skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not having lists means they can collect more training data.

Build a database of all the attempted interactions. Cluster them by task. Sort by most used (or most monetizable) that the system can’t support today. Bam! You’ve got a rough futures capabilities roadmap.

It’s more complicated of course but here you literally have a large customer base telling you what it wants, but your product can’t yet do, regularly.
The financial news (WSJ, FT, Bloomberg) is definitely less blasé about it. There's definitely a sense that a scam is slowly being unearthed.

I don't know if it's SBF previous political connections that are making most media outlets hesitant to delve into the details, but the scale of the failure is going to be unavoidable as more details emerge.

Too many institutional investors got burned and they will no doubt be eager to prove fault lest they themselves be blamed for poor judgement.
But it won't produce gold, same like applying aceton to concrete won't produce antimatter.
The passive information would be useful if that would work with your inner voice.
It's a bit weak of Musk to be so unsure of himself, isn't it?
and Dick Tracy.

We haven't arrived at full tricorder yet though.
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A lot of people go hiking and few of them buy sat phones or epirbs. It's nice to have. We're well past the point of diminishing returns for smartphone features, yes.
sounds good.....really good.....apple store sucks...the lines.... hahahaha...yeah no thanks. considering they only have base models now....what's the point.
please do donate to the Internet Archive! right now up until the end of the year, all donations are matched 2-to-1 and the money actually goes towards the service while Wikipedia is overfunded and you’re basically only bankrolling the foundation.
You might be right, but Google choosing to use it in Fuchsia doesn't inspire much confidence, given Fuchsia's rocky and lengthy development. I wouldn't be surprised if Fuchsia itself is abandoned, given Google's track record.

I wouldn't quite be sure it has an "almost zero chance of disappearing", but hopefully Canonical has done their due diligence before making such a decision, as you say.

Though, even if it does become a long-term Google project, I'd be concerned that any Flutter app on Ubuntu would have aggressive tracking. Considering their announcement of integration with FlutterFire Auth, it's only a matter of time before something like Google Play Services makes its way into desktop apps as well. Canonical's record of protecting user privacy is already far from stellar.
Ask HN: At what speed would we have attained the Lightspeed of Internet Speed
From Kbps, to Mbps, to Gbps, we will, one day have Tbps. When do you think we will attain a speed that, it no longer makes sense to have anything faster?
I’m not sure it will eat into those markets. Those are device for people who know they are going off-grid and may need both emergency comms and who (typically) also want to be able to let people at home know where they are and how things are going.

My take is the Apple SOS is for people who are unprepared and surprised, and who wouldn’t have bought a satellite comm device and paid for the subscription because they weren’t expecting the emergency.

I’m a happy iPhone 14 user who will get this nice feature, but I’m not planning to cancel my InReach subscription ($20/month, pause/resume any time), which I have never used to call for a rescue but have used a lot to let family know where I am and that things are fine when overlanding. And Inreach works right from the dashboard while driving, no need to get situated perfectly.

Maybe this is a harbinger and future enhancements will kill Inreach, but at least for now it feels like a very different application.
>It’s a storm on the Croatian coast that comes suddenly and doesn’t last long

That would be neverin.

Nevera is a storm/thunderstorm in the Adriatic in general, not necessarily a short lasting one.
1. Great! This is something that might team does. We've alternate async and sync stand-ups.

2. Right, always on Slack during work hours. Also be available to jump on quick Hurdle/Zoom meetings.

3. My PM encouraged me to do this more often. I was hesitant because being a junior I didn't think my opinion held any weight, but I'm trying to do this more.

4. Gotcha! I'll keep this in mind :)

5. Thanks for mentioning this, and this is something I like about my team. I'm the most junior among all the devs in my team but they're always willing to help.

6. Certainly!

Thanks a lot for your advice :)
My impression is that a lot of the retail type workers are managed by/with a lot of automation. I've read that they can be fired simply by KPI without human review. If that's correct, I can say I wouldn't want to be the one to write that code.
As dystopian as the keynote for these new emergency features felt, they are real-life helpful features. 99.99% of people will never need it but for the small fraction who do it's amazing.
They lost roughly $8B in customer deposits. The $16B cited in the article is the total amount of money they lost which includes a sizable profit that they were supposed to have made on their legitimate business activities.
..and later, armies of lawyers were reinforcing their contracts with boilerplate.
No, it was just corporate MDM managed to prevent it. :)
I'm not sure they understand that the whole point of electrification is to pair it with sustainability, ie not trying to do "the fastest car" which consumes more, but on the contrary to make smaller car that are better suited to cities
The reloading of the google/bing/whatever search results page on backwards navigation is infuriating. I've been looking for options to turn it off in firefox but no luck.
In Canada at least it’s rsv and flu that’s the problem with kids, not covid. Although the last is still percolating about under the surface. Suppliers also seem to have underproduced or under acquired childrens cold meds which isn’t helping.
As told in the old, old, story:

Bernice can't sleep. She tosses and turns, tosses and turns. Her partner asks, "What's the problem?"

