skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. A good walk (or run) is a great path to clarity and focus
I cannot tell if this is satirical or not. Assuming it is not, every single “pro” of PDFs is just plain incorrect except for the one about being “self-contained” to which I point to https://gwern.net as a good example of self-contained HTML. Gwern archives all the pages he references so that they are always available.

In the case this is satire, I applaud it because I did get a few chuckles.
Assembly of an elevator and how it works [video]
Gen Z's Financial Habits and Thinking: From Spending to Saving and More
I remember getting the game as part of a collectors edition of the show LOST. Used to play it quite a bit.
Yes, and here is the great fallacy of current times economics. Whilst house price increases leave younger people unable to afford one, inflation (official numbers) keeps at its lowest levels ever.
The original point wasn't about semantics it was about the difficulty of parsing reality when both sides are so adept at managing spin that they don't even notice they're doing it.

Sorry you got tangled up with the details.
SETI in 2020
Buying doesn’t make sense if

1. You can’t afford to own a home near your work

2. There’s a chance you will not stay in your current job for more than a few years

3. You don’t like DIY or home maintenance

4. You’re single and want to live near other single people
If data exists on historical growth between single-family homes vs townhouse vs condo, it would be quite interesting to show here. Since SFH are not being built in certain metro areas anymore their prices seem to rise dramatically faster than space-efficient property.
Dear Alice: Solarpunk/Studio Ghibli aesthetic yoghurt ad
Could be a neoboletus luridiformis with an unusually slim stem. In any case, I would say the color saturation in this picture is cranked up quite a bit.
But do they have access to the phone numbers that their customers are targeting? That seems by itself to contradict their statement ("nor has any access to any kind of data of its customers") right there.

Something isn't adding up.
The first several years of the mortgage you are paying mostly interest and not as much towards equity. Plus, you have paid closing costs when you bought, will pay 6% to a realtor when you sell, and have paid property tax and homeowners insurance.

If you sell after 5 years, you are only making money if your home value happened to have gone up. This is by no means a guarantee on a short time frame.
Yes. Documentation sucks without context.
> Fact check: Coca-Cola does not cause a positive COVID-19 test

I find it very difficult to agree with that headline. We have lots of proof that putting coke on a covid test makes the test positive. Coca Cola unequivocally causes a positive result.

That's like saying " X vulnerability in our software doesn't actually exist, because if any would-be hackers just followed the rules then they wouldn't be able to exploit the vuln".
The video on the site is very enjoyable to have on in the background at 0.25x speed.
Not open world but Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald had a city which could be accesed from an underwate route in order to emerge in a solarpunk styled "town.
lolz... thats really oldschool!! we did with at the BBS-era
also we "echoed" this "Type +++ To go voice chat" was epic
I have half-ass implemented stuff like this a half dozen times; I will probably use this one the next time. :)
You didn't engage with the core of the argument, which is that the veneer of AI is used to launder the human mistake.

Increasing the distance between database input and output gets in the way of human heuristics for recognizing and fixing such mistakes. Yes, the same could have happened without AI, but the probabilities are different.
And the guy actually increased his vote tally significantly in the next election, against a far less polarizing candidate than Hillary Clinton. I don't know if it's really as easy as blaming it entirely on her.
Love the goal examples library! Fun to read through. I'm curious, how long you both have been working on this? Impressed there's so much there already!
Signal to noise ratio was better, and your ability to take out the noise.
Thanks for posting - this is really helpful (reminds me of this similar NYT tool: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...)

A few notes:

- "Final Cumulative Profit" is a bit confusing since this is not necessarily profit - this is how much less of a cost a house is over an apartment?

- Is there a way to factor in opportunity cost of down payment being in the market instead of tied up in the house?
> Right Click > Save as

> Try it with this page!

Say hello to your new sidecar directory (or broken CSS/images/God knows what else)!

I tried to save an NY Times article, and it 1) needed JS to display anything, 2) even with the sidecar stuff was broken, 3) it was so plastered with ads and other junk I thought it was incomplete (it wasn't, I just had to scroll waaay down past something that looked like a footer and some voids after that).

If you save a PDF, you get that exact PDF on your hard drive, and when you open it (even in 10 years) it will look exactly the same as it did on the site.

With PDF WYSIWYS: What you see is what you save.
Ultimately I just find these conversations frustrating. People say they're concerned about the environment but then go into fits at having to make even trivial sacrifices like putting up with electric stoves which are better than they've ever been. And in the process they point at vital industries like shipping and agriculture and say we should do away with those first. If you compare the sacrifices people made, say, to win World War II, just on the home front -- gas rationing, donating household goods for scrap metal, etc.-- it makes us look quite unable to meet the historic moment to see people have fits about using a paper straw.
OTOH I'm not sure casting people into the wild to deal, all on their own, with megacorps employing hundreds or thousands dedicated to convincing people to make bad choices is a great idea, either.

