skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how good the deepfake would be for things it didn't have training data on. For example, making an extreme grimace. Or have the caller insert a ping pong ball in his cheek to continue, or pull his face with his fingers.

One thing I notice with colorized movies is the color of the actor's teeth tends to flicker between grey and ivory. I wonder if there are similar artifacts with deep fakes.
Except not all contributors to projects signed the TOS since you can upload an existing project with existing non-Github contributors. One person uploading a project does not override or change the license of that project. So MS is already not relying on the TOS for legal protection which means they feel legally they can train on any OSS projects.
The answers to the question in the title and the one in the text are different.

1. How important is an traditional education for programming?

- It's complicated - formal education helps but it's not a requirement and the most talented people can succeed without it but you likely aren't the most talented but you can still do well... and so on.

2. What does HN tell teenagers ready to leave high school for their next step?

- Get a computer science degree if you want to work in software, and you're still young and haven't been to university. You'll have a much better career trajectory if you do this compared to doing anything else. The answer changes for people who are considering formal education later in life, or who have a degree in something else, or some other experience - then it gets complicated to analyze again. But for a teenager who wants to build a career in software, getting a CS degree seems like a very easy recommendation.
> If you transact with Tornado, you're in violation of US law.

Fixed it for you. There's a tendency, particularly in the USA for people to assume that their law is universal
Words have meanings. If you call something “full self-driving” you can’t get upset when people assume it means full self-driving.
If you're taking 10k or more in cash out of the country and fail to file a fincen-105 you can have all of the cash sized with no recourse. CBP regularly uses cash sniffing dogs for this purpose.

https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/fin105_cmi...
My thoughts too - but giving benefit of doubt to gp since it’s a still shot vs video
A weakness of Ethereum is that it's difficult to obscure how much money you have, but Tornado can untraceably separate your cold wallet from your hot wallet. That's a totally legitimate use. While it's used a lot for money laundering, TC is morally agnostic, just like real cash.
> Are there any formal (or formal-ish) grounds for saying that only authors of unsafe code need to be aware of Undefined Behaviour in Rust?

Yes. It's called type safety / type soundness: you cannot cause UB in safe code.

I literally did a PhD on that topic: https://research.ralfj.de/phd/thesis-screen.pdf
We have PK cryptography you know, yubikeys and such.
Yeah exactly, I do think that early ID (before Romero left or maybe before Quake) the golden standard of startups: Small, efficient, extremely smart, hard working and solving real, top-notched problems.
What I enjoy about HN is that for most part we ignore who is saying something and instead focus on the content. This is in contrast to a site like Twitter, where the number of followers and blue checks make a massive difference to the number of people who will see your thoughts. This ends up creating a system that feels fairer. I don’t need to waste time cultivating an audience and farming clout, for instance. I can simply lurk and comment on the rare threads where I know what I’m talking about. I don’t care about my karma, and no one else cares about my karma either.

The exception to this is links to personal blogs, where links to domains of well known people immediately rise to the top. This is a simple question of time - it takes time to evaluate full articles and people are more likely to invest that time if the name seems familiar.
>Remember, the most privacy-preserving way of trade is dealing with cash, yet no one sees it as "criminal."

Except for, ya know, when you launder that cash, kinda like what Tornado does...
Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of frozen bodies
Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to do your best work?
Hi everyone,

I have been working as a software engineer for a while now and have built confidence in my skills, but I’m recently struggling to motivate myself to apply these skills to do work that I am happy with at my job. I have a great job, great coworkers, a fantastic manager who gives me everything I need, work in my ideal environment, and I’m still struggling to find motivation to complete my tasks, let alone to the standard that I know I could. I have very strong feelings about making things good and doing my best, so while half assing things like this is rewarding in the short term, in the long term I just feel like I’m doing bad work and not living up to my potential. I should say (I think) my teammates love me and my managers are happy with my work and keep giving me raises and promotions. But (while my family and I certainly appreciate the money) it kind of makes me feel bad because I feel like they’re going to realize how badly I’m doing at some point. I don’t have some kind of feudal loyalty to the company, but I do feel a loyalty to my managers and coworkers who have helped me a lot and always treated me very well. I don’t want to leave this job because it’s great and I’m almost certain whatever other job I get would be objectively worse, but I really feel like I need to change something so I can feel good about my work again.

I think earlier in my career I had this drive to prove myself that was a big motivator for me to to my best, and now that I’m more confident in my skills I don’t have that motivation anymore.

Anyway, I know there’s nothing more annoying than someone complaining about how good their situation is, but I would really appreciate advice from anyone reading who’s been in a similar situation.

