skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there's a chance that things will still work out,

There is a big difference between a less than 1% chance and an 80% chance here. Part of the job is knowing that difference, and how to handle/communicate it.
I hate spending money on software. I pirated Adobe Creative Suite for years. I really, really did not want to pay the $55/month for a Creative Cloud subscription, but I had to. There are no great alternatives to Photoshop + Premiere + After Effects. I have Affinity Photo, I have Da Vinci Resolve, and Fusion. But at the end of the day Adobe makes the best video production/animation software. I reluctantly bought a subscription and it's been worth it for me. I still hate Adobe's business practices but their software is still extremely well made.
Ah hold on - that's not a webview. That's the custom tabs provider; https://developer.chrome.com/docs/android/custom-tabs/ .

That one can still be user configured. (As you can see, what Browser gets used on Android when you click a link is just a bit of a mess in general; you have custom tabs, system webview and even bundled webview, which is what Facebook does).
Yep, in the summertime you'll see driveways covered in it. Turns out the black driveways in the summer sun are an excellent and free way to dry it.
Really appreciate the amount of work that's gone into this!

Is this a better quality version of the Amazon homepage?

https://web.archive.org/web/20040715235459im_/http://g-image...

Does anyone know how the headings were done in smallcaps like that? I remember my sites had the same in the mid-90s, so it must have been some simple feature of HTML, but I can't find it in the spec. I am sure this is pre-CSS.
Yes I know, but mesh gradients are a part of Inkscape since at least 0.92, which is when I started using it, aka 2019.
I guess this message was through Message within your account?

If you check the sender they just created the account, and the link looks like Facebook.

I get this within a couple of hours after my first advertisement on a new page. This is probably phishing, and I guess it was not Facebook contacting you in the first place.
> what I described seems to skip that process and those personnel entirely

You’re not wrong; however in many orgs this behavior is highly discouraged to the point of being grounds for termination, and for good reason: you’re sidestepping the design process in order to build something which may or may not be correct, then you have to go back and fix it anyways to meet the spec which wasn’t clear yet because you started development without nailing down the design first.
The thing is though, it used to be the norm to pay for software. At some point, I think with the rise of "free" social network platforms that gave you tons of features, people then began expect high quality software for free (obviously not realizing they are the product).
Unsurprisingly, the first 90% is a lot more fun than the "second 90%" (polishing)...
Severe performance problems with Xcode 15
Obviously it didn't pan out, but you could think of Convoy as an aggregator of small carriers. A big shipper doesn't want to deal with 1,000 small carriers but they can deal with Convoy, and Convoy deals with the small carriers.

Convoy could interface with large companies as though they had a large fleet of drivers and trucks. That "fleet" wouldn't require paying for benefits to employees, maintenance or fuel on the truck, and could scale up or down based on demand.

I would have guessed that the network effects of getting this kind of marketplace going would be the hard part. It makes me think that a big mistake in leadership was made.
Just added HN dupetheory to my lexicon. Love it.
We do not have universal single-payer but we have a few very large government-run single-payer systems.

If you have an example of a country with a single program that has more effective outcomes for a population of similar makeup and size, that would be a useful comparison.
Isn't labor shortage a factor of penny-pinching? I'm pretty confident that if said cashiers were being offered double the rate that they are currently being offered that there would be no labor shortage problem.
> I did not appreciate in my scenario that the founder REJECTED a buy offer for what would have been a life changing amount of money for me, because he thought it was too low.

Same scenario for me - so I left - and then shortly after they did sell. Argh.
Something's broken with the nixos package of this - it lists it at https://search.nixos.org/packages?show=localsend, but trying to install it just throws `error: attribute 'localsend' missing`. Other packages work just fine.
I almost turned into a human pretzel earlier from the amount of cringe I got from seeing a post on LinkedIn about all the wonderful things ChatGPT can do to make life easier for HR, including "detecting hidden bias" in employee communications. Most of the responses to the post were positive and I'm sure we'll see a lot more of this kind of thing, where people's lives are altered and reputations ruined, due to unrealistic expectations of what ChatGPT can do reliably.
Looks like the changes are already in FlaskLogin

https://github.com/wangsha/flask-login/commit/6d1b352dd5106e...

but not yet released.

This is more an issue with versioning
It's only Allah if it's from the Alla region of France, otherwise it's just Sparkling God.
Illustrator that wishes to be Dreamweaver
This is the first time I've heard of Miro. Maybe the storm wasn't as big as you think?
> Execution engines themselves should provide ways to preempt execution.

