skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3.10.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0619/
Having Linux support helped me find and fix a nasty race condition
Its not as straightforward. Converting a document from one column to two, often means that some equations have to be intelligently broken up across lines. There have been times when I have defined new variables, so I would not constantly have to break the two column layout for long equations.

Figure sizes are also a function of document fonts and size.
AI systems are worse at diagnosing disease when training data is skewed by sex
It's pretty foreign to Russians who grew up after Soviet collapse.
The Zen of Continuous Deployment
I do wonder if this will happen. I reckon there will be some sort of catastrophic programming error which brings in a level of certification akin to other engineering disciplines. I've seen jobs advertised nearby for a nuclear defence company that have the same requirements as a web dev agency.
presumably it loads whatever the browser can natively load. I don't think flac is one of those?
I really enjoyed looking at the examples of old books and manuscripts. But Matplotlib is only the go-to tool for graphs if you are using Python (and some Python users prefer something else). It’s not a universal tool like [La]TeX. The closest thing to that in this sphere would be gnuplot.

TeX appeared when I was in graduate school. Before it did, we were using troff, or whatever it was called, which produced hideous output. TeX was a revelation. That’s why everyone switched to it, despite the hardships endured when trying to get it to do what you wanted. The output looked like a beautiful, hand-set book. There was nothing else that came anywhere close. I wrote my thesis in plain TeX, using a Mac Plus ($1400 with a deep student discount). When LaTeX appeared, the selling point was not formatting, but automatic handling of labels and references. You could add a numbered equation in the middle of your document, without having to re-number, and track down references to, the hundred equations that came after it. Glorious.

Before LaTeX? The previous generation, my professors, wrote things out in hand and gave the result to a secretary. Those with terrible handwriting might type the text, leaving spaces for the math, which they added with a pen. They didn’t waste time time formatting the paper; that was someone else’s job. TeX created a generation of typographical obsessives, including me. Whatever the secretary did wasn’t good enough.
Back then, Commodore had an advantage over the competition because they had MOS Technologies as a subsidiary and could rapidly iterate on hardware design. Same in the life sciences business. Nothing is easier than dreaming up a compound, but then you encounter reality, some compounds may be difficult to access synthetically, there are unexpected interactions, and these issues are best sorted out when synthetic chemistry, crystallographic support and the life sciences people are all in the same building. Fabless just doesn't work well outside semiconductors.
There's always a way. It really depends on if the charge controller is onboard or in the dock.
hell yeah, the hidden hand rules so much at being efficient
OT.

I am surprised that the LaTeX name didn't end up in a heated argument between Don Knuth and Leslie Lamport, like the infamous GNU/Linux vs Linux dispute between Stallman and Torvalds.

Maybe scientists are more civilized, maybe it helped that LaTeX already has TeX embedded in its name.

In retrospect, Lignux might not have been a bad name. The 'g' would be silent of course.
Looks like a swimming pool, I assume crew and guests use it for exercise and recreation.
If they are supersonic, would you just need to increase how much you lead the weapon. Supersonic doesn't mean they're quiet, they're just further ahead than where you are hearing them. Or am I just totally making stuff up?
Show HN: SmartDB – Serverless MySQL management made easy
Ah, less expensive here (Philly). Still, it's like a 50% increase over what I make.
Yeah, about fifteen years back. They were rather enjoyable.

Frankly I am surprised the movie got made. It's a little on the cerebral side. There's something about the cold, tense abstraction of it that matched these huge banks of somewhat cryptic control panels.
It read to me as a personal story about adopting new techniques. People usually:

1. stumble over differences from their normal approach

2. catch on and use it everywhere (Stockholm syndrome? Testing limits?)

3. finally find places it doesn't work and can apply judiciously

Given that in our profession we're constantly learning and experimenting, Uncle Bob is still doing that to this day.
Biotech startups are usually formed around a drug or biological to hedge the risk of preclinical and early trial work. These are usually developed with some kind of novel process. Usually you get a small early IPO if things work out at that stage to raise working capital. This happens because most traditional VCs won’t fund this type of biotech. That’s changing somewhat. Then the company sells to a major pharma or biotech if the product works out.
lambda use in Python is discouraged in general. If you need something beyond an expression, PEP-8 encourages you to use a def in that case instead.
I didn't say it was going to prevent copyright infringement. I said the infringement was going to be inconsequential. Does it really matter if some minority chooses to download data via unofficial channels? I doubt that. I also doubt the idea that "as many as 90% of copies" will be illegal.

