skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scientific consensus didn't change on masks. It was known very early that they best prevent the spread of Covid.

When Western governments lied to get around supply issues, while distracting people with quasi-religious rituals around hand hygiene, they not only caused preventable deaths among populations at risk, they planted the seed for long term education and trust issues. More than a year later westerners still have terrible understanding of how the virus spreads, terrible mask education, AND mistrust of health authorities.

The antidote to misinformation isn't more misinformation, it's truth.
It's not fundamentally different.

It is a nice, managed solution for it where someone else takes care of it for you.

It doesn't need to be revolutionary to be worth paying for.
I read the ESIGN Act and I think other laws are probably similar. All the is required is a few components for a digital signature to be considered valid. Why do we need images of pdfs and docusign to make agreements? Wouldn't it be so much better to have people click to e-sign something on our own site, where we control the entire process AND make it easy to understand what things mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_signatures_and_law

All you need for a digital signature to be legally binding is:

(i) Intent to sign & opt-out clause. ...
(ii) Consent to do business electronically. ...
(iii) Clear signature attribution. ...
(iv) Association of signature with the record. ...
(v) Record retention.

Why don't most companies just do it on their own site?
They aren’t cheap because you’re not buying them at an ethnic store.
> "The legend going around, is that the iPhone's screen was changed from plastic to glass a week before the announcement"

It's not a legend. Apple even mentioned the switch to glass in a press release at the time [1]. The original prototype iPhone shown at the announcement event had a plastic screen, but the version that shipped 6 months later had glass:

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2007/06/18iPhone-Delivers-Up-...
thanks for the video link that was really cool
We don't live in a world where everyone is a software engineer.
Most recent example of this for me was a faxing app. I needed to fax a handful of pages for the first (and probably only) time in years, and they wanted me to sign up for a monthly subscription.
“prejudice” has nothing to do with whether the prejudgement is based on an innate feature or a choice.
There's a lot of connotations to that word related to racism. I have no problem with the original commenter calling out that it may not be the best word to use.
Using an imaging crawler to extract text and images from a webpage to avoid parsing the DOM. Reason include dynamic content loading, diverse HTML usage and consistent training data sets for ML models.

I have edge detection running in OpenCV, but it's a bit problematic and brittle. My reasoning is that a ML model would be a bit more robust and useful to others.
How is this different from ghstack? https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack (which is what Edward Yang for PyTorch developers to mimic the stacked workflow, although it works with other repos).
Ask for the comp range they're offering. If the money is fantastic then consider jumping through the silly hoops.

If it's just average then tell them that your open source project is proof of your technical abilities, you're happy to do culture / leadership conversations and answer code-review style questions about the technical design of your projects, but that otherwise you're not interested in passing an arbitrary leetcode bar.
Share the secret with me?
If a five-figure roof replacement wiped out his savings, how was he planning to pay for things in retirement?
I'm not sure if you're guessing, but DocuSign and Adobe Sign's per-envelope (not per signature) rate is expensive and doesn't scale down on volume as quickly as you'd think. In fact, to get lower rates.. you need to buy their "X" and "Y" products/addons (e.g. Contract Lifecycle Management).

Bottom line is, whilst the name of this new service is bad and would immediately get a no from our execs, there is a market for a pay-as-you-go service like what they're providing.. especially as it becomes commoditised thanks to the pioneers.
Why Crypto Matters (and It’s a Lot More Than Bitcoin)
Stacked changes are an essential QOL feature when working with large monorepos. Kudos to the Graphite team for expanding the visibility of this development pattern and making it more accessible to teams of all size.
no multiplayer online games are for two reason:

1) as you said, they can be addictive since they are designed that way.

2) I have no control over who they are playing with, the sort of language that is/will be used (though I'm a potty mouth so ..) and what it can/may lead to. I feel a lot of people prey on kids via these channels, though I may be wrong. It's just an additional layer, but overall kids haven't complained about it.
Care to elaborate? I don't disagree, but you caught my attention with the out of order bit.
$2 is probably neither here nor there for the majority of situations when you sign documents, but DocuSigns UX is terrible. I would focus on improving that.
Reminds me of how I started programming software for the Tandy 2000 -- using Turbo Pascal 7 for DOS. As long as I use 8086 instructions and my own library routines and not e.g., BGI or anything that assumes a PC, the EXEs will run fine on a (emulated) Tandy 2000, because it's still a 16-bit x86 architecture. The weird I/O mapping of this PC-incompatible machine could be accommodated with inline asm. So it's not cross-CPU-arch, but still using more modern tools to program for a weird old machine, and I love it.
Don't confuse the ability to scribble on a digital document with an actual 'legal' electronic signature.
It does make sense because the next thing handles the return type must be equipped to handle the optional type or the program won't run/compile at all.

