skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately for my mental health my thesis was exactly about converting arxiv papers to modern looking html, and there's so much more broken, unjust and ugly things in academia then using pdfs...

Regarding your question, I'd say that it is a natural continuation of centuries long tradition of writing on the actual paper. The invention of TeX actually made it easier to produce more papers, then came PDF, and you could produce virtual papers. Also science journals pretty much have monopoly on scientific knowledge distribution, and they are mostly paper too
This whole thing is a racket. Bitcoin's actual market value is entirely a function of its' utility in facilitating cybercrime payments. There is precisely zero actual use for it beyond that. And now that all the biggest names on Wall Street are getting a piece of the pie, we can be guaranteed it's not going anywhere.
Flash just could not run well on power-constrained environments. Folks were allowed to run it on Android, but it sucked.

Flash was not killed, it committed suicide. All Jobs did was keep the death throes off iOS.
I have heard really good things about about https://readme.com/
Google is famous for launching projects, spending billions, and then... just dropping them.

And just because Google does something, doesn't mean anyone else will use it.

Not sure why Google doing something, means certain... anything.
Depends on the language. Strongly typed languages like Rust and F#, even Typescript to some degree, yes. Most of the time if it compiles it works.
pkg: https://github.com/vercel/pkg
No personal attacks, please, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. You crossed that line not only with this comment, but also upthread ("you can try yourself like critical thinking").

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We're trying to avoid having this site be engulfed by the hell of ideological flames and burning itself to a crisp. Scorched earth is not interesting, and it's the default outcome on the internet. We're trying to stave it off here.

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Should probably include all types of cuts too... Maybe some type of modifier so we could have examples from all cuisines around the world from poultry to dog and so on.
Hey, Oso engineer here. Good question.

The rust core is indeed called from the ruby library (as it is with all of our 5 other host libraries). The core itself is pretty complex (there's a whole parser/interpreter in there), so maintaining it in a bunch of languages would be a bit hectic.

There are some files inside `lib/oso/polar/ffi` that define the C bindings used by the rest of the library. Here's an example: https://github.com/osohq/oso/blob/main/languages/ruby/lib/os...

We use the ffi gem to make that work: https://github.com/ffi/ffi

EDIT: hobofan beat me to it! :)
Anyone surprised by this must be living under a rock. NFTs and crypto in general has turned into mostly an unregulated playground for market manipulation.

It's sad to see these fantastic technologies falling into darkness. Same can be said about the majority of the internet and its phenomenon to be honest.
Isn't that the whole point of levels? You're an X and they're an X, but if they're going to get paid 50% more, then make them a Level 6 X and you a level 5 X. Then you post that level sixes get paid $XXX,XXX-$XXX,XXX while level fives only get some other amount and then internally people will push for transparency around what the promotion criteria are. I would expect (in the long run) to end up with the exact same pay and just more transparency.
> One member, one vote. Worker cooperatives are democracies.

Do you agree that the Democratic Caucus of the Colorado State House of Representative is a democracy? In 2020, they eschewed one member, one vote in favor of Quadratic Voting. More here: https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/quadratic-voting-i...
yeah, that feels about right for all of the swerving required to avoid running over the retreads that have let go and now lay in the middle of the highways.
It's not a negotiation in which there is give and take. It's _your_ last chance to do something to do something which can benefit both of us. I already have had a low carbon footprint for decades due to being "one of those environmentalists". I have little left to cut to improve _your_ life. What can you do to help?
That makes sense but that must be a very small percentage of all people who can potentially become pregnant.
A comment like this implies a belief that people on mass are going through the costly, physically and emotionally painful process of getting an abortion as a form of contraception which... just isn't happening
I can't speak for others, but I'm weary of him being so deeply involved in GOF research, and pharmaceutical companies, while also directing health policy for a country. Seems like such a huge conflict of interest.

I also don't think its wise to rely on the words of a man that has reversed and contradicted himself so often, on the necessity to wear masks, herd immunity, vaccine mandates, its a long list.

Considering the level of scrutiny Nicki Minaj, a singer, is getting. Roasted for mentioning a cousin with vaccine side effect. Its crazy to me.
Right. What NK is doing is rational and in their best interests to maintain their regime.

At this point I’d say it’s time to forget the post WW2 world and just recognize it makes no sense today to have the types of agencies and structures we’ve built in that world.

Normalize relations with them, open up trade, and try and build trust. It’s literally a pointless policy today. We do business with communists. We do business with despots.
I still think emojis in Unicode were a mistake.
I could see Google wanting to get away from Linux, especially if they build more of their own silicon like Apple has, but I'm not confident that'll translate to servers outside of Google moving away from Linux.

I can definitely see Google wanting to consolidate their codebase and switching all the consumer devices they maintain to Fuchsia sooner or later.

