skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thin buildings produce a surprising amount of exterior windows. The last high rise I worked in put most of the common functionality near the core (hallways, bathrooms, elevators, printers) to maximize the amount of work space that had a view.

Sadly it was looking out over the West side of Chicago from the West side of the loop, so the view was mediocre even when the weather played nice.
I don’t disagree with you, but I see it two ways:

1. The continued conglomeratization in the tech sector is a worrying trend as we see fewer and fewer small players.

2. Only a large-ish company could provide effective competition in the CPU/ISA/architecture space against the current x86 duopoly.
ouch I wrote a whole comment and systematically replaced Nvidia with AMD ... kind of impressive.

Thanks!
Absolutely. I am scared of spiders because my mother is scared of spiders, not because she told me to be scared of spiders. Quite the opposite: knowing arachnaphobia is an irrational fear (at least in the UK), she tried very hard not to pass it on to her children, but the body language of fear must be near impossible to hide from a child.
Indeed, I often say there's a special place in Hell where there are programmers trying to extract data from PDFs.
Check Your CSV File for Duplicates
That was also my first contact with the concept. That podcast episode is infuriating, shocking, outrageous, riveting, and in certain parts so funny I laughed out loud. Highly recommended.

By the way, near the end of the (long) episode, they discuss how a generic drug consumer might mitigate the worst effects of the Indian (and Chinese) drug companies. I thought that would be an interesting startup, to track the scandals and reputations of every drug company and map to each drug they manufacture. Apparently this is a DIY endeavor at the moment. This information has recently become even more useful as the worldwide pharma industry ramps up for COVID-19 drugs, vaccines, etc.
I have a very similar project where I’ve extracted text and tables from over 1mm PDF filings in large bankruptcy cases - bankrupt11.com

I still haven’t found a good way of paragraph detection. Court filings are double spaced, and the white space between paragraphs is the same as the white space between lines of text. I also can’t use tab characters because of chapter headings and lists which don’t start with a <tab>. I was hoping to get some help from anyone who has done it before.
Would you please stick to the rules so we don't have to keep banning you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The incentives between me (a regular user) and my smartphone OS are (mostly) aligned. Yes, Apple has anti competitive practices which they shouldn't be allowed to partake in. I also don't like how all iOS web browsers are forced to use Safari under the hood. But as a user, that doesn't affect me much - I am happy with most of Apple's default apps and I prefer using mobile web clients (even if they are using Safari) to apps usually. I don't think I am at any risk whatsoever of being deplatformed as a user. Maybe as a developer, but I'm not a mobile developer for the most part.

I understand the benefits of Libre software. But taking the principled stance in favor of Libre software will create a lot more work for me in areas I don't normally think about much - security, the internals of my mobile OS, having to find app workarounds an replacements, etc. The reason I use iOS to begin with is that I like that Apple takes care of the basic decisions for me. I don't want to fiddle with things.
This is what real judaad [1] looks like! It blows my mind when people come up with such ingenious solutions, only partly because I’ve never been able to.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24459888
An Oracle salesman once regaled me with tales of the "Larry Bonuses" that were payoffs issued to staff sexually harassed by the boss. He seemed to find it hilarious. I was underwhelmed - I have no idea if Ellison is a serial sexual harasser, but the fact that senior sales staff find the idea hilarious and laudable says that maybe you should be worried about what Oracle staff would do with access to information about teenagers.
Wanted to share that my province, British Columbia, is pretty good about this. My team was hired to build BC’s Digital Marketplace (https://digital.gov.bc.ca/marketplace), which procures teams to build software for government that is licensed under the Apache 2 License!
>Nuclear war? Sure, but we've avoided it too long for that to be a good one either.

