skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just for the hell of it because I can't wind down tonight, here's a fun story from 1998.

The "web shop" I worked for got a contract with a company I believe was called Sansom Street Associates. They controlled the Gap, Old Navy, and the Mendocino Redwood Co. The last of which we were tasked with designing a website for.

It quickly became known in the office the MRC was in the business of chopping down old-growth redwood forests. They wanted a website that looked eco-friendly for this purpose. I was one of the two designers on the job. We built a prototype and were told in no uncertain terms that it was too glossy, too slick. This is 1998. We're dealing in <img> tags and every mockup has to be set with table slices in photoshop with rollovers as a second layer.

Too glossy? Yes. They wanted it to look more like it was designed by a high school student. Lower the images to dithered 256-color GIFs. Get rid of the font and color choices. Everything should be in random fonts.

I remember being told, "they just want some website where the hippies can dump their emails into a black hole".

Then we got wind that this company had paid our bosses something over $150k up front for this simple website job - downgrade included. At that point it became toxic among the designers.

What's funny is, I bet MRC paid triple that for the stupid site they have now, because money means nothing to them. But I'd never work for them again in this or any other lifetime. /rant.
I am not sure which specific article you’re talking about, but MacOS update sizes were a massive issue.

The real problem wasn’t the update size itself. The real problem was the updating through the Mac store, which would invariably fail to properly download the update if you were on anything outside a several hundred mbps connection, and even if you did successfully download it, would potentially fail to install and/or give really poor progress updates where it looked like it hadn’t installed.

All the while eating up many gigabytes of space for I don’t know what.
Structuring exceptions in Python like a PRO
exFAT is HORRIBLE. Sorry for the caps. Interoperabiliy between Windows and Mac is hit-or-miss. Formatting on Windows and it's random if Mac can read it. Unplug without ejecting and expect to wait hours for Mac to analyse and fix, or plug-in and out and in and out of Windows and hope it fixes it. Many times a day. Zero problems with NTFS.
We'll probably find out, because that's where we are heading. It already went too far for me in many different ways.
The protests / press releases are probably a coordinated effort driven by the US. However notice the EU version of it, not accusing the Chinese government of being behind the attacks:

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2021...

China: Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union urging Chinese authorities to take action against malicious cyber activities undertaken from its territory
The solution is the same in both cases. Don't use vulnerable software. The problem starts with the same actor in both cases, Microsoft.

I feel bad for the admins who are stuck with these systems.
They are making accusations on China based on "educated" guesswork. The smoking gun is missing to "prove" provenance and attribution. In fact that is incredibly hard to prove.

In Stuxnet for example, the alleged perpetrators hinted that they were behind it.

Will the same countries and allies now condemn known, disclosed and proven cyberattacks sourced from other countries (with known state involvement and complicity) on activists and journalists that lead to imprisonment and death?

And Microsoft has a very long history of vulnerabilities and hiding it. And then they will refuse to patch known vulnerabilities in lower versioned software trying to force large customers to do unwanted version upgrades and to adopt the more expensive SaaS offerings.

They are now trying to force all customers off of the already paid for and cheaper on-prem Microsoft Exchange which is still the dominant software in the directory services market and trying to get all corporates onto Azure AD.
>>You can't run an economy on a fixed-supply currency. We've tried in the past.

1. This is simply not true. The gold standard did not fail. It became inconvenient to political agendas. There were no economic deficiencies in the gold standard era.

2. The crypto world is multi-currency, so you can't draw lessons from a uni-currency past that apply to it.
Why is there an implied assumption that only americans think being poor is a moral failure?
This is true, but I do think a PDF is just conceptually simpler and requires less technical knowledge. Especially in a situation where technical users are scarce.

IMO most people have a mental model of a PDF as being a digital document, whereas a HTML file is somewhat more amorphous.
Link to the AT&T 3G whitelist[1][2] that the blog alludes to.

I was one these longtime AT&T customers that jumped ship a month ago; I have several unlocked BlackBerry Key2 and essentially don't use data (roughly 1 GiB on any given month per unit over the past 2 years). The cost of these phones approach flagship territory, and there still isn't a suitable replacement on the market as integrated physical keypads go IMO, so it was a no-brainer.

That the much older KEYone and Priv models would continue to be supported on their network, yet the newer Key2 and Key2 LE models aren't on their whitelist despite supporting VoLTE and receiving an unusual number of system updates in the past year alone, was at first baffling. As I understand it now, the situation is a business decision (not tech constraint) to whitelist only older VoLTE-compatible models previously sold by AT&T---whereas the Key2 supposedly never was.

After all the periodic SMS reminders and dealing with their batshit annoying bot that would entitle itself to interrupting the first 30ish sec of my voice calls, I got really tired of it and burned a random Sunday afternoon porting over---saving over $300/yr per phone with still more than adequate data. Never looked back.

