skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean do the ethical thing, not just the legal thing?
Should be shown in elementary schools as part of the curriculum.
Thanks for sharing! I actually have MX Mechanical keyboard in my setup, which uses Easy-Switch function, but I might need to get multiple dongles. As far as I have understood, in a KVM setup it's one port to connect from a target device to the switch, which is rather a convenience.

Of course, you might run up into a problem that you actually don't want to plug some devices into the switch when switching to another PC (for example some audio equipment)... So in a dream device, there would be switches on-off switches for ports (or groups of ports) and target PC enum switch. Probably some modular approach would work for making groups of ports switchable.

EDIT: https://www.avaccess.com/eu/product-category/kvm-usb-extende... (link to the manufacturer's e-commerce site) seems to have a good repertoire of KVM extenders.

EDIT1: Bluetooth support is still the missing piece in these...
Running through the sentencing guidelines on the wire fraud hits 15-life real fast though. The sentence increases with the amount stolen and he stole a LOT of money (so much that the table doesn't cover it! It only goes up to $550 million).
But the cost difference for a large company is many dozens of times the total comp. of even the highest paid CIO?
While I agree with the conclusion there are many reasons for the decline of Drupal:

- the main reason people give up on Drupal 8/9/10 is that it's complex and has a lot of bugs. Some issues are going on for +5 years with no solution in sight, e.g. https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2752443

- the old Drupal had a huge community because it was comparatively simple, for instance the hook system that is based on a convention of function names: Name your function something_alter_hook then it gets called automatically in the core. Use another hacky function if you want to determine the order when it's called :)

- now there's an abundance of classes, interfaces, design patterns and a custom ORM. You still have the old hooks system that often acts as glue between the old Drupal and the new OOP layer.

- super complicated "config system": There's a way of exporting the running "configuration" of a site (core and 3rd party modules) to YAML. So you can version control the config and transfer it between a development and live site. However this comes with many gotchas and apart from simple cases you almost always will run into some kind of problem.

- slow adoption of Drupal 8/9 (https://www.thedroptimes.com/9105/why-drupal-7-still-popular). Drupal 7 is dead for years now but still the majority of Drupal sites are running this version with no intent of migrating. This leads to a decline of the developer community and to ...

- low quality of third party modules. There are many good modules but there are also many modules that never reached beta status. It is the norm to have to work with something that's labeled "alpha".

- bad documentation. Many times the official docs are just skeletons with the obligatory remark "tbd".
It prevents the defense from using the precise language as a technicality.

“You honor, my client is accused of crimes starting in 2019, but we intend to show that the fraud started in 2013. That is completely different crime which this case does not address. Motion to dismiss”

That probably wouldn’t work, but why take the risk?
Not sure what you mean by as a service.

Currently it's a web app and I also provide a JSON API. Some details here:
https://bankstatementconverter.com/blog/posts/2022-07-13-jso...
What's alt data? I've never heard that term before.
Shameless plug for https://snapdir.org which focuses on this particular use case using regular git and auditable plain text manifests
One of the major charges though is that they misdirected funds to Alameda Research or had people deposit directly to them instead which would be happening on chain. The failed arbitrage would have also required a lot of on-chain activity.
Why not add it by default?
They're converting mass into energy, so it's conserved. The problem they're trying to overcome is that the energy it takes to convert the mass into energy is more than the energy they get out.

At this point it sounds like the actual energy they put in is less than they get out, but the energy it takes to put the energy in still makes it a loss overall.
mRNA Cancer Vaccine Trial Success
“You get the tissue from a tumour, sequence it and then over a six-week period of time you manufacture a vaccine that matches the top 10 to 20 mutations,” she said.

Bauman said the vaccine stimulates a person’s immune system to selectively target those cancer cells.
I mean, I feel like we can call it something else, but people did a bank run on grocery stores for toilet paper in 2020. It's a term people use to convey what's happening even if it's not technically the correct term to use.
Show HN: Onin – E2EE calendar and chat app
Hey HN!

Ryan here (co-founder of YC-backed Muzz). I’m now building Onin, an end-to-end encrypted calendar and chat app that makes organising your personal and social life simple and secure.

I’ve been building technology businesses for 10+ years and have witnessed the reoccurring problem that digital calendars were built for companies, not people. They feel cold, transactional, and anti-social — not the thing of dreams for planning your personal life. They also lack the security we now come to expect from consumer products.

Onin is the first calendar to be fully E2EE, protecting not just your events, but your messages and even your profile. Unlike existing E2EE calendars, you cannot share Onin events to others without the protection of E2EE. When you consider how much personal information your calendar stores about you and your loved ones’ lives, we think this is essential.

