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Articles from arXiv.org as responsive HTML5 web pages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30835784 - March 2022 (8 comments)
Among other things I've done I've been an artist/printmaker for a few decades. Can't say how many prints I've made. Always great when work sells, but it's not a predictable event at least in my experience. Very few artists sell enough to earn a living let alone become rich or famous. Most need to have "day jobs", teaching is a common occupation. Of course that's been true for a long time.

Despite these realities more people regard themselves as "artists" than ever before. Amazes me how many people enroll in art schools at $40K/yr. Student loans have to be paid off later on, from a hard financial viewpoint it doesn't pencil out. Yet year after year no shortage of people sign up, level of talent notwithstanding.

You're probably right. What you observe is an expression of form over substance. Maybe it's a "cargo cult" sort of thing where people think wrapping themselves in the trappings of "creatives" is the same as being genuinely creative.

The demise of hobbies probably speaks to denigrated value of "work", that is, expending effort to reach goals. I can tell you that printmaking is 5% design, color, etc., and 95% painstaking physical and cognitive labor, in short, it's work. OTOH looking for shortcuts eventually fails, and failure is followed by yet another round of seeking shortcuts.

Here's my prediction, sooner or later the "shortcut culture" burns itself out, though I won't place any bets on when that will happen.
Russia and Putin should and will die for what's it worth. However my opinion has always been of cowardice: There is nothing more valuable than human life. There is no "courage" in fighting an idiotic war especially since all russia wanted was nato out and more especially since ukraine and russia are almost the same people. Holding on to donbas and similar russian territories have absolutely zero value.

End the suffering, agree to what Russia wants, get NATO out and end the war. Zelenksy is a master actor and he played the role well. It's time he stopped crying on global platform 24x7 and drag the rest of the world into his war.
Just wondering, but how doe these clients exist? Wouldn't DD send a cease and desist or simple modify their API to disable it? Or are the leaning on how ppl don't want to update clients so DropBox actually can't make breaking API changes?
There are a lot of negative things that one can imply about America, so I'm surprised that you reached for 'boring'. I don't even know what source to cite, but it seems self-evident that Americans care passionately about causes besides economic efficiency, for better or worse.

Trying to find some objective ground for discussion, I'll take the bait on your specific analogy: Americans are spending progressively less time in shopping malls[1] and the military[2].

[1] https://www.jeremykisner.com/shopping-malls-will-they-become...
[2] https://www.newsmax.com/us/army-recruitment-reduction-milita...
Yeah, for some reason the buy button is in the highlighted state on the home page, so you think you are already there.
I do not live in or near a tech hub.
Congrats on the launch. Ah, I hate to be negative, especially to brave and brilliant people. And the following can be wrong or you may find a crack anyway.

I wil try to convey that you may be on for a way more difficult battle than you may have thought. The AI-tech Google has it. Now about the ad-tech. Well it is only half the story. There is another tech at play here and, please be seated, because this is bad. The other tech is KYC. Yes, Know Your Customer. The beach-head market of KYC was the financial sector for regulating money laundering and terrorism. But it is way more powerful than we all thought at first, which is why I call it a tech. KYC is the weapon which has regulated the web. The powerful aspect of it is that it's recursive: if you are KYC-ed, then you have to KYC yourself. So it starts from a bank account and goes all the way down to Google search results: because Google has to collaborate on KYC on its scale, it tries to give you KYCed results. And the websites with ads are KYCed.

How exactly is that your problem? I simply believe that once you take KYC into account, Google search results will be terribly difficult to beat. You have to turn the web into something it isnt anymore (or go niche).

The web is not the free area it once was, it is now a perfectly regulated shopping maul, and unless KYC goes away or gets limited, there is nothing we can do about it.

Now you are smart people, please pause and contemplate the depth and reach of what you just read. Also good luck.
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It’s literally two straightforward google searches. Search “university entrance GPA admissions USA” has a top result that shows that Ivy League admissions have weighted GPAs above 4.0. Searching “course offerings poor us high schools” shows some high schools only offer courses where 4.0 is the top GPA.
Fine, this feels needlessly pedantic but let me correct myself.

Good enforcement is impossible without subjecting anybody trading stocks and everybody they know to a completely unprecedented level of surveillance. This would have to go far beyond the wildest Snowden revelations.

Perhaps not completely impossible in theory, but absolutely infeasible in practice. Building such a system would also be likely to result in far greater chilling effects on the markets than insider trading ever could.
UN Bans Mercury Satellite Propellants Under New Minamata Treaty Provisions
45 milli-newtons per watt?

