skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And when your client has a slightly different python install or some other library which deps on an older incompatible version of a lib... Then what?

Python is awful for this stuff
I believe reason many in tech don’t protest is they are well aware just how easily companies can be brought down by abusive users having seen many of their own favorites die over the years from being forgiving or being too open about their ban mechanisms.

Governments fail at being flexible. What they have in Australia for instance allows consumers to abuse the hell out of business driving up costs for legitimate customers.

It needs something more like a Better Business Bureau who can examine both sides, but without a way to accurately verify a consumer is trustworthy it gets shady. Few people want to be tied to a realID so we are stuck with this mess.
> To this day I have found no resolution, and the only next step is to contact them through a lawyer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23506276
That's exactly the point I'm making. Copying Amazon because they make a lot of money, without actually being Amazon and offering the price, range, and radical convenience of Amazon's service, is how a startup fails.

Copying any aspect of a much larger company without properly considering the impact of it on your customers when you're running a very different company is usually a terrible idea, but doing that for support and customer success is extra-terrible.
Reads as an advert for AWS
Singapore is a living proof that a blend of authoritarian government and market economy can be highly successful.
Is there legal recourse for a user who has invested a significant amount of their digital life with a service provider and who gets unilaterally cut off? What happens to any service that you'd have signed up with through "Sign in with Apple" ?

We're still in the early days of such a digital-provider-dependent lifestyle, and it seems the legal system hasn't yet reacted yet. The closest equivalent is how US Phone companies do have a "duty to connect the call,", specifically in legal response to the unilateral power they (used to) have. Unfortunately, that's led to the current (US) problem with spam/scam calls & text, because though they have a duty to deliver, they don't have a duty to authenticate.

The user seems to have run afoul of Apple's fraud detection systems, hence the "cold shoulder" response (you don't want to give fraudsters a clue on how to dodge the ban-hammer next time, and you don't want them to DoS your support lines). After all, we only have the user's (carefully constructed) story to go on. At the scale Apple/etc operate at, fraud is a huge, difficult problem. I expect the companies tune their processes in favor of the fraudsters, because bad press like OP's story probably does them way more damage than a few hundred/thousand fraudsters.

No, I don't have a pithy solution for solving either problem, though I do expect legislation to eventually catch up to give legal recourse for users. I guess the cost of fielding such legal recourse will just be added to "the cost of doing business" by these companies, and that cost will somehow trickle down to users. At the very least expect much harder sign-up procedures once that legislation is enacted, and maybe more regular "are you a real user" annoying checks on the users.
Companies should be required to divulge the exact reasons for account termination as well as all internal communications related to that termination.
The tilde is usually parsed/replaced by the shell, so yes it you can use it for path definitions in the shell. The parsing is disabled by single quotes however. A lot of my colleagues were confused by that.
Perhaps he doesn't want to lose whatever good favor he has at Apple or risk his account beind disabled again in retaliation. The alternatives to Apple aren't exactly equivalent or easy switches to make.
Although it won't give you a direct answer to that question, Dark Money by Jane Meyer gives a well researched insight in some of these highly politically relevant undisclosed flows of money.
> but i do wonder what constitutes "a measurable amount".

The official definition is 0.1 inches as measured at Denver International Airport.
Considering its meaning, is your use of the term "Deus ex machina" (god out of the machine) intentionally ironic?
Sheldon Whitehouse fighting to end the dark money plaguing the Supreme Court
Traditional banks will cut you off as well. Move lots of money through your account, bounce it between a few accounts and back into your account. They'll cut you off.
Yeah we went beyond Presburger a long while ago
I mean “valid” in the mathematical/logical sense. It does not follow from the stated assumptions that n > 1, in the inductive step is this proof.

This has nothing to do with the idea that it can be common practice to prove claims of the form for all n > N, P(n) by induction when N is a number like 4. Yes there is a perfectly valid way to use proof by induction to do such proofs. Has nothing to do with this blog post.
Give it another read. He gets pissed off all the time and for the most bizarre reasons, like the time some people he was teaching don't understand his parable and he's asked why he teaches in parables if people have trouble understanding them and he throws a shit-fit.
Hello anyfactor, thank you so much.
Population is also much less diverse than claimed.

It's 75% Chinese, 15% Malay, then Indian. That makes it more homogeneous than Malaysia.

IMHO, that's a reason why they split from Malaysia: they are a Chinese city, ethnically speaking.
Exactly.

Going in, you’d probably want to be aware enough to ask yourself if you want to become a complete fucking sociopath and build another psychopathic corporation.

We’ve got enough of them already, there are better things to do with your time.

