skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a problem in the middle between CV and NLP. It used to be solved with LSTM sequence tagging models, now solved with combinations of CNN and transformer with 2d coordinate embeddings. It's far from being solved, not even receipts work 99% correct, real scores between 89..92%. Manual programming solutions are very bad, they usually do regex matching or template matching.

If you want to extract 5-10 fields from a document then you'll have at least one or more errors per page, unfortunately not "automating" too many documents out of 100 yet, with any method.
That’s no joke! I have only ever been able to write successfully portable RegEx in Bash by evaluating using Perl.
> no customer success stories

Have you considered selection bias, because seem like that's what's going on here.

> That company has serious problems.

You concluded this from anecdotal evidence?

> the guy has been riding a rocket ship for so long he hasn't yet noticed that it's run out of fuel.

Based on what exactly? Look at every single number both looking forward and looking backward and those numbers would disagree with you.

And Tesla had customer frustration stories literally since the Model S.
Before I read this... "focal region" sounds nonsensical to me. Surely the focal length and direction depends on the thing you want to look at? The "focal region" would be something like a sphere starting some distance from the sun and extending out in all directions to infinity?
Don't get a greyhound. Odds are the burglar wouldn't even know my dog was there.
Latency for scrubbing in projects
> Better to pay a good base salary upfront ...

Bonuses that are variable with company performance are a common way to manage the reality for many businesses of “some years we have more money than others”. It seems better to pay bonuses that vary than to set high base salaries and lay people off in cyclical lean years.
It could be worse. Sorbet is on free Slack, which means any discussions older than a month or two are deleted.
I think that's why it's called a focal region instead of a focal point.
get HEAD and reproduce

would make a perfect kde teeshirt
They look like they might just be curated
Indeed. Could it be that this is because GDP is not the main measure of happiness, or perhaps even one at all? I wonder. :D
First thing I thought. PayPal is known to pull this kind of moves, now it’s Stripe’s turn to steal some money “for security.”
Sorry for asking so many questions, but I don't know much about this and you seem knowledgeable.

> However, for search and display ads, which drives a huge amount of traffic to EU businesses, there's no effective way to run ads without conversion tracking. Obviously you can just throw money at Google/Facebook, but without conversion tracking, the average return on advertising spend will be 1-10% of what it would be otherwise and you will pay for a lot of junk traffic.

1. Can you not track conversion in aggregate by running X number of ads and checking how much extra traffic you got? It's obviously noisy and you can't run multiple campaigns at the same time, but conceptually I don't see why it wouldn't work?

2. I'm assuming you put links in your ads, so if you run ads for lander.example.com, can you not put the URL in google/facebook as lander.example.com?src=g and src=fb? Or, if you can't use query params, g.lander.example.com and fb.lander.example.com? Tracking stats for those and seeing how much ads you ran should give you conversion, similar to 1. but better?
Tesla sells a 1M car a year and this problem effected 1 person, maybe a group of a few 1000 max.
As someone who’s recently looking into using stripe for a small business, this makes me hesitant. And this isn’t the first time I have read this type of thing about them.
Google also does this sort of stuff with canned robot responses for play store developers.
Yea, it's pretty bad. My vaults aren't even 3mb, so it's really expensive, regardless.

I just don't understand at all how they came up with the pricing. If they need to make money, make the app a paid product for like $10 or $15.

Everything they put a price tag on is astronomical.

* Catalyst (for early access) $25+

* Commercial $50 per year

* Sync $8/mo ($96/yr)

* Publish $16/mo ($192/yr)

The app remains free, so it's clear they're trying to subsidize the cost of the app by cranking up the dial on the extra services, but I'd rather they just charge a reasonable price for the app and make the addon services reasonably priced. I'd be happy to pay like $10/yr for the app, and if, presumably, enough others were it would probably make them MORE money than the add-on services because a larger portion of their user base would have to pay for the app, and probably wouldn't shit a brick at $10/yr or something reasonable.
Croatia's Chinese-built Peljesac Bridge opens for transport
Thanks for your feedback, I just thought about the timezones last night. I will pass the client's date while fetching the artwork of the day so that everyone get the full 24h lapse.

For the read only archives, I can see from the comments on HN that it has been requested a couple of times but some people also seem to enjoy the "just the current day" angle as well so I'll have to decide on that.
It's my understanding that the word byte is a contraction of the two words:by eight. Also (fun fact) a half a byte, 4 bits, is called a nibble. May be I'm out of touch but I have never seen a word referred to as a byte outside of an 8 bit processor, words are composed of bytes.
> "Good artists copy; great artists steal"

If Jobs said that, he stole it; the original was Pablo Picasso.
> One of the reasons they do so badly is that American third parties have almost nothing to do with respect to local governance.

