skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are they not allowed to try to improve their "horrible" situation.

Corporations are allowed collective action but workers are not, seems kind of untenable.
What’s wrong with the other 50%?
My mind went to the Artificially Insane RACTER: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter
I say again: Jitsi Meet (Open source, self-hosted) has voice/video E2EE (it has text, but is not yet encrypted).

No login. No password. No app. All WebRTC. Chrome required since Firefox does not yet seem to support encryption over WebRTC (I think).

I set it up from scratch with Debian Linux and Virtualbox in about 30 minutes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rlffwHUchk
I have two theories about this, one is slightly less wild than the other.
1) As the population ages (boomers), they're losing their night vision and require these blinding floodlights to see the road.
2) It's a conspiracy to make driving unsuitable for humans and to encourage the adoption of self driving cars.
Not just sensors — entire devices and ecosystems of devices could use this, internally and for expandability. Anything that currently uses an RS-485-based protocol or even CAN could potentially switch.
Workers United: Tesla fires over 30 employees after union effort
Agreed. Nor should the platform disallow you from doing so.
This is exactly what it looks like to me as a layman—that editors/publishers are the real problem. They choose what stories to run and the edits to those stories, but also choose what type of journalists to hire and fire, which helps guide toward a certain narrative or bias. The latter point is basically what Chomsky said in Manufacturing Consent if I recall.
Not saying what you're saying is wrong, but there are lawsuits every day for discriminating against what people think are the majority in employment and housing. I'm not sure why my post was downvoted for pointing out a fact about the law and that most people don't realize it.

But you're doubling down not just on that people aren't aware of it but that it's a dead letter. That's wrong. You're confusing the government's spending power with discrimination in employment.
From what I understand, Von Staudt and some other geometers were trying to push back against algebra/arithmetic taking over geometry, and against projective geometry invariants like the cross ratio being defined in terms of algebraic relations between Euclidean distances. So he flipped things around and developed arithmetic in terms of basic projective geometry relations instead. (Projective geometry is geometry without circles, angle measures, distances, or parallelism, only straight lines.)

See Coolidge (1934) "The Rise and Fall of Projective Geometry". AMM 41(4), pp. 217-228 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2302023

Google scholar search: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=staudt+throws

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Georg_Christian_von_Staud...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-ratio
No; what we need, in order to be willing to believe that understanding is happening, is to know that the underlying structures fundamentally allow that.

ChatGPT's underlying structures do not. What it does, effectively, is look at the totality of the conversation thus far, and use the characters and words in it, combined with its training data, to predict, purely statistically, what characters would constitute an appropriate response.

I know that some people like to argue that what humans do cannot be meaningfully distinguished from this, but I reject this notion utterly. I know that my own thought processes do not resemble this procedure, and I believe that other people's are similar.
I assume a whole lot og the 7000 are talking with government, lawyers, etc. DocuSign has to make sure they are legally in the ok and have to comply with every applicable government they have a client in/might have a client in.
A major factor here is trustworthy news organizations are extremely vulnerable to being bought as propaganda platforms.
When you have legislators chasing buzzwords and clout, you get a lot of grandstanding from them. They don’t understand the tech, which doesn’t really matter to them. What matters is they get to say they did something to protect the people.
Attribution to jonnycomputer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008075
> The average journalist values the truth and desires to report on the news with accuracy and fairness

The average journalist thinks they value the truth, accuracy and fairness. Observed behavior is very different to this flattering self portrait which is why they aren't trusted.

Actual behaviors of real journalists that create distrust which can't be blamed on advertisers or editors:

- Accepting large grants from billionaire foundations that are tied to pushing specific agendas and views. Example: look at how much money the Gates Foundation gives out in journalism grants tied to his personal agenda.

- Publishing stories that contain obvious "errors" (invariably convenient for their pre-existing agenda). Example: the NYT published a front page that consisted solely of the names of 1000 people who had supposedly died of COVID. It was meant to scare people and it took some rando on twitter about half an hour to notice that the 6th name on the list was of a person who had been murdered.

- Refusing to admit when they've misled people in the past, disinterest in publishing post mortems of their failures. Example: the lack of contrition over the Russiagate conspiracy theory.

- Point blank refusal to challenge certain types of sources because they think it's immoral to do so. Example: the BBC decided some years ago that climate change was "settled science" and that it was morally wrong to report on anything that might reduce faith in the "consensus". This is the opposite of the classical conception of journalism (challenging authority, digging up scandals, get both sides of the story etc).

- Relying heavily on sources that are widely known to be discredited. Example: Fauci stated early on in COVID that he lied about masks in official statements to the press, specifically to manipulate people's behavior. This did not stop the press using him as a trusted authoritative source. Another example: the way the press constantly cites academic "experts" whose papers are known to not replicate or which have major methodology problems.