With such a focus on security and privacy, it’s only fitting that we host our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service on GitHub to be as transparent as possible with our users.

But beyond security, how is Onin so different?

Our research found that 84% of events are planned entirely in chats. But our calendars are disconnected from these conversations, leaving our schedules constantly out of sync.

To fix this, we’ve collapsed and combined calendar and chat into one secure app, eliminating the fragmentation between events and the conversations that form them.

Some of our unique features include:

- Calendar keyboard: Access your calendar from within the chat

- Event chats: Creating a new event generates a dedicated chat

- Just phone numbers: No more searching for your friend’s email

- End-to-end encryption: All our events and chats are E2EE, even your profile too

Onin is proudly the world’s most private calendar by default:

- End-to-end encrypted events, profiles, and messages

- Two-Factor Authentication required

- Chat without revealing your phone number

- (Coming soon) Your unique link to invite people, no need to share your number

We’re exactly 4 weeks away from launching the public beta to our waitlist community. You can check out all the features we have coming here and join too at the link above.

I’d love to hear your feedback and answer any questions!
> Hear me out: the Internet was supposed to be about peer-to-peer connected computers, and the privileged roles ISPs and later "cloud" providers assumed changed that for the worse.

No it wasn't. The internet was supposed to be a a global network of networks, and it is.

> It was SUPPOSED to enable me, myself, hosting my videos, on my computer(s) and making them available to whomever I want to, including everyone.

No it wasn't. ARPANet was supposed to be a network of computing facilities that could withstand a nuclear attack, and Internet was the effort of opening up such infrastructure to scientific and commercial entities (universities and companies). For quite a while the idea of the general public having internet at home wasn't even an idea.

> Everyone was supposed to be a SMTP (e-mail) host.

No they weren't. Pretty much nobody had their own dedicated computer, and they just had a shell account on a shared computer dedicated to a specific organization. And the administrator of such computer would set up mailing facilities on such host. Hence the local-delivery (/var/spool/mail and stuff).
True, Canadian banks are quite nice to work with. US, Indian and South African banks are hell!
Take away the software, and how do the professional engineers work? No CAD. No structural analysis. No fluid dynamics simulations.

I think that's a bit harder to replace than it is to clean a dirty toilet. Presumably the professional engineers can clean their own toilet if absolutely necessary.
The target market is enterprise. If I showed up for my first day of work and they handed me a 2019 MacBook Air I'd be pretty unhappy.

I really don't get this attitude of indignation when a powerful machine's resources are fully utilized. What else are you doing with with that computing power? There's not some finite pool of computing power we are depleting here, they are figuring out how to make more all the time!
Nice interface, simple and beautiful.

For casual video audio editing, I usually use Avidemux. Its Copy mode is similar in cutting out portions of the video without the lengthy re-encoding process. LosslessCut looks nice. I’ll give it a try.
One certainly hopes that the thousands of customers whose funds he stole will also see him face charges for what he did to them.
> The FDA kills thousands of people by not letting them access drugs and medical devices.

How many lives has the FDA saved by not allowing companies to use the public as human guinea pigs, or present a product as beneficial if when the evidence is clearly in that it is dangerous and harmful?

I don't claim the FDA is perfect, but frankly if you want to reform agencies causing pain, suffering and death by refusing access to treatments, we should deal with insurance companies long before worrying about the FDA.
I did something similar and counted from the end, to make much bigger jumps!

https://github.com/timvisee/advent-of-code-2022/blob/master/...

Maybe a bit less neat in the binary sense, but definitely very fast.
> BUT ALSO shot out of an "injector" to fall precisely into alignment with the lasers, in vacuum within a plasma field...

It does sound like magic, but doesn't EUV involve some process similar to this? Something about shooting drops of tin with a laser? That sounds like magic to me too but is apparently a thing. Obviously two totally different things, but the level of magic to me is the same.
RFC-1149 is the only safe way to commit fraud.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149
> the ability to modify with confidence knowing that you can go back in time anytime

This is versioning
They mention 'content-defined chunking', but it as far as understand it requires different chunking algorithms for different content types. Does it support plugins for chunking different file formats?
Of course, but the fact that they redundantly spell out "radio" and "television" (as though they aren't the same) makes me think we have a good chance of convincing a jury that "light" is something completely different.
The company died the second they sold to a PE firm.
> Mmmhmm, yes I'd definitely trust the "Stripe, Inc." website with the "Stripe, Inc."

This is merely an example of what I already stated: Validation practices and participation requirements need to be improved. I am well aware of this popular example.

