skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> $5 wrench attack, here's my real password: take the 50 millions. Oops. Decoy. On the other password there's $2bn.

Somehow I don't see state actors falling for that, especially when they have a rough idea of the actual numbers involved, based on the shitton of angry people, some of which are very rich and very well connected, clamouring about it.
Not a hack per se but a complete reimplementation.

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

This is a C/C++ version of Whisper which uses the CPU. It's astoundingly fast. Maybe it won't work in your use case, but you should try!
> it gives an idea, though probably intentionally false, of what her life will be like after jail

IIRC she married a hotel heir. She's never going to have to work if she doesn't want to.
You're really saying that after reading the second half of my comment? Mainstream media is overwhelmingly progressive and not shy in being unsubtle, but somehow brexit did it all by being so freaking brilliant that it manipulated even more... somehow.
Arpeggiator track:

https://youtu.be/14UBxTCPwjw
It’s this idea that if nobody is doing it, or if they handle it poorly, then nobody will care if you also handle it poorly.

CEOs are just writing it off as pesky lawyer shit, even though it’s 100% preventable…
What if the kid passes at $30 because money is tight, they’d prefer to pay $20 and want to try for that, but scalpers snatch up all the cheapest tickets before the kid is able to. The kid still really wants to go, however, and is willing to actually pay the scalper up to $40 when push comes to shove, even if it hurts a bit?

Or if they weren’t organized enough or able to commit to going early on, but still have the purchasing power to pay a higher price?
There are different kinds of people here. Some of us believe that you need to be a sociopath to make it as a CEO of a large corporation. So, no, I wouldn't want to be one.
if Musk's personnel changes at Twitter work out, I'm betting other .com's are going to look at the same ideas. "Sign up for hard work or leave" is a pretty compelling way to cut payroll, especially as there is industry-wide antiwork grumbling (meaning, by both workers and management). Of course, if the gamble doesn't work out, it will have been a self inflicted wound.
The other big thing Fugazi did was completely ignore the traditional venue system.

They’d rent out bowling alleys, Elks Lodges, places like that. Hauler their own PA and lights around
I dabble in Rust, no genuine dislike of the language but the awkward syntax is what keeps me writing modern C++ as a middle-ground between the scary badlands of archaic C and the triple wrapped rigid Rustlands.

Though, as you mention, if required I will gladly write it if the situation warrants such a tool. Any suggestions for idiomatic testing?
Cloud-Era Testing Infrastructure: Test Everything, Everywhere
HN isn't that expensive to host. We have two servers at a colo and various backups to S3.
Agree with Earth’s “weight”, disappointed a physics website would make such a silly error!

> void of space, it is like a free falling apple

falling where in space??? =p ;)
There's a difference between riding a motorcycle without a helmet and eating red meat.

I'm saying TT is closer to the second, when it comes to losing sleep. It may have some effect, if you dig deep enough, but it's a lifestyle choice that's legitimate to make either way.

Drinking coffee in the evenings and complaining that I can't sleep would be the alternative.
Disagree that its far worse, I dont see an issue in this case
Yeah I think anybody who has ever moderated might understand how true this is. There’s a bit of a irony to being a mod where the more effectively one does their job the less people understand why what you’re doing is necessary in the first place.

Some people who get banned on social media are banned for a reason. You’re not going to ever get mainstream advertisers moderating twitter like it’s 4chan.
Yet.

When Google makes it contingent on their annual "donation", they will.
I have an anecdote to offer: in the early 2000s I was learning to drive in a former comunist country. Most cars were Dacia 1310, a copy of 1970s Renaults. The stick was awful, the steering was very heavy (as in lifting weights heavy), the clutch was terrible. It was very difficult to drive one, let alone learn to drive one. Newer and better cars were just beginning to appear, but there were few of these and they were expensive. There were two lines of thought in my circle: (1) that you should learn on a Dacia, because then you will be able to drive anything and (2) you should learn on a modern car, because it is easier. Needless to say, camp (2) won: the Dacias all but disappeared and furthermore, newer cars are mostly automatic.

