skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it doesn't really matter if you're being scammed via Zelle/Venmo, or via paper check, or via wire transfer, or via ACH.

It does, though. If scammers scam via paper check, wire transfer or ACH, the full force of the government comes down on them and they actually get put in jail if they get caught. If they scam via Zelle or Venmo, too bad, so sad.
Weird that a framework created by Adobe, the creators of Flash, one of the most non-standard web ever created, would be cited as a web standard friendly alternative to React. Such is the way when a company loses its competitive advantage /shrug.
Ever been to a bad neighborhood? Notice all the stores have iron bars on the windows?

Sure it isn't your fault if your house gets broken in, but you should still lock your door. The more risk you are of your house being broken in the more precaution you should take.

Right now odds are very high that someone will attempt some form of cyber crime against you. As such you should be taking precautions to prevent it. It won't be your fault if it happens, but it will still ruin you day, and may cost you a lot anyway.
How do I lock down my "real" account? For instance, I want to disable the ability for anybody to pull money, and I must manually push into a billing account which only maintains limited funds.

I briefly looked into this at one point and as best as I could tell, Chase would only let you disable ACH on business accounts.
I wonder what the next step will be. Probably an acronym, PWFA (Person Without Fixed Abode).
Of all the ways to write how your HTML is supposed to look from JavaScript, JSX is probably the closest to Javascript there is. It's a very simple syntax translation to JS function calls, and all code / logic is still plain JS. Every other template language that invents their own loops / conditionals / ways to insert variables is waaaaaaay further away from JS (and also still needs tooling and editor support).
Telegram has secret chats which are not the default
My sympathies. I am fortunate in that my wife and I are in agreement that we want to stay far away from Venmo, Zelle and similar services. Our kids deal in cash or nothing. As for services: cash, check, CC or GTFO.

I also (so far) have been unwilling to trust Plaid. Plain old crappy wire or ACH transfers for me, thanks.
people in Berlin, Germany, fyi:
Vintage Computing Festival Berlin (VCFB) October 8th and 9th, 2022

The Vintage Computing Festival Berlin (VCFB) is an event about historic computers and computing technology. In exhibitions, presentations and workshops, participants from all over Germany and beyond present many different aspects of Vintage Computing. In addition to retro computers, also historical operating systems, programming languages, network technology as well as pocket and mechanic calculators will be shown. Most of the exhibited devices are in working condition. Established in 2014, the VCFB has steadily grown and has attracted nearly 3000 visitors in 2019. In 2020 and 2021, the VCFB took place as an online and hybrid event respectively.

source: https://vcfb.de/2022/index.html.en
I think the SRE role in Google is the best implementation of the role. They have 2 tracks called SRE-SWE and SRE-Systems Engineer and actually both are expected to write software majority of their time, only difference from normal SWE is where you focus I guess.

However, your life as SRE after Google if you don't take an SWE role can be very different to what you experience at Google. The reality is in majority of the companies system administration teams labelled as SRE as hiring tactic and code base quality, the type of things you develop, amount of project vs toil varies massively towards negative.
> I couldn't finish the 2020 Hugo Award winner because for the first 50 pages it was the protagonist moving into an apartment, unpacking stuff and walking around in a city.

That would be "A Memory Called Empire". I really enjoyed that book. Sure, you could boil it down to moving into an apartment... From having lived on a space station to an alien world, as a new ambassador, dumped into intrigue. That's quite a lot of unpacking.
they don't just die, thermal paste dry up, fans gum up, gpu will live, but thermal throttling will mean it'll run at, say, 80%.
I’m a wedding photographer.

Every good photographer (almost) always bounces their speed light off the wall/ceiling or uses an off camera flash. I’ve taken hundreds of thousands of wedding images and never once had red eye to remove. People also don’t “startle” faster than the speed of light.

Speedlights aren’t “big honking flashes” and as long as you know what you’re doing you’re still usually at a high ISO as you don’t want the background to be super dim compared to the foreground.

Anyways, phones are especially ill suited for that environment compared to modern cameras. At f/1.4, 1/200th of a second shutter at ISO 6400 you can freeze everything but super fast motion with pretty good image quality in very dim environments. Phones absolutely cannot do that. Even pictures taken outside just after the sun sets are a smeary mess after the built in noise reduction.
Vintage Computing Festival Berlin (VCFB) / October 8th and 9th, 2022
Telegram has e2ee in the form of "secret chat"
Decentralizing Writing: Creating an Internet of Ideas
They expect strangers unrelated to the actual fraudulent transaction to make them whole.
"The combined bill" during which time period?

