skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because accounting is not the same thing as book keeping. Book keeping can, and in fact is, partially automated. Accounting however, is not just about data entry and doing sums, things which frequently are automated, but also about designing the books for a given organization. Every company is different in how it does business so every accounting system is a bespoke solution. There are a lot of rules and judgement calls involved in setting these up that can't really be automated just yet.

Also, accountants don't just track the numbers, they also validate them. Some of that validation can be done automatically, but it's not always cheeper to hire a programmer to automate that validate than to just pay a bookkeeper to do it. But even if you do automated it, you still need someone to correct it. The company I used to work had billing specialists who spent hours every week pouring over invoices before we sent them to clients checking for errors that were only evident if you understood the business very well, and then working with sales and members of the engineering teams to figure out what went wrong so they could correct the data issues.

In short, a typical accounting department is an example of data-scrubbing at scale. The entire company is constantly generating financial information and you need a team of people to check everything to ensure that that information is corrects. In order to do that, you need an understanding, not just of basic accounting principles, but also of the how the specific company does busines and how the accounting principles apply to that company.
Agreed - though I would add rationally empathic.

I've found that if I follow-up, immediately, with an understanding of my child's perspective, they are more on-board with what I am modeling. Then, it's not just about me being the authority, but me demonstrating why I have 'a better idea'.

It makes it almost effortless to be fair, firm, and consistent, and was the one thing missing from my own rather draconian childhood.
Yep!

We release the same plugins on Windows, macOS and iOS so we get great coverage with compilers too. I should set up a build for Linux with gcc but haven’t had the time yet.
Just look off Indeed or anywhere specific? Asking for OP.
So please help me to believe
I am assuming you are talking about Tor. This is a sophisticated view of things and it's correct. Tor provides as good security and anonymity as a public VPN. But Onion Routers and therefore Tor were built with the intention of protecting against powerful adversaries that can perform MITM attacks. You could argue that the FBI is an even more powerful adversary I suppose but I think there is a mismatch in what Tor was intended to do in theory versus what it provides in practice and without knowing that you could be making a mistake. So I think it's unfortunate that people have to know how to do this analysis before making decisions.
Happy to see this, mostly because HomeAssistant stuff is nowhere near consumer-ready. I barely have the Docker knowledge to get it working in the first place on my NAS, and even just doing basic automations assumes you know much more coding/process stuff than the typical normie.
Ask HN: Gmail having spam problems for anybody else?
This week I had 7 spam E-Mails actually hitting my Gmail inbox. Obviously reported them all and they are still coming through. Now the theme changed from FedEx to Viagra and it keeps coming. I was with this service for 15 years and can not recall a year I had as many spam Mails hitting my inbox in the whole year. Is this an isolated incident or does anybody else have problems. I can not find anything reporting this so maybe I fucked up and spilled my address to one of the more skilled networks.
> Or both.

Neither, the tool has false positives, i.e. it sometimes reports divions as a potential divion by zero even though it isn't one.
Cambodia is a good example. Under the Communist regime of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge the country was turned into the killing fields. Their four-year rule (1975-1979) decimated Cambodia, created widespread human suffering and as many as 2.2 million deaths [1]. I guess this is not the part of Cambodian history you meant but it does show what a Communist regime is capable of given free reign.

[1] https://alphahistory.com/coldwar/cambodia-under-pol-pot/
Just from the description I think this doesn't handle continue.
fails when both hands touch or cross
I don’t need to do any such thing. Just point out that no reasonable alternative has been proposed by anyone and conclude that it’s therefore infantile whining.
I went to an English boarding school in the 70's when it was still part of the system that produced officers for the British Empire.

Basically, they put you through hell, both institutionally and Lord Of The Flies. Bullying was normal, and vicious, and inescapable (no going home to get away from them). You dealt with it or you persuades your parents to let you leave, or you suicided. In my school of ~400 pupils we had at least one suicide a year, often more.

The thinking was that if you survived all this then you would be sufficiently tough (mentally and physically) to be sent to some colonial outpost far away from everyone and everything that you knew, with no help nearby, and not lose your shit.

It kinda worked as intended for most people - ex-classmates I've met since are confident and charming. But for those like me, who didn't get on with the system so well, it was years of clinical depression and therapy to heal from it.

There's a name for it now: Boarding School Syndrome [0]. It manifests in adulthood as a range of symptoms, but emotional detachment is probably the most prominent. It's not healthy, and realising that almost all of Britain's most prominent politicians suffer from it (and every single British prime minister since Thatcher went to boarding school), it becomes obvious why Britain is such a mess now.

[0] https://caldaclinic.com/boarding-school-syndrome-the-childho...
Hence you don't build documents with SPAs, they are meant for applications. And usually you don't care about indexing the inside of applications, only the landing pages and such, which are documents (should not be a part of the SPA).

