skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basis AI | Full-Time | Full-Stack, Backend and Frontend Engineers | NYC

What is Basis

Basis is an AI platform for accounting firms, providing accountants with a team of AI assistants. Accounting teams integrate Basis as part of their team, delegating core workflows and automating time-consuming, manual work.

Our goal is to become the core accounting intelligence powering accountants of all types - empowering skilled accountants to automate workflows and 10x the quality and efficiency of their work.

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/basis-ai?utm_source=0RKwG7Nb45
Good feedback. We just launched so will adapt as we go!
Are you seriously mentioning JS as a C++ alternative? I am confused.
> Demonstrating a deep understanding of what its computer-gaming audience, Sony has built the ability to order pizza into its latest online multiplayer game.

NBC's command of language might not be good, but it turns out it is consistent.
As people watch fewer and fewer ads on TV and the internet, I see the influencer market growing. Those ad dollars will go somewhere.
This. I think because NACS is becoming the standard is exactly why they don't want to invest in EV Charging. When Superchargers were Tesla-only, they were a way to promote and market Tesla cars. Now that every car will be able to use them, that's gone. Let someone else run EV charging networks.

Additionally, EV Charging is not going to be a high-margin, disruptive industry that is a darling of wall street. Can you imagine investors getting excited about investing in the largest operator of Gas Stations? I don't think so. It's going to end up being a tight, competitive business where people pick where to charge based on prices down to the penny. No one's going to end up as a billionaire running that business.
Nope, TCAS has always been based on secondary surveillance (i.e. transponders). Before ADS-B, it was based on Mode S. Air traffic control has used primary radar and even more primitive methods (position/speed/bearing reports over radio) to maintain separation since long before transponders. The in-cockpit automated "traffic traffic" advisory and "climb climb" or "descend descend" resolution advisory come from TCAS, which relies on transponders.
Your receipt:
- latte 5.99
- delivery fees 5.99
- ssh fees 0.99
- internet fees 0.59
- water 0.19
- sewage 0.09
…..
LLMs can't do math in general, they need external help to do simple math problems with any consistency.
Yeah, I think would be a good potential candidate if it had a full commitment to support on Linux and Windows, but unless that happens at some point, I don't think I'd consider it over Rust for anything other than Apple-specific development, which isn't something I do
> it makes a lot of assumptions which makes it effectively unusable for other use cases

What use-cases are foreclosed and why?
That requires the client to install custom tunnelling software.

If you want the client to not require special software, they provide a web based terminal emulator for ssh, and a web based VNC client.
Did you fact check all of the claims in your comment before pushing submit?
>It was always a big mystery why renaming my program from .BAS to .EXE didn't let me click to run it like other programs.

Ha. Like other such newbie-isms.

One of my favorites:

Computer: Hit any key to continue.

User: Where's the any key?

A google search will turn many more amusing ones.
Box Is a Unique Type
This is a really cool position since Meta is leading high performing open AI trough llama.

Should be lots of fun to play with Meta Smart Glasses + AI.
Slashdot solved this ages ago with its moderation system, vote moderation has been flawed since inception, because people downvote when they disagree not based on the quality of the post.
I've always heard that in Japan people don't generally buy a house to live in, preferring to knock it down and build a new construction. That seems like it would be an important contributor since this is more like how many empty lots there are.

Edit: Here's an article about it that was posted last year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36952874
It was a misclick.
If we can demonstrate that life moved from Mars to Earth then the most likely explanation for life on Mars is that it also got there from somewhere else.
The rule is the same if France though. Water is drinkable by default and will be signed "eau non potable" if it isn't (and even then it usually means it's never tested, not that it's unsafe).
Out of curiosity, did you file issues against GlitchTip about your needs and they received no traction?
(For someone who's single; unmarried)
Airbnb Launches Icons
Still, it identifies you so it can be used to track you over visits to many different stores-over-ssh, just like third party cookies.
Only the moderators of the big subreddits. The users that aren't bots are largely reasonably normal people.
Spain will need 24M migrant workers by 2053 to shore up pension system
> There are no trusted hosts.

