skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice start!

There are a few other OSS implementations, a list on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_accounting_softw...

As someone who has helped write and manage one used internally at a thousands of active employee organization I have some thoughts:

Most of these skip over authorization of transactions, which is very important in many organizations. I.e. Tootie wants to buy a new widget. Her supervisor probably has to approve it along with someone from budget/accounting to confirm we actually have the cash to pay for said widget, etc.

These authorization/workflow systems can get stupidly complex. Ours is rule/action based via regex matches against columns in the DB, and we support a _rules view on said table, to help achieve our goals and allow customization for each "module" or type of transaction that needs authorization.

The other thing often missing is auditing. We have auditors show up once or twice a year and pour over our transactions, audit and access logs. We record every I/U/D that happens against any table in the DB and have kept this information forever. We also have a support ticket system with integrated VCS that we use religiously to help handle the why, that also never erases information.

The next big thing often missing is reporting. We have thousands of reports. Every employee basically needs a few different ones. The key people(The accounting, payroll, AP and budget departments, tend to get dozens of reports per employee).

We perhaps overly abuse use PostgreSQL's access controls. Every user gets a login, and we use row and column level access controls. This way all of the above features are tied into access control. So if we make a generic report(say a birthday list), we can make it available for everyone, but a supervisor can only see their own employees and say the main manager at a particular location can only see records pertaining to their location.

Lastly, these systems do not live in isolation, we are often the first and last source for information. We import and export data automatically against a wide range of various systems, from SSO to random one-off messes some employee managed to get installed somewhere. Having a sane way to deal with IO is essential. Our current best method is for every system we have to two-way sync with(which almost always happens if the product lives past the first year), we keep a separate world-view of what we think their data is. This way when stuff inevitably breaks, we can easily track down if it's an us or them problem and get it routed appropriately. Since we keep both our world-view AND their world-view in our PostgreSQL database, we can replicate any previous state(due to keeping both world-views and precise auditing).
bombs that injured thousands of innocent bystanders, including women and children
the facts in the article do not justify the headline. 'early exposure resulted in an 86% reduction in peanut allergies by the time the child reached age 5', it summarizes one study. 'Jewish children in Israel had one-tenth the rate of peanut allergies compared with Jewish children in the U.K.,' it summarizes another. but a 6× or 10× smaller peanut allergy epidemic would still be a peanut allergy epidemic. something else is going on

if no cameroonian children have a peanut allergy, could it be that 0.6% of them are born with a peanut allergy but die undiagnosed in infancy?
Mitosis in the Gray-Scott model: an intro to shader-based chemical simulations
On the other hand only your edge load balancers need dual-stack, everything behind them can be v6-only.
This is such a big story and yet most of HN just doesn't care. It should make the WSJ though.
There has to be some sort of downside to this, right? Otherwise, wouldn't everyone be doing this?
If you want to drop $12k, maybe.
No, Aumann's theorem proves a much more limited thing. For one thing, it assumes agents have a common prior, which is a very strong assumption not present in most cases where people "agree to disagree".

When the disagreement starts from foundational subjective disagreements, such as what constitutes malpractice or intent or incompetence, etc, the theorem has nothing to say, and it is perfectly reasonable to say that you "agree to disagree".
Using LLMs to reduce sign-up and onboarding friction
Which will build.... lets see... 3 apartments buildings in California.
Yes, but it isn't the only one, the oldest Ruby JIT goes back to Ruby Motion, still being sold.

I would not put Julia and Common Lisp on the scripting basket yep.
Developers mostly won't pay out of their own pocket.
Yeah, no superpower would ever be bothered by another superpower wanting to put bases and missiles next to them....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
Autonomy and rule following are at odds. Humans have the same problem. The solutions we use for ourselves work amazingly for LLMs (because they're trained on human data).

Examples: Give an LLM an effective identity (prompt engineering), a value system (Constitutional AI), make it think about these things before it acts (CoT + system prompt), have a more capable [more expensive / higher inference] agent review the LLMs work from time to time (multi-agent), have a more capable agent iterate on prompts to improve results in a test environment (EvoAgents), etc.

We can't simply provide an off the shelf LLM with a paragraph or two and expect it to reliably fulfill an arbitrary task without supervision any more than we can expect the same from a random nihilist going through an identity crisis. They both need identity, values, time to think, social support, etc. before they can be reliable workers.
What people experienced during a trivial, 1 hour study doesn't really compare to regret over decades of someones life.
This is a fantastically written post by someone whose blog title tells me we'd be friends, but it's also perhaps the most absurd example of idealogical bias I've ever seen. In this case, the bias is towards individualism and contemporary American conservatism/liberalism. Like;

The histogram for the sparse network shows a wider spread of "world knowledge" values. This range and the standard deviation indicate a more varied distribution of information among nodes. While in the dense network, the uniformity of colour suggests that almost all nodes have closer "world knowledge" values. Information spreads quickly and uniformly, leading to a more homogeneous knowledge distribution among all nodes.

