skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great! I love the keyboard-based navigation, and the portals are particularly wonderful, almost making me want to turn my documentation monitor back from vertical to horizontal aspect ratio.

A few questions/feature requests/comments: Is there a way to link to a page/mark/bookmark/figure from outside the document? Can we export the marks/bookmarks/document state to a plaintext-compatible file? And please add a dark mode, full-screen white is just painful after a while. Also, I'm not sure I understand the distinction between marks and bookmarks; are marks single-character only? And can you not jump straight to a bookmark, only bringing up and searching the bookmarks context menu?

I'm an electrical engineer, constantly referencing PDF-based datasheets, application notes, whitepapers, and reference manuals like [this one] or [this other one]. They're similar to the more academic papers that this seems to be targeted towards, and suffer from many of the same problems. The current practice in the industry to make effective use of these PDFs is approximately summed up as "just be really smart and keep track of it all in your head." If you're unusually kind to your coworkers, your co-contributors, and (especially) your future self who haven't recently spent the same hours exhaustively reading these documents you'll mention in a comment in your SPI initialization code to "Set bit 13, CRCEN, before turning on bit 6, SPE, see ref manual page 808" or in your schematic that your PCB needs to "Route for additional 4.7 uF point of load capacitance within 25mm/nH/mOhm, see datasheet page 69".

I see that it can be run from the command line with the file name as an argument, but it doesn't respond to anything beyond argv[1], and the whole point is to be to deep-link inside the file. Ideally, I'd love to see a protocol handler like mailto: or winmerge: so that one could embed links inside PDFs. With that, a user looking at a readme document or code comment could jump to "sioyek://../docs/rm0377*.pdf?808gg" or ".pdf?gb=SPI_CR1".

I also see that it seems to store marks and other persistent data in the "test.db" SQLite file, I'd much rather see this as a JSON/XML/plaintext file (or at least exportable as such) so that I can add it to a project version control repository, allowing me to share my state with others and get it back later.

Regarding dark mode, I understand that some figures, background images, watermarks etc. will make this more difficult. But the most common case of black text on a white background is solved for me in the Firefox PDF viewer with a bookmarklet containing `javascript:(function(){viewer.style = 'filter: grayscale(1) invert(1) sepia(1) contrast(75%)';})()`. Foxit likewise has a night mode.

[this one]: https://www.st.com/resource/en/reference_manual/rm0377-ultra...

[this other one]: https://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/MAX77650-MAX776...
I'm a little confused by your comment: doesn't everyone get the exact porn they want by searching specifically? I don't just hit random on pornhub until I get what I want, I search for "gay twinks". Maybe straight guys don't have to learn this "skill"? :)
Is it really in Google's control whether or not Firefox lives? The only connection Firefox has seems to be that Google is one of its sponsors in exchange of being its primary search engine. I don't think they'd go that far as to intentionally denying Firefox users access to their sites even if they wanted, because that'd immediately draw some lawsuits.
I watch it and slowed the clip and it seems there's a rocket boost just before touchdown, if the seats have shock absorbers they probably felt little of the touch down.
I do not normally wear glasses on the computer but I do have to sit pretty close to my monitor. Having a large monitor also helps.

I am sorry you have to deal with that, it sounds awful.
∀ X, X is right for those who share the same opinion.

If you think a simple tautology disproves someone's claim, there's a good chance you're missing the point.
> The perpetrator then spammed more than 40 of her fans, calling them the N-word, before stealing all of her photos and posting them on a porn site....

> The company said Tina did not report the racial slur and it was not detected by the site's moderation system because it was pluralised.

