skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Btw I want to clarify that I don't just mean verbal. Writing is natural language as well.

However, on your point I think natural language is the gateway to all those things. If you have a spec you will need to describe it in natural language first then use it.

Visual though is I think another way we should be able to communicate with a computer in the future and it seems like we are heading in that direction.

I guess how I imagine all this working is you provide all this high level instruction to the computer through writing/speaking as well as any diagrams and it figures it all out as well as queries you for any further clarification it needs. Just like interacting with your colleagues in day to day.
They were designed for sure; just by an engineer rather than a graphic designer.

Like: for each character cell on this terminal, we have an eight-bit memory budget for color. For each of foreground and background, we're going to allocate one bit for "bright" and one bit each for "red", "green" and "blue" ... in the output circuit to the DAC that drives the display, we're going to send a full-scale value for each of R/G/B when the "bright" bit is set and a half-scale value when it's not set.
The point is email as a protocol is extremely open, but email as a network is quite centralized. There aren’t any great options here because buildings a system is easy but interfacing it with the real world and all it’s laws and bad actors is hard.

What people forget is interfacing with systems designed to operate in the real world is at best an abstraction over this difficulty and eventually it gets exposed for the mess it actually is.
Wonderful. Two thoughts:

- Is the use of the first person entirely correct? Shouldn't there instead be some reference to the convening institution, such as "management" or "proprietors", or the community? (Though I would think that for HN the convening institution would be something less commercial.)

- It would seem a different font is in order.
This is A very practical take. It’s odd that I have say it’s a sane take, because 15 years ago this would be the way 95% of companies operated.
This is just another ploy to get employees back to offices. One thing I don’t understand is the tax implication and where you’re allowed to work from.

I’m based out of a company in the US that was proactively working towards remote environment before the pandemic. One thing that struck me as odd was that even within the states I would be technically illegally evading taxes if I worked from Nevada for instance - for a month let’s say due to need in change of scenery. Even with a country I cannot technically and legally be remote.

The laws need to change here are the antiquated tax laws. I don’t understand how if I want to work from Florida for part of the year to avoid the winter is a tax / insurance liability for me or the company.

The last point really hit home for me. What if you have family abroad - either healthy or otherwise - and you want to spend more time with them. would these companies want be to take one month off or rather work?

I understand that people using this to move permanently is a an issue. But the people that have a permanent base but would like to occasionally work from elsewhere need a better framework and set of laws. The physical borders don’t make much sense in a digital world.
Color as Identify – ColorID.js (11.19% Faster – With 2^96 Results)
Color as Identify - The ColorID in JavaScript

ColorID consists by 4 colors in the RGB channel from 12 unsigned 8 bits numbers (u8), so the theoretical total of ColorID is (2^8)^12 = 2^96 ≈ 7*10^28, which means that even if the ColorID is generated for every 7.8 billion people in the world every second, it will take 300 billion years to use up all ColorID.

If we use ColorID to represent identities in social networks, we can easily generate personalized social information for users, such as avatars, NFTs, etc.

ColorID performance is better than uuid and nanoid (The algorithm of ColorID is actually very similar to the uuid.v4)

Because the Four-Colors-Theorem, four colors is enough!
I will admit, my testing was limited to the native Samsung web browser and to a capacitor made native app, where the problem occurred. It is very possible that Firefox and Chrome on the phone would behave as expected, but I never tested them, since users were experiencing the problem with the other versions of the app, and I needed to find a solution.

Initially, I thought it was a problem with converting a React app to a native app with capacitor, but I tried the same Android app on a different (non-Samsung) Android phone and it did not have the problem (iOS similarly did not have the problem, both web and native version).
Because employees have easily checkable social security numbers.
I've tried seemingly every mail client on the planet, and Shortwave is the one that stuck. If you have a gmail account — especially a work account — and feel like you're drowning in crap email, Shortwave can move you through it like a knife through warm butter.
There's a variety of cases where the only legal messaging around the suspension is approximately that. Whether or not Stripe is doing wrong here, they do have to comply with US law and that type of law will result in that shape of suspension and therefore this type of story appearing on HN.
Thank you for this. Running competitively definitely beats up your tendons and what not but after 30 years of running 70 (then) to 20 (now) up have had like 5 days my knees were achey. I will say not everyone has ideal biomechanics and our sedentary lifestyles also impact injuries while running.
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison:

"What is happening?" => basically, a major uptick in attempted fraud over the first half of this year that necessitated making our systems stricter. But have an idea for a structural fix here. More soon. (DM me if you've had problems on this front.)

