skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cancelled Prime and lean more on target, costco, and brands own shopify/ecommerce sites. Each of these options has more than sufficient shipping speeds. 1 day shipping was a fun Amazon perk but never something I needed.
Not for the website visitors.
> By ancient convention, this is the first file intrepid explorers will read after unpacking the source.

> 2. A pointer to the project website (if it has one)

And there you see a major shift that has happened in the last fifteen or so years. README files used to be for once you had obtained the code. But then GitHub co-opted them to be the home page, and other forges have by and large followed suit. I get why (repository info blocks on SourceForge and similar weren’t great), but I wish that brand of pragmatism hadn’t happened. Fortunately, I think that if you create another readme file in a .github/ subdirectory, GitHub should use that rather than the top-level readme file, so if you want to leave a proper readme file at the top level but direct casual viewers to an actual separate website with a deliberately stub GitHub readme file (“Go to <https://example.com> for information about the product, or look at the [in-repository README.md file](../README.md) for information about the code.”), you should be able to do so. Otherwise you’re stuck either stuffing far too much inappropriate stuff into the readme file, or having people miss out on what they should see. If I were in this situation, I’d probably do that.

(See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32211789 where I made this observation 11 days ago when a link to a code repository that contained a traditional README, instead of to a project page, led to surprise.)
Absolutely stealing this idea, look forward to being credited for the idea in the future show hn post :P
Uber price hack/pro-tip
That's not very Bayesian of you.
Yes, but many legitimate callers are voip so blocking all voip calls also isn't a good solution if you're looking to avoid blocking legitimate callers.
By the way, Vlang has that level of C interop as well (https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md), plus an outright C2V transpiler (https://github.com/vlang/c2v) and can be compiled to human-readable C.
This looks awesome! Since moving to a smaller company, I miss being able to learn new things from more experienced engineers.

This also satisfies the itch to learn a new language by building something really interesting, and not just another Todo app.
Looks like a decent implementation of HashCash - great! They should implement TOTP-based nonce generation to avoid the need for a database entirely, that would make the system much more lightweight to deploy.

Some people miss the point of this. If you and another person are running away from a cheetah (fastest land animal) then you don't have to outrun the cheetah to survive, just the other person. The same is true for sites getting away from spammers. They will go for sites that are easy to attack before yours, so as long as the effort outweighs the outcome you're safe. It doesn't matter if the solution isn't perfect, it's better than nothing, and if it's not widely adopted it's not worth the effort to bother cracking.
Sales attribution is often extremely privacy invasive. That data is how it works.
I think what companies like Deel and Remote offer though is to hire individuals that are citizens of other countries as your employees, not contracting with third parties
I had the same question. Who could even review this for correctness?
> Made me consider the question of whether consciousness exists at all or if it is just some hack by evolution to allow introspection.

Can't it be both? What's the difference? Evolution just responds to the environment, so a method of complex interaction with the environment like "consciousness" or "ever-polling situational awareness" seems like par for the course.
Google Cloud is pushing hard to reach this goal https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/cleanenergy/

I believe their us-central datacenters (iowa) are almost all wind energy. They are actually pretty transparent about it, the details are in the last link in the first paragraph

https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/247-carbon-fr...
Deceptive? I'm comparing sources of hydrogen that don't produce CO2, to those that do. The supply of carbon neutral electrical power far surpasses the supply of carbon neutral hydrogen power. It's not even close.

I don't know why you're bringing Germany specifically into this (misdirection? deception?) The overwhelming majority of hydrogen production comes from fossil fuels no matter what country you look at. If you replaced all the nuclear and hydro in the world with solar power, most hydrogen production would still be coming from hydrocarbons. Germany produces about 10% of their electrical energy with solar power, so do you think they produce 10% of their hydrogen with solar powered electrolysis? Hell no they don't.

Electricity -> hydrogen sucks even if you have a 100% solar grid. "Green hydrogen" cannot compete with batteries. Hydrogen only looks kinda okay relative to batteries if you're getting the hydrogen cheap by breaking apart hydrocarbons instead of water (aka "gray hydrogen"), and even then it sucks and has gotten out competed.
Human brains seem to find patterns and assign categories automatically. We all have this ability.

Unless a person recognizes patterns much faster than most other people, or does it more accurately than most people, it doesn’t mean anything special. Young children “pick up” patterns quickly but not necessarily accurately.

“Fast” doesn’t give any useful information. Compared to what?
Oh that's a great point. It reduces drag, which would normally help braking distance. Thanks for explaining, I was genuinely having trouble thinking of how it could affect things.
Peter Thiel meets that criteria, and he is pushing regressive politics and investing in panopticon software for state intelligence services.

