skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ends up costing 2-3% more than it would otherwise

This is a very simplified view. Cash handling is not free. Fraud levels with cash are different. Overall attractiveness of a small but cash-only business is different.
I have never heard of Takis and I assume most people outside of the US haven't either
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1.7155409

I live in Calgary and have seen a few articles about Drake Landing recently.
In my frustration with MS Office, I gave it a chance and searched for MS Office alternatives ... and found https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad ! Looks quite nice. Maybe I should set that up on a server.
The brave new world of treating adults like children. How advanced and progressive...
FOSS users don't usually advertise their line of work and what they are going to do with the software.

That, and also, there's a donation link in many of the repos. Why isn't it used as much as it ought to be?
Show HN: I built a chrome extension for music producers to record samples
SampleWizard simplifies the process for users to record and save any audio directly from the web browser, eliminating the reliance on unreliable downloader websites, such as YouTube downloaders. Specifically designed for music producers, this tool streamlines the sampling process in their productions, offering a secure and efficient way to capture audio samples.
This is ours! https://readme.com/test
unironically yes, I used comments to hot fix a bunch of stuff when I first launched. It's a small world and I thought this was a cool moment
Let me make sure I understand this correctly, because you're saying this is a good thing, and I'm thinking we need to track down whoever wrote this regulation and put them in an assisted living facility because I don't think they should be trusted to dress themselves.

The EPA has wide unilateral authority to ban new uses, for which we have little to no usage data for. But if we start executing those uses and get actual usage data that a substance is harmful, the EPA is toothless?

And that's a good thing why exactly?

> You’ll never get a law that says “EPA can ban anything it wants, costs be damned.”

Yet we do, they apparently can only do it based on wild guesses though. Data and informed decisions be damned; well just let them keep making PFAS, and have the citizens pay for the externalities through health insurance premiums, the true blue American way.

> Inhance has been using this same fluorination process for 40 years. The EPA itself has repeatedly told companies doing flourination they’re not covered by PFA orders. The EPA changed its mind based on new science, for probably reasonable reasons. But it’s entirely fair to make it go through the processes in the law for banning a longstanding use, instead of trying to use its authority over new uses to get at the same thing.

Quick, someone tell the tobacco lobby, they're gonna love this! Something something long standing usage something something loss of jobs something something market cap something something, you can't regulate cigarettes!
Show HN: I wrote a book on Kamal, deployment tool that's coming to Rails 8
Hi fellow readers of HN,

Josef here again[0] with another book :). This time about Kamal.

= Background

When 37signals released their new deployment tool Kamal[1], I was intrigued since it fits well with my 'keep it simple' deployment philosophy.

I slowly adopted the tool and today I deploy all new projects with Kamal.

However, I have seen people giving it a go and giving up, because the initial documentation was not enough.

So I sat down for a few weeks and wrote Kamal Handbook, the missing manual to Kamal.

= What's Kamal?

Kamal is an imperative deployment tool. It's basically a successor to Capistrano, but for a container era. It's a simple wrapper around Docker and that's the whole beauty of it.

37signals created Kamal to self-host Basecamp and Hey as part of their pull out of the cloud (running managed K8s).

It's expected to become a default gem for 'rails new' in Rails 8.

= Kamal Handbook

Kamal Handbook[2] is a short and to-the-point book on Kamal. I go through a first deploy, explain fundamental ideas, talk about configuration, show two more complex examples, and discuss topics like CD. It's under 100 pages including the code and illustrations.

It's a first ever book on Kamal, available as a PDF and ePUB (tested on Kindle Paperwhite). The website features a small preview and I made one more[3] specially for SHOW HN.

So far I sold something over 300 copies and I made the sale counter public for SHOW HN.

I am around to answer any questions.

