skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My weirdest that I can recall right now was a PDF file that would not print. Since the printer was typically unhelpful with the error message, as was support (this is a room-sized commercial printer but we didn't get the help I'd really expect), I had to dive into it myself.

Long story short, whatever had produced the PDF had also embedded a TrueType font where one character was named //something. This is fine. The character just has a weird name, but it works. It's technically up to spec AFAIK, and I got it out of the PDF with ttfdump to have a look at it.

Well the printer's internal RIP, unknown to us, converted the PDF to Postscript when rasterising. And //something is called an "immediately evaluated name" which I forget the details for, but basically this font character, interpreted as postscript, was causing a lookup for a named variable which did not exist. Hence the crash.

I had a similar one where Adobe InDesign had been used to make a PDF where someone had selected the words to change the font, but not the spaces between (or perhaps they did, and it was a bug). This meant that the PDF included a subset font that only included the space character. Since the space character is not drawn, this resulted in a 0 byte long glyf table. Based on my reading of the TrueType font spec at the time, this isn't really proper.

Printer didn't like that one bit and died as it does to anything that smells slightly wrong. Adobe said it was fine and up to spec though, apparently 'TrueType' has a different meaning inside a PDF :)
I've seen a lot here, but this takes the cake. I'm not sure if that post is a troll, assuming it is not:

Half of the energy and time of any decent person with morals goes into stopping smart psychopaths like that poster from doing whatever the heck they want.

I'm not religious, but it makes me wonder if the church is actually needed to keep those people in check.
> Does "whole body fat oxidation" mean that the an average male calorie burn of 2500 per day would be multiplied with 1,43 to 3575 calories per day?

It seems extremely unlikely to me. I hesitate to bring up the 2nd law of thermodynamics because I know if frustrates a lot of people in these discussions. However, bear with me.

"Calories" in this context refers to kilocalories. Burning 1 kilocalorie produces enough energy to raise 1 kg of water 1 degree C. So burning an extra 1000 kilocalories per day means producing enough heat to raise the body temperature of a 100 kg person 10 degrees over the course of a day. Although our bodies are really good at cooling, that's not an insigificant amount of heat. It's of a magnitude that is relatively easily measured.

If such a phenomenon were to exist, it seems inconceivable to me that the researchers would not try to measure it. I mean it is literally the holy grail of dieting. I think it is considerably more likely that the effect they are measuring is very interesting, but does not extrapolate out to this logical conclusion.
The FED said there is an infinite amount of money and like they say in investing, never fight the FED.

I think a lot of people assume the jobs are not really lost and will be back after the virus. I guess we have to wait and will see how many of those jobs are really lost.
What? Am I missing something here?

EDIT: I see, you fell victim to CNET's "infinite scrolling." You scrolled into another article. Furthermore, they're not sequencing human DNA in that article you stumbled on, they're sequencing the virus. Furthermore, Facebook doesn't own this, it's a group funded by Mark's charitable donations.
Has it? Can you name 10 things that have gotten better in California over the last decade?
Thanks Code Geek, I will definitely check it out.
I don't think there is much you can do in these sort of situations. There is usually a layer of politics complicating things as well. Unless you are in a position to fire the team responsible then moving on is probably the best response.
There is official support for auxiliary files in macOS/sandbox. A prime example is the use of SQLite in WAL mode which requires write access to $dir/my_db.sqlite + a bunch of other files in the same directory (for transaction handling etc). But this problem was solved years ago already because Core Data (an apple framework) actually uses SQLite under the hood.
Can you not simply use a normal domain or subdomain and get a regular TLS certificate for it? The domain can still only be resolvable inside your Intranet using your internal DNS. You won’t need a special root CA in all browsers then.
Their potential market will certainly be _lower_ while the pandemic is ongoing, but there's plenty of high-income folks who haven't been materially effected by the epidemic and might still want a luxury car. Most people I know are in the work-from-home crowd.

There is the possibility that this might not be that big of a deal, given that they're a growth company. Depends how production-constrained they really are without trying to induce additional demand through advertising and so on.
The latter point is precisely why I was careful to say "pandemic flu" when responding to the above. But yes, the point is very valid. A novel disease with the same IFR of an established disease will kill a lot more in the year that it is introduced.

