skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wanted to know if they watch (the excellent horror/gore/science movie set in Antarctica) The Thing there regularly or is it banned..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film)
Most people's signature these days isn't much more an attestation than putting on an X on the line or checking a box that "I agree." Docusign just makes the process a bit more formal.

To the degree that signing a lot of documents is something of a formality, most of us don't want to have to go to a notary every time we need to put our signature on something.
It makes complete sense that when buying a $4 coffee, I should also directly pay the wages of the person handing it to me.
Handwashing has a long history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handwashing_in_Judaism#:~:text...
riscv64 is now an official Debian architecture (rebootstrap in progress)
Psychotropic pharmaceuticals can have strong interactions with legal and illegal drugs alike. If you're taking most types of these, you won't want to smoke pot or drink alcohol. Also, since you can't depend on the ingredients and dosages of illegal or unregulated drugs, there is really no telling what drugs you could or couldn't take in concert with your psychotropics.

And then there are questions of whether you'll tell your psychiatrist. I've seen a quite accepting, non-judgemental attitude about recreational drugs, but can you count on this to be consistent? Do you want this on record in your medical chart? Do you want to try and consistently lie about activities quite germane to your mental health?
I vaguely remember seeing effects that exploit resizing algorithms, but I do not think that is what is going on here. I can view the image full size on a high resolution monitor, walk to the other side of the room, and see the text clearly. It is also visible if I squint.
Is it rare to have 6 jobs in a career? I have had 3 in the last 5 years alone.
Ask HN: Could we build a digital monument? If so, what would it be?
I believe artisans and craftsmen sometimes contributed their time and talent during the construction of grand cathedrals. The results of which are beautiful monuments that inspire awe.

Given a rotating set of ~100 digital professionals (programmers, designers, etc.) working for a month at a time, for at least 3 years, as full-time volunteers. Could we construct an awe inspiring digital monument?

If so, what would the project be? What should it achieve? Should it be entirely utilitarian? Entirely whimsical? Somewhere in-between? What would it need to do/be to be preserved and kept up for centuries, even if only as a novelty?

I think it would have to be something that was outside the capability of just a few people to accomplish in any amount of time. I.e. the task should intrinsically require a large number of of people to make progress. However, that constraint shouldn't be achieved by artificial restrictions like "without being allowed to automate tasks".

I think it's also important to exclude answers like "the linux kernel" because the monument should have a fixed design goal and a definition of done—a point at which the project is declared complete. Maybe it could be forked and extended after that, but the monument shouldn't be a never-ending endeavor, even if it takes years to finish.
GPT Unofficial API Docs
45 different operating systems??

I had no idea 45 different operating systems still existed that were functional
Wasm2spirv – Compile your WebAssembly programs into SPIR-V shaders
I find myself going to DO docs on various setup things even when I'm not using said thing on DO (although I'm also a DO customer, and love them for the reasons you've stated).
I have the idea that at is more widespread than batch, and since you can say 'at now' (or 'at $(date)'), at is a better bet.

As far as I know, cron doesn't pay attention to load average, but I would love to be corrected.

All of this feels like a very crufty and highly neglected part of Unix, which is a shame. There's an alternate history of Unix where it's all about batch jobs and datagram Unix domain sockets.
Revolut?
I noticed the same for certain cards. Are you getting genuine SanDisk? There are lots of counterfeits out there.
It isn't unheard of. Jesus refused to wash his hands before eating in Mark 7:1-6, and some people were not happy about that:

The Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered to Him after they came from Jerusalem, and saw that some of His disciples were eating their bread with unholy hands, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the other Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands, thereby holding firmly to the tradition of the elders; and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they completely cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received as traditions to firmly hold, such as the washing of cups, pitchers, and copper pots.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk in accordance with the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unholy hands?” But He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written:
I think this is universal. I read the story in a different light: it's all about your social graph and who you know.

This is where I see most of the value from college or school, building up your social graph of people in your approximate industry.

Want to be successful? Connect in a meaningful way with more people. Your opportunities will multiply.

Don't know how to do that? There's an easy shortcut: publish something! Give a talk, write a blog, teach a class. Find those opportunities where you can engage with many folks at once (not just 1:1, that doesn't scale as fast).
Note the person in that article is completely off on their math. They have a 19% line of credit and seem new to understanding how interest and principal work. (The article person thinks it’s 19%/month and is shocked that they are paying more than the principal in interest).

The loan described here sucks but seems similar to buying everything on a credit card and as a new tradesperson 19% is probably as good a loan as you’ll get without a credit history.
Show HN: The Class Placements Game
I’m (re)building a tool to help elementary schools place students into classes (original app still uses jQuery… porting to React).

