skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scribble: Embed a PDF editor and e-sign in your app
Hi! I'm Andrew, and I've been building https://scribble.run. Scribble makes it easy to add a contract signing feature to your SaaS platform. I ran into this problem at https://criya.co. Criyas customers are mostly interior designers, doing projects for clients. An interior designer needed to be able to upload their contract, and collect a signature from the client before engaging in a design project together.

Because I’m not a lawyer, I was hoping to be able to buy instead of build. When I looked around for products in this space, the closest I could find were products that let the company upload documents, add signature fields, and embed them in app. Sure, we could've told people they had to use our standard contract, but that would’ve been awkward, and the interior designers would probably have just gone off platform for signatures.

There doesn't appear to be anything on the market that lets the end user upload documents, mark them up with signature fields, and require other people to sign them, before programmatically doing other things.

After some hacking, here is what I came up with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1wdKyB8Mdg&t=0s.

I'm packaging this up as a bunch of react hooks & components, so engineering teams can maintain control of the UI, making the integration feel exactly like the rest of your product. I'm a big fan of companies like https://clerk.dev or https://typesense.org that give me full stack features with mainly front end integrations.

I think we are going to see a big wave of 'embedded SaaS' products in the coming years. You can send a HMAC Digest[1] to a browser, and use that for authentication with an external service, it's cool!

I've started onboarding a couple companies, and am trying to talk to as many devs as possible. Would love to hear from the HN community, feel free to 'request access' on my marketing site (https://scribble.run), or drop me a line (andrew at scribble dot run)!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC
Also:

"how do you manage employee performance evaluations? What is the career advancement process like?" (if someone's got a better way to determine if a place does stack ranking without directly asking I'd love to hear it)....
I took it for granted for years. I make a point to get out there frequently now because I realized that I'll probably be priced out of this area within the next few years.
Really appreciate the minimalism and simplicity (it's so rare in this industry!) and though obviously this app misses a lot of important sound editing features, I think it's a great start and the basis for something really cool. If I knew Rust I'd have offered myself as a contributor!

Features that I think are critical for striking the minimalism/utility balance for podcast editing:

- Enveloping per clip, i.e. fade in - fade out

- Support AU plugins (at least the system ones) - this alone will add EQ, compression and other effects, so quite important

- Ducking / side chain

- Option to embed all imported audios so that I can move my projects around

- Import a video file but use only the audio track

- Put time markers and name them

- Go to time or marker

- Loop between two markers

- iPad version?

These are just off the top of my head.

Kudos to you guys and good luck with the project!
What if they have open source work? Can’t you look at that and the comments to see how they interact?
I love the chart which purports to show the correlation between money supply and inflation. Anybody else think it looks totally random? Except that he selected a nine month lag to make the peak line up.
> It's not as though I can do a COBOL side-project to learn... or can I?

My first job out of college - around '94 or so - was working for an accounting software company that sold an accounting package written entirely in RM Cobol for DOS. The entire UI and the backend were all written in Cobol. Poking around a bit, it does look like GnuCobol (https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/doc/gnucobol.html) allows for some screen I/O… so you could put something together on your own machine.
There's also an issue of community/people you'd work with. (Fair or not) there's a strong perception that the current COBOL devs are people that are close to retirement and not exactly eager to take a junior dev under their wing and give the sort of mentorship that one can't get from textbooks and hobby projects. I'm not a COBOL dev or part of the community at all, but I doubt it compares at all to the language-based communities that people around here are more familiar with.

There have been some other recent threads on similar subs from people who actually tried to make the jump to a COBOL role in the past year and the social aspects were brought up again and again, on top of the technical issues ... I can dig a few up if people are at all skeptical.
Thanks, I agree!

There's no worries around my taking criticism in this thread overly personally. It's natural for people to have strong opinions about censorship in general, and I don't think anyone here means to imply that the title of this one post is a matter of dire importance in the grand scheme of things :)
The idea is to isolate Russia enough that they consider peace better than their continued rape of Ukraine and Ukrainians, on this front, any pressure that can be exerted with save Ukraine and Ukrainian lives and is a commendable action.

Russia remains solely responsible for their actions in Ukraine, _no_ one else made that decision.
Pixelqi went out of business :(
I know this is Heathen Heresy but I never enjoyed Shakespeare. As part of my English studies I have read the following ones - Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Winter’s Tale.

Average grades on them were between A+ to B's but dayamn! that olde timee englishee is hard to parse (even with the crib notes) and made me question the validity of them as an example of 'good English writing'

'Get Thee to a Nunnery!' Indeed.

And don't even get me started on Chaucer <shudder>.
this is the best answer.
I have no idea what a smart card is. A description would be nice.

