skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Valon | NYC,US Remote | Senior SWE and Engineering Manager Full Time |Base + Equity + Benefits (Unlimited PTO, $400/monthly for groceries&food)| Python, React, GCP, Kubernetes, MySQL | https://boards.greenhouse.io/valon

Valon’s mission is to champion homeowners as the partner they trust with their home and future. Our ultimate goal is to guide homeowners through every step of their financial journey, no matter what life puts on their path.

Mortgage servicing is a counter-cyclical business (which is part of the reason we started this company!) and gets paid a recurring revenue based on mortgage loans outstanding (which doesn't really change even when mortgage originations slow). We hope to 5x our loan count amount in 2023.

Roles and Teams: Engineering Manager - manage a team of 4+ engineers. Escrow Senior SWE - Building tools to create an exceptional homeowner experience. Valon X, Senior SWE - Expanding new business verticals of Valon.

We're hiring for various roles, feel free to reach out to learn more: lisa.yin@valon.com
RSS: https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/4aF2pGVAEN.xml
(some people had complaints about formatting there, will try to fix soon)
And the pin is the same functionality as activating a hardware authenticator like a Yubikey.
Crashed bow repair: Fixing a boat in time for the 2022 Golden Globe Race
now is 'AGI is just around the corner' an example of techno-optimism or techno-pessimism?
For people looking for something similar and actually minimalist, I highly recommend http://68k.news

I don't know what algo it uses, but it basically grabs top headlines, aggregates similar stories with their headlines (so you can see how other news sites headlined the same news), and then most importantly presents a plaintext version of the article that is accessible without visiting the news site directly.

It's honestly the best news site I've ever used, and would recommend it a thousand times over. I also believe I found out about it on HN a few years back

http://68k.news
Occam's razor is that it was meant to be comedy, because it being serious is not really credible. The rest of the responses seem to agree that if it is taken seriously, this statement is ridiculous.
The Most Important Machine That Was Never Built
On that note there's a modern hardware synth that uses a pin matrix still -- Eaganmatrix (used in the Continuum and the Osmose).

IDK, some people say it's really hard to understand, but I think the pin matrix they use actually works really well.
> so reportedly Apple just got absolutely everything they asked for and WebGPU really looks a lot like Metal

...tbh, I wish WebGPU would look even more like Metal, because the few parts that are not inpired by Metal kinda suck (for instance the baked BindGroup objects - which requires to know upfront what resource combinations will be needed at draw time, or otherwise create and discard BindGroup objects - which are actual 'heavy weight' Javascript objects - on the fly).
Play HOMM3 or Bloons TD5. I'd be embarrassed to admit how many times I've played them.
I'm really on the fence because I don't want a Google owned web, but at the same time, IMHO Chromium is the superior browser engine out there. I'd like to see it be pulled out of their control (donated by them willingly) and put into maybe like a browser foundation where all major browsers that are built on top of it vote and get a say in how it goes, just like most foundations.

I'd rather we have a single unified web experience than hacking around various browser engines to display on our sites.

Browsers should just be skins over this unified experience to add their own quirks they want, be it Google login shit or Microsoft's shit or even Brave's crypto shit.
You mean like Venus?

Why is this interesting? Is it because of the water, or because of the technical capabilities of the instrument?
I used System76’s Pangolin for weeks, and Linux was not the biggest problem
Hey,
I'm Chris, I created Moodistory.
What do you think?
“DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run"
From a random VSCode SSH session I have open:

> Found running server...

>

> *

> * Visual Studio Code Server

> *

> * By using the software, you agree to

> * the Visual Studio Code Server License Terms (https://aka.ms/vscode-server-license) and

> * the Microsoft Privacy Statement (https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement).

