skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My port of the New Typesetting System (NTS), called KeenType, whittles down the Java-based implementation to a few of Knuth's files. Namely, "plain.tex" and "hyphen.tex":

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenType/tree/main/tex/src/mai...

Getting familiar with the fonts required understanding the difference between font metrics (TFM files) and the fonts themselves. To make matters a little less straightforward, Knuth created a special character mapping for indexes into the fonts. It was not easy to find a font that mapped those glyphs exactly. The closest font was BaKoMa:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenType/tree/main/tex/src/mai...

This required hard-coding a mapping between Knuth's code points and the actual code points in the target font:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenType/blob/989dbe26f68eda75...

Plain TeX has a lot of moving parts, so it's great to see more people writing about the topic.
perception & reality are interesting can be thought of as overlapping imperfectly, with each having some influence on the other.

We observe the world through our senses, which can impact our state of mind.
Our state of mind impacts our senses, through which we observe the world.

We are always unreliable narrators.
Most calendars still use internal cycles. These two calendars are more comparable to the astronomical Julian Day.
> "nipple of the female breast"

IANAL, but what would happen if you took a picture of a male nipple and used that to censor the female nipple? Would it be okay?
There could be an opportunity for Twitter to get into directly hosting streaming video.
I do have a WebGL-based implementation of FFT, but here I used good old JS. When properly written, it gets translated into really fast machine code, which is even faster than WebAssembly (I tried!). WebGL's problem is the high toll on the CPU--GPU bridge. When you need to transfer a block of audio data from CPU to GPU to perform calculations, you wait. When you need to transfer the FFT data back, you wait. These waits quickly outweight everything else. However on wavelet transforms GPU comes first because you can store some pre-computed FFTs on GPU and reuse them in multiple runs.
of course, the same as in 2009.
"Probably" seems like a massive understatement.
Hyperbole much? Comparing Utah to the Middle East is a bit disingenuous.
I don't believe in reincarnation but sometimes I like to think that my "outie" is playing a video game (https://youtu.be/szzVlQ653as?t=25)
I think it worked quite well at first, because it had mostly-democratic algorithms. It was distributed curation that generally followed common sense.

Before that, I remember slashdot, which was pretty good at culling comments, but article selection was not democratic.

But money screws up everything.
The browser wars were also over 20 years ago. Until the next ones.
I agree generally that there is some serious puritanical roots in the US that are still at heavy play today. But there must be more to what's happening than just that. in other threads it's bewing shown that many European countries and Canada are passing similar laws. Puritanical roots of Europe?
> It's painfully obvious nowadays that openssl was written by the NSA

The problem is that your lack of context and perspective on this fairly simple, easily-falsified theory calls all of your opinions into question.

A more nuanced conspiracy theorist would say "if you look at PR's to openssl that contributed later-discovered security issues, 70% were from first-time contributors who never went on to submit any other PR's". And I'd be like "wow, that's suggestive of a coordinated action", and we could dig into it.

But "the NSA wrote openssl" is as factually, demonstrably wrong as saying "the NSA builds every door lock that's for sale at Home Depot". It's too big of a conspiracy, to inefficient for the supposed state goals, and too easy to falsify by just looking at a couple of examples.
I'm not sure I understand the difference between modern and classic inks. Is there a definition somewhere?

(I have 20-25 ink bottles of ink and by trial and error I've roughly figured out what ink works in what pen. I probably should know more about inks given that I write a lot, but I haven't made any systematic approach to figuring this out :-))
That's like licensing all photocopiers to make sure the state knows who can produce propaganda. Not only is it an obvious rights violation, but it will never work.

If watermarking is the solution it needs to be applied to the legitimate content.
I'm not a linguist nor a Romansh speaker but my understanding has always been that at its core it is very much still a Latin dialect, thus I'm surprised by all the downvote hate I received.
The Lamy grips are pretty controversial too. It looks like there are a few other pens that use the same nib and feed as the Metro. Do any of them lack that ridge?
And what are the real life applications of quantum computing?
At that time, Google was seen as "the good guys" when it went against Microsoft, pushing for open web standards against the monopoly of IE6. Both Chrome (initially) adhering to open standards and open source protocols like Google Talk. It looked like the David vs Goliath biblical tale.

