skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I looked into OCR stuff I came to a similar conclusion (though I didn't implement anything back thne). It would be really nice to have "open source" models that had similar performance, without having to deal with the iphone cluster hackery.
It's geared towards designers but https://inkscape.org/ is FOSS for macOS. As feature-rich as it is, I still prefer the simplicity yet effectiveness of Paint.net which allows non-designers / engineers to edit images intuitively.
Yeah not the best title but an insightful analysis of the film.
That’s what CSS parts and slots are for. Your component can style its own boundaries, provide parts to allow customisation, and use slots to inject components that are styled from outside (be it another ShadowDOM or the light DOM)
Yep. It has become ~50% of all websites and 30% of all ecommerce websites on the Internet because its worse.
I am way more interested in a digital world being overlaid on the real world - augmenting rather than escaping.

I’m not sure if I’d like to walk around the streets wearing them though - would be incredibly annoying to other people and a risk of being stolen.
PHP is 80% of all websites on the Internet. WordPress is 50%. There is another 30% in between.
Ask HN: Is a missing sense of smell still a good indicator that one has Covid?
And vice versa - if one can still smell things, can they conclude that they don't have Covid?
Still hard to top exrx.
> what with France rationing power this winter

Said like that it sounds like rolling blackout and the state enforcing energy consumption at gun point.

There was a lot of noise because the government planned some of these things. But in practice it meant reducing the temperature of public swimming pools a bit, reducing/shutting down public lighting deep in the night, reducing temperatures in office building by one or two degrees.

I would even say this "stressor" will be beneficial, at least at a local level.

The real downside is the increased energy bill for people.

Finally, a large part of this issue is self-inflicted as a failure to plan power plants maintenance.
This is one of things Bazel tries to do.
I've compiled a non-standard list, if that helps,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30651273

They're not about any technology per se, but mostly about exercises in how to tackle complex systems.
Friggin Lasers
I'd argue that the answer to this fundamental question is fairly simple: Does your specific instance of a certain activity have an extremely high likelihood of causing immediate or rapid and obvious, direct and quantifiable harm to others? If not, then prohibition should be tabled away. I'd also personally argue moral constraints on prohibitions under the rubric of basic individual rights to do things that don't verifiably and materially or physically harm others but in purely utilitarian terms, my first point is a good metric in my view.

There of course also activities that individually cause little to no harm but which in the agregate are dangerous for society as a whole. In these cases. I'd argue that long-term total effects and difficulty of enforcement should be balanced against a likelihood of mitigation strategies being effective without resorting to outright individual prohibition, but that's a complex question in general. In any case, for sex work, it doesn't even enter the picture, except for on the question of enforcement of prohibition (which has never worked for prostitution and shouldn't be applied anyhow).
You mean like the car itself?
Absolutely, this. Also, different standards when it comes to warnings.

Munich has a park with a nice "lazy river" style creek, which at some point downstream has a dangerous "artificial wave". It's perfectly safe under two conditions: You can swim, and you get out before it reaches the dangerous part. The best entrances to that creek and its pools, far from the dangerous part, where you will find dozens of people swimming, are marked with signs saying "DANGER TO LIFE. SWIMMING FORBIDDEN", complete with skulls and everything.

Meanwhile, the US is considered, perhaps unjustifiedly, as a country full of meaningless, exaggerated warnings. In my experience, nothing could be further from the truth when it comes to natural dangers.

Combine being used to the European level of excessive caution around nature, with the reputation the US has for exaggerated warnings, with the reality that nature-related warning signs in the US tend to not exaggerate, and you get dead people.

Imagine seeing a sign "Dangerous. Do not attempt to follow this abandoned trail" - no absolute prohibition, just a soft recommendation, not even "DANGER TO LIFE" just "dangerous" - with this background, and you can see why "Germans die in {death valley, yellowstone, ...}" is such a thing.
Depends entirely on your goals.

If you want to minimize cost, it mostly depends on your energy cost. If it is low it doesn’t matter since all CPUs will gladly last 10 years or more. If it is high, go for the one with the least power usage overall (if 24/7 workload) or least idle power usage (if idling a lot).

If you want to put it in your bedroom you also want one with not so much heat output probably since it will be easier to cool = quieter.