...your own (headless) server that's in the same room as you, when you're using your laptop as a thin-client for it?
> Despite the industry's known problems, Camp said that in some cases, influencer marketing was still perceived as more desirable because there's a level of authenticity when someone you follow and trust is pitching a product versus just an anonymous ad.

I'm increasingly finding the opposite to be true: someone I trust hocking a product of questionable value makes me question their authenticity and their expertise. The most stark recent examples was NFTs. Anyone pushing this stuff wanted their audience to lose money to scammers or was at least indifferent if they did. Instant bozo bit[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozo_bit
> Exceptional Generalist

is such an interesting job title.
What is pressurized "technical" water?
https://archive.is/3EPuq

or Apple News version: https://apple.news/AI-W4WMnVSDK_4YhIgEc37g
Brandon Leblanc is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/brandonleblanc

I feel he sees the negative comments, but it's not a concern of his.
I am at loss here.

As per my prior comment directed at you, you have been reminded that the improvement you asked for had been implemented into law.

As per the same comment, the situation for new parties have thereby become worse. You are sure to have experienced the same problems we experienced when getting the Pirate party into parliament when you got the Sweden Democrats through the system.
Location: Colorado, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Go/Golang, Python, Java, C, web dev, SQL, git, Linux, Docker, cloud hosting, distrib sys, threading, concurrency, perf & scalability, some ML (plain math, queries, Bayesian models/inference, OLS regression, game actors, data-driven strategy, real-time planning, constraints, rules)

Résumé/CV:
https://github.com/mkramlich/portfolio/blob/master/sw-eng-Mi...

Email:
groglogic+hn2024may@gmail.com

decades of prog. solid fundamentals. problem solving. comm. (native US English)

tech lead/architect. SRE-ish. solved hard legacy bugs & shipped, repeatedly. author of cheatsheet on perf

highlights:

* ex Orbitz on core tech (JVM, GC, perf regress follow-up, ops, logs, intrum, caches, sessions, threading, db conns)

* research & due diligence for US State Dept to bolster public defenses against foreign adversarial propaganda & disinfo

* game engine creator & toolmaker since kid. once built & ran small sw biz

* recent client: (de facto) sys prog R&D on mem alloc latency & SEGV resilience. C on Linux. deliv new code, benchmarks, a diagram & report demo-ing how to upgrade perf & uptime of their soft-realtime, $-sensitive, ad-bidding backend (where ns diffs impacted $)

* LatLearn: latency instrum & reporting lib (FOSS)
Belongs in https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/, not Hacker News.
I use this daily as a software architect.

Also for recipes!

And for argument graphs. Premises, therefores/lemmas, conclusions.

I don't get heavily into CRT/FRT, at least not the most disciplined versions. I find that in practice the kinds of problems that justify that in-depth level of analysis are few and far between.
How much driven by college age population declines?
I do not hold that all such covenants should not exist.
Your definitions of "population" and "child" would include a cell or two, which most Americans find ridiculous. Sophistry and rhetoric haven't convinced them: most Americans support abortion but oppose murder. The logical conclusion of this isn't that most Americans are experiencing some sort of mass cognitive dissonance, but that your conflation of the two is unconvincing.

Indeed, laws generally apply to "persons" and not "groups of 1+ human cells" for a reason, and the reason isn't mass hysteria. Likewise, scientific consensus has formed around the terms "fetus" and "abortion of a fetus" for a reason, and the reason isn't some grand conspiracy to "dehumanize" groups of cells.
I think this explains the trouble at my current company. We're a couple years into the scaling phase and it's become clear that our CEO is a builder and doesn't know how to scale.