[1] https://www.att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1324171/

[2] https://www.att.com/idpassets/images/support/wireless/Device...
Is this a comical misquote or is the PDF format actually 60 years old?
Yes. Though I think the real question is whether or not it was intentional.
I've run a few (failed) projects in the past as a solo founder as well, and my single most important learning is to keep things simple, specially when it comes to infrastructure. You want something which is super easy to deploy, rollback, and debug.

Docker in itself is not necessarily easier or more difficult to manage - that depends on your orchestration solution. If you're using it to deploy to Heroku, that's probably fine. But if you intend to use something like Kubernetes or AWS ECS, I'd rather not to as they come with significant overhead and lots of moving parts.

I'm currently managing a Kubernetes cluster in GCP for a big client, and I couldn't be more convinced that this is definitely not the kind of solution I'll use for my own projects.

Finally, although it goes contrary to what is usually recommended, at the beginning I'd personally avoid Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation as well, as they come with their own overhead and sometimes make small changes more difficult. And it's a context switch.
How did they even get this privilege in the first place?

Would love to know.
Thanks for bringing attention to this!
www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/26/gda-texas-mass-shootings-rise-in-2020-data-reports/115506570/

Were they criminals before they shot everyone?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/two-women-shot-in-secon...

I haven't heard that any of the suspects in the two events on 6th street were carrying illegally or were already criminals (they could have been).

We seem killing more people here in TX already. Letting more drunks have the right to carry and conceal isn't gonna make things better. Maybe it won't make things worse either but it's already pretty bad.

Sincerely,
Getting the F Out Of TX, ASAP
> I certainly get the argument, but using something like hugo or gatsby or jekyll […]

Or a plug-in to Wordpress so you can keep the GUI/dynamic for the less technical employees:

* https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/
If someone robbed your apartment would it be convenient to accuse you of low-security procedures instead of condemning the bad actors
It might be an issue with partitioning. ExFAT support built in from Windows 7 and requires service packs for earlier versions.
To be honest, The Pursuit of Happyness is far from the "values" that most religious orders want to give (well, at least from an ethical point of view).

Revolving around the deeply American concept of money and "success" as the solution to everything is a Hollywood cliché that is seen with some suspect by most European viewers nowadays.
Upvoting because I read this as tongue-in-cheek.
>Failure to be completely expressive about a paradigm is not itself a paradigm. Its just faulty reasoning.

I am being as expressive as my expressivity allows!

for x in all-entities-in-universe: SOMETIMES(x = x)

Here is an example in Python:

class A: pass
class B:
def __eq__(self, other): return False
a = A()
b = B()
assert (a = a)
assert not (b = b)

Would you be willing to lead by example and be completely expressive about the paradigm in which fault() is a meaningful function?

Don't moralise about my reasoning, when you are done implementing fault() we can pass my function as an input to yours. That will settle the matter without ceremony.
Yes, that's (or at least appears to be) their point. Eg:

> gas will be a better cooktop for them.
How wonderful that they've included "2001"!
Show HN: Online Video Trimmer – with source code for use with Shotstack API
Uh, why not The Tree of Life?! One of the most incredible movies ever made. I thought To The Wonder was comparatively nothing at all.
Interesting timing, coming just after the NSO revelations. Does the US government suspect (or more-likely know) that their relations with NSO will be the subject of reports in the coming days?
Well, sure. But the Athenian-style Greek democracies were such an outrageous success that they're still a part of the common political discourse after 2,500 years and we still have things to learn from the stories they left us. I mean, not every democracy is going to achieve that level of success or quite that place in the public imagination.

What Venice had was pretty good compared to dictatorship.
Thanks. I am starting self-hosted blog about design fundamentals, best-practices, etc. Using only PDF is not a solution for me. Combining minimalistic web-site design with pdf/e-pub will suit me well.
I like your approach as a statement against web "pollution".
Portable means that you can stick a USB pendrive in your car, speaker, TV, printer and be able to at least read the media on it. exFAT or FAT32 are the standard here, not NTFS.

Computers are easier to deal with, there might be obscure programs that can read and write any known file system format despite what the kernel supports.
Me neither. I'm not sure what's up with all the talk here about NTFS for portable storage. If "portable" is meant as in USB key, I've never encountered one formatted that way. If it's portable as in a disk in an enclosure, then I suppose I can follow the rationale.
Hm. Morels around here come in 4 colors, and some of those can resemble other toxic mushrooms that also grow around here.

It can seem 'easy' to distinguish when familiar. But if you're coming at it fresh it's quite daunting. And to make your friends sick is a significant faux pas.

