skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I would put forth that you can take it even further, and assume that every moment In time represents a recreation of your conscious experience of the past up until the present.

Under that perspective, Consciousness is like the illusion of motion on a computer monitor. There's some sort of framerate, related to the minimum period of time in which you can perceive a conscious thought, and the sequence playing back at a high frequency creates the illusion of continuity.
Whats the "why you should" part?

Seems like a great way to make life harder for yourself for no reason.
There are also non-academic success factors to consider in earnings over time. Family connections and wealth, personal networks, personality, tenacity, etc.
https://twitter.com/yadav_monica/status/1292047281676382210 is another instance where a teacher from India used a smartphone and a refrigerator tray for sharing hand-written notes. I believe that this would give more clarity than the surface area of the CD.
"I'm going to let this slide" is the closest thing that springs to mind, but I wouldn't be surprised if some regional dialect somewhere uses "walk" like that.
I have noticed rclone deletes sometimes don't ever get cleared out of Google Drive's trash cache, but that's something you can work around with some periodic check scripts.

That trash behavior isn't specific to rclone and probably something on Google's end, but rclone is what I notice it with most.
I tried to put in a URI from github.com
Pressed the next button and NOTHING
Tried with www as part of URI STILL NOTHING
Maybe it's just me, but this site is not ready for prime time as far as the github URI
Despite all recent OCR, AI and NLP technology, PDFs won't make "computational" sense unless you know in advance what kind of data you are looking for. The truth of the matter is that PDF was designed to convey
pretty "printed" information in an era where "eyes only" was all that mattered. Today the PDF format just can't provide the throughput and reliability that interop between systems requires.
Some go as far as to say religious people are mentally ill.

What we’re witnessing with the modern conspiracy theory is basically an incubator (a legit ycombanitor) for religion startups. Literally watching the moment of the Big Bang when all of our major religions started from some unsubstantiated claims over to divine laws - with no one asking for a shred of proof as it spreads. How did that happen? A good story, characters, dumbasses, boredom, etc. Oh, sprinkle some persecution in there, that always fans the flames (Christianity in Rome).

So, QAnons being persecuted and banned now? Textbook startup, time for more funding.

Fascinating really.
For many reasons - primary would be the confusions of production of electricity and source of fuel to produce aforementioned electricity. Then the actually source of that Gas.

"However, in the UK, most of the natural gas imported comes by pipeline from Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium. There are no pipelines that allow Russian gas to flow to the UK from Norway (the biggest source of imports)."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43421431
> I am not sure how? Quite the contrary, stating that "good is what the society decides" is a way to solve contradictions in individual choices.

It seems to me a way to avoid considering the contradictions in individual choices, which is where many of the interesting issues of ethics lie. This stance may be coherent in its own terms (and quantifiable, 'objective' and so forth), but I am skeptical that it yields much insight, and I think it is wise of you to not adopt it.

Does this stance offer any specific counter-arguments to the specific points I raised in my original post in this thread? Does it, for example, refute my claim that "a measure of the phenomenon is not an explanation of how human societies came to have an ethical aspect?"
> Wouldn't a better announcement be "Phosphine detected in Venus atmosphere".

Better announcement for whom? For the general public, which largely has no idea what phosphine is but has a decent chance of guessing it is a chemical, that title would not give them any indication that the article might be interesting to them.

For most people the only thing that makes phosphine on Venus interesting is that it might be a sign of life, so you want to have that somewhere in the title.
Why Voting Tokens Are Horrible and 4 Ways to Fix Them
Your comment sounds like conspiracy theory bait and has no actual content.
You basically just described a system that is massively hacked in order to mostly have the intended outcome...
There's more than just trademark. I used to work with some attorneys formerly at the US International Trade Commission. From what they told me, most goods that they had seized at the border were caught in "design patent" cases. It was interesting to me how prominent that area of law was in practice, given that we never covered it in my IP classes.
Maybe not counterfeit, but you still can’t argue this design is stolen pretty much straight from Apple.
> that is where the innovation is coming from

Wasn’t tiktok just running a huge campaign about how all the work is done in the US, it just happens to be hq-ed in China?
When building your own culture, of course. However, that also misses the fact that there's also the larger context of e.g., silicon valley "norms". So much cargo culting of behavioral patterns from unicorns, the spread of the various "mafias" from them as they go to other companies, etc. Add in the various management level sillinesses and it's a harder problem to solve for most people than your comment implies.
That 2014 video is so revealing... I think it deserves a post of its own :-)
And what of accessibility?
Similar story here, 3.5 was first version that was even practical to really consider (they kept on making the compat story a bit better because they FINALLY listened to folks). I really wish you and others had more luck earlier, the transition did not need to be nearly as painful.
How would that work? Right now sales taxes are collected by merchants and the buyers are anonymous.

