skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say it's still categorically different, just because we're automating one piece of labor that was kind of thought until about ~12 years ago to be un-automatible.

Like, there's been computer-singing voices for awhile, but they always sounded pretty robotic and goofy (e.g. Microsoft Sam), and I think for a long time people just assumed that to get mostly-realistic voices, you need an actual singer. Yes, it still requires a bit of human tweaking to make it perfect, but I suspect that if put to the test it would reduce the cost of making a song substantially.
The example they show of a Great Table is, to my taste, way too busy. Here is my unsolicited opinion:

The top and bottom horizontal rules on the Title appear to be superfluous, and I dislike how it is aligned with the first column (row labels) rather than the second. I feel like a little space to breath at the bottom, along with a bold font would add visual hierarchy w/o the clutter.

The row label backgrounds are far too dark and the font weight makes it hard to read. I'd prefer a very light blue here instead. I don't like the row group label ("Name") being italicized.

The spanner labels floating in the centre make the table hard to scan. Would be much nicer aligned left.

Finally, I really dislike the font (maybe this is just my browser, though).

I mocked-up some of the changes here, I think this is a much easier to read table:

https://i.imgur.com/iMMf5vo.png
I don't have the full context of the thread here, but it sounds to me like you're saying '9/11' was at scale x, and therefore a benchmark is established for acceptable 'repercussion cost.'

If that's what you're saying, I guess I'd flag that the 'repercussion cost' for 9/11 is still very much open to debate, and there is significant data to point towards almost every step the US took as a reaction to 9/11 being problematic, ranging from who was targeted, what the collateral impact was, and whether it actually solved any of the underlying problems.
I wonder if they used (Amazon) MTurk for this mechanical turk.
I guess GP was only thinking of people that do have a job looking for greener grass. For that subset I'm inclined to agree, despite vigorously agreeing with the counter opinions in the general case.
With a clean, damage-free car, you know there isn't anything on the car you can be blamed for that you didn't put there yourself.

I used to do zipcar and I would always do a full walk-around and email zipcar support a set of photos of any and all damage I'd find before I'd even unlocked the vehicle so there was proof the damage wasn't caused by me.

I did this after Zipcar claimed a dent that was already on the car was put there by me, because a prior renter didn't disclose it, or zipcar was double-dipping.

Finding a clean, undamaged car was a relief because I knew I could take photos afterward

It got particularly annoying because after the first 4-5 years zipcar clearly cut back on maintenance and repairs. Cars kept getting dirtier, more damaged, more "weird noises from the suspension", etc. Cars would be overdue for oil changes, have check engine lights on, etc.
Show HN: Edit This Page – A Shareable Editable Page
You don't need a blog to write a blog post. This is a quick hack to bring editable, no-login required pages to all. The URL will change as you type, you can share at any point by sharing the URL from the browser. The browser back and forward work for undo/redo.
I have never seen a hotel with more than two EV chargers and that was a very high end spot near Seattle. Most hotels, if they have an EV charger at all, will only have one. If there are 100 guests you'd better hope they are all petrol-heads.
It’s abandonware.

If they think they might have a market for it in the future they will like Nintendo assert their copyright if not IANAL you can proceed. But yeah they can legally assert their copyright if they want to so probably best of doing it on the QT
This looks great. I so wish that the HTML table element would get some progress - it’s so limited.

I don’t want to have to use some JS library component just to show tabular data especially given how badly they perform one big - but a server side rendered HTML table can be enormous and render fine. But again, so limited.
Ten Years Later, 'Monument Valley' Is a Monument to Mobile Gaming's Bygone Era
Why would looking for a better job be greedy?
Am I missing something? The writer claims:

>The reason you don't have what you want is because you don't want it badly enough.

That is absurd. And I say that as someone who has nearly everything material I might want in life. Wanting something really, really badly doesn't ensure that you are going to get it.

Consider every failed startup. Those founders just didn't want it enough?

