skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you probably want at least 2 for redundancy, but active/passive setup on 2 nodes can cover great many use cases if you're not running some memory hogging Rails blob that needs hundreds of MB just to render a site.
> The second near-failure of UB occurred when the site was riddled by extensive credit-card fraud during its first year or so of operations. That led parent company ieLogic to develop an antifraud software suite called ieSnare that was so effective that the company was able to license it to other online concerns.

That’s a pretty interesting little side story.
Just two things:
1) Remember that a lot of tech people score higher on the autistic spectrum than normal people do. So most likely many of the commentators just don't have the biological wiring for feeling empathy like many others do. This might ease your mind a little.

2) Also remember that Musk would probably have given someone those three months to find other employment, seeing as he gave Twitter employees up to six months. So I don't think he's a good example for this. Use instead... hm... how about Meta?
There is a German saying: "Wo ein Trog ist kommen die Schweine." roughly translates to "Where there is a trough - the pigs will come." Rather fitting for all the crypto meltdowns in the last years.
Thanks for your feedback. We started focusing on marketing a few months ago. Yeah, it's tough to get the word out about the product since there's too much noise out there.
> they are supposed to be pristine and wise, when the evidence is to the contrary on both counts.

The brain elasticity of an 80yo might not always be up to learning the JS framework of the week (though perhaps that is a wisdom in itself...), but I find, when talking to older folks, that their years of experience offer an irreplaceable perspective. That I would consider to be a form of wisdom.

Its not that they know everything about everything or that being old makes them automatically smart, but experiencing the world through a much longer lens of time (then my lens) can change how they see things and in particular can allow them to recognize patterns that younger folks would miss...

(None of this should be construed as me advocating for a geritocrasy, but just as a reminder to take the time to listen to the older folks around you. You do not (and probably should not) take what they say at face value as given facts, but listen, consider, and test their perspective as you form your own opinions of the world...
I just read it, and "mean-spirited" seems to describe it much better than "attempts a serious estimate of the man and artist". Almost every paragraph is oddly negative, and sprinkled with ominous, poisonous phrases. As one of the comments on that page puts it, "A great, generous man. It's a pity we get this sneering, begrudging obit from someone who clearly has little time for Berger's considerable contribution to our culture."
>I'm horrified by so many of the comments here that seem to lack even the most basic of human decency. Allow me to fill people in for those who have never uprooted your life and moved across the world for a job.

I think the best time to remind those kind of people of this, is when they get fucked over themselves at some point.

Kind of telling them "Just shut up and cope doesn't feel so good when shit happens to you now does it? Nanananana"
Cubitts is good for the price - UK based, handmade acetate frames.
"People shouldn't complain about movies unless they've filmed a Hollywood blockbuster themselves."
No reason to close this.
He has gotten a lot shadier since his MtGox days in thebesly days of crypto, when arguably he could have been merely ignorant.
It’s amazing to me that enough people still believe in the crypto scam to keep pumping BTC above $15k. I guess they are still managing to mint fools at a fast enough pace to keep the price up.
Dead simple if you just focus on the ears.

Every single fake image has poorly rendered ears, which makes perfect sense as the contouring would be hard to get right for an AI
My previous glasses were about 700 EUR from local shop. I got two pairs of Zenni glasses that cost 120 EUR together with all taxes, shipping, etc. This was few years back. I think they didn't end up caught at the border, but if they did, I'm pretty sure I would still fit into like 10x cheaper than local.

Now I'm a special case, due to crazy level of astigmatism glasses were always very expensive for me. For someone with more normal eyes, this might not be worth the hassle - but what I really like the most is that I can have more pairs to wear depending on my mood and if I break one pair I'm not out of Macbook money.
A similar high profile case lead to India doing away with jury trials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._M._Nanavati_v._State_of_Mah...
>You yourself have no empathy for those who would make those supposedly "harsh, inhuman, uncaring, comments"

That's fine. You don't have to go down infinite meta-levels of empathy.

