skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahh yes, the FedEx GST payment system is wonderful!

You can find that number in the sms on an official FedEx page somewhere or other - I ended up using that as enough evidence to trust and call.

I get the feeling this system as a whole doesn't see much use - from a FedEx perspective, the vast majority of people paying duty will be via some specialised importer, not b2c direct.
They don't need the viewer to read the article, just need them to open the article and view ads.
i like how one half of the discussion is about getting your share of pay from the deal, while the other disregards whatever is posted on the site.
This feels the same (and hits the same talking points) as previous rants on the topic, where it presupposes that the author's workflow is the majority (without evidence), but only written in a more calm manner.
Doing validation in the frontend is a bad idea.

You'll have to do in the server, if you're sane.

I bet Retool Forms does in the server.

You're worried the page will refresh with an empty form, if it fails. It's simple, just collect the data and return the form pre-filled using the value attribute, along with the error message.

If you don't want to refresh the page, you could even use something like htmx, which is a LOT simpler than React, but really not necessary for simple form submission.
Did we really forget fermented food though? I'm skeptical. I still have a lot of fermented food in my diet.
What do you think is wrong with guess work?
There's an enormous golf between just being iterative and control down to the last decibel/frame. Professional creative software is design around this fine-grained control.
You assume it is a singular person.

Could easily be one person writing the message. Another who demanded partial edits in a Jira ticket. But then the data types didn't match up with what the writer requested and then the dev didn't want to deal with it and just shipped it.

Or it could be that the message is made with a bunch of disjointed and constructed if statements and only the final output is piped to the customer. I have seen some very terrible log messages like that as nobody is looking at the entire message, just the little bit in the conditional they are editing at that point.

As an anecdote, I once worked on code that generated these very detailed error messages about why something went wrong. I discovered most never made it to the customer as someone later down the line reassigned a variable rather than +=. Piles of support tickets could have been avoided.
I'm a bit torn on this. I think basing product decisions on analytics is a bad idea, because the numbers can only tell you about features your software already has.

But analytics/diagnostics are extremely important to discover bugs, because you can't rely on customers to tell you about them.
These are all insanely high. Elsewhere:

> The Regulation on Interchange Fees for Card-based payment transactions entered into force in June 2015.

> Therefore, the Regulation caps interchange fees for consumer debit cards to 0.2 % and consumer credit cards to 0.3 % of the value of the transaction.
I was intrigued by this, and looked up:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/chrono

Yeah, it is a bit chaotic.

...but, given that there often isn't just one "a time point from the OS", and thinking about the difference clock types on Linux (CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_BOOTTIME, etc...[0]), clocks and calendars are just messy. If you try and simplify them, you miss some edge cases which always end up being important to someone.

I guess there are just a bunch of tradeoffs that need to be made, and no matter which ones anyone makes, a lot of other people would have made different ones.

[0] https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/manpages-dev/clock_getr...
Well theoretically they force people to Google FedEx which IS a strong signal for google people are interested in the FedEx Brand. Doubt however that's the reason.
Isn't the very concept of "open market" meaningless in the context of free (libre) software?

I mean people keep comparing GIMP with Photoshop and that's obviously incorrect. I'd more or less agree that the "market" of free software image editors is an "open market" and GIMP is a big player there so to say.
Hrrrm, this is counterintuitive to me. My own intuition would be to trust the AI-detection tools as much as AI (which is to say: only so much).

However, it's early days.

If you have a minute, can you explain in a little more detail why you believe these tools are reliable? (or what (may) make(s) them reliable, or reliable enough?) . And/or do you have a source that explains it? Or a place to start reading on why people think these tools are effective?
We are also building Bytebase, which enforces the change review process for such operations
It can be justifiable, but it doesn't mean that is right or ethical.
The article is about an indigenous artist, so mentioning race does not seem that far fetched?
And yet before this I kept seeing publications about how they can be packed in a few containers/trailers and delivered anywhere to start producing heat/power...

I guess it might have been about a different company, but you can understand my worries ?

Also comes to mind the previous recklessness of some : while the USA has judged the use of "full blown" nuclear reactors in space too dangerous, the USSR launched 33 of them, 3 of which accidentally fell back to Earth, one contaminating a chunk of Canada. They even seemed to have kept launching them after Chernobyl, though that might have been inertia ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A
I found a Reddit post today about a German bank mailing USB sticks containing their new general terms and conditions: https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/1ax7ky3/milde_interessa...

You can't make this up.
The FedEx one is meh and does afaik, but some (looking at you dhl) are almost useless as they provide little information (tracking info is hidden sometimes), sometimes do not allow you to add the parcel as it has a tracking code from a foreighn service which you cannot use and you have to figure out the local one, are full of "news" also known as ads and do not allow you to select the dropoff location closest to you (go ups!). Sorry, /rant.
The amount of effort that goes in to syncing up the contents of the fridge with what it is on the screen must be staggering. And not for a moment do I believe it reliably detects empty stock or the placement of the contents. Not to mention dealing with the extra heat it gives off.

