skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking the same.

The problem is that journalism is very difficult to do because people are now used to free news, so they have to do these click and bait patterns that really suck and the only thing they do is generate hate.

To the downvoters: Give a different opinion if you don't agree. Like it or not, it is the truth. My sister is a journalist.
Someone forged my signature on docusign on a pretty official document and I raked them over the coals for it.

Highly annoying these services, they don't do even the most basic verification that the person signing really is the person that should be signing.
But they aren’t building factories in San Jose, right?

It’s a low/moderate salary in Manhattan too, but no factories there.

So it seems unlikely that anyone would live in San Jose and work this job.

The median US salary in 2021 was about $70k [0]. I’m guessing factories are being built in less than median cost of living places so $120k is 1.7x the median, so pretty good.

[0] https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/average-us-income/
I’ll be frank, I read your message carefully and I am stil pretty confident about the inferences I made. However, I see your point, my statements are too forceful. I acknowledge that I should have been more graceful and phrased them as questions. Thank you for the advice. Furthermore, I am sorry to hear about your health and I hope there’s a way for things to get better for you in the future.
Under the assumptions, power equals average power (to a margin). It would be a huge mistake to try to build the grid to withstand the power of all existing electric devices at the same time, as the probability of such a situation is 0.
Elon Musk says Twitter bird to be gradually abandoned – CNN Business
banks are particularly low imagination, high control places. The "resources" they hire are particularly generic, safe and fungible/expendable. By definition, such "resources" are playing with themselves, creating "frameworks" and "platforms".
The low imagination management of banks cannot understand that they got "resources" they filtered for and results accordingly.
https://bitslap.it/blog/posts/playground-it.html
It's the same for me (a US English speaker raised on the east coast who lived on the west coast for a decade).

I also wouldn't pronounce "financing" as "financeing", and I don't recall ever hearing a fellow American pronounce it that way, even if they might say "finance".
> the political machinations that some of the ethics team involved themselves in to the point of employer conflict were heavily discussed here at the time.

It certainly seems like some of that ethics team appear, at best, as extremely bad faith actors in that drama.
With transformer models, it’s common to put instructions and system messages at the beginning of the input. But with this decay, the beginning of the input would always have the sparsest attention, right? Maybe the instructions should be moved to the end. But then again if it’s recurrent, you might want to prime it with a description of the task.
Yes this is the point about docusign being half assed. It doesn't do any identity validation really. It should verify the signer and the signee are the parties in question using identity services. It doesn't. I believe it can but it doesn't usually get used.
The hardest part is getting the good milk…
Oh I just assumed this was all on the blockchain.
https://archive.ph/0a6wh
--update-refs
There isn't a moral dimension attached to loving the right kind of people and gay and straight people are equally moral in pursuing relationships with significant others. On the other hand there is a moral dimension to trying to take away our fellow citizens rights. The CEO as the face of the org became unsuitable to his role when he acted publicly and objectively immorally in support of those who would gut the rights of his fellows

He wasn't on the wrong side of a political issue he was on the wrong side of decency and morality. This ought not to be a leftist position nor should we fear that the tyranny of excessive concern for others may be imposed upon us. Should we decide to use Firefox for evil as it were the privacy both endorsed and adhered to by Mozilla precludes them discovering it let alone stopping us.

The position of user of Firefox and public face of Firefox are inherently different positions and come with different reasonable expectations but I think you knew that.

> it’s dangerous to use or even give your participation to that ecosystem.

Please describe precisely the threat model you fill most applicable

> keeps constantly displaying ads

For a definition of constantly redefined to mean rarely when a new major version comes out.

> They keep performing worse actions than Google all the time.

The context here is that google tracks everything you do and regularly shares it with the government including under terms that are obviously abusive of user privacy and including to repressive governments, are in the middle of attempting to destroy ad blocking by pushing locked down environments in the name of security. A move likely to have massive implications that will be impossible to manage or control in repressive dictatorships even if Google themselves do nothing to directly assist with mass surveillance in Orwellian states. Merely building general purpose tools virtually guarantees bad usage by repressive regimes. By contrast Mozilla has? Tried to pimp their VPN to you as part of their new version notification...

It really sounds like the Brenden Eich debacle has colored your perception of the situation and perhaps you need to step back and evaluate the situation objectively.
Beyond the legal issues mentioned on a sibling post, the main thing in my opinion is that anything requiring installers was killed by Apple transforming the mobile market. People came to expect that most services would be web-based, or uncontroversial enough to be in the Apple AppStore. That expectation destroyed entire categories of software: sure, you could still eke out a living on the desktop, kinda; but any chance at real popularity was wiped out. This is particularly true for non-professional software, because households became mobile-first.
I tinkered with OpenBSD a long time ago and found installing was more of a headache than I cared for - specifically disk partitioning was a chore. I wonder if that’s gotten much better?

