skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's not really the point that it can't be edited, the value to me is that the sender has confidence that it will look the same to the receiver as the sender.

Different PDF reader software, and even sometimes the same reader software installed in different environments, can render PDFs, especially those containing any text differently.

If you want confidence that it will appear the same, pure image formats are a safer bet.
Do you have a source?

My understanding is that the skin is the pressure vessel. The reason for going with stainless steel at all is because it maintains integrity at high temperature. Carbon fiber does not. So a stainless steel combined heatsink and structure can maintain integrity at 1000C or whatever, while carbon fiber+ceramic heatshield will need to hold temperatures below 400C or whatever.

And even though the fiber structure is much, much lighter, the amount of heat protection required is massive. And the stainless steel "cheats" by performing double duty. And you get a second free lunch because the heat protection requirements are slimmer.

It wouldn't be the first time I've been wrong today though. Nor the second.
The phone is foldable
You would have been attacked and called a conspiracy theorist, putin troll, chinese bot, among other things by journalists, think tank workers and depending on the time - by republican supporters and democrat supporters.
you're exactly right, but what I want to know is - how many of those enterprise users even know how to do italics in regular email? And is this _really_ the feature that's holding them back from Slack!?
>Tower of Jericho held the record for ~4000 years, but it was only 28 feet (8.5m) tall

Wondering if they made the same mistake as the Spinal Tap guys..
I don't have any justification for this, but my gut feeling is that this trend was started by Chrome. They (compared to, say, Firefox) offer the bare minimum of settings, and even the feature flags they do offer are deprecated and removed in a couple versions at most. It just reeks of a paternalistic "we know what you want better than you do" attitude to have about your user-base.

You can tell that this is the Chrome team's philosophy when you go onto their bug tracker and see the vast ocean of WONTFIXes. You might even extend the philosophy to all of Google, when I think of things like "ignoring" "even" "words" "in" "quotes" come to think of it...
That's literally what PayPal did. They gave users $20 if you created an account. Over time, they lowered it to $10 and then $5. The program cost them ~$70m, but let them grow at 7-10% / day. They went from 800k accounts in March of 2000 to 4m in September, and then 11m in September of 2001.
Pretty sure parent means the other direction.
Best would be to run it in a colab notebook yourself. https://colab.research.google.com/github/ilopezfr/gpt-2/blob...
The Inflation Gap: Income Inequality Is Getting Worse
I am so glad you said this! It drives me mad. I think of the lists of users/channels in slack alphabetically so even now that I'm aware of the "drafts" change I still go through this shock every.damn.time.
Not every element of a declassified program is declassified, as there can be technologies shared with extant programs.
A bigger question is what was that 'you'. Was it the ego? Was it my sense of self? We keep changing throughout our lives. But psychedelics are more than just a life changing experience. AFAIK, it's the only way to experience ego death. The dissolution of self can remind you of the transient nature of things and lead you towards spirituality. The good or bad aspect should be judged from that perspective rather than your perspective. The ego is temporary, but the spirit is not.
Actually, the number of German citizens (or ex-German-citizens, given that German Jews were stripped of citizenship) executed by the Third Reich was "only" about 200,000-300,000 [1], which was about 0.3-0.4% of the population (~70 million). So sort of in the ballpark of "1%", but not even close to 2-3 million, given the much smaller population.

Lots more killing of non-German citizens, of course...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War...
That's a place where the benefits of open source and hosting your own stuff pay off.

I can stay in older functional versions for a long time without being forced to upgrade and disrupt everyone's workflow because someone in a company thought they knew better how we should work.

Jenkins, Gitlab, rocketchat, review board all open source tools that you can be running years old ( on an isolated network please ) without upgrading and being very functional...
Could you explain what the DEC Alpha did differently here?

It was before my time :)
Key to Better Life for China's Largest Group-Buying Website’s 290M Monthly Users
MarioNETte: Few-Shot Face Reenactment Preserving Identity of Unseen Targets
Agreed, 100%.

Literally the only reason I make and send out PDFs is because they're effectively read-only. (It's not really perfectly so, but nobody should claim it's a tamper-proof document...)
I'm going to add an unsolicited plug for PDFEscape, which effectively lets you "edit" any PDF: https://www.pdfescape.com/

It's an online service that lets you upload PDFs, then edit fields, add text, upload and paste images like your signature, etc. Perfect for filling out tedious paper application forms without having to deal with printing & scanning.

