skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, I was expecting it to take a lot longer.
be carefull if you try this at home, it could be considered an indiscriminate booby trap.

glitter in the eyes, or inhaled, could be considered real harm in a court of law.

[adndm] this could also be viewed as a dry run for an IED, so be even more careful
> It really isn’t Apple’s fault if someone else is producing bad files that they happened to previously tolerate, especially if that somebody isn’t maintaining their software.

It's not clear if the issue is caused by the PDF files produced by ABBYY, or if the issue is also present in other OCR'ed PDF files.

In either case, Preview shouldn't silently corrupt the file. It could display an error saying that it was unable to save the file, or a warning that some data couldn't be saved, so that the user can check if the file still works for them after saving.
> Just because CorporationX says “don’t worry about it we got you bruh” doesn’t mean technologists - people who actively work with technology and write software - should be excused for just throwing up their hands and saying “it’s just ducking magic I don’t know how it works”.

Entire industries are built on the premise that "don't worry about it, we got you". I'm not saying that it's appropriate to be completely blind/unaware of what you're using, but there's a line somewhere that's surprisingly difficult to draw in 2020.

I don't think anyone would argue that learning more is a bad thing. But the more salient point is that for many, it's just not necessary.

If you're doing work that requires a deeper knowledge of the thing, then of course you should learn it. If you're not doing work that requires this knowledge, it'd be a waste of time, the most precious commodity available to us.

Others have made the comparison to learning assembly. Useful? sure. Necessary in 2020? Usually not.

> It isn’t rocket science. I literally explained it in one sentence, and I’ve never used docker in my life.

This is what you said:

> ... if docker ran “natively” it’d mean using kernel hooks provided by xnu, which means you’d be able to run another instance of macOS in a container.

Not only does this tell the reader nothing practical about how Docker actually works, it doesn't even address the parent comment in a useful/informative way.

You followed this up with a statement that is a borderline personal attack on the parent comment.

I mean this as constructively as possible, but you need to work on your delivery, and ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish with these comments. So far, they've been unhelpful and borderline abusive.
Oops and Optimality
> Where terseness was favored over readability

That's like saying that |||| is more readable than 4. Yes, it does take some time to learn the symbols. (I'm not sure what you mean about being incompatible with autocomplete?)

> Why use a miniature vocabulary of symbols when you can use English?

Why do you assume that English is going to be easier? Heck, even for a native English speaker not familiar with programming, √() is going to be easier to understand than sqrt() !

What would you say if you had to work on a code of Russian origin, would you prefer α or альфа ?

> It's difficult to type up.

Depends on your keyboard layout...

http://norme-azerty.fr

(Greek letters are accessible from AltGr+G.)
Agree with this. You can do well through the game and come to the end with a slight advantage in material and if at that point you don't know how to close the deal, then ????????
> I want to rely on professional typesetting from the publishers, not some front-end engineer's vision of what the ebook should look like and how it should be presented to the user.

I, on the other hand, do not whatsoever trust publishers. PDF runs software and that means that everything under the sun including malware and DRM can run on PDF -- and indeed that has occurred many times. It should be a non-starter for anyone who actually values the ability to read their content on any device they want.
I could see Portland doing that.
There already is an equivalent feature in GNOME. Preview's code is of little value outside of Mac. It's also not rocket science, that the thing stopping other people from doing the same thing would be lack of access to original source code. :)
Pretty underwhelming hardware too.
> I can do astro as a hobby, but that simply doesn’t give you enough time to do something substantial enough.

I think a better decision, for people in similar circumstances, would be doing corporate data-science as a hobby (via contracting or freelancing) and keeping your full-time astronomy career.
Covid-19: Our approach to misleading vaccine information
I wish the whole industry would at least get to that latter level. I see a fair amount of “jiggle it until it’s no longer obviously broken”.
not just DAO rollback, they're basically changing every key protocol rule at whim. most of their nodes run on aws.
I was interested earlier but now i'm big skeptic of Ethereum
quite centralized IMO
Yes, it is in principle possible that Apple was doing something special to support bad PDFs produced by ABBY which they then removed. If this is what happened, I would agree with you.

But, there is no evidence yet that they removed anything.

It’s quite possible (I’d say likely) that ABBY’s PDFs were corrupt all along.

Preview may have tolerated them not because of a special feature which was then removed, but because it happened not to depend on correctness before.

In this case, Apple wouldn’t have been in a position to even know about the problem.

You know who would? ABBY, who have had free access to Big Sur for months. You’d think that even cursory testing at their end would have shown this problem.

They have had months to fix it, months to work with Apple on the issue, any months to publicize it it really is Apple’s fault.
Then you would have been informed that .nu exists by the end of my headline. If that piqued your curiousity, you can then read the article.
You are opening it wrong /s
Sounds like you haven't tried Superhot. Even Beat Saber is a mechanic unlike anything else. Right now I'm having a great time in Blaston and that's also gameplay that would not be possible in another medium.

