skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't judge an application process for being lengthy so much as if it's somehow inappropriate, buggy, or kafkaesque. The end-to-end quality of the online interface is an important cue for me. I was recently filling out my address in an online form where the address line was limited to 20 characters, which was just a little too short.
Its Microsoft! And they wrote a platform in Rust!
Mendeley encrypts user data to prevent export to Zotero
Even for people who but lots of it, what percentage of their monthly transaction count will it be?
Is it great or a pita? Honestly, as a French speaker who has looked into moving to Montreal before, that is an attractive description.
"He will not know the day of the hanging until the executioner knocks on his cell door at noon that day."

The wording of the problem is everything.
This is OK as long as they pay their fair share of taxes.
A 1980s Quantum Link to a Modern-Day Mutiny
Or exactly like modern capitalism!
From what I understand, it segments the image into text and a background image, does something like JBIG2 on the text (building a global dictionary of glyphs and placing them on the page), and does a lossy compression on the background image.

There aren't a lot of viewers out there for DjVu and the encoding side is patent encumbered, so I'm not interested in the format.

You can get pretty close with JBIG2+Jpeg2k in a PDF file, I believe archive.org does this, but I don't know of an open source encoder that does it and sometimes PDF viewers don't decode jbig2/jpg2k efficiently.
What was the Twitter thread/HN thread referenced about using "boring" approaches to solving problems?
That people would literally refer to the Nation's holiday/foundational day as 'moving day' - almost ubiquitously (i.e. on radio, TV etc.) - without reference to the actual holiday, is definitely antagonistic.

Imagine if you were in NYC, and reading CNN on July 3rd, and the only mention was: 'hey folks it's moving day tomorrow, here are some tips' - and that was literally the only mention of the July 4th holiday, i.e. no reference to Independence Day or anything else. And when someone piped up and mentioned - "Oh yeah, it's Independence Day" - and the crowd giggled ... (as happened on the radio yesterday with reference to Canada Day) ...

In Toronto, Canada activities are big, and way overrepresented by new immigrant Canadians, as multigenerational-Canadian folks generally do a more low-key thing at the cottage. Ottawa is different.
There is a Chrome/Firefox/Userscript extension that brings back the View Image button:

https://github.com/bijij/ViewImage
The main issue is the definition of surprise for perfectly rational entities. Your argument doesn't really add much as you can just fix that time of day when all executions occur, and you've just restated the paradox.
Yup. The effect of 15% of the city’s population being students works it’s way to all corners of the real estate market here. I currently live in an apartment building that contains 0% students and is pretty squarely out of reach of most students price-wise - nonetheless, property owners here are conditioned to turn everything over on 9/1 at all costs.
This one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16898827
I half took it was your meaning as well, and I guess it's good that we are recognizing this as a potential issue.

The other way of looking at it is that PG was definitely the front-man, you kinda got an idea of what he did.

If I had met Trevor or Robert (or if somebody had asked me who they were), I'd probably ask the same question.

In fact, if you asked me "who started YC?", I'd probably say "PG & Jessica".
Show HN: Layabout, a small event handling library for the Slack RTM API
This is true of many ‘non euclidean renderers’ but in this case it is actually using a hyperbolic plane as the playing field.

Higher dimensionality is largely irrelevant to whether the geometry is euclidean or not.
Thomas Bayes and the crisis in science
Watch Prof Hilfingers lectures on YouTube.. brilliant lecturer, was able to keep a room of about 500 students almost fully engaged..
Ask HN: Strict alternatives to SQLite?
I love using SQLite for small (and even large) amounts of data and giving me a fast and efficient SQL frontend to query it all. But I don’t love SQLite’s decision to forgo type safety, foreign key constraints and all that. Are there alternatives that give me the simplicity of SQLite with the data safety of traditional databases?
I still prefer Adobe Acrobat Reader despite everything, and absolutely hate PDF.js because it seems to take like few seconds to render a page when jumping around, whereas Adobe Acrobat Reader is pretty much interactive. Nevermind the fact that pdf.js has still problems rendering quite many documents I encounter, while Acrobat is basically the de-facto reference implementation for PDFs.

btw if you want quickly some random large scanned PDFs for testing, archive.org is a goldmine. For example here is a scanned 1200 electronics handbook: https://archive.org/details/NationalSemiconductorLinearAppli...

