skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP, agreed something better than DocuSign is required. Check out Estonia’s digital signature platform — been around and developed for a couple of decades as the entire country runs on it.

In other words, it’s a solved problem, just little known outside the EU. And it works really well! Second, I suspect there are things to learn from the platform they built and the way digital signatures can be trusted within an entire society. DocuSign is astonishingly bad not because of the tech alone but because of the approach.

(Signature spots are mimicking pen signatures. Why not avoid that, or generate them based on the digital signature, eg as a visual / printable representation then digital signature, the way a QR code carries bits? Make something that survives printing!)
"In my opinion that's BS" - is that your approach to all scientific discovery?!

Did you read the article – how it works on mice with male-pattern baldness?
My understanding was the FP risk. The hashes were computed on device, but the device would self-report to LEO if it detects a match.

People designed images that were FPs of real images. So apps like WhatsApp that auto-save images to photo albums could cause people a big headache if a contact shared a legal FP image.
I also really like conditionals like switches and ifs returning values.
A Catalog of 21st Century Ghosts
Aren’t the spherical harmonics functions with domain S^2, the sphere? I think the solutions to the (time-independent) Schrödinger equation for an electron in a hydrogen atom are given by like, a product of a function of distance from the center with one of the spherical harmonics, or something like that?
> some of our artifacts might get accidentally preserved as well

IIRC (not likely these decades later), when recovering old MIT AI Lab backups (9-track tape goes slowly by a read head, yielding bits, plastic backing, and a pile of magnetic dust), one lisp machine backup contained a core dump file, which included the screen buffer. A single moment of someone's long-ago day, with assorted windows, including the cause of the dump. And a bit of graphics fun - a critter crawling across the screen - frozen in time.
Apple is already categorizing content on your device. Maybe they don't report what categories you have. But I know if I search for "cat" it will show me pictures of cats on my phone.
Because edge cases exist, and it isn't worth it for a company to hire enough staff to deal with them when one user with a problem, even if that problem is highly impactful to their life, just doesn't matter when the user is effectively the product and not the customer. Once the AI works well enough, the staff is gone and the cases where someone's business or reputation gets destroyed because there are no ways to appeal a wrong decision by a machine get ignored. And of course 'the computer won't let me' or 'I didn't make that decision' is a great way for no one to ever have to feel responsible for any harms caused by such a system.
And your two replies have what 'substance'?
Get off your high horse
Not strong on db internals, but those are 100% the exception, late additions, and not recommended for performance.

The table is stored as a fixed length structure and var length fields are pointers to some other place.

In the same manner that a traditional table might point to some other book for more details.

Csv is also exclusively variable length, and it's nevet fixed length.

Another example of fixed length structures are arrays. I'm not postulating a novel breakthrough.
I do a fair amount of decompiling and the list of constants is awesome! I usually can make a reasonable guess or have intuition, but frequently end up stepping through several integers to find the right value. Having a handy lookup table will be great.
Welcome to the world where of you want to send non-blank requests to more than a few people per month, you have to pay LI through the nose. Nope, sorry. If we both already know who each another are, blank it is!
I’m a tech literati in a fairly tech illiterate field. My co-workers think I’m some sort of wizard when I show them basic Excel skills.

Still waiting for my breakthrough.
It would be interesting to see these sort of studies done in India where multilingualism is the norm. I grew up learning 4 languages and have noticed a definite change in my tone/assertiveness/attitude/thought patterns when i shift languages.
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The tab character, along with record separators were present in the OG ascii block too, so they were probably always there.
NYC Billed Family of Man Killed During Police Pursuit for Damage to Cop's Car
It's written by AI
My bad. Also lotus 123.
"The contradictions of modern capitalism haven’t resolved themselves, as Bellamy assumed. Rather, they’ve become deeply embedded in American life, and the new economic world created after the Civil War has come to feel so natural, so inescapable, that even many of its staunchest critics have trouble imagining an alternative."

Yes. Capitalism has become a monopoly.

For a half century, from about 1920 to 1970, capitalism had competition. Communism, as an ideology, was taken seriously. There were times when it looked like the USSR might eventually outperform the US. The UK had a long-standing socialist movement.

This kept capitalism honest. For most of that period, US wages tracked productivity.
Businesses were afraid of labor, and afraid of government. If companies got too uppity,
they might be nationalized. Communism itself never worked all that well, but the threat of communism forced capitalism to perform better.

Then, in the 1970s, things changed. There was a plan, the famous Powell Memorandum, to take back America for the benefit of business.[1]
It was a radical proposal which, through heavy promotion and lobbying, became mainstream, then dominant. If you don't know what that was, go read it.

