skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If such temperatures were dangerous overheating, they would need to be evacuated every August.

Oh, so everybody stays out in the hot sun all day? Nobody stays in the shade? Nobody goes indoors? Nobody has houses designed to stay reasonably cool when it's hot out? (There are plenty of ways to do that without A/C.)

If people don't change how long they stay out--just go out for short periods to do something, then go somewhere where they can cool off--I have no objection to them using a device to help them feel more comfortable. But uncoupling your natural perception of your body's condition from the actual state of your body is always risky.
Not sure how it autocorrected to trending, but I meant to say "learn and figure it out" :-/

And yes the product fit is automated videos for my own listings and promotion of others in the industry (attracts buyers).
While METAFONT, and to a lesser extent, TeX, were to become frequently featured characters in Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas days, GEB was pre-TeX. It was created using Pentti Kanerva's TV-Edit at Stanford (with the data on punched paper tape). The preface to the 20th anniversary edition of GEB tells the tale.
That seems to be a legacy thing: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
PDF too supports external font files, a multitude of font formats, and special ink layers (these are called “separations”).

PDF also supports PostScript fonts, which are already compiled for your printer.
Many old Nintendo systems are now well documented and you can potentially make a fully non-proprietary hardware clone and software tools.
Could you please not start shitty subthreads by posting flamebait to this site?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I use Focus Keeper on Iphone for this
OKR at an individual level work fine, but they need to be positioned as an individual OKR.

For example, reduce bug count report by 10%. Or, increase LOC by 10% without reducing quality (defined as bugs, DRY, PR comments), increase documentation written by 10%, increase Slack karma by 10%, etc

Obviously other metrics other than the OKR need to be maintained.

PRoduct owner is responsible for OKRs that scope across stories implemented, not ICs. Or at least not junior ICs. Architect level IC for example should be able to complete more broad scope.
A lot of discussion on technical side, but not from organisational.

How could audit, both internal and external, not find this? 2003 to today is 16 years. Audit is a last line of defence and certainly not to be relied on upon as a buddy to catch your errors. But... how? This is a major financial institution in the most developed country in the world (the clue's in the name). It should subscribe to the the highest integrity and tightest scrutiny. This seems an opportunity for both internal and external auditors to tighten their game.

Outside of audit, surely an employee might have noticed? Was there no formal method to speak up without fear of recrimination? According to Wikipedia [1] there are eighteen thousand employees. Someone never noticed?

This seems an organsiational failing, not a technical one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_American_Corporation
Yeah, if I paid a carpenter to build me a chair, then decided I wanted a stool, then ended up with a footrest, I would be really happy with him if he delivered all those things so I could try them and make up my mind. It could've been that the agents saw it and said "It's great but send me an email when they click the link", and then the development would have gone in that direction.
How is this compared to opencv/simplecv?
Overleaf got me through every math/CS course in my undergrad. Thank you for your amazing work.
Works ok with some countries certainly. But others live in their own little world, Iran has faced long running sanctions and still has survived quite well due to their resources.

I truly wish the world would do something but the realist in me reckons that even the most pious compassionate people on Earth aren't sacrificing their life quality for people in the otherside of Earth. Most wouldn't be willing to pay $100 more for an iphone given the choice.

It's very easy to write dismissive comments like mine on the internet but it truly is a very difficult problem to even slightly fix these injustices. Most people care right up until the point it negatively affects them.
Ask HN: How might you find a co-founder who can code and will work hard?
I'd like to spend a couple months going all in on an idea. It'll need an app and I'm a developer so that's something I can make but I think having a second person would really help things along.

I don't know anyone who would be willing to help. I know getting the wrong co-founder can be worse than going it alone. I need someone who is as focused as I am and will work with my idea instead of offering peripheral ideas that will slow things down.

Any hope for me or should I go it alone?
This is a good article! A couple of corrections to the early history in the introductory paragraphs:

• It is indeed true that the first edition of Volumes 1–3 of The Art of Computer Programming and the second edition of Volume 1 (1968, 1969, 1973, 1973) had been done with hot-metal typesetting (pieces of lead, laid out to form the page) with a human doing the typesetting/compositing (with a Monotype machine). And that for the second edition of Volume 2 in 1977, the publisher Addison-Wesley was switching to a cheaper alternative. But the cheaper alternative was not electronic; it was phototypesetting (the letterforms made with light and lenses instead of metal). It was Knuth who noticed a book that had been electronically typeset (Patrick Winston's AI book), realized that electronic typesetting machines actually had enough resolution to print like “real books” (unlike typewriters or printers of the time), and decided to solve his problem for himself (as he felt that he could make shapes with 0s and 1s).