Tim Cook similarly is a career suit who happens to be gay. He's not going to choose advocacy over fiduciary duties.
I started the original "Who wants to be hired?" thread [1], which lead to me landing a gig with Kaggle [2] (a scrappy startup, at the time, 2014), which ultimately got acquired by Google (this was in 2017). I'm still with them to this day, over 8 years later [3].

Have always been grateful for the community picking up that thread, allowing me to get recognized by a great company!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7833251

[3] https://www.kaggle.com/about/team
READMEs are necessary. They are like instructions that come with appliances. Most of us will try to just use or assemble the thing without instructions and then sure enough we dig through the trash or try to find another manual online to humble us.

I think some READMEs can go a bit over the top with every affordance or badge you can muster however. But I think we'd rather have something than nothing which is all too common in software.
I found it incredible too

The text model of dall-e at very least can map "Long-necked spotted mammal that eats leaves from trees" near the same representation of "giraffe"
Good lord I can relate.

The freaking idea that money makes problems go away is so powerful.

That's basically what I noticed as I get less poor.

Automobile problems...pay for it. Medical problems...pay for it. Did you get a parking ticket? Pay it. Now you don't have to worry about being towed.

America really crushes the poor in many respects.

If the poor had other options, like Job corps, or a sharecropper type situation where they can stay rent free and learn skills.... that would be one thing. But there's nothing available to poor people other than to just fucking be poor or get lucky...and getting lucky seems like a rediculous way to build a society.

Then you combine that with massive offshoring and automation..... It makes you realize capitalism is kind of bullshit if there's 7 billion people in the world willing to do the job.

It's a total clown world.
Because I drive there often at that time, and it saves me typing in the address manually.
> the electric ones are every bit as effective and cost about the same amount.

Electric ones are 2000psi and corded (no major battery ones).

Gas are 3200 psi and have no cord.

Probably better to work on emission controls and better engines than to ban things with no gas equivalents.
> You order from a new pizza restaurant and get a box that says Chuck E Cheese on it.

Do they actually do this? I at least expect the fake brand's name or generic brand. If it says Chuck-e-cheese I'd claim order never arrived.
>a person is referring to some object that has the shape of a mathematical point

Black holes aren't points, they're space-time shapes with a singularity at the middle and a spherical event horizon. The black hole at the center of our galaxy extends across 16 million miles, or a little over eighteen times the size of our sun.

If the singularity at the middle is slightly modified to be something else according to a better theory of gravity (most physicists believe that this will eventually happen), the outlying spacetime will not change very much, for reasons similar to how Newton was able to work out how the planets moved around the sun without knowing what the sun was made of or what was inside it.

If you imagine a circus tent propped up in the middle by a square pole, it will look very much like one propped up by a round pole. That's because solutions to the Laplace equation smooth themselves out as quickly as possible as you move away from the boundary condition.
That isn’t the definition of monopoly as stated by Wikipedia[1]: “a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular thing.” I think calling them a monopoly is a real stretch.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
Dall-e must generate an image, even for a random prompt of letters, because it has been trained to do only that. Take a human, hold a gun to their head, and force them to paint an image for a random string of letters, and I guarantee they will make you something.

Retrain dall-e and give it a choice whether it generates an image or does something else, and you will get a different outcome.

The argument boils down to this: is a human brain nothing but a mapping of inputs onto outputs that loops back on itself? If so the dall-e / gpt-3 approach can scale up to the same complexity. If not, why not?
> humans who can report when they do and do not experience consciousness

How can someone possibly report when they are not experiencing consciousness?
I think Amazon cloud is "too big to fail", in that there would be an unbeliably high global financial cost if it stopped. As such, I think it's even more imperative that the US break Amazon into some pieces.

Let the retail division stand on its own. I think that alone would improve their operation (out of necessity for survival).
Perhaps it is getting a bit ridiculous publishing 900+ pages of a math proof in a pdf format. Perhaps mathematicians should move to a GitHub style publication platform.
Looks like it has tons of potential, but from watching your demo, developing steps using a bunch of form fields is going to be very tedious, especially when you're trying to test/debug things and have to flip between screens constantly.
Starting the path is also age restricted. I've had some friends ask how they can switch into the industry by asking what languages they should learn. It's a hard pill for them to swallow, that they're better off becoming good at programming and great at IT, rather than trying to start from scratch after 30.
There were a series of scams late last year where the scammers targeting eldery people sent Ubers to pick up cash from victims.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2021/12/10/hillsborough-...
Looks great. Might be simplifying too much but is it basically like Retool + cron jobs? Super interesting if that's the case :)
Launch HN: Tersho (YC S22) – AI to write and understand spreadsheet formulas
Hey HN, I'm Apoorve, one of the co-founders of Tersho and currently in the YC batch, excited to share our tool to make writing formulas in Google Sheets and Excel easier.

