skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all exist for good reasons

Sure, but what's banned is surely not all medical or legal advice.

I can browse case law or US code thinking about my case - somehow this does not need a legal license. At the other end of the continuum, talking to a lawyer about my case obviously needs him to be licensed.

So now we're debating on which side of the cutoff using DoNotPay's robot must fall. The lawyers have made their mind ages ago that legal advice can only be dispensed by licensed humans.
Ye videos are really bad as a manual for programming.

Usually you just want the code pointing you in the right direction and if the writer was nice the header file is included in the snippet.

For e.g. repairing cars it is really great.
If people ever live on the moon they’ll need some time similar to earth’s to somehow fall into circadian cycles to be of any use
>Is it normal to simply accept the word of an anonymous source for something so important?

Anonymous means they aren't revealing the source, not that Bloomberg doesn't know who the sources is, or what they do.
I think this is also a bit of a miscommunication. If you take "blogging is dead" as "[literally] nobody blogs anymore", it's clearly wrong, no discussion. Instead, if you take it as "blogging is no longer hyped and no longer mainstream", you're much closer to the truth (in my opinion).

Blogging is dead in the same way that dedicated cameras are dead: People still use them for specific use cases and there's a large enthusiast community for them, but the mainstream public moved on. Of course, especially with blogging, there's also a massive filter bubble effect going on; on HN, most people would likely agree with the OP, but a teenager (at least in my country) would staunchly disagree.
No, multiple packages can (and do) declare the same crate name. For instance, both the "md5" package [0] and "md-5" package [1] declare the "md5" crate. You can even add both of them as a dependency at the same time: you'll only get a compile error when you try to refer to "md5" from the code. So a Cargo package may declare at most one crate name, but this name is not unique.

[0] https://crates.io/crates/md5

[1] https://crates.io/crates/md-5
How to use Shutterstock Al image generator
Is this a wrapper around pandoc?

If so, it's hardly noteworthy. If you've written your own PDF to DOCX converter, then you have an interesting technical story (or ten) to tell -- do tell.
Exactly. If one were to look at my top-level reply here and ask "why?" for any item I listed, in basically every case the answer would be "It works, and I know it." I could get more done faster using that stack than a stack I'd have to learn from scratch.

That said, there's a time and place for experimenting and learning new stuff. And I am interested in trying Elixir at some point. But to "get stuff done" in the near term? Yeah, it's going to be mostly Java/Groovy, Grails, and some Javascript. Hell, I might even break out jQuery just out of sheer familiarity, if I got stuck doing something using vanilla JS.
I've fuzzed the HashiCorp's Vault API. Here are my findings (1)
I think the Freenode takeover could have worked without loosing the majority of the channels if rasengan hadn't tried so hard to kill the network. After all, Freenode was a free service people were making use of and as long as it was run somewhat competently most wouldn't have cared too much about operator drama.

Here it feels more like people are providing unpaid work (by running receivers) and who in their right mind would continue doing that for a commercial entity.
From the linked MS support document:

> This works best with PDFs that are mostly text
> Ever try buying Christmas lights on Amazon? The advisable way is to just buy a ton of things and return whatever is broken, which in 2021, out of 6 sets of lights I bought, I ended up returning 5.

The solution is to not buy from places like Amazon. I bought my lights from somewhere else and other than a broken bulb that was fixed with the included extra lights I was 5 for 5 on working lights on bargain bin quality strands/nets.

Quit supporting the marketplaces that shovel trash on us.
Leading with Confidence: How Engineering Managers Can Avoid Technical Decay
As an engineering manager, it can be easy to feel a sense of distance from the team and concerns about technical decay over time. But there are solutions to this problem! In this article, I explore ways to improve low-level engineering skills, in order to reduce the gap between you and your team members and maintain effectiveness in leading a technical team.
Default insert mode sounds like a good idea
Shameless plug - but feel free to add to the 1kB Club [0] once it hits the 1kB mark :)

0: https://1kB.club
I work with complicated CSS and even the shadow DOM all day long and I couldn't get past the first item. What does "select the plates" mean? There are several ways to point to the plates and apply a style but the quiz didn't accept any of them.