Can’t see myself switching to OpenBSD at this point, but I’d try it just for fun if the installation has improved enough.
Okay so what’s this book about?

I read “about this book” but it just wanted to tell me about copyright and publication details.
Read "The Easy Way" by Alen Carr[0]. Read it with an open mind and I'm sure it will help you

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/0615...
I can't understand the value of this. And i dislike the resource-hogging of those webtech-to-native solutions.

But maybe i miss something important here. I admit i am badly biased on this topic.

When running an Electron-app i literally "feel" the countless and near endless function-stacks and registers that have to be followed and tweaked until reaching the "native" interpreter.

Why would you invest your lifetime into something like this?
What is the purpose of this? A demonstration for what can be achieved with Electron?

To give it a positive spin (from the other way around): i would like to see someone bringing X into the browser with webassembly.
Technically...
Being morally dubious and king is one thing, being morally dubious and tied to something as unpopular as Brexit is quite another.

How much money does Farage have left and what level does Coutts require, anyway?
C++ got this wrong, again. The default usage should be safe, with an escape hatch, i.e. deref operator should be safe and value() should be unsafe.

Ideally, a sufficiently smart compiler would be able to see code like

if (auto t = get_optional())
{
do_something(*t);
}

And elide the double safety check, but because optional is a library feature not a language feature, the compiler needs to detect general usages of that pattern rather than specifically optimising for a language level construct. That's another place c++ is going in the wrong direction in...
Valid point but usually in manufacturing labor and materials are the largest costs. Management can be in some cases less than 10% for a large operation, though it depends on scale and how efficient it is.

C suite people are often overpaid but this is still usually a small cost center for a really big company, and most consumer products are made by large companies. Also those inflated compensation packages often include a bunch of stock and other non-cash compensation.
I feel the problem is not tech, it's people. People will always flow towards walled gardens (jails), centralised solutions, and converge towards critical mass.

The running systems need cash and it's in their best interest to keep audiences captive and paying. So what you're seeing with the complexity of the web is a system that was initially built on trust and has been compensating for bad actors and economic incentives ever since.

Now that this 'system' is in place, it's going to be very hard to change it. Look at any other real life system you deal with and how hard it is to change it, even if it's no longer suitable for modern life or future concerns.
It varies vastly depending on the bank and what part. I know from my career some of the most advanced computing platforms I’ve ever seen across any industry were in leading banks with sophisticated quant trading divisions - but only in the trading front office. Goldman in the late 1990’s through 2010 or so was bar none extraordinary with some of the most brilliant human beings alive developing systems that are unmatched today. On the other hand in the same bank some of the crustiest most process laden software management was crushing the life out of human souls.
These ideas are so surface level and banal that this article seems like it actually is an idiot's ideas about foolproof ways to spot other idiots.
I find Whuffie as a concept pretty interesting, though not that different from regular wealth. For example, being the daughter of prominent Imagineers did hold a lot of sway in their world, despite the daughter herself not being particularly remarkable.

What I mean to say is, trust-fund kids will still be alive and well in some form in a post dollar world.
Still very common in low resource environments.
Using a xiaomi h3. Not sure I'd recommend it though since it has rfid tech on the filters.

Also wifi enabled which given brand may not be desirable, but I've simply not connected it
Mind boggling.

I wonder if the acceptance of the middle layer perpetuates the service economy?
They were smart enough to realize you can't search this, you can't even register it as a brand in most places.

Look at his child, he keep calling him "lil X" so we know he's talking about his son. What stupid prefix or suffix will he come up with to talk about Twitter when it's just X? Will we stop tweeting things, will we "x" things?

He's definitely trolling, they're nowhere near ready for a rebrand. He may put an X logo like he did a Dodge logo for a few weeks in his usual attempts to deface the site and that's about it.

Actually moving to the domain x.com is a major technical challenge that'll be very taxing for his servers, all the redirects and what not. He's BSing.
I've worked in IT (system Integration) for Postbank a number of years ago... Their IT was never good when you can see how the sausage is made
Sadly, business accounts are kinda all over the place. I use Kontist, but it's pretty basic. You could also look into your local Sparkasse, it should have everything you need.
This seems rather redundant given that graph-tool exists: https://graph-tool.skewed.de

It does visualization fairly well — not to mention that the entire back-end is in C++ with templates + OpenMP for performance.
Are you seriously suggesting that virologists would 'take revenge' on others by using their professional skills or do I read your comment in entirely the wrong way?
I think this is a great point! What even is "git"? If it's the binary program named "git", then there are already lots of replacements for that binary that people use, and it would not be surprising at all if one of those different frontends becomes more dominant than "git" itself.

