the Ctrl D didn't work (even with the wired keyboard) but then it went into recovery mode anyway.

4. Some of the screens that came up were slightly different than what was described but I was able to figure it out.

5. The Chromebox works great now but the process is made a bit difficult because Google write protects these boxes and doesn't allow it's original firmware to boot from USB. So the hard part here is getting around all that.
I worked at a place where we had an open dev/support slot for multiple months to cope with increased load due to our success. In the meantime we all just did more support and less dev. My suggestion to management that the existing team split the salary of the open rec until it was filled (since we were doing the work anyway) was met with just short of outright laughter.
They wouldn't! That's the downside. Or maybe not a downside -- there could be an even stronger incentive for politicians to get stuff done. Since voters would have to make their decisions based entirely actual results, and not an individual politician's voting record, the politicians might have a stronger incentive to build coalitions and influence other politicians' votes.

My half-baked point is that the harm of voters NOT having access to this information is less than the harm of lobbyists and major donors having access to it.
Yes, that's a 2% improvement in accuracy.
I'd be more worried about the 200 shell accounts

that machine has definitely been hacked
> Even with a slowdown of Moore's Law, it seems like AWS has a healthy margin to continue to offer strategic price cuts only when necessary.

Which doesn't surprise me much, really. If your customers are mostly stuck with you, competition is sparse and people pay the price you demand - why would you reduce prices?
This article is bad. It's like a rant that went on 1000 words too long. Time to try the 'flag' feature.
the real lesson here is: don't pour your soul into something you didn't found, control, or have executive power over...because those that are in this category will pull the levers available to them
Poll results: How often do you use tab groups. (Never: 65.9%)
If you already have 4 application servers you are probably already AZ tolerant; most people concerned about "doubling everything" are only running 1 instance.

Going by your example, If your website requires 1 application server, to tolerate a single AZ failure, it requires you to double the number of application servers.

Example - we have a service that used Kafka in the affected region that went down. Our primary kafka instance (R=3) survived but this auxiliary one failed and caused downtime. There's no way around this other than doubling the cost.
The History of Middle Earth gives an almost unprecedented insight into how an author works. Which is fortunate, since Tolkien himself is an unprecedented writer.

He had a singular way of revising, almost pathologically, holding some key points utterly fixed and revamping everything else to make them fit. It's why he never finalized The Silmarillion, and why when his son finally did publish it, he discarded a lot of the work done post-Lord of the Rings.

I believe you are correct: Tom was one of those fixed points, for no reason he could explain. He later said that Tom was left as a deliberate mystery. Which is a bit disingenuous, but that's fine. Tolkien worked by instinct, and his works are extraordinary. If his instinct tells him that Tom needed to be in the narrative, that's fine by me.

If other readers are perplexed by it, they will hopefully forgive it long enough to get through the book and read it again. It's very much the kind of book that you won't fully understand in a single reading, if ever.
Re inept in changing world from ~30yr ago, lookup Operation Sundevil and Steve Jackson games
Yeah it's funny. When I worked fast food the workers always kept their own s**list of coworkers they wished would get fired. In a crunchtime environment, underperforming makes everyone else shoulder more load. Ironically it was always the owner/managers who insisted on keeping around the ne'er-do-wells in hopes that their performance would improve.

Most corporate places I have worked at have generally done a good job giving me reliable performance reports (I've never been on a PIP but I hear it's incredibly common). Like, no one should ever be blindsided that they are underperforming.
This sounds optimistic and I welcome the news. The "soon" is a stretch though. They are probably using that word for attention due to our current energy crisis. The political segue at the end is jarring and unnecessary.
> Can you hear that noise? That's the noise of a million Italians crying. Because of you. Learn to make 'mother sauces' straight away guys! They're simple and flavorful.

I'm not Italian, but I'm willing to give the OP the benefit of the doubt in the following way:

Have you ever read a professional cookbook ? I (would like to) think that what the OP was saying is that "hardest" level would equate to professional cookbook instructions.