I'm not convinced Rugged Individualism and anything like the modern economy are compatible, in any kind of way in which the outcome of trying to have both is pleasant. It may be a "choose one" kind of situation.
How do you compute MSE between images?
This coupled along with the fact that iMessage's E2EE has been backdoored by the non-E2EE iCloud Backup key escrow is a good argument for leaving iMessage, FaceTime, and iCloud all turned off on a device.

I go one step further and leave the SIM card out, which means the SMS vulnerability path is closed too.
It's also instituted a very oppressive social credit system and runs an enormous censorship apparatus that it will be increasingly able to turn outwards in the future.

Its really about their ability to destroy Western democracy - which is already happening.
The biggest customers for these companies are Western governments. You’re not going to take away their toys.
From late 2002 to 2003, it was very much the international consensus that Iraq might have active WMD programs. The Security Council never authorized a war, but they did issue a unanimous resolution declaring that Iraq was in violation of its disarmament obligations and offering "a final opportunity to comply".
Looking forward to the Regex Villains post featuring jwz
>My assumption is that houses have tended to increase faster than inflation in most markets.

It does? Random chart I found: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cpi2020-875x1.... It seems to be higher, but only slightly.
You might want to include rental income as an option here, lots of folks may have a place that includes an attached unit.
If someone were to use NSO paid hacking to attack Apple executives's devices and then release everything they found, I bet Apple might take this more seriously instead of having some PR flack write marketing copy. Same is true of any tech company: until it hurts them specifically they can just ignore it or make it sound innocuous. Maybe Amazon has been targeted and they found out.

If someone were to use it against US government entities, maybe the NSA/CIA/etc might decide enough is enough, no matter what country they are in. So far at least publicly it seems like a non-event. But once the phone numbers are identified from that leaked list, things might become more serious for NSO.

People used to fight real wars against adversaries who targeted their country in some way, why should commercial entities supporting such attacks not be treated the same, except via non military action? Spying has always been done, but it can lead to serious consequences.
Looks to me like leprechaun-land. How cynical I have become.

I agree with the sentiment though, just wonder if it would benefit from someone positing a middle-ground that would show a transitional approach. Perhaps some of the larger buildings (I'm thinking of the one with the fountain spilling down it) represent that.
Hiking is far from risk-free, there are many ways to die and people do so somewhat regularly.
Test of Lord Kelvin's isotropic helicoid ideas fail to prove theory correct
Connecting solarpunk to art nouveau is pretty insightful. I think any new movement like this pulls from some historical reference to frame the idea.

Having visited Barcelona and seeing Gaudi's influence on the architecture there, I understand how a few notable buildings could actually influence the peoples' mindsets.

There has been a ton of advancement in ecological solutions and biomimicry, but tying those changes to design that mirrors nature in an art nouveau way could translate the underlying complexity to something our lizard brains will understand at a glance - it is a powerful abstraction that ties together our innate desire for a safe corner of nature and our social desire for something new and cool.
Actually, the US worked to fabricate evidence in collaboration with the UK too. The UK had an expert produce the so called "dodgy dossier", that was used as Blair's justification to follow the US into their illegal war. The media called it out as obvious bullshit, then the guy that produced the report allegedly committed a timely suicide.
If by “on iOS” you mean apps, it’s not super popular but it does. Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 app is probably the biggest. If you mean “as part of” then I don’t believe so, yes.
I k ow what you mean. I've worked on systems that had documentation that was basically unusable because it expected you to have a fairly high level of knowledge already. Unfortunately less than half the people working on that system even had enough background to understand the documentation.
Here's the DOJ indictment

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-chinese-nationals-workin...
> I'm interested in when solarpunk blips on the radar because to me it is an aesthetic that represents new growth.

Don't be confused by that - those are just pretty pictures. See what nynx said below.

> because I think rich subcultures are the seeds of massive growth.

I that's quite hard to quantify (even the statement itself - "rich subcultures") but it's safe to say that socialist subcultures don't produce much of anything.

Look over time, over cultures (and subcultures) - their results have been consistent: misery and even starvation. But they've done really well in terms of controlling their CO2 output, if that's a plus in your book.

(How come North Korea never gets any recognition for their fight against climate changes?)
IIRC there was a board or mailing list service built on top of xsl only. Prince something. I was surprise by the near zero lag between requests (no Ajax I believe)
I agree people now also have 'real person' friends which they have never met.

> I'm talking about a bot that also has issues and needs friends to solve them.