I’m in Australia, so was fortunate enough to go through the last decade without Amazon’s presence in online sales, they’re here now buy nobody used ‘em. I occasionally subscribe to their streaming service when there’s something I want to watch, but I’ll never purchase anything from or through them I’m not prepared to lose.

(Throwaway account cos I’m tired of getting point-bashed for having strong options any reasonable person could at least understand. HN needs to do something about that).
That paper is exactly the kind of thing I mean when I said "no existing purpose-built design fits the problem you have well enough to be practical" A custom built vision processor for the algoritm they're using would outperform all of the solutions in the paper by at least an order of magnitude.

Just because FPGA solves a single, very specialized type of problem well doesn't mean that it solves every type of problem well.
Hello frans, thank you, I'm glad you like it :)
> It's also wonderful to see, on this techie platform, people aren't afraid to call themselves a "believing Christian."

I am a progressive (not in the current US sense) religionless athiest and I am very glad that people can safely say that they are Christians in this platform.

I highly appreciate this.
Thanks twik and leflandfe! Using CSS ::after resolves those highlighting and copy&paste issues I noticed.

New jsfiddle at https://jsfiddle.net/hnw1zbed/2/ .
Mindfulness has certainly become a bit of a buzz word in recent years, but to dismiss it completely as if it isn't a real thing seems like a waste. It isn't some indefinable concept: mindfulness has been practiced in various forms for thousands of years and increasingly studied in scientific settings (eg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3679190/).

Sleep, exercise, hydration, etc are all certainly extremely important, but seem a bit off topic to the question OP asked (which I unfortunately have no good answer to myself, but I look forward to reading others).
Buildings are moved routinely now. Mammoet just moved Pier 70 in San Francisco.[1]
They moved their own US HQ building in Texas, although that was more showing off.[2]
Since the invention of self propelled modular transporters, you can move pretty much anything you can jack up.

[1] https://www.mammoet.com/news/mammoet-moves-historic-building...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cjafqoHnh8
Ask HN: Shuold I continue to build a product for a passive problem?
I have an idea, but after much thought I realized, it's not a problem that (my target) people face every day or every week, maybe not even every year.

It's a problem people face every time they start a project, my idea is basically a decision helper, and those decisions are just made every time they start a project.

I have no prior experience in building and running services (SaaS), so I would like your opinions on this matter.

And also, I can't find other SaaS that solves passive problems like mine, so I can't decide if this would be a good idea. So if you know any such service, please let me know.

Thanks.
I run an online store, we use Stripe for payment. 100% of prepaid cards issued outside of the UK (we are UK based) are declined, fortunately we have very very few of them. I have no idea if this is stripe or the issuing bank but I believe prepaid card and overseas transactions is MAJOR indicator of fraud.
> Im not achieving anything, no matter how hard i try

> On my 6th month of doing barely anything and it’s already December

> I’m regretting that i didn’t use the time to achieve something meaningful

> All i dream of to make a contribution and make an impact

> Yet i struggle to find anyone who needs my help

That's rather a bad mindset. You don't need to be a president or Shakespeare or Einstein or Bill Gates, etc to be impactful or achieve something.

Become impactful can be done in smaller scale, starting from family or relative (skip if they're jerks), friends (again, skip if they're jerks), local community, even local animal shelter and wild bees.

Well I'm not joking. Many people, especially orphans may need helps. Wild sheltered animals and wild bees too. They need helps, though from anyone, not especially yours.

On the contrary, you may already made impacts, for example when you buy from local grocers or vendors, you may helps them fulfill their financial needs that day / week.

Always view the small scope, nearby. The world may not need 2nd Einstein to survive, but local entity may need your interference to survive.
It's been a while since I've played Minecraft, so I can't speak to the newer terrain. But I always thought they could significantly improve the world gen.

Perlin noise is cool, but why not try to fully simulate plate tectonics, weather patterns, drainage? It would go a long way if deserts were in the rainshadow of mountain ranges, islands corresponded to real volcanic activity, etc.

I guess there is a limit to what you can do with the chunk-by-chunk approach, but I think a certain type of minecraft player stays basically put within a couple dozen chunks. Having worlds "load" on exploration would be a worthwhile tradeoff.

I get that this is a hard, but it is interesting, and it's a problem that would captivate an intelligent developer. They have like a million dollars, why not?
Yuvi used to be my senior in school. I never got to interact with him directly, but he was one of the finest computer whiz of the entire school.

When later I got into programming I hit an "advanced beginner" wall and was wondering how to proceed when I remembered yuvi. I looked him up on the internet and his blog was such an inspiration, his writings threw me into weird corners of the internet including HN!

I only knew him as a terrific open source contributor and right now seeing how his perspective had changed through time - I understand the true density of being an open source maintainer! Yuvi always has something for me to learn :)
If you like voxel world generation, I strongly advise you to check out Veloren[1], it has a much much deeper worldgen that what Minecraft offers.

