skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting! I'm going to throw a few questions your way, please feel free to answer as many or few as you'd like. A lot of these are stream of thought things too, so apologies.

Do you see this product serving the lawyer-lawyer use case, lawyer-individual use case, or to an individual-individual market?[0] As an individual, I feel like there may be a lot of friction in drafting and sending a contract for another individual to sign. The chain of custody/assurance of no editing is one aspect that would drive me to do this process through a lawyer (or any other document signing company, but I don't have any experience with them).

Can I request/propose changes to a document sent to me? Or is this more for final drafts to be sent for final signing? Being plain text, I imagine diffing could be very straightforward.

It seems to me there's an assumption that email access is enough to validate you are the person this is intended for. I wouldn't be surprised if other online offerings like this had similar assumptions, but I'm not sure if I agree with the premise. I would imagine an entity sending a contract could include a PGP key, and you signing it could also sign the message, but a lot of this seems like a post-signing check, not a pre-req to sign.

I like that there is a style manual that formats the draft. I know it exists as a guideline for non-digital uses too, but conforming to a standard in the digital representation should make sharing and templating more standardized. Not a question, just something that excites me as not-legal-expert person.

Do you think making a plugin for Microsoft Word that calls your website would be a middle-ground for moving people into your service?

I like how you mention IDEs as well. I truly do not know the current flow for making a contract, and assume it is that there are templates that you change to match the specific situation. Completing templates in a guided manner seems like it could be a big deal, especially if there are sub-templates for each variation that a section would have.

Overall, I'm excited. I think the legal system has a lot of pain points for lawyers and individuals alike. Some of those can't be fixed, but tech can definitely solve some, and I think this is one of the problems tech CAN help with.

[0] Lawyer in this case can also mean a business' or other entity's legal counsel.
I'm not sure why betting on college sports is legal at all. I believe when MA legalized gambling they said pro sports only.
Yep, this feels to me like the direction this is going. Sony and Microsoft scooping up game developers to make their subscription worth it for the number of games relative to the cost/month. And I think they've probably both gotten there now. Plenty of people maintain Netflix+Hulu+...+..., so I don't think its a stretch for people to put up $20/month and get both of the subscriptions even after the initial cost of the console.
It’s almost a daily occurrence around where I live in the San Francisco Outer Sunset suburbs.
You often want to cache results of complex queries.

If these are POST, you find yourself trying to conditionally cache POST requests, which opens up a whole new class of caching bugs.
That is actually not as good as it sounds. Your body cannot twist a full 180 degrees, so while you can see right behind you and out the passenger side, anything coming from the drivers side is not possible to see.

It takes some getting used to, but once you learn to back via mirrors you won't want to twist around anymore. You do need to check behind the car beforehand because you cannot see directly behind you and thus might hit something on the ground. However you get much better visibility to things that are moving from the side to behind you, and that in my experience is where the danger is most of the time.

I do favor backup cameras though. They show you things you would miss either twisting to look backwards, or looking in the mirror.
They are not optional if you want your system to boot.
Outside looking in, this feels like a far more valuable acquisition than Activision for $69B.

Call of Duty is valuable, but Microsoft has already said they don't intend to remove it from PlayStation. That could change, but so could CoD's importance to the video gaming industry as a whole: its popularity has dropped with essentially every release since BLOPS2.

Outside of CoD: AB is a shadow of its former self; IMO the second most valuable IP suite in the history of gaming (first: Nintendo), but years of failed projects, brain drain, and poor employee culture make acting on that IP difficult. Halo 4, 5, and Infinite have suggested that Xbox can keep dying IP on life support, but reclaiming the glory of Blizzard's past likely isn't in the cards, at least on the medium term.

In comparison: Sony paid 20x less for Bungie. What they lack in variety of products, they make up for in, in my view, Potential. Destiny is a great franchise, with lots of fans. The team brings rock solid FPS dev & netcode experience (something Sony's first party studios are at a deficit for).

This spectacularly echos previous acquisitions from both companies. Microsoft buys Halo, Gears, Bethesda, AB; all "glory day IP" acquisitions with demonstrated historical mega-success, but weaker more recent market success. Sony goes smaller; Bluepoint, Housemarque, and Bungie; but despite being smaller names, these companies have far more demonstrable ability to produce triple-A content, tomorrow. In other words; Microsoft is looking for name recognition to sell Game Pass; Sony is looking for talent, which the PlayStation name recognition and marketing machine can wring success out of.

Most recent tactile example: Returnal was a massive success despite being in a very niche genre, which directly led to Housemarque's acquisition. Its hard to imagine it seeing the same success on Xbox, especially since Xbox did have an exclusive, in a different genre, but with rather similar vibes, release around the same time (The Medium). It was, to my eyes, a market failure (but, of course, I have no insider info).