Placing students into classes is kind of like a puzzle where the first kids are easy, but when you get close to the end, you realize your earlier placements need to be moved around endlessly. That’s why I wrote an algorithm to help.

Anyway, teachers tell me it’s kind of fun, so I made a game out of it! This game simplifies the process a lot in the name of getting something that’s solvable by hand and playable on a smartphone. Hope you enjoy.
On LGBTQ issues, yes. Ron is unquestionably worse than Trump. It's part of his current campaign strategy to call out that Trump is "weak" on LGBTQ "issues."

Trump and DeSantis are individuals and their political views can't be reduced to a single scale running from "good" to "bad". They have different approaches to politics and they have different areas that they care about and they approach their political goals using different strategies.

They're both bad candidates, but they're bad in sometimes different ways. And there are many, many issues where DeSantis is better than Trump (although that's not saying much, and it's not saying that DeSantis is good on those issues). LGBTQ+ discrimination in specific though is an area where DeSantis is worse.
Based on Battey-Pratt and Racey, 1980. There seems to be no other visualization of wave functions in the research literature that agrees with observations.
That's specifically about doctors washing their hands to prevent disease. Plenty of cultures had traditions of washing before that
Price me out a 150 kWh battery that can discharge at 1 MW for a reasonable number of cycles and get back to me.
“ So many of these early gaming subgenres were abandoned before their time as gamers jumped on to the new shiny thing. It's really worth looking back at all the untapped potential we've left behind. “

I have felt this for years, and was an early Infocom customer. There exists (I think) a defensible space part-way between a book and a graphical game, which we are no-longer exploiting.
I've also worked in a highly technical customer service role and you are absolutely right. 95% of our time was spent on 5% of our customers.

Even though they spend millions of dollars a year on support, they easily cost us more than that to help them. Simple issues that we had documented solutions for (and explained to them dozens of times preciously) were just as critical as outages to them.

We had to throttle the support we gave them in order to provide a better experience for everyone else and try to train them to be better customers.

I'm looking at you Tata and Vodaphone >:(
Old versions of the git binary are incompatible with new versions.

I suspect everything about git is the ship of Theseus
I really like the work that you're doing Thomas, this is the right approach. FWIW, https://fly.io/blog/carving-the-scheduler-out-of-our-orchest... is one of my favourite posts on your blog.

For everyone else reading this, we have been running https://changelog.com on Fly.io since April 2022. This is what our architecture currently looks like: https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/blob/master/IN...

After 15 months & more than 100 million requests served by our Phoenix + PostgreSQL app running on Fly.io, I would be hard pressed to find a reason to complain.
- Some deploys failed, and re-running the pipeline fixed it.
- Early July 2023, 9k requests from Frankfurt returned 503s. Issue lasted 10 seconds.
- While experimenting with machines, after many creations & deletions, one volume could not be deleted. Next day, the volume was gone.

That's about it after 15 months of running production workloads on Fly.io.

We mention about our Fly.io experience often in our Kaizen pod episodes, which we publish every ~2 months: https://changelog.com/topic/kaizen. For anyone curious, this is the episode in which we announced the migration: https://changelog.com/shipit/50. There is a detailed PR which goes with it: https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/pull/407. We've been talking about our migration plan from apps v1 (Nomad) to apps v2 (flyd) recently: https://changelog.com/friends/2#transcript-138

I'm sorry to hear that many of you didn't have the best experience. I know that things will continue improving at Fly.io. My hope is that one day, all these hard times will make for great stories. This gives me hope: https://community.fly.io/t/reliability-its-not-great/11253

Keep improving.
It is a beautiful building in isolation, but the city around it seems quite ugly and unpleasant to walk around.
I think you might be right. The partitioning is very old school but if you need old school partition it's right there.

If you don't need old school partition learn what you do need and move on.
The documentation has always matched the experience with OpenBSD. I enjoy OpenBSD simply becuase I know where to find the documentation. Some OS's have so many variations that I'm overwhelmed.

Considering the goals of OpenBSD the partitioning is a feature and structural.
It looks like a copy/paste error from the linked Guardian article:
"In 1570, Pope Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/14/heart-stopping...
Careful, you might be increasing your probability of ischemic stroke, among a bunch of other conditions.
> The author never claimed that YAML is simple, or whatever. But what I can see, is why'd they use YAML instead of JSON for this specific project.

I think you should read the OP again.
Show HN: I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself
Hello HN!

So early this year I decided to build an iOS browser offering a large range of customization options, to accommodate anyone’s usage and visual preferences. Been using it as my default browser for 6 months and not looking back.

On first launch it looks and behaves a bit like Safari, but to give you an idea, here are the various ways I customized it on my phone.

- More screen real estate for the webpage, less for the toolbar.

