skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading PDF works with Okular.. but I doubt the (5 MP) camera is going to fit your needs. Maybe my latest video can help you to make a decision: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ8V0lRxKgM
That remote mining town also has something going for it that Mars doesn't - economic viability. The energy cost of going to and from mars makes any sort of known resource extraction economically unviable. Palladium, one of the most valuable elements in existence (and probably the most valuable in wide use), is ~$2400/troy oz. At 21967 troy oz/ton, that is ~ $53 million/ton or $76k/kg. Ignoring decreases in prices if a supply was found large enough to fund a Mars colony (2018 saw only 9 million ozt or 409 tons of supply), current return costs are in the billions of $/KG. 3 order of magnitude decrease would still be millions $/KG, and that is assuming there are nuggets lying on the ground that a robot could easily pick up and ship back.

Now one can argue - that is current technology. And that is correct. But you would need to get interplanetary total mining/collection/launch/return costs to sub $76k/kg to even be economically neutral, in the most ideal situation, for literal palladium nuggets sitting on the ground in essentially a big pile near your launch site.

We could speculate on the potential improvement in costs, etc. and they might eventually come. But what we don't have so far is anything on mars economically worth getting or living there to get, even at 'drive there in my car' costs, let along launch costs.

Going to mars as a purely a exploration/discovery/science project/hobby - totally worthwhile. So far we have no reason to believe it's economically worthwhile actually living there.
You should have a look at Python-for-Android, it's maintained and works quite well.

https://python-for-android.readthedocs.io
This is true for just about any architecture. It's usually a lot cheaper to buy your own machine and put it in a closet if you need it doing work most or all of the time.

The only time that doesn't make sense is if it's customer-facing and needs better than 99.9% uptime or needs a lot of bandwidth, as those things are better done from a data center.
No it's not. Do the math, it is a serious rip off, waaaaay over priced.
Have you done it without the video lectures ? How hard was it ?
There was a post on /r/privacy that claimed just that. Got quite a bit of upvotes/responses too.

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bpr6xs/if_you_choo...
How Can a Service Desk Be Managed with Microsoft Teams?
No one talks about the ITSM tool for employee requests. Traditional ITSM and ticketing systems are built for agents - and not employees. Those older systems just track - and not auto-resolve and leave us frustrated with the level of automation and self-service that is achieved over years despite investing a lot of money.

I came across this article on managing service desk within MS Teams.
But that's not what the comment says. He says he is not neglecting the bedtime and despite of that he cannot sleep enough. It can have a whole range of reasons why someone cannot sleep, many of them out of the commenter's control, so there cannot be any neglect whatsoever in any sense of the word in that case.
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It depends on who you are/where you work.

Have you ever had to interact with enterprise IT, especially purchases? Also, do you know how much things cost when using enterprise IT?

I'm talking about many huge companies with a lot of money (something on the scale of hundreds or thousands of companies).
Alright, but that's not the case in the majority of the places where Uber have, and have tried to, introduce day labourers.
It should be noted that you are now referring to the sanest part of Java Server Faces, i.e. its first template system: Java Server Pages or JSP. If think JSP that compiles to a bunch of Servlets filled with print statements is bad, you really have to look at the rest of that stuff; because it gets a lot worse :-)

The stateful design, which fills up templates with a bunch of hidden html-input fields, in order to open web-pages in the same "state" as you left them and all sorts of other crap.

You also need to look into Portlets, which "splits" up a web-pages into seemingly stand-alone components. These are then combined into horribly complicated Servlets as you deploy, where http paramters are namespaced with some random _portletId=lsøjfksjo1920 things in order to figure out which parameters goes to which "part of the web-page". Again, all of this is so bad, you'd think it was a joke; but it was Java's offering for web-development, and a huge number of people CHOOSE that technology in the early 2000's.
I think this is very local. Here in Sweden I have only ever met one person who used Whatsapp. I feel most people use Facebook messenger with some use of Skype, Google Hangouts, Telegram, Signal and Slack.
Depends very much on how many of those you have. We have one AMD Threadripper box and one Mini for builds and some other various machines for testing, and we've had to screw with one of them maybe once a year.

Modern machines are less finicky than older hardware. Spinning disk is almost dead, and if you avoid it you've eliminated most of your moving parts that fail often. Fans are the only other thing. Solid state hardware can hum away for years and years.