Yes, and that preemption occurs at the opcode level. Which is completely defeated if your string matching opcode can hang for an inordinate amount of time because the user supplies a very large string and/or crafts string inputs that force O(n^2) or worse behaviour.
regardless, C-level salaries were probably high enough that they can skate by a while without a salary for a bit and pay for marketplace healthcare coverage if absolutely necessary
Thank you for the lecture, Karl
I've been pondering doing a short experiment where I abandon exceptions in C# and instead always return 1 or 2 values from my methods: maybe some output and an error object. I'm not sure how well this will work in practice. One issue that occurs to me immediately is that I'd be wrapping a lot of library functions in try/catch blocks just to push my error objects back up the call stack. I suppose the lazy option is to just ignore the libraries and only worry about my own code.
Has anyone tried taping a conducting wire to the macbook case and running it to the closest ground connector?
Paradoxically, if the government did more it would spend less. All civil servants without in-house expertise know how to do is RFP and spend money.
So if someone shares CP on discord you think they should be given a warning and not permabanned? The justice system isn't going to give them any slack so why should a private entity? Where do you draw the line? I asked in my initial comment, "What's egregious to you". No one will answer that...
I feel like i've had some sea plants in some scandy dishes.
These seem consistent with each other:

During the pandemic and boom consumer spending was at X ("what it used to be")

Then it dropped a ton, though in recent months it's been increasing month over month. In fact, it's all the way back up to 50% of what it used to be!
For 4. Overall, the goals are similar. Both are trying to optimize over the game to try and reach a winning state. But the methods are different.

The Deep Blue algorithm just does a search over the tree of possible moves (up to a certain depth), called alpha-beta search, and picks the best position it can find according to a simple evaluation function.

Searching over all these nodes is effective because chess is not random. If it could go over all possible chess positions, it could find the perfect moves to play every time. It doesn't need any training. The problem is that this search grows exponentially as depth increases, and you need to search up to high depths because chess is complex.

For a long time Stockfish, a powerful chess engine, used only a highly optimized alpha-beta search to perform at a very high level.

Now, there is the approach of reinforcement learning for chess like AlphaZero, which is very similar to this reinforcement learning approach.

And there is a mix between the two, like the current Stockfish, which uses a neural network trained on data along with alpha-beta search.
Wired may have removed the Op-Ed, but Search Engine Journal did not remove their article on the matter.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-execs-scheme-to-i...

No one knows exactly how Google alters search queries except Google. That's arguably the issue. It's not transparent.

But the point of the Op-Ed, if I understand it correctly, was not to describe the precise mechanism of alteration. It was to raise awareness that Google is altering search to boost ad revenue and the changes do not necessarily lead to better search, but they lead to better ad revenue.
If the emergency disrupts cell service, there would be no way to remotely take control of the vehicle.
I take it you didn't read the article
They run a freight exchange platform linking truck drivers with people who need freight shipped. What hardware patents did they have?
IT is an extremely diverse field with extremely diverse subprofessions - knowledge about esoteric hardware should not be assumed.
> it has one of the best snapping systems ever created

Is this documented somewhere? inkscape.org points to inkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io which doesn't cover it at all. I can't even get it to snap to an anchor if the grid is showing, and I can't get it to snap to the grid if the view isn't zoomed close enough.
I don't care for all that "logic" which is not logical at all, just a bullshit attempt to avoid confronting that reality doesn't work the way you wish it would and you have no way to change that.

>Well I don't think the goal is to help them, I think the goal is to take away the ability for people to pay to rape them with legal cover.

In other words: you are willing to make life worse for people in order to protect your own sensibilities.
Yes...living off of just seaweeds seems...like a pretty bad idea and incomplete nutrition. In Alone participants are constrained to a specific plot of land -- I'll assume if Igor could go to other locations he could have augmented his diet and improved his living situation (not kept to that boggy area) like a good hunter-gatherer.
> Whatever you do, always check your errors!

Would probably help if you did not need an external linter to remind you. Alas, here as well Go is all hat.
Yup that last part is the entitlement !
They did correct for multiple testing - "P-values were multiple-test corrected
using the Benjamini-Hochberg False Discovery Rate (FDR) procedure and a cutoff of 0.1 was applied to select the differentially abundant genera". However, they used Wilcoxon test which has unacceptably high FDR [1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28034-z
almost everyone on HN is interested in biology and especially biohacking but does not actually realise they have none of the necessary expertise to judge claims coming from that field; the level of discourse on these topics is sometimes worse than what I spot on reddit
Why keep something secret on a public repo? Is that not an oxymoron?

Also, I’m terms of encryption something like age[0] makes it much easier to not shoot yourself in the foot.

[0] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
Something else is going on there. I did that to a friend's laptop that was running epic slow for no reason, about the same age. I never had a chance to get to the bottom of it as it was lost in a fire, but there is something causing a hang-up.

I have a 6 year old 7th gen i5 laptop here with 16GB + SSD in it and it is smooth as butter with stock Windows 10 and about a billion things going on. I have it running two screens and I use it for editing 4K video, doing livestreaming etc. In fact, I have a second identical one with only 8GB in it and it is perfectly fine as long as it doesn't go to swap.

