skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appreciated the sentiment of it.

It's not ideal, but in a non-ideal world where the big boys have ruined the web, I tip my hat to this effort with a large dose of empathy.

Cheers,
He's just right. I can't object to using cryptocurrencies as a financial instrument to make money but all the arguments about technology, economics or freedom are not just wrong but very often the exact opposite is true.
I just read about a harpsichordist who died eating mushrooms he thought were edible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Schobert
Wow, it's been ages since I've seen the shroomery.org domain. What a throwback.
Linux on the desktop (where portability of file system matters) is 2% at the very best. Hardly what one would call "widely used".
Because writing a good parser that is fast, secure and works on a whole bunch of crappy/broken/non compliant formats is very hard.

Sure its easy to write a fast, standards compliant parser (assuming its not a format like .psd or a word document), but it will choke on the multitude of dodgy versions of files out there, causing complaints

_most_ users only care about the picture/sound/video/other viewing correctly, with security a distant second. (they expect it to be secure) so pressure is on to make the parse work with everything.
See this excellent video[0] on the quality of Perlin in Godot versus other kind of noise which looks random at first sight, but isn't when you change the time scale. Especially around 10-15 min. Godot has an "OpenSimplex" implementation to avoid patent issues, yet still improve on Perlin noise.

[0]: GDC, "Math for Game Programmers: Juicing Your Cameras With Math" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu-Qe66AvtY
No, that's not correct.

These are people who were told they were buying the hardware that allowed FSD.
I like to add that I think a well designed PDF is just so much better looking than any html based page (and has a lot more freedom)
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While this may be extreme, I do notice that it is becoming harder and harder to print webpages to PDF/paper. Is there a good approach for this besides the standard print dialog?
Read your emails just as you read a conversation on messenger or on Whatapps
Today Email is the most widely used tool for business communication. It is the most immediate method of communication for many professionals. We read at least 40-50 emails a day on an average. And it would be easier if we can read our emails just as we read a conversation on messenger or on Whatapps. So I decided to create EasyRead to display emails communication like messenger or whatapps conversations.

https://github.com/MiguelSteph/mail-in-chat-view
Apple is the company that talks about being virtuous. You can even say that they are even sanctimonious. Just look at Tim Cook's speeches on virtue, privacy and tracking. Yet their actions, based on their own framework, here are the opposite of their own wording.

They fired employees for "lesser" offenses.
move on its 2021....
While I appreciate the sentiment, I don't think PDF is the way, at least in the way you're currently doing it. PDF maybe supported by browsers, but they're not intended for it, it's secondary feature. Same for search engines. Same for mobile.

Most browsers have Print to PDF. If you want people to be able to download an immutable version of your content, then just have a simple static version of your page with a valid print css, better yet, leave everything default.

If you want to fight churn with PDF, just have a simple HTML website with a link to download a versioned PDF of your issue. Your website can be as simple as https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ or https://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com.
It ends up in the downloads folder and needs cleanup later.
You can't use easily ext2 on an external storage because of permissions.
>he touchbar is rubbish and the air has 99% the same performance.

It only have 99% of the performance under specific loads. The Air is ~12W TDP, the MBP is a ~20W TDP. That is quite a bit of difference ( 70% ) when you absolutely pushes it to the limit in both CPU and GPU.

That is why half of the not "throttle" comment in this thread dont make much sense as they only consider the CPU usage pattern.
Don't CPU compilers in general, not just ARM ones, avoid using FMA for normal arithmetic unless you use -ffast-math? I don't think FMAs are inaccurate per se, but they will produce differently-rounded results than multiplications and additions, and moreover you have to do a bunch of reassociation to make good use of them. C and C++ expect precise math by default.

GLSL and the like are different.
All of the stuff he says PDF is, is the same for HTML.
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Reading PDFs on a phone isn’t an enjoyable experience.
It's pretty amazing that the basic HTML that I learned 20 years ago still works - it even displays fine on devices like tablets and phones that did not even exist 20 years ago. I understand the author's sentiment but PDF is an overreaction. Just write static boring HTML.
Buy an external hard drive or USB stick, unless it's marketed as "for Mac", it's going to ship formatted as NTFS.
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This story brings to mind the Gell-Mann amnesia affect.

"Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...
I'd guess not since big G has been on the push to abolish external storage - and I wouldn't blame them, really hard to put data (especially application data) on hotplug removable storage.