This is for small scale of course. If you try to run a larger scale DC it gets to be a pain since even with rare failures they will now happen often if you have tens or hundreds of machines. I wouldn't try to run a DC these days unless there was a compelling reason or a huge cost saving.
We need software that works on the client side sans internet connection. Devices are really powerful these days so it’s funny things move to the cloud. It’s funny I’ve been using cloud storage for the past several years but I wonder why I don’t just back up to external drive or two. The convenience doesn’t buy much. I think folks really buy into laziness and technology hype. But fundamentally not much had changed in the software space compared to 20 years ago.
Still, it would eliminate a whole class of bugs, even with insecure languages such as C.
So Lambda & (L@Edge) is a general purpose computing system. They run a normal process in a programming language of your choice, then feed it event data, take the response out and continue the pipeline. They might keep the process running for reuse sometimes. If your process is being reused, it’s “warm” and works as fast your code. If it’s “cold”, your process start time, Lambda finding an execution slot, downloading your code there etc all add up. Good news is that if you’re doing multi core stuff or specialized code it’ll work fine (now including special Intel AV-something instructions).

Cloudflare workers took a different approach - they run V8 node-ish processes on all their edges, and you submit your code as JS or WASM that fits their interface (which is based on the service worker standard). They then execute it as a V8 isolate, which is blazing fast because the V8 process is already up and running, it’s just running JS/WASM code, which it knows how to do pretty well. Even the cold start is pretty small, because the JS/WASM tends to be pretty small and Cloudflare knows how to cache stuff.

They’re both very different systems, but both have their uses.
I think I'm in agreement with you.

One usually needs Fortran or C++ or Matlab or Python with Numpy for numerical computing that is doing matrix or sparse matrix work (a lot of numerical computing is like this). I don't know of any uses that are so small as to not need functions outside of some extremely small/simplified models for explanatory purposes.

There is also symbolic mathematics that Mathematica really excels at although it's pretty good at a lot of things these days.

If someone just needs fast code to loop through some data, they should be able to use whatever compiled or JIT language they see fit. Heck, it sounds like bash/ask might even fit this use case if the code is so small as to not need functions.
There is more to Airbnb's success than just a better deal than a room. Something that makes little sense is that a 200 room hotel, let alone the hotel industry, should be able to crush Airbnb on price in any local market. The Airbnb operator has little operational efficiency, aside marketing and IT (provided by Airbnb) in comparison. Taxation (my hometown taxes rooms at 17%) might be some of it, but it seems much larger than that.
Even more illegal.
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I wonder how much money they expect to make doing this.
You could spin it up on demand though. Don't think many envision this as a 24/7 workhorse in the cloud.
I’d argue that’s exactly what happens, especially during object initialisation in C++.
"native apps" can be used with screen readers, and you can select text with them?????
How many COBOL programmers do you know who drive Ferraris?
In at least France, Romania, Luxembourg, Italy, Germany, WhatsApp is very popular.

By popular I mean "small businesses start advertising contacting them through WhatsApp"-popular.

It would be nice to have a breakdown of these numbers but we'll probably never get them from FB.
The lack of even a thin atmosphere might prove troubling, but we’ll have to conquer that if we wish to expand to the belt regardless, I think...

The Expanse books really got my imagination going!
Really nice. Much more responsive and snappy than I expected on my old phone (Samsung galaxy s8).
UK approves Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, a first in the west
Keep in mind that Spring was originally a reaction to the extreme complexity of Enterprise Java. I still remember a talk where they said everything would just be simple POJOs: plain old Java objects.
It reminds me a lot of the excesses of software patents, many of which in effect say "it does (insert mundane thing X)...BUT WITH MORE TECHNOLOGY".
I made a couple videos on convergence already (https://linmob.net, my video channels are linked). In a recent live stream (I’ll definitely publish that segment) I used Gnome 3 on the docked PinePhone and it was surprisingly good.
I think many of these cloud offerings are shockingly expensive. The first time I heard what we paid for the Ubuntu images we have on Azure, I though my manager was joking...
I have a huge library of retro computers I'd love to be running on that FPGA ..
Yeah my choice of words wasn't great. It seams as if the zig std acts as a macro rather than a wrapper. That could just be the aggressive optimization though
Nobody else asks for books, so I'm not gifting any. I asked for Quantum Computation and Quantum Information by Neilsen. I'm currently reading Defensive Tactics by Christensen.
"research suggests similarities between the lax way that home loans were signed in the run-up to the last crisis and the underwriting of many retail mortgages"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/business/mall-short-hedge...

