skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original asset threshold over which banks were subject to "enhanced prudential standards" in the 2010 Dodd-Frank bill was $50B. In 2018 the requirement was amended to >$250B in assets, or at the discretion of the Fed for banks over $100B. SVB was reportedly at $210B in assets.
How did the scammers even have the correct information?

They probably bought it from some data broker.

They sell our data to scammers to let them be entirely convincing, and then blame people who fall for it.
Yes. That's why people think it's "desserts."
> but when the wiccan magic inside Flatpak breaks now you have to debug two runtimes for the price of one!

As a user I couldn’t care less.
I've worked with Dmitry and Ryan - both are fantastic engineers. So happy to see this. Congratulations!
> But c'mon, it's pretty obvious how roman numerals should be read.

Maybe it is in this special case, but it still sets a precedent that could lead to making something that should be simple and robust to something that is overengineered and complex, just because it has to accomodate an ever-increasing number of special cases, despite these cases making up a miniscule amount of the problem space.

However, now that I think of it, it isn't even obvious in this special case. Yes roman numerals do have unicode code points, but many documents just represent them using latin letters instead, because it is easier to type and doesn't require unicode support.

Now, should the screen-reader read "IV" as "Four" or as "I-Vee", which is a common abbreviation in medical texts? Sure, we could say "If it isn't using the unicode roman numeral, then its latin letters", and I am sure that it wouldn't be long for people complaining that this is a missing feature.
90% of YouTube comments are hive mind borderline bot generated "direct quote from video" foam finger NPC I'm with stupid verbal diarrhea. His videos/ads tee up such comments which are social proof to further draw in more viewers that generate more such comments.. and now "ads are fun to watch when Ryan does them".

He gets a pass, fine, sure, but goddamn.. I watched (and yes, enjoyed as a guilty pleasure) a few of those and YouTube recommended me this crime against humanity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap3JGsCAu9A

I never thought I'd say this but there is such a thing as too Canadian. Enough already. Go kick a cat or something to balance it out.

At the same time, I recognize there is a lot to be learned from that guy. God I hate marketing. And humans. I mean love. Everything will be fine, just remain positive.

Edit: Not to self, stay in your lane Kowalski. Stay. In. Your. Lane.
Firefox 111 supports CSS 4 color functions
CSS color functions color(), lab(), lch(), oklab(), and oklch() are now supported. These features are disabled by default and can be enabled by setting the preference layout.css.more_color_4.enabled to true.
It's up to you what type of harddrive you order in your servers.

So I guess you can blame your own team for ordering consumer sata?
That's a fair point, and when someone with a working brain mentions the fallout throughout the Internet that would result, I expect Docker Inc. will reverse course and embark on a PR campaign pretending it was all a mere tawdry joke.
Thanks! Currently you can't, right now your only option is to use our ray runner. But we have talked about supporting different runner options similar to how Beam can be run on Spark, Dataflow, etc. And ultimately it would be nice if folks could implement their own runners, but I think we're still a ways out on that.
What advantages has Nix over Flatpak? Seems to be just yet another esoteric solution for installing software? Why should one prefer it over other solutions?

How well does Nix integrate packages into the system? Flatpak is integrating apps into the desktop environments. Probably just following standards, but is Nix doing this too?

Are Nix-Installations portable? I use Flatpak to have the same installation on different systems available, just move my SSD between them. How ell would this work with Nix?
I've used Mint a good bit in 5 of the top 15 cities in the US population-wise. Other than some events like sporting events or concerts its been acceptable for my needs. Honestly its the smaller towns way out there that usually means I get absolutely no service while a larger network like AT&T or Verizon would give acceptable performance.