Truth is good, my friends. They later describe this as leading to "echo chambers" and use some examples of fake news from the past to illustrate this, but I think this is entirely backwards. Echo chambers form in spare networks because that's, uh, that's what a chamber is. I won't go quote-by-quote because as I said above the analysis itself is good, but again and again they apply a biased worldview to end up focusing on the wrong results of that analysis. Probably the funniest quote is:

In an era of unprecedented connectivity and access to information, we expected a renaissance of cultural innovation. Instead, we find ourselves in stasis, where the sheer volume of content has led to a paradoxical cultural gridlock.

Just because you don't like modern culture doesn't mean it's not "innovative". Even if we restrict the analysis to English speakers in "the west"-ish, public opinion on gender identity, sexual orientation, public healthcare, international relations, parental labor division, neurodivergence, and open world games have changed considerably. Just to name a few important topics off the top of my head ;) And if we're talking aesthetic cultural innovation, I really don't see a problem with the current internet other than "hollywood sucks" and "vine no longer exists"
Google does a lot of personalization of search results. But if you don't give it your searches, it won't know what you want. So when you come back after switching, it's much worse.
the idea TSA security has always been a farce, detecting only the crudest methods of attack.
Cost me 30k to build my house last year. No codes, no architect, no engineers, no licenses, and planning was a square on a map.

Drink a Busch light, execute next step.

Life is good. This is the way in my county, we found out codes, design review, and most zoning is for corrupt politicians and smug self righteous inspectors. Been that way for decades and none of the apocalyptical predictions happened.

As it turned out, affordable housing means less government and no assistance.
It's indeed relative to cents in a sense, the idea is to force you to declare the precision of the monetary amount you're expressing.

You can see various interpretation of what "USD" means in the wild, as some APIs will happily parse USD 100 as $1.00 while some others might parse USD 100 as $100.00.

So we recommend this explicit [ASSET/SCALE AMOUNT] notation, where SCALE describes the negative power of ten to multiply the AMOUNT with to obtain the decimal value in the given ASSET.

It makes subsequent interaction with external systems much easier. You can read a bit more about it here [1].

[1] https://docs.formance.com/stack/unambiguous-monetary-notatio...
Tax speculation not productive activity. Tax asset accumulation.
And schema and paths have much the same issues - they are being used as tools in things like network-exchanged messages when the underlying specs and the implementations out there were not designed with that idea in mind.

You are going to have a bad time if your schema validation tries to resolve schema URL by default.

You are going to have a bad time if your JSONpath implementation supports the older "eval" mechanisms, or has unbounded memory/processing time growth from top-down traversal of the JSON.

The issue in the article was purposely avoided in JSON by virtue of JWS not having canonicalization, transforms, or partial signatures. You sign a chunk of binary data, and that binary data might be parsable as JSON.
I’ve always thought about what student examinations mean post-AI accessibility. We’ve faced a similar problem once students had open access to the internet, but even then there was some work in figuring out what sites are reputable, search queries, etc. Now that burden has been shortened to figuring out what AI tool and what prompt to use for classic exams like essays or tests. Add in the challenge of remote learning and now you have an environment out of your control, not to mention smartphone access prevalently available.

It’s difficult to be an effective teacher, and that’s without even considering the social and economic pressures they face.
"Oh yes, I did say it didn't contain dairy, and it doesn't. But we do use butter on the grill."
Indeed, I only listed the languages I know more about, it has been a long time since XEmacs was my poor man's IDE on UNIX systems.
The 4.5" angle grinder is like an agressive little dog that's just waiting for a chance to bite you.

The table saw is like an old pitbull that generally sleeps.

The 6"/7"/9" grinder is a skunk.

Everyone who's ever given it the chance has a story about the time the angle grinder nipped at them. The people who pestered the old pitbull until it got sick of their crap have 9 fingers. Nobody has problems with the skunk because it's pretty obvious what'll happen if you disrespect it.
Yeah, but I don't think the subconscious factor is strong in the case of some pagers sold to Hezbollah. Disney was an example someone chose, and it ceases to be a useful example here.
Mistakes I Made When I Started Programming and How I Overcame Self-Doubt
A newer developer chronicles his experiences and his recommendation is to consider data structures and algorithms as important to know, but also: ship some code!
thats only a problem if it catches your clothes and gets dragged into your body. only turn the switch into the locked position when really necessary. I usually wear leathers. but if it does happen you're looking at a couple months of road rash, not amputation.
The fact that it exists. I was a network engineer before NAT became a common thing and remember how it use to be when nodes on the network were legitimately peers. NAT is a bletcherous band-aid for the fact there are more people than 32 bit numbers. Now we're seeing true abominations like CGNAT. That stuff needs to be lost to the realm of scary legends told late at night.
Some people would just prefer that more people die from lack of effective parachutes or worse airbags if it means reducing the environmental devastation we wreak on the planet. Not sure if that is something you've considered.
Now shark fins are in vogue again because they house multiple antennas — FM/AM, DAB, GPS, and recently more importantly, 4G. Maybe even WiFi — weird as it sounds, I saw some strings for WiFi antennas in a popular stock media/head unit’s firmware.