I am not sure I understand what you mean. You would not mind having a digital friend with a fake life? My girlfiend left me, I failed my exams, I got my drivers license, etc.
The regulations surrounding them, and often what part of town they're in. Hotels are zoned to not be in residential districts, so they're separate from where the locals would live. AirBnBs are not, and every apartment that gets converted to an AirBnB is one that isn't available for the people of the area to live.

Not to mention all the differences between hotels and apartments to begin with in terms of amenities and such.
Let compare the two and see if they are two equal forces.

On one side we have a democratic government fabricating evidence in a legal case. Corruption by any definition, the break down of the building blocks of law and order. A government that knowingly fabricates evidence is not a government suited to hold power.

On the other side we have the pro-Assange camp.

Either the US government knowing fabricated evidence, or they did not. That all that matters. A government that fabricate evidence is corrupt beyond questioning, at which point the case itself it irrelevant.
Other than DrugBank, are there any other providers of drug information databases?
Seems like a reasonable cap when the average rate for 30 year fixed rate is currently 2.88% https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US
Yes, but if AirBnB were to shut down tomorrow, it would take a while for any of them to get back to the same critical mass. Yes, AirBnB is only a symptom, but if it's gone it does get better, at least for a little while.
Note this would vary by state and possibly even county (e.g. driving laws in Manhattan are different than in NY state). I have no idea what the NY state DMV / permit process is. But in my state it was a piece of paper with no photo ID.
> You can publish to one host or to a thousand hosts or to none, and it maintains its identity through content-addressing, not through the blessing of a distributor.

It kind of seems like you're describing IPFS, except with worse content addressing guarantees. The vast majority of your users will never check to see if a PDF's content actually match its content address.

> All of these simple-complex propositions about making some subset language or automating document flows are missing the point entirely.

Are they? It's really not that hard to build a self-contained HTML file, and to re-emphasize, signed PDFs and signed HTML files are about the same level of accessibility to most users. Web browsers don't really handle either, if you want those guarantees you need to use a protocol/technology with better support right from the start.

Also to be clear, despite the author's argument that PDFs can be self-contained, no browser guarantees that, and there's no way for me to tell if the PDF is self contained when I click on it in Firefox unless I download it and check it myself offline or in a viewer that guarantees it won't make network requests.

Nothing online that I'm aware of forces authors to use PDF/A, so when I download a PDF, I don't know what I'm getting. It's not actually the magical, re-hostable world that the author claims.

I'm not sure that people are missing the author's point so much as they're saying the author is making claims about the portability of PDFs that aren't necessarily accurate. Yes, it would be good to have better self-contained guarantees about some web-content, but I'm not sure PDFs actually supply any of those guarantees.
Part of me agrees but this is pretty vulgar & anti-populist.

Perhaps thinking of the situation as an Overton window, a range of "normal" stances to tech, is more what this about than enclaves. I have another reply to parent despising a similar "do for ourselves" attitude, and I think that's capital, but there is a "follow the alpha geeks" aspect to tech too, for the good stuff hopefully does come down, does propogate, does spread. the Overton window of tech shifts, slowly, if new good self replicating practicing communities of tech are visibly doing better.

right now I don't think anyone cares because there's so little apparent difference. but there's low visibility because it's so early, we're so new with our different social approaches, and few alternate approaches are radically compelling, few offer radically better features or better experience. I continue to think protocol based systems, as we stay getting good at them, will offer radical creativity& empowerment that classic big social can't it won't. and that's when we start changing hearts and minds, stay being highly visible, when we are empowered& leveraging it, when we are making our self determinism count. we are not there but we are getting better.

what I want to underscore is, right now tech is a secret. there's all sorts of amazing people who would do amazing things of they were involved here. unlike Eternal September where Usenet got swamped with low nettiquette text, this is a chance to involve people: our designs are fast more egalitarian than fairly top-down Usenet. this is an onroad to upgrading yourself, a repersonalization of computing, to make it real & in front of you, rather than floating around on Zuck's servers.

for sure a lot of people will go about, unchanged. and would bring semi questionable value to these alternative ecosystems. they one should still be served. two, we will have failed entirely if we don't lift some people up, open their eyes & excited their hearts, by properly prove them in touch with the communications engines of their lives.
No it's not. In many cases it can be beneficial to rent and invest your money instead, as stocks have a higher longterm ROI than property.
Cheap Energy, Privacy Rights Could Bring China's Outcast Bitcoin Miners to US
> The NSA isn't used by the President to target the party out of power no

Close, but you've got the wrong organization. It was the FBI that used evidence it knew was false from the start to justify a spying campaign into the opposition candidate and then used the candidate's campaign's resistance of that illegal election interference to justify political interference and, ultimately, an indictment.