75 years is an infinitessimal blip of time in cosmic terms.
It is best to limit your exposure to these type of sites. There was a post yesterday about Wikipedia being an addictive MMORPG. Well, so are Hacker news, twitter, reddit, and so on...
Ugh, yeah I use LibreOffice for all my internal stuff but I have to keep MS Office installed for editing externally-visible documents, so I can be (somewhat) sure the formatting isn't going to get screwed up.
A lot of the comments here are unnecessarily negative. The author has actually worked with Teams employing "Jugaad" strategy for a decade and knows what he is talking about. I will wager that most people commenting here do not have that experience.

"Jugaad" is a great concept and strategy to adopt in real-life scenarios where you have to make do with what you have got. In these scenarios almost everything is lacking; not enough money, resources (human and capital), education nor Time. "Quality" is always a function of "Cost" which is a function of the above mentioned variables and thus the outcomes will vary based on the project/customer etc. Looked at in this vein, "Jugaad" makes perfect sense. Your expectations have to match reality. The trouble only happens when this mindset is perverted and you start cutting corners everywhere to the detriment of the end result.
I keep getting distracted by the bad line wrapping in links, where it just breaks mid-word with no hyphen or anything.

The offending CSS rule is

main .about p > a,
main .post p > a {
word-break: break-all;
}

This should just be removed, it’s unambiguously wrong. I’d have said it should be using `overflow-wrap: break-word` instead, but the containing paragraph having `word-break: break-word` makes that unnecessary.

The word-break and overflow-wrap properties are fairly nuanced, and I honestly suspect that most times I’ve seen them used they’ve been used incorrectly.

Another change that should be made to the page’s styles is reverting to left-alignment inside tables, and probably turning off hyphenation there as well. Left justification with hyphenation works well enough on regular body text (it’s a stylistic choice, shall we say), but inside tables with narrow columns it’s destructive. I’d add this:

main .about table,
main .post table {
text-align: left;
hyphens: none;
}
I've been using a phone gorilla tripod meant for vloggers to take all of my meetings on so I can keep my laptop screen clear. It's been rather nice
None, sorry.
The audience here is developers and other geeks who get stuck dealing with PDFs. The issue when you read into it is usually about structured data delivered via PDF — which I would wholeheartedly agree is a monstrous and unnecessary misuse of the format.

The other thing that is unfair is assholes who deliver tabular data in PDF format usually don’t want you to have it. When your county clerk prints a report, photocopies it 30 times, crumples it and scans to PDF without OCR, that’s not a file format issue.
I have my own deck too. I really enjoy displaying a new card every week on my desk. My friend and I even devised a little ritual when we draw cards. All hail the god of ambient, Brian Eno.
Safra Catz is relatively close to the Trump administration.
It sounds similar to what's known as an Home Owner Associations in the US. It seems very widespread on the internet for people to complain about HOAs. There's the superficial hatred, and then there's people who will tell you about the history and who seem to have deeper reasons for their dislike.
Reaching High Net Worth Individuals in China
Presumably, he sees it as a flippant or disrespectful use of the 9/11 tragedy to make a point.
If I got that question in an interview, I would write a program that asks the user what their first name is. That's the only correct solution to that problem.
Are you talking about Bose's government? Ceremionally and legally, it's 1947, surely.
I don't think it's overblown. We've seen what can be done flooding social media networks with propaganda-troll accounts and memes. With TikTok China owns the platform, and TikTok knows what you like (see any number of threads with HNers shouting the praises of how addicting tiktok is). And, we already see China's influence in media. Games and movies censored or tailored to not offend China, so we know they're mindful about even subtle messages. I don't think it's unreasonable to be concerned about TikTok as a propaganda machine.
Not sure they successfully killed Java yet ...
There were two separate IoT business units: Platform (https://pelion.com) and Data (https://www.treasuredata.com/). The Platform unit fits the Segars post-acquisition comment about end-to-end IoT software architecture, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24465005

> One person close to the talks said that Nvidia would make commitments to the UK government over Arm’s future in Britain, where opposition politicians have recently insisted that any potential deal must safeguard British jobs.

