skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am using XML ===XSLT===> LaTeX ===pdflatex/lualatex===> PDF for more than a decade now. The whole pipeline is driven by a batch file that takes all XML files in an input folder, uses a temp folder for the intermediate LaTeX, and an output folder for PDF.

I can produce HTML files from the same XML sources directly: XML ===XSLT===> HTML.

For differences between PDF and HTML versions I have some special tags and attributes in my XML sources.

If I want to change something in the layout, I modify the XSLT script and run the old XML sources through the pipeline again in one go.

There was some up front effort in designing the XML tag system and writing the XSLT scripts. But since my later layout changes were minor, the required tweaks were easy.
Original post is discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33138744
Since this area seems to mean Silicon Valley, you're aware of Prop 13, yes? Ain't nobody paying property taxes here.
> You're not looking hard enough.

I'm really curious, where should I have looked? I'm quite regularly checking on the reddit off-site version of what used to be /the_donald, and I have to say that never have I seen any death threats targeting Biden in there. Of course, there's anti-semitic stuff, there's racist stuff, but no death threats. To be fair though I'm not visiting 4chan/pol or 8chan/pol or whatever it's now called, but most of the people from there aren't real, anyway.
All sorts.

My vegetarian repertoire is limited though.

I would recommend yotam ottolenghi's mejedra https://mustardwithmutton.com/2015/09/22/ottolenghis-mejadra...

More generally I would just look out for recipe books that inspire you, once you've learnt a few different cusinines and have all the spices etc you get a feeling for what works. My 'creativity' just comes from creating something from the food that's in the fridge.

Italian and Indian tend to be the best cuisines I've found with regards to not requiring meat. Far Eastern is ok too, if you eat shrimp paste, oyster sauce etc.
> The risk of death from any cause was 11.03% in the invited group and 11.04% in the usual-care group

IIUC, there was still a reduction in colon cancer deaths, but the populations still experienced the same % of deaths from all causes.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2208375
>Because if that's the case, book piracy seems like the clear winner.

You can read lots of books for free legally in the Internet Archive, specially books that are out of print.

> Curation costs money (indirectly).
This is mostly done by (big) publishers who want to push their shallow literature series and a couple of good books here and there.
Which, again, makes places like the IA so much better for readers like me.
The problem here is there is no guarantee that you’ll be in a car for x amount of time _before_ having a crash.

Geofencing might have to be the way
Linus Torvalds’s faulty RAM slows kernel development
The ease of feeding it into something like an orchestra varies depending on the granularity of your input. Moon phase for example can be divided into four weekly states which can be rehearsed prior to the event, whereas ambient humidity for example might change much more.

The only thing that comes to my mind as prior art would be the Tierkreis by Karlheinz Stockhausen, which has a variable order of composite parts depending on the time of year. I'm sure that's the world of music you could look towards to find further inspiration.

Please share any results you come up with here, it sounds very interesting indeed!
Stacker (YC S20) Is Hiring for an Ops Exec and Product Engineers
I will talk about it at IPFS camp 2022. I hope it will be recorded.

Here is my talk about actyx from IPFS camp 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzu0xtCT-R0 . It does not go into much technical details, and it does not describe the current architecture but a previous iteration though.
The smell they're referring to is probably the Milpitas Stench, which is probably coming from a San Jose garbage dump. It is quite… noticeable.

https://milpitas-odor.info/about/
Could you put the name of the shop on each search result? That way people can better pick their shop of choice (and avoid the ones they do not want to buy from).
Spanish website Todostuslibros.com did exactly that.[1] It was sponsored by a private association of booksellers, with some public funding (this is a common approach in Europe).

[1] https://www-elconfidencial-com.translate.goog/cultura/2020-0...
Why not just use WordPress? If you're technical, self host using wordpress.org. If you're not, or don't want the hassle, host using wordpress.com. If you do need the ActivityPub side of stuff you can install a plugin [0].

[0] https://indieweb.org/WordPress_ActivityPub_plugin
Yeah it’s a shame still looks promising.
Probably because Amazon is already competing with them, and they at least get some independent sales.
Inkscape can be used from the commandline to export pdfs : https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Using_the_Command_Line
This is actually really good. I just recently bought a book for my kid at a bookstorr, only to find it waaay cheaper a few days later in a different one. Don’t get me erong, love buying books but I fould have gotten two for the orice I paid for one.
Several years ago I watched this interesting documentary about how Christianity had incorporated stories into their religions.

Stories that we think of as "Christian", such as the star of Bethlehem, the 3 wise men and other stories from the life of Jesus, were based on stories that predated the birth of Jesus.