Josef

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29540808 (SHOW HN of my previous book)

[1] https://kamal-deploy.org/ (Kamal official page)

[2] https://kamalmanual.com/handbook/ (Book official page)

[3] https://kamalmanual.com/handbook/first-deploy-preview.pdf (SHOW HN preview)
I'm using Ubuntu less and less, Debian is so incredibly stable & uses so little RAM & CPU, and I don't have to de-snap the OS.
You're right and it's too bad there's all this noise from people who are kind of missing the deep down inside problems with the idea in this chart.

As another commenter said:

> So you write the whole configuration of the helm chart in your values.yaml?

Well that is a mistake, but that aside.

Helm is an ultra low budget operator for "any" Kubernetes asset where "all" the changes to that asset are caused by people. While this chart has little hope, Helm charts can be pure business logic.

For example, will infrastructure values ever be changed once deployed? I've seen changes to resource requests, replicas, domain names (for marketing driven concerns), and complex upgrades from non-clustered to clustered applications.

Can some of this be expressed as a "business" parameter in a values.yaml? Yes. Charts should ship with Keda ScaledObjects, and then it becomes translatable into a business definition like, "what is the limit on latency you want?" instead of "what is the limit of memory usage you want?"

This chart should provide an example ScaledObject, and maybe all sorts of stuff from the ecosystem that is valuable. A useful chart would homogenize (or be very opinionated) about OIDC, for example, too. That is business -> infrastructure.

The strength of the Kubernetes ecosystem is in translating business concerns like "transactions per second" into code. Infrastructure is a major business concern.
The entire segment this is part of makes it very clear they're looking for out-of-the-box thinking and a unique approach to problem solving in situations that might not be what they seem at first glance.

It starts with uncomfortable chairs and a written test on flimsy paper without desks; Smith's character noisily pulls over a table to write on while the military folks do the expected thing of struggling through. "You're everything we've come to expect from years of government training", they get told, and then their memories are wiped. Smith's character, instead, gets a briefing on the MIB and an intro to alien bugs pouring Kay some coffee.

(Said briefing also indicates Earth is a neutral zone for alien refugees. Again, "shoot first" is not what they want people doing!)
> We need legislation

We thought we had it, though. The whole idea behind the EPA's charter is that it's empowered to regulate harmful materials for the benefit of public health and the environment.

This is a technicality (letter, not spirit) legal argument the court is making: the chemicals in question have a long history in industry, because when they were introduced we didn't know they were bad. Now we do, and the EPA banned them.

But no, say the clever supervillains on the Fifth Circuit: the specific rule under which the EPA issued the ban was intended for new processes, not old ones. So they have to issue a different regulation under a different statute. Which they totally have the legal power to do, but because they didn't do it exactly right the court says the whole ban is ejected and we can go right back to making poison.

A reasonable court would have directed the EPA to correct its process and given it a reasonable deadline, but left the ban in place for obvious reasons. But... yeah, this is the fifth circuit.
From DynamoDB to Cloudflare – Spackle's New Edge Architecture
Really? Or did that not make its way up the chain of command? None of your 250k+ accounts had issues because they didn't connect to the internet? What about license renewals - did anyone get shut out of their account immediately because they missed a license renewal date and happy to be off the internet?
The ray-of-vision thing is really cool! And the found item names are delightful.
In theory they should and hopefully in practice they would. How rigorously is that tested, I am not sure. But if they weren't willing to eat it when they sell you support for a distro they package has a vulnerability, then people would need to ask, what is the point in paying Red Hat? Seems like their entire business would go out the window, especially because they are required or one of a few small number of options certain business domains require. What is the advantage of RHEL over the free Debian ISO and support there that I currently deploy to production environments? I also don't work in as heavily of regulated domain.
I took a trip last year where I needed a car. Hertz was pushing the electrics hard, at a very reasonable discount. I ran the numbers in my head and decided there was no practical way I was going to be able to charge an electric and make my flight. I love EVs, I have an EV at home, but it was just not practical with my time limited schedule.