They also do DjVu, so you can see the size difference there. For that particular book, its 58M for the PDF vs 31M for DjVu. So basically half the size.
If your area has a Chinatown or large Chinese grocer, you can get your fondue meat by asking for "hotpot meat" there.
The Flatness of U.S. States [pdf]
US raw sugar prices are 40% higher than world market prices, due to a complex system of tariffs, subsidies, quotas, and price supports [1].

The leading importer of steel to the US is Canada, with a 20% share [2]. I'm not quite sure how "national defense" can be used to justify tariffs on Canadian steel. (You stated that the steel tariffs against Canada are merely positioning for the NAFTA negotiations, but the White House proclamation [3] only mentions national defense).

You write: "The US is in meaningful trade confict with only a few nations". I can't be bothered to do any research to see if your list is complete, but until recently, 3 of the 5 nations you listed were considered close allies, and the 4th was considered at least friendly. Declaring a trade war on one's allies is, perhaps, not the best way of ensuring one's allies' cooperation in conflicts with one's actual adversaries.

In other words, even a hyper-power should think twice about waging a multi-front war, against allies as well as enemies, on numerous issues simultaneously.

(Edit: If the US concern is that China might disrupt its Asian supply chains, it should probably focus on high-tech components such as RAM, SSDs, displays, etc, rather than on steel. I sometimes get the feeling that the current administration is basing its industrial strategy on the lessons of World War II, which would seem to be about 70 years out of date.)

[1] https://www.heritage.org/trade/report/us-trade-policy-gouges...

[2] https://www.trade.gov/steel/countries/pdfs/imports-us.pdf

[3] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential...
GDAL does has hillshading routines (gdaldem hillshade), but it does not have the raytracing, spherical UV shading, or ambient occlusion layers included in rayshader. It's hillshading routine is basically the rayshader's lamb_shade function--functional, but not going to win any beauty contests.

GRASS does have a raytracing option, but if you look up the images produced by it--they aren't pretty. Much more of a functional API to see where actual shadows are falling, and not at all something to produce nice looking maps.

The real killer feature in rayshader is the seamless API for combining all of these layers. Being able to adjust the intensity of each layer individual, add water, change color and texture programmatically--no other software focuses nearly as much on the aesthetics of a great looking map.

I haven't found anything other than actual 3D modeling software that can produce similar-style hillshades--combining texturing, raytracing, local shadows, and ambient occlusion. What's great (in my highly biased opinion!) about this package is the ability to go programmatically straight from the DEM to a hillshade, without having to save the data and load it into Blender or something similar.
Spoiler alert: Kansas is not the flattest state in the U.S. Actually, quite a few of these results at at least slightly surprising.
The Rise of Bullshit Jobs
The main issue is not the definition of surprise. The main issue is given to you plainly: the prisoner's reasoning is wrong.

I encourage you to give an example where the execution times are changed and I guarantee you it will suffer from the same assumptive traps as the original "paradox".
>Any marginally successful group attracts sociopaths

Not just sociopaths, all of the Cluster B personality disorders.
Ujala Watches
Pretty much accurate. I think it's noteworthy that HN consciously discourages mops, by remaining text-only, slowing down hot-button discussions, downvoting injokes and the like. As compared to (specifically) Reddit.

I'm very interested in hearing about other specific scenes which have survived, in the author's estimation.
confirmed, sept 1. did it twice. i am a legend at moving as a result.
This doesn't seem complicated. It is not logically possible to make a psychological statement, ie "you cannot surprise me".
I like to think I'm not too nitpicky about fonts, but that st ligature is incredibly distracting.