(BTW, something that occurred to me is that the fact that infants are largely spared from COVID-19 is even more of a blessing than it already seems. Once this passes through our population, new infections will be in those who are not immune which will primarily be infants/young children, who we know thus far have had really good outcomes relative to adults. That means the enduring legacy of this will be much better than what we see with Influenza)

> One, saying something that is 300% larger than another is “similar” is stretching the definition of similarity.

I defined "ballpark" in the article as less than an order of magnitude. But, I think this is a thought exercise that might help:

Imagine that SARS-CoV-2 doesn't exist, but we learn that this flu season is going to be extra deadly. Instead of the ~50k of deaths last year, we know that there will be ~150k deaths.

Would we rationally take the same extreme of measures that we have taken for Covid? (Or, conversely, should we already have been taking these measures for past flu seasons)?

Also I think you're very aware of this, but just for any on-lookers: don't look at the flu comparisons as intending to minimize COVID-19; but rather comparing to flu gives us an existing mental model that most people are familiar with that helps us figure out what measures make sense and what don't.
> There's pretty strong evidence that a light, mostly voluntary, shelter in order, with restrictions on crowds and certain crowded-y places like bars, (AKA the SF bay area policy) is largely sufficient

Maybe that’s dependant on location. AFAIK Italy and Spain tried the voluntary model before having to be more authoritarian.
Stretching will decrease strength immediately after. Dynamic warm-ups where you work up to the range of motion of play is what you want. Greasing the groove is another method to Google. Stretching is useful to increase range of movement if you don't have enough for a given sport. Injury prevention is more focused on eliminating muscle imbalances.
I think the open web always was a fringe thing. It never went away, it's still there in some form and it's about the same size it always was and mainly consists of a relatively small group of people taking the effort to communicate outside mainstream channels. It's just that at some point the rest of the planet became part of the web and it did not take long for regulators to notice that. Before that, the open web was all there was. But once the likes of AOL, MySpace, and eventually Facebook and others dragged in the rest of the planet it stopped being open pretty quickly.

The challenge for open web proponents has always been compelling the masses to join their open network. The history of the internet is pretty much other things happening than what open web proponents advertise. Everybody can have their own website became everybody has a myspace profile, and later a facebook profile. You see the same with attempts at creating a decentralized web right now. Same crowd, same ideals, same level of indifference from everybody else. It's not dying, but also not on any kind of path of addressing this.
Been working on this for the past year. This is a grammar correction tool that uses modern (transformer-based) NLP techniques for fluency edits. Basically it helps you write more fluently if you're not a native English speaker.

A lot of my family members are English-learners, and I found that they struggled to use Grammarly and similar tools - 1. These tools assume that your input is mostly correct, whereas for English-learners the entire sentence needs to be rewritten/re-interpreted 2. They don't parse your text for semantics, and often come up with nonsensical recommendations if your English is particularly broken 3. English speakers don't actually write in a completely grammatical way, but often in terse sentence fragments. To be more "fluent", some grammatical errors can actually help.

I built this tool to address this specific niche. In the backend there is a vanilla seq2seq transformer model, trained on a small corpus of parallel data combined with data augmentation and backtranslation. It basically treats grammar correction as a NMT problem, although I don't think this is a new approach.

here's an example of a sentence that requires fluency translation, which is not handled well by grammarly etc:

"Because we are a few numbers of people at our store, it has been very inconvenienced for those who have been difficult to connect to the phone."

The app has a toggle for English level, which switches the model depending on your English proficiency. For the higher level the app acts more as a paraphrase tool.

some other real life examples:

The link shared is not working. Please do the needful at the earliest.

Please share me a new link. I used the last link you forward to me.
Intentionally, to create famine, to aid the move to the new communist-totalitarian regime.
>How are people this stupid allowed to become justices?

You don't get to claim to be a platform for immunity when you actively fix and modify search results for your own gain, don't be so obtuse.
Same feeling here, but I can definitely attribute this to an allergy. Go and see a doctor and get an allergy test done, I had similar breathing and lethargy issues in last year November already. Then nothing until end of February and since then it is on and off for days.

I live in Berlin and we had very long periods of dry weather, yesterday it rained properly and I can immediately breathe again.
Are you sure there isn’t a slow server request happening before the UI update? I would be very surprised that you’re regularly encountering web sites with noticeably slow React reconciliation. It’s difficult to make that slow.
The wording of the title is interesting - how it puts all the responsibility onto Play store and none of it onto the people actually developing the software.

We truly live in an age where the mass media demands that corporations censor and police everything we see and use.