And those home loans were allowed because Glass-Steagall was removed, is it wrong to think that although short selling has been around it has been exacerbated by the removal of Glass-Stegall into things like people's homes/livelihood and not just stocks?
For startups you cant beat used hardware from ebay and some IT experience in one of the cofounders. This is especially true for development machines (CI runners, compile caching, GPU servers, etc).
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Turing machines all the way down... for every Turing machine there are an infinite number of alternative descriptions that provide the same result.
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The nice thing about the web is that when a page does something stupid or malicious the user can inspect and modify the tree on their own.
You have to rent it for a minimum of 24 hours. I don't know if this is in 24 hour increments, but lets say you need 1 build a day then you are already paying for it every day.

There must be some existing tooling to let you integrate a physical mac you have lying around into your build system, so comparing rental macs vs bought macs isn't so strange.
Thank goodness for this offering. Do you know of any other cloud provider offering Mac instances that is HIPAA compliant and will sign a BAA?
Official website with full transcript + some nice pixel art: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/10/
You can also find good Mallsoft playlists on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4im2nSUjjCdReLLDNwDQoC
The issue with spinning it up "on demand" is that there is a minimum 24-hour billing period for each machine you start because of Apple's EULA. So, each time you want to spin up an AWS Mac, you're paying at least $25.99.
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People watch properly narrated marble run olympics. I have always thought of that as the proof that the narrator providing context is the only thing that really matters. The fact that the context is about something extremely inconsequential has little impact.
Sounds like you need a paper wallet
Aren't ubuntu images free to use? Or are you talking about the ones with support entitlements?
It's strange how we immediately take pride in stuff we had nothing to do with just because we identify in some way with the developers/creators.
UK is the first country to approve the COVID vaccine for widespread use.
AirBNB asked for a bailout back in March 2020. The blog post makes it sound like there was a cause and effect, but this is just the government normalizing things across the country.

Here are more official sources on the news:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/economic-update-child-care-...

https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/11/30/ottawa-to-impose...
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Yo dawg! But seriously, as a regular VB user on macos: it works, but it’s a bit shit and slow. Will probably work better with vmware, i’ve heard their equivalent Fusion might be free now.
Yeah, if you're a startup you'd better have someone tech oriented and you'll be able to do a lot of things for cheap.

If you're a tech startup, then I don't even know how you'll be able to do anything without someone technical :-)
> There must be some existing tooling to let you integrate a physical mac you have lying around into your build system, so comparing rental macs vs bought macs isn't so strange.

At work, we use GitLab CI for this and have one of the developers' old MBPs sitting on a rack shelf for this very purpose.
Interesting. Had a look at http://www.tendra.org/developer-orientation; seems to be even more complex than LLVM. Didn't find out yet, what backends it actually supports.
I was in St. Simons a few months ago, and was able to see this ship first hand. It’s enormous, sitting on its side in what looks like just a few feet of water. It’s close to the shore, maybe a thousand or 1500 feet out. A temporary information placard had been put on the fishing pier explaining what it was.

At the time it was all in one piece, but you could see them attaching the lifting equipment along the length, and it was clear it was going to be cut into pieces.

It must take an enormous amount of work to build an internal framework that can support the cut section being lifted from the side. I’m not surprised it’s taking so long so salvage.
>reveal menus ... interrogating scroll position

No one wants these.
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As I understand AD, no other primates get the same form of the disease that humans do. To wit, “Aged nonhuman primates with abundant plaques, however, do not manifest neurofibrillary tangles, nor do they become demented”.

https://www.alzforum.org/webinars/alzheimers-disease-uniquel...
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Interesting that people in the replies are really hostile, like "vomiting" and likes. Now 4 years later it's a standard way to write frontend with JSX.
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There are plenty of valid reasons to share data, e.g. for medical research among others.
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Also, paying for cloud compute is an operating expense vs the capital expense of buying hardware yourself.

I'm not going to pretend to know all of the tax implications, but it can actually make a significant difference to the company because the operating expense can be fully written off. The cost is therefore offset slightly vs depreciating the value of physical hardware over a number of years.
You're taking the low price as evidence that the device was manufactured by exploitative means. I was pointing out that at least the converse is not true: A high price is absolutely not evidence that something was NOT manufactured by exploitative means.
I've worked with Java for more than a decade and I've seen plenty of stack traces that were helpful. Stack traces aren't the problem; the problem is that programmers silently swallow exceptions without either handling them or passing them up.

> Suddenly the Golang authors ranting about exceptions seems somewhat rational.

Error handling in Golang is nothing to write home about, either.
> cranelift is also big, but has sensible staged optimizers

LLVM gives you the freedom to decide what optimizers to use. But it's true it is too big for many applications, even if there are build options for different sizes.
Don't think there is a real alternative.