People thought Google was gonna maintain that position forever. It turned out that the "cool nerds doing open source and making money meanwhile" stance was just a sham, and Google abruptly became another faceless corporation.

A lot of people fell for it. Even the Mozilla developers. When Firefox started having compatibility issues with Gmail, they considered it as bugs in the Gmail software, and Google developers were all like "oh haha sorry I'll fix that in no time", but over time the compatibility issues piled up and the anti competitive stance slowly unveiled by itself.
The fire emoji as file extension makes me feel very uncomfortable. Am I old now? (I know I don't have to use it, but I usually work in big projects with lots of other people's code).
You're right that the current research system has problems. I would disagree with the claim that these problems are clearly getting worse when looking at it globally and at the scale of decades. On that scale, I would also disagree that private industry clearly contributes more than the research system. There are also many ways in which the system is being improved.

Science is on average immensely useful but in many cases too risky/costly for private buisness to fund it, given the current scale and power of private businesses. Such research can therefore not exist under the free market model and we have to use a different model. That's what we're doing while trying to improve the model.
The only reason I use FF on android is for the extensions (especially ad / tracking blockers). Whatever mess it might be, it still is far better than the alternatives and not really noticeable to me during daily use.
A more ambitious IBM executive might start at the midpoint 50% and settle for less. Perhaps that Microsoft AD is supervised by half a human's time assisted with AI whereas 5-20 full time people were needed for a 3000 seat Microsoft O365.
I didn't read the story but the outlet is quite well known ("Lyudi Baikala"/"People of Baikal"), they mentioned the illustration is AI-generated in the end of the article. As I see it the confusion started from Twitter user ChrisO_wiki which retells independent Russian media stories in the form of Twitter threads, and he used the image without mentioning that it was AI-generated.
A bank being rescued and its depositors money is safe and that bolsters the crypto narrative, compared to the owners being on the run or on trial for fraud?

OK.
Regarding Noodler's Ink: Most of his popular inks are fairly consistent. Noodler's Ink Black being by far the most popular. For black inks I prefer Heart of Darkness. It is a deeper, richer black, though it isn't as well-behaved on bad paper.

Noodler's Navy is also very good. (I have many bottles from this brand.)

But if you want a safe-in-any-pen, just works, generally great ink, I'd have to recommend Pilot Blue-Black in the 70ml bottle. The bottle has built-in ink well, so it ensures you get a good fill all the way through the life of the bottle. The ink is middle of the road for wetness (Pilot Iroshizuku inks are wet, this is in the middle, not dry like Robert Oster inks, for example).
> Pilot Metropolitan

One thing I’d like to mention is the difference between Japanese Fine and European Fine, with Japanese being much finer.

I found Metropolitan Fine to be scratchy while love Lamy Safari Fine. I’ll recommend Metropolitan Medium to most people who are starting with fountain pens, or a Lamy Safari Fine.
The passphrase is what makes it a poor user experience. Many people simply need an encrypted disk that you can't boot offline and not the boot-time PIN/passphrase (which Microsoft abandoned as the default in Windows 8, I believe, again due to UX).
Please don't post LLM content without a reason and without disclaimer.
I think that was the point of the Red Hat acquisition. "See all those Linux boxes you run? Do you want to have someone to yell at when they blow up? It's either us or Canonical.".

There's no way z/OS is going to be free or open-source (if for no other reason than if they open sourced it, you'd still need a mainframe, which means you're going to pay IBM for cloud time), so if hobbyists are going to start with something they'll probably start with Linux. Once they are no longer a hobbyist, IBM will be there to help.
Love my Pelikans. But the M800 and M1000 retail for more than double the most expensive pen on my list. They are awesome but not necessarily a better writing experience than the pens on the list.

