skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's based on postscript, like json is based on javascript. I don't believe there are any control flow (or even general arithmetic?) instructions in the content streams, so I don't see how it could be Turing complete. It's just a sequence of drawing and transformation commands, like SVG.

I presume the extensions to embed javascript are Turing complete, and IMO do not belong in a PDF file.

I've also heard that some of the embedded font formats have features that are Turing complete, but I don't know the details on that.

If there is a way to implement a Turing machine in PDF, outside of the fonts and javascript, I'd love to see the details. (I know somebody managed it with just the macro expansion bit of TeX.)
I recall that a musically-inclined UU minister riff'd a particular lyric off of an Eisenhower quote regarding along the lines of "If the people want peace, better get out of the way".

I also recall the meme-like time management thinking about 10 years ago regarding having a block of uninterrupted time to think and produce stuff [be it coding or otherwise]. Someone randomly dropping into your cubical all "did you get that email I just sent you" completely derailing your thought process and hard-booting you back to zero when they scuttle onward with their coffee mug thinking they did nothing wrong in being so sociable. The "I get my best work done between 3am-6am because everyone else is asleep and not in the office" thinking.
I wonder how Teflon (PTFE) compares to this stuff. In the DIY multispectral photography community, a lot of people use it as a reference material because not only is it pure white to our eyes, it also reflects (diffusely) UV-A, UV-B, and SWIR very well. I found a chart and paper[1] showing that a proprietary variation of it called Tetratex continued that theme well into the SWIR range, but unfortunately the authors didn't measure it into the MWIR or LWIR ranges.

It's easiest to find at the hardware store as very thin tape for wrapping pipe threads, but I bought a few bars of it (about 5mm x 30mm x 300mm) on eBay years ago, so I know it comes in a form that would be more convenient for making into roofing or siding material. I don't know how it holds up to weather, though. According to that paper, it needs to be at least 0.5mm thick to reflect longer wavelengths, so anyone who's curious about testing it should find the thicker stuff like I did.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Reflection-coefficient-f...
PDF does not use Postscript, and is not Turing complete. Its drawing model is based on Postscript's (with additions), but its instruction set is focused on drawing, and can't do programming. Here is the instruction set, with equivalent Postscript commands where applicable: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PD.... Most parts of the Postscript language have no PDF equivalent.

Other things like JavaScript and Flash can be embedded, but they are extras on top of the document.
What Is IdeaOnce Used For?
IdeaOnce is a graphic designing web application that lets you start designing with your niche & thematic templates or start from the scratch.

3 Steps to Create Amazing Graphics in Seconds:

1: Start with niche & thematic templates or from scratch.

2: Customise Using Our Super Easy Editor And Powerful Features & Integrations

3: Download & Share

Visit today: https://design.ideaonce.com
>On macOS side, the activity is still slow, if not non-existent.

> So if you want this to change, please join us!

I'd like to help, though I feel like I don't know enough C, and I've never used GTK. Is it possible to get a mentor, like you can for Linux kernel development, who can help me write my first few patches?
Yes, wasm makes sense as a standalone runtime. It's basically just like any other bytecode.

Like any bytecode (including jvm's), it comes at a performance penalty over bare asm. I personally don't anticipate it will replicate jvm's success as being a runtime when there is no reason for a runtime to exist - since it shouldn't be much harder to compile wasm (and languages that compile to wasm) to native asm ahead of time. On the other hand I wouldn't have predicted jvm's success either.

In places where you want a runtime though, like in shared computation models where it gives you security/performance advantages, it makes perfect sense. It looks like it's probably going to succeed there to me.

Compiling X -> JS -> Wasm doesn't make much sense. Not only is wasm a language with cleaner semantics to compile to, but JS doesn't actually really fit wasm semantics particularly well. In fact, while I could have missed something, I'm not aware of any good JS->wasm compilers. The closest I can think of is https://www.assemblyscript.org/ - and it's not 100% JS compatible.
Its worse than that. It is pretending to be against drugs while simultaneously being the biggest per capita seller of drugs.

Its “just say no” with cartel scale sales operations.
On the internet, you are a consumer or you're the product. You're paying for something, or you yourself are being sold. Dreamlist isn't "completely private." Read their privacy policy.

> "We may share information about you in anonymous and/or aggregated form with third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling, research, analysis and other similar purposes."

If you think that savvy companies can't use other databases to aggregate user profiles and deanonymize data... well, you're the perfect user for Dreamlist!

EDIT: Or, as I found out by clicking on the parent's user handle, you actually founded Dreamlist. I might humbly suggest at this point, Diana, that you're open and forthright about the fact you sell data to other companies. Even if you're completely dutiful in anonymizing data, you have no control over what is done with the data once you sell it.

