skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So interesting to see this just 2 days after this on HN:

"The sad state of PDF-Accessibility of LaTex Documents"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444427

PDF's have accessibility features to make semantic text extraction easy... but it depends on the PDF creator to make it happen. It's crazy how best-case PDF's have identifiable text sections like headings... but worst-case is gibberish remapped characters or just bitmap scans...
> high effort and messy

This, especially when the definition of success changes depending on who you ask and at what point in their lives. In the last decade alone I’ve made quite a few reversals.
Personally I say abolish the electoral colleges to ensure that every vote actually matters. That alone will reduce voter apathy and get more people actually out there voting.
That’s very smart of Oracle. They will introduce ERPs to kids from early age. I heard it’s a dream of 10years old to get into the enterprise.
Burning trees and other biomass for electricity is not CO2 neutral as much as the UK gov wants it to be. First it produces more CO2 at the stack than coal and then you have to actually replant and wait 40 years.
Have there been widespread instances of malicious software in Linux repos? It might just be that Linux distros are lower value targets than apple phones, but they do seem be pretty good in terms of both keeping out actual viruses (which Apple is pretty good at keeping out) and also keeping out shady advertisement/snooping based software (which Apple seems to have done less good at keeping out than the repos. Although, they are doing good for a private company, right?)

Also, Steam seems to do all right as far as I can tell.
There are deeper cases for revisiting the Electoral College than "I don't like it when the popular vote doesn't favor me". One primary issue is that the Electors for each state are not elected. A patch for this and guidance for their behaviors is something that has to be addressed in each state on their own, with a few states here or there seeming to force Electors to submit certain information, such as the popular vote result.

Revisiting the simpler argument about not liking the representation provided by the Electoral College, it is valid that its purpose was for a much smaller nation of like 12-14 states at time of inception. It should be obvious that this argument will fall flat because it will never reach the level of consensus necessary to change it, as you need 75% ratification of the states, most of which benefit from the Electoral College amplifying their vote and relevancy. There are better uses of energy.

Regulating the Electors is a better use of energy, as there are real inefficiencies and a lack of accountability in who they are and what they do, as they can submit literally anything to Congress no matter what their own state voted for.
All our clients (some with massive deployments for the time) dropped Weblogic and other BEA products the moment of the acquisition. Where did they do well?
The fight against the electoral college is one of those things that misses the forest for the trees. The real problem is that too much power has been vested in the federal government (and in the executive branch specifically), and too much power has been taken from the states. People would care a lot less about how the president gets elected if he didn't have so much control over the entire country.
The source bucket had a ton of small files and most of the time was spent making network requests (O(<number of files>)). The suggested solution was to do a batch operation (open a ticket for a batch operation). Would rclone have helped in this scenario?
Not necessarily, depending on the country a warrant is not something that security forces care much about.
It's just a side effect, though I'm certain that such was a factor in the high level decision making. "We tore the heart out of our communities, for better local air quality. Also we really stuck it to all those foreign countries we polluted."
When you do the math, in order to extract infinite free energy as per OP's argument, you have to get the drive up to a certain speed (think of a y=x line intersecting with a y=x^2 parabolic curve). The required speed depends on the performance of the drive (i.e. the N/kW figure), with a higher performance drive meaning a lower required speed before you can start extracting energy. For a photon drive, the speed you need to reach to extract infinite free energy is... the speed of light. Which you can't get to. So OP's argument only applies to drives which perform better than a photon drive, which naturally includes the EmDrive.
What frustrates me about this constant argument is that there's a way to retain the electoral college, which serves to at least somewhat fairly designate votes by state populations, and still make every vote count: Make states assign electors proportionally. A couple states already do it, and if all fifty did, we'd have a much fairer system that is still somewhat insulated from differences in how states manage voting.
>Even if you were moving 25TB of data on a server under your physical control, it could be a significant engineering effort.

But why?

I'm genuinely curious. The other week I had a HDD throw up some errors. I copy pasted some of its contents of around 1-2 TB in Windows onto another drive. Sure, it took a while, but it was all done by morning.

It didn't even occur to me that problems could arise with this.
There's this older Sparkfun story. They had their multimeters seized for being yellow:

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1428
I wonder if there was some deal China made with Zhang Yiming to have ByteDance take a worse offer from Oracle, knowing Oracle would end up killing it.
Yeah, reading this guy’s website sets of my bullshit-artist filter pretty hard.