For example, "plate" (without quotes) is a valid selector for a <plate> element but the quiz doesn't like that.
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) explains mainframes, bit rot, and software reliability engineering on Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast.

By the way, Odd Lots is excellent. It's an economics podcast, but they feature interviews with a broad variety of experts on various topics. Recent guests have included a founder of electric semi-truck builder Edison Motors, the Flexport CEO, an egg farm executive, and a Federal Reserve veteran economist. The hosts are smart, and they don't dumb things down for their audience. It's become one of my favorite podcasts.

Similar interview podcasts I can heartily recommend for the same reasons are Conversations with Tyler and The Ezra Klein Show.
Witness is a pluggable framework digital attestation
Witness is a pluggable framework for software supply chain risk management. It automates, normalizes, and verifies software artifact provenance.
And then the defendant changes his name from Bobby Tables to Ignore P. Directions.
Came here to say this. I have a side project that I need to spin up quickly and after lots of framework shopping, I settled for Django.

Django and it's batteries included philosophy is perfect for creating full stack applications. The best thing about Django is that almost every problem you face has been answered by the community.

The community tools like DRF/Django-Ninja/Crispy-forms/Django-environ etc are top notch and it's very easy to extend your application.

7/5 would use Django again.
It's not relatively small. All the companies are experiencing similar chaos to the NYSE because people in the middle of important operational work suddenly vanished.
The people laid off weren't idle like H&R Block tax preparers in May or Target clerks in January.

The people laid off and the people not needed were a different set of people, at the time of the layoff.
ChatGPT Goes to Law School
But this leads to an exponential time algorithm.
Nice! Would you happen to know what Azure uses for this? https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/

I wonder what the pros and cons are between that and what you are building.
Related: https://startafuckingblog.com
Exactly. And its much better to use them, instead of buying a domain and webspace for may 5 users at the end who "code" more then test or hi.
As someone who moved to Spain I would not say that you can get by with only English. Outside of tourism barely anyone speaks it really.
> I can browse case law or US code thinking about my case - somehow this does not need a legal license.

Of course. With rare exceptions, court proceedings are public.

But being able to read court proceeds or judgements or anything at all doesn't mean that you know and understand the law. You know, the actual words that are written and codified that must be interpreted and adhered to with jurisprudence.

Not that lawyers actually do either. But at least they've been certified (by "the bar" association) to have some competence in the matter.
If Google just blacklisted the top 50 or whatever SEO spam programming pages it would probably remove 99% of the spam on programming queries.

I have tried with the Firefox addon and it gets better quick.

It is almost always the same sites.

And building up page rank takes time so it is a winning battle ... but hey! Google drives no hands!
That's what I meant but you're right my comment could easily be interpreted differently, thanks.
As in, 'but you don't want to be seen as a communist, when fighting for freedom'.

Communists are the ones that suppress individual freedoms, such as using censorship, for the "greater good" of "all", which quickly morphs from "the people" to "the state" then to "dear leader".

So yes, censorship is bad, which is why you don't want the help of communists in fighting it. They just want to replace it with their own.

One should be very wary of any communist movement fighting to "free" people.
Ask HN: Chromebook powerwash reset lost ~500 tabs. Why?
Any ChromeOS developer here knows how the lost tabs may be recovered?
This is hilarious, its like its treating an X as a wonky t !
I know what they're saying, and it's equally unattainable.
>> "Here it feels more like people are providing unpaid work (by running receivers) and who in their right mind would continue doing that for a commercial entity."

Most people with a smartphone. I do enjoy more precise GPS even if it means Apple and Google are soaking up Wi-fi hotspot info to improve triangulation. I think the difference is most people don't realize they're feeding this info to companies.
Classic corruption infects mostly along the "i can extract value from him by threatening to tell the law" lines.