As a part time Linux desktop user since ~2002, I don't think other traditional linux desktop users would bleed to Fuchsia. I could see some people switching from macOS to Fuchsia though.
Bryan Lunduke makes some really good points especially regarding Google, that Google eventually will replace Linux. It is worrying how Google eats up every market and at the same time branding their actions as good will, "hey it is open source!"

If the US ever wants to keep some of their liberties they need to break up Google.

For Europe, we need to build our own web platforms without the American big tech.
I have no idea at all but as a wild guess, I would assume it's because you can't edit PDFs. So you know it says the same thing forever and no one went and changed it in response to reading criticism of their paper or something.
With number 3 I usually leave a comment but it's something along the lines of "Why did you decide to do x instead of y. I think y would be better because..."

I don't necessarily want or expect them to change their code but I want to make sure they're considering multiple options and intentionally choosing that path instead of just copy and pasting something from stack overflow (as an example.)
This twitter account is awesome! I thought this email between Steve Jobs and Adobe CEO was hilarious, the CEO of Adobe refers to his employee as 'population'.

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1407016788240576512
> to forget the point is open source, not linux.

For you, perhaps. But for most companies, they use Linux because it's the best server OS around in regards to performance, compatibility, customizability, footprint, support, etc.

Sorry BSD folks, I know BSD is great too, but it's just not as widespread as Linux and therefore doesn't quite have the compatibility and support Linux enjoys.
The only truly green energy is the energy you don't use. All electric is dirty to some degree. Hyrdo is cleaner than almost anything else, but not a clean as not using it at all. On top of that "clean" is not a very well defined metric. Carbon emissions are not the only thing to consider.

The exclusion of hydro from "green" is of tactical nature. It's mature technology and without spectacular learning curves.
Other languages have stack traces, so you don't have to reinvent the wheel in an inferior manner.
That's an interesting analogy! I think it's going to be history as well, just in a much longer term. Apple has jumped the ship already.
Humility goes a long way in life. Anecdotally, it's definitely something a lot of software developers and systems engineers should learn how to practice.
Home Assistant – open-source home automation
Looks exactly like what type of crunch work ML would do, but have you considered using brute force converters like latexml or pandoc where appropriate?
NFT Insider Trading: OpenSea Confirms Exec Played System
You should look into your investors' security laws. For example, if you have US investors, you probably need to comply with US securities laws. This venture would fall under the Howey Test here. Using blockchain will not alleviate your legal requirements. IANAL, YMMV

You're far more likely to find a lawyer who knows how to structure this outside of the crypto space. Also, even if you do something with a blockchain, you will still likely have IRL legal and regulatory processes to abide by, at which point the blockchain is redundant and extra work.

I looked into CRE with blockchain with a very successful RE lawyer and we opted not to once the governmental burden was understood. Real Estate seems like one of the more difficult industries to move over because of how many laws, jurisdictions, processes, and existing paper / pdfs there are.
Stop ranking things with arbitrary categories! It's meaningless! I'll bet there's some aluminium smelter that has a far higher "per capita" electricity use than his bitcoin calculation if you only count the workers there as the population. Or how about the category "cooks" or "welders" who have high personal electricity usage?
The deaths of a lot of innocent people.
I'm not saying that you will never find bugs in someone PRs I'm just saying it shouldn't be your first intention, your first intention should be to understand it and be convinced by it. Finding bugs will be a side effect of that.
If you reading the code to execute it in your head and find all the weird combination that could trigger a core dump, you should probably check if the author wrote tests for those use cases instead and comment about missing tests.
Genuine interest in others work can go a long way compared to imagining how would you solve it like the article author said.
Do you mean UK? As the article (and first webcam) was Cambridge, UK?
This is amazing! Will make my (offline-only) Kindle finally display scientific papers. Took a random link of arxiv and it worked like a charm, including TOC. will this be OS'ed?
It's not mutually exclusive with what he wrote. I have used golang for several years now and he's on point 100%
A team I was on years back had developers like this. My role there was as an infra dev where the main project was to install security daemons on a bunch of hosts. The devs who worked on the project for two years basically made an unusable piece of junk, with infrastructure written in four different languages. In my role I was expected to use what they built, but it never worked, though the opinionated devs didn't believe in storing logs, calling it an "ephemeral" system and we could never know why the damn thing didn't work. So we had to ssh into hosts and install the daemons by hand.

At one point we had a major issue with a client, because our daemons weren't installed on their hosts right before a major event of theirs, and none of the tooling could install on this clients' hosts. So I threw something together over an afternoon that could do it all by frankensteining the other devs' code. It was run-once code to fix the emergency. Lots of selenium garbage.