Mobility was solved with untethered devices. Just put it on and start playing immediately. No dedicated area required.
Exactly. It is clear that most people don't look at that chart (one of my favorites).
Yes, middle management fucked up Firefox.
Was there a similar flurry of "how to ace the finance interview" in the 80s and 90s when everyone wanted to be a stock broker?
Here comes the missing communication layer of the web
I'm going to make an educated guess and say that there isn't a ton of overlap between people who will refuse a vaccine and people who will voluntarily submit to continuous testing.

Maybe I'm underestimating how fast they can ramp up production on these tests, but you'd need billions a month to just test everyone every week.
> What do you think people are doing in other countries?

They're not shipping dozens of tests (that didn't exist until now) to their citizens at no cost, which I what you seem to be implying...
"God told us we're right, therefore everyone else is wrong"
“Anything can happen” is not an argument. It’s about quantified risk.
Wait how do those arguments apply to crypto, it's literally uncounterfeitable and isn't easy to launder since the blockchain is public. Cash on the other hand is a criminals dream.
Yes, for example the north-america docker project says "As a fairly large build, this will require significant resources to complete quickly. It can still run on a personal computer with 8GB+ RAM, but will take a while. It will require 300GB or so of disk space."

https://github.com/pelias/docker/tree/master/projects/north-...

(Building the db typically takes more resources than just running the services using the db.)
None of those require modifying the existing document. A new document could be produced and the existing document(s) would only be read from.
Money.

RHEL requires expensive licenses. CentOS was RHEL without the RedHat branding and without the expensive licensing.

By design, there was a nearly complete overlap between RHEL and CentOS. By "repurposing" CentOS into a "rolling release", RedHat (IBM) has broken the overlap so CentOS (free licensing) no longer competes directly against RHEL (expensive licensing).
Use "Adobe Acrobat Reader DC" for pdf work on macOS v11.1
typical monetary policy issue, if it is easy to change - they will keep changing
Solutions like Owl are actually kind of nice, I have been using a similar one on my phone (AquaMail) for many years and it's worked out great. Thanks for the tip, might give it a shot - I see it's by the same author as ExQuilla which has been around for awhile as well.
> The way the original authors intended it to be, including fonts and all the things that go into making a document.

cries in random PDFs that end up being printed with letters spaced by 1 cm
> Below 1700 or so

On what rating system? USCF? Lichess? Chess.com?
When building for the web, I use a combination of Lighthouse (Chrome Dev Tools audit) and the axe extension to do a first pass at validating the accessibility of the site/app/etc. Of course, there's an art to this as well.

For example, there's a significant number of individuals with cognitive disabilities [0], so using a combination of axe to ensure heading structure is logical and accurate, plus spending the time to ensure concise and accessible content, is an approach that I take often.

a11y is more than WCAG contrast ratios :)
How do you think this transition has gone badly?

For the average, normal human, they won't notice which platform they're on. Only someone with a niche need will have any issues. and those issues are being fixed rapidly.

While there are definitely gotchas and considerations, i've seen people say there will never be audio software on m1 in the next 2 years. there's already daws with m1 support and bridging for vsts being released.

So, it's hard to buy into the idea this platform transition has been so horrible you'd abandon using macs.
Other possibility is that Apple isn't saving to spec.

Or even more accurately, that neither are using the same spec because PDF just isn't that standardized.
I buy stuff constantly using regular old bitcoin off of coinbase. Not drugs, but other things that don't lend themselves to tradtional payment providers. Market is alive and well for a lot of stuff outside drugs.
I have ~3000 blitz games in Lichess and I have never once had to play 2 bishops or bishop knight end games.
Yep they are flushing new bits to disk when preview is instructed to save.
There are many other formats, a myriad of text formats from asciidocs to markdown. For embedded devices and such, they work great I presume.

Please don't mess with PDFs. 20+ year old technology that is shitty but works, I prefer keeping the status-quo.
Thanks to Andrew Ng's class I learnt Octave which helped me tremendously with this semester's Linear Algebra class. It is a nice software that I always keep out there when I need to test things out.
Network volitilty and debugging were the reasons I moved back to a mostly local dev setup.

I also run linux though so resources aren't much of an issue for me. I'm actively considering setting up remote environments for one of my teams that is all mac users working in a containerful dev environment.
The reasons for bad feeling including the loss of motivation may have nothing to do with what he thinks it is, either now or back when he quit academia.

If he's prone to seasonal affective disorder (SAD), he may be feeling down because of that and taking it out on his career choice.

If you are feeling bad about your career, family or life situation,

- just buy a SAD lamp such as the Philips Wake Up lamp

- use it religiously for a week

- after a week, assess the problem again - do you feel the same about it?