Anyway that leaves the "I don't want to do this, and I want a 'good reason' and the death card is a good reason" cause of reluctance. It may be more common that we think.
Run it through outline.com first to remove all the ad-sidebars.
Show HN: Go fixed size routine pool that respawn a new thread when panic
It's a comical, deliberate misquote.
One problem I noticed on mobile, is that if I click on a link in the PDF and visit another page, and then try to traverse back, it takes me to the first page in the PDF, rather than the page I linked from.
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I find it more concerning that the police can just do this without due process.
Space for Humanity • to Space, for Earth
The LaTeX below will leave a push-pin symbol in the text, and clicking on it shows the code.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{attachfile}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}\expandafter\attachfile\expandafter{\jobname.tex}
\lipsum[1-150]
\end{document}
Indeed, the comparisons seems meaningless to me. Having play a little with Perlin noise I just see samples a different scales/ranges and not anything fundamentally different.
That's because Linux and OSX ignore NTFS permissions making it work more like FAT.

Plug an existing NTFS drive from one Windows system into another Windows system and you get a similar issue where opening a home directory requires you to take ownership.
I find the whole spectacle of watching two propaganda machines trying to out- manoeuvre each other to be a little exhausting to be honest.

There's no doubt that the US is acting vindictively here, but the pro-Assange camp does little for its credibility by using the same tactics.

Even the headline here has been massaged - originally this was a "key" witness but by the time it gets to HN, he's a "keystone" witness.

But the bigger problem is that he's neither. I've been vaguely following the case and this is the first mention of this guy I've seen. TFA asserts that the 2nd indictment rests on his bought testimony, but there's nothing about hacking Icelandic MPs or banks in that indictment. There's definitely stuff about hacking, but only about US targets, and Thordarson has nothing to say about that.

Unless I'm missing something, this is a minor story about the DoJ doing a deal with one criminal to convict another (hardly news in itself) in order to strengthen an already robust case, not the slam dunk people are making it out to be.
So you think that a Linux mail server is unhackable for a state actor?
From the PDF

> “But it’s just as easy to write self-contained HTML pages!”

> Sure, but if you’re going to hide CTF forensics challenges in your publication, a coverdisk allows you to do it in style!

I think it's not meant to be taken extremely seriously
This is quite good, and includes source code.
> though I believe the concept of the ‘external drive’ itself should be deprecated

why?
In the Bush years he was cool. In the Obama years he wasn't cool. Around 2016 he became a pariah. The press is most often aligned with the interests of the party and is a fair-weather-friend at best.
It can, but you don’t have to. It’s absolutely possible to write self contained html files.
Yes, Miele is always expensive and this is their professional line. On the up side, they are made to last. Their washing machines for at least 20 years, I would guess their stoves even longer, as there are no big moving parts.
How can we be so certain there are no killer mushrooms in your area? We have no idea what is growing on a daily basis, the guidebooks were only accurate on the date of publication.
OpenAI shuts down robotics team because it doesn't have enough data yet
Even Word documents are more accessible than PDFs.
Is it neutral, to design a system where those with more resources have more power?
I think there would be a queue of people asking to drive it a bit.
An area full of tourist shops is nothing that could be called "local". It's just the exactly identical t-shirt and trinket booths you will meet everywhere in the world, basically ruining the experience even for the tourists (at least for those who care).
What do you use to display the pdf? Pandoc?
Depends on what sort of RL you are doing. If you are trying to train agents to play small games with vision the agent will need a small cnn to process images. This will need a gpu and what you have should be enough.

I was training on atari for a while with 1080ti. The games run on the cpu so you need a decent cpu as well.
E Ink Goes Beyond EReaders to IoT and Retail Shops and It Is a Brilliant Idea
jail??? you must be outside the USA.

The rich don't goto jail here for abusing the poors. They don't even get punished.
This is terrible for accessibility. Please just use semantic HTML and your web will be usable on 10yo devices and unknown devices 10 years in the future.
Comical misquote, "Switch to PDF" replaced "Go to the Moon".
Why are we not acting to save the world? (1982) [pdf]
Why do you need to buy a developer edition machine?

I bought my last two XPS13s in UK and Netherlands, negotiated the best specs/price/availability tradeoff via phone and webchat, and then ditched Windows in favour of Ubuntu 21.04.

Very easy. Great machines.

My only complaint is the single USB-C power/monitor cable display detection got less reliable when I upgraded from Ubuntu 20.10 to 21.04. Haven't had time to follow it up.
They could, but if he's the one create the file, he can choose. And if he's just hosting the file, I'm sure there are tools that will inline all the external resources.
I used NTFS with linux a year ago. It's read-write and suitable if you need to access files on Windows partition.
It was OK but not great: I used it to share media files between Windows and Linux and soon I noticed that if I'm playing mp3s from NTFS partition a lot of CPU used.
In years of eating foraged mushrooms, I have never gotten so much as a stomach ache.

