skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Folks are just using this yet again as an excuse to not want to pay more than $10/month for every tv show and movie ever made

This is absolutely not accurate.

These streaming services lock you into a specific catalogue of their curated material. There is absolutely no way the statement you made about having access to everything is true. It's also especially less true if you're not living in the US. For example if you're a foreigner in a or regoin country, you're access to certain content is often limited.

With p2p sharing, none of this is a blocker.

Then there are other strange developments, let's take the fact that nearly every good album on Spotify now has only the "Remastered" or "Deluxe" editions available for streaming. I don't remember that being part of the deal when signing up. Now I'm forced to listen to sub-par versions of albums.

Who knows, maybe in 40 years will be thanking people who preserved Terrabytes of original content for the world to access?
I don't understand. What would your reply have been? Rayiner posted an image from a high density part of Lakeview, which is an inner urban neighborhood of Chicago, about a mile further from the (significantly larger) commercial core of Chicago than 16th and Mission is from 2nd and Market. I could give you pictures of the same neighborhood with mixed 2-3 flats and single-family homes on streets with total tree canopy and parks at the end, and Lakeview is one of the more urban parts of (residential) Chicago --- go to Avondale or Humboldt Park and and find more parks, more trees, and smaller houses, all in inner ring neighborhoods.

What you've described would be the experience of living inside the Loop in Chicago, amidst class A high-rise office space. People do this! But they actively select themselves into it; by far, most people in Chicago live in residential neighborhoods that read as such, are close to the heart of the city, and don't respond at all to your description.
In this case, the use is extracting words that can be used in full-text search, so structural extraction isn't a key criteria.

In case someone wants to know more, the former is known as "full page OCR" and the latter as "data capture"/"document processing" (or IDP, intelligent document processing).

Full page OCR for machine printed text is considered a solved problem (but not for handwritten text).
Data capture is hard to do and involves extracting specific fields from documents.

The first big cloud company going into data capture territory was Amazon with AWS Textract (calling it OCR++). There's also Document Understanding AI (Google) and Azure Form Recognizer in Beta, as mentioned by others in this thread.

The big 3 RPA companies (UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism) have also gone into data capture (calling it cognitive or intelligent RPA).

ABBYY (with FlexiCapture) and Kofax (who recently acquired Nuance's imaging division, the 2nd most popular OCR engine after ABBYY's) are the traditional IDP players.
When I'm doing personal scraping, I just write a chrome extension. You can find boilerplates that are super easy to set up, and they persist in a background thread between page loads. It's really easy to collect the data and log it in the console or send it to a local API or database. It's the lowest effort method of scraping I know, and you can monitor it while it runs to make sure it doesn't get hung up on some edge case.
I wonder if this actually has more to do with trying to sell HIBP, than abuse. He just announced that he was selling HIBP a month or two ago. Presumably, if he can get people to pay a nominal fee now for access to the api, it makes HIBP much more valuable to a potential acquirer. If you can prove people are willing to pay $.01/month for a subscription, you can assume(as a potential acquirer) that they would pay $.02/month in the future. Much harder to sell something that is completely free because of the risk that monetization completely fails later.

In previous blog posts he mentions that he gets 99.x% cache hits on Cloudflare, then also has a cache on his Azure service. He is sponsored by Cloudflare and Microsoft and doesn’t pay for the service unless something has changed since a few months ago. If that is still true, I don’t fully buy that he is actually spending money on Microsoft api hits as the post claims.

But, I like Troy and HIBP, so maybe I’m just too much of a skeptic :-)
> makes uninhabitable deserts verdant

Is that likely? I wasn't aware of any predicted reversal of desertification. It may render some tundra provinces verdant however.
Dunleavy released a 15 page budget proposal which notes that UAF's spending is the sum of the problem: UAA and the community campuses are fine, UAF is way out there. This is actually true; the UAF campus has over 2x the spending per student of the rest of the system.

Unfortunately, his staff doesn't seem to have been educated enough to realize that that spending is on graduate & research programs. Since that's where the money you can effectively cut is, that's what will get cut.
I believe the op is not talking about a denial by ARIN. The 44 space is administered by a series of volunteers that I believe is distributed worldwide. Some people in the amateur radio community like to create little fiefdoms and the distribution of subnets in 44 is not immune to this type of gate keeping.
Yes, this is what I'm finding with many Netflix shows, they are extended movies. The problem is that each episode isn't really an episode, it has no "arc". Like when you watch NCIS for example, there's resolution after an hour or so. There's sometimes a bigger plot line if you watch all the episodes in a series but you don't have to.

