skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad you had a good experience. I recently had a terrible experience with what should have been an even simpler verification process.

My wife and I ended up moving (within California) on short notice that overlapped my wife's unrelated trip out of the country. Despite very clear documentation on the USPS website about the documentation required for me to verify my wife's identity (and my relationship to her) in order to complete a Change of Address order on her behalf, the USPS employee immediately and aggressively accused me of attempting identity theft. No amount of showing him the USPS documentation about how to verify a spouse's identity would convince him.

At the second USPS office I tried, the guy was very nice, but also said that due to a high rate of identity theft they are refusing to do anything without the person there.

Luckily we only had a short interval where mail wasn't being forwarded before my wife returned and verified her identity in person, and probably didn't miss any important mail.
Do you know of a good example demonstrating RAG with query understanding via structured attributes?
Yeah this clearly seems like the fault of whoever is supposed to manage that road. Google maps also shows physical barriers there in May 2023, but different ones. Hard to say what it looked like at the time of the accident but if the road just disappeared I could absolutely see how that accident would happen with or without navigation.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.7811991,-81.2834442,3a,16.5y...
For iOS/Apple users just use the bulbs through the Home app. I don’t think I’ve used the Hue app in at least a couple of years since configuring that. Fuck Phillips. Won’t be buying any more of their products.
Well, I would like to be able to do 1000s of raycast per frame (360 for each bot), but cannot and yes, I do not use godot, but my own engine (with pixijs for graphics and a emscriptem port of box2d for physics
https://github.com/Birch-san/box2d-wasm.) Godot uses box2d, too, so that would be convenient, if I switch to godot, but only if it is worth the performance improvement, which it currently does not seem to be. Maybe next year.
Does it though? I use Windows and this has not been my experience for many years. There was a time, quite some time ago, when resetting the default browser was pretty common.

Do you know of a reproducible way to trigger either of your examples on Windows?
A Young Architect’s Designs for the Climate Apocalypse
>It is exclusionary to verify ID when voting, so what is the difference here?

I would argue the problem is not verifying identity for voting in elections.
It's not required

>the registrant will be given the option to have their identity verified in-person at a participating USPS retail location

Login.gov also offers remote identity proofing (eg photos of your ID)
There are quite a few issues that they've stopped fixing in the Element app in favor of doing it in Element X, the one I've been following is where the iOS app causes a breakage in E2EE when you use the share extension, so they just disabled the share extension entirely and said they'd fix in X - https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios/issues/7618

But X requires Sliding Sync on the server, which is still a separate service to run alongside the homeserver and doesn't have a stable API. I am increasingly disappointed with how centralized Matrix is becoming, since AFAIK there isn't really an alternate client close to the same level of quality as Element.

I probably would've made all of the same decisions myself though, so I don't blame them I'm just a bit disappointed in how it's shaking out.
Really strange Point of View. Governments adopting open standards rather then paying money to US tech companies is a good thing.
"C/C++": 4 mentions

"C and C++": 1 mention

"Rust": 1 mention
Did she set it up herself?
Legally speaking then, it's best to never make trades on any company that you currently or have previously (because you could still have friends that work there) worked for?
Actually, West Georgia/East Alabama had a history of wine production before prohibition. It's very slowly coming back as century-old alcohol laws slowly get repealed. (And then unrepealed, and then rerepealed. It's been rocky.)

You might be better off trying wines made with the muscadine, North America's own native grape, as it tends to handle hot and humid conditions better than traditional wine grapes.
There is no federal database to verify biometrics against. The state ones are not shared federally. How could a post office implement that?
> There's not enough room to overcomplicate something that isn't a core part of the business, it must be practical to maintain, simple&stupid enough so that onboarding is not a hurdle, etc.

You would think. But no, there is lots of room to make it over complicated without the corresponding efforts to manage the complexity.
The need is certainly clear. The call this blog post makes urges action and provides useful guidance on how to get that action moving. However, without legislative forcing, no such action will occur, and we will remain in the current regime where market forces such as reputational tarnish remains the most powerful driver for security choices. In some markets there are customers that must comply with regulations in their respective market, thus causing software vendors to provide more security assurance, but this is a special case and not the general case that the post here is looking for.

> The software industry must not kick the can down the road another decade through inaction.

The software industry most assuredly will, unless legislatively forced or otherwise compelled by the industrial environment.
https://mozilla.org

Looks like it.

I mean, I think of the dinosaur and the web suite, but I'm aged and live in a tech bubble.
The voice acting is almost always vastly better in the original language. The creator of the work spent significant time and money finding the right person for each role and then spent even more time working with them to get the performance they want in every scene. This is especially true in Japan since voice actors are more of a big deal there than in the US. For the dub, that kind of care isn't usually put into it, and even when the company producing the dub does put some effort into it that only reflects their desires, not those of the original creator.

