skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They don't want the public to know how they operate, because that reflects badly on them

I think there's more to it than that. That may well be true, who knows, but it's also the endless punditry and click-baitery that will surround any information here, which will just spread "takes" and thus opinions with little basis in reality.

That is to say, there is a legitimate fear that even a well-behaved organisation will be not understood as such when a pundit industry's salary depends on its not understanding it as such.
I'm pretty curious what got deleted. This thread seems to be some argument between Tao and Buddhism? That seems like a silly argument to have. There are a lot of branches of Buddhism, some are similar to Tao, some far apart. Just like any religions. If you zoom in too close they seem very different, if you zoom far out they start to look similar.
The word you’re looking for is religious or mystical. Esoteric means hidden amongst a small group
I once added a speedometer for production rate compared to avg over previous X weeks, as a widget demo. It ended up on every exec’s dashboard and on a big screen.

I’m not sure what they were trying to manage, but it was purdy and looked dashboardy.
I use copilot in vscode. It watches what I type and inline suggests the next line or code block based on what I’ve been doing and say a function name or the events I’ve not yet added listeners for. I hit tab to accept. It saves me at least 20% of the time i would spend typing and is insanely good.

I have copilotx conversation in vscode that is aware of my codebase and active file. I can quickly get up to speed with a new project or library by asking it where x is or how to do y in this library. Or generate a vega chart or json for this so I can see a real example of the structure. It’s very good at these tasks. But can be out of date with some libraries or thibgs outside of vscode world.

I also have chatgpt with plugins. This lets me ask it about current code as it can pull the latest version of a github repo or multiple repos, or specific versions, and has more structured responses so it performs much better than copilotx currently does at certain tasks. This all saves me days and weeks of thoroughly reading docs to get a direction and plan. Instead these ai point me in the right direction immediately.

I just got the new voice and browsing features in chatgpt. Yesterday I had a technical voice conversation with the voice from HER about how I wanted to architect a feature. I was at my blackboard talking through the implementation and edge cases and the voice pointed out several angles I hadn’t thought about and worked with me through solutions. I did this while my phone was on my desk without having to touch it for the whole conversation so I could stay deep in thought at the blackboard. This is wildly more efficient than talking with a human where I have the overhead of social dynamics and navigating their communication quirks.

I also used chat gpt 4 heavily over the last few months to set up my company asking it all kinds of corporate, tax, legal, banking, etc. advice. Everything it told me I double checked at the source on government websites and it was wildly helpful. Saved me lots of money on consultants, reading stuff, and pointed me in the right direction and let me think through weird edge cases. Now that I have access to browsing and voice this will get super charged when I have my next question.
This is completely an aside, but whenever I see "dashboard" I think of those colorful plastic toy dashboards that are given to children sitting in the back seat of the car, so they can pretend that they're actually driving.
The Tao Te Ching(or at least parts of it) speaks from the place of truth, independent of doctrine or creed. Independent of Taoism, ultimately. As such it will always find appeal across cultures.
Well, we were keeping to science and physics mostly until now, and I don't see why it needs justification that hinduism is esoteric in that context. As in, too "magical". Not many [astro]physicists would apply hinduism in their work I imagine. Same for any religion I guess
The extra step being the gain of freshwater
> “…concept of sitting in a physical boundary…does help with the nervous system and it's not cat specific.”

I second this observation. I’m immediately reminded of children’s playgrounds—not contemporary, but the ‘dangerous’ ones from my childhood.

I think there’s something about the scale of these spaces. They’re made for small people.

Cats are supposedly solitary animals (as opposed to the dog’s pack social tendency). Maybe their little kitty egos are tuned to private-scale spaces—-this is my box and there’s no room here for you. Pffft
I as a physical agent may very well be short-lived myself. Identity is simply a preferences code that is implemented by every one of a set of possible physical agents, one of which is my body. An executable identity is maintained as the code of the physical system as long as it can as that. This seems to me only a matter of engineering or biology (based on physics) and the minimal influx of free energy to store the code without errors, as well as resource expenditure for my actions that you need to see if you want to register / keep registering me. (That is, if you disregard the astronomically unlikely quantum events.) The preceding applies to any kind of identity, human or otherwise.

> get an "immutable-looking" entity out of mutable substance

That substance, though having a changing state, is governed by immutable (as we notice so far) laws of physics (more directly, emergence of life, evolution, human biology and any natural laws that technology depends on). That's how I feel that this immutability is valid.

If you want, you can regard my identity as a little "physical/natural law" generated around my body. So the law will be there as long as the body works. And, I think, in principle any body housing any identity can be maintained indefinitely given minimal free energy and mass influx (this requires technologies not yet available today) if you again set a target probability of random quantum changes. This applies to "distributed" identities equally.

