skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s also in the middle of the insane logistics that get dropped on you when a loved one dies. I wrote my dad’s obituary. Three days prior none of us would have ever thought about it. We were dealing with figuring out what actually happened, planning the funeral, tracking down contact info and notifying friends and family who we hadn’t talked to in sometimes decades, notifying my work, his work, medical bills and health insurance, life insurance claim, police reports, autopsy and coroner, notifying banks, canceling gym membership, unlocking computers and online accounts, pulling out old photos, actually talking to people because everyone I knew was suddenly messaging at once, coordinating family flights and housing from overseas… it’s just one of an crazy number of tasks at that point. You want to do a good job, but you also very quickly want it behind you.

I recall talking to the newspaper and they said it was something like $40 for a text obit, and $75 for one with a picture. For whatever stupid reason I was on autopilot frugal instincts and went with the lower cost option. It didn’t even occur to me until days later that was the dumbest place to save money, and not even that much.
Yes, this will always depress me, and to me personally be one of the ultimate evils of the court invented idea of "software patents". I've used ZFS with Macs sicne 2011, but without Apple onboard it's never been as smooth as it should have been and has gotten more difficult in some respects. There was a small window where we might have had a really universal, really solid FS with great data guarantees and features. All sorts of things with OS could be so much better, trivial (and even automated) update rollbacks for example. Sigh :(. I hope zvols finally someday get some performance attention so that if nothing else running APFS (or any other OS of course) on top of one is a better experience.
And it's only your first day!
The U.S. isn’t responsible for Putin coming to power. Putin handpicked himself to succeed Yeltsin.
The Unbearable Poopness of Bookstores
Gotta ask again: how much GB of storage on their phone do you think the average air traveler would be willing to donate to people so that their transoceanic fellows would be able to watch tiktoks from their homeland? How about porn? And given that GP seemed to dream of communications uncensorable by governments, how long would it be until a mandatory phone scan would be required before boarding a flight? For that matter, why would a government like Iran or North Korea even let phones into their country without a thorough cleansing of non-sanctioned information beforehand?

I'm all for balancing the power of governments with the power of their citizens but mesh networks have so many practical downsides that they are just Not The Way tbh.
What it's ripe for is for someone to put up a box that accepts cash and credit cards then works as a proxy to one of the other services.
HN is nearly perfect as is IMO -- any changes would ruin a lot of what makes it special.

That said, the one change I would probably make is changing the click targets to be slightly larger on the upvote/downvote/collapse on comments. Would be a nice improvement for mobile users.
This CV is such a joke. Even the 4th version looks like crypro-bro bullshit.

As a start: despite what people say, there are lots of "CEO" roles. If you are a sole entrepreneur, you are a CEO too. CEO of yourself.
There are also lots of small companies that have few people. I dont say it is an easy job. I want to say that later lots of them try to sell themselves as CEOs of multimillon companies. Which often is not that harder but this is not my point.

We have this guy with no education who spews more buzzwords than cryptobros. It is on MLM level of cringe.

The so called CEO "reached a record GMV, EBITDA and net profit".
What does this even mean? Record? Is it 1 million? 10 millon? 50 billion?
Since we have no number then it sounds like someone making up things. Btw. A "real" CEO would know that tons of data is public so you can show it.

180% yoy growth is a miceo company that sold 2 shovels instead of 1. 200% yoy growth.

Such empty comments show the guy is not a serious person.

Net profit YoY growth 15% and 60%. So he worked there for 2 years? Or 11? Is he lying?

He gathered a team. A team of how many? Someone managing 20 people would say it. Someone managing 1 - 2 wont say it.

Virtual salad bar... and a word salad. Does the guy think that those buzzwords convince anyone?

I could write more, but why bother.

This all sounds like MLM scam trying to find investors.

Also any real CEO (or manager) knows that people lie on their CVs. How many CVs did the guy really see?

