skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have regrets about calling you a "nobody". I was annoyed, but that's going too far, and I apologise for saying that. Almost no one deserves that level of vitriol, especially if at worst they're just being annoying. And I think I get annoyed too quickly.
The assertion was that there is too great a diversity of device sizes for a LaTeX-based document standard to work, with the strong implication being that a fixed-size PDF is the only output option for LaTeX.

Both sides of that fail.

You're now shifting the goalposts.

Yes, ePub is based on HTML. It is also contained, standardised, and structured (not dissimilarly to how LaTeX itself is based on Tex but with standards and structure). It's also not the only fluid document standard, though the other I'm significanlty aware of (mobi in particular) are effectively proprietary.

ePub exists and is good enough.

It has some issues of its own, including an overly-strong foundation in HTML which could well lead it to many of the same issues plagueing the Web. In practice, to date, it's largely avoided those pitfalls.

But again, that's really not what the question I was answering was about. Rather it was in targeting multiple sizes of devices. And I think I somewhat addressed that.
That would already flag me as a spy I am afraid. I am what some people call a ghost, although I do have a carefully constructed online persona stripped by anything that could be classified as normal human behavior and opinion.

That said, not everyone has an online persona. And I believe oversharing on social media is slowly more regarded as a negative in the business world. You are almost expected to have a greasy and artificial looking presence, but please don't be outspoken so it could interfere with business. Online conduct degraded to a cheap PR game that errs on the side of caution.

This is why anonymous platforms are much more interesting if you are less people focused. Nobody discusses controversial topics on linkedin.
I have a Thinkpad.
Interesting podcast with Fred Turner about his book on The Dig:

https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/counterculture-to-cyberc...
In Portugal, Jews invented an ingenious decoy sausage to evade pork surveillance:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20170929-the-unlikely-sau...
Am I the only one that doesn't like this trend of centralised/cloud IDEs?
I tend to agree with the sentiment, but when you have Red-Hat and Microsoft collaborating into bringing all possible IDE features that matters for Java BE development into VSCode, that really hurts into JetBrains pocket.

They are turning VSCode into a first class experience when coding mainframe style across OpenShift, IBM Cloud and Azure.
After playing with earlier generation RPi's, my opinion was that they are useless crap, not performant and stable enough for my projects. But now I tried RPi4 8GB model, and I have to say that it is entirely different beast. For my projects they have been very stable and performant so far.
As a kid I played all of it, all the way to the end, without coding anything(simply because I didn't know how to), so it's definitely possible.

Also it's nowhere near as complex as factorio, it's more like a basic adventure game - the automation you can do basically ends with coding your robots to defend you and remember to swap their own batteries when they are almost empty. There's no production pipeline or anything like that.
I marvel at those of you who can code on an iPad. How are your eyes so good? I have a 32" monitor running at like 120% zoom and can still barely read the code. Curse my ancient eyes!
What You’re Doing Is Proof of Quantum Theory
I admitted I didn't have any experience using e-readers before, so please forgive my ignorance. But in defence of me and all the other ignorant buyers, when a device is sold with the argument that it is a fully functional Android device, one might suspect that you'd be able to run some apps on it without too many problems.
This is from the Boox site itself:

> The book is based on the Android 10.0 operating system, which allows third-party applications to be installed on the device and significantly expands the scope of its application
> Unless they specifically targeted poorer areas, which isn't impossible but is unlikely ( if they killed or expelled infidels, guess who got to keep the gold/money/property?)

Being rich tends to coincide with having some kind of power. The poor people are more likely to be targeted by oppressive campaigns of any sort, because rich people use their power to protect themselves.

There would be nothing exceptional about targeting poor rather then rich and powerful.
I guess the hearing impaired can't drive in India.
Cool but not exactly the earliest jewelry on earth… not by a long shot.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi8620
They said it does
You made a bad argument and got called on it. That's as far as it goes. No need to be a victim. No need to double-down with more bad arguments. But, my apologies if I seemed unnecessarily harsh. I don't know you. I was referring to your argument; an argument that rationalizes malignant behavior and happens to be the crux of the problem.

