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Hello. Original author here.

I do realize how ugly PDFs are to work with (I wrote my own PDF/A generator for issue 2[2]). This is a Tagged PDF though, so you can extract text using standard tools.

To understand the mindset, have a read of the Gemini FAQ[0], specifically the answer to why not use a subset of HTML - and then read Issue 2[2] which is a hybrid Gemini+PDF polyglot, for people who don't like reading PDFs, which is apparently everyone on this thread :)

Issue 1[1] also moves beyond PDF, to try addressing some of the accessibility shortcomings by (a) prepending the content as plain text, and (b) recording myself reading the whole thing out and arranging the file as a polyglot MP3 and PDF file that can be played in an audio player as well as viewed in a PDF reader as well as a text editor.

A mini-FAQ to address some points elsewhere in the thread:

* No, it's not going to replace your blog or the web in general.

* Yes, it's an experimental art project / longitudinal CTF forensics tournament / weirdo personal blog.

* Yes, I'm serious anyway.

[0] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi

[1] https://lab6.com/1

[2] https://lab6.com/2
> exFAT is probably better in terms of cross platform compatibility and addresses a lot of the limitations of FAT while remaining portable.

Still it is a shame that we're kept back literally decades when it comes to file exchange due to corporate culture polluting every corner of IT. Ensuring file export options plus file formats full documentation, should be among the most important requirements any software should satisfy to be even considered for professional use.
Please don't ask friends to upvote or comment. That's not ok on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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> But if Assange is innocent, he should just turn himself over to the Swedish government.

> But if Assange wants freedom, all he needs to do is leave the embassy.

> But if Assange wants to get out of jail, he just needs to go through the UK courts.

> But if Assange didn’t commit any cyber-crimes, the evidence will show that.

> But if the evidence was made up, it probably wasn’t important to the case.

>>> YOU ARE HERE

> But if Assange dies in jail, that’s life.

> But if Assange had fought his case in the American legal system, we could have had a real discussion in this country about the relationship between journalism and the regime, before it was too late.
Yeah they’re both right and criticising the media is also something progressives have done since the early 20th century.
For USB drives, it means that if you take it out from your work PC in a hurry, it might not be usable on your home Mac. Pretty serious I would say.
I don't think the person's high. Just another ignorant person who wanted some HN karma by posting a comment which makes them look knowledgable. Very close to what I am doing now.
Also the most productive economy in the world demanding all taxes be denominated in USD, providing an incredibly high floor on demand.
If the author was concerned about getting censored by Google or feeding their data empire, they could set up a self-hosted Google Docs-like, like NextCloud.

The readers would still need to trust the author's not doing anything nefarious with their IP addresses, but I guess there's a degree of implicit trust when subscribing to a newsletter.
Wonder if you could repurpose them to crack password hashes? (though even if so they'd still be better off steamrollered)
Getting a fake apology is easy, getting actual admission of wrongdoing is hard. The former is embarrassing, the latter can be used as evidence in later lawsuits. This is precisely the reason why criminal prosecutions of companies result in the company admitting no wrong but coincidentally agreeing to a 8 to 9 digit fine.
But physical drugs are moved?

Right...
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What do you call a bad faith argument adopted by somebody in good faith?
Did Assange believe it? If he believed it, he may have been motivated by it.
Not sure about your points. Contrast it with a static HTML+CSS website:

- PDFs require a reader, HTML a browser. I wouldn't argue that there are more PDF readers installed than browsers.

- Downloaded static HTML works the same

- File size can be included in the HTTP response: in the Content-Length header

- Printing is nice, but reflowable text is even nicer, since we target a multitude of rendering targets.
>unlike an ASIC which relies on stolen electricity to be profitable.

Where are you getting this from? Are you saying the majority of bitcoin mining operations around the world operates on stolen electricity?
None are charted for most countries of the world.

The data for the site is only from a few countries, primarily the UK.

> Growth records: Psilocybe Semilanceata by NBNAtlas (subset shared under CC-BY)

https://species.nbnatlas.org/species/NBNSYS0000021551
> He has skipped bail, which is most definitely illegal.

He has served the sentence for that crime, so it is no longer relevant.

> Secondly and more importantly, you don't need to be guilty of something under UK law to be extradited.

You misunderstand the point: extradition requires dual criminality: the offense that the US is seeking extradition for must be an offense recognized by the UK as well. If Saudi Arabia were to ask for the extradition of Stephen Fry to stand trial of his crime of being gay, the UK would not be able to extradite because there is no dual criminality - the UK does not find being gay a criminal offense today.

