skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it still reversible when the money is sent to Turkey or Kazakhstan and tracing and investigating the ultimate destination of where it went (likely to a bunch of bank accounts set up by nominees or stolen identities and ultimately to Binance or the local equivalent) would require almost as much money as the loss?
Those are great suggestions, and they would have worked wonders for me. Thanks for doing the work of helping others.

In my case I wasn't even that in need of an ear, as I had a therapist on speed dial. I just wanted to see someone, for life to go on. The sudden distance, silence and unmade plans made me feel like a leper.
It's not; the standard is what is that job worth to the company? If exploitable low-cost Kenyans were not available, what would these companies pay? I can't tell you that, but I can tell you it is not $2/hr.
Without taking a side on the actual question being argued...

Every once in a while, feel free to end a sentence without an exclamation point. It got really distracting.
Great insight.

For me, I just wanted to learn React/Node and picked the context of Electron.

Since I was a hardware/software integrator… I thought: what is the best common hardware with the worst software? Label printers!

Now, after 4 years of pure software I’m launching a new brand of 300 dpi label printers.

The value I’m offering Mac users is a blue ocean strategy: creating huge value at low cost whereas my windows version is more purple ocean (some blood in the water)… since I’m disrupting incumbents on the lower/middle sized end.
Not sure how you cant understand, apple just moved it from cloud scanning to local scanning. Its a scummy thing to do, but apple was already doing it.
I'm responding to you in good faith in the hope that you will take this with an open mind, but now that I see the previous thread, I'm worried that you might not. I'm not sure if you saw this comment but I thought it was particularly constructive and deserves consideration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34403107

> I didn't make the claim that file information is being sent because I didn't want to publish anything but facts.

When you say "Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent" what 95% of people will hear is exactly the claim that scanned data is being sent to Apple. I don't think you can in good conscience say that you're only publishing facts if you are aware of the rate of misinterpretation and don't attempt to clarify.

Ironically you're doing exactly what you're accusing Apple of: saying technically truthful things that say one thing that cause people to believe a different thing (which is, as far as we know, not factual).
Previous discussions:

2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26294561

2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24849452

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16862925

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16688681
Could you expand on this? Is the idea to embed paragraphs (or some other arbitrary subsection) of text, and then semantic search for the most relevant paragraphs, and then only summarize them?
I’ve only ever seen letter size paper available in offices in the US whereas almost every office photocopier/printer in UK/EU is stocked with both both A4 and A3. The larger sheets are really nice for sketching diagrams.
Well the truth is that you didn’t express yourself effectively. My SO has done something similar, and being on the other side of an emotional text barrage feels like someone is thoughtlessly unloading their issues onto you. Get a therapist and some friends for casual “therapeutic” complaining and save any real issues you have to more appropriate mediums like a call or face to face.
Show HN: Announcing Optuna 3.1 – Optuna Medium Blog
We are pleased to announce the release of Optuna 3.1! Along with 3.1, we are releasing new sampling algorithms, new storage backends, and lots of performance improvements. This blog will walk you through those updates and explain how the project evolved from version 3.0.
I'm sorry, I don't understand any word of that sentence (for instance: we don't run containers?). We sponsor Litestream and LiteFS (in the sense that we pay Ben to work on it full time), but no part of Litestream is baked into or in any way coupled with our platform. If you can run Litestream on Fly.io, you can run it anywhere else.
when the codebase gets large enough you need to allow some tests to "fail" but really I mean you need a way to quickly mark a failing test as flakey so the author can fix it while everyone else can get on with their day and merge code.

At $dayjob this works well, if your CI comes up red with some unrelated test failing, you can mark the test as flakey in the UI and CI will allow your code to merge and a Jira ticket will be created for the test owner to fix their test (and it will be disabled for future test runs)

I think for small to medium projects, you can have all tests succeed but once the repo is large enough / has frequent enough changes, flakey tests are bound to slip in.
FWIW, no one use his "real name" even here in HK. He has a chinese pseudonym that most people use, but even Jackie Chan is much more widely known/used than his actual legal name.
That was kinda like calling 50 cents "Curtis James Jackson III".
I'll add that rework is an underestimated part of 10x, not that I'm 10x. The best engineers I've worked with create solutions that can be forgotten until the business changes, often 3-5 years later.

One variety of 10x pretender I've come across will slam out new systems that then require a lot of care and feeding. Flushing caches, re-syncing data, JVM or autoscaling tuning, regular addition of new special cases, version updates for yet another ecosystem... the list goes on.

Another facet of your "making it look easy" observation: management perceives the latter engineer as doing a lot more than the former, sadly.
The cops were doing your friend a solid. Much to the chagrin of HN, cops aren’t dumb, but can’t tell you it’s no big deal.

