skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've actually asked scammers ("Amazon" or "Apple" representatives who are calling me to help me with a "problem" with my account) this question:

"So, tell me, do you go home to your Mom and say "Hey, I robbed 6 people today! Aren't you proud?"

It usually doesn't go well.
I like the UI integration. Feels similar in purpose to UIPath or other robotic process automation systems, but I don't have enough experience to compare.

Looking at the video, at 1:02 you do put in code to open yourself to SQL injection... it's for internal tools, but still...
1. Its ok to have hi standards

2. copypasta is a cool startup name
Say more about your situation.

I have a lot of alone time, even though I live with my partner. I don't have coworkers, kids, family, or friends, so if I'm not with my partner, I'm alone.
Yes, and you don't need to change definitions to do it.
Looks awesome, internal tools are usually such a pain to build and maintain (and tough to prioritize relative to customer-facing features). Excited to see this!
I never watch videos (I can't skim read a video and they usually involve audio and that's usually inconvenient).

So without the video I'm struggling to understand what "programming" with superblocks means. Is it drag and drop visual programming? Show me a screengrab. Is it coding? What does the syntax look like?

Is it a mixture of both? I want to see both.

Yes - I'm lazy and probably could have read more but lazy, busy people are good test subjects as they probably make up the majority of eyeballs.
Anecdotally, that's not my experience. In fact, I often find sales on old warehouse stock I don't find elsewhere. Shipping is usually a sticking point, though.
We've seen the most pull from more operations-heavy businesses like Fintech (building KYC, AML, Fraud, Credit Card Admin tools), Insurance (claims management and support admins), E-commerce (Order Management, Supply chain). Which industry are you in?
My view on this is that old tech gets outsourced to make room for new tech. That or the company is struggling financially and is not worth working at anyway.
Here's the problem: People are still shopping on Amazon em masse so this race to the bottom will continue to happen. Very few people are able to care that the spatula set or kid sunglasses or phone case or... etc etc etc is knockoff quality because it's available fast and cheap.

I think (hope) this changes, but as price sensitively likely increases over the coming couple of years for many consumers, they're going to be able to look past the transgressions of environmental impact or durability because, hey, if it breaks, they'll just order another $3 widget to replace it.

There is definitely a market for high end, high quality widgets, but price for most will be a roadblock.
A startup or mid sized company with operational/management/admin requirements but no dedicated internal tools team and/or limited engineering resources.
Solein – Protein out of thin air
Lately?? The term DSP is as old as Facebook, the company. DSPs are “legacy” tech at this point
Note: Article author has since moved to Wayland.
This is my favorite HN copypasta post.
> Together, solar/wind/nuclear/hydro produce about a third of all the world's electrical generation.

Including nuclear and hydro in the 1/3 is kind of deceptive since both sources are actively been phased out (c.f. Germany).

Wind and solar generate just over 1/10 of global energy, although it's increasing every year.
Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism (2020)
I don't know how often this is practical, but here's an alternative view: preregistration is unimportant when you are looking for enormous effect sizes, and you should do that if you can:

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/07/21/on-the-hunt-for-gin...
> moving hydrogen is so hilariously in efficient though. It would have to be produced right where you fill the tank of those ships, trucks and planes.

Exactly! I see hundreds of H2 generation facilities adjacent to trucking routes near the massive wind resources of the US great plains.

Each would have a fuel stop with high efficiency H2 electrolyzers and tanks that buffer H2 using wind piwer when it's available, so intermittency won't matter, since stationary hydrogen storage is a solved problem. Hydrolysis is also a solved problem, and getting more efficient constantly (currently up to 70%). Oh, and the facility's only exhaust is oxygen.

Substitute wind with the locally abundant source of renewable energy, and presto, no shipping of hydrogen needed.
That's not how bidets have ever worked.
When you find yourself in this position, it's time to look for a new job.

It will likely never improve
> You know what a giraffe is, Dall•E simply creates pixel groups which correlate to the text pattern you submitted.

How would you tell the difference though? Can you think of a test to distinguish between those two abilities ?
Yeah just like people working for Facebook, gambling companies, building systems to help oppressive regimes, etc. it is hard to understand that how people are able to do evil things without remorse.
Ha! Yeah, Internet commenters are the best :-) I also took his comment as sarcasm, or just uninformed.

But you are correct, Andy, I've earned (literally) 100x more money from building/growing software companies than I have from any books I've written. The books, podcast, etc. are a hobby, not the job.
Most reliable brands have a store on Amazon. Go to that store and buy from that store. You get the reliable brand plus the return policy and fast shipping.
A frat buddy of mine was a trans man. I would have never known if old fart assholes hadn't pitched a fit about him being elected our chapter president.
According to the article, "A single comment, commit, or new issue posted to a project during a 12-month period will be sufficient to keep the project alive." Do the projects you're referring to also typically have no comments/issues?

