skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of a hack I discovered in school.

I discovered that I could use VBA from Word to shell out to cmd bypassing all of the security. This opened a world of possibilities...

This being the era of AOL punters I created a neat VBA utility in a Word doc to that used netsend to spam other computers in the school. Shared the file widely.

Then I used the technique to explore the network... eventually was able to use net use to connect to a remote drive in the school administrator's office where I found a text file of every student birthday, home address, and SSN... which I then could use to sign into anyone's account (password was derivative of name and SSN).

Culminated with pwning a school rival by putting all his files in a password protected zip on the desktop and dropping a batch file in his startup folder that printed a text file with the password to the printer when he logged in.
With that kind of service you'd be signing a contract that guarantees you internet and cable within whatever level of service you've both agreed on (residential, business etc). You're explicitly being charged for both services from day one, the cost of operating both has been factored in by the vendor.

Compare that to Google's VPN, which is nothing more than a value add to existing subscription arrangements that have nothing to do with VPN's.

Not to say it isn't a good service - I like it and use it, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Google either split it out, jack up their prices to cover it, or just can it altogether.
If you want innovation and a human society that's advancing rather than stagnating, you need a large population, not one that's rapidly shrinking. You're not going to get a society where everyone is super-smart and highly productive, at least without genetic engineering making humans into something they currently aren't. It takes a lot of people to get innovation, because only a tiny fraction of the population creates any innovation (and many innovations come from people who only create that one notable thing).

The way things are going, eventually there just won't be any humans, only automation serving an extinct society.
Most password managers has 2FA TOTP support these days so your OTP will be available on all devices that has your password manager installed.
Ask HN: Did someone register an Authy account with my phone no.?
I’ve been using Google Authenticator since forever, but just decided to give Authy a try because it has better account recovery options in case of a lost device.

So I’ve downloaded the Authy app (for the first time in my life), and completed the registration flow with my phone number which I’ve had since 2011. To my surprise, I was logged into an already existing Authy account, which has a single TOTP added for Mixpanel! Wtf? Even weirder is the fact that it shows the following email address under the account info: P12345678-user@transferwise.com (I’ve changed the 8-digit number)

Has anyone ever encountered something like this? Can anyone explain what’s going on? Anyone here from Transferwise or Authy?

Thanks!
It sounds like he's saying that the key is hashed offline to check for validity, and doesn't actually verify it via server.
We need something to do to GPT what Stable Diffusion did to DALL-E, so OpenAI doesn't have the opportunity to do stupid nanny state stuff like this anymore.
Twitter Is Auctioning Off Espresso Machines, Lounge Chairs, Other Employee Toys
Whether or not you thought about it much, or whether you think I’m over reacting and calling me sensitive is you disregarding your own actions rather than acknowledging the sexist undertones. Bet your mother is proud.
I'd go with this advice... unless you were planning a splash and bang PR campaign in launching. If that's what you were planning, maybe give yourself some slack and wait 3 weeks more.
dd if=linux.iso of=/dev/sdb

should be /dev/sda instead. End up erasing my external hard drive with all my photos, instead of creating a bootable pendrive.

recovered all the images using Foremost [1], fresh out of image processing and machine learning class, end up writing a image clustering "software" [2] that help me separate the useful images from worthless thumbnails and images that chrome have cached.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foremost_(software)

2 - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/groupImg
get on with the times kid

https://www.linux.com/news/friday-linux-game-review-endgames...
Funny you should say that. I've seen an opinion in the wild that the USA saw German industry as a threat and thus blowing the pipelines was hitting multiple birds with one stone. The consequent energy policy between USA and Germany further penalises German industry.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33120534
In any context other than left-wing politics, this comment would generally be considered to be ghoulish and psychopathic.

The contextual distinction is a mirage, of course. It's still ghoulish and psychopathic.
Always "launch" as early as possible. Do your marketing push whenever you think it will be most impactful, but get into production immediately.
I absolutely abhor job titles, but in the corporate world, especially when seeking new employment and building that buzzword-laden resume, it's an unfortunate reality.
The more nights the company is asking you to travel away from home, the stronger the argument for the Ritz.

You seem to think more nights makes it a weaker case.

Travel is brutal, being away from home is brutal. The reason things like the Ritz and first class airline seats exist is that there are people who need to travel a lot and one way to keep them functioning at a high level despite the relentless pace is to provide superb comfort and service.

GitLab can decide to be that kind of company or not but when business travel becomes routine and frequent for one individual it’s dishonest to pretend they should scrimp like it’s their own much rarer leisure travel.
> That's not happening again. We are never returning to "blue collar american workers create most industrial products the world consumes" and so we are never returning to massive demand for unskilled American workers

Not with that attitude.
Because you say it's offline, but require an access token and to quote from your FAQ:

> Picovoice engines call home servers to stay active and report the consumption for billing purposes only.