Wow, what a shit-tier auto-moderation system.
Kubernetes is literally more complicated than any other similar system in existence. It is so by definition, because it builds in more complexity than any other system has. But it also lacks the features you often need, so you have to learn even more to be able to get it to do what you want. You could write several books on running K8s in production.
Pretty weird take. I guess every classical composer didn't make anything authentic because they were all nobles from rich families.
Public works projects now take much longer and are much costlier than they used to be in the US. None of those projects you've listed could be completed today for both of those reasons.
In my experience, it's actually pretty common for folks to get massive compensation for land in China. There's even a term (拆二代) that describes a whole generation that suddenly became rich after their parents' land was appropriated by the government.
Congratulations! I played with that database in 2017 when they opened up the text. I'm so happy to see it's finally been picked up.

I built a thing which recreated the Income statements and then flagged for non-conformance. I found Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises "Good will impairment charges" as an anomalous line in their Nov 8, 2017 filing just prior to when their CEO resigned in 2018 and they had to make so many adjustments. Unfortunately, I'm just a data geek. I did have a financial advisor friend who was VERY interested, but we couldn't get enough interest to validate development, so I moved onto other projects.

I'm no finance whiz, but that database is a trove. So happy to see a company develop around giving it a go!
This article sounds like pure fluff - the new train is “unveiled”, but has it taken anyone from one side of Qingdao to the other yet? Will it really go as fast as it claims in production environment?

I’m sure everyone’s code is bug free and high performing before being deployed in production as well ;)

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Yes, and Google funds the existences of Firefox.
You just don't, it's not really needed.
Yes, arbitrary precision integers could theoretically become a C language/library feature. But let's say that it gets proposed and accepted and it's integrated into popular compiler toolchains. The kernel wouldn't leverage it here or likely anywhere else because of its cost.

A newly designed OS kernel could perhaps take on this kind of feature. This would be the kind of OS that could be formally verified and would be willing to pay that runtime cost for arbitrary precision.
I can easily observe moving (Starlink?) satellites on the night sky in a city in Central Europe.
Yes, I downloaded it. It feels sort of "magical" seeing what the other person is typing.
LDPC code design for my QO-100 narrowband modem
Torpar: TUI Client for Torrent Paradise (Distributed Torrent Search)
MISSION OF GRAVITY by Hal Clement.

Addresses this very scenario.

A fine fine bit of scifi.
No, this is about HW architectures. While they are likely evolving towards one a other there are tile based (like Imagination and ARM Mali) And immediate mode (Nvidia AMD) that both implement the same APIs (OpenGL, Vulkan etc). All these HW architectures are modern and in use.
Thanks, past story search had many results due to short title.
my gf has given me more space than this and she's pretty clingy. jk
Heritability is a ratio, not a measure of determinism
Blender seems to have a decent 2d animation development environment with Grease Pencil now. Worth checking out - https://www.blender.org/features/grease-pencil/
It would be about 100 lines I guess.
>He said it on SNL as a joke

Source?
The issue is for long exposure capture needed for quality astronomy. In that context any reflection from the sun on a satellite can trash any shot in an instant. SpaceX has tried to reduce the reflectivity of the Starlink sats but they still are a factor. Supposedly it was actually really bad at first.
Because telescopes are so sensitive that the reflections of a bright satellite inside the optics bascially ruin all pixels in the frame. And there is so many satellite that all frames close to dusk/dawn are impacted. So you loose 1/3 of your observing time. And all of the time in which you are geometrically most likely to find object on orbits that intersect the Earth orbit.
There are some depression-era eminent domain laws that the federal government can use if they really want to. Literally the proper filings are made and the bulldozers can roll the next day.

The reason we don't have nice things like China does is just political will, not any legal barriers.
I think the biggest motivation behind the UI change is that Blender's old UI was just very non-standard (and not exactly intuitive either). Now it's close to the others, so I'll imagine there won't be any large changes until some massive shakeup (VR becoming common?) happens.
A lot of documentation being outdated definitely sucks though.
One possibility is the "highlighting" that e-readers like the Kobo perform - I've used it for proofreading.

No typing, just selecting a few words or lines. It's all collected in a notes page/doc, you later look at that and hopefully see or remember what was wrong and fix the original.

