skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I _really_ want to like any of the markdown to slides tools, but I can never find one that makes sense for my workflow.

I've revamped my entire workflow around writing proposals, reports, and other collaborative documents using markdown. With the time savings of using plain text and git, I can put together a professional looking document in a third the time compared to when we were all passing around proposal_version2_final_final2.docx around. And with most of the company using Azure DevOps wikis which are markdown based, I can have everyone collaborate in the wiki and then I pull the repo locally, cat the .md files together and render as a pdf and send it out.

...but my presentations are typically a title, one or two phrases, and a figure. And then I mark up the figure with arrows or circles, or other overlays. The only way I can get that to work in a markdown-to-slides workflow is to end up drawing the figures in powerpoint or draw.io or something, exporting them as a png and embedding them in the slide. So if I'm going to be in powerpoint anyway, I just end up making the slides there.

That being said, I'll probably spend the day in the Marp rabbit hole and see if I can get it to work for me. I hadn't heard of it until today. If I can live in markdown and VS Code, I'll be happy!
Also, Scaleway is European, with datacenters in France, Amsterdam and Warsaw.
> governments, banks, basically real world trust

surely you're joking, mr. drowsspa
I've been seeing videos about this for probably 20 years (here's a link from 2009 https://phys.org/news/2009-06-gecko-feet-advances-science-fr...). But it's starting to seem like an elusive graphene-type material that will never be commercialized :(

When can I finally buy some gecko gloves, damnit!
To piggyback, it's been almost a year and I still haven't gotten over the first time I saw DALL-E 2. Or the first time I've used GPT-2 (via AI Dungeon Google Collab sheet). Not sure when was the previous last time I've felt that sense of wonder. Perhaps the first time I've interacted with the original iPhone?

Edit: I remembered some more from the past:

- First Boston Dynamics Atlas videos.[0]

- First successful Falcon 9 landing[1].

- A video explaining how the Curiosity landing will be done and then watching the stream when it happened.[2]

- The concurrent landing of two Falcon Heavy boosters on land.[3]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANv5UfZsvZQ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2I8AoB1xgU

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX1Y2JMK6g8
I absolutely think that exceptional service is possible - for example, when I visit a restaurant with my elderly grandparents who have some extremely particular dietary restrictions, and the wait staff patiently discuss our options, help them create a meal that satisfies their preferences and remains interesting, I find that exceptional. I've had wait staff give us genuine recommendations on the menu, with honesty, indicating the dishes they don't like (much more rare) as well as those they do resulting in a good meal - I enjoy that candor and am happy to tip for the recommendation. I've also had staff stay late and keep a restaurant open because we were on the last train into a station with nowhere else to go and eat and didn't speak the local language - I found that exceptional as well.
A Checklist of Anyone Practicing Site Reliability Engineering
You're talking about lack of competition while defending corporate mandated lack of competition and undermining of the web. That's not how this works.
It's true, but the raise _just happened_, which means there's still loose VC money out there. The narrative has been that there's been a transition to more conservative funding...apparently not in this case, at least.
Ask HN: Is ChatGPT Reliable to Build On?
I see a lot of products coming out based on ChatGPT. But can you build products on ChatGPT with the assurance that they will not yank their service from under you in the future, like how Twitter did?
My family is adept at forgetting passwords and losing physical devices. Keeping track of air pods is a complete nightmare. I can't even imagine adding extra physical devices where I'd have to manage the backups and constantly purchase new ones. Having gone through the hell of dealing with recovering iCloud accounts while not having a bunch of spare Apple devices laying around, I refuse to go beyond SMS for 2FA. Yes, it's certainly less secure, but it's something I can manage and control outside of the Apple ecosystem.
My problem isn't a lack of ideas. It's having the bandwidth to do them all. What I really need is the ability to clone myself.
> I still don't understand the purported difference between "sounds smart" and "is smart".