Countless hours wasted and it is still worse than a glass panel in every way.

Not unlike orchestrating a dozen microservices and three Dooms worth of code to render a simple form to the three users a typical application has.
Does not matter if you are tall, short, large, small, any color or credo, who you want to go in bed with and how you idenitify: when using a certain language, threats or harassment things will end ugly. And they did.
Those are separate issues. We need users, including you, to follow HN's rules regardless of what other people are up to. The way you attacked seanmcdirmid in this thread was unacceptable and obviously against the rules.

At the same time, users aren't allowed to accuse each other of being shills, etc. - this too is well-established and also in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you feel that users are breaking the rules you're welcome to flag the comments or to let us know at hn@ycombinator.com but responding by breaking the rules yourself is not ok.
1. try at all
2. realize that sometimes problems require multiple solutions
3. realize that sometimes multiple problems require empathy
Site wipes also disadvantage job-hunting staffers who suddenly don't have a public published portfolio to point potential new employers / clients to. Though enterprising staffers may anticipate such moves and archive content as it's published to head off the inevitable.

(I've seen this issue raised on previous site shutdowns, quite probably Gawker.)
Good. That at least will turn public opinion against this concept.

The whole notion of not even being allowed to see the same ads as your fellow man in a public space because you are involuntarily shunted into some kind of cohort is disgusting, regardless of what is being used to decide that.

Imagine walking somewhere and seeing all the digital ad screens around you switch to basket ball events or Kentucky Fried Chicken where they were showing tailor made suits just a second before. (Or ads for a pre-emptive rectal exam or mobility aids.)
> What makes this situation so ridiculous is that while we're all watching for scammers attempting to imitate legitimate organisations, FedEx is out there imitating scammers!

Hah!
> The examples usually feel like manual analyst query type tasks. The tone in this one strongly reinforces that with text like “oh and Maria asked me to xyz”

That is 80% of lowly data analyst work in a corp.
but there isn't any cohesive, structured, insightful cultural commentary replacing them- we're in murky waters and people i'm sure people will feel the squeeze of an uncreative culture even more than they are already
"The words" are probably nested templates so that at the level of input it's hard to really understand what the completed end result looks like. Also, there's many well-intentioned people in tech doing stuff that's just a tiny bit too complex for them to execute by themselves without a buddy or a reviewer. There are also whole teams and departments at big enterprises where someone might not be doing it alone, and they might also not be completely incompetent, making them the star engineer on the team, while everyone else wisely keeps their mouths shut since they surely don't have anything to contribute to the process. All the really good people that worked there, were snatched up by some fancy, greenfield project, on another floor, or got a position on some elite "refactoring team", surely not wasting their time on updating templates.
That's a strange question. Why is nudity something that an image generator shouldn't be able to create? Are genitals a fiction that should never ve present in human art?
is pale better?
Ransomware associated with LockBit still spreading 2 days after server takedown
I really think you are living in a sci-fi fantasy.
On Electric Spark Photographs; Or, Photography of Flying Bullets, etc. (1893)
Part 2 is here: https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1038_047440a0/mode/...
ISPs keep giving false broadband coverage data to the FCC, groups say
> Each artifact is identified by a cryptographic hash of its content, expressed as a lower-case hexadecimal string [...] It is assumed that the hash names of artifacts are unique - that every artifact has a different hash

Isn't that kinda scary with the birthday problem paradox for people who use Fossil to manage a large number of artifacts
We've used a some of Distributed storage (Longhorn, OpenEBS) things for Kubernetes and had no luck.

I agree with you at ALL the things you've listed. When we've started to used Ceph for the first time - (At that time I was an user, not a Manager) all the thing was a total mess. All the things are set to default and Use all JBODs on Node. (And I've started to face Corrupted WALs and OSDs came from nowhere.)

The handful of documentations was very helpful to cleans up and make it to run correctly.

Maybe, when I go back to the starting point, I'd like to say "move to cloud" or "do nothing" or following your guidance.
For the keyboard I use a CH340+CH9329 cable, the former is a USB to UART converter and the latter is a UART to USB-HID converter. Feels unnecessarily complicated but hey at least it's only $3. It's effectively a USB "keyboard" controlled by another host.

Then I use a ~30 line Python script to forward key press to it. I really hope someone make a better integrated solution (or me having time to do it), though.
> The motherboard manufacturers are setting default/auto power and current limits that are way outside of Intel's specs

The CPU only draws as much power as it needs, though?