There's way more.
Lush was really great back then. He often criticizes Python openly.

Personally, I also feel a bit sad the ecosystem has become a Python monoculture.

Lua was much nicer. Let's hope this book sparks some interest in alternative languages for ML.
According to Hersh the bombs were planted during joint naval exercises. That's a time when lots of people would be surprised to see a ship sailing around with its transponders off.

Your link is about illegal electronic surveillance and contains nothing related to recruiting random Norwegian teenagers as agents in the hope that they would become General Secretaries of NATO 40 years later, and thus somehow (?) able to direct clandestine missions of the Norwegian Navy.

Let's turn it around: Is there something Hersh's source told him that was surprising and could be verified independently?
> Companies are subject to the scrutiny of customers, shareholders, the stock market and a highly competitive job market. This creates a level of democratic accountability that, in my opinion, exceeds even that of Scandinavian countries.

Democratic accountability to the investors and owners of capital, sure, but not to the employees (the subject at hand) or society (what a "Scandinavian country" would be focused on).
Same issue with things like Grammarly. The willingness of people to send entire confidential company documents out to the cloud for stuff like this is astounding to me. "But it's only fixing my grammar."
Ah yes, "permanently".

Except on certain versions of Windows.
> OTOH building a whole new distribution system instead of effectively git-squash feels weird

Or even just `clone` with `--depth=1`? Just because the history exists doesn't mean you have to fetch it.
This isn't my area of expertise, but on first blush I don't view it as misleading. The Supreme Court has literally never ruled on 47 U.S.C. § 230 before. What if they rule that the safe harbor provision for moderation isn't severable from the anti-pornography provisions that were already struck down? Certainly Congress enacted them as part of the same statutory scheme and intended them to be complementary.

Filing as amici curiae "to impress upon the Supreme Court the importance of Section 230 to the community moderation model" isn't inconsistent with the fact that Section 230 allows community moderation. They are, in effect, asking the Supreme Court to consider the real-world ramifications, in case they might consider striking down the safe harbor provision you yourself note is so important to this issue.
Yes! This drives me crazy. But I mention it to others, (and how to experience it), and their eyes don't perceive it.

What % of people are sensitive to this? Any medical documentation? Is NHTSA aware?
Objectivity is easy to access if you're not totally censored. Propaganda works by concealing alternative opinions - once you know the trick, it's easy to hack, even a weak effort can work.
Google reportedly receives 99k search queries per second - which company actually handles 6 digit QPS reads?
“I Knew It Was Me”: Understanding Users' Interaction with Login Notifications
I appreciate how your handle is the polynomial multiplication instruction;)
Very cool but what's to stop Microsoft from doing this in Excel and making it instantly integrated into the software that millions of us already use?
Real lawyers don't necessarily know every case citation. Real law students and googlers might. You get a general sense of how things work.
I'd go even further and say the the motivation isn't specifically to shape public opinion to your view, but simply to present the content in a way that doesn't create cognitive dissonance with your personal view. If you personally don't believe that a piece of information is relevant, then you leave it out. That piece might not be relevant to your own view of the subject, but could be crucial to an opposing view.
It's enterprise software. 2/3 of headcount are probably sales, support engineers, deployment, compliance, legal, etc.
I am pretty sure it is not a benefit to be forced to work a job for 3 months that you don't want to work.
I don't know what part of the country you were driving in, but I find here in the London area, that a lot of the cats eyes are either damaged or dirty and don't reflect at all.

However when you do get on a stretch of recently resurfaced road with new cats eyes, it's bliss.
It might be accurate, but that's not the priority.

Think about it: broadcasting information costs something. Nobody is going to pay that cost unless they're getting a return for it. Nobody is going out of their way to provide you with information out of the goodness of their heart. They're doing it so that you buy what they're selling (e.g. pharmaceuticals, gold) or vote for their party, etc.

A lot of times that information will be technically not wrong, but that's not the goal.
> SQLite has always been able to handle multiple processes and threads

This is true for the vast majority of cases, although there's at least one documented scenario where using modern SQLite coupled with an old threading implementation (the one that predates NPTL in Linux) may lead to database corruption.

I guess that's why I said "blindly": as a way to incentivize OP to look this up. It's not that the SQLite database is fragile, but rather that it expects to be used in a certain way, and if you don't, you risk corrupting it.
> How is this legal, in the famously pro-labor EU?

Because it's actually pro-labor.

I go into a job knowing an employer cannot simply fire me out of the blue. Meaning I have a little stability to be able to plan my life a few months in advance.

The fact that Europe has a strong labor laws, worker unions and such is the reason why I chose to migrate to Europe and disregarded the US as a destination. A decision I never came to regret, by the way.