This still moves the check out of runtime and into a static check. An exception means the error is handled runtime and as I said before is a definitively worse metric.

Let me put it more simply. An exception means that you can compile an error or mistake and it might accidentally make it to production. This happens because exceptions are only thrown on compiled programs during runtime.

An optional means that run time errors of this nature are impossible to happen. A program that throws an exception on division by zero is impossible to even EXIST. This occurs because if the optional is used, the static type checker will prevent such a program from even compiling. That is why it is definitively better.
The problem with this logic is that even before money you had to survive and youre under the spell of 'some' activity to survive.

Money just abstracts hunting all day...to sitting in an office all day doing mental or creative work.

The real problem imo is that money allows the rich to accumulate the wealth to a massive extent while the poor have 60 to 80 hours a week.
Would you mind sharing that startup you advised?
Good luck. I had massive problems switching to Linux. Most of the people on Hacker News are saying it's me. Yet Windows works just fine. So yeah idk.
It does not. Easily implemented with combinators the whole way down.
I made a summary of the e-signature services out there:

https://chimkan.com/e-signature-2021-pricing-for-api/
Pay as you Go scales until there is enough loyalty and demand that your users opt for a monthly fee to save money. By forcing everyone to a monthly fee you alienate a ton of users that want to use your service but not enough to need a subscription.
A protest, or maybe a field trip. They had signs, not weapons. The FBI and capitol police waved the protesters into the building and held the doors open for them -- its on video. Now all the participants are suffering in a gulag without representation, they are literally begging to be transferred to gitmo.
It better be good since it's so expensive. NAT Gateways run on money.
Why would someone try your local branch instead of any one of their 200 convenient nation-wide locations that all have access to your money and don’t know what you look like?

Personal trust as a foundation for identity became an untenable option as soon as the modern age arrived and our world expanded beyond our immediate geographic area.
Only think I can think of is taking the effect of cables and preamps out of the loops when running through outboard gear?
When this first started popping up, it reminded me heavily of Adobe Acrobat's product packaging and launch screen from the 90s / 00s: http://splashscreens.sourceforge.net/acrobat.php

I had viscerally negative reactions to those as a child. Nothing ever foreshadowed "this is not going to be fun" quite like those shirts & ties. Nor was it clear why one would need to juggle the world to open a text document. (Maybe it was all just a premonition about the malware that is CC.)
Docusign gathers information for the purposes of provenance and compliance beyond what is captured in an email.

This is the reason organizations pay for it, despite already having email.
I’ve said it before, but the Microsoft-made extensions download and use proprietary binary blobs that obviously aren’t open source, essentially all the intellisense-like ones.
I'm not going to send someone an offer letter that is cheapesignature.com/sign-my-offer-letter. I'd look like a chump. Like the 'cheap' evokes some rando site and the 'esignature' makes me think of egold. The only e-prefix that works is email. Everything else has scamtones.

I'll use HelloSign and get Dropbox storage along the way and call it a day. Docusign is what people trust, but Hellosign is acceptable, but cheapesignature is too much. All the branding is "I'm trying to save pennies on a $20/mo product".
This is great. Thank you for taking the time to comment! I have the screenshot stuff working with Selenium.
> intentionally throttling devices which leads to people buying the latest devices.

As the battery ages, internal resistance goes up, leading to voltage sags under high CPU usage, which is called "brownout." By lowering the maximum CPU frequency when they detect voltage sagging, Apple prevents the device from crashing or randomly rebooting. The iPhone gets slower, but it keeps working, and replacing the battery restores it to full speed.

It allows you to use an iPhone without replacing the battery significantly longer than you would be able to otherwise. It was customer and environmentally friendly.

Chasing revenue growth, indeed.

Oh, and by the way, this is what I'm typing this reply to you on: https://i.imgur.com/ShDwshe.png

At the time I bought this computer - now eight years ago - one of the reasons I bought it was because the battery was a new type that was rated to have 80% or better capacity after 1500 cycles. It exceeded that, by the way, handily.

About the only laptop that could manage similar battery durability would be a Thinkpad, with its min/max battery charging controls.
Or just use the HTML table tag, it's better and also works on older browsers.
Visual Workstations were 32-bit x86, and the models 320 and 540 were PC-incompatible (they had their own firmware). Windows NT had special drover support for them.
If you really want the job you can go through it. I would ask them about the LeetCode interview. They really shouldn't need it - they approached you based on your open source code... that speaks for itself.
Looks very smooth!
Funny, I had the opposite experience. I'm French and I spent 2 years in the US.
I had a T-mobile subscription, and it was too painful to cancel my subscription.
With my accent I could barely pass the robot that was trying to understand why I was calling. Then when I had someone on the phone, the call just dropped, in the middle of conversations. I did that a few times and then gave up.
I assume I'll also receive a notification one day that I'm breaking the law and owe some crazy amount of money.
I've never seen this before and wonder how stable/fragile are those crystals? Are they very touch-sensitive or can you carry them around easily in your pocket?
> No, it is not. 68.2% of the population is in the average span of 85-115 IQ.