1 Month, for sure. What about 1 year? Also did those companies required to provide any training or hiring to achieve that? Because you also need to add that to the cost comparison

If you are comparing one month bill agains 1 time purchase (which if is correctly chosen should not happen but once every 10 years at the earliest) for sure it will be cheaper. When it comes down to scalability, development and deployment, you should check your tech stack rather than your infrastructure. Kubernetees and containerization should easily take care of those with on premise hardware while also reducing complexity + you will no longer have to worry for off the chart network transit fees
The main reason to not use e2ee is being able to access, send, and receive messages concurrently on multiple computers at the same time.
This is why, in the US, you want to use a credit card, not Zelle, for anything which might require reversal. The terms for credit cards are set by Federal law, and they favor the cardholder. Terms for debit systems such as Zelle are more like handing cash to someone.
Keep in mind that people are posting their highlight reels on Instagram but people do have weekends like that. Multiple weekends in a row, even. (Thursday is the new Friday.) It's part of what makes living in an expensive city worth all that extra cost and hassle, and all the downsides. It's not for everybody but some people choose and have the energy for that kind of lifestyle.
> But using weak and/or compromised passwords is a bad idea in exactly the same way that it's a bad idea to leave your front door unlocked.

I'd argue it's not quite the same... using weak passwords is more like using a lock that can be 'raked'; your security is just lax.

Re-using passwords is like using the same key for your front door, back door, garage, car... If someone finds it and makes a copy of it, they have full access.

Compromised passwords, it's when you know a key is lost or stolen and you don't re-key.

> From a policy perspective, I think the most appropriate thing would be a middle ground. It is good for everyone's peace of mind to be sure that your entire bank balance won't vanish without recourse, but if you leave your banking "front door" unlocked, the bank covers 90% of the actual unrecoverable loss, but you're on the hook for the other 10%. That eliminates perverse incentives to use weak passwords without being cruel to victims.

Both of my main financial institutions have 'pretty dang good' security measures on one level or another. One, has forced password changes at 6 month intervals (not as good as 90 days, but better than many!) The other does not have forced password changes but I know their internal security is... pretty crazy. Losing your badge 3 times is enough to get you fired, and any contractors who do work must be under a very specific specification of video surveillance while working with their clients.
A global recession is almost certainly coming and the Fed is to blame, says UN
Honestly I think some big issues are that not everyone has a fast machine thats going to be up all the time to host the instance. It would be cool to implement something like BitTorrent but for websites.
We didn't have any of the stability problems though is was kind of "quirky" (I also used it at another big corp which was only mail, which is terrible). I see you are not a fan. I had to use it and by the end kind of liked it. I didn't have to migrate from notes to something else though. (I migrated a non Y2K database to Notes). I suspect "Mail" was the way to get an installed base of Notes applications across a business.

>The only thing I did like about it was collapsible sections in emails. And the fact that you could write really advanced 'agents' for it. I had one that would remove the "return read receipt" flag and insert a button in the email so I could send it whenever I did wish to send it instead.

Thats pretty good.

I see notes as a basically a NoSQL database attached to a primitive gui and a very bad scripting language (lotus script). You could make a little application and deploy it to a team pretty easily. IBM had a bunch of little Notes databases/applications that could be used by the dept to track project and other things. I haven't seen much that replaces its sort of simplicity and ease of use. I guess the web, but it seems it takes more to stand up a custom app these days.

I have no idea how you would export the unstructured data that lives in those databases..
Copying from my other response:

"Please take this with an open mind.
To the extent I care, it is a mater of aesthetics. I enjoy seeing a less cluttered and more maintained environment. Because they are my neighbor, I see their front yard frequently, as do my visitors.

This is basically the same reason that I don't like it when people litter and leave their garbage in the street, or I don't leave dirty dishes around my house.“

...

Nobody cares if the house next to them looks different but beautiful. What they don't like is houses that appear unkempt or ugly.

In some places this is maintained by City and County ordinances, like that you can't use your yard as a garbage dump. In other places there are more nuanced social expectations and judgments.

There's obviously a wide range to the social expectations. In some places, people won't complain if you fill your yard with cans and bottles. In other places, people might complain if your paint is ugly and your plants are not maintained.
If you want e2ee you can have e2ee by selecting it and using it. Simple enough.
Outlook may have used Windows structured storage back then -- but then again it could just be my imagination.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/stg/structur...

e.g.
https://www.mitec.cz/ssv.html
Very stylish, but also randomly resets to 2018 when I mousewheel scroll, which is kind of unfortunate. The fundamental UI design for it is great.
No, because murder is still illegal.

In a technical setting, we can't even reliably describe how things will operate 5 years from now. Imagine a law that specified how frames were to operate... and now no one uses frames.

Just imagine a law that says "no tracking". What is tracking? How is it done? How do we know it when we see it? All of this must be defined... and these definitions are fuzzy and change rapidly.