One understands the problem space and used logical reasoning to produce a solution, the other put the problem into Google, hit "I'm feeling lucky" and then parroted the first result right or wrong (or an aggregate of that).

> How else can you verify an entity's intelligence other than its "output"?

I'd argue that's actually a good test. I'd also point out that that is exactly where these solutions let themselves down, because they make [to us] obvious errors and don't understand that they did. That's why you know they are smart sounding rather than actually smart.

> we can't see inside an AI's brain.

We absolutely can see inside a deep learning model's structure.
Show HN: Chafa.py – Terminal Graphics with Python
Hey HN! I've been working on Python bindings for the C-API provided by the terminal image-visualizer chafa.

Chafa allows you to view very reasonable approximations of images in your favourite terminal emulator by converting them to characters or, if your terminal is capable, kitty/sixels/iterm2 image protocols.

Chafa.py aims to be intuitive and produce very readable code.

I hope you like it <3
Well, in Vipassana we cultivate an awareness that is big, relaxed, spread-out, nonreactive.

I do that awareness shape all the time.
>I've already run into scenarios where ChatGPT generated code that looked perfectly plausible, except for that the actual API used didn't really exist.

Yes! I remember generating a seemingly reasonable R script except that the library that it called to do most of the work didn't exist! It was like code from an alternate dimension!
For whatever reason, you're not responding in this way to the root comment -- perhaps HN's rules of civility are only for some topics. If I'm the only one who can't read journalists' minds, this is an embarrassing way to find out!
Do you think sneering condescension will convince anyone to live in a studio apartment with their 4 kids in a dangerous part of town to appease your aesthetic hatred?
Your cellphone is doing far, far more to profile you than any $5 spend at a local coffee shop would.

All a CC company would know is you like expensive lattes; your cellphone would know how long you stayed there, where you say in the joint, and how many memes you looked at before you left. And might overhear everything you say, including your order.

If you're using any sort of digital payment or points app on your phone it'll probably know your order, too.

Listen, most places should take cash, but this is silly.
That is absolute nonsense. IE hasn't won either (despite its dominance), BECAUSE you could choose another browser.

This is why free markets work and command economies don't.
Edgelords always start out as babies, so … babies commit atrocities. Where does that get us?
And it's sibling, lowendtalk, and search sites like https://www.serverhunter.com/

But definitely be extra careful with your backup and DR plans if using dirt cheap hosts…
Semantic debates are largely irrelevant. It is what it is.
Real progress in any field or endeavor comes down to about 5% new ideas and creativity, 95% hard work putting those new ideas into practice or building something functional out of them.

That 5% is pretty critical however, as without it you're just continuing to redo what's already been done.
Just watching these people who’s job is in peril write article after article about how AI is the worst thing ever invented is amusing.

Journalism will survive. Journalism will always survive.

Shitty content mill “journalists” should probably get the AI to pad out their resumes for them.
No, Touch ID is just a finger print reader. It can be used as a stand-in for a security key, but it's all in software on your device.
Yes, that is the intent
I have used ChatGPT somewhat successfully to decompile assembly in to C and C++. It's making a lot of mistakes but despite all of this, it's very helpful.
I think most issues brought up here would be addressed by writing rfcs and have those go through a review cycle, potentially with attached code that is clearly understood to be a proof of concept. It leverages async by giving someone the autonomy to do clear thinking and clear coding, while avoiding pushing the feedback cycle to when all the work has been done and everybody is stuck with a “lgtm can you reindent the last line” review of a fait accompli .

Added benefits are proper top level documentation, and a log of the discussions and compromises made to cut short on future design discussions.

Edit: typos on mobile
That was my thought when I read the article. Also can't help wondering what the same analysis on human generated articles would produce...
Here is France. Rounding up to the euro or nearest bill if it’s a large sum is considered a nice gesture but is not usual nor expected. If you tip 15%, people will wonder what’s wrong with you and don’t understand why you flaunt your money (or assume you are American).
>If someone has the mentality that they are free to spoil your food because they won't get a (good) tip, then they don't deserve to be paid at all, let alone be tipped well.