Similarly, the offenses Assange is accused of are mostly not recognizable as UK offenses (the espionage act) or they have very low quality evidence. The direct hacking that Thordarson was a witness for would have been much stronger than the main case.
> It can absolutely be a harmful substance, let's not forget that.

Less so than alcohol, let’s not forget that.

I don’t disagree with you, it can be harmful and doesn’t solve all problems, but the above can hopefully give some perspective.

People can waste extraordinary amounts of time with either, form some kind of dependency, but harm from direct consumption or secondary effects are, let’s say … „less common“.
Google Docs are still files. It's just up to the author (or even the readers) to keep copies outside of Google's servers. Unless Lab6 owns their own servers, whoever is hosting these pdfs can delete them as well. At least, in both cases, static files are much easier to backup and copy than entire three-tier dynamic applications. And readers can keep their own copies separate from the original, which isn't possible with an application at all.
Mine just doesn't go on when there's no pot on it, and requires more than 1 button press anyway...
I doubt it's a competition to find the DBA who makes the best powerpoints presentations. It's more likely that someone higher up wants to review you before hiring, and that HR know that person will push back against hiring you on the basis of your presentation looking rubbish. If you're going to be presenting to clients then it could be a valid point but that's unlikely for a junior. It's more likely that the higher up person is just wanting to make their mark on things.

That will probably happen a lot in the job...
oh... yeah
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> Without activation lock, more phones get stolen, then more phones are manufactured and sold to replace them

Source?

> putting stolen iPhone 12 Pro devices into the second hand market lowers the value of existing devices

Funny argument. So would you be OK to remove iCloud lock from all devices except the newer line? That would be fine by my book for legit second-hand purposes. (Though i'm pretty sure Apple and its fanboys would be still pretty hostile to it)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_dollar_(private_curr...
Has someone come up with a mapping from Perlin to Simplex? It looks to me like Perlin is slightly low resolution and less amplitude scale. Thus it should be possible to write an equation that mostly maps one to the other -- thus simplifying replacing Perlin with Simplex and vice versa while keeping the distribution relatively the same.

With statistics I bet one could derive this mapping equation pretty quickly. Then it would be interesting to compare the resulting residuals or statistical differences at that point. Because it would be comparing the actually differences rather than these more surface differences.
You're conflating browsers with markup language. Clicking an HTML link opens a different HTML file.
You're being obtuse.

He has served his sentence for skipping bail. That is also not a justification for extradition, as skipping bail in the UK is not a crime in the US. As such it has no relevance.

Secondly, the point is that the extradition treaty requires "dual criminality". That is, the charge needs to be over something which would have been a crime in the UK to if UK jurisdiction applied.

The comment above is clearly making the argument that what Assange is accused of did not meet the test of dual criminality.
>In most robotics and AI applications, calculations are unlikely to suffer greatly from inaccuracy but benefit from speed.

FMA instructions are more accurate and faster compared to a sequence of separate multiply and add/sub instructions, not less. The article literally talks about it in the beginning. The issue is reproducibility, which with floats can be quite bad even without FMA.

Also both robotics and neural networks (I dislike the tendency to call it "AI") can be quite susceptible to errors. Gradient-based optimization algorithms can suffer noticeably from calculation errors. This is why you usually want to train ANNs using 64-bit floats.
> publishing, and continuing to host secret documents is still very much illegal in the UK

It is not - as seen by the many papers doing the same.
>The author is free to not use it

Sure, but he's not free from the consequences to the climate.
Unfortunately, under the table agreements are a thing, all it needs is all parties to have something to gain, and the media looking elsewhere.
Unlikely. Everything about Bay Area governance is aligned to make doing projects of any type as slow, expensive, and as difficult as possible.
Does anyone doubt that Assange did the basic act he is being accused of?

That is requesting and then participating in the theft of classified information.
Yeah, but it tastes good. It's a trade-off most of us are willing to make.
I am disgusted by the answer here, people are inconvenienced by minor gripes about electric heating, claim that banning gas stoves miss the big picture, but gas stove is the enabler to heat your whole house with it, it is really the sign we are in deep shit about climate change. Also electric reliability is sure a major point, if we want people to abandon gas we need ultra reliable electric grid, with enough firm 0 carbon electric generation. The point is to tear down the leaky gas distribution to put the money into an ultra reliable electric grid.
The owner also goes around suing people regularly: https://insight.rpxcorp.com/entity/1308032-wsou-investments-.... Thus you definitely do not want to touch that technology in a commercial product.

