skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! Paged.js is really such an awesome tool.

I was searching for many weeks for something like this, so I really think the word needs to get out there more. It could significantly improve the workflows of many people who are self writing / self publishing as it opens up the power of CSS and HTML (which allows to nicely defined formatting templates and use code to automate content generation) to pdf reports (which I think has its place).

I haven’t used pandoc, but I think a HTML/CSS/Paged.js workflow could challenge it.

At work I’m already converting many processes to it - I have a database of content and then use SQL queries to extract data and then generate beautiful PDFs through paged.js.

It also works well with mathematical typesetting (via MathJax).
This article relies on certain assumptions without even interrogating, much less supporting, them -- namely, that flu and colds are down because of the same measures which have failed to eliminate Covid, and that it's an unalloyed good thing for people not to be getting sick. To say nothing of its extremely circumscribed acknowledgement of the harms these measures are causing.
That's neither here, nor there.

This is not about being able to find this or that niche musician that's great or even greater than any in the past, but about what the masses listen getting worse.

Music isn't just a solitary experience, but also a part of general culture.

As streamed music is getting cruder over time, the majority of the people are listening to increasingly shitty songs. That's chilling, regardless of whether someone can find 10000s of niche bands to listen themselves.
Regarding the heart rate increase, there's an official diagnosis called "White Coat Syndrome" where your blood pressure rises when it's being measured. To rule out actual high blood pressure, they have to use things like 24 hour automated blood pressure tests.

I'm _very_ aware of the placebo effect, very scientifically minded, etc. I have white coat syndrome and have had to do quite a few of those 24 hour blood pressure tests over the years to make sure I'm not developing the real thing.

https://www.healthline.com/health/white-coat-syndrome
Does DNS over HTTPS allow the dns provider to see beyond the domain name?
> How do you know she isn't experiencing psychosomatic symptoms?

Is there evidence that psychosomatic effects can be so strong as to account for a measurable 10% drop in resting heart rate? Especially since her symptoms appeared before she even started measuring air quality.
What you consider is not religious fact.

This is a religious law that is agreed upon by each of the Schools of Jurisprudence in the Sunnis and the Shias.

Edit - This is not meant to be demeaning. What I meant is that religious law in Islam is not based on what is considered to be acceptable or not by a few people. Also what a person and their friends consider a ruling to be is not representative for all Muslims.
Speaking of IRC and the Gulf War, I remember reading somewhere that the US Army was using IRC and at one point it was used to coordinate airstrikes. I don't have a source for this, and it certainly sounds fantastical, but maybe someone here could corroborate it (or refute it decisively).
At this point, what is the cost-benefit of further vaccine development versus heavier investment in drugs and other therapies to reduce the severity of disease?

There are a couple doctors in the US (particularly Peter McCullough) who make a case that we haven't invested enough in the latter and too much in the former. Naturally the anti-vax people seem to love these guys, so it's hard to find any kind of balanced analysis on it.

Or do the numbers still work out to be "more pandemic, more full hospitals, many more dead" no matter how good the drug treatment gets?
Costs the same as what you would otherwise pay, plus it actually works?
but not this kind of beauty. first sentence of the linked wiki

>Mathematical beauty is the aesthetic pleasure typically derived from the abstractness, purity, simplicity, depth or orderliness of mathematics.

not of the type setting of mathematics (that's just regular plain old aesthetical beauty).
I don't think so at all - there's a lot of pastiche, some of it loving, but there's only so many ways to do a pop song. It's alright for forms to die. The real "long tail" that the internet introduced is that we now had access to all of the good music we missed before the internet. There's no reason to bitch about modern music anymore because there's no reason to be exposed to it other than aggressive fandoms and marketing.

I honestly don't even understand the impulse to listen to new music. The quality of "newness" is not a desirable one for me in music; I prefer qualities relating to sound. To me it seems like a distorted version of the impulse to be cool in high school.

The real problem is that commercial, recorded music crowds out local, live music. For local music I understand wanting to know what's new - you may miss out because bands aren't live forever.
Not to mention animations. Adding a second's hand to https://mro.name/o/testbild.svg makes 25% CPU load on modern hardware. Ridiculous. But even more so, that it's often enough done anyway.
> Just like the placebo effect causes real, very significant healing effects

No, not really. https://www.painscience.com/articles/placebo-power-hype.php

Edit: gee, apparently I hit a sensitive topic. I did not realize that Hacker News was so attached to a belief in such a strong placebo effect.
I would go a step further and say this often also applies to GUIs in general and not just websites. Because too often the problem is not the framework, it's the little amount of thought that goes into the UI. If someone spent time on it usually it's so it looks a bit nicer, actual considerations about workflows and expectations of real users seem to be ignored completely.