I don't like centralization. But it is interesting to see these two different strategies play out.
Ar5iv.org: See Full ArXiv Papers in HTML5 Instead of PDF
At the end of the day, I don't care. If the API I am talking to says they respond to certain information sent via specific method, that's how I send it. Yes, we could argue till the cows come home about levels of appropriateness, but I've got better things to do with that time. Like process the data I just received from GET request sent with a body!
Honestly this is how I feel about television vs streaming/Plex/ahoy matey. Going to another home and watching live television is a terrible experience because of ads but people seem fine with it because it’s what they’re used to, they don’t know better and it’s harder to do if they know better… probably all the same reasons people don’t use ad blockers and are fine with them.
A peer-to-peer routing protocol to run your decentralized network
I like it but not exactly sure what the ultimate objective is.
Voice control tech is still very patchy, especially if you have an accent or a speech defect, or if it is not capable of handling colloquialisms or you calling a feature by a different name as intended. All of these things are common enough in practice, and the last thing I need when I am driving is to have to bark a command thrice to get what I need activated, and then bark more commands to undo whatever the car actually did by misunderstanding my commands.
In my view, REST is how HTTP is supposed to be used. If you're going to POST and 200 everything, you're probably re-inventing things that HTTP already has well-tested and already implemented infrastructure for. If HTTP already has a clear solution for what you're doing, you should use that instead of building it yourself on top of HTTP.
Worked for a company that Citrix acquired a few years ago. They seemed to have went all in on something called Kepner-Tregoe. I left shortly after my week long training course, which I didn't get much out of other than a stay in a nice hotel. As I was leaving they were downsizing and one of their techniques was to match 2 people together and say "We will be comparing your performance against each other for the next 6 weeks, after that, the worst performer will be fired". Pretty awful.
Search for mysterious noise in Brooklyn Heights (Dec 6 2021)
Can you give any examples of how the data was used to increase losses? Quite interested.
At least they don't make them from asbestos anymore.

My dad tells me about taking shop class in high school, and they'd be sanding down asbestos brake pads with an angle grinder to remove the high spots to prevent glazing. No masks of course.
Well, someone definitely got all her work done.
As far as the cables and plugs themselves, we're pretty much nearing the practical limits of our known physics. These days car battery packs can't keep up with the max theoretical rate these chargers can supply for longer than a few minutes. We'll have to come quite a bit further with our battery technology to really stress CCS cables and connectors.
> I'm sure Microsoft knew buying Activision would not give them any of Destiny or Bungie.

Microsoft's first clue that they wouldn't be getting Bungie is that Activision didn't own Bungie (it was a partnership over the Destiny IP), and that that partnership ended in 2019, a little over 3 years ago.
More discussion (w/3x upvotes): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30151580
You're right also that people can compare notes and find small inconsistencies from somebody honest and blow that up into believing somebody is totally dishonest.
Wasn’t there a direct quote form Bungie senior leadership that they went with Activision because they came to them and pitched them how they can monetize multiplayer?
I'll do you one better. My friends from a team I used to be in had a guy who simply didn't know how to code. My friend would at times act as a ghostwriter(for free) so that the poor bastard wouldn't get fired.

Eventually the guy was promoted.

The Dilbert principle is real.
This is exactly what I found as well! Writing things down forces me to consume content and makes me want to produce more as a result.

I made my own application as well at https://leftwrite.io though the focus is more on making notes on websites I visit than plain notes.

I'm still working on it but you can see how to use at https://nivethan.dev/devlog/how-to-use-leftwrite.html.

It's still very much still in progress for documentation but the core features I consider complete and so there won't be any functional changes.
I assume there are automatic tests that can test rendering. I'm personally a fan of someone reviewing screenshots or the actual app.

I don't really have a background in this. My homemade apps I just walk through. Professionally, I'm fully stack but get limited UI work (mostly just config, small changes, and prd support lately).
Sony didn't want to do this. Microsoft forced their hand.

I'm sure Sony is terrified of a world where MS keeps buying up hugely popular cross platform games and shutting them off.

Sony said they want to keep Bungie cross platform. Maybe they're doing this to barter for Call of Duty with MS.
> Nowadays, I wouldn't say YouTube comments are especially funny or insightful

I find that a lot of them are something like 'lol', or 'love the way X did Y' / an unfunny meme (with thousands of thumbs ups) / something else along those lines. I find myself scrolling quite a long way to find anything insightful about what I watched, and just for something I can take with me in general.
Wow! We are at that part in the leftist book where openly pushing violence is style again!