So the deal has already been influenced by one regulator. That should encourage other regulators.

> SoftBank will remain committed to Arm’s long-term success through its ownership stake in NVIDIA, expected to be under 10 percent.

Why is this stake necessary?
Micro Front ends: It's front end making some mistakes as Back end?
The souls who labour there, in life, posted PDFs to websites when HTML would have sufficed.
Going to elite Indian colleges improves earnings, but not test scores
Web developers re-write their entire stack all the time. In a business with tons and tons (and tons) of little apps and services and command line tools etc, NO ONE wants to (or can) go through all this stuff to update it because someone decided the way unicode should be handled should change. The value gain to those 100's or little apps and utils is essentially zero. I do think a LOT of people got a lot better at making sure to lock configs down - it used to be you could basically ship the python file and as long as you were not doing something weird the system python / distro python would work fine. Now you really need to version pin everything, because python 3 was a nightmare for all the pip libraries and the knock on effects just showed up everywhere.
Then there should be a "non-message" textfield up top, that doesn't pretend it's the original report, or forge its author.
Is the renderer dealing with the classic small text glyph hinting problem?
Except in that case, China expects and demands access to virtually everything of any value whatsoever.
25th anniversary edition in fact...

https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family.html
Semi off-topic, but I've always wondered if Autechre's Tri Repetae album was named after one of the oblique strategies. The title translates to "Try Repeating", I believe.
It’s nice that you’re so invested in your fever dream of CA’s downfall. I hope where ever it is you live turns out nice for you. As long as we don’t descend to full on fascism next year I think I’ll buy a house here. I like California. I stay here because of it. Maybe if enough people who think that Texas is a good idea leave people then who want to be in California can replace them and we can build more housing stock together! :)

FWIW, I’m pretty much entirely for bulldozing local zoning law and control over a lot of housing and have been delighted by our recent progress there and often vote accordingly. I think this is our major issue, not asking people and companies to pay for advancing our communities.
TikTok will be fine. They will continue existing in every single other country.
Nope. No verbal or written statement about a written policy being read or existing. I don't know what happens if you demand to see one, but one isn't offered at all. There's no fine print on the display saying you have read anything. It's just verbally "sign for this" and you do. Yet they don't condense it down to one signature.

I complained and was ignored in the same way people are ignored when they complain about the wait in the ER or ask how much treatment will cost.
The internet needs more stuff like this!
Personal about page to selling and getting Hired – OSS
Oracle is highly litigious. They also acquired and killed a number of products that had a cult following. Their consulting wing sucks, but honestly not much more than Accenture or the like.
80 million US users will be seeing one side of the story in November.
The patch to gullibility is critical thinking. Rudimentary critical thinking in any field requires general knowledge of it. Citizens of democracies need to think critically on many topics, hence they need to know a lot in many fields, and to learn ongoingly throughout their lives. Education becomes important. But Education costs a lot...

Maybe the solution is to gradually make learning as accessible, inexpensive and beneficial as possible.
Oracle is more if a conglomerate these days. I would focus on cloud, ads, data tools as the main reasons to have this business line.
I think QuickJS is the best option for embedding a JS interpreter. It’s a bit on the heavy side, but it supports a lot of modern ES2020 stuff.
https://bellard.org/quickjs/quickjs.html
Hi Todd, I'm Loc from Gigantec Media. Congrats on your great YC journey! I will shoot you an email and hope I can learn a thing or two from your experience.

Great idea btw!
I snorted. ;)
I miss DIP chips that would fit on breadboards. I don't have steady enough hands to solder QFP onto a PCB, and I'm too cheap to buy an oven :(
I have the same thought when I see the pencil tip is pointing upward instead of the other end.

Probably try to lower it down enough to fit one CD.
The fact that I know many teachers who still have to buy pencils for their students proves how wrong you are.
> a large number of people find PDF to be the best format for what they're trying to do.