You can just treat nazis like scum, and jerks like jerks. As long as you treat other people well and with compassion, you would still be behaving far better and more positively than how those who would make those supposedly "harsh, inhuman, uncaring, comments" are.
SerenityOS is such an amazing project. "Oh, this thing would take a large team several years to build? Let's build it anyway!" The backstory behind the project is extremely admirable, too.
> While this is true, it is utterly infeasible for a company with tens of thousands of employees to consider the individual employee in their decisions.

This isn't collectively decided by a company with tens of thousands of employees, it's decided by one or two people in HR and approved by groups rarely larger than five people. It's not only perfectly feasible to "consider the individual employee" in this decision, but a handful of people are literally paid to do exactly that, and miserably failed to do their job.

Lots of people here understandably focus on the part where those guys failed at just being decent human beings. But what I find truly disheartening is the part where those guys really sucked at doing their job: the people in that hiring chain made a decision that cost several departments thousands of dollars in covering relocation paperwork and legal fees, even though that turned out to be entirely unnecessary, and then literally caused an employer branding and PR dumpster fire. This is the equivalent of committing a bunch of performance fixes that turn out to be unnecessary, then attempting to revert them only to cause a massive crash in production -- tl;dr it's just incompetence. And it's really hilarious to see the same people who advocate for ruthlessly firing people for incompetence defend this gross incompetence under the guise of pseudo-philosophical talk about corporate morality.
Your comment is the “dick move” here.
That's not how reality works, though.

And except for a select few, most people can't bend reality.
> required notice periods

But that’s socialism! Soon after, we’ll be eating our own dogs, who wants that?

/s
Tether's assurances should always be read with this in mind.

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...

> In the face of persistent questions about whether the company actually held sufficient funds, Tether published a self-proclaimed ‘verification’ of its cash reserves, in 2017, that it characterized as “a good faith effort on our behalf to provide an interim analysis of our cash position.” In reality, however, the cash ostensibly backing tethers had only been placed in Tether’s account as of the very morning of the company’s ‘verification.’

> On November 1, 2018, Tether publicized another self-proclaimed ‘verification’ of its cash reserve; this time at Deltec Bank & Trust Ltd. of the Bahamas. The announcement linked to a letter dated November 1, 2018, which stated that tethers were fully backed by cash, at one dollar for every one tether. However, the very next day, on November 2, 2018, Tether began to transfer funds out of its account, ultimately moving hundreds of millions of dollars from Tether’s bank accounts to Bitfinex’s accounts. And so, as of November 2, 2018 — one day after their latest ‘verification’ — tethers were again no longer backed one-to-one by U.S. dollars in a Tether bank account.
Stop Drinking the Elite’s Kool-Aid
Added context to the title because of the uninformative title.
Defold 1.4.0 had been released
And the teeth
Unlike Github they're entirely open source and they're registered as an e.V. (eingetragener Verein), the German version of a non-profit volunteer association that generally cannot engage in commercial activities.
TradFi says "in the long run, we're all dead"

CryptoFi says "in the short run, we're all dead so exfiltrate the funds before everyone notices"
Yes, I specifically said myself, not everyone. I have worked professionally in all of them, when I said fluently I meant it.

The average as per EU statistics is three languages.

The person's country main language, english, local dialects or additional national languages in countries like Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and so forth.

Or in the case of European expats, the language of the country they happen to work on.
Ah, the /"([^"]*)"/ trick. It was one of those small, obvious in retrospect but not that easy to invent on your own, useful things I was taught at my first job among others such as "if in a unit test you need a future date, use year 3001".
What You (Want to)* Want
When times get tough and everyone is on the block, people who are not necessarily from the 'lower rungs' show their true colors. It becomes them over you and they will resort to code-words or sometimes, as in my case, plain out point out my immigration status in 2-3 standup meetings (once the rumor mill of layoffs got started). This person was an 'upper-rung' sort of chap too; after all, they got their degree from a Christian college/university in South Carolina (or was it North Carolina? - one of the Carolinas). Compassion, empathy and all that must have come as second nature. But not their first.
He absolutely should but he's friends with too many rich and powerful people. His mother is connected deeply with the Biden Administration.
Sam was very close to Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. FTX had articles on them by the WEF.
https://tilores.io/company

... were working together in the technology team of a German consumer credit bureau.