> Do you even read links?

Please check the HN guidelines for conduct. I've actually already read all of the popular media on the topic.

> Your preferred search engine should give you the "real" Wells Fargo site if you search for that.

Google regularly serves malware as the "top search result", because Google Ads appear to be search results to average users, and advertisers can lie about the destination URLs in text ads. Bing is not better in this respect either. If you trust your search engine, you might as well just plaintext all your traffic anyways.
You should be very excited about this.

Fusion promises the energy density of fission (traditional nuclear power) with very-little/none of nuclear waste and dirty bomb problems. Compared to oil/coal, fusion is free and clean energy. Compared to traditional nuclear, fusion is ~99.99% free and clean energy.

This is the first little ember of that promise of fusion power. It's going to take a lot more research and time, but they have proved that it is possible. It's all 'just' engineering from here. Think 1-4 decades.

It's not a working plant by any means. But if this continues apace, your children are likely to spend most of their lives in a world with free and clean energy for all the nations of the Earth. Energy so abundant and clean that your children will be able to reverse climate change by powering machines to filter out all the excess CO2, for starters. After that, who knows?
FWIW it's possible that SBF's post-FTX-bankruptcy actions and words created such a spectacle that federal regulators and investigators were spurred to hit him hard and fast. But all the key evidence cited* comes from what he either tweeted before the collapse, or presented in private to investors.

By comparison, Do Kwon has been relatively quiet but that didn't stop him from South Korea putting out an arrest warrant on him in September. But it seems he's still "free" b/c he spent his time hiding his whereabouts.

* (at least in the SEC civil lawsuit)
It can be nothing more than a stigmatizing invitation to hatred leveled for no reason other than political convenience.
> The cuts are usually slightly off from where I'd ideally like them to be

That is (probably) because the editor uses certain marks in the video (I don't remember how they are called) that "group" the frames together, and you can't use simple editors to re encode the video.

I had this issue some time I tried to cut videos from my gf. Then I moved to ShotCut, that cuts the videos exactly where you want, although the walkthrough is a little longer.
Maybe you're right, but there are sources claiming otherwise:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/19/russia-s...

https://www.newsweek.com/putin-funding-green-groups-discredi...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/german-green-group-brande...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/putins-green-fifth-co...

Just to pick a few random google results.

As far as I can tell, it's in Russia's interest to encourage any energy source that synergizes with NG (ie wind and solar) and to work against energy sources that are full alternatives (nuclear, coal and large scale storage), while at the same time ignore the downsides of NG.

It would make sense to fund groups aligned with these interests, even those that are generally negative to Russia politically. Such funding would not need to be done directly, but could be done through subsidiaries.
People keep saying this, but honestly, does anyone really think it makes one iota of difference?

Fact is that there is a huge paper trail of SBF's malfeasance, nevermind the fact that his co-conspirators appear to be turning against him. If anything, his interviews seemed to be his attempt to argue for negligence over malice in his case.

Yes, SBF is going to prison for a long time. No, I don't think anyone has made a viable argument that his interviews over the past few weeks are likely to make his sentence worse.
Just in case if you are wondering about alternatives: there is Unity’s Plastic https://unity.com/products/plastic-scm which happens to use bidirectional sync with git. I’m curious how this solution compares to it! I’ll definitely give it a try over the weekend!
> in the strictly browser realm

> much more idiomatic OCaml style

dammit, that's it -- time to go and whip up something that fills the “actual ocaml realm”/“idiomatic ocaml style” quadrant
PHP Version Audit: Three years and running
Three years ago I released a tool called PHP Version Audit. The idea is that it parses the PHP changelog and notifies you if you are running a PHP version that has a CVE or has lost support.

Anyways, after running for three years, I thought it would be fun to put together some data. The most interesting one is that PHP Version Audit has a median CVE discovery of 5 hours after the PHP announcement. In contrast, the NVE CVE Database has a median of 260 hours - or almost 11 days. Of course the NVE CVE Database has all sorts of information like a vulnerability score, so maybe it’s an apples vs. oranges comparison. Anyways, I hope someone else finds this interesting :)

If you think PHP Version Audit is interesting, there is also Node Version Audit[0] that I released earlier this year.

0: https://www.github.developerdan.com/node-version-audit/
Depending on the encoder the GOP size / keyframe interval can be more or less unbounded as well. Typically you'd only have a few seconds per, but for example CCTV cameras are happy to produce minute-long GOPs. Seeking backwards in a video player tends to not work so well at that point, and most NLEs are significantly unhappy with such a file.
> Well, no, most people don’t realize US is using slave labor

And they shouldn't, since the example you cited is 0.00048 of the US GDP.
Just a few days ago, he was hoping to "make people's money back". [1]

It's a bit sad, as he appears delusional. A less forgiving viewpoint would be that his background cultivated his sense of being untouchable; that it was just a case of having another go.

