skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something else that I didn't mention in the post is that `Pin<Box<T>>` is `From<Box<T>>` (so it can be cast directly, and here without reallocation or such), and this could also be implemented for (other) exclusively-owning containers with heap storage.

The standard library collections don't do this because they don't have an API that would make it useful.
It suspect it's partly because you can't `self: &mut Pin<Self>` in stable, which would be needed to cleanly give them one, but there's also a fair argument for not making them kitchen-sink types while a wrapper could provide this easily.
> An accusation substantiated in secret is not an accusation substantiated.

This is not about whatever the original "accusation" was; it's about process and structure. AIUI, the whole purpose of having a moderation team is so "dirty laundry" of that kind won't have to be aired in public and ruled on by an uninformed lynch mob. They're talking about not being able -- allowed -- to do their job, not the (irrelevant) details of one specific task of the job.

> This is a fundamental principle of justice, dating back centuries.

And this is a forum moderation team, not a court of law.
I thought an email exchange where both parties reached an agreement is a legally binding contract, even without the use any document singing apps like Docusign. Is there any jurisdiction where it isn't?

Companies use and pay for a lot of technically unnecessary things.
Let's not forget there was also a huge public outcry on HN and in other places when it came out that they were buying and selling real estate. So if it was socially detrimental to the company's image, and they didn't have the corporate will to collect enough data for it to become profitable, it's a no-brainer that they would get rid of it.

I see this as a victory for us calling out companies for immoral behavior.
The hypothesis for why masks work is due to the laboratory-measured reduction in transmission from the host. The only way to test this is to have a large population where most do not wear masks or most do wear masks. You will not find enough volunteer to make such a test possible. Individual mask wearing does not test this hypothesis.
In somewhat the same situation. We need to sign docs electronically about 2x a year.

I use hellosign. Free for the first 3 docs you sign a month. WFM.
Probably because the level of effort required to configure that and then monitor/manage it continuing to operate doesn't make sense when GitHub has an outage or two a year.
As I understand it, it's actually the fact that docusign maintains a record in their database of you signing the document which makes the e-signature verifiable. That's what the hash in your docusign PDF refers to, so the signature can be verified, as opposed to _just_ having an image in a PDF.

Source: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-A...
I remember an HN post of a program doing exactly this: adding your signature to a pdf and altering the document so that it looked liked a scanned one.

Could have been handy a while later but I never managed to find this post again... It was an open source program hosted on Github FWIW.
It's only obvious that x = -B/2A is the parabola's axis of symmetry if you complete the square in the traditional way, or use calculus to locate the extremum. So it seems to me that we don't need a new method, we need better teaching of the tried-and-true method.

If children were exposed to this new thing, even more of them would be traumatized and develop a lifelong loathing for quadratic equations.

The ideal method, IMO, is to complete the square AND provide a geometric interpretation of the expression that results.
> supercomma

duplocomma
I haven't even thought about them using the content across platforms now that they have the video samples already... but perhaps the followers are more important. You only really hear about celebrity deep-fakes on the news.
An 'extraordinary' Roman villa with epic Trojan War mosaic discovered in England
And students need not memorise the equation, instead they can derive it from another equally unintuitive equation then go through many logical steps of multiplication, simplification and refactoring - each being locations where students are likely to introduce errors.

This is not simpler for the student. Its is, at best, a simpler way to derive the equation, a thing which most people will never do.
I liked “Introducing Chaos: A Graphic Guide” one of a series by Icon Books.

There’s also Introducing Fractals in the same series, worth a look too.

I seem to read it every few years, and it’s all new to me.
No smear on the book, I just need to focus more on owning this knowledge.
Ridiculous how? I loved the experience of driving a Tesla, but what’s so significantly better that it would cause laughter?
This worked well for me. Relatives are not asking me anymore to buy a phone for them and send it to them via visiting relatives.
I don't disagree with what you are saying and you are not wrong, but it is also key to remember that when the Wheat Board was dismantled, CP and CN rail immediately started maximizing their profitability to the extreme by cutting down on available rail cars, leaving a lot of small producers out in the cold, especially if they were in a geographically disadvantaged position. It becomes extra nasty when you realize it is American interests that own large portions of CP and CN, in particular Bill Gates alone owns more than 10% of CN.
Right, you can even sign (drawn signature) a PDF with Acrobat or Foxit or Libre, return it over email, and it's binding.
How is the diversity? Is there integration or do different ethnic groups just keep to themselves. Is there upward mobility for some groups but not others?

What about issues like Joe Arpaio and his policies affecting the community. I can't speak for your experience but I wonder are you really seeing the whole picture?

How do you feel Arizona will cope with the coming climate change? At the rate its going Arizona may become unsafe to live in in 10-15 years.
It's a markdown editor. It saves markdown files. How does that mean your data is bound by them?
Checkout hellosign much more approachable IMO. It has a free trial maybe you can get by with just that…
Wow!