You're more a victim of tribal thinking than you think. You talk almost purely in terms of "sides" and profess to be on my "side" because you agree with me on policy. So, you are surprised when I
call out your poorly constructed argument, as if I should have just gone along. That's tribal thinking.

OTOH, you can agree with me on 99 out of 100 issues, but if your position on that one issue makes no sense to me then I'll tell you exactly that. That's not tribal thinking.
There is a way, the neighbors could install better insulation in their flats. They are not being generous with their heating, they are being wasteful. It's a good thing @kmm actually wants that heat. Otherwise it'd be a problem.
>he doesn't believe in vaccination to get antivaxer support before elections

Just, wow!

Essentially, the same thing here in Croatia. Our people have a wide spectre of ideologic views with a very different take on crisis, out of which currently very few trusts the government.

In the initial wave, government made very good results with keeping covid numbers down, and they were very widely accepted and respected. Even though there were some non-sense, people were glad just to know government reacting effitiently and strategically.

But the government lost all the trust now with promoting vaccination with some very odd restrictions and suprisingly stupid rhetoric, without honesty or explanations. There is probably much more truth to why everything just went down the drain, but I would say the main goal is to force out vaccination with no exception.

I do not respect or support our government ideologically nor due to their competence. The crisis would just be more managable if they had our trust right now, but they've lost it and I don't see it turning back. And I do not see how will they handle the crisis with so little support.

I may have sounded like I was proposing blind trust, rather than trust in return of transparency, honesty etc from leaders/governement. Because in essence I think we are talking about the same thing.
I agree about the Rust plugin :) It's great.
Yep, that's how I played it. Loved it as a kid. Also I'm reasonably certain it was bundled with "Komputer Świat" not CD-Action since it was more of an "educational" game, CD-Action did more "mature" releases. But I might be wrong.
Reading this on a sony Xperia mini. Still my daily driver. Can't belive how many weird looks and "what is that thing???"s I get.
This isn’t the only “ungrammatical” expression (relative to global standard English) you will encounter in India.

Could it be that some person or some company simply put this expression on their trucks (thinking it’s grammatical), and because it seemed useful other trucks followed, until it became the standard?

Edit: this isn’t to be proscriptive about what’s correct/incorrect in a given country.

My definition of “global standard English” is in a comment below.
> religious minorities tend to perform better economically than the majority religious group(s) since they have to work harder to overcome institutional and historical hurdles placed in their way

They dont? Religious minorities tend to worst then majority. They do sometimes get accused to be too rich by propaganda.

Jew in Europe nor in Germany specifically before WWII were not actually richer, statistically. They were on average lower middle class. Many of them were poor and refugees from eastern europe. Where individuals have been more successful, majority resented that and wanted to punish all Jews for it.

Yazidi are not richer then average in Iraque. Kurds are not richer then majority.
Firefox would fit neatly in the corporate world in my opinion. You can have a centrally administered configuration file and Firefox is indeed able to just use certificated from your OS. It is just a small toggle. Still, a bit of effort and maybe advertising would do wonders, because there are companies critical of Chrome that think data protection is worth more than personal advertising. I think Edge is trying to fit in here.

Sure, Edge can be configured by domain policies and that is easy too. For example disallowing https exceptions is a popular recent policy (that gets reverted pretty quickly).
Why do you think this is a centralised/cloud IDE?

It still runs on your machine. But the architecture it's built on means that it can run anywhere. A similar architecture to VS Code where you can deploy the VS Code server in a docker container or a remote server and run the UI on your PC. You can still run the entire thing on your PC if you wish.