https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1550136569482252289
He beat you by about 5 minutes! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32854831
I keep hearing "you can't do X without getting slashed". What happens if there is a network partition that lasts for longer than 6 minutes? Which two of the diverging blockchains get to slash the other one and take all their stake?
I suppose we're going to need hardware GPS spoofers then.
I'm sure OP would prefer he dig into the specific problem first
That's the thing about Dunning-Kruger. It's always invisible. You could be surrounded by a herd of 100-ton Dunning-Krugers and never know it.
Now I have to rethink this. If d00dly agrees with the idea, it is likely half-baked and missing something obvious.
This has never been an issue that can be discussed in such an abbreviated form. So you're criticizing earlier simplistic dismissals of crypto because of their over simplifications. Yet now you're also trying to dismiss a more detailed bit of thinking on crypto when it tries to correct the exact faults you found in those simplistic criticism precisely because it is more detailed. You can't have it both ways.
This one perhaps?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...

https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
No, he is just very often egregiously wrong, but in ways that we have become desensitized enough to find often hard to tease out.

Usually the Howler may be traced via his inclination to treat whatever he did while at Microsoft as inherently above reproach, and not, as it often was, totally bonkers.

But thinking it over, his apologetics for Lotus is the Howler, here. If Lotus really had engaged in the reasoning he suggests, they could trivially have chosen 1901 for their epoch with no compromise to accuracy.
«Because every bitcoin transaction costs $60 in electricity.»

A common misconception. Only a fraction (about 1% at the moment) of Bitcoin's electricity consumption is derived from transactions, because transaction fees account for only about 1% of miners revenues. The average transaction fee is about $1 at the moment, so a transaction "costs" only $1 in electricity because it provides $1 of extra revenue to miners who can subsequently spend it on opex (electricity).
Most athletic shoes have a short life like that. The trend tends to wear off. Even if it doesn't, you generally loose grip as the compound ages. Also, the insole and other cushioning stuff tends to break down and loose it's ability to absorb shock, which can lead to joint and back pain.
They don't? They're separate tokens.
Until a billionaire or a Bain capital comes along and tries to do a hostile takeover.

If anyone can buy stock in a company, that means any entity can come along with deep enough pockets and buy a controlling interest unless the founder has enough clout to keep a majority of voting shares.
I was reluctant to click on the link expecting another Java project, but it seems to be based on Go. Refreshing. Maybe I'll give it a try.
But there are a lot of sh1tcoins that is similar to ETH POW and then can be exchanged to the real asset: Bitcoin.
I remember very old versions of man random [1] warning against that sort of thing and recommending to pick the high (or low) bits of the random value. Probably the piece of advice was not correct.
This is precisely the crux of the issue.

The people screaming the loudest about the need to build are exactly the same people who recoil at the thought of living more than 100 meters from their heckin' microbreweryarinoes.

Life is all about tradeoffs. The United States is extremely large. It's not anyone's fault but your own that you, who can literally write adtech spyware for $300k from anywhere, refuse to entertain the notion of living outside the bugman bubble.
End of Covid pandemic ‘is in sight’, WHO chief says
Thanks! The biggest lesson for us has been in finding the balance between being opinionated v/s being flexible in the abstractions we build. I think it's easy to go too far in either direction but we're learning as we build about how to make these decisions better.

For example, there were 2 different versions of the sandbox creation APIs that we built in the past - one that optimized for docker image-driven workflows, and another that designed for the sandboxes being immutable, but our current APIs are document-style and mutable, giving additional flexibility to build more use-cases on top like feature testing.
Stuff like this is why I think a business should have a system that abstracts away the payment processor.

I use Stripe for invoices, but I can easily send an invoice through another platform if needed.

For processing transactions on the web, I would always lean toward using a service like ChargeBee that allows me to setup multiple payment gateways.

Getting off the ground quickly is one thing, but the moment that you have reliable revenue is the moment that you need to put some serious emphasis on redundancy across your business to plan for disasters, outages, etc. It's worth it to pay the fees to maintain a 2nd (or 3rd) payment processor once you have that type of revenue coming in.
My personal favorite ambient/modular arrangement: https://youtu.be/8WDNgfnZ3HM
You'd think stories like this call for standardization of payment processors (using APIs such that changing providers is possible in an instant), as an extension of monetary sovereignty, mandated by law.
There are studies that linked marijuana use with psychiatric disorders. If you have some criticism of the studies or have refuting studies to cite, do so, but saying "I've personally have never seen this" is not helpful.

