skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've added a clarification to the end of the post on whether angzarr might be found in the Cambridge Library document, which I mentioned in my twitter thread but not in the post:

> Furthermore, the Rare Books department tells me that “unfortunately none of [the materials] seem to mention S16137 through S16237”. It’s possible the glyph is listed without its serial number, but it’s equally possible that this document skips that range altogether, just as 4-Line Mathematics had.

I'd also like to point out that Cambridge alumni are unlikely going to be able to request scans for free; I think you need to be a current faculty or student.
Seriously, Google should just give up at this point and close everything except search, ads, chrome, YouTube and maps.
A family that took a similar grant elected to stay recently: https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2023/0531/1386545-aran-isla...

It makes an island sound like a start-up - it's a smaller community with fewer resident experts, so all the skills a person brings are potentially valuable.
I love that this guy is a leftist Occupy Wall Street guy who wrote a whole book whose fundamental premise is "what if capitalism was not actually ruthlessly profit-seeking, but actually kept millions upon millions of people employed doing nothing basically out of charity".

It sort makes sense in the context of tightly state-controlled capitalist economies like Japan, but in a US context it's just comical. The same evil corporate managers who get lambasted for laying people off to satisfy Wall Street's demand for quarterly profit growth are supposedly keeping loads of other people employed just for funsies.
Tyler Cowen’s review at the time nails it I think:

> He doubts whether Oxford University needs “a dozen-plus” PR specialists. I would be surprised if they can get by with so few. Consider their numerous summer programs, their need to advertise admissions, how they talk to the media and university rating services, their relations with China, the student lawsuits they face, their need to manage relations with Oxford the political unit, and the multiple independent schools within Oxford, just for a start. Overall, I fear that Graeber’s managerial intelligence is not up to par, or at the very least he rarely convinces me that he has a superior organizational understanding, compared to people who deal with these problems every day.

> A simple experiment would vastly improve this book and make for a marvelous case study chapter: let him spend a year managing a mid-size organization, say 60-80 employees, but one which does not have an adequately staffed HR department, or perhaps does not have an HR department at all. Then let him report back to us.

> At that point we’ll see who really has the bullshit job.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/05/bu...
In other words, its malign influence and deceit intended for some outcome or goal.
He's so much of a “realist” that his talks all sound pretty much exactly like Putler’s speech-writer wrote them.
>What would you have him do instead?

His parents should encourage him to go to non-technival activities with kids his age. Sports, music, chess, etc.
Most people who do fitness or sports already understand this. As the saying goes fitness starts in the gym, weight management starts in the kitchen.
Does HN have to care about a GDPR request? HN doesn't have either servers or people in Europe, so far as I know.

Even so, that still may not save you. Say you decide you want your post here deleted. Say HN does so, but leaves my reply. And say my reply looks like this:

> We'll see about that the minute someone makes a GDPR request to delete their stuff.

Well, Paul-Craft, I don't think it's going to work like that...

[End of pretend reply.]

Now your post is quoted by mine, and your name is mentioned in mine as the author. Now you cannot delete all traces of your post without editing mine.

Now what?
Wait, lying is an option?

Gross.
And of course absolutely not a single mention of the fact that the city killed itself with its harsh pandemic measures.

When I was flying to Sweden in summer 2021, I had a six-hour layover in SF, so I decided to take the BART up to the city to take a look, since I had previously lived there, and I almost didn't recognize the place. Half the shops around Union Square were boarded up and closed, it looked like a warzone. It was always a dirty shithole, but at the same time a vibrant, cool city. In 2021 all the good things were gone, and only the crap - literally - remained.

If you forcibly close all the things that make a city worth living in, for over a year, you don't get to act surprised when people stop wanting to pay for the high cost of living and move out of the city. SF is in a death spiral, as all the high-income workers leave the city, companies start leaving, foot traffic lessens, stores and restaurants start closing because they can't make it or because they're overwhelmed by shoplifters or homeless, ther city becomes less desireable, more workers leave the city, more stores and restaurants close, and with no-one filling the gap, you get a ghost town. Property values plummet, commercial real estate plummets, and it becomes a service and retail desert.

All because of their own choices. None of this was inevitable. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and there's no better illustration of that than what's happened to SF.
Your passport is not the only form of ID; a driving licence is easily kept in a wallet, pocket, money belt, …
I used Amazon Music for a bit a couple years ago. Making a playlist was intolerably difficult, compared to Spotify and YT Music.
It doesn't affect the fullscreen animation.
VCs are stupid. So what’s new?
Thanks for recommending this, I just browsed some files online and it's looking indeed amazing.

