skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hijacking this post a bit, but does anyone know of a library or API service to convert SVGs to PLT (AutoCad Plotter format, based on HPGL) files. I need them to feed to a laser engraver.

I found convertio[o], but it doesn't support SVG embedded fonts so the text defaults to Times.

[0] https://convertio.co/svg-plt/
This video by Saša Jurić -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE -- is really interesting.

It moves kind of fast and you might need to rewatch a few parts, but it demonstrates some of the principals that make Elixir / Erlang so compelling.

If you watch this, imagine what you would need to do as a developer to make this work in your language of choice.
These aren't secret. they're easily found with userscripts.
There may be programs that desire such behavior. But I've never intentionally written one. Which is why I personally avoid C, and wish that I didn't have to work in environments coded in C.

I seriously would accept everything running at half speed for the certainty of not being subject to the problems of C level bugs. But as Rust grows in popularity, it looks like I won't need to worry about that.
Do you find the pen latency makes your writing slow down or compensate by writing larger?
Not to be snarky, but isn’t every part of a successful organism an evolutionary marvel? If not, then perhaps a more interesting tale would be to look at the bodily systems that are substandard garbage. I’d probably start with the lower back.
I also tried that, but didn't find any pre-made gulpfiles for it and after half an hour of trying to make one I decided it wasn't worth the effort, but it's definitely still a great tool.
Monitoring 3D Printers with Computer Vision on a Raspberry Pi
How are you finding the note taking with a pen, specifically the latency?
I agree, I've believed this for a while now, but no one wants to listen to me lol.
IPFS sounds like the ideal solution here. In particular because it would mean you could set up a local node to act as a cache, and pin any packages you rely on.
I’ve noticed this as a major driver too. San Francisco has a per capita city+county budget that is almost 2x the typical. Yes every election is “we just need another $300M for this” and “our bond proposal to fund X”. But next year not much changed and they are asking for more again.
I don't think decriminalizing drug use was a strictly liberal policy. That had support from large parts of the right.

Where the right and left differed was in all the programs treating drug addiction that were brought in at the same time. Pamper the poor darlings vs Let them rot in the gutter.
From the accompanying pre-print "The New York Times Distorts the Palestinian Struggle: A Case Study of Anti-Palestinian Bias in American News Coverage of the First and Second Palestinian Intifadas":

Said defines [orientalism] as the West’s stereotyped perception of the Middle East – based in Western domination, both colonial and postcolonial, of the East

Ah yes, such domination as the 300,000-900,000 Greeks killed by the Ottoman Empire during the Greek genocide [1], or the brutal suppression of Bulgaria's fight for independence during the Bulgarian horrors [2]. Or the 700 years Spain spent under Muslim rule [3]. Or the two (!) sieges of Vienna itself [4,5]. Had they been successful, maybe everything east of Vienna would have shared the fate of the Byzantine Empire and Constantinople [6], once part of Europe, but now not even considered colonized.

What is today still called Europe is simply the land Arabs failed to take. Implying the domination and colonization were one-way affairs, with the West always dominant and the Middle East always the victim, is beyond brazen. How often similar statements are left unchallenged brings to mind a saying about forgetting history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_Horrors

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Andalus

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Vienna_(1529)

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire#Fall
Ask HN: Have an idea, now what? Collaborators?
I'm a long-removed tech guy, now attorney, that has been itching to get back in to some kind of technology-adjacent startup. I have an idea that I think solves an existing legal-adjacent problem and is just mundane enough to potentially be successful - two traits I have historically found common in most successful enterprises.

As an attorney I'm a solo practitioner and, to be frank, I'm kind of tired of "going it alone." With this project, I think I could probably muddle my way through it myself, but I'd prefer to collaborate with someone that can pick up the slack when I have to put it down, etc.

Now comes the question ... what do you do in these situations? Where do you look? I have a robust network of legal professionals, but few tech folks. Do you get something started and then just try to bring someone on in a traditional hire fashion? How do you find folks to work with that are outside of your network when you can't bring any guarantees?
In the actually used department of esoteric languages, there’s the TeX macro language. It’s Turing complete but also completely sui generis. Especially the whole cat code aspect of the language where any character can have any significance and it’s possible to make inaccessible token sequences.
Black income, and income inequality, has worsened since the end of apartheid: https://www.nber.org/digest/jan06/why-south-african-incomes-...

South Africa is heading towards being a failed state.
I'm speaking of Authoritarianism in the way that the Political Compass refers to it: https://www.politicalcompass.org/
If 5% of a drive was rewritten I think that would be a reasonable time to interrupt the accompanying software driver and determine a reasonable response. It is not necessary for the drive to revert the full size of the drive, merely enough data to reduce the false positive rate from normal activity.