Still, they mostly didn't make the list because while Pelikans are awesome, their nib quality control isn't what one would hope it was. In addition, you don't really know what you are getting in terms of nib size. I've bought Pelikan extra fines that make a wider line than Pelikan mediums.

If you know how to tune nibs or you budget and extra 50 dollars for a nibmeister to get it the way you like, or you buy from a retail store where you try the pen out first and know what to look for great. I suspect most here will buy online and won't necessarily know what makes for a problematic nib and how they want it to work.
Which is also incorrect.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_numeral vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number.
Système D has both a positive and negative connotation. There is indeed a resourceful part, but also an 'it's an ugly hack' part (but justified by the circumstances).

As an example, my parents used to leave in Africa, and at the time, the water supply system was unreliable, so my father hooked-up a 100 litters drum so that we at least had some water for essential needs during outages. Smart given the circumstances but a proper water supply would have been preferable.
> What's the impact of having systemd (or not) for the everyday layman like me that just uses Visual Studio Code to build flutter apps ?

Nothing. I run Void Linux Musl with XFCE and I have no issue running Steam and other big glibc programs in Flatpak, docker, etc.
I use a refillable cartridge on my pens and have dialed in about how much ink I should load at any given point in time based on my writing habits. It might help to play around with that.
Nobody ever said these people were smart.
It's unequivocal that the state has the right and obligation to intervene in cases of child neglect/abuse (which refusal or inability to provide necessary medical care is an example of) and is easily evidenced by the existence of agencies like the Child Protective Services or Children's Aid Society.

It is completely unnecessary to state the child's ethnicity to make this point which is entirely irrelevant to the argument you are attempting to make.
Does this mean they're getting direct access to the weights/models/code itself behind GPT4?

> Microsoft is allowed to resell OpenAI's products under the terms of a "multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment" that Microsoft has made in OpenAI. Apparently, this will lead to the two companies competing for some of the same users.

I probably should have paid more attention to this news earlier. I wonder how this would play out when the multi years have run out, surely MS is left with nothing at the end of it? How does it benefit them?
I emailed them past February, and didn't heard back :(
Seems a really good fit for my background. Hopefully this time they answer.
How do the devices negotiate who gives the charge and who gets charged? I’ve never tried it - I imagined it wont work at all!
Who is the nazi (and what's the picture)?
You’re conflating liquidity with solvency. The problem isn’t a lack of cash on hand, it’s assets that have fallen in value. Saying that they money will be there, it just takes a bunch of time, denies the reality of the time value of money. A stream of payments of $10/year for ten years is not worth $100. Never has been.
I feel like you have completely wasted everyone’s time.

When people get it wrong, there should be consequences.

You are no longer a reliable source.

There’s so many people out there who just keep throwing shit against the wall. “Oh well, I was wrong. Here’s the next thing…”

People don’t know what to believe because no one has the time to validate all the unreliable noise.
This is too real and any of the great investment of manpower (e.g. Tensorflow for Swift) if happened to Julia would probably be 10x or 100x in terms of ROI -- just look at how few devs and line of code Julia's alternative to pandas/numpy/ML/autodidf/plotting has. If Julia ecosystem can be somewhat competitive while only having part time and researchers' side project contributors, it WILL thrive if properly invested.
Pornography, social media, 24/7 news... will all be looked back on in history as having profound negative mental health effects, akin to how we today view smoking in the 1950s. There is a mountain of growing evidence that this is verifiably true. The exact means that Utah is using to provide ID check may be for debate, but the concept there should be an age restriction, liable to the ISP or the content provider, should not be in dispute.
I honestly don't know what you mean. My question was about your view of how cybersecurity works in practice and what role security by obscurity plays in it.
So you are proposing that a couple of hundred years ago, in 1823, a hypothetical ChatGPT would not have been trained on the works of Leonhard Euler, from 80 years before that.