P.S. It's now easy to check a repo file by replace .com with .dev: https://github.dev/desktop/desktop
IANAL, but 99% sure that the situation in Germany is that you have to identify yourself (give name, birthday, (address?)), but you /don‘t/ have to carry (or show) your government issued ID at all times.
As in what happened with Ajit Pai, Corporate Sponsors, and the FCC/Net Neutrality?
I've found myself gravitating towards reddit because of its comparatively better user experience, and I've often yearned for a similar feature here on HN. It's surprising why HN hasn't implemented it yet. Just a simple count like (4 unread) would be immensely helpful.
How do you use it? It sounds (from the manual page) like it just changes what a branch points to... so how is it different from "git reset --soft"?
MSFT has not rescinded the statement ever since.
wait isn't that the point of fake it until you make it though
This is my goto book to recommend when people are scared about being replaced by GPT.
Here's what the Cambridge Library says [1] about scans:

> Scans are provided with certain conditions of supply:

> 1. Not pass on, or upload, the electronic copy or make it available to any other person

> 2. Not make further printed or electronic copies

:shrug:

[1] https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/search-and-find/zero-contact-servi...
> but many really bad ones.

Indeed, having spent 4 years at a VC where we all took part in initial filtering of decks, the typical reasons decks failed to even make it to our investment committee, were:

* Not describing the team, or not having a team, or thinking you could outsource key functions (e.g. we once rejected a "tech company" where the entire tech function including the CTO were outsourced to a consultancy with no link to the founders)

* Not clearly explaining the idea.

* Not setting out the size of the opportunity clearly.

* Not setting out unit economics.

* Not setting out a long enough plan (some might want 5, we wanted 10) that sets out an optimistic but possible case to a huge exit. If you go to an angel, they might be ok with a case for a 10m acquihire, but for a VC putting in $5m+, you better have a path towards a $100m+/year revenue business even if it's a long shot. It doesn't matter if the opportunity is huge if you plan to take a conservative approach that will hardly get you any of it.
Depends on the task/load.

Modern low end wouldn't be many times faster, at least not with a lower core/thread count

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/75054/i...
Absolutely no arguing that AWS adds more value.

Another thing about AWS/GCP, they are also good at locking you in. For example you want to shift some workloads to Hetzner while leaving others in AWS, you will get a bill for egress out of AWS.
I wonder if this partly reflects a reality where life sucks pretty bad for most people, so the possibility of a comfortable respectable life as a military veteran was worth the obvious risk and misery of being a legionnaire on campaign. That said, I'm sure the travel and/or combat and/or patriotic aspect was also exciting to some.
I think the claim AMD has caught up with Nvidia drivers is untrue. Sure, they don't cause constant crashing in mainstream games anymore like they used to but that's where the improvement ends. AMD drivers are still broken enough you run into issues whenever you step outside the box. Emulation is universally worse on AMD, and that's when it's not completely broken. VR is the same way, and AMD is now six months late for their "we promise AI won't be busted on RDNA3" promise.
what if lying is the real superpower of ceos and all those marketing blogspams were also lies
Only if you're very lucky with Linux, or your definition of distraction does not include hours spent on fixing sleep and hibernation, finding the right input method among several that keep getting deprecated, fixing pixel scaling with multiple monitors, and other fun stuff.

I still have a Linux Desktop that I boot up from time to time, but I've pretty much given up at this point. My time is more valuable than that.
I worked with Taiwanese people, haven't had a whiff of that. On the other hand petty theft was a very common occurrence in Soviet daily life, and the mainland owes to its legacy more than to Confucius. So sure, could be the culture but in a surprising way.
The problem with whataboutism is when it's used by an abusive party to try to get the other abusive party to jointly agree that each party's abuse is okay.

Other than that, yes, it's good to expose abuses (as long as over-exposure isn't being used to swamp out public awareness or caring of other abuses).
What you miss is that the people working the jobs themselves describe their own job as bullshit. The introduction to the book makes it very clear. Graeber is not decreeing which jobs are pointless, he's describing what it feels like to work such a job based on interviews.
> He is the bestselling author of “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” and a co-author of the textbook “Life in the Cosmos”, both published in 2021. His new book, titled “Interstellar”, is scheduled for publication in August 2023.

He resolves the ambiguity in the composition of a tiny flake of metal in a direction that affirms his priors and maximizes his potential income.
Apple loves to hide functionality to the point where it essentially doesn't exist.

When I started at Apple as an engineer, the first bug I filed was "Can't resize windows from their edges" (or any corner except one).

Just mind-bogglingly stupid. And when Apple finally does capitulate and admit that others have done it better, they petulantly try to hide the functionality anyway. In the case of the windows, there's no window border and the cursor frequently fails to change to the "resizing" one.

In the case of two-button mice, Apple came out with a mouse that hid the second button and in fact was nearly unusable because the entire shell was the button so you couldn't lift the mouse and keep the button held to continue a scroll.

And on and on.