The camera world has been using exFAT since quite a while.
Lol not "traditional democratic voters"; the die-hards who saw, and continue to see, Trump as a messiah as he insults anyone from Gold Star parents, to disabled journalists, to Mexican immigrants...
Anyway, off topic and deplorably exhausting.

In the end, Assange is just a scapegoat. Although, he wouldn't be the first or the last. When WikiLeaks was being used to disclose information about other countries, US citizens and even the Government saw them as a positive force in the world. But, once the info focused on US affairs, especially around a Presidential election, Assange was public enemy number one (tied with Snowden).
> LOokout

Not that it really matters/makes a difference, but presumably it's 'LookOut' - at least, that seems less weird/forced into a specific desired acronym.

As a noun 'lookout' (or 'look-out') is from verb phrase 'look out' anyway.
For sites without print-specific media queries (so basically all websites) I use dev tools to delete all the DOM nodes I don’t want to appear in print.
> eerily similar to mushrooms that contain psilocybin. [1]

The link says "Psilocybin mushrooms don’t look a lot like poisonous mushrooms. [...] So while it is possible, even a small amount of research will help you not to confuse them. :)".
Honestly ntfs-3g is fine. It's slow, which I'd always blamed on NTFS since NTFS is also clearly slow for large directories of small files on Windows also, but apparently this new driver is better in that regard.
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Instead of writing text let me make some more noise by shoving PDFs for no reason.
YAML is not only hard to read it also hard to properly parse and generate. I once tried to read the parser code for the Symfony YAML library, horrible, and that is not a critique against the developers of that library, the format is just too complex.
Apple chief of security was recently indicted on a charge of a bribe to Santa Clara county sheriff, and the case was dismissed last month. There are 3006 counties in US, and one can let the imagination run wild :)
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Maybe the author doesn't realize how difficult PDF is to work with. In PDF it's ambiguous whether any two spans of text belong together in the same sentence or paragraph. It can even be unclear where are spaces between words. PDF also allows "optimizing" font usage that makes text unreadable without OCR-ing the custom font. The messy hacks go on and on:

https://filingdb.com/b/pdf-text-extraction

OTOH it's totally possible to make a self-contained HTML page without using a JS framework of the day. It's going to be way easier to consume than a PDF.
In San Francisco, gas lines are a major risk of fire in case of earthquake, as in 1906, and that is probably a more important consideration than CO2 emissions, at least for cooking.
I've dug out some more details re:Windows 9p support. See under "How it works": https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-for-wsl...
Even directly for Latin alphabet languages you would typically want to know the language, both to reduce the charset (i.e. the distinctions between smudgy ã or â or ā or ä or á often are trivial if you know the language but may be quite hard to tell otherwise) and to use a proper language model for disambiguating individual character guesses.
I think this is the key. My understanding is the FMADD on arm64 does what the spec says it should do, so there's nothing broken.

Next up though is whether fused multiply add is part of the IEEE floating point standards, and whether the arm implementation meets these. Chances are it does (I see references to it from 2008). If the x64 FMADD produces difference results, it's likely that either the standard is wooly in some respects and allows wiggle room (so they both meet the standard), or, the Intel/AMD implementation pre-dates the standard and isn't compliant.

I'm sure someone who knows these standards and processors better than me will be along in a minute to comment.
He should offer PDF in addition to basic HTML, not as a replacement.
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I think if one designed a “crisis-proof” version of the web, it might end up being a network of PDFs. My reasoning being:

- PDFs are universally understood by most people and can be read on phones, desktops, laptops, and eBook readers.

- Once you’ve downloaded a local PDF version of the site, there is no risk that it can be changed or removed by the host.

- File size is predictable ahead of time, which is useful if your connection is limited or slow.

- PDFs are designed for printing (moreso than most sites) which may be useful in situations where electricity is in low supply.
It is circumstantial evidence, but I wouldn't expect an increase in radical activity on social media to occur in a society in which most people are afraid to express their views due to fear of omnipresent surveillance. Some people are self-suppressing, a lot of people aren't.

And what is it that people are afraid to say? That they only believe in two genders, or innate gender roles? That the US should return to the gold standard? That they don't trust the consensus on COVID vaccinations? Most people's "radical" beliefs aren't that radical, and the truly radical beliefs (white supremacy, anti-semitism, violent revolutionary ideology, pro-pedophilia) have always been suppressed by society, so the existence of the surveillance state changes nothing in those cases.