But if "git" is the protocol, the specification of how a particular construction of a database of versions, then I suspect that will be pretty sticky. I'm sure it isn't the optimal solution but it works well and it's very useful to have a lingua franca for this.
Yeh you notice it as a customer.

I can't choose a password for my account; instead they assigned me a 6-digit PIN (Not kidding. A PIN).

When I registered my account at a local branch I gave them my dutch phone number. Their website's transaction page wouldn't load due to a JavaScript parsing error over the dutch phone number format. I called customer support and they basically reacted as if water was burning. They would promise to get back to me. 3 weeks later I still couldn't access my online bank account's transaction page. I ended up eventually manually editing the HTML in inspector in order to be able to navigate to the page where I could update my phone number to a German one and I never heard back from support.

I tried opening a depot account for trading stocks. It just says "Internal server error. your account id is incompatible. Please open an additional account with Deutsche Bank". I then tried this; had to go to KYC all over again; but I can't because I can't register two accounts on the 2FA app that is mandatory to have on my phone. Customer support adviced to get a second phone (??).

and I'm just a normal customer. It's impossible to bank with this bank. Every time I have to interact with them it feels like i'm in some weird fever dream.
"two Google research scientists, Ashish Vaswani and Jakob Uszkoreit, were in a hallway of the search giant’s Mountain View campus"

"During their chat in the hallway, Uszkoreit and Vaswani were overheard by Noam Shazeer, a Google veteran..."

etc

Is this just thinly-veiled propaganda for the back-to-the-office movement?
Twitter is currently owned by X Corp. already and all debts and so on are owned by X Corp. I don't think renaming the site would let him claim anything further.
The internet tends to lock things in. There were many languages dominant in history at some point or another, english will be the final one. There were many scripting languages, javascript will be the final one. Many networking protocols, TCP/IP the final one. Same for git. I think the only thing that might displace git is some environment for new programmers with its own version control system like glitch[1].

[1]: https://medium.com/glitch/reinventing-version-control-with-g...
For example Apple is famous for their good customer service, and it seems that worked out well for them.
Places like Australia has some seriously large distances, with some of the most isolated populations on earth.

Sure it's a small market (most Australians live in their state's capital city), but there needs to be some consideration for those that need serious range. The issue is frequently mentioned when talking about banning ICE vehicles.

Toyota Landcruiser's with auxiliary fuel tanks (over 240 litres) are the workhorses in outback Australia.
Which is fair. Scratch marks around the cave were said to be attempts at art. The fact that the bones were in a cave made them conclude that they were "burying" their dead rather than the more plausible conclusion that they died in the cave as a result of some water or gas flooding.

The original paper is just garbage
A signed document that isn't notarized is just a formality, in my opinion.

If you care enough to get it really signed, pay the notary.
Like many of the comments around these types of posts, I will be very excited when a definitive product has been produced, perhaps demonstrated if it's not too much to ask. Solid state batteries are possible, but I think it's going to take a company like A Toyota to, basically, burn a boatload of cash to get there and absorb that loss so as not to increase the price of the EV too much.

Perhaps solid state batteries will first appear on luxury lines. If you're already spending $90k for an EV, what's another $50k for the new battery?
Yes, you got it. But I still think AI can at least make it easier
> I love conspiracy theories and conspiracy facts but I doubt that it’s big surgery lobby not wanting people to be more clotty.

View it however you like, the saying "you can lead a horse to water, but you cant make it drink" springs to mind, but do these two aforementioned chemicals only do blood clotting, or do they take part in other chemical reactions which may be good or bad for human health?

> Also, this month I’ve caught and killed 12 raccoons. Not sure if you have them over there but they are vile disgusting disease vectors

Dont know if you noticed but living on an island has meant alot of the dangerous animals and vectors were eradicated hundreds of years ago in the UK, and yet in a schadenfreude like manner, the UK and royals like Prince Philip and King Charles attempt to lead the world in animal conservation elsewhere in the world. The Frenchie called William The Conqueror had his uses!

That must annoy the Aussies amongst others, considering how many dangerous animals they have over there, but they do put up a good Monty Python Black Knight attitude to the situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI5nL8vZcl8
You’re intentionally returning unsigned contacts to employers hoping they don’t notice?

