skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> TeX itself is not really complex

I'm not sure if we're getting hung up on the word "complex", but here's 60+ pages on paragraph line breaking alone:

http://www.eprg.org/G53DOC/pdfs/knuth-plass-breaking.pdf

Digital Typography is 700 pages long (not everything is going to be TeX fundamentals, but...):

https://archive.org/details/digitaltypograph0000knut/page/n7...
AmigaONE X1000: When sun is rising
I live in Europe and I can tell you that Twitter absolutely became the public square for politicians at all levels of government, in the various countries and in the EU. It is also where all journalists hang out, and many other type of actors too (academic researchers for example, all sorts of activists, etc). And I am pretty sure it is the same in the US.

I'm sorry but you do not know what you are talking about.
Conclusion:
People don't want cheap gifts, and companies aren't going to spend money on expensive gifts.
Travato is based on a Dodge Promaster.

Van based vehicles have some advantages over the traditional RVs: Unibody construction, so better efficiency, drivability, easier to park, less obnoxious looking.

I have a Ford Transit with 600 watts of solar and a full sized computer workstation inside. I bought the vehicle used for 23k USD, and put another 10k in the build. If you DIY, it not that expensive.
I think that JSON is a bad choice here.

It is obvious that CLI commands should produce machine-readable output because they are often used in scripts, and accept machine-readable input as well. Using arbitrary text output was a mistake because it is difficult to parse, especially when spaces and non-ASCII characters are present.

A good choice would be a format that is easily parsed by programs but still readable by the user. JSON is a bad choice here because it is hard to read.

In my opinion, something formatted with pipes, quotes and spaces would be better:

eth0:
ip: 127.15.34.23
flags: BROADCAST|UNICAST
mtu: 1500
name: """"Gigabit" by Network Interfaces Inc."""

Note that the format I have proposed here is machine-readable, somewhat human-readable and somewhat parseable by line-oriented tools like grep. Therefore there might be no need for switches to choose output format. It is also relatively easy to produce without any libraries.

Regarding idea to output data in /proc or /sys in JSON format, I think this is wrong as well. This would mean that reading data about multiple processes would require lot of formatting and parsing JSON. Instead or parsing /proc and /sys directly, applications should use libraries distributed with kernel, and reading the data directly should be discouraged. Because currently /proc and /sys are just a kind of undocumented API.

Also, I wanted to note that I dislike jq utility. Instead of using JSONPath it uses some proprietary query format that I constantly fail to remember.
There's apparently a few very popular instances that are not federated at all with any of the other popular instances.
Yep. I like going to sleep knowing that tomorrow I don't have to work. Also I like doing things in the woods/river for at least a day, every week.
I'm one of them. Still love it. The built-in compass and the third-party app that integrates with Google Maps are priceless to me.
Using physical buttons as opposed to touchscreen is another great feature.

All these years, I haven't found a replacement.
Wonder how many are still using an iPod nano as a watch.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104350651/tiktok-lunat...
Thanks for the feedback. I will enable it, not really sure why I've made it that way ;)
Basically the only reason I got the smartwatch I got, is because it always displays the time, even if it runs out of battery, that it can vibrate when I receive phone calls, it keeps track of my heart rate and sleeping activity. The battery also lasts days rather than hours, which is pretty nice.

I don't exactly know which model it is, but it's a Garmin watch with the traditional hour/minute arms and a tiny little screen. But it really kicks ass at telling me the time :)
> very behind the 8ball in this space if...

This doesn't make sense. Being 'very behind' the 8ball is no disadvantage.
Idk for this technique, but generally speaking there is no such thing as green mining.
it's hard for me to get past the sleep advice, it sounds misguided at best. Sure there are studies if you google oversleeping, they define it as sleeping over 9 hours a night and it sounds it usually is associated with low quality sleep. The core issue is what is causing low quality sleep, oversleeping is a symptom to compensate, and it doesn't sound like 7 to 7 and a half hours is the sweet spot, it's 7 to 9 according to the National Sleep Foundation Guidelines[1].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29073412/
People are stating things imagined by themselves as facts. My imaginary fact is that: China was hoping to have new vaccines for new variants, constantly collecting data, and preparing for ease up of the restrictions.
That wasn't necessarily the company being cheap. If it was heroics, it could be someone else took credit, or that someone else wanted to keep the mistake quiet, and so the thanks came out of some accounting bucket for tiny rewards.

Personally, that might've been a time I'd look and whether it was time for a promotion, even though I think rewarding heroics is tricky for engineering culture (better to celebrate work that means heroics never required).
I don't understand the distinction. If you are on a tech-oriented forum and post some celebrity news with no tech angle and the mods remove it, is that censorship?
I think the pricing varies. I have a friend who bought a used RAM van for around $15k and put $25k into converting it into a home—and a pretty nice one. $40k is a lot of money, but she left her apartment and started living in the van full-time. So I think there are always trade-offs.

