skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are strong electronic signatures which are as safe as a signature can be: iow, a question of who generated the key (an issue with keys provided by official cert authorities) and how is it kept safe at rest (basically, how much care a user takes of them).

DocuSign is, in general, neither of these. I am sure there are less convenient options with DocuSign than the email based one, but I've only ever been asked to "sign" by attempting to draw my signature using a mouse or their own font.

I'd rather have someone attempt to forge my handwriting which experts can usually detect, and which requires a bit more sophistication: my concern is not about them being validated, but that instead if I claim how that's not my signature, I can easily provide a bunch of past signatures to an expert to prove my point.

There are free software and free hardware tokens which can generate secure certificates to use for encryption or signing. I would probably trust those best.
The ninja foodi line is pretty good. I've had mine for a few years now. I use the air fry, pressure cook, slow cook, and sous vide functions weekly.
Does it have to be on mobile devices?

How to install it locally on some kind of Linux or Mac ?
Oddly, I've never come across any Ralph Steadman illustrations other than HST pieces.

He even seems to exist independently, though.
First It Was Quiet Quitting, Now Workers Are Facing Off with Their Bosses
Probably, yes. I think this is probably true of any customized TWM.

For me that speed comes from the superior workspace management and less from the keyboard navigation. In gnome I find that the switching through alt-tab, super-tab and the dock is terribly buggy and constantly accidentally taking me over to another space, breaking my focus totally. I probably have undiagnosed ADHD and i3/sway allow me to maintain a very neat, totally distraction-free environment. I found myself coming up with scripts to keep my contexts static in gnome, but it's a losing battle.
> LLMs, in my opinion, are on average better at writing copy than humans.

I disagree here.

But what I found LLMs really useful for is summarizing topics like: "Suppose I want to do XYZ, which steps should I take?" or "I want to write about ABC, how would you structure the article?"

The content is not very good if you look at it in detail, but LLMs provide good overviews and gave me ideas on parts of a topic I overlooked.

More librarian than search engine. I cannot copy and paste and rely on the results but I can rely on that they point me in a good direction.
> Is the EFF aware that 95.75% of the population of the planet does not live under the Amendments of the Constitution of the USA?

And yet, that 95.75% has a net drain (especially among high earners and top of their fields professional) to the US, meaning that people all over the world seek and actively desire to be protected and live under the Constitution more than their countries' laws.
Reading through the docs, some thoughts:

- RE Observability, the lack of APIs to tag emails and retrieve them by tags makes this worse from that perspective to me because I’ve used Mailgun’s APIs before to pull down all emails we’ve sent in a burst to allow reconciling it against external data. No way to export data programmatically means that I can’t really do that type of reconciliation.

- some weird things in the docs like in the NextJS example it provides both raw HTML and react bodies for the email; not sure what this means. Also not clear why you don’t use JSX to render the email templates which seems not that idiomatic.

- as mentioned in a separate comment, GDPR/SOC2 stance would be good to know.

But looks promising, been burned by incumbents just generally having bad support, so looking forward to variety here.
What a impressive work & effort! Well done.
> I'm talking about stuff like spring cleaning around parks, living areas, recreational areas, sports fields, shoreline, and the list goes on. You don't get paid anything, but people still do it.

As somebody living in a "Nordic country", I respectfully disagree. The municipality often pays "volunteers" for this. It's usually sports clubs and similar organisations that need funding, and instead of just pouring it into them, the municipality "hires" them to do some cleaning, for example. So, after a big event in the city, you see folks all over the place cleaning up, often times kids from soccer clubs or such, but they don't do it entirely voluntarily, they do it because that will pay for their shirts next season or their trip to the training camp in the summer.

That said, it's also common to get involved in neighborhood activities that make things nice, planting some trees, painting some 300-year-old cabin in the woods with a bunch of neighbors that do care, this kind of thing, but I've lived in the U.S. for a while as well and we did that there too. Perhaps mostly with what you'd call hippies that participated mostly, but over here in $nordic_country, it's not like it's everybody who is contributing either. There are the more bourgeios who don't contribute and the I-don't-care-f*k-off type of neighbors as well.
I think the main issue here is that they cannot actually do this themselves because it would violate their remit as agencies focused outside the United States for good reason, but somehow buying the same data makes it "OK" from a compliance / constitutionality perspective.

