skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, maybe generally; but let’s talk about the specific case here — filling of complex PDF forms.

When a PDF that has interactive form fields, calculated auto-populated fields, fields that are enabled/disabled according to the inputs of other fields, etc. — the organization that created it (usually government or education) usually does that because they want you to fill it out using a PDF viewer; save it (which will persist the form inputs “into” the resulting PDF); and then submit the modified PDF file back to them. They want this, because they can use automated backend processes to extract the data from the PDF. They don’t want you to just print out the thing and fill it out. In fact, many such “fillable” PDFs start off in a state with many of their form-fields disabled and voided, such that printing them out in that state would result in a form you can’t really write on!

So, at that point, why didn’t they just make the PDF a web page? They’ve essentially reinvented a web form, but with extra steps. The only benefit a client gets is the ability to edit and save the form offline (but that can be done in a browser, too, with local storage); and furthermore, the ability to treat the resulting filled form as a file, moving it around before you submit it. But the cases where you need that are very niche, compared to the cases where you can just direct employees to your Intranet portal.
To be fair, I think that logic applies to some of the items on Google's list too. Like Google Nexus? They changed the name and scope of their phone line. AngularJS? They took the framework in a different direction.
Well they weren't. It took great deal of effort to get involved in both wars. The US has traditionally been isolationists on matters in the eastern hemisphere.

And it took world wars - here we are talking about internal china problem which is harder sell. China invading someone US cares about - like Japan may convince the US public to pay the nuclear butcher bill, but what they do on their own territory is not
I'd guess primarily language, the status page says their testing to ensure the right fields get filled.
They’ve been expanding in Austin and broke ground on new expansions last year.

They’ve been in Austin for a long time though. It’s mostly right now support services like AppleCare running out of that campus

The main developer/engineering hub is still Cupertino and Santa Clara though
Hmm, I think it would not necessarily expose the rest of the network, though: if the router supports it, I would use a tagged vlan (let's say wan.42) as the upstream connection, and wan.10 as a lan port, part of the switched interfaces.

On the switch side, I'd have put the SFP connector inside VLAN 42, untagged, and put every other port in VLAN 10, untagged.

There are probably a couple other ways to achieve this, and ISPs sometimes use tagged VLANs as well. But I think that could work (I have little experience with VLANs, so I might be wrong, feel free to point it out to me).

On the other hand, if I had gigabit fiber, a single cable would halve my bandwidth. And I'd pick the multiple cable option over the other as long as I can afford it (enough ports)!

Thanks for pointing out the layer 2 "noise". I wonder if my switch wouldn't support bridging together two ports, I think it runs Linux...
This is so fucking stupid. We've already put humans on the Moon, 50 years ago. Does it really matter if it was a man or a woman? Why waste time going to the Moon again, instead of, say, working on getting to Mars?
Once you've signed in, they offer this video: https://youtu.be/tedTuOvS8Dw
I am guessing that this is downvoted because it makes both sides look equally bad, and ‘bothsidesism’ is often considered problematic.

Can anyone comment on whether my guess is accurate?
It sounds like Notion to me.

https://notion.so
Congrats! Just added a marketing cofounder listing for driverbase.com. Is there a way to get email notifications sent to our work address? I used the linkedin signup but it pulled my personal email and looks like i cannot change it. Thanks!

https://founderslist.com/cofounders/view/looking-for-a-commu...

https://driverbase.com
You do know that most of the Europeans didn't have a problem with Germany's antisemitism. What do you think why germany had such a big jewish community and culture in the first place?
Because they were driven out of the other countries and could live freely in Germany.
But also in Germany the hate finally prevailed.
"Most of what landlords do is cause friction in the real estate market"

They provide a service just like any other business.
"Abandoned" is probably a bit more accurate.
Ask HN: Is Sublime Text Dead?
Is sublime text really dead?
It's easy to dismiss things in their entirety and then require someone else to "prove you wrong". Why don't you prove you're right instead?