Incidentally, in that same trip I took public transit most everywhere until the last day when I needed more mobility.
The temperatures we’re talking about (1000C) would be incredibly dangerous in residential applications, plus a small installation would lose too much energy to the environment due to the ratio of surface area to volume. More practical IMO is to use a daily cycle like what Harvest Thermal is doing: store energy in your water heater tank during the daytime and release it at night.
Perhaps it's considered right-wing not because of the topic, but the angle on which you cover the topic. In my experience, the most partisan people lack self-awareness about how partisan they are and your post sort of smells like that. Of course, I could be wrong.
Sales tax deduction still exists. 2017 law temporarily lowered but didn't eliminate it.
I don't think this knowledge is obscure. "Sky sports" are one of the few things that make a person practically uninsurable, along with scuba diving, motorcycle racing, and private aviation.
Doings this would deny the reality of the car rental customer. People don't rent cars to commute between their house and work, or to run errands around town. They are travelers. Either they are renting the vehicle to get from A to B during a vacation or such, or they are from out of town and need the vehicle to travel between the airport to the hotel/relative's house where they are staying. Neither of those groups will have ready access to chargers, nor do they want to drive all the way back to Hertz to charge the car.

Rental cars are just not a good match for EVs. The best are use cases involving repeated short trips to known locations such as mail/Amazon delivery, school busses and commuters. Suburbia is where EVs thrive, the land of owned private charging stations and routine short commutes. EVs are not suited for hurried tourists.
No, devaluing the 5th because they regularly have completely insane takes is logical. They regularly twist legal frameworks for completely out of pocket takes. Criticizing government actors instead of blindly trusting every ruling without reading it is how democracy functions and grows. If you’re so upset over that, you probably need to re evaluate if you should live in a country where citizens get to distrust their government. That’s exactly the foundation of this one.
Does accepting cash really save a business that much money? I've heard arguments in the past that it ends up being a negligible difference once you account for all costs of processing cash (someone has to take it to the bank, it can get stolen in a robbery, employees can skim, you have to count it, you need a safe, you need cash deliveries, etc).

I have no numbers, so it could be totally off-base, but it feels not-impossible that it costs a percentage or two to process all your cash anyway, so the difference between cash & credit cards isn't actually that big. It's just that the interchange fees show up as one big chunk whereas the cash processing is lots of little bites, or even accounting for things that didn't happen (like skimming).

I guess this only applies if you're legitimately reporting all your cash take, if the business itself is skimming for tax reasons then the savings on cash would be substantial.
How much I've learned by self-hosting the software that I use on a daily basis is what has made the experience compelling. As you point out, it is knowledge that compounds and I've reaped the benefits on my professional endeavors.
You should read Robert Sapolsky's new book on free will. The more you learn about biology the more you realize that willpower and free choice are a convenient illusion that appeals to human narcissism but doesn't actually have explanatory power.

The introduction of fast food caused America to get fat. The introduction of Ozempic is helping America reverse that.

Neither of these changes are because the average American gained or lost willpower.

These changes are because of biological cause and effect. Fast food and Ozempic are products that hack ancient biological circuits that drive behavior. It's empirically falsifiable causality, not vague woo.
Taiwan earthquake: The mountain 'rained rocks like bullets' – survivor
What is your ideal definition of agency?

And would you say that definition is helpful for people trying to increase the agency level of AIs? What makes it so useful?
You are thinking too wholesome.

There are easier, quicker, etc... ways to get dopamine.
I'm waiting for the day when it is all revealed in docs that a human couldn't find but an AI did.
> OCaml’s configure script is also “normal”

If that’s this OCaml, it has a configure.ac file in the root directory, which looks suspicious for an Autotools-free package: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml
> DWIM

Thanks, learnt something new! (It stands for Do What I Mean).

Interesting pages:

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...
> the ubiquitous IEEE floating-point standard defines two numbers to represent zero, the positive and the negative zeros.