What we ended up with is postmodern capitalism, which is rather inefficient. Only 8% of the workforce is in manufacturing, while finance and marketing are larger than that. This is the tail wagging the dog.
Like most monopolies, capitalism has trouble getting out of its own way.

An economy dominated by direct labor, where labor inputs directly produce manufactured output, has a sort of built-in sanity check. Most effort goes into real output. Competition is a side effect of that. A marketing driven economy turns that on its head. It lacks a built-in sanity check. The extreme example of this is meme coins in crypto markets, which are pure Ponzi schemes and known to be such.

Almost the only other system of economic organization that seems to have worked is China, from Zhao Ziyang up to Xi Jinping's first term. Much has been written about that elsewhere.

Nobody really knows how to run a post-industrial economy. This is a problem. It leads to national leaders who look for "enemies" to blame, rather than looking into a mirror. From Xi to Putin to Trump, there are too many of those right now.

The current issue of the Economist has a boot stamping on a face on the cover, with the headline "Now what?". A very good question.

[1] https://archive.org/details/PowellMemorandum-AttackOnAmerica...
Would you say the same for people looking at the clouds passing by the window ?

Should we classify these clouds as worse than alcohol because they were looked at alone in a room instead of doing some other work ?

To get more personal, I had a CD player as my alarm in the morning, and a few times skipped worked because I couldn't get myself to stop the playing album. I didn't blame the CD.

That's also how I realized that job was well paying but otherwise really shitty.
Don't get me wrong: I'm sure there's plenty going on between NSO and Israel, and a lot of politics involved. But I also know it to be a real industry, with lots of players.
Indeed - so we have two examples of behavior modification possibly attributable to the person's awareness of being in a different culture than before. If that is the case (which, we should note, is not established by these anecdotes) then it seems plausible that a switch in language could also trigger the same response, if the languages are associated, at least in that person's mind, with different cultural norms.

We can also wonder if something subtle was changed in translation, and I think it would be interesting if we could follow up by showing each of the experiment's subjects the two sets of questions side-by-side, and ask them whether they feel each pair is asking exactly the same question.

I have been reading John McWhorter's 'Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue' (strongly recommended), and only yesterday I read this passage:

"In German, one example [of the little complexities that creep into all languages] is a passel of little words that convey nuances of personal attitude. Using them is indispensable to sounding like an actual human being in the language - and mastering them is only possible via a year or more's exposure to the spoken language. Do you have your socks? is, in a vanilla sense, Hast du deine Socken? But you can also stick in the word auch - Hast du auch deine Socken? - in which case the sentence conveys "You have your socks, don't you?" In this usage, auch conveys a subtle, personal note of warning, impatience, correction..."

I am in no position to vouch for McWhorter's claim here, but his translation of the second version shows that this sort of nuance is present in idiomatic English.

I have just realized that this post is a sort of preemptive response to any suggestion that the outcome reported in the article is explicable only as an example of the strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
Are you similarly opposed to hiring employees?

What's the difference?
Colliding top quarks reveal hidden quantum magic
The arrangement is that UKs GCHQ spies on US citizens and shares the info with CIA/NSA .
> […] and odds are […]

When it comes to the adoption of a new ISA, there are no odds even the sources exist, it is the scale and QA that are or are not.

The arrival of the first wave of Apple Silicon in 2020 led to a very hectic year in 2021 and beyond of people rushing in to fix numerous issues mostly (but not only) in Linux for aarch64, ranging from bugs to unoptimised code. OpenJDK that had existed for aarch64 for some time was so unstable that it could not be seriously used natively on aarch64, and it took nearly a year to stabilise it. Hand-optimising OpenSSL, Docker, Linux/aarch64 and many, many other packages also took time.

It only became possible because of the mass availability of the hardware (performant consumer-level arm64 CPU's) that has led to a mass adoption of the hardware architecture at the software level. aarch64 has now become the first-class citizen, and Linux as well as other big players have vastly benefited from it (e.g. cloud providers) as a whole. It is far being certain that if not the Apple Silicon catalyst we would have seen Graviton 4 in 2024 (the 4th gen in just 5 years), large multi-core Ampere CPU's in 2023/24 and even a performant Qualcomm laptop CPU this year.

Mass hardware availability to lay people that leads to mass adoption by lay people is critical to the success of a new hardware platform, as all of a sudden a very large pool of free QA becomes available that spurs further interest in improving the software support. Compare it, for instance, with the POWER platform that is open and the hardware has been available for quite a while; however, there has been no scale. The end result is that JIT still yields poor performance in Firefox/ppc64. Embedded people and hardware enthusiasts are not the critical mass that is required to trigger a chain reaction that leads to platform success, it is the lay people incessantly whining about something not working and reporting bugs.