Although it does seem like it expires next year. Sweet!
This experiment is interesting, but not so bold or novel when you consider the culture around making zines (small, DIY, often quirky magazines). The creativity there is amazing and medium-wise it's often "hybrid" (print-oriented but shared online).

For instance there's this tool to help creating zines. https://alienmelon.itch.io/electric-zine-maker
I’ll go one step further—-all beverages with the sugar:water ratio of Coca Cola should be summarily banned.

Diet soda, dunno what to do with that one.
How about plain old HTML? Might not be as pretty but it sure beats a bloated PDF.
With reversible transactions, the credit card company can reverse the transaction without the consent and cooperation of a fraudster. With irreversible transactions, the fraudster must initiate a transfer signed by their private key in order to transfer funds back to my account. Even with a court order, if the fraudster is in another country, they can just ignore it and I'm SOL.

I agree that the legal protections are the bigger part of it, but the actions prescribed by those legal protections can only be implemented if transactions are reversible.

Edit: I forgot to add, I'd also put the existence of ransomware as an effect of irreversible transactions. Prior to the rise of bitcoin, the main economic incentive for viruses was to rent out time on a botnet. Afterwards, the irreversible transactions meant that ransoming data from the computer owner was economically viable.
At one point I had amassed aprox 600GB of music with a group of friends. Made hundreds of playlists. The hardest thing was updating m3u pointers to drive names for section a b or c as disk sizes shifted till a single drive worked for everything.

Fast Forward to All Music is in the Cloud.

Hired an eVPA service to take the old playlists and rebuild them on Spotify. Took a while and not every version matches what I had but as long as these can now port to another service in the future [1] it is something I am comfortable will endure. The Atlantic Article also doesn't go into all the buy and sell consolidation now happening with artist's back catalogs that are being recognized as long tail investment grade assets good for many years to come.

[1] Spotify revises TOS to allow transfers of user-created playlists

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24865502
Whose mouths are you putting these words in? I don't doubt that each of these arguments was made by somebody at some point, but this parading and uncharitable extrapolation seems unhelpful.
Well, gold was banned in US not that long ago ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act ). Naturally, we could argue whether gold is a currency and whatnot, but for the sake of the argument, I will state that there is absolutely nothing government will not attempt to legislate.

Hell, they can legislate that 2 + 2 = 5. It won't make it accurate, right or even make sense, but they can.
Even on mobile?
> Choices exist downstream from culture and culture itself is produced by elites

You have it backwards. People who produce or shape culture become elites, it's not that people who are already elites are the only ones producing culture (or rather, influencing it). That has very different implications from what you're describing.

In fact, elites who intentionally try to shape culture often get laughed at (cue the "Imagine" video).
I'm excited by this. For simple server side rendered web apps, which Phoenix excels at, it's a bummer to have to deal with the constant churn of the npm ecosystem in order to bundle your CSS and add a little JS (like that required for LiveView). Plus, currently a fresh Phoenix install will greet you with warnings about several "moderate" security vulnerabilities according to `npm audit` which is not a good look, since they're not actually vulnerabilities in this context.

I'm quite excited about Phoenix 1.6. From peeking at the Livebook source code, which has been running on 1.6-dev, it looks like they're overhauling how components are written, and it looks almost a little bit like react/jsx. Would love to read more discussion about this, but haven't found any.
Why do people not see cryptocurrencies as a pure fraud engine from day 1? The moment I heard of cryptocurrencies and their methods, I was struck with the thought "wow, this is naive. Is this a joke? This is not serious, it can't be, it's a recipe directly out of the Grifter's Handbook!"

Yet, here we are, a good 14 years later and the punchline is still not recognized. This nation needs Critical Thinking in place of Reading, Writing or Basic Math because that super critical ingredient is missing in far too many people.
PDF is an open format, with multiple FOSS reader implementations. You could argue that a subset of niche features can only be used in Acrobat Reader, but AR is far from the only PDF reader out there.

And the churn is part of the zeitgeist, not really a responsibility of anyone in particular. Individuals are suckered into it, companies are supplying it, and governments are allowing it. We're all part of it. Not new either: I'm hearing it since the 90s how the modern life is rushed, and that's just my limited experience.
Are you guaranteed that an XPS 13 that comes with Windows has the same chipset as one that has guaranteed Linux support? I recently got an X1 Carbon only to find out that they sell slightly different versions simultaneously. Mine came with Windows and when I tried to install Linux, I found out that the WiFi chip was new and didn’t actually have a mainline driver. As it turned out there was an experimental driver that did work (which required compiling a specific custom kernel), but it took a day or two to sort that out. This wouldn’t have been an issue had I got the version officially supporting Linux.