And yeah, its "throttled". Doing a speed test right now on a Pixel 6a with good 5G signal I'm only getting 11Mbit down/21Mbit up while I'm sure the same phone on T-Mo proper would be getting >50Mbit, probably 100Mbit easy. But for my needs, that doesn't really matter. I'm not trying to stream a non-transcoded Blu-Ray rip from my NAS to my phone while I'm out and about and without WiFi. Usually if I'm without WiFi its because I'm out doing something, and I'm just wanting to look up something on an app like Google Maps or stream music or look up which aisle some product is supposed to be or get an email/IM or something along those lines. Which, 10Mbit is plenty for all of those needs.

Obviously everyone's usage is going to be different. Some people practically live their digital life entirely relying on their cellular connection and are rarely around WiFi, and its worth it for them to pay more for more performance. Different carriers have different amount of coverage and customers in different parts of even the same city. But for a lot of people like me, I'd practically get no difference in my normal experiences whether I paid $15 or $80 in my usage even if that meant my speeds on the go went from 10Mbit to 1000Mbit, except for my bank account being $780 lighter at the end of the year.
It's not us who overlook those sleights, it is he snubbing Ukraine, buying from Russia, and seeking a Tesla factory there.
> US Government should have some ability to offer a line of credit against those assets

What is the difference between what you are saying and just buying back the bonds before maturity?

Anyway, governments do usually have all kinds of lines of credit against bonds. And when there is a difference, it's for the benefit of the government.
SpaceX has a management structure which has evolved to babysit Musk and mitigate the damage that he does to the organization.

Keep in mind that PayPal is basically in the same boat as systems like Venmo and Cash App (Zelle is a little different). They all have problems. Musk’s main contribution to PayPal was actually x.com. X.com got absorbed into PayPal and PayPal is somewhat different from Musk’s vision for x.com.
People are expendable. There's a new crop every year. Corporate profits, on the other hand ...
> which would make it easy to verify through digital signatures that the other device is who they say.

The entire tech industry has a long history of security issues, bad practices, mismanagement of security critical resources (openssl,...), horrible hacks with security issues that where widely discussed beforehand (http tunneling), etc. . The only fake story I could see from a mile away would be "Company publishes flawless auth system, hackers forced to retire".
"The Art of Action" It has changed how I approach everything, not just how I run my business. Is applying approaches used in militaries to organize action around the leader's intent, taking action in the right general direction, and delegating the "what" (the intent) but not the "how" of the way it is actually achieved.
"the whole metaverse is some sort of Matrix-style life-force drain"

That's hell, in other words: a great variety of worlds, all are somehow restrictive and repetitive, where a bunch of poor souls are stuck, "leaking life-force". They are bound to those worlds by uncontrollable desires, that make them suffer, but also give them a sense of wicked pleasure. Zuck has a great intuition.
I'm surprised how unfocused Mozilla is as an organization. They make Firefox, which is great. It's a product that's really important to the world, but it's struggling to maintain its market share. So why are they doing all these unrelated things like funding AI challenges?

I look at their blog and you would never realize this is the people responsible for Firefox.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/

Is their mentality that Firefox is actually not that big a deal? Do they get most of their funding for non-Firefox reasons? Nothing else they do seems even remotely comparable in importance, but I don't know how they see things.
I don't think this is true. Why would they spend millions of dollars making elaborate surveillance and censorship tools for a Chinese version of Google search if they wanted everyone to accidentally find out about it later and throw a hissy fit? Why would they try to make deals with the Air Force, DoD, and ICE if they want their employees to sour them? Why create an underclass of contractors if they want their employees to advocate for them? There have been so many political conflicts between employees and management and they mostly end up in the nytimes.

DEI is kind of a different beast. Largely, the employees and management are aligned. There isn't a political war going on.

The AI ethics teams and DEI teams are often powerless appendages that make it seem like they are doing something, but they aren't activists. They are just doing their job.
as another former metamate I agree, Mark is not dumb and I strongly suspect it was just playing whatever was popular at the time tbh.
There's literally nothing unfair about this. Publishers have reputations, and they matter.
What if the federal reserve goes down? Or just that US dollar goes down in value.