If you are making educated identifications (which is really easy to do with the materials available in this age) you shouldn't ever be vomiting when eating mushrooms.

A very small percentage of people cannot handle most of the mushrooms that other people can and will vomit but this is true of many other food categories and is not unique to mushrooms.
Are you sure? I was under the impression that PDFs can reference web resources, and this is why there are more stringent standards for archiving (PDF/A and friends)
But our state government is bought and paid for by church and guns. The governor shamed us for buying fewer guns than California:

https://www.statesman.com/news/20171106/in-15-greg-abbott-em...

We're trying to get more guns in more hands and we've lowered the bar. This isn't about rights. Abbot seems to generally want to kill us, by any means necessary.
Your comment reminded me of the Louis CK rant on Conan regarding nostalgia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBtKNzoKZ4
The closest I have to the original statements are reports in newspapers such as the following. At the very least the acts described here seem to me to be in violation of either section 1 or 2 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (I don’t understand the difference) by the standard of section 75.2.d (being asleep). IIRC this is basically why the UK judge agreed to the extradition to Sweden, as I think extradition generally needs the act to be an offence in both places? Though I may have misunderstood that.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange...
If the property management company demanded that I use Insecure Brand locks on my front door, I'd have an issue with that. Of course that wouldn't excuse the robbers, but continuing to use Insecure Brand locks wouldn't be advisable. I'd also take exception if IB Locks or the property management company marketed themselves as a security oriented company.
"language has grammar - with nouns and verbs - which isn’t the case of emoji"

I'd definitively argue there certainly can be verbs, the best example coming to mind is the arrow.

Also, am I the only one who likes to construct entire silly rebus sentences out of emoji?
> What are the applications where someone would require floating point math AND both extreme speed and extreme accuracy?

Scientific computation.

I'm not even sure, it is a trade-off between (computational) speed and accuracy.

In my experience, error-analysis was a mandatory course for physics, but not in robotics.
The error analysis was manual and time-consuming.

In robotics, no one cared why it occasionally produced NaNs, etc.. people just added a small number here and there.

That's faster to program.

To put it more positively, I think, the view here is more having an application, which is robust in the face of errors / edge cases. What counts is the output (action).

While in science the correct model is part of the output. Edge cases are an important part of it.
Perhaps the dot com era is best understood as the gold rush tail of the personal computer then Internet boom.

For a feel of what lead into that, you could do worse than binging Halt and Catch Fire.

”Taking place over a period of more than ten years, the series depicts a fictionalized insider's view of the personal computer revolution of the 1980s and the growth of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series...

Was surprised this wasn’t mentioned in the media roundup, as it captures what it was like for me as part of this better than the documentaries I’ve seen.
Yes. Those with more resources always have more power. Unless some entity takes those resources away at which point they don't have more resources.
Just write all your data twice, lol.
Indeed, there's a lot of irony packed into the first page:

Featured is a quote from LWN indicting the "software industry" and its "brittle dependencies". What's ironic about this? It's squarely about the parts of the software industry that deal in things that are _not_ meant to be painted in the browser.

If you want a solution to the (perceived) churn, it's funnily enough right in the quote from Mark Pilgrim: "I've migrated to HTML 4". HTML is almost certainly not going to end up drifting in such a way that DJB's qhasm bibliography page[1] is ever going to break. HTML and the Web standards in general are, with extremely rare exceptions, cumulative. It's pretty frightening how many technical people don't understand this; the Web is intentionally engineered to serve as "the infrastructure for handling humanity's publishing needs indefinitely"[2]. More frightening is that the biggest threat to this are people like the author here who treat the Web as if it's like any other thing that the computing industry puts out—i.e., already perennially broken. This is dangerous because it anachronistically cedes power to folks who'd try to argue at some point in the future that the things about the Web that they'd like to break (and might be in a position to break e.g. due to browser monopoly) are justified and no big deal, really.

The author goes on to call out the Web ("of rubbish") as "user-hostile". Shortly afterward, he or she writes that "PDF makes a stand against the churn". More accurately, PDF makes a stand against the user, by prioritizing authors' creative whims over the reader's needs. This happens again later in their remarks about PDFs being page-oriented: "you are fundamentally not in control of the reading experience." The "you" here is not you, the actual reader. The control they refer to is, once again, the author's.

You get other poor arguments—that PDFs are "offlineable" "files" that can be distributed "decentralized", none of which are accurate criticisms against what HTML lacks—unless those Java documentation zipballs that seemingly every university student enrolled in a CS program in the early 2000s was made to download are a collective hallucination.

And it gets worse from there. Cute stunt to grab attention and all, but the arguments are fundamentally bankrupt.

1. http://cr.yp.to/qhasm/literature.html

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27368632