skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey guys,

I am the co-founder of ReChord. We started this journey 4 months back with our own problems. We were frustrated with taking notes and wasting time. So thought of a solution that can automate the notes for online meetings.

After 4 months of day and night work we have our first Beta version and would love to get your feedback.

This is what ReChord can do for you-
1. Join online meetings like Google Meet, Zoom, Teams and ReChord the entire call.
2. Give you the transcript along with speaker information.
3. Action items + decision points.
4. Highlights, Questions and Metrics.
5. Abstractive summary + minutes of meetings.
6. Google Calendar Sync.

We are onboarding private Beta users and will give FREE hours for users to test our product and in return we are just looking for feedback.

Here is the link to book a 30 mins call with us, where we will show you the tool and also setup the account for you. https://rechord-ai.netlify.app

If you want to check out the Beta application here is the link - www.rechord.ai
Is anyone else worried about the mass centralization of Open Source projects at one central point of failure on github?

especially since it's owned by an American company and I assume hosted within the United States
This is terrible advice.

Everything you put in there, the CCP will use to learn about you, your connections, your friends.

And what is a 'sensitive subject'? AI? NLP? Software? Portland Protest? Donald Trump?

"When do you accidentally say something considered not OK, the worst that happens is that the message gets deleted."

This is a really odd thing to say.

1) "When you accidentally say something" ... what kind of ridiculous world is that?

2) "Worst case, deleted" - obviously there are far worse things that can happen.

" get off Wechat and on a different channel, specifically for those subjects."

Yes, do that for everything.
In Bay Area:

https://readysf.com/course/wilderness-first-responder/

My memory is that there are classes with two all-day weekends and evenings during week. But I can't find the detailed schedule. So ~10 days.
Because the Chinese government doesn't allow dissent, it doesn't allow free expression. You can't reasonably expect me to believe they all have different values when dissenting ideas are banned from the country and vocal dissent results in disappearances and imprisonment. And yes, this includes dissent expressed overseas, look up Operation Fox Hunt.

I find it very strange that on the one hand people say the Chinese people just all have different values, but on the other hand ignore the terrifyingly huge totalitarian propaganda infrastructure that prevents any dissenting ideas from being legitimately expressed and discussed in China.
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My theory is that a seller wants to set up a legitimate (or legitimate-looking) storefront on Amazon to sell a real (or fake) product in the future.

Rather than build a reputation organically over time by selling real items, they could load up Amazon FBA bins with some cheap items, send them out to real addresses using fake accounts, and then leave fake reviews. When the process is all over, the store looks somewhat legit, since it's sold a bunch of items with great reviews, and the seller can then move on to selling the real (or fake) thing that they actually want to sell.
> Sometimes it quite annoys me that those personality traits are so embedded in myself though, because it seems to constantly be a headbutting of cultures that so many Americans on the coastal big cities just don't get or approve of, and love to condescendingly talk about that kind of personality as lesser or barbarous in some way.

"rugged individualists" always seem to care a lot about how they are viewed by "coastal elites". We'd all be a lot happier if we cared less about how we are viewed by others.
Jeremy has amended his comments regarding the viability of Julia Computing based on new information he received: https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1302678869158182912...

The financials are more secure than stated in the video. (I don't work there, but I'm a fan)
For the first rejection, they included a screenshot of the app's search functionality, searching for the term "Covid", which obviously contains HN submissions with "Covid" in the titles.

So basically, they were asking you to censor with regards to a specific topic?

For the second rejection, they included a screenshot of the app's main "Top Stories" view, which happened to have a COVID-19-related submission [3] as one of the top stories.

So they were asking you to censor/distort the top stories of the HN site?

We need to escalate these shenanigans in the tech media!

EDIT: Who in the independent media covers stuff like this? Snazzy Labs? Louis Rossman would likely rant about this, but his beat is more hardware.
I agree in theory but in practice SPAs chug on initial loading and they chug on loading new content (and they often even chug when scrolling this content!). the experience of using many websites increased drastically with javascript disabled. Something is clearly wrong with current SPA practice if this is the consistent result that users see.
Wow, the bubbles feature is really interesting. They standardized Facebook Messenger's chat bubbles (the best part of Messenger imo). Pretty awesome to be able to have chats from many different apps accessible in the bubbles.
It's not just clickfraud. Attribution is a hard problem that leaves a lot of space to bullshit people. A/B tests require degree-level understanding of statistics to conduct properly, which isn't common in companies, particularly when correctness doesn't matter if the test is just used to confirm preconceptions or justify budgets. Etc.
So why not use the actual measurement that the customer is interested in: The light quantity? Power consumption (W) seems to be the wrong measurement since you're comparing apples to oranges.
Isn't that exactly what they're doing? Filling it with junk?
> Their UI is very nice though, especially for guiding people through a process that they almost intrinsically hate.