Since it was one-off, hacky code, I didn't feel it was necessary to put it into git, so I didn't.. until others complained to management and forced me to. From there, I had about four devs dog pile my code, commenting on everything wrong with it - maybe 20-30 comments. I explained that it was one-off code meant to solve a specific problem and of course it was going to be messy, but I got responses like "if your code was made public, you'd want your code to be clean so you can be proud of it!". It was infuriating, considering their system worked maybe 5% of the time.

I'd like to say it was in good-faith, but I really doubt it. At one point while I was there, one of the devs rejected a PR because I had bash in an Ansible role, saying "you don't know if the remote host will have bash installed."

That whole ordeal was enough to leave the company.
No. Chinese people don’t have strong or any empathy towards North Koreans. Old generations (70+ years old) maybe, for young people this is laughable.
Feel you, it's infuriating and a waste of time to even open the link to such questions just to find those kind of answers.
FishCam was a requirement we put in when we moved to Zetta's offices near the Sunnyvale dump.
Well, give an estimate. Sounds like a Fermi problem.
Put your tables in table space, and limit things in public to be read-only or execute-only.
Is ths really the norm though? If this really happened to you, by all mean voice your story, but it's not fair to make up story just to get a point across, as they could unrealistically pain the software developer community a bunch of a-holes. In reality, most people I worked with are sympathetic as code review is one of the first skills we learn working professionally.
Not clear whether this is even illegal, though. As long as they refer to existing objects, they're not securities, and since they're all different, they're not commodities. So they escape both SEC and CFTC regulation in the US. (The UK's Financial Conduct Authority, though...) That's the whole point of NFTs.

In 2019-2020, the SEC cracked down on Initial Coin Offerings. They grandfathered in the early coins, and shut down some out and out scams. Then the SEC started sending out letters, "explain to us why your ICO isn't a security offering requiring registration as an IPO". Suddenly there was a huge drop in ICOs.

So then came NFTs, which looked like they were going to evade regulation. Then some of the NFT issuers started making NFTs which looked like IPOs. Selling land in virtual worlds that don't exist yet, for example. That's a no-no. That passes the Howey Test - value paid into a common enterprise, with the expectation of future gains, to be derived from the efforts of others. That's the definition of an investment in the US. If the value of an NFT depends on the future efforts of the organization involved with the NFT, it's a security.

That doesn't quite seem to be the case here, though. It's legal, and fairly common, for an art dealer to front-run artworks or have shill buyers. You're supposed to know what the art is worth.

Selling NFTs in bulk, though, might start to look like a security for regulation purposes. Selling fractional shares in NFTs definitely is. The SEC is working on a guidance memo. If you're starting up an NFT, you definitely need some time with a securities lawyer. Remember, the whole point of most NFTs is to try to evade securities regulation. That comes with serious legal risks.

[1] https://www.howeycoins.com
Cats miss CRT's a lot more than we do
> security experts is that WireGuard is vastly superior to OpenVPN

Superior doesn’t imply the other is “not good”.

> lots of cryptography-related systems from that era that certainly didn’t age well

This doesn’t really mean anything.

> IMO OpenVPN is one of those example

That’s your opinion, but so far you’ve given no evidence.

As the other commenter said: OpenVPN is just TLS via OpenSSL. Yes, at some points it has used now-insecure algorithms, but so have web browsers and most everything else. One wouldn’t configure OpenVPN today the way they did in 2001.

Not that it necessarily means much, but AWS Client VPN is just OpenVPN. AWS, GCP, & Azure all support IPsec VPN which dates back to the ’90s. Just because something has been around for a long time doesn’t mean it hasn’t evolved its cryptography at all.
Forgive me if this is a dumb comment, but my understanding is that bitcoin's footprint is largely due to mining, correct? But bitcoin itself is considered an asset (in the US, at least). So in theory, it's possible to just trade bitcoins off-chain (either on another blockchain or just using boring centralized tech) without necessarily incurring a corresponding increase in mining-related costs, right?

IIRC Polkadot staking has a 28 day minimum unstaking cool-off period, yet one can stake/unstake instantaneously in Kraken, so I'm led to believe that off-chain transactions must already happen to at least some extent.

Am I missing something?
> Jobs would be turning in his grave.

Jobs originated the multiple model strategy at Apple by filling out a wide variety of iPod SKUs. He also originated the idea to keep older iPhones in production to fill out lower price points.

It’s funny how often “Jobs would never allow this” comments refer to things he actually did. And of course Apple’s market performance in the phone and tablet space is obvious.
(HTML->Mobi is totally possible)
Your made up 0.8% statistic perfectly conveys the point I was trying to make above.
Correct. HCQ only works in vitro with Vero cells that do not express TMPRSS2. It stops working once you start expressing the gene.
Advanced shell packaging: resholve YADM's nixpkg
> in the end it ends with one person one vote.

