skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
are there services to generate mobile phone numbers on demand that you can use?

Not that I am aware of --- at least nothing that provides a fully functional mobile wireless number. The reason for this should be obvious --- the cost of the required infrastructure is not trivial.

The cheapest sustainable, fully functional mobile number I am aware of is this:

https://www.ultramobile.com/paygo/

You can purchase a Paygo SIM on ebay then $3 per month. I use this on an old spare phone.

There are free VOIP numbers available; however, many online service providers will routinely reject these for signups.
You're "an economist, professor, and sometimes consultant with a side interest in computation and finding ways to be more productive. Always interested in learning new things.".

The mainstream public is watching the Tide Pod challenge on TikTok.
I loved that scene (in Day after Tomorrow), they're arguing along the lines of "no you can't burn Shakespeare it's a crime against humanity" or something, then in comes a supporting character wheeling in a ton of tax law books, which of course nobody had any problem burning.
I think the argument against that is art and style of guns. You want one specific look for your scene and the cost to make a replica like you explain above is > just finding the real gun.
It is still far, far from realistic cursive writing(especially old documents). But it's a good starting point if you want synthetic training data for writing your own handwritten text recognition NNs (specially for less common languages). It's based on 10 fonts only. I saw papers that had systems using 5000 different fonts to generate synthetic handwritten training data.
I did not believe that he'll finish the series since I got my hands on the first two books, because it already was 7 years after the first release. In my opinion his novel "The Slow Regard of Silent Things" is not worth the money and he had lost his flow. That would have been a pity, but kind of ok-ish - nobody is perfect.

More recently I feel confirmed (and a little shocked), since I've read about his shady behaviour regarding his "charity" work, as well as plans of releasing and reading chapter 1 and then not delivering for more than 8 months.

I can't believe there are still fans standing by him and still spending their money for his very shady purposes... I would not recommend to do so.

And yet "The name of the wind" (part 1) and "The wise man's fear" (part 2) are still the best fantasy I've ever read so far.
> It is illegal in most states to give legal advice if you are not licensed to practice law.

You also can't have a human in the next room feeding you lines... even if that person is an attorney.

However, a party / attorney certainly can bring in notes / a casebook / etc. You can usually bring in a laptop, with search functions, pdfs, etc. An AI that quickly presents relevant information, documents, caselaw, etc. would 100% be allowed. However, if they're sworn in to testify, these would usually be taken away, because testimony is supposed to be from personal knowledge / memory.
What magical FFox addon you're talking about?
Strong disagree. Capitalism (can argue whether that's what we have or not) uses capital to respond to markets. Markets are signals of what people want.

The scarcity mindset in an the era of information abundance isn't being perpetuated by capitalism, it's being perpetuated by people making their own decisions one transaction at a time.
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Lexis is an information aggregation company. They take a large quantity of US law and Court opinions and publish them. These sources are then linked together using a relatively simple tag style system.
I’m general you can get forms for very specific and predictable case types, but for a large portion of practice, outside of initial filings the fact-specific nature of subsequent pleadings are harder to formalize.
Warning: engaging cranky old codemonkey mode.

Here's a functional website with the same PDF: https://archive.org/details/frostflowersonwi00albe/page/n1/m...

You'd think a website about public domain PDFs would be able to load the PDFs, but no. Both Chrome and Safari greet me with multiple load errors, probably because the scan is being embedded in an IFRAME and loading as a full-fledged HTML page from another domain. Oh, but it manages a pop-up asking me to subscribe to their newsletter.

Just use an <img>, why does everything have to be 10 layers of javascript and iframes? If it's a PDF, then just link it. That's what the 'H' in HTML is for.
kidney stone 20 yrs ago and piles 10 yrs ago and kid since 2 yrs ago. Only the kid has a continuing impact.
It's awesome, but it isn't internationalised and does not mention not being. üõöä letters ended up as weird strokes.
I see a couple of things called libpdf...lib-pdf and libpdf++. One generates pdfs programmatically. The other parses pdfs, but generates only images. Maybe you meant something else?
This is HN, I can be cynical, right? Allow me to air one of my pet peeves: articles that make the threat of an asteroid collision with Earth something we should be afraid of. (Oh, and films of course.)

I never understood why anyone should give it any more than even a passing thought. As a layman my understanding is that the last great extinction event from an asteroid was like (Wikipedia tells me) 66 million years ago.

With that frequency/odds my fears seem much better afforded toward the dangers of climate change or any number of other issues that likely will have repercussions in my or my grandchildren's lifetimes.
Nice! Can you add the https://hntoast.com URL to this post in the URL section? I had to copy-paste it.
I'm betting they gas up the numbers by only considering cases that they send people to fight, and ignore these default judgement cases... that's takin' the piss, amIrite?
writers not from colonialist regimes don't make it to HN because most of us never heard of them at school, which focuses on western writers.
are you aware that most wealthy countries are or have been colonialist regimes? this includes much of Europe, North America, Japan and China.
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I'm vaguely aware of htmx, but have never used it. Had not heard of hotwire until just now, but that looks really interesting. Thanks for the pointer!