Though you are probably right and many cars with just FM/AM and DAB still put them in windshields.

I’m not sure about that 3+ antenna claim for FM. Do a fact-check there. ;) I think most diversity antenna systems that you describe use 2. And they are still considered “premium”. 3 is a bit overkill for FM, FM is very resilient against obstacles.

If I’m wrong, would be interesting to see an example of a car that uses 3 or more. Probably far outside of my pay grade to say the least.
I have super fond memories of high school math classes. That calculator was my first introduction to programming. I’d take the time to write programs for each unit we covered so that I could just input the variables and quickly solve. I had to understand the concept before I could program it so I didn’t really think it was cheating. I did get nervous when SATs came up because I knew my calcs memory would be cleared. I remember my solution was to painstakingly recreate the memory cleared screen and pulled it up before the proctor came around in hopes that they’d assume they already cleared mine.

My programming didn’t improve much after high school but I’m still kind of proud of my not-totally-cheating cheating.
Show HN: iOS Growth SDK – JSON driven, local, privacy-first, realtime targeting
> You could say the same thing about this place. Why are we all here?

Not to preen or self-promote or "network". Most here are anonymous.

Both of us use names, and you have the meethn and I have a "we are hiring" ... Still, I don't think either of us is here just to meet people or just to hire. My profile has only said that for a couple of the more than a decade I've been here.
I wasn’t aware of any prominent republicans pushing for direct federal investment in building housing. Could you drop some links?
Knowledge is empowering.
The real reason this won’t work is that Pivotal obviously isn’t making good money if VMWare is cool with shutting it down.

If it was some kind of excellent business to be in it wouldn’t be shutting down.

An analogy would be to say that it would be a great business model to clone Redbox now that it’s gone. But it’s not because its competitors ate it alive.

Sure, there are a bunch of Redbox customers that liked the product, but that number was declining.
But I don't want a pointy stick, I want a program that loads web pages securely and quickly and doesn't log my browsing habits and sell them to advertisers.
One company I've seen do this fairly well is REI. https://cedar.rei.com/
Interested to see what others have been doing here as well!

We’ve been using it to summarize update reports for leadership.
Check the threads below and this could also help: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21919465

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29498220

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13014900

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34854488
And isn't it strange when a company publicly declares that you can't have any expectations based on their brand? Seems like they're drawing customers' attention to the thing, instead of hoping they don't notice.
Ignoring Good Advice (2019) [pdf]
Yeah! Text autogenerated from a computer's probability engine will lead to people having "wrong thoughts"!

We should ban libraries and books too! I wouldn't want people to have an opportunity to learn for themselves.

<end sarcasm>

On a less sarcastic note. No, text and images can not hurt you. All of this censorship and "safety" silliness is attempted moat building that needs to stop. Thankfully, if you search around a little you can find uncensored[1] models

[1] https://ollama.com/search?q=uncensored

[2] https://ollama.com/library/llama2-uncensored
shark tank takes 10% of a company just for them being on the show, last i heard, which is really funny to me
FedNow just recently launched. Takes time for all the tubes to get plumbed up (Central Bank<->Banks, FIs<->Financial Service Consumers).

TLDR 1 cent to request payment, 5 cents to move value, can move $100k at once (initial limit), can move up to $500k if your provider supports it. 20 second settlement SLA 24/7/365.

FedNow Is Live - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36801491 - July 2023 (1022 comments)

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/organi... ("FedNow Service Participants and Service Providers")

Change can happen fast: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/brazils-pix-overtak... ("Brazil's Pix to overtake credit cards in e-commerce as soon as 2025, study shows") (my note: Pix is Brazil's instant payment version of FedNow, launched in 2020)
how do we end up with statements like 'millimeter waves can deliver typically between 10 and 50 GHz of bandwidth' getting published in ieee spectrum? are there no electrical engineers at the ieee anymore? apparently this article is by a 'tim hornyak' with a degree in journalism from carleton university in ottawa. what the fuck?
> My main concern is power level. How much power can you emit if Joe in accounting is 8 feet away from it

That was my first takeaway from the photo from outside. The kinds of antennas they put on top of buildings routinely run many hundreds to a thousand watts or more of power directionally out into the city. That's fine when you're putting it on equipment outside the building on a controlled access roof pointing away from the occupants in the building. Everyone actually in the beam pattern is going to be far away from the active elements.

