skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's your aim making this here? Is it mostly just to show the sub-components of a PDF? Because if you added more support for Javascript it would fill a need (IDK how niche, lol.)

When I was trying to improve my resume I added some custom Javascript to the PDF using Adobe Reader and what I learned is even Adobe's product makes it painful. Basically the process was something like this:

1. You add a script that loads at certain sections in the document. Let's say this is the equivalent of document.load.

2. To do this there's a field to add the full script which must be typed up correctly beforehand. Only after its added do you know it works and every syntax error requires you to edit your previous script, delete the script you added, and hope your new version works.

3. There's really no interactive way to work with the scripts. Their 'debugger' has almost no features at all or hints of syntax errors. Even getting a script to run in it requires finding the right combination of key strokes in a 1000+ line document on PDF scripting.

The programming itself though is quite simple. It's just Javascript with a different DOM and security model. You can still do event-based programming and write powerful programs - all running inside a PDF. But it will only run in firefox (using PDF.js I think) and Adobe reader (for the JS support.) I just thought I'd tell you that writing these JS programs in PDFs (1) actually seems to have a lot of unrealized potential and (2) the tooling to do so is terrible. So with better JS support it would be useful.
a16z: Fintech Fuels Global Payments
This!!! Kids (where i live) go to school 9-2, and it is a true nightmare to extend those hours to fit with parents longer work schedule. Let's just make both the same!

Also free afternoons every day, better than a longer weekend.
WWII started with Germany invading Poland. That's a few good kilometres North of Kosovo.
This idea in which you select a checkbox to highlight specific parts in code is actually a pretty good UX which I have never seen before.
Especially Bosnia, there was very much no correlation between territory and ethnicity, so the difficulty is built in. I don't know if this was much better in Kosovo, it does seem like that sliver of mostly Serbians are on the wrong side of the border, but since this is, you know, the Balkans, I expect the answer to be more complicated than a simple "America did what was in it's best interest".

Pushing Russia out is always a good thing, if stability and human rights are of interest though. It's tons better in either country now than it was before.
This propaganda have no place here on HN
They are so lucky. My Samsung Phone already called 911 several times, while I had it in my pocket. And every time I have to explain why. I guess I'll get a Pixel next time.
> I'm not sure what "the way out" of this is

An EU assension leading to a shared economic zone and open borders. This is what brought peace to North Ireland, Romania-Hungary, Greece-Bulgaria, etc.
I have free access to copilot because I do some open source work. I haven't been impressed by what it can do and I wouldn't pay even $3/month to use it.

The second question doesn't make sense to me. There are tons of things I think are useless (or worse) that people pay for anyway. Meal kit boxes come to mind, and at least you can eat those at the end of the day.
As a visitor to the site, I need to decide whether or not to trust the site's operator. As the operator of a site, I need to work out which vendors I can trust. Cloudflare takes the role of a vendor here, it's exceptionally common for vendors to terminate SSL. And it's quite challenging to run a CDN without access to the plain-text request.

Cloudflare at least offers mutual TLS from the edge to your origin, I've yet to persuade either of the other major CDN vendors I've worked with that they should offer that feature. They've also pioneered the rather nifty ability to terminate TLS on a node that doesn't actually have direct access to the certificate it's using, which I'd quite like for some other use-cases.

None of which is to say that you shouldn't have any concerns about Cloudflare, but on the other hand if you're that worried then at least the server operators using Cloudflare are giving you a heads-up that you maybe don't want to trust their judgement?
> I think that in the US, a very specific political group rallies around opposition to social justice, and that group has a tendency to try and hide their underlying motivations (e.g., using dogwhistling).

Talk about dog whistling! Why don’t you actually say what you mean: “I think people who disagree with my beliefs are unworthy and their opinions don’t count.”
So you ask for 20 ideas and filter. Even if you throw away 19, it's still useful.
Gell-Bott Amensia.
That comment is going to go down as a HN hall of fame like that guy who said Dropbox is trivially replaced by rsync or something.
The secret meeting that put Vine on the ropes
Who uses a map to count to four?
> Cities long ago stopped approving small motels to be built,

I wish they had, but that's not true anywhere I've lived.
I worked for a company where this exact thing happened, for this exact reason.

I no longer work there, but they chose GCP because AWS wasn't even in the running because of this.
Ah yes, but that would require actual effort, and in the end is only going to serve to improve someone else’s model.
I honestly don’t understand how people can say LLMs are useless for coding. Have you tried ChatGPT 4, or are you basing this take on the obsolete 3.5? I’m a professional programmer and I think LLMs are extremely useful.
Removing Sybils from an Open Network
Interesting Compounds: Melanotan
Indeed they're not. And GPT-4 tends to outperform SO in my experience.
Thanks, that was helpful and got me thinking.

Indeed just using vanilla js was something that occurred to me, or drawing clear boundaries around where things happen which it sounds like you've done here. In the end I decided it wasn't going to be long before I wanted to do some basic sorting or filtering or something of nontrivial objects on the client and that was where my brain decided it was more effort than it was worth for whatever I was trying to prototype.

I've largely settled at the moment on alpine multipage apps with traditional json rest APIs behind them and some light serverside templating for the initial loads, and the only thing so far that makes me reach for something heavier is if there's a lot of user-defined content and I want to feel confident of being able to run under a strict CSP.

But it sounds like you landed on something that makes sense as well so thanks for the explanation.
Sure, thanks, I'll let you know.
Smaller countries have less weight, sure, what are you saying exactly? Nobody but Yugoslavs (or more precisely Serbs) themselves broke their state down, they were not forced into genocide and break up.