I think the hangup is the assumption the drive has to do 100% of the work. It is only needed to accelerate the snapshots for restoration after an attack is detected. Determining whether the system is under attack and the correct response can be done in software.

On a larger note the remapping engine in an SSD makes for a great primitive. It would be awesome if SSDs exposed this in a more general way.
That would be "Mañana en la mañana" in Spanish!
Maybe, in another decade, they'll fix that whole thing.
The back is a good one.

How about this design where you stuff food in the same hole you breathe through?

Seems so unnecessarily dangerous.
My wife agrees with this statement, often
NAC! don’t drink much any more but when I do, pre drink I take some nac.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylcysteine
> For instance, what basis is there for universal healthcare other than 'we should help each other'?

Ask Bismarck. The first quasi-universal healthcare system wasn’t introduced because Bismarck was so nice; it was to increase productivity and discourage people from voting for the socialists.
And, by the way, if you're going to go with binary definitions, it's perfectly reasonable to say that within 30 minutes of a Walmart and within a couple of hours of a significant city is a reasonable benchmark versus truly back of beyond rural. Just just don't expect that to correspond to an urban environment as many people understand that to mean.

Certainly I can normally go into town for an evening of theater but most people would consider my house to be in an urban setting.
True.

But for the sake of argument, say they somehow can. What then? Would they actually go through with it?

I suppose it goes to their own personal careers. Would they have a better chance of personal success in the new Idaho legislatures or in the current Oregon one?

Seeing that the population of Oregon is 4.2M and the new Idaho would be relatively unchanged at 1.7M (these counties combine to 0.06M people), I'd suppose they would want to stay with Oregon as the prestige and career flexibility would be greater in a more populous and richer state. Whatever the new districts of new Idaho would be, these new-comers would still be a small fraction of the legislature.

The only way I can see that they would have better careers in new Idaho would be in national politics. And then they have to fight amongst each other and the old Idaho politicians, all of whom would be jealous at the attention these new-comers would have. Unless one of them is especially gifted/lucky, I'm not seeing that as a high likelihood.
Chrome and derivates require the user's account password to view the stored passwords. Safari uses the macOS keychain and won't show passwords easily. The trick you mentioned only works on Macs without Touch ID and requires more work, so not really the same.
Google Pixel to use own SoC not Qualcomm
Looks like google is jumping on designing their own silicon, like Apple.
The answer to the question is nothing, ever!!!
The largest wasm file I see downloaded on the website is 440K. Disassembling it, it seems to contain a bunch of libc-like filesystem code, and was built using the rust toolchain. So it doesn't look like v8 has been compiled to wasm here.

Rather, I assume they compiled a library or two, but otherwise they use the JS VM in the browser, and they've ported the Node.js runtime scripts to that environment.

That doesn't take anything away from the achievement here - it's really impressive! It's better to use the VM in the browser, if you can get those runtime scripts portable enough, which from other comments it seems like the answer is (or will be) yes.
Given the comments here so far, I'd suggest the article's title be replaced with its subtitle:

> We have very little idea where anuses come from

This also more accurately describes what the article is about.
It's not a question of insufficient funds. They spent five billion dollars on shareholder dividends while corporate documents show they were completely aware the equipment was breaking down and posed a wildfire risk, and they broke multiple state regulations to do so.
You're so goofy. I love it. We should hang out sometime.

Edit: I apologize for doing this as an edit but HN won't let me reply so here it is. I've made my points and you've made your's. You haven't brought up any new points and you've been ignoring mine previous ones that already anticipate your response. So let's trivialize it because it's not going any further. Seriously though. I hope you have a wonderful day.
Courses at Bradfield School of Computer Science (https://bradfieldcs.com/) – I've never learned computer science so quickly or effectively
What apps do you find yourself using on the S6 Lite?
You said, "the whole of the United States was founded on slavery." That statement is what I take issue with. If you feel like amending that, to something like "some parts of the United States leaned heavily on the use of slavery", I would agree. It's the extreme claim of your first statement that I take issue with.

In general, you've limited your claims to some of the original 13 states / colonies. That's a far cry from "the whole of the United States". I'd like to see your sources for each of the other 50 states, that they were each founded on slavery.

Not only that, but you seem to be defending your very general statement by only looking at a very limited time frame. Were each of the states so heavily dependent on slavery that it could be said that, e.g., Wyoming or Wisconsin or even Alaska were founded on slavery?