Why don't you list all of things that PDFs can do that can also be done with web pages?
Without getting into the details of video compression, you can't remove arbitrary parts of a video file without causing problems when the file is played.

Even if the video is uncompressed you will still need to remove entire frames and then - for most formats - reconstruct a file header at the start of the file.

This is a much harder problem than throwing away x% of a file without worrying about the structure of the content.

It's fairly easy to solve that problem at the disk block level. But if you're trying to keep the data structures error-free, you're going to have to do a lot more work.
I would like to hire you/your company to do vote counting.
How fast can you count the votes?

And no mistakes are allowed or there will be serious repercussions, and you have to prepare to be inspected by 3rd parties that ensure count is legal and correct.
You don’t buy optane for faster Boot times, you buy it as a render cache.
We still don't have a single deployment solution, we don't even have single hosting solution. We can choose between 3 different cloud providers, or dedicated servers. (They're pushing for cloud now)

The thing is, this all is pushed down from management. In my previous project, we tried to automate as much as possible, but at the end of the day, our production support still wanted to deploy manually. Our business still wanted to see manual end-to-end tests with screenshots.

Then there's also different regulations in certain countries where you need to host your application and database in the country itself, so that's another solution.

Working in finance can be a real eye opener sometimes.
Considering how avid Electron user tell others how files should not be even bigger than few hundred lines considering electron croaks on that. Or without irony they tell how fast Electron is on 6-core/32GB machines and that everyone should upgrade. They should be last person to talk anything about performance.

> Long story short: This Electron-flaming meme is getting old.

No I think it remains perfectly relevant today. And Electron products are not really enough shit that they so well deserve.
Paris hails victory over short-stay rents
Like I said, they keep track of font usage. The billing is based on usage. That domain sets no cookies and the privacy policy doesn't permit the data to be used for ads: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html It's not ad tech.

I think this is the problem with the "high score" approach to measuring the privacy impact of a site. Number of third-party cookies or "trackers" is not a great proxy for how well a site actually protects your data in ways you care about.

I would also add New Relic as an example of a site that really shouldn't be in a list of "ad tech."
Fintech Founder Has Raised $200M to Give You a Reason to Love Your Bank
Military contingency plans to support police with 500 to backfill armed guarding
I meant the depth of their catalog is short. I absolutely love short/bite-sized content.
And the much higher temperatures (if your M.2 is an NVMe). Could anyone knowledgeable explain why NVMe tend to get much hotter than SATA under similar conditions? I've been testing mine with not more than 400-500 MB/s and it quickly gets to 60°C+, while the old 840 Evo doesn't get above ~45°C (running a very similar synthetic workload). I would've guessed the opposite: the fully enclosed SATA drive should get much hotter.
Yeah... nope. If this goes as other google products, it won't see any updates, it won't get any new features - they will wonder why no one is using it and then kill it.
Distributing a document with functioning kerning and embedded fonts that works offline
There are horizons and horizons, they aren't all just modest incremental improvements. Some of them are big leaps in price/performance ratios, for instance the latest generation of graphics cards that just came out. Threadripper too was something worth waiting for, something worth building a new machine to leverage. Depending on your use case there can be good/bad times to pull the trigger on a new machine.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19887424
With Code they’re running out of process and communicating via IPC/RPC most of the time which introduces instability that I’ve never experienced in Visual Studio, Rider, or IntelliJ
I know several Apple employees who have been fighting to be allowed to move from Cupertino to Vancouver, without success.
Please explain to me how its projection. Modern China's problem is the abundance of uneducated people. The racism mostly stemmed from ignorance. Same exact reason that when I visited Ecuador people pointed and stared.

The wiki article doesn't even state that 'Han chauvinism' was 'bad'. It doesn't list a single incident of 'Han chauvisnism'. Do you know what the little red book is? You took the first result from google search and you didn't even read it.
Have they made it any easier to disable the ‘megabar’?

https://www.userchrome.org/megabar-styling-firefox-address-b...