Seeing how you’re first action in each of your new jobs is done in bad faith I think I see why you’ve had to fill out six of them…
KlongPy has improved a lot since it was last on HN:

You can now directly load Python modules into KlongPy, making it easy to reuse existing libraries. KlongPy now has IPC support, making it easy to build complex, networked, data applications. It also now includes simple web so you can create sites that are backed by KlongPy.
Off topic, but wikiHow is such an interesting project.

At first I thought it's a comedy site as it had all these viral guides like "How To Eat Food" or "How To Accept That Your Computer Is Slow". Then it slowly started to appear more and more in search results with actual useful advice.

It's unusual that they have so much content while the content is also high effort considering the illustrations. And they have stood the test of time, they must be on it for 15+ years.

I wonder if there is a business model or a plan to have one or if they run on donations / VC funding / ???.
Rental is so expensive it compares poorly to owning a small 10-15 year old ICE car.
Look up Blue Zone groups. Researchers study groups of people that live the longest and how they live. Of course diet and exercise is a big component, but a reason to live is another. There are other interesting factors as well.
They do. You just won’t pay for it.

When you sign a mortgage or take out a loan and it’s all online, lenders will pay someone to come to your house, take a photo of you, verify it, and then video tape you signing.

It’s just not convenient.
I don’t understand the question
I don't know, I use filesystem sync for all of that. All that really means is that on iOS/iPad you'd have a file portal sitting in front of your browser. And on Android, it's already filesystems anyway.

Maybe you're right though and the UI would need to be different :shrug:
> until recently the online tool who.is indicated that the [Polish arbitration court, Pan-Europejski-Sąd-Arbitrażowy] PESA website was set up by Villa Europa itself in September 2021

Quite alarming.

Is it normal to charge speakers such high fees? I remember some conferences giving free admission to speakers as encouragement.
It makes sense for old timers to keep just doing it the way we always have, but I wonder how newcomers to version control are being taught. I would really hope they aren't just being thrown a bunch of these inscrutable commands by their leads, like when I learned it!
I think you should be honest that you're talking about putting people into a prison and then calling that prison a hospital.

And given the state of prisons in the US, I know what that "hospital" would end up looking like. And I think it's kind of weird and very vaguely gross to try and distinguish. There really aren't many reforms or programs for an asylum that aren't applicable to existing prisons -- normal prisoners deserve mental health services.

That people so intuitively understand that prisons are horrible places for people with mental disabilities should not spark you to try and create Prison 2.0 Deluxe Hospital Edition, it should spark you to try and make Prison 1.0 less horrible for everyone.
> I read your message carefully and I am stil pretty confident about the inferences I made.

Aka a non-apology apology. Now that you have asked and I have told you you still stick to your guns? Really, that's just weird.
GNU 40th Anniversary
Locking is just punting on the problem. If a version control system can't merge non-conflicting changes to the same file by different people, that file is unmaintainable and shouldn't have been checked in as if it were source code. Instead it should be generated from a set of files that can be edited normally.
I'm almost through (in the 2010s right now) and really enjoying it. It's given me a ton of ideas of things to try in my own games (like quality-based narratives).
Jailbreaking ChatGPT (and others?) for malware by simply scrambling words
...
# Background:

If you were on the internet around 2003, you may have seen this popular email circling around:

"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer…"
> outsource their customer support in Eastern Europe

I worked in Europe where it was not acceptable to address the customer in broken English. Easily $15 an hour. But what you are paid is not what it costs the business, (desk, training, IT support, part of a manager, etc), that can easily be double what they are paid. For anything outside the script someone with supervisor access and the authority to make high level decisions needs to get involved, those people cost even more. Some customers call several times for a complex question. $30 was just the average for complex queries.

> Customer service might have access to more information not in the public, might have access to other instances of the same problem where they had to find out how to interpret the rules and disambiguate, and most importantly, they usually have the power to take action

Most of these instances are much cheaper to solve by fixing the UI to allow the customer to do it themselves, if it isn't then it's usually cheaper to lose the customer. And you do not want to make something like "refunds" too easy.

> leaving your customer dissatisfied is not profitable

I'm sorry to say it, but dissatisfying customers that are expensive to service is often exactly what you need to do to maximise profits, as long as you manage to avoid damage to your brand. It's even better to encourage those customers to go to your competitor. What may "feel right" to you, is not what "feels right" to an MBA. Engineers tend to underestimate that.
The reason why it was allowed to happen was because it is very hard to differentiate between those that have a problem and those that arrived without a problem but developed on while there.

Amsterdam's strategy would have worked very well indeed if it had been adopted all over Europe. But to be 'first mover' really hurt.
I agree. It took me lots of therapy to understand that I felt a constant need to justify my existence through achievement and it was ruining my life.
The default option is high performance and less verbose.