skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, yeah, they have some big limitations, but they generally work well for me. It's rare for one to fail to do what was intended which is to display a document as it might be printed. Fonts and all.

Isn't it true that every software project -- and indeed every project -- falls short of what people may want?
Especially for the roughly 20,000 supporters of the German American Bund that openly supported the Nazi regime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund
You can very easily and inexpensively upgrade this laptop to 16GB of RAM. I highly recommend you do this, it makes a world of difference.

If you don't already have an SSD in this device I recommend you swap that out also.

I would like to echo the recommendation for Firefox + uBlock Origin - you will see big improvements in perceived performance.

(typing this on my 2011 MacBook Pro in FF)
To extend upon this (though personally I feel a little differently than yourself, but inclusive of how you feel as well):

My personal experience has seen individual contributing software developers have little voice in the matter regardless. Outside of "tech"-forward companies they are of little consequence in the larger political structure of a company.

I've seen it and been it—speak up about a desired direction, voice concerns about a decided direction, concerns about faulty legacy software, etc. Those voices, unless amplified by political clout mean little to nothing to anyone else.

In a lot of organizations, title is everything when it comes to moving discussion.

So my thinking, if we're continuing the comparison to the medical profession, is hierarchies must follow similarly.

A head of Surgery in a hospital ward is going to be a doctor. Hospital directors are going to be doctors. Sure, the CEO may not be, but they rely on the expertise of their directors. If the directors don't follow the same code as the rest of the professionals under them, then they can theoretically impose any ethics they choose and the onus falls to the IC/surgeon/etc which for the intended purposes of the oath/license/regulation at all is tenuous.
Right. Uber (single user per ride car service) is a fundamentally unsustainable business model, unless they convert into vanpool and delivery routes.
Markdown readmes on github.
I am not trying to offend you but..

this is the problem in india. Should one know someone influential to get things done honestly and ethically?
> ‘zipper’ and ‘escalator’ being two famous examples

Or "iPad".
Improvements in consumer technology is arguably offset by lots of areas of the economy becoming less efficient every year. Consider infrastructure, health care and education - those sectors require more labor now to produce the same or less output than they use to.
Gemini ;)

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

I'm only half way joking.
It's the difference between being a knowing and un-knowing participant. Having been quite close to people in this tier, the difference is very significant.
Thanks for offering your help. Currently nothing much can be done by even myself.

Will let you know.
I'd forgotten that!
> how one can look at the state of the airline manufacturing in the past 50 years and decide that less regulation is needed

Less regulation = rich founder kids gets lambos + utter destruction of society = good :thumbsup:
Is it just me or are there no best practices listed here?

I'm not seeing much substance in this paper.
>Small town governments in USA at least are very strict with their zoning codes

Even cities in the US. I live in a "historic District" in cambridge ma in a big ugly brick building with 35 units. 3 of us wanted to change windows, as they're original 1940s and terrible. So we go to get a permit. The permit department sees "exterior change" looks at the address, and sends it to the historical commission. They won't sign off, we have to attend a hearing. They don't like replacement windows,[1] so we fill out the permit and go to the meeting.

We please our case to the four commissioners and no problem. We get the permit, everything was handled professionally, but its a 2 month delay and kind of a pain. I know its encouraging people to do changes without permits. Some of my neighbors (bless their hearts) seem to love to complain about any change, to anything so they're not helping. I can't imagine trying to build something new. (Some renovations were shot down in the meeting and they're invited to work with the commissioners to come up with a compromise.)

https://www.cambridgema.gov/historic/permitsApplications

I know restaurants that have had to wait a few months for inspections which delay openings. Its a balance, but sometimes it tips too far.

cambridge on windows.
[1]https://www.cambridgema.gov/historic/aboutchc/~/media/FF5F4A...
It's almost as if the process is designed to prevent new competitors from being able to compete ^.^

Now, I wonder who exactly were the people involved who lobbied for and paid money for these things to happen.
We use HelpDocs.io (love it) and they have a "set article to go stale" option. I haven't used it, but it seems like a nice reminder to re-evaluate or delete the page.
That’s a great write up. Thanks

Did you think of setting up the same in Gujarat since you had to runaround so much in Sangli?
This is a terrible idea. You're destroying institutional knowledge because "it's cluttered."

What do you do with clutter? You clean it. You don't burn your house down every year because it's cluttered.

Wikis aren't free. Organizations need to take it upon themselves to continuously groom the contents and organization of their wiki. They can be very useful if you do. But it's an ongoing process, just like organization in any other area in life.

