skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering where did she get groceries and water from and how she dealt with the loneliness.
I’ve been asking this question for years too. Every time the answer is a batch of projects that make grandiose claims of solving very generic problems (e.g. “this is a global knowledge graph that ensures authors are always properly compensated”)… But the actual deployed use cases, if any, turn out to be just some kind of crypto derivatives in drag. In other words, there’s no real world economy bringing money into the system — it’s all just layers upon layers of trading shells where real money ultimately comes from speculators. There is a word for this kind of scheme.
I'm not old enough to remember Gopher being "the internet" but I have browsed a few retro sites that still run it. I wouldn't mind seeing some slightly upgraded gopher-like protocol that allowed for embedding images and maybe form submissions (without any scripting). Most of what I want to do online is read, and I'd be more than happy for everything to come with a standardized look and feel rather than whatever scroll jacking weirdo design every website feels like having.
That is exactly how my ex-boss would behave!
His videos about functional programming are amazing (Mark Seemann). "Pit of success" is one of the best.

https://youtu.be/US8QG9I1XW0
> The issue isn't one of jurisdiction, it's whether his actions would have been illegal in the UK _if_ they occurred in the UK.

That is really not how extradition works. But even if it was, illegally sourcing, publishing, and continuing to host secret documents is still very much illegal in the UK.

The other important thing to note is that the UK extradited a number of British citizens to the US for computer hacking charges, even though they were on UK soil at the time. The issue is not where the person physically is, but where they were doing the damage. The crime happened in the USA, not on UK soil.
Email hn@ycombinator.com to get answers to questions like these. I suspect the answer is that it wasn't posted in the first place, or something weird like that. Mods don't delete comments.
> arguments about technology, economics or freedom are not just wrong but very often the exact opposite is true.

Care to elaborate?

What exactly are the arguments that are wrong?
>The ultimate trajectory of liberal democracy is towards anarchism

Interesting you would say that, by all accounts the current trajectory of bourgeois liberal democracy is towards towards concentration of power and neo-feudalism.
I used Tesseract for some projects a few years ago (version 2.x). It was already state-of-the-art in the specific task it is designed for, more or less on par with the best proprietary solutions. As others pointed out, Tesseract is only a specific part in a general OCR solution.

I'm wondering how actively it is being developed. I see that the last release is from 2019. I also see, however, that there have been some version 5.x alpha releases published this year.
Does anyone know what is happening inside the project?
Because we're not wired like that. Emotions are there, regardless like if we express them or not. We're not fully rational and the sooner we realize that, that the sooner we are at peace.

We need to talk to other people about our problems, bitch, rant, shout, cry, do all sort of emotional things to relieve stress, even if that does objectively nothing to solve our problems.

Even more so since some things just can't be solved. We're not all powerful, at the end of the day.

Not handling emotions is harmful to our mental health (including the rational machinery), to our life expectancy (especially the case for men), and also to our close ones.
Is it common?

There has been a very long time exception for murder, rape and piracy (with boats not file sharing). Recently terrorism has been added to that.

But as far as I'm aware the US is the only major country that tries to enforce its laws on people not there. Who else has been trying this?

Edit

Wikipedia lists some

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

Looks like some places have added planes from/to/through their airspace, sex crimes against minors and space craft to the list of extraterritorial coverage. No one else is doing espionage, computer crimes, fraud, etc like the USA...
Tesseract is not really good for text on pictures (non-white background). You can use the free Space OCR API at https://ocr.space instead.

Or, just upload your photographs to Google Photos. Google OCRs all images automatically(!) and you can search them for text in the images. This includes text e. g. on posters in the background.
Why is the "hardness" of the work the key criteria? If you compare "value to society based on peoples willingness to pay", then the ratio of that between a billionaire and the median person probably is 8000x - the founders that become billionaires usually capture only a tiny fraction of the value they create, but we tend to take that value for granted and it's hard to measure. So we only see the billions of dollars they have, not the 10s or 100's of billions of dollars of value they create.
Given that he is in fact being extradited to the US from the U.K., the US trying to get him from the UK to Sweden does nothing to achieve this end and actually makes it slightly harder for them to ultimately extradite him owing to the weaker political connection that Sweden has with the USA relative to what the UK has with the USA. (The U.K. like to think it has a “special relationship” with the USA, Sweden isn’t in Five Eyes and is not a member of NATO).