I am skeptical at how many people are investing a house down payment into a Sprinter van. There are plenty of people out there doing it for a fraction of the cost.
There seems to be okay-ish activity on the repo: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/commits/master
> And properly someone else would haved saved the day early enough anyway.

According to the story, no. The regular employees in the regular system failed, and OP person decided to act like an owner and save the company, outside of job responsibilities, covering up for management's failure to build and test a reliable system. Did the OP person get paid like an owneror promoted to a leadership position for being a leader? No.
Recent drafts do tend to get circulated amongst the image compression community. For wide audiences I don't think this type of document is very readable nor relevant; the number of people who are going to make their own independent implementation is relatively small. In this sense the spec audience is not quite the same as that of a spec for a programming language, which is important not just for compiler implementers but also for programmers in general.

That said, I do hope that ISO will change its policy to put specs behind a paywall.
There are political edge cases.

Let's say I set up a site that's critical of an authoritarian government. I fund it with sales of merch and books and such.

I want to be anonymous - for obvious reasons - but if I have to register my details I can't be.

Also, accountability doesn't work without international authority. Some countries are more enthusiastic about accountability and the rule of law than others, and the ones who aren't can make money by selling "credible" domains to bad actors.

Of course after a while those domains will become less credible. But there are a lot of TLDs out there now, which makes the system very difficult to police without international cooperation.

In reality I can run a scam operation from a beach in Thailand, bank the money, shut it down, then run a very similar scam operation from a beach in Vietnam or Costa Rica. That won't change until there's some kind of international cyberpolice agency which will hunt me down across borders.

But then you get the anonymity problem.

Not simple, and no registration system will fix this.
> a screen that barcode scanners can easily read for authentication into the gym and library

Only Pebble can do this? Apple Watch does that too, like literally I use mine for the same cases you described
Ongoing program continues.

Think this woulda been slanted the way it is 4yr ago? Praising the administration for the things the government was doing already, was not the style of the time.

Doing so days before the midterm election might almost be seen as a political push, rather than cheerful good news "look how good your government is" honest journalism.
What's MLops? Is it what I imagine?

Maintaining repos of training/data, APIfying the pipeline, deploying an ML processing pipeline with CI/CD, etc?
> Wrong.

Must you really be this blunt?
I think he understands it just fine. He calculates the cost/benefit ratio of trying something whether it's legal or not. If it works, great for him! If it doesn't work, oh well, it costs him a few extra dollars. Just like trying to back out of the buyout.

Most people are easily intimidated by legal-sounding crap, like a severance agreement written up by company lawyers. In my experience, most lawyers are crap (I have had 1 good one out of around 5)and a lot of the "legal agreements" being written have illegal stuff in them, which is why they always say "if anything in this contract is found to be illegal, the rest of it still holds".

The advice to consult with a lawyer and maybe an accountant is IMO well worth the extra trouble and expense. They're counting on employees being too intimidated to do it.
Gmail: Package Tracking
I'm using restic on servers, Kopia on pc/mac
Do you have photos of your workstation, or setup in general? Sounds great!
US schools are actually moving to 4 day weeks in large numbers for cost reasons.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/sep/26/four-day-s...
On the same website, another blog post [1] compares JPEG XL with other formats.

[1] https://cloudinary.com/blog/time_for_next_gen_codecs_to_deth...
Irish here and I can't recall ever hearing that advice... I can remember banks saying things like that they'll never ask you for your pin number.
Van prices and van build prices are nuts in the US. Meanwhile in Europe you get a pretty nice van for about EUR 65K (including VAT and TUF).

https://www.hymer.com/de/en/models/hymer-free
Ive contracted on a project where another, IMO better, solution was employed. This was ruby.

The only allowed package (gem) server was one ran by the project. This package-server scanned, vetted and manually checked any version of a lib before "publishing it".

If you wanted to e.g. upgrade a package, you'd have to do this on this server first. It would then go through some steps, -automatic scanning, risk analysis, sometimes even needing the eyes of someone from a security team. After that the package was published on this server, and you could pull it onto your dev machine and use it in CI/staging/test/prod etc.
Similar steps, to get a new package listed.

IMO this is better, because it stops supply-chain attacks before they hit your code, not after they've (potentially) infected the system.