The SSD I put in is a $10 job from Amazon.

I wonder how to get some sort of system-wide profiler that will show where the hang-up is?
This is an incredible reply to receive! I suppose good current security practice is to assume that most of us will also be in a similar situation one day.

There are services that I still have difficulty giving up, which are provided by companies I don't trust to not lock me out forever or to provide customer service. I feel stupid as I type this - are other people in a similar situation? Is the only option to vote with our wallets and choose better/paid providers?

I like to think that there's a solution out there which returns us to a time when it didn't feel like account access involved the sword of Damocles:

- coming up with the perfect combination of 2FA/Advanced Protection/removing mobile phone number which prevents these arbitrary lockouts,

- a popular name and shame website collating these ridiculous examples
Note that as of 1917, the year of the Balfour declaration, Palestine looked approximately like in https://www.edmaps.com/assets/images/autogen/British_Mandate...
yes, ted's code automates checking your errors, which is something Go itself neglected to do or even remind you the programmer to do
We have a rigorous compliance approval process for new customers that includes approving their app UX, marketing collateral, user communications, internal compliance & underwriting policies, etc.

For existing customers, we have and are in the process of building monitoring systems to verify customers are sending required communications (ie signed loan agreements, adverse action notices, payment reminders, statements, etc) and that their decisioning aligns with the credit policy we've approved.

In the near future, we're going to build tools to automate/handle a lot of the compliance-sensitive processes/ops for teams that don't want to own it themselves. This will include Pier-powered user communications and underwriting, among other things. We'll have more to share on this soon!
Reaction: If you aren't actively looking for your next job, you certainly should be.
I suspect Dutchies used to eat quite a bit of seaweed and aquatic plants (and that some still do, zeekraal is fairly popular), but that it was just forgotten by most Dutch people/culture.

If you're interested you might want to look for hiking/walking tours into the dunes with some nature-freak and/or chef. Or do some internet searching. I recall going on walks with guides as a kid with the family and they would point out tons of stuff that was edible, but somehow ceased to be popular food.

This reminds me of some other losses of Dutch identity/tradition: Dutch folkloric dances (almost no Dutch person will be able to tell you what they where) or the fact that only Japanese seem to know what "Dutch coffee" is.
Google's next antritrust trial will begin on November 6, 2023 [pdf]
I think seeking into the middle of strings, as opposed to iterating over them from the start, is rare in most code.

If so, using UTF-8 and only converting to UTF-16 the moment such seeking happens may be beneficial.

Problem, however, is that Java and JavaScript have C-style for loops that give false positives, where the code indexes into the string in order to iterate over it.
I really wish Akira (https://github.com/akiraux/Akira) had worked out :/
> You don't know it's doomed.

It's swell when people gamble with employees well-being on the miniscule odds of a miracle. And even better idea is to offer severance, and those employees with the same appetite for risk can get additional options from the folks who leave. That'd be a win/win, except for the leadership who would rather gamble using other peoples chips but keep most of the winnings.

> Everyone who lost their jobs at Convoy is eligible for unemployment

Unemployment benefits don't come anywhere close to tech salaries! They take time to process.

> Perhaps the discussion should be around improving this benefit for everyone?

We can multitask. What is in my power to control is to avoid working with anyone associated with this decision and encourage everyone else to do the same - board-members and the entire C-Suite. We have a - let's call it poor culture fit
Yes, I'm assuming the need to be completely correct.

But you have to nail down a definition of “looks weird”?
Haha! This was added as an Easter egg to say goodbye to the old logo. The logo was changed to a new one this year
Thanks for the answer! Appreciate it. I didn't catch the use of "including Hamas" until you mentioned it either.
When I took a negotiations course, there was one interesting thing they teach.

It is legal to pay someone to enter the market (e.g. Microsoft paying Apple to make a search engine if they thought most of their users would be former Google users).

It is, however, illegal to pay someone to stay out of the market. Given that Apple was developing a search engine, the DOJ is arguing that Google decided to offer Apple a lot more money than Apple felt they would make with their own search engine. So Apple preferred the Google money to developing their own engine.

While not an explicit deal to stay out of the market, the argument is that it is equivalent to paying Apple to stay out of the market.
> Ex-Convoy employee here: if a company is shutting down, it obviously can't provide severance. It's not a matter of class or not.

A statement that's just verifiably untrue. Companies that shut down provide severance all the time. It's just a matter of priority.
That was kind of my point. I don't think we should be quick to distinguish between "AI" and other algorithms/techniques, because what makes something "AI" is more a matter of opinion and perspective than anything else.
That one's used in many other things too! Very popular gelling agent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrageenan#Food_and_other_dom...
In order for visually-guided organisms to operate within an environment, such as humans, we need to have some level of trust in visual representations of actual things that happened. While others point out that our mind recalls are not true representations, nonetheless, they are a construct that we need to put some level of trust in. Learned information from the world around us can also help in establishing a level of trust.