Keep that awful "at will employment" to your side of the pond, thank you.
Whoa now, remember we’re not just talking a mountain of examples, but “literal” mountains of sociological studies. You should try asking for longitude, latitude and elevation!
That's the price of real remote work culture which started in honest during the pandemic. I'm seeing US based employees replaced by LATAM based one. This is not the outsourcing scare of the 00's, this is real and it works very well.
Agree important to note the difference but I personally prefer the nested CSS behavior. Much more sensible to use `&` as a logical operator
Why would you expect me to have suggestions for a specific case when I'm saying that the general problem is hard, not simple?
He has a very boring voice that prevents me from watching or listening to any of his stuff.
Millennials who buy less are happier
Okay, fair enough. But the breakage can't be detected without telemetry then, I take it?

If so, that's... not ideal for sure.
Been saying this for literal years. Gotten to the point where I've seriously considered this https://imgur.com/a/m54lbAQ
I am not weighing in on the article or any commentary with this statement…You don’t sound healthy and might want to do a little self evaluation. Never leaving the house, not trusting anyone, thinking your wife is glitching, all sound outside the norm, even if what you are observing is true. You should still be able to do basic risk analysis and leave the house.

Sorry for the bluntness here.
Yeah, as you say, the old "drive up to garage wall, mark centers of where lights hit the wall, pull back 25 feet and adjust the headlights to the center of the marks" doesn't work on most modern cars any longer.
"An excuse to cut some projects that haven't panned out, dump a bunch of lower performers, and general other cleanup"

How is stopping bad projects, letting go non-performers and cleaning up an excuse and not just plain smart business?

People in this hackernews bubble are seriously disconnected from the real world.
They really aren't. If a package is downloaded 100k times and fails 1k times it's a very different issue than if it's downloaded 1k times and fails 1k times.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34804893. There's nothing wrong with it! I just need to prune the first subthread because its topheaviness (700+ comments) is breaking our pagination and slowing down our server (yes, I know) (performance improvements are coming)
I am a software engineer and travel agent on the side who only books flights and lives on flyertalk (because I find complex airfare to be a fascinating and fun optimization problem).

I don't understand how companies like this get any funding. From every angle it just seems exploitative.

For agents:
Getting set up properly with a GDS is not necessarily expensive, but it is a huge pain, and most agents don't want to deal with airfare at all for that matter. If they don't want to do this properly, then they're arguably doing customers a disservice (and really they should just provide them a link to book the air part themselves, but that's a controversial take in the industry).
But that said, this market for agents who don't want to deal with it and/or want to markup more to skim extra off the top is very crowded with consolidators, airline portals, etc.

For customers: this is just a worse google flights that actively suppresses price transparency. It forces a new middleperson, Duffel, in the picture whenever you need to change flights (increasing latency). It enables agents to skim off the top, and with the exorbitant fees it practically guarantees worse pricing than other channels.

I can (and do) routinely issue tickets with $0 fees, always same or lower price vs if the customer booked it themselves. I also still make significant commission (sometimes over 20% on quite expensive tickets). The customer gets tickets that are cheaper or far too complex to book on any self booking website. Everyone comes out ahead.
Maybe Duffel passes the (very occasional) private fare savings along, but I doubt it. Instead, they're probably doing the opposite and pocketing at least some of the commission and not even sharing it with the agent.
Most experienced agents charge some fees.. that's fine. But with Duffel, those CC fees are so incredibly high that it forces agents to charge higher fees (keep in mind that in the normal scenario there is $0 true cost here. The airline is the one that charges the card - you're just giving them the CC info).

So the target is agents that don't really know how airfare works and haven't put in the effort to get set up properly (either themselves or through a partnership with an existing agency)?
And it shows on the pricing page:
*What if I want to use my own IATA or ARC accreditation?*
*That’s no problem! If you have your own accreditation and would like to use it please contact us to discuss pricing and next steps.*
Translation: "If you actually know what you're doing, we can't price gouge you so contact us to work something out."

And more insulting, from my perspective as a software engineer, they likely aren't solving any technical problems in the airline industry! Their travel consultant job postings are for people with GDS experience. So they are just using the same GDS and NDC APIs that everyone uses, skimming off the top, and charging more than real payment portals potentially just to hand the airline a credit card number.

Everyone loses except greedy agents stepping outside of their skillset to upcharge and have a customized page that matches their brand.
No, I don't believe it. Corporate media owned by giant conglomerates is untrustworthy.
This syntax matches the CSS Working Group's recommendations, is that correct?

> "starting the nested selector with an identifier is invalid"

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-nesting-1/#example-34e8e94f
I guess op meant "proper English " as in "not literally but semantically translated"
Im seeing a pattern of tech companies going public the shitting the bed every time. Digitalocean, Rackspace, the list goes on.

