skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Experian once stole our credit card number, and wouldn’t stop making unauthorized charges to it.

Our bank was able to just block Experian, since Experian was a large percentage (“most”) of their fraud cases, and they didn’t want to pay to re-issue cards with new numbers.
Especially when WFH
Chesterson's fence isn't saying that the fence/test isn't necessary. It's saying you need to take the time to understand the broader context rather than take a knee-jerk assumption. To be more clear, just because developers don't see the need for better testing, doesn't mean more testing isn't needed. But it may indicate the VP didn't doing a good job of relating why, which leads to the gamesmanship shown in the story.

Schedule isn't always the most important thing either. It's possible delivery the software may just mean you've been rolling the dice and getting lucky. The Boeing 737MAX scenario gives a concrete example of where delivery was paramount. It's a cognitive bias to assume that "since nothing bad has happened yet, it must mean it's good practice"
Fork in the road for Terraform? [audio] [video]
"there is a culture of rent seeking" must be the understatement of the year. What the UK understands as "entrepreneurship" is buying property to rent. This is everyone from your grandma to the shiniest MBAs.
Dang. If I go back I'd better figure how to use cash on the subway. Though maybe they'll be back by the time that happens.
Super hard to say, so ... 80th or 90th? With very low confidence.

But I do have very high confidence that the 99th percentile is much larger than petabytes (think: what's next after "exa"), and I believe that many companies these days crack into "peta" territory.

But as I saw another comment mention, I think another, probably more important, consideration besides size in bytes is cardinality and structure. So maybe this whole classification we're doing is kind of beside the point :)
That's not been my impression as a designer. Outside of HN, I've not seen anybody talk about switching to Penpot. My team even looked at it and concluded it was several evolutionary steps from being an option. It's not a viable replacement for Figma yet. To be clear, I'd love it if it were, because I want competition in a space Adobe is trying to monopolize, I just don't feel like Penpot is providing that pressure at this point.
Source? The mainstream distros already have comprehensive ARM support in their repos.

Asahi is working on a Fedora respin which will mean all your usual packages are a `dnf` command away.
That may be so, but people who want to go to space aren't doing it to stop us damaging the environment, any more than people who built the Large Hadron Collider or filmed all the Marvel super hero films are.

They are doing it because it's possible and they want to do it. You don't single them out as unproductive in your quest to fix the planet. Why?
The fine is small contrasted to the bonuses required for the executive team since they had to work extra hard dealing with the fine thing.
Because the market share is order of magnitude smaller.
Will Google Docs kill off Microsoft Office? (2013)
Not to mention the install cost ($6000).
Eh... just from reading this comments section and the way people would want to use profiles (instead of containers), I'm ok with the feature being obfuscated.
> on average over the year

Thing is, industries don't operate on "average energy". Neither do services and people's homes. They don't care if you have 100% energy tomorrow if today you get 0%. Yes, on average you will get 50%. But in practice you'll have complete disruption.

When the sun is down, it's down not just for a singe country or a city. When the wind is not blowing, it's not just a local phenomena for a single country/city. Etc.

> the actual number for PV is about 10%, and even given that capacity factor the world is currently on the path to that alone being sufficient by the early 2030s.

So, riddle me this: if you want to account for days when wind and electricity produce only 1-3% of their installed capacity, how much capacity (and storage) needs to be installed to provide full energy needs?

> That's like saying your car is "currently" only as fast as a bicycle

False analogy

> And if everyone running the grid were to say "we're not having a grid any more", Kaufland and Obi both sell kWh-range battery packs at low enough prices that, given the way they wear over use, they'll already be cheaper over their lifetime.

How many of those battery packs you will need for "no grid"?

> hence why it's not common, but it is already there.

Of course it's nowhere near "there", wherever there may be.
Candle YOLO – Object Detection in the Browser with Rust
Latency and cost. GPT-3.5-Turbo is very very fast (for reasons I still don't understand) and cost is very very low even with the finetuning premium.

