skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would argue that what ails "the West" is a loss of sense of positive future. That is actually a symptom of clinical depression too. The Fukuyaman conceit of the "end of history" is actually a dark and troubling stuckness. For me the prevalence of words like "inevitable", "ubiquitous" and "inescapable", especially around technology, are markers of a profound loss of creative vision and optimism.

Agree. In addition to creative vision and optimism, I would add a sense of agency has almost completely vanished from the Anglosphere starting with Gen X. The average person (and now a disturbing portion of those with power) believes that there is no way they can influence the trajectory of their life.

This is not good. That's where desperate, angry people come from.
RegexBuddy has some limited ability to do this, and the author of that program has a whole separate program called RegexMagic that I believe specializes in exactly this.
I have a 24 1080P ultrawide, and its perfectly fine.
So I think 15 with 1080p is going to be pretty good.
Not sure. Jan Morris was more interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Morris
They don't need to be a legally recognised entity at that level. Anything with sufficient capability to provide court case arguments will be capable enough to retain human supporters - we're ridiculously easy to hack. It's why social engineering attacks are a thing.
A very simple way is by having the app listen to a Firebase JSON object via a websocket. Whenever the contents (of the "chatroom") change, the new text is pushed down to all users in the room.

In fact, this was the original use case for Firebase, which was first released as a tool for building in-app chats.
Yes of course I know that's classical, I was just making an analogy to get the point across about correlations.
Afaik, historically they were prohibitively expensive with service.

Only in the last ~10(?) years have companies cut offerings in a price point catering to the backcountry crowd.
This is called the fractional reserve rate and is a vital part of controlling monetary policy in a fiat system.

The reserve rate was taken to 0 during covid...
HN isn't the place for politics. If I was a zealous liberal or a zealous right wing nutjob I'd imagine I'd get roughly equal treatment.
One of the things I like most about HN is that, by and large, people tend to assume at least a fair or reasonable interpretation of others’ arguments.

In your case, you’re trying to drill down on a semantics issue to discredit this guy. It is reasonable to assume most people on HN know that “trickle down” economics is “supply side” economics. Just like when people say “Obamacare” instead of “the ACA” and everyone knows what’s being said.

In both cases yes, the moniker is generally seen as a critique on its own, but to act as if that person is incorrect or “using the wrong term” is disingenuous at best.
Yep, and "time" the original Freakonomics chapter was about comparing prices between houses owned by the realtors against those owned by their customers and it came out that houses owned by realtors took more time to sell but were sold at a higher price, whilst in case of a slow sale the incentive was to convince the customers to lower the asking price:

http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittSyverson...
Open the browser and type out "news.", sigh when you see the prefill for "ycombinator.com" and have to change it to "google.com".
actually speaking of apple... bc I didn't really want to get into this whole debate.. but at this price point why wouldn't you just buy a macbook air m2.
I would be interested to have a chat with you about these FE opportunities. My email is pranitsh at gmail
Try harder. HN uses a lisp, which is a programming language family from the sixties. Can it possibly be any more obsolete — according to the test you prefer? Something has to be very wrong with HN. Unless the problem is that the test is bonkers.
I think you're underselling ocrmypdf, which I use heavily:

1. Scan-only PDFs are shockingly common: I download papers all the time which are scan-only.
2. Non-scan-only PDFs often have garbage OCR. I assume this is because they were done long ago and never redone since. (Tesseract has gotten a lot better over the years.) Not terribly rarely, I use ocrmypdf to forcibly redo OCR layers because they are unusable.
3. ocrmypdf supports JBIG2, and possibly for other reasons as well, generates smaller PDFs; this is true even for 'native' PDFs or ones with good OCR. I routinely see PDFs I download, hot off the presses just days before with presumably their latest and greatest publishing stack from major scientific publishers, which shrink by a third or a half or sometimes wind up as much as 10x smaller. Not being a PDF expert, I have no idea how they manage to waste so much space, but they manage it. I also found that standard scan tools I was using like imagescan or gscan2pdf or 1dollarscan were not producing as small PDFs as ocrmypdf did.
4. ocrmypdf will also write PDF/A by default. It's true that most PDFs you download or create will probably be perfectly readable 50 years from now with no special effort... But it's nice to have that extra bit of archival compliance.
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I am looking forward to the day computers are better at coming up with things humans can do better than computers than humans.

We used to argue that face recognition and the ability to play go were the hallmark of true intelligence. Meanwhile thinking machines are replacing humans all over the place
What do they mean by connect your UI to the cloud? How is it different than any other component library?
Nothing, this isn’t anything but a political theater solution.
I've seen a handful of libraries and DSLs that are intended to replace regex now. It might be interesting to compile a list of them and attempt to compare them.
They also address this to some degree in the Language effects section.
If the choices are between implementing tax on imputed rent and killing all economists by boiling them all alive, I'll gladly start gathering firewood. I'm just joking. I am all for higher taxes on everyone.

