skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because people confuse goals with results. Someone comes along claiming "I've got an easy-to-edit format!", or even better, "I've got an easier-to-edit format than that horrible thing X you all hate!", and there's a whole whackload of people who will accept that statement as essentially proof without looking to see if the goals have actually manifested as a result in the real world.

This isn't a snipe at YAML specifically. It's a repeated pattern I've seen with many technologies. There's a certain mode of advocacy you can use to invoke this on a certain set of the programmer population, and it works reasonably often.

(The "better than the X you all hate!" part may be obligatory; I haven't studied this in a careful academic sense, I've just observed this pattern a few times. Leveraging an emotional reaction against some tech and using it to suppress a rational examination of the proposed replacement on its own terms may be the mechanism of how this is done.)
I've always meant to read up on acrylamide studies and check whether they're 'in mice' or 'in humans' as I suspect that our evolutionary path might have made us a bit less susceptible to the carcinogenic effect of acrylamides from meats and such, from our out-sourcing some of our digestive tract to campfires for a few hundred thousand years.

Much like how a significant amount of humans are able to consume and digest alcohol, having mitigated some of the worst effects over thousands of years.
> A PDF is inherently self-contained, standard web technologies are not

What technologies exactly?
You can have absolutely everything you need inside the HTML. You can inline css, js, svg and images. What technologies you can’t inline?
> The software was not stable for general use for M1 users at the time of its launch in November 2020.

That seems like a basic fact that nobody is contesting.

> I don't know anyone who thinks or recommends using unstable preview tools for production use is a good idea

Who is recommending that?

> Might as well use an already existing computer that works well.

It seems bizzare to suggest that the computer doesn’t work well when it obviously does.

I agree it’s better to use a computer on which the software you want to use is supported. I personally ruled out buying am M1 Mac until after Docker was supported.

Is that the point you are trying to make?
PCR or something else? If PCR, is the number of cycles pre-set or is that a choice variable?
Our “right and left” are social norms built on censorship; Main Street is the most active censor of new ideas out there; save the Constitution and Capitalism! Naturally leaving alternatives untouched.

We’re censored. We self censor, and socially censor our neighbors and friends to maintain so-called “polite society.”

I’m not worried about big tech; that’s just a euphemism for “this cohort of humans.” It’s still humans under the hood. I’m worried about you all.

Edit: HN is effectively propped up by big tech investors and here it is; downvoting of commentary on a thread about fearing censorship by technologists.

Censoring each other has become the norm not the exception thanks to technologists.
Developments on LFP Battery Technology
We already have a wildly popular website where all the main content is in the form of PDFs. It’s https://arxiv.org/. PDF is what you use when your document needs to have a predictable layout. This is especially important if it contains math, complex tables, or any elements where meaning is carried by positioning on the page. This can include aesthetic meaning, as in some forms of poetry that need to be laid out in a particular way.
Crypto has the same value as every other fiat currency in the World...so essentially your question-for me at least-boils down to how can we ban every fiat currency in the World?? This includes the Norwegian Krona, the Hong Kong Dollar, the Swiss Franc and the Deutsche Mark. I am baffled as to why you would either want or need to do this. You can simply not use crypto...or credit cards or money orders or wire transfers. All of which, at one time or another, were used by bad actors to commit crimes.

If someone had banned them before they had a chance to establish their users and use cases, it would have been just as silly as someone banning cryptos before they find their uses and use cases. Not everything is needed everywhere.

I am more concerned by the apparent rigidity of thinking surrounding what is merely a new method of paying for things, documenting things and file transfer etc. I keep seeing "techie" people BASHING TECH. And I am astonished. And very amused. It seems so silly to watch some folks who should obviously be on the side of reducing costs, speeding up transactions and opening markets...be so afraid of tiny bits of computer code. Especially when some of these same folks don't pay near as much attention to the damage their own coding can cause their customers.

It makes me think that very single tech person who has bashed any crypto anywhere who also codes....should have their code examined very closely for signs that it conforms to values they now choose to claim they hold. To wit...unless it's perfect, it shouldn't ship. Cryptos aren't perfect, things will happen. But if you are apart of the community that until cryptos came along, got ignored, couldn't get loans, couldn't get fair valuations of property, mortgages, send money without it costing the Earth or pay bills without buying a money order etc or earn fairly distributed interest on your savings, then cryptos-warts and all-are a GODSEND. A chance for the rest of us to finally build a financial platform for ourselves and those we care about...without worrying about high theft fees from Wall Street...or not being able to fulfill our potential because someone values us at less than nothing.

And I can't imagine why anyone would want to ban THAT.
Might as well just generate a PNG. The text is too small for me on a mobile device. PDFs main goal was print. The fonts are awful for the screen and no ability to reflow the text.

