skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have used bash to write an OCR processor that called a python wrapper around tesseract, and then turned the pdf output into json to go into a solr search database by parsing the output with sed.

No, it wasn't smart to do so.

Yes, it still works.

No, I don't know how it works.
If VR tech replaces game consoles and TV I can see it happening. We already have dedicated TV rooms in most of our houses (at least in the US)

It just depends if VR can step into that market or not.
Duplicate, made a the front page for a while when it was published

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29045930
Everyone is wrong about the Metaverse
No I am not, please stop this. You're jumping to the other extreme and that's exactly why I think that type of rhetoric is not helpful. If you have something nuanced you'd like to say then I'd love to hear it.

Personally if I was somewhere where there was an HIV outbreak, and we didn't have adequate resources to test and protect against it, then I would say that abstaining from promiscuous sex and promoting that as a public health measure would be a perfectly reasonable thing to do. That would actually probably help the situation in areas of the world where the ongoing HIV epidemic is particularly bad, which by the way is still a real thing.
Only tangentially related, but practically how does one only send a single bit of data to a server? If you have a tcp or udp connection then each send is actually a much larger packet. Common rpc frameworks like protobuf also encode a single bit message to a larger structure. I'm sure there's a way, I just can't come up with it.
I understand the concerns that such a feature might bring, but if I got that right only the photos which are scheduled for upload into iCloud are subject to the scanning. According to reports, the images in iCloud are already subject to CASM scans, but on the server side instead of the client side. So if anything, the on device processing would be a privacy improvement?

Am I missing something? Is the technology used on the client side more error prone? Is the process which will lead to the reports different than with the other approaches already in place (including those used by other services such as Google Drive)
Currently in a similar situation. I have about £7k after paying tuition, £6k of which goes to rent. The price of food here is increasing here too due to global shortages. I could definitely write some tips on how to live below the poverty line.

Due to COVID, the University is also trying every trick in the book to further reduce any funding and increase costs where possible, due to the lack of foreign student income. That's all good and well, but there's only so far a person can go.

Fun!
They’re a monopoly in the ad business, Google and Facebook are reminiscent of Microsoft and Apple circa the 90’s.
I've just checked my desktop and (besides a ton of terminals), I have :

- Zim (GTK widgets note taking app): https://zim-wiki.org/

- Strawberry (Qt widgets music player): https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/

- QtCreator (Qt widgets IDE)

- KTimeTracker (Qt widgets time tracker)

- Telegram (Qt widgets, even if it does not look like it ;p)

- Firefox (its own thing, hardware-accelerated)

- VSCode (electron, hardware-accelerated)

My document-writing software is TeXStudio, also in Qt widgets. The main software I work on, https://ossia.io is too (the canvas can be rendered with Qt's GL painter but this leads to better performance only on 4K+ resolutions, on 2K Qt's software renderer is faster and has less latency in all the systems I could try, and has a way lower "idle" energy consumption as it does not particularly wake the GPU). Other than that, software that I use occasionnally are all widgets-based and don't do GPU rendering (AFAIK): LMMS, QLC+...

Anecdotally, I tried every GPU accelerated terminal I could find and none felt as good as my trusty old urxvt
It all seems quite scammy. They claim it's opt-in, but as a Brave user I can't find the option to opt-in or opt-out.

They look the searches you do at Google and other search engines. The search terms and the results you click on gets sent their way, including metadata from the page.

The content itself is downloaded by their bot (more like a fetcher). That bot has the user agent of a regular browser, so you won't see it.

You also can't specifically block their fetcher. It only adheres to disallow *.
I agree but would distinguish the mac from the phone? Bluetooth file transfers are a wall problem with ios. Assume you mean macosx?
Why is baseball the most literary of sports?
absolutely? how many people are in these discords, and where do their players fall in the database sharding key? because thundering herd is definitely a problem when letting people back on to a system, and oh also we have no idea what the underlying issue actually is because Roblox has been basically silent this entire time. (Unsubstantiated Internet rumor about it being the secrets store also doesn't count.)
I love the explosion in diversity of designs as everyone tried new things before settling on what worked best, the stealth chimneys, preheaters, turbine engines.

It's an Industrial Age Cambrian Explosion.
Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without getting blocked?
It's proactive, not reactive treatment for a disease. It's part of being healthy in the first place, which prevents developing severe COVID, cancer, heart disease, respiratory infection, stroke, diabetes, and death. It's like a car, you give it oil and maintenance to prevent engine damage, you don't give it oil to fix engine damage.

Acting like binging on Vitamin D is supposed to suddenly cure any of those diseases is a complete misunderstanding how all this works. You can greatly reduce your likelihood of severe COVID and 100 other serious/fatal diseases through simple lifestyle changes, but they're not cures for those diseases. And fixing vitamin D deficiency shouldn't mean you take more pills, it should mean you get more exercise out in the Sun.