This just isn't true, third parties like Democratic Socialists of America (Bernie Sanders' party)[0] are heavily involved in state and local politics in various parts of the country through grassroots efforts and have been for years. For example, they now represent 10% of the Chicago City Council (5 seats). Groups like DSA are also heavily involved in projects like unionizing Amazon. They do a lot for their local communities beyond supporting policy.

People think that third parties are just in for Federal races primarily because we're exposed to so much more Federal politics in the press than we are state and local.

0: https://www.dsausa.org/
> you should not behave like Google

I’d end it there.
This is similar to Traian Vuia[1] in Romania. We were taught in schools that he was the first person to build an airplane.

The contentious issue being what an airplane is: Wright Flyer needed a track and a catapult to take off, but was controllable in fight. The Vuia I could take off by itself, but was not controllable in flight.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traian_Vuia
It gives a type error, because strings are not assignable to string literals.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/FAEwpgxgNghgTmABAM...

However, if you check or assert that the returned value is one of the accepted literals, compiler accepts it:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/FAEwpgxgNghgTmABAM...

This is one of the classic examples of flow-sensitive typing in TS.
We need a companion article; "Why user entitlement got so out of hand." Releasing something as "This worked for me, perhaps it will work for you" doesn't seem possible, now people expect that you've made a commitment by sharing.
You’re right. It’s the legal precedents / decisions that are the “patients” here. The new cases (that cite those precedents / decisions) are just… let’s say “test results”.

So yes, this is a way to determine causation in relation to what legal precedents / decisions will be cited in new cases depending on the contents of Wikipedia.

I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that they claimed a causal link between their Wikipedia articles and the outcome of new cases. The chosen setup cannot IMHO prove such a causal relationship, in the strict statistical sense. That would require randomizing new cases and applying the “treatment” (new Wikipedia articles) only to some of them.
it'll tell you that `string` cannot be assigned to type `"RED" | "GREEN"`, and so you'll need to write a function that refines the type correctly, e.g.

function isValidInput(input: unknown): input is "RED" | "GREEN" {
return input === "RED" || input === "GREEN";
}

const input = readFromUser();
if (isValidInput(input)) {
doTheThing(input); // no type error
}
In my opinion it's more about risk aversion.

It is difficult to use a lot of color and be 'tasteful' it is a lot easier to use neutral colors even if the end result is dull. People are too afraid of being tacky so they stay in the nordic ikea safe zone.
The 4th derivative is quite important for good motion control where it is usually called 'snap'. Specifically, it is relevant both for feedforward control design [1] and trajectory planning [2]. As shown in the latter, it is advantageous to design trajectories based on segments of constant snap. Consequently, also including 'snap' in the feedforward signals makes the achieved position profiles notably smoother.

[1] "Control for precision mechatronics" https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44184-5_100044

[2] "Trajectory planning and feedforward design for electromechanical motion systems" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2004.02.010
As John Maynard Keynes said, it doesn't matter what you as an investor think of a stock, or what you think other investors will do, or what other investors think you will do, or what other investors think other investors will do, what matters is what other investors think other investors think other investors think other investors will do.

"And there are some, I believe, who practice the fourth, fifth and higher degrees."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
It's commonly used at Cloudflare too. You're probably browsing pages piped via Rust services every day.
If you want to be pedantic, there is no such thing as a "color". There are light waves with a frequency that hit a highly non-linear detector (our eye) and what comes from that is analyzed by your brain to put a label such as "red".

What you see is different from what I see (not to mention that I am a daltonist) - and none of these are standardized.

We are used to colors and this is why we label them.

So "chrome" is absolutely a color, like "salmon" and "fuschia" is, or "gold" or "brownish"
I've been commenting over the past year or two on the color of new cars recently. It seems "security contractor grey" of various shades is all the rage the past few years.

My pet theory is that car colors tend to reflect society's mood, and we've been in a dour one for some time.
That seems unlikely. Look at fashion and decor magazines from the past and you see lots of lively colours that are coordinated. If you go house hunting and see a couple houses that haven’t been updated for decades they have a definite palette.
I appreciatie your engagement. But as an engineer, be aware that many of your colleagues mostly want to please their boss, and have a hard time imagining any disability. If accessibility is not on the organization’s radar, the best strategy is suggesting techniques and requirements that benefit disabled AND some other interest, such as SEO, scaling the site to mobile screens, (automatic) testing, config options that benefit multiple user groups. This will ensure that your colleagues and management have a stake in building and maintaining the accessibility features.

Lastly, I found the following video enlightening:
“Accessibility [for game developers] on a shoestring” GDC 2021
https://youtu.be/PiCsvZZh5-k
Monopolies and the one size fits all mentality. The world has become more globalist and centralized and this is just one of the symptoms. I blame the central planners.
US military making plans in case Pelosi travels to Taiwan
Man wakes up after night on sleeper train to find it never left Glasgow
> It sounds like ray tracing that can be done in reverse on a final image?