That's why you so often get a very recognizable (and annoying imho) "anime dub voice". It sounds extremely unnatural. I can often tell if something has been dubbed from its original language just by hearing a few spoken lines of dialog! That shouldn't be possible, but it's obvious.

The other main problem I have with dubs is that they are not faithful to the content of the original work. Sometimes they rewrite parts of the script to avoid mouths not matching up with English voices, or to limit the amount of work needed to edit the mouths to match. Sometimes they rewrite the script entirely!

They also tend to make all kinds of totally needless changes. They'll often censor content and dumb down the script (typically by over-explaining everything). They almost always make changes to localize it by removing/replacing cultural references. One of the things I enjoy about consuming media made in other countries is that I get to learn things about those cultures. I like to see artistic works that come from a non-US perspective. I don't want that stripped away.

If you're looking at art made in another language, the ideal situation would be to have mastery of the language it was written/performed in, and that you'd have all the cultural knowledge to fully appreciate the many careful and deliberate choices the creator made. Most of the time, that's just not possible. Translation itself is a lossy process. It means that for you to enjoy it at all, you have to accept that some things are lost. The goal then, should be to retain as much of the original work as possible. That means subtitles and original voice acting. If you watch a dub you are not getting the work the creators envisioned and labored to bring into the world. You're getting something very different and much farther removed.
There might be a link between the groups responsible in a 1985 terrorist attack, and 38y later someone related to the movement being (allegedly) assassinated by the Indian government on Canadian soil.

But regardless of the allegations against the assassination victim, India would have no right to kill someone on Canadian soil, no matter the justifications it might have.

Extraterritorial killings are not justifiable, and definitely not by events that occurred 38y ago.

Hopefully this is all false and India wasn't involved in the murder of this person. But if true, it's inexcusable and paints India in a very bad light in term of international reputation.
In theory absolutely, but that doesn’t mean you can actually sue.

“In United States law, state, federal and tribal governments generally enjoy immunity from lawsuits.[48] Local governments typically enjoy immunity from some forms of suit, particularly in tort.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity
Absolutely not. There's uh, a lot of tutorials on YouTube about how to go about implementing this kinda thing, depending on the kind of game (top-down 2d, vs 3d etc). Sorry don't have time to do a full write up lol.
> Defold seems interesting, but unlike Heaps and Godot it hasn't yet been used for any game I've heard of

Is this true really? It appears to have been bought by King (Candy Crush Saga) and used internally (see the Defold about page). So while it may be associated with mobile/casual gaming it was worthy of being purchased and used by an otherwise successful company -- at least along some metrics.

Acquiring anything usually has a period of investigation and inquiry which Defold passed.

Seems at least worthy of consideration next to Heaps and Godot.
Reminds me of the insurance company dialogue in Fight Club..
IANAL, but probably comes down to whether you had access to material non public information. Ie, what gave you a hunch? If it's anything non public that could have also given others a hunch, had they known like you did, it's probably material non public information. There's no safe harbor for probabilistic insider trading.
This appears to come from Oracle. It is present in the final release of 8i.

SQL> select version from v$instance;

VERSION
-----------------
8.1.7.4.0

SQL> select 123abc from dual;

ABC
----------
123
What did you use for visualization in that stack? The fact that I can "|" (pipe) my data and make bar and pie charts is what really does it for me. What's really money is trivially being able to see requests coming in overlaid on a world map. I was sold the first time I saw that because it let me fix an issue that would have taken me hours to suss out just grepping around.

More power to you for using sed awk and grep, they're powerful tools and every computer person should know how to use them. But if you're hung up on only using sed awk and grep for emotional reasons, that's self-limiting. We have better tools today, and you don't get hero points for using shittier tools when there are better ones available to you.

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/tips-and-tricks/mapping-wi...
I wouldn't say airline regulation was a great exercise about command economies planning and allocating resources.

The whole point of regulation was to keep prices up so the airlines wouldn't implode like rail did. It was not meant to keep prices down.

So when we got rid of airline regulation, prices went down. Some airlines did implode, but not as badly as rail did.

Thankfully for airlines, it seems flying is a lot more indispensable than riding by rail.
Your grandparents aren't going to be running Windows 11 23H2.