Edit: Added link
This comes off as a dogmatic person who is trying to get at external factor of his life to help them move forward instead of looking inward.

I fear this kind of mentality because when you don't want to solve your own problems, you will get external forces to fix your problems. Like, say, the government, in the form of passing too many laws.
OmniFocus. And Subler, but technically it was a donation. https://subler.org
It’s not a trial, it’s a hearing to explore whether just cause exists for a US ‘arrest’, and whether the prosecution is not manifestly unreasonable.

The US has excessive punishments and an overly politicised justice system by UK standards, but that’s not the what the hearing is about - legitimate jurisdiction is - and the US, as an ally, is generally trusted to prosecute people fairly under its own laws.
not necessarily for the better! synthetic benchmarks and specialized workflows not withstanding, the hardware is really not that different, but windows is absolute trash. stay on mac friend :)
I agree. The anti-book sentiment has felt quite strong lately, and this article is another example.

I think people feel subconsciously guilty that they do not read more. It is thus easier to dismiss books than to acknowledge the fact that most attention spans have been reduced the the granularity of a comment thread. We are all victims to this. Reading a book takes more effort than it used to.

I fear that most people have already read the last book they will complete in their lifetime (not that completing a book is necessary in deriving value from it).
While they do federate, it's a challenge to get them to accept mails from your own mail server. Microsoft's mail servers are notorious for accepting your mails with a "250 Queued for delivery" and then letting them vanish in a black hole. I've also ran into problems with mail servers of government agencies.
So yes, while technically possible, self-hosting your mail server sadly isn't viable anymore for the little guy.
Are these the ones that Anandtech has commented use a modified controller instead of new controller? So scaling to PCIe 4.0 is using a lot more power than it should.
I like that single-page PDFs stay in the browser. I don’t want to keep them; I just want to see them. Like any other web-page. I want to be able to hit back, or close the tab, and continue on with my day.

And I also like that I can preview long-form PDFs in the browser, before choosing whether to save them and read them “for real.”

Imagine if every time you opened a direct-linked JPEG image in your browser, it treated it as an attachment, downloading it and opening it in your external image-previewer app, rather than rendering it as a synthesized HTML DOM wrapper around the image. Wouldn’t you be annoyed by how cluttered your Downloads directory would get with random files you never actually wanted to save?
Hi HN! 8 months ago I posted on Show HN about a project of mine, a space I built for women entrepreneurs and makers, and received a lot of great feedback [1]. At the time, it helped me to get new members. The community is still growing and we are almost 900 today! Next month, I’m organizing a hackathon called Just F*ing Ship It [2]. The concept: 30 days to build and launch something. Can be anything as long as you finish before October 31st. It’s the perfect opportunity to get things done! Who’s in?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22128385

[2] https://womenmake.com/30-day-challenge-2020
That factory is probably already at total loss at this point, Musk does like to lean on his workers though, maybe he gets along with the CCP and he is famous enough that it is effectively guanxi.
Gitlab 13.4 released with Vault for CI variables and Kubernetes Agent
Read older books.

I became excited with Jordan Peterson's first videos and bought his book "12 rules" when it came out. I skimmed it and... I'm literally using it as a footrest. Peterson is a powerful speaker but has little content.

Older books:

(a) Have stood the test of time.

(b) Typically arose in a time where intellectual celebrity fermented in core intellectual circles first, and only then popularized.

Kahneman and Tversky have their share of technical contributions but were catapulted to thought leaders (and Nobel-Sveriges Bank prize winners) due to classic tokenism: someone from psychology or behavioral science had to win. The same just happen to someone two rungs below their level, Esther Duflo.