Or they just don't know any better. I could certainly see this being the case for many office workers.
Being a high-wire trapeze artist isn't my job. That doesn't mean I wouldn't be terrible at it.
I used to be very strongly in favor of cross-platform but I have come to realize that in a lot of cases that while it is true for us as developers that cross-platform is great because it means a bigger audience, it is easily worse for your users.

I’d rather pay $50 for a native macOS application that uses the UI toolkits offered by its platform and respects the conventions and the system as a whole, than to pay $5 for an application that allegedly does the same thing but which feels broken, sluggish and/or incoherent because its developers are making something cross-platform.

There are some exceptions to this – some developers do pull it off, and if what they make is both good quality and performant and the tool is offering something of exceptional value to me then I will use it. But in the general case, I will avoid the non-native experience.

All of that being said, I still think it is cool that people invest time in exploring making their own GUI frameworks. All I am saying is that it has a cost for the users a lot of the time.
GPT-3 and the Autonomous Network
Ah geeze, I thought this was going to be something interesting and it turned out to be a stinking AD. I'm not going to have much faith in your arguments if your final point is going to be "buy our stuff instead of theirs."
> the problem of exceedingly wealthy people who have so much money that they can't spend it all, even with a "lavish lifestyle".

The problem is not that some people have all their needs and wants met with plenty left over. The problem is that some people do not, and there are systemic and often-insurmountable difficulties in moving people from the latter category to the former.
>A significant number of my fellow American, Millennial friends want to see China overtake us in all areas including economic and military.

>Partly because they believe we need to be punished, and partly because it shocks boomers.

Yeah but by doing that, you're letting an oppressive authoritarian regime grow in power, making the world worse off. It's essentially "cutting off the nose to spite the face".
Except for the fact that it’s been the root cause for every revolution in history.
...to conclude, California's a big economy. But it's not (at least superficially) outsized relative to other parts of the United States that contain similar populations.

https://github.com/RhysU/states
If nothing else I can imagine the hard work, hours and constant threat of bankruptcy of farming would make me very happy to get back behind that keyboard again!
I mean, I'm certainly an advocate for using PDF/A. I agree with you about what PDF should be used for, but it's hard to imagine the spec got that inflated even though nobody thought it needed all those features.
10mg of THC Sativa edible. With possibly 80-160mg of caffeine whatever amount that is your trigger threshold.

THC helps to slow everything down a bit so you can clear the fog and focus one a singular thing. The caffeine to keep that edge going.

Also extremely conducive even if you're not a fan of this genre of music but game/trailer sound tracks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1P5U7NlVoA

Music with lyrics or jazzy makes you need to focus on the music.

Alternative is this incredible little gem of youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD4dMdpNe_I incoherent background noise.

However, as few have said, bottomline is you can't circumvent sleep deprivation. Best you can do for yourself is take a power nap but even with sleep, because of the crap happening. I still recommendation the above suggestion.
Who's it worth millions to though? The teacher?
Take a read here. Py3 was supposed to better - but in a LOT of use cases this better turned out to be "miserably slower". So you were asked to do a lot of work to get your code to run slower.

File handling in the new unicode world was something like 2-3x SLOWER. This is not percent, something which took 3 minutes all of a sudden took NINE minutes because of the io module.

URL parsers became a nightmare - dual implementations of codecs started poping up.

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/5/unicode-in-2-and-3/

For a "better" python, I didn't really start using it until 3.5 or so. Now it's much more pleasant, but at the key point of transition when everyone was going to check out the new thing, it was slow, put lots of extra bumps that appeared unnecessary to solve the problems that needed solving etc.
I wonder why it didn’t go anywhere. But maybe a difficult industry to interrupt. Google or an org with that kind of money should buy an cargo ship and just make it happen.
Could be. I'm not sure what the issue is. Firefox, Chrome, and basically every other thing I use works fine.
> Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans? [...] Gavin and I don’t believe the Earth once hosted a 50-million-year-old Paleocene civilization.