Also, if vitamin D deficiency is an underlying cause of severe COVID, that would explain the enormous racial inequality for hospitalization and deaths rates. All these things are linked to the amount of melanin in one's skin. The hospitalization and death rates for COVID are double for people with Native American and African blood, and both groups have much higher rates of Vitamin D deficiency.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...

https://www.cdc.gov/nutritionreport/pdf/Second%20Nutrition%2...
Can we engineer a human backbone behind these services to be resistant to corruption and complacency for security sake?

We did an ok job with nuclear weapons but only just.
again?

we are all rats trapped in Hegel's maze until the apocalypse ;).
Not really if there isn’t a ton of unsecured leverage.

Assuming that's what you mean, In 2008 Morgan Stanley was leveraged 46:1, meaning for every million dollars they had, they were speculating with $46,000,000 they didnt have. All on the price of CDOs, which nobody knew were based on the continued payments of individual mortgage holders who were barely making the payments introductory rates. Actually most were even the subprime borrowers, the system was so fragile that it imploded by a mere 7% of them not paying.

Remains to be seen where the hidden leverage is this time. Its always hidden leverage, but rarely the same hidden leverage.

So “this time is always different” in the sense that there’s a different reason for the crash.

If Zillow is not overleveraged and is instead just burning treasury dollars, they just have a portfolio that declines 20%, which isnt a big deal if you arent leveraged.
This is because humans are the only living thing which feels inadequate enough to ask questions. No other creature feels like it lacks knowledge.

And yes, I'll take it a step further: the reason science glorifies questions is because science is human beings systematically mass-hypnotising each other into greater and greater inadequacy.

You ever notice how you never get enough answers in science? Every "answer" you get scientifically only seems to bring about more and more questions? We call it "scientific curiosity" and pretend to marvel at it, but come on, how shallow is that.

What every other living creature (and every newborn human) intrinsically knows is that it knows all it needs to know. And that whenever it needs to know more, it will know it. That's it. There is no scientific process, no philosophical inquiries, no questioning. No doubt. No lack.
Three things (from my experience at our little market garden farm):

Cucurbits (squashes, gourds, pumpkins, zuchinis, etc.) are heavy feeders. They use a lot of nitrogen, require fairly rich soil. So they're typical grown in recently amended soil. So growing them multiple years in a row in the same spot has some challenges.

They attract quite a few pests (fungal and insect). But those pests tend to be specific to cucurbits (or Cucurbitaceae, including melons, etc.). So it's a good idea to rotate them out so that overwintering pests in the plot don't have a free snack the next year.

Finally, they make a good crop to plant at the beginning of a rotation because they grow quickly and cover the ground, blocking the sun and drowning out many weeds. So a good way to bring new land into production or to get some perennial weeds out of a plot that you want to use for something else the next year.
I'd wager that if you, the author, or other people who commented in this thread could've shown evidence of an actual candy shortage this year, this wouldn't have been flagged.
Show HN: Sending and Receiving SMS via APRS (VHF Amateur Radio)
A much better idea than that horrible asterisk and its pronunciation. However, I think it still misses the mark. There‘s an opportunity to make German simpler AND more gender-neutral by completely dropping both the masculine and feminine forms. Other languages have done so (or got really close) before. English and Dutch (not the Flemish variant) being the closest ones to German. Instead of saying „die Bürger*innen“, you could just say „die Bürger“, which would simply be the plural form of „das Bürger“. It also avoids the whole „Bürger* innenmeister* innen“ issue…
Yeah I too did read the article, thank you. I know how to make a functionally equivalent device from the provided information.

I trust that the original inventor tried multiple variations before settling on the final design, and was hoping to be able to skip that
I disagree about centuries because the rate of progress so far belonged to a regime of launch costs of thousands of dollars per kg or worse. (Though "centuries" is at least more realistic than "inconceivably far". People were conceiving it in the 1970s and earlier.)
You must not have a dog waiting for you when you come home late
Let’s focus on the app in question instead of trying to turn this in to another argument about on/off device CSAM scanning.
The rest of the world (probably 130 countries) is jus sanguinis. The Americas (something like 30 countries) are the anomalies.
I remembered enjoying the first TLOU, but when I played the second one last year it didn't click with me. It felt like a rather long and brutal rage trip. There was story to it and very nicely produced settings, but it all felt like minor elements on this rage trip than any big changes and surprises. Actually wondering if anyone else felt that way, or whether my taste of games just changed over the last years.
They will sing us the song of the great holocaust of the 1800s, of the day the metal surface whales turned the skies red and nothing could save them.
For some reason, Apple isn't nudging iOS 14.x users to install 15 yet - though they are still pushing 14.x updates.
I suppose but would that impact any future complaints. Probably not I suppose but I'll not pretend to be a legal expert
I don’t think you’re missing anything. My personal opinion is it’s severely overblown.
It's at least half a decade from that. VR is great, but it's going to remain niche until the tech improves on the tracking, motion sickness, and resolution dimensions and becomes affordable for the long tail.