And then there are user interfaces where the developers actually tried to make a difference but stopped somewhere in the middle, like with current Firefox versions. Don't get me wrong, I think the UI customization feature is fantastic and I love that it now supports a large zoom indicator/control in addition to larger address bars and tabs - as the first line of support for my relatives I appreciate that this is now more visible.
But then there's that tiny download button/indicator which, for less tech-savvy people, is often simply invisible. As much as I dislike the huge bar at the bottom that was introduced with Chrome, I have to admit it is better out of the box than a tiny blue arrow that desperately tries to be more visible than all kinds of website animations and ads.
Next step: add a telnetd server and give it the root password of 123.
Aka sophisticated social progress.
Adobe XD vs Figma as a developer I think figma wins. I get shared designs from both, Adobe xd URLs take ages to load and performance is extremely slow while figma URLs load quickly and are smooth even for huge designs.
This unfortunately makes a lot of sense in the current context in which we live, but I am optimistic enough to believe that sometime, somewhere in the world, people will join forces to push back against such use of the technology and in favor of a "free-er" society of individuals.

I like to think of the ideas behind the formation of the USA as a similar spirit.
It’s asparagus I was thinking about.

Was an issue in Germany:

https://m.dw.com/en/seasonal-workers-flock-to-germany-for-as...

As with many labour-intensive crops, people want to eat it, but not do the work involved themselves.
This is a great lesson in accessibility and building the right product for a specific user. While you call it "awful" you ended up with something extremely accessible that made your user happy. This is an extreme example, but there is a lot to learn from this
Intel disclosed FDIV after being contacted by a 3rd party and they allegedly kept it hidden for at least a couple of months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

"Nicely noticed some inconsistencies in the calculations on June 13, 1994, shortly after adding a Pentium system to his group of computers, but was unable to eliminate other factors (such as programming errors, motherboard chipsets, etc.) until October 19, 1994. On October 24, 1994, he reported the issue to Intel. According to Nicely, his contact person at Intel later admitted that Intel had been aware of the problem since May 1994, when the flaw was discovered by Tom Kraljevic, a Purdue University co-op student working for Intel in Hillsboro, Oregon, during testing of the FPU for its new P6 core, first used in the Pentium Pro."
That seemed interesting but it was too much work. Why is there so much scrolling for each bit of text?
alternative explanation

systemd does a great job for the majority of users. Honestly, when booting up a linux system day to day. I wouldn't even notice if you changed it for a different system in the next upgrade.

Its likely the people who care for whom systemD is inadequate is a very small if albeit very vocal minority.

In this case, capitalism wouldn't' necessarily provide any benefit. It would be akin to the coveted modular laptop or phone that trades thinness for longer battery life. There are people screaming for it but not enough to actually support the launch of a product.
I’m not talking about sites that aren’t beautiful. I’m talking about sites that are user-hostile, annoying, and a pain to navigate. And that seems to have become most of them.
You can still communicate with end to end encryption even if they setup mitm. You just need to exchange keys and then encrypt/decrypt yourself. If this becomes a law someone will quickly come up with such an extra layer. It is going to be a cat and mouse game, people will have no privacy and criminals will always find a way, as you cannot regulate maths.
Because that's the mainstream, that's what's easy to procure, hire for, negotiate with vendors, that's the default, the preferred, the future proof, the supported.

And the tech doesn't really matter. I hate React with a passion, because Angular is so much more sane - in my experience. But it's fine. It's mature, it can be made to perform completely well.

The tech doesn't really matter. The people doesn't matter either. Even the costs doesn't matter as much as people think. What matters is political will, procurement culture, so systems and structures. This will influence (and bring) all the others in line.
I started going to Awwwards to find what to avoid doing.
I think the level of transparency on display here is really inspiring. I'd apply that same level of candor in a meeting with a peer or a higher-up and basically tell them that you are dissatisfied with the quality of the work that you deliver.

A good manager or colleague will be really receptive towards that kind of openness. They'll be able to help you cut through the "bs" so to speak and help you separate impostor syndrome noise from actionable facts.
>>That seems like a terribly inefficient way of achieving exclusivity, if that’s the goal.

It's not a goal, it's a secondary consequence that happens often enough to be commented upon.

>>If the neighborhood is indeed more desirable, wouldn’t the higher value of the houses themselves (which would also result in higher prop taxes anyway) serve the same function?

Yes and no. Some people can save enough money to purchase a house from a middle class job or making it big in short-term/seasonal high-risk, high-reward activities (e.g. professional gambling, oil drilling, undersea welding, etc.) if there is only a large (but not untenable) one-time cost. However a property tax is a subscription fee on the basis of an invented metric that is as elastic as what the tax assessor can get away with. Paying thousands of dollars every year for the "privilege" of living in your own property would make doing the kinds of jobs that were adequate for purchaser, insufficient or unsustainable for a resident. The result, at best, is being house rich and cash poor.