Do you have a link to the original UN report, because the newspapers reporting on the report are very obviously engaging in a game of telephone with what it actually says. I don’t know which newspapers are closer to the truth, but they’re sufficiently dissimilar that some of the claims I have encountered must be outright false.
If your threat model is mostly about identity theft, then switching your phone number and going off whatsapp won't help at all; going off facebook might limit it a bit but not really, as data in FB leaks isn't that relevant to identity theft, that's usually done based on leaks of your data from e.g. Experian which you can't prevent. There are a bunch of somewhat reasonable precautions against identity theft (credit freezes, filing taxes early to prevent tax refund fraud, etc), but those don't include switching your phone number and abandoning FB/Whatsapp.

So from looking at that risk it seems quite clear that no, it's not worth the hassle, because the hassle is real but the benefits are not. It may be different for other risks, of course - e.g. if OP was worried about a specific abusive ex stalking one of their family, that would be a very different story.
I found "PDFs are files" kind of compelling. Perhaps this was a flaw of the original www concept. Web pages were always technically files & documents, but this was always abstracted away from userland. "Save webpage" was never a core feature. This did disempower users.

PDFs are downloaded, saved, emailed around. They can also be linked to. Userland maintains a closer relationship with what's going on. A typical user know that you can have a copy of a file, which may or may not be identical to the online one. WWW, from its initial version, was mysterious. The transition between the model of requesting files from a server by clicking a link to a programmatically generated stream of code executed on your browser happened below typical users perspective.

The wb has obviously gained a lot, but has also lost something.
> A wrong decision can be fixed, but wasted time is gone forever.

so true!
This depends a lot.

For English-speaking countries, 1B = 1M * 1k

For Spanish-speaking countries, 1B = 1M * 1M

For other languages it's a big "it varies", though the second definition seems to be the most common. The term "billion" is honestly, as ambiguous as using "06-03" for a date.

Also note that, historically, English also followed the second definition, so for old literature it's also confusing.
Thats undeniably true, vomiting isn't something anyone wants to do. However you're VERY unlikely to pick anything except what you're looking for if you stick to the 'biggies' of the found mushroom world as the grandparent comment covers--chicken of the wood, hen of the wood, morels, etc. They're quite distinctive and not easily confused with other things. The LBMs are a whole different kettle of fish--you're definitely into 'hard mode' when you try to differentiate those. But until you're an expert there's really no reason you'd even be looking for mushrooms in that category.
Data leak reveals Israeli NSO group's spyware used to target activists
Book Reader can reflow PDFs. It is very simple,, which I like. But it adds any PDF you open to the library when you open the app, which I find only slightly annoying for non-books.
Will someone accuse Microsoft of publishing vulnerable software?
I’m familiar with the theory, have read a number of history books on the subject, and have followed modern proponents of various economic schools. I think those in favor of the prevailing theory are overconfident. Time will tell.
While I actually do believe in the Dryas impact hypothesis myself, there is definitely quite a bit of stigma surrounding the idea, especially since controversal figures like Graham Hancock have embraced it.

While I think a lot of his ideas are pretty out there, I do agree with him that I would need substantially more evidence than there actually is for concluding that civilisation really is only 6000-10000 years old. Modern humans have been around for more than 10 times that length and our actual fossil records are incredibly spotty.
Architectural Knowledge – How Things Fit
Architecture is defined not by the knowledge of design, construction, visualization, or model making; but by the knowledge of how they could all be put together to create something beautiful, and unique.

How things work is just as important as whether they work. An example is the wheeled suitcase. These days, we all live in the comfort of wheels in suitcases that aid movement with ease during travel. But initially, Bernard Sadow had to deal with several objections before Macy's commissioned a line of 'bags that glide' as they were called.

The problem wasn't whether these wheeled suitcases could work - as we've seen, they do! - but it was the architecture of stations and ports. There were lots of willing porters to transport luggage, the platforms and concourses were short and close to car-friendly drop-off points, lots of staircases, and the airports were small. Hence suitcase manufacturers were slow to adopt.

As air travel expanded rapidly in the 1970s, airports got bigger, so did the distances travelers had to walk. People began to see more reason to have wheeled suitcases.

Who knows how different it would have played out, but the change in architecture around airports made the use of suitcases more viable, hence it sold.

Architectural knowledge has the same impact. It is the knowledge of how things fit together.

Things might work, but the architecture around them limits their efficiency. Like wheeled suitcases in airports where stairs abound. You can't possibly wheel a suitcase up a flight of stairs.

We are mostly interested in the components of systems we develop and not in the relationship between them. Now that productivity tools flourish, we jump on the next one supposed to improve your "productivity by 25%." If it doesn't have a proper relationship with other aspects of life, it would reduce the efficiency by more, increase sulkiness, and trigger frustration.