..and because its better for them once they've hooked you to keep you there, the series usually provides a cliff hanger, but many times the series isn't renewed so the risk/investment in time is high. If it is renewed then they really have no new idea so they just rehash the first series and do it again (e.g. the OA, I guess, I stopped after the beginning of the second series). So you never get the closure you get from watching an old school tv series or movie, there's no high's or low's of a good story, there's just time used up.
Mozilla Observatory does the same thing. https://observatory.mozilla.org/
Yeah...but I like other people being able to use my keyboard. Besides I already get confused between Windows shortcuts and Mac ones. Can't imagine QWERTY vs DVORAK
Although his charges were ridiculous, they involved physically connecting to a secure network without permission, not just scraping the public part of pages from his own networks.
I like to build my websites in COBOL but the browsers won't support it even though I'm more productive.

You are not building this for yourself if you need to be indexed by google. You need to build in a supported way.

The bigger question is why you think an spa should rank well in general. It's only one page.
> the overwhelming majority of it is garbage and totally uninteresting.

This is true of pretty much all tv. Because most people want that.
Is the final result individuals or studios having a distributed platform to sell access to just their show (s) for a reasonable fee?

This is what people want and have been saying so for decades. Don't make me pay for a service I use 2% of. This is the whole anti ala carte thing cable companies have done forever.
> I also don't get why everyone is clamoring for one company to control all video entertainment distribution. Isn't that what we hated about cable? Didn't we beg for the ability to pick and choose what we actually want to pay for? Now we finally have that and people instantly want to go back? Why?

1) I don't want to pay for content I won't watch.

2) I don't want to be required to pay for content I won't watch in order to watch content I want to watch.

3) I want to easily watch the content I want without needing to have dozens of different separate accounts or services. I mean similar to "press button, get bacon" style of easy.

4) I want to pay in money and nothing else. I don't want to pay with my data; I don't want to pay with my viewing history.

5) I want to watch whenever and wherever I choose, no take-backs.
SBC Runs Yocto or Debian on STM32MP1 SoC
I don't think I've heard Diablo called a roguelike before. It's got the dungeon crawling and procedural generation, but the permanent death seems to be one of the most quintessential features of the genre. Diablo does not have that.
There's multiple reasons. Not all these reasons are being discussed. Valid reasons discussed get censored.

Netflix had great technology and business plan and management executed it well for many years.

I reluctantly dumped it all in late May. I'd been watching it carefully after in December they hired an activist executive from ABC who cares more for political correctness than profitability. Dumping at the end of May proved smart and I'm pretty happy with my half million in locked in gains.

Netflix is now going to descend to $190 or so. Maybe it comes back from that. Maybe. Only if they make changes. After it hits rock bottom, if it then comes back up to $300 I'll reinvest.

Those of you who didn't dump your stock yet, fasten your seatbelts and good luck to you. Hopefully I'm just a crank.
Have you tried writing a chrome extension and running it in a desktop browser instance? It's super easy to set up and shouldn't appear any different than a regular user if you rate limit and add some randomness to the input events.
Wittgenstein about Schopenhauer? ;-)
The Sahara's greening:

https://www.independent.com/2019/01/10/greening-sahara/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170608073356.h...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/climate-change-is-making-deser...

Apparently the Kalahari is too.
Youtube does this too, and its really killing the recommendations for me. Same thing with Quora, I used to browse Quaora all the time, until the content ended up just being the same. I think in the aggregate these algorithms are driving more engagement, and pissing off some people, but not enough for them to change the product.
Movie recommendations are either deeply generic (other movies in the same genre) or deeply personal (recommendations on myriad things apart from genre). Netflix has tried (and imho failed) at the deeply personal style.

So I agree with your comment except for the anime avatar aside. I personally don't trust 90% of movie recommendations, even from friends. It has to be somebody who I know has good (for me) taste. I don't think avatar-selection would correlate one way or another with movie-selection :)
The C2 Wiki is a great place. Incidentally named for Cunningham & Cunningham and also the first ever wiki[0].

It does feel more like a reference library though and not really a place for daily or newly developing information. I always enjoy any time I find myself there.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C2.com
The same thing it also did happen in my country a couple of months ago.
By the way it is in south america too.

https://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/policiales/policia-adv...
Because they're so popular and pricey, a lot of orchards started growing them, even in places where they don't do so well. So, quality has gone down.
And yet many of the sites I build have majority mobile traffic. It's borderline incompetent to ignore the mobile ux these days.
This was on a post a few days ago [0]:

> Ex-Google-Search engineer here

> The comments here that PageRank is Google's secret sauce also aren't really true - Google hasn't used PageRank since 2006.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20442044
Doctors prescribed them unnecessarily under perverse incentives from pharma leading to the addiction and deaths of innumerable people who trusted them to do the right thing, that's what you know.
I don't see that at all. The sexist component, while definitely there, is quite subtle. Nancy is an intern, and most likely would not have been taken seriously if she were a man either. After all, she's young, has no reporting experience, is not employed as a journalist, and is telling an extremely implausible story.