The ADA law specifically says you must make your website accessible... but fails to specify what accessible even means in a modern setting. That's the pitfalls of trying to regulate how things are designed in a technical setting. Perhaps it's possible, but I have not yet seen a good law that made an attempt.
if you expect downtime in the 5 year to replace fan and whatnot, you're not getting 100% of your money/perf back - and I didn't see that in the article.

if you have spares, spares need to be in the cost, and value lost to downtime stay minimal. but you have to include spares in the expenses. if you don't have spares, 1-2 day downtime is going to be a decent hit to value.
Surprised DeSo hasn't gotten more hype with all the Elon <> Jack talk of making a decentralized alternative to Twitter.
yes

https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/115157/what-are-po...
Yes they are NOT PowerCPU's but the core's are based on the power architecture with ++ and secret sauce.
Apple ‘notebooks’ become ‘laptops’ in sweeping Mac branding change
Now you're building Matrix. Look how that worked out:

https://nebuchadnezzar-megolm.github.io/
PineCone seems interesting. Is the storage backend open source? I've been working on a persistent hashmap database that's somewhat similar (albeit not done) that should have less RAM requirements than bitcask (ie. larger than RAM keysets)
The fewer entities that have it, the better. Banks probably aren’t giving it out freely. Any ACH charge attempted against it will deduct balance, and fraud liability repayments (if the bank agrees to help) will take as long as the bank takes to recover funds
Yep, that's right! Toolchest focuses on compute, deploying and optimizing popular scientific computing packages.
Frauds and scams should be solved with heavy jail time or death and policing across borders.
The 14 character password limit in some versions of Windows is a side effect of using LM and NTLM (original "flavor", not NTLMv2) hashes used in Windows NT domains and maintaining compatibility therewith. It's not related to Active Directory, per se.

Nobody should be using LM or NTLM hashes anymore today, for all that that means... >sigh<
We have other payment systems like credit cards which work that way. The inevitable consequences are that permissions to receive payments are tightly locked down, and the network charges fees to help cover the cost of fraudulent transactions.
NFCU and USAA have both gone way down hill. They are coasting on their previously earned reputations but are no better than anyone else nowadays.
A lot of HN culture is old 'net culture.

On the old 'net, people had to take personal responsibility for their own data-house because neither law nor enforcement had caught up yet to the notion of having a system intruded upon. Remember, we had to pass laws to make "unauthorized access" illegal in the same sense trespassing is; before that, it was just "some signals a stranger beeps at your machine could cause it to malfunction or to send signals back they could interpret as your bank account number. If you don't want that, harden your system against malfunction."

Nowadays, society has caught up but some people with an old-guard mindset still see someone get their stuff stolen and go "Well, should have locked your doors; only way to guarantee your stuff is safe."
That only works if you don't care whether anyone actually uses your messenger. In the real world, people will only adopt a messenger that remembers their contact list across multiple devices.
Click-bait title aside : ^ ), I'd agree. Neural hashes seem to be a promising advancement imo, but I question its impact on the convergence time of AI models. In the pecking order of neural network bottlenecks, I'd imagine it's not terribly expensive to access training data from some database. Rather, hardware considerations for improving parallelism seem to be the biggest hurdle [1].

[1] - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/nvlink/
a6400 is mighty powerful indeed. I upgraded to it from a5100 (which I still have for its compactness) and was amazed by its customizability. Also with mirrorless you can adapt pretty much any old cheap manual-focus lens and get creative bokeh or fast telephoto for under $200.

It feels limited for video though — a lot of options but no way to get beyond 8 bits per channel, so iphone hdr videos win in most cases.
This assumes they have a device that can read fingerprints/face. I'm going to homeless folks are also more likely to be on library computers, old phones, etc. and not have access to biometric sensors.
What a ridiculous opinion. shrug Love long books, sometimes wish a book would not end and re-read some of my favorites constantly. Last book took me 3 months to read. Enjoyed every word.
The blocker isn't TC39 membership or being a champion though. It's blocked on someone actually working on it, writing the docs and editing the spec text, answering the questions brought up etc.

If you can find someone willing to do that, I'm happy to help you find a TC39 delegate to help you with the committee stuff (Either with my Node.js hat with our delegate or with my Microsoft one). I'll also guarantee Ben (who is a friend) would be happy to help he just doesn't have the time to work on the proposal itself.
Has anyone here had experience with daily standups done exclusively over Slack (or similar service)?

To me it seems like it would mitigate some of the downsides like people talking too much. And being asynchronous and in written form is a big plus to me. I can just skim through it quickly rather than sit through a monotonous daily meeting.
Do I trust the Fed with respect to how to manage the economy? Maybe not.

Do I trust the UN more on that topic than I trust the Fed? Absolutely not.
This part of the essay admits that everyone tends to have their own interpretation of what Scrum means, and success actually comes down to whether you have the correct interpretation:

"Creating your own version of Scrum is a rite of passage for engineering managers. Both cases usually result in catastrophic failure, followed by tears and despair."

