skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> absolutely DO NOT WANT - is web page like format with auto-flowing text

I would love it, though, if PDF included this as something that's always entirely optional.

Sometimes I want to read something just as formatted. If my display is big enough, and the formatting has any importance, I probably want that.

Other times, my screen is smaller (phone) or the wrong shape (small laptop), and I'd rather the text confirm to the device rather than vice versa.

Also, sometimes I use my arrow keys to scroll as I read to keep my place (like a line-oriented instead of page-oriented bookmark). So just because the device is capable of it, I don't necessarily always want page-oriented original formatting because it might have two-column text to deal with or top/bottom margins that serve no purpose for me.
True, but on the bounce server it looks like the ports are just being managed via nftables. Isn't that just a wash?
The issue is that those are future contracts that expire in a few milliseconds, so by definition they are almost totally illiquid.

At the same time you cannot really force more time for the auction as users often spend less than a second in front of an ad screen. So you effectively have only a few milliseconds to sell them, otherwise you would have sold an already perished product...

So I'm not sure the existing regulations regarding future contracts could effectively regulate this market.
IGN removed that page a few hours ago. Looks like their wiki is still very much work-in-progress.

Here's the most recent google-cached version I could find, archived via archive.is: https://archive.is/DFb7d
Down to death your comment goes. That’s what you get for complaining about complaining about complaining about the name. Because obviously complaining about complaining adds much to the discussion, while complaining about those complaints about complaining draw away from it⸮
RIAA: Twitter Does Nothing to Stop the Industrial Scale Piracy on Its Service
I played with a really nicely Oculus set up the other day, it was totally amazing and immersive. In particular this was a racing sim, and when I was headed toward a wall I got the feeling like in a real car when you're about to hit something. It was very cool.

Unfortunately, I lost my lunch after 5 minutes or so and had to lay in a dark room for a couple hours to get over a bout of nausea. Excited for the future though if they can solve that problem for people like me (I also get seasick easily).
Ten years of uptime seems neither an unreasonable nor unattainable requirement. There's more to computers than mayfly web startups.
Diesel particulate pollution is the primary problem. London black cabs are diesel. There is a good case for banning diesel in metro and even suburban areas over time and requiring at least hybrid. Electric busses actually make more sense than cars due to the high regeneration of stopping.
I've been using emacs for 15+ years too. I try vscode and other editors/IDEs periodically but I usually give up pretty quick. The tool that always has me running back to emacs is Magit. I find the git integration of the other editors/IDEs tedious compared to it.
The reason we are not apes in trees is our ability to reduce dimensions, not increase them.

If you don't get that, then you won't understand the What, How, When of VR. (Hint, it's a long way off)
Given that VR requires an interface, it seems a stretch to say it's the "ultimate fulfilment" of entering another world. Before even getting to the philosophical inquiry about what would truly constitute an Us and its actual, for real entering of another world, that it's mediated by a big headset seems to put it still many iterations prior to its ultimate realisation.
It’s several things that package well together, plus some payable value add for certain use cases.

- they develop Next.js which is one of the two primary React-based solutions for static/server/client rendered websites (the other being Gatsby)

- they provide low friction deployment solutions for same (like heroku)

- they provide tools for specific markets attracted to one or both of the above, e.g. ecommerce

- probably a fair bit more, but those are their standout offerings

Worth noting that Next.js is a mix of custom offerings (they have their own solutions for things like static site generation and image optimization) and configurations for existing tools (a lot of what works well is a predefined set of Babel and Webpack configs, but they can be overridden unlike create-react-app, and there’s broad support for that).
GitHub now supports video in issues/comments
The danger of self-compiling malware
Fwiw I hadn't heard of either, ever. Dutch native, living in Germany.
iPad Pro, 10”.
> Name me a socialist/communist gov that did any better.

America has done everything in their power to destroy democratic populist movements. If you do your research you'll find that anytime a South or Central American country attempted democratic socialist movements they were destroyed by the CIA. This pattern has been repeated throughout the world.

So, yeh, it is rare to find a successful socialist example because the largest capitalist economy destroys emerging socialist movements.
> Below 1700 or so, openings are mostly a waste of time

Why? I'm not at that level but I'm sure it can't hurt. I'm not talking about spending hours studying openings, but simply being able to name things is helpful. That way you can pick new ideas along the way, memorize past mistakes more easily, communicate with other players. And it doesn't take much time to know the first few moves of the most common openings.
>If you read the Blue Origin Glassdoor and subreddit where a number of anonymous employees talk, they're not doing well.