Limited, but helpful.
Old HSR, yes. Maglev? No.

The issue is that steel wheels on steel tracks doesn't provide enough grip to accelerate, so the train takes a lot of the time to get up to speed.

Maglev, meanwhile, uses a linear motor, so you can accelerate very fast if you want to.
I'd shell out to python from nodes in node-red. I don't think there is any visual flow-based programming tool as comprehensive and well-built as node-red is today. They've been working on it for years and it shows. A lot of tools come into this space and then get abandoned after a few years unfortunately.
Your linux distro may already have unprivileged user namespaces disabled. See the "mitigations" section of the post, and check /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone
That is low quality comparison.

Whether or not you agree with the high goals of the (US?) military; for a great many people it is a solid career, a role model they never had, and possibly a stepping stone out of an awful life. Also a very small percentage of these are actually fighting in infantry risking their lives.

This is much different than saying "Ooh youre 18 now, look how much money these 3 people make selling their naked videos! And there is absolutely no consequence at all to this, for you or your society!"
> Similarly I've encountered a lot of fantasy that was all about world-building but where the book itself just went nowhere.

It’s like bands that spend years polishing their sound, but never actually write any songs.
Weird this post uses the Nike self-lacing shoes from Back To The Future II as a 'sci-fi/out there idea' when like a month before this in 2016 Nike released the actual self-lacing Mags they had been working on/teasing between 2011-2015
Like the songs that Joe Cocker often covered, the ideas may be languishing, with little-to-moderate success.

Until done properly, or combined with other ideas or good marketing.

Until they make money, they are derided as "terrible ideas."
At that speed planes are better only for very, very long distances.

Trains also are electric which is a plus.

You can get to the station 2 min before it leaves and jump in.
The paper is at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.14.21260491v..., the FT page also at https://archive.is/m3mx2.

The key sentences from the paper's abstract: "Results suggest the presence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in some samples collected in the prepandemic period, though the detection of IgM and/or IgG binding and neutralizing antibodies is strongly dependent on the different serological assays and thresholds employed, while being absent in control samples collected one year before. These findings highlight the importance of harmonizing serological assays for testing SARS-CoV-2 virus spreading and may contribute to a better understanding the future virus dynamics."

The paper seems honest, suggestive, inconclusive and good to me.
If you use AWS, just use Fargate. Fargate is the parts of Kubernetes you actually want, without all the unnecessary complexity, and with all the AWS ecosystem as an option. It even autoscales better than Kubernetes. It's cheaper, it's easier, it's better. If you can't use Fargate, use ECS. But for God's sake, don't poorly re-invent your own version of ECS. If you're on AWS, and not using the AWS ecosystem, you're probably wasting time and money.

And if you eventually need to use Kubernetes, you can always spin up EKS. Just don't rush to ship on the Ever Given when an 18 wheeler works fine.
Start with the obvious: Try going cold turkey. It may or may not work, but you won’t know until you try.

Do you have a lot of tabs open right now? Close them all. Can’t because you might miss something you need to do? Write it on your todo list and then close the tab. Tabs and bookmarks aren’t your todo list.

Next, work on identifying your triggers that prompt this craving for new links and new information. Next time it happens, pause and ask yourself why it happened. Were you bored? Frustrated with something? Avoiding another task? Once you start identifying the triggers and circumstances, you can start replacing the autopilot impulse with some deliberate healthy choices.

