skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was this computer system scandal when lots of post masters were convicted of fraud even though it was known the computer system was buggy. So I wouldn't assume too much competence involved.
how much effort did meta put into building a legit competition vs netflix/youtube? it's hard to imagine they couldn't put up a decent competition with max user reach and $

just how great of a moat do yt/netflix have? is Disney the only one mounting a decent fight?
Perhaps it means that a change to the policy can’t be used to justify actions taken that would have broken a prior version of the policy but which don’t violate the new one. Granted, I don’t have a complete understanding of the legal enforceability of a company’s privacy policy.
When Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997, he was given 1.5M shares - he sold all but 1 share almost immediately.
It doesn't matter from an experiential perspective, no.

It does matter from a legal perspective e.g. personhood.
Biggest investors are Vanguard/Fidelity/etc (anyone who can vote with clients’ 401k shares). $10,000-100,000 doesn’t buy you any influence or control. Some companies like Meta are still 51% controlled by the founder.
Then they or you can slack call irregularly...
This sounds like Audi “Americans don’t know how to drive”
That’s true. I myself learned ML in python first, and I’m just now trying to implement some stuff in JavaScript.
I guess it could be useful to make web integration with neural networks easier in this case, or at least as an educational package!
Attacking me is a poor way to phrase your fringe opinion.
Exactly, they weren't stopping him, they were stopping every other future whistleblower. Imagine if even 3 more people stepped forward.
It’s still quite monolithic. The issue is that it is a more complete engine than, let’s say Three, so the scene graph makes use of pretty much everything. Even you don’t use them, things like audio, webxr, node materials would get pulled in, despite tree shaking.

For our purposes, we filter out unused modules using webpack build. Things would crash badly if something would get used by accident, but we have a pretty controlled environment
>In the US that's a serious federal felony with up to five years in prison.

For counterfeiting _A_ stamp? I guess in the US even breathing the wrong way is probably a serious federal felony.

Land of the free, and all that...
What are you planning to query them with? What makes the native CSV/XLSX files not viable?
> The bosses hit Swampy with a new initiative called “Multi-Function Process Performer,”

Performance metrics are how bad employees level the playing field with good ones. Everyone wants to _quantifiably_ know why Swampy got a 9% raise when they got an 8%, "because his expertise saved the company a $1bn fine last quarter that you nearly caused." Not once, anywhere I've worked, has that kind of metric been tracked.
Unless something goes wrong, and they crash into a ferry.

When edge cases become catastrophic, engineering gets hard.
It’s funny you bring up Jobs because this author (Mo Tkacik) is probably responsible for the best obituary of him written.
Family of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett speaks out following his death
We shouldn't make blanket statements
Back in ~ 2003-2004 I was working for an American company that did exactly that. The story was simple, they outsourced all IT (a few thousands) to a well known tech company. The selling point? "The tech company has a lot of expertise and scale and we will benefit from that". The results? The tech company took all the good engineers, moved them to work in other areas for other clients and replaced them with entry level technicians. It took a few years to start feeling the pain of what they did and a few more years to start reversing the change. By that time the C level people already retired rich, even today, 20 years later, the IT in that company is a terrible shade of "great leaders" and very low engineering skills outsourcing left and right anything more complicated than basic project management.
> standing up a competitor is not really an option

This is the part that bothers me. Why isn't it an option?

Standing up a new orbital rocket company was not really an option in 2000.

If Boeing can deliver 400 aircraft a year, why can't a startup deliver 6 in the next six years. I don't mean 6/year. I mean take 6 years to build your first 6. Or maybe it takes 12 years to deliver the first 6.

Then aim to deliver one per month for the next two years. Get FedEx and UPS and Amazon to fund you for the next 15 years. By then you could have two dozen aircraft flying real miles, building up experience and trust. Then you ramp to up to 25 aircraft per year for the next two years.

Sure, this means that after 20 years you still haven't replaced Boeing.

