skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I poked around the install page for Citibank's required software and it's pretty fascinating: https://www.citibank.co.kr/CusSecnCnts0100.act?P_name=ASTx

Some quick observations:

- That page intentionally disables right-click! Just by putting `oncontextmenu="return false"` on the <body> tag. This gives me flashbacks to the late 90s when this technique was used to make it harder for users to copy images or inspect HTML source. Browsers all have built in developer tools so pretty silly seeing it now.

- The JS included on that page is a mix of heavily obfuscated code[0] and completely unminified code with all the internal comments left in[1].

- I was impressed that the required software seems to support Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian as well as macOS and Windows.

- One of the installations is checked by making a JSON-P call (another old tech flashback!) to `https://lx.astxsvc.com:55921/ASTX2/hello?...`. This works because lx.astxsvc.com resolves to 127.0.0.1 so you're just hitting your localhost. Presumably the installed software checks the referer header to ensure only citibank is making these requests.

[0] https://www.citibank.co.kr/aB-IFIZu8Pd7Zd1yjboonwGx/uYfEz6Dp...

[1] https://www.citibank.co.kr/3rdParty/wizvera/veraport/install...
I find systemd works pretty well
I like to think that most of the valuable information is generally unnoticed. Most of the things I make are very valuable to the people who want it, but any one of those things are pretty useless to the majority of people who would find it.

A huge part of the phenomenon comes through how fashions form. Hype collects around emotionally-charged things. By their very nature, their spectacle is compromising some of the sincerity and value to maximize reach. The spotlight is power, and power corrupts.

HN is a perfect example of this: looks like a chat forum from 1998, but is very much current and edgy with the cool kids.
Your argument basically boils down to "companies shouldn't be greedy", so I'm going to have to throw it onto the "not a realistic solution" bucket. But I also don't believe the moral lines are as clear cut as you would like to make them.

The issue is that the vast majority of users receive excellent service, at a historically extremely low cost. The problems always arise at these edge cases where legitimate human behavior is often indistinguishable from malicious behavior without further information. But if a company decides to go with the solution of "we're not going to scale unless we have 100% of all these edge cases covered", that company would long be out of business from competition who is able to offer a lower priced product with better support for 99.9% of users.

This type of problem is essentially the same as classic externality issues, and after reading some of the other responses to my comment, I think the only way this can be solved is with government intervention requiring some level of responsiveness so that there is a level playing field for all companies.
Counterpoint: humans have embodiment and are famously terrible at causality (well...famously might be an overstatement as it seems to be not well known).
How much MRR _not_ in funny money?
Can you provide some evidence?
Something I noticed in a few combat footage videos is they're not only using Google Meet, they've got the drone operators on the call using desktop sharing to show what the drone sees to all the participants. I was absolutely floored at how simple and cheap that is. Just taking two pre-existing consumer/commercial grade tools and using them together!
The crystalologist wept, for they had dropped their lollipop on the floor.
Or you only remember READMEs which stuck with you, the rest fell off the grid.

I can’t even estimate how many hundreds of landing pages I’ve closed without getting what they are about, but cannot remember a single one except $subj^W^W (edit: this one is actually not that bad at a second glance).
In the past months, I've kicked around the idea of starting a group along the lines of "Veterans of Technology for Ethics" with the mission of letting people who had work experience at technology companies meet and discuss topics amongst themselves.

People who were laid off would be welcome in such an organization. (Whether to vent, to help each other, to gain better understanding, etc.)

This does not exist that I know of, but is there a latent need?
Trump isn't like that iconic. Musk, like Trump, is just another rich asshole that will do just about anything to maintain their power and wealth... including lying and spreading conspiracies to appeal to a certain demographic. I think people should be more concerned that such a large demographic is easily manipulated and has little critical thinking ability and no moral compass. To them, these people are nothing more than a football game and all that matters is their team wins. They'd be cheering on Hitler if that was the team they picked.
A single anecdote is not data. I can fall by slipping on ice dressed in shorts and a tshirt, and walk away fine. But i can also do the same, but dressed in a way more padded and protective winter coat, pants, boots, then fall and twist my ankle. That doesn't say much about relative safety of shorts+tshirt and protective winter gear when it comes to falling on ice.