> Several studies have linked marijuana use to increased risk for psychiatric disorders, including psychosis (schizophrenia), depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders, but whether and to what extent it actually causes these conditions is not always easy to determine. Recent research suggests that smoking high-potency marijuana every day could increase the chances of developing psychosis by nearly five times compared to people who have never used marijuana. The amount of drug used, the age at first use, and genetic vulnerability have all been shown to influence this relationship. The strongest evidence to date concerns links between marijuana use and psychiatric disorders in those with a preexisting genetic or other vulnerability.

https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana...
I have personal knowledge of more than one instance where stripe totally screwed over small companies and simply decided to ignore any contact for more than half a year, withholding the money and putting everyone in limbo.

yeah, im sure its a minority of accounts at stripe, but seriously, do not take the chance!
Observability is becoming mission critical, but who watches the watchmen?
Even if there's a legit reason for this, the lack of support bandwidth to resolve it is a key platform governance issue. Like if there's nobody on the other end of the fax machine, at scale, that's bad for everyone who touches the stripe ecosystem.

Inability to explain it is infuriating. Absent an explanation, everyone's default assumption should be that they did it randomly, by mistake, or maliciously, and that they're liable for damages. If S is being told by law enforcement to do this, fine, I get it, but at least do an EOY report like everyone else saying '90% of our unexplained holds were court orders, stop blaming us and help us reform this'.

'Governance through obscurity' isn't going to be any better than security through obscurity
There exists the 'diskcache' library too, which gives you a persistent dictionary that stores any kind of pickle-able python object. There's also a nice persistent memoization decorator, with optional TTL... I've always found 'diskcache' to be very ergonomic.
Modern Windows has great improvements at the kernel level and OS internals but both the UI and general direction of the product (more focused on media consumption, services and the “attention economy”) is a massive downgrade.
> So smart for both Adobe

The market aggressively disagrees with this assessment.
"higher energy costs" increase costs of everyone and everything: ownership, renting, producing anything, moving anything (except on foot or using a bicycle) etc.

Modern civilization is extremely dependent on affordable energy.
Making your systems stricter will have the obvious side effect of increasing false negatives. Not scaling support, or fixing what is clearly a fundamentally broken support system, is incompetent.
If an otherwise great guy, lies to get through your height filter and you go on a date and its great because you get along well. Is then the problem that he lied or his height?
If the problem is that he lied, then consider his alternative: never tempting his luck and never getting to know you.
...it's not that unexpected or unreasonable for a department as large and complex as the Pentagon to take years to reach 100% clean audits. After all, it took DHS a decade.

At that point, DHS had existed for just over a decade. Pentagon opened in 1943. Is there a chance that they'll file a complete audit while USA still exists?
I'd like to add that vector search works not just for natural language, but also for a variety of other types of unstructured data as well. Images, video, user profiles, and pretty much anything else that can be vectorized. Here's an example of image search: https://milvus.io/docs/image_similarity_search.md
> Only artificial, meaningless exams like olympiads are really meant to asses how good someone is.

> https://www.imo-official.org/

Most tests are artificial so I'll grant you that, but I don't think it's right to categorize the olympiads as an "exam", even less so a "meaningless" one.

Olympiads are contests, and it's not like contestants participate in them for the same reasons people take exams. It's more of an excuse for skilled students to challenge themselves (and each other) with the hardest problems that the brightest minds (at that age) could be expected to solve.

It's definitely not for everyone, but then, not everyone gets to participate. For those who have a chance to participate officially, I doubt anyone would think it is "meaningless" to do so. I'm not a "competitive" type of person, but I still consider it a valuable experience if only as a chance to test one's limit at a subject one is reasonably good at. I also like to think that the experience significantly influence one's future life choices too. (FWIW: after that I basically decided to avoid dealing with brain teasers and advanced algorithms wherever possible, and got a degree in law instead of CS. Not the typical outcome, but impactful nonetheless. I work as a software engineer now, because as we all know, 99% of software jobs don't need that stuff 99% of the time.)

If you thought olympiads were an "exam" to show off to others how good you are at the subject, then I'd agree it's not meaningful in that aspect. Though this is HN, it's still a very small minority who actually run around flaunting their olympiad medals or Putnams.

Disclaimer: I was a contestant in IOI many years ago. Was so average that I basically quit the game as described above. (In case anyone wonders, no I did not win the Putnam.)
Dylan Field pitches and demos seed-stage Figma
> their stock price soared through financial engineering

Not disagreeing with your point, but they can kindly fuck off piggy-backing on the good reputation of engineering, which is about building things, not rent-seeking and gate keeping. It would be like saying Intuit is innovating "political engineering". Or calling an unpaid internship at Goldman Sachs "volunteering". I have similar thoughts about "growth hacking", btw.
> to a proper number

A proper number is 123.456,78 in large parts of Europe. If I can't put that into your number control when my browser locale is set to Dutch, your custom number input has failed as much at the broken input we're talking about.