Is this some satire? Some chat GPT generated content, where the prompt was set to sound like a crypto bro?
Doesn't have to be hugely phishy if you have a saved contact card with a number you trust. That's often safer than some new app or web url that is imitating another.
> [Austria's] Telekom Control Commission found a violation of Article 3 Paragraph 3 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2120, because the IP access block poses the risk of ‘overblocking’ any website content.

Since the blocking was illegal per the European Union's regulations, presumably any other EU nation would have to enact similar decisions if this blocking was done elsewhere in the EU.
Legally requiring businesses accept cash would solve much of this: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/austrian-leader-backs-f...
Two things. Sometimes these venue areas have other central business district employers who don’t allow overnight or weekend parking for the public, but don’t enforce it. (But they are signed to allow towing) The fake parking guy probably has a relationship with the tow driver.

Also, tow operators are generally pretty shady. Because they operate in a second responder capacity, they have personal relationships with cops and sheriffs, repair garages, etc.
I’m sorry to say but you guys haven’t had a single hard day in your life if computers and technology are this traumatic to you. You would crumble under the weight of life just a hundred years ago.

You are an artist with a blank canvas that countless people in the world will pay you life changing amounts of money to draw on. If you choose to paint in a way that you hate, that’s on you.
Then you should read more.
I don't think a summary quite does it. It's not just a complicated flow, like redesigning an app would solve it.

It's: multiple competing apps, QR code scanners, advertisements, buggy apps, buggy payment taking.
I like any excuse to mention the Jones Live Map. Back in the day it hooked up to a car odometer and when the arrow pointed to a direction, you'd take it.

It works well as long as you never miss a direction, then it gets off.

It'd be horrible with the variability in land speed from the same engine speed, but maybe that'd be part of the "fun" trying it for an airplane.

https://www.sealcoveautomuseum.org/collection-test/jones-liv...
You don’t need that to run most cloud services, and where most of the profits come from at this point for aws/azure
A lot more work when there are an abundance of gullible people via email.
> Most accidents are caused by licensed drivers

Exactly, the point I’ve been trying to emphasize is:

The bar to become a driver in California is really LOW. We should push for the robots to be even better, but given the low bar for humans, I don’t see a good reason to stop them from training on public roads.
All client-side; would've been nice to store & play back the drawing process, but that would've been a lot of extra work and created a whole load more UI/design/clutter problems to solve (it was very much a keep-it-small-and-get-it-launched project, around 2.75 days total).
We specifically use an app called White Noise for this type of thing. It has all the noise colors (I prefer pink noise), doesn't stream, and plays without ads.
It's a weird name, because it's a transliteration of the Greek word for "thread", which would conventionally be "nema" in English (as in nematode worms, nematocysts, Treponema, etc).
I’ve read this is suboptimal because you are now stressing the drive that has the only copy of your data to rebuild. what are your thoughts?
Takes 30 minutes in ours, tops. Provision a new AWS account, 10~ min, copy/paste generic service template, plug in the vars and deploy, 20~ min.

We however had the advantage of building IAC from ground up and had the time to do it properly.
Yeah “why” implies internal thought processes. “What” is about external actions.
I've never seen something like this in an env file. No one should be putting lines like this in an env file unless it's by mistake.
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A true millionaire wouldnt be afraid to give numbers, not percentages.

Serious people know how to calculate percentages.
What a great name, too!
He contacted them before it was towed. They still had an opportunity to correct the mistake.
Is it riddled with ads and trackers, just like almost all modern TVs are?
It calls Math.random() which is NOT truly random. crypto.getRandomValues() is what you would use if you wanted truly random noise.
Those are traditionally dangerous since they tend to compile poorly; not as bad as autovectorization but not as good as just writing in assembly. And since vectorization is platform-dependent anyway (because it's so different across platforms), assembly really isn't nearly as bad as it sounds.