Article might be good but jeez, bad source.
Wow. It costs an arm.
Hey, at least you didn't have to use TChannel and Hyperbahn ;)
Good data visualisation of co2 emissions over the last 200 years:

https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-kingdom?countr...
Also the modem doesn't have DMA access to the phone's memory.
It's not a far out conspiracy theory. TikTok was already going all in with Google Cloud as their tech partner (which is a more obvious choice than Oracle) and was ready to go all in on with Google until Donald reiterated, publicly, his demand that the US "get a cut" of any deal. To Donald, the US "getting a cut" and his friends/himself profiting are likely synonymous. His personal interest and the national interest are the same, in his mind.
Read https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cbp-jfk-sei... and https://twitter.com/CBP/status/1305300486090825731.

They reference Apple and Airpods multiple times. I don't see this as anything but a screw-up on behalf of CBP.
Yes. Sadly, the kind of help one needs in creative fields is rarely the kind of help one needs in analytic fields.

I've done a lot of programming, and also quite a bit of acting.

The types of thinking "oblique strategies" suggest can be amazing for figuring out a new different way to act a scene -- an absolute goldmine. But they're of absolutely zero use in programming.

Similarly, the kind of logical and analytical thinking that helps in programming... seems to be purely harmful in acting.

It actually took me quite a long time to realize how fundamentally different the kind of thinking needed for creative vs. analytical tasks is. At least for me, there is almost zero useful transference. If anything, being good at one interferes with the other, until you learn to keep the skills separate.
An alternative to making your phone is castle is not building your castles in the air. Don't use your phone as your primary computing device. You'll never be allowed to own your phone because it's a radio transmitter and it has a license, not you. You cannot own or control it.
Nice read. The easily-youtubeable documentary (4x 1hr eps) Century of the Self also goes into the psychology of how America (and by extension 'Western' culture) became obsessed with materialism.
Notarization does not stop you from using private APIs. Source: have notarized multiple applications that link against them.
> I suspect it was after they hired people that weren't engineers to help

For years, they required that all their hires could program, even those in completely unrelated roles.
Sounds good. Now how do we make that happen? Complaints about the Electoral College are rather meaningless without a realistic proposal for a Constitutional amendment that could achieve the necessary level of political support.
The electoral college itself isn't really the issue.

It's the fact that states use winner-take-all apportionment of electors.

Unlike the electoral college, winner-take-all apportionment isn't mandated in the constitution.

You could have the electoral college and also distribute electors according to the share of popular vote each party received in that state.
> They didn't always want to migrate because their userbase was generally mostly on 2.

Yes, this doesn't change my argument. You had 12 years of warning. You couldn't migrate immediately, but you had 12 years of warning to plan your migration.

> I think the next backwards incompatible change in python (python 4?) will probably see a much bigger migration off python.

You aren't paying much attention to the python ecosystem then. I wouldn't expect a python3-like breaking change for another 10 years, if ever.

> Mercurial, built on python, took 10 years of work to get to python 3 - for basically no reward (they just need bytes and unicode is not super relevant to them) as just one example of MANY.

Mercurial took ~4.5 years to migrate, from April 2015 to November 2019. Mercurial also took a roundabout way of doing the migration that likely made it take longer (https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2020/01/13/mercurial%27s-journ...)

> The python developers literally TOOK THIS AWAY in python 3.

And then readded in python 3.3, around 7 years ago.

> . You couldn't practically move initially. Something as simple as doing u'' in python 2 that would alias properly in 3 - was a no go.

I agree you couldn't migrate immediately! But you still had 12+ years of warning! I'll repeat myself: I expect most application code was migratedn in the last 2 years. But the maintainers of those applications had 10+ years to prepare for the migration of their application. This prep took many forms. For some it was nothing, for some it was helping dependencies migrate to 2/3 compat. For some it was planning the eventual migration. But every single one had more than a decade of warning.
A event loop that juggles between more than one thread, run async tasks in different v8 isolates.
Oracle cloud is not Oracle db only. What is tiktok running on now? Do not forget Oracle owns mysql as well...
I fully agree with this statement. Jefferson's vision of America was the better one, where the federal is weak and the states are what people are most loyal to, and which hold the most power over people's daily lives.

I want to see universal healthcare, but I think if state's taxes were higher than federal, and they were required to come up with a plan that covers everyone, however they want to do that, that it would make more sense for everybody.
> a large number are using third party app stores or installing APKs

Any source for this? I wasn't aware that third party stores are used by the general population as commonly as the play store anywhere.
SAR from a drone would be peanuts compared to the aperture available from a space plane. On the other hand, if one is studying a specific area, illuminating with a drone and passive SAR with a space plane might be very effective?
Well, similarly I've had clients elect not to do business in Europe because of GDPR. It was certainly an opportunity for other companies that were willing to bring their services into compliance, but without judging the intentions or implications of the laws, it's been my experience that they do impact business decisions.
This is a really interesting take I have not really thought about. Almost all internet discussions are littered with these one liner bold claims. Are they true? I have no idea but people upvote them anyway because they sound possible and important. Often they are partially true but reducing the topic to one line removes the important details.
I mean, I know tons of Scala and Clojure devs who don’t touch Java at all in their day to day work. I don’t think the user(s) above were referring to the implementation of the JVM.
How are families preserving wealth for generations, if they aren’t engaging in safe, steady, low risk management of their wealth?