I have no connection other than as a satisfied user, and in fact I have no idea how they make money, since the free mode features suffice for every use case I've had.
I know it's apples and oranges, but when I compare this to the Instagram acquisition (1B) in my head, I'm truly stunned.
Bloated, yes. Slow, no. You start at a not so low binary size and memory footprint, but that's it. VS Code is an awesome IDE built on electron and it's really snappy.
I'm in favor of banning ads everywhere. I think they provide a negative overall value on the economy by distorting competition and consumers' perception.
It's still a lot cheaper than the rocket.
The draft feature positively boggles my mind. The intention seems to be to collect all your drafts into one location. But that comes with the assumption people will have multiple drafts for ... chat channels? Do people really work that way?

If the actual intention is to remind you you have a half written message, seems some kind of indicator on the channel would suffice. Having my channel “disappear” on me is maddening.
I watch at least one streamer who runs ads in her breaks, she is a partner. So does she have a to specifically select those surestream ads? Maybe they only show in certain geographic locations?
- Project page: https://hyperconnect.github.io/MarioNETte/
- Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08139
- Video: https://youtu.be/Y6HE1DtdJHg

Here's a summary of the work. We can perform face reenactments under a few-shot or even a one-shot setting, where only a single target face image is provided. Previous approaches to face reenactments had a hard time preserving the identity of the target and tried to avoid the problem through fine-tuning or choosing a driver that does not diverge too much from the target. We tried to tackle this "identity preservation problem" through several novel components.

Instead of working with a spatial-agnostic representation of a driver or a target, we encode the style information to a spatial-information preserving representation. This allows us to maintain the details that easily get lost when utilizing spatial-agnostic representation such as those attained from AdaIN layers.

We proposed image attention blocks and feature alignment modules to attend to a specific location and warp feature-level information as well. Combining attention and flow allows us to naturally deal with multiple target images, making the proposed model to gracefully handle one-shot and few-shot settings without resorting to reductions such as sum/max/average pooling.

Another part of the contribution is the landmark transformer, where we alleviate the identity preservation problem even further. When the driver’s landmark differs a lot from that of the target, the reenacted face tends to resemble the driver’s facial characteristics. Landmark transformer disentangles the identity and expression and can be trained in an unsupervised fashion.

Check out the video and tell us what you think. Thanks!
That objection, and others, are addressed in the project FAQ[1]. It's already possible to open and edit a PDF in various applications.

[1] https://editablepdf.org/faq/

>But isn’t the whole point of PDF that you can’t edit it?
No. The fact that standard PDFs are difficult to edit is more of an accident than a feature, as PDF’s roots are in printing, where only final-form documents needed to be transmitted. Many people believe PDF to be “impossible to edit,” but beware: minor edits in PDFs, such as swapping figures on an invoice, are trivial — therefore you need other technologies, such as digital signatures, to verify that your PDFs have not been tampered with. More extensive edits, however, are more difficult, as they require the document’s logical structure to be automatically detected, and this is an error-prone task.

[...]

>Are you sure we need such a editable PDF format? I believe one of the most important benefits of PDF is its concrete, solid state.
The idea of Editable PDF stems from a real-world need to improve the efficiency in the way that we work with documents. Today, the only editable file formats are those native to the applications that generated documents, and none of these formats guarantees the layout to be preserved in the same way as PDF. Furthermore, despite improvements in compatibility, using a native file format still often requires the recipient to be using the same software (and often the same version) of the application, which may not be available.

PDF’s largest asset, its rock-solid visual presentation, will remain, and editable PDFs will be backwardly compatible with the current installed base of PDF viewers such as Adobe Reader and Preview.
> We’re seeing it already. Many if not most news sites are pay gating their once free content. Cite: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The New Yorker. All charge for access. All we’re free before the proliferation of ad blockers.

See? They found a way to put content online without relying on ads.
"Lack of people buying newspapers bad" reports newspaper.

I'm pay-walled out and probably shouldn't waste the time anyway. All I have to go on is the premise in the headline, which I find dubious.

If you're not actively using breaking news to adjust your investment positions and you're not a political staffer who's job requires reaction to sudden changes on the ground, then what you're actually doing is consuming entertainment while tricking yourself into thinking you are not merely wasting time. Local news is no better than busybodies on nextdoor, merely more centralized.
For one thing, userbase (see other replies), for another, there's too much cash floating around looking for good ROI, thanks to governmental policies.
Unsolved Cryptograms from the Nigerian Civil War (1967-70)
In California (can’t speak for other states), much of that “stuck in <x time period>” is largely driven by NIMBYs and at what point the place became more or less affluent.

SV seems to have figured out that some land can be redeveloped into apartments relatively recently, but otherwise it looks like 60s was a pretty active development era and most of that stuff is still here. By contrast, in LA much of 50s - 60s sprawl has been replaced by 70-80, or even 90s sprawl.

