skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do your calls scripts look like?

I stopped working in this area several years ago, but your least cost alternative to Twilio voice is most likely running calls yourself with a baseline voip provider. You'll need to go through the provider's sales team because your use case is outside the standard TOS, and your usage metrics will get you flagged quickly, unless you have no volume (but if you have no volume, you wouldn't be shopping).

Software wise, freeswitch seems like the most full featured thing to run calls, but if the calls are simple, it might be better to sit down and do the work to have a minimal sip client that only does exactly what you need.

Twilio does (or did) offer call handling on an outside sip account at a per minute fee, but I don't think that makes a lot of economic sense.
>In this case, I think the resource was looking for just a stock photo.

God forbid they just write their article with no photo at all. Better to use a wrong one apparently.
Wouldn't it be simpler and more accurate for you to just try X variations of your personal prompt(s) across Y services over Z runs? There's so much variance that no single study would capture every use case.
HR is just a staff department. This is about company culture, not HR.
Don't you allocate some time just for you? Labelling that as selfish seems very unhealthy.
That’s what made it not interesting, and a better question would be “for each case do you think the police should spend taxpayer money enforcing the rule?”.

Not “does this pedantically violate the rule” but “would it be good for society if this case was punished?”, “would it be good for the park?”, “would the effort of punishing it be worth the cost?”.

I can’t imagine anyone seriously saying it would be worth the cost of the police trying to move an orbiting space station “out” of the park - the cost would be huge and the return negligible, but peoples views On whether a WWII tank is appropriate for a pedestrianised park are interesting, whereas people saying “yes the tank is a vehicle” are not so interesting.
That's weird, I don't recall getting those Bing/services ads and certainly haven't been getting them for a long time.
There is the notion of induced demand but it follows a logistic curve rather than a monotonically increasing one. At the limit, you will eventually build enough housing to satiate demand without creating more; there are only a limited amount of people on the planet, after all.
1) I do clean the bags. The plastic ones I wipe when they get dirty. We also have cotton shopping bags, I just put them in the washing machine.

2) Who cares if you can detect E coli or whatever in the bag? It's not like I put raw meat loose in there. Most of the food I buy is packaged, or I wash it or peel it before eating.
>As an editor, given this as your only photo choice, what caption would you write?

I would just not include a photo at all.
I think the cybertruck is a piece of garbage but people like to say things like this authoritatively on the internet and it is wrong.

I like cars, I have built and raced cars. I have owned sports cars, boring hybrids, and a Tesla. I have tuned ECUs and adjust BCMs… cars do not behave as linearly and directly as a lot of Internet engineers seem to think they do.

If you watch closely in this video, the steering wheel turning and the wheel starting to turn happen almost instantaneously, there is no initial input lag. The lag is between the steering wheel and wheel reaching center, and that’s dictated by an intentional acceleration curve. This is what I would have expected in a steer-by-wire system.

There are things worth complaining about with steer-by-wire and I don’t think this is one of them.
And the grey beard wizards who love to pour over them.
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I always wondered (and still do) what people feel when they dress up to date. I've always thought of it as hiding my true personality. Showing someone different. Playing a role.
Does everyone feel like that?
BERTopic is great, but some people forget that even magic, er, UMAP+HDBScan on embeddings cannot solve some problems:

- statistical tools (including LDA and variants) define topics to be coherent latent clusters of words/embeddings. These correspond to a mixture of real-world concepts, including events, topics, issues etc. So when you apply BERTopic, you often get clusters that represent very different things on a conceptual level

- the end-to-end pipeline is very nice, especially when adding things like cluster labeling from LLMs on top. But we should not forget that this stacks many steps with implicit errors on top of each other. It is not easy to get a transparent and robust story why one cluster solution is better than any other.

- one of the implicit choices is picking UMAP, which will tend to find very coherent clusters but "throw out" many (up to ~50%) cases into an outlier cluster (-1). Sometimes that's not what we want, and then tuning is needed (e.g. use kmeans instead).

- random footnote: cuML for really fast BERTopic is great, but seems to produce inferior solutions. Better test that before putting it into production.

With all that said, I love that now we can use this tool and debate its merits on this level, rather than everyone implementing their own homegrown and probably bug-rich version of it.
> HTML is not the mother language - It's actually pretty terrible for describing dynamic user interfaces.

I disagree a lot on HTML here - it's a pretty fantastic way of describing a render and layout tree, so much so that people are embedding HTML-like syntax in programming languages because the syntax is better than what the language already has to offer.

To paraphrase something I've heard: JSX proves that HTML actually won.

And you can see this because even in a language with concise object literals like JS, a markup based syntax is nicer. There are template systems where you write objects, and I find them cumbersome and they're not very popular.

But markup is king, whether it's in JS like JSX or Lit-like tagged template literals, or in an HTML-like file like Angular, Vue, or Svelte. They all share a markup-based syntax.