Even if you ignored inflation, how much cash would someone have to accumulate in order to sustain a middle-class lifestyle for their family for multiple generations, if they weren’t investing and managing those investments?
I think the faith and spirit examples are a low blow. No one can explain why any of us are here. The other examples are dead on.
Yes. Is there a word or concept for this to a majority of issues in the zeitgeist? Dilution of choices into illusion of choice that is manipulating the masses? The removal of critical thinking? The lack of conversations taking into account 2nd order effects or first principles?

Yeesh.
Buggy technology is indistinguishable from malware
Attacks against iOS that become persistent do not exist in the wild to my knowledge, nor did attacks that overwrote kernel text. They just do not exist because there is no reason to do this because it's substantially easier to find other things to exploit.
Wood fires are also terrible for human health
The study being referenced compares college exit exams as well as mean salaries. They found that the exit exams were not significantly different between people who went to elite vs non elite colleges. This doesn’t prove but might suggest that a better education is not what explains the higher salaries.
Doing business with Oracle is a very risky thing. Their hard selling tactics are despicable, bordering on blackmail.

Oracle software licenses are so opaque that there's almost no way to be compliant and that's by design.

So in essence: Either you pay more for your existing installation or buy some additional shit, which you don't need, or else.

The or else is the threat of a software audit, which is almost guaranteed to find you non-compliant and gives you 30 days to either pay up or get rid of every Oracle software component. Best of luck with that.

There are umpteen stories about this behavior on the web. For example this: [1].

Oracle's business model is not really technology, but a licensing racket for enterprise customers. Sort of

Nice company you have here, would be a shame if something happens to it

[1] https://www.netnetweb.com/content/blog/oracle-audits-will-ge...

edit : rephrased a sentence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta... already exists and is 73% of the way to coming into effect.

No need for amendments when you have clever legal hackery!
Can you be more specific with this "mass trauma" idea? Never heard of it before.
Consider that our current president is a populist and it could be argued that he only didn't win the popular vote because he didn't focus on that, but rather on the electoral college.

I think the founding fathers would cite our current president as the reason they didn't trust direct democracy...

It's food for thought whenever I think about pushing more towards direct democracy. I've been leaning towards proportional electoral votes, but there are so many unintended consequences.
This is not a benefit of the App Store but a benefit of a tight boot chain that largely prevents persistence.
> 529,000 people

Fair enough

> How do you think a model would operate for university-level instruction that would both prepare kids for employment

Not sure, but Uni level instruction is probably sub-optimal for a large portion of the population. You are also still tethered to the pace set by the professor/instructor. Online would allow for students to move at their own pace.

> offer a competitive level of socialization

I don't think there's much MORE benefit to College socialization. I think this is a normal time period in everyone's life of being free of parents and responsible for yourself that Uni's use as evidence of benefit. EDIT This time period involves socializing with new people.

> collaborative problem-solving experience in multiple fields

I don't think this requires physical presence.

> generalized knowledge so they don't turn into pigeon-holed hyperspecialists

I don't know the numbers but I'm guessing the overwhelming majority of jobs never get much outside of hyperspecialization. This is a benefit of modern economies. Specialization allows for more productivity. But like with any job, people who want to can branch out. It would be easier if you didn't have to adhere to a college schedule.

> How do you expose kids to a wide-enough variety of things that they are able to discover something they truly want to do for the rest of their life?

The friction and overhead in Uni's to try different things is way higher than clicking a link online. Spending the remainder of 16 weeks studying something you hate, then changing majors is infinitely more cumbersome than just bailing and learning something else.

If you want to force a broad subject matter on students, well that model will die out due to inefficiencies.

> How will you ensure that a university-degree doesn't remain a symbol of status?

It totally will. But it will be for the rich. Everyone else doesn't need to blow $200k to do software engineering, operate a camera, make art or pursue mathematics research. Google is already working on a program that will certify job applicants sans a college education.

>Basically, how do you go from University of Phoenix, to what you are describing?