I think we underestimate how different people were compared to what we are used to today. When we tell a story today, we base it on facts. People back then might have a different view. They essentially re-used mythology and these stories to "prove" the credibility of Jesus. Basically confirming that he must be the "one", because these holy events have also happened to him.
Scott Mann – Operation Pineapple Express [video]
"When <an oxygen-producing plant> was the cool new thing, people would say that at some point <air will> get so cheap that it won’t be worth running a meter to track customer usage."

There is precedent for very expensive things becoming very cheap. Energy will always have a cost to produce, but we've seen in the case of the internet that "as long as you don't use this much, do what you like" models of pricing - it is effectively too cheap to transfer data to justify metering it.

Given how much energy I have a use for around my home, it is completely plausible that nuclear power could put me in a situation where I pay a grid connection cost, some nominal fee and then just use however much electricity I feel like to maintain a typical lifestyle. I don't think people appreciate how transformative the orders of magnitude cost improvements promised by nuclear power could be.

The people responsible for the insane over-spending on safety deserve to be publicly shamed for the damage they've done to human progress.
Great idea. I'll implement that for sure. Another thing I'm working on is a "No Amazon" filter that just skips Amazon and any Amazon subsidiaries from the results
this should be popular. people always like to compensate others as minimally as they can.
No, the lack of supply was intentionally created to stop "the demand issue", by which they meant "other people having children". And California certainly doesn't produce enough houses for even their own children; talk to any suburban boomer and they'll tell you 1. their kids have moved out of state and 2. their kids don't deserve to live near them and had better become millionaires first.

This was popularized by 70s books like Cities as Growth Engines and The Population Bomb, which IIRC also caused China to ruin their demographics by introducing the one-child program. It was recently parodied in movies by that Thanos guy. It is not your new idea that everyone else is ignoring.
In RISC-V, the boot model is standarized. There's SBI (from years ago, where the open implementation opensbi is used by most boards) and UEFI (implemented not in any random way, but after SBI runs, and as per the spec published earlier this year).

All the pieces are in place for RISC-V to effectively dodge boot chaos. Way before the server/workstation RISC-V hardware hit the market.

In ARM, it's a mess. Because ARM took way too long to do way too little re: boot standardization.
I'm finding it hard to imagine that you'd get built-in ADA running on 80s hardware, or that there would be much of a market for it if you did.

ADA is a mil-spec compiled language often used for embedded control. It took a long time to implement a full compiler and the smallest machines it ran on were minis.

The closest thing - and it's really not close at all - is probably the FORTH-based Jupiter Ace, designed by the people who designed the ZX Spectrum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace
Yeah seems like a scam. I paid for it, requested an invoice and never got a reply. Never received a single software update either.
Interesting how much special operations military units are about partnership, relationships and social capital with local groups.
It's complicated. The loose monetary policy is certainly one aspect. Another is that most American city-center residential areas are still zoned at low densities. If organic growth could lead to organic densification in central locations, there would be less impact to the housing market, but American zoning is stuck in the aftermath of WWII and is loathe to densify.
This seems a lie. I can certainly induce frisson on myself.
250k would be the number of people living on reservations or similar. Incredibly disingenuous to not include all the people and their descendants that integrated into the dominant society.
It's a coordination problem. They'll vote for people who prevent it locally, but if you move power a bit up to the state level there isn't nearly so much interest in preventing it, which is why other countries don't have this issue outside the Anglosphere.

Even moving from per-district to at-large city council members is enough to improve things, though we seem to be moving in the other direction there.
Thats great to hear! If you have any ideas or criticisms please let me know I'd be happy to implement them for you.
You are saying the owners want to pay everyone as little as possible, so why would CEO pay go up? I suspect the reason is more about competing for the best CEOs because of their importance to a company.
The fact is that most CS graduates go and work in industry when they're finished. Having some basic knowledge on how to deliver and architect software projects would come in really handy considering that's what they'll be doing as they've graduated.
I guess messy is a pretty subjective term. Messy relative to what? I've used a lot of language ecosystems over the years and this is one of the least messy. It isn't mess-free though, for sure.
I was going to play with this until I saw node.js required for build which means I am not going to bother. Use the right tool for the job, if there exists a job for node.js it certainly isn’t building C projects.
That's how it's been seen traditionally in the US, unfortunately. Silicon Valley in California used to be the site of the largest fruit producing area in the world from the beginning of the 20th century until the 1960s, but technology turned out to be more profitable. The Orlando area in Florida was also a major citrus producer until the 1970s and the coming of Disney World and other theme parks that located there to get traffic from Disney visitors.
Disclaimer: I got through 1/2 of the article before I got fed up.

This article reminds me of whenever you assign a word minimum to an assignment back in High School, where you add in the same details over and over, just worded slightly differently and maybe you throw in a tiny new detail to make it justifiable enough.