Which is the final point: Choose an alternate activity to fill those times. It’s not enough to say you’ll stop doing something. You need to identify something else that you’ll start doing in those circumstances. It could be as simple as going to your bookmarks list and reading the first article at the top of the list instead of going to HN for new links. Or maybe it’s getting up and doing 5 minutes of light exercise. You need to have an alternate plan in place to execute when you start identifying your triggers.
Worldwide Crowncaps
The fact you can't "explain" how NN/ML arrives at its answers easily perhaps makes it a bit different but yeah, mostly. With stenography you overall statistic changes that can sometimes indicate it (though those can be spoofed away).
The idea of assembling large space telescopes is very exciting, although there are obviously many engineering challenges to solve. What that doesn't yet address is large, ground based radio telescopes. Consider the square kilometer array, which will have one million square meters of observing surface. How many launches would it take to get something comparable into orbit? Oddly, the bandwidth requirements (about one terabyte/second) for the SKA might be the hardest thing to meet in space.
On most air routes severe turbulence is rare. Take off and landing only take a few minutes.
it's all subjective I suppose but your analogy is describing trading one human invention for another. but in this case we lose yet another connection to the natural world outside our own making -- and increase the inward facing, solipsistic bent of humanity.
Chemists found an effective remedy for “aged” brain diseases
New 'Gold Standard' PCR Test to Travel Service Launched
Nobody's ever managed it, the theory all says it's impossible, and that would violate several "known laws" of physics.
"I was a guitar string being tuned beyond its highest range. The string popped. A spike of fear slashed through my guts. And that’s when I split apart."

I read on Twitter about this one guy who gave himself brain damage by constantly working for months on end while programming.

It's interesting that a few others described a similar sensation. Their brain feeling like a guitar string. There's a moment where they can detect something goes wrong.

It seems like they put themselves through a very stressful situation and triggered a cascading effect.
Hahaha. Learn from the past -Macromedia.
Adobe recently joined the Open 3D Engine (O3DE) project too:

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/linux-foundati...
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/gametech/open-3d-engine/

So they are doing a lot more funding of open source work!
Palantir guns for startups, launches Palantir Foundry for Builders
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/gilscottheron/whiteyonthemoo...
> I would love to have a good high-speed intercity train network in the United States connecting the major cities in each State.

Of course.

But you wouldn't want to pay for it.
I don't know about that. I do think it's way way better than helicopter money and PPP loans, but I don't think it'd help this particular issue. Flushing people out of a local maximum (in terms of effort to compensation) will just have them searching for a new local maximum. A lot might find that their old local maximum was one of the least optimal. Furloughing people gives them time to better optimize. Which in my opinion is good for the workers, but I think you'd still see some people hunting around- they just wouldn't have a fire lit under them.
You're getting downvotes, but we're going to real porn shot in space within the next decade. Personally, I'm hoping to see some really shameless public handwringing and outrage by politicians and religious leaders.
The US might have a low population density if you just take the population divided by the territory but it's obviously all in the geography and clusters and averaging is not helpful.

The US has several population clusters[1] and for example the Northeast corridor in particular with 50 million inhabitants is a reasonably good target for a high speed rail network.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis#/media/F...
We've been working on something for exactly this! Simple, structured, rapid living system design docs for visual people.
Maybe you could see if this helps? https://icepanel.io/
After 10+ years in the area, I just discovered a few weeks ago that this place exists while looking at a map to plan a bike ride. I couldn't believe that some of what's there is from the same world class artists that I saw at the Guggenheim in Spain (Jeff Koons, Richard Serra). I thought for sure Google Maps was playing a trick on me since no friends have ever mentioned it and I certainly haven't been. It's now on my shortlist of places to check out when the weather cools off a bit.
Yet, there were still 136 human teams who competed in CASP14 (https://predictioncenter.org/casp14/docs.cgi?view=groupsbyna...), including DeepMind. Even if a significant fraction of these projects were done piggy-backing another grant, this work does receive research funding.
Adobe has its style. Step in, rebrand.
> Your vocal B2C fans go digitally nuclear on you? What B2C industry are you in?

