skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a good usecase for an online API. To the extent that those PDFs could include sensitive information, there's a huge security/privacy headache there, with no real benefit when compared to performing these functions offline. It also seems to me a lot more expensive than alternative ways of doing the same thing.
> scams and frauds - such as fake adverts - should be covered

Very happy to see this. It balances out the bad parts of the bill IMO.
This is just obviously not true. Sure, there are people that sleep in their car and could probably use somewhere to stay. However the visible majority of homeless in California, let’s say the “dramatic” homeless, are absolutely not just a house away from normalcy.

Tale as old as time, California charters a hotel to house the homeless and it turns into a drug orgy smearing shit on the walls paradise.

Yeah yeah, the only difference between the aggressive homeless person screaming and smashing water bottles against plate glass store windows and me is that I have a roof over my head. Look around and give me a break with that nonsense.
Xdm – Powerfull download accelerator and video downloader
UK space firm Skyrora opens rocket testing site in Scotland
Thanks for your feedback! I see input sanitation as a double-edged sword: it could potentially prevent some misuse of the service (since it's 100% anonymous), but then ultimately you're the "owner" of your keys (though they're in reality public) and you should be able to write whatever you want in them.

I guess this argument could also be applied to Pastebin? Should it be returning raw HTML if asked to?
How the Apple Magic Mouse charges is the least of its design issues
I don't know The Kingiller Chronicles so I'm not going to comment on that, but I don't think you can call A Song of Ice and Fire a masterpiece until you see it's ending. A lot of the quality is in the intricate plots it implies, but it has yet to resolve the vast majority of them, and if it falls flat, a lot of the majesty of what was started will turn put to have been smoke and mirrors.

This is what the Game of Thrones TV show proved: overall the show should not be considered a masterpiece, even though the early seasons seemed good at the time, since the stories they were telling mostly led nowhere. Sure, it had its excellent moments, but that's about it - overall, it was a show about the good guys winning easily, women being irrational and just kinda forgetting, armies fighting without consequences, and so on. The fact that the early seasons made you think it would be a different story was proven an illusion by the end.
> Maybe they could both hire Brandon Sanderson to finish their works someday.

At that point the world has need of another writer on stand-by in case Sanderson's prematurely awoken from the dream.
This is Hacker News, at least build an app to track these or something...
You mean like maybe dreams that actually came true?
So all we need is the First Lady leading a “Just Say No” campaign since that worked so well fighting “peer pressure” about drug use.

There has always been peer pressure and parents have mostly loss that battle. Even with government intervention.
Sure, but that is not a worry I have when I launch Neovim.
Sanderson is on record as saying he wouldn't be able to finish Martin's work. Plus, Sanderson just had a $25 million kickstarter, he's at the point now where finishing others work would frankly be a waste of his time.
Maybe she didn't have any kind of health insurance in any country except the one she was traveling to. So when the doctors told her she could endure the rest of the flight, she chose to do so instead of going bankrupt by the medical fees. It would be also insteresting to know if she hid her injuries before boarding for the same reason.
> hand-wavy for the solutions

This is Fowler (and Uncle Bob's) stock in trade tbh.

Generic good advice that sounds plausible in a sane world.

Without ever acknowledging that we actually don't live in that world.
Would work if you want to publish the pdf anyway.
Sorry for the naive question but is it likely that the EU members will do nothing if Finland, a member of the EU, is under attack?

If Germany decides to engage, it will most likely be in consultation with the US, right?
Both GRRM and Rothfuss are great beginners of stories, but neither has shown the ability to end a big story. It’s sad.

While they don’t “owe” us anything, not finishing shows a certain contempt for the fans.
LibreOffice Draw edits PDFs pretty well.
That's a great point. For folks that have strong privacy needs, we do have an on-premise product that provides the same functionality [1].

[1] https://pspdfkit.com/server/processor/
Well I came across someone that can read minds, I still have no idea how she did it and nobody believes that my story is true.
i'm experiencing life day afrer day, does that count as unexplained?
Read about how we analysed our 4 Day Week that was temporarily implemented in our business last summer
Sure, if by native you mean “not using the web”, but my understanding is that Druid, much like flutter, uses a canvas like renderer underneath and doesn’t use platform widgets. The fact that lapce’s ui - like its file picker - looks nothing like a Mac app is flat out obvious and makes me less inclined to bother.
Improving gender balance in academia, a computer scientist’s suggestion (part 2)
So, what should I use instead? I want to start working with huge C codebases.
I want a tool that is open source.
What is a genius? Not doubting the extent to which teaching practices are related to producing "geniuses", I think an issue with the topic is also framing (and therefore identifying) what defines a "genius". Taking into account the examples mentioned in the article, they all come from (understandably) "classical" (and broad) categories. I'd wager that there are more geniuses out there in the world, being that the landscape is much greater as there are far more niches to dive into. In my opinion the larger problem and why there's a decline in the "classical" genius is that it's being applied to a completely different frame, which are the present times. The definition of genius needs different criteria in order to make sense in today's world.
Current work location gives developers Mac's. Something about the data scientists preferring Python which works significantly better on Mac's than Windows.