Does it have NFC? What kind of data can it hold?
Perhaps I wasn't clear when I said this. By "criminally liable" I meant "you can be charged". Good luck defending yourself at that point. Possession is possession.

https://www.cdpp.gov.au/crimes-we-prosecute/serious-drugs/dr...
Did you write your own terms of agreement rather than a lawyer? I signed up today and that was explicitly written in the license agreement, point 2. Note that there is no formal definition of "Materials" or "Service", so that it applies to all the contents of the webpage including the software stored there, and as soon as anything is ambiguous the interpretation is free (or random).

https://wandb.ai/site/terms

I quote it:

2. Use License
Whether you are accessing the Services for personal, non-commercial transitory
viewing only (our free license for individuals only), for academic use, or for commercial purposes (our subscription package for businesses), permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the information or software (the “Materials”) from our website. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license, you may not:
a. Modify or copy the Materials;
b. Use the Materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
c. Attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained in the Materials;
d. Remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the Materials; or
e. Transfer the Materials to another person or "mirror" the Materials on any other server.
This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by us at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.
f. Utilize our personal license for individuals for commercial purposes and any such use of our personal license for commercial purposes (e.g. using your corporate email) may result in immediate termination of your license.
It's the Zero Hedge nom de plume.
How to do research at the MIT AI Lab (1988) [pdf]
That’s annoying
I was thinking of touch-pressure, but yes.
I spent a lot of my youth playing Age of Empires 2 multiplayer on zone.com. It was great for its time.
PDF Expert switches to a subscription model
What are they going to eat? Purely veggie might work I suppose. Or years old frozen meat?
Why is your proposal better than this:

import std.sumtype;

void main(){
struct A { int a; }
struct B { string b; }
struct C { bool c; }

alias TaggedUnion = SumType!(A, B, C);

auto tgu = TaggedUnion(B("hi"));
int i = tgu.match!(
(A a) => a.a,
(B b) => b.b.length,
(C c) => c.c * 5
);
assert(i == 2);
}

If you miss out a `match` handler for any of A, B, C you get a compile-time error. Or you can use a generic handler which will be instantiated for any type not explicitly handled.
https://dlang.org/phobos/std_sumtype.html
> but the world of eink is filled with patents and lawsuits, and I think that if I implemented this and it worked well I could never sell it. Even if I gave it away for free, I'd probably have lawyers banging on my door wanting to take away my home.

I work in the display industry. I've never heard anything like what you describe, except on HN comments and blogs that use HN comments as citations. Look at my comment history. I think your claim is false because everytime I've challenged a claim like yours the poster has never been able to substantiate it, but I keep an open mind, if you can provide some real citations backing your claim then I'm happy to be corrected.
Yep! And it also works for images too!

So you no longer need to host images externally, in an issue, or in an assets directory in the repo. I wish this were more well known.
Funny, that's exactly what we're paying outrageously high prices for the privilege of experiencing here in the US too.

This is typical of how the US does things: other countries don't have a perfect solution, therefore we will stick with our much worse solution.
Especially when you consider that Gandalf is essentially "LARPing" a human - and has access to weapons of mass destruction if he threw off his limits.
> As someone else pointed out the insurance industry’s profits account for a grand total of 3% of expenditures.

The insurance industry profit is not a meaningful number in this context.

Profits are only what is left over after all expenses are deducted. These expenses include all the operating costs of the medical insurance industry (salaries of all employees, massive CEO bonuses, real estate costs and on and on and on).

Every penny of those costs are unnecessary overhead. All those (hundreds of) thousands of administrators and CEOs getting bonuses are not providing any health care to anyone, only adding overhead to the system. They feed off the work of doctors, nurses and medical staff but don't provide any value.

So the number to look at is the total gross revenue of all medical insurance companies. All that money could be saved by simply eliminating the insurance industry middleman and paying medical staff (those who actually directly contribute to providing health care) directly.
> Am I the only one who doesn't get the hype about Blade Runner?

Statistically speaking, you certainly are.
here in israeli startup scene at least ,it looks like 3 days wfh hybrid is the norm for most companies, and many offers i heard had full remote option too
If I'm not mistaken this magazine is nearly solely responsible for Ezra Pound finishing his famous Cantos[^1]. They circulated some bootleg copies of the final Cantos before Pound finished them, and I believe his publisher encouraged him just to submit his work in more of a draft state. Admittedly, I haven't made time to study the Cantos, and the history is full of additional people into which I haven't looked too deeply. But might be of interest to any poetry fans on this forum.

[^1]: https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/fuck-you-pres...
So to be clear, you’re perfectly ok stabbing a viable fetus in the head? Isn’t that what 2007 was about, not literally murdering babies?