The more you try to prevent copyright infringement, the more it is justified. Prevention requires the destruction of free computing and networking as we know it. Today we enjoy near total freedom as computer users: we can run whatever software we want. The computer doesn't ask whether copyright holders like the software before running it. In order for copyright to be enforceable, that freedom must be sacrificed: only "approved" software must run. I'd rather see the abolition of copyright than live in such a future.

These DRM technologies are becoming extremely invasive. It's gotten to the point they've become malware rather than merely annoyances. So an illegal copy is better even for paying consumers just because it lacks the DRM.

> I've run a business that creates original content and makes it available through an online portal. My team and I have on occasion watched, in real time, over periods of hours or even days, as some people have gone to lengths that were hard to believe just to scrape our content in a way that would let them set up a copycat.

What kind of content?
Nix Flakes, Part 1: An introduction and tutorial
For mathematics it is the best tool hands down. For papers without a single equation, I'm not as sure.
So in short what you're saying is yay globalism? Bring everyone down to a lowest mean existance possible, we shouldn't protect our interests?
AI Is Getting More Creative. But Who Should Own the Art It Produces?
Doesn't go far enough I think. Chrome should lie to these sites to tell them that notifications got enabled, with no prompts and no option to actually enable them.

Right now, all this will do is make a user dig harder to find the magical "allow" button that will let them in to the abusive site.
Maybe for PageRank. But as long as the Lighthouse score is gameable, we're going to see a lot of web shops use these techniques to appease clients.
Is this one of those “we can’t donate food we are about to throw away because what if we get sued” situations?
Could also be a tax write-off!
In practice, vote secrecy does not appear to be a priority concern of the authorities. More so when you have to educate more than 3000 local authorities [number of counties in US] to pay attention to the issue. I did a quick duckduckgo for images of US mail-in ballots, and found many instances of mail that have the sender information on, as is customary for US postage. Found even a couple pictures of ballot envelopes from Portland, Oregon, where they explicitly ask the voter to provide a return address, that is to tie their identity to the ballot:

https://imgur.com/ZRHuLWd

http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/northwestnews/files/s...
There are still lots of such portals with Flash and HTML5 games - so is that economy still thriving well?
VoiceMask
Yeah, Shivs work ok. I've run into some stupid issues with the self-extracting directory being have too long path names on Windows and such, so it's not perfect.
This isn't quite right either. It leaves out the fact that the wiretapping happened in Trump's offices in Trump Tower, where Trump spent most of his time. It hasn't been released exactly where and the extent of the people that were overheard on the wiretaps.

In any other time or western country, an existing administration wiretapping the opposition party and/or leader would be a scandal meriting resignation.

I'm quite shocked at the things partisan politics in America has come to normalize - on both sides.
I like to bound the amount I read (fewer endless scrolling sites) by subscribing to a limited number of email lists.

It prevents fomo, idly browsing sites with content I've already read, etc

And if the content stops being high quality (or starts bring diluted with low quality content), unsubscribing is cheap

Ideally, I would pay ~$1000 per year and have high quality content (no more than 1-2 hours of reading per day) ranging my interests be delivered to my inbox

If something is overly topical, it'll quickly get archived if I didn't end up reading it the day it arrived
Lambdas can be multiline/multistep, but it's just as ugly as you'd expect. Maybe the most "pure" functional way to do it is to have multiple binds/applies/maps, so instead of something like `x=1; y=2; x + y` it's something like `1.apply(lambda x: 2.apply(lambda y: x + y)).` Still unreadable, but for different reasons. It's more about the grossness of using `xEmitter.map(lambda x: stuff with x in scope)` to bind x as a variable than it is about the inflexibility of lambdas.
I look at it as a reminder that there may be a more Pythonic way of doing whatever it is you are using all the lambdas for.
This aesthetic always reminds me, weirdly enough, of 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Several scenes go out of their way to look "high-tech", and as a child of the 90s it was one of my few exposures to what that meant in 1970s terms.
Regardless of what Trump's intents are and what his plans are for this EO, I think most rational people can agree that social media companies are not providing a healthy environment for discourse and that this is causing real damage to the nation. I don't know what the solution is but all I know is that there is something really wrong.
How Europe Is Leading the Way with Responsible AI
Destroying the bikes would actually also be an equivalent write-off. Since Uber has no profits, it pays no taxes.
Why all your devices have much less memory than what was advertised
Junior employees must have deliberate exposure to responsibility and challenge in a structured environment that supports them if the are to grow. This is the job of middle management, who are the first target of every MBA driven reorg. Hence the end of development.
Sad to see the waste, but nice to see these scummy companies making (yet another) loss which hopefully brings them a bit closer to bankruptcy.
I just realized you're the creator of RoughJS too. Great job on these awesome extensions!
I think Pocket also supports tts.

https://help.getpocket.com/article/1081-listening-to-article...
We Need to Replatform
There’s a company that helps companies do this for food: https://www.gocopia.com/
The left and right need new parties uncorrupted by business, imperialist and foreign interests.
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I am happily addicted to NetNewsWire 5.0 + Feedbin

I get extremely high quality content and no advertisements, tracking or pop-ups. Also, NetNewsWire is blazing fast.