If you're prone to SAD, after a few days of using, your motivation will come back and the "rational" reasons which you felt very strongly about will lose all emotional charge.
> I have a little more hope for Facebook now that they've started acquiring studios and letting them run independently

The reality is, the acquisition of best VR game of any objective measure, Beat Saber, set back VR for all game developers because it will rob other VR platforms of a doorbuster title (i.e. Beat Saber 2).

Also, it enables Beat Games to keep using unlicensed music by fiat of Facebook's legal might, a completely unassailable competitive advantage that is strictly better than actually licensing the music and making a game with it.

It is illustrative of how the things giant companies are good at, which is using their huge cash piles to achieve totally anti-competitive advantages, changes nothing for the status quo of the consumer - they don't pay for the music no matter who the game's owner is - but just winds up harming other game developers.

Consider also Facebook Horizon is seeking to replace VR Chat, I believe the #1 free VR title by installs. How is that benefitting game developers and gaming culture? Just compare a screenshot of VR Chat here (1) to Facebook Horizon here (2), it tells you everything you need to know about why the kind of people who work at giant companies are awful at making games. It's so fucking sterile dude, and it's sterile on purpose.

People have said this for eons about Disney, but it's not comparable. By the way, Disney also totally blundered Disney Interactive, shutting down under the CEO Bob Iger who was known as the "tech" CEO of Disney.

(1) https://miro.medium.com/max/3840/1*I5c-QMDHVPeyC35pM1V4Ng.pn...

(2) https://cnet1.cbsistatic.com/img/9kGJANvUNFtxp5mGEgMIDI95DnA...
> fraction of tax revenue paid by the top 1%

So you're saying that the rich have gotten so massively richer that despite the ridiculously low taxes, which they often manage to evade as well, their overall contribution is still more.
To make people pay for RHEL.
Opera Mobile worked great on Symbian smartphones with very limited screen resolution and system resources, too. Much better than the built-in Web browser from Nokia itself.

Often, Opera Mobile was your only chance to get something done online on such a device. For example, purchase a ticket.
This most common thing I write on HN is that I can’t believe I can’t pay to use Firefox.

“How will we ever earn money here at Mozilla? All we have is this world class web browser that provides massive value to millions of people, but we refuse to directly monetize. Oh whatever will we do?”
Yes, they used Preview to modify the PDF.
why are you gay
APPL is probably a hobby company ;)
I've had an SE 2 since May, it works flawlessly. I was worried I'd miss the headphone jack but wireless headphones fill the gap well.
In an earlier thread, some Oracle guy (not in the Oracle Linux team) mentioned that Oracle 8 actually builds from CentOS 8, rather than RHEL 8. I was a bit skeptical, since OL 8 usually releases much earlier than CentOS 8, but couldn't verify things either way. Someone else mentioned that RH actually only releases RHEL8 sources through CentOS8 sources. Again, I don't know how to verify, but if true they raise a lot of new questions about Oracle Linux 8 given the recent CentOS 8 announcement.
> Charities barely even want used clothes donations any more. Only a few top designer labels have any significant resale value.

Long ago, I volunteered once at a thrift store. IIRC, they actually bailed up a significant fraction of their clothing donations and sent them Africa.
If you're going to assign responsibility, you need to assign it to people who know the right decision to make. If you assign responsibility to a janitor or a chemist for any torts set against the company, then janitors and chemists will simply quit working there. The only person who could begin to approach responsibility would be an executive with the authority to organize and pay for clinical trials and toxicity studies.
Your hostility towards everything and everyone doesn't engender productive discussions.
> so does putting mercury in vaccines

Putting a known biologically tested and FDA cleared preservative into vaccines is not "dumb".

Having to remove said preservative because because people committed medical fraud (and later lost their licenses) to create fear about it and because a bunch of people picked up on it as a desperate, now-negatively validated reason for their child having autism?

That's dumb. But the manufacturers did it anyway because people are dumb.
I wasn't trying to argue the point about Docker being a resource hog! I've always run Docker on computers with lots of RAM or with fairly simple images (or both sometimes) so it's likely I've just dodged that bullet.
“The idea that this behavior in a PDF reader can be excused because the software that generated the PDF was not approved for the operating system the viewer is running on per the vendor.”

Nobody is saying that. The suggestion is that the software that generates the PDF produces corrupt documents.

The fact that the vendor of that software doesn’t approve it for Big Sur suggests that they might be aware that there are problems.
I picked up a GearVR headset w/ my Galaxy S7 phone in 2016, and was really impressed with the graphics and immersion in the games I tried. There really wasn't any kind of killer app, like say Pokemon Go was in the summer of that year. After a few weeks of use, the novelty wore off and I haven't used it since.