I don't think he understands that and there's really not anything I can do about it but move on.
Itll be interesting to see how Columbia does next year.
Well I hope they enjoy getting a lot of fake emails, because that's what's gonna happen.
RAG Pipeline Engineer | Search Technologies, Document Collections, AI, LLMs Expert

Location: Austin, Texas

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Search (ElasticSearch, Lucene), document processing (OCR, PDF extraction), AI (LLMs, prompt engineering), data pipelines, image processing, web crawling (AI powered), full-stack web development, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), Docker, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: Upon request

Experience: With over 25 years in search and AI, I've built a comprehensive open-source pipeline system for transforming and enabling grounded AI interactions across use cases. This includes image processing, crawling, PDF ingestion, and search querying. My expertise extends to full-stack engineering consulting, from prototypes and MVPs to full production assistance. I've been using GPT for 3.5+ years and excel in prompt engineering and meta-programming.

About Me: I'm a technical entrepreneur with strong product development and marketing experience. I've founded multiple companies and have a deep passion for technology evangelism, research, and software development. My focus is on building effective, ethical AI-powered systems and solving challenging problems in search and knowledge extraction.

Email: kord@mitta.us
EU toilets are often of the 'poop shelf' design. Which end up requiring cleaning and multiple flushes after every bowel movement.
ncurses!
It reduces the code required to convert from N-producers to M-consumer from N x M to N+M because they're reading from and to a well-understood common form.
The original report,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40208696

https://www.mysk.blog/2024/04/28/safari-tracking/
The people here are also the ones who tell grandma which computer to buy. You need mass market adoption, but you really also need the "developers! developers! developers!" (or sub "power users" for "developers") [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs
It’s almost like this is a result of capitalism in general, but pearl clutching is done in specific cases while ignoring the exact same dynamics nearly everywhere else

Note how different the platforms are which are about collaboration instead of competition and profit motive:

Wikipedia

Open Source Software

Science

They feature a peer-review process, for the privilege of publishing your information for free to everyone. And you are held to a high standard, but also you have no obligation to wake up in the morning and continue to be an influencer-expert-on-everything. You can make a small contribution and drop the mic.

That’s a gift economy. And if we had UBI, far more people would participate. Reimagine the whole system! This alternative is far healthier for society than surveillance capitalism and perpetual tribal outrage and depression across all ages.

LAWeekly wrote about it last year: https://www.laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/
The profiling and branch watch seem like really interesting tools for homebrewing GC or Wii games.

I really love Dolphin's status update posts, they're always jam-packed with cool information.
My guess is that the profit margins are so high, and the marketing is so cheap, you don't need a ton of sales to make money.
Tales from the Public Domain: Bound by Law? (2006)
Probably none. Yale’s applications are up 10%.
For the taskbar, usually just restarting explorer.exe should do the trick.

Open Task Manager, search for explorer.exe or Windows Explorer, right-click and restart.
We had a version of Bomberman that was written in some version of BASIC in high school (maybe QBasic?). It was great because we could hack on it to modify the game and immediately play with those modifications.
The homeless tend to congregate in encampments. You'll sometimes see the rare one in a park or a station but usually you only see them if you happen to wander into an area where they've all set up.

Homeless in Japan don't panhandle or really bother regular people.
Right, sorry, I'm aware that there are private HOA-style Flock deployments too, I'm just talking about the Flock pitch to municipalities.
The dude tests basically anything and everything, and gives them generally pretty reasonable goes at a proper test. Sure, it's far off from an industry standard in a lot of cases, but unlike the industry (generally) he does side by side comparisons.
To me this Windows hate feels like a form of a group think. But I find myself on the sidelines on many other issues, too.
CERN publicizing about their HGST Ultrastar use [0] in 2013 was what got me started buying their drives and I never had issues with them. HGST is now part of Western Digital [1].

The last time I had to buy disks I switched to Seagate Exos X and thought I'll continue buying them. I think it was one of the Backblaze Drive Stats which made me buy them. I like the drives.

So CERN is now doing again such an advertising campaign:

> When Bonfillou shared the requirements from the next generation collider, the team suggested testing the company’s new series of JBODs (Just a Bunch of Drives), the Ultrastar hybrid storage platforms.

