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April 29, 2023

Detention facilities along the US-Mexico border have surpassed capacity as a growing number of migrants cross into the United States leading up to the May 11 expiration of a Covid-era border restriction known as Title 42, according to a Department of Homeland Security official.

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April 28, 2023

Justice Samuel Alito said that he has a "pretty good idea" who was responsible for the unprecedented disclosure of a draft opinion of a Supreme Court ruling last year, suggesting it was someone who opposed reversing the Roe v. Wade precedent that protected abortion rights nationwide.

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April 28, 2023

With artificial intelligence tools becoming more and more accessible, will companies use the new technology to increase productivity--or to reduce labor costs?

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April 21, 2023

The federal judge who issued a nationwide ruling blocking the approval of a common abortion medication redacted key information on his legally mandated financial disclosures, in what legal experts described as an unusual move that conceals the bulk of his personal fortune.

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April 20, 2023

Hi everyone,

I just launched Bank List, an online banking directory to help people find the perfect bank for their needs.

It currently has 170+ banks/EMIs and it's mostly focused on individuals and businesses from Europe, but I plan on adding new regions soon.

The business model is affiliate marketing, I earn commission when someone signs up on any of these banks through my link. Maybe I will also add featured listings on the site, still need to think about this though.

I would love to receive feedback about the website and business idea in general.

Thank you

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April 19, 2023

Hi HN!

GoGoBrowse is a side project I've been working on that allows 2 users to browse the web together while voice chatting.

It's a proof of concept for a new model of browsing the web I've been thinking about. My thought is that before a leap to a 3D Metaverse, we need a 2D Metaverse, which is simply social web browsing. I wrote more about it here: https://gogobrowse.com/before-the-metaverse-we-need-a-new-we...

Though the goal of an entirely social web browser is still quite a ways off, I think of this as a small first step in that direction.

I'd love any feedback on the app itself, and the general concept of social web browsing.

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April 17, 2023

We should examine how we can set our country up for long-term stability and prosperity. And we should start by ensuring that the ultra-rich pay more of what they owe the country that made their success possible, write Abigail Disney and Morris Pearl.

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April 17, 2023

A member of the private online chatroom where a major leak of US classified documents surfaced has defended 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, who was charged in connection to the leak on Friday, telling CNN that Teixeira shared the classified material to keep other members informed, "so we won't be shocked by the news cycles."

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April 16, 2023

Rookie cop Nickolas Wilt is in critical condition after being shot in the head while responding to a mass shooting. Why, retired veteran officer Mike Fanone was asked, would police send a newly minted officer into harm's way? The simple answer, Fanone writes, is because "that's the job."

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April 14, 2023

In the 1990s, Pizza Hut unveiled an important cheese-in-bread innovation, the stuffed crust pizza. Now, Philadelphia cream cheese and H&H Bagels, a New York City-based bagel shop, are trying to please the carbohydrate- and dairy-loving communities with a new and dubious spin on the stuffed crust: The bagel stuffed with cream cheese.

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April 12, 2023

I have been a Java Developer then full stack developer all my career. I want to get started on AI. I am not sure where to start as it is overwhelming to look at the rapid changes coming in. Are there a list of books i can start with? My goal is to be not outdated in 6 months and lose my job to chatGPT or some other version of it. So i asked ChatGPT to give me a detailed plan and here is what it gave me. Could you please let me know if this is a way to go or if there is a better way

Transitioning from a full-stack engineer to the AI field can be a fulfilling and exciting journey. To make the most of this transition, you should focus on building a strong foundation in mathematics, programming, and machine learning concepts. Here's a detailed learning plan, broken down into four stages:

Stage 1: Building a Strong Foundation

Mathematics:

Linear Algebra: "Linear Algebra and Its Applications" by Gilbert Strang

Calculus: "Calculus: Early Transcendentals" by James Stewart

Probability & Statistics: "Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists" by Ronald E. Walpole, Raymond H. Myers, Sharon L. Myers, and Keying E. Ye

Optimization: "Convex Optimization" by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe

Programming:

Python: "Python Crash Course" by Eric Matthes

Git: "Pro Git" by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub

Machine Learning & Data Science Basics:

"Introduction to Data Science" by Laura Igual and Santi Seguí "Python Data Science Handbook" by Jake VanderPlas

Stage 2: Learning Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Online Courses:

Coursera: "Machine Learning" by Andrew Ng

Coursera: "Deep Learning Specialization" by Andrew Ng

Fast.ai: "Practical Deep Learning for Coders"

Books:

"Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by Christopher M. Bishop "Deep Learning" by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville

Stage 3: Expanding Knowledge of AI Subfields

Natural Language Processing (NLP):

"Speech and Language Processing" by Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin

"Natural Language Processing with Python" by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper

Computer Vision:

"Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications" by Richard Szeliski

"Deep Learning for Computer Vision" by Adrian Rosebrock Reinforcement Learning:

"Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction" by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto

"Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On" by Maxim Lapan

Stage 4: Staying Current and Gaining Practical Experience

Read research papers:

Subscribe to the arXiv mailing list in your areas of interest Regularly read papers from conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, and ACL Participate in online competitions:

Kaggle: Participate in machine learning competitions to improve your skills and build your portfolio AIcrowd: Another platform for AI competitions Contribute to open-source projects:

TensorFlow, PyTorch, or other popular AI frameworks Look for projects on GitHub related to your interests and contribute by fixing bugs, implementing new features, or improving documentation Network with AI professionals:

Attend AI conferences, workshops, and local meetups Join AI-related forums, LinkedIn groups, or online communities like Reddit's r/MachineLearning Remember that the learning plan can be adjusted based on your pace and interests. The key is to stay consistent and always be curious to learn more. Good luck on your journey into the AI field!

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April 09, 2023

Three years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Americans' views of the disease's impact have stagnated into a complex set of mixed feelings, recent polling suggests, with few believing that the pandemic has ended but most also saying that their lives had returned mostly -- if not entirely -- to normal.

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April 06, 2023

Hello HN,

My cofounder (jon918) and I started Sym three years ago because we were frustrated with how hard it was to manage access to cloud infrastructure. We wanted to build a tool for JIT access that was actually designed for developers. We were wary of tools that tried to accommodate both devs and IT but ended up with usability compromises for both.

First, we figured no one wants another web app to log into so we let administrators define access workflows in Terraform and let developers request and gain access via Slack. That seemed to pay off: being code-based was a big plus for our early customers since it let them manage the logic in version control and test in CI/CD.

Second, we knew that updating permissions/roles/access was a major source of toil and risk in the world of cloud infrastructure. Have you ever tried to avoid annoying, persistent access requests by setting policies that are a bit more permissive than you’d like? We felt that fully automated just-in-time access + approvals could really help here. But we also knew that a simple approval tool could end up leading to request fatigue - kind of defeating the purpose. So we built an SDK to let you define checks in code (e.g. pagerduty.on_call, okta.is_user_in_group, github.get_repo_collaborators) in order to dynamically route requests or fast-track access when appropriate. This seems to be paying off: users are creating Slack-based approvals in front of different types of risky actions like production access, sensitive queries and triggering Lambdas.

We’d love your feedback on our approach so far. Does this make sense to you? Is this a tool you'd use? What would you want to see out of it?

To learn more, check out the video that Nick (nmeans (Sym VPEng)) made [1]. You can also check out our docs [2] or set up your own flow [3].

thanks!

-adam

[1] https://vimeo.com/815222490/c717c18c42

[2] https://docs.symops.com

[3] https://symops.com/signup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35468981

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April 05, 2023

Read CNN's Fast Facts for a look at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

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April 05, 2023

Hi, I am David Kircos. The Founder of Quadratic (https://QuadraticHQ.com), an open-source spreadsheet application that supports Python, SQL (coming soon), AI Prompts, and classic Formulas.

Unlike other spreadsheets, Quadratic has an infinite canvas (like Figma). As a result, you can pinch and zoom to navigate large data sets, and everything renders smoothly at 60fps.