If they acknowledge the issue and take the stuff, there’s now a record that Mr. Sharkweek’s realtor friend surrendered a bag of heroin or whatever.

That can jam you up in a few ways. A decade later you apply for a federal job, you’ll be explaining this story to a suspicious investigator. Some jackass prosecutor or person up the chain may decide it is a big deal after all, etc. Or… they pretend not to understand you and you (and the problem) go away
YouTube has replaced the high quality blog. All the good content has migrated to video. I spent days looking for good garden blogs and found a dessert but videos are plentiful. Reading to learn has really gone downhill
I thought you were setting up yourself for a play on words, but I don't get it. Kicking the can? Fal-can?

Is "starship" not already generic enough?
In my case I could continue to use the app, it broke the ability to sign into the vault. If you only lock your vault and not fully logout you may not have noticed it.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/issues/3082
Oh sorry, I just realized I misread your first comment. I thought you said that blog post was yours.

(I still disagree with your position as my link expresses from earlier.)
Why are people so much less able to cope with the tribulations of the world these days?
After reading about it repeatedly here, I finally tried Multi Account Containers and I'm disappointed. I want to press a button and get site X open in container Y. But as it is, after searching for the container, you then have to search for the website you want to open in it separately. It makes having lots of containers hard, plus there's the risk of accidentally opening sites in your "main container", etc. You have to do twice the work for every new site, maintaining bookmarks and containers.

There's a function to always open a site in a container, but this obviously falls over if you have multiple accounts (aws, gmail, etc), plus the UI is poorly communicated.

There are requests to make it so you can associate a container with a bookmark, for instance, but apparently Moz prevented Moz from doing this via browser apis, and have been powerless to do anything about it for years.

It could have been awesome.
Loved this. I did want to see it keep going beyond the trefoil! This is tempting me to figure out a VR setup so I can try the VR demo.
The original HomePod is cool and sounds good, but it being discontinued forced me to look elsewhere for a similar product when I wanted to kit out another room in my house.

I ended up buying a Sonos Move and it’s so much better. Makes the original HomePod sound muddy. Also platform-agnostic. $100 more than HomePod, but it’s portable, so I find it a good value.

Too bad cause otherwise I’d be excited about this new HomePod. I’m a Sonos convert now.
I don’t so much think it doesn’t have an impact, as much nothing on the list has any PR pizzazz.

$316.62 to a grade school? Lame.

$100,000 novelty check to a board member’s favorite charity that happens to be run by his son? Now that’s pizzazz with a capital P!
same - also good to keep in mind that you don't have much control over category 2, but you can make decisions that'll improve your options on both both 1 and 3.
I mean you could even view bit flips as a regularization technique like dropout...
The SPLC is one of the non-profits that is most responsible for this general assumption. The only one that might be more of a household name as a bad non-profit is Komen.
Staged or choreographed?
96 is when I got into the industry. There was definitely money and buzz in the air, but it wasn't anything like 99/'00, or other booms that have followed. It was really just the prelude leading up to that, where some infrastructure was being put in place. Online commerce, credit card processing, etc. online was still quite rare. Even in '95, '96 running banner advertising on web sites was still kind of a faux-pas. Media beyond fairly crappy images was non-existent, because bandwidth wasn't there. Actual profitable business models hadn't been proved.

People building Internet infrastructure (Cisco, Sun, etc.) were making some decent money, but actual Internet businesses? Not really.

In fact even by 98, 99, '00, Google itself had no real viable business model. Despite becoming a household name already.
The reason why the rest of the world cares more is because US is literally the only country that hasn't switched that "matters" (for engineering and business purposes). Until y'all do that, everybody else has to contend with two systems at least occasionally because of commerce, tourism etc. Once you do, it's just metric going forward, which makes things so much easier for everyone. Standards produce the most benefit when they're truly universal.
I agree with hnrodey, and here’s the thing: trying to game this metric is a pretty good way to turn into an actually productive programmer! People who crank out lots of small, easy tasks build up a lot of the very skills they need to take on large, complex projects.

Another way to put this is, I’ve never encountered a highly productive programmer whose approach was to occasionally land a big important change. It just doesn’t work out that way.
File a complaints with regulators including the FDIC and Federal Reserve.
I think the best and most under-appreciated bad robot movie was Hardware[1] (1990). A junked robot gets repaired by scrappers and starts trying to kill them with a poison injection. The nightmare future bad robot stuff won't be this big highly coordinated terminator mass military attack. It will be robots that go from being helpful to deciding they want to kill in a split second because of glitches, malware, or whatever.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_(film)
If anything it should go in the acknowledgments section, not the author list. Would you list grammarly as a coauthor?
Yes, also you can have FF drop cookies from all sites but a few at the end of the session. I use this on my other computers and for nontechnical friends.
It'd still be run illegally - I'm sure in Queensland there were illegal casinos in pub districts before pokies were legalised in the... 1980s I want to say (or maybe early 1990s). They probably offered gambling on credit and other stuff that is now illegal (not to say it still doesn't happen but it'd be very uncommon).
> The people who really, really hate guns are more likely to work for tech companies than their counterparts, at least in my experience.