That's not offline.
Agreed. Admitting mistakes and showing vulnerability works best when you have nothing to lose, not because you have nothing but because you are untouchable. A good example would be a CEO who neither takes a pay cut nor resigns after laying off 20 % of their workforce. It is usually accompanied by a press release saying that they have seen the errors in their way, but as a consequence other heads have to roll, mine still stays attached (and then blame inflation or something). An upside down world, really.
How about this... you take a break every few minutes and flip a coin. Heads, you keep playing. Tails, you pass it to someone else.
My primary use of Zelle is sending/receiving money between family members. For example, sometimes it's easier for me to spec and buy a computer for a family member, vs. walking them through the web site to purchase. I trust my family members to be good for the payment, and there's enough communication involved in such a purchase that I know I'm not being scammed.

I would be perfectly fine if I could be repaid via a next-day mechanism like ACH, but that isn't often available to retail banking users. Wire transfers are still a paid service to most people, and I don't want to fall back to sending a check. So that leaves services like Zelle.
Schools don’t teach it well because of no child left behind - how you write for a test is very different from how you’d write in a more literary or journalistic context.
What? CSGO is the most watched esport in the world. Paintball analogy, what?
The Dead Sea is dying
At her size, unless she needs to take ~weeks off per month, and more importantly, at unpredictable intervals, she can afford to stream fewer days. Too many of them are incorrectly assuming that they need to stream daily, when (e.g.) MWF will suffice. What many viewers value over long streaming hours is predictable streaming hours[*].

I've observed many promising streamers stream daily and for too long, burn out, then unable to stick to even a reduced streaming schedule, thereby losing a substantial fraction of their viewers in the process. Then they became more demotivated, got sucked into a negative feedback cycle, and eventually quit streaming altogether. :-/

[*] Of course all else being equal, more time streaming ~ more income, but it's not sustainable, unless you're Amaranth & has an abusive spouse as her task master.
Fauci clearly committed malfeasance.

He's never been more defensive than when he had to respond to the GoF allegations in congressional testimony. The strong emotion & prevarication indicates to me that he's lying.

The emails early on that reveal he directed people to censor any credentialed experts that diverged from the "official" narrative is direct evidence he's completely untrustworthy.

He's sanctimonious, and very openly admitted to lying to the public.
Is there anything I can do to help poor and homeless people with technology? I'm in New Zealand and I would like to find some more ways to help people.
On a balance sheet, assets - liabilities = shareholder equity. This calculated shareholder equity amount is known as a stock's book value, but this can of course differ from its market value: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/how-are-book-value-...
"we" didn't reach 300-500 viewers, the streamer did. If you want a parasocial relationship then I understand the appeal of smaller streamers
I recognize that, but surely there could be overlap in some areas or problems unique to streamers who don't stream for a living.

For example, I could see streamers who stream for a potential social benefit may feel the need to chase trends, play the more popular games, and other similar things in order to increase/maintain viewership for more socializing opportunities. However they may also have a unique set of problems that streamers who do it for money do not have.
I use gitlab since a lot of years. Let me phrase it like this: in the past I was more happy with using gitlab than I am nowadays. And it gets worse over time.

1. Nearly all features feel like they are half-baked. I do not even know where to start my enumeration of things that can be improved. The worst is maybe the search, followed by the wiki, followed by the issues.

2. It is more important for them to add more features then to improve existing features.

I think this is a direct consequence of the company politics as stated in the article. People may like working there and see it as gold standard. But from my point of view (as a paying customer) I’d like to see more people there work more on consolidation and refinement. Of course engineers prefer working on the cool new stuff. If there is no one who forces the focus on improving existing stuff, nothing gets better over time. At our company we have the same sickness, I wonder what others are doing differently that they don’t have the same problem. E.g. Apple.

On the other hand: there is not much of an alternative to gitlab. Atlassian self hosting is no more. Maybe Gitea + anything for CI/CD?
I think a more interesting story would be about the people that grind for years and years and never make it. You're left without a useful skill and no money, and probably a deficit on your mental health because you didn't go out and talk to people in real life for years. I think its not at all worth getting into as a career because making it big is like starting out as an actor, you have to know people. If you hit it big and are complaining about being burnt out, just walk away. Sorry that you pissed away your money and don't own a house, I guess? Could live pretty damn well on the money you made from it for a decade or more if you have self control, and have zero debt. Find something else to do in the mean time.