> If HTML is so magical why do they need a fancy template language?

Note that Rich doesn't say that HTML is magical. He says it's good, which it undeniably is. It describes elements with attributes and children, which happens to be exactly the structure you need for the vast majority of UI widget concepts.

The reason you need a fancier template syntax is that while HTML is good it isn't perfect. HTML doesn't have a dynamic binding syntax (though standards is working on that with Template Instantiation) or conditionals, and attributes are underpowered.

So template systems generally add those things. Whether it's JSX, Svelte, lit-html, Angular, etc... they share those common enhancements.

The only real big disagreement is whether you embed the logic in HTML or the HTML in JS. It's not even that fundamental of a difference.

I prefer HTML-in-JS myself (note: I'm on the Lit team) because JS already has binding syntax, expressions, control flow; because the data is already available in JS; and because JS has a module system and you can do all the things without forking a language or a build step.

But having been on the Polymer side too, which is logic-in-HTML, I know that a lot of people prefer HTML syntax and that to some it's more clear how it maps to the DOM created on the page, simply due to syntax similarity. That's fine. But it's really all variants of HTML in the end.
Move to a less expensive neighborhood of a dense city? Looking at the northeast US, where cities are denser - Baltimore? Philadelphia?
Chinese astronomers find radio pulsar in a supernova remnant
I get through an average novel in 1-2 days, either in dead tree or ebook format on my phone.
I'd honestly class that as reductio ad absurdum, quantum mechanics dictates it is a probability my car might spontaneous become a pink elephant.

I'm all for evidence showing the latency shown on the video is comparable to competing implementations, but I'm not interested in lazy arguments that all momentum is eventually consistent as a defence.
Asked the same question got the same response with invalid URL. Followed up with:

> What is the link to Fox News?

> I apologize, I cannot provide a link to Fox News due to concerns about the spread of misinformation and the potential for harm. There have been well-documented instances of Fox News broadcasting inaccurate or misleading information, particularly on topics related to politics and current events.

> ...etc with links to other news sites

Not a fan of fox, but this is super patronizing/juvenalizing on Gemini's part.
I don't think this is true. Source?
The main purpose of translators is to give AM radio stations an avenue (at lower cost than an FM only license) to reach listeners on the FM band and have a more consistent signal throughout the day — but they only keep that privilege if they continue maintaining the AM broadcast facilities as the primary signal.

There are issues with FCC public licensing to be certain, but the way a lot of stations deal with translators isn't quite above the board considering many stations attempt to follow the regulations (IMO).
PyMC has a pretty active community where we help people with questions like these. Its hard to come up with one doc as folks have different hardware, datasets, models etc. I hope though you'll the devs and community to be friendly though!

https://discourse.pymc.io/t/how-to-increase-sampling-speed-w...
> With housing it's more flexible: you can commute longer each day. You can just not move to a city where you know the "salary/cost of living" is not working in your favor. You can also time these decisions: go to NYC when you are in your 20s, live with some roommates to get some savings and then when you get older you can move to a more spacious city. You can be flexible about the space you need too: from 1 bedroom in a shared apartment, to a 3 beds detached house in a quiet suburb in another city, there is a lot of flexibility.

You _really_ think people aren’t already doing that, huh. Rents are too damn high AFTER all these options have been exhausted, and not because (as Fox News will happily tell you) people are lazy and entitled.
It’s all the water and the clay they are built on, Florida just spends to get around it.
Microsoft's Bitlocker and TPM encryption combo defeated
Grafana OnCall can be self hosted for free or you can pay $20 a month, and still always have the option to migrate to self hosting if you want to save money
Your right.

It's even worse than LA. The LA metro has better connectivity across the city of LA than Miami Metrorail does in Miami.

> I explored Brickell and Miami Beach

Did you walk or take public transit to Little Havana or Little Haiti?
If you want my address you can just google it, I'm not going to spend any time worrying about it.
'Artist renditions' are used for space news, criminal descriptions, etc. maybe not such a crazy idea here.
That was my experience for multiple apartments in both Seattle and San Francisco. Never living in NYC but if I had to move there, would try same approach.
I took this course a few years ago. While I appreciated the theory behind it, they left the implementation up to the listeners and I couldn’t bridge the gap. So it wasn’t very helpful to me.

Edit: by implementation I mean, translating the abstract theory to actual practice. I couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to do with what I just learned.
More services will be sorted out by the market, because there is more demand. You're assuming street and public transit capacity is already maxed out; but if it is, yes you need more (of one or the other or both).
Numpyro is fantastic, great syntax and great contributors as well.

PyMC now supports jax and numba as well, and can use the numpyro samplers.
https://www.pymc.io/projects/examples/en/latest/samplers/fas...