Then there is also a reason why OpenBSD still holds on to a zoo of ancient, no longer available platforms (including a Motorola 88k) – they routinely compile the newly written code – however many moons it takes them to do it – and run it on the exotic hardware today with the single narrow purpose of trapping bugs, subtle and less subtle ones, caused by architectural differences across the platforms. Such an approach stands in stark contrast to the mass availability one; it does not scale as much, but it is a viable approach, too. And this is why the OpenBSD source code has a much better chance of running flawlessly on a new ISA.

Hence, hardware platform adoption is not a simple affair as some enthusiastically try to portray it to be.
https://notmuchmail.org/ is an excellent way to search through gigabytes of email extremely quickly. It’s faster than Gmail, Outlook or any other webmail provider.
The dialog in the game is incredibly plain. There's almost no emotion to any of the spoken dialog. The art is very off putting and lacks any cohesion. The "talk back" mechanic never seemed to actually pay attention to what I said.

I think you could have spent the same time sitting down with a writer and an artist and actually made something much more interesting.
I'm not saying there aren't a lot of people who are natural conformists, who do whatever they're told to, and hate or love whatever the prevailing culture hates or loves. They may be a majority. And yes, a prevailing culture can take even the revulsion of murder out of people to some extent (although check out the state sanctioned degree of alcohol and drug use among SS officers and you'll see it's not quite so easy to make people do acts of murder and torture every day).

What I am saying is that the conformists don't drive the culture, they're just a blunt weapon of whoever is driving the culture. That weapon can be turned toward gay rights or toward burning people at the stake, but what changes a culture are the individuals with either a conscience or the individuals with wicked plans. Both of which exist outside the mainstream in any time and place.

Maybe another way of saying this is that I think most people are capable of murder and most people are capable of empathy (and therefore trauma) with someone being tortured, but primarily they're concerned with being a good guy. What throws the arc of history towards a higher morality is that maybe >0% of people naturally need to perceive themselves as "good" by defending life and the dignity and humanity of other people, to the extent that needing to be a good person overrides their cultural programming. And those are not the only people who change a culture, but 51% of the time they change it for the better instead of worse.

That's just my view on it.
i definitely can't do the math myself, but excellent retort. thank you for the nuance
> The China subsidiary went rogue

Expecting to get something out of the China market is unwise. I think there's plenty of evidence that this sort of stuff is de rigeur. Until recently you had to have a Chinese partner with 51% of the shares. What do you think is going to happen?
Bit Vectors and my first steps into assembly
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Technical stack:

- No login required - static page with hourly updates
- Rust backend for efficient data aggregation
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- Data sources: FRED economic data, Yahoo Finance, News API
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- File-based caching system (Redis integration planned)

The dashboard tracks multiple risk metrics like VIX, DXY, Treasury rates, manufacturing employment, and consumer sentiment, providing an AI-generated analysis of market conditions. Looking for beta testers and feedback on the platform's utility and performance.
No laws or regulations were broken. If your desire to punish things which anger you means you ignore laws, maybe the problem isn’t the company.
I would expect the opposite with a basic LRU cache before the fetch to OSM
I don't think you need integer encoding to process fixed lengths. They do it just fine at the word level for codons. You would need a specific mechanic processors for each different schema length pattern though.

I think bit flips have no effect on the appropriateness of either fixed length or null termed. But omissions and comissions are probably why anything fixed length doesn't work.
Sorry, but if I can't see what it's about without an account I don't want to know.
Except it wasn't improved in this case, if I'm reading the gist correctly. The author didn't like their fix enough to make a pull request.
>> might be impossible to create your own AAA game

Like Minecraft? Factorio? Modern tools allow for very small team to quickly generate very AAA games. Eye candy is still an issue, but AI is quickly creeping into that space. I would not be surprised if within the next decade we have the tools for a single person to generate what we would today call a AAA game.
Yeah, uh... you might do well to assume that they can. The Find My Friends API is really really simple, I have a script somewhere that can pull the locations of everyone who has shared their locations with me and record it.

(I'm also the one who wrote the original code that was refactored a couple times until it became this project... https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush/blob/async/examples/ope...)
That's very disingenuous. Nova replaces Coda "Buy Nova, own it forever [...] $99 + tax includes one full year of updates and new features" Not getting updates forever != subscription
well, in space (perfect vacuum) you only lose heat to radiation

but you can keep absorbing radiation indefinitely

so the equilibrium temperature will depend on the incoming radiation and ensuing outgoing radiation as dictated by the material makeup of the thingy
That's fair enough but it's an arbitrary place to draw the line. If you pay tax in the US then you build weapons. If you live in a country that doesn't either build weapons or pay someone else to build them for you, then you'll soon be getting told what do by some country that does, and building weapons is one of the things they'll probably tell you to do.
Lots of people who spend time working with livestock on a farm describe a certain acceptance and understanding of death that most modern people have lost.
> They and Mr. Heath, the chief executive, are all deeply involved with the Baha’i religious organization, which promotes unity, peace and gender equality.

