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ricberw

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Hacker at heart, entrepreneur by day. Currently working on building Marker, the future of workflow orchestration automation, starting in retail supply chains.

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pgealerts.alerts.pge.com 4d ago

Power outage for half of SF (again)

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www.cnn.com 3mo ago

The Strait of Hormuz is now open

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news.ycombinator.com 4mo ago

Ask HN: How do you enforce least-privilege when an API token has full access?

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news.ycombinator.com 8mo ago

Claude throwing 500 errors, might be down?

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twitter.com 1y ago

Tornado Warning for SF

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: How will today's election affect the products you will build next year?

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ai9.notion.site 2y ago

Real-Time Brainwave Visualization: Integrating Muse EEG with Python

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www.applebees.com 2y ago

Coding at Applebees (Date with Django)

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution for 2024?

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earthquake.usgs.gov 2y ago

Yup, that was an earthquake outside SF

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What book has been most influential in your life?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Acidic water with zero alkalinity now being pumped to SF Sunset and Richmond

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Shopping for yourself or someone else online?

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arstechnica.com 2y ago

Real estate markets scramble following cyberattack on listings provider

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What is stressing you out, what do you do to stay sane?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

What podcast has been most influential on your life?

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www.cnbc.com 3y ago

1,800 more laid off from Gap Inc HQ and Upper Field today

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Will fashion photographers lose their jobs to AI this year?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

WTH Xfinity no longer lets users turn off their cable box

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Is GPT-4 the end of CAPTCHA as we currently know it?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Is anyone else seeing Google Cloud Platform IAM issues?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: How have your retail shopping habits changed in the last three months?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Are your Google Cloud Functions failing miserably?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: How is DOGE different from BTC (up 800%+ today)?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: What is the best account registration funnel/flow you've used, and why?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Save Your Local Restaurants and Small Businesses – Show Them the SBA Advance

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maskadapter.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Would you use a custom-fit face mask adapter?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Are you having issues with Google Cloud?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Do you have a pet?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Nature or Nurture

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It occurred to me that some in the HN community might actually jump on this and use it to kick-start a new project -- a consistent location to eat and code at a ridiculously low price.

I take zero responsibility for any negative health outcomes that might come from your Date with Django happening over Applebees food, though.

This is awesome!

I'll second/third the feature request for auto-including auth headers/calls (as many of the sites I'm trying to understand/use APIs from use persistent keys, and scraping these separately is just unnecessary extra time).

On that same note, I'd greatly appreciate keeping the initial request as a "sample request" within the spec.

I'd also greatly appreciate an option to attempt to automatically scrape for required fields (e.g. try removing each query variable one at a time, look for errors, document them).

Thanks for this :)

Good point -- if you're shipping it direct to the recipient, yes, it might be pretty easy to identify "for someone else" -- but that's a post-purchase nugget of knowledge.

When you buy as a gift though, you probably ship to yourself first in many cases, right?

I'll start: usually shop for myself, plus shop for gifts for others.

I do, however, share links with friends and family when I find something that is an amazing product/service at a good value.

I'd love to tell websites who I am shopping for if it means I'll get better recommendations/have a smoother experience.

Posted this based on an agent I know mentioning that she’s effectively taken the last four days off because the lack of MLS makes her job “nearly impossible to do properly.” She said many at her agency are doing the same.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this shows up in major economic indicators this month.

Makes sense for her (and potentially for the company as an immediate fix), but the environmental impact here is pretty significant too.

Given this change will now keep cable boxes on by default for all users, we're now burning 19.6kWh (their stat) per box, per year, and there are ~16 million customers (ignoring that most customers have more than one box), so they just increased wasted power by at least ~80% of that (yes, they have a power saver mode, but you have to opt-in to it, and I'll bet <5% of users do that).

... so somewhere in the neighborhood of 19.6kWh * 16 million boxes * 80% unused time per day * 95% of users who don't opt-in = 238,336,000kWh (238.3GWh)

Made a deck about e-commerce funnel analysis.

Bunch of the images are clearly copyrighted, from sources I’d get in trouble for using — not to mention they are medical-related, not e-commerce related.

I’d suggest sourcing images only when they’re legally used.

Also long and run-on without the traditional “table of contents” slide and/or “thank you” slide which are must-haves.

Otherwise, this was pretty cool and I can see how it’d work as a great template for further tuning.

Paint.wtf 6 years ago

Got to 4 or 5 on a few of them with NO. Then discovered a solid color put me on #1.

AI is only as smart as it’s programming (which can be pretty darned smart, but this AI wasn’t trained to deal with people who are trying to break it).

On a side note, Roboflow is freaking amazing.

https://paint.wtf/ranking/5qms/pORkuKYlFhXWjn6SWD4M

[dead] 6 years ago

Makes sense -- is there anyone who has experience in gov't IT that can weigh in here on what protocols/practices are in place to reveal changes/mitigate dangers?

[dead] 6 years ago

If they could have, they didn't during the invasion -- a not-insignificant number of videos on Twitter/Facebook/TikTok showing individuals actively gaining access to machines in the buildings. I'd really like to know about how this can be handled from a national security perspective, but not finding any resources that can teach what protocol is/needs to be in this case.

[dead] 6 years ago

Genuinely curious to hear if anyone has knowledge of what security protocols are like/how sandboxed each of those machines are/what is likely to be done to verify that keyloggers weren't installed -- and how quickly something like that can be done, as most of those lawmakers rely on those machines for completing their daily work.