Since the project is expected to start in 2029, add about at least 5 more years for CERN to collect data on the drive stats, that's a long time to wait.

Does anyone here know if WD's Ultrastar are still as good as back then, when HGST was HGST? Was it just a brand change and all the rest, R&D-team, design, production, was still the same, separate to WD?

[0] https://rog.asus.com/articles/news/hgst-ships-6tb-ultrastar-...

[1] https://www.westerndigital.com/en-us/products/internal-drive...
In the site you linked to, I'm not seeing all of the positions you listed above. E.g., the two "Senior+ Software Engineer" positions.

Is the site just out of date?
How many people were arrested for peacefully being "around" the Capitol building?
The crimes of Verfassungsschutz are serious (like giving weapons to Nazi terrorists) but many germans and german media love their secret police.
Most likely using "Spectrum" which allows Layer 4 TCP+UDP proxying/DDoS protection: https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/clo...
They support static(-ish) IPv4s now on some plans: https://support.starlink.com/?topic=1192f3ef-2a17-31d9-261a-...

Public IPv6 seems to be available on all plans now, according to the same article.

Together with DDNS, that should probably be good enough for many applications.
You could say it’s the living results of that fate already.

Here’s an HN discussion about firing the leads of Starlink[1] early in development (2018). And another in the following year laying off 10% of the workforce[2] (2019).

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18349991

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18888641
I don't disagree with you, but isn't this just how regular product placement works?

You put a coke bottle next to some athlete, someone makes a reference to some car in some tv show, or to some product in a movie.

There are subtle and obvious ways to do it in those other mediums... The problem with "hobby" influencers is that they're supposed to be talking about those products anyway, so it's very difficult to know if they're still in the "initial phase" where they're just interested on products out of genuine interest (and purchasing it themselves), or if it's product placement :(
Sounds like a good thing:

> The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based school received 54,008 applications for the class of 2028, according to the Harvard Crimson, the campus newspaper. The undergraduate college at Harvard University accepted 1,245 of those applicants, giving the incoming freshman class an acceptance rate of 3.59% — the highest admission rate in four years, the publication noted.
I'm there. My username here is just [first letter of given name] + [surname] and my surname is pretty unique, so if you search for it there you'll find posts I've made in the past.
"Elon Gates to reach the stars"
Setuid is a mechanism where you take a program, and mark it so it always runs as root (or some other user, but in this case root). The idea is that an unprivileged user can run a setuid program, and the program itself decides what privileges to allow.

The problem is that the user controls the program's view of the filesystem, environment variables, and other attributes, and this is an attack surface that can be used to trick it into loading and running code provided by the unprivileged user, which runs as root. For example, ordinary programs have a preamble inserted by the compiler where they load a programming-language runtime, usually from somewhere like /usr/lib; but a setuid program can't safely do this, because the user could use a chroot to replace /usr/lib with something different.

In practice, this means that writing a setuid program correctly is exceptionally difficult and error prone, can only be done in C, and imposes security requirements on the compiler flags/makefiles rather than the source code, which creates a large risk of distro- or compiler-specific vulnerabilities. In practice, sudo is the only program people allow to use the setuid mechanism, and sudo is a unique and dangerous snowflake.
AI Mnemonic Generator targeted at medical students
Learvo is an AI-powered personalized learning and memory tool for medical students. The platform includes an AI mnemonic generator and an extensive medical mnemonic library. The AI mnemonic generator empowers students to create acronyms and mnemonic sentences related to specific categories or themes tailored to a student’s interests, such as animals or basketball. In addition, the music category allows students to associate their study material with catchy tunes, further enhancing recall. Complementing the AI mnemonic generator is a vast library containing over 400 pre-existing medical mnemonics. Learvo enables students to quickly access and generate mnemonics that maximize retention for the countless amounts of information that medical students need to learn and memorize.
> "American" manufacturers obviously have no problem sourcing parts (and labor) from China. Why should "American" consumers?