I wonder when they'll start targeting Linux and Windows for allowing you to download and run malicious programs without any corporation approving them.
Meet supports up to 100 participants. That would be pretty tough to do e2ee. Is there a service that can do that?
Thank you for the reply,
For node.js, so far I haven't found any good tool to generate openapi specs from code. If by chance you have recommendations I would be happy to know some other complimenting tooling for it
They're not. California has a net egress of people with about 200k more leaving the state last year, along with lots of businesses.

The state is bankrupt. It funds healthcare for illegal immigrants while being the only state that forces a fee for lack of health insurance for US citizens. It has the highest homeless population and wealth inequality with declining economic mobility, ballooning cost of living, and generally worse overall quality of life compared to other major metros.
Many current problems are simply too complex to be solved by a single person, often because it requires expertise from very different fields. High energy physics, biology and neuroscience come to mind. There is not a single person who understands all aspects of CERN. Likewise there isn’t a single person who understands how to 1. Build a large scale Electron microscope to acquire high res images of an entire brain 2. Analyze hundreds of terabytes of data to make these images usable and 3. Analyze the results which would require highly specific domain knowledge of neural circuits or other biological features of the system you are looking at. My experience is opposite to yours. You are lost as a lone researcher in many fields and the best papers these days are written by enormous collaborations.
I’m no ERP expert but it looks functional. What are your goals with the project? Do you plan to monetize?

One immediate thing I’d do is have a landing page where the screenshots can take center stage and show people what this would look like.
Have you tried TeXmacs? It probably can do what you want to do and more. The concept is basically active structural document but the "active" part is quite advanced where you can execute other programs for examples spreadsheet or computer algebra software seamlessly from inside a document and display the output in the document itself.
How to Install Joomla with Nginx on a Debian 10 VPS
Show HN: Fuzzy search your Chrome bookmarks
Clean air in Europe during lockdown ‘leads to 11,000 fewer deaths’
> simply use a normal domain or subdomain and get a regular TLS certificate

Yes I can make that switch, but I also think every domain should be considered normal.

However in this particular case, the Intranet TLD is purposely hidden from public resolvers.
> For every item j in a list, ensure that the element j ≤ j+1

What would be the model example for the correct formal definition? When I hear "sort", there are implied constraints/parameters so [1,2] would not have even been a possible solution.
The quote at the end could explain the issue.

> "Her Honour has found that Google is a publisher of the defamatory imputations once Google receives notice of a defamatory publication online as a result of the use of its search engine," he said.

I think it is reasonable to argue that Google should remove results if they are notified of defamation. I hope that was the ruling in this case, because anything else would set a terrifying precedent.
You can get it from different vendors and the solicitation behaviour is just detracting and horrible. It's understandable from the standpoint of the widget maker if more interactions mean more money, and it's understandable from the standpoint of the web site if they think it gets them more stickiness but what it really does is have an idiot greeter kiddo interrupt their actual sales funnel.
I've always thought there is little point trying to attack a company like Google directly. Rather you would be better trying to carve out a niche. For instance why isn't there a search engine dedicated to what programmers need.
Except that actually, they don't at all.

They show that there are a minimum of 50x as many cases as reported, which brings the fatality rate down to somewhere between "the flu" and "about three flus"

But, I know, WaPo is shilling for the dictator squad, so they have to make it seem like 100% of Americans are going to die, because otherwise we will all realize that they're enslaving us.
EBay is a terrible website.

It has an abysmal user interface that seems to have been built by 100 team with an intense hatred for each other.

The feedback system is broken. You can't leave feedback if you opened a case against a seller. Many sellers I had serious problems with had stellar reviews.

The resolution system is also pretty bad. If you open a case that gets automatically closed without being solved, you better hope it all happens within 60 days. Thankfully, PayPal is better run.
It's really the only thing to do once you reach a certain TC :o

And because let's face it, the American Dream.
And because I can't edit my first post:

Cybertruck is being made in Texas:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/tesla-will-build-i...

Interesting choice, there were rumors at the SpaceX launch facility in Boca Chica that he was thinking of Texas as a new giga factory. But also, Texas has some of the cheapest gas in all of the US, I hadn't seen 99 cent gas since 1999 and yet on my trip there I saw it multiple times in various cities in Texas and there were so many big lifted trucks going 100 MPH everywhere.
No, it's just that, but below some threshold of friction because of comprehensive integrations and simple UI. Think Zapier, in which you can build something that has real value in under 5 mins.