Our vision is to build a place where your team can collaborate on data analysis. You can write Python, AI Prompts, and Formulas in one spreadsheet feeding each other data and updating automatically.

Quadratic is built using WebGL and Rust WASM. To render a large grid of cells smoothly, we tile the spreadsheet similar to google maps. If you are interested in the technical details, check us out on GitHub (https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic/)

You can use AI to help you write Python and then run the code directly in Quadratic. Then, we feed the result back to the AI model so it can follow along, help you debug, and modify your existing code.

AI can also be used to directly generate data onto the sheet with prompts. It knows the context of what's on the sheet and how the data it's inserting fits in. Try it out.

SQL is coming soon... stay tuned!

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April 04, 2023

Hi HN, I’m Shimon, the co-founder of Datree: A policy management solution for Kubernetes. We help DevOps engineers prevent misconfigurations in their Kubernetes by enforcing an organizational policy on their clusters. Engineers can define a custom policy or use one of Datree’s built-in policies, such as NIST/NSA Hardening Guide, EKS Security Best Practices, CIS Benchmark, and more.

Our website is at https://datree.io and our GitHub is here: https://ift.tt/eLXf4xg

This is not the first time I have shown Datree to the HN community: A little over a year ago, I posted here an earlier version of Datree (https://ift.tt/JF4k3VT). At that time, Datree consisted of a CLI tool to detect Kubernetes misconfigurations during the development process (locally or in the CI/CD), unlike the version I present today in which the enforcement happens in production.

We built the CLI tool because we detected a big problem among Kubernetes operators: Misconfigurations. Kubernetes is extremely complex and flexible, which makes it very easy to poorly configure it in ways that are not secure. And indeed, we talked to dozens of Kubernetes operators who suffered from various problems, starting with failed audits, all the way to downtime in production, all because of misconfigurations.

Our solution was simple: Give the developers the means to shift-left security testing during the development process with a CLI tool that can be integrated into the CI/CD. We thought this was the best way to approach the problem: It is easiest to fix misconfigurations in the development process before they are deployed to production, it prevents context-switching and relieves resources from the DevOps team.

While the CLI tool was very popular among the open-source community (it got over 6000 stars on GitHub), we soon realized that CI/CD enforcement is not enough. As we talked with Datree’s users, we realized we had made a fundamental mistake: We thought of misconfiguration prevention in technical terms rather than organizational terms.

Indeed, from a technical point of view, it makes sense to shift-left Kubernetes security. But when considering the organizational structure in which it takes place, it simply isn’t enough. DevOps engineers told us that they love the shift-left concept, but they simply cannot rely on the goodwill of the engineers to run a CLI tool locally or to monitor all the pipelines leading to production. They need governance, something to help them stay in control of the state of their clusters.

Moreover, we realized that many companies who use Kubernetes are heavily regulated, and cannot take any chances with their security. Sure, these companies want the engineers to fix misconfigurations during development, but they also want something to make sure that no matter what, their clusters remain misconfiguration-free.

Based on this understanding, we developed a new version of Datree that sits on the cluster itself (rather than in the CI/CD) and protects the production environment by blocking misconfigured resources with an admission webhook. It has a centralized policy management solution to enable governance, and native monitoring to get real-time insights into the state of your Kubernetes.

I look forward to hearing your feedback and answering any questions you may have.

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April 03, 2023

The first-grade teacher shot by a 6-year-old student in her Newport News, Virginia, classroom earlier this year filed a lawsuit against school administrators and the school board Monday alleging they were aware of the student's "history of random violence" and did not act proactively amid concerns over a firearm in the boy's possession the day of the shooting, according to the lawsuit obtained by CNN.

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April 03, 2023

The 28-year-old who killed three children and three adults at a Christian school in Nashville last week fired 152 rounds, Nashville police said Monday, adding that while they have yet to determine a motive, the shooter planned the attack "over a period of months" and studied other mass murderers.

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April 02, 2023

"The news of Donald Trump's indictment has left me feeling torn," writes Fareed Zakaria. The case "has the feel of zealous prosecutors minutely examining all possibilities to find some violation of the law," Zakaria says.

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