That actually sounds about right. (-:
it's aggregated though,because data is only valuable in volume. Showing ID every time you visit a site is significantly more identifiable at the individual level.
The amount of blue checks in that thread speaks volumes. Lmao.
> IBM studied this. Bell studied this.

Could you link to those? Google isn't returning helpful results for me here.
I don't think it's a worse choice. Either way, you're screwed with physical access. At least with TPM, the attack requires more sophistication.
I haven't had any trouble with TWSBI's bought in the last 2-3 years. Besides they have a crazy good lifetime warranty. I've had a pen stepped on, emailed them and told them so and they shipped a replacement barrel to me for shipping cost. Ditto a replacement wrench that I lost.
> Banking is fundamentally broken. People want zero risk, demand deposits that pay interest. There’s no business model that can provide that.

Given that many people bank at gigantic banks that pay 0.00001% interest...I don't think that's true.
That's how it felt to me too. Stretched too thin. Yet as a small company compared to MS or Google, I can imagine how hard it is to try to thrive or just survive and maintaining a stable path when you're fighting big pockets.

I just wished they could rebalance their allocation and focus on simple daily usability things. Just a bit more.

ps: for instance, the screenshot tool is brilliant
Not to mention, improving the browser in the space of adblockers installed by default ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... ftw! ) would remove most incentives for AI generated content in the first place. /inserts shrugging emoji
Think of all the webpages that tell people to look for a padlock icon in their browser? All the books, all the training materials, videos, etc.

This doesn't seem like a good idea at all.
Some do though. Having a lot of money in a checking account doesn’t mean someone is any more sophisticated with respect to finances. It could be retirement savings or an inheritance.

No one should wake up one day and find out most of their life savings or inheritance is gone because of banking shenanigans. This is not like a hurricane or catastrophic expensive surgery. This is entirely preventable and fixable by the government.

Gov’t sells low yield bonds to banks during pandemic => gov’t jacks up interest rates to fight inflation => value of bonds previously sold to banks plummet => bank marks bond values to market and is now technically insolvent causing a bank run => grandma loses majority of her life savings => government refuses to reimburse depositors above FDIC limit even though it created the problem to begin with.

That is not a chain of events I am ok with. Bank management and equity holders should get wiped out but not depositors.
That nails me. But that is also the impetus behind my use of almost every single product I use, from my house, to my car, to my food, to my computers, to the os and other software on them. I don't think that is indicative of anything very specific to FF.
Musk seemed to hint at that possibility with his latest tweet.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1653447855401468011
Google is a cult in itself. Although the recent layoffs have shattered that illusion for the better.
> is effectively a theocracy operated by an ultra-conservative religious minority.

You should look up what the word theocracy means. Here. I'll do it for you: "a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god."

Utah's government is a constitutional Republic. People vote in leaders who make laws and administer the government on their behalf.

> Utah is about as similar to the rest of the United States as the rest of the United States is similar to the Middle East.

Your unequivocally false, deceitful, and extremely hyperbolic statements aren't helping anyone out.
Infinity is out of domain of integer numbers where notions of even and odd are defined and make sense.

Notion of infinity is applicable when we are discussing sequences and their behaviour, such as convergence.

Convergence of sequence x(n) to infinity by definition is: for each real number ε>0 there exists a natural number N(ε) such that for every number n≥N(ε) we have |x(n)|>ε.

Convergence of sequence x(n) to plus infinity by definition is: for each real number ε>0 there exists a natural number N(ε) such that for every number n≥N(ε) we have x(n)>ε.

Convergence of sequence x(n) to minus infinity by definition is: for each real number ε>0 there exists a natural number N(ε) such that for every number n≥N(ε) we have x(n)<-ε.

For example sequence of natural numbers 1, 2, 3... converges to plus infinity and to infinity; sequence of negated natural numbers -1, -2, -3... converges to minus infinity and to infinity; and sequence of sign-alternating numbers (-1)^n * n: -1, 2, -3, 4, -5, 6, -7, 8, -9, 10... converges to infinity.

