skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Barcode Scanner Phone app + Calibre

I've used this (Android) barcode scanner before: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sukronmoh....

On Calibre, simply go to "Add Books" > "Add books by ISBN", and paste a list of ISBNS. It will automatically download metadata and images for them.
The bones were splashed with molten metal.

Imagine holding a silver cup. You raise it to give a toast. All of a sudden, the wine in your cup begins to boil, your flesh turns to ash and flies away as if someone with an infinity gauntlet had willed you away, the cup melts and splatters silver over your charred bones.

The only other place where I think I was impressed by scenery of this sort was the opening to Terminator 2: Judgment Day. It seems that reality is even scarier than what our writers and cinematographers can imagine.
i borrow from overdrive. i wrote that. i pirate stuff not on overdrive because buying from amazon ties me to their devices and they give me a "license" to read on their devices only.
i want mp3 of ebooks. i pay for an ebook and get a epub file. is that too hard?
What I meant is that we made progress in terms of separating "I plead the fifth" and assumed guilt in the eyes of the public. Now that's getting entangled again.
MacOS has had a similar issue as far back as 10.7. In 10.6 and before if you see a window with red, green, and yellow buttons in the corner, that window has focus, period. It was an enforced invariant.

In later versions it's pretty common to see such windows that don't actually have focus. Clicking again on the title bar usually fixes the problem but I find it very annoying. There's a race condition in the system somewhere that Apple doesn't recognize as a bug.
> React, also being inspired by Elm

This is news to me, are you sure about that? Wasn't react released earlier than elm?
How exactly do you reach large companies? Is it different than in 2013?
The belief may be mistaken but the need is always real.

Examples: Anti-Vaxxers’ protest - need for autonomy, for being heard.

“I'll make you all shut up and listen to me.” - is the strategy to meet the needs to matter, to feel heard, need for competency.

Explosives to the chest - need for autonomy (from occupation/apartheid/oppression), for understanding (“see how it feels for your people to die?!”), control (powerless to do anything except this),

breaking into the senate chamber - need for autonomy (“freedom”), to matter (“stolen elections”), agency (being able to change things)

In some cases the beliefs which caused these particular needs to arise can be manipulated (and were), and the strategies for meeting the needs are flawed (insurrection, boom best etc. ) but the needs are simple, universal and deeply human.

I can never condone terrorism but can understand the powerlessness and pain behind it, the lack of agency, and the need to matter and have a voice that drive some of its acts.

So stopping terrorism has to do with addressing oppression etc.
I usually turn off auto-suggest. It pops up, flashing on the screen, begging for attention. It's useful for phones however because I am clumsy and have bad dexterity when using a phone. But for desktop PCs, I'm happy just typing out what I'm looking for (which has the added bonus of making my typing better over time).
Ok thanks for clarifying. I misunderstood and agree with your point.
I feel like most of those unorthodox users (I am one) also keep their device permanently in flight mode, which also prevents firmware updates so half of that list isn't really a problem in practice.
> It can be used as a benchmark or reference to investors and customers that this is product has a market need.

Is this actually true? The thing I'm trying to figure out is who is sitting in the audience at PH. Is it really potential customers, or networks of folks somehow connected to the poster that are there just to upvote? Am I atypical in not looking at PH when I'm interested in a solution to a problem I have? (I suspect I'm the norm)
Azure Durable Functions for ETL Orchestration
US companies used to put ads in US magazines bragging about how they were helping Iran build nuclear power plants.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PFHs3qhA6Hs/TwxioL65IxI/AAAAAAAAEg...

Of course Iran had a secular, non-communist, anti-colonial parliament and government in the early 1950s. The UK and US supported the mullahs as a base and had Mossadegh overthrown and put a dictator in. The CIA then worked to help SAVAK kill off the secular left. In the late 1970s Iran cast off its colonial shackles, but as the US had empowered the mullahs and killed off the secular left, they took over.