[1]: https://veloren.net/ the game is still under development but it has been playable for more than a year now.
Not my only take away.

But it seems more surprising to me than what Amazon did (not that it was good).
Not to be confused with https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed (admittedly poorly named) :)
I always find it awkward to compare city-states to regular-sized countries. There is no “rural Singapore.” A lot of these independent cities are tiny because they were rich and powerful to begin with; That’s a fantastic starting point that no other country can have.

There’s not much many other countries can learn from Singapore because they all either don’t have enough money or have a greater variety of people to convince.
The main problem is missing from your model here--

It's impossible for a consumer to asses the "quality" of an item at the time of purchase. We infer quality from reputation, price, and warranty, but there's no direct measure of it available. There's barely even a definition of quality. Even if we ignore the metaphysical aspects of quality, we are left with messy problem.

Price correlates to quality only in as much as the least expensive thing is most likely to be the worse thing, but imagine if we used price as our only measure of quality? The strategy people would arrive at is to charge the most for the least-- which is pretty much where we are now already.

This incentivizes products that work great for a little bit-- which is again exactly where we are now.

My point is only that we've arrived at a crappy capitalism stalemate. I'd love to make high quality products for high quality people, but, that market isn't out there due to... human nature.
What you’re referring to as Mormon, is in fact, Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Everyone knows this. They're just not going to use an awkwardly-long term to refer to them. We don't refer to "members of the Roman catholic church", we just say catholics.
It's actually the opposite. The IIR-type losses in the battery when using PWM are much higher than if you smooth the current out with an LC filter.
> 90% of Singaporeans own their own homes, the fourth highest rate internationally. In contrast, the American homeownership rate is 63.5%.

This is kind of comparing apple and oranges.
First off, almost all of the housing in Singapore is public housing (HDP). If you own one, you cannot own a second one. For private property, there is huge fees for buying a second home, and the market for private property is very small and therefore, tend to be very expensive. There is also a lot more rules (like Minimum Occupancy Period) and taxes to seriously desensitised buying a second home, especially if it is for investment.

This make housing, for most cases, a poor investment in Singapore. You buy a home to live in it. This also mean that the market for rental, especially the one for foreigner, is very small compared to other country.

On the other end, the U.S, at least right now, see housing as a "safe" investment and has a population that is way more mobile than Singapore. People are less likely to invest in a home if they don't expect to stay in the same place for a significant amount of time.
In this case it is not parsed by the shell. Double quotes disable parsing just as well as single quotes for ~. Try running the command in the video and then run "env".
Adding to this it seems the morning sunlight contains higher levels of the proposed beneficial 670nm wavelength[0], together with the fact that eyelids let a significantly higher proportion of light spectrum through starting at 600nm[1] this seems like the perfect treatment, weather permitting.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287807359_Infrared_...

[1] https://sci-hub.se/10.1117/1.3593151
Hence the entire second paragraph of the comment above.
The only very good news I have encountered lately came out in April, where a cohort of tens of thousands of US Veterans Administration patients were found to suffer 40% less incidence of dementia if they had got a recent Tdap booster.

Nobody knows what was in the booster that made the difference, but it is very hard for a confounder to produce a 40% effect size. (I doubt aspirin would get such an effect size.)

A Tdap is safe, and I don't need to know why it helps, only that it (apparently) does, so I went right out to the drug store and got one.

I expect at least some of the billionaires are getting transfusions of blood extracted from infants. Which infants, I hate to imagine.
This is amazing. I think it is trained on well-known works. Opening of the Raven, translated to English->Emoji->English:

Once upon a night of despair, while I was thinking, weak and weary,

Over the many compelling and curious volume of forgotten tales —

While I nodded, nearly asleep, suddenly there came a tap,
Only a weak resume, write my chamber door.

"'Tis the information," I muttered, " tapping my chamber door —
Only this and nothing more .”
> the brown skinned, middle eastern opponent of oppression and intolerance that I always imagined him to be

That’s a totally weird and absolutely anachronistic description of Jesus. He wasn’t a POC fighting against white supremacy, your description of him sounds like a parody of a millennial who sees everything through their narrow American-centric view that puts race, defined by skin color, in the center of everything.
I also like that it focused on GUI automation and not others. But instead of trying to automate GUI elements that will change anyway or be very hard to maintain, it's better to offer GraphQL endpoints. Meaning everyone can use the website for everything, but if you need to do repetitive tasks or do any quality checks again, you use the endpoint behind. I did not say REST because GraphQL has already pre-implemented documentation, types and only input correct data. It can be used as a query language with one single endpoint that helps change stuff in the backend without interfering with the user and many more valuable features. I think it's still on a low level and, to some degree, would need programming, but it could be abstracted higher and also still, it's just a kind of JSON format, so I guess it's less complex than the old VB coding that some mentioning here .
Successful at what and for whom?
Yeah, but a master of coding uses a lot of Mathematics, like his dad does :-)
Mormons do have a distinct take here in attempting to distinguish Yahweh (Jehovah), who they call Jesus, from Elohim, who they call the father. To say they're two distinct beings, and that all the Old Testament prophets were talking to Jesus and NOT the father, is uniquely Mormon.