Sorry, I don’t agree that the 2007 partial birth abortion ban is wrong.
You missed my point. I don't actually think the quote was offhand either (another comment suggested that possibility), but the lines from the paper I cited also uses causal language. My point is that using causal language is fine (understanding that it's provisional as all science is), and I think the scientist quote is fine.

You think the scientist quote is dishonest? It seems you too conflate causality with something like proven mathematically or 100% confidence.
I have Sony a5100 and a6400. The 5100 is 5 years old, a bit cracked, but I still take it with me regularly since it combines decent compactness with interchangeable optics. Though much older, it is similar in image quality to the 6400, which is bulkier but has amazing AF and more professional features overall.

I’m especially fond of combining a5100 with compact old manual lenses like a weird 35/1.2 from a film projector, or a Minolta 50/1.7. That, or some compact telephoto like Sony’s excellent 18-135, shooting in Raw, and getting familiar with Lightroom or Darktable, and you have images impossible or very difficult to achieve with a best smartphone and endless creative possibilities of interchangeable optics. And it fits in most large pockets!
Clearly, Middle Earth is a Bostromesque simulation in which technological thoughts are largely suppressed - and we know who coded it.
>Who said I don't work hard

You're the businessman after succeeding with his plan, not the fisherman
Except we all know Microsoft has been bad for decades and we all know Microsoft never actually got better.

I have no idea why I would dislike angular beyond some mild personal preference.
> if you can’t agree on any of the basic factual points.

Factual points I started with:

- Both Firefox and Safari are against most hardware APIs for many reasons including technical ones.

- The section "Edge differentiates from Chrome because it removed a few Google-specific things like Google Pay" is laughable

Your "response" is, "oh, you don't believe in web apps" and "Our group was initially formed by a group of people who develop for iOS Safari on daily basis".

These are not factual points. These are attempts to dodge a conversation. And when the conversation seemingly starts happening, it's "the facts you provided are not facts, they are strawmen".

Yes. It truly is pointless discussing this. There are many, many, many issues we can discuss about Safari. With people who have done their research and don't willingly assume the role of Google's propaganda amplifier. Thankfully, as the comments to the original link show, more and more people are starting have a more sober outlook on what's happening.
The Average Electric Car Now Costs $54,000
Few things you don't need to ask and can find out on your own via visiting their website (if they have) and social media (if there's one), and earnings reports as well (if they are public)
The video one is something I use regularly with audacity so replacing it would be great for me (I record with OBS then drag it in to extract the audio because OBS has a great built in audio filter).
There seem to be several materials colloquially called "carbide". The one in this article is (I assume) Tungsten carbide. The one I first thought of when reading the article (being old enough to have used a carbide lamp while visiting a cave) is however https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_carbide. Any more candidates?
Never realised that the pro-choice movement in the US also needs GDPR to protect themselves.
Sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31907602
Lol almost all Leetcode is memorized, most of the algorithms developed tool years for researchers to understand, someone isn’t going to figure it out in 45 minutes without having seen it before
I keep hearing about these magical systems that work like clockwork, but I also work in a bank and the reality is very different. In a void, yes, those systems are amazing. Now add all the other systems that have to be linked with that and things start to turn into a nightmarish situation. All the new systems have to be contorted, twisted and designed in weird ways to accommodate the old ones. Everything works a bit worse just because there are a minority of systems that don't know UTF-8 for example, or can't send more than 16 bytes in a field. Banks are very bad at IT. If you don't work in the trading part of it you are seen as a necessary evil. These systems are still with us because banks are very risk averse and because decommissioning a system in a bank can take decades.
Where Is Elon Musk?
Looks to me like all of those require experience.
They’re not. That’s the fucked up thing.
No one is arguing Google (Chrome) is better than Mozilla (Firefox), at least until now. Of course, living in the house of big G is much worse for privacy.

But we were talking about why Mozilla is such a mess (not compared to G, but to its potential). And knowing big Daddy G is the main funding source might just make one a tiny bit suspicious. Just saying.
Yes. New generation of displays have greater contrast ratio and way faster page change speed. 300 dpi e-ink displays at least one generation newer than 212 dpi screens I've used before and they visibly improve speed, contrast and readability.

The screen (Kobo Glo HD) I'm using is probably one generation behind of current screens. It's on par with paperwhite 2 or 3 IIRC.

I can just zone-out and read for hours without noticing any lag, distracting refreshes (my Kobo does full/reversing refresh every 5 or so changes), and I prefer to any screen I've experienced until now, which were not low end, low-dpi screens of any kind.