Do you see tyranny-of-the-majority and factional-rule as evils to be mitigated, or as desirable reflections-of-worker-cooperator-sentiment, regardless of consequences?
There was an old rumor that the first internet e-commerce transaction was a bag of weed. I don’t remember the specifics though.

I think it was between Stanford and MIT in 1971 or 1972, something like that. I probably read it in Hackers.
In some parts of the world, coffee has been an illegal drug.

Imagine what some people would go through to get coffee if it became illegal now.
The fact that you have to identify yourself with a phone number is a big red flag IMO.
This is basically the conservative argument that you don’t have a basic right to health care. If you can’t afford it, you don’t get it.

I’m not saying that logic is flawed, but we should at least be consistent. If healthcare is a human right, you can’t then judge my life choices that got me there.
There was also one to keep an eye on the candy machine stock. Though talking about these early webcams makes me feel every pain and creak in my old joints.
You have to figure as the generations that were most affected by Japanese rule have died and are dying off, the new people see it as a historical thing that isn’t relevant. Look at Europe for example - people hit over their ancestors grievances.

The world turns and life goes on. People just want prosperity.
This is why it's better to phrase the review points as questions, e.g.:
"Why is this done in this way,
? Wouldn't x be more efficient
?"
Ecosystem control is a part of the reason (strong focus on touchpad usage), but controlling both hardware and software is not. Proof: The touchpad's software side works just as well on hackintosh laptops.
Senegalese app developer sees Bitcoin as way to end “monetary colonialism”
> <all those predictions that have been wrong>

It's not about predictions of climate change being real or not. It's about predictions what measures contribute to what degree which is questionable.

Society or media is pretty bad at predictions or communicating predictions. In march I saw (worst case) predictions for incidence rate (covid) of 2000 ( university researchers in my city ). What happened instead: incidence rate dropped to 5 before it started climbing again. What I've learned: nobody can predict anything.
This was posted 7 months ago [0] with a fairly sizable discussion (74 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26203471
Disclaimer: I'm a founder of Authzed (YC W21), a productized form of Zanzibar

I'd like to reiterate that Policy Engines and Zanzibar-like systems are orthogonal and can be used together very successfully. However, the article claims that ABAC cannot be done with ReBAC systems which is false[0] and it claims that Zanzibar systems do not support the concept of "public", when the system at Google does[1]. The availability of Zanzibar-like systems outside of Google is still relatively new, so the user experience can be greatly improved. For example, the Authzed Schema Language[2] is a vast improvement over Zanzibar's raw userset rewrites.

That being said, I think the Oso UX is quite nice in comparison to many products in the space, but architects should always spend the time to figure out what's best for their requirements. If you're just starting to explore AuthZ, this article is a pretty good primer for the problems in the space and why you're unlikely to design something great on the first go if you build it yourself. It's really hard to write about this subject in a digestible fashion, so props to the team!

I especially liked the quote "[...] authorization is a topic as cool as moving to Kubernetes!". Considering almost all of our team is ex-CoreOS and has deep ties to Kubernetes, we truly believe authorization is cool enough to stop working on Kubernetes ;)

[0]: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-43936-4_...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mstZT431AeQ

[2]: https://play.authzed.com
> It sounds to me like the UAE made a decision to stop paying vast sums of money to the NSO group and started throwing money at trying to develop their own similar domestic capability

Running an intelligence service is a lot more than hacking a random phone once in a while. They buy lots of products from lots of vendors, develop some things in house, and hire a lot of talent from overseas.
The number of beds a hospital is allowed to have is tightly controlled and staff are leaving or being fired. It's an entirely man-made crisis, and one that could be completely undone overnight if there was desire to.
25 minutes walking? Get a bike.

And as to the more general argument you can get away with it as long as you have been voting for every proposal to increase taxes to pay for public transport and prevent centralization of services and stores.

I'm afraid I do not buy it. I have lived in what are supposed to be the most car-bound US environments and also in the countryside and it is all a matter of choice: not just personal choice (which I will agree can be a displacement from central planning), but most especially of people choosing low taxation over public services every time.

I can't see how you can possibly continue to live as you have done with your 2000Kg of metal. In fact it's looking very probable that you will be accelerating a decline in many aspects of your life.
That’s Chinese government, no Chinese people want North Koreans defectors return to NK.
> Lastly, the growth in the car market is roughly proportional with the increase in population, while the gaming industry has grown at double digits per year for decades now.

It's not like I'm getting five cheap 2008 Fiestas in a Humble Bundle any time soon :-P

EDIT: I stepped away for a moment and just noticed that you edited your answer. I'll keep my reply intact anyway.