If she comes out with a popular book, don't buy it. Read Polanyi's "The Great Transformation", if inclined to left-ish ideas, or Richard Powers' novel "Gain", otherwise.
I don't want to be glib here, but that would be the subject matter of his trial if/when he finally does get to the US.

An extradition hearing is not, and has never been, the place where questions of innocence or guilt are decided.
I <3 airtable. This is a low energy clone. Sad.
I think we don't confront China because we'd have to admit that the same process of cultural annihilation is also happening to western nations through multiculturalism and mass migration.
No. But it's neglected in favor of SublimeMerge, if not development-wise, at least public-beta-builds-wise.
https://www.bloggerzune.com/2020/07/hack-my-maths.html

How to hack my maths this is going to be the first article of all the ones I've done on here and these are for actual.

Natural quizzes not just for games, so the first thing you'll need is Firefox Programs.

It's just Firefox, so the first thing that you want to do is you're going to click on the test you want to do so I'm only on practice here. Still, it works on homework two it's let's say I want to do this one click on it and try the homework or the worksheet and it should load up now what you're going to do is work out or work out one of them, so you want to find the easiest one and then yeah work it out so I'm going to do I don't.
Hasn't XML opened in the browser since forever?
They can sunset things better that way customers have clearer paths forward.
Airbus approach: the flight computer should place limits on the control authority of the pilots to prevent them from making unsafe inputs

Boeing: The pilots should be the final authority in the cockpit; automation will warn against unsafe control inputs but not prevent them
Printing is one use case. Also plenty places that want filled out forms uploaded, e-mailed, ... + it allows you to keep a copy with what you entered.
That built in PDF viewer is another feature that could have been an addon. It's bloat which increases the browser's attack surface. It's completely unneeded given that just about every OS ships with some kind of PDF reader out of the box.
You know the Chinese citizens live there, right?

Consider that they probably understand their government better than you do. They saw a great coronavirus response followed immediately by a stellar response to a 100-year flood event, the kind that used to dislocate millions of people. Meanwhile, they can all see the results of the US system at present.
This is my intepretation, but I didn't conclude that privacy marketing added $1.3trillion to Apples market cap, what I did take from that statement is that brand strategy IS very important though. I say this because Apples privacy marketing has definitely impacted me, I was already an Apple fanboy but I've become more resolute in not buying and persuading people to not buy non-apple hardware since their privacy marketing tear. So maybe it hasn't added trillions in value but it has indeed added something!
iCampus Hotel is the next apple product.
More anecdata here... Mom and Pop stores are good at fixing phones they see often and basically just watching Youtube videos for phones they don't see often.

I had a hell of a time trying to get someone to fix my Blackberry (long story) a few years ago (longer story) even though every store said they could handle it. They could not.
Huh, I don't get the Cillit Bang genius. Care to explain?
I'm currently reading Anne Applebaum's Gulag: A History and the origins are the following:

* Initially they had a huge amount of prisoners and shortage of workers in key regions. Naturally they had them work in remote areas.

* The real motivation is economic - the central planners simply loved the flexibility of slave labor - they could start pet projects quickly. They wanted to complete vanity projects that made no economic sense like the Belomorcanal. Their need for hard currency also meant that they needed raw resources for export, most of which were in faraway, underdeveloped regions.

* Repressive organs found that they were strongly incentivised to send even more people to the camps.

* There was obviously no free media - which meant that any excess was covered up or spun as success - for example Gorky acknowledged that prisoners don't have the proper skills or tools, but somehow claimed that ideology and superb management created wonders. This eventually emboldened the government to enslave even more people.

In short they created a slave economy. It wasn't by design, in so far that the leaders of the country didn't explicitly wish the return of slavery and serfdom, but there was a spiral of reinforcing incentives in the system.

Just like the USSR of the 20s and 30s China is desperate to create economic growth at all costs, will eventually run out of cheap rural labor[0], on which it used to rely for the last few decades and is not beholden to either national or international opinion. Who can stop the CPC from reintroducing slavery or serfdom? The Gulag system developed over 10 years to reach it its classical form, we may well see the first steps.