If you need to do processing or
Virtualization you want multiple cores. If you do IO intensive tasks you need lots of PCIe and probably high clock speeds … etc etc

So what are you trying to optimize for?
I’ve been working on https://webcomponents.guide/ with some fellow experts in order to improve the documentation side of things. Hoping to offer guidelines and best practices to limit the amount of searching and experimentation required. Please take a look and provide feedback if you can!
Semantic search using CLIP embeddings / other LLM embeddings could be an amazing addition too.
I didn't before, now I did. What were they thinking? That "forehead"
This really puts into perspective how little mass there is relative to the size of the observable universe.
It’s definitely surprising that macOS does this, but it makes me also wonder if the authors considered just modifying the binary so that the dynamic linker could find the library: https://www.joyfulbikeshedding.com/blog/2021-01-13-alternati...
No, if anything, higher salaries just attract better bullshitters.
When it comes to real time video processing, the data pipeline becomes more complex to handle. And we are striving to minimize latency in streaming video. On the other hand, we must also ensure sufficient accuracy of the implemented models. This article was written based on our research and expertise of building real-time video processing products, together with creating pipelines for applying Machine Learning and Deep Learning models.
This is exactly the same situation in South Africa, where "solar power is [also] booming". We had world class infrastructure that not only wasn't updated, but has been looted, or left to rot. Now the water systems are also failing. Expect bore-holes and home-filtration to be "booming" in South Africa too in the near future.
Replying to a post saying
> the source code was "lost"

Sure, I had source that I had written. In source control even, was using fossil. But I thought my binary might end up somewhere decoupled from that source, with some other engineer tasked to modify it, and I hope they find the dump source option listed under -help useful.
I wanted to read all last words without clicking back and forth, so I extracted all of them and created this gist: https://gist.github.com/kajic/9304f31fe970a8f9662ff567eb3274...
Fond memories of Yoda Stories and Indy Desktop Adventures, had no idea they reviewed so poorly.
Did they really think it is ok to include a remote access without telling customers?!

I guess this more often the case than people realize (especially with such hobby level hard- and software), but it actually is a huge security risk. Because once you are on a Raspyberry Pi in a customers network, there are no limits..

Insane.
From what I gather, it's not just France.

Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine the price of gas and electric power in the European Union has gone up enormously.

https://jacquesmattheij.com/drastically-reducing-our-powerbi...
Depends on your value system, really. Some people would find working for an advertising company like Google to be unethical, even though it would probably pay more and have a better work-life balance.
I don't think Copy and Paste work correctly. You can select the equation but the copying and pasting turns into gibberish.

ax^2 + bx + c turns into:
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HTML has those bad unicode characters too.
Worse yet, my Pixel 4a (a USB 3+ phone) shipped with a USB 2 charging cable, throttling the speeds at which I can transfer totally legal files I don't want to upload to the cloud or perform internal storage backups through adb push/pull.
Brilliant; makes perfect sense of the "magic." It'd be interesting to see a compare-and-contrast of the "dump" of a decode ROM of a 65C02 vs the 6502's decode PLA, to see exactly what the 65C02 is doing with those few added cycles in what is presumably its generic BRK implementation.
> Someone more far-sighted should have seen this, and seen the value of their PARC work

Even if someone sees that and is somehow able to sell it to the board, that would also need to be sold to the shareholders. And there comes the real challenge. Its not easy to go to shareholders and say that you are going to start a new product line that will kill the profits of another, but ask the shareholders to trust you, because this is going to be the 'thing' of the future. On one side billions of dollars of investments in stocks, backed by a gigantic market held by a flagship product. On the other side predictions of future.

The investors and even the markets wouldnt like that. In a sense, capitalism hampers innovation by providing the wrong incentives.
On the question "Warning! Most monitors do not have USB-C ports. What port does your monitor have? Choose one." I am getting three options: HDMI, DisplayPort or USB-C.

Shouldn't this also have 'Thunderbolt' as an option? Maybe it's because I am still confused about the topic, but the port has the Thunderbolt 'lightning bolt' symbol next to it. Even if the three options given are technically sufficient, I feel that confused consumers like me would benefit from an additional 'Thunderbolt' option.
I worked using an object oriented database, where all code was stored as the AST as versioned objects in the database. Problems that I remember that might be relevant:

1. To “install” code into another instance, you usually exported your code as a massive text file from your dev server as source code, then import the source code as text into your production server. You could do individual functions, but that had a high risk of ending up with a pet with different code than your dev server. Version control was a mess.

2. We just ended up putting source code (without comments) directly onto production servers. That happened to turn out well for the client, and turn out badly for the development company (who owned the code).

3. Syntax or semantic changes to the language were a bitch when the database version needed an upgrade. Any existing code was migrated, from the old objects to the new objects, which sometimes caused problems.

4. Limited IDE. You had to use the IDE that came with the database, and various code transforms, global refactors, or normal development actions were unavailable. The primary other option was to export a complete syntax tree as text, make changes, then re-import (uggggh).

5. Debugging was hell.

Obviously Unison is a very different beast, but some of the above problems were a result of having the AST be the source of truth: problems which have the potential to apply to Unison too.
CL is used in a wild range of domains. Web apps to industrial-grade theorem provers to quantum compilers etc.