It's excessive in every single aspect. I'd prefer it to have a plastic shell around all that aluminum, but, even as it is, I want it.

I don't even have the desk space to put it, but, still, I want it.
These are documents that you’re signing or that you’re collecting?

I use the built-in signature tool in Preview on MacOS all the time without issue.

If you’re the one collecting the documents I guess it depends on whatever the regulations are in the industry that you’re in. You might check out Docassemble. It lets you build workflows for creating documents from questionnaires. https://docassemble.org/

It can do signatures too. https://docassemble.org/docs/questions.html
The "to subtly imply" definition does still exist in American English. I'd suspect most people with university degrees to understand it when used.

It's a bit literary, yes, and would be out of place if used verbally or in a business communication, but it is not archaic.
Much like using a RTOS in the embedded space. It's an option with a lot of overhead, but on the other side of that overhead, you get a large number of features for free that you don't quite need but might as well use.
I liked 'Chaos: Making a New Science' by James Gleick but that was a long time ago.

'Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory' is also excellent.
I really like it -- lots of legal documents I've signed over the past few years are in DocuSign. Which also means that I have easy storage for my _own_ documents. If I log in, I can see the lease I signed 3-4 years ago, the contract I signed last year, etc. etc.

Plus, yeah, you get to see if the other party signed, all the appropriate spots for signing are flagged, the entire audit trail of the document.

It's super convenient.

Also, it's cheap AF. A personal account is like $10-15 and a business account is $25-45. That's pocket change for the service you get.

EDIT: I've worked on document management software. Let me tell you that people will pay bank for document management -- without even the signing part. In any field.
Yoon slams government's nuclear phase-out scheme
You’re comparing a BMW designed in the late 90s to a brand new car.. If it wasn’t better that would be concerning.
> Absolutely nothing about this team’s behavior is mature, or reasoned.

Absolutely everything about this team’s behavior is mature and reasoned.

> This appears to be a big win for the rust community.

This appears to show that you have absolutely no idea what this is about.
As a child I had always thought that this must be possible and I had dreams that I had figured it out. At the time, our family didn't have anything more than a Gameboy and an SNES so I wasn't familiar with how a PC or any other computer operated.
3 pop ups and I’m out. I immediately bailed.
The article's headline is deliberately misleading, and possibly wrong. They are essentially reporting on a survey saying the low-wage workers are more likely to _want_ to quit. That shouldn't be a surprise.

However, according to this article [1] people who are driving the "Great Resignation" by actually quitting are mostly mid-career employees in tech and healthcare. I doubt that they would be low-wage workers.

On the other hand, I have heard anecdotes from people in construction industry that it is becoming harder to find construction workers.

[1]: https://hbr.org/2021/09/who-is-driving-the-great-resignation
That's not how these proxies usually work. They only give you enough bytes so the browser doesn't feel stuck while downloading everything and scanning it. The download then suddenly continues at 100 or even 1000 Mbit/s.
I don’t know if this a generally accepted definition, but to me spirituality is guided only by direct first-hand experience, while religion is a set of beliefs from some other humans or books written by humans. Spiritual teachers are trying to point you towards firsthand experiences, as opposed to just asking you to believe what they say.

Obviously there is some crossover between the two - spiritual teachers might be a bit religious and vice versa.
> Or Rio de Janeiro vs Brasilia in Brazil.

Rio de Janeiro was Brazil's capital for centuries (even before it became an independent country), it only changed to Brasilia in the 1960s, well within living memory of many people, so that one is justifiable.
I’m on iOS too. From experience it’s usually because the video container, codec, or options, you are using for the video is not supported by iOS.

In your case I see you are using a webm container. iOS prior to version 15 does not support webm natively. Then earlier this year they started adding support for parts of webm in iOS 15. https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/10/apple-adding-webm-audio-codec...

I recommend converting the video using ffmpeg.

The following should give you a video file that will be playable on most mobile devices, even quite old ones.

ffmpeg -i preview.webm \
-c:v libx264 -crf 23 -profile:v baseline -level 3.0 -pix_fmt yuv420p \
-c:a aac -ac 2 -b:a 128k \
-movflags faststart \
preview.mp4

The HTML5 video tag supports having multiple video sources so you can still keep the webm as one alternative and browsers will pick either the webm or mp4 depending on support.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/so... for details on multiple sources in the video element. I.e. what changes you need to make to your html.
I clicked on "weird" and half the results are Marvel movies?
>> Well, health is more valuable than any money.

Not really. The healthcare system in every country has to make decisions how much is QALY worth for in monetary terms.
>When I was a kid, I took a greyhound bus from Vicksburg MS to Seattle WA via the southwest approach (I later did the northwest route, which wasn't as interesting). People would get on the bus from various prisons in Texas (the bus stopped a lot at prisons), New Mexico and Arizona...and were all going to LA. Why bother being homeless in Phoenix (when summers can kill) if LA isn't that far away? Heck, that applies to Texas as well, not just Arizona.