Hell, I kept my parents on Windows 10 and intend to keep them on it for as long as possible. Too many headaches and calls asking why "things are different now" otherwise.
Options are really zero sum, every dollar you make is necessarily a direct loss for somebody else.
For a second, ignore Hooks, Signals and Runes, and look at the way Runes were presented in the video "Introducing Runes.. with Rich Harris". You will find this presentation very similar to but much shorter than "React Today and Tomorrow and 90% Cleaner React With Hooks" video. Both of them talk about:

1. primitives for managing state - $state vs useState

2. removal of lifecycle mechanisms - onMount vs componentDidMount

3. replacing lifecycle mechanisms with new primitives - $effect vs useEffect

It's like the Svelte team took a leaf out of React team's book on how to upgrade a framework - this is evident by the way these features are presented as opt-in like how React marketed Hooks as opt-in. I would go on to predict that the upgrade to Runes will just like the upgrade to Hooks. Developers will use it and then love it - because it presents improvements to the way codebases will be structured and maintained just like React did with Hooks. This is really a Hooks moment for Svelte. Good job Rich and the Svelte team!
It looks like that's what they have there as of this year.
Yeah, let's just keep calling everything a "copilot". Geesh.
All of the directors you mentioned rely heavily on CG effects and tons of digital layering for their films... there really is no other Studio Ghibli at the moment for feature animation.

There are some French films that over the years have had that touch, but they often lack the narrative component which make Ghibli films magical.
You're paying a premium because it's designed specifically for MacOS systems. Docker desktop is terrible on Mac, but Orbstack is awesome for this group of users.
The Logs Insights interface (https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/home?reg...) is fast enough for all our needs. You have to make sure you're using Insights and not the plain Logs query APIs, which are indeed very slow.

For some applications, it also makes sense to use the built in Logs API that exports logs to S3 (the export process is very fast) then use any of a variety of tools geared toward searching through data on S3.
What a total piece of filth.
Yeah, at this rate, Apple might have to shut down in 83000000 years. They are well and truly beleaguered.
A lot of people are in the post office on a regular basis for reasons other than this service. There's an established process for applying for passports like this. What's wrong with expanding identity verification, which is something that we've learned again and again over the past 30 years cannot be done securely online?
I did, as a matter of fact, walk around NY and DC, around 15 years ago. Coincidentally, I have also been to (central) Florida. All of these were work trips, with a bit of vacation here and there.

So yeah, I get your point, in DC and NY people do walk and use public transport, elsewhere, it seemed similar, except Texas was bigger (even for walking). But I have that in Prague too.

I don't think the point of these articles is to dis on anyone, but really, point out collective procrastination we have towards climate change.
Does this work for a family member who cannot physically present themselves at a Post Office, e.g., due to illness or incapacity?

(looks like this is what you are reporting, but the phrasing is a bit ambiguous on that detail - thanks!)
Is that overtime or immediately after acquisition? https://www.google.com/finance/quote/CSCO:NASDAQ?&window=5D
It would be interesting if this was the case that blew up Google's model of forcing everything to be "decided" by a computer, refusing to allow humans to be involved.
They would be decoupled from immediate earthquake effects, but not from subsequent tsunamis.

Had there been such a ship moored off the Tohoku region of Japan in 2011, there would have been less than an hour to mitigate damage. Not even enough time to put to sea, let alone shut the reactor down. That might well be as if one of the Fukushima reactors had been uprooted and carried inland.
Ask HN: I hear the complaints about React, but what would be your perfect API?
What would be your perfect API to do the main things you need to do (top priority question)

What features do you not need that are in React?

What features do you need that are not in React?
>I don't think voice acting is as well respected in North America too and so lack of talent/desire to keep costs low gets a worse result.

You've got it backwards: Voice acting in Japan is far more respected (idolized, even) than the occupation is in every other part of the world.
You must be new to the United States. Only the poors go to jail (except in the most extreme cases like Epstein, and it still took them 20+ years to do anything to him.
Sure, if you're solving easy problems python will be fine.
Florida seems to have about 2x per capita CO2 emissions [1][2] so there's a fair bit of difference.

UK's climate sins in oil production might swing the judgement though.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1299198/co2-emissions-pe...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
> are you wanting a plastic band atop the laptop closing screen, to get a cellular capable antenna in an otherwise metal body?

I'm almost certain Apple's world class hardware team can integrate a cellular antenna to an aluminum laptop in a way that is visually pleasing, yes. This isn't some insurmountable problem we are positing here.
It used to be waaaay more expensive and has gotten much better now. But it still costs, all I know is, that when I do 600 raycasts each, it costs me around 8 ms on medium hardware. Batching it reduces the cost to 2 ms for me. For simple things like GetPosition I did not noticed a perf hit, but for getting vertices I also did. So mid term, I will batch all often used calls into wasm. For now raycasting was the biggest bottleneck.
I don't need a map w/navigation features on my desktop.

I need working fractional scaling for xwayland apps, working system tray and configurable keyboard shortcuts. Gnome can't offer me that.
I definitely knew at least one engineer who learned to read their binary watch. The goal was absolutely social. It's a conversation-starter, for a crowd that, let's face it, could use more practice having conversations.