Though it's certainly gotten better, the reason people push those is that they're written by compiler authors, who don't want to hear that their compiler doesn't work.

Some of the reason for this is that C doesn't let you specify memory aliasing as precisely as you want to. Fortran is better about this.
Like with TV, I suspect people just blank them out, or they become part of the experience.

Or it's paid subscribers.
One obstacle to this is mentioned on the OP: People might not actually know the street address of the parking lot they are standing in, so you'd have to use some other means of identification, like a lot number or geolocation - however, then you're back to requiring an app...
Every disk comes with a statement the manufacturer does not warrant damage caused by the loss of data. This suit sounds tough and is going nowhere.
Lisping Through Compilers: Tokenization and Compiling Basic Arithmetic
Yes, try https://m.paybyphone.com
Have you been to a Uniqlo lately? Actually good self checkout. You just dump your clothes in a bin and it scans everything. Like black magic compared to typical self checkout systems.

Edit: system described here- https://www.chargedretail.co.uk/2022/08/26/4-stand-out-examp...
Nope, QR codes are the easiest phishing vector. Just slap a sticker over the old one.
Guidemaster: RFID-blocker cards and wallets to help keep your cards secure
That's true and I also realized that missed a negation in that sentence
Analyzing a laugh is like dissecting something in biology - it is dead before you start, and not many people want to do it. But yeah, I've bookmarked https://wiby.me/surprise recently, and it has been a good time-waster.
> I hate how seemingly obvious and painful problems never get solved, because nobody has ever forced the entire product team to listen to a brand new user's feedback.

Usually in this case the user is not the customer, so it does not matter.
Trusted by tens of thousands of engineers at these companies?

How did you come up with that figure out of interest?
In the one of the Third world countries I lived in, the more attentive ones would also put a piece of cardboard on your windshield. A nice touch.

Not so much the guys that insist on spraying your windshield with soap at every traffic light.
Of course! The solution to this state of affairs is to add yet another middleman.
> You can thank the US for that.

you can also thank the US for the coup d'etat that overthrew a democratically elected PM and installed a pro-western dictator who executed dissidents, eventually leading to a student revolution that was hijacked by religious hardliners. but the women didn't have to wear veils, though, right?
Somehow meta, alphabet, block and x all seemed worth ignoring.

Esso->Exxon seemed natural, and of course we all ignored Federal Express-> FedEx because that was really catching up with what everybody already said.
Humans are quick at adapting. Saying that our specie has been living in absolute terror for the past millenniums and that we somehow solved it in our century is pretty arrogant.
I’m pretty sure Witzel held the hypothesis at one point that it (IVC language) was a para-Munda language
Not really. I'm still trying to adjust to Lemmy.
Yep, and my stuff was protected. Been doing it since at least 1995.
Completely agree with the points about fear in guess cultures.

It goes deep too. All the way down to the fear of hearing a ‘no’ answer. So it’s self reinforcing all the way down.
Luna-25 malfunctions during lunar orbit maneuver
In this parallel comment, the first paragraph doesn't make any sense and seems like LLM-output: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37192872
I am speaking tongue in cheek of course, if they weren't themselves protected at all it would not work out for them. They couldn't own the distribution system well enough to keep the cat in the bag.

But I can see them being okay with bringing copyright back to 10 years or something, they make most of the money from publishing a new television series early on. If they made it ten years, paying for streaming old television series doesn't require paying the copyright owners anything so it's pure profit for the streaming service.

Of course people can go elsewhere, but if they can only get things made in the last 10 years on some particular service, they'd just use the same to view old things... and pay the website without the creators getting anything.