Folks, stop doing this. This is squarely the fault of the VC-Startup overleveraged model where the public listing or SalesForce acquisition is the end goal but its about the most disingenuous and disrespectful thing you can do to the user these days because it's so tried and true what happens next.

Haha, sorry, where are my manners.. ahem.. Blood for the blood god!
A lot of executives are using this opportunity to get rid of people pushing social activism thru the corporation or firm.

Social activists at major technology companies have been revealed to be undermining the company or attacking the executive class over unpopular decisions like working with the military (twitter leaks,google, facebook etc.

Many boomer and gen x executives were astonished at the level of activism are cleaning house in their firm or fiefdoms.
Then have worse product for the users?
It's lacking agency, and it's not doing enough of that quacking and walking, it doesn't have memory, it doesn't have self-consciousness.

The Panpsychist view is a good starting point, but ultimately it's too simple. (It's just a spectrum, yes, and?) However, what I found incredibly powerful is Joscha Bach's model(s) about intelligence and consciousness.

To paraphrase: intelligence is the ability to model the subject(s) of a mind's attention, and consciousness is a model that contains the self too. (Self-directed attention. Noticing that there's a feedback loop.)

And this helps to understand that currently these AIs have their intelligence outside of their self, nor do they have agency (control over) their attention, nor do they have much persistence for forming models based on that attention. (Because the formed attention-model lives as a prompt, and it does not get integrated back into the trained-model.)
Same here. Of all the software companies, Docusign has the easiest, most straightforward product that is neither resource intensive nor it requires some bleeding edge innovation. So what do all those people do really?..
In 2010 I wanted Apple to do this.

In 2023 I want Apple to stay as far the hell away as possible from App and package management as possible on my Macintosh. I don’t have the same hang ups on my iPhone, but I don’t want a merger of policies and incentives between the two platforms either.
USA is like 50 separate UKs.
Metacademy – Your Package Manager for Knowledge
That often happens to me too. I always hope that they get the message, but I'm sure they just think I'm a jerk.
If you read to the end, they link to a library they made for solving the problem by wrapping Pillow C functions to be callable in C++
An excuse to use the word "decimated".
Let's not get started on "AI safety"...
> how can they possibly need over 7000 people?

I will paste my comment from the last time this was asked 4 months ago, an HN thread "Ask HN: Seriously, steelman this please. 7,400 employees at Docusign?" with 159 points [1]:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33012137

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It's quite easy to figure out if you look at their annual report, for example. [1]
Literally the first two pages of content explain, emphasis mine:

> To address this opportunity, our sales and marketing strategy focuses on businesses at all scales, from global enterprise to local very small businesses (“VSBs”). We rely on our direct sales force and partnerships to sell to enterprises and commercial businesses, and our web-based self-service channel to sell to VSBs, which is the most cost-effective way to reach our smallest customers.

> Hundreds of integrations with other mainstream systems where work gets done, such as applications offered by Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, and Workday.

> Globally adopted. Our expertise in electronic signature and other agreement technologies is truly global. This is key, given that different regions have different laws, standards and cultural norms. We assist multiple parties in different jurisdictions to complete agreements and other documents in a legally valid manner

> Vertical offerings. We offer enhanced solutions tailored to particular industries, such as financial services, real estate, life sciences, and government. In some cases, these may be variants of a product like DocuSign eSignature —for example, our additional DocuSign eSignature options for assisting with compliance with U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations. In other cases, it may be a distinct product for an industry, such as Rooms for Real Estate, which includes task management, templates, and workflow for real estate transactions.

You can see from their expenses that they spend two and a half times as much on sales and marketing than they do on research and development.

It's very easy to imagine how you could need 2,000 engineers to build and support e.g. 500 different integrations and 50 industry-specific solutions, all of which need to be actively maintained for compatibility. And then an even larger salesforce that is selling to companies literally across the globe. Not to mention the lawyers and legal analysts attached to all of those.

Docusign isn't a mere PDF viewer computer program, it's a business that provides ironclad legal services that are vetted by lawyers and guaranteed for your industry's specific legal needs in the countries where you operate.

[1] https://s22.q4cdn.com/408980645/files/doc_financials/2022/ar...
Couldn't find the pricing page, is it free forever?

Bug reports:

In the top navbar, the signup link is invisible and right next to login so that I ended up on the signup page when I thought I clicked login.

In the profile dropdown menu, once logged-in, the logout link does not have a pointer cursor.
You are right, and I did not intend to imply otherwise. I just mean that he bases this particular opinion on unfounded claims, as an example that even he can be led astray.
Tetris – biopic about legal battle to secure the IP rights for the game