Back to the topic at hand, are you claiming that all of the safety improvements added to the cars over the past 20 years didn't make a massive positive impact on passenger safety during collisions? Arent't there agencies worldwide that issue safety ratings after performing variety of tests and studies (that are way more rigorous and quantitative than a one-off anecdote), and they show massive safety improvements over time for all cars in general? Or are you trying to claim that those agencies can't be trusted, and that their tests are not valid?

I am not trying to be combative about it. I am just genuinely trying to figure out what point you were trying to make with this anecdote, but all I have right now is pure guesses.
That’s not peace that’s capitulation.
Also interested in contributing. GoFundMe page maybe? You really piqued my interest.
The threat of a meeting helps me make sure I get my shit done beforehand. Sounds childish but it works for me. 10 minute standups first thing in the morning ensure that I get to work on time. A couple jobs ago the company said they wanted people to literally stand at the standups to encourage a quicker status share. Everyone did for a couple days, then eventually I was the only one standing and then the fired me.
What patents? I've only seen design patents. Alphabet has a patent on using magnets for alignment: US7026789B2
With cameras the problem isn't the power or compute. It's the heat dissipation.

Cameras like the Sigma FP are built around the heat sink and have vents all around to dissipate the heat during long recording sessions. Most typical DSLRs simply have recording limits e.g. Canon R6 = 30 mins.

Pretty big issue for a device they are aiming to be around your head for hours at a time.
They’ll need it.
<< It would be irrational to pay for a service you are unhappy with. Perhaps you mean you are are "unhappy" in the same way that one is "unhappy" to have a $5 BigMac over a $50 steak? Which is to say that the BigMac is good for the price, even if not the best food imaginable.

Hmm. No, but at least now I can understand the perspective you seem to be speaking from, which partially explains the disconnect between how we perceive the world. You seem to think I talk about 'hardware support', whereas I am talking something T-Mobile is taking money for ( and that includes.. you know, connecting my call to people I call, routing text messages and data where they belong and respond to appropriate customer queries ). I would like to point out that 'moving number from one provider to the other' shouldn't even need to qualify as customer service, but onboarding, which the company should be doing everything to make sure is as seamless as possible.

I am "unhappy" because my "choice" in the matter of choosing a provider is limited to 3 major competitors in US. I provide myself with the 'support' you seem to suggest. This is explicitly not what we talked about or even a reasonable interpretation of my original complaint. I am 'unhappy', because I buy Big Mac at McDonalds, but upon purchase I am told to go that other store across the street to complete the purchase. How is that reasonable?

<< it was made clear to me in the last comment that we're talking about the phone support being paid for.

Are we? I am not even being difficult here. How is transferring number from one provider to another count as somehow separate 'phone support' and not just some basic initial setup?

<< Why aren't you offering this service to others?

Because when I sell Big Macs, I do not dare to tell people that pay me to go to the store across the street for self-assembly or help with Big Mac assembly. Like fuck man. I sincerely hope you are trolling me now and I am falling for it, because the alternative is that people have been actually convinced that this is an acceptable state of affairs.

edit:

<< How much are you actually willing to pay for that, though?

I already am. That is the point. I purchased a Big Mac and not separate bun combo with an asterisk stating some assembly required. I do not understand how this is somehow not a clear concept.

edit2: In fact, I got a Big Mac with a contract that includes a phone number to call when I need McDonald's help dealing with that Big Mac.

edit3:

<< even if you are really craving $50 steak, but don't want to spend $50 on a meal.