Which is evidence towards the idea that if they wanted to make choosing the free or paid versions easy and obvious which was best for each person, they could.
I've not owned an iPhone in a while, but haven't most of Apple's recent headline feature releases been stuff Android has had for years?
So much for the reform Apple promised. I don't think many people earnestly expected anything to actually change.
The Multiplicative Power of Masks
Why are we bothering with the small potatoes in the room (TurboTax not putting URLs to free tax filing, etc. etc) when the elephant is:

"Why isn't the IRS giving people a way to prepopulate and file taxes for free with the financial info that the IRS already has on everyone?"

Well, I suppose it's just a product of the corporate interests and congressional deadlock that prevents us from doing a multitude of things right now. Other countries manage to do this just fine.
It's unfortunately becoming more typical.
In Texas, thousands of people attend drag races without masks.

http://twitch.tv/murda

Attendees do not seem to care, the venue does not enforce their policies, authorities do not take action...

I would not be surprised if there is a massive outbreak COVID-19 in that town.
Why?

The authors thoroughly outline their approach (and its limitations) based on available literature.

What specific criticism do you have?
Not relevant at all. The government cannot be trusted to gather lists of protest attendees since they would be immediately used for retaliation.

Statistics can be looked at in aggregate. Infections did not go up in areas with large protests.
How do you use the internet? Do you have a phone signal?
I think this sounds like the right idea to move towards. With so many similarities in their offerings it seems like the logical next step. Maybe a company can be created to offer a middleware that abstracts all the common offerings into your spec because I don't expect the major cloud providers to do that on their own soon. Cheers to your upcoming IPO when this works out
The main problem is that you are writing software for a closed Apple platform. Don't do that, else you continue to suffer.
If you look at the full quote, the purpose is not to confirm your theory but to inject healthy doubt in your theory:

"A sun lower in the sky and shorter day lengths would have favored skin that more easily synthesized vitamin D. But researchers are now learning that other factors must have been at play."

> The article also points out a correlation between latitude and light skin

Well yes, exactly. Correlation. I asked for causation, which it seems you are still lacking.
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There are several other subthreads about this already, but there's not really any evidence to suggest these folks made a bad or risky decision. The area they were hiking too was above treeline, so not really at any risk of burning in a wildfire. And the "known" wildfires nearby were either nearly completely contained, or hundreds of miles away.

You can complain about their photography all you want, but I suspect most experienced hikers would agree that these people didn't make any bad decisions here.
> In Android 11, conversations across messaging apps will be moved to a dedicated space

I really hope this is optional or highly configurable, I don't want work conversations to start mixing with personal ones :/

EDIT: Ah, it's clearer on the main release page this is for notifications only

[0] https://www.android.com/android-11/#a11-conversation-article
She made a video presentation at the Brains@Bay Meetup:

https://youtu.be/40OEn4Gkebc?t=2769
Website is quite slow. I'm sure you're under load RN, but if possible I'd recommend setting the site behind a CDN (there's a free tier of Cloudflare). Best of luck!
The IRS is not allowed to do this, by law. Intuit lobbied for that law, which made Intuit (and others?) offer a free version. Of course, Intuit goes to great lengths to guide people away from that free version.

edit: save_ferris linked to an excellent story below: https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...
What I find most ironic about this conversation is that it is happening inside kind of censorship observation chamber that HN mods have also created where certain words and ideas and concepts are censored and others are not permitted to see.
Well, at my last employer we had our own systems analyzing traffic, we had integrations with third parties (DoubleVerify being the biggest) to detect fraud, our clients often had their own third party integrations to detect fraud and would complain if we hadn't found it but they did at too high a rate, etc.

Honestly after the ad images/video, all the fraud detection javascript from the advertiser, the publisher, the advertiser's system of choice, the publisher's system of choice all doing "trust but verify" with each other is the largest contributor to how big ads are.
> Sad that the cops can't restrain themselves

Honestly, this is true in general
Not really, physical access to the machine violates pretty much any chain of trust you can conceivably have for most (all?) security models.