There's also the issue of broad appeal. VR will remain a furry / anime / vtuber thing for awhile. Casual audiences aren't going to fit in.

AR is bullshit beyond Snap and Instagram lenses. Nobody is going to wear that full time outside of an industrial application.
And a down vote for wishing someone well... Lovely community
Thank you so much ! This is brilliant.
Most other languages don't offer long term support.

You can't run an old version of Python and continue to get security and performance backported fixes. Same thing with GO or Ruby or Swift.

I can't remember what Microsoft does for .Net, but I suspect you also need to always be on the newest CLR to get updates.

I think this is one of the major differences with the JVM, in a way, it has more options and vendors which should be a good thing, but it seems to mostly confuse people.
> Burdensome mandates from management that isn't always aware of reality to "make sure this never happens again".

When something like this threatens to end the entire party (no one pays or get paid) you god damn want to figure out why and not make it happen again. That’s not burdensome, that’s business.
This is not true. Crooks do not bother with Monero or even hiding their traces.

https://capitalgram.com/posts/how-to-money-launder-bitcoin/

For example, the REVil author is known

https://threatpost.com/revil-ransomware-core-member/175863/

It is all about geopolitics, privateering and for Russia and China to see incompetent Western companies to suffer.
That's true, but a little pedantic. If you look at it from the lens of "I've picked a language (java), now I need to build and run/deploy things", it's a confusing ecosystem. There's good arguments for why things are the way they are. But there's not really a good argument that it's straightforward and simple.
I don't think modern fire doors even have a locking mechanism.
Honoring Elliot Harmon, 1981-2021
Have you presented any evidence whatsoever? None? Ahh. Very illuminating!

Let's be crystal clear here. While theoretical options exist for a charity to have its status revoked, in practice the IRS has not been able to use this authority except in the most narrow circumstances.

For example, a director of a hospital chain buys property for below market value, and the minutes say - "property worth $100M, to scam the IRS we will sell it for $1M". That's as clear cut as you can get it. The problem was - the blowback political and public impact in shutting down a major university, a hospital chain, the AARP, the NYSE, the animal shelter etc was just too high for the IRS to exercise this "death penalty" option. In theory the rule existed, but in practice it wasn't usable.

This is an issue generally with nonprofits, even when they do wrong, it can be very hard to go after them for political and other reasons. Steven Miller, acting commissioner of the entire IRS, lost his job pointing out that many tea party groups were political in nature.

As a result, the IRS came to a solution, called intermediate sanctions under Section 4958. This is actually a great solution. The insider who cheated the public is the one who has to pay in contrast to your demands that an entire nonprofit be shut down and thousands lose their jobs, and all the harm closing a hospital might cause.

They still claim they can revoke status and they can (maybe). But in practice even in blatent cases, this is rare / very unlikely because you punish the public relying on the charity, the employees etc, and revoking the status does nothing to get the $ back from the person who got the sweetheart deal.

You can read about it on the IRS's website if you care to:

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...

Separately, plenty of nonprofits sell major assets to related for profits or even turn into for-profits. And as I said, if you hire some attorney's and are not complete idiots, the IRS generally does not act, even when things get pretty close to the line.

I'm noticing more and more of a sort of "reddit" style of comment on HN. Very strong held, demanding, providing no evidence or speaking pretty clearly without any profession or other background in a field. It's eye rolling frankly. If anything, insider deals have unfortunately been increasing pretty dramatically in the last 5 years because IRS enforcement staffing for things like exempt entities, especially after tea party issues, has fallen through the floor. So right now we have horrible abuses occurring (syndicated conservation easements come to mind as a total scam in my book).

Remember, the IRS is something like a year behind even getting to their tax exempt mail. Check the notice here for period after which they may not have even looked at anything.

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/tax-exempt-organiz...
The Wacom data collection program is OPTIONAL. Mr. Heaton buries this in his rant in the second to last paragraph.

Any professional digital artist (especially 3d) will tell you they use multiple pieces of software and that many benefits from having the tablet buttons assigned differently to facilitate efficiency as an artist. This is (probably) why Wacom products track the software you're using.