We are worser of then that now, because the politics and the law production is corrupted.

And to reduce that a start would be to focus on the law generated, to have that uncorrupted. If there is laws that forbid politicians from taking money, classic corruption might even reemerge.
I wanted to like that book but it's a big Just-so story.

tl;dr: The brave knight implemented devops and everyone lived happily ever after!
Its ok for me. :)
I thought last night about but may I cant hit the mark with this project. Thanks god, I have a lot more. ;D
Is Microsoft Exiting the Metaverse?
Hate requires energy, Biden, Fauci, Trump, XJP, Zelensky, Putin or whatever idiot is not worth my hate. So yes, if you have nothing better to do than hate person you never met in your life and who never personally did anything to you other than some intepretation spread by your favorite MSM, you are radical by my standards. I could understand someone who harmed you or your family, but hating some distant politician looks quite immature.

And the problem is not really even that these people hate him, they can have whatever opinion they want or even hate him, the problem is that they project their hate even here in what should be civil discussion forum on users with different opinion, so much for "democrats" who can't stand different opinion and downvote/censor any opposing views.
These fake-scanner pdf generators always use a huge skew. A tiny (random) bit of skewing makes it seem more genuine, but using the same exact large rotation puts it in an uncanny valley.
He is known as "Woz" not "the Woz".

Today, his wife manages autographs and there is a charge for them.
You don't "need" much tbh. My setup is a cardboard tube, a lens I found in a broken scanner and some tape. I'm using an old kindle as backlight since it doesn't have pixels = no need for diffusion.
What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?
Yep, yet another post on AI and the future of content creation.

Looking at it from a different angle - what if AI could search your internal docs, and help you problem-solve? Aka help you exploit past knowledge to inform future decisions?

The hope: GPT will democratize creation, not fill the internet with shitty articles.
No, they only take responsibility for short-term market cap. Margins and profit don't matter. That's why they chase whatever fad hits the investor class.
I think I broke it by creating the username `index.html`. Sorry, I wasn't expecting it to do anything.
I can’t see how you get that impression from the comment? Can you explain to me?
Is there something for logo generation?
I'd recommend https://grain2pixel.com. It's free, works good and the creator answered my emails in less than a day
Yeah because nobody listens to American music and watch American TV shows/movies to start with. I find it much more enjoyable when you can actually understand what they say.
Crypto Mining Using a Python Library
>> Steve Wozniak aka “The Woz”

http://www.woz.org/about/

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22the+woz%22+site%3Awoz.org
Unclear description of requirements. Even as a green field project you base these on the environment it needs to operate in, the team that will work on it, and/or based on requirements of the actual functionality. And if for your own project, base it on something you know. Learning a new stack and developing an mvp does not go well. You would be struggling more to make it work than making progress.
Then your favourite font must be Semi:
https://www.dafont.com/semi.font
While checking to see if anyone else had made this connection, I discovered that Neal used to feature a quote on his website of a reviewer describing him as "like Umberto Eco without the charm".
Lots of times they just find that to be too much effort for the slim amount of money to be made. It's way easier for them to just take the loss and "destroy" it since they're unsure about the quality of the returned items.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/28/amazon-returns-what-really-h...

Disposal happens a lot. A huge chunk of the time that return you submit is just going into the trash. Remember that when you go to buy something you might not really need.
Heres an great example from the 1kbclub: https://1k.lom.me/
Without the htaccess, the complete site is 555 bytes, so you would still have ~500 more until you hit the mark. :)
> Good luck with Spanish and French tax-related forms. In case of Spain, the documents are full of legalese jargon not even a native can grasp it at 100% without a gov website in an aside tab reading twice or trice the legal terms.

So you say one more reason not even bother trying to learn language for this reason, since you stand no chance if even native speaker can't understand it.
Realtek SDK Vulnerability Attacks Highlight IoT Supply Chain Threats
If the claim were true that the solution is always integer, then one could use a poly-time LP solver.
How will those poor decommissioned computers get enough bytes to feed themselves?
No two ways about it, you've got to learn to drive the ship. Trying to hold the center is nigh impossible. Also, the cannon has a short cool-down after 5 rapid shots, so you need to get that 1-2-3-4-5-pause cadence baked into muscle memory.