Federated distributed computing relates to what you're thinking of, but it is an extremely difficult topic, and veers into the realm of blockchains and things like that. There is also the whole area of Zero-Knowledge Proofs/Compute that deals with these matters: https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/229.pdf

If your threat model falls under the uber-paranoid category, you have to on-prem everything, preferrably inside your very own bunker. There is no getting around this afaik, and if there is there will probably be major tradeoffs (like the blockchain thingy) instead of a "drop-in" replacement for traditional compute.
When talks are given through video I actually attend a lot more than when they are in person. I put them on, turn off my music, and listen while working. I've actually learned a lot of stuff this way. Of course I'm not putting 100% effort into work, but that's fine. And if it is a talk I'm not interested in that percentage of focus on work is much higher.

Just because people are lurking doesn't mean they don't find value in your talks.
> He has been illegally recorded and spied upon

Which law in what country was broken?

The CIA is chartered to spy overseas, against foreigners. Assange is not in the US, not an American citizen, and has ties to Russian intelligence. I'm not aware of any law that affords him any protection.
This must not be a US thing. I don't know of any business that ships a product prior to receiving payment.
How many users would see "this update disables canvas" and know what the consequences of that are?

Apple doesn't care that it disabled canvas. :/ Canvas is too cross-platform for mālī tastes.
In fairness, a lot of the things Apple added to the iPhone is things which have been on Android for a while.

That said, I do kind of agree with Gruber, it kind of feels like the passion for Android has burned out at Google and they are just dialing in a lot of this.

The Pixel specific updates seem particularly weird to me too.
Yes, I use it to run Mach 3 CNC with my small desktop Taig CNC milling machine. I run it on an old pentium 2 computer that was made when computers still had parallel ports (needed to interface with the CNC drive box). Ain't broke, im not fixing it.
Given the social effects of the past two decades of computing, I don't see how anyone could think AR is a good idea.
> Several studies have shown that asymptomatic infections may have long-term impact.

To the tune of tens of thousands of dollars on average? That's not plausible.
I mostly considered naming to be a distraction from getting the real work done.

I also am probably not good with names as my other alternative was Megalodon (4 syllables) - I just wanted to have some megafauna name.

Happy to hear what you folks would suggest :)
Comprehensive Repertoire of Mathematical Symbols
Completely off-topic, but having heard a "youngster" (relatively speaking) use the phrase "nuke the site from orbit" and then turn right around and ask, "BTW, where is that from?" [0], I wonder if this title hasn't suffered the same fate? Considering that the reference was released about 35 years ago, I imagine many folks saying "it goes to 11!" weren't even born when This is Spinal Tap came out.

[0] Aliens, the sequel to the first one: Alien. I'm old enough to have gone to the cinema to see all movies mentioned.
Dunno what previous poster is referring to, but none that I know of.

For example Amazon Corretto is on GitHub, and Amazon gives a pretty good breakdown of the patches that make it different from the equivalent OpenJDK version (funnily enough, most of the changes are actually just backporting bug fixes from OpenJDK11 into Amazon's equivalent of OpenJDK8)

There's the Oracle JDK which has some onerous licensing, but IIRC the actual JDK is the same, they just include some extra binaries in the distribution
If you read the literature, they compare a symptomatic viral infection to having your hand or foot broken, or a pelvic fracture, or a mild to severe head trauma. I do not see any evidence of those things being equivalent.
I don't even care about the actual gold record or any accolades of any sort. I'd love to hear the gold record level pop song written by someone with only a vague understanding of music. I have 0 respect for most modern pop music, but that's complete nonsense.
This has a very easy answer for me: It's not ethical for film makers to decide that movies are no longer available.

Copyright was created to encourage publication of information, not to squirrel it away. Copyright should be considered the exception of the standard - public domain.
I pretty strongly believe that "blockchain" is a misnomer given how much the structure relies on Merkle Trees. Forks aren't some aberration in the data structure, but a direct exploration of branches in the Merkle Tree. Most blockchain algorithms, Proof of Work especially, are just very rigorous "rebase operations" in git terms.
You can also use it in a practically linear way, i.e. O(N*M^2) if you break your input into chunks of fixed size M and accept a very slight overhead in wasted bits.
I read this in David Graeber's voice. Beautiful read.
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I don't have technical references to point to atm, but as far as I know, browsers _do_ go to great lengths to only actually repaint portions of the page that have changed. There's lots of layer compositing on GPUs, checks to see what DOM nodes were mutated, etc. Nothing framework-specific here at all - this is how all modern browsers are implemented.