Finally,
"Being a mostly-normal person I never usually read privacy policies."
- Robert Heaton

Sure, blame Wacom for your impatience, Mr. Heaton.
Yup, you go and explain that to, say. Ubiquiti. Their network management software still requires end-users to download JRE v8 (and noothing else: it won't work). And, once end-users do that, they get sued by Oracle. But, serves them right, right?
It was both; the Superfish malware was just the low end but later instances hit ThinkPads and Thinkcenters as well:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2984889/lenovo-collect...
It's probably the same binaries, no added stuff. But yeah, it must have hurt them when the bean counters tallied it up :)

It's also probably worth financially supporting Oracle if you make substantial money from Java-based software. Oracle is by and large responsible for the platform that you are using.
Also supports optional message ack by placing ? after callsign. I’m looking to use this in the woods in case of emergency as you can forward your APRS message through one of the many digipeters available on mountain tops. Interested to hear of anyone has given this a try yet!
Because resource intensive stateful workloads with persistent data is basically k8s’s Achilles heel. It’s not that k8s can’t handle it, it’s just that you get pretty much no benefits from k8s and so the extra configuration overhead is rarely worth it compared to running an external db cluster.
What is the point of having a culture of sharing and upvoting posts that are blocked by a paywall. Hacker News has content and moderation policy. Why can’t we promote content that is free for everyone to read?
Similar to what Paul Graham wrote about top down and bottom up programming (IIRC, in Lisp), in one of his essays.
As a German I would much rather say: a small part of intellectual people (mostly sitting in the offices of left-leaning newspapers) debate while the rest is pretty annoyed by it or does not even care.
..which are?
COVID-era restrictions to Europe and India are dropping on November 8th. Be prepared for a reflux of desperate migrants who will happily take those jobs.

(Disclaimer: I'm one of them).
How about relation chaining, such as with inequalities? Is there some nice S-expression notation for, say, "0 < x ≤ y < 1"? In many programming languages you would have to write "0 < x and x <= y and y < 1", but in mathematics this kind of repetition would quickly become very cumbersome.
It started as a hobby project to solve my personal needs: I really hate grocery shopping: it's repetitive and takes time. I decided to automate it, but couldn't find any robust tools for that. Also for a long time wanted to create a parser and this was a good opportunity.

Current plan is to offer iOS and Android apps for a one-time fee. These apps are based on open-source language and parser (the same used by CLI), but a bit nicer and user friendlier.
What about drawing this small bitmap here? Oh wait it’s now animating? Just calculate the amount of those in your average interface and say which is faster, compressing/decompressing on both side, or uncompresses draw commands that will have to transmit the whole thing serially?
So, it seems that you weren't talking about the same thing the parent poster was.
Oh, yes, silly ignorant me. Real-world scenario: someone downloads the Ubiquiti network management software. It requires end-users to download JRE v8 (and nothing else: it won't work). And, once end-users do that, they get sued by Oracle. But, I'm just soooooo ignorant...
While this behaviour by corporations (eg: Zillow buying and flipping, or Blackstone buying and renting out houses [0]) is inflating housing prices across the country, I don't see them stopping anytime soon even in the face of temporary losses (in the case of Zillow here). As a corporation they can withstand this, triage the situation internally and get smarter about flipping in the future.

Personally I feel that this only makes housing more unaffordable in the long run for most people and only policy level intervention by the government is going to stem such actions in the future.

Obviously real estate/housing is seen as a good investment because it's one of the few asset classes available to average/retail investors where they can access leverage in a massive way to build up a portfolio of housing assets over time so if any legislation about this is even considered, it'll probably face a lot of opposition even from people it won't possibly affect (because that's what happens these days + FUD).

I guess I don't really see any meaningful changes in the near future that'll make housing affordable for the masses (at least in some of the most desirable real estate markets, can't talk about rural markets as I don't know enough). For more context, I live in Toronto and unless I settle for owning a condo or housing in the suburbs, owning a house in the city is pretty much a no go for me and most of my peers.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/blackstone-bets-6-billion-on-bu...
Listing != Sale price

Couldn't this also be a ploy to drive demand? "Look at all those in-expensive houses on the market!"
> real estate companies like Zillow immediately buying up everything on the market is a primary contributor.

No such corporate buyers exist in my market, but prices have gone up a similar amount. The cause of recent price increases is likely far more complicated.

If Zillow or a similar company is able to disrupt the realtor and mortgage industry, there is potential for massive savings for both buyers and sellers. Right now middle men skim close to 10% off each transaction.
People are buying apartments in Valencia (300k is a lot for Spaniards but bargain bin tier for Dutch boomers) however who the hell wants to live in a remote Italian village?
Location location location as estate agents say
Read a byte, only examine the first bit. Ignore the rest
Whatever you do, don't jump out at the bottom! You have to hold on and ride it out. However, it is prudent to reduce exposure a bit when volatility is too high. See "Kelly Criterion" for how to calculate this. Inverse volatility weighting is usually sensible for this reason.

You can guard against left tail risk with insurance. See the VXTH index and the SWAN ETF for good strategies here. Don't buy too much insurance, or you can't make money.

You can also think of your future salary as a kind of bond in your portfolio that you can't sell. Seen in that light, the optimal balance is probably using some leverage, even if that means risking a total wipeout early on in your career.