Yep, 50% of them are below 100 IQ, 50% are above 100 IQ.

Official definition of IQ: measure average IQ of a population, then label the point where 50% of population is below average as 100 IQ points.
Even four more 1-2 hours interviews is asking a lot without the tech hazing.

If I had to guess they have a ridiculous process and someone else who only had the power to bump you through to consideration found your open source work. At the end of the day though it depends on how much you need the work.
I agree that some vegans also make outlandish claims but I think it's taking it too far to say that this is "generally where the backlash starts", because that implies that it's our fault / we caused it. There are a lot of vested interests that have purely selfish motives for attacking veganism and would do it regardless of any outlandish claims on the part of vegans.
"There's always money in the banana stand!"

I prefer to think of them as a fallback plan. They hire loosely and fire fast, which is a fine compromise if you _need_ work. But at this point in my career, early retirement is also a fallback plan. A few more years with $curr_emp and even fatFIRE is possible.
A victim complex is a common response when anyone realizes others find them insufferable.
> That's tautologic

It isn't and the fact that you assert it is proves my point very succinctly.

You're attempting to establish an ideological framework that doesn't require empirical evidence and cannot be challenged logically, because you dismiss challenges to your logically fallacious assertions with zero supporting evidence as invalid because they do not coincide with your axiomatic assertions.

What evidence do you have that better businesses exist and are failing to supplant sub optimal ones because of the reasons you indicate.
Yeah, it's kind of odd, where you would think Microsoft should know better. Wondering what Microsoft might be thinking is the "ace up their sleeve" to prevent court actions against them again. Wondering if it's all the user information they overtly and sneakily collect.
Lots of service jobs don't feel meaningless most of the time (though they may come with other problems).

Plenty of jobs that involve moving around real stuff in real life rarely feel meaningless (though, again, they may have other problems, especially wear & tear on one's body).
Happy to break the law in self-defense.
I suspect from personal experience that companies underestimate how much business they are truly losing due to spite alone.
Do you need or really want the job? If so, this may be their standard interview practice (although a bit drawn out) and have to accept it.

If the gig is more of a "nice to have" you could respond to them that your portfolio is the repository, and that given their interest in you, meetings to establish personality fit for a cohesive team are great, but a coding interview seems unnecessary - in professional wording. Make the process work in both directions.

I believe excessive interview practices are a red flag. It can show a lack of understanding by the company of what they need, or worse a desire to "see how candidates do under pressure" (i.e. hazing) which can be indicative of a toxic environment.
They need to charge enough per unit of service to make it worthwhile. And people need to understand that they need to pay for services. Not everything is free.

Subscriptions are a good model for things that you use often and regularly. PAYG is better for things that have high value when you need them, but you don't need often.

I can see services like this offering both, and customers choosing one or the other based on their usage pattern.

You see this with movies already, and I think it works well: You can subscribe to the monthly and watch whatever, whenever. Or just rent movies when you occasionally want to watch one. Both are cool.
NT was designed in part by a former Digital Equipment Corp architect who did a lot of work on Vax/VMS.

Windows NT was the subject of the appendix of my Operating system book. Replaced now by "Windows 2000" (NT5.0), which was the next OS.

https://www.os-book.com/OS8/os8c/appendices-dir/c.pdf
> pc it would take 30” to open a pdf attachment, sign it and send back the copy.

Windows only, comparatively, recently got built in PDF reading support through browsers. Prior to that you either installed acrobat and had Adobe try to shove free antivirus trials onto your machine with every update, or you were in the know and installed foxit.

And signing a PDF on a PC? Now day sure, but its been built into MacOS/OS X for ages.
Well, you can't have it. If I need a service once a year, I won't pay a monthly subscribtion.
Apple throttled devices to prevent devices shutting off unexpectedly when an aging battery couldn't sustain the power draw. And they later added a setting to led users control this.

If this was done out of nefarious reasons, don't you think doing nothing (devices switching off when the battery degrades) would have driven more sales of new devices?
>How long has the pandemic been around for? How long has ivermectin been claimed to have huge benefits for, regardless of the source?

Science takes time, the pandemic has been around for less than 2 years. Ivermectin has been a suggested for what, a year at most?

>Is it really such a huge conspiracy theory that researchers simply don't want to bite the hand that feeds them?