A blog built as a SPA? Sucks. A blog built as a collection of documents? Awesome.
somehow after all these years, we're still feeding them.
Sometimes I think ChatGPT was just some twisted, treacherous, indirect plot, to find a way to finally discredit Jordan Peters.
Changing existing bad code i an advanced topic.

Just working with adding features to decent existing code is all I ask.
The real reason to use Firefox is to prove Netscape won the browser war and Microsoft sucks.
“My Tweet About AI Porn Went Viral, and What It Taught Me Was Upsetting”
No, it demonstrably does not.

What impacts your score (in this axis) is utilization of revolving credit: credit used over credit available. Driving the numerator to zero will increase your credit score. Increasing the denominator will also increase your credit score. There is no situation where—all else being equal—increasing the numerator will increase your credit score.

> Your credit score is an assessment of your value as a customer.

No, your credit score is an assessment of your trustworthiness to a creditor, and the expectation that you will pay off any balances in full. Individuals with high credit scores are not generally directly valuable customers as they carry little revolving debt and are given low interest rates for mortgages and car loans. They accrue and use significant amounts of credit card rewards, which further cut into your profits. However, they (generally) make more and larger purchases so you make more money on merchant fees than you do with other cohorts.
Rendertron is deprecated

Please note that this project is deprecated. Dynamic rendering is not a recommended approach and there are better approaches to rendering on the web.

Rendertron will not be actively maintained at this point.

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/rendertron
Show HN: Amazon Product Recommendations Using ChatGPT
Hi HN!

I built recommendation system using GPT-3 to figure out what product to buy on Amazon.

The LLM asks questions to sus out what requirements I have and then also generates 3 recommended products based on the chat. It then searches a third-party Amazon API currently.

Let me know what you think!
Guy who said - “I don’t understand all of this, can we just throw more machines?” should get the award.
yes, I get that. some people can't consistently balance a monthly budget. but you asked why not use only debit, and I gave you a reason. for people that can manage a monthly budget, a credit/charge card is strictly better, even if you don't take cashback/rewards into account.
Show HN: tar256sum, stable checksums for Git archives
Those kinds of systems already exist. They tend to be a bit unreliable and still require a human person to oversee the process. Besides, in truth, they only handle a fraction of what accountants actually deal with.
Fairphone 4 gets its long overdue Android 12 update
Were the Unabomber’s Predictions About Technology Correct?
For reference, here is the manifesto:

http://editions-hache.com/essais/pdf/kaczynski2.pdf
I was actually thinking the very same thing since I posted that! I don't remember the original series that well, but I do have a vague recollection of everyone 'buying into it' incredibly well, like you say. I guess it's a testament to the Muppeteers, too! I need to rewatch the recent - excellent - movies and do a comparison.
I've got an rei quarter dome tent that I can hang my laptop at the top and use external mouse and keyboard on the ground. It's not perfect but pretty nice for computing horizontally.
Is lying in-of-itself unethical?

I'd be curious to probe a framework that thinks it is, while not holding that axiomatically. As someone who leans heavily into consequentialism, I can think of plenty of times lying can lead to a net positive for everyone. Likewise, there are harmful truths that should be suppressed.

That suggests to me that lying is, in-of-itself, amoral. The effect of the lie (or the intent, if you swing that way) determines whether it's ethical or not. Who is harmed by your assuming a fabricated identity? For the vast majority of people, who exactly you are matter little. So it's hard to suggest they are harmed by having an incorrect model of you. It may be manipulative to those trying to piece together your identity, but being doxxed can and often does lead to harm befalling your person, so your lies against them can be plainly justified under self-defense.
The linked article clearly lists the makes, models and years that State Farm is blacklisting.
Keep keeping me amazed and I’ll keep loving the life I’ve lived
> Once a company grows beyond a certain threshold of employees, then the probability of having hired saboteurs increases.

But is the layoff really the first time having these employees was dangerous? If you can't trust your staff (and sometimes you can't) then don't you need policies even in good times that prevent them from doing dangerous stuff solo? E.g. the number of people who can drop your production users table should be tiny, merges to the main branch require a review+approval from someone other than the author, viewing PII data is logged etc etc.

> This is where social safety nets could play an important role in incentivizing folks to not worry, thus reducing the likelihood that they attempt to sabotage a company on their way out.

I don't think the social safety net is sufficient incentive. I think the components that create alignment are:

- severance is equiv to multiple months of _total_ compensation, such that people who are let go have a good shot at ending up ahead financially by getting a new job faster than that. For this reason, they're not necessarily even that upset.