> the reverse is not possible - getting mutable stuff out of immutable stuff

If one depends on arbitrary data from environment and there is not enough experimentation done by either one or the producers of the data, one becomes mutable. Mutate or be mutated.
Aren't these what you mean?

https://www.ray-ban.com/eu/sunglasses/RB2140%20UNISEX%20orig...
How would you define "movement" without reference to "time"?
Harry Potter actor Sir Michael Gambon dies aged 82
I did an experiment with my cat for about a year, trying to ascertain preference with about 5 baskets filled with blankets. Blankets would be swapped and baskets moved around daily. It had an obvious favorite blanket previously ascertained. The only real important factor in where it would choose to curl up was location. Preferring a location in a corner with a single approach.
>Making the state the only source of fuckery then means fuckery won't kill us.

Quite right. No government has ever killed anyone, directly or indirectly.
see also rok straps (https://rokstraps.com/pages/rok-moto) and ratchet straps, though neither are fun enough to involve knots.
I derive no enjoyment from getting in cars, and certainly wouldn't prefer being in a car to being outside.

I don't think I follow your point.
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ChatGPT (plus) helps me every day with boilerplate code or even finding off by 1 bugs and small things like that.

Sometimes I also ask it to rewrite something clearer, or add some comments sparingly.

Copilot can get really aggressive. Sometimes it's right there, "what I was thinking about! Woo! magic!" And sometimes, it's like "OMG let me hit the return key". So I often turn it off and forget it's off for a week...

Both have their pros and cons. Copilot is more like an autocomplete on drugs. ChatGPT is a scaffolding rental shop.

Also ChatGPT is a dream when it comes to being a polyglot with a limited memory.
Yeah, especially when Vannevar Bush also founded Raytheon thereby helping to forever entrench and fortify the military industrial complex in the USA. Optimism is a good and powerful thing but it must always be tempered with reason.
Well the question about business value is a good one, no? After all, the question is not "Would improving this thing be a good thing?" it's "Would improving this thing be better than every single other thing we could be doing with those same resources?".

Besides there's an equal and opposite danger with too much change or change delivered without clear benefits. I'd prefer a 7/10 UI which stayed the same for a few years vs a 8/10 UI which changes substantially every month.
Show HN: I built a tool to extract tables from PDFs
Hello

It's been quite frustrating to find an online tool that will easily extract tables from PDFs. So I built one.

https://www.tablex.dev

Hope you enjoy it.
For external dashboard not internal:

- You can output the most elegant metrics, you will never know if it was the right one until you talk to actual customers. Most of the time, they don't even understand what is presented.

- Use libraries, ui-kit made for this, it will save a huge amount of time.

- Whatever you do it will: never be enough, wrongly interpreted, used in the wrong context.

- Try to tie graph and metrics to use cases or questions. e.g titling: "Active user" vs "How many users were active* in the last 30days?" (* define active in the description) can make a huge diff in terms of comprehension
Would you want physical borders defended by locking all the citizens in as well?
I'd suggest checking out TOML.
Do you ever wonder why you're writing so many sys admin sorts of scripts? Maybe time to rethink your architecture ?
Ah, I see. So you can understand why another culture holds a particular moral position but you still _feel_ it to be immoral yourself. That makes sense. But how does that tie to the sparse data and acquisition of morality?
Looks like e-waste in the dump in about 3...2....1

Don't wear these around me.
As a web developer who manages his own servers, ChatGPT has been a godsend for things like creating Ansible roles and docker / docker compose files.
The Efficient Markets hypothesis applied to software engineering :).

Maybe with zero friction, infinite developer resources and perfect knowledge it would be true.
Potential change to your Bitbucket Cloud bill
That's a good start! I'm not exactly great with array langauges myself, but I think it's simpler to fill an array with □"Fizz", one with □"Buzz", one with □"FizzBuzz", then create another indexing array and use pick:

⍉[∵(□$"_"+1)⇡100
[⍥.99□"Fizz"]
[⍥.99□"Buzz"]
[⍥.99□"FizzBuzz"]]
+∵(×2=0◿5+1)⇡100 ∵(=0◿3+1)⇡100
≡⊡
⍉

There are probably a few more simplifications experienced array programmers can apply.
They need to deal with manufacturing and availability too. I wanted to buy a couple of RPIs to help schools across LATAM and it had been a nightmare from pricing to shipping. I'm exploring other rpi alternatives since it feels like they don't care anymore.
I think you are correct to suggest starting from small important pieces. I propose the attack surfaces and working out from them. The dom, and sandbox as a whole seems like a prime candidate.
Moral relativism is the most absurd form of moral realism, which is itself an absurd position. I'd be more interested in an explanation for why so many otherwise intelligent people, who are more than capable of reasoning for themselves and holding well-defended, sensible positions, find themselves attracted to moral realism, a truly mystical belief that offends science, reason, and grade school grammar.
It's not just the price that's outrageous, but also anti-competitive terms that come with it.

