skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting a requirement to support a product for another 80+ years will prevent small volume product from ever hitting the market and will increase the cost to the consumer.

What if we decrease the regulation on things that do not harm the patient when they fail, so they can but a device for $100 on Amazon rather than $10k at the hospital?
Show HN: WACopyMate – Copy Numbers to Clipboard on WhatsApp Web in 1 Click
WACopyMate is a dead simple Chrome/Firefox add-on to copy contact numbers from chats on WhatsApp Web in 1 click. With this, you will not have to manually copy numbers, remove spaces, and remove parenthesis. Just tap on the ad-don's icon in the toolbar to copy number of the contact in currently opened chat.

It is my first attempt at creating browser extensions.
Maybe that happened because it was so expensive? If you’d bought a $200 exercise bike that was functionally the same, would you have achieved the same thing?
Not that I wanna encourage piracy or anything but here the book is in Spanish and English:

https://libgen.rs/fiction/46DAEF09199182E5928922587419E1F3

http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=C8E7CC541E6855E0034FC6D0...
> There was never going to be long term survival.

Yes. It’s an tablet on a bike connected to a VOD workout service. Apple was always just about to eat their lunch. The day they announced Fitness+ was probably the day everyone in the C-Suite started looking for the exit.
Speaking of business lines that have no hope of ever being profitable, I'm still waiting them to cancel the metaverse project, but it still looks like Zuck's ego >>> the appearance of future profitability >>> the people who actually make facebook's core competences function.

The more people they lay off while keeping that dumpster fire going the more alarm bells go off in my head around the long term viability of their stock. It definitely doesn't belong in a pension.

Its fashionable among herd mentality investors now to do noisy lay-offs, but the smart money is probably quietly hiring these days.
>most accessibility support is rooted in best practices for every user.

This isn't quite true, when you get into things like using aria attributes. I definitely wouldn't put it at 99.99%. And I think a lot of vendors of accessibility software get to skate where others would have their feet held to the fire. They could be doing more to make their software easier to use and for developers to make it accessible.

I used to work as a contractor for the CDC, so I have experience in web development that is held to a higher accessibility standard (we had an actual real person who would verify our work and certify that it was accessible.)

Some things that come to mind are color contrast ratios where you have to pass different levels (AA vs. AAA) https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

And being able to navigate a site with a keyboard, or announce when sections change. That stuff isn't automatic. It might be baked into whatever framework you're using, but those frameworks have bugs too.

Here's an example I ran into with React Native, and it's still not clear if they ever fixed it or if it just got closed as stale: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/27989
Peloton has always struck me as being the latest in a long line of fitness gadgets, from Nordic Track through Tae Bo DVDs and Bowflex. It was inevitable that the fad would end. The CEO rationally followed his incentives: lean into the fad, boost short-term profit at the expense of sustainability, and get that stock price up. Then quit and go buy an island somewhere. HIS plan worked perfectly.
If you think about it, it is a kind of ridiculous idea that you would need super-sensitive equipment to determine if some cheap device would interfere with the workings of some other relatively cheap device.
> I don't see anyone arguing that there have been fewer than 6 world reserve currencies in recorded history and plenty that say more

Name six and the time period during which each was the global reserve currency. (Not that six would be enough for history to be “littered with” examples anyway, but...)
I would just like to endorse this program... I use it all the time, and recommend it widely. Everybody I've suggested used it has liked it. It's a big timesaver, and it's considerably quicker than the popular Rufus tool for writing Windows ISO files onto USB. The latest versions have a handy additional feature: if you use them to boot Windows 11, they can disable the check for hardware requirements, and they can disable the requirement for an Internet connection and thus for Windows 11 to connect to a Microsoft account. This means you can install Windows 11 onto a machine that doesn't have a TPM 2 chip for example.

I wrote about it here:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/10/friday_foss_fest/
I really like software that is "offline first".

This is how everyone used to make software, before SaaSS became a thing.

(SaaSS: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...)