Here's an overview for 2022: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/these-years-in-common-li...

companies: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/

pgloader went from Python to CL: https://tapoueh.org/blog/2014/05/why-is-pgloader-so-much-fas...

my take on why lisp vs python: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/pythonvslisp/
I agree. Except creating something of value isn't the same as company value - company value should be derived from ability to make money at a certain rate while spending it at a certain rate. This does include what you say, but with some extra bits.

But back to your point: it is possible to simulate either or both of those things and have eager investors get in early, but that's why they (probably) get in for less money than if the company had done what it claimed. They took a risk, and taking a risk is one of the valuable contributions one can make to a company.
The Coming California Megastorm (Aug 2022)
Legalize, to many people, means regulate. I believe that fentanyl should be legal to possess and use. The reasoning behind this is a framework of harm reduction. Opioid addition tends to spiral -- people chase ever greater highs, and as a result they get addicted to doses that could kill a hundred naive users -- people who start on heroin kick it up with fentanyl end eventually want fentanyl or the even more potent kerfentanyl. If a person in that situation realizes "oh shit I need to quit this" they literally cannot, without tapering their dose. If it was all legal, people could dial-a-dose rather than play roulette with amateur-mixed powders. And, sure, the medical system is fully equipped for that, but many users have good reason to distrust doctors. There's a temptation to tie access to efforts at quitting, but people who don't want to participate in that will make a black market.

But you clearly don't want some virgin walking into a pharmacy, buying a hero dose and offing themselves in the bathroom. So, regulations, perhaps licensing, are necessary. Just like uranium.
Ok, and then the users have root permissions to interact with the containers? Forgive me for asking but I am thinking about solving similar problems (access to containers via ssh) .. or maybe I should use Teleport instead.
The above comments are several dumb takes. Also, reports are not the same as actual outcomes. The buck stops with excess mortality.

In my visits to Africa since the Pandemic started, they are taking COVID quite seriously, with lots of measures against it. And not ignoring it at all (1).

Ironically for your assumptions, this may be a result of cultural selection: this isn't their first infectious disease to deal with as a public health issue in living memory. Not to say that there's no COVID there, people are still getting it, people that I know there have had it, varying number of times with varying severity.

1) YMMV, Africa is vast, I only visited one corner of it. Blanket statements about "Africa" are false somewhere.
Thanks to React, everyone else already has Web Components support built-in.
If you have to process tens of millions of photos though the cost gradually becomes forbidding.
But what about Bitcoin?
It is 100% attention. The caveat is there is ample time after the car notifies you to take control where you put down your task, look around and gain situational awareness. How often that happens is a question. Seemingly rare enough you could reliably do a meeting, that latter part is just a presumption though.

No '*', Mercedes takes full responsibility and there are many seconds before it shifts control (and liability). The system can reliably predict when it will want to give back control.
As someone who has collected stamps all my life (20,000+ & counting. Oldest being ~100 years), there is a wealth of wisdom and good examples in this article.

Also I seem to have a few of these stamps, but the collection looks so great that I am envious of the owner if it all belongs to them :)
The EU has a pricing system where all the electricity is sold at the price of the most expensive source. For example, if at a given moment you need 100 MW of solar at €10, 100 MW of wind at €12, and 1 MW of gas at €150, consumers will be billed €150 for each and every MW they consume.

I get the intended logic behind the system, which is to incentivize cheap sources (if you run cheap sources, you keep the difference with respect to gas as pure profit), but IMO it's prone to gaming (a lot of incentive to have that single MW of gas up, and electricity companies are an oligopoly...) and doesn't work well even without gaming (if the price of gas is disproportionately high with respect to the rest of sources, things begin to just not make sense).

Spain and Portugal negotiated to (temporarily, I think) get out of this system and change it to something saner (with the same basic principles but some compensations so that gas price doesn't dominate anything). The so-called Iberian exception. And it's working: while our prices are still high with respect to historical standards (due to Ukraine and the general underlying energy crisis), they now tend to be much lower than the rest of the EU most of the time.
Downloadable research paper:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.20.496834v3
This library is in my head also known as "how to solve Advent of Code[0] problems in even fewer lines of Python".

[0] https://adventofcode.com
No amount of documentation will help if React keeps acting as if Web Components don't exist.

Other than that, the website looks quite nice.
Still no answer to how they’re going to solve those moments when there is no wind or sun. Are we just going to accept that businesses and residences have to turn off all their appliances and machines when that happens?
Intel on Demand [pdf]
> people claiming industrial-scale solar and wind is cheaper than burning fossil fuels

It's a lot cheaper if you price in the externalities.
Svelte will remove compiling to web components into a plugin.