I forgot to mention, if the renderer respects Helmholtz reciprocity, then you can chose to either do forward rendering (rays originate at light and bounce until they hit the camera or dissipate) or backwards rendering (rays originate at the camera and bounce until they hit a light or dissipate), or even do both, so-called bidirectional path tracing[1].

[1]: https://pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/Light_Transport_III_Bidirectio...
FSF voting members release and sign Code of Ethics
At least once upon a time the attachment check was essentially a search for the string "attach" in the email body.
I'm sorry, I'm no happier about this feature than you seem to be, but...

> there should be a "see anyway" button

If you read the article and look at the pictures, "View photo..." is right underneath the blurred photo. It may not be called "see anyway", and it may not be a button per se, but it has the exact same effect.
If the syntax for what you want to do is slightly more verbose, JavaScript has a concept of functions which allow you to reuse code quite easily:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...
It's different in finance because a finance guy can go to his boss with hard proof and say "I made your company 10 million last year" and ask for 500k bonus.

But developers do not have hard proof and they will be getting 10k bonus instead.
> Does that mean they're bad for your eyes

As far as I can see from distributors, most white LEDs today are using a blue light emitter, so there's no issue with UV. When using white LEDs that use an UV emitter, some glass covering is needed to catch the remainder, from what I've heard from a friend (I've never actually built an LED lamp myself). But it appears that blue LEDs are much more efficient than UV ones and that probably explains why normally white LEDs use blue emitters.

More information here (confirming what I just wrote): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode#White

PS. I've been looking into these things to some extent because of all the issues with commercial LED lamps (short life, AC or PWM flickering, colour rendering), and have been thinking of mixing more LEDs together (various single colour ones together with various phosphor-employing ones) so as to mix a more ideal spectrum myself, but I haven't gotten around to actually executing that plan.
When I look at how figures like Donziger, Assange and Snowden are treated I cant help but think our society is a lot more like Russia than we think we are - differing mostly by a matter of degree, rather than principle.

Furthermore, this is a geopolitical risk. If the west doesnt uphold the principles we purport to represent then our support dwindles and allies who were on the fence will fall against us.
I still use OpenBSD x86 on an Atom netbook.
For normal lighting LEDs the diode itself usually emits blue light (440-460 nm). Most of the blue photons are then absorbed by the phosphor or phosphors and reemitted at longer wavelengths (yellow-green to red). This converted light mixed with the remaining blue light gives the white color impression.

So no UV, although there are some concerns about the hazards of blue light. But if you ask me, you get much more blue light onto your retinas by just going outside on a sunny day than you'd ever get from normal LED lighting.
It's an error, as the plain `string` type doesn't satisfy the union. You'll need to perform type assertions to make the return type down before passing it as a parameter.
> I do not care about the OS anymore, I can upgrade/reinstall in a breeze. I actually now run Arch to be independent of upgrades and just roll.

Interesting. Do you have any links to howtos or beginner's guides to such a setup?
Swarm Simulator takes the "starcraft as derivatives" idea and runs with it, out to 30+ levels. https://www.swarmsim.com/#/
General populace has no idea what privacy is. Firefox is a burning house. Zero innovation is the word that best describes them. They did nothing to compete with Chrome. They just exist, try to survive, because for the past 10 years they did nothing to innovate. Total management change needed.
Tesla has consistently outperformed in terms of used car value and have done so for 10 years now. Based on what do you based your analysis do you think they don't care.

Because of this 1/1000 snafu? Is that really it?

> "our car is the same price but that's built in".

Maybe you should do some research. If anything other car companies have far, far, far more options and things in them that you might not be able to use. Or they just don't put it it in.

So the reality is, if you do fair price comparison with the competition and you add the features, the competition is actually not doing so well.

I hope you are not actually putting really money on your insights.
That's not accurate:

https://github.com/traviscross/mtr

> Merge pull request #412 from 23hiro/master … 327dd3f 11 days ago
I don't believe so, I believe that the size and gravity of the sun have a gravitational effect on space an result in a focusing of light at 500+AU distance from the sun. Hence the focal region is around this sphere and is where you would "sit" to use the sun as a lens and get information about the universe on the opposite side of the sun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens
Unearthing the Secret Superpowers of Fungus
On an emotional level, I certainly sympathize strongly with this idea.
I can see how tech often helps widen the gap between the haves and have nots.
At the same time, tech advancements have often improved humanity's standard of living - providing clean water, lighting, refrigeration, cooking, etc.

The basic thesis is while tech makes some jobs obsolete, but they will be replaced by newer jobs, and everyone benefits from the better, cheaper world created by the tech advancement(s).
The main critique for this notion is asking how many of these new jobs are really created, and whether they offer the same stability and benefits.