If so, that does suggest this is a bit too big of a hammer and perhaps they should add that cloning is also sufficient to keep the project alive.
That's where I work. I haven't seen c89 in years outside those "extreme portability" projects like Linux and curl.
Third party websites can more or less only serve Google ads, or from some tiny competitor like Carbon Ads.

Every other ad product is walled-garden specific. Facebook ads are shown only on on Facebook properties. Same with Twitter, Amazon and Apple. You may see ads for these companies on third party sites, but they are being served via Google Ads.
> while for old people entering a retirement home it can be a harrowing experience

if this example is from the book, I guess I just lost my interest. Totally different scenarios, apart from "living with other people"
Does JNI allow native code to make changes to JVM heap? I thought everything in JNI was copied in/out
Ask HN: What is the weirdest successful startup you've seen?
Stripe Identity is used to verify passports, it supports 33 countries (mostly NA and EU) right now. A salted hash of the country code and passport number is published on chain which allows only one instance per passport.

As far as a state level attack, it's possible. A complete solution to Sybil resistance is not simple.

The passport verification service is at https://coinpassport.net if you would like more information.
Have you seen https://www.walkscore.com/ ?
Have you tried Upwork/Fiverr/Behance/Dribbble? In my experience you can get decent art for quite cheap.
EVs cost 22% less to service than ICE cars, new data shows
I haven't thought about C in years - that one where author passes in a printf as a char array element and de-references it to execute it ... gives me chills. Y'all kids have fun - Im going to stick with my VM over here and call it a day. This makes even modern JS look sane by comparison. Excellent write up too.
I'm biased but for local development, I prefer to emulate the least amount of AWS services. You don't have to deal with any gotchas while going to prod.

Some background, with SST we connect your local environment to the services deployed to AWS and just run the Lambda functions locally: https://docs.sst.dev/live-lambda-development
Really enjoyed this.

One issue: sharing my results was not great. Pasting in iMessage gave the result text and the image; pasting in discord only gave the text; pasting in telegram only gave the image.

Not sure if this is even your fault, but it doesn’t have as nice of an experience there as Wordle (which I assume you’re trying to emulate).
>The astute reader might point out that these two versions of sum are not equivalent because the recursive definition may cause a stack overflow for large enough values of n. This is unfortunately true, and the major hurdle for the practicality of disembodied C, but does not preclude Turing completeness (an ideal Turing machine has infinite memory at its disposal).

It does preclude Turing completeness. The stack has an upperbound of the size of a pointer times the word size.
> Another problem I see with the shopping experience is that I would sometimes spend 10 or 20 minutes looking for just the right product (which is absurd when you think about just how powerful modern filtering and search algorithms can be.) And then it dawned on me. Amazon is making money off of those 10 or 20 minutes of "engagement" because it gives them time to show a bunch of paid ads as I search.

that's a galaxy brain moment. never even thought of that, despite taking efforts to be conscious of how companies are monetizing my interactions with their products. now it makes more sense why one of the biggest companies in the world has had such a terrible website for so long
I agree. The incredibly semantics-hostile optimizer ("undefined means I can do anything", whereas in old C "undefined" just mean you were no longer sure what number was the result of an overflow) just takes the cake.
Hi zubairshams, is this remote worldwide?
It will be interesting if you can share how you landed in your first ML job, once you learnt the algorithms. I think getting the first job in ML role, if you don't have formal qualification in the related field is the hard part.
Whoever is in charge of quality as my Target sucks though. I expect a kind of meh quality at Target but the counterfeit crap stuff at Amazon is at least better than the stuff at Target.

The worse is the patio deck chairs that won't actually fit together at Target. Like the welding/metal construction is just wrong.
The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites
If anyone doxes me to tell me how lovely their third-hand copy of Chilton's 1984 Audi 4000 manual is.

Fair enough. But at the same time, I'd almost bet that somewhere, out there, is some person who sold their copy of the Chilton's 1984 Audi 4000 manual, but JUST LOVED THAT CAR, and loves all things Audi, and would be tickled to tears to meet another Audi owner/enthusiast, etc, yadda yadda. That connection would probably result in the two individuals becoming lifelong friends or something.

It's all so unpredictable. Heh.
Links on your README to getting started and docs are 404
Sure, I'm not defending "Lvteci", no idea what that is supposed to be, but I'm vehemently against using "u" and "j" for Classical Latin, it hurts my eyes. I wish those letters were never invented at all!
Certainly. My point was largely that poor vs wealthy is often hard to actually tell.

In the case of the bartender, this wasn't actually a hypothetical: I have more than one friend in this exact situation - they got one good inheritance, are waiting on another, and in the meantime live rent free at a parent's property. In both instances they even get aid from the state.