So every distributor wins because they can all offer the older material as a pure profit for themselves and an enticement to join the service (on top of the actual unique material from the last 10 years).
Do you know what tone policing is? hn is one of the most conservative echo-chambers I visit (yes I should stop) because constantly everyone is always being tut-tut-tut-ed.
You might like the non-maximum suppression algorithm from computer vision
Onboarding and risk management tools for financial firms. Monthly spend is about $1500, which is about 10% of revenue. I can probably spend some time and bring that spend down to $1000 with some work (but currently time is better spent getting revenue up)

Edit: I would like to add that with a combination of fly.io and digital ocean the actual server costs are way under $100. Most of the costs are paying for other Saas needed for the product (document analysis, emails etc) and tools (github, copilot, sentry, etc)
Assuming you've linked a card in the past, or you have a basic browser of any kind to link one, our thing does not require a smart phone. Just SMS.
Worst are the apps that force you to “charge” a card with some ridiculous minimum even if you only ever would be in that city once.

Who is going to track my balance 5 years from now when a different company is granted the rights to collect parking for the city?

I’m guessing there has to be a hidden option to only “charge” the app for what you want to reserve the spot for, else this seems illegal, but then again the city may be giving itself these mob-style rights.
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People vandalize the terminals. People have to collect cash from them. Have to make sure nobody put a skimmer on them.

Physical infrastructure is to be avoided.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. There's no subscription cost for using the cloud update, and it's possible to control the printers over WiFi using open source slicers.

So it appears you're angry about a strawman that doesn't actually exist.
>Why do I want people to contact me while I'm out?

I mean I would think you have a family and just to organize something you would need to communicate, even when you're outside.

>a flip phone would work fine for that.

Yes flip phones are indeed cell phones.
IP address blocking may have been banned, but DPI to block domains based on SNI is alive and kickin'.

I've seen people talk about encrypted SNI for a very long time now and it's still not working; someone must have dropped the ball pretty hard regarding that
> This feels like patent trolling.

Wouldn't that require that the patent is not only trivial but also useful? Whom would they want to troll with something that is useless?

Might just be looking for an investor to throw money at them, a patent probably helps with that.
Put stateful resources in one bucket, non-stateful in another, and then do that until it causes obvious issues then revisit later.

Infra should be simple as possible, and the simple infra should inform simple app design.
This story makes me sad and a little angry. The bits that stand out for me are:

- The requirement to have a smartphone and mobile data service.

- The requirement to run untrusted code (granting whatever "permissions" it demands) on her personal device.

I think it's important that necessities and other basic services (including parking) remain equally accessible to everyone, not locked away behind expensive, often burdensome, usually exploitative technology products. I don't know if legislation is the best way to keep our society from being pushed toward the latter, but if that's what it takes, I would support it.
The cost for those freestanding systems are usually pretty outrageous.

It’s a market like hotel WiFi. Early on, fancy hotels signed long contracts for shitty WiFi. Remember when you’d pay $10 for some awful WiFi service at the Marriott? Those parking things are the same.

I consulted for an entity that was paying $7.50 for a $25 dip. There’s hundreds of competing smartphone apps… you can even buy a square reader in a trivial scenario and pay 3%. In the government space, stuff like EZPass at airport parking costs $2-5 per transaction!
Ok, but please don't fulminate on HN. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
>The level of desperation the ISP’s engineers have felt in front of such incompetence must have been through the roof.

If I was an engineer there I would block the addresses and call it a day. What do I care? After all it's customer service who will deal with the angry calls.
100% completely agree, the only reason I work in this field is because it's both easier and pays significantly more compared to every other job I've had and could potentially ever get.
Not necessarily. "I want to pay for parking" -> "Click this link" -> quick automatic web based geolocation and redirect back to the SMS thread -> done.
Set the track to loop and turn on the crossfade setting.
… I was also recently at Dick's, and witnesses this same stupidity. Am I supposed to … what, have the attendant haul out pair after pair while I attempt to determine what my size in this brand+model is, or if, like so many shoe stores, they even carry my size? Let alone whether I like the look.

… the best shoe store I even went to, hands down, just had all the boxes laid out in stacks upon stack on the floor, where you could go through them.