This is not a good follow-up for the parent's concerns. I tip for the same reason parent tips: for protection. I don't want my things to be messed with. I don't care who's in the right, I don't care what the server thinks, if it's the culture that we tip, then we tip, or potentially face the consequences of being outliers of the culture. It's not my hill to die on.
>> a downwards trend in quality

Have you googled for reviews on toaster ovens recently?
Disagree hard. I’ve been given so many garbage gifts that I immediately threw away or donated. I tell my family members to just do cash or gift cards for me. I’d rather get exactly what I need than some junk I’ll never use.
I agree with that. But if you're doing a presentation about something then curb appeal matters. You can't beat ppt and keynote for simplicity and making it look good too.
Yeah, pretty sure that loop is to modify the lookup table for strings in runtime so you can't just statically replace it in the code, it's not strong obfuscation but in a properly deobfuscated code that loop wouldn't exist
> There were people in the office taking decent salary, doing barely anything with kind of no expectations of their performance whatsoever. Some were doing their masters, some hit the gym very hard, some were just chilling out.

I am pretty sure I am this person right now. Got the job but mostly not qualified for it, though I'll concede it's a niche field and they probably have to train people regardless. But it feels square-peg round-hole.

What do?
For reveal-js, you can always use `?print-pdf.` to get a static PDF from your slides.

[1] https://revealjs.com/pdf-export/
ES should re-write in Rust. Database engines created in GCed languages make no sense imo. Furthermore, Java is probably the worst choice of the GC big 3 (Java, C# and Go).
everyones talking biscuits vs cookies. I love it.
I've had dealings with Chinese chemical producers. You don't open a business or sell things to foreign countries in China without the CCP's knowledge and some small degree of consent. Considering the risks and the degree of monitoring I doubt Chinese chemical producers would try to pull a fast one on the party. The party also almost certainly provided capital for a lot of these businesses.
I'd start here for a quick 10 minute overview: https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/i-tried-rubbing-a-database-on...
Of course, a human would never lie about that.
Another one is "meditation with a seed" and "meditation without a seed".

From Raja Yoga. Translated. Samprajnata Dhyana and Asamprajnata Dhyana, respectively.
It's unbelievable that we are in 2023 and this stuff still goes on.

I recently had to contact my cellular provider's customer service and the agent "authenticated" my identity by asking for my birthday. After that he proceeded to do everything I asked, including discussing private info

This article is from 2019, but sim swapping has been an issue discussed in mainstream tech media for more than a decade. All that I have seen change is some countries requiring cellular providers to ask for legal identity documents, which didn't solve the problem, only made it harder to be private

What annoys me more is that till this day, some websites only provide 2FA with a phone number and no other option
Not the King (of the UK, rather than England, strictly speaking) but the UK state versus Elon Musk.

"The Crown" is the state as represented by the reigning monarch. As such the Crown Estate is land that belongs to the UK as a group of countries, but ultimately represented by King Charles, for now. A few months ago, it was represented by Queen Elizabeth. In time, it will be represented by King Charles' successor.

The King doesn't "own" the land any more than the US President "owns" Air Force One - it belongs to the country and it's just a "work truck" for him while he's in the job.
Your careers and privacy policy page links in the footer just link to the home page.
I understand what you're saying, but the point of this particular article is (1) this particular technology is likely to bring about profound (once in a lifetime?) changes in work practices, and (2) the consequences of such are likely to lead to millions/billions of people losing their jobs and indeed entire careers. That seems something worth worrying about, both for those people and everyone else.
Hotels don't request this
I've built https://billabl.co with this idea in mind. It's early days and I'm just hacking on it as a side project. I use the event title for the project name, or sometimes the client name (depending on how busy I am with that client, or how detailed my invoices need to be). Sometimes I'll create a separate calendar just for one client. So far it connects to Google calendars only.
Even if I remove all the obvious distractions, it still is much harder to read a long text on a monitor that it os on paper. So I just print the documents I have to read.
Maybe this could encourage the recreation of the original Yahoo! (If you don't remember, Yahoo! started out not as a search engine in the Google sense but as a collection of human curated links to websites about various topics)
> Well, I'll take convenience and productivity, thank you very much.