Llama2 is still slow even with all the LLM inference tricks in the book and you need to pay for expensive GPUs to get it to a production-worthy latency, along with a scaling infra if there is a spike in usage.
Cyberpunk and technothriller literature has anticipated this, going all the way back to the 1980s -- but most prominently in Neal Stephenson's 1999 novel Cryptonomicon, where the main characters work to set up an underground data haven in the fictional SE-Asian Sultanate of Kinakuta.

Back then, it was naturally assumed that large databases and archives would need to be hosted in secure offshore locations, for obvious legal reasons. (IIRC, Cryptonomicon has an amusing segment where the characters describe the US legal system's discovery processes. "Never, ever send anything in email" was the gist of it.)

Fast forward to today, and there are two great data havens -- SciHub and Libgen -- which, by design, are correctly and appropriately difficult for the US Government and its loathsome civil legal apparatus to grasp.

The third great data haven is the Internet Archive, which was unwisely based in the US and managed as though it were a legitimate tech company. The lawyers smell the blood in the water and I fear it's not long for this world. What the world needs is a pared-down distributed version that's more slippery and totally unresponsive to legal complaints.
Having your identity stolen and having your identity permanently removed are not identical actions. If I use a keylogger to grab your passwords and impersonate you in emails, forums, and so on then your identity is stolen, it's in use by someone else instead of you without consent for a period of time. This does not mean your identity has been removed from you permanently. This also does not mean your identity was always in your control just because the sites should have done more verification to see if it was you. It was still stolen but the fraud wasn't caught, and the lost money due to fraud falls between the criminal and 3rd party regardless independent of your identity being fraudulently used. Keep in mind that's how it is today, if your identity is stolen it is already the bank that eats the loss due to fraudulent lending.

If you still disagree please try to make an argument without mentioning banks. Identity theft covers a lot more than banking fraud so the explanation shouldn't explain how you want the term to be changed to something which focuses solely on banks.

The processes in place do suck. That has nothing to do with the name of the crime though.
Search in DDG use “play here” to view desired video.
The problem with that option is it involves many skills other than the primary tech-focused skill. Sales, marketing, accounting, negotiation, support, etc. Many technical people don't really want to handle those job functions, even if they happen to be decently good at them.

Certainly you can hire people to do those functions, but you need to have a decently well-established reputation and enough work and income before you're able to hire those people.

Employment does give you a trade off there: less money in exchange for someone else handling the "overhead".
> wildcard pattern matches are error prone.

True.

Unfortunately, they can also be asymptotically shorter than writing the whole thing out: for example, try writing a lexicographic comparison function for an AST type of your choosing and making it linear in the number of constructors.

If the language is lazy, it can be more severe than that: in Haskell,

andL False _ = False
andL _ rhs = rhs

is the short-circuiting AND, while

andS False False = False
andS False True = False
andS True False = False
andS True True = True

is the naïve one.
Massive “it depends” on that
If you're using Linux and there are no good, reliable drivers for your machine, it might as well be a hardware issue.
I still kind of think of them as Segways. Neat and all but eventually people will go back to what is easier.
Messenger Lite to be retired by September 18th
I think this could be just a toggle in settings:

A. run python in the cloud (default)

B. specify path to your local python interpreter

When you open a workbook that is using B show a warning before running anything. Then behind the scenes spin up a new venv that installs everything from requirements.txt and executes the code in workbook locally.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212619
Google engineer earns $150K works 1 hr/day, spends rest of time on his startup
They are killing the deskrop version with sharepoint.

Sharepoint and web-shared files make it very difficult to link spreadsheets between each other, even one way around.