Would you care to say any more about your experience with Vue? I've heard a lot of good things about Vue and had it on my mental "things to learn one day" list for a while. Would be really interested in hearing any counter-points from somebody who hasn't enjoyed working with it.
Lawrence Lessig attempted this, raising over $1M dollars with a kickstarter campaign. So successful that only polysci nerds remember.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harvard-professor-larry-less...
Hi! We provide an on-prem version (as part of our enterprise tier); but better yet the SaaS solution itself is hybrid- meaning we provide a microservice for authorization for you (aka the PDP), and it answers all the queries locally from memory cache - which is great for security, but also latency (sub 10ms as a sidecar), and availability.

Updates are done through OPAL (https://opal.ac) - which has a a zero trust architecture (it sends instructions on how to get the data instead of the data itself) based on topics scoped with security tokens.

You can read all about it here:
- https://docs.permit.io/concepts/control-plane-and-data-plane...

- https://docs.permit.io/security/connectivity
If you think that last bit of wacky casing combinations is offensive, wait BEM-style CSS selectors—not the philosophy or separation of components, just the selectors themselves. Basically any other naming or separator selection would have been better.
Common punctuation wasn't particularly common in the training set either: exclamations marks lack dots except style 6 where it is at the top (some Spanish in the training set? Or misclassified "i"s?), and [deity] knows what style 9 is doing with them. Didn't dare try an interrobang :)
Everytime I eat chipotle an hour or two later I get a sharp stomach pain and then an intense bathroom episode. My partner and I call it Chi-poo-poo because of it. I always swear to never go back but then do. No other fast food does that to me
I think, I can't do that now.
Hmm, I haven't used libpdf to know enough, but just from glance through its documentation, it seems libpdf is more suitable for creating and reading PDF files. If this is correct, then it'll be missing the bridge to converting the read content of the PDF file to a Word document
Fixed? No. But we're much better now than we were, and getting better. Again, we're not OK with dragging this out for people, and we definitely did that to you.
The link you shared looks like its built with a propriety microsoft software with steep enterprise pricing.

For starters this roadmap app is free and open-source :)
So you are providing sensitive business information/facts to a third party service that's likely going to use those for training, analysis, store it, etc. ?

It should be fine for most places I guess - but I suspect a decent amount will have a problem with this.

This is my main reservation about copilot as well (quality issues aside).
Yeah super volcanos and solar flares on the other hand... <I don't know how likely those are either, but they seem superscary isn't yellowstone overdue?>
A new way of programming with information flows
The basic idea of an information flow was introduced by Hartmanis and Stearns in the algebraic structure theory of sequential machines. This is a beautiful and elegant formalism for describing how information flows in sequential machines. Now using new mathematics I have put this theory on its highest level of generality. But its not enough that this should be a mathematical theory, so I also discuss its implementation.

At the center of an implementation of information flows is the idea of a partition image. This codifies how a particular function maps a piece of information into some other piece of information. To implement this intuitive idea, I define a type hierarchy of different partition and function classes and use multiple dispatch on them to determine the right algorithm to use on a case-by-case basis.
You might also want to check out https://wasp-lang.dev/ - it lets you use React & Node.js (although it seems you prefer php), but you don't have to write API endpoints + everything works out-of-the-box

(disclaimer: I'm one of the main contributors to the project)
Yeah, it seems like malicious compliance.

I mean, I get it. Companies don't want to disclose what they pay. But providing a relatively smaller range that better reflects what someone in that position might expect to get in reality might not be that hard, no? The $90k-$900k might look like $200k to $500k after that. Still quite ambiguous, but more reasonable.

Otherwise, I'm having a hard time believing most of the advertised positions aren't in the process of being filled by internal staff, or being recruited for with an internal team that has the actual salary range, and Netflix or similar companies that do this sort of stuff just to post jobs online because of some legal requirement. IIRC in some states you can't actually hire someone unless you've actually posted the job opening online somewhere.
In that case, here is one more way to pronounce it. You should definitely try it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ADu3tHanP8
I don't understand your statement. Because regulations have advanced various fields, like medicine, engineering, health, environment, to the point that we are seeing the fruit of that regulation, we need to get rid of the regulations? We don't have to worry about really unqualified lawyers, doctors, teachers, or engineers, etc. So what we need to do is go back to a time when we did?

Also, aren't there already numerous certifications you earn for various technologies that companies explicitly look for when hiring?