… stores should be destroying online purchasing in this category by allowing me to try the damn thing on. If I can't … might as well order online? It's just as much of a gamble. (And sometimes, Amazon retailers provide a size chart with a conversion to mm. Although sometimes they also provide multiple size charts with conflicting information, too.)

(Also, a.) America, can we start measuring shoes in some actual unit, like mm or cm? … that there's a kids system, and women's is just inane. b.) Shoe companies would do well to have a standard sizing. You'd think that would be a thing. And yet, as someone with an odd foot, I can tell you that for some companies, it is, and for some, it isn't. I bought Nike for a while, since it was, and I knew any shoe in my size would fit comfortably. It was a magical few years … until Nike changed something. Why?)
The article has been updated with further statements by officials... but nothing official. If Canada is demanding this... canada.ca? An official statement by someone with authority?
To be a little blunt, this comment does not make that much sense.

Kolmogorov complexity is based directly off of Shannon's information theory. It's the definition of the shortest possible length of a program that can output a particular string.

It is an extension of information theory. If you just take either of the words 'Kolmogorov' or 'complexity' out of the phrase 'Kolmogorov complexity', it loses all meaning. We measure the programs for a given string against that string's Kolmogorov complexity by their entropy. Hence, why at the core, the very pith of the matter at hand is information, which is a measurable quantity. Additionally, K complexity is a lower bound, not a quantity.

This is a similar kind of swap to saying "No, those baked goods are not food, because goods == items bought and sold for currency", if this recontextualizes it a bit.
> “The forest of Skund was indeed enchanted, which was nothing unusual on the Disc, and was also the only forest in the whole universe to be called -- in the local language -- Your Finger You Fool, which was the literal meaning of the word Skund.

> The reason for this is regrettably all too common. When the first explorers from the warm lands around the Circle Sea travelled into the chilly hinterland they filled in the blank spaces on their maps by grabbing the nearest native, pointing at some distant landmark, speaking very clearly in a loud voice, and writing down whatever the bemused man told them. Thus were immortalised in generations of atlases such geographical oddities as Just A Mountain, I Don't Know, What? and, of course, Your Finger You Fool."

--Terry Prachett
marketing’s purpose is sales.

marketing loses sales = company loses money

Company loses money = company, cuts jobs

Bad marketing kills companies.

Bud Light did negative billions from their campaign. These people did negative millions for their company. Comprende?

Not everything is about LGBTQ bullshit get over yourself
Shpongle albums are split up into normal-sized tracks. Most CD players, media players, and streaming services support gapless playback of albums, at least for subscribers. When a Shpongle album is played with gapless playback enabled, it sounds like one long song.

I don't have a Spotify link handy, but here's a YouTube Music example:

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l_K6GgImOp-3...
Darn white people building eco-friendly transport. It's like Radio Rwanda, finding a new sin to broadcast every day.
You have a bright future in marketing (assuming you're not working there already).
Still feels baity to me but it's better than the original so let's use it. Thanks!
Maybe so. I guess you're talking about option types, although it's not obvious to me that these do any better given the requirement that errors are always explicitly shown in the code. So maybe your problem is with that requirement instead. But why are you listening to a podcast in the hopes the guest will admit his ignorance and tell you something you already know, instead of to learn new things?
Oxford UP textbooks always smelled like this, Atkins in particular
Of course, this is not fully comparable to Akka, but you might find this interesting: https://github.com/ebarlas/game-of-life-csp
Hilarious way to spend 15 mins. Thanks!
You can buy perfectly loopable white noise tracks on iTunes for $0.99. Permanently yours. Don’t need internet. Looping feature built in into the music app. As a bonus I have a Shortcuts home icon that plays it in a loop and sets focus mode to sleep.
Oh jeez. This is a semi-decent idea for a company so not sure of the need for downvotes…but at the same time it’s a bit “we put a Service as a Service in your Service as a Service leveraged on Software as a Service!”