I don't get it, and I also don't get the second sentence:

>Then the next question is: Do you want to be happy or do you want to achieve what you want?

What if the thing you want to achieve is being happy? Why can't those be the same?

I feel like something is going way over my head here, but I'm not sure what it is.
I had written a similar post using whisper.cpp and ffmpeg some months ago https://www.spapas.net/2023/05/22/ai-auto-subtitling/
Half serious, obviously too expensive to do today but there's huge advancements being made right now. I can see a startup building thing to make "Just Walk Out" stores work and getting bought out in next 5 years.
What do you mean by public domain?

I think if someone asks the government to create an immortal, legal quasi-person with special privileges for their private use, the public ought to get to know who’s benefiting from and controlling it. I think it’s proper that the public know who’s involved in those, yes.
This is called having an editor, who takes a pass through and says

"I don't think everyone knows what Takis are, let's change the language to be more accessible"
Yes, it was an incredibly extensive network before cars took over: https://urbanists.social/@straphanger/111059691532896415
Thanks. I've not seen that particular post.

I just made a table this morning for Calc II notes. The first column says something like $f'(x)$ in the first row and $f'(0)$ on the second. The table body lists values for different functions, one per column. I put in a column rule separator because the leftmost column seems separate from the others.

In any event, I'm suspicious of rules (pun noted).
Massachusetts and Connecticut are the two states that have laws banning credit card surcharges. Massachusetts also has a law requiring acceptance of cash.
Not to mention Sean Connery's nipples.
> This sounds absolutely worth the "cost."

This is assuming that's how it would shake out (but I don't think it really is):

Not to me. I'd rather live free in a world where crime exists than constantly watched in a world where it doesn't.
Poetry does no management of Python versions.
Le Guin is better, nothing amazing, but solid. Skip Jemisin, very mediocre.
Just the overall atmosphere when the majority of millenials were entering the job market (I realize this is a good ~15-year period, but at least 10 of those years were decent) was so much better than Gen Z has it (right now).

Gen X especially had some really amazing opportunities, but income to purchasing power has been more favourable for pretty much the entire time Gen X was coming of age.

Personally, I'm just thinking about what entry-level salaries were 15 years ago compared to the cost of real estate, and I could see a clear path to homeownership for a lot of people entering the workforce at that time, even outside of the top 10% paying jobs

Gen Z unfortunately doesn't really have a practical path to homeownership (in big western cities anyway) outside of A) inheritance/family support, or B) entering the workforce into a position that would put them in the top 3-5% of their cohort
Just an unsolicited pointer, but if you're US-based you might consider computing the cost/benefit of an Amex blue cash preferred.

It carries an annual fee of $95, but the 6% back on groceries (on your first $6000/yr) and 3% on gas add up pretty quickly.
I recently set up AWS Github runners with this terraform. It works well and you don't have to pay any extra in addition to AWS.

https://github.com/philips-labs/terraform-aws-github-runner
Climate Neutrality by 2050: Challenges, opportunities and the path forward
My assumption is that it's an attempt to cause the bomb to be suicidal.
Hi fellow JTJr fan! She was never mainstream after her death but it seems her readership is dwindling by the decade. She corresponded with Le Guin.

It’s a pity about the award, that’s how I first found out about her. And for the stupidest reason, too.
> 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.

Agree on that point.

One argument I muster for the general case: say you disagree politically with a billionaire and don't wish to give them any money, if you don't know what companies they own: how can you act effectively in market actions with limited information? such an arrangement systemically gives power to the owner class compared to the consumer class on every exchange made between the two. We should strive for something fairer, something more open. And we should not be terrorized by the limited few deranged bad faith/violent actors.
Surgery has gotten a lot safer in the last couple decades however, there are still risks. General anesthesia used to be ten times more dangerous than it is now but it's still not zero.
Swift runs on microcontrollers now; you gotta update your knowledge. https://www.swift.org/blog/embedded-swift-examples/
>Then again, the whole essay is predicated by "these are simply the lies I tell myself to keep on living my life in good faith".