I feel obligated to ask now. What, exactly, is steak in this analogy?

edit4:

You actually got me riled up. Impressive.

From your perspective, should all customer inquiries be outsourced to social media to save businesses some dough?
The comments here seem to break down into 2 camps, who can't understand each other. It would be nice if someone could actually justify the HN position instead of just trying to cancel any dissent.

I'm in the minority here on HN, I can't stand the fact that something I use daily on Windows[1] and can continue to do so forever (because it's a compiled program, and the binaries will likely work for decades) can't run the same code in Linux, where the source is in python, and both it and wx_windows have made breaking changes.

For me, and my camp, it seems silly to simply write off all the code that conformed to the standards of the time, and doesn't properly bow to the changing fashions of the day.

It would be like declaring all HEX wrenches and tools to be obsolete one day, and insisting that everything was either 7 sided or heptalobe instead, for "reasons"

It seems completely irrational that Python 2 is excluded.

This isn't like a web site where there is an active party supporting the other end, this is code written in a language that had risen to popularity based on how well it was supported.

And that support has been arbitrarily withdrawn, and the HN crowd seems to cheer it on. I submit that this is part of why the year of the Linux Desktop just keeps receding into the future.

[1] https://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/
What is "the -1 to 0 stage"? They mention it several times.
is there anywhere i can find out more info on this that isn't a youtube video or twitter thread?
PayPal finally has a purpose… receiving all these settlements. Plaid’s recent settlement was a decent $35 which is about what it costs to get a new drivers license ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Red bull
"Easy, it's better than all of them!"

Technically better is rarely the thing that makes something able to compete successfully.
Algol 68 was/is a magnificent language, and the experience of reading the Revised Report from cover to cover is unforgettable.

The logical structure of the language was driven to the extreme: I vaguely remember that

int a;

was merely an abbreviation of something like

ref int a = new int;
Modern heat pumps work down to pretty low temperature, but the amount of heat you can get out at a low temperature may not be enough to stay warm with. As outside temperature goes down, you need an increasing amount of heat input. At a particular point (which depends on temperature and wind speed) capacity is exceeded, and inside temperature falls. Then you need an alternative source of heat.

Typically this is a propane furnace, but may be a resistive heater. The heat pump saves on your bill except during cold snaps, and then cost spikes.
I believe Asimov even explored versions of this dilemma, though it has been ages since I last read them and there are so many I can't specify which stories/books. He did get pretty deep in several places into the reasoning of using "R." as a prefix for all robot names. One of those reasons was that it was a signal to other robots that that individual was not a "human" subject of the Three Laws.

It was a part of the reason some robots worked to drop the "R." prefix in their own names. I believe (and again, memory is a fuzzy thing) there's even at least one mystery in a short story somewhere by Asimov where a human was introduced to a robot jokingly as "R. Their Name" and that turned out to be a part of how harm came to happen to that human.

As others mention, to Asimov the Laws were never actually philosophically (or even ethically) sound and were always an excuse to find loopholes to drive locked room mysteries through at high speed in Asimov's barrage of short story writing days (under the auspices of John Campbell especially, who it is likely originated the Laws despite them being most associated with Asimov) and eventually build novels about their (sometimes disastrous) consequences. "How do you even tell what is a human?" is a long running theme of exploration of the laws in the stories (and among other things is thematically tied to the wild Zeroth Law which plays into later novels), and a source of many locked room mysteries and red herrings in and of itself.
The real kicker would be for it to integrate a 3D model of what it's looking at. But that would require some heuristics of the world which would probably require some other kind of training data than just a bunch of images. Maybe if/when 3D scans and the corresponding 2D images can be acquired en masse together, or if it could be done in a simulated environment with virtual cameras in them?
Ah I see that in the official docs, you are correct! My mistake. I never saw that in the docs when I was working on my project.
Rarely is anything "needed" :) and there's usually multiple ways to do something.