"You know the $1,000,000 bridge loan we got from Fred's bank? It's due tomorrow and thanks to not closing the PQX deal, we don't have the money to pay."

Her partner thinks for a moment, then pulls out an iPhone and says aloud, "Hey Siri! Tell Fred that Bernice doesn't have the money to repay the bridge loan... Send!"

Bernice is aghast. "What did you do that for!?"

Bernice's partner smiles. "Now it's Fred's problem. Let him toss and turn, you can go back to sleep."
How do you tap into this mindshare?
Madoff’s investors “lost” more than $14.4B. Many of them were invested in his funds for 20-30 years and received 0.77 on the dollar per your comment.
You can be given a bill in some places under a limited set of circumstances but you mostly won't get charged as I understand it (at least until you get into the regular medical system per usual). I would assume if this started to become a real problem, you might see more charging--although I assume S&R teams wouldn't, for the most part, want people in trouble to hold off on calling for help because they might get a $10K bill.
Maybe not, but the people they dispatch often are. My hometown fire department is entirely volunteers.
Seems like a good thing to have a few large corp instances run by well funded orgs. This lowers the pressure on the smaller instances and allow them to be more strict on how many users they are able to support
Sure, but there's also no obligation to donate to Wikimedia in the first place, and it's quite reasonable to decide that if the organization is flush enough with money that it can donate it to outside organizations, it doesn't need more. (And it certainly shouldn't imply it needs more to keep the lights on.)
Was that $16B in "real money" (dollars), $16B in "pretend money" (astronomically overvalued cryptocurrency), or some of each?
This is terrible and heart breaking, really. To circle back to the speciality of people on this website: it’s the same for a lot (most?) of all websites. Having a disability usually means you can’t use the website properly. People like to complain about the EU and all of its rules, but I feel companies should be forced to have an accessible website and I’m glad the EU is forcing this. The rules are there, they are called WCAG. An accessible website benefits all users, not just the ones with a disability. Especially the digital experience is something we can fix. Source https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1202&intPageId=55...
Show HN: ThoughtfulPost Gift Recommendation Engine for Your Friends and Family
I’ve started working on a new startup called Thoughtful Post (https://thoughtfulpost.com)

It’s a useful and fun-to-use app that will help you organize and remember all of your friend’s birthdays/weddings/anniversaries and help you find interesting and new gifts to get them based on their likes and dislikes! There are collaboration features and surveys you can use to farm your friends likes/dislikes and work together with friends to pick out gifts for people.

All of the functionality is in the mobile app:

iOS:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/thoughtful-post/id1636275228

Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thoughtful...

Here is a YouTube video demo’ing the product made by my cofounder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdAwGlv9Lao&t=3s

Please try it out and share any feedback with us!

I think that with everything going on in the world the people you are close to are more important than ever. You don’t always have to spend a lot of money on people to make them feel loved! Investing time and energy into finding a gift or experience can make people feel really special.

Our app can send surveys to the gift recipient and your friend circle to find out about the “giftee” and just receiving these surveys will let the people in your life know you really care about them.

Some interesting technical notes:

The mobile apps are built in React Native.

The backend is in Python/Django.

We monetize by being affiliate partners with the products we recommend through our gift giving engine.

We are using Natural Language processing to map your friend’s likes/dislikes with our product catalogue to recommend new ideas.
> the job itself is basically all about justifying its existence not actually achieving any purported objectives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licking_ice_cream_cone
Since the main link says it's private, here's an alternative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmppBavQ8qo
You're right. They don't use 50% on vanity projects. They use way more than that. Their donation income last year was around $150 million and their hosting costs were $2.4 million. Let's say their necessary engineering / admin cost was $20 million (a massive overestimate). That's >80% on BS.
I think this is a serious issue and most non-technical people underestimate the risk. The most severe case of this issue was the Edison Chen photo scandal in 2008(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Chen_photo_scandal). When the Hong Kong superstar was having his computer repaired, the repairman recovered the deleted photos from the harddisk and later published them. This incident caused an earthquake through the entire Asian entertainment industry and devastatingly ended the careers of several superstars in one fell swoop.
He should try to rewrite this topic in ketamine and/or other dissociatives and with appropriate combinations of set&setting, otherwise it's just another one biased opinion.
I open all links in a new tab. Back and forward are annoying even if they did work.
I am also not sure, it's not even a case of multiplied instead of divided. Bizarre.
Please stop being abusive, it lowers the level of discussion and really doesn't help your case.
For better targeted ads you must have advertisers. Musk has done an excellent job of chasing most if not all of them away within two weeks of taking over the company.
That 5 minute ride must be the scariest way to drive ~30 km... Only once I drove at 250 kph and it was like driving full speed in the wrong way.
As I understood it FTX did have a US subsidiary (which is what I assume was CFTC regulated entity), but that all the shenanigans were offshore. It’s the same reason that when Lehman folded, the US broker dealer clients were relatively unscathed vs European broker dealer clients who lost a pile due to different (laxer) regulatory regime
Assuming the home they mention is Downe House, I have walked in his steps many times and not even known it