To make it work, we need to shift some of that focus and target to architectural innovation which changes the components of a system without changing the system itself. Sometimes, tools do not need to be changed, how they work with other parts of the cycle need to change.

Architectural innovations look at the big picture to figure out the changes that may improve efficiency. Those changes are more like tweaks. Some could be as subtle as putting the bookshelf closer to the workstation.

In Reimagining capitalism in a world on fire, Rebecca Henderson gives an example of the British Army after creating the tank. They failed to realize how to make it fit into the branches of their Army - Cavalry, and Infantry. Hence the United Kingdom entered the second world war seriously unprepared.

Having something valuable and not knowing what to do with it is an example of the need for architectural knowledge. So is building something without knowing how it affects other parts of the whole.
Oh, then I stand corrected. The last time a vulnerability in Messages was making the rounds, I thought that I learned it was possible because Messages is part of the OS and not just a pre-installed app, though I can't remember where I read it. I'd be glad to hear that I'm wrong about that though.
Venice wasn't a democracy in any meaningful way, either in the style of Greek democracy that preceded it or western liberal democracies that succeeded them. It was an oligarchy with limited democratic elements.
The Paragon driver cannot recognize encrypted NTFS volumes AFAIK
I bought a disk that was already flagged!

apparently some USB flash drives have a bit you can toggle with some vendor specific tool, but I've not tried that

for a non-removable device installing Windows is exactly the same as for a normal hard drive (no fuss with Windows To Go or other rubbish)
How does Apple technology hold up against NSO spyware?
Wow that video made radioactivity 100 times scarier for me.
There are a lot of cases with the innocent project where an innocent person was lucky to be proven innocent.

There must be many more that are not lucky.

Around 4.1% of people on death row are estimated to be innocent.

https://www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7230

I have a hard time imaging, that the rate is lower for lesser crimes where the victims of the justice system can be coerced to accept a "lesser" punishment.
Strange that none was found in Brazil. I remember in the region of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (mostly Mountain Regions), after a nightly dew over the pastures, you could always find some magic Mushrooms, early in the morning.
The text is too small to read on my phone. I can zoom in, but then I have to scroll horizontally. I’m afraid this website isn’t targetting me.
It is indeed! And you're right, nobody does, including this example.
UK and allies hold Chinese state responsible for a pervasive pattern of hacking
My mistake... looking at the wrong thread :headslap:
I think the difference is between a fake "We are sorry you feel this way" and a real "we messed up big time on this. For starters, here's what we will do to make sure it doesn't happen again".
> that depends, exFAT lacks permissions and symlinks.

The lack of permissions is why it works as a portable file system. If you've ever tried to use, say, ext for this it becomes clear why nobody does that.
That's a pretty strong claim with little evidence :)
Wow, that is some very tortured logic. As to the specifics of Weinstein, I don't share your fixation - so I can't address your complaints about him.

> ...there is tons of examples of 'misinformation' in the PDF ... It's an amazing and thorough bit of research actually.

You're confusing "research" and "propaganda". It is easy to tell the difference using this little trick: research defines terms, propaganda dumps "tons of examples" from unsympathetic caricatures. One is intellectually honest and the other is manipulative.

> The situation is fluid, facts change...

Uh, define "facts". Because your spirited defense of calculated lies from public health officials makes me think you've somehow redefined the word. Here is an example of a fact: the virus has always been a lab leak. It isn't a fact now that Fauci's emails have been FOIA'd and scientists are admitting that they immediately recognized signs of genetic engineering but didn't speak up because they thought it might help the bad orange man. It was always a fact - one that was, in the best cases, strongly countermessaged with "medical disinformation" warnings, and in the worst cases used to justify deplatforming. Hell, the boards figured out the specific lab at least a month before travel restrictions - I remember reading their job postings page seeking bat virologists through Google Translate.

> People are not censored, they're just told to not talk...

bwahahahaha, seriously?! Aside from your creative take on what is and isn't censorship - you know that the Whitehouse is directly instructing platforms, publicly and with no hint of shame, to censor Americans? The whole "Businesses can do whatever they want, build your own Internet" line was already total BS, but Biden has totally blown that dodge to smithereens by blatantly directing platforms on who needs a good banhammering.
The spec is ISO 32000, and it’s expensive and closed, so difficult to reference. But according to Wikipedia at least, JavaScript is normative in it. No idea if SOAP / Web Services is part of it though.
I also enjoyed the sentiment of the article. I used to blog a lot but in the last decade I have preferred more long form writing. Now I use the leanpub.com [1] service so when I write, I get generated PDF/ePub/Kindle formats, and material is readable online as HTML/CSS. For me leanpub is a way to make content free and accessible, but people can pay if they want. The relatively few people who pay for my material have a large effect on what I decide to write about in the future or which writing projects to drop.