The SparkNotes:
- MTA doesn't have arrival times because the current technology is decentralized(-ish).
- The MTA tried to do an implementation of a more centralized technology, but didn't actually define it well enough, and wanted redundancy with the old signals, and it's a junbled mess (ATS-A).
- In an effort to _not_ do that again, they are clearly defining what they want to contractors.
- It's already going badly, with your standard sprinkling of governmental cost overruns and budget inflation. It's the MTA's fault as "The Trains Must Run" means that contractors can't actually change or test anything because the MTA won't let them near the track.

That's it, the whole article.

There were tidbits of interesting anecdotes, but nothing substantive or adding enough details to the story to actually make me have any interest.
Zero interest rates also meant construction was cheap. The fact that we didn't construct anything using them was the problem. Higher interest rates are going to make that worse unless we have more public housing investment.
Just needs to get it in the right position so it can be forced into the ground (pushing into the tire).
Private universities in and of itself is a bizarre idea. These institutions give out degrees recognized by governments which correspond to the legal competence to practice law or to perform surgery.

As far as I know, there is no such thing as a “private university” where I live. All educational facilities receive funding from the government, and are beholden to it's standards and rules.

Even apart from that, a private company cannot legally here hire people because their parents worked there first. – That is illegal employment discrimination.

It very often seems legal to do in the U.S.A. what is illegal discrimination almost everywhere else. Except of course when it concerns their almighty “protected classes”, because then it suddenly matters, though it's of course woefully ineffective, a system where one can be fired for any reason including no reason, but not for, say, skin color. It makes it very easy to find another reason, or just no reason.

If I were to be terminated, they have to give me the reason and be transparent with the books so that I can easily show in court that though they claimed I was fired for performance, others who performed worse, were strangely not. — Such is how matters are done in normal, civilized, industrialized countries.
I have a debit credit card. The only option I have to cancel fraudulent payments is closing the card and getting a new one for $40 and changing all my payment informations everywhere.

No idea why this is, and no idea why anyone would give out his data to unknown companies under this conditions.
You prefer the random quota, divorced from reality overfishing of the soviet union then? https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-senseless-environment-c...
> Glad to know there's an expert on the boards I can have second guess me though. I'll hit you up next time I might think I know something from 30 years of experience

I suggest you get over yourself. I am indeed a video expert with decades of IVTC experience.

The first line of your reply was:

"but rarely does anyone actually do this"

That is factually incorrect, no matter how many years of experience you may have.
I just can't see if ever taking off, if I'm honest. The people that use neo/vim are going to continue using it, even if Helix is better. The people who aren't yet using it will use vs-code and the few that do switch, well they might go to Helix but there's a lot of vim resources out there, so I'm not sure all of them will go to Helix.

Honestly, language servers are a bit of a faff to set up, but that's tooling and it's getting easier and easier to get these installed now. I expect that will continue.
Covid 10/6/22: Overreactions Aplenty
A good start would be for the Biden administration to pass laws with life sentences for sending money to or receiving money from (including Crypto) russia, North Korea or any other countries considered enemies of the state.

I have already lost two family members to russians. None of us are nazis. I'm a gay Ukrainian married to a gay Israeli American. If I'm a nazi, then I should be having serious marital conflicts right now.
Avoiding the legal problems seems doable, Sci-Hub and LibGen are managing. But the gateways thing sounds... unfortunate.

The way BitTorrent fixed this was the ratio - if you weren't seeding enough, you'd eventually get kicked out from the tracker. Does IPFS have a similar mechanism, or something else but with the same purpose?
Because 60fps and 24fps don't look alike and video shot at a very high frame rate can look off to an audience.

Remember also that typically a 1/2 rule is followed where the exposure of each frame is half the time of its display. So for each of the 1/24s intervals, an exposure is made for 1/48s. A shorter exposure would have less motion blur but look jittery. A longer exposure would look too buttery. People are extremely used to 1/48s exposures displayed for 1/24s (or similar).

48fps video in the Hobbit movies was very negatively perceived. It looked too much like a video game.
I'd think the compiler and language runtime could know the width for any particular offset at access time.
Maybe the dirtiness is demonstrating an unreclaimed lead and air pollution problem, which would explain Philly residents' reputation for violence and throwing batteries at each other.
> Housing is a market where there's extremely little productivity gains available for improving the size of the pie as a whole - at best you can improve energy efficiency, commuting waste, or other non-valuable housing related consumption.

If housing prices are rising in the area then generally (not always) there's more demand for housing than supply. Increased density generally leads to increased economic activity (more housing = more residents = more commercial activity = higher tax revenue.) Viewing the housing market in isolation is a mistake.

> But if all you're doing is making housing more financially affordable, you're going to have to deal with the fact that Peter's financial savings is Paul's lost rent-seeking, and Paul is generally a pensioner that votes.

Yes and that's the problem. Veto powers in most residential politics tend to be strong and so Paul's veto generally overrides Paul's demand.
If I want to discover a book I don’t know about, curation provides value. If I want to attend an event, some place holding an event provides value.

