skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not only PDF is up to the task, but this site doesn't show that web would be. In section "The quantum circuit model", look how 1/sqrt(2) looks (the 2 falls out of the sqrt sign). Then there is inline maths using the font "Noto Serif", which isn't suitable for writing formulas and makes it look really inconsistent when taken with the formulas which stand in their own lines. ℂ uses "Noto Serif" even in dedicated lines - the straight line with the rounded line couldn't be closer together. This font just isn't up to the task. It makes the formulas both less legible and ugly. Inconsistent spacing in "|0>" looks really off. A lot of inline formulas look as if they were about to fall off their lines. I don't get the use of sans-serif for section titles - default serif fonts in LaTeX make section titles both stand out and look like the belong in their surroundings --- this one doesn't have that effect. Hyphenation algorithm is also suboptimal. Look at the original PDF - at the same time there are fewer occurrences of hyphenation and the space between words in paragraphs is more evenly distributed. Also, the hyphens are easier to spot.

What PDF-s generated by LaTeX have, that so far web failed to replicate, is beautiful fonts for maths, consistency, legibility and overall beauty of the end result. They also have the advantage that they are self-contained, so if I want to archive one or move to another place, I just grab the single file and I'm done. With web a single document is distributed across many files and you need make a weird wget dance (which is easy to misuse)/install some obscure browser extensions/etc - not exactly user-friendly. Also, if you want to print the document to get away from the distraction of the computer, you're guaranteed to get at least as good a result as what you see on the screen.

Don't get me wrong. This attempt is better than any that I've seen so far. Kudos to the author for that. It's no small feat. But it doesn't prove that PDF-s are obsolete and that people favouring them are irrational.
The universe is a collection of chemical and physical reactions. Fairness is a value judgement that is sometimes passed from inside our heads over the rest of the universe.
Not exactly apples to apples. A $200k hardware device depreciates in value over time, whereas the taxi medallion was a fairly liquid, appreciating asset.
Appreciate the insightful comment. I also wonder why this is a Solana-developed product. Imagine if Ethereum launched EtherPay, or Bitcoin launched Bitcoin Pay. Seems strange to compete with your own developers like that. I'm not familiar with the details of Solana. Anyone more familiar with the project who can explain?
> zero reputation

That may be a charitable assessment.

> censor a peer reviewed medical journal

Is Facebook's content moderation actually censorship? Certainly the BMJ is still free to publish whatever it wants, as it always has.

What obligation (legal or otherwise) does Facebook have to permit content it doesn't approve of (for whatever reason) to be published on its platform?
Not every website supports Yubikey, and some only allow SMS.
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v86 also recompiles machine code to web assembly. The main difference is that v86 is a hobby project (of which I'm the original author, by the way), with much fewer contributors and no (known) commercial users, and is much less sophisticated than this project. On the other hand, v86 is open source, so you could make it sophisticated if you wanted to :-)

I'm not sure what exactly cheerps is used for; v86 is mostly used to demo operating systems (mostly hobby and vintage). We recently got SerenityOS to run: http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=serenity
According to top comment it loses money?

> Lost $890m this quarter compared to $1.2B Q4 2020
I want to do something similar, only...for UI frameworks...

So on the sidebar you have components...one is a sidebar right? so you click on it..on the right pane it shows implementations on the top of the pain is a dropdown so you can switch from say. MUI to AntD to Vuetify, etc... some are narrow scoped frameworks (Vuetify for example is only Vue), some are Wide... Tailwind Kit for example or Daisy UI... they target tailwind but are JS Framework agnostic...

So under each implementation of each component might be code for Rails, Laravel, Django, views and maybe even some sort of api integration where you can have a webhook that can either connect to your dev and push the code to the right places, OR it could put it in a queue if your local dev can't receive incoming normal http requests, you could just use a cron job or manually import the code from your localhost backend...

I'm imaging this sort of being like a mixture of low-code meets Storybook with already developed ui components, and you could even import full templates, etc... So for backend devs w/ an idea 90% of the UI stuff is just drag/drop etc.... you could even have a way to combine elements somehow so you can build up a whole page of elements...and some sort of marketplace where people could share designs and maybe charge like $1 for the code snippet MIT license, but access to the code is $1.