Thanks for reading.
I know you're trolling, but those keep right except to pass laws are actually more common in right-leaning states with a lot of empty space. Which kinda undermines your trolling.
Top 5-10 richest people isn't enough of a sample set to draw any conclusions. Compare the million richest vs million poorest people in the world and the answer will be obvious.
If one is interested in Lisp macros, btw, a good (and quite readable) book that covers the subject is On Lisp [0], by Paul Graham. You can download it as a PDF from the author's site[1].

P.S. If you're looking for Lisp enlightenment experiences, actually read through the code snippets in the book -- spending a few minutes staring at 5 lines of macro code and then having understanding dawn on you will give you some of those experiences (at least in the small) :-)

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html
This is a very tedious read.
Are Teslas more lethal per mile than other cars?
I should have been more clear. The housing bridge loans I'm talking about were for first mortgage, on SISA, and pushed by LOs. They really stretch the borrower.

The case you describe also happens, I'm just talking about a different case.
This is ridiculous. The reality of the situation is that the law does make a distinction between activities/venues/products that have a significant non-criminal usage (cash/retail stores/hammers) vs. ones that have mostly criminal usage (mixers/crackhouses/lockpicks).
ESP-WiFi-CSI detects humans with WiFi signals only
Yeah okay, traits are super complicated and C doesn't have anything like that, I admit. It's not really part of how to map instructions to the machine, it's more part of how to figure out which function is even being called at a particular call site.
This is really cool! It's a shame that jsTIfied isn't open source; I would have liked to use it for live demos in my roundup [1] of cool TI software projects. Your project with a skin would be perfect.

[1]: https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2021/10/ti-calculator...
They've incorporated the best practices for managing the limitations of Tesla's autopilot into driving tests now? Glad to hear it.
Show HN: Organize and Compute in Writing via Sowhat Text Editor
Hello HN,

The demo here shows the companion editor [0] for the sowhat language [1].

The purpose of the editor is two things:

- Makes building and organizing a collection of writing easier. It does this by extracting different elements such as tags and folders from a collection of writing then presenting those elements via in-context autocomplete.

- Makes the collection of writing more useful by including notation elements such as events, beans [2] and formulas to support computing within the writing itself.

A while back I released sowhat, the language supporting Tap [3]. Sowhat and the companion editor are, together, a cornerstone of Tap. Tap is a system for collecting writing and other digital matter.

The editor here can be used in conjunction with sowhat to build your own tools. Or, it can provide a foundation to augment and enhance Tap.

My goal is to open source as much of Tap as possible because:

- It's fun to build with other people

- It should be as easy as possible for someone to customize their Tap experience. There's no way to accommodate all the UXs one might want within Tap. These tools are intended to enable a developer to create their own experiences.

- For those that use Tap but the then leave, a person's exported notes can maintain their original organization and meaning.

- Opens a path for others to provide feedback and enhancements to the open source tools and Tap itself.

0. https://github.com/tatatap-com/sowhat-editor, demo: https://tatatap-com.github.io/sowhat-editor/

1. https://github.com/tatatap-com/sowhat

2. https://github.com/tatatap-com/sowhat#beans

3. https://www.tatatap.com
I had a softer core version of this with the first computer I personally owned, a Spectravideo MSX machine with a Z-80 processor. I had more than a hex pad, I had a BASIC interpretter which included an actual manual. And I had a Z-80 assembly reference manual that my older brothers had liberated from the high school’s TRS-80 lab. The company itself was defunct and there was no deeper documentation of the system available (plus this was the pre-internet days so even if it were, finding it would be a challenge). I spent time peeking and poking data into every one of the computers 64K bytes of RAM and managed to find the memory which had the definitions of the displayed characters (and used this to allow me to type ä, ö, ü and ß for a drill and practice program I wrote for studying German). I also wrote part of a disassembler but never got around to handling the multi-byte opcodes of Z-80 assembly.

This kind of low-level experimentation can really help you get your mind around what a system can do.
> yet no one sees it as "criminal."

The government seizes cash all the time for no other reason than the cash itself existing.

Between 2000 and 2016, CBP and other DHS agencies conducted at least 30,574 currency seizures at airports, taking over $2 billion in total. Over two-thirds of all cases involving currency seized at airports were not accompanied by an arrest. Sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/hom..., https://ij.org/report/jetway-robbery/
LOL - They don't have to be licensed specifically on a Tesla. They can show up in a Toyota Tercel from 1999 and take their test.
I guess I'm differing on this point. By "baking in" the dynamic dispatch the final compiled code is, in my mind, an interpreter. Which is how I always thought of the "Full Codegen" step of the old v8 architecture.
Nothing can take the risk to zero. The goal is to take steps to minimize that risk. The average “click rate” for phishing emails is something like 18% (don’t quote me on that exactly) and if you can institute training that brings it lower then you are working to minimize risk. You should do other things as well to further reduce risk, but training is one tool in the toolbox to help.
That will depend on how well they handle forks. I could easily see myself exceeding such a limit just issuing bug fixes.