I consume the web mostly by following a few very interesting people on social media and following their links. As an author, my goal is to keep producing interesting enough material to be worth people's time reading.

[1] https://leanpub.com/u/markwatson
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It's a convincing lie. The reality is:

* Bitcoin incentivises _cheap energy_. If burning coal is 10 times cheaper than renewables, shitcoiners will burn coal

* The renewables that may be built are not built for the greater good, for public usage. Only to mine more coin, to make more money, to make more solar panels, to mine more coins, etc. The carbon cost of these renewables is abysmal.

* The only positive point it _may_ bring would be making renewables cheaper, but considering the shitcoin vultures are trying to go waste electricity from any source, including attempting to screw Iceland over, the likelihood of this happening is close to zero.
Oh, of course, that's all true.

The difference between elegance and simplicity is when you start to talk to developers who learned just enough to be able to put patterns in their projects but not enough to know when to do so.

> 3) Beginners and weak insecure developers focus on composition. Experts focus on the end state.

That is one more way to say that experts use programming as a tool and that programming is not a problem for them and so the biggest issue they see is that the end result is the right one.

It is easier to focus on the end goal when you trust you have some kind of solution for any problem that can happen on the way.

On the other hand novice and intermediate developers focus on technical because this is the challenge they are facing. And they don't yet feel they can solve every problem they will face. You can't tell them to not focus on technical because it is useless advice -- they need to learn technical first before they can become experts and focus fully on the end goal.

The best you can do is to remind that the end goal is important and keep it on the back of their heads even when they are immersed in technical challenges.

**

As to "insecure" developers, I think there is something to it. Moving from purely technical problems to other kinds of problems (looking at big picture of the product, the client and the development team) requires a little bit of courage (don't laugh). It is easy to keep working within the same types of problems that you are comfortable with, and make illusion of progress by changing technologies, working with larger applications and so on.

I had a prospective client some time ago. They wanted me to help with their application. They had trouble delivering and additionally their application was unreliable.

So on the meeting with the director, architect and tech lead they asked me to start by upgrading Java from 6 to 11.

Mind, that this is discussion with a director that had some 40 devs and reached out to me personally to get help.

So I asked "Guys, do you really want to say that people were not able to deliver reliable application with Java 6? Or maybe the problems are somewhere else?"
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Looking for a place to find interesting engineering projects including but not limiting to network, application, blockchain, decentralisation, OS, etc.
The issue is not that a random guy on the internet hacks the software, but a _state_ actor.
There are three big things that are important for modern data formats:

- It must be easy to use. The harder it is to set up, the less people will want to use it. The harder it is to work with, the higher the maintenance costs and the greater the number of mistakes and security holes. Poorly defined specs and a cavalier attitude towards the users of these technologies have trained us to just accept bad quality and make do.

- It must be efficient. Text formats are convenient, but wasteful of both CPU and bandwidth. Going forward we need to think more about our energy impact. There needs to be a way to have our cake and eat it too!

- It must be worry-free. Codec differences are a security risk. Bad defaults are a security risk. Lack of forward compatibility is a security risk. Today's hostile world does not at all resemble the world in which our current formats were developed.

This is why I'm developing https://concise-encoding.org/
Ah.. ok sorry, right you are, I must watch that!
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I dual boot between Linux and Windows on my laptop, and I use three physical hard drives: two SSDs, each dedicated to a different OS, and one hybrid HDD with more storage that's "shared" between the two (and also used as a simple way off passing data between them).

Maybe things have changed now but NTFS was the only reliable option for that last drive when I first set things up this way a few years ago.
The article and discussion here all seem to assume that everyone is acting rationally in service to the stated goal(s) of the project, and that problems with the timeline are just honest mistakes. Unfortunately, in my 25 years, I've witnessed a nauseating amount of political infighting that sought to undermine projects in attempts to build and/or preserve internal power for respective managers. This behavior employs the 2 things readily at-hand for ruining estimating: bad-faith technical decisions, and good, old-fashioned feet dragging.

I've spent most of my career in Fortune 250's, but I've seen this happen in a couple of very small companies too. As someone with a personality that is honest to a fault, this has caused me a significant amount of distress in my career. More than once, I've been the lone voice in the wilderness crying about the forthcoming train wrecks, only to be ignored, and then ultimately blamed for the crash, because I was the only one that people could point to for having said anything about it at all.
Dang could train the writers/editors but due to the way posts on HN need to be interesting dang might need to train the writer/editor a lot or find a rarer type of writer/editors which will probably cost more.