So long as they never remove the ability to run locally (they would be insane to ever do that), then I welcome this modular architecture that embraces standards like LSP.
Ask HN: iOS e-mail App with customizable “From” field?
I'm using a catch-all domain for all my e-mail communication. I'm also using iOS and currently have to log in to my web panel via Firefox/Safari when I want to write someone with a custom "From" address. It's really unpleasant.

Is there software for iOS which allows me to set the the "From" field on the fly without complicated account/identity management? Thunderbird would be something which has this, but it's desktop only.

The native Mail app only lets me allow to change the sender account but there's no way to modify the From address.
S8 was released in 2017, for anyone else curious.
Sheesh. Please no.

Note that i do speak several languages and my native language isnt English. Still, please dont complicate my programming with translations.
IIRC Tiny came out of MetaLab and MetaLab is Canadian.

Don't know if they might be registered elsewhere though. They probably are.
>And there's some question of whether FB followed the correct process.

There are more than questions - FB was found guilty and fined for not following the correct process.
Flaticon recently put their SVGs behind a paywall :'(
Obstetricians and paediatricians around the world noticed an increase in average birth weight recently. It was attributed to a combination of less pollution due to COVID lockdowns reducing traffic, and reduced stress levels because more people were working from home.

Where I live, the air seemed pretty clean before. During the height of the lockdowns it was something else. The air was so clear that you felt like you could just reach out and touch the city skyline across the harbour. It was unreal how big a difference less cars on the road made.
A phone? Really? I don't even know how to hack stuff on my phone and I'm a professional programmer. Nothing wrong with a PC, it's just much bigger, more expensive (although second hand gear is probably cheaper than this, it just won't look as good) and a much bigger barrier to entry as most people don't know how to install Linux on a PC. The Raspberry Pi is literally "do this to the SD card then switch it on". Plus it has GPIO pins and ready to use Python libraries for them. It's literally made for learning.
NFC stands for Near-field communication.
It's quite useful for pair-programming, especially remotely (but some colleagues have started doing this in the office as well, since it means that each paired programmer also has their own workplace and can look stuff up without disturbing the other), also reviews. Especially helpful for one project I was working on at the time was VS Code's ability to also share local servers with the participants (terminals as well, but never needed that so far).
Running on soft cores.
Looked up the release date for this phone: January 2021.
The non open source part is a bummer but its not Electron based. So its gotta be faster than VSCode.
Dropping the idea of plain text output and input.
In reality such text does not exist. It's always structured text: log files, CSV, configuration file formats, markup formats, source code, ...
Language servers for almost any of these already exist, let's use them in the tools.
I like to do everything I can on the desktop. With iOS and Android they can both run CLI tools. It’s great. I am using iOS as Unix and Android as Linux, I’m not tethered to the idea of desktop Linux.
> The text is edited locally

This was the pain point. My local machine didn't have source code locally.

Maybe I was too lazy, but syncing code on both local machine and remote machine was painful.
A copy of the repo really?
I just check in everything in a new commit then write the SHA1 somewhere.
SBC are generally not intended for typical desktop usage, although they're sometimes advertised to do so. The memory limitation is not the only problem; out-of-the box storage speed is (some competitors have an eMMC port, or even a built-in SATA port(s)).

I've previously used an older RPi version as server, specifically:

- file sharing server
- VPN server
- BitTorrent client
- SMB server

It did work fine, although I personally find SD cards slow (and didn't want to add extra complexity, ie. adapters), and ARM tricky in some cases, so I moved to an SBC that was more comfortable for my use case.
Where do you get the information from that they are cancelling lots of events? As far as I can tell they are only giving out guidelines how you should behave if you want to have a party but no rules that prevent any event[0]. Also they only cancelled official events meaning events organized by the government: "Given the exponential rise in the number of cases, the Government, for example, intends to cancel a number of its own functions including official Christmas parties, official receptions and similar gatherings." from [1]

[0] https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/press-releases/public-health-gu...

[1] https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/press-releases/rise-in-active-c...
By selling you get to access the money NOW, instead of waiting (and working) for years.
If a human from 41,500 years ago asked how humans look like nowadays, I guess the answer would be that we still like food, sex and power, but have developed to acquire all of those things more efficiently.