In general, none of the major frameworks, and very few of the new frameworks use web components as a foundation for their functionality for many extensively described reasons that wc proponents literally couldn't care less about.
Not sure how many boards supported but you can take a look to Icestudio https://icestudio.io/
Wolf Messing: Stalin’s personal wizard
I own a similar email address, and I have to say that I absolutely hate the people that do what you do. I can't tell you how many real services people sign up for, while using a "something@gmail.com" address. There are only a couple that include a "someone used my email address to sign up" link to remove my email from their account. Sigh.
Just now saw this comment. That's really neat, pleasure to "meet" you. :-) That naming certainly gave me some headache over the years because it always stuck, and seems to be the cause of all the heated discussions. Anyway, I also wouldn't have it any other way now!
Web Components are a good concept but the implementation is terrible even as designed. OOP JS is itself terrible, but the end result are files of thousands of lines where vanilla JS + html would require just a few. I'm currently working with lit, Web Components and TS and it feels like coding C# or Java.
Why do game developers prefer Windows? (2011)
You'd be surprised. There is an entire "Fund of Funds" industry for example[1] that literally just takes people's money and takes a fee for putting it in other people's funds. The people putting money in the FOF could just as easily put it in the other funds themselves (the FOF disclose which funds they are in) and would get more money because they would have one less layer of fees to pay. Yet it exists. Their returns are intrinsically poor[2], their rationale for existance (that they do additional due dilligence on the underlying funds) is manifestly untrue[3].

[1] Check out people like skybridge capital as the most high-profile example https://skybridge.com/

[2] See for instance Buffett's bet against Protege Partners https://www.wallstreetphysician.com/warren-buffett-bet-sp-50...

[3] eg Bramdean's spectacular losses on Madoff https://www.ft.com/content/ea15b152-72f4-11de-ad98-00144feab...
I caught that boat and and was pumped overboard. But I think I was bilge water more than ballast.
And? This seems internally consistent and understandable.
They did (it's me :)) and unfortunately in this case rpath can't be used, because that particular Python driver uses ctypes (https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html) to open the binary drivers which oversimplified means that there is no binary top modify.

I hope I make it in the preamble clear that this is bad and one should not have to deal with this – but it happens in practice and I hope such a summary is useful.

For posterity: if you want to wrap / use a C library in Python, you should go for CFFI (Cython works too and is overall faster, but has other downsides). This PyCon US video is a great up-to-date summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gROGDQakzas
Your old parents will just use the cable they got with the monitor / dock / phone and be fine.

These contortions and hand wringing is pretty much a property of overthinking neck beards.
I've been on solar for years. I have over 12 hours every day where I get by with no sun, thanks to an amazing technology called a battery.
I am not sure why this person has not considered wrapping every command in /usr/bin/env? Regardless of the shell, env(1) would preserve that variable and do an execve.
> We need smart roads more than smart cars.

Then this is close to impossible :-)

The existing road infrastucture maintenance burden is already crushing financially, imagine if we add smart roads to it.
That describes Tesla FSD, not this. Tesla does level 2 in more varied of situations, but that warning time before taking control is a very key difference. Enough that you can pay 0 attention to be able to look around and see what's up before taking control (vs, you're expected to swerve the car when it fails)
Sounds like you needed some workplace allies there.
why write 'heavyosity'

https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/11133f30-f458-4903-8e20-177...
The majority of power generation in Europe is still based on fossil fuels.
And thus those are the price setters according to the Merit order curve [0], since they have the highest cost still.

[0] https://docs.energytransitionmodel.com/main/merit-order/
My derm checks every single one with a dermatoscope and takes pictures of borderline ones to track progression. Your mileage way vaty as I go to a private derm in a country with fully public/free healthcare.
'heaviosity' is a perfectly cromulent word: https://youtu.be/1eTXG8FReno?t=45
Tripod still exists?
Isn't inkscape for vector graphics while paint.net is for bitmaps? You can't use one when you need the other.
Bold of you to assume that anyone else there has the necessary knowledge to take on their role.

I was in a similar situation once, I spent months telling management that I was the only one keeping them afloat technically and that it was a critical risk to the business. They responded by trying to pressure me into unlimited unpaid travel and overtime.

I left and they fared poorly.
Not having links can be considered a feature, depending on what kind of front end you are using. When using Siri or Alexa, I typiccally want an answer, and not a quote from a page which would need further interaction, or a link to a page which requires me to actually read the content myself. In these cases, I'd much rather prefer a system like ChatGPT give an answer directly.

Is going to take a long time till Google is obsolete, esp. because a sizeable amount of people will still want to get links. But in a voice query situation, I'd actually prefer if I didn't have to interact with HTML at all.
Not sure about the title but I can tell you that having a sense of smell is not a sign of being covid-negative. You can get 2 15-minute covid tests at walmart for 20 bucks
That doesn't help you if there's a surprise call to /bin/sh or /bin/bash somewhere in the call stack. Keep reading, I know it's long but I tried to make it comprehensive. :)
Seems like this prescient article was based on a paper
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq0995