You're not allowed to have a better price outside of the App Store. iOS users aren't paying for their preferred payment system, it's everyone else subsidizing Apple's cut.
You're not allowed to give customers a choice of payment methods (people like Apple's subscription, but some may prefer PayPal, especially for multi-platform products). You're not allowed to say they exist outside of the App Store. You're not allowed to even say the word "Android" in the App Store description.

Apple intentionally bundles and mixes together security, convenience, and anti-competitive terms. This confuses the discussion, because if you protest the inflated price, or the unfair terms, they say "oh, so you want users to get malware, huh!?".

The price is high for what you get — an inflexible payment system without ability to offer direct customer support for the payments, and a lottery ticket to maybe appear somewhere else in the store than search results for your app's name, with your competitor's ad first.

Low-margin businesses can't exist with Apple's pricing. Even higher-margin business sucks with Apple - 40% margin is good, but when 30% goes to Apple, Apple earns 3x more than you do.

If I develop and app, and market it myself, and already have a relationship with my customers, Apple just inserts themselves with a "product" I don't want, my users may not want, but we're forced to buy it.
Amazing. Thank you! What is the plugin you use to pull the repo and ask questions?
OP here: You've got it. Spaniard, "por ejemplo"
use it to contribute to open source. one of the biggest challenge for someone while contributing is to get a hang of a complex codebase with not-so-well maintained community supported docs. tons of abstractions for the sake of extensibility makes it even harder for someone new to navigate. have been building and using https://chat.collectivai.com to solve this pain and make open-source contributions easier, more accessible and faster.
There are plenty of options. Treemap, waffle chart, a bar plot.

There's nothing special about demographic data.
Why is a web developer managing their own servers in 2023?
I like asking ChatGPT for things that I know I can understand, but do not feel like figuring out (today I asked it how to write a specific SPL template for API gateway transformations). I spent hours looking over the internet for someone that had done it before, and then ChatGPT just spit out exactly what I was looking for (after two extra requests to better indicate my intentions).
It's a bit surprising seeing all the positive replies to this thread. In my experience (using GPT-3), the time I spend debugging the code generated by the AI is almost the same as if I was to write it correctly in one go.

The comprehension aspect kinda helps me sometimes, like when I need to understand some obscure shell script.
So the galaxy itself is the orange ball in the middle, right? The ring around it is light from another galaxy way further behind being warped by the orange ball?
This whole article is quora-level self-promo stuff. Clown shoes.
There almost certainly isn't a universal moral code. For every abominable act you can think of - murder, slavery, even genocide -, we can find examples of human groups that glorified them, usually by evoking religion, group affiliation or a mix of both.
Hot take: people who don't touch type.
I found it to be extremely woo until I sat down for many weeks with an advaita Vedanta tutor. Revisiting the Tao after spending some time with the crest jewel of discrimination and some other texts convinced me it could be mediated on. What it holds I could not understand before some guidance, but I have to accept others may be more ready to discover the truth hidden in there. To me still the Tao merits meditation though my approach is taking short passages at a time (perhaps like Buddhists mediating on Koans? I don't know the practice so perhaps I'm way off base here)
I've read that Chomsky can be pretty nasty to his debate opponents, but he's amazingly congenial in this video. It really makes me wish I could spend hours and hours chatting with him.

I've run across a handful of philosophers: Chomsky, Peter Kreeft, etc. who can stay really chill during a debate. It's seems like a superpower for keeping discussions productive.
You would be very surprised. Infra people can very easily spend the vast majority of their (non-ops) time in the REPL from hell, manually editing static configuration files, visually inspecting (because there is rarely any local let alone static validation), pushing, waiting for minutes, and then trying again.
> All culture is a lie which only persists in the re-telling.

This seems wrong. It's not a lie to give something a name. Why not say "All culture is a truth which only persists in the re-telling", given it is true we call Europe Europe?
Depending on your interests there are a lot of blogs out there.

Beautiful Public Data (https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/) is one of my best finds.

Others I read via RSS include:

Wladimir Palant's blog 'Almost Secure' https://palant.info/articles/

Ctrl.blog https://www.ctrl.blog/

Troy Hunt's blog https://www.troyhunt.com/

Molly White's newsletter https://newsletter.mollywhite.net
According to Jeff Geerling the Pi 5 doesn't support suspend in firmware, altough it might be possible with an update.
> it says right at the beginning, that the ideas can't be communicated by language

If that’s true, why bother reading further?
Frankly, I found this "translation" the best: https://aui.me/text/the-dude-de-ching/ ,but Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, my opinion, man.
Hermeticism was influenced by Daoism and Daoism was around way before Hermeticism as a folk religion and shamanistic practice. Daosim was centrifuged as early as 500BCE, a good 200 years before Hermeticism.