Ultimately practically everything we do has been to serve those ends.
Without presenting any evidence, your comment sounds like pure prejudice. The site has its few problems:

- 2 advertisements and
- link to facebook.

Besides that it is:

one of listed filters in creative commons search: https://search.creativecommons.org/search?q=trust&license=cc... ,

does not insist to became a member,

has no paid premium features,

very clean,

no sketchy ads,

no intrusive popups,

default presentation is not the most "clicked items",

and has no links to any suspect site.

I can't really see why it looks "'not legit at all', and would probably want to run it in a sandbox before downloading any links".
As someone who has grown up (and learnt to drive) in England - I had a moment of sudden realisation in India.

For me, the horn is a warning sign - "get out of my way" or "watch out!" - only to be used in emergencies.

In India, the horn means "I'm over here", to be used whenever you're near another vehicle. Which fits with the statements on the back of the lorries perfectly.
If you pay a company built around ad revenue to remove ads in one particular product, you now have a big flag “has money and willing to pay” on your profile.

No ads on that product, sure, but very much not coincidentally you cannot opt out of all ads across Alphabet, and the flag is a very strong signal for elsewhere you will be shown ads (even if it’s not made directly available to advertisers in targeting settings).
Yes. And "earth biscuit" loved kale is a #1 concentrator of cadmium as well - it's part of it's genome as a plant. You can't completely avoid these things.

Similarly radiation is unavoidable even if we never had discovered the bomb. And with the threat a magnet pole reversal, that could become a major thing for a few 100-1000 years.

What doesn't kill you makes you and yours stronger.

Also the first part of the article about "reducing salt" - it turns out the 1950s papers on the connection between salt and cardiovascular disease is so flawed as Design of Experiment and execution that it borders on fraud.

The origin cholesterol and cardio paper has the same flaws and probably should not be taken seriously. Correlation is not causation but BAD correlation due to fundamental study flaws certainly isn't.

Add to this the "linear thinking" usually used to justify treatments and habits to change, when metabolic systems are HIGHLY nonlinear and pretty much the entire medical profession deserves a FAIL.
> Modern air purifiers are basically silent in normal operation

Maybe on the lowest setting, but I doubt you'll actually have clean air on the lowest setting. Especially if you want to filter VOCs.
This trend never went fully away since the timesharing systems got introduced.

Mainframes, UNIX via telnet/X Windows, UNIX/Windows via Citrix/VNC/RDP, now we have Cloud via ssh/browser.
I've got a pi 400 in my workshop as a computer where I don't give a crap whether I short out something by plugging something ridiculous into it, or spill some random solvent all over it. I've already replaced it once because I did something stupid. I'm sure I'll do it again. When I'm not interfacing random hardware to it, it's a handy front-end for the octoprint instances I've got running my 3d printers.
I am becoming partial to the ancient Egyptian concrete, that they might have used to mold the pyramid blocks in situ.

It takes just limestone crumble, clay (which was already in their limestone), natron, and water.

It is a fair bet the precursors to the Inka who built with the really big blocks had that, or a similar trick. Local observers report the big blocks do not show embedded marine shells at the surface, unlike native limestone. (I have not had opportunity to verify this.)
It's only three examples (but Google will provide way more: https://live.staticflickr.com/7392/16171222650_b5b5e0ffc6_b....) , but in two of those the font of "ok" and "horn please" is different, suggesting that "horn ok please" is not the correct/intended interpretation, and that the Indian designers that started this trend were not big fan of Gestalt rules.
Ineresting!

The first line: "This demo requires a decent graphics card and up-to-date drivers." made me chuckle at the humbleness since I'm running this in Firefox on a 10 year old laptop. Buttery smooth (I'd say 60fps) at what seems full native resolution.