In theory it works, in practice it doesnt. (PowerQuery is an inconvenient stopgap to simple links)
As alephnerd described, the new real estate is out of reach for the majority of the population's incomes. It's not really meant to address the problem directly and is more like "business as usual"; the usual business that has lead to our current situation. Very small amounts of units are built for lower income families, but when you put it into perspective, it's kind of a laughable attempt to put a bandage on a shotgun wound. I'm glad it's improving, though. The bandage is slightly larger than in previous years.

I'm personally looking at a $5300/mth mortgage for the cheapest home I could find that reasonably fit my family of 5, without needing extensive renovation or being far from work/school/famiy/friends/etc. It's wild. It's not even that big, either. The step down for even tighter accommodation in a much worse/older build was around $4500/mth. That's wild. That's close to what most households in the city net in a month (median income after tax in 2021 was about $60k, and while that has presumably increased, it seems unlikely to be significantly higher). This is the lowest of the low end for families our size.
That’s the sort of thing that should blow up on cnn for days on end…in a saner world.
Start with a classic:

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf
I think meditation is similar to physical exercise which you need to do a little bit frequently, to stay healthy.

You don't need to do sports but if you stop walking altogether your physical health deteriorates. Your joints get arthritic.

So the goal of meditation should not be some Cosmic Epiphany Truth or Satori or Nirvana or Samadhi. Those come and go. The goal is to keep your mind healthy, to get the toxins out of it by doing meditation not too much not too little.
Many of you are asking if the project is completely self-hosted and does not rely on any third-party services. Yes, it is completely self-hosted and does not rely on any third-party services. The user is for authentication, so no one can use the service without authentication.
I will be the first to applaud Nix' eventual world domination! But I'm not yet convinced it is imminent. I hope so though!
slog’s top-level functions use the default logger, so using that made the most sense for now. There are some custom labels being injected (see the `WithFields()` method) but that's about it.
There is no such thing as a good billionaire. Skill can only take you so far, and it's not to the billionaire level. This is money, not skill, not grades. The billionaires aren't skilled, they're exploiting a broken system.
> This becomes even worse if the third party is supplying a cross platform development tool. The third party may not adopt enhancements from one platform unless they are available on all of their supported platforms. Hence developers only have access to the lowest common denominator set of features. Again, we cannot accept an outcome where developers are blocked from using our innovations and enhancements because they are not available on our competitor's platforms

Funny how one could and maybe should point the same criticism towards electron.
> I've never taken on any debt in my life

Why not? Do you ever anticipate getting a mortgage? If yes, then you probably should be.
Wait, due to shortages they will only sell disposable cards.

Not let's simplify workflow and make all cards the reusable type.

I suppose it might be a cheap, simpler and more available IC that maybe only decrements a secure memory location. But that is stupid.

Oyster cards are surprisingly excellent despite some issues between them and contactless and NFC.

The French Navigo is not bad either, I like that registration isn't to a centralised DB. But their tickets have their own issue and not to mention their single use magstrip tickets are hopelessly fragile.
It still works! I installed it on a Windows 11 machine, and it puts the little start button down there and it works. So while it may be discontinued, it's still very much works.
There are various forms of meditation that work, including chanting.

It's tempting to seek profound scientific reasons for doing things, but sometimes, "it just works" is sufficient.

Peace, RYSZARD
I do use containers on my main profile.

Containers are for separating websites from one another, while profiles are for separating browser bits from one another. This includes settings, plugins, extensions, themes, bookmarks, snippets, password managers, etc.
Learn Something Old Every Day: RTFM
> The fact that you have to put human effort into accelerating in a pedal assist e-bike absolutely curbs your behaviour, reduces your average speed, and makes you much less reckless.

We have a 40 mile bike trail near me, on which I would frequently bike or walk with my kids and wife. Before e-bikes, 100% of the "closes calls" and rude/reckless behavior experienced on this bike trail were from "road/racing bike" operators, clad in full spandex and very upset that I'm "in their way" and slowing them down from their ideal speed of 15-25+ MPH

Since the proliferation of e-bikes I've yet to have a single negative encounter with an e-bike operator, and continue to have potentially dangerous situations with high speed road/race bikers.