---

For what it's worth, I'm much more worried about the privacy implications of Dreamlist than Alexa. With Alexa, I know I'm giving access to my logged-in Amazon profile/account to anyone with access to my device. With Dreamlist, no one knows who my data is being sold to.
This type of philosophy is good but not scalable or efficient.

Scalability and efficiency requires well defined specialized roles. Additionally the more specialized and "stupid" each compartmentalized role is... the more efficient and scalable the organization becomes. Heavy Specialization is in fact the root reason for the complexity of civilization in the modern world. Therefore, if the objective is growth and efficiency, management of every organization must seek to organize the hierarchy in a way where each role becomes small and extremely well defined.

See McDonald or similar for the huge scalability and efficiency that is brought on by the opposite philosophy of Rickover.

Rickovers' philosophy optimizes for flexibility and creativity at the huge cost of basically zero scalability. This type of philosophy is good for labs and R&D work.

In terms of software I currently work at a company that affords this level of flexibility, freedom and ownership. Software Engineers at my company "own" their product and are given full autonomy. But they have to deal with all the politics from other stakeholders and generally spend less time doing actual software.

A software engineer allowed to deep dive on a stream of tickets/tasks while being defended from non-software related issues by a manager is by far more efficient than one given the responsibility of "ownership."

Literally software engineers at my company are expected to push products to production and cat herd all the required people to make it a reality.

What in your mind is a better setup? One where a manager does the cat-herding and the software engineer is given the very small task of just coding? Or One where the software engineer has ownership and responsibility of the entire product and has to manage it all the way to production?
By the time all is said and done the drones of the NeoOttoman empire would have long taken over Europe. I for one am totally looking for the looming Caffa reboot.
Me too. You will fight a uphill battle with deliveribility to major providers like GMail but it is the price for freedom.
While local production is mostly renewable, Norway also, at least on paper, sells much of it. Some European countries (like Germany) have imposed renewable mandates higher than local supply can support, so renewable energy has become worth more than "dirty" energy. You can arbitrage this difference by selling your clean energy through the European Energy Certificate System, and Norway is a prolific seller on that market.

Whether this matters depends on what you're counting. The main problem is that if you count this Norwegian electricity that Germany buys towards Germany's renewable energy percentage, you shouldn't also count it towards Norway's or it gets double-counted. One approach is to just ignore the EECS as fiction and only count local generation, in which case Norway does look fairly clean (and Germany less clean than some numbers would suggest). A different approach is to consider stuff sold on the EECS as actually swapped for other energy (at least on paper) and compute a "residual mix" after the sales. In that way of accounting, Norway doesn't have a very green residual mix: https://medium.com/@skloesch/why-norwegian-and-icelandic-and...
What Is a Workspace in IdeaOnce?
Give your team a shared view on all your work. Whether you’re looking for a collaborative design space, or need a personal space for a side project, you’ll be able to create the workspace that best suits your needs.

You can invite your team members as:

- Admin: Can invite & manage new users
- Collaborator: Can add & edit content
- Viewer: It will be part of our next release.
Swapping GraphQL servers with the least effort
There you have it (the solution): https://youtu.be/Li_MGFRNqOE
> AC-130 might be the king of CAS but it's also crewed by 13 people and has a top speed half that of a hog... which is important when people need support _now_.

It's also not suited for very low flying, it wants to perform large circles around the target to get the side-guns pointed at it. And the AF made it even less suited for very low flying as the J revision reduces the armor dramatically compared to previous variants: where H had enough armor for 37mm J is only armored against 7.62, and not even all posts (gunner is unarmored).
If you have no equity in a business, I'm not sure why the promise to sell/not to sell is even relevant. If it was some charity/non-profit or other group with a mission to make the world a better place, I could understand it. But why an employee of an email marketing business with no-equity would care is beyond me.
RFC2616 says this:

"It MUST be possible to combine the multiple header fields into one "field-name: field-value" pair, without changing the semantics of the message, by appending each subsequent field-value to the first, each separated by a comma."

So, if the implementation folds the multiple headers into one with the various values as a comma separated list, it should all be compliant. I don't know rust well enough to tell if this one is compliant...it reads like it is not (looks like last header wins): https://github.com/deislabs/wagi/blob/main/src/http_util.rs#...

Edit: It seems RFC7230 keeps most of that language, but makes one exception for Set-Cookie, but that's outbound in this context so it doesn't apply.
I’d be really happy with communal non-private rental housing. Corporates already do a bad job, I don’t see why they should make massive money from limited land resources.
No, but they paid for the computer - which seems like exactly the same situation.

Physical items that have per item costs? Pay what the item costs.

Digital items that have no per item costs? Pay what the item costs (nothing).