What other career can you make as much money, with such a low barrier to entry in skill and capital? Pretty much every other job requires just as much sacrifice of your time with nowhere near the same earning potential. Most of the big earners started streaming within the last 5 years[2], and even then, the top 2000 streamers are making 100k+[1]. I heard YouTube streaming is paying even better now.

1. https://twitch.pages.dev/en
2. https://twitchtracker.com/statistics/active-streamers
He is on Mastodon and Substack and certainly bringing his timely and usual joy to the former.
During an interview I asked a hiring manager “How do you define success for your engineers” and they responded “Wow I’ve never thought about that”.

That’s a red flag for me because if there isn’t a clear definition of success/failure for the role how do you know if you’re meeting/exceeding expectations. This is relevant for reviews, compensation, growth for employees, growth for the Org, growth for a Team etc.

I typically expect a response along the lines of “the person can write the code and not break things” - which is “lame” in my opinion but tolerable.

Edit: clarity
One of the new ones: I started using chatGPT to write feedback for an annual review. I would have never be able to write such bullshit without feeling sick, but the model amazingly well - I apply only minuscule changed to the generated text.
I prefer light mode most of the time, but where I am sitting is dark enough, often enough - that I need to switch off to mostly-dark mode. I'll keep whatever I am reading in a lowered brightness.

DARK READER extension for Firefox (and other browser) have a mode for both. You can set light mode with lowered brightness - white stays white, but is much less glaring.

Another anecdata key factor here is - too many people have their fonts set too small, myself included. I find that when I turn up the font sizes, my eye strains far less irrespective of my dark/light mode settings.
What aspect of the surveyed companies suggests that they are "high functioning"?
You make it sound like they can play any game they want because they are popular. But it's the other way around. They are popular because they are entertaining to their audience regardless of the game
They also have no ability to decide how to spend money or negotiate payrates.
I have a few hundred thousand followers on tiktok, and was posting a video every day. It was hard to keep up and then I just stopped. Traffic dropped way off and hasn't recovered when I do post something.
> On Wednesday, in the latest clampdown, Citi, JP Morgan, RBS and Barclays
> pleaded guilty to conspiring to manipulate the price of dollars and euros,
> with traders using private chatrooms such as The Cartel, which was also
> referred to as The Mafia. UBS pleaded guilty to manipulating interbank
> lending rate Libor. The total fine: $5.7 billion, for what was described
> as a “brazen display of collusion”.
> -- Bandits, Mafia, Cartel. Bank Traders' Astonishing Online Messages[1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/leoking/2015/05/21/forex-barcla...
> Why?

Comfort, convenience, speed, separation from other people, etc, etc. Changing the balance there requires significant investment in alternatives which doesn't seem to be forthcoming (at least in my country).

We can't apply the same arguments to power plants because we don't have to go to / see / interact with the power plant in order to use electricity. It just appears at the wall socket like magic. Where it comes from is functionally irrelevant to the consumer.
https://vast.ai?
I think this happens because employers are expecting too much from their employees nowadays, where everyone needs to bounce around 10 flavor-of-the-month languages/frameworks, so you never master anything, and later turns into code smell. The better path to more skilled individuals is going back to the "training for the role" days, and sticking to what works to just deliver a solid product.
> The product is for a niche audience, mostly free and is an opener for more products along similar lines.

Launch early, and launch often.

If it were a physical product release, I would look at buying trends and correlate that with a shopping season that favors those trends. (for example; large household appliances are trending down during holiday season, but general electronics and toys are way up this time of the year).
Thanks! I found at least one place using padmapper back in the day that worked out really well! In 2022 craigslist still sucks at removing duped postings for apartments, cars, etc.
A ‘scientific breakthrough’ in nuclear fusion?
FTX is on the list. Gotta be on to something.
Weird that you think I conned my way in. I was always able to skill up and do the job. Theoretical before, then learn the rest on the job.
Data viz used to be my playground, I feel like I can comment on this with some confidence. It feels like the selling point / value prop here is that it supports multiple FE frameworks, but that's where its strengths end for me. It almost looks like a coding exercise more than a library that people would use - seems a great amount of effort went into boilerplate, configs, packaging, documentation etc, but not as much into the features themselves.

The tell-tale brushes in some of the interactive graphs hint at d3 as the foundation layer, and poking through the configs confirms that. The real power of d3 lies in how it integrates data with the rendered elements - transitions, filters, being able to use one set of graphs to drive the parameters of another set, etc. With d3, you get interactivity for very very cheap, it's a missed opportunity here not to extend that (most graphs in the gallery seem static).

