skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My startup just got its SOC2 Type 2 compliance, and it felt like the process was a lot harder than it should have been. I took the opportunity to write up everything I wish someone had told me about getting SOC2 Type 2 as a small startup, from timeline to costs to pitfalls, so that other folks wouldn't fall into the same traps I had. Hope it's helpful!
Probably quite a few people like me who use both Chrome and Firefox.
This is assuming that companies are initially led and managed by people who actually care about it and the service/product produced, and that the bean counters and corporate climbers only show up later, when it becomes clear that the business is ripe for exploitation.
const CHARACTER_DURATION = 0.07; // seconds - balanced for accuracy while still fast (up from 0.055s)
const CHARACTER_GAP = 0.03; // seconds - balanced for accuracy while still fast (up from 0.025s)

10 symbols per second
It's not at all clear why he produced such high quality antibodies, but one theory was the sheer quantity of transfusions he had to receive after a lung operation (something on the order of 7.4L of blood). They have no idea why he continued to produce them after, however.
One of the benefits of blood donation is your blood is screened for a bunch of stuff.

I do wish they'd expand the testing a bit. I think a lot of people would donate if it came with a metabolic panel, for example.
It's not a good idea if you can't afford it or it is distracting you from your real problems, but a nice car can be very fulfilling and makes the miles you are forced to drive or drive voluntarily many times more enjoyable.

Getting into nicer cars and real sports cars was one of the best calls I ever made.

Engineers punish themselves with pretty terrible cars when they could easily afford something that is better in many dimensions.
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Email: mads.ohm@gmail.com

Hello, I'm Mads. I have more than a decade experience with Ruby on Rails doing both frontend and backend.
I did find that workaround and then I just scrapped that Mac (because it was a Mac Mini that lost OS support) and went back to using gtkpod on Linux.
honing is part of rebuild
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Hi, I'm Jeremiah. I'm a full stack developer seeking opportunities.

I recently wrapped up three years at Pivot Interactives, an edtech startup (later acquired) where I built Vue.js/TypeScript solutions for science education. My work spanned LTI integrations with learning platforms, custom WYSIWYG editors, auto-grading algorithms, and testing infrastructure serving thousands of concurrent users.

Previously, I engineered QC systems at a global technology company that measured stress properties in billions of consumer devices, and developed interfaces for laboratory equipment including DAQs, motor controllers, and industrial automation systems.

If you have any questions feel free to reach out!
> The only reason drug cartels exist is because of the insatiable US demand for drugs.

Yes and no.

Drugs are the market that cartels currently serve, but they also thrive because of weak local governments. Keep in mind the mafia has existed for literally centuries in some places before drugs and alcohol - on nothing more than violence and protection rackets.

We've seen the newer cartels willing to diversify into other criminal activities like taking hostages or even avocado rackets. Legalization may shrink the resources of the cartels, but you would probably see an increase in other unsavory activities that would still create refugees and trade problems for us.
Show HN: Type safe eval implemented as algebraic effect [video]
At some moment I had a version with cached bitmaps that simply flew fast and smooth. But, since HTML has some serious issues with rendering to bitmap from js, I had to pick the slower version with native real time HTML rendering.
One new fab - even if full size - cannot take on anywhere near world needs - even ex-China. So different threat, but yes.
Hopefully it gets housing/real estate as well because I'd really like to buy a house in the next ten years.
Preprocessors have solved things fairly well for a while now

https://pdx.su/blog/2023-07-26-tailwind-and-the-death-of-cra...

This article is coming up on two years old, and still holds true. You can just now do a lot of the things that required external tooling in plain css
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If you are interested, shoot me an email at careers@brightgo.com with your resume. Just mention Hacker News; we've hired great people from HN before and would love to speak!
Pilot Precise V2 got me through grad school and when I started journaling recently, a set of those was the first thing I went and picked up. Great pens.
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I'm a data scientist, I'm looking for hard problems to solve. Hair on fire "This is causing lemon-law recalls and we can't solve it."[1] type problems.

I love avant garde problems, and have a pretty unique toolset (LLMs+KB, OR+ML, etc). I've worked with names you know in automotive, tech, and other spaces.