If this thesis is valid however, the other big issue that remains is the widening wealth gap. The solution for that is probably not banning automation - but rather progressive taxation based on one's wealth. I know some people find this idea evil, but it's a fantastic solution to the issue of extreme inequality.
Sounds ripe for peter principle problems. Don't these companies also allow for advancement in place?
I don't trust that a conspiracy is less likely, I infer that due to logical arguments of parsimony (see Solomonoff induction), and then I verify that such a conspiracy didn't take place to the best of my ability.
Anything over "basically none" is absurd, but in this case the worst case really is very bad.
Downtime is not an option – Meet the stewards of the cloud
Except if you start with "OK, let's play along and see where that leads us".

This leads to disaster.

"OK, now that we've seen that what you are saying is bullshit, let's talk real" (you turn away form that person and start to talk even if they do as well)

Oh man, I hate politics.
Nobody is saying there's no use case for cryptocurrencies. However they absolutely suck in the main use case - payments. There are no chargebacks/protections against scams, the UX is atrocious or relies on an unregulated and unprotected third party. It's slow, it costs money to spend money. And it's also destroying the planet with useless electricity consumption when there's an energy crisis and climate change with resulting need for transition going on.

All the rest hippie anarchist bullshit "take control", "inflation", "fiat" etc. is just bullshit that's either idealistic to the point of stupid or just stupid.
ah, so funny
In a different HN thread that has no or positive reaction to Stripe, you'd be seeing many praises for Stripe.

For local businesses, perhaps your local bank has a better solution? They will be cheaper (if they use networks other than Visa/Master), and often has zero fees when you withdraw money to a bank account.

Here in my country, for a business that only caters to local customers, I pay about 2% for payments with no fixed fee and no fee for withdrawals, which happens daily. I can directly call the person who handles my queries, and charge backs have never been anything but a few quick clicks with no mind games. All I do is redirect the user to the payment page, and validate the payment upon arrival. The UX isn't as good as Stripe of course, but many of the locals are quite used to that UI anyway.
I wouldn't say that math is fiction. I'd say that it's a tool that can be tested, but there isn't one tool that's correct. There can be many such as Euclidean vs Bolyai-Lobachevskian geometry. Both are non-fiction, one maybe more useful than the other.
lmao author thinks unity is better than macOS, invalidates his opinions for me
> glasses to distort my vision

This would be awesome swag at conferences that are frequented by frontend engineers.
If you just want to test if something is listening on a port, no need to specify the "telnet" protocol - using curl normally with the verbose option will still tell you whether the port is open, though it'll error out later down the path when it doesn't get the expected HTTP response if probing a non-HTTP port.
This story is scary and heartbreaking. The guy represented poor people in a foreign country against brutal corporation and now his life and career are ruined
This seems like it would be pretty testable. We still take a lot of photos under sunlight. If light sources are the cause, then the effect should disappear if we look only at such photos.
It turns out the secret is just not writing crappy software and having crappy processes. It turns out the caveat is that the conditional probability of those two things is vanishingly small, so regardless of monolith or microservices, most devs are exposed to crappy stuff and because their sample sizes are tiny they assume well we just did it wrong, when in fact they did it average and average is crappy for any and all architectures.
netcat?

nc example.com 8080 -v -w 60
There's also the incredible homebrew version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAYuBcuvIww
Yes. Entitlements like this one are what needs to be eliminated. Sweet handouts to corporations so they can pump up their stock price by buying back shares is basically what this will accomplish.

I wonder how many tech companies are about to pivot to chips in order to take advantage of some of this free money from taxpayers.
Who's the "we" you speak of? The "we're barely any better than them" or "we're just like them but with better optics" sentiment you profess is one of the common ones to find around here.

If you wanna play that dumb "zoom out until everything looks the same" game then all societies are like Russia. Would there even have been a media article written about this guy had this story been in Russia?

The caveman were almost certainly treating the guy who rocked the boat worse than the guy who didn't. Every society plays favorites to some extent. There's a lot of noise in the data when it comes to how much due process these kinds of "inconvenient to the rulers" people get in modern democracies so any nation can be made to look like Russia depending on who you pick and choose. The lawyer in question looks like he really got unjustifiably screwed but equally "inconvenient to the people on top" people have been left relatively alone in the past.
You are not alone.

I love it being easy to use keyboard driven.

I like that the virtual desktop are dynamic

I love that on my Lenovo Yoga I can use it as easily as a regular desktop or like a tablet (you haven't appreciated reading the hacker news comment until you start doing it on your couch with a screen in portrait mode).

My only gripe is I wish I could dial the titlebar height depending on the context.
It is unfortunate that it's enabled by default, but I just have NextDNS block any calls to and from `*.telemetry.mozilla.org`. 0 complaints from me after doing that