If a scientist could definitively prove ivermectin was effective they would be world famous. The reason so many shitty papers got published so quickly on ivermectin is because people were trying (and failing) to grab that fame and fortune. The incentives are obvious.

Consider that maybe your need to see conspiracy in the world comes from within, rather than external forces.
Great idea! For magazines, you can also subscribe through Amazon and manage the subscription with Amazon. They make single-click unsubscribe easy.
I built my AB system in software, which allowed me to make a tiny crossfade on switching and avoid a big click. It's well understood that such clicks wreak havoc on your ability to perceive small changes. I didn't have access to an analog version of that at the time.

It was also more difficult to set up and compare multiple "wet" settings for hardware devices, and it was less convenient to "save" settings, take a break and come back with fresh ears (because the studio might be used for something else in the interim.)

It's possible to give yourself optimal conditions with hardware tools, it's just less convenient (and thus more expensive). I believed that giving myself optimal perceptual conditions and an ideal workflow was far more important than gear choice — especially in terms of value, but in my view even in terms of doing my best work in an absolute sense.
Subscriptions are a good model for things that you use often and regularly. PAYG is better for things that have high value when you need them, but you don't need often.

I can see services like this offering both, and customers choosing one or the other based on their usage pattern.

You see this with movies already, and I think it works well: You can subscribe to the monthly and watch whatever, whenever. Or just rent movies when you occasionally want to watch one. Both are cool.
Yes, exactly, ISPs need fewer, but the rest of us need more while they roll it out. Hosting things on IPv6 only is simply not an option yet if you need to reach customers.
Majority of hotels around Europe don't accept it, same with restaurants, small business, shops.. there is not a single reason to own one in Europe, even with cashback (cashback to what actually, since i cannot use it anywhere)
WordPerfect lost to Word for the exact same reason Lotus 1-2-3 lost to Excel. They were extremely late to the transition to GUIs. By the time they had Windows versions, the world had already switched.

Java was never widely deployed on the web. The only services that ever used applets in any meaningful way were a handful of Asia-only banks. Applets were stillborn for a large number of reasons, all of which you can blame on Sun.

MS giving away IE for free torched Netscape's business model, but that seems like a strange objection - we all expect browsers to be free (and built into the OS) today.
Because for pennies per signature (at scale) you (as a small business owner/realtor/someone with no technical background) don't have to worry about:

a) Document storage
b) Securing said storage
c) various and sundry potential legal issues

Those types of worries are the perfect market for a SaaS.
Signature attribution is a bit tricky. Interestingly, many esign providers use email as the authorization mechanism: you must have access to X email if you only can receive the secure link from this email. That makes the attribution component functionally as secure as your customers' email client.
Composability in configuration is really important beyond a small scale. If you're running a replicated server in n locations, it's far better to keep one config file that has some form of conditional logic based on location than to maintain n textprotos that need to be kept synced.
Haven’t had much exposure to other statically typed languages recently, so can’t say off the top of my head. Intuitively it looks like something modern generics should allow easily though, doesn’t it?

As to Dhall, for example, I could validate such a constraint (and more) using a function I can be reasonably sure is safe and won’t halt (i.e. without all the drawbacks of TS and other general-purpose languages).
It depends on what your interests are. Motivations are a higher order from intentions and can inform on future actions or reveal patterns of behavior. To the other reply; I would say that Apple retaining it's iron grip on exorbitant profit margins and the supply chain is the motivation, and the intention is to do so by the subject method that will undermine the threat to that not controlling the right-to-repair narrative would represent.

This is not something that Apple decided in a vacuum or even as it relates to the USA. Apple is surely looking at this with the lessons it has learned as it relates to how the EU has been behaving and its motivations too.

Not to belittle anyone, but the upper echelons of Apple and their servant army of attorneys operate from Mt Olympus and have a far wider aperture than most of us mere mortals have, regardless of how broadly we believe we understand a relatively narrow focus like how this relates to goings on in the USA alone.
Drag/drop of php into a free service sounds like it likely wouldn't last long. You would have to spend a lot of time figuring out how to deal with resource use and security from your new customers.
When two parties are signing any non-trivial contract the $2 service fee is insignificant. Reducing it to $0.25 or whatever else isn't going to convince anyone to switch over. It's the brand that matters, and Docusign has successfully built it.
Atomic CSS class names have no semantic information and they are not meant to. If you need a class to describe what an element does, you're free to add one.

The amount of class names is off-putting at first, but you get used to it pretty quickly. (I'd also recommend using numbers or sm, md, lg etc for your size increments, but to each their own.)

Tailwind and friends aren't trying to solve the CSS Zen Garden problem. Their focus is on re-usable CSS rather than re-usable HTML. Depending on your needs that may be better or worse.