Anyway not sure if the same problem could affect an XPS 13, but it is something to consider. Had I got mine 6 months earlier I wouldn’t even have had an experimental driver to work with.

Edit: I see this was brought up here already so it seems like you’d probably be okay:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27880558
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https://godbolt.org/z/v67Tc3jEc

gcc and icc will use fma under `-O3`, but Clang won't.
It’s fascinating how valuable simple diaries or letters are to history. Even something like documenting an encounter on a train (not that meeting Einstein is anything small).
Or you could save a hash as well
Now fight

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consump...
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Imagine if Mao and Sun Yat Sen were duking it out, and nerds blamed Facebook for the resulting social polarization.

Yeah man, and the printing press too. Those Protestant Reformation wars were no joke!
Based on the behavior from TPTB it’s safe to assume he is just the journalist in the equation and that’s why the whole thing looks so bad for the US
I would disagree that it is a judgement based on morality. It is a judgement made by the logic of corporations, which are machines made up of people that take on a life of their own.

While the actions of organizations like this have moral consequences, and the people that are part of it have their own morals, the machinery itself does not use morality to make decisions, except in hindsight as justification.

The moral consequences may be beneficial or harmful; it is all the same to a profit machine that acts in its own interests, which transcend the people who it is made of in the form of workers and users.
I used the wasm implementation ( https://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/ ) and scanned 1 cereal box label.
That's a joke that should be reality.
inflation in general is good for people that have large debt loads, which tends to be lower class people.
It also wouldn't be upvoted on HN. I agree that a static page generator would have been a much more fitting technology (for example). But sometimes you gotta sacrifice that for visibility.
One use case he forgot to mention was funneling dark money to political groups which I imagine is the primary way some far right organizations in the US and abroad are being financed.
I live in Malaysia. Electricity is not very cheap once you go above 300 kWh. The current tiers (at least on my most recent monthly bill) are as follows:

- RM 0.218 (USD 0.052) per kWh for the first 200kWh

- RM 0.334 (USD 0.079) per kWh for the next 100kWh

- RM 0.516 (USD 0.120) per kWh for the 300kWh after

Those prices are before the 1.6% tax by the government. And furthermore, any usage above 600kWh is taxed an additional 6% by the energy company.
There are a couple of things that should be pointed out:

> * "Irreversible transactions are a feature."

I can choose to use a reversible transaction or a third party escrow (non-custodial and can require multiple escrow parties) if I want that safety net. This can be done easily, even on a simple chain like Bitcoin.

> * "We don't need banks anymore."

Off-chain doesn’t imply custodial risk. Using a ZKRollup chain, the layer 2 network facilitates transactions but is unable to steal my money by altering my balance without a valid signed transaction or refusing to allow me to withdraw my funds.

Certainly using a custodial off-chain approach is the same as using a bank/exchange, but that isn’t a requirement.
> No, parent is saying freedom of speech is a consequence of democracy

Then you'll need to explain these questions:

> What prior-to-democracy system would lead toward that free speech? Or do you believe free speech exists by itself in nature, prior to any system?

Without them I might agree. With them, the inference is impossible to ignore.

> Freedom of speech has almost always been a consequence of modern democracy.

No one was saying anything else. It's starting to look like you aren't going to shine a light on what I've missed but what you've missed.

> Your flippant response in the last paragraph makes me believe you aren't convinced in your argumentation either.

Flippancy is a manifestation of doubt, now there's a claim I've not heard before. The world is indeed full of wonder and mystery!
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I think you can model the process as a random walk, and I'd expect 2 roundings/iteration to stray away from the true value about sqrt(2) more. But it seems that the fused iteration is actually worse than the manual one. Could be this is because of the reverse operation and inter-iteration dependencies.
The difference is this:

* "Plain old banks" might have more power over money creation (i.e. unlike Bitcoin, money creation technically has no fixed limit). But they are severely restricted (by regulations and restrictions) from using that power in a too bad way.

* Bitcoin miners have less power over this, but can wield it without restriction as without their power hungry ASIC rigs, Bitcoin will stop working for all practical intents and purposes.
It's not a browser format (though browsers can render it), but that isn't the same not being a web format. The web is just the ability to retrieve files from other people's servers, that may themselves reference other files on yet other people's servers. As long as a file format supports hyperlinks, then it's suitable for the web. If you don't care about being able to actually click the hyperlink to activate your desktop system's uri schema handler, then even plain text works fine.
If they mean exactly the same thing, then the person who posted this article could have used the one that's actually in the title.
Recorded almost a century ago as well.