Between all these tools we hope the modern bayesian can find the one that works best for them
The quality of USB drives is getting worse
The company gets the best bang for their buck if employees are reasonably happy, healthy and productive. So most of the time your interests and the company's should be aligned.
> The wheels move exactly as the driver wants

If I try to turn the front wheel of my bike too far left or right it does not let me. Further, this is accomplished by a rubber bumper that continues to push for a short time after I let up, but it would be absurd to call this "lag." Normal operation of the bicycle never gets close to those limits.

The question is whether this video is showing typical system lag -- in which case, yeah, I agree, it's a problem -- or whether it is showing limiting behavior in which case getting upset about it makes as much sense as getting upset over the rubber bumpers on my bike.
here?

if you don't want a 2 car garage then fine, move downtown.

You can get _anywhere_ in this town in 20 minutes or less. We flat don't have the traffic that places like NYC does. rush hour might be a bit slower depending on where you go, but not appreciably slow.

I feel like people who don't live in these areas have a lot of misconceptions.
Yes, that's the one. Thanks!
Show HN: First2Apply – job scraping desktop app
Inspired by the latest tech layoffs and all the conversations about how bad the job market is, I decided to build a tool to solve a part of this problem.

I’ve had this hypothesis that if a job has more than 200 applications it’s pretty much useless to apply anymore because they will probably find a candidate amongst those first few hundred.

This is how I came up with the idea for https://first2apply.com/ an app that continuously scans job boards customised by the user and alerts when it finds a new opening. I built a prototype over one weekend to see if I could actually pull it off and then created a landing page and started spreading the word. Two weeks later there have been 200+ signups on the waiting list and the MVP is ready to be shipped.

How it works? You go to a job site like LinkedIn, search for your desired role/tech stack, filter by country or remote and apply the last 24h filter. Then copy paste the URL in the app. The app will then periodically scrape the links you saved and check if there are new listings from last time and send a native desktop notification.

It's also very easy to organise your job hunt when using multiple sites since you have one dashboard to check new entries from all of them and recently added a tab to save the ones where you applied in order to manage them more easily.

I've been testing this with my wife who is currently looking for a job as a junior react dev and am starting to get some positive results after using it for a while:
- https://imgur.com/a/LFOdAOD here is an example of a job from LinkedIn which got 50 applications in the first 12h and then they closed it. I think it's safe to assume they have enough to pick from

- https://imgur.com/a/2Coi1KQ finally the holy grail, a job with no applications. Unfortunately it was for a Java position because even though you filter by React in LinkedIn they still show you jobs for other tech :/

She has been using the app for the past 2 weeks and was able to find ~5 valid jobs that she could apply for. Unfortunately there are not a lot of companies hiring juniors. One other benefit that she noticed was that she doesn't have to constantly refresh her job sites, just wait for the notification to pop up and check the latest results. This way she has more time to spend working on her portfolio projects.

So from my one beta tester, I have gotten positive feedback, but it's very much a textbook case of the Mom test. Looking forward to hear what other people think and hopefully this could help someone get that extra edge needed to land a job.
Nope. I don’t spend every day walking around in my best threads. But I do spend some time doing it, and it feels special and important, and it shows I respect the occasion and the other party enough to put in the work. Moreover, it shows that I’m willing to put in the work for something I might care about. None of those are lies.

And all of that makes an impression before anyone has said a word.
Why would you rent for 50K if you can rent for 100K? Are you an economically irrational actor?

Same applies for landlord who could either undercut the competition or join the “app” (aka collusion ring) to make higher profit.
There are places where the density of hydrogen doesn't matter. One is long-term storage, where can pump hydrogen underground and then burn it when solar and wind are low. Another is steel production where need high heat, and can store it in big tanks on site. Finally, is ships which have plenty of volume. Planes probably can't use hydrogen.

For ships and planes, we may be able to use lower carbon synthetic fuels like ammonia or methanol, and not have to go as far for synthetic fuels.

Pulling carbon dioxide directly out of the atmosphere is really inefficient. There may be cheaper ways to sequester carbon but they won't give you CO2 for making fuels. Hydrogen is definitely more efficient.
As a reader, I want to have a sense of scale of the tower.
I remember that from a while back, and getting annoyed - it doesn't appear to be something that annoys me at the moment so it might have been fixed, but on reflection I tend to just use the default rich text editor now.

It takes markdownish input but converts it to rich text as you type - so asterisk-space starts a bullet point list, etc.

I actually can't remember if it has a dedicated markdown mode anymore; the rich text editing supports the usual shortcuts that mean I tend to stick with it.
NOPE. Fucking nightmares. Done with internet, today.