The US and Israel have nuclear weapons. The US has waged nuclear war. The US was helping Iran become a nuclear power. Now that colonialism has ended, they can't pursue the nuclear energy the US and Europe and China have? The only nuclear power in the Middle East allowed is one mostly made up of non-Muslims, most of whom are not even from the Middle East but from the west?
Briefly skimmed the paper and I'm not a ML or math dude but familiar with the double descent problem.

I wonder if there's a good way to measure information content in models and how it scales with model parameters, if there are any invariants, scaling law's that arise etc. Reminds me of renormalization group methods which could be applied to a space of models, etc...

Again, I'm no expert in any of this stuff, just arm-chairing away.
"What happens when China starts using this option?" Is the real question.

Maybe they already have. Maybe they are content to let the old powers continue to play by the old rules, while they wage a much more economic war.

In the last 20 years I have watched the US decry left and right while we seemingly accelerate our own diplomatic malpractices.
That's certainly true for spaghetti kernel or firmware code, but certainly not true for application code, with a much higher abstraction.

8 char indentation also doesn't make your code easier to read, on the contrary. Your eyes need to move much further.
That would indeed have been pretty cool and I remember reading up on ideas like that. What we actually did (as I mentioned in a recent reply) was use a helper program written by someone who knew a language other than QBasic that fetched files given a URL on the command line. I don't think there was a client that ran in actual DOS.
I share the mixed feelings about e-readers. It would appear these mixed feelings predate even the invention of e-readers, as humorously presented in this (politically incorrect) short story "The Holmes Ginsbook Device" by Isaac Asimov in 1968.

http://sfwritersworkshop.org/node/1232
I did not really understand that demo. What was different compared to a regular spreadsheet?
I'm guessing they have lots of regular state universities with reasonable instate tuition to average out the very expensive ones. In the UK 100% of universities decided to charge the highest allowed amount and there are no scholarships or discounts.
Sales Prospecting Emails That Get Responses
The suggestion in the article is that the bolide impact (or airburst) was well outside the city, to the SW, since a lot of the evidence suggests a blast moving from SW to NE through the city.
What are you trying to measure by asking a low level question about say addEventListener? The people who give the best answer will be the people who most recently used that low level api and are good at sharing their knowledge about it. A better way to measure that would be to ask them to tell a story about something then if they mention say debugging an Event Listener then such a question is fair game to understand how they deep dive a topic.

An FEEs job is 90% combine components from the design system with apis from the backend team to implement a UX from the design team (and obviously debugging, deploying, etc.). For this I only care that you know what an Event Listener is or what Flexbox is or what the Box model is I don’t really care whether you know some of the low level details off hand (unless you reference it in a story).
To the folks who think this is some kind of rejection of remote work: even in a remote work era, having physical offices in cities makes a ton of sense so long as large numbers of people want to live there.

In a city like New York, living day to day life across many physical spaces is a core part the experience. In fact it's one of the major draws. The park is your front lawn, the cafe your breakfast nook, the theater your living room, and the office is... your office.

Remote work is great and all if that's not the lifestyle you want, and I think the pandemic has perhaps shown that many were living this lifestyle who didn't want it (especially if you were living the quasi-bedroom-city life of SFBay where you slept in SF but commuted out of the city daily for work), but Google embracing the deeply social and physically connected lifestyle of a functional city like New York isn't really a rejection of remote work being viable-- it's just accepting that to many, this type of city life is preferable and having a physical space to do your work provided by your employer is part of what makes that so.
I know right, show me an application that hasn't already been made before? This is nothing new, been going on for the last 30-40 years.
Gmail shortcuts are great, until focus jumps away from the search field while typing in it. This happens if you try to search before the page has fully loaded.
https://archive.is/K9JP3
Ecce homo!
I guess comparing a country with a lot of private universities with a country with essentially no private universities doesn't give quite the whole story!