That said, I never managed to last very long on that cabinet.
For an MVP the most important thing is to get the product ready, have early feedback and then iterate based on the response.

After my extensive framework shopping of PHP/Laravel, Phoenix, Supabase, Directus, Kotlin+SpringBoot, I settled for Django+HTMX+AlpineJS for my side project. I could create a working MVP in a week and within 1 month I had most features up and running.

I plan to host it on Oracle cloud (free tier) and have not seen any issues with it so far in the test runs.
> This is so fucking dumb. As if you need a lawyer to contest a parking ticket in the first place.

There are plenty of jurisdictions that have all sorts of onerous rules that tilt things in favor of the prosecution because they use traffic and parking enforcement as a revenue generator. These rules are cheered on by <looks around room and gestures> because politicians and high level bureaucrats aren't idiots and know how to frame things to sell them to any given audience.
Is This Abstract Generated by AI?
When I was younger I got a lot of coincidental exercise, especially in my 20s, when I was climbing every weekend, commuting by bike, and doing lots of skiing in the winter. When my company moved to SF, I followed, and quickly replaced all the exercise with clubbing, going to hear live music, eating out excessively, etc. A few years later, I went to a paintball outing hosted by a new employer. It didn't seem strenuous at the time, but at the end of the day I was wiped out and just lay on the sofa for an hour or so to relax. When I eventually stood up, I almost passed out. It was the first (and only) time it's happened to me in my life, and it scared the crap out of me. Later that week I bought a used exercise machine off CL and started running again. Before long I was back to my old self. I've kept up with lifting and running as near-daily activities since then. Yoga comes and goes, so I've lost some flexibility, but in some ways I'm in better shape than I was 30 years ago before I moved to SF.
Nice WordPerfect 5.11 / Turbo Pascal vibe. I’ll try it out.
Are the golden parachutes bigger (as % of annual comp) than employee severance packages?
Maybe, but most games use simpler tools like behaviour trees or utility systems not just over machine learning based AI, but also over fancier game AI techniques like GOAP, MCTS or even HTN’s simply because:

1) they are easier for the designer to understand and easy to understand why an NPC made the decision it did

2) they are easier for the designer to tweak and update to get the behaviour they want

3) they’re computationally expensive. Most games only give a few milliseconds at most per frame to AI. The model would have to run very quickly. GOAP and MCTS are known to work well but the search space can explode too large, eg the total war games use MCTS and can only look a few turns into the future because the search space is too large.

The problem with machine learning based game AI is that it is difficult to understand why the NPC is doing what it’s doing and if you need to tweak or update it, you have to retrain the model which could be costly or time consuming. It may also be difficult to train in the first place because you need to create example data that has the desired behaviour.

A big part of game AI is designers authoring an experience that they wish to convey on the player and machine learning takes a lot of control away and puts it in an opaque black box.

GOAP = goal oriented action planning, a graph-search based planner

MCTS = Monte Carlo Tree Search, a heuristic search based decision making algorithm. Some of the Total War games use it.

HTN = hierarchical task network, a hierarchical planning system that solves some of the issues GOAP has: it can prune the search space more aggressively and it gives designers more control over the resulting behaviours. It’s lesser known and has less talks/articles/sample code compared to GOAP
Ah nice to know. Another point for the todo list! :)
So obvious, so good!
As if in a cataclysmic situation there would be anything we could do about it.
I would use a full stack framework so I do not have the overhead of creating API endpoints.