That's right, the Obama DOJ illegally harassed the Trump campaign and then the out of control FBI and House Democrats (led by the former FBI director, Mueller) followed through with the farce of an impeachment, aided and abetted by misleading coverage of the proceedings, which resulted in only an indictment for resisting the illegal investigation and election interference

And now the same people assure us that the 2020 election was the fairest and most secure ever. Real confidence inspiring! Personally I never had any doubt in the security of the US elections until the same machine that insisted the Russian collusion was real (it definitely wasn't), and that the lab leak theory was never plausible (it's not definitely true but it's definitely plausible and always has been), insisted that there was no way they could've been fraudulent.

Thou dost protest too much, methinks.
Plowpunk anyone?

I guess not.
No I don't. I could pick two atoms floating through space somewhere and say "This distance, right now."

I guess that you've never heard of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

You can say that. But it isn't actually well-defined.
Then you could just as well get a iPod touch or iPad mini.
In my household we very much agree we have no way of knowing wether it's a lab-leak or not.

Our newspapers tell us the same, as well as reporting different opinions during the whole thing. We recognize opinion as opinion, not propaganda or fact.

Why are everyone on the net seemingly living with insane politics and media? And what is so hard about saying the words: "I don't know, yet.."
Physicists move closer to defeating errors in quantum computation
Inductor coils? I haven't heard of capacitors creating noise before.
My car has fake engine noises piped in over the speakers (this is actually pretty common now), so maybe you're on to something. Though I doubt I'd miss fan noise myself.
At what point did we leave step 1? The only reason we are moving on is Assange never turned himself in, as those of us in Step 1 said he should.
If this calculator is rent vs buy, why does the graph compare house vs apartment? For both houses and apartments, they can be bought or rented. Are you someplace where one type of home can only be bought and the other can only be rented?
Well, I disagree - people are presumably paying me for my experience and successes, which will affect my opinion and interpretation. If they don't like those, then presumably they don't value my experience, and we would probably not be happy working together.
> Democracies have a messy, difficult to categorise staying power. I hear stories about Kings and Emperors, but nobody talks about the enduring-like-weeds powers that don't have neatly defined figureheads but are hotbeds of prosperity.

Don't look around for long.

United States of America — a truly improbable, impossible country. With so much of s**t going on through its history, any other normal country would've crashed, and burned 20 times over.
Seems more likely they’re lying.
Part of the reason it took so long to roll out these lateral flow tests is that it was hard to find ones with an acceptably low false positive rate - it needed to be well below 1% for exactly the reason you outline. (Apparently PHE estimates it at less than 1 in 1000: https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2021/03/30/covid-19-... )

Even when the rate of Covid infections in the UK was much lower than it currently is, retesting of people using PCR suggested that the large majority of positives were in fact true positives, at least amongst the adults retested. It's possible that the story is different for kids, but on the other hand they're not vaccinated in the UK whereas many adults are...
External hard drives with larger capacities and potentially larger files might be a use case for NTFS. While it isn't fast, ntfs-3g has worked fine for basic use for me. Someone said in another comment that ntfs-3g is unmaintained, though, which was news to me, and obviously not a great thing if true.

I suppose exFAT might be a viable option for larger external drives as well due to its higher file size limit. None of the other commonly used file systems (including native Linux file systems) seemed easy to use from both Linux and Windows the last time I looked into it.
> I don't think placing the cost of unlocking on second-hand owners is fair in any way

> It's infuriating when friends/neighbors came to me with devices they acquired in good faith

If you don’t have the activation lock removed, you’re not the second-hand owner, you’re more than likely in possession of stolen property which has been dumped in your hands.

A stolen device doesn’t become ethically cleansed because someone bought it off the criminal “in good faith.” It’s still stolen goods.

All serious recycling services pay money for phones. Every single one I know of pays almost nothing if the device is activation locked, so it’s in the interest of the seller to deactivate it.
The rules are what matters, yes, but the naming of games is a classification problem over sets of rules. This is most obvious with competitive video games, which have complex rules that are tweaked often - each balance patch changes the rules a little, but it's still the same game. The boundaries are fuzzy, and even the players may disagree about what constitutes enough change to be a different game.

With Senet, we don't even know how much the rules have changed, so it's hard to say. But hopefully the reconstructors did well enough that an ancient player wouldn't say "what game is that?" but instead "that's a goofy way to play Senet."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...

California and Texas have similar homicide rates: 4.3 vs 4.9. Both numbers are low in the sense that homicide isn't something you should be afraid of in either state, unless you are in a specifically risky place or situation.

And regarding your anecdotes, it's doubtful to me that a law would prevent many of those people from carrying a gun. Maybe some, but nothing that would show much signal in aggregate data.