Got any specific examples? Glassdoor is practically useless for reading into a company's actual culture, and after checking out the BO subreddit I only saw one single negative post about BO, and even on that post most of the comments were disagreeing with the premise that BO is failing.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/commit/156cd3ea...

Important note from Bryce Harrington:

[On a personal note, this will be my last release for Cairo. My Cairo
time availability has been non-existent (particularly this crazy past
year). The release process is well documented and hopefully will help
whomever picks up the baton from here.]

Looks like that the situation was mitigated for this release, but the situation will be more dire the next time someone needs a new Cairo release cut.
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Maybe, though I don't think he's the type who sees his career as the first or second most important thing in his life
Taking a step back: here, incidentally, they were trying to basically facilitate driving, which is not really in the interest of society / life on the planet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe the vaccine is actually a bad idea? I don't think so.

But even if it turned out to have terrible side effects, that would only affect people (the people alive now and taking the vaccine) and not the environment (all the humans and other animals, present and future).
I'm not experienced with Chess, how do you know when you reach a certain level?. Is there an "official" way of knowing when you hit 1700?
> ... is there some complexity that comes with scale?

I can't see how scaling would be an issue since the tricky/ resource intense bits happen on the client end. We're building interactive charts which are comparable to the Google Finance ones with a fairly tiny developer team.

If Google hasn't migrated functionality, it's because the Finance product hasn't met their goals and they've trimmed the team back.
Don’t agree. The alternative suggested is much more complicated. In real life very few people go deep into the further pages of a table, so offset is just fine most of the time, so just do that and only do the more complicated thing if it becomes obvious that you need to (probably never).
As someone who held numerous briefings helping to put this case together, I think it is extremely strong –– in fact, it will be difficult to imagine a cognizable defense. My congratulations to the several states who joined together to delve deep into those deleterious actions in the ad market which have so harmed the open internet.
This[1] is the best post I've seen on that _outside_ of the Tailscale writeup linked below. The clever bit is that the introduction server uses wireguard tunnels to find your endpoint information, then shares it out via DNS. Of course it still requires you to be able to run custom code on all of the endpoints, which requires supporting many different platforms.

I'm still looking for a FLOSS mesh network built on top of wireguard that can do NAT traversal between nodes and fall back to tunnelling traffic for the annoying cases where this fails. I don't really want to use Tailscale because (1) their server is not open (though this should not matter a ton for trust) and (2) they require a Google account or similar to sign up.

1: https://www.jordanwhited.com/posts/wireguard-endpoint-discov...
I think the claim is easily sustained with just empirical evidence. If you want to do a career in embedded, or graphics, or robotics, or maybe flight control, etc., you're going to need the math and the comp sci in droves. HN tends to have a crowd skewed towards certain disciplines, which is why every time the topic of a whiteboard interview shows up, most of the comments voice a strong opposition. In my line of work (graphics), the whiteboard is used all the time, both in and out of the interview.
No, I think you are missing the point. It’s not the need to use energy, it’s a security feature that you can’t create it without using energy. It’s defense mechanism against debasement.

Gold has that mechanism by being a rare metal - there’s only so much of it in our vicinity. Bitcoin gets that mechanism from universal law of physics - you can’t create energy from nothing.
Pasting raw key material is so nice, Age is not even alpha featurewise. Stop recommending stuff that you don't use yourself.

$ age-keygen -o key.txt
Public key: age1ql3z7hjy54pw3hyww5ayyfg7zqgvc7w3j2elw8zmrj2kg5sfn9aqmcac8p
$ tar cvz ~/data | age -r age1ql3z7hjy54pw3hyww5ayyfg7zqgvc7w3j2elw8zmrj2kg5sfn9aqmcac8p > data.tar.gz.age
$ age -d -i key.txt data.tar.gz.age > data.tar.gz
Tax money. You get what you pay for.
If that's the way you see it, then who do you look for to data?

Seems like you can't trust anyone if you can't trust your own evaluation of an individual paper based on statistics.
No, Cursive is just for Clojure, not other programming languages.
AWS Cloud9 has a setting to shut down inactive instances after X number of hours. Then you aren't charged for the compute time, only storage.
We have that container format. It is called: TIFF
In theory that is probably true – in my actual scenario I can't run them through ABBYY again because of the limitations of the bundled version. It only accepts PDFs coming from the scanner software, so running these through ABBYY again would give me an error message. I'd have to buy the full version to be able to try out that workaround.
> Idea: "Colocation centres" for users' computers instead of data centres for users' data. As directed by the author here, users would store no data on these computers.

