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throwaway211··on Kaspersky releases a malware scanner for Linux systems
TFA lists many examples.
throwaway211··on Kaspersky releases a malware scanner for Linux systems
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40561915
throwaway211··on Tell HN: Google's new summarize SMS just read another person's messages to me
They're afraid of becoming Yahoo!.
throwaway211··on Engineering for Slow Internet
Of which the need for status updates and short video isn't one.
throwaway211··on Engineering for Slow Internet
The London Underground not having any connectivity for decades after other metro systems showed only that high connectivity during a commute isn't necessary.
throwaway211··on Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3
I have a feeling you enjoyed that character set lookup. I know I did seeing it.
throwaway211··on How Running a Business Changes the Way You Think (2011)
A phrase from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar's_Poker
throwaway211··on Ask HN: How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes
Can you read them? Speech to text perhaps. That can also be done locally.

If a note's a minute, 1000 notes are around 16 hours of reading. Scale time needed depending on if it takes less or more than a minute to read. Add a note reference to the start of each recording, like a zettelkasten, so the scanned file, recording and text cross-reference.

If assessing other solutions, that's at least an upper bound on the cost of any other solution.

throwaway211··on How Running a Business Changes the Way You Think (2011)
Yes. As that's an average. Compared to others that went to competitive universities, it really isn't much more. It's also more triangular with even mainstream names having higher top ranges and broader bases than, say, FAANGy technology.

Equities in Dallas is a big reality. It's highly ageist. The lustre of Wall St or The City wears out after a while, Docklands like New Jersey is ghastly. Some get out and cut Connecticut hedges or polish pearls in Bond St, some make pizzas. Asia was fun in the 1990s, apparently.

throwaway211··on How Running a Business Changes the Way You Think (2011)
I'd definitely put teacher below the green tradeoff line.

As a former investment banker, investment bankers don't make that much more than everyone else. Many functions are less. Some relationship managers, some traders, some investment managers, some deal makers do. But most don't make mega money.

throwaway211··on Show HN: ThreadPay: WeTransfer for money – a medium for money transfers
Interesting point, and how much falls between the issuer and the marketplace?

For example, I could setup a fake product on ebay to facilitate payments to me. eBay shouldn't need to do CTF checks on this possibility.

throwaway211··on Show HN: Weightless CMS for Side Projects
Nice design.

But this could be done without the explicit Google tracking, and the implicit Google tracking with fonts.

throwaway211··on A GPT-4V Level Multimodal LLM on Your Phone
apk?

Apparently, yes, https://github.com/OpenBMB/mlc-MiniCPM?tab=readme-ov-file

throwaway211··on Cloudflare took down our website
I didn't aspire to a 211 for nothing :/
throwaway211··on Ask HN: What are your favourite websites that display a lot of data / tables?
FAOStat https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/

I can get the the data, and the definitions, quickly.

throwaway211··on Ask HN: What ChatGPT prompt do you use to avoid code-writing hallucinations?
4 is extremely stubborn to the extent I give up when it's getting things wrong. 3.5 gets things wrong more but can be told so more. Overall I prefer 3.5.
throwaway211··on Cloudflare took down our website
And here I am with a dashboard of anything taking more than 20ms and working knowledge of sales tax in 200 places around the world.
throwaway211··on (FinTech) Synapse has collapsed, 10M consumers, 100s of fintechs in trouble
That a16z cannot coach, nurture and support one of their startups that has customers, and who has direct access to customers' own bank accounts, seems troubling.
throwaway211··on Ask HN: Looking for traders that use technical analysis
Clearly their tools are not good enough. /s

Prices are made by humans, including the edge case of automation where instructions are still human.

On average not beating an average where there are transaction and membership fees is therefore expected, it could not be any other way. That doesn't however make the index the best predictor of itself.

throwaway211··on Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same
Before: They were small. It was hard. Defer to Google.

Now: By having bad search, Google rewards them.

throwaway211··on Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same
Two big reasons people add Reddit to search phrases is because Reddit's search isn't functional and to deprioritise Ad Junk from search.

It's to fix broken search, which gets more broken - more unwanted Ad Junk.

But Google's an advertising company with it's ad search device in everyone's pocket. At least it's reached sufficient post-don't-be-evil to be honestly shameless, even if it does employ people in PR with broken ethics prostituting their names for their mortgages. Getting reflective's hard when you're celebrating yourself.

throwaway211··on Lewis Carroll – computing the day of the week for any given date (1887)
Reading the article, I wandered into the difference of Old Style and New Style dates and what happened in 1752.

From [1]: By the 18th century, the English legal year – used for legal, financial and other civil purposes – had for centuries begun on 25 March, or Lady Day.[13][i] Thus, for example, 24 March 1707 was immediately followed by 25 March 1708, while the day following 31 December 1708 was 1 January 1708, with 1709 still nearly three months away.

Thank goodness that happened.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(New_Style)_Act_175...

throwaway211··on 300k airplanes in five years
The USSR was on non-war terms with Germany until 1941, it was even exporting stuff like rubber to Germany until then.

Those Russian lands don't 'belong' to China any more than China 'belongs' to Mongolia or the Jin dynasty 'belonged' to... well itself and just got appropriated as people then like people today and look at borders imagining things were always like that when they werent remotely the same.

throwaway211··on DuckDuckGo was down
The falling produces a sound that no one hears.
throwaway211··on Ask HN: Best platform to host a technical blog?
You, rather than your service provider, 'own' your identity be that email, web, other. For as long as the registration's kept, of course.

Your choice is your own. What to have resolving to 'you' is up to you.

Your branding is your own.

It misses being part of a 'community', or, a gated community. But the many flavours of federation seem to have reached critical mass to sustain resilience to another attempted murder a la RSS.

throwaway211··on DuckDuckGo was down
Unfortunately I tried to DDG 'mojeek', but that didn't work!

https://www.mojeek.com/

throwaway211··on OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
Learning is just a conditioned response to inputs.

You were conditioned to give that response.

If I ask an AI about the book Walden Two, for example, it can reproduce and/or remix that. Knowing is copying.

[Why Walden Two? BF Skinner. And an excellent book about how the book was lived: https://www.amazon.com/Living-Walden-Two-Behaviorist-Experim... ]

throwaway211··on OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
Clippy was ahead of his/her/its time.
throwaway211··on Ask HN: Best platform to host a technical blog?
Whatever you do, have your own domain purchased by you.
throwaway211··on Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?
Mullvad give you practically unlimited bandwidth around the world for €5/month.

And Hetzner will sell you 1TB of hot storage on a 1Gbps connection for €3.49/month.

Taking these consumer level price points, you just need to make more than €4/user month to cover your marginal costs. Quite a demanding, intensive user too.

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