I wonder about this paragraph. I assume someone with experience around consumer credits should be familar with bureaucracy. I assume also that everywhere in the world you will contract a company lawyer in advance as guidance?

The bureaucracy in Germany is overwhelming. The tax system is a daunting. And bureaucracy provides a common set of rules, protects people, environment and keeps frauds and bribes low. For example the strict notary system protects normal people.
Also "schadenfreude" :-).

(pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune).
No, that is insane.

If anything, sending arbitrary amounts of money to be spent on the interest to pay for the debt of corrupt and failed political ventures is not fair in any regard.

If taxes actually paid for government services, you might have a point, but they do not.
Signal theory 101 :
You have some signal that you observe : v ∈ Rⁿ.

You have a database of k reference signals you know about vrefₖ ∈ Rⁿ.

What you want is to match the signal you observe to one of the reference signal.

This is called template matching : you pick the closest reference signal to the observation :

You compute argminₖ distance( v, vrefₖ)

This is great but it scales badly with respect to the number of reference signals.

So instead of trying to find the closest signal, you try to decompose the signal as a sum of reference signals :

You compute argmin over λₖ distance( v, Σₖ λₖvrefₖ)

This decomposition is not unique, so you regularize it (if your distance and norm are well picked the following is convex so you can get uniqueness guarantees):

You compute argmin over λₖ ( distance( v, Σₖ λₖvrefₖ) + Σₖnorm(λₖ) )

This is called sparse coding.

The rest (fft, stft,wavelet transform,...) are mathematical tricks (called transforms) to compute this more efficiently by choosing certain special reference signals (picking a basis).

The first math trick to be aware is (a-b)²= a²+b²-2ab :
This is the bridge that relate what is called correlation to the distance :

for vector a,b ∈ Rⁿ : Σₖ(aₖ-bₖ)² = Σₖaₖ²+ Σₖbₖ²- 2* Σₖ(aₖbₖ)

With judicious pick the first two sums Σₖaₖ² and Σₖbₖ² can be made irrelevant to the minimization problem because they are either constant by construction (normalized to 1) or don't depend on the variable that we minimized over.
This trick applies both to template matching and sparse coding (even though there is more terms they all simplify).

If the two first terms can be made to disappear then minimizing the distance has the same result as maximizing the correlation.

Then you have a bunch of sliding sums and recursive summation tricks which all depend on the specific shape of your data. Notably with fft there is the well known butterfly algorithm.

A century of techniques and theory since Hilbert have been devoted to finding various smart variants. And they allow you to compute this decomposition fast usually in O(n) or O(nlog(n)).

The alternative to hand-crafted techniques, is learning the reference signals from the data (Sparse dictionary learning). You can also brute-force your way through with deep-learned filter banks. It works better but require more compute, and have less guarantees. It also let you deal with nitty gritty details like missing data and masks.
I'm having trouble accepting this comment is not sarcastic. The fact that most CEOs or boards would behave the same way doesn't make it moral, and the whole point of this specific threat is whether morality can be applied to corporations.
The more thicker, the more it is invisible.
Codeberg is a hosted gitea for open source only. The advantages are:

- Hosted in Europe and held to EU privacy laws

- Does not require consenting to copilot training on your code

- Maintained by a non-profit so immune from the "We need to make money so we're going proprietary" trend

- Faster than Gitlab.com

The disadvantages are:

- Open source only. This isn't for your private proprietary projects, they do allow "some exceptions" but this is for things like the terraform config for your project website when the rest of the project is on codeberg anyway, rather than open core or "I have my open and closed projects in the one place"
Libdynamixel++ – A C++17 library for controlling Dynamixel smart servos
libdynamixel++ is a convenient C++17 wrapper for the Robotis DynamixelSDK v3.7.60 published under the MIT license.
In reality, complexity of deploys and introducing new changes are way more likely to shut down your service than anything else, unless you're dealing with very large scale. And for those problems, it doesn't matter if you have 1 or 10 instances, shit would go down anyways as you push out your change to all of them.

Services falling over themselves for no reason is really uncommon in my experience, and usually are because A) introduced changes, B) hitting performance bottlenecks that are really bugs in the code or C) downtime of 3rd parties that someone failed to account could actually be down so that brought down "our" application too.
Rust have nice ideas but the execution is very poor

- noisy syntax

- concerning and very bad compiler performance

I can definitely see Swift replacing Rust in the short term, Apple seems to be committed
Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity
That link is paywalled. Can you explain a bit more?
bad advice as this is their first layoff ever. so historically they were a safe job

there was no way he could tell he would be laid off ahead of time
[Remove the two spaces at the beginning of the last two lines to make the links clicky.]
I'm bisexual myself, and so would be most prone to gay interpretations of things. However, when I read the article I assumed the standard probabilities for sexual orientation (roughly 85% straight, 15% gay or bisexual) because they were paid to be models. I think that the gay interpretation of things mainly occurs over private correspondences with sensual undertones, or people who lived together in a way similar to marriage.
I think that's true to an extent, but serious errors such as the woman with what looked like a horn growing out of her cheek to match a partially-occluded earring seem to happen often enough that they would call attention to people being fake.

Apart from happiness (smiling), all of the deep fakes showed a blunted affect. Genuine humans tend to have quite expressive faces, and the many of the fakes looked like NPCs from an Elder Scrolls game.

These lead me to believe that a situation where deep fakes might matter e.g. security video presented as evidence in court, it would be possible to start picking up the deepfake artifacts/signatures even for a human expert.
Email for SaaS 101
I wonder if there are cases of large scams where the perpetrators are smart enough to avoid being caught.

Not all criminals end-up behind bars.

I suspect that some scams can go unnoticed for long enough.

I also suspect that scam opportunities are exploding.
I just ignore those comments (and perhaps some my own comments are deemed under qualified by some).

I prefer that strategy rather than have an environment of "gatekeepers".
I Didn’t Learn Unix by Reading All the Manpages
Agreed. I have no idea what this is after reading the front page.
Traffic interception.
Easiest thing for me right now is the background.

If it has blurry and screwed up bokeh or random patterns, it's probably the fake one. If there's something incredibly detailed, but blurred, it's probably real.
Dave used to do a custom version of this (I heard rumors that he stopped, I’m not sure). You’d put your email in a web form and his web server would create a temporary email address that would forward to his actual email for like 24hrs and then stop. You’d receive an email with the temporary address so you could send him whatever email you wanted to send him.

A pain, but he was serious about hating email spam.
That could be very costly if it's about nuclear weapons, for example.
Not everyone can afford to self host a secure Gitea. Codeberg is a non-profit (German e.V.) that is a libre alternative to github/gitlab/bitbucket and has special focus on privacy and data protection. A close example would be OSM foundation.
* during his lifetime
If you do something with money, or the internet there is a law somewhere in the US codex that you are breaking. So yes, of course he could.

The US, rightly or wrongly, tries and often succeeds in enforcing it's laws internationally. Even in cases NOT involving US persons and with no apparent victims. So there is no reason to think this would be different. And that is ignoring the fact that FTX has (had?) a sub-venue called "FTX US" specifically for US persons, which has also failed.