It basically means your software works as intended without an internet connection.

You don't get the "reduced version" without internet, it does exactly what you expect it to and does not complain.

A password manager should be offline first, because what if you need to use a password offline?
I call for them to overhaul the insanity that is IP/copyright law in the west. That would actually do us all good instead of just protecting entrenched businesses.
YouTube’s Plans for RSS
Your first statement is bizarrely dismissive and a little condescending. The posters experience was their own. The fact it is positive and made for tv commercials pay actors to pretend to have an experience akin to the posters doesn’t impeach the posters experience in any way. I’d note the fact they’ve been engaged with the product and maintained fitness for years makes it not sound fad-ish at all. Their experience maps to what I hear from peloton owners as well. The level of long term engagement in the product seems very high and has a high stickiness, which for fitness products is very rare - and frankly a very good thing for the human beings whose life is positively changed by it. That’s not something to dismiss, that’s something to cheer. Good for the poster. I wish him years of continued fitness.

On is peloton a fad - it’s definitely not going to be what they thought it was. That was a lockdown induced hallucination. But it seems like with a steadier hand in management it’s a long term viable enterprise. But it won’t be replacing Apple or something like they probably thought they would.
I wonder if the same folks asking for taxing away those profits are now saying these companies should be subsidized now that they’re losing money. (Kind of doubt it…)
The layoffs are part of Meta's so-called "year of efficiency," which CEO Mark Zuckerberg pitched as necessary for the company to slim down and become more nimble amid a challenging economy and weakened digital advertising market.

When is our industry going to finally come to the realization the people running these companies don't actually seem to know what they're doing? Meta isn't hemorrhaging money because of a 'challenging economy' and 'weakened digital advertising market', Zuckerberg personally drove Meta into the ground with his misguided Metaverse pipe dream nobody really wanted to begin with.
Since .rar compression is still proprietary I’m guessing they’d actually have to buy out or license it.
I love those outfits. They're a great bit of cultural fusion. Denim has always been popular for workwear, and it's interesting to see it in a kimono cut.
It's not me that is fixated on the name, it is the article that goes out of its way to assign responsibility "specifically" to the CIA - it's right in the title and in the first paragraph!

And this produce what is objectively an historical howler right at the start. As the other commenter said, maybe it's just sloppy editing. But seems pretty click baity to me.
Shouldn't that part be obvious? "I take full responsibility" means you should blame me and only me. That's the very definition of responsibility.
Ariane 6 joint update report
> For example, how do you write unit tests for an actor-model system?

In an actor model, the units would be the actors. Test that they are deterministic and behave correctly given a message. You can test them for robustness by fuzzing messages and throw them at the actor. Then you use integration tests to test the whole system's performance.

> But this isn't how ROS-native systems are developed

Note that I haven't been arguing for ROS, but for loosely decoupled architectures for distributed systems like robots. I agree that ROS has many shortcomings. Although I would say this is not a shortcoming of ROS, but of ROS developers. Maybe ROS can be blamed for guiding people to work in such a way.

> As I posted cross-thread, in the actor model, with queues and threads, you inherently encode additional state via the temporal spacing of the messages.

Systems other than ROS do it better, but the point I've been trying to get across is that the actor model is great for distributed systems because it makes explicit the inextricable asynchronous, distributed nature of the system. As I've been arguing, you need to pass messages at some point if you want the robot to be a robot -- it has to interact with the world and society at some level, likely many levels. Your obstacle avoiding drone I assume is communicating with a base station, maybe remote compute, and a remote human operator. If we want to properly test this kind of system, we're going to have to make explicit the fact that the network is not reliable, latency is not zero, etc.

In this light, temporal spacing of messages, rather than being an encumbrance, becomes a necessity. It's a means to test and ensure that the system can handle all sorts of timings and orders of messages, just as it would need to do in the real world. By designing and conducting our tests to incorporate this, we can effectively simulate and anticipate the conditions our system will face.