If, on the other hand, I know what book I want, the curation is done and I’m not looking for an event, so cheapest seems a reasonable thing to optimize for.
We are largely, but not completely modern humans. We are hybrids between modern humans and neanderthals. All the human sub/species throughout history existed on the werge of extinction, or were at best insignificant from the Nature point of view as a whole. We on the other hand took over the Earth in a few 10000s of years. There seems to be synergy in backmixing of populations that underwent the opposite specialization trajectories, group specialization vs individual skill specialization, where each specialization on its own would have likely death spiralled.
Far from perfect but I use a VSCode extension[0] to sort json object keys, then (if properly indented) normal diffing tools work slightly better

Once I wrote a simple script to convert json files to `path : value\n`
form; that is getting this

."a" : 1
."b" : {}
."b"."a" : ""
."b"."c" : []
."b"."c"[0] : true

from the json { "a": 1, "b": { "a": "", "c": [true] } }

It made better diffs but it was also harder to read.

[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=richie5u...
Are you on a VPN? Some sites/ad networks don’t show ads to VPN users to prevent ad fraud.
That's taken out of context! He mean that some companies that raised billions of dollars are a scam.
>Metro Detroit has low housing expenses because the government provides no services.

The parent claimed that prices in Metro Detroit have gone up and become unaffordable.
High density living done in Europe is only a few cities and most of them aren't much of a step up. Realistically people would have to look at Tokyo-scale high density living as a starting point to tackle most complaints.
I don't know about all, but there was certainly a trend for shoe-horning women in short skirts or leotards into ads for unrelated products.
This feature would be fabulous.

The hackerspace I'm involved in currently has to use Open Collective [1][2] (alongside PayPal) to do so, but there's a ton of onboarding friction:

[1] https://docs.hackerspace.sg/handbook/payment#cards

[2] https://opencollective.com/hackerspacesg
For instance, The French Open awards double the money to the winner it does to the runner up.

Compare this with the word chess championship, where it is often split 60-40%, or the found is often bound to performance differences. A victory by a sweep incurs a larger percentage for the winner.
It's weird that IEEE allows these type of "almost paid promotions". When I see the IEEE domain I automatically have a high degree of trust, but stuff like this will change my perception...
Practicing and constantly improving your pitches (for investors, talent, sales, etc.). In two words: Story Telling.
I love foreign fantasy representations of America. My favorite is the Italian music video of a high school class where they sing in made up English.

https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8
I actively dream about this. Hard to believe it is constitutional—-overreach of police powers.
Don't the feds create the entire residential mortgage market in the first place through Fannie Mae? That's why we have flat-rate mortgages when other countries have ARMs.

That one tax deduction doesn't matter, not when there's a shortage. It's already the most people can afford to pay.
> There are no experienced manufacturing workers… This isn't a matter of the price of labor.

Nonetheless the shortage may be addressed by increasing the price. Witness the proliferation of software boot camps.

I find myself confused this fundamental mechanism of free markets seems stuck for this market in this nation. Which hidden incentive(s) do I not comprehend?

Is it simply that decades of business acumen and planning assume cheap labor, anchoring executives’ expectations well below what is now required?
It actually can be, tracks split the city as much as a river does. They create similar dynamics in terms of both sides of the tracks becoming enclaves with different characteristics, similar to how the parts of a city on opposite banks of a river are often very different.
Since the UK treasury has already issued the bonds at a fixed rate, why do they care what the secondary aftermarket price of their bonds is?

As I think you figured out for yourself, it affects the interest rate that they have to pay on new issues. Even when the budget is balanced (HA!), they are still constantly issuing new bonds to pay off maturing ones.

How does propping up the bond market reduce the risk of the impending recession or help the UK treasury pay off its debt obligations?

Buying bonds puts more cash into circulation which can (at least in theory) act as an economic stimulus. Of course, it also increases the risk of price inflation.
Why not? I ask this as european that lives in an appartement close to city center. We have about 32 families in the space where you have typically a big us house. And no I don’t live in poverty - 100sqm rooftop, own garage spot and really enjoy my 10min cycling time everywhere.

I work daily with people from Boston. I think downtown is not that different in terms of willingness to have similar lifestyle.

I think many don’t know how good density living means and it would be totally doable also in the US, not overnight.
I guess there is still a big of a perception: Without your big house and garden your are nothing/« you didn’t make it » . Once this is gone I guess it could go fast.
Check the Sponsorblock extension for Firefox. It not only blocks sponsor segments but also has a „jump to highlight“ function which jumps directly to the answer of the (clickbait) video title.
Related topic - always pay the extra 10% for the tire insurance at Discount Tire; I can't believe they aren't losing money on this.
Damn shame. Why is it stopping?