I don't think so.
the article talks about how anus may have formed, yet they don't mention embryonic development which usually kind of replays some evolutionary development:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryological_origins_of_the_m...
As a non-native speaker of a non-English language, I'm often the "translator" for other non-native speakers, helping native speakers understand them.

Really all I'm doing is repeating what the non-native speaker said verbatim, but with an accent that the native speaker is more familiar with.
While it's almost more than two years now, get a pair of Bose noise cancelling headphones. I use them normally at home but they really shine when travelling on a plane. I didn't realize that most of the tiredness and stress from being on a plane for me is the constant loud noise. Totally worth the $250.
This is a great thing to bring along for backpacking trips. It barely takes up pack space and makes a great cup of black coffee.
There are less absolute services available in rural areas and less services per capita and that lower level of services still costs more per capita to maintain, because for that one ambulance to serve ten people it had to travel 200 miles and took ten hours instead of having ten ambulances serve four people each in two hours.
The lifetime of Internet content is best described as nondeterminable. Some of it lives ... for a long time. Some of it vanishes quickly. Much of it persists until it doesn't, whether through the fluke of some small-scale calamity or a wide-ranging service shutdown. Or because the original author, or current hoster, simply feels it no longer warrants being online.

Personal blogs, and personal personal blogs, are particularly prone to this. I've been online long enough (going into my fourth decade) that I've seen many people who were at one time quite prolific and free-ranging online ... stop being so. Some died. Some had life catch up with them. Some merely tired of the attention. Some found their interests wandering elsewhere.

Archival has value, and I'm a fan of it.

But so do privacy, and peace and quiet.
then you'd need a lot more than 5% overcommit. That is just there to help with flash wear and hiding block death.

Source: have written FTLs that shipped in products
> I'd suppose they would want to stay with Oregon as the prestige and career flexibility would be greater in a more populous and richer state

I don't think this really tracks. Being a minority state legislator sucks; you're basically completely ignored. I think most politicians would much rather be in the majority party in a smaller state than a minority in a larger state.
[Huge GPU] packages can be cached locally: persist ~/.cache/pip between builds with e.g. Docker, run a PyPI caching proxy,

"[Discussions on Python.org] [Packaging] Draft PEP: PyPI cost solutions: CI, mirrors, containers, and caching to scale"
https://discuss.python.org/t/draft-pep-pypi-cost-solutions-c...

> Continuous Integration automated build and testing services
can help reduce the costs of hosting PyPI by running local mirrors
and advising clients in regards to how to efficiently re-build
software hundreds or thousands of times a month without re-downloading everything from PyPI every time.

[...]

> Request from and advisory for CI Services and CI Implementors:

> Dear CI Service,

> - Please consider running local package mirrors and enabling use of local package mirrors by default for clients’ CI builds.

> - Please advise clients regarding more efficient containerized
software build and test strategies.

> Running local package mirrors will save PyPI (the Python Package Index, a service maintained by PyPA, a group within the non-profit Python
Software Foundation) generously donated resources. (At present (March 2020), PyPI costs ~ $800,000 USD a month to operate; even with generously donated resources).

Looks like the current figure is significantly higher than $800K/mo for science.

How to persist ~/.cache/pip between builds with e.g. Docker in order to minimize unnecessary GPU package re-downloads:

RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/pip

RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/home/appuser/.cache/pip
> But nobody has ever shown … that these UB optimizations actually improve performance of anything.

That’s just not true. Already examples in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27223870
Yes it does, and alerts, and Youtube channels, oh and Feedburner's still around, even though they're trying to get rid of it.
From another milliennial: the only detail I'd add is that "yeet" is less about pure force and more about the impulsive, imprecise nature of the action. Throwing a basketball into a hoop wouldn't be described as "yeeting", except perhaps if it were by complete accident.
Another case of humans going against their evolutionary model.
Have you tried the iPad Pro, or other devices? How would you compare the latency?
A V86 hypervisor is relatively simpler, and a lot of DOS utilities in the late 80s throughout the 90s took advantage of V86 mode, like the (in)famous EMM386 and debuggers like 386SWAT and CUP386. It is a little-known (or perhaps known but little-appreciated) fact that Windows 3.x Enhanced Mode and Win9x are actually architecturally based on a V86 hypervisor and "library OS" concept, instead of a traditional OS like the various Unices, Linux, and the NT line. They also perform "hyperjacking" of the DOS environment at boot time.

I do wish Intel had simply extended V86 mode to a "V386" mode, as this interesting discussion suggests, instead of adding completely new and different instructions and data structures: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/an-old-idea-x86-hardware-virtual...

all while containing the ability to run on every recent version of 64-bit Windows

The presence of that one little extra word "on" changes everything...
> Seems so unnecessarily dangerous.