During our previous startup, we faced the problem of using Google Sheets inefficiently, often writing app script code for what could be done with a couple of formulas owing to our lack of knowledge about spreadsheet functions.

So we built Tersho, an AI tool than can write formulas from simple English descriptions. It can also explain complicated formulas simply.

Behind the scenes, we are using OpenAI's Codex and a lot of prompt engineering involving knowledge about all the formulas and lots of labelled examples.

There's a live demo on our website (https://www.tersho.com) and we also have Excel and Google Sheets add-ins available for download.

Happy to hear feedback!
Well, given their track history, they are very correct on their recommendation to allow localhost connections only and tunnel any traffic through ssh. I mean, would you trust them to enforce the security of their server?

(It would be better if they only allowed pipeline connections and actually required that you run the data through ssh. But I bet they didn't notice people have all kinds of untrusted software running on localhost.)
Hi I see that you are serving your own OSM tiles, can you share how are you generating them? Especially in webp?
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good...
Replay.io Achieves SOC2
seems like to avoid the introduction of constant expressions (constexpr) like is in C++. Which is why c++ doesn't have this issue, even though it can also take expressions as the expressions must be resolvable at compile-time.
Congrats! Seems like a Retool competitor but focused more on developers? I'm not sure if that's the direction I would go since developers already have pretty good tooling for their level of expertise, IMO.

Although, I could see how building an app that uses data across the various SaaS tools a company uses without requiring that data to be dumped into another database could be useful. Maybe I'm missing the point.

As an aside, I'd love to see Retool but for less technical people. Specifically, a way to make Google Sheets available for multiple people in a company to use. We have multiple quick and dirty "calculators" (think pricing for sales, comp for recruiting) that we roll out across our company. Eventually they get operationalized and converted into proper applications (or we buy a SaaS product for it) but would be nice to have an interim solution. Some requirements:

- Ability to create a very simple CRUD web UI

- Authz/n with ability for IT to integrate into their SSO.

- Google Sheets backend and integration so financial analysts can update and manage.
Don't forget shipping too - a huge, huge contributor. Itself dwarfed by agriculture...

Humans go for symbolism though and hate hypocrites. Banning private jets has a delicious reveng-y feeling against the sanctimonious super-rich lecturing us about reducing our footprint - anyone who's flown commercial knows exactly how much it would hurt them.

I'm against the ban because it's pointless, and because the GA sector isn't minuscule so there are a lot of jobs at risk, and because once they ban private jets they'll come for my powerboat. Better I think to just suck some more out of their bloated wallets to cover the externalities. Earmarked Jet-A taxes, for example. Mandatory offsetting.
It is. I'm trying to wrap up the book I'm currently working on, then plan to circle back to updating SSSS next year.
On the spectrum of privacy india is on the furthest end of it. No one cares about privacy and actively give their data over to everyone. For example every vendor asks for your phone number and people don’t question it at all.

As great as the privacy law sounds I have a suspicion that it will just be used by police and the government to abuse authority and silence critics like they do with people tweeting anything the government doesn’t like. Hope I am wrong
In a presidential democracy, if the Senate and House of Representatives is majority Democrats, then yes, the Democrats can do the same. Obama once had majority in House of Reps and Senate as well.

There is one thing that is different. The Filibuster is very powerful in the US. I’m not so sure the filibuster is a powerful tool in UK’s parliament and India’s Parliament.
I don't use any third party plugin. My approach for spotting fake reviews is simple. Anything that has positive reviews that span over a short period of time is suspect. I only buy things that have good reviews that span over a few years. I think most new products on Amazon are sellers relisting products so that they can start from scratch with a bunch of 5 star reviews. Amazon could easily automate this and show the info to users but I guess they don't have an incentive. Big mistake if you ask me. I guess that l's the problem with big tech. You cannot push an idea that shows to reduce revenue in the short term. Long term impact is something that is much harder to measure.
> People who seek to write one language and execute another are fundamentally insane.

That would be people who use compilers.
The lowest hanging fruit is likely going to be adding a second trailer behind the first and increasing the horsepower while simultaneously reducing speed.

Ontario, Canada made this tradeoff a couple years back on very specific motorways. There are dedicated places for super-long road trains to lash-up, drive, pull over, and disassemble between London, Toronto, and Montreal. These combinations are only allowed to drive a max 90km/h speed which further reduces fuel use and permits easier passing by standards trucks and cars.
> Is it really that hard to filter out?

This depends heavily on the category, in my experience. Clothing and some electronics categories seem to have zero outwardly legitimate listings.

I had to buy plug adapters for travel and there wasn't a single brand I recognized except the AmazonBasics ones.
Ya I'm not sure we ever need to hold profit motivated companies responsible for social or democratic goals but I do think we need to provide a legal and regulatory framework that protects or advances democratic and social goals.