If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Lol this poor sap actually thinks the UN matters. Does he not know about the past 70 years?
This was one of my favorite games as a kid. I don't even want to think about how many hours I put into it.
It's not 1998 anymore is the thing. It's obviously better to have positive cash flow but unless you come up with something that is that huge of a hit, in a market where people both understand your product, but also there aren't entrenched competitors to squash you, there's a lot of hard work to get to a place where your product is worth something your customers. Which is expensive, in both time and money. Both of which OP didn't have enough of.
I'd be curious about the overhead if the browser was running in kernel space. This would be surprisingly secure since browsers provide some of the most hardened sandboxing out there.

Obligatory: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
But in Steve's case, only by nature (on his father's side), not by nurture.
That's a fuckin' terrible joke -- or it's a good joke, not yet finished! Let's continue:

Upon being asked, the prostitute laughs in their faces. "Either you two don't know how to fuck, or I don't know how to shit!"
You might enjoy Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, although it's pretty shallow in most areas, you can configure the position and composition of your army's units and then watch the battle play out in real-time.
This is the best outcome but then you don't get "prestigious" schools of the elite. I went to a public university and I'm much better off for it than my MIT peers.
Yeah, it remains to be shown. They definitely had some criteria to believe it'd be successful though. The criteria they were aiming for could have been any or all of the following: getting more Apple TV+ subscribers, sustaining existing subscribers, having that specific movie get more views, and/or building up a good library of content
She wasn't inside at the time; as stated, she was in several plastic bags at the bottom of Køge Bay.
yes, true geniuses are a rare breed and a university gets more benefit from admitting a true genius than vice versa (Did harvard get more out of bill gates or bill gates out of harvard? I would argue Harvard got way more out of that exchange). But for the plethora of above average, hard workers going to a top school is still a pretty good deal.
Not usually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC is a bit more common, or if they are using an approximation, some form of min-max rational function approximation.
Leverage, as a principle, is so important. I always try to keep the 80/20 rule in mind. But perhaps most simply put, if you're working harder and harder and not seeing results, then you're probably focusing on the wrong things. There's a natural up-and-down to projects where you'll feel like things are going great, then terrible, then ok... But then there's times where it doesn't matter how much effort you put in, that boulder just isn't gonna budge. It's vital to step back and figure out whether your efforts should be refocused. Otherwise, it's a recipe for burnout.
Larger chips (like SoC/Application Processors) certainly have multiple such buses for bandwidth & separation-of-concerns (ie security-related stuff like bootrom vs touchscreen controller) reasons, but I think we're far, far away from accepting the cost of extra pins just to accomodate software concerns.
Fantastic. I suggest an RSS feed, so that I (for one) will know when new material is added.
Interesting, I assumed it'd be the case, but I didn't know that for sure
Quite tractable actually. Take a look at the Andi Search post that is on the front page right now. They say they are using several natural language models for snippet selection, question answering, and probably a few other things. These tasks are exactly the ones that we had done manually in this exercise to generate the reports.
This isn't really all that new, running macOS on non-Apple hardware has been done, including virtualisation. It also is pretty much the default way to do it unless for whatever reason you need to run it locally (i.e. if you don't have a server or if you need local hardware access).

At first I thought this as a 10 year old article, but it appears it really was a re-discovery of the same thing you do with KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, ESXi, VirtualBox etc. for years now.
But if you're selling a drug, aren't you going to rely on just the studies that show the efficacy of your product? If your drug _isn't_ the best according to the meta-analyses, this tool is of no help to you. And even if your drug _is_ the best according to the meta-analyses, that's because there are already multiple studies that show how good your drug is, and you can overstate your product's value by throwing out the rest of the studies.
That's not what that says. Autonegotiation (ab)uses the 10BaseT link pulses to communicate, but that data rate is 1Mbps.

You could use the link pulses, but skip 10M support and leave out the 10M data encoding/decoding. Most likely, it's not a meaningful cost savings, although I've seen some devices that work at 10M, but don't turn on a link led.
The cost of doing something safely isn't distinct from "intrinsic costs". If you kill everyone in the county, maybe that's an acceptable risk and statistically, you are right. But you are also dead, and the reactor isn't running (or: is running decentralized, in the cloud).

The idea that some safety costs are entirely frivolous, obviously so, with no serious argument against that notion, just doesn't strike me as believable. Yes, government projects (and private industry projects) tend to run over budgets. The saying is "work expands to meet the budget provided", but that's intended to be cynical snark, not descriptive of reality. There are plenty of governments that care less for safety than the nations of the global north, yet they haven't found this holy sweet spot of safe efficiency, as far as I can tell.
The incentives in healthcare aren't prioritizing healthcare. It's a systemwide problem.
> Personal experience has taught me that there is a MAXIMUM amount of COMP that you will receive as an employee, no matter how much hard work you put into your company.