Edit: for clarity "only allowed package" wasn't enforced very strictly. A linter and CI would catch any changes to code that would want to fetch packages from elsewhere. It wasn't to protect against rogue developers, but against "stupid me, accidentally upgrading to a version that is infected" and such.
If anyone from astrobites is reading this: Please don't capture the scrolling by JS, it's really annoying UX wise.
Proof of Market
How is correctness assessed?
Having played Go myself I am kind of confused about these results: In a human vs. human game the "victim" would win in all scenarios presented in the paper as the attackers stones would be removed or, if there is disagreement, the situation would be played until both parties agree.

That makes me wonder: was KataGo maybe trained on a different set of rules than the ones used in this paper? If so, it seems that the attack is "unfair" because it exploits a blind spot that comes from changing the rules of the game.
This one? Looks interesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steenbras_Power_Station

The capacity of the smaller of the two dams is 3,560 megalitres. I think a 1km X 350m X 10m deep is this capacity. So "small" is fairly subjective term, but you are right that it is not gargantuan. It is still not going to be easy to place such a setup just anywhere, but I'm willing to admit my statements may have been a little too much.

I would be interested in how much it cost to build and run to obtain the 180mwh capacity. A similarly size gridscale battery would cost in the vicinity of 40-60 million USD (using the $140 per kWh cost, numbers are is hard to find for the supporting equipment and installation costs).

There is probably an inflection point where pumped storage becomes more economical than batteries. With land and labour costs so different from lace to place what makes sense in certain areas, is probably not economical in others.

https://www.morningbrew.com/series/battery-tech-for-evs-and-...
"Defeat your enemies with this one neat trick!"

Every "secret" or "hack" for getting your way in interactions with other people is pretty likely to be in this category. We all have blind spots, many of which we share because we're all running on basically the same hardware, and where there's a blind spot there's likely to be an adversarial attack.
> * { scrollbar-width: none; }

Naughty.

Missing a mews in central London where I used to work, but I suspect they're more focused on aesthetically pleasing locations.
Yes, we ended up buying JetBrains Rider; I used it for a few years. I was much more productive in it than Ionide.

Code analysis was excellent, though it would sometimes get weird on multi-project repos. Unit testing (incl. Expecto tests) were a little flaky. Like many JetBrains products, it was a resource hog on large projects.

Probably the worst part of the Rider experience had more to do with other devs using different tools, i.e. Ionide or Visual Studio. (We were a "bring your own whatever" kind of startup.) Each IDE/toolchain had its own opinions about .fsproj files. A CI step to keep things "normal" would have been great, but there wasn't (isn't?) anything available, and we wouldn't spend the time building our own.

tl;dr - Rider better than Ionide; whole team should use it
I imagine it varies. First of all, many games are only 1.x compatible, not 3.1 compatible. So for those, you'd need original ROMs anyway, and not just any, but specifically 1.3 likely.

Then, there is the question of WHDLoad. WHDLoad contains patches for most Amiga gams and makes them being able to be loaded from a file on a harddrive instead of being booted from. I believe it also makes games work on Amiga 1200 which otherwise would have only worked on Amiga 500 and so on and it makes game work on 3.x which only worked on 1.3 before.

AROS and WHDLoad has been known to work together.

http://www.aros-platform.de/download.html

Of course, the original ROMs are going to be more compatible, but I think it's wonderful that there is an open source reimplementation of both hardware and software of such an iconic and wonderful platforms such as the Amiga.

WHDLoad used to be commercial software, but now it seems to be a free download:

http://whdload.de/
Solar charging can add only approximately 3 miles of range per hour of full sunlight charging. Too slow for the intended purpose.
Indeed, that doesn't change the matter that Julia depends on C++ until the day someone bootstraps the whole toolchain.
Puppets
>> Shell would benefit from Content-Type/Accept headers. Like you can specify that cat accepts text and jq accepts Json. Then `ip a` would output corresponding type automatically.

That seems unnecessary. Traditionally, shells have always used text streams. JSON is just text that follows a given convention. Couldn't what you are describing be implemented by setting environment variables or using command line flags?

For example:

PREFERRED_OUTPUT_FORMAT="JSON"

--output-format="JSON"

--input-format="JSON"

Tools that can generate and consume structured text formats are a good idea, but they should be flexible enough that they can even work with other tools that have not been written yet.

"This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface." --Doug McIlroy
So does air travel, tourism, banking, trade, entertainment, religion, scientific research, immigration, international aid, the Red Cross, the UN and food. Personally, I feel more connected to Italy due to pizza.

The point being ---- so much human activity can be linked to this sort of spurious, feel good claim as to make it virtually meaningless.
So where does spam fit in this?

In addition crap floods? If I submit half a billion posts do you really want that handled by moderation?