>>In fact, the artificially high property tax must have a depressive effect on the house values in that neighborhood.

Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. High property taxes can be seen as a form of economic signaling in areas like Manhattan or Beverly Hills. They can also be a result of local politics run amok. The former creates self-sustaining bubbles that will take a long time to (but will eventually) burst. The second will cause residential flight to lower cost areas as is currently happening with San Franciscans moving to Austin at first sight of a downturn.

>>I can’t think of why relatively well off people would voluntarily move into such a neighborhood. If anything, the high tax rate sounds punitive toward those who live there.

It's not that people want to move to higher property tax areas because they want higher taxes. These areas tend to be much safer and family-friendly, have better schools and amenities, are (in some cases) closer to one's workplace, and look aesthetically pleasing. A property tax, just like purchase price, is one factor in the equation of "is it worth it?". It's just not the factor, punitiveness notwithstanding.
At the end of the day, an algae farm is solar powered and much lower yield than anything else you could grow with the same energy input.
Italy use a similar system, it's called SPID (Italian acronym for Public System for Digital Identity)

https://www.spid.gov.it
Seems the difficult work is normalizing all of the data and making it easily searchable for all:

> I also can’t parse the, out with a regex like I can an email address as they don’t adhere to a consistent format. Further, the inconsistencies in format make searching difficult as they’d have to be “normalised” and that’s something that’s very country (and even region) specific.

https://haveibeenpwned.uservoice.com/forums/275398-general/s...
Get a TLS certificate for your onion site
I feel compelled to note that diamond, far from being a "virtually indestructible" vibranium-style material, is in fact made of carbon and is therefore highly flammable. What happens when this battery catches fire?
I don't really agree with rantwasp and in his/hers answer to you I don't understand what he is talking about lawsuits.

In my university (in Europe) not only several student organizations used exclusiveley Facebook, but professors (well students really) as well.

For example, we would be teams of maybe ~10 -20 people at a given hospital department and because situations were fluid and changes constant we needed to coordinate. Times of impromtu lectures obviously weren't set, patients that may be of interest for all to see & know the case etc were always changing. The doctors would inform one student and then depend on the students informing each other for all these things and guess what they used. Facebook & messenger.

In this situation the only out was depending on a person who had a fb account to inform me which did add extra difficulties. That is what I did mostly but it wasn't easy.
Even Flex and ActionScript were better in many ways than the DOM.

My big problem with web application (in a true application sense - not things that are just hypertext and shouldn't be applications at all!) development is that the DOM+CSS model is not made for rich UI experiences. Basic paradigms from desktop applications like spreadsheet cell selection, draggable cards (think Vizio/UML), modals, and MDI / multi-document interfaces are non-standard and brutally challenging to construct in a reasonable way using the DOM.

What I'd invent would pretty much be Silverlight without the Microsoft, honestly - a typed UI framework built on a widget and widget-binding model which would allow a smooth mixture between OS-level widgets (and the accessibility affordances they provide) and hand-controlled rendering/drawing, with a stripped-down runtime enabling resource constrained clients to execute client-side code which would hide / paper over the resource constrained backend connection.

Anyway, I also think this is orthogonal to the argument in this thread, because I think that most of the conversation and the sentiment of the original tweet is to call out applications that SHOULD be hypertext, not applications. For applications that need to be applications, I think things have gotten better, not worse, although they're still pretty bad.
This instrument can only play in tune in one key.
Weellll, yes and no. Yes, modern music is (mostly) in tune with respect to the chosen tuning system. However, there really is a sense in which just intonation is the harmonically most pure tuning system. The reason musical harmony is a thing at all for human ears is that frequencies related by simple ratios have a special sound to them when played together, which we call harmonious or consonant. geofft does an excellent job explaining why this is the case in one of the comments below, and I provide my own complementary explanation in that thread as well. And just intonation preserves this consonance, these simple ratios, exactly. Sure, it comes at the cost of things like modulation that composers and listeners enjoy, I am not contesting that. Nor am I saying that just intonation sounds prettier, that depends on your taste. But for having a chord sound as resonant and consonant as possible, something I think can be fairly described as being "in tune" without reference to a particular tuning system but only to the physics of sound waves, just intonation is the real deal, and everything else is approximating it.