It's the second article I've seen here that uses it over the last few days, but I'm not sure if it's the same site or not.
On a less sour and prejudiced note, I really liked my Mormon coworkers at a previous job. We shared a lot of values (although I am not particularly conservative) I enjoyed not being subtly pressured to drink.

If they moved in it wouldn’t bother me particularly.
> As long as no one is getting hurt,

You seem to have missed this line

> San Jose resident Doug Smith said he fell and hurt his shoulder after being hit by a scooter speeding outside Martin Luther King Jr. Library in March.
Whenever I find a flagged article it's from the hacker news feed on facebook, so you could crawl that and check the urls over time.

That would be more like "popular articles that get flagged" but that's probably what you wanted anyway.
The pollution depends a lot on where you live. Inner cities all have very dirty air, but I'm in the southern outskirts of Shanghai and the air quality is usually fine, except for a few really bad days in winter.

FWIW, I can usually get a VPN connection to work, but it sometimes gets throttled pretty heavily. Watching YouTube can get unpleasant.

About the thieves: I never had anything stolen in China, but I also never had anything stolen in Germany, so it's not the kind of thing I'd ever mention as exceptional. Where do people live that thieves are such a problem?
Thanks for the feedback. Do you have any font preference?
>1. Allow no-chargeback services that must be text-message verified.

Doubt this is possible, considering the payment processor and the customer's bank are separate entities. Although 2 factor authentication for credit cards kinda exists in the form of 3d-secure, but even that's really flakey in terms of adoption (merchant, payment processor, banks).

> 2. Accept adult-content payments, but don't release the money until after a chargeback window (e.g. 60 days), thus isolating the credit card from any risk.

chargebacks can be initiated up to 120 days from time of purchase, so that's quite a long waiting time. plus it does nothing to prevent people using stolen credit cards to get stolen content. why pay $50/month to access "patron only" content when you can buy a stolen credit card for $1 and use that instead?

>3. Pass-on the chargeback rate (I imagine it can't be higher than 20%) to those wishing to do business as a cost-of-business fee.

this ignores the fixed chargeback fee ($25?) that merchants get hit with when a chargeback occurs. what will you do when a carder sends all his stolen credit card your way?

finally, doing any of the above costs support reps, engineering time, etc., which only caters to a small % of potential merchants. so you end up with the situation we have today. "mainstream" processors who handle the 99% of non-risky merchants, and a few select payment processors that target the risky 1% niche.
As someone who has (mostly) struggled through, I'd (mostly) agree. I find that when I am running into errors it is almost always because (a). I am moving too quickly and have misplaced something simple like my parens (which parinfer would probably solve) or (b). am not leaning enough on the REPL and am spending too much time before re-evaluating code.

I find that the more I live in the REPL, the less frequent these errors are.
Show HN: Glo – a kanban board with built in GitHub issues integration
It’s time you become a builder
You can, there are many free scooters and Ebikes on the streets of San Jose.
Right, so if we suppose that the "punch-line" statement, describing the prisoner's state of mind, is true:

> the executioner knocks on the prisoner's door at noon on Wednesday — which, despite all the above, was an utter surprise to him.

Then it follows there are two false epistemological claims in the text. First by the judge:

>He will not know the day of the hanging until the executioner knocks on his cell door at noon that day.

This is false, as you correctly reason, since a knock on Friday would come as no surprise (at the time it occurred).

The second false claim, this time by the narrator, reinforces the first:

>Everything the judge said came true.

Not every claim the judge asserted was tested by the recounted physical events: There was no knock on Friday.
Maybe I'm niave, but are there really people who want to hop on the AI bandwagon just to do mundane lookups like this?

When I worked with machine learning many years ago, we learned that it was no better than the heuristics already in place. The thing is, it's much easier to diagnose a well written and understood heuristic than a machine learning model.
Things are are left on the street should be re-cycled into other things
Why? Because governments like to achieve social outcomes by mandating cross-subsidies from profitable customers to non-profitable customers instead of explicitly funding the outcomes themselves.