I guess it's the "up-to-date" drivers part (or rather, browsers playing along with existing drivers) that makes the difference.
Being old enough to have used thin terminals, they aren't insane, plenty of industries don't allow for local development.
I wonder if you could kind of engineer that. Develop a fast spreading but harmless variant.
In the Highway Code, letting someone know that you're there is the only proposed use for both beeping the horn and flashing your lights at another driver.
It works in Firefox on my a32
Setup a cloud gaming rig and max it out :D
“it doesn’t seem to make grammatical sense”

To people familiar with standard American and British English, perhaps, but it's written by Indian English speakers for an Indian audience. Perhaps it's not ungrammatical in that language variety?
Among the points missing under the "I can attribute this decline to various factors" section is IMO that Moz/FF have managed to alienate their original user base/plugin developers to become "more like Chrome". Maybe that's an unfair thing to say, but I guess it doesn't matter anymore anyway.
Indian driving is like ant colony, but it's humans.
"but our writing of numbers comes from Arabic"

Not India?
Envision VM (Part 3), Atoms and Data Storage
I always thought using apps (especially on ios) is more secure than browser. Why do you not use them?
ah, I see.

If you mean looking at the molecule's behaviour rather than the at molecule itself, we agree.

I didn't mean evolutionary biology but the evolution of the virus, it's adaption to the host and change over time.
> What is holding this technology back?

E-ink patents and monopoly due to those.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143407

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25538218
It works fine on my Samsung A8 using Firefox Nightly, but not on FireFox 68.
I believe graph theory is the next significant iteration of mathemathics. There are so many ways to efficiently encode data into a graph, yet out current mathemathical notation is poorly suited to grasp it.
What's wrong with using Chromium though? I understand most of the work being done on it is by Google, but do they control the direction of the project?
That's exactly why, free/open source enthusiasts are just the minority type to prefer freedom or privacy over convenience.
Be that as it may, I've used Webstorm and Intellij Ultimate with JS plugins and the experience was pretty much identical.
"cp -a" was definitely a huge boon to learning git. Fear-free experimentation is a wonderful thing.
In WebAssembly.sh (https://github.com/wasmerio/webassembly.sh) they run WASM binaries in a Web Worker and then use `SharedArrayBuffer` to block the WebWorker while the main thread does some work (e.g. collect input). You could use a similar solution.

When building Runno (https://runno.dev) I forked off that project and did a bunch of other things on top to get blocking to work in Safari and non-cross-origin-isolated contexts.

Ultimately I think it's JavaScript's (or whichever host language) responsibility to block when the binary calls out (if that is the expected semantics).
Let's then say that advertising has destroyed content altogether. But this is not so. Marketing supports any content and vice versa. There are many partner networks offering different types of verticals. For example, Smart Link https://traffcore.com/ with verticals offers access to exclusive trading platforms for daily cryptocurrency payments and lotteries. These include bitcoin wallets, crypto exchanges, cryptocurrency-related software, and much more!
How should I know wtf their product plan is?

Maybe they want to transition people from “pays x per month” for an IDE license to “pays per hour of usage” on Spaces as a payment model because it’s more granular which means more reliable billing? (Same as yearly -> monthly they did previously?

Maybe they have analytics that shows year-on-year decline in desktop IDE usage vs. hosted IDE usage and they want to be part of that market?

Maybe they want to gather a big base of free-tier users that they can up sell hosted plans to?

Why do you think they’re doing it? ‘Cause they’re a bunch of clueless idiots?

Come on, jetbrains is many things, and not all of them good, but clueless idiots they are not.

Fleet may end up being a failure because it is poorly executed, because it conflicts with the goals of other teams, or for product reasons (eg. turns out it’s $30/month).

…but it’s not a forgone conclusion at this point. Come on dude, give it the benefit of the doubt ffs.

Why would you cling to vscode and never try anything else, and critique anyone for even trying to make something similar, or maybe better?

That’s weird.
Eh, sometimes you just gotta do the needful.