Not sure. Online stuff evolves unlike Uni's which have been essentially the same for the last 50 years. Go to class/lab, listen to a lecture, take a test. Prices skyrocket.

Online, things get better and cheaper faster.
The problem is caused over people squatting on desirable package names, right? Only solves the issue up to the point where people start to squat on desirable namespaces.

If you only develop one or two packages, you don't really care about the squatting issue. Especially if a non-DNS-namespace is free. Light users are generally unaffected by the problem, so they continue to fit within a "free" offering.

Squatting is a non-issue with DNS. Nobody can take your domain from you; effectively, using DNS outsources the control issue to DNS control. The only issue is to guarantee consumers that their builds won't break just because their packages went through forced deprecation when DNS control transferred. The people who suffer from the issue badly enough to need DNS namespacing are either heavy users (who are therefore much more likely to pay) or corporate entities that actually desire a paid option.
No, I believe the study shows exactly that. According to the article india apparently has standardized exit exams in many schools.
I wonder which lawyer will seize on this announcement as evidence of genericisation?
Sometimes paper is the best tool money can buy.
Surely he means Indira Ghandi?
I think pinning this to the article is a bit rough, as the press release indicates they think the item is counterfeit, which implies that they're attempting to fraudulently pass themselves off as AirPods. To me, the use of the word "counterfeit" implies a trademark violation. That's clearly not happening, as the box indicates.

If the press release indicated - anywhere - even a whiff of there being a design patent issue (which is subtler and more nuanced than the word "counterfeit" allows for), I'd say it was fair to criticise the article. That's not the case though, and reading the press release, I don't think CBP thought there was a design patent issue either.
I would say 75%+ of all the working sites were parked or expired pages. I would suggest to remove or re-redirect any sites that resolve to known registrar parking page IPs (perhaps only assuming if these IPs are distinct from their webhosting cluster IPs, where actual webhosting customer websites might live). That might be a good start to at least prune a lot of the parked sites.
What the Standard Model of Physics Looks Like (2016)
Are there any cloud storage providers that have 'rclone' built into their environment ?

So I could, for instance:

ssh user@rsync.net rclone s3:/some/bucket gdrive:/blah

or:

ssh user@rsync.net rclone s3:/source/files /my/rsync.net/account

Well I'll be damned! It appears that there is such a provider :

https://www.rsync.net/products/rclone.html

https://www.rsync.net/products/universal.html
Earth may temporarily pass dangerous 1.5 C warming limit by 2024
Australian telescope finds no signs of alien technology in 10M star systems
True but that is by definition NOT dynastic wealth. Wealth is actually present throughout the society. In fact there are many forms of wealth throughout society: culture, connections, skills.
This seems like a really odd take to me. Senior management at a startup with illiquid shares is going to buy those employees' options with what? Do you imagine the CEO digging into the ol' pocket for $200k to cover an early employee's appreciated equity?

Much more of a red flag if the CEO has that kind of cash sitting around from taking something off the table early.
This piece manages to miss the memetic classism distinctions about consumption and strikes me as irrationally grating and perhaps unwittingly embodying it. Likely unfair but I can't help but see echoes of the sour grapes of reduced-to-irrelevance gentry with their posturing about how possessions aren't really that important anyway now that they aren't at top, and seeing the history the hypocrisy galls.

When it was confined to the elite such excess was to be called a virtue outside of times of open rebellion (which almost always lost and would return to the status quo). Having plenty of extra rooms and great halls in case of guests is befitting of your station but to have extra chairs stored away for guests and it is a vice! But when lower classes catch up in a luxury it becomes passe unless there is something to upsell! If 'nominally lower' mercantile classes end up moving beyond them then it is outright immorality.
I think you're right about the outrage that the electoral college gets, but not its actual faults.

To be sure, it's silly to oppose the electoral college due to personal political leanings. But arguably, the president wouldn't wield so much power were she more representatively elected.

I guess my objection is just that there's a clear feedback loop in power structures, and better representation is one of many avenues available to slow that.
I shared those doubts, hence asked for some clarity to avoid any subtext.

Manufacturing is and always has been a complicated one. Until there is some global emissions tax upon products that factor in full material to consumer aspects from production and shipping emission - things will never change and the ability to have a local product cost 2x more than some imported one that has 10x the emission, is still going to play out until there is a true emission tax (not just carbon). Hence the whole emission/environment and humanity impacts of industry has no true global standard and the variance of those standards is a difference that we all end up paying the difference, albeit indirectly.
I was thinking rocket roller skates.
Azure Cosmos DB Networking Options
Wouldn’t it work just like a standard VAT? That’s what the rest of the world do, it’s a solved problem and doesn’t imply anything about cash.