I read the whole thing, and it seemed like the opposite of "the lies he tells himself."

Rather, it sounded like he was telling the truth as he sees it. I don't understand why he chose that title for his essay.
It is easy to document mistakes in hindsight, since hindsight is 20/20.

It is very easy to write your own one-off secure string handling library. This is a common assignment in intro to C programming classes.

So why isn't it standard in C already?

You offer a theory that there is a gang of "security unconscious assholes [who] keep shutting it down". This gang is so well organized that they have managed to block an easy improvement for many many decades for unknown reasons. That's a pretty wild theory.

Or Occam's razor suggests a different answer: It's actually difficult.

No, not the writing code part, that's easy. It's the seamlessly integrating with ~60 years of mission critical codebases part that's hard.
if by very soon you mean already then. yeah. i can't anyway, and i'm in the business.- js.

https://soundcloud.com/rs-539916550/soul-of-the-machine?utm_...
How do you ensure privacy/isolation between users if you have a pool of ready VMs that you re-use?
Meanwhile, I'm trying to find the answer to this on a hypothetical hertz.fr RV rental.

They have a gas policy section, which says "Si vous avez loué un véhicule électrique, veuillez vous reporter à la section Véhicules électriques".

In other words, find and check the electric vehicle section. But they don't have a Véhicules électriques section...
> There are air conditioning systems that are powered by heat, not by electricity.

How does that work?
The fundamental difference is that processes are used to sandbox sections of the program that run untrusted code. A subroutine from a library isn't untrusted code.

Having written multi-process programs used for this purpose, I disagree that it's simple or traditional for the purposes of hardening against supply chain attacks in shared libraries. Only at the most naive level is it appropriate.

And on top of that, it would not have prevented the backdoor. It would only have changed the mechanism used to invoke it.
Nice shill comment, persona. This is why you don't get to participate in the online communities I've mentioned. All the conspiracy theories are coming true, BTW, and The Ukraine is losing. 60% of Americans believe 2020 was rigged.
On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS caddy from the Ubuntu apt repo is shown as on version 2.7.6 and built with Go 1.21.5. That version of Go does not have a fix for this issue. Caddy 2.7.6 is also the latest version released on GitHub.

So no fix yet, but I think all that's needed is a recompile with the latest version of Go 1.22.2
AWS and GCP both.
Tcl is once again ahead of the curve with a stardate format option (%Q)
I agree with you, but just in case you don't know, Cmd + Up goes up the hierarchy, Cmd + Down descends into the highlighted directory. I rarely use the mouse in Finder. List view, arrow keys and these two shortcuts are just faster.
Barely related but this reminds me of a video where Sir Elton John sings the text of an oven manual.

https://youtu.be/8GuI4UUZrmw
With a Tesla you don't install apps or use a credit card. You just plug into their Superchargers (which are automatically added to your route if the car needs to charge to get to your destination). In the US, the largest gap between superchargers is Coeur d'Alene, Idaho to St. Regis, Montana (94 miles). I've gone on road trips all over the western US and never worried about charging.
I'm not seeing a Roko's Basilisk track, disappointing.
As the article notes, NixOS' design increases reproducibility at certain levels and in certain respects, but not all. In particular, it doesn't have any magic for achieving the final condition for 'reproducible builds' as in reproducible-builds.org: guaranteeing that builds given the same sources produce bit-for-bit identical binaries. For that kind of reproducibility, NixOS is on the same quest as other distros like Debian and Fedora and Arch— and benefits from the work developers of those distros do with upstreams to eliminate non-determinism from their build processes and tools.
Can't you just print up a sign for this?

I've seen signs that say stuff like "Prices listed are for cash, 3% surcharge for credit cards."

How many different fee tiers are you as a retailer really trying to charge?
I spent the afternoon yesterday (Wednesday) with Shireen and the whole family, joining us was Robert Brady another life long friend. Shireen and their daughter Bavarni obviously upset were the epitome of grace and calmness as one would expect from such a wonderful family. Ross would have been very proud of them!
Hey one of the co-maintainers of Great Tables, along with Rich Iannone, here!