California is basically screwed as long as prop 13 applies to businesses and apartment buildings - what incentive do you have as the owner to raise your tax base, especially with rent control where you can’t charge more.
Stimulants are dangerous and addictive -- good to remember. Lost about 10 years of my life chasing a similar dragon. It's profound and interesting until it's not, and once the stimulants are gone a dark depression is very possible.

This goes out to every person who thinks they suffer from ADHD and believes the only solution is an amphetamine: Explore other options.
I think ads are very close to corruption.

"Did you receive compensation to say good things about this product?"

Yes: corruption.

No: you're clear.
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (from which I believe that quote originates) actually affected me quite a bit. Rather than some kind of hedonistic bucket list, the film's depiction of Miyazaki gave me a very different model for later life: To spend a lifetime mastering one's craft, and to take joy in the everyday process of exercising and improving it.

Most of us will not become acclaimed directors like Miyazaki, or renowned sushi chefs like Jiro Ono (Jiro Dreams of Sushi is another documentary in this vein), but in my view, any skilled craftsperson, from a tatami weaver to a software developer, can follow this path. You don't have to be famous, or even best in class, to enjoy a life of mastering the craft that inspires you.
Ah, yeah. Mixed up their CCD and CCX terms. The 690MP was dual socket though, so still a somewhat valid comparison.
Absolutely agreed. My day job is in the print industry so I deal with a lot of PDFs and they are perfect for print production for this reason.

Their main complaint seems to be structural metadata (this text is a heading, this text is the same font as that text on another page, so if you can change one the other should change, etc). I don't think at that point it's worth keeping PDF in the name, it'll confuse people. I certainly don't want to receive files built like that since printers tend to have memory issues with bloated files.

You can already do minor edits anyway with some knowledge (the spec is pretty easy to read) and some programming or a hex editor. The only issue I have is fonts, they are very complicated.
NYC seems to be just fine at redeveloping. So the problem is regional (though very widespread).
They keyword is "purely".

Technology can enable a political will and can create an opportunity for change, but if the political will goes in one direction, no amount of tech will be able to resist it forever.

We could ban ads easily with a law. It would not need any tech. Scrubbing all the ads while there are incentives to develop them, however, is a lost fight.
The Export_test.go Idiom
If you use Apple’s App Store you’ll notice that they have provided exactly zero markup to help you make your changelogs. I think the only thing it respects is line breaks. And I’m kind of okay with that after seeing this mess.
Clearly given those costs, Google really believe in mono-repo, and presumably they have tried to back it up with internal stats?

Although hard to get stats without control group - maybe control group could be acquisitions?
I find my local PBS member station to not only be of high quality, it also has a refreshing take on news that doesn't depend on fearmongering or thinly-veiled advertisements being floated as human interest pieces.
> From the perspective of the affected company, this is in fact roughly equivalent to an ISP blocking access to their website.

And here's the inconvenient truth: unless the affected company is large enough to make Apple pay attention, their perspective doesn't matter.

I get that it would be nice if Apple didn't do these things. It would be nice if Apple allowed every indie dev and every small dev company to build their dream app without having to jump through hoops and risk having their business shut down on Apple's whim. But Apple doesn't care what you or I think would be nice. They built their infrastructure and they own it. If they choose to manage it in a manner you don't like, they simply aren't going to care, and you have no right to insist that they care.

> Not in a commercially viable manner, at least in the US. That's my current view anyway, and you haven't (yet) convinced me that it's flawed.

I didn't say "commercially viable". Apple is under no obligation to make sure the business model you would like to have in a perfect world is commercially viable.

> My original analogy holds.

No, it doesn't, because Apple's ban of a publisher is a ban of another business that they have a business relationship with. The ban is basically saying that Apple doesn't want to have a business relationship with them any more. And no business has a right to insist that Apple have a business relationship with them.

If an ISP bans a website, they are "banning" a business that they have no relationship with. More precisely, they are restricting the actions of their customers in a way that impacts a third party (the website) with whom they have no relationship. In a sane world, ISPs would not have monopolies over the last mile Internet connection and so customers who wanted to get to website X and couldn't through one ISP would simply pick another (and ISPs who arbitrarily "banned" websites would end up going out of business because nobody would want to buy that kind of Internet access). But ISPs lobbied the government to get special monopoly privileges, and that means they gave up the right to arbitrarily restrict their customers' Internet access. That's a special circumstance that doesn't apply to other businesses like Apple.