In other words, if you were to look at a professional recipe for Lasagne, it would simply list "n ml Bechamel" as an ingredient and the recipe would simply state "layer using the Bechamel".

i.e. it would not list out the Bechamel ingredients, and nor would it tell you how to make it. The professional cookbook considers that you are reading a recipe for Lasagne. And that as a professional cook, you already know how to make a Bechamel (or already have some in the fridge from your prep). Professional cookbooks do the same for stocks and other preparations such as crème pat.
The issue is corrupt US judges.

What this schmoe did or didn't do is not on the table: he has not been convicted of anything, and is being denied a jury trial. So, anything you find said about him is hearsay.

But what this judge and his cronies are doing is abusing the power of the US government. That is far worse than anything even they accuse him of.
The film crew got lucky that they didn't ruin anything by failing to secure the location for their shoot. If a film crew wants to exclude the public from a public space, it is on them to make that happen. J. Random Bystander has no responsibility to know or care what a film crew is hoping to accomplish.
> social media is basically letting everyone have a voice in the conversation

This is demonstrably false, as illustrated by the spate of silencing dissenting voices on various platforms, regardless of whether their content is factual. Just today even, you can no longer talk about how the Biden admin has redefined the word "recession", without Facebook removing your post. They claim it's not factual, when it clearly is. But is it dissenting from what the "privileged few" want the masses to believe, so it is silenced. There's literally a new example of this each and every day.
I appreciate the perspective, it's a common objection. Similar arguments I've heard are that in order to learn to cook, you need to do one of:

- read a lot of cookbooks and understand them

- go watch a ton of YouTube videos and triangulate the best way to do it

- go get a job in a kitchen (essentially, apprentice)

I learn the way you do and I totally get where you're coming from. But this only works for serious autodidacts. For everyone else, doing any of the above is a pain in the butt. So that's the problem we're trying to solve.

The magic of the tech tree is that it addresses the issue of "you can't type what you don't know into Google."
What business opportunities does the CHIPS Bill provide do you think?
Considering almost all of the services are multi-zone, it's not hard to add in a couple of lines to make them resilient against this.

People are just unaware, and probably making bad calls in the name of being "portable".
There are far more resources available for those who don't know how to cook and are just looking for a bunch of shortcuts than for those who want recipes where they may be willing to spend a little more time for a better product.

Almost all the afternoon Food Network cooking shows are about shortcuts and easy ways out (Ina Garten, maybe, used to be the exception but even she's now only focusing on her simpler meals on her cooking show as opposed to the more complex stuff she used to do).

Allrecipes.com is absolutely filled with easy to prepare dishes.

And any more fancy recipe site that includes detailed instructions to, for example, make your own bread, will almost always suggest a store bought alternative you can use instead (NYTimes cooking, Bon Appetit, Serious Eats, etc., will almost always have store bought alternatives suggested).
Quite rapid growth! I'm curious, what in your marketing strategy worked best?
The gift tax exclusion is $16k per year, per gifter, per recipient, plus another 12 million dollars of lifetime exclusion.

Tracking would not change that.
In NYC you generally have to move your car twice a week due to street cleaning. No way you could park for weeks without issue.
For CA, the value is 11 per 1000

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/teen-births/teenbi...
might be both as both programmers and designers tend to share the same inside jokes.
China is called the CCP… if Russia and China aren’t communists or communist friendly then who is? And why won’t you accept the proposition that americas problems might be due to a poor implementation of capitalism but then call all unattractive communist countries just “poor implementations of communism?”
What is the benefit of everything being web based over setting up automatic building of traditional packages for existing OS or building containerized packages EG flatpak.
That doesn't seem to contravene what was being said? The assertion was that the US (via higher prices) is what pays for the R&D. Not they they exclusively spend all the US profits on R&D. If the companies suddenly made 20 billion less, I'd expect the proportionate expense on Sales vs. R&D to stay roughly the same?
Can you provide some examples and a bit more context? I'm genuinely interested in knowing more! I spend my time writing APIs and optimizing the DB layer all in postgres and springboot and I sincerely need to "squint" to come across those values in a way that directly affects my work so I'm genuinely curious :)
Cooking has become a very weird thing - people both overrate its difficulty and complexity to the point of phobia..and also consume content of people cooking without ever doing it themselves. So many cooking tik tok etcs are so obviously not good food to make compared to normal stuff.