Wouldn't you need to submit your every purchase to the government, banning cash and barter?
Gay people are not 3:1. You’re making up statistics to further your argument, but it’s not helping. Any source I’ve seen in terms of voting record and polling it’s 5:1 or higher.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/record-lgbt-support-...
I think sagemath uses this for their symbolic package
Japan and Australia have legislation in the works and there are rumblings in a few EU countries.
It seems like it should be doable to train a two-tower model, or something similar, that simultaneously runs OCR on the image and tries to read through the raw PDF, that should be able to use the PDF to improve the results of the OCR.

Does anyone know of any attempt at this?

Blah blah blah transformer something BERT handwave handwave. I should ask the research folks. :-)
The problem is people unfit to have kids are shooting seed at alarming rates, and if we don’t take better measures to encourage optimal reproduction we will be overrun with their kin.
Vertical integration. It's the end products, not the producers that matter.

Or maybe, more accurately, the middle of the supply chain doesn't matter. The most value is at either end: raw materials and energy, and end products.

Or so it seems :p ;) xx
You are lucky software development is not your passion — see the post about BS jobs. I still code because I am passionate about coding. I am also passionate about sailing. I once asked a fellow sailor (who was really amazing at sailing) why they didn't sail for a living? They said working at it for money would totally ruin their passion for sailing.

"How do you make sure that a celebrity's tweet reaches all of her followers in less than 3 seconds?" I really don't care, and neither should you — that's a bad gig, but I really liked reading the stories about your interview experiences. Bring a humble piece of your CRUD code to the interview, and wow them. If you still like software development, keep doing it as long as it is a good gig.
A case-study for Owen Meany
I think that was more a case of "we need a PC build video, they're trending right now... ...hey Josh, you know about computers, right?"

IMO, they should've done more due diligence first to avoid teeing off the super-elitist subset of enthusiast people
How Bitcoin works (2014) [video]
The video, although 6 years old has not lost any relevance and provides the relevant information to communicate about bitcoin for non-CS people, but it also is useful for CS people, and has lots of forward-looking commentary (in 2014) that will amuse everyone.
You fail to understand that they purposely broke compatibility for no benefit. That is not improving the language - that is being stupid.

In python 2 you could specify a unicode literal with u''. So a natural evolutionary option if you had a unicode addiction and wanted python 3 to be unicode native, would be to treat u'' as unicode literals in python 3 as well.

This let's the code run under python 2 still, and then you get unicode in 3. And if you are 3 only, just "blah blah" works as well - nice.

But they didn't do that. They purposely took u'' out to make it hard to support 2 and 3. That is absolute stupidity. In other words, they BROKE compatibility for no benefit - but just to break it.

They did the same thing with byte handling, jumped the io abstraction in - these things all destroyed performance and use cases.
> And then there’s all that plastic. Studies have shown that increasing amounts of plastic “marine litter” are being deposited on the seafloor everywhere from coastal areas to deep basins, and even in the Arctic. Wind, sun, and waves grind down large-scale plastic artifacts, leaving the seas full of microscopic plastic particles that will eventually rain down on the ocean floor, creating a layer that could persist for geological timescales.

Sandstones. Sandstones originate as far as hundreds of million years in the past. Occasionally they harbor fossils, which are indeed rare. But a lot of sandstone is made of sanded up organic material which we can readily identify, even if we can't point to the specific organism they originated from. We only need a tiny industrial-related grain of sand (ceramic, glass, metal, plastic traces) to point to a past civilization. Nobody ever noticed such a grain of sand.
I really liked this version "Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers" especially for when you're stuck on something.

https://kevinlawler.com/prompts
Completely agree with your assessment, I also went to an ‘elite’ college, had the exact same experience.
> His argument is that dynastic wealth doesn’t persist in the United States.

America doesn't really have people who've been billionaires for 7 generations.

But America does have people who were born into enough money to never have to worry about finances ever, had children with the same benefit, and had grandchildren in similar circumstances. Plenty of people in politics are the son or grandson of a line of rich politicians. Plenty of comfortable millionaires got their start from a lineage of inherited wealth.

It's not enough money to rank on Forbes 400 and build private castles that'll last centuries, but it's definitely wealth and status being passed down. It's safe money. Many people who became billionaires aren't there through safe, steady, risk-free financial management.
That doesn't answer my question about why you claim it doesn't scale.
Whilst Co2 emission maybe lowering, it is the other polluting emission that have seen increasing weight placed upon Co2 emission over other forms of emission is a little concerning that they will get overshadowed.

https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/library/reports?section_id=7 A good source for atmospheric(air quality) data.
My information is 15+ years old and maybe they changed it. or maybe it’s Canadian citizens and not just residents. And yes the US is only one of two countries in the world that taxes income earned abroad by its citizens. Can be incredibly burdensome in some situations.
"Zoomers that I know don't think it's important for the US to have a lead in tech and that we commit atrocities worse than China."