Your time? If you want to be paid, start a commercial venture (aka - a company that charges). If you're doing it because you like it? Charge what you'd like - in my case nothing.
Actually it does do that, you can trust multiple CAs in a single instance and even write firewalls scoped to CAs.
This is simply redirected wage pressure.
It's a philosophical 'paradox', not a technical one.
I had a TI-89 in high school, which was a fair bit more powerful than the standard TI-84 (but still similar enough to not get confiscated during tests). The extra horsepower let you play some crazy stuff: I remember a remake of Doom's E1M1 in stunning fidelity, as well as a compromised but still fun 2D version of Minecraft. And once the novelty of that wore off, you could always dip into some Tetris or Pac-Man.

Actually, screw that calculator. It's probably the reason why I failed so many math assignments.
Some PDF files intentionally include a bad character mapping table (and reorder the font) as a form of DRM.
> Turns out the TI 99/4A has a thriving community and homebrew scene

I think that's the case of pretty much all 8 and 16-bit machines.
> Given the alternatives, people have to ask what does the A-10 bring to the table, and the answer is hard to come by.

Gets on target faster, is much cheaper, doesn't need half a brigade to crew, and can take a lot more punishment (especially compared to the barely armored AC130J).
It works for many other aspects, but not the military: there is no EU army.
I think a lot of people, myself included, have been waiting for a low-level, polyglot, and lighter weight runtime than the JVM. WebAssembly currently provides the best tooling for this. That said, I’m not really convinced of the server-side use case except for sandboxing untrusted code. Especially in rust, where the language itself provides safety guarantees that the VM makes redundant.
That's been my experience as well, but I think that's less due to management malice than it is a combination of a lack of understanding for what tenets are for (being useful decision facilitators rather than a blend proclamation of corporate mambo jumbo), and a lack of decisiveness. It's very amazonian to ask for both top quality, and shortest cost and delays at the same time. Since that is not physically achievable, resulting tenets are bland.

Note that the leadership principles are also a form of tenets, with their own internal contradictions that is waved away by a usual "it's a constructive tension".
Very cool. Sadly I don’t use any Facebook products so I don’t have an account there, but I’d happily email you!
Without "Rich People" in the title, this is a non article, with it - it is a cultural phenom. Welcome to the post Internet world.
We use oil for so many things and wont be able to terminate its use any time soon. One could even argue it is to valuable to just burn it.
"More" than what? "More" than at some point before? Actual title on Yahoo News: "7 ways men live without working in America." Another example of HN rigidly following rules to make strange, awkward edits to titles of posts.
The source to the derived work that you distribute must be available for the user.
You are not insane.

The part you have trouble articulating I think revolves around 3rd Party Doctrine, and the complete seeming death of professional discretion. When I was growing up, you wanted to keep records? Paper, or get out. So people only tracked the important things. Queries happened at the speed of a human being able to synthesize information, etc. Further, if you wanted to cross-reference different sources, you were doing footwork, which meant you were doing that one thing at a time.

Nowadays, we've massively parallelized the data collection, classification, cleaning, organizing, and cross-referencing to the degree that about the only thing standing in your way is learning the names of providers with the juiciest datasets.

The Internet did it's original job maybe a bit too well. Information is propagated without any sense of discretion in the name of financial viability.

Walking things back... Well... The only option is to destroy the data itself. By it's very existence, by collecting it, it destroys any semblance of privacy.

Cellular technology in particular is a glaring example of a set of data that never should have been made queryable, but here we are.
Which, if they did that starting today, would just mean that it'd be shifting its society to sustainable energy, all paid for by previously exporting fossil fuel to the rest of the world. Given that, and that Norway also has no other ready obvious alternative economic model to leverage to support its energy transition, this seems like an odd nit to pick and to further call "corrosive". On the contrary, this seems like exactly the sort of thing we should be wanting nation-states to fastidiously project and plan for and execute on.
I think server-side WASM is going to be huge, because it could finally give us an easy to run code in a secure sandbox.

Imagine being able to run a complex C dependency (with a high risk of buffer overflows) risk-free because it's running in a WASM sandbox?

Or building features that allow users to provide their own executable code (for plugins and extensions and other customization features) where they code is executed in a sandbox with strictly controlled CPU/memory/network and API access control.
I'm not sure how you think you have the standing to tell me my own experience of shopping on Amazon just never happened. Regardless, that's a sign to me that further dialog will not be productive.
When will all the N64 saves die?
I was making specific claims and a general claim. Here's the general one:

The “moral complexity” of slavery, suffrage etc. is almost entirely artificial.¹ There is genuine, non-artificial moral uncertainty surrounding abortion (even though we can determine the right thing to do in a subset of cases).

Do you dispute this? If not, there's no argument.