AI on the other hand is putting more distrust towards online and computer behavior. Online has always had a level of distrust, it's only getting worse.

When people show me their photos taken with their smartphone cameras, I like to tell them that it is probably not what they really saw, as the colors are usually tweaked before saved to computer memory. But it's close enough. This is why I enjoy film cameras, it's an attempt to get as close to the real (visual) moment in time as possible.
We're both old then
Inkscape on Windows has been great for me, but I haven't compared it to Inkscape on Linux :)
This site can’t be reached

Check if there is a typo in www.acceleratesf.com.
Red Pill, Blue Screen: How 'The Matrix' Mirrors Our Tech-Driven World
Britain, you just lion, great job.
Yep.

Chromebooks for the call centre will come… may god have mercy on our souls.
For something a little heavier but much more robust in terms of features/functionality I've been enjoying FastChat: https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat

It allows you to plug in different backends so that you can use OpenAI compatible clients with various LLM's, selfhosted or otherwise.
There are no "public groups" in Signal. Don't know about Whatsapp since I don't have it anymore. All of my groups consist of people I know. You still don't understand the use case.

> elegram knows your number and your messages but it is unlikely that they will give them out

How do you know that? Do you know the people personally or where is your knowledge coming from because if you don't know them, you are just another user who gave out all of their chat contents AND the phone number to "some people somewhere". Nothing else. You have no guarantee for anything, and you should already know that they do act upon requests from governments. Google it.
You think they couldn't forecast this months in advance?

Parent is basically saying they gambled you sift landing and lost, as most psychopaths would.
Right! In a case like this, some outliers are just useless for calculating the mean - they come from something else - BUT they might still be useful in a SMART style of trying to detect degradation of the system. A second measure.
We can’t fix the people who cherish their imperfections as a sign of humanity

Ouch. Spoken as a wise man
Hah. Yep!
TLDR:

Gemini Man, a movie with low ratings and reviews, did better than expected on Netflix.
Yep, what you're referring to (the "Powered by <browser>" screen) is done with the Custom Tabs API. Some folks might also refer to it as the in-app browser. Any browser can implement a CustomTabsService and the whole feature respects the default browser setting.

The Fastmail app is actually a good example of something that uses the WebView APIs though. Fastmail's UI is entirely web-based and their whole app is rendered inside of a WebView, provided by the Chromium-based "Android System WebView" app. If I remember correctly, the list of allowed signatures for a WebView provider is baked into the OS, so no third party can provide an implementation without root access.
"While this is a step in the right direction, let's be real: it hardly solves the problem of robotaxis interfering with emergency vehicles."

Some quality opining there...
Yes, obviously to play the Violin you must train for it, and some brains may be optimized to train faster or easier using different methods, because the connections of our brain regions are different from human to human.

You don't have to replicate the human brain structures, but you need to replicate at least their functions. And decide how to link these together. Otherwise, you'll just have a different path to get there, and the AGI you find might look alien like to us. Very fun.

Either way, we should have as many teams try out each method of design to find AGI.

The evidence is anyone can learn Quantum Mechanics, but not everyone will be Einstein. They might be Picasso, Jobs, or someone else. G factor itself I am trying to say is not talking about the learning part, it is talking about the production part. So any part of the AGI process will be finding what will learn (brain regions) and what will produce (the connections between them).

Obviously, you can replace the brain regions and connections with other AI methods we invent. That is all part of this scientific process to find what works. And it will be a fun ride to see what does.
> The company is shutting down. I'd bet you a lot of money nobody gets anything.

Let's define a lot and then I'll take this bet.
Oh good the stock valuation corrected from "delusional" to "still delusional"
There are decades, billions of dollars, and millions of man-hours of research on Alzheimer's.

It's safe to say a paragraph on hackernews saying "oh it's just X", no matter how stuffed with scientific words, does not sum it all up.
To counter point, the Mona Lisa makes so much money from people going to see it, it’s not surprising that some money could be found to do this research. And the write up on the composition of the Mona Lisa paint would get exponentially many more readers than any real research your friend would be doing.
> With the ability to pull near infinite mass and a towing capability of over 14,000 pounds, Cybertruck can perform in almost any extreme situation with ease.

Can someone explain the “near infinite mass” claim?
I think they may release (or at least announce at timeline for) API access at their dev conference in November.
The algorithm that Google engineers invented for translate (the transformer) is literally the basis for modern AI.
Where is qualified immunity when we need it?
What is the purpose of this comment?
I'm guessing their dev conference in November.