It's not just the specific separators, of course; in India such a number is often written like 1,23,456.78 for example, grouping numbers entirely different. Don't assume everyone is American.
Certainly the official policy is that you'll be terminated. Almost every HR department would say this if asked.

Reality is often different. Companies are diverse collections of many different people with a diversity of incentives who all enforce policies in very different ways. When these things happen there are many layers of management who will more often than not try to avoid the problem.
I'm sorry about your friend's situation. That whole deal looks really dodgy, which happens far too often with umbrella companies it seems.

I'm surprised the agency seem to be walking away untouched though if they set up the deal and actively pushed your friend towards a dodgy umbrella employer. HMRC have some pretty screwed up policies at times but surely it can't be normal for them to go after someone who honestly believed they'd been properly employed and had all of the deductions properly collected just because someone completely different has ripped off HMRC?

This isn't really a problem with IR35 in principle though. It was apparently just plain old criminal fraud and your friend was the unlucky victim of that crime.

Edit: Also I hope your friend is disputing this with HMRC and if necessary getting their MP involved. Assuming everything you've described is a fair reflection of what really happened it clearly wasn't a tax avoidance scheme. HMRC do make mistakes but do also want to get the right money from the right people so if something has gone wrong here it's worth following up.
Bizarre, isn't it? The goal seems to be to rely entirely on Javascript and throw away any native OS/browser handling. If your designers/product managers are asking for that it's time to find another job.
And cannabis was the only substance they were using? Were they using cannabis as a substitute for some other medicine, that they're now currently on?

It hardly seems fair to say "I know a guy..." to justify comparing a drug that is widely considered safe to one where people have been convicted of widespread fraud for claiming safety when they knew that it was not.

I am sorry for your friend, but based on the very limited data you have given it, it sounds like there could easily be other circumstances that make even that one data point uninformative.
PoW crypto was using over 1.2 percent of the world's electricity. That's an insane waste irrespective of any kind of comparison to whatever other industries.
It's pretty easy to see the bright side of a deal that makes you incredibly wealthy.
> Eg. A coffee company gets involved in the politics around recyclable cups, labor laws, import taxes on coffee, etc. But they don't get involved with abortion...

The problem becomes that these things aren't cleanly separable and policy support is basically fungible; the anti-coffee-import-tax politician might oppose forcing almond growers in California to reduce water usage, or the pro crypto politician might be for federal anti-abortion measures. You can't earmark the money for some kinds of votes but not others; funding a politician's re-election gets you everything they vote for or nothing at all.

So it becomes not so much "no politics" as "the corporation's politics ahead of any other"; exacerbating drought conditions in California is "political" and not worth discussing even as the politician responsible for it is funded in order to obtain import-tax-free coffee, or banning abortion is considered an acceptable price to pay (and don't you dare bring up this consequence at work, for that would be "political") for pro-crypto policies.

I don't even necessarily object to companies saying "I accept that X happening is the cost of obtaining corporate goal Y", it's just ludicrously dishonest to pretend that involving themselves in politics isn't political and doesn't have political consequences beyond "crypto good".
The archive.ph link for the article lacks much of the interactive experience.

The gift link for it - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/14/climate/san-f...
If you do everything by the book, it's really hard - practically impossible to do fully legally.

Most countries won't issue you a work permit without a lot of paperwork, cost, and time. Think 'send your passport off to the embassy for 3 months' type hassle...

And most employers don't want to employ someone abroad. Employment law varies widely by country, and unless they already have an office in that country they don't want to do all the tax and reporting stuff for only you.

Long term abroad in one country might be doable, but 30 days in each country is pretty much impossible.
No, not legitimate at all.

PayPal had banned me because I was under 18 when I opened my account, they then allowed me to open a new one (right after this one got suspended) and it has been working fine without any issue since then (10 years+).

Stop doing shady stuff.
Sometimes I think that new directions in electronic design are giving us more un-friedoms than freedoms.
That tweet was posted in July about a different case. At least I assume it was different.
Well, we have an existence proof. The government that you wanted to depend on didn’t in fact do it’s job, a private company did. But you believe that the government will get it right next time?
Not the OP, but I will bite.

If you are buying a new house, most construction materials (bricks, concrete, steel, ceramics) require huge amounts of energy when produced and therefore are now more expensive than before.

If you are buying an older house that needs renovation, you need to invest a lot more into insulation etc., lest your heating bills become terrible.
What problems? There are organizations that are not Stripe where they have much better support.
Never heard about this person but their Wikipedia page is something else, like an ad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_White_(writer)
This is unlikely the spam problem is too hard to solve at the small scale for you to ever be relevant.
Yep you can do that alongside this change
My first thought is this is a paycam business of some kind, or something very similar.