I chatted with one of these road bikers yesterday and he confessed he "hated" e-bikes because of their speed and reckless operators. I told him my experience and he was genuinely surprised, like he had never even considered it.

It's the people, not the bikes.
<hysterical laughter>

No they've decided to go the route of tobacco companies, deny everything and party while the sun is shining. By the time the lawyers show up they're counting on being dead or too old to stand trial.
Hallucination, but also the ability to cite a source.

A model using RAG can tell you why it answered a certain way, and cite chapter and verse from the underlying data. That's impossible just from model weights.
what is a real world use case example of how to finetune, what to feed it during fine tuning, and then how to interact with the model post-fine tuning differently than if you hadn’t fine tuned it?
Someone should tell Jensen Huang then. That's the message he pushed heavily at Siggraph 2023 over and over and over again.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2VBKerS63A

They even did a big demo shot showing the same frame being rendered in multiple different editors all creating the same consistent result and matching. All of it was said to be due to OpenUSD standardizing how a scene is defined, animated, and rendered.

Probably just a bunch of marketing buzz though.
What about us peasants on android?
Yep, and it's illegal in europe afaik, it has to be capped to 25kph and only when the user pedals: https://www.gadgetreview.com/ebike-regulation-in-the-eu-and-....
Not sure if you are saying 32 Km/h is too fast or too slow.
The idea is they reduce problems to conceptuals. You don’t need experience, and in fact industry or specific experience is often a hindrance, to solving conceptual problems.

They do this many times a year (see: young people working crazy hours). Pattern recognition develops. They now lead 20-somethings doing this work.

The idea that age == competence is a bad one IMO.
returnValue raises a specific exception that inlineCallbacks understands and translates to a normal return value. It was a hack that was only needed for python versions that couldn't have generators return non-None values. With modern versions, you don't need it anymore -- just use return.
Yes, I feel that. Did a rather long journey a few weeks ago (7+ hours). The ICE had a delay of 40 minutes in Hannover which they could reduce going down south. Once it rolls, it rolls and then it's mostly okay.

okay, WLAN was down, reserved seat displays were down, bistro was down, but the train was rolling!
Apple also invented and contributed OpenCL. Then later Khronos invented OpenGL compute shaders, which is completely different.
The knife cuts both ways. Since most people don't look up, it's a good place to be when you're conducting surveillance.

The rest of this is security theater brought to you by Kevin McAllister. A trap needs to either contain or kill the prey to be effective. Canary objects do neither and are a waste of fucking time; if the predator isn't interested in your bait enough to trip anything, you're going to assume you're safe when in reality you just failed to anticipate their behavior and appetite. The competent ones already know to check for sandboxed environments.

There are only so many ways in and out of your environment. Anybody intruding got in somehow, and will attempt to exfiltrate something or call home for payloads or further instructions at some point. Be the apex predator-- look up. Position yourself to stalk them from above by getting your network logs in order and implementing DPI. Be able to account for where the intruder came from, where they went, and how they exited. Your CISO will ask you these questions when you report that there was an intrusion. Being able to identify which canaries were molested provides zero actionable intelligence.
Having seen the quality of “critical” macros, excel spreadsheets, and “dev/prod” SMB drives anyone can mess with it’s absolutely clear no regulator gives a fuck.
Yes it jars to see a vendor quoted verbatim.

But the concept is interesting and sounds reasonable, and is novel (to me anyway). I'm assuming Krebs deems this worthwhile to share and he has sufficient cred not to instantly assume this is content marketing.
> The problem with Office.js is that it’s just simply too hard to get started with all the npm bloat for the average Excel user (even more professional devs struggle)

IMO deployment is an even harder problem. The Office team makes it incredibly difficult to deploy web add-ins (presumably for business reasons) and accordingly most companies I'm familiar with are still using the ancient, barely-supported COM+VSTO add-in models.
Snappify: Create beautiful code snippets with ease
I have been using snappify.com for over a year now and I absolutely love it.