But Tesla didn't have to replace GM to revolutionize the industry.

When you become a real threat to take away 50 orders per year you cause visible activity among your competition. Just ask Bombardier.

(I wish I hadn't used Elon as an example twice in the same post, but it is what it is. Like him or hate him, his history is relevant when you talk about what is possible in giant established industries.)
Prison is also a deterrent for future offenders, if everyone is knows/feels all they will loose is their license to practice finance then you will have lot more financial crime than there is.
One of the more confidently incorrect replies I've read on HN in a while, thank you.
Well there's the FAA oversight... Which has also hollowed out. NTSB is still an amazing accident investigator but better to prevent these things than wait for NTSB to step in
Do you drive an old car? Drive-by-wire throttles and controller area networks became commonplace in cars a solid 20 years ago. The benefits of these components within a car is completely orthogonal to any sort of external network connectivity.
The comment you started with reads like it’s supporting the democratic process in evidence here and I haven’t seen any evidence that the poster had something else in mind. Failing to pass a carbon tax and finding other legislative paths which get more support is pretty much the opposite of authoritarianism.
Two things are truly horrifying if this is true. 1. Just how normalized this behavior has become in Silicon Valley upper management circles. 2. That this has not gotten out earlier. Hundreds or thousands of employees at both companies could have reported this to the FTC or elsewhere.
Hah, yes - I've been a big fan of Kotlin for the past decade or so, although Rust is growing on me rapidly. In particular, I think Rust's tooling is a lot better - too many headaches with Gradle.

I've pondered the idea of doing something like Kweb in Rust but looks like you've already done it with Dioxus so thank you for saving me the time :)
https://archive.is/tqViZ
Typically when there's a highly technical topic on HN that I don't understand, I don't comment on the thread about the domain jargon going over my head.

I didn't go into today's Babylon thread and comment "Node geometry? Gaussian splat rendering? We are deep into angels dancing on a pin territory. Just use jQuery."

I just don't understand the mentality of comments like yours, I suppose.
There are eight different accounts in this thread "congratulating the launch" with their first comment. Half were created six hours ago right when this was posted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=martinmao
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dwgray
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dennispan
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=peycke
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=watsondoc
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=leeholim
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cedrone
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jjustin_lawson
I've heard that drug abusers exploit legally protected status of snail mail to avoid search, and have substances sent to an innocent third party as a dead drop or a dummy address to be intercepted. I'd assume authorities will get to you anyway, though.
This is exactly as good as it gets as a privacy extremist - if they don't have your email, they won't send it, if they change it, the changes won't apply to you.

They explicitly ruled out using your data according the new policy - retroactively means, if they update it, the updated version doesn't apply to you.
Bacalar was ... stunning, and chill. Still full of tourists and expats and retirees, but infinitely better vibes than Tulum. Even PDC is more touristy and somehow less... Tulum... than Tulum.
And I just tested it on my phone, and my claim is true. iPhone 15, latest OS version. Happens every single time.
> Interface informality is the root cause of unsafety

I feel this frequently with C. I would love to formalize pointer use in interfaces. But Xr0's proposed syntax is clunky and not backward-compatible.

void foo(int* x) ~ [ free(x); ];

Yikes... Why not

// <xr0.h>
#ifndef __XR0__
#define freed
#endif

// my code:
void foo(int* freed x);

Boom. Looks clean, easily readable, backward compatible with standard compilers.
Right that's the most likely strategy, but would also be Apple deciding to get in the licensing business (potentially with complications for their core biz) and is also something they could reasonably compare as an option against other ways of spending $10B.
Yes it does. BMO is a bank in Canada that has a virtual agent impersonating a human, and it is pretty convincing. It is unethical, creepy, and offensive.