And the math on this one is good! The climate is so important, all important, that it doesn't really matter whether 5000 or 500,000,000 have to die this time.
Someone close to me had a breakdown last night and it freaked me out... I could tell it's been building ever since the pandemic started and I sensed poor coping mechanisms were being used more frequently. I have compassion because I've felt that way too, but nonetheless it's a wake up call to be honest with those around us and talk about the negative feelings!

It's refreshing to see how many other people are dealing with it and to know that none of us are alone!
Thanks, this looks interesting and I may investigate it further.

Side question--are you aware of any notation methodologies for tracking "forbidden pairings" in multi-variable input situations?

For instance, the project you linked lists an example test_set generation as:

> test_set = all_pairs(
> [1, 2, 3], ["low", "mid" ,"high"], [1.0, 3.7, 4.9], [:greedy, :relax, :optim]
> )

How might I use mathematical or code notation to store the fact that "low" is an invalid pairing with "1.0" and ":greedy", which then invalidates all combinations including that pairing and reduces my total scope?
s/tcsh was the first/& UNIX/

It took the command completion idea from TENEX and TOPS-20
No thanks for me. Advertisements if nothing else consume too much of my local compute resources for zero benefit to me. Why should I give them this free compute?
People sometimes say ‘non-strict’ to mean ‘can be lazy but not required to be’.

I think Haskell is actually non-strict, and not lazy, for example. It’s important because hard to optimise otherwise!
my car from 2010 had a screen that felt really outdated. i removed it and installed a bluetooth system that just has an on/off/volume knob. this feels a lot more modern and has made night driving a lot easier on my eyes.
Imaging illuminates a biological light switch
They've done better the second time around:

The Wall Street Journal reports today that some analysts estimate Microsoft paid between $20 million and $40 million for Bungie in total.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/06/20/microsoft-acquires-b...
I'll never forget the video of Steve Jobs himself introducing Halo (right before Microsoft bought it).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxdgo1rFcxU
Some popular web frameworks limit the size of the query string
I had the same thought recently, as I was considering the purchase of a new car.

Even the 'base models' are loaded with touch-screens, assistive driving and loads of other stuff I don't want.

I understand there are people out there that do want this stuff. I would hazard a guess there are many like me that would opt for another car without this stuff if it were available.

Brand it 'security-hardened' or whatever, I just don't want to be driving around your IT security nightmare. I also don't want you remotely hot-fixing my ride to make up for it.

I think there are people that care about this stuff enough that you could create a brand around the concept of 'just enough tech to make it work'.
> so I suppose I could just say that I want an OS which treats me as the CPU

<obligatory emacs response here>
If it's an important email, my wife will review and fix it before I send it. If you need good writing skill, you should definitively hire my wife!
something similar happened to me but way more hilarious. I had interviewed at a big brand name place in India and thought I did good because of positive feedback from everybody. But then there was complete silence for 2 weeks. Finally when I called them the recruiter was surprised and said "didn't you reject the offer?" apparently there was another candidate with similar name who rejected the offer. A month later I finally ended up joining there but worked in a totally different team. Later one day I bumped into the manager who had interviewed me and he was surprised to see me because he thought I had rejected the offer.
I've just cosmetic-blocked those banners on uBlock Origin. It's a bit annoying to have to do it on every SE site, but these banners are huge and cover up a lot of the page, so it's worth it.
What3emojis: A way of addressing the entire world using a common language, emoji
I agree this is something we should have and it's what I will be working on for the next year or so.

One aspect I would like to get out of it is something like Wikipedia but with no notability criteria or censorship, since each author can choose which edits to include.
It's in the guidelines - use the original source, workarounds to soft restrictions are typically posted in thread.
Even a subset of merchants is enough to produce an effect. I've been to a few countries in which many merchants will accept USD but only notes in good condition as the banks give them a hard time if the bills are torn or marked up. Some merchants would trade the marked up/torn USD at a discount to face value while others would simply refuse to accept those bills.

The interesting thing was how quickly I too considered the torn bills less valuable even though I could easily take them back to the US where they were completely fungible.
Supposedly it's been in talks for over five months, so unless someone at Sony also knew about the Microsoft deal (which is, of course, possible) it doesn't appear to be directly in response to it.
Epstein-barr virus is in that same category of “lots of latent, lifelong infections that are maybe linked to a ton of age-related diseases in weird ways”. No idea if it’s a potential target, but would be pretty cool!
Its relative. I know plenty of data nerds making 6 figures in HR.
Those old TVs had some serious usability issues, though. There were 10 (?) channels selectable by one knob, and then additional channels selected if the main knob was turned to the correct setting ("UHF", if I recall correctly). The master knob tended to be below the additional-frequency knob, though, which seems a little strange. Then there was the challenge of the fine adjustment ring on the UHF selector for tuning (not sure if the master knob had one). And, of course, the more frequently needed coarse adjustment from the (unmentioned) antenna, which seemed like it always needed some hacky tweaking. Including sometimes touching it continuously in order to get a good picture.
Here you go:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-2400DEB-K-Portable-Radio-...
We don't and never have put ads in publisher pages. It's not ethical without site consent and our users don't want ads in baseline Brave.