Seriously, how did anyone think including two fantasy numbers was a good idea?

Not to mention excluding the real zero.
And brigading here is also a thing, and comes at punishments of less karma and rate-limiting.

Most people want the "expected talking points", and especially so here. If you ask the bigger questions, and people collectively lose their shit. I removed the text from other posts because people have comprehension problems, and resort to personal attacks.

There's a whole slew of questions here, to of which its just "hate ai" is the expected response.

1. Why the double standard of women's (not men's) nipples equated to porn? [sex equality concerns]

2. Is this even porn? Even SCOTUS has the position of "I'll know it when I see it". Contrast this with non-sexual nudity, which too is a thing.

3. Is a privacy policy/clickthrough account creation adequate for consent? https://www.walottery.com/Privacy/

4. Why is the Washington Lottery (government org) using AI at all in the facilitation of gambling?

5. What other AI generated content is Washington Lottery saving, as per Washington State Public Records Act, chapter 42.56 RCW ?
I started my comment with "Ideally," which as per Oxford dictionary gets me:

- perfectly; in the most suitable way

- in an imagined way; in a way that is not likely to happen or be real
> winter's worth of heat in a 1000 gallon oil tank

That's a massive fire risk because it is combustible fuel. A pile of hot sand in an auxilary, non-flammable structure isn't going to catch fire.
And if the Supreme Court screws us with the chevron doctrine we are screwed.
If your definition of killing a thing is making it popular to the masses while making the first inroads into acceptance of nerdishness in global culture, sure.

Strange definition though.

Hollywood and finance killed SF (to the extent that it's dead, which it really isn't - Severence? Foundation? Silo? Three Body Problem? etc).
I think the other thing that happens is that governments outsource electronic payment collection to a third party which imposes a surcharge for its collection and remits the full nominal amount to the government.

Which can lead to seemingly ludicrous results somethings. I paid a "convenience" fee for parking the other night because presumably collecting a bunch of quarters from a meter was cheaper for the municipality than getting a bit less money transferred from the parking app people?
He’s an advisor

https://www.newsguardtech.com/our-advisory-board/

> NewsGuard’s advisors provide advice and subject-matter expertise to NewsGuard. They play no role in the determinations of ratings or the Nutrition Label write ups of websites unless otherwise noted and have no role in the governance or management of the organization.
I won't try to tell anyone what they should do with their time, but all I'm saying is that calling "keeping children in a home and raising them" a "hobby business" feels like it's denigrating that type of work when it's actually really important to having a functioning society. If you hire someone to change diapers and bottle-feed your child I'm not going to judge you for it. I've had similar conversations with my partner about our baby. Modern society is complicated and we're expected to live so intensely that it's hard to find time.
That sounds like a fun idea in theory, but in practice that distribution would require hours of research per job, or more, and I'm not aware of any source that publishes that sort of information. So it doesn't give me a way to sort jobs into "skilled" and "unskilled". Or to give them a reliable 1-10 rank on how skilled they are.

I can be pretty sure welder beats barista, but by how much, how it relates to other jobs, how we set various bars, that's all a lot more difficult.
I've got some nonstick greaseproof paper in the cupboard that's apparently lined with silicone.
Heat storage has an aspect that was counterintuitive to me, but follows from basic geometry. It benefits greatly from large scale, since the ratio of the volume to surface area [1] decreases the larger you make a container. Accordingly, if a heat tank is large enough, the surface area becomes negligible relative to its volume, and it, in effect, becomes well-insulated by its own mass. For really big tanks, like might be used for an entire town to heat itself over a winter, practical self-discharge rates can be just a few % per month, which is better than most rechargeable battery technologies.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_of_surfac...
Good to here that no Trump aligned politicians have any chance.
> Shorter chain-length PFAS telomeric substances have been submitted to EPA for review as alternatives for a variety of uses including, for example, textile, carpet and paper additive uses and tile surface treatments.