Edit: It'd also be cool to extend this to data-layer..so say I am designing my migrations/models... and I want an Employees table....well maybe I type in employees and it organically lists all the columns previous people have used for employees tables and ranks them by how often it was used... so you can basically have most of the data points that are pretty common across similar apps be shared and almost done for you...and then you can export to django, rails, prisma, hasura, laravel, etc...
Last I checked PostgreSQL still didn't do clustering as well as MariaDB. But sure, it is better with JSON data.
My fear is that car manufacturers will turn cars into a totally dealer serviceable only thing (even more than they are now), like the car version of the glued shut Microsoft surface that gets a 1/10 on the ifixit repairability score.
I agree strongly with your overall sentiment, but you're quite wrong on this:

> I think every reasonable person would answer that they would [run the red light in the middle of nowhere].

I tend not to do it. Not because I have some overinflated worship of the letter of the law, but simply because it doesn't matter to me. If I'm in a hurry, I'll probably blow through it, but by default, probably not.

Edit: I also agree that you're being downvoted simply because people disagree with you or your style. It's something I'm getting somewhat tired of on HN. I think they need some concrete guidance on what's acceptable to downvote and try to keep it as much to "rules violations" as possible, because it's increasingly being used as a disagreement flag lately, in my observation, which is just unhealthy.
You’d probably be trying to catch those in space. Predictable trajectory and no atmosphere.
Always sounded to me like Devo's "It's Not Right". https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mIteXTgqvIA
With Google, you can print a card with 10 single use backup codes. You can also register your land line phone number, they will call you and spell out the code.
It still comes down to that age-old management dilemma: "Do we take the faster, cheaper and easier road and 'buy built' which puts us at the mercy of our suppliers, or do we take the slower, more difficult and more expensive road and 'build it ourselves' which will allow us to compete with and even outsell our current suppliers?

When the suppliers are reliable, as with US semiconductor suppliers until the Trump administration policy of embargoing China occurred, Chinese manufacturers were perfectly happy buying hundreds of billions of dollars worth of 'buy-built' semiconductors from the US (which also went to balance out the US trade-deficit). So they didn't bother setting up their own fabs.

But now the Chinese are throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at their 'Chinese are behind in semiconductors' problem.

I predict that within very few years, very likely before 2030, the Chinese semiconductor industry will surpass and then destroy the US semiconductor industry. Just as has happened with many other US industries that no longer exist.
Well folks... It was good while it lasted. As the email functionality gets hobbled more and more, and as they introduce quotas on google drive attachments, it's becoming clear that it was all a plan to convert me into a paid subscrber. The fees will only go up as each new feature is introduced to reduce screen space on my vital emails... I've had enough.
Wouldn't an accelerometer be more suited for fall detection?
> If I give you cash and you take it to god knows where it can't be recovered either. If I give you money and let you leave with it then there is only so much any system can do.

But at least someone still has that money; it hasn't been destroyed.

What happened here is the equivalent of sticking notes of the wrong currency into a currency-exchanging ATM, and it shredded them. The system itself was a destructor of value. That doesn't happen in the regular old cash-cards-and-banking system.
Trivial and, presumably, illegal.
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You can’t and that’s why such a program is popular with politicians.

The bigger issue is with vacant properties being used as cash stores.
Definitely a luxury option for showing off at this point, as a status symbol, lots of people out there daily drive cars that don't have a bluebook value anywhere near $12k for the entire vehicle.
LIDAR does not work in bad weather, fog or heavy snow looks like an oncoming wall.
Although I do like typed languages, I agree that we should leave python alone. I think this trend of adding types to everything is harmful. Just use a different language if you like static types! You'll have a better experience anyway.
He takes care of the house.

A bridge troll finds a bridge and then starts extracting toll from everyone crossing it without providing any benefit.

A landlord is pretty close but not quite the same.

But landlordship leads to most humans being born on this Earth already indebted into serfdom to the ones “owning” the land.
I think this could be quite helpful, even if it wasn't too ambitious. Like, just make web clones of decent learning games, make sure they get published on a single reputable domain, and make it easy for people to contribute.

Like Number Munchers is a fine game. It's not a revolution in education or anything. But it would not be very hard to clone, publish, and make it easier to find and use than an archive.org emulator. Make it data driven and educators might want to contribute new tasks.

One game isn't much but if you put half a dozen together that could be a good start. In my experience kids are not as picky as people expect so long as you treat them decently.
At least Tesla are consistent - the self driving is dangerously unreliable under any weather condition :)
No, because the vast majority of the country doesn't look like the worst cities.