> Devs don't necessarily want to have a relationship with Apple, they're forced to in order to maintain a viable company

No, they're "forced" to because they picked that particular area of business. But nobody forced them to pick that area of business. They chose to, knowing the risks involved. Nobody has a right to insist that their chosen business model must be viable.

> Apple is akin to an ISP

No, it isn't. Apple can't force people to buy its devices. ISPs can force people to get Internet access from them because they have government granted monopolies.
In the US, such a feature could be used for evidence tampering. Very illegal.
I think this is an unstable equilibrium. YouTube is incentivized to continually recalculate this equation or find new approaches that maximize the number of ad-blocking users forced to give up the ad-blocker without leaving the website. Potentially the new terms of service allow them to use your other Google accounts as leverage to prevent users from using a malicious "Ad-Nauseam" style retaliation.
So a permission system:) I approve, and indeed would like for every "executable" "thing" (JavaScript, CSS?, VBA, .exes, ELF binaries, Python, ...) to have a fine-grained permission system similar to Android or iOS.
And ultimately a huge waste of time. It set back Netscape and Firefox development for several years. Meanwhile IE6 took over, leading to the web dark ages while Mozilla reinvented the world.

For more details there is the famous Spolsky post about things you should never do—rewrite a product from scratch. Mozilla went one further and tried to reinvent GUI programming as well as building a new product.
The Big Business of Unconscious Bias
These bugs are typical of wysiwyg implementations. The only true, great, wysiwyg (but not really) editor is Bear, which is actually mostly markdown, but done in a way that lay person could use it without ever remembering any markdown. It’s simply delightful (and works on the phone!!)
And this ladies and gentlemen is the over reaction of the year!
Interesting that there are only 8 replies. Strikes me as undervalued real estate! Or, perhaps Donald Knuth is a more niche topic that I thought.
Maybe they can use liquid nitrogen?
If you find PDF painful because you can't reflow text or edit it, newsflash: you are using the wrong format.
Industries that use PDF extensively: legal and printing. Neither of them want to be able to change documents.

To preempt: I work within printing, yes there are tools to hack into PDFs and make certain alterations or fixes, but it's to get you out of a bind only, it's not a normal healthy workflow.
Is your "zone out" a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue_state ?

Because that is associated with

> ingestion of psychotropic substances
> $235 per active monthly user

I, for one, laud PayPal's bold move to acquire such a large future tax write-off.
It can’t be for people on mobile: the UI is buggy (especially back and forth navigation) and constantly nagging to download the native app. That’s super annoying.
C level execs get written contracts.... so it is not a foreign concept.
For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to create two adjacent but separate code blocks.

```
one
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two
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I've tried and tried.
It's a shame that we've done such a poor job at teaching the wisdom brought to us from the abrahamic religions (judaism, christianity, islam).

The real seed of the message is that the one true God is not a noun, it's a verb. Can a verb have an agenda and a plan?

By my own experience, the common misunderstanding that God is a noun is nothing more then a projection of our human egos. In a way, using God(verb) to project through our minds and out our mouths/hands that there is one true Supernatural Organizer(noun) is idolatry.

By my beliefs you're acting at a very high level of spirituality by avoiding servitude to any Supernatural Organizer.
memory-barriers.txt from Linux is a lovely way to be introduced to memory barriers in general, and the Alpha memory model in particular.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
Most of this strikes me as mundane word salad, none of which can compare with human-composed entries to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest[0]. It seeks "an atrocious opening sentence to a hypothetical bad novel."

This year's winner:

"Space Fleet Commander Brad Brad sat in silence, surrounded by a slowly dissipating cloud of smoke, maintaining the same forlorn frown that had been fixed upon his face since he’d accidentally destroyed the phenomenon known as time, thirteen inches ago."

[0] https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2019
That's a pretty amusing quote:

> 'While we don't have any active plans to make this configurable at the moment, we are in the process of collecting user feedback so that we can find a way to make it work for everyone.'

It's like the answer to the second half is in the first half of their statement.
To sum up: respected dev helped a relative in the past by setting up a second account with same credentials, this second account had thousands of review fraud, so Apple shut down both accounts without warning. Upon communication, Apple agreed to reinstate the respected person's account that had no fraud. Then there was a disagreement over who said what and when.

Is Apple heavy-handed in this? Definitely, and that should be fixed. But like in the current situation, they had/have significant cause to initiate an action (that turned out to be heavy-handed).
Two theories:

1. It's a brand new service, so a lot of brand new users, and bad hackers are checking user/passwords from other breaches all at once.

2. They have discoverable usernames or a ui that provides a hint of the username is valid to make it easier to try passwords from other breaches