This is exactly the reason many people, myself included, prefer markdown. If you want to make an obviously provocative comment like this, you should add some substance it.
I can't convince myself a religion is true no matter if it makes me feel good to believe in it. So effectively I end up with the correspondence theory of truth whether I like it or not.
We version our pricing plans, and you should, too
Sure- though there was just an appeal hearing in November. The judge also warned that Apple uses anticompetitive behavior and is on the road to becoming a monopoly.

> While Apple is not considered a monopoly and did not engage in antitrust behavior on nine of ten counts, Apple’s conduct in enforcing anti-steering restrictions is anticompetitive.

> A coalition of 35 states, Microsoft, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and several other groups filed amicus briefs in support of Epic's position, arguing that Apple held a monopoly and thus that Epic should prevail in its lawsuit.
You get the money back, so it's a deposit, not a surcharge.
>I still don't understand the purported difference between "sounds smart" and "is smart".

"sounds smart" is using the vocabulary in a specific way that gives some people the impression of smartness. "being smart" is more like transporting a complex idea to the brains of other people, your words and sentences need to align quite well for this to work out. I have not seen such a thing from AI yet.
>I think tipping at its very best is an opportunity to give a stranger a small gift.

I think tips work well, if this is the case. When tips are expected, for example because otherwise the server makes much less than minimum wage, then it's not a small gift anymore, and that's problematic. But when I like a service, give a bit more, they like that, give me a bit more of a service, knowing that I'll give a bit more the next time too, then I don't think that's something I should be against.

But the base price must be fair.
Vegas ('Gasp') Throat (1978)
> you are refusing them their status of victim of circumstance

smokers are not victims of circumstance.
Public transit works and works well, as proved Q.E.D. in many, many, many cities and countries about the globe.

The problem in central north america is the Nacirema are a weak minded easy fooled people who have fallen for 50+ years of Koch propaganda and for the most part not even noticed as it happened.

https://grist.org/article/the-koch-brothers-hate-public-tran...

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/uresposters/290/
The point is that as soon as a library stores a time_t in an ABI-relevant structure it breaks a lot of stuff. So yes, for an application only linked to glibc it works fine. But when you have different libraries liked with different versions it quickly falls apart.

For example see https://lwn.net/Articles/605607/
Maximum Sum Subarray Problem
I used the desktop version to learn touch typing. Can recommend!
That's a reasonable plan. And I 100% agree that controlling your data is preferable to having it mined.

What frustrates me, and why I don't do it any more, is we don't have a manageable story for most things. In many cases there's a good recipe you can follow to stand up the basic service. But hardening, security patching, etc. aren't covered. You have to come up with your own solution to make sure it's up, etc. On top of that, projects come and go, and someone may unfortunately choose a project that's a dead end and won't be patched. (And big-budget cloud doesn't solve many of these issues, either).

My personal fear is that a lot of self-hosted stuff becomes like all the unpatched Wordpress sites, years ago, that were just vectors for hacks. It wasn't that the data was stolen, they were pretty much pwned to launch other attacks. There are just too many solutions out there for all the bits and pieces needed to keep stuff up and secure. And all those fiddly bits are hand-integrated (for the most part). I'd like to find something that provided me a full stack, with all the boxes checked. I would get monitoring and security patching around all the bits.