Especially since one of the bugs I'm likely to fix is, "why is this library so damned big?"
Show HN: Fueler – GitHub for Generalists
Powering the next generation of knowledge workers to showcase their work on the internet.
> "It really does feel like rustc is a big step toward the mythical Sufficiently Smart Compiler, letting you write nice code without worrying about a suite of low-level gotchas."

> Hear more from Reliability Project Director

https://mobile.twitter.com/rust_foundation/status/1385310806...
Would targeting Vulkan instead of CUDA help?
> Rust screams UB much quicker when it comes to memory semantics than any other language that I know.

If you only use raw pointers, Rust has significantly less UB that C does.

But if you use references, then yeah we have those aliasing rules and they can be quite restrictive.
People asked stuff like this 15years ago (do bunny ears on yourself or pretend to pick your nose). Usually to see if the other person is catfishing with a prerecorded video. It usually happens if the other person types instead of speaks (because it's "late" and people are sleeping)

The only thing interesting about the title is the possibility of real time deepfakes for calls. If it's not realtime then 15years ago called and they want their technique back
I have recently migrated my projects to fossil (https://fossil-scm.org), hosting them myself on a cheap vps.

I also really got hooked on their code/project management philosophy, rethinking a lot on how I want to run collaborative projects in general
Astrometric Calibration Metadata for Night Sky Imaging
Just testing this on this page. When I try to select what language this page is in, English isn't an option. Weird.
tl;dr because yakuza members aren’t allowed to sign new contracts since 2011. And if they did it would be fraud which enables police to investigate further. This is such a large contrast to cell phone stores I worked at in USA. You didn’t need any ID or any form of identification. You didn’t need to sign anything. It was normal to wear hoodies and masks in the store(it was a ghetto area and during Covid) You could go into the phone store and hand some minimum wage employee $70 and walk out with an anonymous phone in 5 minutes.
Truly inspiring.
Javascript has a timestamp type, Date.

Of course what you mean is for javascript to have a timestamp literal. Well, the closest equivalent would be: `new Date("2021-12-17T03:24:00")`

It's cumbersome, but I would accept it:

{ mytimestamp: new Date("2021-12-17T03:24:00") }
Yeah that’s my current place. When I got there management didn’t even realize how bad the code was or that spending 70% of dev power on big fixes wasn’t acceptable.
Not criticizing, but just pointing out, in all fairness, men sabotage condoms and "stealth" remove them without their partner's knowledge as well.
But it would be even funnier if the advice was something like "to start working don't start working", although I can see how this advice can be very attractive if you 're into counter intuitive zen aphorisms that make you feel smart.
I do hardware hacking, presentations, code, pictures, and full media to reproduce what I've shared.

FreeCAD files get big. And to accommodate easy printing, STLs are also needed.

KiCAD for board layout and schematics can also get larger. And remember, these also have 3d board components too.

Presentations are naturally larger.

Full high-rez pictures eat storage like you wouldn't believe.

Code is small, thankfully.

One such device I have created is hovering around 4.5GB for a full reproduction for the current snapshot. And if you do the command to pull the whole history (and not current), its around 10GB. And, I'm not sure if GL is counting the whole history, or the current? And are they pruning old after a certain date?
To have freedom and privacy, we need due process. If a Gov agency investigating a crime wants information, they can get a warrant.

A lot of illegal activities happen over email. That doesn't mean the government can require everyone to give them access to their email so they can monitor it just in case crimes are committed.

What you're advocating for is the surveillance system China has setup where the government has a back door to access every social media post, every mobile app, every security camera, etc. Any companies that don't comply (Facebook, Google, Twitter, ...) are banned. They make the same claims that you did that "it's in society's interest" for individuals to give some of their privacy and freedom because the society has a vested interest in this information.
Before building a bridge make sure you can see the other side of the river is there

Building on a hunch won't cut it
Yes. It's a complete non sequitur to ask somebody to self rate their knowledge on e.g. climate change, and then try to objectively measure that knowledge by asking e.g. what the largest organ in the human body is. It doesn't even make any sense. It's like me asking to self estimate your knowledge of javascript, and then giving you a quiz on C# to measure that objective knowledge.

The study is also filled with various issues. For instance they also removed everybody who completely agreed with the scientific consensus on studies 1-4 (see buried in page 44 on the materials and methods supplement) who undoubtedly also rated their objective knowledge highly. They drew participants from outlets like Amazon Mechanical Turk where people are paid peanuts to carry out menial tasks ($0.85 for this study). That's obviously not going to be a representative sample of society, let alone America. The paper claimed to have preregistered their study, yet didn't provide a link to such - which completely negates the point of preregistering, and so on.