I've worked on projects including current en vogue large language models, knowledge extraction, automotive part failure prediction, translation, maintenance optimization, automated sports highlights, and more. I've also done some more interesting work including vehicle route planning in constrained environments.

Get in touch. Even if you're unsure, get in touch. Referals welcome. Email in profile.

[1] Yup. Done that. A few times.
Are you on Apple Silicon? Those are some of the weird parts of the OS that need to offer both an Intel and Apple version since apps can call it.
I (sort of) disagree. Cassandra- & DynamoDB-based systems which are also partitioned do fine without a central OLTP DB.

Wrote a bit about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43246212
> You seem to believe that your employer should compensate you not just for the time you are working for them, but also the time you are not.

They have to compensate you for the relative difference in value between working for them and working for someone else.

If another company allows WFH and you don't, and that costs the employee $30,000/year to not have, what do you expect them to do when the employer offering WFH offers the same salary? Or even $10,000 less? And what will you have to do in response?
Ask HN: Is X.com's (Twitter) Tor Broken?
The preferred TOR location for X.com (twitter) has a broken cert (expired 2023) and returns 503 for all requests. Anyone know who to reach to get this fixed?

From https://x.com/ :

<meta http-equiv="onion-location"
content="https://twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion/" />
Weirdly, this Wayback link is now also a 404. I didn't realize content can retroactively get removed from the archive like that – doesn't that sort of defeat one of its main purposes?
But there's nowhere to put your coffee mug
I miss when Hangouts had all the functionality in one app. Google's stupid bonus incentives just killed it all.
That's just an affordability question. A nice person from the dealer picks up the car from your house and then drops it back off when they are done. You just pay the bill.

Granted I DIY it all just for entertainment.
First, I would not trust the current USAID disbursement personnel not to piss the money into the wind. I want them gone.
And it's not a question of being offended personally - these are just ridiculous expenses that cannot possibly be justified. But I am indeed offended that the amount 4x of my real estate taxes that I can barely scrape off the bottom of a barrel is being wasted on some opera abroad. If you are wondering why people vote for Trump, this is one of those reasons.
Regarding legality of funding being stopped by the President, I am not a lawyer (and I am guessing neither are you), so I am not going to take your legal opinion on this and will wait for the courts to issue the final ruling.
12 years ago, I worked on this prototype - https://github.com/tanepiper/adOn-soundlib

The original plan was to develop essential "audio QR codes" that would allow short codes to be transmitted that could be parsed by certain apps and used to drive different interactions.
The current academic system certainly has a lot of flaws, but Sabine also has an axe to grind, so one should take what she says with a few grains of salt.
There are!

Audio models are actually quite similar to image models, but there are a few key differences. First, is the autoencoder needs to be designed much more carefully as human hearing is insanely good and music requires orders of magnitude more spatial compression (image AEs do 8X8 downsampling, audio AEs need to do thousands of times downsampling). Second the model itself needs to be really good at placing lyrics/beats (similar to placing text in image diffusion): a sixth finger in an image model is fine, but a missed beat can ruin a song. That's why language model approaches (which have a stronger sequential inductive bias than diffusion models which is good for rhythm and lyric placement) have been really popular in audio.

If you're interested in papers (IMO not good for new people as they make everything seem more complicated than it is):

Stable Audio (similar to our architecture): https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04825 (code: https://github.com/Stability-AI/stable-audio-tools)

MusicGen (Suno-style architecture): https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05284 (code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/audiocraft/tree/main)
Because business must always be boring and straightlaced to be taken seriously. I, for one, like a bit of frivolity in business.
Business bankruptcies almost inevitably wipe out the shareholders in favor of the creditors. That wouldn’t do any good for the “oligarch” owners.
Show HN: I built Vapi.ai whitelabel dashboard for agencies
I found that many agency owners struggle to create and deliver high-quality dashboards for their clients, which give them insights and reports about their assistance. They also want to playback calls, so I made Krynd, where you, as an agency owner, can deliver dashboards for your Vapi assistants and share them with your clients under your custom domain.
Easy to detect if you want to "move" between countries. You wouldn't want to try to get that through an airport.

Bitcoin is just some words on paper (or in your head).
> Do you mean your own personal energy usage? Or your family? City? Country? The world?