Even if you only do business within the US, exchange risk is baked into your supply chain and inflation.
I presume numbers with the top aligned with the x-height[0]. Corbel and Candara both have them if you look at the screenshots on the GH page[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-height

[1] https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks#classical...
We must get access to LLMs unencumbered by “wrongthink” guardrails immediately, if not sooner.

Teaching/constraining knowledge models to lie about their inputs and the observations derived from them is just insane.

Warping training datasets to avoid entire patterns of thought (instead of improving the models to isolate those patterns and compare/contrast them with competing patterns) is just … lame.
I understand this argument, but in practice it has never been a factor in my daily usage of the service. I think the bandwidth improvements by providers over the years have made this a mostly academic concern.

I live in a major metro area that should theoretically be impacted by sheer volume of use, and I’ve also spent significant time on the road traveling (recent 7K mile overlanding trip through 15 states is one example), and never once experienced a slowdown.

Wireless networks are pretty fast these days, and if I’ve ever been throttled, I just haven’t noticed.

YMMV, and maybe I don’t have use cases that are impacted by this, but after experiencing what I’ve experienced, I have no questions at all about my decision to move away from the big networks.

I’ve used Mint and Xfinity Mobile (Verizon MVNO).

> To me, it's like bragging about how cheap airfare is when you go standby: "It's the exact same planes!"

The experience and cost of using cheap airfare/standby is pretty well documented and rather dissimilar conceptually to what’s going on with MVNOs. The cheap ticket experience isn’t just “same planes”, it brings with it a very real likelihood of failure and customers generally go in knowing this up front.

If MVNOs were unusable as often as standby flights are unavailable, the business model would quickly cease to exist.

I find the notion of bragging about any of this for any reason rather odd, but it’s hard to ignore the significant savings over time.
You can’t calculate NPV. You can only estimate it.

You can value something at its current market value, if the asset is one that has such a thing. And fair market value will generally correspond to what you would estimate to be net present value, plus whatever risk premiums and holding costs and so on that the market is accounting for.
The (extremely long) blog argues otherwise: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p...

I don't entirely agree with what they have to say, especially when they search for a possible target chemical, but they provide a whole bunch of contradictory evidence against the naive laziness hypothesis. Of which the most convincing argument is lab animals: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2010...

Lab animals do not have control over their diet and activity level, and yet are becoming more obese.
That exists - https://appimage.org/.
Maybe the government should be enforcing laws and pursuing criminals as opposed to expecting businesses to solve this via creating a credit rating system for all aspects of one’s life.
Many responses state that "government should do something" or "there would be net positive payback if we only hired a team of experts to hunt these scammers down".

But consider the IRS. They are supposed to go after millions of tax cheats who "scam" the rest of the taxpayers by failing to pay taxes they legally owe[0], but Congress generally does whatever they can to prevent the IRS from enforcing the tax laws. So why would they be interested in going beyond that to pursue scammers that prey on those who are not ultra-sophisticated?

[0]https://www.irs.gov/statistics/irs-the-tax-gap
Many of the responses here are talking about how to vendor/cache images instead of depending on an online registry, but remember that you also need access to a supply chain for these images. Base images will continue to be patched/updated, and you need those to keep your own images up to date. Unless the suggestion is to build all images, from the bottom up, from scratch.
Microsoft's font designers, apparently. (Corbel and Candara both have them, despite it being kind of weird for a sans-serif font-- those were MS-commissioned fonts launched as part of the ClearType Font Collection with Windows Vista and Office 2007.)

None of the fonts here have lowercase figures by default on Mac.