> *

>

Many of the interesting extensions (Microsoft's language plugins, the remote extension pack, the .NET debugger) are licensed only for use with Visual Studio Code. Even if you hook into the VSCode marketplace, they could sue. They probably won't unless you're rehosting VSCode externally or something, but the risk is something most companies probably don't want to take when the software is free as in beer anyway for the "real" builds. (And if you're telemetry sensitive... just block the domains? I know, easier said than done, but you can do it.)
They've already been doing this with Teams. Their native Linux client has less features, like screen blurring, or being able to view more than 4 users at a time. Thankfully you can get around this by using the web version, but who knows how long it will be until they do some user-agent shenanigans to mess with you again.
Check out "Street-fighting mathematics" and excellent (free) resource. It's so good I paid for a copy (and his other one) after reading the free version online.
> There's a difference between capital/operational expenditures to reproduce work, and directly paying the owner of the work.

But you can reproduce the work with a shitton of compute and a massive dataset. They aren’t sharing their exact strategy but the technique is fairly well known.

IMHO it really doesn’t matter, advancing science comes from trying different things and not from reproducing someone else’s work to prove it works.
Passkeys should still be on your local device. Account recovery should fall back to e-mail magic link or government credential proofing (depending on data sensitivity and threat model).

(manages customer IAM for a FinTech)
Unity Conducts Its Third and Largest Round of Layoffs in a Year
It sounds like you're already aware of this, but since there was a lot of speculation about the Yuan earlier:

Note that while the chart Bloomberg used makes it look like the Yuan is poised to take over from the dollar, it's not. It's gone up... to 2.69%. This is how the currencies stacked up in Q4 2022 according to the IMF[0]:

* the US dollar (58.36%)

* the Euro (20.47%)

* the Yen (5.51%)

* the Pound (4.95%)

* the sum of all currencies not in the top 8 (3.45%)

* the Yuan/Renmibi (2.69%)

* the Canadian dollar (2.38%)

* the Australian dollar (1.96%)

* the Swiss franc (0.26%)

So it's not that the Yuan is becoming the world reserve currency, it's that countries are avoiding relying on a single reserve currency. The lesson from the Ukraine sanctions wasn't to avoid the dollar, it was that relying too much on any outside country's currency puts your sovereignty at risk, so they're diversifying.

If you look at the chart in the link below, the gains from the dollar's loss are spread out pretty evenly.

[0] https://data.imf.org/?sk=c22e624f-ce09-4c9e-a70b-647defa5215...
Canadian province experiments with decriminalising hard drugs
This is the discussion I hoped to find when clicking on the comments.

> Fairly soon, WebGPU will be an alternative...

So while the blog focused on the graphical utility of WebGPU, the underlying implementation of WebGPU is currently about the way that websites/apps can now interface with the GPU in a more direct/advantageous way to render graphics.

But what you're suggesting is that in the future new functionality will likely be added to take advantage of your GPU in other ways, such as training ML models and then using them via an inference engine all powered by your local GPU?

Is the reason you can't accomplish that today bc APIs haven't been created or opened up to allow such workloads? Are there not lower level APIs available/exposed today in WebGPU that would allow developers to begin the design of browser based ML frameworks/libraries?

Was it possible to interact with the GPU before WebGPU via Web Assembly?

Other than ML and graphics/games (and someone is probably going to mention crypto), are there any other potentially novel uses for WebGPU?
> So with the modern browsers now days latest Chrome/Firefox (both desktop and mobile) can support websocket seamlessly?

Yes. And this has been true for nearly a decade. The jquery analogy is exactly right. These days socket.io is simply an over complicated wrapper around a standard browser feature (websockets). Just like jquery, it will probably hang around as long as we’re alive through sheer stupid inertia.
Redfall convinced me that always-online for single-player is just stupid
Yeah, really.

I already use iCloud and Apple Music. I can run whatever I want on my Mac; I enjoy that the iOS experience is curated.

I never manually move files between devices because it's 2023, and I use a syncing provider that gives me access to my files on whatever device I'm on.

I have no use for a Garmin watch because I'm mostly a cyclist, and bike-specific head units are superior. For hiking, my Apple watch does a fine job without having the clunky, awful interface I hated when I used Garmin units on my bike.