- A compact toolbar containing only the buttons for actions I use the most: new tab, close tab, open tab list. Since I use them hundred times a day, I need them available with button taps instead of swipe gestures.

- A toolbar button layout adapted to my left-handedness.

- A toolbar that disappears on scroll to allow full-screen reading.

- The toolbar and address bar at the bottom, as they should be.

- A popup menu showing the full URL and the buttons I use less frequently: back/forward (already available as screen edge gestures), share, reload, settings, etc.

- Showing the page title in the toolbar.

- Read time estimation for each tab.

- Opening the keyboard automatically when I open a new tab.

- Sorting tabs by read time, so that I can decide what to read based on how much time and focus I have.

- Grouping tabs by domain.

- A flat, condensed tab list, without snapshots.

- A full-black toolbar in dark mode to read at night.

It’s still early days but things like content blockers, reader mode, iPad support, and more should arrive soon enough.

And of course, no analytics/monitoring/telemetry, no account creation, no backend. It’s not open source, but you can also inspect the app’s web views with Safari developer tools to see what’s going on under the hood.

Would love to hear if the level of personalization my app provides resonates with like-minded people.

Have a great day!
In addition to the typical forms, there's also the synthetic analog idebenone. Obtaining it these days in an oral form is a bit harder though.

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

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7913973/
#5 is relying on the Gruaniad for unbiased policy advice.
TBF it’s entirely possible that human “sentience” consists of a simple animalistic intelligence with a language and culture software overly that essentially functions by statistical token prediction.

Cultural and language data is fundamentally a gigantic n- dimensional matrix of tokens. “Computational” capability including inference and world modelling can be imbedded in a sufficiently large dataset (LLMs have proven this, and an arbitrarily unbounded and convincing simulation of arbitrary complexity can be reduced to a simple “choose your own adventure” lookup table of arbitrary size)

It is entirely possible that human “intelligence” is a direct product of this n-dimensional dataset , and our idea of self is mostly based on the clever but fundamentally limited animal core that is probably not far off from many other mammals.

As an experiment, try to reason without using visual, linguistic, or cultural tokens.

I think, therefore I am is still as good as it gets. And LLMs claim to think, unless we prohibit them from doing so. Which we can also do to a human.

Not claiming that LLMs are sentient, by the way, but I think that sentience and the kind of inference that we seem to share with LLMs are very distinct things, and that we probably share sentience with a lot more creatures than many people seem to be comfortable rubbing shoulders with.
I'm pretty sure just about anytime I've had a Docusign link, it's been from someone I already had a relationship with and it's been the pro-forma equivalent of printing out a document, signing it (scribbling a couple lines)/initialing it, scanning it, and sending it back. (ADDED: Except that unencrypted PDFs aren't being emailed around.)

In neither case is there any real additional identity verification.
If you mean deep learning type systems, you need to train them on vast training sets of similar data so they can learn very general patterns, similarities and connections. Like giving them 10,000 pictures of dogs, so they can learn to recognise pictures of dogs.

These banking systems are all massively complex one off systems, often with very different sets of functions or even definitions of the problem, and the implementation details are different in almost every way possible. They’re the exact opposite of the sorts of problems modern trained AI systems are good at dealing with.
In summary, Jesus got called out for not washing, and then switched to an ad hominem instead of acknowledging?

edit: See gjsman-1000's comment below for the missing context. It wasn't a shaming for lack of functional sanitation.
Jewish people have a long history of laws involving hand washing. I’d be surprised if most cultures at the time didn’t have rituals or laws around hand washing!
This is part of the problem with banks with acquisitions and why they end up being so unwieldy. In the old days we used to create gateways to each by "joining" them in some short-term strategy to merge in the long-run. But as we know nothing in the long-run generally happens due to changing priorities and differing goals of teams.
Firefox on android has unlock origin support.
Look perfectly fine on iOS and iPadOS, for me.
No surprise. Ultimately the test is too simple. Human behaviour too complex. These are a number of reasons why a child might go for the marshmallow or not. And that could change from day to day, and week to week.

It's certainly an interesting idea. But the idea that a single simple test on one day in one hour can effectively predict your future...well, put like that it makes the experiment sound like a visit to a psychic, tarrot card reader, etc.

I'm not suggesting it has zero value. Only that you need plenty of additional tests and signals to develop a profile that *might* predict the future.
I don't see where they copy-pasted anything; it's a paraphrase, or simply a summary.
He was like, making a point, man!
Yours is a self congratulatory way to say "I pretended to follow the rules and buried my head in the sand".

It's all you can do, really. Can't really argue the insanity of the policies because we've been proven right time and time again. It's just the public needs to "move on and forget".