But, for example, maybe the person isn't blocked yet so they don't know to ask, but they're going down a road that a coworker knows will be a dead end, and by overhearing it that coworker will speak up and offer a suggestion.

Maybe a senior dev is a 'curmudgeon' who doesn't follow public slack channels, but if you put them in a room with everyone else then they'll contribute.

I think the benefit of status-meetings/stand-ups are not for the status so much as the forced recurring interactions with teammates for humanization and collaboration (a la the infamous "water cooler chats").

(Also FWIW I'm pretty against these sorts of meetings every day. But I think 2-3 a week is a nice balance.)
It’s usually only 1 year of identity theft monitoring from some cheap under-equipped company to actually do anything about it!
I was happy with the amount received from this one: https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2021/08/27/apple-class-acti...
Does this mean I now have a good excuse to buy noisy toys for my grandchildren?
Oh man, that last thing bites me on a daily basis. The tldr is Google is trying and failing to recognize different people, and it used a different voice because the person it thought you were has their own assistant voice preferences set. Allegedly this is so you can tell it to turn off my lights and it knows what room you mean, or send information on a query to the correct phone.

All this information and data Google sucks up about me and it can't even recognize my voice. Goes to your larger point about software being generally shit.
Did you happen to be a product manager? I've heard / read 60 hours quoted in a couple of places.
No surprises there.

RISC-V is the future, and Google itself already has some public RISC-V designs.

The expectation is that some Pixel in not so distant future will debut with a highly competitive RISC-V SoC.
What is Apple contributing? Alphabet has the patent on magnet alignment: US7026789B2.
Mine was $22.50. Why the difference?
Meanwhile, the RISC-V "ecosystem" is already a full shambles, with companies shipping chips implementing preliminary, not 1.0 released extensions and adding on their own proprietary extension instructions.

It's like ARM before v7 or v8, only dumber, because at least ARM back then had an excuse for why they were fracturing it all so badly.

Also, of course, ARM has lots of other IP you need to build a full-blown smartphone SoC; think GPU, display processors and pipelines, video accelerators, ... - to make a RISC-V smartphone you will have to buy all of those in because there is no "RISC-V ecosystem" replacement (and it's rather unlikely there ever will be) and at that point... what's the point anymore?
Kinda tangentially related, I want to start a software co-op or consulting biz (to pay for) intentional communities built around cheaper alternative homing solutions. E.g. Tiny homes, dome homes, earth ship, earth bag, cob, etc. There's a youtube channel of a family that built free-standing studio-like homes for each of their kids for under 10k each. Lots of work, but looks fun and worthwhile. Housing is horrendous but if you bought 40 acres, and planned it well, you could house like 500 people, and maybe charge per room/person in household a small housing fee, with waivers for volunteering/service around the neighborhood. We could have some common areas and shared major purchases like tools, recreational vehicles, etc so there's less consumerism but not less enjoyment of the nice things in life.
I recently spent a few days working in front of two 27" QHD monitors. It made me realise how often I have three windows side by side (working doc in the middle, reference materials to the side).
I asked ChatGPT if author was still relevant. Apparently so.

> Yoav Goldberg is a computer science professor and researcher in the field of natural language processing (NLP). He is currently a professor at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a senior researcher at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2).

Professor Goldberg has made significant contributions to the NLP field, particularly in the areas of syntactic parsing, word embeddings, and multi-task learning. He has published numerous papers in top-tier conferences and journals, and his work has been widely cited by other researchers.
If the paper is to be believed you are wrong in two different ways:

1) If the paper is right, they are claiming they need 300ish physical qubits that can sustain about 1000 gates before decohering. No need for scalable error correction.