>It's especially common among college educated conservatives, who are in tune with what they're supposed to think and also aware that their thoughts do not line up with that, and so decide to keep quiet on political questions, probably because they have more to lose career-wise.

I'm not aware of any mainstream Conservative beliefs that are suppressed in general discourse, or that would lead someone to lose their job. I don't think many people have ever been fired for believing in limited government or the free market. Conservatives have an entire political party and half a country that supports and welcomes their beliefs, and plenty of businesses that would hire them because of those beliefs.
There's a monthly newsletter dedicated to napkin math. He hasn't made one in a few months for some reason, but judging from his tweets he's working on a new one. You can also practice on the old ones of course. https://sirupsen.com/napkin/
The only thing I like about PDF compared to HTML is that with PDF, I know for a fact that no web requests are made in the background. That means no fingerprinting, no analytics etc.

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.

Other than that PDF is quite clearly a less accessible format.
Great application. There’s a lot of good open-source tools for gaming PC devices on Linux (such as OpenRGB) that put the official tools on Windows to shame. And they universally have boring, practical GUIs that aren’t branded for rad gamerz, which is such a breath of fresh air.
Bitcoin is a disaster for the environment.
Why not use TeX/LaTeX instead and also include a link to the code?
Call it working overtime.
APFS is openly documented (although a bit badly): https://developer.apple.com/support/downloads/Apple-File-Sys...

Your point still stands, though, with those soldered in SSDs needed for the boot process...
Well, sort of. Can't HTML contain script tags with external references (xmlHttpRequest or any async fetch) that a simple crawler/browser may not save to disk?
For books, I prefer it to Libby and Google Books.

There are tons of pdf viewers to choose from, so if you don't like an App, there are more available.

I like that mine remembers the last opened doc and page. I can copy text from pdf too.

Although this isn't a comparison of ebook to pdf, it's html to pdf.
The thing about the forums (and probably why we're here on HN) is that they were personally run, cared for and moderated by people who were good in their field, who cared about the environment they were cultivating. This was especially true in the dialup era when sysops literally read every comment and hung up their modem on people who were spreading something stupid. It led to a culture of total free speech and tolerance, as long as you found the right place to meet your peers, and as long as what you were saying made some kind of intelligent sense. That doesn't exist in any social media platform today. Social media rewards people for saying the dumbest possible thing that everyone else will agree with, or else the dumbest thing that will anger people.

For context, we're on the old web and the BBS forums right now. Upvoting is a modest improvement. The way a place is run, the culture, is everything. Twitter is the Carnival Cruise. Smart speech is always on the leaky freighter. People with smart phones forget that the internet was for nerds, outcasts and rebels, while they were absorbed in TV. The nerds and rebels haven't disappeared. (We just need to stop the really angry ones who took over retail and software).
I'd go with TOML for simple configurations. It has its flaws (numbers are doubles and multi-line strings are plantform dependent), but editing by hand is reasonable and it's not as complex as YAML.
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That’s a hard sell. The churn exists because people want it, not end users, but people who are paid to produce websites.

Most churn comes in two flavors:

* analytics and spyware

* convenience code for insecure developers
You are fingerprinted when you find the web link.
In a sea of cynicism, I gotta say.. bravo. This genuinely put a smile on my face. It has a lot of problems, sure, but it's a creative use of the Web and would surely work for some use cases. It's certainly no worse than using Flash ever was.

It reminds me a bit of a "newsletter" I'm subscribed to called, ironically, "Not a Newsletter" (http://notanewsletter.com/). You get an email from the author each month and it just points to a Google Doc where he puts the actual content. Why's this good? The content can't set off any spam filters, he can edit the issue after it's "sent" if there are mistakes or broken links..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Gods_and_Men_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Fields_(film)
Honestly aren't there bigger problems in this world? These days it's all privacy and tech. What about governments going out of their way to deny people a roof over one's head?