If you're looking for some RSS recommendations:

[1] An extremely good blog for the latest in Covid related pharmaceutical research: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/

[2] Math with bad drawings: https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/

[3] A blog that analyzes military details in fictional battles: https://acoup.blog/
Ok, it was an "executive branch memorandum", which has exactly the same effect as an EO. It directed the executive branch to ignore federal law and refuse to prosecute everyone in a specific category of illegal immigrant. You can argue that it was just an exercise of "prosecutorial discretion", but the courts don't agree with you as they've refused to allow the current administration to rescind it. In fact, one might argue the courts have actually taken that "memorandum" and turned it into irrevocable law.

The Republican Party has shifted hard left in the last twenty years, the Democrat party most certainly has not shifted right. Many Republicans in the Senate (and probably most of the house) could credibly just change to Democrats and nobody would even know the difference, and that's because the Republican Party has totally abandoned its roots. There are a few outspoken outliers, of course, but there has been essentially no actual conservative anything in the US since Reagan. JFK would never win the nomination as a Democrat today (for that matter neither would Bill Clinton), he'd have to run as a Republican as he would be considered far too conservative.

I remember Reagan, I'm guessing you don't beyond whatever caricatures your college professors sold you on, and you're looking at this solely through the lens of "oh my god the country isn't liberal enough", as most people on the left do. Reading your comment history tells me that's where this discussion is going and I won't bother to participate further.
Yeah, there is quite a bit of background infrastructure to allow checking for installed app updates, search, and automatically updating package manifests when a developer releases an update.
Python ecosystem is not even close. I recently switched from Mathematica to Python, and I am going mad from juggling half a dozen packages with overlapping features.

Really wish somebody would make a meta package consisting of numpy, scipy, sympy, sage that removes conflicts and overlaps, and renames all functions with the same naming scheme.
"The problem is, you may not know what type of person you are going to be till ten years in."

Very true. I used to fancy myself a psychonaut, then i got careless with 5-meo-dmt. Now i'm a teetotaler. Upon reflection i can't say i ever really liked tripping.
> you may need to get together with others to unify the idea of doing your own web servers

I don't actually use my own server to serve my website, currently, but I have the infrastructure set up to do so if need be.

> writing your own browser engine seems totally pointless - it's the web at fault, not the browser that renders it. If you don't like bits of the browser, remove the code. Don't understand what you're trying to do.

I'm suggesting contributing to an existing web engines, not writing one from scratch (which at this point is fairly difficult to do).
Next Billion Dollar Startups
Not sure if you've read just the first article, it's a whole series, they cover nox later on.

I don't see how this stack is "hypermodern" either, mind you.

My point was just that these articles and other like it tend to omit context completely. What is this stack good for? Who should use it? Who shouldn't? Without answering these questions the articles are not all that useful, or even could be harmful, if a dev who doesn't know better apes a complicated stack for no good reason.
People blame ads all the time, but the blame is surface level: they dislike ads because they are unpleasant. But this is blaming a symptom of the real problem.

The real problem is tough to solve.

Ads themselves, intrinsically, are not bad. Ever tried to launch a better product? It turns out people rarely flock to it. Information about products seeps slowly through a population who would benefit from it. So, at its core, marketing helps increase the rate of information propagation.

But that's not all that marketing does, of course. Marketing has value as a signal, also: if a company is spending a lot of money on marketing, economists say it is 'posting a bond', meaning they put a lot of money into some asset (the brand) that will lose value if their product fails to deliver on its promises. That's not always true, of course, but brands with big budgets more often than not tend to more consistently deliver than those with no budget, so there's some signal there.

But still, humans are imperfect, so a portion of marketing is spent convincing people of things that aren't true, and it works some portion of the time, so it continues. And that's where marketing walks across the line separating its value as economic utility to its recipients into psychological manipulation.

Why do people put up with manipulation? Some say it's forced on them, that they have no choice.

But they do, broadly, have a choice. And their choice is, in aggregate, to be cheap. People are not willing to pay enough for content to allow that content to be delivered without the sort of marketing that goes beyond informational and bond-making and into intrusive and obtrusive.

So then content makers have a choice: do we not make content (or social platforms, or search engines, etc) at all, or do we make content and post ads?