Sure, but putting more craft and care and study in your tasks benefits you a lot too.

e.g. I have spent two weeks on an airbnb-like image gallery, could've completed the task in four days, used the time to become black belt in images in the browser, which makes ME a considerably better and more prepared professional. The way I see it I'm getting paid for educating and specializing myself. AND it benefits my current employer and our customers.

Meanwhile my colleagues rush into the next task don't rip any of these benefits.
Unless the field is small with very inelastic supply demand curves it won't change much for a small percentage of workers to leave. The forces that got those that would leave the position in the first place often still exist. People will train for a role, even a bad one if it puts food on the table.
Hi, ar5iv creator here. Just to jot down that:

1. This was first reported to HN 55 days ago, discussion is here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30163308

2. There is an official arXiv blog announcement with a little bit of extra details here:
https://blog.arxiv.org/2022/02/21/arxiv-articles-as-responsi...

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When I first commented on HN, I mentioned that I really hoped we can find a way for arXiv to officially endorse the project and adopt it, so that we solve the copyright issues and get on a healthy path to full integration with the service. That happened a month ago! More healthy work ahead.

Thanks to everyone on HN for the feedback so far. If/when you see broken renderings (still plenty of examples) do comment with the article link, or (even better) use the "report an issue" button at the bottom of each document page. Cheers!
> Most insider traders are never caught

Executing an inside trade profitably and secretly is difficult. Catching it ex post facto is easy. (The SEC scans for unusually profitable trades and accounts. These systems are thorough, clever and effective. When they're updated, they re-run back data through the statute of limitations.) This is the P != NP element of insider trading that outsiders miss.

It's why inside traders are usually unsophisticated. They assume Wall Street is doing it. That they're getting the short end of the stick. So they run out and buy out of the money calls or whatever through their nephew's account and get nailed.
im saying they probably use it in the internal slack channel assuming it would be less likely to be caught than if they used english
So someone who plays drums in band or throws an egg shaped “ball” (or worse, hits themselves in the head like rams) is contributing to the society than someone who focuses on tests?

I’m not even on the side of the Asian families that force their children to study and study alone, but your comment seems to suggest that somehow they don’t have the right to (or are abusing a system). Sounds a bit prejudiced. In the end families which want their kids to “look successful” will make them do whatever is needed, and merely focusing on studies is just one flavor. Look at the Tiger mom bs about Carnegie Hall or Yale law. But at the least they are fully American in their right to do so, and I’d rather have more of them than broken families with kids not even being taken care of.
TFA is basically one big spoiler for the game. Admittedly I'd probably never have actually played it but it's still annoying on principle.
Sure but Pelosi, Feinstein etc etc are so very very clever they'd have become multi-millionaires by them & their partners investing in the market if they didn't regulate those companies. /s
I tried a fairly obscure and technical query, "what's a Finite State Entropy Encoder?" and it came up with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7040951 which is about "Finite State Entropy - A new breed of entropy coder" http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2013/12/finite-state-ent...
Neither google nor DDG found that. Pretty neat. :)
The scarcity isn't artificial, I don't think. There are limits on how many people a given faculty can teach, beyond which teaching becomes much less effective. People with reject letters are probably not significantly less deserving, but there's no fair non-competitive means to decide who gets a go, IMO. The competition could certainly be fairer, as with most things.

If your main point is that less prestigious schools can potentially deliver on education just as well, and the main difference becomes the marketability of the degree and superficial status, well... I agree.
Seriously, is there no talk about how unfair the notion of extra-curricular activities is in the US? It is one of these things that gave me a major culture shock moving into the US. Things like giving an advantage to people that have so many hours of volunteer work feels a really blatant way to give an unfair advantage to folks that are already way privileged and over represented.
How do these things do GPS tracking from under a car seat? Wouldn't the seat frame and car body basically block the device from acquiring satellites?
I have programmed Go for around 8 years now. This is not a problem in practice.

I am familiar with Haskell. I know the gospel of sum types. But I don't think it's good engineering to force an inferior solution in to solve a problem I don't have.

There are times when it solves problems. It is sort of ironic that as this conversation was occurring here on HN, I was programming with a sum type at work and doing a lot of type switches today. But it was solving a problem for me. Either/Result doesn't solve a problem I have in Go.

The vast majority of time a person bashes a sum type into Go, they should be using polymorphism instead of switches.