However, like the proverbial hole in the bucket, this then requires additional pieces of legislation added over time to keep it working. In this case, to stop newer entrants from cherry picking the profitable customers.

The biggest advantage of direct explicit funding (which can be provided through competitive tendering) is that it allows competition to work better. The other advantage is that the cost of achieving the desired social outcome is explicit as a budget line item, rather than hidden as indirect costs, allowing for a more informed debate about what social outcomes the community wants.
That's really cool! Then, to clarify what I was hinting at above - my guess as to (1) why there's some quirky html/css usage and (2) why so little has changed over the years:

#1 is probably due to Arc.

#2 is probably due to Arc doing such a good job, still.

(please correct me if I'm wrong, @dang)
command! Q q

will make :Q behave like :q
>The only people that should be using the word sociopath to describe the behavior of others are people in the field of mental health care. Why diagnose people? Call them out on behavior that pisses you off, deal with it in an assertive manner. Calling a sociopath a sociopath in a non clinical context would only give them more power.

This is a good rule of thumb, calling out a high-functioning Cluster B will almost always just make you look crazy unless you have completely damning evidence. Even then you're probably running afoul of laws or policies, coupled with the general stigma of discussing mental health in any way.

The real issue is dealing with the barrage of lies and manipulation that they'll use to defend themselves. There's that saying that disproving bullshit requires an order of magnitude more effort than the bullshit itself. You will never win against one of them unless you go down to their level, and most people aren't capable of doing that. It takes a wolf to catch a wolf.

I think that more and more people are becoming aware of Cluster B personality disorders, and how high-functioning narcissists, sociopaths, and borderlines act in a professional setting. In many cases, this involves the realization that one's self and/or one's loved ones display significant traits, perhaps even enough for a diagnosis.

If you recognize it in others and you don't have the power or means to stop them, the best thing to do is to just leave if you think they're going to ruin things or individually place you at risk.
You can certainly throw something into actual 3D rendering software and get something similar--if you know how to use it! That's the point. This is a way to go straight from DEM to beautiful map, without having to teach yourself Blender or open any external program. You can go straight from matrix to map in just a few lines of code--and adjusting each layer to match the aesthetic you're after is easy.

Everything here is produced and adjustable programmatically: need to change the highlight color in the texture? Just use the create_texture function with the colors. Want to tone down raytraced shadows? Decrease the max_darken value in add_shadow. Rotate the sun direction or the color of the water? It's all straightforward. This library is designed to be as seamless and flexible as possible, so you never have to leave R to produce a nice looking map.
I've been using it for years. For scanned materials it's simply better: files are smaller, rendering is snappy, and if you're into old books its background/foreground model really pays off.

Quite strange this scepticism here about good old djvu. Better fetch a book from the Internet Archive in both formats and check for yourselves why it's a thing.
Getting enough people in a group to read the late Pieter Hintjens' 'Psychopath Code'[0] helps cerate awareness and builds heard immunity.

[0]https://legacy.gitbook.com/book/hintjens/psychopathcode/deta...
I find it pretty disturbing that you equate chicken lives and human lives.

Are you trying you imply chicken lives are as valuable as human lives? You are failing at doing so, if that is the case. What you are actually doing is saying human lives are as valuable as chicken lives, i.e., not very valuable.

And that's quite disturbing. The value of human life is the cornerstone of human civilization, take that away, as you are trying to do, and you have only devastation left.
Nice post,

Here's a different way to think about the situation with current AI/deep-learning; if the current upsurge of methodologies was getting close to general AI, it would be getting closer and closer to a hammer that really did let you treat everything as a nail. IE, it would be general purpose.

But I think I can say we're not seeing that even though deep learning seems to be continually expanding the domains that it can operate on. How is that? This Open AI is very eye-opening; "We’re releasing an analysis showing that since 2012, the amount of compute used in the largest AI training runs has been increasing exponentially with a 3.5 month-doubling time (by comparison, Moore’s Law had an 18-month doubling period)."
Essentially, as a rather brute-force-y method, we have shown we can expand deep learning's impact to a larger and large domain but not at all in the fashion of human learning tricks (where the new isn't that much harder than the old trick).