Considering the massive success of group games like Jackbox.tv and Among Us, I think the killer app for VR has to have a group competition or co-op element. Single player VR stuff was cool but felt pretty isolating.
Well now I have to question why in the two geographic decks in my Anki Niue is not mentioned. (Realistically, I'm unlikely to learn to distinguish all those islands in Oceania, but still.)
Brownout is the term I'm used to seeing for this practice.

It's from electrical distribution where a brownout is distinct from blackout because you are delivering electricity but not as specified (e.g. voltage sag beyond agreed limits) and on simple incandescent lights the effect is they're dimmer than before.

I don't think it has any greater claim to being offensive than blackout (from electrical distribution) or whiteout (from weather reporting)
> I can't understand how Mozilla failed to execute on Firefox OS.

Wasn't it initially too slow and bloated for the hardware they released it on?
Let's be real. Every single macOS release, until it reaches x.y.4 or x.y.5 is just in beta and you are the tester.

I upgraded to Catalina when it hit 10.15.6, and I watched for the year since the release all the comments and posts about the horrible things it was doing to their computer, files, apps, etc.

Apple supports the latest 2 versions of macOS. Always be on the "previous" one is my advice. Since my family and friends started following it, they are much happier and more productive.

Let the masses beta test.
PDFs are not intended to be modified. Preview and other readers use hacks to do the work. In general don't modify the PDF and if you really want to do it buy Acrobat reader.
That's very cool you worked with Ken on snowflakes.
> it's not interesting research. It's not advancing science.

What is research-worthy in computer security in your opinion? Feel free to list any papers from well-known conferences/journals.
I found one of your posts sometime during the hard lockdown and I absolutely loved falling into the world built in the podcast! I've done a second listen recently and loved spotting new links between episodes! I'm really excited to see what's in store for the show next year.
Compare this reaction to Greenpeace’s (arguably one of the most prominent radical activist organizations) eventual cooperation with Facebook after accusing it of powering a data center with 60% coal-generated electricity. They agreed on a way forward, instead of full-stop condemning Facebook.

I’m curious, what are the City Council’s demands? Is there any way forward for Mark Zuckerberg, or is he definitively considered a supervillain by edict? I definitely don’t defend him, but it seems absurd for this condemnation to occur, especially in the context of a global pandemic.
I'm pretty excited about this and see if being the norm for most web dev in a few years.
I really like the concept of "compression oriented programming" that Casey outlines here. You write an imperative program and make functions and objects as "compressions" of your original code, where suitable. That way you don't end up with a jungle of objects, and, on the other hand, don't start constructing monads or producing hundreds of tiny functions just for the ideology of it all.
Really? My first thought was the "Rocky Mountains" which seem like an apt metaphor for something slow, stable, and rock-solid. The logo even looks like a mountain peak.

My second thought was Rocky Balboa... but I figured that probably wasn't right.
Lets just pretend that this is working to filter good candidates.. even then good software have a lot to do with team work.
Its better to have people who are experts in things that the product need to be good at, but also less expert in a certain field but that will do other parts of the product, than you have to manage the group work properly..

My point being, you need people with a myriad of skill sets, and some of them don't even have to do with expert knowledge needed in some areas.

Also you might have an expert in storage for instance that do poorly in certain tests giving he never needed to work with those kind of algorithms.

So in the end the company ends with the same type, the same kind of person, and how can you make a great team that needs people with different skills doing distinct stuff, if you optimized your hiring to filter for one particular type?
Repealing Section 230 as Antitrust
That's really weird to hear. If you build an app with GTK3 today, it's still going to work for 10 years. It's compiled into the application, it's not a runtime API. Even if you upgrade GNOME to some futuristic 10 year version, the GTK3 compiled app will just continue to work fine.

The parent thread is comparing a runtime API (Win32) with a compile-time library (GTK).
I didn't know about the "Rocky" tribute, but IMHO it would still work as a great nod to Rocky McGaugh with "Rock" instead of "Rocky".
No, the bytes are still readable by Preview, it's just the OCR meta that is apparently no longer copy-pastable.

No reason why you can't just run this through ABBYY FineReader again and get the exact same OCR you got the first time, so I think "irreversible" is definitely a stretch.
>It's kind of a prime example of how the scientific model isn't the correct one to be using in the first place.

What's your proposed alternative to science for determining the products of tire breakdown? Asking psychics? Polling facebook moms? Voting on it in Congress?
Project Kuiper's custom-built antenna architecture
Sequoia PGP 1.0 Released: The Seedling Is a Sapling
I see they port fixes from Firefox, but I doubt they patch the abandoned parts.
If that's the case, then I would say the CSS was poorly structured.
Grayscale runs GBTC and ETHE which are both 100% safe and regulated which you can buy from your brokerage.

Coinbase and Gemini are both regulated and safe as well.