You know I wonder if anyone has done a study on how much of the homeless in LA are from out of state. Is it even possible? There is like 65k+ homeless just in LA country. I don't know how they are going to fix this.
This response is perfect.
I use the OS variant because to me it it's an appliance. I run it on a separate piece of hardware and it does one thing: control my home automation stuff.

I don't want to explain to my SO why the lights aren't turning on because I'm messing with a "apt upgrade" gone wrong.
This a caricature, a misrepresentation of the process, and not how this "basically" works at all. As a straight white cis male academic (who had to write a diversity statement when I was hired, who is involved in hiring other faculty, and who reads a lot of DEI statements) what you write here does not match my experience or the experience of my colleagues, who are majority straight white male and cis.

The purpose of the DEI statement during hiring is not to filter out straight white cis males. It is to filter out people who haven't put sufficient thought into incorporating diversity into their teaching practice, no matter who they are. This is important to universities because professors necessarily encounter a diverse classroom. Issues of race, gender identity, and sexual orientation are important for a professor to consider so that they may create a safe learning environment for all students. This does not limit intellectual exploration in any way - it relates to discharging the duties of teaching, not the content taught.

Sometimes these issues can feel abstract, but in the classroom they are concrete, and I want colleagues who have thought these things through. It does not matter that you are a straight white cis male, and judging by the makeup of our faculty, it's not an impediment for them getting hired.
It can be obvious in other ways. For example if you can see how a parabola is the product of two straight lines. And you can teach it that way.
Is-even – SaaS platform for checking if number is even
Nmstate – A Declarative API for (Linux) Host Network Management
> Are there free, open source alternatives to Docusign? If so, why do more companies not use them?

Unfortunately, trust doesn't come for free. If a random, free-to-use company is used as a root-of-trust for document signing, who would trust that? It is a meaningless party to trust. There needs to be a reason to trust.
It doesn't at the moment. I would like to, but it's quite difficult getting access to PCM audio data from services for audio analysis due to DRM (see Widevine).
The “extraordinarily difficult to do very well” part gets ignored here by most people

DocuSign’s feature list is huge. It’s not just overlaying a signature on a doc. It’s a massive and complex app that most people will ignore or trivialize, but that shit just works.

Mark all the signature locations?

Multi-user?

Chained dependencies?

Recording and redownloading later?

SSO

Audit / identification

Salesforce integration?

Contract generation?

Orange site minimizing huge successful company because they care about one feature seems super on brand.
Businesses are willing to pay premium price for peace of mind.

As an individual, we certainly would think twice to spend $xxx/month.

But as a business, the psychology of money is totally different.
I'm all for shorter concise writing.

I'm all for a semicolon though. It's a reminder that something necessary is comming.

I would like to nix most commas though.

I just don't see the need for them, except in technical writing. My wish for technical/scientific writing would be using numbers, followed by short concise sentences.

For example,

1. Do this with the wrench.

2. You need turn the 10mm nut clock wize.

3. Blah, blah, etc.

4. And even if I wanted to omit the comma, my brain can't seem to do it.
Yup. Currently making one. Biggest challenge is the art. I can’t draw for shit so have to hire freelancers.
Some past related threads:

.DS_Store - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26435783 - March 2021 (30 comments)

Ask HN: What are the technical justifications for keeping .DS_Store? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23648165 - June 2020 (91 comments)

.DS_Store - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20340151 - July 2019 (21 comments)

Don't commit your .DS_Store files - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17134324 - May 2018 (2 comments)

.DS_Store files always hidden from Finder in macOS Sierra Beta - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12056993 - July 2016 (11 comments)

.DS_Store for non-mac users - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733022 - May 2013 (15 comments)

Death to .DS_Store - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3390509 - Dec 2011 (122 comments)
Maybe the wrapping is glorified. But the contents of the document is the most important IMHO
Head of Instagram to testify as Congress probes app’s effects on young people
With respect, I think the recommendations are rubbish.

When I say that I’m feeling humorous, I want to see movies that are primarily comedies. Not dramas and all sorts of other things and might also have a few comedic moments.

Match on the first tag, ignore the rest.

Or, if I select that I’m feeling romantic AND humorous, then match on movies that are both romantic AND comedies, not just one or the other.
Exactly!