Depends on the company, I have worked at a Defense Contractor for example, the sentiment towards guns was pro-guns despite the diverse political views of everyone there.
apack/aunpack from the atool suite for me [0]. Funny how many solutions exist for this problem. Though I think Unblob is aiming more for binwalk's niche [1].

[0] https://www.nongnu.org/atool/

[1] https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk
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I also worked at LBNL in the same department as dekhn. In hindsight it was a pretty nice gig, it did have great work life balance, and the problems that we solved were interesting. The people and culture was great. It was my first real job.

Shipping software at the lab usually meant manually creating a .tar.gz file and uploading it to our web page.

Now I work at a medium sized ad-tech company in industry, which is better for me, in terms of pay, autonomy, and solving interesting problems(quickly!!). The work life balance isn't as nice as the lab.

I think that the LBNL could be a great place to work for a few years before I retire.
This is SF talk, that has 0 to with realities of engineering, trade offs and cost.
Yes that's exactly right, but it presumes you know what to look for and what you want in your summary. Our use case is to pick out action items or next steps from meeting notes so this can work. But not for all use cases - i.e. summarize this paper.
It should be noted that older studies are all about paper and signs, while newer ones tend to focus on screens. There are some important differences between the two esp. when it comes to low-DPI screens (which are sadly still typical for office desktops).
Yes, if the funds are not taken away from the destination account and if the Turkish/Kazakh bank is cooperative, but not when funds are cleared out of Kazakh/Turkish banks.
Well, every company is looking to save money and be more efficient. Meanwhile we're having technical and inflection point breakthroughs in AI-powered language and image models.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a crop of start-ups focused around that space.
That sounds like it works, but shouldn't flaky tests be detected by frequent automatic test suite runs?
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For Americans et al. who don't know:

- A3 is (within physical tolerances, anyway) twice the size of A4

- A5 is half the size of A4

- A0 is the biggest size and and has an area of 1 square meter, although it is not a square but instead it has an aspect ratio of 1:sqrt(2) (technically all A-series papers have this aspect ratio because math says it is the aspect ratio that retains itself when halved)

- In practical sense, A5 is the smallest pre-packaged A-series paper that I have personally encountered, although I guess someone would chime that they handled A6 (half of A5) or smaller.
Epictetus is great.

I like this saying which I think is attributed to him (words are from memory, actual may be different):

"Practice yourself in little things, for heaven's sake, and thence proceed to greater."
Calibri is the default font for new documents in Microsoft Office since Office 2007, when it first appeared. So they probably didn't even bother with browsing the choices, just documented what was the easiest for the users.
It's pretty cool that there are 19 pages with charities getting over $1k/yr. Each page has over 100 charities too! That's an insane amount of charities getting help. $1k might not seem like a lot, but for some of these groups it is, especially since it is likely in addition to other avenues of funding.
I use Hacker News to share information with the community -- not criticize other users about their grammar...
You made me laugh pretty hard. Re-reading this I’m more disturbed that I framed it as a potentially gratifying task.
Who is the “they” in “They would have bigger impact”, by what criteria, and why does this “they” have any relevance to the effectiveness whatsoever?

Seriously. Amazon is literally just writing a check, or just as likely, putting store credit in an account.

Where do they figure in to donating at all beyond a middle man?

Seriously, how does Amazon differ than GoFundMe in this context? And as a follow up, if this is such a good move for “effectiveness” why shouldn’t GoFundMe do they same thing?
I didn't really get that. I don't think it matters where along the orbit the second stage lands. It needs enough delta-V to decelerate enough not to burn up regardless.
That's only one possibility, one might not enjoy either talking trivialities or sharing more substantial things without prior trust and shared context. Sometimes loneliness is preferable to unfulfilling socialization.
in a word .... no
Neat!

Possible alternative to Universal Extractor. https://github.com/Bioruebe/UniExtract2
Funny thing, this could technically constitute receipt of stolen property. [1]

There is an exception for "innocent intent" if you are planning to bring it to either the owner or the police, but I wonder what happens if you lack that intent, but you got it from the police!

1: https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/496/
I'm tempted to get that. Heavens know I've got enough microcontroller dev boards, FPGAs, and Arduino-like gizmos lying around, but the entirely "self contained" aspect of it kind of speaks to me.

Very recently I just wanted to speak some SPI to some RF IC on a breakout board. I narrowed down the quickest options to this:

* Use my UM232H (FTDI FT232H dev board) to do SPI from my Mac. Dismissed pretty quickly, since I did not feel like dealing with the drivers and FTDI library.