If I said "St Louis is a scary place. Violence and or the threat of violence reigns supreme. People are afraid to be outside at night. Every scalable wall is covered either with broken glass or razor wire." you'd rightfully call bullshit.
Every Node.js dev should be thanking the Deno creators. It has forced them off of their "this is how Node does it" complacency. Most improvements I notice and care about on Node these days are all things that Deno already supports (fetch, ES modules, async std lib uses promises, etc).

The Web Platform APIs aren't perfect, but they are better, and more thoroughly thought out than Node's.
We don't live in true democracies. Too many gullible people. Few politicians to vote for, the ones backed with hundreds of millions from rich people, who are the ones in charge at the end.
Echos of the first Uber ride ever. Exciting.
This could be relevant for UAV's, but this system would defend against missiles that are purely ballistic -- no electronics to fry.

I assume that even if you don't burn through a descending missile, merely deforming the nose cone can still cause it to go off course.
I think the second graph in this story is perhaps answering the 'wrong' question.
Yes the richest 20% received the most from these programs. But the top 20% usually receive the most. The rescue plan was not advertised as the dawn of a new era of redistribution. It was an expensive bandaid to try to stabilize a bad situation. It wasn't _trying_ to give more to the poor.

I think the right graph would compare rescue plan funds received by each income quantile against the actual income distribution. The better question it illustrates is roughly, was the inequality in the rescue plan funds distribution greater or less than the general income inequality?

In particular, if ordinarily roughly >50% of the income goes to the top 20% (I think that's true), and the graph in the article shows that maybe a bit less than 30% of the rescue plan funds went to the top 20% (>600B / 2.2T), then yes we should regard the rescue plan as benefitting the rich, but to a lesser degree than like, the whole rest of the economy.

If you want to complain about ways that we needlessly hand money to the rich, shouldn't we start with the ways which are most unequal? How about the fact that we distinguish capital gains from earned income? How about the mortgage interest deduction?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/203247/shares-of-househo...

https://www.brookings.edu/?simplechart=top-quintile-receives...

See fig 5
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/substantial-income...
If there are electronics, the sort of electronics that run inside missiles arent the sort to be boiled. Its a pretty harsh environment. And with unguided rockets, most of the stuff fired as isreal, there simply arent any electronics.
I'm in a volunteer role as CIO for a nonprofit focused on human trafficking, and we're building a new investigations and case-management platform using Svelte/TypeScript/SvelteStrap, Rust/Rocket, and Postgres (and likely Neo4j at some point) because the options out there are either poor or very expensive. Once we have something working and solid, we're going to open-source it and provide it to other groups in similar spaces.

This project is a great opportunity to learn or expand your skills if any of the stack is interesting to you - a big part of our goal is to help build up the technical skills of anyone who wants to dive in somewhere.

We've got a number of investigators on staff and are starting to get a decent feedback loop with them to iterate on what we're building.

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Simple python version which does a bit more validation (checks response matches query) and also supports CNAMEs and different record types (37 lines - using dnslib library) - though there is still a lot of logic missing (handling failed NSs, IPv6 only NSs, cycles etc)

from dnslib import DNSRecord,DNSError,QTYPE

ROOT_NS='198.41.0.4'

def find_cname(a,qtype,cname):
for r in a.rr:
if QTYPE[r.rtype] == qtype and r.rname == cname:
return str(r.rdata)
elif QTYPE[r.rtype] == 'CNAME' and r.rname == cname:
return find_cname(a,qtype,str(r.rdata))
return resolve(str(r.rdata),qtype,ROOT_NS)

def resolve(name,qtype='A',ns=ROOT_NS):
print(f"dig -r @{ns} {name} {qtype}")
q = DNSRecord.question(name,qtype)
a = DNSRecord.parse(q.send(ns))
if q.header.id != a.header.id:
raise DNSError('Response transaction id does not match query transaction id')
for r in a.rr:
if QTYPE[r.rtype] == qtype and r.rname == name:
return str(r.rdata)
elif QTYPE[r.rtype] == 'CNAME' and r.rname == name:
return find_cname(a,qtype,str(r.rdata))
for r in a.ar:
if QTYPE[r.rtype] == 'A':
return resolve(name,qtype,str(r.rdata))
for r in a.auth:
if QTYPE[r.rtype] == 'NS':
return resolve(name,qtype,resolve(str(r.rdata),'A',ROOT_NS))
raise ValueError("Cant resolve domain")

if __name__ == '__main__':
import sys
def get_arg(i,d):
try: return sys.argv[i]
except IndexError: return d
print(resolve(get_arg(1,"google.com"), get_arg(2,"A"), get_arg(3,ROOT_NS)))