So I wouldn't hold my breath that the manual gear shift will survive.
Sometimes the men with guns are also distributed across multiple continents, and the only way to protect yourself from them entails making a deal with other men with guns.

If you’re part of a multi signature scheme and you’re hiding from US authorities in, I dunno, China or Russia or Pakistan or Afghanistan or Iran, there’s (a) not much stopping Uncle Sam’s boys from sneaking up on you anyway if they’re sufficiently motivated and (b) some local men with guns whom you might need to deal with as well.

In reality it’s probably not worth it for the US to track you down to the ends of the earth and/or get the CIA involved if you’re just trying to sneak some ill-gotten money out of the country, and it’s a lot easier for one of your multi-signature holders not to get caught than for the authorities to simultaneously catch up with a quorum. And maybe your group includes some people who really don’t mind living the rest of their lives in these types of places.

But for those of you who live within the greater American empire, the price you pay for keeping that money out of Uncle Sam’s hands is going to include keeping it out of your hands and also you go to prison if you ever get caught. Which is probably a bad deal unless you’re a drug cartel or some other group that’s already sort of priced in that outcome.
The way to end discrimination based on race is to stop discriminating based on race.
I created some of the early Android and ios football result apps back in 2011. I used to work as a regular dev and became relatively rich somewhere in 2013. It gave me room to start other businesses and become financially independent.
There's lots of guns in America. I don't support the death penalty, but not using the simplest method really seems like they are going out of their way to make it cruel.
I don’t believe the marketing of hardware wallets, I held comfortably for nearly ten years with piece of papers, and even in my password manager for small sums. The probability of burglary x they find the paper x they know what it is order of magnitudes less than an entity you give them online disappearing with them. A seed is just a few words, no recourse if you lose them but not that complicated either.
For those that don't know, OOBE stands for "Out Of the Box Experience"
> I mean: unless the attacker knows exactly how much coins you have,

They don't need to know the exact number. They need to have a rough idea of the number. In the most likely scenario, where a state wants access, they tend to have a pretty good idea, because they get that information from investors, state agencies, banks and seized records.
I would start with "The Pragmatic Programmer". It's how I became a "professional" programmer. "Code Complete" is a book on construction. I dip into it when my IF statement has too many conditionals in the test. That sort of thing.

I'd also recommend "The Career Programmer": The only book I've seen that deals with a realistic view of programming in a corporate environment. For example, what to do when your boss stops you in the hall and asks, "We need a tool to do X. How soon can you get that done?" It's subtitled "Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World", which is _just_ what you need to break free of the fantasy land that books and classes put you in. (APress publishes this.)

And don't be fooled by the title: "My Job Went to India And All I Got Was This Lousy Shirt". It's the distilled experience of a programmer who spent a year (or two?) in India when his company outsourced code, and sent him to manage the new group. There are some really important tactics inside, like the chapter on "reading the boss's mind". You don't really, of course, but it explains how to capitalize on "wouldn't it be nice if we..." throw-away comments in meetings. (Pragmatic Programmers publish(ed) this one.)

Oh, and don't be shy about using the Internet Archive to sample all the books recommended in this thread. I haven't seen any bad recommendations, but you don't want to spend more money or read more pages than necessary. The IA will help you decide which books answer your needs the best.

Good luck!
I thought about submitting this a week or so ago. Here's the link to the issue and discussion on it: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/issues/1704

TL;DR: Apparently there's a Hong Kong dude living in Germany that didn't like his videos being on Youtube, so he sent DMCA takedown requests to Piped instead and Cloudflare did a takedown on the whole domain, which only appears if sent as a referral from outside piped.kavin.rocks (or using the redirect extension for firefox).
When I was young an dumb I drove a car with a dead starter to work and back for a week. I'd bump start it by pushing it up to the crown of the street.