And we haven't?
You could look at race relations, organized labor, communist party. Any of these, and more, could be looked at internally historically to the usa and show hypocritical views.
Given that there are basically only two parties in the US there is a pretty good chance you will find a Trump donor/supporter in every c-suite (and a Biden supporter for that matter).

Don’t need to go full conspiracy for no reason.
I'm scratching my head trying to figure out why you're being downvoted while the least well-informed comments along the lines of "Customs officials are dumb!" are at the top.

This is very likely a design patent case, not just trademark. In which case, they could be infringing regardless of the logo on the box.

Then again, the article isn't helping, as it also seems oblivious to the design patent possibility.
"that will cause us to lose the lead."
Good.
Did Russia influence the election?
But what would microsoft do with ARM at a $40b valuation?
https://labs.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=labs:50:0
Because in this case the executive branch effectively forced the sale to happen by threatening to ban the platform. TikTok on its own wasn't looking to sell. Now, they have to sell to an American company in order to make Trump happy. So what else do they have to do to make Trump happy?
The open web is a distant second at that - perhaps third if you think the google play store is relatively malware-free compared to the open web.
> Copying the text gives: “ch a i r m a n ' s s tat em en t” Reconstructing the original text is a difficult problem to solve generally.

Why not looking for stretches characters with spaces between them, then concatenate, check against a dictionary and if a match is found, remove the spaces.

> “On_April_7,_2013,_the_competent_authorities”

Same here.
Does sage also handle numerical stuff? The impression I got was that it was a bit more general than Maxima.

However, I am terribly frightened by programs like this, as I suspect they are much smarter than me, so I tend to avoid them.
Decentralised serverless functions for Blockchain apps
When you build a blockchain app, you still need a backend hosted somewhere to enable browser access. I had this idea of building a decentralised serverless FaaS specifically to host the frontend part of blockchain applications. Would like to get some feedback.
I cant find the numbers for the EmDrive research for the past 20 years but my guess is that it wasn’t cheap at all. Comparing that to sending a few pounds into orbit as a proof of concept is probably peanuts. I don’t have numbers and its all speculation on my part. If you do have numbers please share them
They also get VERY HOT. I can't hold my phone after using it as a webcam while it's on a wireless charing pixel stand (which is somewhat less than a USB Quickcharge, but more than regular Wireless charging)
Minor point, but I had a fascinating lunchtime chat with a fellow who made his pile[1] back in the 1950's, because he saw I was reading Weiner's book.

[1] He developed automatic reset for bowling alleys, and made bank. For his second system, he thought he'd automate food service. That didn't go (and hasn't gone) so well.
> Most recently, the Younger Dryas Boundary comet strike, that drove 30+ American genera to extinction and wiped out the Clovis culture, has finally been accepted by mainstream geologists.

This statement surprised me because, while I haven't kept any sort of close eye on Younger Dryas research, I had literally never heard of this hypothesis before. A quick search of scholar.google.com for "Younger Dryas impact" focusing on recent papers seems to indicate to me that there is at least an active, ongoing academic dispute between at least two groups over the matter, and I haven't looked at the author lists to figure out if there's only one group on a specific side.

At the very least, I'd be very hesitant to say that it "has finally been accepted by mainstream geologists."

Edit: I should also mention that I did find an r/AskHistorians post on this topic (https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/du40jl/the_y...) where the archaeologist is clearly not a believer in the hypothesis, linking some articles [including those I found in my aforementioned search] that are critical of the theory. While not gospel truth, it again suggests that "has finally been accepted by mainstream geologists" is not an accurate description of the current status of the hypothesis in the relevant community.
Early Forest Fire Detection and Verification (2012)
> I’m happy to pay Apple to do it for me because my phone is nowhere near my main or most important computing device

It seems a lot of people are happy to pay Apple to assume that role for their main computing device too.
(Sarcasm) You should “buck up” and learn Rust or C. With a real language you won’t have to deal with the overhead of a runtime and will really be able to saturate the resources.
You can find a trump donor in basically every c-suite (there are only two parties in the US yeah?). Don’t need to reach for conspiracies at the drop of a hat all the time.
I'm with you. I tried to find that keen edge of sarcasm in my comment but I missed the mark. And really it was childish and I shouldn't have even attempted it. Apologies to AlotOfReading for not replying in earnest, and since I think they upvoted me. Yes I will continue to recommend Hancock's books, along with recommending critiques of his books. Hancock is pretty tame compared to other books I recommend ;). Free flow of information and especially the freedom to be wrong is vital and Hancock is a great expression of this.
The compositor is evil
No, a moon base where we can experiment and mess things up with no consequence.
> Why is this stake necessary?