While they appear poor on paper (and they often describe themselves as poor), they have tremendous resources at their disposal.
Most waste servicers will have specific hazmat procedures for things like ~~RoundUp~~ (they have dilution instructions), undried paint, or mineral spirits. You are typically not supposed to poor these down drains or dispose of them with landfill trash.

https://www.wm.com/us/en/home/common-hazardous-waste
Maybe it's just me, but It feels like I'm constantly gaslit on the Internet
It sounds like you don't really know what science is, or education.
Also, this may not be a memory that Rhonda wants dug up.
I don't think the people in the story would be upset at being shown a note from a (presumably long gone) friend?
Apple is positioned to expand their ads business and take market share from their competitors. "Doing it right" doesn't have a good enough ROI, especially in tech.
> I'm sure a linguist could sort this out. :P

Probably yes, I've hit the language barrier many times in the past; not being a native English speaker and having spent less than 2 months combined in my entire life in English speaking countries comes at a price:)

> Actually why would Russia interfere or react to China/Taiwan in any way, regardless of Ukraine?

Pure speculation, but it is possible that both Russia and China will support each other, at least through economic pressure or threatening military action against the US and NATO countries, so that the US are forced to keep the guard up on multiple fronts because, should the shit hit the fan on one front, they could deploy only part of the available personnel and gear.
That would work as hell of a deterrent, and I'm pretty sure that if it happens on one front, let's say China invades Taiwan and the US intervene militarly, something nasty would happen also on the Russian front, like Russia getting the chance to attack some EU or NATO country so that the US would be forced to divert part of their force there.
Another take https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.14946.pdf
The Tome of The Black Hole's Mathematical Stability was so massive, at 912 pages, hardly a word in the English language escapes the horizon of events unfolding betwixt its covers.
I'm interested in trying ReviewMeta.

In the past I used Fakespot quite a bit, but I started seeing cases where it wouldn't flag products with obviously fake reviews, and it would flag perfectly good products. For example, try it with any five-star LEGO set and it will give it a D rating and "real" rating of 1.5 stars. Without reliable results I had no reason to trust Fakespot any more than Amazon itself.

At a quick glance ReviewMeta seems to give a much more accurate rating to the same LEGO set.
We've seen a mix of small startups building their first admin tool, for example to replace a Django Admin. We've also seen larger enterprises with 1000+ operations people building financial services tooling to support credit card management or a large salesforce doing on the fly pricing of their product based on data from Snowflake. So it ranges, what we do see if most medium and large companies want to use our source available agent to keep their customer data in their VPC
This looks very promising, I think it could be a great resource for companies that want to invest in training their developers, but don't have the resources to build a curriculum themselves.

> What new courses should we add?

The courses you have already are good, but are quite low-level. To broaden the applicability perhaps you could also try something like "build a REST API that matches this OpenAPI schema" (getting persistence working properly could be an interesting challenge). Going further, I wonder if it's possible to do a course like "build a web app that does X" (Realworld or TODOMVC are possible values of X), using browser automation to test. This is probably very hard without manual review. (Scoped broadly enough, this could be solved with a server-rendered framework or a client-side framework.) Common engineering/craftsmanship problems here are authentication, persistence, navigation, performance tuning, perhaps log-wiring, etc.

More generally, I'm wondering if there is a good open-source option as a competitor / baseline comparison? As others have noted, Leetcode is one common source of study exercises, but it's quite annoying to work with as you need to submit code in the browser rather than using your IDE. I'd love to see a repo with exhaustive test cases for the things you're building; for example low-level algorithmic exercises like "exhaustive tests for binary search tree" or higher-level "build a git client" like CodeCrafters offers. Being able to step-debug through failing test cases is always going to be more realistic training than the Leetcode workflow.
Isn't that true of all of us? We all care selectively about certain attributes of objects.

I care that my car is quiet and has comfortable seats, I don't care (or know) what material the muffler is made of, but somewhere there is an engineer who cared about that.

A road designer cares what the tires are made of and how much it weighs, but doesn't care what color the paint is.

An AI recreating an image of my car would care what color the paint is, but not how comfortable the seats are.

I think I see what you're describing - the AI has a very limited scope and doesn't know or care about most of the things we do - but I think that's just a limitation of our current small models and limited training data, not an inherent limitation of neural networks.
I will vouch for Sweetwater anywhere it's mentioned because I've never had such a good customer experience as I have through Sweetwater. I personally enjoy Target and Best Buy a lot. Shopping at Target is oddly enjoyable for me and using their online store has never given me issues. I only really buy from Best Buy online (for both in-store pickup and delivery) and that experience has been good as well.
If you want an easy way to find premium products, buy from a retailer that specializes in selling premium products.