I think a classic automatic transmission needs hydraulic pressure to engage the bands. And since the gear pump is on the input shaft side it doesn't run when the car is pushed or towed.
If you really want to make sure people can read visualizations with this many colors, please use one of the many palettes designed for color blind/deficient readers. It doesn't detract from your graphs and makes them readable for everyone.
> high level gambling

This is a weasel phrase. Insurance is high level gambling as well. They both use risk models to decide at what price they will sit on the opposite side of a trade for.

Decide where you really draw the line and if it’s time horizons that’s pretty arbitrarily stupid. Insurance uses re-insurance quite quickly to de-risk their own books so pretending trading within a minute vs daily/hourly is pretty silly.

Also, most “fintech” is not the “be the fasted to arb 2 exchanges” variety. It’s usually “be a market maker for products that you can relatively quickly price based on proprietary signals”. If speed is your only advantage, the cat and mouse game will wake you up one day getting beat to the order book on every trade.

> and its pretty clear that fintech here sure doesn't mean the classical bank and modern "normal" payment system...

Not sure where you got that from. All of this is interconnected. The “classical banks” are all participating in deep fast moving bond markets. JPM doesn’t send their orders to some old timey trader with a cigar and a bowler hat via telephone. They use fintech like the rest of the industry.
It means something completely different than the author or submitter intended. How is that not worse?
You're right, but mrguyorama isn't wrong either since the same person came up with both ideas. They just had the time arrow reversed.
Looks like the Nano has 16MB of flash as opposed to 2MB on the Pico W, as well as Bluetooth, an onboard accelerometer, gyroscope, microphone, temperature sensor and cryptographic co-processor.
I would rather see her see no prison and the Sacklers get life....
The first gen watch was very much like the first gen iPhone - a cool tech demo on underpowered hardware.

It was supported far too long, and with its final updates it was barely suitable as a timepiece. It couldn’t handle the most basic of tasks, like receiving messages or playing MP3s on your AirPods.
PSRs aren't adversarial to the defendant. It was lower than the prosecutor's sentencing memorandum, which is what a judge usually follows.
You clearly don’t care but I’m shocked and disappointed you’re doubling down on this. In all of my years of being on the internet this is the strangest hill to die on I’ve ever encountered. Not acknowledging any of the content and repeating the personal attack is another interesting touch.

Neglect (verb):

Fail to care for properly.

Neglect (noun):

The state or fact of being uncared for.

No one in prison is participating in the care of their children. She is and will be neglecting them.

Is the dictionary fanfiction too?
She did something bad but 11 years feels like too long …
Whenever I access a public Wi-Fi with login / captive portal, and the portal doesn’t show up immediately, I enter captive.apple.com in Safari to trigger it! Works every time (iPhone)
I know it might be hard to believe, but I assure you it's not the point of HN to push "VC narratives" or "greed is good". The strategy is much simpler and has a bunch of nice properties, one being that it works even better if you tell people what it is. It's simply to keep the community interested and happy. That's not easy, but it's the way to maximize HN's value—even if you look at it in the most self-interested way from YC's point of view.

I've written a bunch about this in the past: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... If you (or anyone) read those explanations and end up still having a question which I haven't answered there, I'd like to know what it is.
GPT3 gone bad?
With pure nitrogen, you become unconscious in about 15 seconds ... without any pains
Maybe this is a naive question with regards to how AML / KYC work in crypto, but would Coinbase (and in the extension, my bank) accept an incoming transfer of that size if they didn't know for sure that either 1) the money was coming from "me", or 2) that I had at least obtained it legally?

In my early conversations with my bank, they stated that among other things, they would need to see proof of where the funds had come from (proof of original $ deposit into FTX, FTX trading history, etc.), and I just assumed that sending the crypto to a different exchange would add another layer of complexity that would make that process much harder.

But perhaps I took an overly conservative (and now catastrophic) stance when trying to do everything as cleanly as possible.