¹: I also made the general claim that, as society shifted so that previous justifications could no longer hold water, the artificial justification in vogue also shifted. Fundamentally, “we deserve to be in charge” doesn't seem to change, and it's incredibly rare for anyone in power to question that – this refers to the “why” reasons used to justify that assertion (which aren't proper reasons, because they're effectively post-hoc rationalisations to support, not evidence, the claim).
> Right but you get why it's not even remotely suitable for that role now?

Which does not matter because it's not a role anyone actually needs.

> It's no longer a weapon system that's suitable for use against peer/+.

Which has not actually been needed in 75 years, unlike a weapon system suitable for use in asymmetric conflicts.
I think posting on twitter is a valid way to deal with this.

Making this public helps to raise awareness for businesses to pay attention to their business processes in regards to payment release. I remember being told that the process of paying vendors is where the most fraud happens.
> Can they give up exporting it too though?

How much would Norway lose if they pivoted to exporting plastics instead of crude oil for burning?
A 4 bit CPU could model time between year 0 and 10,000 if so wished. It depends on the number of bytes you use. The width is irrelevant.
>The old body has not changed. The same software is still running on the same hardware, what would change?

But bodies do change over time; cells use molecules from food to create new ones, old cells die, people lose limbs. Now we're dealing with a Ship if Theseus[0] problem. And what if somebody has their arm cut off? Are they not the same person, but a fraction of their previous identity? Is their arm the other fraction?

If you want to argue that the mind defines the person, then what about dementia? Some people will say they aren't the same person as before, but where's the line? Is a forgetful person doomed to never be the same person day to day?

In my opinion, the only consistent belief is that the "self" is a useful mental model and nothing else. A leaky abstraction we shouldn't use for solid reasoning. Like paper money only has value because we agree to use this simple concept, "self" only has meaning because it helps us survive and achieve goals.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Just like cars depreciating eliminated privately owned car rentals.

Oh, wait, no it didn't. Housing is the only thing miraculously protected from depreciation because making it depreciate would hurt chances at reelection.
Some more notable ones:

HackerRank,
Zoho, Freshworks,
Postman, BrowserStack,
VWO, WebEngage,
Zomato,
Byjus, etc.
Building housing for others to live in is an investment and we should encourage it. The problem is that houses don't exist in isolation, they are built on land. Most of the value is in the land.

Land is valuable because taxes pay for public services and you need to be in close proximity of public services to benefit from them. Investing into land is effectively investing in the exclusion of other people, which is why the land owner should compensate the government for the public services he is receiving.
If they remove it from their GPL code release but provide it in the GPL licensed binary then it's violating the GPL
Distraction technique on the masses (remember leaving the European common market ?) while the leaders help themselves to large pieces of pie
That's true, I'm not so sure on the subject myself which is why I prefaced it with 'if I had to guess'. In any case, it's still a worrying pattern of behavior for a country with so many people in it.
How can they be avoided without stopping the use of CI/CD? I assume it is the same with GitLab?
You could
I found this story via another (in Hebrew) that interviews a developer that took down the phishing site by flooding its database with transactions using fake credit card data:

https://www.geektime.co.il/post-israel-phishing-scam-stopped...
You may have the same soul - for very approximately defined definitions of soul - but you certainly don't have the same identity.

The idea behind reincarnation seems to be that something persists, and is in some way definitive, but the only available definitions of that something are metaphysical and may not even be comprehensible in human terms.

Many kids appear to show relics of a former identity up to around the age of 4. But even if you assume there are no conventional and mundane explanations for this, there are possible metaphysical explanations that don't require reincarnation.

None of this is very useful scientifically.

All of which is tangential to the original point that we don't really know what identity is. We act as if we do because we have only really have one option - which is that people's personalities tend to be associated with a body we can recognise.

In reality personalities can change drastically because of trauma and illnesses like Alzheimers. So this is just a workable approximation.

In fact we don't even know our own identities. We have a consistent self-symbol but it's not really stable, and elements change dramatically over time. (Example - I like pretty much the same music I did as a teen. I know many people don't, so something that happens to be stable for me isn't stable for countless other people.)

People regularly surprise themselves with unexpected actions. And to a greater or lesser extent everyone has unrealistic beliefs about themselves and others.

So identity usually reduces to a set of observable and consistent behaviours. It should be a set of consistent emotional and mental states. We can't know the latter - not even with test equipment - so we assume the former somehow correlates.

This isn't very useful scientifically either.
The metric system is in the UK to stay and has been taught in our schools for decades.

If the UK wants to use pints for milk and beer, pounds for sugar and flour, miles per hour on road signs, who the hell is entitled to have a problem with that?

Do we want every country to be exactly the same as every other one just for the convenience of global commerce.
This is an unhealthy opinion because it goes too far into either extreme.