• The summer of 1977, Knuth spent in China, thinking he'd specified his program in enough detail and his two students would be able to complete the program by the time he came back. He came back and saw they had only implemented a small subset, and decided to spend his sabbatical year writing the program himself. He mentions that as he started writing it he realized the students' proto-TeX was an impressive effort, because there was a lot missing from his specifications. Knuth's article The Errors of TeX (reprinted in his collection Literate Programming) goes into excellent detail on the development process.

Also: a suggestion to try plain TeX (instead of LaTeX), if you haven't tried it. The book A Beginner's Book of TeX by Seroul and Levy is especially good. It might surprise you.
Google's spam filtering can be a bit too good.
You need a flight booking number to know if you actually have a ticket booked. If you've that, you're fine, if not, you have more planning to do.
I'd wager that you could make the same arguments against any other language and library/framework. What you describe sounds like a universal software development lament, not something restricted to Tex/LaTex. I suspect the underlying problems may be essential, not just incident to Tex/LaTex, and so some other language and library would land in the same swamp.
Lest anyone think that dang is being uncharitable here, Crichton himself admitted as much immediately before giving his oft-quoted definition [1]:

"Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I call it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)"
I've reached the conclusion that the Internet is unworkable in Europe. Change my mind.
Germany developed the maglev train already in 1970. The only system they could ever sell was the rather short Shanghai airport shuttle. If China now managed to succeed better, could that be called industrial espionage???
This is excellent advice. You might not be able to write on, for example, a passport taking a photo of, but can certainly put a postit note-type sticker on it.
I didn't know that, but OK, so it does (although PostScript fonts won't be so good if you want to use bitmap fonts and stuff like that instead (I use METAFONT to compile bitmap fonts for the printer, and than use my own software to rasterize the page, by copying the generated font glyphs into the positions specified by the DVI file)).

Still, DVI is simpler for many uses. I think PDF is too complicated.
I use adoc or markdown files in a personal git repo that I host on my own AWS instance. I use gitolite to manage access to the repo and even keep a version on my phone/tablet.

Works pretty well and is rather cheap.
No it’s not the issue. That’s just a communication problem. Apple has a basic appeal process.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6442359
Yeah, the very first thing I thought of was along the lines of "Oh, so this is how attackers will compromise a machine and run http://my-favorite-bank.com.holepunch.io/login-and-give-me-a... on a compromised computer."

I do see the benefit of the service, but I think it would be cool if they offered a self-hosted version. A LowEndBox for $20/year gets you a box and an IP to tunnel through.
I just closed on my first house this week, and First American was of course my title company. I'll be interested to see if my data is included in this breach settlement or not.

I did notice when I was reviewing my docs that they emailed links to unauthenticated copies of docs, but they were mostly public records so I didn't think twice about it.

So they have my Name, address, email, SSN, copy of ID, copy of check from my bank with account/routing on it and much more, all in the open apparently.

I just went through an SSO implementation with a small team for a large user base. It was a bigger project than we had anticipated, but nonetheless manageable. I can't fathom that a financial institution of that scale could be that lax with basic security. Wouldn't their systems be subject to some regulation and require some kind of audit on a regular basis? Is this a failure of auditing systems, as well as internal security or even basic IT?
https://2018.stateofjs.com/other-tools/#text_editors

VSC is monster good and it makes me wonder of the competition in this space for the next few years.
I have a hard time rooting for their success when their marketing/brand/aesthetic is all about encouraging high risk behavior among younger retail investors...
How much equity will your cofounder get? 50% or 10%?
The reason it seems like a contradiction is because the behemoths that are incompetent at making software don't actually make their money from directly from making software. Most of these lumbering incompetent places probably just have dozens or hundreds of people spinning their wheels on things that can mostly be accomplished with a decent architecture around a database.
Contrast it to something like Rust or Go compiled as a single native binary, using sqlite for storage. It's definitely heavy.
I've been considering compiling the interpreter as a shortcut to native executables, but to Go rather than its AST since that allows reusing the existing runtime.

The main idea behind G-Fu is to complement Go by providing a more expressive experience while delegating the heavy-lifting. Which means that performance is far from the top priority.
>But I find all hell breaks loose when you want to get a slightly different formatting than what's offered. Then suddenly the entire system becomes something you need to fight against.

LaTeX was developed with the goal of freeing the user (a researcher, typically) from wasting time on layout and focusing on content (scientific research, usually).

Plain TeX is much more flexible, but you may argue that it is much lower level (or is it?).