I'm going to go do my dishes, while contemplating burning the whole thing down =D
That's a bit too streamlined for me. I don't group apps by their first letter, I group them by purpose of convenience. I need a lot more than maybe ten favorites on screen and having to scroll or go into a menu to find anything beyond that is just a waste of time. Yes, there are folders but other than with Nova Launcher you can't see which apps are in there unless you open one. I like being able to see a notification bubble on an app within a folder. The concept is slick but it doesn't match my usage pattern at all.
I'm guessing for HTTP the difference in performance is negligible. QuickJS is like 50x smaller than V8 so the gains in startup time and memory usage will have a deeper impact for this use case.

https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html
Hubble detects celestial 'string of pearls' star clusters in galaxy collisions
Well I started out not being motivated to study, and not knowing how. I had to cobble these skills together as an adult.
Yes, it's control lag.

Our 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle, a Polaris Ranger ATV, looked like that in manual mode. The steering wheel was drive by wire, and used a simple PI controller.
Stationary, with the steering system fighting static friction, the normal P value useful for driving is too low, so there's lag. The I term cranks up the force until the error goes to 0, but that takes time. Our remote dashboard had two pointers on the steering meter - commanded steering angle and actual steering angle. We could watch the lag. Half a second of lag was OK, because we didn't do any aggressive maneuvers. Manual mode was just for positioning the vehicle before going autonomous.

That slowdown at the end of the Tesla video looks like normal operation of a PI controller.

Does Tesla have steering force feedback? If the steering wheel is leading the wheels, the steering wheel should be pushing back on the driver if there's significant error.
> There's literally nothing better than HTML for UI.

Except... Literally everything else. Imperative Delphi code from early 2000s or indeed Turbo Pascal code from 1995 will run circles around HTML any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
I am doing UI in svelte for few months now, I worked on React before, It feels like some weight has been lifted off my shoulder.
The Nordic-Baltic Region: An Example for NATO
The 'parameter ordering' bit was specifically from using PHP for a stint. The standard library goes out of its way to make parameter ordering non-standard and inconsistent. Having to look it up constantly was such a flow-kill. My text editor back then wasn't so smart.
It's teaching the product not the principles.
> The wheels move exactly as the driver wants in any vehicle with a mechanical steering rack.

Your rims might, your tires don't. Check out about halfway down this page:

https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/
Is the area dangerous enough that they would not be safe without the police officer neighbor? What if the officer isn't home or is sleeping?
s p a c e d r e p e t i t i o n
"HTML is not the mother language"

You don't need js to create a website, you only need HTML.

For dynamic UI you need a server, not javascript.
Your server can render html, it doesn't have to serve json.
Amazon should be held accountable for running a safe workplace. Even if she is not there, Amazon should not be allowed to operate an unsafe workhouse that puts its employees in danger. If Amazon has a culture of firing anyone who dares to speak up about unsafe working conditions, it will be allowed to abuse and endanger its employees for profit since no one would be willing to speak up for fear of losing the paycheck that puts a roof over their head and food on their plate.
They were able to do it in the 1970s without the latency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIRAVI

Just no road feedback...
> It's like we've forgotten 20 years worth of hard-earned knowledge about the value of separation of concerns.

No. We haven't. Because there's a different separation of concerns: https://twitter.com/simonswiss/status/1664736786671869952
The audio file is hosted on any HTTP server. That is very open web. Except on Spotify which is closed and arguably not actually a podcasting service.
“Government” isn’t a magical boogeyman coming out of a magical swamp to make magical laws. It’s literally NIMBYs, which are largely current property holders which are also in large part landlords. They’re playing the game to the full extent, and it’s high time they are contested in the same game.
My experience is that the Florida roads are significantly better than the roads in the bay area. And Florida has no income tax and lower sales taxes than California.
SF homeless isn't even REMOTELY comparable to NYC, and I've lived in both cities for 8 years each. Not even the same planet.
What about when they say “long haired freaky people need not apply”?
Just sent this threat to Peter :)
as a hilarious person i can confirm this is true
Income tax is inherently progressive and doesn't hit Grandma who lives on modest retirement and social security.

Having one reducing reliance on property taxes
Also, these differences in syntax and opinion are why I vehemently support and work on web components. You shouldn't have to have two incompatible silos of UI building just because of some frankly minor differences in preferences.

Component authors and component users should be able to seamlessly interoperate which disagreeing about such trivial things.
stop making excuses, an individual can make an individual decision or they can bitch about their situation but refuse to explore their alternatives.

"oh, but market forces so I'm just going to stay here and continue posting online about how horrible it is that I'll never be able to afford a house!".

You do you I guess.
I suppose "by some measure" means "by none whatsoever"? Tobacco sales are at lowest point for 50 years, and even occasional usage is close to 50y low.

I remember when you couldn't go anywhere without smelling cold tobacco, even in trains and buses, not even talking about might clubs and restaurants... Now even outside many smokers are considerate and will avoid smoking in your direction, especially when you have kids, which was definitely not the case 20 years ago!