Moreover, I'm very rarely buying paper books now. If I can find the title electronically, I just purchase it from the Kobo store.
COBOL is available on many platforms.
Health care, Banking, Government and many more.
There are many ways to get started with COBOL, pick an emulator/internet site to get some experience with it. If you still are interested get one of the many free accounts on actual hardware/OS and learn the environment.
No, people outside the state should have no say on the laws of that state. Otherwise we end up with every state being CA.

How does this logic of minority rule hold up against things like the 2nd amendment?
I just find it funny that you said goodbye but your obsession and hatred against Ive made you come back. Please tell me more about your obsession.
Glue, most likely super glue (cyanoacrylate) would likely counter that vulnerability. There are also tamper evident zip ties.
What about a handheld Linux device for running vim and hacking? That seems to be the niche it's going for even if they're not saying it. I use my Pinephone for this when I'm on the train and that (which is likely slower than this) is plenty powerful for the task.
I suspect this story will be Cambridge Analytica 2.0: making use of the tools sold by big tech to achieve an ideological end.

(Isn't everyone doing this?)
I'll hire you if you want to learn COBOL.
So your argument is we remove states borders?
My God, who cares? It's literally something you can google in fifteen seconds if you doubt it.
Ask HN: Are there good reasons not to deploy Machine Learning models?
It's been reported that as much as 80-90% of machine learning models that are meant to be deployed never get there. Is it more intentional or just a problem with the fragmented nature of the AI industry?
The ID in the magenta app uses Google advertising ID which is built into the OS. This can be seen by resetting or deleting the advertising ID through Android.
Haskell is fun to learn and play with, but it's almost never the right choice for a real business. Using a language you can hire for, that your employees can google solutions for because it's already a popular production language, and has the most popular packages and frameworks for your use case, is far more important than terseness and safety in 99% of cases.
The fisherman seems to like his life, but I'd find it tedious. Plus, if everyone lived the life of the fisherman, then we'd find it difficult to maintain all the things our society provides.

Maybe that would be better, but I doubt it.

Looking at the Jupiter CEO, his retirement sounds dull, although spending time with parents before they go sounds good.

Still, I'd need to do more than sit on a beach.
They want to control it because the real web can destroy their app market. Oddly enough their clamp down, may destroy it anyway as game streaming is going to make strides to get past it. It may take time but it will happen and then they will lose their money maker, because it will all be web based and they will have not offered anything else so they will miss out.
Yeah, there are a lot of job board aggregators
> - How long does it take to conduct the interview?

(for the candidate)

You're excluding a slew of people who either don't have the time or inclination to start and possibly maintain an open source project. The assumption here is leetcode requires an equal time commitment, but that differs greatly from person to person. This is very similar to take home assignments, but even more of a time / commitment sink.

They'd also need to pick an appropriate project that demonstrated the technical depth and scope an interviewer would be interested in. You're also hoping the interviewer will do an appropriate deep dive into the code base to understand it and judge it correctly. Finally, you can't be sure the person actually wrote the code. I know it sounds ludicrous, but I've seen outrageous things people have attempted to know it's a legitimate concern.
Depends on your country, but I do know for a fact that if you're in the UK, there are government departments which will teach you modern development practices alongside COBOL, if you're near one of the relevant hubs.
Nicola Sturgeon sets out plan for second Scottish independence referendum
I find the best way to think about a honing steel is that you’re micro beveling the edge. [0] The images there help develop an intuition of what angle will work well. That said it may be irrelevant if your universal sharpener is doing the trick. :)

[0] https://scienceofsharp.com/2018/08/22/what-does-steeling-do-...
So how long until we can "uplift" these marmosets to near human intelligence? Also, does increased expression of this gene in humans result in further development of the neocortex?
I got unexpected amusement from reading that there used to be exactly three glass eye makers in the UK. I know that doesn't actually mean anything, but I couldn't help it.
or new division of a company - yes. From a budgetary standpoint, new divisions within an established blue-chip company can somewhat be thought of as kin to startups. They're young and have to prove themselves.
Oh my, what’s wrong with my Mac?? I’ll dig into this. Thanks!
It’s not easy for me to think of a scifi movie that I like more than Blade Runner, or Alien/Aliens. The cinematic craft they show is, IMHO, simply stunning.

I enjoy the pace of Blade Runner. Many movies today are just too busy and pointlessly hysterical.
On that one Harry takes a more individualistic approach: You can't save those who don't want to be saved. Most house elves are happy where they are and fear being freed, but Harry had no problem helping Dobby, who obviously wanted out.
Some coverage:

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter-down-safari-mac-e...

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/202...
Why not ask directly?
For the unironic use of "10x programmer", I'm hereby sentencing you to death.
Amount just laid off 18% of their staff yesterday, about 72 people.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/27/fintech-amount-which-was-v...