I would disagree that WSL2 is a clear choice. That would mean using Windows, which is a trainwreck of a UI, and gets less consistent with each release. Has Windows 11 fixed multi-desktops yet?

I personally find using Linux, with Gnome, so much more pleasant than either Windows or Mac. Much more consistent and without the arbitrary restrictions.
Do you have any plan in your roadmap to support different languages in the OCR feature? I'm specifically interested in recognize and processing PDF files written in Japanese and Korean.

I am also dealing with some clients that are struggling with processing handwriting in their document, but I guess it will be a little far fetched.
It was more about AT&T monopoly I believe :)
It's funny, because I think I have pretty much the opposite expectation.

When I encounter a new open source project it means that I can make it better by providing pull requests with new features, or fixing bugs. And then everyone benefits. If they choose to listen to me that's fine, but that's the icing on the cake, not the main course.
> Definitions of these legal harms will be set out in additional legislation

Great, that only mocks criticism against policies like that with concerns of over-blocking. Legal insecurity makes that much worse of course. So I guess the hints were ignored completely.

> Some argued a crackdown on the use of anonymous accounts should have been included in the bill.

At least that isn't included. These are old men yelling at the cloud but while most prominent operators of clouds want to know as much as possible about people. So privacy and users are under attack from two opposing fronts here. I argue for a crackdown on the speech of people that make such suggestions.

> porn

Another attempt to ban pornography from the internet.... we are at a point where we cannot allow technically illiterate people to craft laws for online spaces. The reality is that consumption will move to different platforms in the case the most prominent platforms get banned. Age verification will lead to the same behavior.

> Others argued the bill was unlikely to live up to expectations.

Hopefully in this case.
> Why are there no open-source printers?

I don't know. But I think it's a fine idea. Pick a print head that's easily available as an aftermarket replacement part, and the rest of the bits can be scrounged from 3D printer suppliers.

I abandoned the whole inkjet thing for the same reason most people do - dried-up print heads and refill hassles. After looking at my options for lasers, I got the next best thing to an open-source laser - a 20th-century HP Laserjet "milk crate". The supply of new and used repair parts is plentiful, toner cartridges are about as cheap as they get, native drivers are available for most operating systems, and detailed factory service manuals are available if you want them.
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The pricing may need to have a revisit! Enterprises would probably be the most keen and also find better alternatives for the cost.
Wow so if I’m reading this they charge about $1 USD per “document”?

I’ve been looking for an easy OCR solution considering I have about 10,000 one-page documents a month (invoices). For comparison, Amazon textract is ~$0.05/pg for key-value pairs, but it involves more programming to set up.
Well, even if he never finishes, the red wedding still a better love story than twilight, I guess ;)

As an absolute fan of ASoIaF, The Kingkiller Chronicles and The Gentleman Bastard I can say:

I am waiting for Winds of Winter for over 10 years now... I would be full of joy if it really came out, but I also see that George doesn't owe me anything.

I paid the existing books, knowing the series wasn't finished and still I ate right through them.

It's a bit like with open source, really.
Some people expect you to deliver again and again if they donate (!) to your work.
What's needed is more focus on building a healthy society and teaching people how to have balance in their lives, but that seems to be in direct conflict with mindless consumerism.

We can't have it both ways, and I suspect nothing much will change.
`column` is nice, but fails on empty cells and cells with escapes or quotes
The HBO show was amazing, for at least 4 seasons and maybe as many as 6 seasons. My working assumption is that the fan reaction to the HBO ending has sent GRRM back to the drawing board on many storylines and thus he will require more time to finish. He’s 73… fingers crossed.
Terraform-AWS-modules/Terraform-AWS-eks transitions to non-free license
The 90's sure were great, I miss voting for Bill! But those days are long over, and most partisans today seem brutally disappointed in Biden because he's only spent $1 trillion instead of $3 or $4.
Not sure if it includes everything you've mentioned - but for iPad I found GoCoEdit to be about as "killer app" as it could get for an ipad code editor. I mean it blew me away. Not the developer, not associated with the dev or company - I just truly think its a wonderful editor.
They bought the books with the illusion they might someday read the ending.

A lot of them wouldn't have bought the books if they knew there will never be a conclusion.
Very valid concern around privacy. We don't store the documents (see https://pspdfkit.com/api/privacy/), but for people that have sensitive documents to process, we offer an on-prem product, see https://pspdfkit.com/api/documentation/deployment-options/. You can run it in your own infra and it doesn't report any telemetry to us, so information remains completely private.
No, his readers paid and followed him to hear a story. Of course he doesn't literally, in a legal sense, owe anything to them. And of course they are not entitled to harass him in any way.