Overall there is nothing that makes this stand out over other offerings. Other commenters provided some good examples. I'd mention Altair/Vega as an example of powerful / configurable library that can be driven from either FE or BE. D3 as the gold standard of a low-level visualization primitives library with unsurpassed flexibility. If you're after something more out of the box with a DS angle, Dash does a decent job (and plotly.js for an overwhelming viz feature set). For commercial solutions, HighCharts, as much of a drag as it can be, is still the reliable beige khaki offering. CanvasJS would be another one in that space. If you want to dabble in 3D visualization, three.js is by far both the best starting place and the most robust library you can ask for. Honorable mention for dc.js, as they make good use of the crossfilter approach (driving context/selection across multiple graphs)

The js data viz space is quite full, with some heavy-duty, established players. To be a new entrant on this playing field, you'd have to bring something breakthrough to the table. Sorry.
Well stated -- it's impressive that a 1 hour old account thoroughly understands the guidelines this much. :)
The 0.01% is temporary/new, due to the wealth tax declared illegal by the European Supreme Court. This link explains the situation around the "Box 3" wealth tax better: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/magazine/supreme-court-net...

“In 2001, the legislature assumed that everyone could easily earn a 4% return on their assets in Box 3 – regardless of how they were invested – without taking any risk, but this has certainly not been the case since 2008. Savings rates have yielded much less interest, as have bonds, with interest rates as low as 0%. At the moment, we’re even seeing negative interest rates. But the legislature never adjusted that assumed 4% return. This resulted in a situation where, for many years, the wealth tax people paid far exceeded their actual income from wealth"
A mix. I also learned really great interview skills. That goes a long way.
The license on the dataset only covers the collection of images and labels; which is not copyrightable in the US but copyrightable in the EU. The reason for this is the same reason why you can't copyright a phone book in the US but can in the EU[0]. The CC-BY license on the dataset only means you can avoid getting sued by the people who collected LAION-5B by attributing them.

The copyright on the actual images and text labels is far more of a problem. Generally speaking, it is extremely infringing to collect a bunch of images or captions and redistribute them. Like, getting-to-the-heart-of-ownership, if-you-cant-sue-for-this-you-own-nothing kind of infringing. However, it's when you start talking about training ML systems on the dataset that things get interesting. In the EU, there's an explicit copyright exception for data mining that would apply to, say, training DALL-E or Stable Diffusion.

But what about the US? Well, it's legal to crawl the web; and we specifically have Authors Guild v. Google where the Authors Guild lost in court trying to keep Google from scanning large numbers of books. AI researchers have sort of just taken this to mean "training AI is fair use". This is not court-tested, but it at least jives with some precedent, so I think it's OK to assume it's true.

However, it means absolutely nothing for the people actually using the AI, because fair use is not transitive. If I take every YouTube video review of a movie and edit them down to just the movie clips being used, and then assemble them back together... I haven't somehow made a "fair use copy" of a movie that you can just share around. I've just made the most inefficient form of copyright infringement you can do with a computer. Likewise, if I train an AI on a movie, that can be fair use, but asking it to spit the movie back out is not.

Now, keep in mind that some ML systems (such as Copilot) are very eager to reproduce their training set data. Sometimes in situations you wouldn't expect. These sorts of things are ticking time bombs for people who want to generate novel images, because the AI having trained on such a massive data set also gives you access to basically the whole data set. That's half of a US copyright infringement claim right there - the other half being substantial similarity, which basically is the "Corporate needs you to find the differences between these two pictures" meme.

The only way to keep AI from infringing copyright is to make sure it never sees anything that could potentially be under copyright.

[0] Strictly speaking, the EU has a separate concept of sui generis database ownership, but for this discussion we can treat it the same as copyright.

If you're wondering why phone books aren't copyrightable, the term of art to search for is "sweat of the brow".
It's also not a good comparison because if you're truly an employee, you pay tax on that money, whereas the company saves tax on that company expense. The answer of your previous hypothetical would totally depend on _all_ the circumstances. Do I personally control the reward system for having gone to the conference? Do I need day to day consistency? What are my available options in the area and how do those help or hinder my ability to succeed? How much does the company, employed or otherwise, stand to make from my performing this task?

The only situation in which it'd actually be obviously excessive is when the choice would be considered truly opulent and wildly expensive given all of the circumstances.

A 3 star to a 4 or 5 star is probably not so clear if all options are available.

If I was tasked with going somewhere on behalf of a company that I don't control, then I'd pick a place that would likely start at a cost of around $3-400 USD per night with no exceptional circumstances prevailing. All hotels basically suck, that range would let me not be concerned about where I'm staying, and do well the next day if I needed to.
still sounds offensive. are asians uncivilized?
I would like to see a demonstration that the synthesis method would exceed consumption. It should be possible with current tech, if at all.