Scrambled eggs are a good thing to learn for a beginner, and maybe the app does try to teach you the real "hard" part of them: Heat control. If you understand the heat of your stove and your pan, you can make scrambled eggs.

You can learn it by getting a carton of eggs, a stick of butter, and a frying pan. You'll learn how butter burns and gets too hot, and you'll learn when you jump the gun and put the egg in too cold of a pan.

People want steps and skills and tricks. But the real way to learn how to cook is to look at & listen to your pan, taste your food, and then repeat and learn from your mistakes.
Social media is dangerous, because the algorithms that make it money are milking negative emotions like outrage and hate.

Social media as "people interacring on the internet" is not bad per se. For example I'd guess Hacker News' net benefit for democracy would be positive.
i am very interested in the next generation of things like horizon workrooms on oculus. I find the current gen unpleasant to use for long periods of time but I'm sure it can be improved
EdgeDB is a long-term effort for a DB/query language that's as intuitive as possible for the greatest number of people. The early adopters are primarily those who are frustrated by ORMs and/or SQL, as you'd expect. But you should pick whatever makes you most productive—if you're already productive and happy with SQL, then that's definitely the right choice! Good luck with PureORM, looks very cool.
Are you giving cash gifts of more than $16k as birthday presents?
Awesome, I see you've implemented the fix and now it works fine. Good luck!
Thanks, and best of luck!
I've been a proponent of it for awhile now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
It's a satirical piece, you are allowed to not like it but you don't have to peer review it.
I wish you good luck but I don't get it either.

The thing that makes Duolingo great is that right away you learn words in a new language. It hooks you. Within 1 lesson you know several words or a phrase with a few variations.

This is more just random trivia about food that no one cares about. I started with the cheeseburger recipe (apparently an advanced lesson or something). Right away it's asking me a bunch of questions about ground meat but teaching me nothing. Where's the hook? I want to see a recipe and learn to make it, not feel like I'm taking a test about a bunch of stuff I was never taught with no obvious path to simply making the thing I want to make. In the 5 minutes I spent on it I feel like I was just getting grilled (metaphorically). The first 5 minutes of Duolingo I actually learned something.

Anyhow, suggestion would be to start right away with the thing people actually want... How to cook the food and make the recipe.
Relax, my friend. HN is just a bunch of news stories hosted on a single server, one of many. There's a bunch of places you can join if you want to actually have conversations, every day.

Join Discord communities for the hobbies and tech that you like. There's even a community for gameboy game development.
I think this would be an excellent area for regulation since it anti-competitive (portability is dramatically reduced since it has been made artifically expensive to move the data to another cloud service) and the cloud services haven't shown any interest in doing something about it on their own.
What did you use for tools/subscription management? All custom or did you use a pre made service like hubspot?
Anyone's ECR endpoints went out during the outage? We've had timeouts while pulling images onto our k8s cluster post-restart
My big multi-national bank (Chase) is phasing out safe deposit boxes entirely. I had to go to a regional southern bank to get a safe deposit box. I also had to give them a $300 deposit and jump through a bunch of hoops because I didn’t want a checking/savings account. It seems like a good business opportunity, but it’s expensive (takes space, requires security/safes, and low revenue offering). It’s not a good business for banks.
Been using EdgeDB for ~6 months and it's great. I do wish the documentation was better (more examples please!). I spent more time than should be necessary trying to figure out simple things like NOT NULL, or how to get a backref for a linked table.
Ask HN: What does the front end dev world need to make better applications?
I finished a side project web app recently and am about to come upon a chunk of free time before uni starts again. It struck me how difficult it was to do things like:

- Make an animation performant (lots of CSS properties trigger paint or layout unexpectedly)
- Make components with good keyboard accessibility (not just tabbing), common mobile gesture support, etc.
- Do styling properly (CSS modules aren't quite cutting it, and on the perf side sometimes recalculating styles takes up to 50ms!)