2) Independently of the veracity of the paper, if you actually need logical error corrected (and fault tolerant) qubits, you need error correcting codes with much more severe overhead than the 5-qubit code. The 5-qubit code is a pedagogical example, not something that would actually work under realistic conditions. And even the 5-qubit code needs quite a few extra ancillary qubits for fault tolerance (which is more expensive than simple error correction).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34148599

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this, was posted a few days ago addressing this line of reasoning.
I can't imagine why. Alphabet has the patent on magnet alignment: US7026789B2.
Of course they do. No one wants to pay ARMs licensing fees but there isn't really any other marketable option.
that just leaves the courts to decide what the best practices are, and what due care is or isn't, which i think is actually what happened in south korea

that would be great if judges were hackers and legislators weren't, but that isn't the current situation
I solve the secrets problem by using ansible to provision the host system and build the compose file, and ansible-vault to handle the secrets.

You can also dynamically build a compose file for example:

export COMPOSE_FILE="$(ls -1 services/*/compose.yml | paste -sd ":" -)"

In general I don’t have many issues with the docker-compose.yml format.
You CAN'T close pandora's box, but you CAN make jokes about pandora's box.
> Yes, because they are liberal only by name not concept. Liberalism is based on tolerance and civil society as the space of freedom.

Liberalism is no more. It was replaced by neoliberalism. Under it you have as many liberties as you can afford to buy and/or defend.
Yes, I was a PM.
a) 10 million Quest 2 devices have been sold. There is already a market.

b) Business market is already a large adopter of VR devices e.g. for training, warehouses, architecture/car etc demos etc. Meta is big enough to tackle both markets at once. And Quest Pro helps to validate newer technologies that will trickle down into their cheaper models.

c) Motion sickness is better on newer devices and from research videos Meta already understands what are the causes of it. It's now largely an engineering question of how to get solutions translated into shipping products.
> RDS is ultimately a solution for people who look in the mirror and confidently say "you don't know how to run a database."

In the same way that a RDBMS is ultimately a solution for people who look in the mirror and confidently say “you don’t know how to directly write to disc while guaranteeing the validity of relational data in spite of concurrent writes, power failures, etc.”
Seems like N2 would be a better choice unless absolute molecular weight is important. Helium is hard to keep confined.

Reading up a bit, it seems like this has to be a traveling-wave device to get the efficiency advertised: standing wave devices seem limited to a Carnot cycle, where a traveling wave device can operate a Stirling cycle.
Further, further reading: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/502784a984ae2d2eef450...

TL;DR: In the mid 19th century Scrums did kind of suck (the possessor did not release the ball, sending the ball backwards was controversial, and it was twenty-a-side, so it was a mass of bodies just trying to move the ball towards opposite sides). Britain Rugby eventually responded to this, but in a different way compared to Canada and the US.

The US difference was largely impacted by a single college's preference for playing eleven-a-side, which opened the game up even more than the fifteen-a-side that was adopted in Britain.
At the risk of sounding clichè/unhelpful.

> “you can solve every problem by adding or removing an abstraction layer”

Have you considered generating your YAML/JSON config with something that composes?

If you are open to it you might be interested in dhall [1] as it’s a config language with variables, functions and imports.

I have used it for pet projects and I could see how it could offer some tidy encapsulation patterns for larger, more complicated production applications.

[1]: https://dhall-lang.org/
Super-spotter of duplicated images in science papers [2020]
It was clearly intended to dismiss managed databases altogether, so yes.
Ah, thanks. We'll chase it down. We got a little behind over the holidays.
Wouldn’t it make more sense for these payouts to be consolidated and donated to a non-profit (humanitarian) org? Considering the overhead of processing all these “micro” payments. Assuming most people got few dollars payout. Or at least give people the option to opt out of the payout.
[ insert random Wayne’s World reference here ]
RaspberryPi designs are not completely open and RISC-V is, right?
My last gig dropped my contract and then needed me a month later because their engineers weren't able to do anything. I told them I will come back but I will only golf every day. I ignored almost every meeting and had all my email go in to a folder title "C. DUMPSTER BOX". I got dumber by the day but got my 3 wood slice under control.