Oh, and then Apple added Alt-Tab-style app switching... but it's often useless because when you Command-Tab to an app, Apple doesn't restore its window. It remains minimized and useless in the dock. There is a utility called Alt-Tab that lets you fix this, at least.

And those are just a couple...
Jim Keller is bullish on chiplets and it's not just about yield, it's also about power efficiency and the economics of only using the most expensive nodes (eg. 3nm) for critical parts and being able to combine it lego-style with IP fabricated on cheaper nodes.

https://youtu.be/c_Wj_rNln-s?t=127
Can an Ask HN self-post be clickbait? Apple isn’t refusing to do anything. They just haven’t done some minor thing that you personally would like. The fact that you’re “shocked” by something as banal as “lack of window snapping” is kind of funny actually.
Ancient Greeks believed life involves and needs two types of suffering one is war which is destructive the other is competition. Competition benefits society it enlightens it moves it forward. Competition isn't meant to destroy your competitor that would be war. Moore's Law may be a type of good suffering.
is this some new hacker news poes law usually i can tell but this one is too spicy for me
ChatGPT helped me say goodbye to my mom
I mean, both can be true at the same time? I think the point is more that working a bullshit job is like an evolved form of Marx's alienated labor. Instead of not seeing yourself in whatever you create, you create nothing, but are told to keep a charade of productivity up anyway.
Explainer: Dominion Vulns Reported by Halderman
Cowen's review misses the point, which is that Graeber is probably right about academia (not coincidentally, that's where he worked). Academia has no profit motive so all the money gets sunk into an ever-expanding bureaucracy rather than lowering prices or paying dividends to shareholders.

The thing is, Graeber is wrong about the entire rest of the economy, where 99% of people live and work.
Unabomber manifesto reads more like an unhinged rant written by some resentful, middle-aged Anon on 4chan than a piece of academic literature -- Ted Kaczynski somehow managed to fill 32 pages of it with racist, misogynistic and incomprehensible rambling with zero citations.

Also, the fact that he literally had to threaten people to force the publication of his "manifesto" says it all to me. [0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/06/11/ted-kaczyn...
>Alt tab: press cmd-tab to cycle applications, then cmd-` to cycle windows of that application. This typically has better number-of-keypress to get the window you want compared to Windows alt-tab which requires iterating over all windows in the worst case.

In the case where you need to switch to a window that you haven't been using for a while, perhaps. But switching back and forth on the other hand, is infuriating because the z-order is polluted. And I also find it incredibly frustrating that all the other windows are brought to the top just because they happen to share a process.
It's 500. You'll get there eventually. If you click on emodendroket's name you'll see that they have over 20 thousand.
> As always, Reddit moderators always end up being blatantly and obviously motivated by anything but their own community. Users not having access to their community is fine, as long as the mods don't lose their petty fiefdom I guess.

Context for others: There are powermods who "moderate" hundreds of subreddits. This is not an exaggeration. Hundreds.

When questioned, they invariably say that they "just watch the incoming queue" or something, and the other mods "do all the work". While likely true in the literal sense (again, hundreds), such answers of course completely evade of the question.

Remember, "Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People" <https://np.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_...>. This also applies to powermods, assuming they're not being paid on the side to push some ideology.

Basically, losers who crave ruling a (as you said) petty fiefdom.

Bonus: The classic post in which a mod thinks what he does is worth $175K a year <https://np.reddit.com/r/35orquit/comments/qw1v3e/what_do_peo...>. Be sure to read to the end, where he explains how he "saves lives".
In my experience the general advice is : “Always carry with you a copy printed of your passport while leaving the original locked at the hotel”.
> it clears scrolling state by browser back

Twitter handles this masterfully (or used to)

> or page refresh.

Technically you can use history.replaceState to store, ahem, state on the "current page", so nothing stops you from saving a cursor there to use when loading the content.

The issue with infinite scroll is that very few people know how or care to "make it work correctly"
That's incorrect. Git considers files tracked if they are in the last commit or staged. As far as I am aware it considers files untracked if they are not tracked and not ignored (though git clean -x documentation suggests that it considers such files untracked and simply ignores them when listing untracked files, which also makes sense). So un/tracked depends on last commit, staging area and possibly .gitignore.

> Remember that each file in your working directory can be in one of two states: tracked or untracked. Tracked files are files that were in the last snapshot, as well as any newly staged files; they can be unmodified, modified, or staged. In short, tracked files are files that Git knows about.

> Untracked files are everything else — any files in your working directory that were not in your last snapshot and are not in your staging area.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-...
I'm in Sweden
It’s been a fairly linear decline for years now. Crime continues to increase, and instead of reversing the crazy policies about not prosecuting crime, they’re digging their heels in and going even harder. They’re so blindly committed to their ideology that no amount of evidence will ever convince them otherwise. Oh well, no use crying over spilled milk.
If you're going through a long list of unchanging results, like issues of a magazine sorted by date, and you want to save your place, then sure.