So notion of infinity applies to behaviour of sequences, whose elements remain finite nevertheless. If we consider other mathematical objects, e.g. integer numbers, then notion of infinity does not apply. If we consider convergence of sequences where notion of infinity is applicable, then notion of even/odd is not applicable.

While discussing sequences converging to an infinity with a child, it may be useful to consider some interesting counterexamples: sequences which are unbounded, but still do not converge to infinity, e.g. 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 6, 1, 8, 1, 10, 1, 12, 1, 14, 1, 16, 1, 18, 1, 20... (formula is n^((1+(-1)^n)/2)).
Governments in the US don't have a great history of doing things efficiently. Cost for them is likely to be above market.
From my own experience, "only" deep and intense breathing for not more than 5 minutes can alter state of mind drastically.
This is not true: these sites rely on Pushshift, which archives ALL comments (at the time of their creation), and Pushshifts data is then compared with Reddits data, allowing it to work out which comments have been deleted.
You mean the law that the NRA tries to protect and defend? The only irony is that you admit there's a law, a supreme law of the land, but seem to take a biased approach saying there shouldn't be guns. Sadly, they arn't in a position to argue with the secret service, and thus it's only when someone under secret service protection is speaking.

If you donate more to the NRA, they'll have more resources to defend the second amendment.
Hey, I've used https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:moj... (tl;dr Chromium's IPC) which is enough to pass the recruiter screening. (And, uh, just applied to this Mojo because I'd love to get back to language compiler work.)
My child mind conflated infinity and God. Or maybe I was correct, I have no idea now.
No math instruction I had ever discussed infinity with any rigor until calculus -- and even then, it was only infinity as a limit. Infinity as a concept was brushed off in the same way that the square root of negative one was brushed off until we were actually taught about it.
It climbed almost nothing.
Is this usable as a general purpose language, or is it too tailored to AI/ML tasks and thus missing a lot of 'general' libraries and such?

How does performance compare to Python in the general case, when not dropping into tricks?

Either way, kudos, exciting stuff, just questions I had after reading about it.
The basic idea is that if you take criminals out of lawful society and put them in prison, they might someday learn that lawful society is worth participating in.
The real problem is that lots of kids have terrible parents and nothing can be done about that.
Pilot somehow pulls off miracles with their steel nibs. The Kakuno has the same nib as the Metropolitan or the Explorer, and they're great. Even better, the Kakuno can (just barely) fit the CON-70 converter for a nice big ink reservoir instead of the wee CON-40.

Granted, refilling cartridges with bottled ink and blunt syringes works really well, too.
I bought a Pilot Vanishing Point on a whim just assuming I'd love it. (No wait, it was after some HN thread around five years ago, I think.) Anyway, it's so amazing that I've never considered another fountain pen.

What am I missing?
There is an english wikipedia article that makes that claim but that page cites commentary from religious people. As for contemporary influence, well, even the gospels point out that the people chose Barabas.

Certainly an influential figure whether such a person actually existed or not.
Yes absolutely! Also why I tagged on that call-out of Safari and other browsers.

And not to forget that Google has even shipped several early-days standards track features to production of which the API was still in flux. In a few cases the API later changed in - for Chrome, at least - breaking ways. Fun times.
This will start to happen in business. The company I work for has high levels of stress. We now have lots of HR people sending messages about mental health. Endless messages about mindfulness, yoga, a monthly happy thoughts diary etc. At no point does anyone acknowledge that maybe working conditions are part of the problem. Or that the business has any culpability for stress. It is just another growth vector for charlatans. A corporate branded wellbeing app is the next logical step.
You can't. Banks can.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/reference-rates/obfr and things like that.
Same, I pick up prescriptions for myself, my kids, and my wife, all the time. I can't recall ever being ID'd, and I'm certainly I'm not usually asked for ID. Maybe it varies state-by-state?
I think I'm almost grasping it without fully grasping it. I don't suppose you have any examples?