I've used snappify to create code snippets to share on social media[1], I've used it to create YouTube video thumbnails, and I've used it to create slides for talks that I've given at big international conferences[2].

I have no affiliation with snappify whatsoever, and I'd love to see your comments on this tool.

What things look good/promising?

What's missing?

What other alternatives could I consider for similar purposes?

[1]: example of a code snippet on social media https://twitter.com/mathsppblog/status/1693928637471355191
[2]: example of a slide deck https://mathspp.com/talks#what-apl-taught-me-about-python
He or she does not care so I don't even bother. I have already discovered here that people hate Elon therefore hate everything under his eye regardless of the facts around the successes of Tesla's engineering teams that have nothing to do with his personal politics or viewpoints.

This is fine, I enjoy my car and since I am the highest authority of myself, I do not need their validation of my personal experiences I have first hand.
Please see my durability calculations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37224926

A 3W Rasp. Pi with 12V 20Ah lead-acid backup with a 500 cycle lifespan should last 1500 days at a minimum. Because it takes 3+ days for a discharge cycle to occur, so that's easily 4+ years of worst-case durability.

And I'm willing to bet that if you design the solar panel CORRECTLY, you ain't gonna be doing full discharges every 3 days (IE: enough solar panels to have 99%+ uptime, meaning you've overbuilt solar panels to handle the worst case scenarios and try to stay at 100% power as much as possible).

> No, SolarPi is a solar powered server. The application here is a "solar generator" type setup that has no grid connection and is very different from a UPS style setup.

If you're hoping for 90% or 99% uptime, this solar application is going to look closer-and-closer like a UPS. 90% means you're down at most 36-days of the year (pretty crap reliability, all else considered).

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> Grid backup

Also, the SolarPi guy is looking into Grid-backup systems. So yes, we're back to UPS
The same can not be said for android; Not even Samsung support the Japanese payment cards unless you buy the Japan model.
Why even bother? 1mil is nothing to them. It probably cost more to process the check though legal and all the relevant departments
I mean, not really. Here is an overview of how things work in some different countries: https://finmasters.com/what-countries-have-credit-scores/

Absolutely, there are significant differences, and some are quite similar to us (Canada and the UK) others differ more significantly (France and Spain). But they all essentially have ways to record any black marks from your payment history and use that to determine your credit worthiness for new loan applications.

This is exactly what I meant in my first paragraph - yes, it's absolutely the case that the US implementation has tons of problems, and I think it's fine to say these should be public or quasi-public entities (e.g. only the the country's central bank has this info, like in France), but in general, all of these countries use some sort of analogous system to credit bureaus to determine your relative risk profile.
The US intelligence community is responsible for more terrorism within America than any it may have prevented.

You can't get rid of them through voting, the next president will just install another stooge and the cycle will continue.

The FBI spied on Trump's campaign, he "cleaned house", Christopher Wray is just as bad as James Comey. It can't be fixed. Merrick Garland is just as bad as Bill Barr. It needs to be abolished.
UI is very similar so the learning curve is not steep
True, I'll fix and repost
#!/bin/yes works too, if you want to kill the KPI script
Confirmed; I have samsung, wife has iphone. I had to buy a card and manually refill it.
If modern society collapses, starting back over with the same approach isn't the best plan. Cheap hydrocarbons are sort of like VC funding. They have allowed society to advance extremely rapidly, in a totally unsustainable way. We have yet to find out if we can stick the landing on transitioning to a sustainable lifestyle. It's possible that humans just aren't wired in a way to responsibly manage the risks introduced by sufficiently advanced technology, at least not at the current rate of change.

In a post-apocalyptic world, survivors should really be rethinking the approach that brought that about. Avoiding the cheap hydrocarbon consumption phase might result in a much longer lasting civilazation next time around.