Also, there are a whole bunch of crimes (including wire fraud) where the definition of the crime makes intent so low, it is no barrier to prosecution. This is why you often see major frauds charged as more minor crimes: Fraud requires intent, Wire Fraud just requires a lie, a phone line and some profit.
Alternatively: don't hire internationally if your hiring process can't do it correctly. Personal responsibility is indeed a thing, but it shouldn't be used as an excuse for management incompetence.
I anticipate these being common points so here is my quick rebuttal to each:

> it's a physical object

That isn't an argument for or against crypto. Crypto is a virtual object and that is desirable, makes it easier to get past a border. I can't easily get my gold out of the country - this is one of my considerations when I started buying in to Monero. There'd be a lot less interest from inside China if crypto was a physical object.

> it has use value in jewelry

Yep. Think about that deeply. One of its primary functions is looking good, and it isn't do so well at that job compared to coloured glass. The point of gold jewellery is to show off - politely - that someone can afford to own gold. There is nothing happening there that Bitcoin can't do except Bitcoin is even more public about how much someone owns.

> it has use value in electronics and other industrial applications

And they'd be able to afford a lot more of it if the investors would go away. Gold's value has been a thing for literal centuries and electronics have only existed for decades. This isn't driving the value of gold as an investment, gold's corrosion resistance is. Crypto has arguably better, arguably worse properties over long periods of time. Really we are still to find this out, it hasn't been around long enough to know what a decade in crypto looks like (at equilibrium).
Ace & Tate

Beloved by hipsters all over Europe

Free eye test, glasses around £100 a pair

I personally love the clip on shades which have made summer actually enjoyable
We do need friends of all ages
Don’t forget all the UK based options now incur VAT costs, so better stick with mainland EU.
BatchPool – A .NET task batching and management library
Larry was right for once [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5-rSxilxo
That comic got one small detail incorrect: in 2022, phones are rarely in pockets, because most people can't stop using theirs long enough to put it in a pocket.
Feels sort of nonsensical honestly. Credit card anti fraud is entirely reactionary, there’s no magic bullet, you’re just papering over the cracks of an absolutely broken payment system. Every service will see different fraud, it will always be changing, there’s no one fits all solution. Very frequently the “rules” of the systems aren’t solid and everybody trying to exploit them knows that.
I'm an ex-palantir (left 3y ago, things might have changed) that worked on Foundry and building Windmill [1] which is an open-source framework that would actually be closer to Foundry except we do workflows and not data pipelines.

I do not think the comparison stands between Retool, or this tool and Foundry. There is indeed a sub-product in Foundry called 'Slate' which is an UI builder but it's a small part of Foundry. Foundry is mostly about data pipelines, to do spark transforms on large ETL, and then having lots of product on top of it to make it easy to make Spark work in an enterprise environment such as a UI builder (the slate mentioned above), a graph viewer of the ETL (monocle), a report builder, RBAC, a timeseries processor, data lineage, versioning of the code, a webeditor and so on.

[1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill
> Remember that a lot of tech people score higher on the autistic spectrum than normal people do.

They do? This comes as a surprise to me. It could very well be true but I would like a citation for this. Kind of finding it hard to just accept this for a fact because I have been hanging out with technical folks for a long time and most folks I hang out don't see to be high on the autistic spectrum.
Well, maybe consider yourself lucky, that inflation is your problem and not living a life, like one of those pigs.

Sometimes I hope, that karma and reincarnation works, though.
Related:

https://defold.com/2022/11/07/Nintendo-Switch-access-is-now-...
It's likely that market makers are holding the ~$15k floor to prevent a liquidation cascade.
Show HN: I'm building a site with a curated Amazon product list
I'm building a site with a curated amazon product list (currently only 1 product). It will be monetised thought affiliate links
TODO:
- Add more products
- Add about page for each supported language
- Allow other users to post theirs products with his own affiliate marketing link - this way the site can grow faster and in return the post owner will earn every time someone clicks on their link