Creating a whole-set experience is a value unto itself. Sure, it's easier to use the Apple stuff, but I'm not picking their music service, or their watch, or their phone, just because I'm in this ecosystem. I'm in this ecosystem because, by my lights, all those options are simply BETTER than those on offer from other people.
so hard to do these days, but does seem to pay off when possible :) thanks for sharing!
> The thing though, I got to sample a Brie cheese made in Switzerland but I thought anything named Brie could only come from France?

Switzerland is not in EU so if that is protected by some EU law I think it wouldn't apply ?
Weird because Portugal has had a higher inflation rate than the US in 2022 (8.1% vs 6.5%). The same is likely going to be true for 2023 according to projections and current data

https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/economic-surveillance-e...
>with a fingerprint, a face scan or a screen lock PIN

I agree - not secure.

And just a daily reminder that biometrics are usernames, they are not passwords. You can change a password, a lock, a key, you cannot change biometrics, and thus they should not be used for guarding sensitive info.

The only use-case for biometrics is deanonymization, sold to you under the auspices of security, primarily used for corporate surveillance.
FF on Windows 11, no problem.
I simply don’t buy this. There’s a difference between the US’ actions towards Iraq and stating that a Russia was going to launch a campaign against a country it was already involved in a war with and had already stolen land from. It being not believed, and especially that being due to Iraq, is a Kremlin talking point.
TaskFocus allows you to easily and conveniently focus on tasks and activities, while also keeping track of the time spent on them.

The app will be very useful for those who constantly plan things in their mind, whether they are personal tasks or work-related ones. TaskFocus will prevent your tasks from getting lost and help improve your productivity.

With TaskFocus, you'll have more space in your mind for what's truly important. Thanks to this app, you can easily plan out any day.

Task list:
- Simple and convenient form for adding new tasks.
- Convenient management of your task list.
- Convenient search function in the app allows you to find any lost tasks. There is search by text and by task date.
- Ability to export tasks and recorded time to an Excel document.

Task focus:
- The app allows you to focus on completing a specific task from your list with the option to choose a melody that helps you concentrate better on the task.
- Ability to choose a background sound while focusing.

Convenient statistics:
- The app includes simple and informative statistics on task completion, time spent on tasks, and statistics on overdue tasks.
- Ability to export statistics to an Excel document with breakdowns by categories and detailed statistics on tasks.

Customization options:
- The app supports customization options to suit your preferences.

Synchronization:
- Thanks to synchronization of tasks and recorded time, you can always access your tasks and recorded time on all of your devices.
Me, too! I had such a great time at your hacker summer camp when I visited a few years ago - met amazing people in beautiful Soča valley. Those images brought back memories of the extra days I stayed in Ljubljana.
https://pif.camp
The U.S. has definitely done many immoral things. But I don't think that's because the U.S. is particularly immoral. People are immoral, in general, and many are willing to do terrible things to advance their own personal situation. You really don't need to look back too far to find many examples: Europe and its African colonies, Japan and its colonial empire, China and Tibet, Russia and Ukraine, the North Korean regime, the list goes on.

I'm more interested in instances when a group with power has chosen not to wielded it.
This mapping falls apart when the individual devs have different levels of experience. A gold star is a different unit of time per individual; Dev A might be able to complete 1 gold star in 1 week, but Dev B with less experience takes 2 weeks.

The right thing to do isn't to estimate the average 1.5 weeks, since the case might not actually be done for another month, and it might end up actually being done by Dev C who just joined the team, for who 1 gold star is currently 3 or 4 weeks.
Why? There's an artificial limit placed on the number of H1Bs. My goal here isn't to evenly distribute H1Bs throughout the US, it's to make sure that H1Bs aren't exploited and also that they don't depress wages for Americans. Adjusting for CoL just helps depress wages. It also helps exploit H1Bs since it's actually pretty hard if you decide you want to leave the country to afford a plane ticket to go back home on short notice.
Ummm, Github runs on Git.
So any feature supported by git will work work with any client other than the official windows client.