Is that a normal way to refer to the Baha’i faith? (I know very little about it, but that phrasing comes off as weird).

And would it be okay to comment on ‘deep involvement’ for any other faith?
> all-expenses-paid expedition to Antarctica to see the Sun circle the sky for an entire day

I’m a flat earther too! I definitely think it’s super flat. Yes siree. Can I get a free trip to Antarctica?
No, attny generals chase things that raise their political stature. They’re political. Every single one of the 50 are dem or republican: 0 independent.

They’ll make noise about this because it riles a loud minority. If they really wanted it fixed then pass laws. They don’t, because they also like business.
Fair. But you didn’t have teams of MIT PhDs driving your engagement upward.
Thank you, this made it click for me.
I agree 100%, it's hard to keep this kind of thing up
No "Play now" button on Firefox for me, only "Sign up" and "Log in".

No corporate webpages, only anti-social media links to invite people.

No "FAQ", "About" etc links.

Not human friendly.
What is a nitro enclace?
Coda is torture to use. Heard great things about Notion. I doubt they are in the same UX ballpark
> or take the cases to court just to drop it so they can tell the ICC that they did make an attempt to prosecute, which is a loophole that disallows the ICC to take up those cases.

As an aside, it should be noted that this wouldn't be sufficient to trigger complimentary at the ICC if its obvious the investigation was not in good faith. The icc can ignore any domestic investigation it believes was not a serious attempt to investigate.

Like it'd be a pretty silly court if you could get out of everything by running your own sham investigation.
The target audience for this kind of article - Android engineers - do not need any more convincing on why Kotlin is superior to Java. This is a debate that has been settled in the Android community since a long time ago. I'd be willing to bet money on there only being a rounding error of Android engineers advocating the use of Java over Kotlin these days.
I loved going through our (small) programming & computers section in our school library in the early 2000s, and visiting the local library with a much larger one. I picked up PHP because of that :)
I would like to echo the user kfreds sibling comment. I don't have a FP background either and hence would very much like to hear your recommendations on books/videos/articles to understand FP and design the "FP way".
pdf signatures are certainly not worth nothing, in fact they are eIDAS compliant. It's just the government being the government so it's left hand doesn't trust the right one.

What eIDAS actually solves is not signatures, but strong identification. You log into the system and it knows your tax id or whatever primary identifier you have. It's promoted as a secure way to sign documents, but it's just technofetishism.

Non-repudiation isn't even a technical problem, as you can have verbal contracts too. Replying to an email is totally fine way to enter into a contract too, but something like invoices have to be signed or stamped (or both). If you request something from the government (in the Netherlands), ticking a checbox and pressing a button is totally legit and you don't have to dance around ECDSA for a single moment, because the left hand trust the right hand.

Now if somebody is conspiring with a tax officer to commit VAT refund fraud and then telling to the judge they didn't send any refund and never got any money -- it's not checkboxes and pdfs to blame really.
Interesting. I rescind my earlier comment and claim the opposite.
Yeah it'd be better if the name was understood as python 3 instead of just python to avoid mixing in semver
Even when you use the digital voting machines it spits out a paper ballot that you deposit into the ballot box so the country already agrees with you.

It's not security vs convenience it's security vs turnout. Our turnout is embarrassingly low, especially on non-presidential election years, we should be expending voting access to methods that have even less friction. If we can conduct banking via an app or website we can vote via an app or website too. We can start talking about reigning it in once we don't have a third of the country not voting.

You deal with the abusive spouse problem by letting an in-person vote override the mail-in ballot while everyone else gets an easy way to vote.
I once worked for an extreme narcissist. It was quite the show watching coworkers who didn't understand a simple rule when dealing with narcissist: Never ever show them reality or it's your head.

When a coworker discovered an accountant was stealing money he went straight to the boss with his findings. His reward? The boss accused him of making it up and fired him in front of everyone. The accountant was quietly replaced sometime later.
Honestly, none of those differences you listed seems especially compelling to me, except possibly for the ?. operator.

What would be compelling: Array types that don't hate generics, or generic collection types that don't hate primitive types. Does Kotlin improve on Java at all here? It's such a pain having to remember this bonus complexity when all I want is a consistent way to manage a bunch of things. (I suspect not, as I think the limitations are at the JVM level, but I don't know.)
That's just the nice story DocuSign have to tell to deal with other people having their interests. It's not an actual fact of life.