I mean, if you plug a 20 watt phone into a 60 watt USB-C power supply, or a 60 watt laptop into a 100 watt USB-C power supply the device doesn't get overloaded with power. It draws no more current than it needs.

The motherboard's power limits should state the amount of power the PCB traces and buck regulators are rated to provide to the socket - and if that's more than the processor needs that's good, as it avoids throttling.
I'm fairly certain that China's sector-based foreign investment restrictions were allowed in its WTO accession agreement.
Probably the fear is about deepfakes rather than generic porn.
NASA warns as solar flare threatens comms, maybe astronauts too
Three interpretations of matrix products
The example of climate change is sexy but I don't buy it as it is too overly simplified.

In my opinion, without woke and bending, the AI would probably reply "I don't know" like would a serious person.

Because, first you would have to define climate change and what is the problem, and what is the outcome that you would want.

Earth in itself does not care about what is going on. Similarly, there is no reason why a change of climate would be bad, it happened multiple time over the life of earth.

So, the request would probably be something like this: the current (or past century) climate was good for human life, so how could we do to restore or preserve that so that it stays favorable for us. As a side goal, we would like to preserve the existing variety of plants, trees and animals. As another side goal, we would like to preserve some landscape that are looking very nice. In this order.
I think it's the knot application and not the culture driving the requirements. For example, we all know what a square knot is, but it's difficult to untie when stressed and wet. A reef knot on the other hand has a loop for its second half hitch which makes it easy to untie. This is why it was used to reef sails at sea when wet and bouncing.
The proposal wants to explore the risks and why it should _not_ be done, not the other way around.

So it's about clearly working out why this would be a bad idea not why we should absolutely do it.
Our local FedEx once asked me for my details so they could be able to declare my package to the customs and in the SMS message they said that "The sender is paying all declaration fees." I sent them my info and got my package.

Then about five months later, I got a bill from FedEx for import fees, tax and service charges. Had to fight with FedEx for some time about it but eventually they agreed to void the bill. At this point in time, I have no idea if I paid the taxes when I bought the stuff, if FedEx paid them out of pocket or if the sender paid them out of pocket.
Anyway, thanks for a helpful guidance to keep it simple on cloud Era.
AT&T Says the Outage to Its US Cellphone Network Was Not Caused by a Cyberattack
Oh indeed. I believe these models should be uncensored. But as we’ve seen with the latest SD model, and with the much more locked down ‘LLM-fronted’ image generators from OpenAI and Google, safety is a massive concern and so they’ve been ridiculously cautious. Not only with the outputs but also with the training material. (‘Porn-In-Porn-Out’)

Regardless of how we feel, lawyers and regulators wait at the door. We should expect new legal precedent within the next year re the generation of copyright-infringing, deepfake, and pornographic material.
But I can't help but feel like very low cost full-blown Linux devices are right around the corner.

why is that a but?

i don't think this is a case of, if we had waited longer we could have made them cheaper, but i rather believe that pine64, fairphone, and other projects going all the way back to openmoko were laying the groundwork that make the next generation of cheaper and better devices even possible.

so yes, very low cost full-blown Linux devices may very well be around the corner, but that's no reason to dismiss the pine64 products, on the contrary, they should be lauded for being pioneers
> But in a modern day and age, when aren’t you expecting a package?

When you’re not constantly buying things online. Most people in the world aren’t expecting packages “nearly 100% of the time”.
Wow. Just wow. Troy Hunt does an incredible job of calling out this utterly piss-poor performance from FedEx. Shame it needs somebody with a platform like this to draw attention to it. They should find a way to make them somehow more liable for fraudulent losses.

It's gotten to the point now where it sometimes actually is impossible to speak to a human being in customer service - the thick layers of chat bots, deliberately gated 'contact us' pages and "why not use our app" nags.. ..if you're savvy enough to know already that only a human can resolve your particular query, getting hold of one can become a time consuming and sometimes traumatic experience. (only slightly tongue-in-cheek, I do actually believe this affects mental health)
China's Hacker Network: What to Know
i worked in that field. one of the main reasons adult entertainment is optimised so heavily is because lots of users are from countries with poor internet.

countless hours spent on optimising video delivery, live broadcasts (using flash back in the day, and webrtc today), web page sizes... the works.
Presigned URLs are long and ugly and b2 requires an extra API call to generate that, so I tend to prefer not to use them. The other reason for obscure names is so that you can't download or update files that you don't know the name even if you have the upload key. I know it goes against common sense security practice but compromising convenience can mean compromising security in many cases. The thing is to make sure your scheme is rigourous.
What's interesting is that some of the conversation in the thread immediately turns political: "what's the big deal, it's made in China lol. They don't want the Republicans to pounce!"