I have one condition though. If I should pay tax on imputed rent, then Google and Facebook should pay taxes everytime someone clicks on a sponsored link that takes them to their own property. Every time I bring up this idea that companies must pay taxes on funny money they spend within the organization, people yell at me. Microsoft should pay taxes Windows licenses that they use internally. No, you can't give yourself a "discount" and say well we charged ourselves zero dollars so we owe no taxes. Pay taxes on the market rate. Either make it free of cost for everyone or pay taxes when you use things internally.
Birdman used exceptionally long takes and was a pleasure to watch.
Although I can't find the link to an article I read about the early development of PV cells using a purple glass filter I did manage to dig out a research paper that provides more or less the same regarding colored filters

https://web.archive.org/web/20220709132444/https://reader.el...

https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S2214157X20303439?...
Also, interestingly, "Eleven case control studies on life expectancy in former athletes revealed consistently greater life expectancy in aerobic endurance athletes but inconsistent results for other athletes."

So it seems that not all physical activity is equally as effective in increasing life expectancy. Aerobic endurance activity seems to be the key.
Pomsky, a new and portable regular expression language
Sorry, but Die Grüne (The Greens) in Germany lost the plot a long time ago. Where they are in power for a long time, for example in BaWu, they are basically the CDU but greenwashed. "Sie kennen mich" anyone?
Thanks. What would be the best choice, in your opinion, between those FOSS solutions if the goal is to integrate them into an already existing app ? ( Pros / Cons ?)
Hi, I understand where you're coming from. My introduction to vim was through vimtutor and it was free!

I agree with your point about muscle memory. Learning !== muscle memory. However it does make it more comfortable to edit code by not having to expend energy remembering the vim command to do something (since you can just focus on editing code). Practicing new vim commands in the interactive editor has helped me use them faster when coding. I feel that my muscle memory is built faster when practicing in a targeted way.

The interactive editor aims to bring the skills you develop while practicing in it, into your daily code editing, by making you practice on code snippets (for all the lessons after the first 2).

In addition, in my opinion, vimtutor and :help are slightly difficult for a complete beginner to parse because they overwhelm with a little too much information. I tried to fix this by making each lesson focused on a single topic, with short and simple explanations.

Thank you for your feedback, I appreciate it!
As mentioned in the other replies, Google's automatic OCR is limited. OCRmyPDF is designed for PDFs. So if you download a 1000+ page public-domain dictionary off of Archive.org (which is something I do regularly), and you want to re-run the OCR because Internet Archive doesn't tune its OCR very well for multilingual works (if it all), then OCRmyPDF is going to beat Google's automatic OCR every time.

However, I recently paid a programmer to fork OCRmyPDF to give it the option to use Google's OCR engine instead of Tesseract. That fork is here: https://github.com/ualiawan/OCRmyPDF. It's more fiddly than the regular OCRmyPDF, and it requires a Google Cloud Vision account (which charges some fraction of a cent for each page OCRed), but it works well, and in some cases may produce better results than OCRmyPDF, although you must be sure to specify the language of the document.
Always trips me up hearing about how house sales work in the US. Soo inefficient and many people involved that need their fees.

And is the inspection done after, by the buyer?? Why isn't it done by the seller and included in the ad? That's mandatory here. Sounds like a recipe for disaster and conflicts.
Surprised by this. I’m deciding between System76 and Framework, and Framework is fully upgradable.
Also the blog from the book author, with visualizations and separate blog posts for several different maze generation algorithms: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/2/7/maze-generation-algorit...
"Thinking machines" is how I'd categorize most medium to large organizations. Once you see past how all the procedures and algorithms are done by fleshy humans, there's really no significant difference between a cold machine of metal and the cold machine of bureaucracy.
There isn't an intermediary api. Aws amplify is a Backend as a Service, and so your components directly query the database instead of you building an api and building the querying logic for the frontend .
Aggressive behavior of anti-vaxxers: their toxic replies in English and Japanese
You say that as though it would require some kind of intentional manipulation of the humans in question. I, for one, see no reason to believe that machine intelligence is any different from that evolved in biological systems, so if a machine can demonstrate a level of intelligence we associate with personhood then I believe we are obligated to give it legal personhood.

To do anything else would reek of the kind of mindset that thought it was ok to keep black people as slaves.
Is it really subsidized tho if there is no cost to do so and no loss incurred on the lender and government?
If you sell an owner-occupied house (something like primary residence for 3 years) your first $500k of capital gains aren't taxed.
yup !
I say this without venom.