I can deal with things moving around, I don't need spatial memory for that. Just give good titles, headers, and indexes. Again, we can do this with simple HTML, embed images and styles. It's all there.

Unfortunately, as I mentioned, people don't really publish information anymore. It's mainly for "experience" and for "looks". Marketing, and advertising, now drive the information era. The "Information Super Highway" is now just a crumbling road plastered with billboards. Most content is useless, and is there for clicks. Heck, I'd rather someone post their site in digests in e-book formats than PDF.
Another perspective from the other replies: lean into that motivation. I’ve found that there are few projects more rewarding than ones done for money - not necessarily because of the money itself - but because to convince people to part with their money you have to make something they really want. You’re solving a problem for them, making them happier, making their life easier. You get feedback about how much they appreciate it. You meet with others who are doing the same thing and want to work with you. You get noticed as being a helpful and competent person.

The money is just a proxy for how much value you make for people and that feels good and challenges you in ways you wouldn’t expect.
Nvidia Demos Real-Time Ray Tracing-Enabled Games on Arm
It's not their fault, the US and UK media gloss over the facts whenever they directly report on him, and references to him in editorials or stories about other events refer to the "beliefs" of authority figures and agencies, and the charges, but never directly to specific allegations, facts, or timelines.

People have no hope of having an accurate picture of events unless they invest a significant amount of time into something that will not benefit them.

Journalists at major outlets are more concerned about the Assange case than their papers, but still have zero chance of getting accurate stories published about it.
TBH I like UIs that are built for rad gamerz. I don't like UIs that are built for rad gamerz that barely work because it was all the UI team could do to pull off the visual aesthetic and making the program actually work took a back-seat.

I buy alienware hardware but avoid their software when I can, it looks cool but barely functions.
Just caveating a technical statement I knew wasn't quite true, not making any sort of assessment either way.

As someone who has had to extract data from large sets of PDFs and modern web presentation formats, I'm not a fan of either, really. Even verifying that a visibly presented string exists in a PDF document programmatically can be a non-trivial task, as with a given website as well. That to me says a lot.
It is accurate! While the house cashflow is negative in the example, it's at least less negative than the apartment cash flow. Maybe the moral of the story is living with your parents for free is better than either option!
Reclaiming a Lost Vision of the Rights of Women
Funny to me that they chose 2001: A Space Odyssey, which posits (more or less) that aliens gave people intelligence, not god. I bet the Vatican really liked the visual association of the fetus with the rebirth and life in the final scene of the movie. Still a strange choice!
I mean, Im really not advising against foraging psilocybes across the board but I feel like it's the kind of thing where if you have to ask, the answer is no.

For what it's worth, in my region(western PA) gallerinas are anecdotally an order of magnitude more common than any psilocybes. Actually the only psilocybin mushroom I've heard of anyone harvesting around here is gymnopilus sp. This one is also notoriously hard to identify.
I guess by modern standards this load time is acceptable, but when you argue that PDFs are a way to move forward, you're competing with HTML 4/5. And by that standard:

- Crud this website is so slow. Unacceptably slow. If your technology stack is spending 10 seconds just to fetch and render 13 pages of large-screen text, then either you're doing something wrong or it's a bad technology stack. That load time alone should kill this idea.

- There's no way for me to turn off images. This is the opposite of a client-respecting webpage, the only way you could make it worse is by rendering to Canvas or shipping me a PNG. My mobile browser doesn't fetch fonts by default. You're overriding my choice to do that.

- Mobile? Reflow? Responsive design? Adjustable font sizes? The author kind of offhandedly says that PDFs can do reflow right now, but how many clients actually support that. Does the PDF format handle this by default?

- Saying "you can technically make PDF accessible" is exactly the same as saying "you can technically use just a subset of HTML." It's the same argument. Nobody does it, PDFs are generally hostile to accessibility, and there's no way to signal that a PDF is accessible or enforce it as a community standard.

So, the much bigger question: what's wrong with Gemini[0]? I've been critical of Gemini in the past on multiple fronts, but if you are in this space where you want to burn everything down and make your blog static, Gemini really does seem to solve every problem that the author has, except better. It's also trivial to proxy Gemini documents or statically re-render them to HTML, which makes them accessible to people outside the community. And by default, they're both pretty accessible to screen readers, and much more efficient than what the author is proposing.

The author argues that using static HTML wouldn't be good enough because there's no standard that forces you to exclude Javascript. Then they point to PDF/A, which is not a standard that is enforced by most browser PDF viewers. To me, this argument isn't any different from telling website authors to choose not to use Javascript, what is going to force anyone to use PDF/A? Every web browser PDF reader supports Javascript. NoScript support in Firefox is better than the controls/extensions for disabling PDF scripting.