Economist Evsey Domar famously created a model where high labour demand and lots of available land creates incentives for landowners to reintroduce serfdom [1] as they didn't want to compete with each other. Is China's capital being accustomed to cheap labourers migrating from poor rural areas the reason why rural minorities are now forced into labour by the government?

[0]: https://tradingeconomics.com/china/rural-population-percent-... - this is the total rural population, but I assume eventually many of the remaining people will be old or average-off Han that like it in the villages.

[1]: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/63299/causeso...
Certainly was expecting more highlighting of the camera in the article going by that title.
Not saying it should be attributed solely to that, but having a marketing message that your main competitor (Android) cannot repeat or rephrase with a serious face is one heck of an advantage to have. Just remember PC vs Mac ads and all those "we take better photos than _ phone" ads. I think their best try has been 'privacy shouldn't be expensive' in some opinion piece by Pichai but still weak.

PS. I have friends who have no idea how the internet works at all but they do have the intuition that Apple makes money from the hardware and not from exploiting their privacy as Google. That's their reason to sticking with iPhones.
It has been sad to learn about the U.S. fighting fires in CA with prison labor.

It is sad for a number of reasons, but in situations like this it removes moral standing of the US to criticize others, because clearly there is little introspection happening.

The US houses 25% of the world’s prison population, how much more law and order do we need? Why do our prisoners labor for our governments and companies? Is this forced?
> You know what's best for you.

I am too cynical - said me washing down McBurger with Coke before taking a drag of my Marlboro.
IOPS heavily depend on accessed block sizes though, the promise for optane, especially the DIMM kind is cacheline-addressability.
Ginsburg Supreme Court: Republicans secure vote for replacement
Mongo DB Is Web Scale
> It has disrupted the interactions I used to have with people outside my direct projects where we shared ideas and kept abreast of what’s cool and going on inside the company

The kind of conversations that Apple presumably forbids anyways, so maybe that’s why they don’t see any loss X-D
Yes, this is it! The special sauce of the original is that there is so much mystery; "Enemy Unknown" is the whole idea. While I love the Firaxis reboot, and think it has better gameplay, I'm not sure it's strictly a better game. It all feels so clean and organized, and it's always clear what needs to be done. There's no sense of bureaucratic panic, wasted time on pointless tech-trees, or over-investment in a singular hail-mary plan that is completely foolhardy only in retrospect.

The discovery portion of XCOM matched with the dreadful mystery of XCOM, overlaid by unknown levels of complexity, is what makes the game feel real/alive. It makes the gamespace feel much more wide-open than it really is. When you first experience your own base under attack, the feeling is "holy shit I didn't even know this could happen and wow I did not plan appropriately for this eventuality!" In the reboot, it mostly just feels like another mission, where the layout is totally decoupled from the actual decisions you've made. And you're much more likely to have trained commandos at homebase rather than a ragtag bunch of rookies with "failed experiments" gear (eg laser tech and maybe some grenades lying around).

That's just one more example to illustrate how the original XCOM was as much about creating tension through the limitless possibilities of the unknown. Each and every decision was less like a chess game and more like a desperate gambit.
I feel like it's on the product to make those benefits apparent and easy to use. They're selling me (the user) not the other way around. The message comes off very privileged IMO.
Zopf/tresse (with almonds) is the white bread we buy.
Why is an Issue Tracker tool named after a databse term?

Area 120 is bizarre to me. It's an experimental startup incubator whatever, which is cool, but it runs under the Google brand so the effect is that it's a reputation-incinerator that highlights and deepens one of Google's worst attributes -- product support non-longevity.

And they are trying to take money for it, with no promise of long-term support?
SepiaSearch: A search engine for videos and channels on PeerTube
Johny Ivy will go crazy trying to build little TouchID offices for everyone in the remote work force.