But they are entitled to feel cheated, and loudly proclaim that they were cheated. Especially with a story as full of intrigue as A Song of Ice and Fire.

By comparison, fans of Agatha Christie's work would not have any entitlement to complain if she stopped after three novels, as those novels were complete works in and of themselves. But they would have every reason to complain if she published the first half of And Then There Were None, but never published the ending.
I don't know how it's doing but that's cherry picking.

We have a ton of bans for a ton of stuff in a ton of countries and they seem to work.

The burden on proof is on you to prove they're all wrong.
You’re right, there was so much feature asymmetry we couldn’t justify sticking around - we would have lost any valuable insights into user behaviour. Firebase analytics just seemed like a ‘made for ads and influencers’ analytics tool. What a monumental cockup by the team that decided that it was important to lose that pool of users. Because of that shift we actively avoided making any choices re any of the other Google cloud or firebase tools.

There’s heaps of good ones around now - our shift to amplitude was a good one but I know there are a lot of other really simple and free ones about too
But if the phone network decides to change how connections are made you decide not to update your phone, it won't work. 1G is deprecated. 2G has 11 years left in it in the UK. If you don't get your car serviced; it will cease to work and servicing will require updates. In most modern cars you are beholden to specialist knowledge to do that.

I agree with your trust issue but I think we already trust technology companies for many parts of our lives.
I wish instead of just counting tax it would e.g. add rent, too. Living in a big city your salary can look much more impressive than if you look at disposable income.
My parents worked their ass off but they still cooked dinner. With actual vegetables. Remember those? And we weren't rich or anything.

Funny thing is that parents are the boss in the house. No coca cola we drink water in this household and that's final.
Community first is a wonderful initiative. Everyone always comes up with grandiose solutions to many world problems but it’s amazing how “community” is usually a good fix for many issues.
Yup, he is a machine and I love some of his works, while others I find mediocre at best.
It's the same as with all the other "machines" out there, really. Some very good books, many mediocre, some even outright bad.

All my subjective taste of course.

But you're right, one can trust him that he finishes and that has its merits too.
First job. Joined a large multinational in the late 90s. Every new hire was given about $20k of in the money options right away. Option buy price at $20, share price at around $40.

Within a year the SEC was investigating the top bosses. Stock price collapsed more than half. Options worth nothing. New management decided to restrike the price of the options for of many of my coworkers, erasing most of their loses. But mine were outside the magic period of time ://
Doesn’t every single bad law trying to regulate media whether it be to ban rap music because four guys in LA release an album with “F%^%* the Police” on it or because a video game “induces violence” start with “think about the children”?

You are free as a parent to try to shelter your children from harm.
If there is no account required, then why have not provide the same functionality on the website itself... as a webapp? Why would a phone be required for this?
Being murdered in my province requires some effort, last homicide in my city was ~40 years ago. That murder was so unexpected that it had repercussions that are still in place today
Is she a plastic surgeon or something? What's her number?
Supporting modal editing like vim is a huge plus for me. As far as personal projects go this is amazing. Kudos.
Rothfuss is a special case as he, or at least his publisher claimed that the next two books were already written and only needed to be edited. That was one of the reasons I bought the first book early before any later books were released. Starting an unfinished series is always a gamble, I generally don't mind it but I'm also okay with not always getting a satisfying conclusion, or any conclusion at all. But I don't appreciate being lied to about the state of the later books like this.

For larger series with more than 2-3 planned books I would generally be wary now, and the only one of that kind I'm reading is Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson who has a very solid track record of delivering on his promises.

This doesn't justify the vitriol these two authors receive at times. But it is certainly valid to be disappointed in them. It has also lowered by opinion about their writing, as in both cases it has made it clear that they wrote themselves into a corner, and that some of the most intriguing parts of the early books probably have no substance at all and were mere illusions.
I understand the issue of trust. I think my point still stands. You don't really own it unless you're doing the kernel fixes yourself.
Why is it worth mentioning over a discussion on article about Microsoft, energy efficiency and data centres?
And there is a stack trace. Worlds apart.
Amazingly fast on ARM Macbook Pro. Love the idea of remote editing.

Keep up the good work and post again when it's a bit more mature.
In construction, it’s “never put your hand where you wouldn’t put your dick”.
I agree that's the only sustainable way of protecting kids.

But it requires a radical shift in society and culture. Parents need to spend a LOT more time with their kids. Specially mothers.