For general typesetting, I can’t recommend ConTeXt enough. Its philosophy is nearer to TeX than LaTeX, and it gives you full control on layout, too. Much smaller package than the full TeX/LaTeX ecosystem. And it’s scriptable with Lua!
Probably 50/50
Has this been discussed here? Navy files for patent on room-temperature superconductor.

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-navy-patent-room-temperature-s...

"The application claims that a room-temperature superconductor can be built using a wire with an insulator core and an aluminum PZT (lead zirconate titanate) coating deposited by vacuum evaporation with a thickness of the London penetration depth and polarized after deposition.

An electromagnetic coil is circumferentially positioned around the coating such that when the coil is activated with a pulsed current, a non-linear vibration is induced, enabling room temperature superconductivity.

"This concept enables the transmission of electrical power without any losses and exhibits optimal thermal management (no heat dissipation)," according to the patent document, "which leads to the design and development of novel energy generation and harvesting devices with enormous benefits to civilization.""
What I know if Pierre is that he was Left wing statesman, and like all Left wing leaders he has been sainted by the establishment and its media.
Modern F1 Car's Braking Forces So Brutal It'll Extract Tears from Your Eyes
I use OneNote... just kidding,
I actually use TiddlyWiki
Ah. Thank you. Well, I guess I did dream it.
Infographic Design Trends 2019 – Make Data Look Hot
Assuming the definition of ~ is meant to be the same on Q and W (I think there's a typo), then it's no longer transitive and therefore no longer an equivalence relation: (0, 0) ~ (1, 2) and (0, 0) ~ (2, 3) but not (1, 2) ~ (2, 3).
That's not the only difference: there's a different metric signature.
Focus on your communication skills. I've worked at three start ups in the states and I can tell you that those who get promotions or more salary almost always are good communicators. Not always is it your hard skills that advance your career
One of the primary advantages of the DVI format is that it is very simple: you can write a parser for it in an afternoon. It is basically a sequence of bytecode instructions of the form “move to position (h, v)” and “place the glyph at position p in font f”. This makes it easy to make minor edits and things like that.
I actually do use onenote, and it's great.

Github would be better, actually....
VoodooPad, with web export.
It's apparently called colon cancer: https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20111110/high-f...
3 satellites makes for 24 mb/s per person. Except—I think it's actually 20 Gbps per satellite, so 24 mbps per person, so really only 3 mb/s, which is...usable, but slow.
I am using a free tier instance in GCP and using tinc to accomplish exactly this. It's not "click and play" but setting it up is simple. If I ever outgrow the f1-micro its easy enough to add another node with a public IP.

It has the added benefit of being a full-on VPN, though I don't generally use it for regular internet browsing.
For years I used the FreeMind mind-mapping app, but wanted to move all of it to a server that I could use across devices once smart phones came along, and moved to flat text files in Dropbox that I can edit with any text editor. The other thing with FreeMind is that the UX for navigating mind-maps can get unwieldy when they get big. (maybe there are other apps that implement this UX better, not sure). I have also tried using wiki software ( like https://tiddlywiki.com/ ) and other tools that just didn't work as good for me as flat text files at the end of the day. I don't feel this is a solved problem and I would explore other solutions. I think something that has a timeline view and very good search tools as well as integrates with media libraries in the same search and timeline (like my lightroom and my phone's google photos libraries) would be a really cool way to see thoughts and images in the context of time going back to the day you wrote something, etc.
In a similar way you could argue that git doesn’t change diff and patch. It just adds a a convenient way to handle patch files. So why open source it? It turns out it’s very useful to have it in software.

The same is true for tracking forks and managing pull requests.
> For general typesetting, I can’t recommend ConTeXt enough.

Thanks. I'm currently using XeTeX/XeLaTeX due to its newer codebase, native Unicode support, OpenType fonts, PDF outputs, etc. But perhaps it is the time to try ConTeXt. I was struggling previously with Lua in Awesome window manager as I find (from a Python background) the syntax is weird, but now I think seriously need to pick up a serious textbook to learn Lua, the Lua engine is embedded in everything, learning it opens a new world.
So it will be illegal to use Whisper systems Signal? Is there any mechanism for Germany to influence corporations outside of Germany?
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> on the 24th day of May

Most European countries follow that order of precedence. Intriguingly so did technical reports for the US DoD, dropping the ordinal suffix for clarity even when spoken: 24 May.