Stranger Things is not a realistic show. Why should its depictions of the men at the newspaper have to be realistic in any case?
People with chronic pain will usually need multiple pills a day. And some of these pain pills might lose their effectiveness with long term use. What alternatives do we have for these people?
But Medicare handles the same issues for a lot cheaper.
Show HN: Made an app to watch the World of warcraft Race
reductio ad absurdum is a perfectly logical syllogism.

I guess it depends on how angry I was?

Would you kill someone who slept with your wife? Regardless of your answer, it would be absurd to call everyone who did crazy.

In fact, courts never do.
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Wikipedia has a whole article on radioactive scrap metal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_scrap_metal

THe Atomic Energy Authority even publishes a booklet for scrap metal dealers so that they can recognize radioaction sources: https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/sealedradsource1013...
There is the permanent death. Though Diablo 1 doesn't have such system, there has been Hard Core mode since Diablo 2.
>After years of a love/hate relationship with Vim (I love what it does, but have configuring it), I had an epiphany: by sticking with the defaults, whether they are my preferred choices or not, I can instantly understand how to use Vim in any environment.

Which I've never found much important.

If you know Vim basics (modes, basic commands, movements, etc), then you can use vim in any environment that you SSH to or happen to have to work temporarily on.

But why wouldn't you want the Vim on your main driver laptop, which you use every day to not have a nice custom setup, and some good third party plugins (e.g. file search, linting, etc)?

It's not like using them will make you forgot the basic commands, movements, etc, to use vim in some unknown remote machine.

And it's also not like you should optimize for the random remote machine you'll get in, and not where you spend hours programming every day.

So unless one is a sysadmin and has no real "main" machine he uses vim in, this makes no sense to me...
IE was superceded by Edge a long time ago. I'm not arguing for a different choice of browser, I'm arguing for them not to ship deprecated browsers.
In my view, a broader observation is that every group claims to be protecting us while accusing every other group of gouging us. This leads me to suspect that they are all gouging us. The system is so labyrinthine that literally nobody can figure out where the money is going. And many of these groups have ownership stakes in the other groups. For instance, doctors are prominent owners and investors in clinics, providers, and even malpractice insurance companies.

It's attributed to Abe Lincoln, that in order to get down to the truth, you have to get all of the liars in the room together.

In my imagination, a potential benefit of a government health care system is that it could eliminate this rat's nest of business entities by paying directly for the things that are needed. And we'd know who is getting paid how much by just publishing the government's checkbook register. Doctors can attend medical school for free, and then work for the government, for a good professional salary. They don't have to engage in all sorts of monkey business with LLC's and insider investments to earn a living.
You'd be surprised how efficient they are; give this article a read:

https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/choosing-an-ene...

What most people consider "old" for a fridge is probably late 70s/early 80s, and those ones did use a lot of power for some reason or other (usually defrost heaters); but the ones much older than that used far less.

I'm restoring it, which does mean rewiring and putting better insulation in the cabinet, but other than that the refrigeration system itself is still original and sealed (that's why they can last almost indefinitely.) If anything, it would likely make it even more efficient.
Oh yes, definitely. But SHA-384's output is 128 bits wider, which uses more bandwidth. Although for the AEAD ciphersuites, it doesn't make much of a difference, admittedly.
Thank you! Good point about bots not parsing JavaScript. I find it increasingly important to build and test structured data so users sharing the content within these walled gardens will have a good experience.
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I can think of a use case. Writing a GPU accelerated text editor with syntax highlighting that can interface with a back end like neovim. Maybe not super useful but I could see myself doing this since my only expertise is with web technologies.
I’m also in this business [1], the reality is everyone has to do it to compete. These systems help you fire bad apples, which could bring down your business. Personally started my company because I saw the lack of understanding and abuse of these systems.

Not a single company I know of built their systems to increase retention. No matter what they claim, HR doesn’t really care about that - they care about bad apples. It’s for insider threat detection and mitigation. Fire the trouble makers, keep the people who do work by the system metrics. The problem is that the system metrics don’t reflect what employers look for (skill sets, influence, etc) that’s why I started my business — to focus on skill sets and knowledge retention.

In any case, is this a bad thing? I don’t know.

It’s a fine line companies that build mass surveillance tread. HR and management typically fully trust the system numbers. Meaning, the amount you spend on email becomes a promotable/fireable metric... what if you just email efficiently or you use email ineffectively, the system may not pick that up.