All of the above.

> This is electricity use in the US from 1975 to 2023. Between 2010 to 2023 it has not changed a lot.

Due to the cost of energy ballooning, largely due to taxation. However, the pent up demand is higher than ever.
A big difference with Taiwan vs Ukraine is that the US lets Taiwan purchase much more top of the line equipment.
Why? Internally to the face the nasal cavity is massive and largely not restricted, especially compared to the throat (pharynx) which is restricted and can accept only small volumes of air at a time. Because of that the body must work substantially harder to permit large air volumes through mouth breathing.

Just search google images for "pharynx". The visual difference in size is striking.
Quantum computing represents a revolutionary leap in computational capabilities by leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics to tackle problems that remain insurmountable for classical computers. With the promise of exponential speedups and innovative problem-solving strategies, quantum technology is poised to transform industries ranging from cryptography and logistics to materials science and artificial intelligence. This article offers an in-depth exploration of the current trends in quantum computing, examines the technical and societal challenges faced by researchers and industry leaders, and envisions potential breakthroughs that could redefine our approach to computation. We interweave technical analysis with real-world examples and industry case studies, creating a narrative that is both technically rigorous and engaging for a broad audience. The discussion is grounded in seminal research and is supported by an extensive list of references.
i see thanks for explaining. i wish they were a bit more clear about that upfront. i had assumed the workers received some of the dividends as well, given their personal investment in the firm.
If the IPCC global climate change projections are accurate then poor UK residents will probably experience smaller effects than poor people in many other countries. So they may see it as less of a concern than short-term energy costs.

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar4/wg1/global-climate-projection...
I'm not convinced that the cash is really serving their "educational mission."
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Or see the Loebner Prize where judges aren't just average people but experts (so harder).

The Turing Test was never about intelligence or thinking, even said so by Turing himself. He made the test because those words are too vague. He specifically wanted to shift the conversation to task completion, since that is actually testable. Great! That's how science works! (Looking at you String Theory...) But science also progresses. We know more about what these things intelligence and thinking are. These still are not testable in a concrete sense, but we have better proxies than the Turing Test now.

The problem is that knowledge percolates through society slowly and with a lag. We've advanced a lot since then. I'm sure you are likely willing to believe that most LLMs these days can pass it. The Turing Test was a great start. You gotta start somewhere. But to think we came up with good tests at the same time we invented electronic computers, should give you surprise. Because it would require us to have been much smarter then than we are now.
Currently everything points in the direction that capitulation would be the outcome of China invading Taiwan, with political pressure to eject any democratically elected leader in Taiwan for the sake of "negotiations".

It was what this administration did in Afghanistan, it's doing in Ukraine, and nothing tells us it will be different with Taiwan.
New Beta RabbitMQ IA auto-tuning tool
Well I’m glad that TFA really explains the connection between Jinroku Masaki and the Mitsubishi family crest because otherwise I’d still be confused. (Or maybe it’s a westerner thing expecting the name of the founder to match the crests family in name)
I don't think that is the case, and I didn't care that the parent poster did so. The guidelines are succinct, you can confirm this https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think the harm from doing that, however, is you can make a mistaken conclusion on limited information and personalize something. Doing so can make you run afoul of Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. or Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

So in good faith reply, nullc, I think I am reacting appropriately to the situation and even though you could describe these in ways that seem similar in common language, they scenarios are very different.
I love how, idk, 5000 years into civilization we, as a species, still can't consistently find ways to keep psychopaths from screwing the rest of us without them getting enough resources to last the majority of people in a given society a lifetime.
How much greater is the capacity over open air vs POTS lines that maxed out at 56K?
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A relatively cheap performance version of Model 3 or Model Y can let you experience the best 99% of sports cars could offer for just $40k to $55k.

Even the non performance version of Model 3 and Model Y probably offer more “sports car” performance than most more expensive sports cars.
That 100 companies canard is really terrible. It's seeking a villain to blame instead of addressing the system problems and it's second or third order effects such as climate change. I understand it probably motivates some folks but I can't help but roll my eyes.
(caveat, this is approaching 20 years ago and memory gets fuzzy)

The interview reflected the resume in many ways. He had experience that aligned to the role. Most questions received extremely long answers that didn't necessarily give me more information than a much shorter one would have...and I say this as someone who prefers to ask open-ended questions that get the candidate talking. It was just endless fluff and exposition that didn't really go anywhere or add anything.