It is most likely there was some cultural interactions, ie, the Dayuan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayuan
A low/no code future
There is at least already a WebGPU implementation in Rust (the one that Firefox uses). So they could use that if they wanted to. I guess it's probably better for the overall health of the ecosystem if there are multiple implementations though.
Interesting, never considered this before but now want to give it a try.
It’s called “AskTheCode”

There might be others worth trying also but this one worked so well for me I haven’t needed to look further.
That is a horrible font to read anything more than a headline.
Improving Facial Expression Recognition by Studying Context and Environment
Yeah that’s what I was referring to. Still open source, but the move was controversial because it was taking away some freedoms from users of the previous license.
If only the parents were smart enough to not let a greedy and unethical horde ruin the childhood of their kids, we wouldn't be contemplating why it had to fail.
Did they? If you can stick a nontrivial amount of antimatter in a car, surely you have the energy budget to lift the thing off the ground.
One thing I am confused about is using ai for boiler plate code . Shouldn’t that be a macro or code generated, or even an aspect ? Having large snippets of ai generated code outside of a macro or code generation tool does not make any sense .
This is dope, We need more rap battle like these
Amazing. I wonder how many of them would still sign, if they had known what was to come. John Hart's story in particular is touching, his 13 (!) children vanished (!!).
I paid for it and use gpt4.

I didn't see a Json format error and chatgpt just told me exactly what the issue was.

It also helps me rubber duck debugging Things
> It's nice that the poster you're replying to has deep knowledge about these glasses, but it doesn't actually change the way you feel about a sturdier-feeling product.

This is the entire basis of Beats putting chunks of shitty iron in their headphones. It does absolutely nothing for the audio quality, but it makes them feel heavier and therefore people will swear up and down they are of better quality.

Part of being an intelligent person I feel is recognizing your own limitations, biases and failings. I am a very smart person, and I feel most people who know me would agree. But I am smart about particular things. I know a lot about my field of programming and I'm well educated in the software I make, and I know a lot about web development in a bit of an old school way (was educated formally awhile back, and while I can still sling PHP and use SQL with the best, I don't know nearly as much about newer frameworks and ways of doing things.) And while I'm proud of all that, it doesn't mean I know shitfuck about anything else.

I think a good part of what makes people intelligent is knowing what they know, knowing what they don't know, and being open to finding out if they need or want to from people who do know.
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That's weirdly similar to the alchemical _Axiom of Maria_: "One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth."

Though the only thing that proves is that mystics all over the world could count to three.
I think some exposure to ML is going to be pretty important to most areas in IT, including security. A bit like how whether you want to be in coding, security, ops, management etc, you probably should know a bit of software architecture. I reckon ML has become less niche and moved into a more mainstream discipline in the field where some exposure will be important to anyone.

So I'd say put enough time into it to at least understand what it does, why people use it, and some of the key terminology, so you can hold your own in a professional conversation involving ML.

ML does also have some specific applications in security (anomaly detection etc).
Corporations must operate in the interests of their shareholders but business judgment that directors may exercise is expansive, at least in the state of Delaware.

Meaning they can sponsor a little league team but most certainly can't raise wages, lower prices, and cut dividends (Ford v. Dodge). In turn, they can't go so far as to knowingly compromise safety in pursuit of saving a few bucks per unit (Grimshaw v. Ford).
Can you recommend something similar to tao the ching?
I don't mean anything like tao of pooh/new age stuff/alan watts, but similar in the spirit of tao.
Slightly off-topic: I feel like persuasion, and negotiation rhetoric more specifically, is understated as an entrepreneurship must-have skill. I've brought that up at incubators many times to a blank stare in the room. But all your hard work, everything you built at a startup will, at some point, hang on your ability to persuade investors to raise or exit.

I'd also differentiate that from sales persuasion, or salary negotiation, among others, which is also a great skill but not the life-or-death, make-it-or-break-it moment when you need to out-argument a large room where each misstep may mean +/- X million bucks. The big leap of faith most investor or acquirers take into your business cannot be dealt with just plain excitement and the usual shenanigans, and ideally should, at least, be practiced beforehand and be well prepared. I've seen and suffered so much: enticing gifts as openers, missing decision-makers at key moments, delays, lawyers thrown in out of nowhere, the "higher authority" tactic, Socratic stances... Some people definitely flourish at the negotiation table. I don't.
Cost?

Persude of knowledge?

Why do you ask a question like this on a hacker news forum?

Start being more curious!
Where did I say that is how I think physical borders should be defended?

In any case, even in a largely "free" country, I'm not entirely free to leave when and to where I might want.
Funny that they chose three a day, as if a human author could write that many.
> by some anonymous monk's recounting of the facts

The DDC what not written by one person. Laozi just complied old writings from several sources.