If you think that the complaining workers WANT to go to workplace socials and aren't just feeling obliged, they do not feel grateful. They feel blackmailed.

This wash about consensus is irrelevant. Your culture is only valuable if the workers actually indicate they value it. Listen. To. The. Individual.
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...when other explanations aren't even mentioned.

I did a quick "find in page" and "war" is mentioned 22 times.
It's not for everyone, but the (paid) programming font that I fell I love with is Codelia. It's got a dose of whimsy to it, but not too much, and is an all-around extremely readable and usable coding font.

https://tosche.net/fonts/codelia
The idea that the human mind is not simply a very complex thinking machine is simply a hypothesis. You can come up with examples and arguments all you want but it doesn’t change the fundamental question about the nature of intelligence and consciousness. Unlike most spiritual questions it is falsifiable, which is exciting. Scientists need only emulate a sufficiently complex brain on a computer. Small worm nervous systems have already been simulated, so the real question is how big do we need to go. My guess is that by the time we have a mouse emulation behaving like a mouse within a physics simulation there will be little question left that intelligence and consciousness are computable.
Individual cases notwithstanding (I think I could find ones where civilians used their cameras to save their lives), I think there’s a hefty dose of irony involved in citing video evidence of misbehavior to defend a law that would, in effect, prevent us from evaluating said behavior.

In other words: you can link these because people recorded them. We then get to have a discussion about it. The application of this law would eliminate that, in many cases.

Edit: I noticed that all of these videos are collections by the same guy. He’s a former cop and seems to relish in videos of the police cracking down on protestors, which makes me think that he’s unlikely to present a balanced view of how disruptive recording actually is, on average.
Honestly... Baofeng UV-5R is still my go-to for emergency usage... program in GMRS/FRS/Coast Guard frequencies as well as the simplex HAM frequencies.

Sadly the new generation ones and the GT-5R which is cleaner spectrum-wise are all software limited to only HAM frequencies so in case of an emergency that one would less useful.
I've only glanced at their product page so I could be wrong, but I don't think it would be possible to pull this off without being fairly opinionated about certain things. The authentication component is probably the example that stands out the most. I'm sure it works wonders if your authentication flow matches what they expect, but seems like it would be a pain otherwise.
Interesting. Does that mean each user is its own chat room ? Will there be some drawbacks to that approach?
I didn't. Anyone who gets any level of clearance (or it used to be this way) has to go through training and they go over all this stuff in it. They try to push the "leverage" narrative hard in them, but it's pretty clear what really motivates these people. They're generally either depressed (not enough thrill in their lives, spouse cheated on them, etc.), pissed (e.g. because the gov't did something they didn't like) or narcissists ("I'm better and smarter than everyone else, and I can get away with this"). Almost everything else about the motivations behind their actions is a distant second issue. They'd have done what they did whether the leverage existed or not (and it often doesn't).
Ah, I see. I agree, more context would be better for the beginner to understand why the lessons are the way they are.

I tried to explain the benefits of vim in the "Why Vim?" section, but I should really go into why using and learning vim will be slower at first than using the editor you're already comfortable with, and how it might be worth it in the end.

Thanks for the feedback!
If you ever wanted to use the sound of the Apollo transmissions creatively, the Lunar Module [1] is possibly the most niche of Eurorack modules.

[1] https://ajhsynth.com/Lunar.html
Dell are horrid, everything about their laptops is disappointing. Everything about the way they refuse to stand behind their appalling quality is culpable. I will never buy a Dell laptop again.

Replaced my precision with a second-hand thinkpad t480s. 3 years old. Haven't replaced the battery it arrived with. Recent popular distro. I get 10 hours of battery life doing programming. Webbrowser open with 20+ tabs, multiple terminals, signal, rhythmbox.

Cost USD$410. Tough to beat that at any price. Maybe a new one with an AMD under the hood? I can get 3+ of these for the same money and is it really actually better? Dell was more money and a lot worse, you see a lot of people with that experience around here.
Absolutely agree with your analysis above.

The econ of the article's analysis is rubbish. She compares indexes that exclude dividends, cherry picks time periods, doesn't seem to command basic econ understanding.

There are lots of good reasons to critique house flipping, like she could have:
- Given statistics on average returns of house flippers.
- Show how naïve investors and flippers get burned.
- Even a piece of ancedata about one couple getting burned is at least real news.

But she doesn't do any of that.
I sort-of agree and sort-of no. These are my objections:

First of all, we should separate the value of the house from the value of the land, which is determined by its location. In my country, brand new houses in Ostrava (a rust belt city where I was born) cost about half as much as brand new houses around Prague (the capital), even though they are of the same size, on same sized lots, built from the very same materials by the very same Ukrainian gastarbeiters according to the very same technical standards etc.