It's a useful category for the people who use these (like me).
I don’t really understand what “no code” is.

Drag and drop plus lots of options in dialog boxes, looks like.

It's been done before. Viamall, (later Yahoo Store) the first online shopping cart system, was very much like that. Totally hosted, updated through the web, pay by the month. When Yahoo bought them, they demanded a cut of revenue, too. Those seem to be the key components of this concept.

Other ancestors include Visual Basic, Dreamweaver, and Hypercard, but those were not hosted by the company behind the system, so they didn't have the lock-in and profit potential of hosted systems.

It's a reaction to the mess the HTML/CSS/Javascript crowd has made of web design. The web was supposed to be WYSIWYG, and that got broken.
I think that the point is, unlike emojis which have been integrated in end products by some vendors, forcing Unicode comity to integrate them due to the Unicode consortium goal of backward compatibility, this icon is enforced in any vendor charset out there.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QuzAwSTND6N4k7yNj/seemingly-... is the critique (it's in the article but easy to miss)

The most important point of criticism is this section: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QuzAwSTND6N4k7yNj/seemingly-...
FWIW, 4GL is from the 70s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_...

(my favourite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Informix-4GL)
You think Google couldn't spend more money on lawyers and attorneys, they probably just didn't mind?
Another Google service that I will not use because of privacy concerns.
> A medical doctor who uses his authority to spread what he thinks is the right message, but goes against what most informed scientists consider correct, is EXACTLY spreading misinformation

If everyone would think like you, science wouldn't progress far. Einstein would have never happened.
While Einstein was busy developing his theory of relativity, the majority of the scientific world thought Newton is the end of it all. He was the crazy dude who dared to go against the order.. even annihilating academic friends by doing so.... However, the crazy dude was right.

Having Majority DOES NOT EQUAL Being right. Always remember that.

You even write 'to spread what HE THINKS IS THE RIGHT MESSAGE' > Thats a mega important point. If he is convinced that this is how things are then there must be a (public) place to share those ideas. Even though he might be wrong in the long run.
And that's different from FAKE NEWS, where an actor spreads midsinformation with a malicious goal. Hence in the FAKE NEWS case, he would KNOW ITS NOT RIGHT but spread it ANYWAY.

See what I mean?
Thats what I did with my old Kindle. It does not support running a fullscreen browser, so I jailbreaked it and run a cronjob that downloads a png image of the dashboard each minute. The dashboard is just an html page that is saved as a greyscale png file on my server, also via a cronjob. Kind of a ghetto setup, but hey - it works :)
Couldn't the URL be the print representation of the link symbol? Text can be represented differently in different media.
True. Also, given the number of customers they have, a few banner ads on their own site might work, too.
Because they're academics who choose to forego money in order to advance their career in academia. They could also generally double their income overnight by choosing to move to industry. Many do, most choose not to.
> "As for Texas, it isn't as uniformly Republican as you think. The major cities are gaining significant Democratic representation"

This is because of Democrat-voting people leaving Democrat-led states and cities that are no longer functioning well. If their policies worked, why would they leave (for example) CA in record numbers to move to TX?
The new version of Chat has a search functionality so you'll likely get it when the transition's done.
Covid-19: where does Hong Kong go from here?
This.

YC's 19 cohort https://www.glideapps.com/ allowed me to have a meaningfull conversation with prospect (lets call a Proof Of Concpt) after minimal work.

POC accepted, deal signed; left glide for regular webdev.

The value no/low code brings is having buttons screens and transitions really quick in order to generate engagement with prospect.
>a lot of Japanese games

What kind of games are we talking about? Computer games or mobile ones?
I can't tell from the front page but this appears to be a Business Intelligence tool?
AI has been used in stock trading for decades now. Also, why does it even matter? Why is it unethical to use AI for trading to begin with?
I recently noticed if you are using Chromebook with certain Bluetooth device, you have to switch to use the Chromebook's internal mic, and it magically fixed the sound quality.

Still a bug that should be fixed though.
A custom tld is only custom until it's not (see .dev, .corp), and using them for intranet purposes is widely regarded as bad practice.

If you're already serving regular content over HTTPS internally, then I don't see the big issue in serving video and images the same way, but I'm not familiar with your particular use case so you may of course have a point here that I'm ignorant of.
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Is it really?

I can find instructions disguised as questions condescending, for example.

I believe no amount of wording will help if people are not trusting each other. I would rather work on team building than comment guidelines.