React in turn does work to let you, the developer, divide your UI code into discrete components that control the layout of some subset of the page, and lets you declare what the UI should look like at any given point in time based on our data. React then tries to minimize the number of DOM updates that have to be modified to make the previous DOM structure look like the structure you said you want now.
It sounds like that social hub windows phone had. I hated it because it worked by pretending all apps had the same features, so it was like the lowest common denominator
Wage employment for reconstruction era blacks was different. After slavery was abolished, a number of replacement policies were put on to basically enable it under a different name. There has been a back and forth across the years of policies forcing blacks to unfair conditions only for courts or lawmakers to nope.

E.g. In Mississipi if a black man left a contract early to seek better wages elsewhere, they would have to forfeit already earned wages and could be arrested.

Surely, there are individuals for whom their employment status, then and now, are some form of extreme leverage not unlike slavery. However, Taleb is making a general statement across all wage employment, and that's pretty dickish. Plenty of people feel they have autonomy in their lives while working a job. Taleb asserting they don't is rude.
The problem with the US tax code itself is legislation and corruption via tax policy. Enactment of tax credits and penalties is one of the few areas Congress constitutionally has almost unfettered authority. It's much easier to encourage or discourage a behavior that way than to pass conventional legislation and risk not being able to use the Get Out of Constitution Free(tm) card (aka, the Commerce Clause).
More like what they did with the "X" value of CDROM drives. 1X, 2X, 3X, etc. It started out being a rough multiple of the expected data rate. Eventually manufacturers realized they could change it to measure something else (I think rotational speed or something) so they could inflate the "X" value more and more without a corresponding increased data rate for the user. This will inevitably happen when you let marketing define your units or there is no regulatory body enforcing basic truth in advertising.
Is this not the exact definition of a cowpath argument? "We didn't make it to be this way so, regardless of what people are actually using it for, we will continue to assume we're right and the users are wrong"?

If HTML is no longer being used the way it was intended, is it unreasonable to request A.) A replacement, or B.) an HTML upgrade?
> it is remarkably easy for users to accidentally click on an ad in their news feed.

This is especially true in a mobile browser. The website is incredibly slow and borderline unusable on a mobile phone.
Show HN: Advanced filtering of extensions for Chrome Web Store
It's also blocked by default by uBlock Origin, fortunately.
"Early" suggests a timeline, a progression from one state to another. Most people in alberta would probably take offense to the suggestion they are somehow 'behind' Beijing. They in many ways see their economic and societal development as far 'ahead' of Beijing.
Do you have examples of where Apple is ahead? I'm currently trying to decide if I should make the switch to iOS.
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Not tango12 but...for your convenience...

https://hasura.io/docs/1.0/graphql/core/guides/mysql-preview...
The next phrase in the sentence you quote from seems important: "in the notifications section".

That sounds like the notifications will be grouped, not the conversations (so like, messaging at the top instead of mixed with everything or something like that).
I figured there were one or more investors participating preferred especially since Chef held most of their valuable IP as an open source project.
Because we know the answer: the IRS is prevented from doing that by law. Lobbied by Intuit. If you google around, you can find stories on it.

edit: save_ferris linked to an excellent story below: https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...
My mom received seeds. I took them and reported the package. Who knows what kind of crap those seeds are and didn't want to test that theory by planting them.
I was in the same boat about 10 years ago. I wasted time confirming that sql scripts were deployed to different production databases. I needed to chase down logs and contact dba's through email, etc... It was a big time-waster.

My team created a standard adhoc script template to help with this. The goal of the template was:

1) confirm script is deployed to the correct database
2) inserts record into log table (start date, end date, description, etc...)
3) updates log table when script completes / fails

We asked the script runners / dba's to reject any script that doesn't use the standard template. They reviewed and contributed to the template and were totally onboard.

The majority of our script writers use sql prompt, which allows for sql snippets - so everyone is used to starting out with this standard template as they write these scripts.

No issues since we implemented this. And I can confirm when and where scripts ran quickly.
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With Google Account, anyone can do anything against developers, nobody will ask
As a library user, I far prefer Julia to python. With Julia I don't have to deal with python's ugly math syntax, terrible abstractions, SLOWWW custom types ) and 3-5 different array/collection "type" systems.
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Tech Stack: Node.js, Postgres, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, React
Not really, since everybody who cloned a repo has a full copy of everything.

Reminds me of the saying that writing git was just a backup strategy for Linus Torvalds: FTP-mirrors were the first step to ensure that the kernel was never lost, git was needed to mirror the source-history as well.
I'm conflicted, it's true that glass like products are less distracting yet the constant information overlay with life is probably gonna change things a lot.