I've seen a variety of Agile approaches work well for some project managers but fail miserably with other project managers, which leaves thinking that it comes down to the person in charge -- if something only works when a certain person does it, maybe the observed effect comes from that particular person, and not the formal methodology that was nominally adopted for the project?

I've spent many years doing high level consulting, with multiple startups, which has been a great education for me because I've had a chance to observe a large number of different development methodologies. And while I've seen success with many of these methodologies, I've also seen failures, and the difference always seems to come down to who is charge, which makes me think the success or failure really depends on the leader and not the development methodology.

To put that differently, I have not seen any methodology that reliably leads to success, but I have seen certain project managers who reliably deliver success, and I suspect they could switch to different development methodologies and still deliver success. Therefore the development methodology doesn't seem to matter much.

I've only seen one rule that has consistently been true, and which grants a certain flexibility and agility to the development process:

"Small meetings are more productive than large meetings, and one-on-one meetings are the most productive of all."

I wrote about this here:

"Truly Agile development revolves around one-on-one meetings, not daily standups"

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/truly-agile-development...
On the bottom of page 559 in my edition, there's a "little" I could have done without. Other than that, it was pretty good.

(I actually just read the bottom sentence on like 50 pages trying to find something, and damn if I couldn't actually really find a word that was not needed or useful.)
Just to be clear: That exchange was not a direct quote, but many exchanges like that, can be found.

I tried reading some of Steven Brust's Khaavren Romances[0], where he adopts a similar writing style, but couldn't make it through them. I did like his Vlad Taltos[1] books, which are written in a much more "vernacular" style.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaavren_Romances

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Brust#The_Dragaeran_boo...
It's a conference where people use a cutesy style to communicate about serious topics in a fun and light-hearted way. If it's deeply unappealing to you, you're not the intended audience.
what does usage during the trial look like? do you track retention? what are the touchpoints during the trial (email, etc.)? do they understand the value prop by the end of the trial?

of all the things people could do during a trial, what usage patterns correlate to trial conversions? using xyz features? completing xyz activities? how do you onboard them after they make an account?

if all that is yes then maybe it's a price issue -- (either too high, or they didn't understand the value enough to think it was worth)
I've been thinking about this thread a lot, because I did not agree with you at all based on my experience with CL.

After a while I realized it - I may have programmed in Common Lisp but never professionally... on a professional code base. Only ever on open source thingies, and small side projects. Paid or unpaid.

I've never seen industrial common lisp code. My last job had some but I never got to work on that project, and no longer can see it :(

Is there an example somewhere of this? C++ examples would be things like Chrome, C would be lots of open source OS's and kernel drivers. Is there something equivalent for CL?
a5100 FTW! It must be very cheap now, and with a compact prime lens or even the very versatile 18-135 it fits in most larger pockets.
Did you do a reference check?
I should have taken Scott Hassan up on his offer to be a very early eGroups employee. I’m perfectly happy with my life so it’s not a huge regret, but I’ll always wonder.
You are missing the forest for the trees -> there will always be some fraud, and thus a devision must be made regarding who is responsible.

Furthermore, if the bank don't suffer from faud, they have no incentive to fight it. So there will be no effective securiry
Ah memories. My first machine was a Classic ii. I think it might be in a friend's garage in Ohio, will have to check with him. Thanks for the great post!
True, but you can install KICKS instead of CICS ;)

But you are right, if you want that, got to zexplore. If you want a taste of Mainframes then MVS and VM/370 are a excellent starting point.

BTW: If you understand "Berkeley Unix...whatever that is" then Linux is a piece of cake...not that ~much has changed.
> The analogy here would be the choice between a 1 second flight to somewhere random in the suburb of your choosing in any city in the world versus a 10 hour trip putting you at the exact house you wanted in the city of your choice.

Wouldn't the first part of the analogy actually be:

A 1 second flight that will probably land at your exact destination, but could potentially land you anywhere on earth?
If you click their profile, load the link, it’s linked to on the homepage:

https://www.asoriba.com/
Forgive me for being suspicious of any invisible hand based argument.

I hope you'll be glad to hear that in my time, learning for its own sake is/was still seen as important, in humanities as much as any other area.

Freedom from the domination of financial considerations may be based more on individual conditions than systemic ones. There were certainly students worried about money in the 70's--it sounds like many of them are more accurately described as would-be students who simply didn't have the opportunity to attend at all. I do not fault today's would-be students who do have that opportunity for seeing their performance as tightly coupled to their livelihood.

(edit: to clarify, suspicion of an invisible hand argument means "if we can't articulate the cause, how are we purporting to know the effect?")
A: Use Scrum