And Gemini is right there: for the most part it's actually working today. So I just don't get it. Why pick a technology that's tangibly worse than the web on (and I mean this quite literally) almost every single axis and every single metric, when you could instead switch to a markup language that actually does have use-cases, that does simplify deployment and blogging in some instances, that does have a real community, that does have some real advantages over HTML, that does have some real momentum behind it, and that doesn't disrespect my choices about what fonts/images I want to download?

[0]: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
...and difficult to read on the small screens of mobile devices.
So they took the job instead of noping the fuck outta there?
A Look at How New NFC Chips Prevent Counterfeiting
The new NXP NTAG 424 DNA chips are pretty amazing. Additionally, I've been working on an open-source library for writing to the chips with iOS here:

https://github.com/johnnyb/nfc-dna-kit
This looks pretty great, will definitely take a deeper dive. I manage most of this today through a series of shared google docs attached to calendar invites, but this should be less clugey.

Regarding shared meeting notes, I think the killer feature that would make gdocs obsolete is auto-suggesting canceling a 1on1 or other meeting if there are no items to discuss. This removes the awkward "Hey do you still want to chat?" conversations and makes it a blameless way to get time back.
I could argue that there is a push precisely because it is the most controversial cutover from gas to electric. Few people argue over the quality of a gas vs. electric water heater, or furnace - if the air and water are hot, all is well.

Gas cooking is the last hurdle culturally to dumping citywide gas lines entirely. This is just a theory.
That's a pessimistic interpretation. By contrast, the amazing is now mundane because there other things that are now more amazing and more novel.

I have degrees in math and computer science from good schools, but I would struggle to reinvent basic trigonometry. I don't think we've "lost knowledge" so much as shifted our emphasis to the novel.

I teach Python to 6th graders. These 12-year-olds consider basic coding knowledge akin to algebra. One of the "popular kids" (himself above the 'nerd stuff') is making a little Android app using a public-school-provided chromebook.

The lever of utility (and thus focus) has shifted. It doesn't mean a net loss of knowledge or ability.
Building React Firebase Chat (Fire Chat)
I’m in the US and I usually just hear “gas” or “electric”, but I live in an area where gas is cheap and common.
Please revise using symbolic logic, as your argument expressions are not clear. Such an argument is best analyzed using symbolic logic.
My bad, dude.
The ambiguity has been addressed in other people's replies.
I try and explain the very easy concept of making a spore print to people and they just look at me like "wow you're really smart i don't think i could do that"

...

Right after I just explained how easy it is. Reminds me of explaining password mnemonics to people sometimes. I really don't think a lot of people are prepared for taking basic safety measures and the amount of people getting poisoned in the news is high enough that I feel the alarm is warranted. I remember seeing this one photo of a girl biting an amanita species saying how someone here in Costa Rica said it would get her high and she was explaining how she was in so much pain but was asking on FACEBOOK of all websites if there was any 'natural way' to cure it, like uhh yeah no you need a helicopter to the hospital
Nations Officially Accuse China of Microsoft Exchange Hacks
The way they charged Assange is blatantly criminalizing the act of journalism
I mean, the Second Amendment doesn't come with restrictions, requirements or qualifiers

I mean... it does. It's right there, in the first dozen words.

It's confusingly written, and the Supreme Court has decided it doesn't mean anything at all. But it seems weird to pretend that it just doesn't exist.
The Coral TPU is mostly made for inference only, not training, with a few exceptions.
Life on Earth won't last forever. Humans will probably be the only opportunity to bring life off this planet before the Sun goes nova or some other planet destroying event happens.
If your organization produces safety critical components, then one individual's mistake should not be able to impact delivered products.
Borderline off-topic: Sometimes I wish electric stove tops made the sound of gas burners.
I think the seed for it lives in the open/free/libre source dream. If we can make it easy enough to produce what we need with open source tools then we don't need global capitalism.

In many regards we're far from that dream but having a concretisation of what the end result could look like (and/or depictions of how to get there) in the shape of Solarpunk should help.
The Pain of the Never-Ending Work Check-In
Why would you want to work for a supervisor who is so prideful they can't stand the fact that there are other people who know more than them? Aside from needing an income of course.
Never ever listen to people claiming to have the right answers for every possible situation.
U.S. regulators to require reporting on crashes involving driver assistance tech
So are journalists allowed to break any law they want in the pursuit of a story, or is it limited to computer hacking?

To be clear, I have no problem with the publication part. But to frame investigative journalism as being dependent on criminal activity to survive is ignoring decades of groundbreaking, hard hitting reporting done completely within the bounds of the law.
We've disguising a career change as a promotion since 0 BC
Remember when there were 80 stories about how Assange smells and lives like a slob? Clearly world news. That the main witness against him is a liar and a creep? Not important.
You are right in a technical sense, but if I ask someone who is a low level user to save a webpage, most don’t know how to do that.