Making people follow scripts is merely a bad practice insisted upon by misinformed or stupid management.
Where is the omelette?
but your body is more resilient when you're young - you will learn this eventually, but hopefully not :D, in that you are healthy forever !
I find it conspicuous that your definition of fairness is letting other people subsidize your lifestyle. If you cared about fairness, paying for what you use is about as fair as it gets.
Japan's fastest roller coaster closed for good over reports of broken bones
Typically when there's a highly technical topic on HN that I don't understand, I don't comment on the domain jargon.

I didn't go into today's Babylon thread and comment "Node geometry? Gaussian splat rendering? Sounds like a Douglas Adams novel."

So I guess just don't really understand the mentality.
I had the 4 for years. Bought another one even.

Great phone. Never any problems with reception. And no, I didn't keep the first one in a case, ever, thought it was too pretty for that. Hence the second one ;)

Being a hackerish sort, I certainly tried to "hold it wrong", often enough. Couldn't get the damn thing to cut out, though.

Learned something about the press from that.
Interesting. There is a huge unanswered question about how the students were selected.
If you're aware of a financial crime, please report it to the SEC or one of the other financial regulators through their whistleblower hotline. You may be in for a big payday.
Check out some DBT skills. They go through interpersonal stuff like that from a basic level.

DEAR MAN is a good one.

Describe the current situation (if necessary). Stick to the facts. Tell the person exactly what you are reacting to.

Express your feelings and opinions about the situation. Don’t assume that the other person knows how you feel.

Assert yourself by asking for what you want or saying “No” clearly. Do not assume that others will figure out what you want. Remember that others cannot read your mind.

Reinforce (reward) the person ahead of time (so to speak) by explaining positive effects of getting what you want or need. If necessary, also clarify the negative consequences of not getting what you want or need.

Mindful keep your focus on your goals. Maintain your position. Don’t be distracted. Don’t get off the topic. Speak like a “Broken record.” Keep asking for what you want. Or say “No” and express your opinion over and over and over. Just keep replaying the same thing again and again. Ignore attacks. If the other person attacks, threatens, or tries to change the subject, ignore the threats, comments, or attempts to divert you. Do not respond to attacks. Ignore distractions. Just keep making your point.

Appear confident, effective, and competent. Use a confident voice tone and physical manner; make good eye contact. No stammering, whispering, staring at the floor, retreating.

Negotiate be willing to give to get. Offer and ask for other solutions to the problem. Reduce your request. Say no, but offer to do something else or to solve the problem another way. Focus on what will work.
Gonna give it like two weeks before tech bosses posit that users don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their private messages
Yeah where do you live, Izhevsk Russia or something?
In some industries when you have diversity targets you need to lower the standards a lot. Why? Because the competence-based hiring and promotion process will not get you enough good candidates to meet the diversity targets, so you take shortcuts like Boeing did with QC.

According to StackOverflow survey a few years ago with a huge (relevant) number of answers, about 8% of people in the domain were women. Some companies have targets of 50 to 70% women. How do you think these targets are met? My company had 70% target and we are close; we hired any woman that ever applied, no questions asked, no tech interview. I managed the IT recruiting for an entire region over 5 years, I quit that role when the tech interviews were forbidden in order to meet targets.
This is definitely a thing.

Few years ago I was at a cloud conference and met who worked for a failure large and known security company in a tech position. They have all kinds of offerings. While he was talking to someone, I decided to speak to one of their sales guys. I shared a bit about what my company did and what kind of infra we were using and then asked him what they offered and specifically what they could offer to us. This was one of dumbest conversation I had ever had. The guys had no f*cking clue what his company was selling beyond "we sell turn key enterprise security solution", it was so painful. I even tried to steer him into trying to sell us some vulnerability scans or traffic analysis for threat detection.