I have a sneaking feeling your approach might have worked (or at least it's hard to imagine it being a worse outcome than what actually happened). I'm feeling pretty stupid now for not exploring this further. I guess I never expected FTX would just disappear, and so I didn't explore every option as fully as I should have. I appreciate your suggestion in any case.
George Hotz Joins Musk at Twitter
I created https://infect.info which is a software used by doctors to determine the best antibiotic to subscribe to patients based on symptoms or bacteria properties.

The software helps save lives on a daily basis.

It uses recent data from lab tests to show which bacteria is resistant to which antibiotic.
In terms of value per person probably improving the faceted search marginally on one of the biggest auction sites in the world.

In terms of the impact I care about, I try to give aspiring programmers my time and talk to them about how they can improve their hirability by building useful skills that you'd use day to day. I haven't had much success, but the little success I do have was helped in large part by an influential mentor. Those can be hard to come by, and time is expensive.
"If I ever ask you for the key over the phone, play along and send me random bits and feign ignorance to my further requests"
Wait until you see how far Japan went. They own most of the equity of the large industries
Not a good look to argue whether a woman should have the right to reproduce.

Her children will live better lives than 99% of the children on the planet despite not having their mother present until their pre-teen years.
> There is no way Theranos would have been able to pull off these scams if the strongmen that supported them didn't bully whistleblowers

(Citation please)

What VCs and Washington DC investors/board members were directly complicit in covering up the fact the science was bullshit early on? Which whistleblowers were silenced or bullied by them?

You seem to know some juicy details I haven't heard about.

Maybe you mean Erika Cheung? She did indeed contact George Schultz (former Secretary of State, 95yrs old at the time of WSJ expose) after befriending Tyler Schultz (his nephew) who worked there and who was also critical in bringing down Theranos. There was no evidence George even replied to her email or tried to 'bully' her (from what I've read it was just ignored). Not long after she went to WSJ which is what took down Theranos. She's still friends with Tyler.
Sequoia invests in portfolios of companies. Your judgment of them as something to invest in should be based on overall portfolio performance, not individual outliers. Your judgement of them as as willing to invest in you, does it really matter? If they give you the highest valuation, you're going to turn it down?
ICU induced hallucinations are indeed a nasty side-effect. My father suffered terribly during his last few days. Some things are worse than death.

Imagine being jetlagged all the time for 10-15 days while random people are poking and prodding you.
A game similar to Quake coded in a modern high level language would probably be too slow on that watch.
Fusion Player offers a Personal Use License, available for free with a valid MyVMware account. Home users, Open Source contributors, students, and anyone else can use Fusion Player Free for Non-Commercial activity.
Thank you, I responded to a sibling comment that offered a similar suggestion -- I appreciate any input from you if you are able to opine.
Perhaps this is a noob question but are those 2 related? When SBF was ordered to hand over $300M of tokens did he create $300M of FTT - technically complying with the order but not at the same time - that does sound like an SBF play. He previously stated that FTX weren't trading with customer deposits, technically true - the deposits were loaned to Alamada who were trading with them.
And all the Computation Expressions in .NET (including the ones you build yourself) are monads.
I was about to say I built this beautiful IVR for a taxi company 20 years ago. It was so good, solved so many of the annoyances I had observed with IVRs before… so perfect it was, that it remained untouched all these years… I was about to say that. But out of nostalgia I just called the number and it’s been replaced with some Byzantine piece of crap.
Could she really though? She was in her 2nd year of Stanford when she dropped out to "revolutionize" the field. Despite the reputation, and I'm sure it's a magical place, but no university in the world is going to make you an expert in a field just in the second year of an undergraduate degree.

The fact that she could not be convinced of the impossibility of her ideas by her professor who could give a clear falsifying experiment did not bode well for her.