Why leave out private universities I wonder?
I haven’t looked in a while but I think every example, even though the text was identical, had a different address. So if the one you saw already had two transactions...
Regarding the battery meter — Casio just updated much of the classic g-shock line with the 5xxxU versions. They have many much requested features including a battery indicator.

Example: https://www.otto.de/p/casio-g-shock-funk-multifunktionsuhr-g...
Amazon vs. the Rest of the FAANG
> Even people who can easily afford a 15 year loan will choose a 30 year because the 0.5-1% interest rate is lower than the expected returns of something like stocks, so it makes sense to stay leveraged. There are also tax benefits to paying interest (but not principal) on loans, but these are way less important since the trump tax reforms.

On the other hand, it probably reduces risk to take the 15 year loan if you can afford the payments, in order to more aggressively build home equity and shield yourself from a sudden shock/downturn. If rates shoot up after, say, 5 years (and home values drop 20%), someone who's made 5 years of payments on a 30 year loan will be way underwater, whereas someone who's made 5 years of payments on a 15 year loan still has positive equity.
Britain Running Out of Industrial CO2
cheap? amazon india at least has ebooks priced equal to or more than paperbacks which makes no rational sense other than that amazon is price gouging.
for a physical paper back, i was told that the author is lucky to get 5% of the sales price. Would it be hard to price an ebook lets say 10%, 20% of the paperback with 100% of the proceeds going to author. or does that price canibalize the paperback industry so they price match it to keep the demand of paperbacks alive. ?
Up to this day, McDonald's Denmark is still operating. The wages are higher compared to McDonald's in other countries.
>Real estate prices plunge.

You failed at step 2.
Thats weird. Amazon even sells bulk packs:
https://www.amazon.com/Casio-Special-Package-Classic-Chronog...
I'm annoyed now at the fact that I just recently read an article about the evolution of Indexes to what they became in recent times. And that a lot of people scoffed at them because they made for lazy reading aka only reading the pages of concern instead of the whole book...
Evergrande Crisis Shows Cracks in China’s Property Market
If your marginal, insignificant impact on the climate is enough to prevent you from having kids, then you probably never really wanted them anyways. It scares me that people seriously suggest giving up children “for the greater good.”

Raising a child is the most meaningful experience in most people’s lives. Why should anybody give up kids but keep their iPhones, AC, avocados, and software engineering jobs?

You might feel differently when you’re older.
This list is for public institutions only. US public education is still relatively 'cheap' compared to private schools
Nice article, but it doesn’t mention the really gnarly stuff such as using the fact that a subroutine happens to return with some flags set, or with some fixed value in the X register to shave of some initialization instruction in the code calling it.

A main advantage of the 6502 is that it only has 64 kilobytes of memory ;-). That means sufficiently advanced and motivated programmers can keep the entire program in their head, and also nudges them to avoid bloat such as the use of 16-bit integers.
It is easy to rise fast as a percentage if you start recently from zero... Why they ended up so high in absolute terms is hard to say, the cynics say in an aging democracy people vote to soak the young...
Comparing Vanilla JavaScript and Leading JavaScript Front-End Frameworks [pdf]
The most annoying software issue that really cripples kindles for me is collections.

Creating collections directly on the kindle is a soul breaking experience. And it can't be done from Calibre without a jailbreak.
This is true, but as a signal it still does work. If the front end is flashy, they definitely put some money and resources into it, which means they have those to begin with
It really depends on what you're content is. Technical books with equations turn into garbage when I convert, and the formatting is all off. It's just easier to do PDF for me.
Funny, I just had a version of this happen to me this morning on iPad OS using a folio keyboard.

I had just upgraded to iPadOS 15 and the caps-lock-as-control setting reverted to the default. I went into settings and changed it back, but I did so with caps lock accidentially enabled.

This left the folio keyboard stuck in caps lock. I had to go back into settings, set caps lock back to caps lock, press the caps lock key to disable, then I could make it a control key. But trickily, the setting change didn't seem to take effect until I swiped out of the screen where you change that setting.