Yeah, I get it, it maybe niche, he is in a non technical, they have many offerings, he hadn't been there too long (iirc about a year, which is long enough for sales), but it was still unacceptable. To me it's the same phenomenon – lack of clarity in communication – not exactly sure what the root cause.
I spotted a few oddities in the reporting of these ‘secret papers’.[1]

The only extract of the report the journalists show is, at the very least, misleading. They’re claiming that Fujitsu employees could do a type of requests which would (i) change the record of the transactions in the audit log and (ii) would actually impact the postmasters accounting position.
However, the report actually states that these are two different types of requests, the first one doesn’t impact the accounting position and the second one (BTs) could change the accounting position but would be recorded in the audit log.
The audit log shows that BTs, have only been used once in the period at hand so are unlikely to have caused the accounting shortfalls.

I would quite like to see the original Post Office “Defense” that is mentioned in the article, but don’t know where to find it. Would somebody have a clue?

[1] https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/evidence/pol0002...
Massachusetts Bodged Transistor Authority: How We Turned MBTA Red Line Equipmen
The context was, in fact, mugging: which is when someone points a weapon at a stranger and demands the contents of his pockets.

Receipts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39854970
The people directly managing the investment are unlikely to also be holding REITs, so your assumption is valid. I think it's basically that:
- The people who care about company profit are the asset managers, who will tend to implement their ideas by selling/buying shares, rather than trying to encourage a given company's management towards better practice
- Corporate governance itself is therefore usually outsourced to proxy voting companies, who are quite conservatively-minded (and spread quite thin) and so won't tend to micro-manage, they'll assume that profit maximization is the job of management
- The only thing the proxy voting companies will tend to have a say on is ESG-related, and WFH doesn't really fit into that
Your experience of which generation travels to Europe is the exact inverse of mine.
Bru is a DSL for actual requests (plus other things like js). This actually made me think of Bru too but I don’t think there’s really any overlap.

Compare Bru to OpenAPI or json schema. Its just kinda non sensical.
In there any actual meaning behind the Political Compass they're referencing? I only see it in those memes that left me with the lasting impression that the whole thing is bullshit.
Prospecting for leads is rough. Lots of work and little results. The main difficulty is that your message is falling on deaf ears. You are talking with the wrong people!

I am building a tool that connects sellers with people who have ALREADY expressed an interest in what you are selling(ie warm leads.)

Check it out!

https://www.salesspur.com/
The problem is that there is no way of knowing what the letter is. All you get is a slip through your door saying an item of mail is waiting for you and has a £5 fee to pay. If you're like me, you pay the fee, fearful that it might be something important.
Thirty Seven
Of course, if there is an economic incentive to do so.
there are countries where it’s not a serious crime to counterfeit postage? I think the penalty is double (up to 10 years) in the United Kingdom for example.
Have you considered how many people committed suicide because of SBF? Or how many people won't be able to pay for medical care, will suffer, and eventually die?

It's impossible to knoe the number, but it's arguably non-zero.

He should have gotten the 40 years prosecution was asking.
A review from Amazon on UV-K5: "Warning though, the USB-C port feature is misleading in some way: you can't get it charged with whatever USB-C cable you have, it needs to be a USB-C power-only cable with USB on the other end (like the one provided). If you try USB-C to USB-C from your Mac it won't work. Also, USB-C direct charging can only charge it to max 80%. Other than that, this is quite a nice radio well built."

Sigh, won't buy any electronics that can't just charge USB-C without bs..

https://www.amazon.com/QUANSHENG-UV-K5-Rechargeable-Emergenc...
Is it harmful to tell the user that Taiwan is the independent nation of Taiwan? It’s “not true” (depending on who you ask) and could “hurt the feelings” of many people. I bet if you went to mainland china and went to Taipei and talked about this, you could offend people with your version of “minimizing error”. There is no way to please both parties at once, one side will get hurt, and there is no “truth”.

That “little girl from Harlem” will never be a mid-evil princess, but neither will literally anyone alive today, because princesses and castles are a thing of the past. Seems like an example meant to straw man a cultural-war viewpoint. That little girl may factually become a doctor. Should the AI show pictures of (grown up versions of) little black girls from Harlem when asked to generate a picture of a doctor?