But not as sad as the people who lost money they couldn't afford to lose.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63911363
I ran in to this Sunday removing my last VM from their cloud. I've used CLI/Ansible/etc to manage these forever but this time I was in the web console making sure very last byte was gone. Notably the APIs don't have any of these restrictions which is why I hadn't noticed earlier. "openstack --os-cloud rax server delete webfarm03" did the trick...
Sorry, that ship has sailed long ago.
That wouldn't count as polite. I suggested asking the company for the salary range. If they decline to answer then you make your own decision about that.
New experiment shows water droplets merge with each other on ISS
CEO/Cofounder here! Content defined chunking. Specifically a variation of FastCDC. We have a paper coming out soon with a lot more technical details.
When will the storage dashboard be open source?
You keep using the phrase "valued in elite circles".
I honestly don't think many of these traits are actually valued in elite circles. The perception of these traits is valuable. The values...I'm not so sure.
Quite a bit of energy in elite circles is spent on curating an image, rather than actually being decent. You have a whole set of social rules that you follow to distinguish you from the lesser people, and it's all about following the rules, not actually being genuine. Actually being genuine- well, you're kind of a naïve sucker, and even worse- you're unpredictable.
Honesty is only valued so far as you follow the rules, and are honest about your own rational self interest when doing business.
Hard work and high intelligence are definitely valued, but even more valuable is the person that is intelligent enough to not work hard.

In my armhchair opinion, the Illusion of these values is simply a descendant of the feudal concept of Chivalry- it's important to have rules and social norms to establish an in-group of trust, and just as important for the non-elite to know that the elites have their best interest in mind, via "effective altruism"- because the elites are also honest, hard-working people, that got there through their honest hard work. And hey, maybe you can join that club if you invest in the right trustworthy person.
> under the LIFE project, including developing much more efficient solid state lasers, etc) but was correctly chastised for it being a waste of money

How is this a waste of money? Surely there are other applications which can use more efficient lasers?
Your first 100 videos will be awful. Quantity over quality[1] until you hit that.

Not for specific reasons, just because you're learning. If you've gotta go through hell, go fast.

[1] videos still need to be watchable ofc.

E: what is watchable though?

Begin, middle, end. Intro, stakes, hook, call to action, meat and potatoes, another cta, summary and seeya next time, don't forget to like and subscribe.

Keep a sense engaged, audio or video should always have something happening. Dead air is the sound of viewers leaving.

Reengage the audience after each scene change.

When in doubt, have a countdown to something. Show the remaining time wherever you get bored watching it back.

Record everything, edit to nothing. Make the video the shortest it can be while still watchable.

Believing effort is equal to reward is an express train to burnout.
https://archive.ph/tb4rs - "Binance halted USDC withdrawals after customers pulled over $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency from the exchange Monday, according to data from blockchain intelligence platform Nansen."
It might have been called something else like cloud hosting, but it was definitely equivalent to a shared hosting model. We didn't manage the web servers, no root access etc and the database server was shared between 300+ of their customers.
We're not talking global compliance here though, this is a US-based fund, these are US-based startups, and the regulations involved are by some US states. One would hope national regulatory compliance does fall at least partially under the things they monitor.

I agree it's unrealistic to expect them to monitor compliance across the globe, of course.
IMO you have some misguided views on what we are all doing here on earth. It's not a zero sum game, we should all be building bigger and better things.

You shouldn't worry about people copying your old stuff, because you should be on to the next thing. Building the next bigger, better thing.

#buildInPublic has worked great for you—you reached the next level. But now you are considering pulling the ladder up, so you can look down on people, rather than looking ahead to the next hill to climb.

I'd urge you to not only not stop building in public, but to double down and build even more in public. For starters, ditch the copywrong and go public domain. After all, this world wide web that you are 100% dependent on to make your business was built by TBL and released to the public domain.
And what's wrong with shedding some light on this behaviour so that it changes and starts complying with the law?

Also:
"Your jumping to defend YC companies make me wonder if you're not just a fan boy. Maybe come down form your high horse thinking that you need to defend these YC companies breaking the law?"
See where I took it from & how bad it looks?
Do you have any specific and concrete critique or are you just venting vaguely?
That floppy drive requirement for drivers lasted for YEARS it seemed like. Lol.
Well done for acknowledging it and correcting it so quickly. Mistakes happen, especially at startups.