Also, time-deterministic messaging protocols can be used to better manage this temporal aspect.

> you haven't actually been able to test the system properly and the long tail of hidden state and bugs is impossible to avoid, and also impossible to predict and test for.

But does the monolith avoid the edge cases or does it just fall for the fallacies of distributed computing?

> From what I've seen of the ROS community, the concept of testing is severely lacking.

Again, this seems like a shortcoming of the ROS community, and not the actor model.
Ariane 6 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_6
The postmortem of an indie game made with ChatGPT and Midjourney /w prompts
Explanatory blog post with link to the paper:

https://www.aibloggs.com/post/tree-of-thoughts-supercharging...
is it easily verified ?
Origami Heat Shield: Reusable For Reentries
Not your main point, but in the Berkeley videos case I blame, well, Berkeley. They could have taken the videos offline temporarily, worked on transcribing them, and brought them back gradually (they have the resources or, if they’re too cheap, could have resorted to crowdsourcing). Taking that wealth of knowledge offline so abruptly, and with no plan to ever bring it back, is really a disgrace. The videos live on thanks to Archive Team, but they’re not as easy to discover.
This type of stuff would suggest otherwise.

https://www.dailyo.in/technology/elon-musk-fired-a-twitter-e...
It’s not unreasonable to think that whatever we say on this forum can be tracked to our real identity, and as such to our prospects of current and future employment.

I feel that other people in here might feel that saying things out the way they really think might be detrimental to their employment status and hence to their well-being. In this respect it is a top-down imposition, it is true, with the “top” not being defined as a specific person or a specific group of persons.

And going a little meta, it’s high time for the hosts of this forum to implement a delete functionality.
The thing that saved Apple was the retirement of Classic Mac OS in favor of the NeXT OS (OS X and now MacOS).

In the early 2000s, developers were building for the Internet and there were only two options for hosting: Windows NT and Solaris. The licensing for both was prohibitive (and just annoying) and so Linux/FreeBSD started getting traction on the server side. FreeBSD didn't have the hardware adoption so faded (but is still loved). Linux had enough hardware support to run serious servers but the desktop never was usable (the year of the Linux desktop!).

Having OS X being a UNIX-variant was 'close enough' to develop on Mac (a very usable desktop) and deploy on Linux.

Then, Windows released Vista which was so broken that developers simply had to move to Mac in order to be able to function.

That progression is why Mac went from almost dying to being the most valuable company on Earth.
Oh, this perhaps explains why my horoscope is wrong a lot of the time
Fad has this very negative connotation but certain types of activities do rise in popularity, stay popular for a bit, and then decline a long way. Inline skating/rollerblading in the US is a great example.

It grew from nothing to be a super-popular recreational activity for a numbber of years, and now you rarely see someone on inline skates.
Afaik, no. That's why you use tar inside of gz, so you can have multiple files.
A lot of the time it's a race issue. I live near Atlanta, where white suburbanites have spent 40 years voting to cripple public transportation, because they're afraid black people will use it to come to their neighborhood.

That is not an exaggeration. One of my coworkers did a historical study and read town hall transcripts from the last couple decades. People were extremely clear why they were voting down mass transit.
People tried to invent all sorts of neopronouns but none of them (there's that word again) stuck.
I actually find neovim to work better than VSCode when dealing with large codebases. Telescope [1] based fuzzy searching makes it easy to find stuff in a codebase and harpoon [2] can then be used to short list some important files and quickly navigate to them. There's definitely a bit of a learning curve and setting up your own keybindings before you feel like you're used to it.

[1] https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim
[2] https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/harpoon
Have you seen Samurai Champloo?
Yeah... I've seen this too. You really have to know your mythology to keep those 2 straight. I'd have made one of them Norse. ;-)
"To compensate for slow page load" is probably my main use (still rare), and, hey, sometimes you've got slow page load.

Another reason might be to avoid losing state on the underlying page.