Regulation is needed to preserve economic freedom, otherwise free markets turn into markets dominated by monopolies.
First photos of cougars killing donkeys in Death Valley–impacts for ecosystem
I agree with this mentality. I have always believed dev journeys are what excite me - not dev destinations.

I don’t think I’m in a small minority despite the vast amounts of literature (on HN) mostly that is about the destination alone.
Ah this makes sense. This is similar to what Elasticsearch shards do.
Check out the latest revision of the gist. I have added some explanations. Do you think this implementation will work more efficiently or less efficiently? What kind of statistics do you collect in the database? Is there anything interesting in these statistics? Is collecting statistics worth the performance slowdown that occurs? How effective is banning a client by IP/IPv6?
This isn’t a CAPTCHA. A CAPTCHA should be something that can tell a human user apart from a non-human user with a high degree of accuracy, such that it should be hard for a bot to pass even a single instance.

As noted elsewhere in the thread, this is a rate-limiting system. It cannot protect low-rate critical resources like registrations, but would be useful in mitigating large-scale spam attacks.
> Dalle would never assume on its own that "a giraffe close to a low flying helicopter" could be very dangerous for the giraffe, but "a horse close to a low flying helicopter" is safe.

Are you sure? (Can someone run down those prompts?)

Dall-e might be able to make those relationships in the latent space
"They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard."
>(e.g. A/B testing with humans who can report when they do and do not experience consciousness in different neural configurations)

Doesn't that fall back to the old consciousnesses trap that nobody knows how to resolve? How do you know if the human reporting that he's conscious is actually conscious and not philosophical zombie?

We don't know what generates consciousness because we don't know how to measure it, and if we can't measure it, we will always have to take the words of an seemingly conscious entity for it.
Perl is very god

Typo, Freudian slip, or ???
Very shallow walkthrough, you need to explain how the lookup table works. C doesn't have hashmaps built in. Without reading the entire source code, for all we know Redis could be using a for loop across 75K entries. You need to explain how the lookup works otherwise junior engineers (especially the sort that came out of JS/Python bootcamps) would get confused.
You could start helping out people or organizations for free. It’s a great way to get to know people and find niches to build for.
Microsoft and your ISP probably peer directly at your nearest IX. This means that a packet between your house and Microsoft would never traverse the "public" internet. It would go on your ISP's network to the IX, then directly to a Microsoft router, then ride Microsoft's network to the data center Teams is hoster at.

One possibility is that something happened at that connection at the IX. For example the transceiver (laser) on your ISP's router went out, and there is a bug in their processes or management code that is causing the BGP route to stay up even though it is really down. In there case traffic would keep flowing to that broken port and then just die there. Instead it should have switched to a redundant router or the ISP's router should have redirected all traffic to Microsoft over another part of the internet.

You can use the publicly available PeeringDB database to look up Microsoft's ASN (8075) and see what IXes (Internet Exchanges, basically a big building with a bunch of cages for rent where all the global and local internet players will have routers that peer with each other) Microsoft has a presence at: https://www.peeringdb.com/net/694
At least there is much missing data for human like intelligence. If human would be trained with same input data, I think he/she would not understand relationships.
> lean more on target, costco, and brands own shopify/ecommerce sites

If only shopify could fix the god damn Chrome issue.
The code snippet in this [0] example from the index page (top) looks to have an f-string issue:

return [

{

"message": "{t.name} is due for {t.due_days} days",

"assignee": t.assignee,

}

for t in tickets

]

[0] https://assets-global.website-files.com/627d359d0e0aa265b781...

E: Fix formatting (TIL HN doesn't support code blocks)
> Should one interpret from this article that a healthier mind believes...

No. That's a huge stretch, if not an outright strawman. There's equal textual support for the more charitable interpretation that many people aren't getting enough of these positive feelings in less Manichaean or conflict-inducing ways. Even as they accept the importance and legitimacy of climate change (for example) they don't get excited by participating in activism on that issue. Conspiracy theories are a way to jump-start those feelings, and often the discomfiture of others is part of the appeal. It enhances the rush. A healthier mind seeks out meaningful engagement without turning it into combat.

> All ideologies are conspiracy theories
> ...
> the only thing that makes one more meaningful than another is their falsifiability and predictive power

Perhaps you're unaware of the fact that, according to people who actually study these things, non-falsifiability is one of the defining characteristics of a conspiracy theory. So no, not all beliefs are conspiracy theories. "If you disagree you must be part of the conspiracy" is a well known trope, even among comedians. Which brings us to...

> I'd argue that calling people conspiracy theorists is the most reliable indicator that someone has been fully atomized.