I'm confused about what you're getting at.
Sometimes they are only discovered after the closest approach. It depends a lot on where they're coming from relative to the sun.
Interesting. When I was a child, we lived in an old cottage with single-glazed windows and no central heating. In winter, we often had frost patterns of sycamore leaves on the windows. We had sycamore trees in the field across from the house, but I can remember being confused and wondering if someone was pressing the leaves to the window during the night.
What is web4.0?!
Ah fascinating, thanks!
https://youtu.be/zocutif0cQY?t=49
Just don't print it at home! Your printer is probably a snitch.
I don't think they will replace lawyers any time soon. Paralegals.. Maybe. I've worked with legal software before, and with just a little bit more smarts, the software could do a lot of grunt work.
I think the area shadowed by the downplume would get the most cooling, while the area downwind of the downplume gets the fallout. Baja is dependent on fishing along the coast, though not in the hotter months.
Chipotle would seem healthy at a glance however it is not as they use seed oils. I used to love eating at Chipotle and aside from all the seed oils their ingredients are generally healthy for fast food.

https://www.seedoilscout.com/blog/does-chipotle-use-seed-oil...
The solution is to hack the species, drive hooks into its behaviour and change within the limits of what can be changed, the source of the problem. Duccttapping indefinitely has never worked out.
Im not an absolutist, geo-engineer away, as long as there is a realistic plan to solve the root-cause.
It's a thing in my family. We all pronounce it chip-puttle.
> chipotle is possibly the only fast food / fast casual that feels somewhat healthy. Real, whole food.

There are a ton of healthy fast casual places that would meet this description — Cava, Sweetgreen, et cetera. They're certainly not as widespread as Chipotle, though.
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Chinese (CCP) engineer jailed for 8 years for spying
Stupid equation showing how our brain perceives time.
The Internal Revenue Service instructions for Form 1040 include a tip for taxpayers: If you are filing a joint return with the same spouse as last year, put your names and Social Security numbers in the same order as last year.

So it doesn't matter, but it does.
The reason you would need a lawyer for a parking ticket is:

1) It's not worth your time to be there yourself. (This assumes it cannot be done by mail as in your case.)

2) To know all the local procedures, judges, etc. and know what to expect.

AI is not going to take care of either of those problems.
Which was better, Denver or MA?
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Wondering if this isn't related to the LastPass breach?

Paypal's 2FA is a bit of a joke. IIRC (this was quite some time ago) when I went to initially setup 2FA SMS was the only option, eventually they added support for authenticators but you can just click get a text instead of the authenticator. Last time I checked there was no way to tell paypal to only accept OTPs from an authenticator.
Part of the value is also providing assurances to game publishers that their games will be harder to pirate. With the 'rampant' (in many publishers' view) piracy scene on PC, publishers would prefer not to have to also deal with the piracy problem on consoles. By taking on that burden, the console manufacturer makes their platform much more attractive to develop for. It also lets game devs make more mistakes without having their dirty laundry aired out for the world.
As an aside that might be of interest to some - if you want to build a machine out of steppers, servos, digital output pins etc, and you want it to operate under tight timing constraints, and you want to avoid getting your hands dirty with finicky embedded programming, the Klipper project - nominally a 3D printer system - is sufficiently modular to be an excellent base. The developer documentation isn't perfect, but it's pretty straightforward to write new modules for it, all in Python, and it performs extremely well.
Meanwhile Twitter hides my tweets about PayPal.Me still working in Russia.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34531489#34531574
Good work and thanks for sharing! hnreplies.com is great if you want an email-based version of something similar.
What are the chances... This is exactly the idea from the latest edition of Unvalidated Ideas[0][1] I released this week.

Of course I imagined a different kinds of integrations but maybe this is a case of great minds thinking alike!

[0]: https://unvalidatedideas.com/editions/latest

[1]: https://unvalidatedideas.com/editions/39
Seinfeld.

George gets married because of a typo into an AI handwritten letter service he sent to his girlfriend.
With Spanish and English you can communicate from Canada to Patagonia except for Brazil (and the Brazilians will understand an 80% of spoken Spanish and a 90% of written one because of Romance similarities), among UK, Spain and Scandinavia. Also a good part of France, Portugal and lots of Southern Italians will understand you in Spanish too.
Interesting. It's honestly quite disappointing that progress has been so slow in this space, but in this time dependent context it makes sense.

I remember AI NPC behaviour being a discussed and promoted all the way back to the late 90's, but it's like there's been a standstill and characters still run around i zig zaggy pathway patterns, switch between pre-made states and get stuck and never really surprise you with anything really "outside the box".