That's not really a choice. The only option is to sell ads. And it is because consumers consistently choose to spend less money, and pay for their consumption not in immediate dollars but by offering up their attention to those who wish to change consumers' spending allocations. We can blame advertisers for this, but until consumers become willing to pony up - and they almost certainly will not - we will continue getting ads all the time, and continue blaming ads for a crappy web experience.
The NYTimes headline is more specific: "U.S. to Expel Chinese Graduate Students With Ties to China’s Military Schools"
Seconded. Grew up in USSR, been to industrial sites, they were as bleak as the everyday life.

Remember Gibson's quote about "sky was the color of TV tuned to dead channel"? Well back home the whole manmade environment was like that.
Unclear if they are charged by battery swapping or being taken to a third location -- but either way in a world where they'd sell them would they not include a charger?
The advertised US price likely includes the $7500 federal electric car incentive (which goes to the leasing company) and may even include the $2000 California rebate (subject to income eligibility limits.) Sales tax (VAT) is also excluded from advertised prices in the US.
Any of them. Professors generally chase grants to fund grad students who need tasks to get a PhD.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar like this. It's against the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Note these, for example:

"Don't be snarky."

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

You may not owe pathetic snowflakes better, but you owe this community better if you're posting here, because we're hoping not to explode: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
Businesses are taxed on many more than things other than profit.
Right, which is why "enterprise blockchain" generally means a bunch of people fumbling around with Ethereum/Solidity, failing to build anything more secure than a read-only SQL database, and inheriting all the bad characteristics of Bitcoin
Unicode support in LaTeX has not been an issue since XeTeX became mature technology, so over a decade already.
I've heard so many anecdotes about how to steer acid trips by mixing with other drugs.

These candy flipping practices seem like a great way to die!
I must be a dying breed but I will never give any external service access to my bank account. And I still remember the days where you actually had piece of software to run locally for such things. Crazy eh.
I posit that whether a search should be "local" or "global" is much more a factor of what is being searched for than who is searching. If I search for a barber I want local results, and I expect that that would be true for most people. If I search for a weird error message I saw while using my computer I want global results, and again I expect that is true for most people.

If true, then DDG could apply the same heuristics about location-sensitivity for everyone's searches and improve the results for everyone, without any tracking of detailed individual preferences.
You're probably right about this, but I'm betting we'll see political parties in countries all over the world start putting up roadblocks to this sort of thing.

It's already happening to a degree. There a number of what you might call "reluctant Trump voters" where I work. The most frequent (and often only) argument you'll hear from them in favor Trump is around immigration and H1-B visas. You'll also notice that the Democrats in the U.S. who are surprisingly quit around Trumps efforts to reduce H1-B issuance.

I'd be willing to bet that unrestricted competition for a limited number of high-paying jobs in the developed world would fuel the Nationalist parties and movements that we've been seeing more of in the U.S. and Europe.
I use pocket + kobo as well.

I consider my Kobo Forma the most cherished tech purchase I've made in years.
The post-covid "remote work" will be very different from the present day and past WFH.

Right now, WFH is a struggle not because of the "FH" part, but because of "cabin fever" effect of being around everyone all the time, the complexities of avoiding the disease - things which were done by professionals is back to self-run, everything from cleaning to child care.

In the past, I've WFH'd only when I have had a good reason to justify that. This was in the pre-Marissa era @ Yahoo and I was probably one of those people, if you counted VPN time. However, the good reasons which required to be remote are often the opposite of productive - my reason was that my dad was on suicide watch for 4 months.

But with EVERYONE being WFH without choice has changed several people who have held similar opinions in the past about remote work - the managers might still consider the "from home" to be bad, but they might have realized that they can maintain an effective organization, without constantly talking to people in person.

The next wave of this "remote work" revolution will probably not be people working from home, but people choosing to work in an area close enough to home, but far away enough to avoid the internal pressures of pending chores.

Before Covid, my favourite "remote work" location was the SF public library in Potrero & the Burlingame one which even has private offices. Wasn't exactly WFH, but it was remote & great.
Earlier last year, I wrote a tool which scrapes a ton of web feeds (industry news, news about investments, cooking blogs, etc..) to my email. (shameless plug[0]). Everything gets organised with labels that fit my morning reading workflow well.

Something else I've also been practicing is not letting online reading disrupt me at work. If I ever find my concentration drifting, I use an extension which bookmarks it for later (either Google Keep or Pocket). Usually I have a nice backlog for when I'm in the reading mood.

[0]http://feedsub.com
Result! Thank you.

Skimmed the landing page, original paper. Courgette infers program's structure for smarter diffing. My half-baked notion is somewhere in between.
You know you can turn off notifications in your browser if you don't want them right?
> HN does have two full-time employees whose sole job is moderation.

I believe that number is currently one.
circular flow.