I agree, but it hasn't killed enough to evolutionarily matter.
The title is pure clickbutt.
Some Students Are Smarter Than Others (and That’s OK)
Old but relevant, I have used an espressobin as a router for years and the performance I am getting is similar to much more expensive semi-professional routers. https://blog.tjll.net/building-my-perfect-router/
Aw, you can't come up with a rational response. I'll admit, trivializing is a decent follow-up when you've got no arguments left.

EDIT: I'll answer with an edit also. For my part, it seems like my response went unanswered and you didn't really anticipate it, and I do think the argument has places to go. However, I do wish you the best, and I hope you have a wonderful day too.
What percentage of Christian ministries are actually providing these services? You don't say, just that some are. I would say that this is far from widespread phenomenon.

Are Christian ministries actually providing comprehensive healthcare, or only those procedures that they morally approve of?

If conservatives are the "real" humanitarians, why is there more poverty, more untreated diabetes, and worse healthcare in conservative states?

Why should the availability of healthcare be contingent on your religious beliefs?
My university CS department worked with a nearby hospital, and student projects were often related to medical imaging or modeling topics.

For a few years, there was work related to the anus, which according to the staff was an under-studied topic for obvious reasons.

I'm afraid I chickened out of choosing the "model the anal sphincter" project. In retrospect it sounded fun and interesting.
I’m not willing to accept a “say” for performance here.

I’d also want performance impact on a non-benchmark perf sensitive code base (browser, database, etc rather than spec).

The problem with the claim that the code is incorrect is that it is only* incorrect due to the imo bogus interpretation of what should be UB.

If I write

If (a+b<a)

On any modern architecture that has a well defined and understood meaning. But compilers have repeatedly overridden I well understood behavior in the name of perf benefits that only turn up in Spec-style benchmarks
That's a really good point. What we wanted all along was the JVM with a DOM API.

We started with Java. It didn't gain any traction for browser scripting. They took "Java" out and called it JavaScript. Now we take the "script" out and call it WebAssembly. If someone in 1995 made Java a DOM-editing thing instead of an applet thing, we could have saved 25 years of running around in circles :)

(Going back even further, we all connected to a mainframe with a dumb terminal. The desktop revolution happened... and now we're back to dumb terminals attached to a mainframe. But we call it "The Cloud" instead, and the dumb terminal fits in your pocket.)

Maybe the past wasn't as dumb as we think it was. We just weren't smart enough to understand it at the time.
Follow-on fun fact: Spanish turned this particular long-consonant distinction into a different consonant, the eñe.

Ano means anus, while año means year.

One of the first sentences a student of Spanish will learn is "¿cuántos años tienes?", how old are you, literally "how many years do you have?"— often before they really grasp the distinction between ene and eñe.
> Honestly it's starting to get hard to tell the difference between this and Electron-based editors like VS Code

Since Electron is just chromium, I'm not sure why you would expect a difference in the first place? The differences that previously existed between Electron & Web hasn't changed - Electron's only real purpose was to basically turn off the browser permission model & let the "web app" do whatever it wants. That's still true with WebContainers, it still has its hands & features tied to whatever Chrome & browsers in general are comfortable letting websites ask permission to do.
I didn't mind using slack when they had an IRC gateway.
This is really cool. I would love to see something like this with an ability to pair with a watch or a phone via bluetooth so one could get realtime location of a user upon a consent.

I truly believe such glasses can serve good cause in an elderly care / support space. For example, being able to show directions in realtime for public transport options, directions (bit like a windscreen hud in modern vehicles) would be a game changer for many people. I can think of many, many applications for it. I'm hoping the apple glasses are coming and building such solutions will be possible.

I'd pay for something like this without hesitation.
I always thought that the human embryo develops it's anus first, and that this is a indication that is was also first in evolutionary development
You know you've replied to multiple people here, right?
I really don’t get why this is still considered a conundrum

Lots of places have R hovering around 1. If it goes to 1.1 everything goes to shit, if it drops to 0.9. Everything will be fine.

So even if masks reduce spread by a tiny amount, even 10% better. That could easily swing you below 1 and save the day.
In which way is it not the same as a fountain pen? The texture? Latency? Stroke correction?
"widely agreed upon" is debated.

According to Wiktionary:

"yeeted

1. simple past tense and past participle of yeet" [1]

Worth noting there is a fair amount of discussion on whether the past tense is "yeeted" or "yote", or even "yaught": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:yeet

See also: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/28300/what-i...

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yeeted#English

(I do think it would be pretty funny if the past tense ended up as "yote", though.)