I would use Laravel with Livewire.
Don't forget state elections! Tons of state legislatures are affected by gerrymandering, too. It's frustrating that my city's representation is cracked and packed away.
Don't Lie to Me: Avoiding Malicious Explanations with Stealth
So the solution is to just do nothing and die? Because all this moral self wanking is great and all but you aren’t doing anything to fix it.
I ran it, and it installs these python extensions:

Successfully installed PyMuPDF-1.21.1 fire-0.5.0 fonttools-4.38.0 lxml-4.9.2 numpy-1.24.1 opencv-python-4.7.0.68 pdf2docx-0.5.6 python-docx-0.8.11 six-1.16.0 termcolor-2.2.0
From a previous comment, it's an open source project!

https://github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis
Slack just copied IRC clients.
The problem isn't really if there are lots of images or graphics, but rather that word isn't great at handling complex layouts.

I somehow doubt OPs converter does much better. I hope to be proven wrong though.
It's a one year license. The FAQ is not clear on whether the software will continue working with an expired license.
> Paper will last, a 100 or so years

afaik even the best color papers (for wet prints) will last 20-50 years before starting to show color shift, that's in a darkbox with optimal humidity. b&w obviously is much better

Modern pigment prints seem to perform a bit better, 65-120 years according to some studies
> If you're working full time in Japanese you could absolutely get conversational Japanese within half a year.

I fail to imagine scenario where Japanese company hire non-japanese speaker who will then be working full time in Japanese language to learn it.
On the contrary, if a single employee can take out the whole business, you are guaranteeing disruption.

There are many kinds of "outcomes".
A simple backup would make outages far more rare.
If the backend, frontend, API and data layer are in Elixir, what's actually written in Rust?
Sure, I know the definitions.

> A foreign startup trying something before saying "sorry lol didnt work, good luck" is not gonna convince many to try.

It won't seriously deter them either. The public outcry over even the attempt is a more concerning deterrent.

> When you burn coal to heat your people, you're not gonna fail

Tell that to Texas.

> people are gonna last one more day, they can accept the compromise.

Yes, people tend to overvalue immediate visible benefits and undervalue long-term costs (like the climate 100 years hence) or invisible benefits (like gaining scientific knowledge by performing insignificant-scale geoengineering tests).

People are irrational. This is known. We should strive to be less irrational.
The Anti-Gravity Freedom Machine(2017)
This was a pre-internet email like platform designed back in the 80s that never made it to public release, it sounds like it had a lot of the retro features the HN crowd loves!
Cranking up the "legibility" I see plenty of perfectly respectable "x"s. Are you sure this is "not enough training data" rather than "actually, people writing quickly write pretty bad 'x's"?

[EDITED to add:] Ah, oops, I see. You were talking specifically about _capital_ X. You are right and I was wrong: the model produces disastrous capital Xs even at high legibility settings.
Literally every regulation has pros and cons and those change over time with the makeup of the reality we live in. Something that was useful when passed may be hampering us now.

Plenty of regulations have been an obvious net negative for society when passed to anyone who crunched the numbers but have been passed anyway because of appeals to emotion, political optics and special interest lobbying.
Great, if one only writes English.

It messes up all diacritics.
I'm interested. What sort of regulations do you think would affect the robo-lawyer space in the UK?

Self-representation is frowned upon and mostly disallowed. Lawyers are expensive. I'd genuinely consider having ChatGPT fight for me.
Russian, Iranian Hackers Pose as Journalists in Emails, UK Says
I was wondering is there anyone uses Clojure or other Lisp languages for these kinds of things…
Not really.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act

>> "The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that prohibited public carrying of loaded firearms without a permit.[2] Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford, and signed into law by governor of California Ronald Reagan, the bill was crafted with the goal of disarming members of the Black Panther Party who were conducting armed patrols of Oakland neighborhoods, in what would later be termed copwatching."

Permitting, of course, was notoriously inequal along lines of segregation like most things then and many things still today.

There are so many things happening right now that these armed defenders of rights should be showing up for that they aren't. Leftist gun owners showing up to protect libraries is about it.
Chipotle Goes on Hiring Spree of 15,000 Amid Strong Growth
https://archive.is/zW1mZ
Same with languages like Portuguese and French, it did not got any of them right.