You're right that it's wasteful—those watches are mostly e-waste at this point. But so are all the electronics we've bought in the past 20 years. I'm typing on future e-waste right now!
I didn't say for free. It can be factored in the initial price of the product.
This is extremely annoying. I invested in the Hue ecosystem specifically because it was one of the few that did not require an account and allowed me to keep all of my devices offline and isolated on a local network with no internet traffic.

I will not be purchasing any more of their products and will do my best to extract a refund for the hundreds of dollars I've spent on them so far.
You just can't have the newest fancy client without also having the new fancy server. That seem to make sense to me.
I am intensively envious of people who type this fast; I get up to 100 words per minute on a good day. Time to get a new pair of hands?
A lot of the comments here remind me of the debate about student loan forgiveness. Some say, "Why should they have their loan forgiven when I had to pay mine?!"

I know, these are two completely different topics that can't be compared. I just feel a lot of people here think "Why should they get free food if I have to pay for it?".

IMO it's a very selfish way of thinking.
I'm pretty sure that was the only reason.
Does Bloomberg also have a plan to replace them with something else that will serve as reliable base load? Otherwise this is just a plan to turn the US into South Africa with perpetual brown outs.
Yes. The one bit you’re missing is that a call option is the right to buy a stock at a certain price typically on or before a certain date.

To make the numbers simple, imagine a stock trades at $10/share. If someone came to you and said: how much would you be willing to pay to have an option to buy the stock for $100/share? The correct answer is: it depends. If it’s the right to buy the stock for $100/share at any point over the next 10 years then that’s worth more than to buy the stock at $100/share in the next day. A stock trading at $10 is unlikely to jump to $100 in a day so the option to by it for $100 is not worth much. It could happen, so it’s worth something. But it’s unlikely. So, again to make the numbers simple, let’s say it’s worth $0.01/option to buy a stock at $100 in the next day when it’s trading at $10 today.

Now imagine it’s the next day and the company with the $10 stock discovers the cure for cancer or invents time travel or perfects cold fusion. News breaks and now it’s trading at $1,000 per share. Now how much is the right to buy the stock at $100 per share worth? The answer is going to be something really close to, but maybe a small discount from, $1,000 (current value of the stock) - $100 (how much you pay based on the option) = $900. So what was worth $0.01 yesterday is worth $900 today.

Let’s say you have $10,000 to invest. If you know in advance the news is going to break you can do two things to (probably illegally) try and profit from it.

1. Buy 1,000 shares of the stock for $10/share.
2. Buy 1,000,000 options to buy the stock for $100/share tomorrow with each option costing $0.01.

With strategy 1 you spend $10,000 to buy something that, after the news breaks, is worth $1,000,000. Not bad. But with strategy 2 you spend $10,000 to buy something that’s worth $900,000,000 after the news breaks.

In both cases you’re likely to at least be investigated. And strategy 2 seems especially suspicious because the risk is so high and the non-illegal reasons for doing it are so few and far between. Very few reasons you’d buy a bunch of call options that only pay off if something causes a stock to move dramatically in 24 hours.

Finally, while short-dated, out-of-the-money call options are not something many if anyone should be playing with, they’re just a different flavor of something very familiar. To put it in context a lot of HN readers will understand more intuitively: a call option is what you often receive when you get equity in a startup. It’s the right to purchase shares at a price (strike price) before a certain amount of time (typically 10 years).
Many email providers have black listed companies that have any connection to crypto. Do you support crypto companies?
it's still the birthday paradox, 365 analysts deciding to make investments over the course of the year, some will pick the same dates, and assuming that there was not public information released recently that could have drawn an analyst's attention to Splunk or Cisco "being in the market for acquisitions" in the first place. Perhaps ChatGPT recommended this trade, "chatGPT, if i asked you to go spelunking for good options trades today, what would you suggest?"

The question was, any way this could be legit.
>and 38y later someone related to the movement being (allegedly) assassinated by the Indian government on Canadian soil.

There was another "suspicious" event this morning (quotes because I don't understand the politics enough to make a judgement):

https://www.business-standard.com/india-news/sukha-duneke-wh...

The source definitely has a view, but "one person's freedom fighter..." and all that.
There are two political gains we should coordinate our attacks to achieve:

Better vaccines (safer, more powerful)

A more informed public regarding vaccines
Just had a watch of their demo video. One of the seating plan sliders allows you to cluster pupils by free school meals (i.e. socioeconomic class) or EAL status. Such wonderful technology!
Thank you for the comments. I'll keep my fingers crossed that this plays out well.

> plus you can always just embed an Element Call instance

That sounds like potentially a commercial embrace&extend&extinguish situation, which we need to avoid.