(And for anyone else wondering what all the pedantic fuss is about the name "Mormon", there's some good background here: https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2021/10/13/jana-riess-battle... .)
You are absolutely correct. I updated to not use GatewayPorts in v0.1.1

Thank you for the feedback!

https://github.com/AkselAllas/airgapt/issues/1
Depends.

I work in Aerospace and most of our regulations are written in blood, as they say.

I prefer to paraphrase A Few Good Men: "We follow rules, or people die".
> Don't Design for Multiple Cloud Providers

This has its own sub-antipattern: “Just put your application in a container, then it will run anywhere!”
It’s an engineering cost decision. I imagine they get single figure numbers of people making this change each year. The cost of having a developer design and implement a system to catch it, reject the change but save it in a state where it can be applied later, and automatically open either a support ticket or have an automated resolution system is far too high. Much easer to just lock the account and ask the customer to get in touch.

(Assuming there is a save button on the screen and it’s not an auto save on an input change, in which case yes it needs a confirmation dialog)
No, "not computable" is a property of functions that can accept infinite number of inputs. We can't say that a particular function value is uncomputable, there is no such definition. BB is uncomputable as a function. Yet, we can prove some of its values, because we can prove that some small Turing machines are not halting. To show that something runs forever you have to prove it.
And that’s why you need to regularly backup your photos library.

A few lost purchases is bad but losing all your photos is the worst case scenario.
Wow, same for me!

A few years ago, I was vacationing abroad, and ordered a gift from Amazon to be delivered in another country. The payment from Amex bounced for whatever reason, and Amazon permanently banned my account instantly. Difference is it says my login/password are invalid (they're not), there's no other message, no field for contact.

I lost more than 100 paid Android apps. Never took the time to recover that account, if this is even possible at all.

The damage would have been much greater with an Apple or Google account.
USB Type-C, almost universally called USB-C for short

Where and by whom? In my experience it's always called "type c" for short, dropping the "USB" instead of the "type".
I think they meant bad press for Firefox.
I don't buy it. Apple, Amazon, Google have virtually infinite money and there's a whole spectrum between "malicious actors can abuse the system" and "the decision is final, there is no recourse."

Yet people keep parroting the "malicious users are the problem" party line. Please tell me, which tech companies were brought down because of customer service abuse?

Here's what's going on. Having real humans not even making decisions, but reviewing false positives costs money, and the company justifies it by saying it's to prevent abuse from malicious actors. But it is simply a cost saving decision. So, again, I ask why are we quick to defend the company when they could afford to do better by us. Is the entire tech community suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?
There is a clear malalignment of incentives when commercial entities both sell and provide property.

These are clear cases for better algorithmic governance systems for managing the assets. Eg. Holding the asset on a distributed block chain / ipfs.

In the meantime, commercial companies that provide subscriptions should be favored. Here the risk is contained.
It’s pretty common in the United States for people to default to “is she lying / seeking attention / getting revenge” when women report mistreatment by others, especially when sexuality is involved (as it is here). It’s a rampant and unfortunate gender bias, that is not well understood by many US men or by anyone beyond our borders.
Please don't speak for me, your explanation of my position is totally off base.

> They're basically trying to take the position of "It's not real until you can have a scientific or political consensus by APPROVED thought leaders."

This is a bizarre and bad faith summary of my position. I have made no statements about "approved thought leaders". What I said is that evidence has not been provided for the claim that YouTube is deleting comments for criticism of hiding the dislike button. I understand that you believe this to be true implicitly and that no evidence is needed to make the claim, but I reject the suggestion that your claim doesn't need evidence. Lacking evidence, you lash out and label me a troll... a foreboding omen for the possibility of civil discussion.
The only reason to use primes is to ensure that compound expressions are implicitly and uniquely related to their components. But with the magic of modern computers, this is unnecessary, as we have plenty of data storage and information representation implementations that simply store the relations explicitly (not to mention indexing them, enforcing uniqueness constraints, etc.).

In any case, the geometric (or perhaps you meant topological) properties of the objects are independent of the specific primes used, so "figuring out which primes to use initially" is a bit of a non sequitur.