- all employees, whether departing or retained should be _given_ some additional chunk of equity, possibly with some restriction which prevents them from selling for k months? Extending the exercise window is not enough, if some people have options which are underwater for that full period. Everyone then still has a material reason to want the company to do well. Retained employees who are likely asked to do more work do not feel that the departing employees got a better deal.
I've cross shopped Amazon, Target, and Walmart from time to time. It's literally the same products from the same third-party sellers for the same prices.
My favorite is Library Extension which watches pages you surf for media titles and gives you a link to your library to check them out instead of buying them. Works well for me.
Telemetry analysis doesn’t care who you are, and makes no effort to find out, even if it’s plausible that one could find out of effort was taken to do so.

Tracking analysis does care who you are, and makes every effort to find out, whether to sell marketing to you or to sell your data to others.

It isn’t necessary to deanonymize telemetry to make use of it, and it’s quite costly to do so (both in PII storage duties to GDPR et al. and in enrichment terms), so tracking isn’t knowingly done by default by lots of telemetry implementers (for example, Homebrew).

Note that telemetry implemented using Facebook clearly does end up with Facebook trying to track you in order to sell you ads and sell your data; implementation decisions are critically relevant when it comes to collecting telemetry, in order to not accidentally cause tracking.
Does this not point to more of a psychological issue such as avoidance, not a financial illiteracy one?

I don't want to come off as aggressive because this is your family, but I'm guessing your mother can multiply 2 by 12.
‘Sushi terrorism’ has sent a Japanese company’s shares plunging
The stuff is branded ezricare, sold on Amazon, and made by a company called Global Pharma Healthcare Private Limited.

Are they just companies I don't happen to know because I'm dumb, or anyone can just set up his lab to sell medicine on Amazon?

How is the supply chain monitored for drugs ?
ESA – Space Suit Design Competition
No one can stay in the quietest room in the world for more than an hour
No. Because HTML is not the future of the Web.
The world is a competitive place and we are seeing some folks lose their innocence.

If what you are doing is a real business, then given the choice to protect your business or aspiring to be "open" (but with no benefit, just risk") - you focus on the business.

It's really no different than releasing too much of your secret sauce as open source - can only hurt you and is a sign you aren't that mature about what running a business through various problems is like.
They've stopped exporting to western countries.
Gets cleared up later in the article

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It allows bacteria to produce to highest electric power reported possible so far and explains how these bacteria can survive without oxygen-like membrane-ingestible molecules and form communities that can send electrons over 100-times bacterial size. But to date, no one had discovered how they are made and what why they so conductive.
Well, the OP asked "what’s the trick to becoming a celebrity", so the candidate would be someone as talented as Carmack that WANTED to get noticed. It wouldn't take a lot.
Another interesting question : are frontend developers jealous of what the backend developers are doing, or are they not?
Zoom is my wrong, I've set away browser.zoom.full option to text only.
I wonder, does it get the meaning of "10-4" when translating English to other languages?
New form of ice is like a snapshot of liquid water
My problem with Siri is that it doesn't understand speech. I am non native speaker but coming from Android I had no problems with Google in understanding what I am saying. It just does not understand or completely alters the phrase.
Well, they do call it "virtual tapes", would be weird (maybe even illegal? False/misleading advertisement?) if they ended up storing it on physical tapes anyways.

Edit: found in another thread here, the inventor linked the patent (https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa...) which confirms it's virtual tapes, not actual tapes.
Five cups equals 2.5 liter? Then I assume you are American, where these huge quantities are more normal. And usually not that strong coffee either (on the contrary). The Spanish sometimes use 'CAFE' as an acronym: Caliente (hot), Amargo (bitter), Fuerte (strong) and Escaso (small amount).
You seem pretty confident in a subjective opinion.
You forgot that people use the search engine with >90% market share?
Yeah, that makes total sense. For me, the extra mental of thinking about when to charge something and when to pay it off just isn't worth $60/yr.

Counter-factually: If autopay didn't exist, I would gladly pay $5/mo to have all my bills paid automatically.
Frankly, one does not need this paper to get towards the AI. Adam the optimization algo you might need (and even there I am not sure). And it is very readable. The fact that this particular proof of Adam's convergence is complicated is largely irrelevant.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.6980.pdf
> This seems like a pretty straightforward mechanism for covert operatives, to generate a believable (and memorizable) cover

I think the official term is "legend" for this one. This occasionally comes up in spy movies and I also get some search results for it.
Same here none of the other engines I tried stuck because I always had to go back to Google.

I still use Google for Google images
In theory, the "modern" frontend frameworks could be useful for a subset of applications. In practice, they are wildly overused, largely (IMHO) because front-end developers have forgotten how to build without them.

If I gave this as an example, people would say I'm being unfair to the front-end folks. But since Deno posted it, I think it's fair say that it's overkill to use a front-end framework like React (mentioned as a comparator in TFA) to implement add to cart functionality on an e-commerce site. And that for users with slow browsers, slow/spotty Internet, etc., an architecture that uses a heavy front-end framework produces a worse overall experience than what most e-commerce sites were able to do in 1999.