Also, the medical field is far removed from me, but she was a programmer in high school and claimed she made money selling C++ compilers to Chinese universities. That's just bullshit. Even if you do a favorable interpretation and assume they mean compilers written in C++, what would they be compiling that a university would pay money for?
If ever there was a bastardization of "justice"...
cool theory, except elon has gone in like Arnold Schwarzenegger in commando and strafed indiscriminately at 90% of the workforce.
Not really a not operator. It’s more like tuning the generated models until the fake detector cannot detect it.
That is quite surprising given that a Pentium 166MHz had zero issues playing mp3s in winamp, 1998 hardware.
That's a neat idea. Would love to have that as an Obsidian plugin!
Or it could be related to the famous Ballmer Peak: https://xkcd.com/323/
Curious how was the show? Had you seen them previously and if so how did it compare?
If they feel like they can just ignore the US News rankings because their brand name is enough, that's a power move but this is all being triggered by the potential ban on race based discrimination for admissions. They didn't decide this X years ago, it's probably not a coincidence.

It coincides with the Bar decision. I guess I am still wondering why affirmative action is a societal good more important than the previous standards we had for lawyers. Lawyers can do a lot of harm or good. If you are accused of a crime, you hire a lawyer. You are tried before a judge, who is a lawyer. We have to trust these people for it to work. Maybe it's to deflect against bad press and not a societal benefit. Maybe they don't care what happens. Maybe I am overestimating the impact of lowering standards. idk.
Shadowbans are fundamentally anti-transparency, but they are useful, I wouldn’t hesitate to automatically shadowban suspected spammers.
I know the Swift ABI, and I also have seen enough compiled languages with defined ABIs, since I started coding in 1986, and majored in systems programming and language design.
Does the picture or the prompt trigger the filter?
Please stop spamming your link everywhere. You know people can see your post history?
Here is one idea:

Have a look at some of the problems that are surfacing in the tech community or new products that are being launched.

Examples: Twitter, all the stable diffusion front-ends, etc.,

Find a stack that lies at the intersection of demand and your preference. (Flutter, React/React Native, Remix or SwiftUI / Kotlin) and get your solution done. Showcase that on Github, Hacker News, your resume.

1. This will bring you up to date and renew your self-confidence as you have something tangible to say that your knowledge has been filled.
2. Instead of doing a myriad of take-home assessments, you can lead with this project and its open source code. If the company's stack is similar, it would be silly for them to assess you again and if they do, you are already prepared for it.

----

It is rare to find a team without a cowboy coder. In most teams they are assets as long as they are not asshats as well.

Good luck.
Cloudflare is making my live very difficult right now. Spammers are hosting websites using free domains, like .ml, .tk, so an unlimited supply of random domains, hosting them behind cloud flare which prevents us from easily getting the page content or blocking the IP for a period of time since the IP is shared.

Lots of spam hosted on cloudflare these days.
You're right, and the people complaining are also right because the story does deserve oxygen—just not all the oxygen. It's our job to balance this so it gets some oxygen but not all the oxygen.

The system tends not to be able to do this without human intervention—either the flags win (in which case the story gets smothered) or the upvotes win (in which case HN becomes Twittermusk News with a side dish of SBFTX). Human intervention is needed to keep the teeter-totter from teetering one way or tottering the other*.

We're super open to feedback. If you (or anyone) want to influence the balance, you should make your case to hn@ycombinator.com. That's the only reliable message queue.

More explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33667761

(* Unfortunately. It would be so much nicer to just write code to deal with this.)
Apparently a myth made reality on the Apple shops I know.

It is no different from the Android shops using Java and Kotlin for the backend, the only difference being the plethora of options on the JVM ecosystem that they can reach out outside Android.
I'm wondering what incentives, if any, were offered for staff to stay at Twitter and put up with grueling hours and work.

In another era, Elon would be recruiting galley slaves to paddle with all their might so can water ski.
And MS accounts make zero sense to anyone who has a private NAS or need to interact with anything non windows with kerberos.
These crimes were bad. But on the bright side, we got Alan Ruck’s finest performance on that Hulu show.