This isn't just pure gamble, but reflection of the fact that Ostrava isn't particularly attractive for employment even for the natives, while Prague is a major hub attracting professionals from the entire Slavic half of Europe and even some Westerners. An order of magnitude, if not more, people want to move to Prague than to Ostrava. This must have an effect on the land value.

Second, the quality of the house matters. A wooden Japanese-style house depreciates quite fast. A modern brick house built to strict specs will outlast you and your kids, so the material depreciation is much slower. It might even be slower than pure inflation.
If you hike, camp, backpack, this is from a very experienced Search and Rescue leader who I took course from:

-First, have a Personal Locator Beacon. If funds allow, have one with two-way messaging (there's a monthly subscription fee). Needless to say, be mindful of battery condition.

-Second, have a GPS with maps from your area, or the equivalent smartphone app. Learn basic map reading, a good Youtube video about it will do.

-Third, take 3 hours to study for a ham license. Pass the easy exam and get a reliable, easy to use HT (Amateur radio's name for walkie talkie). Learn to use the repeaters in your area.

You're good to go.

P.S. this is concerning a getting lost scenario. He also recommended taking a First-Aid course.

edit: My recommendation for an HT is still, after 10 years, the Yaesu FT-60r.
Pros: Very solid build, easy to learn and operate (compared to others), reliable.
Cons: Bigger and heavier than newer models, battery not as good but can be upgraded. Also, analog only, but to me this is a plus as I want simple, reliable comms and don't want to invest time in zillion other features.
You have to get government approval to build. What are you talking about?
> though it seems imperfect bc it would vary depending on the weight/load.

Weight and load have no impact of the effect. The only requirement is that the wheels remain adhered to the track, and don’t slip. Which is expected anyway, because it would be tricky to accelerate and decelerate a train with slipping wheels.

With independent wheels you have no self-centering effect, so only think keeping your wheels point in the right direction would be inner flange on the wheels colliding with the track. Such collisions obvious involve quite a bit of friction, noise and track/wheel wear.

Not to mention independent wheels are more complex to build. Two wheels directly attached to a single fixed axel is about a simple as you can get. You only need two couplings between your single axel and non-rotating part of your train. With independent wheels you need four, or more complex wheel designs to allow bearings at the wheel/axel coupling.

There no need to tip carriages into turns to prevent tipping, gravity, track banking, and speed limits already assure that tipping isn’t an issue. Tilting trains only exist to increase passenger comfort, not safety. Tilting trains are prefect capable of operating a full line speed with their tilting mechanism disabled or jammed, it’ll just be uncomfortable for the passengers.
To be fair, it'll probably be a lot easier to replace the battery on that dell (and the system76, I imagine?) than on the Macbook. That evens things out even if the battery doesn't last.
This sort of thing sounds like "vendor lock-in city", to be blunt, but that is a categorical criticism I level at this entire market niche of BEAAS
> Studying individual authors would be a good start.

Or even taking a random sample of the ngrams to manually verify their usage hasn't changed over time, plus a random sample of texts to check that depressive sentiments weren't previously expressed in different language.

It's a great start, though.
Care to elaborate why absolute values are better than rates here?
The difference (for me) with a cafe is that it enables body doubling[0] without the threat of interruption.

So, for me, with my ADHD addled brain, I can be quite productive.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/06/01/virtual-b...
Broadcom's VMware buy got you worried? Give these 5 FOSS hypervisors a spin
It’s probably ok if it’s a couple of years old. All AWS stuff is initially buggy as hell. You have to complain for a year at your account manager to go and beat the teams with a stick.

I’ve sat there and broken nearly every AWS product in front of account managers so far. At least they listen unlike MSFT ever did.
True, but <> in Perl is called the diamond while, in other languages it means “not equal”. If we take ligatures seriously, we’d need them to be language-aware to select the appropriate concept. And for a font to have to be aware of all languages that can express ideas with it is a violent violation of the separation of concerns principle.

If languages opt to make “≠” equivalent to “!=“, match all styles of open/close quotes, and enable me to attribute a value to a variable using an arrow, that’s great.

In the meantime, I’m not sure they are a net positive in all cases and fear they may drive unfortunate syntax choices for people who design languages.
I had a putty session open connected to a friends server he was trying to recover after a somewhat malicious employee walked off. For dumb reasons (basically I don't know how to use windows), I had the whole bash_history on my clipboard and accidentally middle clicked. Luckily the first commands where apt upgrade and then reboot, but that could have been a total disaster.