Vscode is a text editor/IDE, it has bajillion alternatives, again unless MS doesn't allow code not written in Vscode to GitHub, which is a suicide anyway. There is Bitbucket or Gitlab to fork to.

WSL, is awesome, because Linux is not game friendly, yeah yeah proton blah blah. I own a steam deck I know how it works and for a casual user Linux gaming just isn't there unless you want to tinker a lot.
Then there are products like Photoshop replacements for which Linux is sub par, no GIMP is not alternative, it's entirely different. But nothing is stopping other users to switch to Linux unless edge/windows 11 blackholes insert_your_favorite_linux.com. WSL just clicked for a reason.

MS as a company will fight for market share, no company after a certain size is moral, it's "free market" as US defines it. Change laws not companies. Regulate not ask nice. Feels like EU knows this and at least tries to twist the arms of companies where as in US it's seen as infringement of freedom.

Ms gobbling up dev community is fear mongering towards the wrong entity.
Sure, Watson+Jeopardy was good PR for IBM, as was DeepBlue, but even if the definition of success (vs disaster) is only PR-success, I'm not sure how lasting that is/was for IBM. Certainly from a technical POV Watson was just marketing hype - a common label applied to a grab-bag of unrelated unremarkable products.

If you polled people on the street today about which companies they associate with AI, I doubt IBM would come out anywhere near the top. In fact, I'm not sure if you surveyed the under-20 crowd they could even tell you what IBM does, assuming they've even heard of them, other than perhaps being in the computer business in some vague way.
Who are Ike and Tina?
Burnt out, lazy dev looking for an easy job that pays reasonably well. Looking for consistent type of work, consistent tech, a fairly interesting business domain, and low expectations.

Location: S.E. PA
Remote: Maybe, but I suck less in the office
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Nothing worth mentioning - jack of all trades, master of none situation
Résumé/CV: available on serious request; not posting publicly to avoid my employer finding out
Email:ubisoftg2-ubi@yahoo.com
Semantic Kernel Copilot Chat
> there's a solution to the NYPD being awful? I wasn't aware

That's my point. I'm don't know what the solution is. But dismissing good cops the way you did certainly isn't one.

> dont say "give them more money" because that's certainly not it

Nobody did. In this entire thread. You made an incorrect assumption and are doubling down on it.
No Grandmas, not a single one, have taken a haircut, much less losing life savings.

Thus far, only bank investors have been impacted, and that seems likely to continue.
What are the privacy implications for this? Are companies that see my passkey going to be able to link it to all my other accounts, or will each passkey be completely anonymous?
> Just rolled it out internally at our company as well. It’s nice to have access to GPT-4 without having to pay for it myself (those queries and responses get pricey if you use it a lot).

When you say use it a lot do you mean typing in queries yourself or programatically and/or recursively generating prompts like autogpt?

Because I thought one day I had used it a lot by typing in lots of messages. The next day my usage was less than a few dollars.
a) evidence?

What the UK has a long long track record of, is CND and Greenpeace misrepresenting or outright lying to the general public about all aspects of nuclear power and often conflating it with nuclear weapons. I trust scientists over Doris, 63, from Derby, who doesn't like nuclear power 'for reasons'.

b) All Western countries have an economic problem with nuclear power because the government has been involved since day one for obvious military reasons, limiting the ability to commercialise it and hence reduce costs. SpaceX launches cost 10% of government launches because they've been allowed to commercialise rockets.
I feel bad that there is always the request for potential applications for studies like this, and the scientists feel required to come up with something. Can we just find out the answer in order to find out the answer?

In no world are biosurfactants added to seawater around wind turbines in order to increase the performance of an acoustically insulating bubble sheet for marine life. Can’t we just have the conversation piece and let the scientist continue on? Amortized over the millions of people that drink champagne it’s really a pretty affordable interesting piece of information.
Show HN: OpenAI Multi-Client – Streamline Concurrent OpenAI API Requests
Hey HN! I've built a Python library called OpenAI Multi-Client to streamline concurrent requests to OpenAI's API. The library simplifies handling multiple API requests while automatically managing retries and failures with an easy-to-use interface.