I know people who have far more money sitting in their driveways (or garage, though having a garage clear enough for cars is a weird rarity anymore) than our entire property, including house, is worth. They claim it's worth it, and I'm not going to argue, but I could quite literally retire on the value of their house and car fleet. When I met most of them a decade or so ago, they were in the similar boat as me, vehicle/salary/etc-wise. They just inflated their lifestyles as their incomes rose, I fought that (and married someone who is far better than me at asking "... but why?" questions about anything nonsensical I suggest). I'm not retired, but that's halfway because I enjoy my work and halfway because I have plenty of things I can do that involve wads of cash at various points (the next one is buying a backhoe for a couple years of work on a greenhouse - yes, it makes sense to buy an old one, run it for a few years, and sell it, because they hold value very well at the age I'm looking for - it's a couple year rental for the cost of maintenance and maybe a set of tires).

My point is simply that if you can avoid those traps, you really don't have to worry about "How do I be a tech worker in my 50s and 60s," because you've either retired, or are near enough to retirement that you don't have to earn $500k/yr to support your lifestyle. It's a trap. There is no income so large you can't spend more than it.
I remember a post like that too! Was it this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23157408
I really like how this looks, and it'd be pretty nice to have it running on the monitor I have above my main monitor.
Problem is that I only have s3m, it and xm etc. music as actual local files, which this player don't seem to support.
Most other music (like the bakcground jazz I keep in the background) is streamed.
I did something similar on Firefox. But the image wasn't completely downloaded. Half of it was green.
Curious… what helped you cross this conceptual gap?
Ironically enough, Github seems to have unplanned downtimes every 3 months!
The consequences of hacking our dreams [audio]
I assume you're not a lawyer.
Well, that makes sense, but wouldn't it sink Opendoor too then? They are doing fine, as far as I know.
(This is an outside project contributor speaking.)

> it looks like the only way to log in is through Twitter or Facebook

true :(

> Are there any plans for a more general OAuth implementation?

Some tickets open, but hasn't moved in awhile. Def an opportunity to contribute this! :) Context in the issue linked later.

Right now, you can get third-party auth working in one of two ways: (1) contributing the feature to upstream Polis (slow, and lots of work) or (2) do auth in a custom "wrapper" app in which a Polis embed is used (quick, and no need to understand the messy Polis codebase).

Sample of a wrapper app linked through here:
https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis/issues/97#issuecommen...
Spotify's simplified Car View mode is being 'retired'
Yeah, reading this article I couldn't help but notice that there would be a massive conflict of interest in Zillow entering the real estate market, and would probably create externalities. Seems like a win and strange that the author is so derisive of the company for doing what is probably in all of our best interests.

It's telling that the article opens with a clip of Alec Baldwin talking about needing "brass balls" from Glengarry Glen Ross, seemingly oblivious to the fact that it's a dark comedy mocking cutthroat sales culture.
What happened to minivans?
If interest rates are 10%, you can borrow $1000 and buy a company that generates a $100 dividend and be cash neutral. Make sense?

Now if interest rates drop to 1% you can spend $10k on the same company, get the same $100 and pay your loan.

So the value of a company that reliably generates $100 can change by a factor of 10 when interest rates change.

Right now, the real interest rate is basically zero. So to determine what a company is worth, work out how much capital it generates and divide by almost-zero.

Hence why every company is work billions...
I don’t really find Square or Stripe to be doing something mind blowing, if we’re talking about the core payments features. These should just be an open standard as they are developing in India, where people can transfer their money to each other without rent-seeking monopolists or just tech giants sheltered from competition via network effects. Payments are just a basic utility for society, not something to be controlled by authorities like giant tech companies.
I think a useful analogy here is trade-ins. Everybody knows that a private sale gets you a better price for a car than selling to a dealer. But a lot of people don't want the headaches that come with one. Why wouldn't it be the same for housing, especially when people may have life circumstances that mean they need to sell ASAP?
You have chosen a very bad example: a "decision maker" that is both "shielded from the consequences of their decisions", and who also lacks technical depth if I'm to read between the lines.

Except with a miracle, no amount of reasoning can save this person from taking a bad decision.

And no, I'm not referring to "personal decisions" - I make technical decisions based on emotions all the time.

It works for me because I have both skin in the game, and the technical knowledge.

Yet I chose to use emotions as a shortcut, because I have no time and no interest to put on paper why I recommend clickhouse for a timeseries. I do it because it feels right, because I have a bad vibe from the weird benchmarks published by competitors, and a good vibe from clickhouse based on when I last played with it.

This saves me time and effort, which is best spend on things that matter.

Some people use different names for this heuristic (cf "thinking hard and slow"), because emotions have a bad reputation, based solely on bad examples of people who can't rely on anything else, and just don't care about the consequences.

Emotions integrate inputs. Lack of good inputs = bad decisions, emotions or not, aka "garbage in, garbage out"
If you are building a competitive multiplayer game, maybe don’t use Godot’s basic/development network implementation?
Since you've continued to use HN for ideological battle and ignored our request to stop, I've banned the account. Regardless of your views, comments here need to be higher-quality than this sort of shallow, inflamed stuff.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html