Something I find quite troubling is how increasingly common studies of this sort are. This study is mostly junk, but it's enticing click bait junk that will also undoubtedly bump up this journal's impact fact as other's unquestioningly cite it more with the goal of generating interest even if in lieu of science. What exactly were the peer reviewers/editors doing? It seems that so long as one concludes the right thing in exciting enough fashion, what editorial process there is becomes quite deferent, a la Sokal.
I've had callers swearing to take me off their list without doing so.
I imagine their individual performance metrics relative to those of
their co-workers would benefit by having you waste their co-workers'
time. In that sense they're incentivized to facilitate the public
service you seek to provide. While you have them on the line, could
you perhaps get them to consider whether their co-workers are
deliberately screwing them over by recommending you to them? Even if
they're not in a position to change jobs, you could at least enlist
their help in damaging the organization's morale.
So just so I understand, you think there are Tesla owners that think they have Full self driving because the Tesla website calls it FSD?
Has DLP gotten any better? I had a rear projection DLP TV. The bulbs are a decent cost, but then your DLP 'micromirrors' start to fail and the cost isn't really worth maintaining. If that's heat related then I guess the LED source is a boon, but I'm still wary.
I would assume they'd use burner phones, no?
Privacy is a fundamental right, so using cryptocurrency that happen to post your transactions publicly is highly questionable when assuming all rights are absolute.

However, your right to privacy ends where money laundering and fraud begin. These are real problems that get in the way of catching criminals, and not just simple fraudsters and other non-violent liars.

Every paper bill has a unique serial number that gets tracked by banks to trace stolen money. I don't know about any dedicated privacy companies that will take your money and exchange it for random bills of equal value, but if they exist I'd expect the police to have an interest in them, and for good reason. Sure, you could use "privacy" as a reason to visit them regularly but I doubt you'll convince anyone.
Ask HN: Best Online Associate's Degree in CS, and is it worth it?
(First post on HN, hello world)

TL;DR - New Developer looking for the best online Associate's degree in Computer Science for the sake of getting better at Development, and having something nice on paper

I am currently an AS400/COBOL dev that was originally trained in an 11 month web-development boot camp. During that span, I taught myself enough COBOL to get a position near my hometown. I started my "coding journey" in August 2020 shortly after high school, and have been in my current (and first) position since September 2021.

While lots of progress has been made through books, YT tutorials, some projects on my own time, and the occasional project at my work, I want to know what my best resources would be if I wanted to dedicate myself to a 2 year college degree, and if those gains would be any stronger than what I'm doing now. I'm also in such a niche space in a rural state that I don't know how much of a requirement this would be in a remote space.

Any information on my situation or good resources is appreciated.
"Twilio, et. al, have a brutal, unrelenting scam/spam problem and they have no solution for it. They have nothing. If they had a solution they would have deployed it long ago."

That's an interesting point I hadn't heard that before. Don't banks essentially do some form of this with KYC checks?

Would expect being smart about bringing in some components of that process would reduce spam while not introducing too much user friction.
Laura Shin’s recent book about the old Ethereum DAO hack claims that by means of some kind of chain analysis the feds were able to point to a guilty person.

But no details have been published on the mechanics of this “de-mixing”.

Possible it has to do with sloppy change address reuse in Wasabi?
It's not just Git. Gitlab hosts a container registry for every repo, so if you build and store a new container image regularly then you could easily top 5GB.
Haha! Nice job! I love seeing someone proven right.
The issue isn't the tool to get your blog up, but hosting it.

The real solution will be a super easy app that lets you push the blog out to:

- git* pages

- digital ocean/vultr/aws/wherever

- netlify/forestry as an advanced feature

- move it easily from one to the other

(You have to set up an account on the target and provide the app with credentials/tokens or whatever).

Setting up markdown-> html+css themes is what everyone focuses on
Yeah, I am aware it's far from a main language at these companies, but having any use at all is a strong sign.

I am in contact with some people in the Android team at Google that are also using Rust (and that want to use Miri :D ).
I don't think that's true.

"Laundering" cash means making declaring fraudulent income from a business to make the cash income look legitimate. From the perspective of the tax authorities, it doesn't matter whether you have the "same" 100 ETH you had on Thursday, the question still remains whether you have undeclared income.

This is more like... depositing hundred dollar bills at a bank, and then withdrawing different ones from an ATM.
Asiatimes.com had a 4 part series on Ghosn. BusinessInsider as well iirc did a piece on him. Both are damning of Nissan and Japanese legal system. A related story also not broadcast loudly is that of an American lawyer that also got a taste of Japanese jails.

Ghosn is very credible here, if unlike WSJ, you wish to consider the facts. "[I]t is quite possible" is not factual matter.

This story involves industrial policy and interests of at least two major powers: France and Japan. In that scale of matters, Ghosn is a little guy. Good for him for escaping what sounds like hell.

https://asiatimes.com/2022/04/ghosn-shares-damning-new-docum...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/business/michael-taylor-c...