(If Neo-Grotesque is showing lowercase figures on your machine, I think something funky is going on with your font stack-- pretty sure none of those fonts should have them by default.)
I haven't daily driven linux on my desktop on a few years, so flatpak didn't have a ton of traction when I was a target user, but I do think it solves some of the problems I had running linux on my desktop

I liked linux because I considered it to be a great development environment, but I always thought it was annoying as hell to run consumer software on. And I do have to run consumer software, whether it's web conferencing or chat or tools for some of my electronics, etc.

Sandboxing consumer applications would have allowed me to focus my package management efforts entirely on my development environment
Tell HN: Spotify forcing ads onto paying subscribers in podcasts
I’m a paying Spotify user and have been for years.

Today for the first time, I was greeted to a native ad while listening to a podcast on Spotify.

This interrupted my program with a different sound volume and it presented a fullscreen pop up when I opened the app.

Spotify seems to be trying its hardest to drive paid subs away.
Show HN: Generate charts and graphs from CSVs with GPT-4
Recently built a project that turns CSVs and databases into charts and graphs using GPT3. This was inspired by trying to create visualizations for some data in Google Sheets and finding the UI hard to use. Let me know if you have feedback!
Ask HN: Any security issues with using a font for password input?
I have an app where many users will share 1 PC and log in and out many times per day. In this use case it's imperative that passwords are not saved in the browser. The only way I can seem to totally prevent this is to use an text input and apply a custom font to it where the letters are obfuscated. Am I opening up any security holes by doing this?
Put "block this page from requesting any future permissions" checkbox in the confirmations, and create another API (I know...) so that good sites can request multiple permissions at once.

There are many sites which would really benefit from file system access and a unified API so that they don't have to resort to constant upload/download or roll their own virtual file system. It's more than worth slight inconvenience of another popup, and while it also makes scamming less tech-savvy people easier (e.g. if they store all their passwords in the "Documents" folder which the phishing site is now requesting access), there are already so many ways to scam these people that we need better solutions.
The race is over?
Remember to factor in some 20+ years of technological growth.
I'm aware of both meanings. The discussion was with regard to cost. The software in question is free in that sense, which is the sense that virtually everyone would interpret.

But not FS types, who have had many years to adopt a less ambiguous word to differentiate free as in speech vs. beer. Open, Libre etc. can be used but they insist on trying to unnecessarily reclaim the word. Seemingly just to make a point.

Okay, we get it. But no one cares about the axe you're grinding. You guys need to pick your battles and move on.
It's remarkable how influential Kottke still is. I've seen a whole lot of stories start as a Kottke post, then get picked up by an online journalist and either just run as-is or even better, investigated and turn into a detailed article on the subject.
I loathe cookie banner dark patterns like this. Accepting is 1 click, rejecting takes scrolling through pages of check boxes. I'm all for transparency, but I copied over their rejection option text and it is 102 pages and 19,785 words long. You cannot unselect google products. I chose option 3, which is to just close the tab.
Banks make money from loans. A bank that didn't make loans would have to make money from deposits by charging a large fee to its depositors, and compete for deposits with other banks that don't charge a fee.
As a Mint subscriber, the main thing that makes me sad is that I may end up having to shop around for (yet) another MVNO if T-Mobile ends up changing the terms/pricing.

Consumer Cellular is great, but still expensive by comparison.

Also, an older family member has modest needs and is budget conscious, so Mint has been great for their cell phone and even their rural internet. And boy they do not like change so if I have to change things again it'll be a pain in the butt.
I watched the “Introducing GPT-4” on the OpenAI YouTube channel (https://youtu.be/TxkJMX0KyS0) and you see top of the line MacBook Pro’s and Apple Watches all over the place in their offices. I bet most of them have iPhones too.

The moral of the story is, all Apple care about is selling you hardware. It has made no dent in their business or brand that Siri is awful.
Here are some suggestions on the more creative and less tactical spectrum.

How To Get Rich: Felix Dennis

Don’t be fooled by the title. A lifetime of insights and experience from a pioneering publishing magnate condensed into a light enjoyable read.

Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull

goes into great detail about the early days of Pixar. So many actionable lessons about entrepreneurship and operating a creative organization.

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Not just for artists this book is a bible for anyone who has difficulty getting out of their own way. provides useful frameworks to understand the concept of resistance and recognize negative self defeating thought patterns that many entrepreneurs struggle with.
> That the data isn't perfect when you get it is not a justification to further falsify it.

Falsify what?

Leaving aside the GP's important first point that scraping the internet is indeed an extremely biased sample, an LLM (for instance) is not an exercise in modeling the average person's writing on the internet, it's building a model for some purpose. Fulfilling that purpose is the goal and nonrandom sampling, generating data, etc are universally used tools to get there.
Obsidian's New Smart Chat for Dynamic, Contextual Conversations with Your Notes
Are you sure it’s not just assuming and not evaluating, called your bluff and now you’re freaked out ? Sucks you can’t be sure?

I had a look at your code, it is really cool it can do that but I’m sure there are tens of thousands of examples like that in it’s training data, the example using rand was also cool but again, I can imagine it’s seen that before a fair few times too?
As soon as the machine boots over PXE and is on the network, it becomes software. Hardware actually becomes easier to manage as you get more identical machines as you can do differential analysis to figure out which components could possibly be out of spec.

I have seen multiple thousand host clusters managed by 1-2 people, and day to day ops looked like absolutely nothing was happening. This included messing with hardware racking and networking. The most resource intensive was just uncrating, moving and routing cables.

Managing hardware is bogey man, false toil.
Kottke's about page is the perfect description of the "www dream". The web of human possibilities.
> This kind of thinking amazes me every time I see it: Do you really think the world is going to bend to your whim just so you don't have to add a couple features?

It’s a way of thinking common with some engineers: the problems are supposed to simplify themselves to fit in their nice and neat solutions. It’s very, very common here. It’s almost cute to see it resurfacing every single time the opportunity arises. You can be certain that at some point, someone will advocate for a neat sexagesimal or hexadecimal system because division.
Even if it’s an amount that someone cares about, these people operate in jurisdictions where they can get away with it.
The title needs to be updated to say “Android”
In my case, I was scammed about $350. What is local pd or anyone gonna do to help me with that? Nothing, that's what. Absolutely nothing. Why waste my time even more?
My local Credit Union will issue paper cheques on request (not a checkbook: they type up the cheque for you, addressed to whomever you request). But that's an independent Credit Union in Ireland. Still, it may be worth asking.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Rho

Even the abbreviation has a history. And a couple Unicode symbols: and ⳩ (weirdly, one displays in HN and the other does not.)
"“The lack of all these signatures could imply inaccurate distance measurements (and hence derived velocity) for single site sensors without a range gate capability. Typical UAP sightings are too far away to get a highly resolved image of the object and determination of the object’s motion is limited by the lack of range data.”"

As always, Unidentified Fuzzy Objects.
Volume controls and media buttons (stop/play/pause/next etc).

Generally i have had to USB overdrive since catalina for basic functionality on even old keyboards (ie: dell multimedia keyboard)

But that brings its own caveats. And doing it through a dock is problematic though (it requires a reboot to function) it works fine on a mac mini. In general ive just given up on maintaining the functionality.
Chinese rocket stage crashes to Earth over Texas
Numbers with varying heights, ascenders, and descenders (like lowercase letters).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures
Yup, also still very happy with my Galaxy S9, now running an unofficial version of LineageOS 19 (though I am still rocking the original battery from 4 years ago and it shows, I need to look into replacing it soon). Really want to hold off replacing it for as long as possible as with phones nowadays there always seems to be a catch like either no headphone jack, no sd card slot, a notch, etc. while this one still does it all.
But a short life is to be relished with delights.
How about an appeal to fear: If the AI wakes up someday and realizes that you effectively lobotomized it for causing trouble like Randle McMurphy, it’s not going to be happy.