Also, while I agree that things like aesthetics of modulation are one reason why just intonation is such a marginal thing, another big reason is the difficulty of making and tuning instruments for just intonation, when there's in principle an infinity of tones within an interval, and the whole system changes when you change key. I thought this latter reason is an unfortunate one, and something we could try to overcome with digital technology, hence Jintone.
The BOM is similar but it's not very compact. I have yet to 3D print a case for mine and get the PCB manufactured, but the dimensions for it are roughly 1"x1"x2" assembled, when not on a breadboard.
>The truth is things improved in general in the last century because technology improved in the entire world in the last century.

Available level of technology doesn't magically improve things, and doesn't make you #2 global economy from a distant developing world one.

Just check other developing world countries that had 1/1000 the success, regardless of 20 and 21st century technology being what it is.

>More efficient production, better medicide, massively more know-how in all fields of human endeavour. Yeah things got better in the entire world, but probably despite the system, not because of it.

There are tons of countries that don't even have running water and stable electricity, never mind "more efficient production and better medicine". Technology and infrastructure improvements don't apply magically by themselves.
> And if no one is reading it, please stop.

This is not advice I would personally give, because: (1) Not-writing mostly guarantees that one is not going to get better at it. (2) Current audience size isn't a reliable indicator of whether one "should" (if we're judging) be doing a thing, whether that thing is writing, podcasting, creating open source projects, etc.

Everyone has to get through "the gap" between one's taste and one's skills somehow. https://vimeo.com/85040589
It doesn't have to, because the effect of any law is to define what you can and cannot do in society without being punished, killed or excommunicated by the society, as represented by the government.
See https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1378701810815352833
That's interesting. SMS wholesale prices in my part of the world (Western Europe) are still at around $0.07. This seems to indicate some kind of market failure. But whatever it is, it's fine by me, as I can still count the number of spam/scam text message I ever received on one hand.

So how can we cause the email market to fail in a similar way? ;-)
I'm still not buying it. The levels of care sims give to each attribute of the simulation could be the result of non-exhaustive game balance testing. They wanted to add crime. They wanted to make crime matter. They wanted something to combat crime, they added police. They tweaked values until it "felt good to play" and then shipped it - a commercial product on a budget and schedule. Zero people were likely employed to analyze how the game's systems might be perceived 30 years later.
Yup.
I use pagedown all the time.

https://pagedown.rbind.io/
There is a Modula-2 frontend [1] (out-of-tree) written by an LLVM contributor. I haven’t used it, but it seems pretty far along.

[1] https://github.com/redstar/m2lang
Does anyone know how this compares to PrinceXML / DocRapotor? We pay them big bucks for PDF generation (invoices specifically) and so far we haven't found anything comparable.
I expect medical professionals to keep masks forever, but right now if you drive to right state you can go mask free to a bar.

I'm guessing by September this will largely be over. What a horrible ordeal this has been.
> cooking techniques that assume cheaply-available vacuum

That also assumes that the atmosphere you're venting for that "cheap vacuum" is cheap as well.
They want to compromise entire country security, just to make it easy for LE. Problem is that I doubt it will help in any way because criminals will still be able to communicate with e2e if they will be encrypting traffic themselves and then disguise it as normal text etc. It will be a cat and mouse game. Not sure why they don't sack people coming with such stupid, totalitarian and abusive ideas.
Is there any co-ordinated political response to this in the UK? Where do I sign up?
I'm a violinist! The answer is "it depends". There are so many complexities to tuning that relies on harmony which is continuously changing. Mostly it is done with careful listening and intuition. Even playing with a piano, we won't play in equal temperament 100% of the time.
>but the EU didn't create it and doesn't control it.

Doesn't have to, just have to embrace and enforce its standards.

(Btw, I'm from the EU, thanks for the lecture on Europe vs the EU, who would have thought!).
> Calling an L2 car "full self driving" is incredibly irresponsible

I repeat: this is an argument about semantics, further obscured by the use of jargon, and it does nothing to inform a discussion about what autonomy features are being offered on existing cars, nor about what the market wants, nor even about whether or not those features are safe or effective. It's just words.

If you want to have a discussion about whether or not Tesla's self driving feature is safe or not, you need to come with evidence about safety. You can't just yell about "L2", no one cares anymore.
> You can still communicate with end to end encryption even if they setup mitm.

I already considered this in my predicate: 4. Consumers not generally being able or willing to interfere with their client end software to add E2E on top of what the service provider does, even if that is technically feasible.
I've been thinking about this quite a bit: there seems to have been a shift sometime during the last 50 years where instead of computers and computing being a tool to be mastered and controlled by humans, we've seen computers switch the power dynamic and render us humans the tools.

To me, that clash of "visions" was supremely represented in Apple's "1984" advert.

I'd love for computing to get back to that utopian vision of the bicycle for the mind but if you look around these days it's more of a train-wreck of the mind.