Easy, cheap, good: pick two.
In an introductory Russian book, a note in Russian that had been left by a cleaner in a hotel room, who was delighted to see that someone was studying Russian.

In a German book, some tickets to a movie theater, and a clipping about the more or less covert revival of university dueling societies in the 1950s.
I like CPOoutlets for american tools and KCtools for the german ones.

For tools and other big ticket items- I'm scared to deal with Amazon when I need warranty work
After reading your message I felt compelled to click reply and generate a response and now that’s what I’m doing. My comment feels mildly appropriate to what you said and I’m not 100% sure how it will be received but it feels like I’m communicating some degree of understanding of the sentiment in which you have expressed. My neurons are happy.
Not directly, only via conversion of handles into references/buffers, however once you call into external native code all bets are open.

Most of the time a Java application core dumps most likely there is a native method on the call stack close to the crash point.
I'm not sure if the term "classic" can apply anymore.

Aside from some upper level executive at Amazon, I don't think there's anyone who is aware and concerned of the scale of the returns they get (most likely due to the products being one of the cases I mentioned). Amazon reportedly has warehouses full of returns that they find cost effective ways to dispose of. It's not like they go back to the manufacturer.

In the classic times, the goods would go back to the vendor. And the vendor would have to deal with them -- something that costs time and storage space (and maybe disposal cost).

But now the sellers are insulated from it all. To them it is just a loss of profit. As long as the bottom line is positive, it's worth it to them to scale it up as much as is still profitable.
Wowzers, I thought that was gong to be some template re-write expansion trick. Nope, just willing to run nearly arbitrary code if you wrap it correctly (not a complaint!).
India does not have a single party majority either but an alliance majority
fantastic book. Made me consider the question of whether consciousness exists at all or if it is just some hack by evolution to allow introspection.

I haven't found a definition of consciousness which is quantifiable or stands up to serious rigour. If it can't be measured and isn't necessary for intelligence, perhaps there is no magic cut-off between the likes of Dall-E and human intelligence. Perhaps the Chinese-room is as conscious as a human (and a brick)?
Their latest financials asically show that without cloud, there would be operational issues. Interresting breakdown analysis of Q2 here (Tom Nash)

https://youtu.be/g2D5YCJNtC0
You answered my question -- was looking for a little more context.
They are also told that those victims deserved it. They are decedents of colonizers. Colonizers looted scammers’ country, so now they are just trying to recover lost wealth.
I'm not sure I understand. Can you elaborate on what you mean?
At one point you were talking about the possibility of updating Start Small Stay Small. Just curious if that's still on the table?
Apparently it is possible. [1] I guess I missed that when I was trying before.

[1] https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/38468/calculate...
1DollarScan – FAQ
I have one experience with Corning (Corelle) - wanted simple white square bowls straight from the manufacturer to replace some that broke.

The order was more expensive (by 15%), shipping took a week (as opposed to 2 days) and one of the bowls was "warped" - still functional but definitely a factory reject.

I did not want to bother complaining or returning but honestly, will never buy from them direct again.

And I hate Amazon. I try to use local retailers now, sometimes with online+curbside.
I'm not sure it is. It isn't for me. I don't really believe there is no god, i am however certain that I am more likely to get the wrong one than not (statistically). Thus, rather than taking a belief and moral system from a book, i choose to act as if I don't have one and act following a consequentialism that suits me.

But honestly, 99% of the time, i just don't care.
wow, health informatics.

I'm a biomedical engineer who worked as a BA for EMRs and now as a QA with healthcare apps.

I never really found someone else on HN to relate to until now. Or who did a MSC in Health Informatics.
Why is this just near real-time? If we're talking about Flink + Kafka, isn't that considered really real-time?

Maybe near real-time is just considering ingestion and query latency?
Usually you can tell people who are purely academic. They excel at domain knowledge but are almost naive about building real world systems. They might come in as juniors. I don't think we would loop anyone as mid level or above unless they have experience delivering working systems in production.

Personally I don't mind the candidate's background so far as they can do the job (how the interview is a sucky way to determine this is another topic of conversation).
I would love to do this. But I don't know the reliable brand; how can I find it in the sea of search results which is mostly this kind of stuff?
We are glad to be one of Superblock's early customers to build some of our internal tools and are super happy about it. Congrats on your official launch.
That's signage. No different from you adding a homescreen shortcut to a website, or a pin on a map.
Puts printed when trump put pence in charge of the covid response. given pence let people attacked by another virus die. I lol'd and bought puts.
I have 9 windows with 4780 tabs open currently. Not kidding.
I have maybe 150 active, the rest are "suspended".
Firefox.

This is my current PC, I have another ~3K on my previous browser, which I gave up on.

Have another ~1.5K on the one before that.