I just wanted to say that Rich is the only software developer I know, who when asked to lay out the philosophy of his package, would give you 5,000 years of history on the display of tables. :)
You may appreciate the fact that Bamboo sprouting is edible. I add rings of fresh bamboo to my pasta dishes and is a nice touch for a summer salad.

Just use only the new stems, the parts that can be sliced with a sharp kitchen knife using your hand and reasonable force, and discard everything else.

Best advice is not planting it unless you have a lot of space and something to do with it or build --strong-- concrete root barriers. Alcatraz jail level.
Not native, but Thunder Client is a VS Code extension that I've found pretty handy.
Too bad it will be cloudy in almost every city.
I briefly tried codeium before disabling it on account of it was using too much CPU and overheating my computer.

It's such a completely different experience. Almost the same level of difference as going from something like vanilla Notepad++ to VS Code with all the extensions set up.

I still have no interest in using AI for creative writing but definitely want to use it for coding in the future if it becomes practical for low budget projects.

I'm not exactly sure it's a great thing for very new beginners, but after that I don't see much issue besides energy use.

The stuff it does best is stuff that's basic enough to often do pretty much unconsciously, where it's easy to forget to pay full attention (Or get burnt out fast from paying close attention) and make pretty simple and boring bugs.

I guess only time will tell how one's skills and habits change after a few years with AI, maybe people will start zoning out and not fully supervising the code it writes.
The not so greedy might certainly be looking, but their willingness to jump through hoops would have a limit somewhere.

Require a very large number of hoops to be jumped through and every single hire will be of the kind who would have zero qualms to sell your company internals to the highest bidder if given the chance.
Nobody is arguing whether or not EPA has the authority to regualte the process in general. When I say, "there is no law allowing the government to do this," "this" is referring to regulating the process without conducting the appropriate cost-benefit analysis required for ongoing uses.

>stepping in and stopping the EPA from doing what the EPA is designed to do.

The EPA was designed to follow the Toxic Substances Control
Act (among other laws).
I have subscriptions to many different AI services, from Sona, Gemini, Perplexity to others, many I have just tried out, but of course they are not the main cost.

My largest costs are related to OpenAI API.

I use OpenAI API to go over my data, create embeddings of it, reorganise things, scrape data, standardize and analyse data, etc.

I have a personal journal/assistant type of thing that I use to chat with, or help me make decisions, sanity check myself - it has a prompt filled with various context it can search from embeddings. Like the people I know, the projects I'm working on, the goals I have in life, etc.

GPT goes over all the data and does summaries, organises, adds better search keywords for potential embedding callbacks.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39908579
Yep, it's a good question! At the moment, my thoughts are roughly:

GitHub's incentives and design constraints are different than ours. GitHub needs to offer something that covers a very large user-base, to cover the widest possible number of workflows, and they've done this by offering basic ephemeral VMs on-demand. CI and builds are also not GitHub's primary focus as an org.

We're trying to be the absolute fastest place to build software, with a deep focus on achieving maximum performance and reducing build time as much as possible (even to 0 with caching). Software builds today are often wildly inefficient, and I personally believe there's an opportunity to do for build compute what has been done for application compute over the last 10 years.

GitHub Actions workflows are more of an "input" for us then (similar to how container image builds have been), with the goal of adding more input types over time and applying the same core tech to all of them.
> The major downside of the cruise control was phantom braking. In about 450mi of driving up and down CA 101 I has three false positives, where we suddenly decelerated:

> I was in the rightmost of two lanes and an SUV was parked in the breakdown lane with its hazards on.

Why was this a false positive?? This is what you are supposed to do if you don't get over to the left.
So the bridge isn't the biggest one you'll find, but it gets the job done. Should suit your needs just fine
I’m developing a full backend using Vapor.
Fluent (Vapor’s ORM) is a bit raw but that’s being worked on, otherwise it’s very pleasant. Vapor’s community (on Discord) is great!