He was nominally qualified, but I could not imagine working with him given how he communicated in his resume and interview. I also didn't want to inflict his communication style on clients, as he would have had to interact with clients directly in the role.
Well, it's sad to read an article where the author agrees with me 8-/

It's only going to get worse.

The biggest reason it can't be stopped is because 1/2 of the bottom 90% of the population is screaming to get rid of social security, because... it's socialism!

Never mind that they have $0 saved for retirement. When you combine a sociopathic wealth class, and a multi-decade education deprived working class, it's a win-win for ever increasing wealth inequality.

For many in the top 10%, this is considered a good thing...
Good unit AI for RTS allow for amazing results, and there is so much more control/automation that most RTS games could allow for.
What can I say... if you are correct about this (there are a lot of claims from both sides but no proofs), I hope DOGE gets its hands on the State Department, too. We have enough worthy causes to take care of inside the US.
It did not work because they did not try it. They suspended enforcement before the thing was going to take effect.
This isn't a MAGA thing. This rot started with Nixon
Bruh, buy a sports car if you want. They're relatively cheap compared to the other mid-life crisis cliché: an affair/divorce.
Also it’s good for society to have a supply of organs for people who need transplants, and since so many people are unwilling to give up a kidney while living that takes a steady stream of abrupt deaths.
NLnet Foundation: We fund projects that help fix the internet
Just today I was thinking how the best hardware gets crippled by software that has become as shitty as Microsoft's.

Apple software has always been crap. People put up with it because the hardware was nice and shiny and distracted from the many bugs and severe UI issues.
> I'm not aware of any language that provides this out-of-the-box, unfortunately

The currently most prominent example would be Rust. Rc<T> is a simple generic container that implements reference counting, and any instance of it can be downgraded to a Weak<T>. Or Arc<T> and std::sync::Weak<T> if it needs to be thread safe.
Ask HN: Are we planning to coexist with aliens or do we colonize them?
Last week's Firefly moon landing showed a new milestone in humanity's progress in exploring our surroundings.

However, what if we encounter intelligent life, similar to humans, on another planet? Do we plan to coexist with them, colonize them, or worse, wipe them out? What is our strategy if we meet them?
If you and I had the same exact input and outputs then why would we have different experiences? Seems very unlikely to me.

A better way of thinking about qualia is like embeddings in a neural network. Every time you run the training from a random initialization you will get different resulting embedding, but given the same training data all embeddings will all essentially be equivalent under rotation.
I.e., your internal representation of blue might be very different from mine in an absolute sense but our relation between the representation of different colors will be roughly the same.
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It's a necessary evil, isn't it? You're not programming your application in pure HTML or SQL, you write it in some general language that can do much more. But the browser and database don't speak that language natively. They want strings which they then turn into something useful. So you need to build these big strings and unless your application is completely static, you'll need string interpolation one way or another.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation

Working to dramatically alter the courts and protect criminal presidents from consequences since 1973. Notice what very-recent document they're behind, having "2025" in the title. Take a look over the "positions" section, too.

I don't want to overstate the situation, but this organization is pretty close to being the most-apt answer to "why can't we have nice things?"
A crypto mogul who bought Trump coins is getting a reprieve on fraud charges
> On which moral grounds would you object to a Star-Trek level replicator for physical good? Then why object to that for virtual goods?

This just made me realize a distressing thing - if we ever built a replicator, a lot of people might then want to destroy it. For the same reason I believe they object to LLMs - greed and entitlement. Because they don't get to benefit personally, they don't get first right to refuse, the instinct is to deny the value to others. The Dog in the Manger.
... I'm sorry but I think you're missing the forest for the trees. You might prefer a smaller trackpad, but then why? Just increase the sensitivity to reduce your finger movements.

Anyway, Apple's trackpad is good because it perfectly captures intent, whatever the situation and the number of fingers. It's flawless. You got half your palm on the side of the trackpad while writing? Nope, not picked up. You quickly flick with half your palm on there? Boom, got it. Five finger gesture? No prob fam.