1. https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-t...
I've heard this, and I would have been inclined to believe it. But then I watched the documentary Somm about the journey of a couple of friends reaching for the highest rankings of sommeliers. They could identify grapes, regions and year with striking accuracy. I just don't see how you could do that and then not be able to tell white and red wine apart.
Not food, but I got a new chain for the bicycle today, and they are also teflon-lubricated when you get them (a workshop installed it). It's PFAS everywhere.
Have we gone full circle but made it more complicated?
Installing programs locally.
Installing programs locally that need network access.
Using web versions of those apps.
Installing docker to run the web apps but locally.
The original Flash version of https://homestarrunner.com/404

Even though the sound doesn't play anymore, you can still hear it in your head.
Unstructured – Open-Source Pre-Processing Tools for Unstructured Data
Not sure about the others, but I have had no problem getting life insurance as a private pilot. Some companies won’t touch it, but plenty will.
I agree about the transparency when it comes to a business's activity: its goods and services.

But a business's ownership is about the privacy of its owners/stock holders - which are regular people. Saying their privacy is "morally dubious and self serving" is akin to saying regular people's need for privacy is morally dubious and self serving. Is the old anti-anonymity argument of "if you're all legit, what do you have to hide?!"

There is an argument to be made here though when said owner is another corporate entity - that is not a person so maybe it doesn't deserve any privacy.
I wonder who was the first to claim this was plagiarism; ironically, everyone else seems to have mindlessly plagiarised their belief
The article did not say anything about AP classes.
Their response to me below is equally baffling.
Many human vocalists have similar aberrations. Remember Jimi Hendrix "Excuse me while I kiss this guy", or the notorious autotune on a number of contemporary pop artists (you gave an example yourself)?

IMHO many of the successes of "artificial intelligence" come from "natural stupidity". Humans have many glitches in our perceptual mechanisms. The AIs that end up going viral and become commercially viable tend to exploit those perceptual glitches, simply because that's what makes them appeal to people.
> I think I was yeah, the article I saw was just 3 short paragraphs.

It's common for articles on breaking events (such as celebrity deaths) to begin with a short stub, and then be expanded with a full version later. Yesterday I actually saw a note ("updated at X:XX PM EST") although today that's gone. I'm not that intimately acquainted with NYT style, but perhaps that's their indication that this is the "final" version (ie, the one published in print).
I have this pet theory that the idea of decentralized currency is a bit ahead of its time, and the best consumer use case is for frequent travelers since you could more easily sidestep foreign exchange issues, and hassles.

There's a bunch of backend and b2b use cases to be explored but those also take time.

All this assumes the volatility issue is solved.
I wouldn’t assume everyone is happy with it. Consumers are going to prefer rewards programs over no rewards programs. And before you say it results in higher prices, that’s not necessarily true. Australia regulated away interchange and it didn’t result in lowering prices. Merchants kept the profit.

A lot of times these regulations are pitched as helping consumers, but it’s really merchants pushing for them. You could make a similar observation about the EU regulatory fight with Apple et al right now. It’s actually Spotify fighting for it, and they have different interests than consumers.
I'm the opposite, universal search for everything. Want to open an app? Pull down and search. Want to find a message someone sent me? Pull down and search. Want to search the web? Pull down and search.

> A global search is a cool feature for people who don't know where to look

Not sure these people exist in enough numbers to justify a mention, or that the feature is primarily used by or useful to these supposed users.
You could also in theory just restrict which HTML elements can be used. You’d need to do that anyway for MD, especially since MD can contain HTML itself.

I’m a huge fan of MD either way ;) I’ve built entire large sites where raw content is stored in MD (along with a MD WYSIWYG) and then the MD is converted to HTML. I’ve found it’s easier and more reliable to parse MD vs HTML, unless of course you’re using a block editor or something more structured.