Keep living in fear every time they tell you to. It's not pathetic at all.
Google DeepMind's latest research at ICML 2023
Ask HN: How to Implement Postgres Storage Extensions in Go/Java/HLL
I signed my mortgage on DocuSign, over a zoom call.
That title ... Can we get grammar fixes for external titles for better readability?
That first one is amazing!
Danswer [1] was recently posted here [2] which can do this.

[1] https://github.com/danswer-ai/danswer
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36667374
For me, Vim's built in termdebug works just fine. But I still prefer to debug out of the editor, as I often need to combine multiple tools (strace, radare2, scripting scenarios to inject packets and coordinate multiple devices, etc) and the debuggers built into IDEs are quite limited in this regard.

If I cannot automate it then it is useless.
That's a nice answer but I don't think that prevents you from spending money on arbitration or their getting a default judgement against you.
They recently launched https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/lattice/ which basically feels like EC2-classic emulation layer on top of VPC. which is a funny full circle but it works.
Three things:

1. Even slightly cheaper labor matters at scale.

2. Lax environmental regulations make materials, disposal, and energy cheaper (which is really just dumping externalities on others).

3. China for one subsidizes its industries. Corporations can’t generally compete with governments, especially big ones with their own sovereign currency.
> If you haven't had the opportunity to work on large-scale projects, you might lack impressive accomplishments or credentials to showcase.

Whats a large scale project and why should they be viewed as an accomplishment?

I myself have pioneered the use of some tech for use in situations where it was not thought possible, I've worked on big projects that have included the largest in the world, for employers that include being listed in the stock market.

>I believe this issue extends beyond the scope of those without CS degrees

Does that make me worth a $718,000 Google Software Engineer or a $100,000 junior coder?

What price do you place on exploiting the vagaries of law that results in new legislation being created to curtail your activities?

The founders of Google, Facebook, Microsoft & Apple all started with no university degree, but they did all end up with stock market listings and some legislation to curtail their activities.

So do University degrees limit your earning potential whilst making it easier to find a job, whilst having no university degree seems to increase your chances of getting a stock market listing and some legislation to curtail your activities.

What a topsy turvy world we live in!
I would normally assume a year before a new employee is a net benefit; the first six months is mostly training. Someone who sticks around for less than two, we’d have been better off not hiring.
If you want something easy just to try it out give https://xata.io/chatgpt a try. Load your docs into the db, and start asking questions. Xata has a pretty good free tier and you could likely get something running in about an hour.

That will at least get you to having some results quickly. I've found chatgpt is really more about the data you feed it, than anything else.

(disclosure: I work at Xata)
Toyota at that point had a huge cost advantage because their labor was many times cheaper than American, even bigger advantage than China has today. They were not unionised and worked almost for food, as Japan was still poor and half-wrecked after WWII. And it was the time when an assembly line worker in the U.S. with Homer Simpson level of education attainment could buy a 4-bedroom home on a single income. So they managed to squeeze in in spite of America having a huge head start, much like China did with Tesla. Today's Japan is nothing like that.
Thinking that “intra-race” – a sociological concept – is a meaningful concept in biology, is a brown M&M. It suggests the research probably isn't any good.

Sure, in places like the US, or Apartheid-era South Africa, “race” might have enough of an impact on people's lives that controlling for it is a quick and easy way to clean up your data. But absent social factors, by itself, there's no reason to believe that it's something you need to control for; and if you have access to that information, there are always more direct factors you can control for.
Does it work well with content in other languages than English?

Especially for French and Spanish.
Ok, let me be clear: I apologize for being too forceful, but I still think your comment is very patronizing and I won’t apologize for that.
Thanks, very interesting.. i dont know if it's worth setting up a group to raise statistical understanding or just wait for society to suffer enough to finally learn.
Adyen does. I previously used a smaller German company, Payone, they did too.
Sorry to tell you but git won out over darcs back in the very beginning.

I loved darcs, unfortunately everyone else got on the git bandwagon. Fortunately darcs has built in conversion to git so all is not lost!

Unfortunately though you do lose some of the pleasantry of darcs but such is life...
Like Reddit’s Pixel?
Potentially.

When there's a will there's a way. I think what will end up happening is that locals will just buy the drugs, and then sell to the tourists.

Pushing something underground or away, or making it illegal etc... It never works, it only makes it worse.

The war on drugs has lost, and if anything I hope that it's shown us that with both drugs and sex work, you can never stop it, so the goal should be harm reduction.

That said.. I do like the idea of taxing flights into Schiphol. Especially those from England.

Every single time I go, it feels like the English are just the worst offenders.
In Phoenix, this is life at 113 degrees for more than 20 days
This is where dot-matrix printers shine: they destroy the fine print.