Edit: IMHO all of this is an artifact of mobile taking a front seat to the Web. So we end up with less-than-optimal Web experiences due to overuse of front-end JS everywhere; otherwise shops would have to build separate backends for mobile and Web. This, because an optimal Web backend tends to produce display-ready HTML instead of JSON for a browser-based client application to prepare for display. Directly reusing a mobile backend for Web browsers is suboptimal for most sites.
> So many competitors just don't listen

Sometimes people build things/products/companies/whatever not because of the chase of money, but because they want to put their idea in the world. Maybe it's just a case of someone believing they can build something grander :)
Bias and ignorance are two different things. No knowledge is ignorance. Bias is using knowledge to judge new knowledge. The goal isn’t to pursue things with raging ignorance but to pursue them with no bias and collecting knowledge without conclusion, then once you’re knowledgeable of what is there you can take off with raging ignorance in the direction no one has gone before. But you can’t do than holding bias any more than you can having ignorance of what directions have been gone before.
Extracting money and creating walled gardens, while removing user choice, is also a focus of this server side cycle.
Sleep at the same time every night (this builds a routine).

Eat dinner at least 3 hours before you sleep, no later.

Shower before you sleep (cools you down and helps you sleep).

Keep your room temp at around 18-19C.

Buy blackout curtains and keep light in your room to an absolute minimum.

No caffeine or stimulants 6-7 hours before you sleep.

No phone/iPad/tablet/laptop screens before you sleep.

Use your bed for sleep and sex only. Nothing else.

Buy a good mattress and pillows.
Show HN: I built a hotkey that's effective enough for casting magic spells
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_myth_theory
Yeah that's why I also said transport.
This is super interesting! Would be cool if it highlighted the options that the output returns when it wants me to choose. I'm pretty impressed how fast it returns suggestions and useful ones too, good job :)
Feels worth mentioning that Learn You A Haskell is about 1/3 the length of the book you mentioned.

I agree that it won't teach you all you need to know to be really proficient with the language, and also wish it didn't omit monad transformers in particular. I still like that it's an easy read, and that I could hand it to someone with pretty much zero knowledge of FP. I used sections of it as a first resource, and then learned the rest by reading documentation, which is how I usually deal with new languages.

I haven't read the book you suggested, so can't comment on the content, but seeing that the first chapter is on lambda calculus makes me a bit skeptical. Perhaps you can tell me, is the book similarly beginner friendly?
feed preview seemed to break my browser since I have a ton of tabs open all the time. Not sure why the extension causes this, but just a head's up

Firefox has a really great json viewer that I prefer even over my IDE, but it's one weakness is it's lack of XML support which Chrome does have :/
I don't agree that your RL identity is a "minor" thing. It's right up among the most important things.
My email is on my HN profile.
Is 'rate of default' the term you are looking for?
I use and pay for Kagi, but more as an effort to support what I want to see (alternatives to Google) than specifically being 100% in love with it. It's pretty good, though, and definitely provides a bit of an alternative lens on the web from Google. I use !g much less frequently with Kagi than I used to with DDG.

I hadn't encountered Kagi's summarizer yet - thanks for the pointer.

Their "context search" was interesting given the hype around ChatGPT, and I'm excited to see where that goes. I see that's moved out of "labs" and will be added this month: https://labs.kagi.com/ai/contextai

A bit of self-reflection:

https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://news.ycombinator.co...

Many people have replaced Google search with other search engines such as DDG, Kagi, Brave, Neeva, and SearX. These search engines offer features such as manual control over upranking and downranking domains, the ability to lock search results to a specific region, and the ability to exclude or include certain sites in the results. Additionally, some search engines such as Kagi and Neeva offer the ability to pay for a subscription to access additional features. One interesting feature is the ability to use keywords in autosuggestions automatically, which can be found in Neeva.
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Duck Duck Go, but I’m building my own. Not in a “my startup will compete with Google” way, but in a self-hosted way.

YaCy is a really cool open source search engine and web indexer, and features p2p index sharing. Im hosting my own crawler, and feeding my browser history in, so it’ll index my history, and make finding things I’ve already seen (eg documentation) easy.
If you're employed "at will" (and almost everyone in the US is) you can't refuse "promotions." From the company's perspective they are deciding to no longer employ you for position a, but they are simultaneously offering to employ you for position b. You can take it or leave it.

Employment "at will" means either the employer or employee can end the relationship at any time for any reason or no reason at all.
Didn't know about codecs ...

The idea of using (abusing in fact) codecs to pre-process python code before it gets to the actual python interpreter is just fantastic!

I'm starting to think of all the terrible things I'm going to be able to do with this to work around things that have annoyed me for years in python.

[EDIT]: I'm thinking one can probably plug the C preprocessor in python now ... oh the sheer joy :D