I compile in a Docker, and deploy the resulting image (multi-step docker file, first step for compilation, second step copy the resulting binaries).

Installing Swift on Linux is a one-liner now if you want to avoid Docker https://swift-server.github.io/swiftly/. EDIT: Two-liners actually: first install swiftly then install Swift…
Ask HN: What do great hackers use for sending emails in React Apps?
Hi guys,

I'm learning so much form this community! :)

I'm wondering what do pro hackers use to send emails to clients (and to themselves) when developing React Apps. What are the best alternatives?

Thanks,
Santy
Corporate inertia might not be the only reason for excessive pricing.

They might simply charge for everything working out of the box convenience. Or even for not being aware there are other options.
I'm not sure Dispo needed to go into details; we all can think of analogues to the nations of Urras, and Anarres itself mentions many things reminiscent of 1970s kibbutzim. (when I watched «Карьера Димы Горина»* the work camps also reminded me of Shevek's experiences in the Anarres outback)

* 1961. sometime I need to watch it with subtitles to check how it scores on the Bechdel Test. Cameo by Sputnik.
What the hell is going on in Tennessee? Last week it was this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39898416

Possibly they are overdoing it on their drug-laced lettuce that is apparently such a problem down there.
Not only does using Docker avoid dependency hell (which is IMO the biggest problem when running different software on a single machine), it has good sandboxing capabilities (out-of-the-box, no messing with systemd-nspawn) and UX that's miles ahead of systemd.
> The UX of most of the basic car functions was much harder to learn than a typical rental car ...

Strange there is no voice control, I mean the car is smart enough it can drive itself .... right?
Thanks, bookmarked and signed up!
I think the inside of your bubble must be polished to a mirror finish.
This seems quite promising. Using pseudo-code as an intermediary step isn't new but seems like this takes it a bit further. Will need to see some code and test it out.
I've only taken 1 job where I applied and interviewed through a normal pipeline, which was when I moved country. Now, I have been through the whole application and interview process quite a few times, getting either rejected or an offer, but for one reason or another I've never accepted the offer.

So for every other job I've had I've either been approached or I mentioned I was looking, and by doing so I got to skip some or all of the process. Once the process being "I still have to interview you though" "ok..." "That was your interview, did you enjoy it?"

I didn't aim for this though. I'm not a networking type person. I'm very shy. I've been active on various local or niche tech forums and chat servers, been to tech meetups where I've mostly been quiet.
2 hours is still a lot longer than 5 minutes. Rapid turnover is important for these folks. I've seen rental companies run out of cars numerous times. Two hours is tough. Plus, how about when dozens of cars have been turned in and are waiting on a charge? If anything, they are most likely to levy a higher fee for returning uncharged because of their lost time.
I came to ask about that 24% VAT - ouch!
Good reply. It seems like you understand the market and where your product fits, which is half the battle.

Wishing you much success.
Right, but the interesting part of TFA is about how the rates paid by merchants are higher for the top 10% of cards. Your example assumes the same rate paid by everyone. Because only a small portion of transactions incur the high rate/high reward, it seems far less likely that the split between pass-through vs eat-it still won't benefit high end cardholders.
In some situations they said yes, and because they felt pressure to do so, which would just be coersion.
It does seem like it might ban evaporative cooling systems, tho. The intent’s fairly clear there.
"Automated checkout systems powered by computer vision can significantly reduce checkout times. For instance, Amazon Go stores use computer vision to automatically track items added to a shopping cart and charge customers accordingly as they leave the store" (1)

The only way this can be interpreted as "people manually look at the camera and tabulate the price" is disingenuously. And it's one example that I suspect will be scrubbed from the web, but from the moment this was launched, unless you were living under a rock, the message was "AI powers the store." So please stop with the hairsplitting and revisionist history.

(1) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/enhancing-the-retail...