This is basically AWS Workspaces. It can work, but it's annoying, expensive, and various latency and bandwidth issues are a killer.
The most frustrating thing about this is that Redhat was making a profit before IBM bought them. They had existed for 20 some years on a business model that business people didn’t understand, and they were able to do that because they understood what open source would become and how they could play a role in that.

One of the things that YC is always talking about is that founders looking for ideas should look to identify situations where most people think it’s going to turn out one way, but most people are wrong and it’s actually going to turn out another way. In the context of the late 90s, where virtually all software was proprietary, they bet on open source software and support plans, and made a sustainable company on it. They contributed to open source so that they would have the expertise, gave all the software away for free, and then sold the expertise through support plans.

And then the business people came along and they’re showing a deep misunderstanding of why Redhat was able to sell support plans in the first place. People on RHEL are going to stay on RHEL, but people on CentOS — the market of people who are not paying customers but could theoretically become customers, are almost certainly going to go to Canonical. This will kill Redhat.
You mean setting back the Web 10 years behind, with WebAssembly still not exposing everything that Flash + CrossBridge were capable of, and all the Web tools that try to replicate Flash IDE still don't come close to it in HTML5?

Nah, better leave PDF as it is, we don't need any accident.
I might be wrong but i guess thats what Mozilla is about right now, is to have enough resources to continue to support Gecko. If things continue on the same way or turn worse its inevitable or they will just stop producing a browser.

I dont think there is a point to continue Firefox without Gecko. Of course im with you, if Gecko dies it will be a very sad day for the internet.
We've filed a bug to track these problems:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682974
ah man. good luck having long-term political success with this attitude. this is the sort of insanely condescending attitude that is partially responsible for the rise of right wing demagoguery.
> I would love it, though, if PDF included this as something that's always entirely optional.

To be fair that’s what they are working on, with Liquid Mode for PDFs in Adobe Reader. The plan is that it will automatically work for all PDFs using some sort of AI magic.
I wonder when it’ll be commercially available.
Nope, PDF doesn't have anything to do with XML.
I’m using Preact X on a Next project and honestly it was more pain than I expected. Their Preact support is pinned to older versions with a different module structure.

I’ll be releasing my solution as a config wrapper (or offer as a PR for their Preact example) before I launch my site so other folks don’t need to go through the same process.
But how many people play wii sports? It was awesome fun, super novel, and was huge for a while there but now it's died off. It'll be interesting to see if VR does the same. One thing going for VR is that there's more than one company making stuff.
Abortion is not optional to the baby.

I was a late-life child. High risk for Down's. My mother didn't get the test, which could've introduced more problems. She believed I was already alive, because I was, and I was therefore sacred to her, and the outcome of the test would be irrelevant to her choice. Notice in all of this, I didn't have a choice.

I'm glad she didn't abort me. If I don't want to be alive now, now it's my decision.

I guess you can keep arguing that killing unborn children diagnosed with Down's isn't eugenics but my perspective is pretty heavily informed by the fact that I'm alive thanks to my mother being bothered by the idea that she might kill me in utero if I had a developmental disorder.

I'd like to see you explain the position that a baby diagnosed with Down's should be aborted to someone with Down's, frankly.
The market would also find a way to jack the price up.
RedHat is on the hook because they did not make it clear to the CentOS community that support would be cut short back when CentOS was released in 2019. This is something RedHat should had decided on and communicated before CentOS 8 was made public.
It seems it is mandatory to post a link to "The PGP Problem" whenever anyone as much as mentions PGP. To save repetition, here is the link to my critique of that particular anti-PGP rant:

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp
Another solution that comes to mind is to remove the ability to resell newly released items within a period after their initial release.

The first few weeks after initially going on sale is the time where an item is still highly coveted and the manufacturer doesn't have the capacity to create more. In that same window, bulk-purchasers cannot often afford to sit on the item for weeks on end.

If they made it illegal to - for example - resell an item fro more than 10% higher than the retail price within the first 3 months, most price gougers wouldn't be able to afford it.
What if you live in a college dorm or use apartment wifi where they do not give you control of the port forwarding rules? Or what if you want to deploy devices into other peoples' networks (e.g. IoT)? What if you're sending someone a bootable USB image so you can do data recovery on their hard drive in situ without them having to ship it to you? What if you're behind a carrier-grade NAT and don't have a public IPv4 address at all? In these cases and many more, you might find a wireguard bounce host useful.
The real world has plenty of interfaces too. Surely VR will eventually approach the same level of seemingly physical interfaces as the distinction between the real and the virtual starts to break down.
> customer in the context of ad buys is every business attempting to do online marketing

Courts interpreting § 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act have generally used the term "consumer welfare," which sidesteps this issue. (The original text makes no reference to this concept.)
Every large company has a corporate treasury function. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasury_management
Right, infamous copypasta... forgive the pedantry, but the English word "gnu" (referring to the mammal) is pronounced "noo", while the non-English word "GNU" is pronounced "gah-noo"[0], as OP correctly pointed out.

0. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/pronunciation.en.html
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> The "Does that make sense?" bit

The first person said that Google dumbed down Google Finance "senselessly".

So, in context, I definitely took the response's "Does that make sense?" to mean "Was it a rational product decision on Google's part?" rather than "Can you understand this?".
I wouldn't hold your hopes for blue origin being able to produce anything any time soon. remember they started before spacex, and have accomplished very little during that time.
>The PDF works fine before saving in Preview.

I think the disagreement here is that there's no evidence of this. Preview's error handling could very well be interpreting bad data and allowing the file to be opened. The question becomes, then, should Preview continue to propagate that bad data on save or should it try to correct it with the possibility that it corrupts just that data. If the PDF was not in-spec prior to Preview touching it but it is in-spec after Preview saves it, is it a good thing that Preview "fixed" the PDF file and made it "proper" or is it bad because it technically lost/corrupted data?

In other words, what is the "right" thing for a software to do in this case? Keep bad data and leave the file as "bad" or fix the issue to make a valid PDF and, as a side effect, remove the "bad" data?
Blue Origin was founded two years before SpaceX.
> While Niue signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Semich around that time, it quickly backtracked, claiming it did not understand what it was agreeing to or the financial benefit control of the webspace could confer.

Anyway I'm no longer sure I hold the opinion that kicked this thread off, but I want to include that quote to clear up the facts.
I'm curious which Oculus headset you were using. All the ones that plug in to a PC are fairly underpowered even compared to the Oculus Quest 2.

Nausea is heavily tied to framerate and latency -- a really beefy machine with a Valve Index should be a lot easier on your lunch.
Apple Support local network privacy in your app
Not just masks. Early projections (March / April) by supposedly reputable groups like IHME were wildly inaccurate. Even a cursory reading of their methods showed that they had no idea what they were doing. Oversimplifying a bit, they were fitting the CDF of a Gaussian to the cumulative deaths over time. Not a reasonable way of modeling exponential growth.

Nevertheless, IHME was kept in the spotlight by the government and media because they deemed the experts as an independent health research center at a reputable university. Their predictions drove many poor policy decisions, culminating in the infamous claim by Trump that the pandemic would be over soon after Easter. Many epidemiologists, statisticians, physicists, mathematicians etc. called their conclusions into question and built better models (mostly using SEIR / SEIS). It took several more months for IHME to improve their own model, but by then the damage was already done.
Google: We're launching a new version of Google Finance!

Users: But this isn't as good as it was previously!

Google: I am altering the Deal, pray I don't alter it any further
I suspect it may also be hard to swallow the idea that a professional engineer's skills are needed when such a person costs more than the researcher's salary.
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> Devil's advocate: why should I choose this yet-to-exist

Devil's response: nobody cares if you do. A lot of people know why they want it; the answer will in many cases be that it will fill the same niche and not be controlled by a shitty company. (If you think calling Oracle shitty is FUD, unprofessional or similar, that's fine: see 'Devil's response', above.)

It will stand or fall on its own, as a result of many different peoples' choices. For now, it is enough that something is growing in the niche from which Centos was uprooted.
> Is the plain HTML version under even the most basic maintenance?

I doubt much work is being done on it, but presumably they at least make sure it works; I mentioned it because a few posts up (edit: you) mention testing (rather than initial design) as the reason why having multiple designs is so difficult.

> The mobile vs desktop versions you posted are likely the same codebase with minimal (if any) differences....

It's entirely possible that they're derived from a similar codebase at some point, but what reaches the browser is significantly different - it's barely responsive, based on user-agent, and appears to be significantly different obfuscated blobs of HTML, CSS, and JS.
is it me or is wikipedia showing too many requests for donations?
I don´t agree with you. I see it more like SABRE, SAGE in the 1960´s and ARPANET in the 1970s, Compuserve in the 80s and the Internet in the 90s.

Hashcash, eGold and other similar pioneered the "dark ages" of digital money/value-transfer. Now we are in the ARPANET/Compuserve stage. Cryptocats and crypto-games is akin to "90s" internet. Next 10 years will bring really interesting thinks.