The culture war outrage over contrived examples in the name of “maximal truth” always misses that the attempts to showcase minorities and counter bias is adding truth to the output. Just because a bias is being artificially suppressed doesn’t mean that the bias was truthful. Sometimes it makes mistakes, but that would still be true if no “corrective” action was applied.
Absolutely love it. Unusual captcha's are great.

Reminded me of this one: http://random.irb.hr/signup.php
not so much crazy as self absorbed with a side of self esteem issues. a garbled collection of self-aggrandizement, harassing the reader, and terrible aesthetics, all to take the reader on a confused autobiographical walkabout with an unreliable navigator.

evokes some serious early internet nostalgia, despite the 2023 on the page. goes with the subject matter.
"Exit scam," just on a longer timeline than usual.
Yep. Best analogy I’ve heard: it’s like stepping through your thought/emotional/behavior patterns with a debugger, but with a pro to help you spot the bugs.
Data centers could be closed, removing their negative environmental impacts.
I think a lot of it has to do with justifying real estate holding, which have likely fallen significantly in value since the pandemic, as remote work had increased. Selling at the worst time is likely out of the question, so they try to make it worth holding on to.
How could you think that you’re the only one? This has (thankfully) been a widely discussed attack vector for many years now, and even longer within the more switched-on circles.
Sorry, but I thought you said in your last comment that you believe USDC will be outcompeted by a centralized solution. Do you believe that, or do you believe that there is not enough demand to justify the regulatory headache of launching a centralized solution? Those seem to me to be opposing viewpoints.
> then vim, and the rest is history.

Heh, I'm glad you found the light in the end =)

I remember that I first tried out Vim during an internship with a boss that was less than receptive to me trying out things I heard about online, like the way he pronounced "wtf is dug..dug..go?" when I did a search query, or the weird look gvim got... I guess I was a bit more prepared for the Linux life by having seen Vim before, but still it was surprising nobody built NP++ for Linux and that there was nothing better than Geany available in terms of NP++-likenesses. It seemed so simple, how can it not exist? Apparently the simplicity is deceptive
That's like saying Bitcoin won cryptography.
Isn't that why they got renamed to "direct" messages basically industry-wide?
I didn't actually realize one could fit so much into such a small barcode.

I do wonder if this now means it is in theory possible to track items sent by letter post.
I'm not clear whether I understood what the article is claiming. It's clear they claim that Meta shared customer's direct messages with a business partner without notifying the individuals who sent and received the messages. It also SOUNDED to me like the article was claiming they did so AFTER Meta introduced "end-to-end encryption" (which would ALSO mean that they were lying about offering end-to-end encryption). Am I reading that correctly?
Order straight from Aliexpress. You can get one for around ~$30 CAD all in depending on the day. And believe it or not the shipping only takes a couple weeks.
It's worse than that. They introduced new stamps with barcodes and let you trade in your old lawfully obtained postage for the new barcoded stuff. They are marking some of their own lawfully obtained stamps as counterfeit and by dint of doing so stealing from their citizenry.

It's roughly analogous to having bought speed guns from an incompetent vendor which sometimes read 200 kph no matter what the speed and insisting their cops continue to use them and ticketing per normal because it would be very expensive to replace the guns.
Now I want Men In Black mode, where your job is to identify the threat posed by the popup and shoot accordingly:

Alien doing pull ups? Fine. 8 year old girl holding a Quantum Physics book in a dark alley? That's sus...
Start at noon? That’s the exact opposite of the approach people take when it’s hot around here (I live in southern Australia where it regularly breaks 40C in summer). Start early - before the sun’s up if you can - and be ready to knock off soon after lunch.
Cue the FCC for yet another toothless Meta consent decree.
Thanks for posting it. Also bookmarked.
Yea, ponzi schemes start by accident. It requires no planning