But Google results are ephemeral and change constantly. I've never heard of anyone wanting to bookmark the second page of search results.

I agree infinite scroll doesn't make sense on all sites, but for internet search results it's perfect.
What exactly were you expecting, a thesis project or documentary or something? As far as I can tell, petykowski just wanted to recreate the typefaces used on the Underground's digital signage. That's fine. Not everything has to be some magnum opus.

I'm speaking as a graphic designer who's been obsessed with typography for decades. Craft and taste are qualities I ordinarily pay a lot of attention to, and if petykowski had talked to anyone affiliated with these typefaces, I'm sure it would have been fascinating. But it's also important to remember that these faces are not in the same category as a high-end serif or something. They serve a bluntly functional purpose. The medium for which they're designed is entirely different. Of course they're simple and easy to copy; that's the point.

So I'm not sure how you are defining "craft" or "taste" here. These designs are crisp and legible. Your comment feels a little like somebody looking at an icon of Clarus the Dogcow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow) and saying "Ah, but where's the dimensionality? Where's the realism? Can this truly be considered a rendering of an animal? How lazy."

I personally love pixel/dot-matrix typefaces. I hadn't known about this project, so I'm grateful that somebody went to the trouble of doing this.
This was my immediate first thought, too.

Arguably AI and large scale social networks have a lot in common (opportunities and problems).

Related: AI as the logical next step after “crowd sourcing”.
ironically this comment is annoying and pointless cynicism and meta commentary while the original comment is interesting, although apparently wrong - your response should be deadlast but unfortunately I see it before the other comments explaining where in the paper to find why this reasoning is wrong...
Infinigen: Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation
Is "F2 for rename" patented?
what you’re missing is that not everything has to be a serious profit-making venture. sometimes humans can have fun.
Usually, this shows I needed the extra hours to fully understand the problem. Or that I needed to waste those hours to make myself realize when I can and cannot productively work extra hours. Sometimes, I'm sure surfing TikTok for those three hours would not have made me sit down and produce quality code on the first try. Other times, I do the surfing and am like, "I needed that."
They don't have to be ugly and plenty weren't.

Secondly, you put prioritise on asthetics over what's good for the planet?
What does this have to do with GB Studio? Was Pokemon Colosseum made with it?
Thank you for acknowledging that you have a very limited perspective on the matter.
I've never had a serious issue with Pop OS on both a desktop and a Thinkpad.

Linux does have some issues (GNOME has some pretty noticeable UI issues) but overall I'm much happier with it than I ever was with macOS.
It has an extreme lack of UI primitives. Look how seamlessly iOS native views transition to each other, the consistent navigation bar, the modal views, etc etc. There’s no equivalent of UITableView letting you render long lists efficiently.

Any equivalent of the above has to be hacked together using JS, which ties up the main thread and can never fully match the host OS.
You've pretty much describe where our process has been iterated to.

The story points are less about "how many hours will this take" and more "is this broken down to a manageable level".

Our team is small and we're largely working on legacy systems that nobody at the company has any clear picture on so we do still do things collaboratively in a meeting in order to quickly get to the best information we can and iterate on bits and pieces of the puzzle that may not be common knowledge.

But from there the points are mainly "Small, Medium, Big" (1-2, 3, 5). If anyone throws something out at 8 points the question is immediately whether or not we have sufficient clarity on the work. Why is this 8 points? Is it because we need to rotely reimplement the same functionality across two dozen nearly identical form fields, or is it because we've glossed over some major area of the scope and are hedging based on our _assumptions_ about how it works?

In the latter case, we'll instead see about adjusting the work breakdown and/or throwing in a ticket to actually investigate and document things better before we circle back to the original task.

If we see 13 points we know from experience to run for the hills. That's almost always someone saying "we don't have enough information, but it's going to be big".

Those points feed into two things:

1. A rough estimation of long term timelines. We know average velocity, and we can look big picture at the number of points involved in some sort of higher level initiative and get a feel for "is this a 3 month project or 12 month project?".
2. Trying not to overcommit on each sprint. We know the average we can deliver, and can use them to raise a flag when someone seems to be getting overly optimistic about their output.

Similarly, our daily standup is not focused on being a status meeting. It's to encourage communication. To help kick things off and jog people's memory, we take about 60 seconds to quickly list out tickets that are sitting in a "review" or "deploy" status (if it's nearly done let's get it over the line), "blocked" status (if you're waiting on someone, have you communicated it to them?) as well as any that, based on the points, seem to be taking longer than expected (do you need to ask someone for help or communicate changes in scope?). Then it's just hands up for anyone that needs to say anything, call for any input from the business side, some chat and banter, etc, and we're out. Usually takes about 5 minutes.
I often forget YouTube even has any ads, but then again I am using uBlock Origin.