If you have a "SPA" style app, it might obviate both of these reasons. In an SPA app (ideally one with good URL and back button behavior of course) the difference between a modal window and a separate page perhaps becomes _only_ one of UX, which presentation is better?

But in a more traditional server-side-rendered app with minimal UI-focused JS, other considerations still exist which are legitimate, it seems to me.
From TFA:

> Modal windows can be used for views that don't constitute a "resource" or correspond to a domain entity:

- Alerts

- Confirmation dialogs

- Forms for creating/updating entities
Hi, I'm Jacek, one of Defguard's core developers. Defguard is about more than just VPN, though it does play an important role. Think of it as identity service, building features on top of identity - VPN being just one of them. Other features include: OpenID Connect provider, MFA (TOTP, WebAuthn/FIDO2, Web3), YubiKey provisioning, webhooks. As Robert mentioned, mesh networks support is planned.
> It's also bold to assume that everybody plays twitchy FPS.

Never said "everybody" but enough do. https://steamcharts.com/app/730
Current active players 1,458,036 for CSGO alone
For bookmarking or opening in a new tab you can do that reasonably easily now anyway: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/routin...
Why do you say that? We’ve all read articles from Cloudflare and Microsoft and others about rewriting services in Rust once it becomes obvious how much money they can save, so we know that it does happen. I’ve seen it happen at much smaller companies as well.
Jailbreaking my 3DS is one of the best things I ever did but if I remember right, the process I use involved the cooperation of the Nintendo Store which was fated to be shut down. My understanding is that I can keep installing homebrew on my New 3DS even after this update.
Oh wow, how many people the indie team should have had to deliver this just a year ago :)
> First, in the US accessibility support is the law

Only for governments or businesses that are open to the public. I've rarely worked on those type of websites. But plenty of B2B stuff. There's a ton of it.
You thought you ate huh. This is “duck season” “rabbit season” type naysaying. It’s work aroundable if it ever comes up but I can tell you that it has not come up for me working in Elm.
Why would a manual job not be professional?

I have massive respect for the trades people, waitstaff etc, they do much if not all of the actual work on this planet if you discount automation and DIY. A lot of my time has been spent on getting proficient at DIY and every time I look at the end result I know for a fact that even a junior schooled in the art would have done a better job than I did. It still gives me satisfaction, but it also shows me that there is no such thing as a job that isn't worth doing and doing well.

I'm not sure what a 'coffee engineer' is though.
The best time to unionize is when you're in a strong bargaining position to set a sustainable baseline in your first contract and build the infrastructure to make a strike credible. Unions are strongest when they have a huge fund to support their members through a strike.

Tech workers have been warned about this all through the latest tech boom. It might be too late. Any union formed now will be broke and desperate at any negotiation. It's like trying to buy flood insurance while you're on the roof waiting for rescue.
> with the “top” not being defined as a specific person or a specific group of persons.

So you're blaming a nebulous .. them?
Apple Invites XR Media Outlets to WWDC Keynote for the First Time
This essentially confirms that Apple will be announcing an XR headset and/or operating system at WWDC on June 5th.
Was the pandemic a fad? Yes certain segments did grow wildly during the pandemic due to in person restrictions. That growth is certainly unsustainable. If it weren't for the corresponding stock price explosion and then costs explosion to attempt to grow even more, they would have a very profitable company. As far as fitness trends they do manage to hold on to a lot of subscribers.
You are living the dream, I suspect, from a UK perspective. I have a similar background. Not sure what you mean by coffee engineer? I have friends who are plumbers (gas safe) or builders etc. They can make the same money as me, or more, but it's hard work and you have a lot of liability on you. You also need to manage the business side as well as the work, if you want to be self employed and hence make decent money.

Despite being very sporty, I'm now finding in my mid 40s that I'm hitting various physical issues. Nothing serious, but would prevent me from doing hard manual work every day. As it is I haven't lost a days work due to pandemic, or illness for years now as the work I do is so low impact and from home. I imagine this would be much more challenging into 50s and 60s whereas in tech you can work almost indefinitely (I have a friend about 75 who is working).