* Boot Linux on one of my FPGA/ARM combos and hope that the generic SPI driver also exposes itself to user space, so that I can just pipe my data on the shell using xxd -r to /dev/spi-foo or whatever. But even if the case, I had to probably at least mess with the device tree to get the I/O pins assigned (and boot Linux, and have the proper tools).

* Use the Arduino Uno that I got as a gift, but never used so far, and either use its SPI library or hope someone made a "Sketch" already that I could just paste.

In the end, the last option won out, because someone actually had made a Sketch already that I could literally just paste and run.

But that was kind of lucky. I feel like such a self-contained Forth computer that is always ready to accept some Forth (instead of having to mess with a C toolchain) could make tasks like this super quick and simple, with flexibility.

Experiences?
I wonder why they didn't include everyone. Would be nice to know why.
This is so elegant. The 'Intro to Scamp Forth' video[1] on the 'what is' page is a great overview of the device and of Forth in a shade over 10 minutes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q7XsMH8dvk
This clears things up, thanks.
Sorry probably not the best wording. If Bitwarden changes their API the Vaultwarden team has to act fast enough to get the same changes into the Rust version before Bitwarden updates the clients. In one case they weren't fast enough https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/issues/3082
The 20,000 families benefitting from housing in the Seattle metro area as a result of Amazon's investments in the community might define charitable vs. non-charitable differently than you. I've personally met the women and children benefitting from the $100M Amazon and its employees have donated to Mary's Place -- their lens is not yours. Your comments about AFE are a bit underdeveloped. File under no good deed goes unpunished, I suppose.
Are there any solid examples of production uses of these bots that are as impressive as the demos?

I’ve been completely blown away by years of these amazing demos. But I don’t think I’m aware of one real world example.
> That no one was shot and killed is a miracle in my opinion

In Australia the police generally don’t just show up and shoot people.
It depends on the eng. If you're a senior eng with on-call responsibilities, you're getting full time prod access.
Any good online resources for understanding WMS, WFS, and WCS for someone who's only ever worked with map tiles using the https://domain.com/{z}/{x}/{y}.png request format?
We used aws lambdas to execute the pdf renders and upload the result to s3 using a signed url passed in from the request. Complete insulation from our own application process, all of data is passed into the request so the worst the user can do is add a malicious file to our s3 bucket.
If anyone's wondering why this PDF is taking a while to load, it's 262MB.
At least call around to a few local stores and see if they are missing records. Can't be too many vinyl stores around...
The lagging inputs in Windows reminds me of the concept of a “Windows Minute”

Definition: A reference to time where the culculated period bears no connection to the reality of that time span. Used to understate the significance of accurate measurement.

Origin: Microsoft Windows' inability to convey an accurate file download, or transfer, time.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Windows%20mi...

The lag in Windows is what made me switch to Mac, Using Finder and Spotlight and managing applications in the Applications folder made me never want to experience Windows again.
I suppose, it does bring me joy that a local no-kill shelter got $42,631.17 and I was able to get about $30 into that, its not ground breaking, but that's kind of the point of smile right. I guess I can donate out of my own pocket to the same shelter moving forward.
Better `npm outdated` command
This resonates with something I felt deeply as a kid and which stayed with me for a long time, into my early adulthood.

But you can't actually guarantee that others will understand you, no matter how good you become at explaining yourself. At the same time, acceptance and even connection on the basis of imperfect understanding is very much possible— connection of a kind that is still deep and meaningful, and which abates loneliness.

There is definitely some truth to OP, though. Feeling understood and correctly recognized absolutely does help with loneliness. I hope most people don't see their loneliness as a burden or personal failing, that they wouldn't have if only they were a perfect communicator.
> what do you call a DJ without a girlfriend? homeless.

I just love jokes that are a hard truth from a world I don't know well. A favorite along these lines: "What does a stripper do with her asshole before she goes to work? Drops him off at band practice."
Agreed, it's just a bit too clunky to be practical. In the end I have two containers I actually use, but only for special purposes. One is when I have to log in to facebook and one is for searching with a different language set. Neither of which happens more than once a month at most.

So yeah, everything else happens in the main browser as before.
> If you do consider switching, one warning about Mac is this: Window management is utter garbage. Maximizing is actively discouraged. Tiling left / right etc? Doesn't exist. Everything must be random size and overlap weirdly. Instead, each new version brings a new quick switch or workspace functionality that I have never seen anyone use.

There’s a $0.99 app in the App Store called Magnet that solves these problems.

It’s absurd that Apple doesn’t build this into their OS and wastes so much time on stuff like Stage Managed, but it is what it is. I highly recommend Magnet.