It is a well-known error to try to use a functional programming language as an OO language. It is the exact same error to use an OO language as if it's a functional language. One may be more in line with the zeitgeist, but that just makes it more popular, not a better idea. It's just as silly and just as gauche as the guy who runs to a Haskell community to complain about how they can't figure out how to implement inheritance in a nice way.
This is a great client but I’ll add the no Smart Sync caveat. It’s funny, five or six years ago, that wasn’t a deal breaker (selective sync was all I needed), but it increasingly is now. I preferred this until Dropbox got an Apple Silicon client, but I think I’m too dependent on Smart Sync to use this as my primary client on primary machines. On secondary machines where I don’t need to access stuff as often, it’s great.
To counteract fluctuating loads, you do not need a "stable base load". You need generation power that happily fluctuates at just about the same rate as the renewables do, but on command. That is not nuclear power, it is (currently) natural gas.
Is that legal? Its one thing to have a tracker installed and bury the notification in the terms and conditions, it's another entirely to charge someone to remove the tracker and then track them surreptitiously with it. At very least I feel like they owe you $250 for services not rendered.
The issue with this comment and opponents of standardized testing more generally is that they compare standardized tests against some purely theoretical ideal metric that perfectly captures "merit," however it's defined.

The reality is that standardized testing doesn't need to be absolutely perfectly fair to be something worth keeping; it just needs to be fairer than selecting students who had the opportunity to be captain of the lacrosse team. That is a far lower bar that it easily exceeds.

This is the point where standardized testing opponents will typically rhetorically concede that they also are opposed to that unfairness, but they never manage to get particularly incensed about athletic or legacy admissions.
So the solution is to individually track down each cloned git repo on developers workstations. Then have each developer open up SSH access for others to clone using SSH or run an HTTP server? Also keep in mind not all repo's may have been cloned, up-to-date, etc...

DVCS is designed to propagate code to many people and allow them to easily modify and share with others who also have a copy. If people don't have a copy they can get a copy of a copy (which at some point may have been modified). In a large company you need a Single source of centralized truth. You cannot build a company on the concept of "it works on my dev workstation" or the worse suggestion here "all the company's IP source code is on only on my dev workstation".
> Also, Congress has 532 people, so by statistical certainty we should expect some to beat the market.

Congress has many individuals that consistently beat the market by significant margins over a prolonged period of time, far past the point of reasonable arguments that you can make based on statistics.
Dude can write.
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There is value in restricting quantity. The N64 being difficult and expensive to develop/publish for had an alluring charm because of how little it had. In the US, 297 titles spanning from September 29,1996 to April 30, 2002. Each game(even made by lesser known studios) was a deep experience that is memorable years later. Sure, this is not for everyone and even Nintendo can't do this model in 2022 but as I was just digging up my old console the other day, I am reminded at how special having so little was compared to today. In fact the amount of software on platforms today has made me think that I am just wasting my precious time and I have essentially given up on video games. I wonder if others feel the same.

I guess the Ouya tried to replicate this but the ease of development hurt the console in my opinion. Too much software mixed with the same 24 hours in a day that everyone has leads to much of it never being experienced.
This is cool. I’m wondering what the responsive part is — the example seems like it’s just latex2html output basically?

I think it would be super cool to have more https://distill.pub style papers, with like interactive plots instead of static image files and stuff.

Edit: I think the jargon I was looking for is “reactive”, not “responsive”
Or you could be a rambling man, and actually go everywhere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXDtQcuA5Bo (It's not until 3:20 that places start getting listed)
Spoiler: members of Congress are not allowed to trade on inside information. We haven't yet seen a prosecution, however.
Agreed, at that point the value proposition is to some trying to close a sale to overcome the objection that the supplied studies are cherry picked.

Its... uh.... niche.
I always wonder why these asian countries aren't doing laps around USA or other western countries if they were learning calculus in pre school.
> Quitting is the most powerful signal a worker can send

And, yet, a worker quitting has close to zero effect on an industry of the scale of the one which is at issue.

That it is the most powerful tool you have does not make it a tool that is effective.
>The Indian education system doesn't care about learning at all.

Honestly, I think people from other countries get that impression about you guys too. I've been a part of multiple (honestly, quite racist) conversations where we just WTF over the fact that these guys have masters degrees but can't solve the most basic problem assigned to them.
> (Empress probably)

Augustus' parents were not emperor/empress--he was the first person to have that title.
I guess plutonium is right out then. I hope they make exceptions for sufficiently safe launch vehicles that put their payloads beyond Earth orbit.
I really feel like we need more stories like this catalogued. Glad it seems like it all worked out.
Do you hold family meetings where everyone can share what's going well and not-so-well? That might be something to look into if not.

A family counselor could better guide on how to get that started. It may be awkward or bumpy the first few times.
Do you have any comparisons to other parsers in terms of accuracy?
Everyone knows it's turtles all the way down.