You don't write code in a single file and then delete it when it gets too big. You create folders. You move and prune. Sometimes you delete. Make it intuitive.
You don't have a choice about being a part of civilisation and whether you pay taxes or not. No choice. But congratulations, you have made yourself feel as if you did and you're happy to go with it. I guess you walk out the door, satisfied at the way your money is spent, the roads, armies, education, etc, etc - just as you would have chosen for yourself!
Just for fun:

An LTO-8 tape is 960 m long and 5.6 µm thick.

A standard-length ANSI-standard 9-track is 2,400 ft long and 0.0015 in thick.

So naïvely assuming you could spool about 2,400 ft * (0.0015 in / 5.6 µm) worth of LTO-8 tape on a reel, we have

145161/28000 = (0.0015 in / 5.6 µm) * (2400 ft / 960 m)

so your imaginary LTO-8 reel could store around five times as much data as an ordinary LTO-8 cartridge, or about 60 TB.

Sounds promising until you realize that, even assuming impossibly efficient cylinder-packing and no additional overhead for automation, a single 9-track reel takes about as much space to store as five LTO cartridges…
I tried a few lightweight Linux browsers on a 2GB low-clocked Celeron machine a while back ("hacked", older-model Asus Chromebox). Chief candidates were Surf, Qutebrowser, and Midori.

The best on the performance/ui-jank scale was Surf, by a long shot. In fact it was best on both counts. I can't remember which was which but one of the three was noticeably much heavier than the other two, taking a long time to load and sometimes having slow paints, and the other had a lot of weird UI issues that might have been ironed out by running under an all-the-bells-and-whistles DE (KDE or Gnome) which tend to helpfully fix all the UI problems they introduce, but if you're really resource-constrained there's no way you can afford to run either of those (especially Gnome).

Surf's very shortcut-focused in its UI so there's a bit of memorization needed, and you may want to compile it with a few patches for convenience, but its performance and rendering were, in the field of low-resource browsers, outstanding.

[reads post more carefully] Oh you're on Mac and have 8GB of memory? Just use Safari, it makes way, way better use of resources than Chrome or Firefox. Seriously, it's way better, at the cost of having worse extensions, but you're gonna give those up on any other low-resource option anyway. Also stop using the webapp versions of crapware like Gmail if you're going to leave it open all the time—use native mail clients or the "basic HTML" version. Keep your "webapps" in their own windows and close them when not in use, they all eat shitloads of memory for no good reason, no matter the browser.
An easy to spot exploit as a warning shot is probably more likely to come from a random grumpy hacker, there is a long history of that
> <Hidden> And men's role doesn't deserve a section, because literally everything else you read about was done by them. <\Hidden>

I'm not sure why anyone would assume men did all the work, until some patronising head pat of a section is added to show that "women do things too".
Depends on how far people doing Hackintosh could be considered customers, and there are plenty of examples with Apple lawyers visiting the courtroom, but don't let that get into the way of hating Oracle.
Have you seen John Stossel's attempts to start a business in India as compared to USA and HK? My condolences to you, friend
Thats heartening to hear. I'm fascinated by the business climate in India and I was wondering about the efficacy of the reforms implemented by the central and state governments. I have an uncle who runs a small manufacturing plant in a Mumbai industrial estate. I bombard him with questions about the manufacturing landscape in India all the time lol.
Rust's Type System Is Turing-Complete
The way to do that is to simultaneously open up trade with anybody else. Literally offer a free trade agreement with anybody that also sanctions china.
I always find myself in the weird position, that i think, i have to defend this kind of wealth. I do not think, that wealth inequality gets fixed by criticizing it, while at the same time i am using the services, that Amazon offers and has benefited my life. The same for by the whole world. By millions of people and companies. I paid for this wealth inequality. I take the full blame. I would switch without hesitation to something else, if it is better.

The solution for me is not to redistribute wealth by force from someone, whom i have paid before for a great service. That does not compute for me. It feels like a not justifiable punishment.

So for me the question is rather, what are the alternatives. Am i happy with AWS? Of course not. Do i want people to deliver packages and get paid badly? No. Do i find automatic package delivery attractive? Yes. But then driver lose their jobs. How to deal with that.

How to create wealth on the new foundations, where more people can participate? And dont i already see signs of it?

And, skilled labour is always wanted. All the non-computer, but crafty people do well. Everyone who can build something, that others want and cant build it, bcs... they do other things for others.

Ah, but its a useless rant.

Maybe the US is doing the right thing, bringing back the production side of things back home, so this kind of margin will be closed. Maybe it will increase then even more the productivity to make up for it. Who knows.
just install another 8GB of RAM, 2012 mbp allows you to do that, more recent mbp all took that luxury away from users.
Just wanted to say kudos for all the patience you've exhibited DIY'ing this.