It smells.
Realtors are desperately clinging on to the idea of $1000 per sq ft in an average neighborhood...
Here is a really good Wirecutter article that discusses the differences. TL;DR: they don't consider the switch away from borosilicate to be a big deal, but borosilicate-based products are still out there if you want them.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/tempered-vs-borosili...
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Never tried anything like this, but I’d assume you’d probably use Freetype to render an existing Devanagari font to a matrix, then map each pixel position and brightness to a corresponding ASCII character… effectively your result is just a larger image that uses very large, letter-snapped “pixels” to represent shades of grey.

One possible (and randomly found) starting off point, in Go: https://fiwippi.net/blog/post/rendering_images_with_ascii_ch...
Plausible explanation, and i can add a reason why people would want to override it: It opens up new dimensions of freedoms in terms of lifestyle. You can make more extreme decisions if you don't need to impress others.
Switching is a terrible hardware restriction leading to shared bandwidth.
I blame them for buying. This goes against the rules they were founded on - to be focused EXTERNAL to the United States. It's technically within the letter of the law but not the spirit and we should pass a law preventing access (and preventing tracking but that's a whole other deal)
So, like any other contractor the government normally works with?
Implying all government employees are morons is pretty harsh. I know a lot of intelligent, driven people working in government or for government contractors. I know we think we're gods here for writing websites but a little humility goes a long way.
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As long as you're installing/updating Python via your distro's package manager you won't break anything.
Most horror stories of borked system Pythons are caused by people uninstalling/updating packages from the system Python via pip or fiddling with their PATH.
altinstall is only useful if you have to compile Python from source to get it onto your system.
I honestly don't think the patent office can draw the right line on what mathematical formulas are discovered vs invented, so that seems reasonable to me.

I think you are looking at the abolition of patents from a very "software" perspective. Copyleft license terms have basically never been tested in court, and could just be unenforceable, but the tradition of software engineering seems to keep the peace there - GPL'ed and other open source hardware (which frequently has copyleft licensing) frequently gets ripped off without credit and nobody does anything about it. These would have bad facts in a court case, since the copyright doesn't cover the thing, just the schematics.

Trade secrets also generally don't protect you when your product is easy to reverse-engineer and you have customers or competitors with a lot of money to do it. A drug is a prime example of this.
I don't quite agree with this. What GPT does is extraordinary for a machine, but it is not terribly skilled compared to a human trained to be a fully capable communicator. What it primarily does is save the time humans would need to fulfill the brief. It automates the basics. That does not automatically elevate it to excellent or even beyond merely competent.

For the boilerplate- well sure, but I could do that with existing tools, no AI needed. Custom communications I'm sure AI can handle the very basics. but once a human replies and consideration is needed for special cases- can you imagine ChatGPT counseling you on a healthcare decision? I can't.

I can't imagine ChatGPT doing much more than being an autoattendant until a human can reply fully, except the message humans can send to the agency will be customized and drafted according to a standard intake process.
I pretty much stopped using bbedit when moving over to osx from system9. It had the ability to run emacs (there were some emacs ports for pre osx mac, but they all annoyed me in one way or another) and that was a nice return 'home' for me. I remember having to work on a project on a windows machine in the early aughts that drove me nut until someone handed me notepad++ and called it 'bbedit for windows'.

That all said, nice of apple to write a little puff piece about it and it's author. BBedit was a workhorse for many and continues to be for many. It's one of the few very successful mac apps that apple didn't just steal (like watson).
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Something that might not be obvious to onlookers is the extent to which these problems are concentrated in only Downtown SF. Though the situation downtown is undoubtedly bleak, many other neighborhoods in SF have been surprisingly lively lately, such as Mission Bay, Hayes Valley, and Dogpatch. A lot of people, myself included, still like SF, just not the downtown.

It's a shame; SF doesn't have any other retail hub, and every store that closes feels like a loss. The question will be to what extent can the damage be contained to downtown, and whether other neighborhoods can help make up for the decay of downtown.

I'd consider myself cautiously optimistic.
Depends what you mean by editable. Even though a materialized view may not be editable, many of its underlying values may be, and that's the root cause of the problem with denormalization.

Denormalized data effectively involves caching some source value in a durable way. As the saying tells us, cache invalidation is one of the two hard problems in computer science.

Of course in the denormalized DB context, detecting invalidation is typically simple: it's assumed to occur as soon as an update of a denormalized value occurs somewhere. At that point you may need an ACID update of all "cached" values, which is conceptually and computationally expensive. In the materialized view case, you may not do an update, but then you have an out of date cache.