I'd particular like to improve the performance story in the frontend world but I'd be interested in creating or contributing to anything (build tools, libraries, linters, etc.) that makes it easier for devs to make a nice user experience. I was going to experiment a bit myself with things like shadow DOM, wasm, and web workers to see if those things might be suitable for the mainstream web (for wasm we have yew, for example, but it's niche). I thought that first, I should get the opinion of web devs more experienced than myself.

To repeat the title question: What does the frontend dev world need to make better applications?
I recall a Scandinavian guy not so long ago posting here that your account gets frozen as soon as someone sues you in his country. Perhaps this person is not from the US.
The single line comes from the trajectory of the spacecraft as it flies through the focus point, reading one pixel at a time. Stopping and rastering is not possible and not close to possible with current technology. Of course, you still want a raster grid, but you have to obtain the grid by sending a swarm of different spacecraft. They each collect a line as they fly through the focus point, and then you can assemble the lines into a grid.
What country are you in and how do you feel it's US centric?
re-read the post. I never said you cannot withdraw but any attempt at withdrawing is illegal. It's called fraudulent conveyance .
Or Doctorow drivel, er, I mean, novels.
> What they did was immoral. ... Employees that missed family events, worked family vacations with the promise that their paper millions would be converted to cash.

Companies never promise this. The employees who chose this stupid fucking startup over their families are also immoral.
Is there a 100% open source alternative to retool?
Hard disks have been getting larger capacity but i/o capability is fairly flat. The result is that price/GB is dropping but price/iops is not. So _cold_ storage is where you would expect to see pricing fall. I don't follows AWS pricing closely but I've seen a lot of news around Glacier over the year so that might reflect this fact.
> as de facto decreases (widely but privately negotiated, e.g. "sticker price").

Widely, AWS doesn't negotiate on pricing. Small business get the list price or they can switch to another cloud. Medium and large businesses (from 100 employees to Fortune 500) get blanket discounts (excl. some specific line items) in exchange for a spend commitment, e.g. if you commit to at least $10M AWS spend per year, you'll get a 10% discount for all your spend. It doesn't give different discounts to S3 compared to other AWS products.

Do unique top-top-tier customers of AWS get special S3 pricing? Nice for them, but it isn't _widely_.
that's (7-5)/5 = 40% improvement in accuracy.
Facebook has only hinted that they have to trim headcount. Literally everything else in this article is pure speculation - no one knows what the actual process will be.

More than likely Facebook (sorry, Meta) will probably do it by team and trim underperforming departments. A low performer in an important department is probably more likely to stick around than a high performer in a money pit.
It was built by an awesome team (mostly Ukrainian) called Tapforce: https://www.tapforce.com/

Here's a story about them that will knock your socks off: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/engineering-plot-twist

And, here's another one: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mizzao_my-hands-are-trembling...

If you need work like this, hire them. They will blow your mind.
That's closing the barn door after the horsepower has escaped.

I will see myself out.
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It is quite far removed from what banks do.

For example, if a bank detects an anomaly, they report it. What they DO NOT do is transfer the suspicious funds to a police bank account.
"That time I stood in a film set for 30 mins then someone kindly asked me to leave which I did"

007 over here... hahaha
Most big cities have the shorter notice periods because they also generally have maximum parking time limits. In Seattle, for instance, you have to move your car every 72 hours if you're parked on the street.

Is it enforced? No. But technically, it's there.
Over here, it feels like white has become a much more common car color over the past 5(?) years or so. It used to be almost non-existent outside things like rental cars etc. but nowadays it's really common.

As for showing dirt/scratches/dents, from what I've read black is the worst actually, followed by other very dark colors. Best is relatively light gray, brownish/beige kind of colors.