Betteridge's Law confirmed. We can track down fossils billions of year back by observing the way they shaped the encasing rocks, and not once have we noticed a ceramic shard, a metal bit or the silhouette of a plastic object.
It's a thread from almost 2 months ago, why now?
That's not true. EGLStreams would be better suited to Nvidia's proprietary driver design, but it's technically inferior. This is the "broad agreement". No one but Nvidia wants EGLStreams, or we would have implemented it in other drivers.
LENR and emdrive used to be my favorite topics on reddit. Right or wrong, you can learn many amazing stuff which wont be found on other subs.
Third party tools like 0patch help. Obviously so do practices like sensible firewall settings and not opening attachments you don't trust.

I have the latest version of Office installed for when it's needed, I simply prefer doing my serious Word work in '03.

I don't think I'd hold up any version of Office as the paradigm of "internet safe" software.
Looks like broken CSS or broken scrolljacking. If you hit "stop" before everything finishes loading, there is indeed content:

* A subscription box

* A big empty box with a big horizontal scrollbar

* The most recent issue of the newsletter (also accessible from the archive without this trick) (with this trick it also starts with HTML and CSS dumped to the page instead of interpreted)

* A link back to the archive

* A second subscription box
How Do I Quickly Implement Filters with Huawei Image Kit?
success = looks + personality + networks + luck
Tegra open source support is great and actually supported by NVIDIA. Probably the best ARM GPU option for open source drivers.

Mali support is done by outside groups (not ARM). Midgard and Bifrost models are well supported (anything that starts with a T or G, respectively). Support for older models is a little worse, but better than some other GPUs.

Adreno support is done by outside groups (not Qualcomm) and is lagging behind new GPUs that come out considerably.

PowerVR GPUs (Imagination) have terrible open source support.
The fact that it’s unsolvable is what makes it a good interview problem. Seeing someone solve a problem with a correct solution doesn’t really tell you anything about the person or their thought process.
How's that significantly different from the Ruby tool they did write?
Lol. Apple seems to think users are stupid and lazy. And they’ve sold billions of devices.

Some of their designs are so minimalist for the sake of the design, that it makes their products harder to use.

One good example is getting rid of keys on their MacBook keyboard. Like the printscreen key, and they replaced it with a Command-Shift-4 keystroke. I think a single printscreen button is far simpler to use.

Another missing feature, is they put the Mac application menus on the top of the screen, but there is no clear keystroke to invoke it, and navigate through it by keyboard arrows. Instead, you must use the mouse to click on it.

By doing this, they eliminated a discreet and digital keystroke action by using the keyboard, and turned it into an analog action by forcing you to navigate to the menu by the mouse. On Windows, the keystroke is Alt-F.
Android, YouTube, Google Maps, DoubleClick, Applied Semantics (became AdSense), DeepMind, Urchin, ITA Software, etc.

I think Google has done ok.
PDF is digital paper.

You like it for that very quality: immutable, reproducible rendering.

Those who have to extract data from PDFs face nearly the same problem as those who have to deal with paper scans: no reliable structure in the data, the source of truth is the optical recognition, by human or by machine.
Yes, I read the article. The discovery does sound compelling. I'm commenting on his amplification strategy ("Signs of Life discovered on Venus") rather than just presenting the facts ("Phosphine detected in Venus atmosphere").

I prefer my science news without a hype man but the author seems to take quite the initiative on Quora: "However we must deploy Occam's Razor and suggest the simplest explanation and the evidence suggests the simple explanation is biological sources, life."

https://www.quora.com/Was-life-discovered-in-the-clouds-of-V...

It's pretty sensationalized and coordinated like a PR campaign.

If you watch the video on his Twitter feed, the scientists themselves seem to focus on the science and don't claim to have "discovered life on Venus", so they do seem well intentioned. And their discovery certainly does sound interesting and potentially significant.
So why haven't they closed down?