I personally prefer React-Native, but only because I know JavaScript and think flexbox is a really clean solution for mobile layouts.

Flutter draws its UIs in a custom way, which is the exact opposite approach that React-Native takes.
This is also why machine learning scientists should build their own GPU workstations and servers.

Someone did the calculations:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/9iqcr3/d_w...

This guy built a 4 x 2080 ti workhorse for 7,000 USD, and it would probably be even cheaper now:

https://l7.curtisnorthcutt.com/the-best-4-gpu-deep-learning-...
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(Serious question)

What do you do with that hardware? Do you go to a colocation and stand the servers up there? Run them from home? What are your options for something like this?

Edit: I realized afterwards you may not be talking about public-facing servers
The real question should be: is there a clustering of purchases of those numbers for this draw that is different than the same numbers on other draws? If this was a planned scam, the distribution of purchases would be more tightly coupled than normal.
I bet everyone there wants to get the vaccines out of the door as fast as possible. That does not mean that people are willing to cut corners where they should not.
Even though I've used Airbnb. I have to agree with you.
Just a side note, you may have to choose between the time commitment with your kids and moving up the corporate ladder. My career is completely stagnate and has no upward options now that I have kid.
Oops, yes I mean't JSP not JSF. I almost want to learn more about JSF, out of morbid curiosity. I'm guessing one can't bookmark any pages and the back button is broken?
I keep hearing how he's getting USA out of wars but then I go to wikipedia and read stuff like

At the beginning of Donald Trump's presidency in early 2017, there were fewer than 9,000 American troops in Afghanistan.[92] By early summer 2017, troop levels increased by about 50%; there were no formal plans to withdraw.[93][94][95] In August 2019, the Taliban planned to negotiate with the U.S. to reduce troop levels back to where they had been when Trump took office,[96] but Trump canceled the negotiations after a Taliban attack.[97]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80...
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Ask HN: Does anybody still uses the Fink package manager?
Back in the early days of OS X, I used to use the Fink package manager/repo for UNIX packages.

I've also tried MacPorts, and have long since (a decade or so) moved to Brew with some Nix on the side.

I see that the Fink project [1] is still active. But I rarely, if ever, see it mentioned, on HN, blog posts, etc.

Do you still use it? And if anybody has some inside info, how popularity/momentum do you think it is these days, compared to the alternatives?

[1] https://www.finkproject.org/
> HTML5 broke compatibility with everything
How? It's backward compatible, it's the first spec that tells the browsers how they should handle errors and introduced new semantics. Semantics that gracefully degrade in non html5 browsers, I find this thing simply wonderful. It's for this same reason sites like https://spacejam.com/ still renders fine like they did back then.
This is not easy. This is not an easy thing to do and protect the data. Please don’t call this easy.
Amazon removed the ability to filter items only shipped and sold by Amazon.com. That is an anti customer move that squarely puts Amazon in the bad customer service category.
If course, any good you get from them being separate languages is basically lost to how non stable the languages are.

Don't get me wrong, progress is good. However, so is stability. And if there is a spectrum between the two, few are holding the stability line.

Which is why apps and pages written years ago probably don't work anymore. And that is ridiculously user hostile.

Worse, for users, we have made the barrier of entry rather high. Which is silly, as a browser is clearly more advanced than the old qbasic prompt I grew up with. Yet building your own page is something you have to jump elsewhere to do.
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Yep. I think I only have 3 friends that see more than once a year.
If you need to run a Mac in some kind of server role in a secure DC that has a list of certifications, this AWS product may be for you. You are also very niche.
One capability left to implement now: make `move` operations in S3 O(1)
14 years ago. That is called tech debt. Not an issue. They designed it for the use case at the time. Nobody knew what the cloud was becoming.
By "blast radius" I meant the impact of the notation beyond the originating case into other areas. I wasn't referring to the number of people it would impact. The notation in the OP doesn't play well with "nearby" areas like powerset and matrices .. which are well served by the conventional exponentiation notation.
When you compare raw hardware costs vs VM costs it seems ludicrous. But it's more reasonable than you expect.

First if you commit for 1 or 3 year (like you'd do with hardware) you can get 30-70% discounts already.

Then you have to factor in costs of: replacement hardware, energy, cooling, networking. But the big one is people. Someone has to install all that hardware, fix it if it breaks etc. They provide everything like that for you.

If you are tiny (<10 servers located in your business building) it can be worthwhile because it's just a side job of someone you need anyway. After that you need quite a large scale for it to become really attractive.
It was said on launch day - they bill for the 24 hours upfront, then in 1 second increments after.