Disclaimer: I am author of dnslib [https://github.com/paulc/dnslib]

Edit: Better CNAME support
I only spent couple days in NYC, but the experience was pretty awful: the city is crowded, it stinks, and is full of weirdos (for example some random girl I asked for directions turned out to be a prostitute, some guy started to yell at me for no reason, etc.). I also almost got killed by an SUV when trying to cross the street, and my hotel room turned out to be the size of an average walk-in closet.

But I guess NYC can grow on you in time?
I recently came across this while searching for some old discussions / retweets and found a tweet by someone who I know changed their handle; after clicking RT/QT/reply (don't remember) somewhere in the thread, I saw a form to reply to both their old and new handle.
But I'm not comparing it against the technology. I'm simply pointing out that Tesla __regularly__ crashes into balloon-children, to the point where a competitor literally used Tesla as a marketing-mule to show off how much progress they made.

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This entire marketing scheme that Luminar did only works because they 100% trust that the Tesla will run into that balloon child on a regular basis (!!!!). This is literally a live demonstration in a major convention center full of a live audience.

I don't have any idea how seeded or unfair Luminar's test is in favor of Luminar's hardware. I don't even trust that Luminar's hardware works (I don't know if they're faking their tech either).

But what I do trust, is for that Tesla to plow into that balloon over-and-over again on a reliable basis.

That's how far away Tesla is from "full self driving", or whatever the heck they want to call it.
Not so sure. The authorities are in charge of determining the bank reserve requirements. The fact that they allowed zero reserves at these institutions is troubling and deserves to be discussed. This is like the Free Banking Era, except back then the States were in charge of enforcing reserve requirements.

If you search online for the Fed's own explanation for these policies, they make some overconfident assertions about "ample reserves" and how their policy assumes there are now "ample" reserves, so they can just set the reserve requirements at zero. Seems to me some political doublespeak in order to provide the unprecedented level of Keynesian stimulus that was planned to be released.
Didn’t the government just write checks to people? Wasn’t a ton of that money also fraudulently stolen and sent overseas?
So happy to see someone paying attention to this.. my shakes come and go, better with meds, but laptop trackpads without separate buttons have been nearly unusable for me for years. Tap to click and drag to scroll are terrible ideas if you have the shakes.

All the various multi finger gestures? Pfft, I can do 2 fingers well enough to be recognised about 80% of the time, but that's still hugely frustrating, especially when the attempt ends up registing as a click because I twitched.

I have only bought Lenovo and some dell latitude laptops for years because of this, because they're they only ones that consistently have separate buttons.
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> Also terrible for the environment

Solana published a report on the energy usage of their blockchain:

https://solana.com/news/solana-energy-usage-report-november-...

"By the end of 2021, the Foundation plans to introduce a program to help make Solana’s validator network carbon neutral and offset the footprint of the ecosystem."

Does anyone know if they've accomplished this yet since the report states by the end of 2021?
Sensor cost is a lame excuse, especially coming from a company that's one of the leaders of EV world. Battery prices are decreasing, but sensors wouldn't?

Tesla put constrain on themselves, because they wanted to sell product years before they existed, and they were super cheap on HW, to optimize their costs.

They optimized their solution, before they even had a slightest idea what's needed to make it work.
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One question I have- recently some states (notably Colorado, California, Connecticut) have required job postings to specify the salary range. Is this something recruiters are required to provide via contact over email/Linkedin message?

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/12/states-and-cities-where-empl...
The different between:
1. Your computer must be able to connect to a Microsoft server
2. Your computer is going to be actively installing an update, and possible unusable

Is very much meaningful
> Even cheaper: don't have computer driven transit, but human driven transit

Cheaper on what time frame? Obviously the upfront R&D costs start out as more expensive, but the marginal cost goes toward 0 while human cost is flat/increases.

Also cheaper isn't the only axis, safety is a big reason to invest in not having humans drive.