Edit: it’s not necessary/a requirement.

They’re noting that after the transaction, SoftBank will still fall under the 10% ownership threshold that requires more reporting from the SEC [1]:

> Section 16 of the Exchange Act applies to an SEC reporting company's directors and officers, as well as shareholders who own more than 10% of a class of the company's equity securities registered under the Exchange Act. The rules under Section 16 require these “insiders” to report most of their transactions involving the company's equity securities to the SEC within two business days on Forms 3, 4 or 5.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/smallbusiness/goingpublic/officersanddir...
Qualcomm and Apple are going to be fine even with NVIDIA owning ARM. They are American companies under the protection of US legislation and representation.

However the situation for Chinese companies is even clearer now. Huawei, Hikvision etc. need to move away from ARM. Probably on to their own thing as RISC-V is dominated by US companies.
It was made a lot harder by their efforts around intentional breakage. You couldn't do import from past (ie, to get print "" working). You couldn't do u'' to get unicode compatible string handling between both versions.
For those who can't read Japanese, the site is about a small-scale organic farm in Daisen Town, Tottori prefecture.
Ask HN: Software for Reading Pdfs?
Hi HN,
I am looking for recommendations for native software for reading and annotating pdfs.

text-to-speech feature would be good to have but not necessary
That would be rare.

I also suspect 1 million is a massive underestimation.
ProPublica Illinois Uses GNU Make to Load 1.4GB of Data Every Day – ProPublica
How Super Producer Rick Rubin Gets People to Do Their Best Work
Yes, Sage includes Python and the Python numerical stack (numpy, scipy, etc). It also has a lot of new code related to interval arithmetic (arbitrary precision numerical computation with proven error bounds).
given that USITC is a U.S. Agency, and this is a Canadian Seizure, but also GlobalFoundries vs TSMC dispute is resolved "dismissing all litigation between them as well as those that involve any of their customers", this doesn't seem likely to be the cause.
Control theory certainly predates Wiener's cybernetics. He did not invent negative feedback analysis nor design of control systems. He did fail to cite previous work, so adherents of cybernetics think he did.
I wonder if it was just chance or due the growth of the internet, but over half the sites I got were in Chinese. I found that really interesting, since the Chinese side of the internet is usually so far removed from the English-speaking world, and we have no idea how the internet is growing or being used over there.
The thing I find frustrating about FPGAs is how they are stuck in the "ASIC-replacement" mind-set.

In principle, these things could change their programming on the fly, as fast as everything happening in the regular logic, but everybody thinks they have to be programmed at power-up and left that way.

If the programming bit-stream could be fed, separately, to each section of the die, under control of logic on other parts of the die, a system of totally adaptable logic would become possible. Different programming could be installed according to the needs of the moment, replaced with other logic the moment needs change.

It would be a project to figure out out to usefully program such a system, but we are up to it. Our phones adopt completely different usage each time we tap on an app icon, but the performance of apps running on CPUs is strictly limited.
I doubt they're saying that the UK outsourced heavy-industry specifically to reduce on local emissions, but rather that one of the secondary effects of outsourcing heavy industry was to outsource pollution.
I think you’re spot-on with making learning as accessible as possible to have a more informed populace, but making the information available is only half of getting people to take it in. Trauma blocks critical thinking and internal honesty, and we have a massive trauma and PTSD problem, to the point where poverty and food insecurity meaningfully reduces effective IQ. Thankfully MAPS is working on treating PTSD at scale. I have set up a recurring monthly donation and I encourage anyone who values intellectualism to do the same, so that we may swell our ranks with those who are currently too hurt to think clearly.
Adobe Reader has an option to Read Aloud PDF files. I don't know how well or poor that works, but I'm writing this comment just in case you were not aware of that function.
Analytics platform leveraging Ethereum Smart Contracts events and logs
is there a blockchain analytics platform leveraging Ethereum events and logs to create application analytics dashboards ?
Sadly, "burden of proof" has never gained traction despite its essential nature.

I really wish I were intelligent enough to systematize it, but billions of dollars have so far failed to establish procedures for sound reasoning. Or maybe just make those procedures commonplace.
No it's not.

Anybody remember PeopleSoft?
Coincidentally, the market price of copper crashed in 1970 and stayed low until 1973, when it spiked. Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24260354 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23908438 . Now I'm curious: does anyone have an example of a reform/revolution lucky enough to be selling exports into a rising market?

(Mid-1980s conservative economic reform in the US might be an example, although in that case I suspect the Plaza Accord had more to do with it than pure market forces:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23219277 )
That is correct. We embed Maxima at the C level using ECL for much better performance than one might expect (basically call Maxima from python very efficiently in the same process!).
I still keep my Lumias around.