Most of these surveillance companies are unscrupulous and the management of the companies they sell to fall into the point system trap. There’s also no getting away from it. Every large company has, or will have these systems. So, the best thing you can do (and the difference with my company) is you make it clear to employees and try to provide benefits in some way. Our company uses as chat bot and provides a search engine. Most companies provide nothing to the employees, just monitor and fire them.

[1] https://metacortex.me/
I wanted to attend MIT since i was ten, though sadly it didnt happen for me (because of choices)

But one thing is that i am always amazed (and saddened) on HN when i hear about the death of a pillar of our industry whom i had never previously known about.
The Apollo 11 moon landing in augmented reality (long story scrolling style)
Nashville does have a reason to exist- country music, no-state-taxes-in-TN, not Memphis!.
(literally just scale it up x2 or x4).

Just to clarify, the input image should be 300dpi.
Been using vim for almost a decade and embarrassed to not have known about how to go back to vim after doing `:sh` , so thanks for sharing that. I use tmux all the time so I tend to switch to a pane running bash and `ctrl-b z` to toggle the pane fullscreen
It's still detectable, this protection introduces a new side-effect which can be used to detect incognito. I Wrote a blog post[1] yesterday showing how to do that.

[1]http://mishravikas.com/articles/2019-07/bypassing-anti-incog...
Executing js is expensive, so you should expect bing to limit its willingness to index such sites, same as google.
I’d be interested to know some specifics on how big the index is and how well it performs for different values of the pages_per_range parameter on this dataset.
TN gets tons and tons of rain. High elevation areas, although somewhat hot, will be climate change winners. Nashville is about as far away from desert or flooding as you can get.

Although NYT told me Duluth, MN was the big climate change winner :) (fyi- I've been there; it's cold af)
I used to do this and really enjoyed the convenience.

Whenever I resume a Vim session (from another window/terminal), I have a habit of automatically pressing the (Escape) key to ensure I'm in Normal mode. However, every now and again, I have to use Vim on someone else's computer and muscle memory would cause me to press CapsLock instead of Escape. Then pressing 'h' moves the cursor all the way to the top of the screen instead of one space to the left, pressing 'j' joins the current line to the following one instead of moving the cursor, etc. Because I'm used to typing normal mode keys in quick succession, I've already entered 4 or 5 normal commands before I realise it's all going horribly wrong. I press 'u' a few times to undo the craziness but successive presses of 'U' only undoes the previous Undo action!

In the end, I retrained myself to use Ctrl-[ which isn't quite as convenient but does work on all platforms I've had to use.
Netflix should make its API more widely available. 20 Instantwatcher/Flickmetrix type sites, all of which would likely window into the NF dataset differently according to their creators' preferences, would seem to more adequately address users' needs than a single UI.
>The bigger question is why you think an spa should rank well in general. It's only one page.

Spoken like someone who hasn't used the web in 5 years.
Sarbanes-Oxley Federal Whistleblower Suit Against Elon Musk and Tesla
We will know because they will have to report the income on their public tax return.
“You didn’t go to huge extra expense to index my website so I am going to sue you for anti-trust” - good luck. Google has been picky about executing js all along.
Yes! That has driven me away from YouTube and Netflix recently. I know there is an ocean of content out there but when I sign in all I see is the same dozen shitty recommendations that I have no interest in! I watched one comedy special a year ago and my feed is half stand-up comedy now.
It can at least bias your priors ahead of time. When you (as a human) are using Waze or Google maps and you see a speed trap ahead of you, or a traffic jam, or construction or whatever, obviously you can't blindly trust that. But you can slow down and prepare, and if and when that occurrence comes to pass, you're better prepared to deal with it.
Yeah I suffer from decision fatigue with both Netflix and Prime, even from just the Apple TV movies...
Seems stupid to ban them? Their existence is the reflection of demand.
Decision fatigue = JavaScript Frameworks
For a second I was confused that this was about an Ubuntu launch.
They may be doing the math on extremes in categories where relative quality is good given their current catalogue.
From the Tesseract FAQ:

"Can I use Tesseract for handwriting recognition?

You can, but it won’t work very well, as Tesseract is designed for printed text. Look for projects focused on handwriting recognition."

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/FAQ#can-i-us...
Me reading the title: “doesn’t Julia already have that?”

Me reading the paper: “oh”
Make searching libraries for selected programming languages implementing certain algorithms or datastructures easier, and provide some filtering by tags or even some code quality metrics.

Sorry for overly broad answer, but the current functionality almost provides this, but it is not still quite working when you really want to find a good interval tree or balanced binary tree implementation for Python for example. Use of Cython or C library bindings could be filtering options for example. To generalise, it would be good to be able to find a performant or extendable library, or both.

Also very important thing is that the library is maintained, has more than one contributor etc.