While the library isn't complex or deep, handling concurrency involves various subtleties that can be challenging to get right on the first attempt. Packaging this functionality as a library saves users from reinventing the wheel and reduces the risk of bugs.

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The linked security blog post[1] has a lot more of the technical details and can clear up some of the questions/confusion that people have added in the comments.

[1]https://security.googleblog.com/2023/05/so-long-passwords-th...
Indeed I wouldn’t trust Google or Apple to be the only place my passkeys are stored. I’m currently a 1Password user and their upcoming support looks like it could address this issue (I’m not in any way affiliated with them)

https://www.future.1password.com/passkeys/
For Chrome on desktop OS, it will popup a QR code that you can scan it by passkey-registered phone like[1].

If your desktop/laptop has TPM, TrustZone or other similar devices, it can register Passkey too.

[1] https://9to5google.com/2022/10/12/android-chrome-passkey-sup...
What makes a behavior rational? Linear models take in information and use that information to decide what action to take to meet a goal. When you are fitting a best line, I suppose that could be rational, or it isn’t, it depends on the usage. I find it hard to justify calling one thing “intelligent” and the other thing not.
There is no advantage, and anyone approaching a masons lodge with the intention of advancing their careers would likely be turned away. It would be like someone joining your D&D game to hand out business cards, just weird and uncomfortable.

Masonry isn't actually secret or mysterious, and I'd suggest any interpretation of it as something other than just a sincere interest in developing as a man is probably overly informed by the internet. What got me interested was when I saw who in history had organized against it, and I thought, well then, that's a team I'd like to be on. If I could characterize it for a general audience, it presents a small hurdle to being a complete knob, and while many do manage to surmount that obstacle, on the other side of it I find they are at least in the minority.

Being accepted into a peer group by a dozen or so guys is a big deal, and as a means to maintain social connections into old age, for many it's a lifeline. Those casual friendships form a fabric that endures in the face of the problems of the world, and they form a foundation for other things. It's absolutely weird, but that's necessary to have something completely unique in common that can overcome other differences, where even if it's the only thing you have in common, it's still a pretty good basis for relating.

So, no advantages in the implied sense of the original question, and the advantage of the perspective is not something that seeing it merely as advantage can capture, imo.
> a confirmation isn’t the same thing as making it difficult

The problem with sideloading on Android is that it won't accept upgrades for your applications. You will have to get them from the installer app. And then it will confirm before downloading each app. And then it will confirm before installing each app. And then it will confirm again because, well, I have no idea.

One confirmation isn't the same as making it difficult. Piles and piles of them is.
I'm thinking that some of this may be failure to compensate for the yellowish-to-reddish filter layer that's built into most classic color negative films to account for being printed with incandescent/halogen lamps. If that's ignored, the final image is going to come out blueish to cyanish.
Most AI uses some variation of deep-learning (CNN-resnet for example). In my mind that's really just some variation of fancy counting.
It may outpace the official inflation rate. But I do not trust those numbers. Maybe the CEOs have a better knowledge of it, and the 7.7% are nearer to the true value?
Hey! You can send up to 12,000 emails for free with mailersend, you just have to use your own domain, and edit its DNS records. They also check if you don't send spam to get you approved and up your sending limit.
Rough edges like this are what make people like the experience better on other operating systems. Edge is a nice browser. But I want to use something else, and these kinds of things make me not want your software. As a developer, I just stop using the OS's "open url" call and add a setting to select the app to use to open links.

At my company, we're Mac for everything not engineering and linux for engineering. Every new hire at first hates the new thing, but after a few months, I'll ask them if they'd like to switch to Windows... and the answer is usually something between "no" and "for the love all that is good and wholesome, no!" The issue with Windows is lots of tiny spikes and sharp edges that interrupt your workflow.