I agree that this process should in be a lot simpler but I wonder what the outcome would've been if you were willing to hire a broker and pay some bribes to get it done. Of course for you the actual manufacturing might be a secondary goal with the primary one being changing the process itself, but if someone just wants to start doing business, do you know how much it'd cost in terms of broker fees, bribes etc. to get everything setup?
Have you considered contacting a local newspaper and going onto social media about this? It seems like the only ways to move this forward would be ("easiest" to most difficult):

- forcing their hand with public shaming

- forcing their hand with legal measures (looks like you're doing that)

- changing things by getting officials into office that _want_ to change things

P.S respect for hanging there this long already!
These aren't facts though. They are researched estimates. Different researchers will come up with different numbers.
Exactly, this is a re-zoning process not “opening a manufacturing plant”.

I can almost guarantee this land was purchased for significantly less because it is agricultural land as well.

States have plenty of reasonable concerns about re-zoning agricultural land into commercial land. The most obvious being that if there are spills or other environmental issues it could destroy much of the agricultural land around it. Needing to know past owners is to make sure a previous bad actor did not create a new shell company to sell to hide the real owner. The previous owner could have already been banned from commercial development due to the above or other issues.

The fact that the author is intentionally misleading this article shows that they are a dishonest actor and is part of why we ended up needing all this procedure.
On the last point, PDFs can still embed first-party malware. E.g., https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/malicious-pdfs-revealing-te...
Pass by Reference in Python: Background and Best Practices
The only people I know who seem to feel really good about their COVID fitness levels are those who prioritized it before the pandemic and are so committed that they were willing and able to figure out alternatives. People who didn't prioritize it or struggled to get into sustainable schedules are doing poorly. Even some of my friends who had really good routines fell into pretty serious depressions at the start of it and haven't been able to find a new schedule that works for them.

I'd love to see stats on who's buying home gym equipment and what percentage of them are people just getting started training VS former gym-goers who are trying to adapt. The home fitness market was already exploding before this, I'd love to know if this is just the same target audience adopting it faster than anticipated.
I want to contribute to your project, how do I start?
Offshore wind could use this system too. It could be more efficient than the transmission loss.
>I have to point out that under British rule, there was no democracy. If they want things exactly like they have before, the central government would send a governor to HK instead of having their own governor.

You miss out the last part, the British governor would actually listen to the people.

HK had almost 95% of what defines as democracy, freedom of assembly and speech, inclusiveness and equality, membership, consent, right to life and minority rights. It is only missing some part of voting.
I wish more people would maintain separate accounts for professional and personal use. It is annoying when someone you follow for their technical knowledge makes political posts that are very tempting to respond to. I think the key to healthy twitter use is being able to just scroll past those.
Yeah, unfortunately they are used for everything.

One way to get the best of both worlds would be to have a normal webpage, but have the "Print this page" button generate a PDF that is nicely laid out. Often webpages are a mess to print.

I wonder how difficult it would be to write a tool that can turn a PDF into a usable webpage.
Unfortunately, media in India is as corrupt as any other organization. I have seen instances, so called journalists come and ask for bribes, if not, they will put false allegations on the project and gets people and govt against you.
Try building a factory on farmland in, say UK.

This doesn't seem to have anything to do with 'starting a manufacturing unit', but everything to do with completely legitimate government land-use planning / zoning rules, etc, albeit a seemingly inefficient process.

The author should have performed due diligence on that process before embarking.
Once it's too stale, they'll just kill the product. If somebody fills the niche in the future, they can just buy them or scrape them.
I saw something like what you wish for mentioned here once or twice but the name escapes me. Documents consisted of just text and styles, but the project made the strange choice not to use HTTP for transport.
I'm not too familiar with India either, but I figured that if the same party were in power in Maharasthra, then they would be able to apply pressure to the civil servants who were witholding their signatures (perhaps in exchange for non traceable Electoral Bond purchases)

Also, India has a unique federal structure where states can override central laws.
Thanks for the write up. I enjoyed it a lot. I'm following you on Twitter now and I hope to hear about the developments. Wishing you all the best!
MacOS? what about Safari?
Which is why Linux kernel and GCC are the surviving pieces, with almost everything else back to the PD/Shareware days.

Even Linux Foundation's Zephyr is under Apache license.
The idea is that we trust Apple already by using their computers. If Apple was sending that data back to their servers each time then that would ruin their reputation, but there are no such guarantees for third-party applications. Yes, theoretically, Apple reviews third party code, but it is easy enough to slip something small by them.
In-Depth Analysis of the Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM)
I use a rather large 4K monitor as my daily driver and maintain 80 column width code where possible, to avoid wraparound when I have many windows open.