In the interim, I try to use products from companies that either don't primarily make money by advertising based on my data (even if the products are more expensive). (Note that advertising is what you do when you're out of real ideas - so it's inevitable that all companies head that way when MBAs with no imagination want a safe return). Or, I use products that are (as much as possible) open source. (There are still disturbing amounts of proprietary blobs in my Raspberry Pi homely servers, for example).

With all that said, I wish you luck! I've run my own infra in the past and it's fun.
A similar x-platform library called TiGR (Tiny GRaphics):

https://github.com/erkkah/tigr

Brief discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310208
Essays used in marketing (that I wrote with the help of https://bestwritersonline.com/ best writers rating) are meant to persuade readers to buy a certain product or service. Company operations and promotional tactics may also be discussed. Writing this article with the intention of persuading the reader to take some kind of action is the point.
> Right, because it's a credit score, not a finance score. I'm not sure what you want here. Do you want credit bureaus to collect even more information about your financial life so they can have a more accurate picture?

To some extent _yes_, if that's how this has to work. If my ability to make significant life steps is based entirely on their view of my ability to pay debts then I would rather they at least have the full picture. As it is it's extremely inconsistent, one place I rented reported my rent payments to some of the credit bureaus (but not all of them), the others did not. Additionally utility bills don't appear, despite them probably being a reasonable gauge of whether you can pay for stuff on time (at least as reasonable as everything else they use).

It is what it is, but I was in that poster's same position and agree with them that it feels like a very dumb situation. I'm lucky that I at least saw it coming and a few years before buying a house I opened a credit card with the only purpose being to build my credit history. I have one thing that charges about ~$8 a month to it and it gets auto paid, and apparently _that_ was a big key to determining whether I'll be able to manage paying for a house. IMO that's just silly.
That's wrong. It's poetic, but incorrect. These tools are about as good as a non specialist with time to undertake some bullshitting.
Unless you think of another solution, when the "it" is the web, we have nothing else that works, because antitrust regulators won't come down hard enough on Google for leveraging its dominant position in search and mail to corner the browser market, and use it as an ad delivery platform.

Sent from my Firefox install.
> This is a known problem and registrars are handling it

Nitpick: registries are handling it. Registrars usually just use the IDN tables provided by the registries. Mixed script rules in particular are a nightmare to implement perfectly when the tables are not given directly by the registry (for some ccTLDs mainly).

For gTLDs these tables are directly available on iana: https://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables
In Poland also:

- Blik: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blik (similar to payconiq in Lux, and I assume there are similar systems in the other countries)

- Pay by link: was very popular since forever in Poland. Seems quite safe, and lower fees than CC/paypall (I don't have a good wikipedia link in English, maybe it's called differently in different countries. The payment gateway asks you to log it to the bank—it redirects to the bank webpage, it's not scraping—and bank then asks you to confirm via app/sms and issues an instantaneous transfer). PayU is quite a popular gateway for that https://corporate.payu.com
You and me both. The funny thing is, I wound up writing a program that would benefit from clustering, and felt my way around setting up MPICH on my zoo. I laughed out loud when I realized that, after all these years, I'd built an impromptu Beowulf cluster, even though the machines are scattered around the house.

Installing MPICH from source instead of from your distribution is best if you can't have all your cluster members running the same version of the same distro and/or have multiple architectures to contend with. But it takes forever to compile, even on a fast machine.
For god's sake NO, that would be the final nail in the coffin of Google owning web standards. 99% of users would choose Chrome because it's what they recognize most, and I assume in this scenario you're imagining this is actually different browsers using their own rendering engines.

I don't understand why in this world of Google's near monopoly on the web, people are more focused on government intervention to prevent Apple's pithy 9% marketshare for holding back poor Google.
Booking.com was founded in 1996.
I mean.. not intentionally maybe.
Stories like this make me think tipping should be abolished more. I feel bad for the other less charismatic servers. Just get rid of tips and pay them higher across the board.