Because at least presumably, the American companies sourcing parts and labor are overseeing the final product. A lot of products are made in China, sold at Target or Best Buy, and quite good.

Whereas if you buy some "random China" toodad off of Alibaba or Wish, who knows what you're getting.

To put a finer point on it, would you trust Random Chinese Business to definitely install airbags correctly without Ford or Toyota looking over their shoulder? I doubt you would.

It's not a hating on China thing so much as it's an acknowledgement of the fact that domestic Chinese brands generally tend to make absolute garbage.
Yes, you can just remix and remove the orbit controls in lines 43 and 44 https://glitch.com/edit/#!/maps-and-splats?path=index.html%3... and then add `look-controls` `wasd-controls` to the camera entity. https://aframe.io/docs/1.5.0/components/wasd-controls.html
There are about 200,000 gas stations in the US. At one per day, it would take >500 years to rebuild the network.

1 super charger station per day is pitiful, you don’t need to be Elon to realize that is nowhere near fast enough to transition to electric vehicles.
I would not be upset if the entire internet went back to this.
Are you advocating for harassment?
T-Mobile Completes Acquisition of Mint Mobile
Yeah, there's sort of a bell curve to the ideal reddits where everything in the middle is totally serviceable. However, too small and the mods become overwhelmed and have to overban/overmod to keep up. Too large and the mods get powerhungry and ban in accordance with their own political values.
Looking forward to reading about this incredible journey
With all these recent exploits, I wouldn't even be 100% sure of that.
Nope! It is real, I was able to order some coffee a few days ago. Will report back on if it shows up or if it is any good :)
Maybe it's because it's deemed "too difficult" to change it?

Years ago, I was looking into some very popular c++ library and wanted to download the archive (a tar.gz or .zip, can't remember). At that time, they hosted it on sourceforge for download.

I was looking for a checksum (md5, sha1 or sha256) and found a mail in their mailing list archive where someone asked for providing said checksums on their page.

The answer? It's too complicated to put creating checksums into the process and sourceforge is safe enough. (paraphrased, but that was the gist of the answer)

That said, since quite some years they provide checksums for their source archives, but they kinda lost me with that answers years ago.
a slow roll would be delaying the inevitable and holding back linux as a windows alternative. fortunately no relevant distro is doing what you describe.
Thank you, that's quite interesting.

Never thought of such a wide resolutions & 3rd party plugins for dark mode
> A gas-powered sedan weighed down by all the modern safety requirements can only get ~43mpg on the highway.

Meanwhile in 1988 (36 years ago!) one could buy a Honda CRX that got 49mpg on the highway.

Weight is indeed the enemy here. To cut energy consumption and emissions we need to rethink the madness of 4000lb+ cars. I want to buy a 1600lb car with mindblowing mpg numbers using modern engine technology.
Many people forget that their email is included in the public key that is presented to the ssh server by default. So, the email collection form is actually somewhat redundant.

But yes, I added my share of funny email addresses to their list. Tradition is a tradition.
Awesome!

I'm pretty flexible. Do you have a communication platform you prefer?
> the empty Nutella jars were washed, kept and used as glasses for drinking - because buying new glasses was hard or expensive.

I think it's quite common and not especially linked to poverty.

For the smaller containers with a snap on lid only though, because the large Nutella jars with a screw on lid are unsuitable for glasses, but they can contain sauces, paint, screws or nails.
Do you mean the contributions-in-the-last-year block at the bottom of your user profile? I can see that being a good alternative to the monthly clockface, because it's broken out by weeks and not months. Color intensity might be useful when you get around to tracking things like mood.
Oh, aviation is known to be one of the most profound checklists' users. It's interesting to also learn that the specially designed toolboxes are also in wide use. Thank you for sharing!
Yeah, what a big pleasure to keep the head unloaded because of the order of the organized space.:)
Well I have seen them. It’s your anecdata vs my anecdata :)
If space-based telecom moves from GEO to LEO, then there’s no reason for GEO telecoms to exist anymore.