Some people will disagree and even downvote - I presume for ideological reasons - but I have the opinion that, for < 5 years-old children, spending time with the mother is more important than the father. So women should have a special safety net to dedicate more to their kids without worrying about their finances and career prospects. Men should also be taught since childhood to provide security to women.

I know, I know, lots of different types of families nowadays. I just don't know how they work, I only know "Mother, Father and children" families... Sorry, limitations of my personal experience.
Sure he could, but his "mistake" was to act in good faith. He reported to his own employer to gain points inside his company. He's showing everybody how smart and competent he is. Maybe he will get a promotion.

Moral lesson: your employer isn't your friend. They will throw you under a bus in a blink. Always cover your a*.
Public education is too broad of a definition. People treat public schools as all being equal.

There is a vast difference in level of education depending on where you live.

Things like etiquette, business and investing are taught in schools, all depends on which public schools you go to.
OpenConfig: Vendor-neutral, model-driven network management designed by users
> not finishing shows a certain contempt for the fans

I think this is a case where Hanlon's Razor applies—why would you assume it's an act of contempt, instead of something simple like "finishing the stories is really hard, and they don't know how"?
you have every right to feel cheated that someone told you half a story and then never finished it.

Yet this isn't what happened. He was working on it, and people were complaining that he was doing other things.

EG "You, like, totally went to the movies, and the next book isn't done??!" kind of posts and emails to him.

His creative process is his, and his alone. Doing "other stuff", does not mean his mind isn't thinking of what to write, or where to go with the plot.

Thus, in as at that point he never said "no new book", all upset emails were literally nagging him, and complaining that he should do nothing but write.

Really, the very essence of a micro manager, solely looking a lines of code as proof of work done, yet Martin isn't even in their employ!
There has been a rust-library for signal in the works. I read some discussion on it that made it clear the aim was to develop a proper signal-desktop application. The rust-library has a cli, which is not quite finished.
https://github.com/whisperfish/presage
I'm going to guess you are typical college student age 18-22ish so I will throw out an opinion from someone double that age that you don't have a lot of experience yet to know what problems need solving. I would suggest sticking with things that are of interest to you. Or in web dev circles there are typical projects people use to demonstrate a language/framework: the to-do/task list and a blog.

Idea list:

- write a blog about writing a blog software, see its recursive kinda. You can't start out hosting this blog on your own software because your blog platform doesn't exist yet.

- write a to-do/task list in each cool language/framework that was interesting to you. This could also apply to non-web languages - write one for mobile, on Windows/Mac, etc.

- write software to track a scrum project, story points/estimates, burn down chart, velocity, etc. As much hate as Scrum gets, there are solid project mgmt principles in there and if you are learning this in school (or another PM framework) then writing software for it might help solidify what you learn

- You could actually write a blog about your journey doing these things in your native language. A lot of the "tech" world's new stuff comes out of the US and the majority of people on Earth are non-English speakers. Reading thru translated API docs is probably not the best way to learn.
False choice. I don't know people who are "all ads are bad". It's "spyware enabling ads are bad" and "ads are too large/frequent/auto playing video/in your face" with a side of "stop eating my cycles and bandwidth".

If companies just put up ads relevant to article as a static image that took up a reasonable amount of space and scrolled with the rest of the content, people wouldn't complain.
Encrypted in flight?
How has government regulating tobacco and alcohol worked out ?

You remember that whole “Prohibition” thing don’t you?
Shares 2: The return of the dividends
You know, I’m sure I don’t recall the text exactly… it was a New Yorker cartoon that I just can’t seem to dig up. C’est la vie!
I joke around that my “best” traffic days are when my website is broken and users keep reloading the page to see if it is fixed.
I think 'safe'
> my take is that Microsoft looked at Java and decided they needed a Java-like language like so they made C#.

Nope, they already had their own version of Java, J++, which is where Windows Forms was initially born, alongside their extensions like what would become P/Invoke in C#.

J++ was going to be the main language for Ext-VOS, the project that would eventually be known as .NET.

Then the lawsuit happened, COOL was born and eventually rebranded as C#.

Quite easy to know how C# happened when reading HOPL papers about its history.

In this regard, Microsoft was less lucky with the lawsuit than Google with their Android Java.
>I agree with the sentiment... but it's still a shitty thing to do

Well no, clearly you don't agree with the sentiment. Maybe you wish you did.

There can be many reasons why an author never completes a work. Creative writing isn't something you can just turn on like a tap. I'm sure George could just sit and write a few hundred thousand words, get an editor to knock it into shape, slap it on shelves and call the job done, but that's not how he works.

The material he writs is extremely complex, with many characters and different locations, has many influences that he draw on and needs to keep in his head, and with each new book it gets more and more complex. Also, he's not getting any younger. As a writer ages, it gets harder and harder to maintain the same level of output, at the same quality. He seems very keen and motivated to finish the work. Let's hope.