If Brave users opt into Brave Rewards for private user ads in push notifications (which, contra Butterick, do not belong to any page they might be near or above; they belong to the user's inventory, same as new tabs and unrelated windows of all kinds), we still wouldn't put ads in pages without both publisher and extra user consent (too many users still wouldn't want in-page ads, even if opted into user push notification ads).

HN is full of made up nonsense about Brave, in spite of all the hackers here who can verify our open source, network behavior, etc. etc. This site has seen better days.
> And who will fill the void when running a website is economically unfeasible?

You mean who will fill the internet with SEO-optimized garbage and other trash that only exist to serve ad impressions? I sure hope nobody will.
That was basically my criteria, and I hopped around a little bit like that until I found it. Where I'm at it a little busier than I'd like, but nice altogether.
Exactly. Individuals were treated based on their individual political beliefs. Compare that to a Disney song about how American Indians are dark savages who speak a nonsense language. These are two completely different treatments, one of which is based entirely on race and white supremacy.
Yes there are multiple efforts with that one being I think the most promising. They hope to cure the first humans of HSV in 2024. I believe they have all the funding they need for now, having raised over $500k.

More details on this subreddit and specifically this sticky:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HerpesCureResearch/comments/kg66ds/...
Not sure how much prices can vary over the day, and more importantly how that varies by weekday, season and so on. How much you can make by having an online price service varies with how well you’d be able to “hit” the price dips manually too.
I mean, it seems like it did _something_ meaningful. But if you were part of an at-risk population, how promising would you really consider an animal trial that, for most treatment subjects, delayed infection by 5 weeks? Note, these animals had received multiple vaccines/boosters spaced out over a year before they were exposed to SHIV, i.e they spent 10x as long being vaccinated as they resisted infection.
They were also originally a Classic Mac OS game shop. Marathon series & Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete where originally release on Mac. Myth & Oni were released for both Mac & Windows.
The Ford dealership quoted me wrong on a trade-in payoff and later tried to get me to pay it ($1000). Letter in the trash. Next one came on a law firm's letterhead quoting a bunch of stuff about a contract. In the trash.

Never heard from them again.
> How effective that is for mutated and related viruses is what remains to be seen.

I imagine that depends much more on the virus than on the vaccine.
It's like the adage about advertising: you don't know which ones are effective.
Tweets can be and are deleted. Archives make sense in this case.
I'd really like to know more about this -- the replies to the original question were divided between people commenting about how much better the comments were, and people talking about better tooling and empowerment being granted to large YT creators.

My instinct is that the progress has been primarily because of the better tooling and moderation capabilities, just because the larger companies always promise that ML will take care of their large-scale moderation processes without much concrete evidence. But I also suspect that the answer is somewhere between the two approaches, and it would be great if YT were able to improve the wider ecosystem by sharing some of their strategies.
Where are you seeing this happen? I can only think of one social media website that doesn't easily facilitate anonymous commenting: Facebook. Believe it or not, they sometimes flag new accounts and make you submit photo verification (happened to me).
Expat 2.4.4 released, includes security fixes
I don't know anyone that is in love with the destiny franchise. It gets boring pretty quickly and plenty of other games do PVP better. If destiny went PS exclusive I think it would only hurt the franchise/studio.
Is the Ridiculous Wash where you put in regular dish soap instead of dishwasher soap and the suds go all over the floor?
They did, actually. But the patent grant involved a reciprocity agreement (very much along the lines of what was pioneered by open source outfits like Red Hat in the early 2000's), and the industry took a pass. The Japanese CHAdeMO standard was likewise rejected by western automakers in favor of CCS. Which is not one but two incompatible standards. CCS is just awful. It just is. They literally decided to implement the worst available choice two different ways.

But the CHAdeMO example is what gives away the strategy. CHAdeMO was a "real" standard, not a proprietary product, with documents available from real standards organizations publishing it (FWIW: it's better than CCS but not as good as Tesla). But that still wasn't acceptable. Which tells you that the idea that "standards" wasn't ever the requirement. No one wanted to give Nissan a win any more than they did Tesla.

Basically: CCS is bad because it was designed to be bad, because no one wanted EVs to succeed and one tactic picked was to make their charging experience a mess.
I'm still on IRC. Rizon, Libera, OFTC. Rizon is the most "fun" network of those, but I'm in pretty small/intimate channels I wouldn't want to share.

The other ones mainly have tech-related channels for specific projects, but can still be entertaining. Also useful when you need help with something.