I've never experienced it as a target but I've seen fan rage explosions (not necessarily direct customers, depending on the particular industry, but entitled downstream fans targeting the upstream objects of fandom) in all of these non-sex-work industries:

film/television, music, video games, tabletop hobby gaming (particularly RPGs), sport, software (particularly open source), ...probably some that I am forgetting.
As a counterpoint, I think Japan's investment in rail networks has paid off considerably. I suspect that country would be far worse off today if they didn't have the transportation networks they do (both HSR and normal rail).

Not only does it result in fast, convenient, walk-on travel between cities, it also results in a lot less gridlock meaning less commute time wasted, and more affordable, walkable real estate.
Unless you could build a classical computer on the Planck scale.
I've lived ~250m from train tracks and ~10km from an airport, the latter was way more annoying.

Honestly the most annoying part of living next to the train was waiting for the level crossing.
The analogy you mentioned is exactly the wrong one - it suggest that it’s just a matter of a hidden variable.

A proper (but less elegant) would be: you have two balls with the same color or a pattern.

You take one out. If you check the color first, you will find the other’s color the same, but the pattern sometimes different. If you check the pattern first, you will find the pattern the same, but the color sometimes different.
I have these 2 passively cooled i3-7100u boxes with 32GB of RAM, that idle at 2W of power each most of the day, they also have SSDs instead of uSD cards.

The Pi makes sense for projects where you need a low performance embedded solution with GPIO, but I don't really get the point of using them as replacements for normal x86_64 servers purely based on power consumption, because their performance is not very good when you include IO.

They're great for building stuff for fun though, a bunch of Pis in a cluster is relatively pretty cheap compared to anything else for experimentation.
Planetary motion is absolutely predictable, to the millisecond decades in advance. It just doesn't correlate with anything else, making it useful for randomizing the "else".

The sun's apparent motion correlates with sleep schedules, decreasingly, and the moon's with tides and animal behavior, making those less useful for the purpose.
You haven't been to Australia I see.
More open source devs working on Blender means fewer working on Inkscape and Gimp.
Yeah, the sub-orbital is a harder sell. When you are the only one or one of a few, the benefit/cost is perceived to be higher. After a dozen or so of these flights much of the cachet will be gone. Can they (Bezos/Branson) bring the cost down fast enough to transition to a sustainable model?

In 2000, Dennis Tito paid $20M for 11,400 minutes in space or about $1750/minute ($2765 in 2021 dollars). The Branson and Bezos models 20 years later are much more expensive per minute and are so short there is no real time to absorb the experience.
Jeff Bezos could vaccinate the entire world against Covid without changing his lifestyle even slightly.

He could hire the smartest people in the world to work on breakthrough propulsion, SETI, blue sky physics, and computing research. The money would barely be a rounding error in his wealth.

He could fund the greatest space observatories in history, fund game changing contributions to cancer research, genomics, and other experimental medicine, and set up international STEM education programs.

Instead he builds a toy rocket that looks like a penis and goes on a 2 minute joyride to the edge of space. And something something space hotels, maybe.

It's debatable if it's evil. But it's certainly lacking ambition and boring.
"no, we don't use Kubernetes, we are stuck in AWS ecosystem"
Trans-Canada Highway has entered the chat
I've been using bop for the past 6 months - I've always wanted to see the dynamic that Google Wave created (or the shared google docs that people use to live work/message together) in a messaging app. I wonder if an API capturing the core principles could also be an additional path to take
Yes, basically.

Imagine in financial markets if you trained a system to identify trends in currency pairs (for example). Generally they would be benign and useful, but if the a certain input were present, they would advise an action which the designers would expect and profit from. The users of the system would follow the advice as normal and probably not even know that someone essentially had inside information.
I just finished Donald Knuth's "Literate programming" book and in there is one of the most wonderful papers I've read: "The errors of TeX".

The version in the book goes up to 1991 but on ctan you should be able to find "errorlog.tex" if you want to read the updated (I think the last one is from this year) paper.

Knuth has documented every bug and feature fix in TeX since its first version and categorised it into categories A-T.