Maybe, in this process, a better algorithm that adjusts to new situations without increased costs will surface. But until then it seems new and old methods will need to coexist.

https://blog.openai.com/ai-and-compute/?
Was hard to put my finger on it but now that you mention it it's definitely something with the letter/line spacing or the font itself.
But you don't gain ML/AI know-how by doing SQL, nor you discover previously unknown potential about your product buy sticking to your usual toolset.

Not that I necessarily disagree with the OP but I find it deeply uninspirational.

What's the difference between using ML/AI for problems traditionally solved by some other tool and using any other tool to solve the same problem unconventionally? Both can be "hacking". I guess my issue with this is the word "need", don't do what you need to do but what you want to do if you are looking for inspiration. After all, mankind never needed to leave the garden of Eden but left it anyway.
sql is great but i am still waiting for the succesor to sql. sql was made for relational data. but a relational data with nested data structure kind of like postgres and jsonb built in mind from the ground up is what id really like to see.
He will not know the day of the hanging until the executioner knocks on his cell door at noon

Did you miss that line?

Embarrassing indeed...
On-chain governance? It would be pretty entertaining to see if they actually stick to that, and if whoever wins the high-stakes game of Nomic they've created gets to win it for keeps, unlike The DAO.

Of course precedent says they'll just hard fork it the moment the "governance" does something the central developers don't want.
Less than encoding millions of hours of video per day? Libchromium is quite fast and Google has lots of resources for this.

They had rendered screenshots of every result with the matching section highlighted... almost 5 years ago.
And I felt the same about your comment, but I still tried my best to explain where I think you're delusional.
This article might just explain why HN is not Reddit (yet?).
The Fentanyl Crisis Is a Reverse Opium War
And only one of the components at that, the rest of the code is in C#.
Update: Oops! confused it with Azure Sphere: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-sphere/

IoT Edge came out of a program in MS research where they determined that for an IoT device to be truly secure, it has to have a bunch of attributes, including layers of security from hardware to OS, automatic and cryptographically signed updates, etc.

And then they set out to build it (and it runs a stripped down Linux kernel). I think it’s awesome but have no idea how much it’s supposed to cost. The dev board is $85.

This looks to be some of the low level code for it.

I find it very exciting from what I’ve read.
I guess it is the same for when cars damage non-city property, and that happens 1000s of times every day. I bet you are ok with that?
Government transportation does have a monopoly but not necessarily private companies. If private companies set up new transportation lines, it doesn't prevent government from adding more.

Furthermore, if you regulate everything before it has time to flourish, you deny society all the benefits of any tech that would have developed.

Also, it's short sited to shut down bus routes that don't go directly to your house. Just because it doesn't go to your specific neighborhood (yet) doesn't mean you can't benefit. Increasing bus service, decreases pollution for everyone (c02) and may even reduce the amount of traffic on your commute.
I do a lot of teaching in my spare time on topics that use the command line.

I'd highly recommend you use: http://asciinema.org .

Asciinema is like YouTube for the terminal. It lets you record the terminal and embed it in a web page (such as your prepared HTML notes).

Once of the nice things is that the students can copy and paste the text from the embed. The students can then copy and paste the output.
Incorrect Theories of Lift
Yes, but realistically, Ethereum (like every other cryptocurrency) needs a lot more work before it's ready for mainstream usage.

It needs, at a minimum, easy-to-use privacy preserving transactions. Without that, it's a personal-information-leaking nightmare.
Also, more of the same: "Choose Boring Technology (2015)": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291215
A Greek professor told me that when he started his PhD (in the US) his Greek advisor told him as a Greek in America his two options were to become a control theorist or open a diner.
To be fair, this article says otherwise:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2017/12/04/ye...