ANYWAY, I'M JUST GLAD I FIGURED IT OUT.

BTW, why does caps lock even still exist?
Thanks for the positive vibes.

Great question. In fact, that question has more to do with “architecture” than most of my post.

The primary reason we went with Apollo is that it’s flexibility-minded and well-documented, making it easier for new engineers to work with. If everything was ideal, we’d use Relay. Relay’s patterns are better (IMO) but it can be confusing for new folks to use it idiomatically. So, it’s primarily a dev-experience consideration for us.
The data is bad too, not differentiating "with covid" and "from covid", in death metrics and hospitalizations. As well as not differentiating severity.

"A new study suggests that almost half of those hospitalized with COVID-19 have mild or asymptomatic cases."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/09/covid-hos...
They get cheap money to pay their tuition fees so private universities raise their prices.

If the bar to get that money was as high as the one to get a mortgage from the bank, universities couldn't simply raise the fees because most students wouldn't be able to pay.
PM at Product Review: “We need [N] more engineers”. A story
Scholarships absolutely exist, it’s just often more expedient to give them as cash and allow the student to pay the loan down if they wish, given living expenses are often more of a barrier and the loan is on very generous terms.
you're only hearing about extreme examples of people getting worthless degrees from private universities fully financed.

a degree is fairly affordable in the US. you can do first 2 years at a community college for no more than $2k/year and then can do the last two at a state university for 9-20k/yr.

if you can get a degree that actually returns you money through an enhanced wage then you can pay that off no problem.
I'd imagine any ereader that can connect to a bluetooth keyboard can work. They have those bluetooth page turning pedals that's pretty much just a PageDown button.
Year olds can’t be pedos
@sam0x17
You have to be at least 16 to be a pedo. Kids under 16 can’t be and aren’t pedos. https://www.theravive.com/therapedia/pedophilic-disorder-dsm...
I still find it creepy if a 13 year old was raping a 5 year old.
I really like the Kindle Oasis for things that can be read sequentially and where the formatting doesn't matter (e.g. plain text) but as soon as you fall off those rails it turns into a nightmare. You can't flick through the pages easily, draw on it, jump back and forth easily, and all manner of natural things you can do with the physical book.. so they'll never go away, IMHO.
Unions have an incumbency problem in which, yes, they're concerned with the effects of pushing too hard, but only insofar as it affects their existing members. See also: significantly tenure-based pay scales for unskilled labor.
> Firefox Suggest also contains sponsored suggestions from vetted partners. For instance, if someone types in “vans”, we might show a sponsored result for Vans shoes on eBay

Tells you everything you need to know about this "feature".
It's Prime Reading which is like a light version of Kindle Unlimited. It's, as best I can tell, meant to entice you into the higher cost subscription. Particularly since it usually only offers the first book in a series, you either pay for the rest individually or get goaded into paying for Kindle Unlimited. Or go to your local library.
This reminds me of a nice quote I once read on slashdot (originally in the context of Agile Programming), which I liked enough to save in my anki quotes collection, paraphrased below:

"There is often a mentality in the workplace that with sufficiently detailed protocols and procedures, the village idiot can perform theoretical physics just as well as Einstein.

In fact, no amount of procedure will make that happen; quite the contrary, all that procedure ensures is that if you ever do hire Einstein, their output will closely resemble that of the village idiot."
Ha! Yes. It’s pseudo code though. Please don’t copy and paste it.
i tried once to find paperbacks of my favourite books i have heard over the years, like louise penny or henning mankell series in thrift book stores mainly in Delhi (sunday market) but havent been there in a couple of years because of the pandemic but i would like cheap paperbacks on the shelves but not all the books i have heard over the years.
Hadn't heard that part. That's good.

I think the general idea is that everyone's scared of more bad news coming out, and you, intrepid investor that you are, determine that whatever is coming is already priced in.