It’s not front and center or even encouraged! This makes a big difference for adaption.
For information, iOS is not an issue because all data is encrypted by default anyway. So app-level encryption would be unnecessary.

Those who ask for encryption at rest mainly want it on desktop, as they share their computer with people they (apparently) don't trust.
Yup. Another way to say it is Google will release a file format the day offline computing drops dead. It should probably amount to an antitrust case or at least a major class action claim at this point. That said, even with PDF specs it's freakin impossible to read/write that format in an intelligible way, if the person creating the document used even the barest amount of block alignment. Adobe started with an innovative notion about layout, but ended up making content extremely hard to parse, and actually tried to open source the engine. Google started with an idea of trapping everyone's data in a format they'd never make fully available, and then charging for the privilege of storing it.
If you brought a security door, and the thieves just had to knock on it on the right frequency to open, yes, you would accuse the door seller of fraud.
Ingenuity at work is always a beautiful sight.
For me it was the opposite. Only got exposed to standard candy and chocolate here and there. I still love chocolate, and hate any kind of carbonated drink. It boggles my mind how people manage to drink that stuff voluntarily.

But to each their own. I think this whole guessing the best diet for kids can go any way because it's just one of many factors. Though there are definitely known risk factors, e.g. how drunkenness at a young age greatly increases the risk of alcoholism later on.
I don't feel this particular example is very strong since MVC is a bit of a loose/spongy term, especially nowadays. But I've been in interviews - on both sides of the table - where the interviewer is just outright incorrect. On several occasions I've needed to defend the candidate as my colleague was protesting something the candidate came up with based on incorrect knowledge. In my experience, this is very common. I'm sure I've been incorrect as an interviewer at times too. I really dislike software job interviews, on either side of the table, this just being one reason.
I don't know anyone who, when talking about heating, says "gas" and means "propane". "gas" is usually shorthand for "natural gas", usually from the grid. If they were talking about propane, they'd say that.

But yeah- in my neck of the woods, anywhere outside the city has a propane tank on the property somewhere.
Couldn't agree more. I'll offer my own generalization. We generally feel what close ones are feeling, whether it's verbalised or not. If you are too ashamed to share something, or too scared, or whatever, what the other feels is exactly that feeling that you're trying to hide. Maybe you wanted to protect that close one from the feeling, but instead you're teaching him that that feeling cannot be accepted or transformed into something good. That feeling is something to avoid, to hide from, to numb yourself to. And, a final obvious point, it's not about the actual worldy situation, but about how we act in it. This applies to anything you can't accept.
> obvious and offensive puppet of a secret service.

This is the result of astroturfing. You don't even need a reference, you can just say this, and people accept it.
Ask HN: Frankenstein with Alphafold2
Hey HN,
Deepmind recently released their alphafold model to let coders & scientists experiment. I looked at the default requirements ,the datasets require 2.2Tb storage, so huge , memory requirements obviously must be higher. Can regular hobbyists experiment with such a model and possibly build a product around it? Or it's impossible? How are the costs of running it anyways?
> I don’t know, newspapers support one party or another.

Yea that’s one, extremely light-footed, way to explain it. It doesn’t cover all left biased news sounding near identical though nor does it cover the dangers of group think mentality which we see manifesting now.

> The narrative with emphasis makes you sound like a nutjob.

That's a pretty petty thing to have issue wouldn't you say? But ok, dems now say using italics makes you a nut job, lets ban italics now.
I don't consider using pdf for this purpose a good idea. It would be better to have a static html pages, with reference to epub with the same content. One can have both generated from the same source with a static site generator.
We've looked at that and found it's been more beneficial for folks to use one or two of our canned conversation starters to uncover something they wouldn't have otherwise talked about.

Definitely something I think about though.
> Over twenty years ago, I learnt Web authoring by examining the source

So did I. Now, it is impossible to reverse engineer the metric crapton of minified JS and CSS cryptoglyphics that comprise the modern web.
Yeah. That's why they're only used for print.
> China is a big country and the Chinese government does not control everything that is going on.

Yeah - just look at the sheer number of cyberattacks originating from mainland China targeting CCP and state owned enterprises!

> Yet it is different for Russia and China.

It's not, it's different only for mainland China.

There are no indications Russia monitors outgoing Internet traffic nearly as closely as CCP.
> With HTML, I have to trust that some random entity does what they state in their privacy policy, and they regularly don't. Sure, I can disable JS, but then 95% of the web doesn't work anymore.

If you only allow PDF, then 99.9999% of the web doesn't work anymore.

I'm all for getting sites to be static, but PDF doesn't fix that because the problem has never been the technology used to build the site.
To get equally small text on my desktop I have to turn the font size all the way down to 7. God forbid you have readers with less than stellar eyesight.

I get what they're going for but the PDF is not exactly an accessible reading experience.