So, we do see the effects of denormalization in a materialized view, but the pros and cons are a little different than in the case where data is stored in a primary table.
The thing that has struck me about all these sorting algorithms is before you can run them you already need to have all the items to be sorted, which may involve you waiting to receive them. So the act of sorting ends up being on the critical path of what you need to achieve. Not good.

I think its far better to sort the items incrementally as and when you receive them, so the act of sorting them is no longer on the critical path. Then the sorting takes virtually no time at all afterward, no matter how many items you need to sort.

The major bottleneck to computer systems is almost always the network and not the computing of algorithms. You can interleave the compute steps into the time spent waiting for the network.
> Ask your mom how much money she made raising you.

Apart from getting this upside down like others point out -- Mom sent me to daycare, which is exactly the type of specialization discussed in the article. One woman taking care of 5-20 kids instead of 20 moms doing it on their own.
I'd argue that a misleading source is a bit less harmful than a misleading assistant, and that AI is more like the latter.
Please continue.
One of the main benefits of regular maps—or even Google Maps without GPS—is the ability to simply 'learn' the directions. You read the directions to a specific place, internalize that you have to "take X road for Y kilometres, then turn onto Z side street...", and you remember it. On the way back, or next time you go, you know how to get there.

Something I've noticed because of this is that older drives—used to standard maps—know how to get somewhere without using a map; i.e., you tell someone an intersection and they instinctively know the route. For younger people, like myself, this is definitely less so the case. We don't have that same geographical familiarity. It's like a feedback loop: we use turn-by-turn GPS because we don't know the route somewhere and in turn never learn it.
Google bucks calls for a new AI regulator
Ad tech has been around since before the internet. Data brokers have been building detailed profiles on everyone for decades. They sell this data to the government.

In 1998 I sat in a meeting at the oldest data broker in the country where someone gleefully explained how they could predict menstrual cycles from consumer purchase data and use that for targeted ads optimized weekly for emotional state and all other known personal preferences. This isn't something invented by FB and Google. They're the noobs in this world.
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Indexing and colliding 10M of tiles efficiently and in real time
> and do Americans care more than Swedes about not fighting with doctors and pharmaceutical companies than Swedes?

Uh, I'm pretty sure Swedes on average fight a lot less with doctors and pharmaceutical companies (and insurance companies) than Americans. The whole point of centralized healthcare is that it's both cheaper and less energy-draining for individuals because there's a small number of professional people paid to do the "fighting" (negotiating) on behalf of millions of other people.

But just like one USD in India is worth more than one USD in the US, it's not fruitful to naively compare the "amount of caring" by using GDP% as a proxy if the contexts are different enough. That doesn't invalidate the basic point of the article. The reason the US spends so much is that the US system is incredibly inefficient due to various coordination problems. If the US spent twice the money per capita and as a result had twice as good healthcare as Sweden then, certainly, you could say that the US cares much more about health than Sweden. But that's not the case.
What do you run on something like this? Does it have its own compiler? Does it use OpenCL?
See my edit. I meant AI generally (such as in AI-aided/enhanced learning, communication, teaching etc. etc.) not OpenAI the company per see. For disabled people (like me) first and foremost but right after the general populace as well.
Well, they could do thing like enforce laws, arrest and prosecute criminals, and not allow shoplifting under $950 to have no consequences, but that apparently would be too much to ask. They made a good start be recalling Boudin, but they have a lot more to do.
That caveat is how you end up LEFT OUTER JOINED to a terrorist watchlist.
So what's your take on mortgages? If my house happens to be underwater after the Purge or whatever we're calling your rearrangement-of-the-markets, am I just trapped there until I pay off the loan? Pretty dismal if so.
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I use a variation of this with direnv and asdf and it's fine, no problems.

asdf install python 3.11.0
asdf local python 3.11.0 # .tool-versions

python -m venv .venv

echo >.envrc <<EOF
export VIRTUAL_ENV=.venv
export PATH=.venv/bin:$PATH
EOF

direnv allow .

Now I just `cd` to project directories and I'm good to go.
If the scores really mean that little, then the service is doing more harm than good. Spreading lots of false information is not better than nothing.