I don't think that's true of China.
I sent it back and got $25 credit.
The biggest problem with GitHub Actions that you can't restart just one job[1], it always restarts all jobs in the workflow. And this bug is not fixed for quite a while. Travis CI and Appveyor both allow that, of course.

[1] https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/432
US farmer cooperative hit by $5.9M BlackMatter ransomware attack
Most of the inoptimality in the article isn't due to the issues you've raised, but rather due to us just starting to optimize LLVM-MOS.

First, I have utterly no idea why there are so many calls to memset; it looks like it's unrolling a loop or something... poorly. It also doesn't seem to be reusing registers when setting up the calls; that's also bad and should be fixed.

Second, if you take a look at the actual structure of the prologue and epilogue, you might notice that it's copying zero page to an absolute memory region called __clear_screen_sstk. This is because LLVM-MOS ran a whole-program analysis on the program and proved that at most one activation of that function could occur at any given time. Thus, it's "stack frame" was automatically allocated statically as a global array, not relative to a moving stack pointer.

The reason that the prologue and epilogue spends so much time copying in and out of the zero page is just that we haven't taught LLVM-MOS how to access the stack directly, but there's no technical obstacle to doing so. Once that's done, the whole body of the function would operate on __clear_screen_sstk directly, and the prologue and epilogue would disappear completely.

Of course, from the first point, you shouldn't need any stack locations to do the body of this routine; there's a big ball of yarn here, but pulling on any of a number of threads would unravel it.
We don't limit the amount of horsepower or top speed of cars and motorcycles.

Limiting power and top speed is futile. You can actually enforce speed limits with radar, but checking power output requires testing it on a dyno, which can easily be cheated with a switch or remote.

Half of ebikes for sale are technically street illegal anyway. Federal law limits them to 750w 28mph until pedal assisted... while some stick to this, they can do 2kw burst and cruise at 750w sustained. Some just flat out ignore it and pull 5-7kw off the shelf. Some conversions pull 15kw and do 80 mph.

Here's a regular looking SCOOTER that does 75mph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn-IqhezeZw
Part of the US tuition fees being so high varies. Is it a public or private school in a LCOL, MCOL, or HCOL area? A public school like NYU(~$55k) is going to cost way more than UW- Madison (~$19k) even though they're both public colleges and have some prestige associated with attending there. A private college in my state is similar to NYU. Columbia University is $33k/semester. So yeah a 4-5 year degree is basically a mortgage in some places.
I don't recall ever saying that my Muslim family were diaspora, or that the diaspora were the common majority. That's an assumption you made just to discredit me dishonestly. One person is now, as of 6 years ago 'diaspora', the rest are not and still live in their Muslim majority home country of over 40 million people. The problems you're talking about don't exist there.

You're also misconstruing my point in the least charitable way, and in the process implying that all Pakistani Muslims are extremists. I'm sure you see the problem with that. The only reason I brought up my family is that you stated very clearly that by being from Islamabad, and being an ex-Muslim you could not learn anything from me about Islam, with the implication being that I'm therefore ignorant since I lack the same experience.

All I have been trying to suggest is that the violence you are seeing is from a violent minority, who do not reflect the values of all. On top of that, I'm suggesting that the majority follow a different view of the issue that the extremists you're talking about. Which is a fact. Your argument is equivalent to saying that the Irish Christian terrorists mean that Christians hate Protestants. This is false, a small and violent minority do. To say it does would be cherry picking. No matter how many Northern Irish folks tell me until they are blue in the face that it is representative of all Christians, it will not make it true.

On top of that, you're veering into flame-war/abusive territory here. I'd suggest you review the HN guidelines, since your comments are getting less constructive each time: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Pretty much all the apps were written in PHP on shared hosting. Since the system had support for a simple kind of forms (using GET requests), it was possible to accept queries for the various web apps. The search engine crawled the pages that existed looking for links from a few "start" pages, and built a primitive index.
Navy Seals Told They Won’t Be Deployed Without Covid Vaccine