You also need to consider the training and certification time that might be required. Also being out on the road wouldn't work for me, I'm used to being close to home now.
Practical Tips from Karpathy's Presentation on Deep Learning
As evidenced here by the vast increases in productivity provided by WFH, it is only natural companies need fewer workers.

I'm perplexed by postings like this, HN should be rejoicing in these right-sizings and the maximization of opportunities for those no longer bound to such inefficiencies.
Distance: a straight line (i.e. shortest line in Euclidean geometry) between two points - is a one dimensional object/projection.
On Earth crust where we evolved as 1 m long objects immersed in 1 atm of mostly nitrogen at around 290 K and at a constant pull at 1 g on a spinning ball at 11.5 µHz ... you get the idea ... a very straightforward concept.

Applying it to dust and gas particles (massive enough for gravity to shape it into a spinning sphere) in a vacuum falling towards (on a stable enough orbit) a gas ball with 99.8% of the total mass in the system, itself in hydrostatic equilibrium with its own gravity pull through nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium ... Well, we are not used to that kind of motion i.e. geometry on astronomical scales. But once you see what dictates the (near) stable motions of all those tiny particles the solution is simple: in the solar system the sun is nearest to all objects in the system, on average. Whatever is nearest to the Sun is the closest on average to all other elliptical moving objects. From Neptune's perspective Mercury is barely moving and oscillating so fast as to standing still.
So, in the case of planets the underlying geometry is moving along (stable) elliptical (i.e. closed path) orbits (approx. Newtonian mechanics), applying our "straight" lines for "distance" is amiss here and can lead to confusion. I personally like to see it more - inspired through e.g. Kepler's imagination[0] - as a geometrical-dynamic system (Kepler orbits) more akin to music.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonices_Mundi
I doubt the author is getting royalties six feet under.

Thanks for the links.
If the Fed raises rates too high or keeps them high for too long, it will push the economy into a deep deep recession. As we're always using lagging indicators, economists are generally unsure where we are in the cycle, some folks believe it's been pushed to far for too long, and further pushing is going to cause either a deep recession or, even worse, stagflation.

I'd love to know what Volcker thinks about our current situation.
Generative Fill, Powered by Adobe Firefly Generative AI, Now in Photoshop
I saw Hindi in free make pdf searchable app:

https://products.aspose.app/pdf/searchable

so that, I think, it possible to extend it to Devanagari on your local with Tesseract and Aspose.Pdf with C# code snippet:

CallBackGetHocr recognizeText = (System.Drawing.Image img) =>
{
string tmpFile = Path.Combine(outputFolder, Path.GetFileName(Path.GetTempFileName()));
using System.Drawing.Bitmap bmp = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(img);
bmp.Save(tmpFile);

string pathTempFile = $"\"{tmpFile}\"";
string arguments = $"{pathTempFile} {pathTempFile} --oem 1 -l {lang} hocr";

System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo psi =
new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("tesseract", arguments);

using (System.Diagnostics.Process p = new System.Diagnostics.Process())
{
p.StartInfo = psi;
p.Start(); p.WaitForExit();
}

return File.ReadAllText($"{tmpFile}.hocr");
};

new Aspose.Pdf.Document("my_Devanagari_scan.pdf").Convert(recognizeText);
Every Modal window has me close it so I can access and refer to content on the page that it's blocking.

There's one kind of modality needed for computers, and it's the power switch.
In case anyone wants to see the Gary Larson illustration mentioned in the RFC:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2245214_Choosing_a_...
This is one of those things that sounds good when presented like this. But it's just the opinion of some guy.

Run it through user testing and see how your users actually react to new windows being opened all the time. A lot of them are going to be confused, and not be able to make it back to your site. Modals are popular because they work
Is this true when we include tax cuts given to companies in exchange for having offices / operate in the city?
Why doesn't it? You don't need to buy back everything to massively raise the price. Not everyone is selling all the time.