It's not pointless unless you're using your massive monitor like you did your tiny one thirty years ago. I use mine like a bunch of tiny monitors, not one big one.
Scaremongering isn't the right way to describe a real, well-documented ongoing concern. We have a long history of app developers trying to monetize their user's privacy, and that also explains why your comparison is inaccurate: if you buy an iOS device you are already trusting Apple. If you don't trust Camera to do nothing more than geotag your photos, you can't use iOS at all because every mechanism which would protect your privacy is built by the same company.

What the privacy measures are doing is giving the user the ability to review requests for access to your personal data by parties you aren't already trusting by virtue of owning the device.
If people had more social welfare they wouldn't bother to waste their life at Walmart for tiny incremental wages. So Walmart would pay more.
Big tech players have been happy to create 'lite' versions of their apps for the developing world market, so this doesn't seem completely far fetched to me
I suggest Nyxt, very lightweight
Did it work? Yes.

Was it secure? Yes.

So, what's the problem? Updating 30-year-old gear with media from its era seems to make sense.

If they were really wedded to digital media and needed to bridge that gap, Sony used to make a floppy disk that you could jam a memory stick into and it would read in a normal 3½ inch floppy drive. Very cool gadget.
I’m also using Firefox, but instead of ublock origin I’m using an extension called “Disable JavaScript” combined with the out of the box tracking protection (in strict mode). On my laptop with 4G of RAM, this works fairly well.

For the vast majority of news websites, running without js is a huge improvement to both performance and user experience. It even gets around a lot of paywalls.

I don’t think the sites that run slowly would be helped by a “lightweight” browser, since it’s not the browser itself that’s slowing things down, but the website. The only way to fix this is to remove those features from the website, whether that’s by disabling them, or using a browser that doesn’t support those features (eg a text-only browser).
This looks great and I wish my company adopted the monorepo & bazel. The navigation to //devtools from the link you shared results in a 404 however - perhaps the tool's routing is confused by the bazel "//<project>" syntax? Maybe not as I see the url path looks correct, maybe parent directory links should not show as active if there is nothing to serve in the parent directory.
I suggest Nyxt browser, very lightweight and extensible
A bare cc (or gcc or clang) invocation is not meant to be standard-conforming and will both reject standard-conforming code and leave out standard-mandated diagnostics. To accept all standard-conforming code, you need the -std=c[...] option e.g. to prevent it from picking up non-standard keywords. Without -std=c[...], GCC would flag a syntax error for the perfectly valid void asm(void) {}, because it detects asm as a keyword contrary to what the standard requires. Without -pedantic, no diagnostic will be issued for e.g. void f(int i) { int x[i]; } with cc -std=c90, even though C90 requires a diagnostic for an array where the length is not a constant. For GCC, this is documented at <https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-10.2.0/gcc/Standards.html....
People will just build new airplanes every 6 weeks when a new rustc is released. Economic growth has to come from somewhere...
Maybe one problem with a lot of Wiki software is they make the filetree-like structure seem too important with huge filetree sidebars and constantly make you consider the vastness of your outdated collection of knowledge. Why care if there are really old pages as long as their update times are very apparent?

For our engineering team we've been happy with StackOverflow Teams. Some of the questions are probably just as outdated as the author complains about, but with the design of SO it doesn't matter much. We use tagging heavily and make sure to include keywords in the content of the questions and answers.

One downside of SO Teams is that you are subject to SO's search engine instead of Google or your search engine of choice since your team's pages are private.

(I'm not affiliated with StackOverflow, I'm just a customer.)
All facts are well researched estimates. Our number for the speed of light didn't come out of the ether: someone came up with a very sophisticated experiment to get a highly accurate estimate and different experiments get different estimates. Do you think the speed of light should be copyrightable?
Reddit Gets Flooded with Pro-Trump Takeovers by Hackers
which is better / worse: DOM or PDF? I was until recently of the opinion that the DOM has led to more and more complex HTML and document layouts requiring demanding browsers to render the content and reflow the layout, and that on balance, this was a Bad Thing.

On the one hand, this DOM setup is crazy. Surely a more dynamic architecture would be better where decoders are downloaded on-demand as the user goes from site to site, coming across content types not yet seen. This of course raises security questions, as to the provenance of the decoder and less so of the content.

On the other, having come to the realization that the next logical step on the path to this scenario is WebASM, where the content and decoder are completely opaque to the user one can envision a world where there are a million different types of PDF, each with their own decoder, each trivially but crucially different. It's not a pretty thought.