So much that it's not even really a topic anymore as far as i am concerned? Maybe because of multiplayer.
More than half the states don't have 10 House members, so this is impossible without a massive Constitutional change.
I appreciate that you pointed it out though to give me a chance to reevaluate my thoughts on the project. It seems it has a better trajectory than when I had last looked.
What are you putting on your burrito/bowl? It's probably just one of the ingredients. Pickled jalapenos or queso usually get me, but I still get them sometimes anyway.
Very cool. Does it show notifications on new comments or just updates automatically?
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I would like to change my "paycheck to paycheck" way of life and am looking to learn about financial vehicles (US based) and investment basics, and anything else that "I wish I had known when I was 20 years old".
The difference is that geoengineering affects the commons. I don’t mind people doing things to their own bodies, I do mind them messing with my atmosphere.
I've heard this story about the Shopify interview several times. It bounced a lot of people who were interested and probably otherwise qualified
I agree you guys let's kill 7 billion people
Just my cynical vents about some entry barriers.
This sound a great tool too. Thanks for sharing.
As others have said, if Jim's fuckup can have such large consequences, then there should have been backstops for Jim who would have shared the blame. Nothing against Jim, it's just he's being used as a distraction to avoid talking about the real issues.
Likewise. Chipotle has been my go-to "fast casual" option for years because, despite being a little salty, it actually feels like real food. And you can get a pretty healthy meal as long as you go light on the cheese and sour cream.

Chipotle restaurants seem to have a lifecycle: they open, work really hard to get a decent reputation, and then slowly rot. I suspect that management gives the employees free reign to create a good customer experience for the first year or two, then eventually starts turning the profit screws -- trimming lobby and bathroom cleaning, skimping on the employee count at peak times, etc -- and soon enough the restaurant becomes a horrorshow to enter on a weeknight, with long and unmoving lines, piles of trash looming over the receptacles, filthy tables, and poorly stocked ingredients on the line.

It would be really interesting to hear the low-level employee experience of someone who's been working at Chipotle since before the Taco Bell CEO started the transformation into... Taco Bell.
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It'sSimplyNotVeryNaturalToReadTextWhereCapitalLettersTakeThePlaceOfSpaces,AndThereIsThe"NASAIs"ProblemToo.

In_most_fonts,_the_underscore_character_is_visually_like_a_space,_and_you_can_distinguish_"NASA_is"_and_Mike_vs_mike.
> They ARE the podcast industry.

Huh. I never knew that Apple invented RSS feeds and hosting an mp3 file at a URL. Because that's all a podcast is.
Hi, thank you for pointing out the room for improvement on the FAQ. What it attempted to communicate is that the App will indeed stop working after the License expires, so it will have to be renewed at that point
That's the filter bubble effect that the OP alluded to.
We’ve known a less formal version of this for a long time though. People use SAT solvers because most of the time they work very quickly even though SAT is an NP problem.
There is no compelling scientific evidence that seed oils are unhealthy. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/scientist...
But on the other hand, one can't argue ignorance of the law so then everyone is supposed to already know all laws and understand them!
ok laid off hackers, no more complaining that you can't find work!
I built this in couple of hours, will add that feature in next iteration. But for now you just click button "Refresh now" and boom.
Ehhh...I'm a bit skeptical.

Isn't one of the other reasons for building the massive complexes because as long as you're going to be building something there, you might as well build what will get you the biggest profit?

I've heard of this being the case in several areas in recent years, and it seems to me to be just another casualty of the increasing obsession with maximizing profits at all costs on the part of far too many companies.
I think all of the car dealers I've dealt with the past decade are doing something like this. I get "handwritten" notes from them a few times a year telling me the market is hot for my 5 year old Subaru and I'd be a fool not to trade it in.

I don't know if it's a machine writing the notes or if that's what salespeople do when they aren't busy.
Interesting i thought stable diffusion was the only other "big player" besides OpenAI because of the expenses in training and extrapolating from papers / new research.

Is Midjourney heavily funded? Because if they can battle SD why aren't we seeing lots of people doing the same, even in the Open Source space?
MacOS Preview app has a handy feature to add a signature via the trackpad or camera and then just paste it into any PDF.
For what it's worth, Yellowstone's upper lava chamber is 5% molten and the lower magma chamber is about 2% molten. To get eruptions that percentage has to be much higher as it is in the Hawaiian volcanoes. Scientists have differing opinions on how many years it will take to reach that level but all of their numbers are well over 10k years. I had to look into this prior to moving near it.
The pope is only infallible when he's speaking ex cathedra, not just generally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility
You're right, I mangled Ah and Wh in my head, sorry. 4V 1Wh battery and 24V 1Wh batteries are equally useful.

Your numbers are a little bit off though. I just googled some power bank (which is supposedly better than smartphone). It claims to provide 20 000 mAh at 5V. So it's 20 Ah at 5V or 100 Wh. I think most smartphones are around 10-20 Wh. Far from 5 kWh. But this discrepancy was already noted in other comments.