And then 10 years later, boom, national security issue. How are Americans ever going to solve these problems when everything is justified by or excused as political bias?
I have a 13900K and I am affected. Out of the box BIOS settings cause my CPU to fail Prime95, and it's always the same CPU cores failing. Lowering the power limit slightly will make it stable. I intended to better refrigerate the CPU and change the power limit back to the default and if the problems continued I would RMA the CPU, but now I'm not so sure that the BIOS is not pushing it beyond the operating limits.
The Booking.com scams look better than the actual "Self check and pre payments solutions" links send via the Booking hotels.

1 time I was right it is a scam, 2 times it was wrong.

Booking.com should make a proper report payment circumvent button and kick out all hotels who do it.
One out of ~10 international shipments of records I had in the last year one was from FedEx and they sat on it in their out for delivery warehouse in a nearby town for two months with the usual pass the buck/pillar to post treatment. The extra fees plus customs they put on added up to 40% of the value of the items as well. DHL and UPS arrive within a week and are normally no higher than 25%
I'm leaving in France, not off-grid and not very far from a big city. We still don't have fiber connection available yet. What I'm saying is that we are a lot in this situation, even in developed countries.
Those that accept shipping 10mb bundle clearly forget that not everyone have the same connection they have in their office.

To the point where the web is mostly unusable if you don't disable ads. I'm not against ads, but the cost is just to high for my day to day use of internet.
VMware Workstation passthoughs are very reliable for me. I can't say the same for VirtualBox though.
Leave online for web crawlers to access for free, or take it offline and license access to big data or AI companies…
Since the link to this podcast is in your profile, you're affiliated with it, right?
How about addressing and countering any of my specific points, ideally each one in sequence so you can't cherrypick to avoid the ones where I'm certainly correct - rather than what's essentially ad hominem as your response?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiQkeWOFwmk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2vj0WcvH5c
etc.

Perhaps you're not thinking from first principles and extrapolating from there?
From the user perspective, forcing to download 150kb unnecessarily is a bad professional practice. Not everyone has 5G and an iPhone.

From the dev experience perspective, these 150kb of Javascript and the complexity you'll build upon it will come with bugs, security holes, updates, maintenance. Personally I wouldn't want this for me unnecessarily.
The Pitfalls of Pure Rationality
Yes, it's nice to get real news after so long dealing with fluff. Peter Santenello and Soft White Underbelly are also good to see what the US actually looks like.
Aren’t square and reef knots one and the same?
...but can they be trusted? there was a lot more down than just AT&T and telecomm.

USA had launched a counter attack toward China this morning according to live data I saw
German Bank sends TOS via USB postcard
Google's Gem­I­ni criticised over China images amid anti-'woke' back­lash
Poking around their site a bit deeper they seem to make some sort of marketing displays that are gesture controlled so obviously this qualifies them to make an "AI laptop".

What is that? Local LLM? Do I have some agent watching all my system calls for tomfoolery? Does it tell me I am doing a great job while it watches me butcher some poor programming language? Can it at least format yaml for me since I am not lazy enough already? Better yet, can it infer from the quality and depth of my yaml nesting my deepest fears and desires and output them in json?
Same cpus as the unity engine (or was it unreal?) with issues

Not a good look but at least it’s fixable with bios tweaks rather than a silicon flaw that’s permanent
Images work in DDG's browser.
That is true and it can also be said about a lot of long form written content.
Yeah, I had a RAM issue that might or might not have involved turning on XMP, with eventually as a result several RAM sticks with errors (BadRAM is amazing BTW, sadly, *nix-only), and worse, corrupted storage partitions !

Was a real pain to deal with the fallout...
You mean everyone should install a piece of software from a company that appears to be ignorant about security?
Did you know that in Italy there are around 59 thousand schools but that only 1/3 of them have a dedicated service for transporting students with disabilities? And that less than 10% can be reached by train?
#MuskDerangementSyndrome strikes again.

How about we focus on the tech rather than signalling our tribal political affiliation at every opportunity?
How do those booking.com scams work?
Most people are passionate about things that require money, such as hobbies and family life. For such people the function of work is to bring money to support those things. Studying something for 5 years without economic benefit is basically a waste of time from such viewpoint.

But like others have pointed out, I don't think there's anything wrong with getting one master's degree, and then ending up working in some other field where a degree is beneficial. But people with master's degree working minimum wage jobs that don't require education and they don't like, now that is depressing.
The Bulk of Food Waste Happens at Home
Unlocking NetWare 2.0a
Lululemon and Samsara Eco Reveal First Recycled Textile Using Enzymes
I don't think this is about trade restrictions.

Given the I-Soon leak I think it's incredibly naive to think that China isn't using data from the cranes for malicious purposes.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/02/22/chinese-...
By re-confirmed, the 36MB ffmpeg.wasm file is compressed by brotli to 9.6 MB as transferred.
Sounds like you are burning yourself out rather than you already being burned out.