This design doesn't seem to be incredibly directional especially outwards. You're not going to be able to run much power on that antenna, and now you're going to have it on the inside of metallized glass. A lot of that energy is going to stay in the building. I wouldn't want the desk next to this if it's going to run even 100W. Just asking to get some good RF burns.
What about updates? Propagating routing table changes for even 8 billion devices (assuming each human has on average one device, which is quite the assumption to make) would be incredibly resource-intensive.
https://github.com/reworkd/tarsier/pull/115/files represents someone who does not know what git is used for

Cloning into 'tarsier'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 15238, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1613/1613), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (929/929), done.
Receiving objects: 100% (15238/15238), 3.01 GiB | 14.82 MiB/s, done.
Similar things happen when looking at treenut allergies. I have a child allergic to a whole lot of them, even though our first incident requiring medical intervention occurred before age 1.

I have no problem believing that severe allergies weren't all being undiagnosed in the past, but we are way too quick to believe studies that match priors, even if there's evidence that the intervention's effects are, at best overblown.

Science is hard, life sciences doubly so. We need to be far more comfortable with wide error bars than we are.
Not sure how true this statement is in general, but it’s definitely not true of course for what the project described as the use case, eg your own side project/app, which you’d obviously not be able to “apt install.” Unless OP meant like the supporting hosting/proxy infra like Apache/nginx, which yeah, that’s what this project is trying to avoid/abstract for the user to have to deal with.

At the end of the day if you use this tool I guess all you’d need to worry about (given the tool is stable and works obviously) would be apt upgrades of the OS and even that you can automate, and then just figure out your reboot strategy. For me, I don’t even want to deal with that, so I happily use fly.
After 20 years of various things breaking on my (admittedly franken) debian installs after each dist-upgrade, and spending days troubleshooting each time, I recently took the plunge and switched all services to docker-compose.

I then booted into a new fresh clean debian environment, mounted my disks, and:

cd /opt/docker/configs; for i in *; do cd $i; docker-compose up -d; cd ..; done

voila, everything was up and working, and no longer tied to my underlying OS. Now at least I can keep my distro and kernel etc all up to date without worrying about anything else breaking.

Sure, I have a new set of problems, but they feel smaller.
Damn, didn't realise that Forbes Marketplace was run separately to Forbes itself. Knew it was always a parasite SEO operation, but the idea of it being a separate company entirely (and how much they tried to hide the fact) is really interesting here.

But yeah, it's still crazy that this site is even allowed in Google, and that they've shown no signs of cracking down on these types of parasite SEO schemes.
They could build housing on federal land, or lease the land to housing developers under favorable terms. I don’t believe the federal government can be bound to local zoning laws.

Now that wouldn’t help you in a city like Boston or New York, but there are plenty of states where the federal government owns the majority of the land.

https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_land_ownership_by_state
And since the other two links are to GH: https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern (AGPLv3)
Worse than that, by count, only a minority of the cells using a person's DNA make up that person. The number of other cells are 10x, but being smaller, only make up 1% to 3% by mass.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-human-micr...
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw
I am not a recruiter. But my experience, backed up by _plenty_ of anecdata here and on Reddit, is that applying for jobs on LinkedIn and other job listing sites is GIGANTIC waste of time unless you already have a connection in the company you are applying for.

I myself spent the better part of my free time in 2023 scouring LinkedIn for potential jobs. I was careful not to overreach, I only applied to jobs where I was sure I had the skills they were looking for. The whole year, I got ZERO responses. Until I noticed that one of the companies I was applying for looked familiar. A few minutes of digging revealed that an old co-worker of mine had moved to that company a few months prior. I called him up, we chatted about the company, he agreed to refer me. Long story short, I got the job.

If you are serious about finding a job, you HAVE to rely on your network. It's how I have landed 100% of my civilian jobs over the past 20-something years. If you don't have a network, the second best time to plant a tree is now.

(I suppose you could also work with an independent recruiter, but a lot of companies won't work with them because they charge the hiring company a fee. I don't have any experience with recruiters.)
I am amazed you are being downvoted for advocating increased funding for reproduceable studies.

The Replication crisis is real, and can be avoided if more effort is put in not to discover something new, but instead to verifying the old information we base new questions/studies on.
> This could be a way to support a more ethical approach to tech

Replace "tech" with "business" (because it is), and there'll be the answer. And it is probable "Rarely, but usually no".
Are startups not "productive activities"? I said to REDUCE taxes on productive activities which in my definition includes Startups.

Perhaps my definitions of "speculation" and "productive activities" go against conventions?