Now I know that isn't necessarily eff's problem but it's a bigger problem than Facebook censoring stuff that doesn't align with their idea of political correctness. Don't get me wrong I didn't like it when FB censored one of my countries greatest traditions, but it's just one of those annoyances that you just need to accept.
Whoops. It used to. Going to fix that soon!
Android is annoyingly hit and miss. It's dependent on whether the device manufacturer wants to pay Microsoft royalty fees for it. So some devices do support it just fine and others don't. Often if a device has a microSD card slot and says it only supports 32GB cards it doesn't support exFAT since SDXC made the default file system for 32GB+ cards exFAT.
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> Two more usb-c but you can only hook in one external monitor!

Actually you still only get two USB-C ports on the M1 MacBook Pro. The four-port model is still Intel.

That lower-spec Pro has never made much sense. The last time an entry level MacBook Pro made sense was 2015, where you got a noticeably higher TDP chip (28W vs 15W in the Air iirc—could be mistaken), more IO (two Thunderbolt 2 ports vs the Air's 1, and a full-size HDMI port), and of course an IPS retina screen.

I think the low-end Pro came to existence because they intended it to replace the Air, but the tiny 12" MacBook had already claimed the unadorned "MacBook" name, which would have made a lot more sense.

But then they ended up refreshing the Air as people just never stopped buying the old one, despite its ageing internals and garbage 2010-era screen (possibly because it was the only computer Apple were selling at the time with a keyboard that worked).

I have no idea while it still exists though. It's filling a niche that isn't there. I think the intent is for it to be basically an "upmarket" alternative to the Air, but they only thing they have to offer right now is a Touch Bar. Which for most people, including myself, is more of a reason not to buy it.
Sadly Microsoft and Apple have gone out of their way to make it difficult to access the same UDF filesystem from both Windows and macOS.

macOS will only access a UDF filesystem created on a disk device. Windows will only access one created inside a partition.

Linux, naturally, has no problem handling both. ;)
I'm with you that digital currency is the way forward, but it's hard for me to swallow that it'll be "crypto currency".

Also, the space is as you said, rife with fraud - not very different from early internet I suppose (what do I know, I was born in 95).
So, this is the argument I hear all of the time: that there is interesting work being done.

In my noodling around in the space, I haven’t found a project that makes me think “ahh, this is a really compelling use case for the blockchain”. What are the projects you’ve seen that are doing compelling, novel, valuable work? I’m genuinely curious.
Only if people use fossil fuels.

Armored bank vehicles are bad for the environment too.
The problem with your argumentation is that it's completely disconnected from the merits of the thing we're discussing so you can use it to support any idea, no matter how good or bad.

> X is just like this thing from history that people were skeptical of but succeeded.

Substitute X with a horrible idea and you sound like you're defending it successfully while in reality you aren't saying anything about it.
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I agree that people should be more specific.

Financial crime is not the only possible use of cryptocurrencies, but it is the only use case where it is potentially better than dollars.
There wouldn't be a need for alternatives if gov. regulators were doing such a marvelous job centrally planning economies.

I get it. People hate "greedy capitalists" and need someone to blame. The Monopoly Man trope is tired. I don't understand the lack of focus on those who are currently manipulating markets.

The best part of crypotcurrency is that is entirely voluntary. You're not coerced to participate. The author is free to not use it. Compare that to bailouts, bail-ins, "economic stimulus", Cantillon effects and wholesale debasement of state issued currency.

Have problems with centralization and manipulation driven by popular exchanges? Why not examine the regulations prohibiting competition in this space instead of blaming a straw-man vision of capitalism? The author strikes out at capitalism, but in a laissez-faire system there would be greater competition, preventing these issues.
Skipping bail in the UK isn't a justification for extraditing to the U.S..

Assange has beeen charged with a misdeamonor and with violating the Espionage Act, which has never before been used against a journalist. It's a huge attack on the 1st amendment.

I personally also think it's unjust to extradite someone to a country without them actually have commiting crimes in that country (has Assange even been to the US)? It's like a US citizen being extradited to Saudia Arabia for watching porn on US soil.
How is ramen used for illegal purposes?
In all browsers that I use that is only true if the server sends a Content-Disposition header with its value set to “attachment” (optionally with a file name), or maybe also in the case where the server specifies incorrect or unspecific Content-Type (such as simply “application/octet-stream” instead of “application/pdf”).
There's no way to stop shit like this from happening at scale if we keep making exceptions for law enforcement and international espionage

Until people stop accepting busting drug dealers by tapping their phones, they're going to keep getting journalists and other random people having their phones tapped too. The hard line we need to take is that there is no legitimate use of this capability
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