Obviously this comes down to how often they're wrong and by how much.
Just like Detroit was 30 years ago. Though I doubt SF's decline will take nearly as long as Detroit's. The drug use and crime tolerance is higher now in SF than it ever was in Detroit. 15 years from now we'll have evidence of all the corruption, just like in Detroit, and no one will be surprised.
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Exactly. And obviously the biz model isn't working anymore or they wouldn't be in this situation.
I meant more of a historical or public figure, where the claim could be assessed to some degree.

Because "do not care" is internal and can only really be judged indirectly. Saying "I do not care" is one of those things where it can both genuinely be said or where it is a countersignal.

The claim is NOT however "does this person care about the esteem of their coworkers" or "does this person care to be seen". Status can be had in other ways.

For example, you work, you write on Hacker news, you have 3,000+ karma - no easy feat.

One way of measuring status would be whether you were pleased or disappointed by someone's reaction to something you did. Either in person or virtually. Whether for work, a hobby, or for fun. This truly is not an experience you have?
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I have been satisfied with Anchor-Hocking. They have a different kind of glass than borosilicate but it is still specially made for resisting heat. https://www.anchorhocking.com/why-choose-glass/
Blog posts should be regular submissions, not Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I know this is just my experience but any weekend i walk by my local gamestop its seemingly bustling. Theres a line of people at the counter buying funkos or trading games. They have tables setup for mtg and pokemon tournaments. It doesn’t seem to be dead but its not a billion $ behemoth either.
Isn't that rather "unstable" or "poorly conditioned" ?
It might be ok if that data gets validated by experts in the same field, but there have been plenty of stories about lawyers and professors who failed to even review the output they use. Color me skeptical.
I think that maybe "truly understand" is anchored in the physical world. I don't exhaustively know what, say, grass is, but I know what it looks like, and I know what it feels like to walk on, and I know what it feels like to touch with my hands, and I know what it sounds like when I walk on it, and I know what it smells like when it's cut. And I know that there's a consistent correlation between "stuff that look like that" and "stuff that smells like that when it's cut".

And so if the topic of grass comes up, I have some firsthand knowledge to draw on - less than a botanist, but not nothing. I have some sense impressions that correlate to other sense impressions and to the word "grass". GPT, on the other hand, has some words that correlate to other words, and nothing more.

So it seems fair to say that I understand grass on a level that GPT does not, and cannot. Therefore it seems fair to say that GPT is at least closer to being a stochastic parrot than humans are.
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Cache is probably a good guess. I don't do infinite scrolls but I do use Reddit mostly for hobby subreddits which aren't as popular and less likely to be in cache.

I imagine it probably has some to do with specific geography as well. Cloudflare will proxy back to nearest node and maybe some are better than others.
Thanks for this crucial point of both clarification and further confusion.

The 'true believers' in this stock's idiosyncratic risk are expecting a short squeeze due to a confluence of relatively unknown market mechanisms such as FTD, CNS, reg SHO, and the formation of a short-busting coalition between Carl Icahn via BBBYQ and others...

It's a rabbit hole, for sure. But the fact is that the DTCC, FINRA, and other SROs controlling the markets are inscrutable black boxes that don't provide enough data for anyone to know the extent of the fraud they may or may not be perpetuating by systematically creating 'synthetic' shares in the publicly companies regardless of the officially authorized outstanding shares according to the companies' charters.

Look at the ongoing BBBY CH11 bankruptcy proceedings for an example of how difficult it is to get an idea of 'TSO' or (Total Shares Outstanding) for a public company. The claim is that more shares have been created within the DTCC than the company has authorized, and the right corporate maneuvering could force these 'extra' shares to close or cover which would drive demand exceptionally high.

Disclaimer: I own GME because the number of FTDs is in the high millions some days, and the notional values in the 10s of millions. Something is (still, 2 years later) up with this security in particular, and even if I don't become a billionaire from this investment I hope to shine some light on a corrupt corner of the market that has become 'business as usual' while I strongly disagree that it should be tolerated at all. (FTDs and Synthetic Shares)
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I have noticed people look at animal or machines and try to figure out if they are as complex as humans in order to figure out if they are conscious or not.

But almost never you see logic applied other way around, maybe we are just bunch of simple mechanisms convinced we are something way more complex.

There are quite few hints that the second option is the actual reality.
The real problem, in my opinion, is that too many websites do this sort of thing. Is there a place for it? Sure. But it should be something that is rarely done.

But I'm only talking about websites, not web apps. I don't use web apps, so have no opinion on them.
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