Hayes to Downe is a beautiful walk on the very edge of SE London, much of it technically inside London while being genuinely rural
i think you're describing an agency whose members don't feel sure what they're even supposed to do.

many people i know (most engineers, but not all) would say it's a symptom of "big government", the parts that exist and pay unmotivated employees as to their mission.

(i find myself wondering almost off topic how this might or might not be analogous with small kernels and big kernels in operating systems.)
Again with this?

WMF gives a small fractional amount to some causes some people disagree with. Nearly every charity I donate to imperfectly spends their funds.

The question I have is: reading the title of this post, how many wikipedians are taking this "rebellious" stance? How many wikipedians don't care or don't notice?
Goldman Sachs Paid over $12M to Bury Partner's Claim of Sexist Culture
You're right and I think its a good principle in general. I just wonder in this particular case how often it actually is zebras and if we would see doctors identifying true-positive cases of zebras (or just not dismissing it when the patient comes in and says "I think it's zebras because XYZ") more often if the medical system had different priorities.
Dominic Giampaolo worked on Spotlight at Apple, and was the BFS guy at Be... he (along with another engineer) wrote BFS pretty much from scratch for the PR1 release.

Before BFS, was OFS which was an actual database and was horribly buggy, requiring the BTree to be regenerated often enough that it was a "BIOS" level boot menu option on the BeBox running that version's Boot ROM.

A lot of the wonder at BFS stems from the marketing of OFS. BFS only retained the bare minimum features that OFS had, to make the database stuff still exist.
I doubt they have jurisdiction in the Bahamas's. The Netherlands is a country that really doesn't need all this crypto shit so this was a thinly veiled suggestion to Tornado and everyone else in this field to fuck off to Nassau and stop wasting regulators time.
Even for accredited investors I doubt there is anyone wanting to sell the stock they picked up at a $54.20 a month or two ago at where it is likely to be trading now ... $24.20 is probably around where the bid is.
That sounds like saying that people shouldn't lock their doors, and we should deal with burglary solely with stronger laws instead.
Not saying it is necessarily a good idea, just curious if any such optimization is possible. It seems (from
thewakalix comment above) not being a built in it would not be possible.

Now we only need to remove the other 100% of the bloat in the shell ;)
> regulatory darkness

Regulators barely understand equities let alone crypto, and they haven't taken the mantle of regulating crypto quite yet. People in regulated markets do a lot of malicious and illegal things. Imagine an unregulated one.

> capital assets

It's a lot easier to see what an aircraft manufacturer owns than to see what a crypto exchange owns. You might be able to run FTX from an armload of Raspberry Pis, but you can't run Boeing that way. Binance doesn't have inventory and real estate like a retailer. To compare a crypto exchange to a commodities exchange: it's easier to characterize the future value of aluminum or gold than the future value of a cryptocurrency -- not only because metals are more liquid, but also because they have been around far longer. Nobody knows the real value of crypto, so it's hard to know what assets a crypto-business is actually holding at any given time.

Why invest in a space where there are no rules and you can't see what everyone owns or how they use their resources?
>Those probably eliminate this problem for logged-in users—but I’m not one of them, so(?) I don’t see any!

These were intentionally removed for logged-out users because they can be a bit confusing -- many users would look at, say, a git repo, and think that the lists link would take them to that project's mailing lists. This is a long-understood problem that we expect to be able to solve within several weeks -- briefly mentioned in the OP.

> A somewhat related complaint is that the git.sr.ht page for a project (that I’m most likely to remember, because they’re in my git remotes) don’t link back to the sr.ht page for it with the ML and CI and perhaps sibling repos (that I can in the common case reach by simply editing the domain of the URL—once I remember it exists). I wouldn’t be surprised if most people unfamilliar with Sourcehut, when visiting a git.sr.ht link, thought the repo on it was all there was (especially given it would be true on GitHub).

Same basic problem, same planned solution, same priority.
Interested in any resources that you've found vital in your journey.

I'm angling to go deeper into the "Cleaner" path, and it's a very slow "figure it out as you go" experience.
> the NYT literally refuses to use the word "fraud" or hint at criminality

11/10: Meanwhile, the S.E.C. and the Justice Department are said to be investigating FTX for potential securities violations. [...] Whether S.B.F. or others associated with FTX also face civil or criminal action — and where such legal fights would take place — remains unclear.

- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/business/dealbook/ftx-cry...

11/11: Authorities worldwide are intensifying their scrutiny of the embattled cryptocurrency exchange, amid concern about improper use of customer money.

- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/business/dealbook/ftx-sbf...

11/11: The bankruptcy proceedings may be only the beginning of Mr. Bankman-Fried’s legal troubles. Federal investigators are examining the relationship between FTX and Alameda, and customers are likely to file lawsuits.

- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/business/ftx-bankruptcy.h...

11/12: The implosion of Mr. Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange has already cost customers billions of dollars in lost crypto deposits, setting off law-enforcement investigations that could lead to criminal charges. [...] Investigators at the S.E.C. and the Justice Department are examining whether Mr. Bankman-Fried improperly used customer funds to prop up Alameda Research, a trading firm that he also owns. FTX lent as much as $10 billion in customer funds to Alameda, according to a person familiar with the finances.

- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/business/ftx-cryptocurren...

11/13: “Sam and FTX had a lot of good will — and some of that good will was the result of association with ideas I have spent my career promoting,” the philosopher William MacAskill, a founder of the effective altruism movement who has known Mr. Bankman-Fried since the FTX founder was an undergraduate at M.I.T., wrote on Twitter on Friday. “If that good will laundered fraud, I am ashamed.”

- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/business/ftx-effective-al...

11/14: Should the U.S. have moved faster to create an attractive regulatory environment so companies like FTX would have moved here and had to abide by Washington’s rules? Maybe. But if the FTX case turns out to be fraud, regulation unto itself may not have been enough to stop it. Madoff didn’t live on an island beyond U.S. jurisdiction — he was based on Lexington Avenue. [...] If we ultimately learn that FTX’s undoing is the first of many in an industry that has been built on a pile of offshore fairy-dust leverage, the regulatory lesson will actually be the opposite: The S.E.C., C.F.T.C. and Treasury will have proved prescient for all their warnings to the public that crypto was too risky.

- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/business/dealbook/ftx-ban...

11/15: Major questions still remain, such as whether FTX improperly used billions of dollars of customers’ funds to prop up Alameda Research, a trading firm that Bankman-Fried also founded.

- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/briefing/iran-clampdown-p...
FTX US collapsed too, as did Alameda Research (the hedge fund that was supposed to be totally separate and theoretically as regulated as any hedge fund).
Crypto Billionaires with $96B Loss Add Distance from FTX
Colocated on owned hardware.
Being constrained to a single keyboard layout all your life sounds awfully limiting. I literally swap between completely different keyboards often (ortholinear/standard staggered/split layouts/etc). It takes some getting used to in the first couple of weeks, but once you're used to swapping layouts often, your brain just adjusts automatically.
How much shareholders capital did FTX lose? I assume they lost billions of investor capital.
And if they pay tons of other foundations that aren't them, with the money I donated to them, then they're not getting my money anymore. Or probably a lot of peoples'.
What's an example of tool that scans binaries for matches with open source software?
I'm not an engineer when it comes to photonics, just curious, and I didn't even know this would be stable enough to work with.
Nova means new in Portuguese and in Latin...
At smaller places the HR mystery machine is one or two people with names and faces. If they're not passing resumes down to the tech teams then there is some problem that should be sorted out. The dynamic would have to be pretty broken for me to help some random stranger bypass the system everyone in the company has agreed to use. Plus, accepting back channel applicants could mess up relationships with external recruiters, or DEI hiring initiatives.

Also the teams in smaller places are not anything spectacular, just backend, frontend, data, whatever, with a lot of overlap, so the idea that someone would be aiming for a particular team, meaning whoever is working on that part of the stack this month, is also strange.

What you're saying makes sense with big, complex companies with huge HR processes and teams of varying levels of prestige and expertise. Probably a good idea if you're aiming particularly for a team at Google that works on a particular thing you like.
I spend the majority of my time in the mountains here in Estes Park, Colorado where I carry the following in the winter - for both climbing and skiing:

- Probe

- Shovel

- Beacon

- InReach Mini

I also work SAR and my partner has worked dispatch for the National Park Service here and it's not uncommon for someone to be trying to climb something akin to Longs Peak late fall in a tshirt and shorts - having absolutely no idea what they are doing but hiking it because they saw it on All Trails.
Context: first laptop in circa 20 years that doesn't run Linux (m1 air).

I don't like OSX and after a year I'm still not really used to it. But... It's still a much better choice to deal with it than Asahi right now (emphasis on right now, I expect it will get there and I will gladly use it at that point). No GPU, no sleep, no audio, no real power management. If you need arm Linux for something concrete, VM is the way to go right now unfortunately.