And then ISO says 2019-05-24 18:50
Thanks Theodores! It's a bit crazy, I'm trying to be very, very careful...
I stick everything into Notes on macOS in an unstructured way and just use the search function to go back and find stuff. I also use Trello for more complicated things, but use that way less.
They didn't catch the 3 fake profiles I set up on Facebook. I've not used them for five or more years, but I checked recently and they are still there and still let me log in without so much as a "where you been". They all have obviously fake names and were used only for testing advertising at various times in the past.
It doesn't quite tick all your boxes but I've been really impressed with Typora for this purpose.
I used to use FreeMind [0], a mind-mapping tool that I really like, to keep track of projects, ideas, and things to follow up on. I eventually noticed that the pretty pictures could be represented, without loss of information, by a simple outline in a text file. Reading 'Getting Things Done' [1] got me to think in terms of a 'Current Task' list, which I now keep as a text file, backed up on Dropbox. Anything I need to do, or want to follow up on, or want to dream about in a practical way, gets jotted down in the file, with the most urgent matters at the top, Some really interesting stuff drifts down in the file as time passes.

As I do stuff, things move from the Current Tasks file to a Logbook file. Beyond 'accomplished todo's, that file gets stuffed with, for example, interesting quotes I run into, command lines I think I'll need again, and a record of what I've been up to. When I need to put together a status report, or figure out for myself where my time went, or recall how to do something intricate that I haven't done in six months, I turn to my Logbook.

With these two pieces, I feel like I've got a handle on what I want to do, and a record of what I've done. Now, if I just could find the time to follow through...

[0] http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
Yeah there's a bit of wobble, I could see that annoying some people.
I'll try to use this for SSH.

What's the best way to embed an SSH session inside of HTTP requests?
What about apps that are not being worked on or have services in Germany? What about signal? So those other apps could try to ignore court orders or something from random other countries, but how will this end up?
I'd like to see a little balance in this piece. Author includes no input from the CEOs and no evidence of the ease of the job. It's essentially a listing of the compensation of a variety of high-paid CEOs.

Moreover, the median CEO pay in the US is $160k [0]. Perhaps there's a little confirmation bias in this article.

[0] https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Chief_Executive_Off...
boxes of university notes losing their meaning year by year

and evernote, where I occasionally drop ideas, save snippets of code or commandline pipelines along with snipped articles from the web usually recipes or long form articles

I would benefit from doing more

More short term I write whatever is happening on especially long narrow ruled legal pads (8.5 x 14) which often still contain lots of information after a few years
> The other thing with FreeMind is that the UX for navigating mind-maps can get unwieldy when they get big.

In what way? I have some pretty enormous ones and they seem fine so far. I'd like it if FreeMind were more actively maintained, but at least it still works basically fine on the latest version of Java.
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I use Evernote. I have multiple notebook stacks for different topics (like each company I work on, ideas, general life notes, learning, research, etc.) and within each stack have a notebook dedicated to notes addressing topics as well (for example in the company stack have a notebook for sales notes, in the learning stack have a notebook for JS).

Evernote has worked well so far and me trying to switch to OneNote didn't work out as well. I'm still open to alternatives, but Evernote has kept my mind organised without a doubt.
Thank you Stanley. Been wanting this for a long time.
Good point! I just realized all my arguments still held when the word "LaTeX" is replaced with a "$programming_language"...
I'm of the camp who believes it stems from motivation - for whatever reason, I've found computers (and math) fascinating and have found the motivation to spend a lot of time understanding them, without it feeling like effort. I'm not sure I'd say I picked this stuff up quickly, it's been many tens of thousands of hours.

I'm not sure I have any useful advice regarding reading, other than doing quite a bit of it (though these days a lot of it is net stuff, which is varied in quality). Lately I've been reading a whole bunch of papers on GPU, both 2D rendering and how GPU's work (the Citadel stuff is a good read). A couple years ago I read a ton of stuff on CRDT's, and while it obviously grabbed my attention at the time, I look back and kinda regret the effort spent on it.

Hope this is at least interesting, if not helpful.
Im using https://thebrain.com

What really sold me was the video "Jerry Michalski: Lessons from 15 years using TheBrain" [0], haven't looked back.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzQkJ4lleKk
On the other hand, I just closed my Robinhood due to their dishonest Savings "and" Loan debacle. Not that I don't think my money is safe (they are insured), but that they are pushing any and all areas to grow as much as possible.

Supported by this new big round raise.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/15/robinhood-to-re-brand-saving...
I use and recommend Notion (https://notion.so) although I do work there, so there’s some bias.

It’s good for free-form notes, but also has databases and relations for more structured data. Also has top-of-the-like Markdown and HTML export to get your data out.

You can publish parts of your workspace publicly read-only, or share via email with guests.