Being a server operator I've seen how bad the internet actually sucks, this may be something the user base does not have to experience directly. When 99.9% of incoming attempts are dropped or ban listed you start to learn how big the problem can be.
IOW, there are no bad gifts, only bad relationships.
The first offshore floating wind-solar pilot just came online in China
NASA Snaps Portrait of Sun 'Smiling' Like a Big Fiery Goof
What about deleting a comment because it's off topic or goes against some arbitrary guidelines set up by the site moderator?
All hail the pumpkin! Ia! Ia! May thy seeds spawn a thousand vines!
> What can "strong extracurriculars" mean if not the things you described?

In my experience, a typical parent thinks that a student with 4-year varsity sport participation (more than one doesn’t help if it’s just participation), president of a school club, and member of some group or two (one probably being a local community service group) as being “strong”.

I would call this nice, but similar to 10k-20k other applicants, mainly because it’s fairly easy to manufacture this.

Some sports teams take anyone who is willing to play. It’s often trivially easy to start a club with your friends and declare yourself president (and essentially do nothing). It’s trivially easy to join a group or two and tag along. I have heard of and seen all of these examples that were done precisely to game elite school admissions.

Is this what happened with OP’s kid? Who knows?

What strong in one or more of these same categories might look like:

- all-state first team in a sport, and/or talented enough to be recruited in a sport. If it’s not a school sport, then winner of a regional or larger competition (depends on sport).

- started a club/group that went on to do something meaningful, with “meaningful” roughly being that it was probably worthy of being written up in a local or regional newspaper.

- participated in a group (like a music group or academic group/team) that was highly competitive to join and won regional, national, and/or international competitions.

- participated in a group (like an existing service group) that did something incredibly unique, most likely led by the applicant (e.g., some sort of decent-sized development project, local or international).

One or more of the above, substantiated in recommendations and/or supporting materials (e.g., newspaper articles, bulletins, etc.) will make an applicant much more unique.

> Though I do agree the odds are quite insane lately, with the top schools receiving applications from the top students of the entire planet. Basically everyone has to shift their sights down the rankings as a result.

This is largely not true.

Outside of covid years (those years are outliers), the main reason the acceptance rates are lower is because more people are applying. In general, the overall quality of those additional applications is relatively low — it’s just much easier to apply now (especially with a mediocre application) than it was in the past, and it’s getting easier every year.

Harvard had 60k applicants last year, and about 13k 30 years ago. The strong applicant pool has not increased 4x-5x over the past 30 years.

Is it tougher? Yes, but only slightly, imho. I think the internet has allowed some students who are not in elite university feeder schools to get info on how to be a strong candidate. This info was much tougher to access 30 years ago.

As a simple example, Cal Newport has written some good blog posts and books on how to be an outstanding applicant.

That said, many people don’t avail themselves of this information and still stubbornly think that grades and SATs are the main criteria for elite school admissions.
Perhaps it's a good thing for the government to reincentivize R&D inside of large tech firms by blocking deals like this?

In my opinion, there is a huge incentive for large firms to buy rather than build right now, given the go-to-market risks with any new product launch. Externalizing that risk into VC funded firms and then paying for winners is a smart choice.

But sadly the result often is that consumers have to eat the inevitable decline in product quality post-acquisition.
There's acrobat editor, though its more limited than I assumed it seems.
Ostensibly to you it isn’t “fair” in the way you have described it. But from a different view, your son is very privileged to be in the position he is, I’m sure he will do well wherever he goes for school. You’re in the South Bay bubble that has put so much hype and pressure on these things. Of course, education is important to you as a cultural value and practical matter; but consider that students who are capable can even flourish better in, for example, the community college setting for a few years before transferring (also more financially savvy).

Anyways affirmative action for mostly white people (“legacy admits”) already exists. Removing AA based on race may not result in great outcomes for the underrepresented minorities. Huge disparities exist that cannot be corrected at the university level in entirely; but AA gives the opportunity for URMs to enter these spaces at higher rates than they would at a so called “level” playing field (it is never is the problem).

It’s time to start considering that there is far more to life than what “elite” colleges will have people believe.
LaTeX is an art form. The output is perfect, based only on the code used to make it. Typesetting mathematical expressions or even creating complex diagrams using a library such as `tkz-euclide` is just code. There is no WYSIWYG. No invisible bold spaces[1]. No forgetting which changes you made to try to get it to look right. Everything is right there in the code.

(I am aware of the difference between LaTeX and TeX; I likely haven't used TeX directly but the comparisons here should still work fine.)

There is a huge difference in workflow between generating a document from a complete code file and iterating on a final result with incremental tweaks. That is why I cannot use Acrobat, Word, Google Docs, etc. for creating papers that I would use LaTeX for. It is just not the same, and it is not the workflow I desire.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/2109/
sort-of-smart watch, you can get watches that tell the time for $5 or less.
How many projects have to keep re-inventing those kind of data structures until WG14 takes security seriously?