Had they chosen not to sperg out, who knows how well Yugoslavia would have done.
That's why it's called The Long Emergency....
8uA is still large compared to some other options. I work on medical implants that average 15uA while actively sensing biological signals 24hr/day. This includes the analog front end hardware to condition the signals as well. 8uA of deep sleep current would be a non starter.
Thus one who is skillful at keeping the enemy on the move maintains deceitful appearances, according to which the enemy will act. He sacrifices something, that the enemy may snatch at it.

By holding out baits, he keeps him on the march; then with a body of picked men he lies in wait for him.

- Some famous Chinese PsyOps dude
It's frustrating because you don't get money or credit for the idea.
We’re going to have legit AGI that can outperform humans in every way and HN will still find something to complain about. I love the tech news on here, but the constant cynicism on everything is exhausting.
So when AI is better at humans at everything, the takeaway will be that humans weren't so great after all?
Do explain why! Is there a shortcut on the lock screen that you can't turn off or how?

Two or my four smartphones have been Samsungs and, while I could call 112 on purpose, I don't know what might cause pocket dialing. Your comment about this being a feature rather than a bug on Pixels is funny though =)
Comments from 2015:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10652909
They’re all bad ideas, though.
Not necessarily if the remaining one idea is still garbage.
Dolphin File Manager Tweaks
The actual research article: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4573321

Summary: https://pdf2gpt.com/?summary=84ff84d4b98b4f0c985a17d07db482c...
> Newspapers described it as easier than curing a toothache.

In a way, it's comforting to know that newspapers back in the 1950's were as susceptible to BS as modern day TikTok influencers.

Maybe the technology / form factor isn't the underlying issue afterall.
So true. I've written entire prompts with several lines worth of explanation, only to realize what my issue was and never hit the "send" button. Guess I should do that more often in life, in general
> If a business is known to offer 10% settlements after 2 years... that predictability will eventually be taken advantage of.

Yep. And the next order effect is that the business stops selling bad debt and sits on it. And eventually starts thinking more carefully to whom lends money.
One difficulty with this is, adding a new enum value should therefore be semver-major.
I'm not sure this paper is proof of much? Regurgitating press releases is sort of a stochastic parrot task.
imagine this argument being made to netscape by microsoft in the past? anti competitive rules apply to everyone
Hopefully the vaccine doesn't also do this
Digital Penpals Letter #5: “The Journey Is the Reward”
Hello Facebook marketing.

Facebook has a very long history with privacy that speaks for itself.
oh nice, did not notice that! thanks!
As of git 2.28, it has a setting named “init.defaultBranch”.

git config --global init.defaultBranch trunk

Is one of the things that people complaining about this kind of thing should do, since the respect for tradition should probably transcending tooling.
As I understand it, they have a very specific purpose. The customer needs someone to blame in making difficult decisions. The difficult decision process itself is secondary.
Comparing LLM to journalists is good insight.
Yes, it's possible to dial 911 from a locked phone. I assume that's a legal requirement; on its face it's pretty reasonable.

I never used to lock my phone at all, but starting with the Pixel 3a I've been forced to do it by the fact that the phone interprets rubbing against my leg through my pocket as a stream of commands. I wish manufacturers would go back to the non-crazy screens they used to make. Anyway, since locking the phone doesn't disable the ability to call 911, this is a constant risk, though I don't believe I've made an accidental call yet. (Or maybe I would have, if my phones weren't Pixels!)

I have mangled a text note I was keeping on my phone beyond recovery when I once put my phone in my pocket without manually locking it first.
Except in Minecraft, the world is voxel so to sync destructible terrain I only need to send the x,y,z of the block removed.

Going by my logic, there are MOG’s and there are MMOs. Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft, EverQuest 2, games where thousands of people can be on screen at once, where that server instance is synchronized with the rest of the cluster, for one seamless virtual experience. I’d say half of the self-proclaimed mmos ever really reach massively-multiplayer status. Games like Dota 2 and CS2 are played by millions but I wouldn’t say it’s an MMO because each match it’s 5v5.

Realm vs Realm or World vs World mechanics explain my perspective perfectly.
It's pretty impressive that the most accurate depiction of how the future will play out was written before even computers were a thing. Perhaps also a bit sad in what that says about us.
> Serbs were basically ethnically cleansed out of Kosovo under the "protection" of NATO Kfor. There are multiple accounts of NATO forces standing a few feet away and watching as Albanians burn and loot Serbian Orthodox churches and villages.

I want to learn more about this, but I can't find a reliable source. For what it's worth, the Wikipedia article about the "2004 unrest in Kosovo" (AKA the "Pogrom against the Serbs") [1] has many accounts of Kfor protecting Serbs.

Where can I find accounts of NATO forces doing nothing?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_unrest_in_Kosovo
Not sure why this would frustrate you.

People have ideas all the time internally. I'm going to assume the idea you had was one of many.

The issue is getting the real decision makers to buy into it. They aren't going to take the word of someone who works in some division. They want some rigor to it.

Bringing in someone who isn't tainted by the groupthink of the company, can actually take a sober view of the situation, has puts some weight to the recommendation.
That comment also said:

>If we're looking for a cost-effective way to replace content marketing spam... great! We've succeeded!

And if you read the article that’s almost exactly the level of output that we’re talking about.

- Propose at least 10 ideas for a new shoe targeting an underserved market or sport.

- Segment the footwear industry market based on users.

- Draft a press release marketing copy for your product.

- Pen an inspirational memo to employees detailing why your product would outshine competitors.

Also for the 2nd task the non LLM group performed significantly better.
The Role of Attention in Sexual Arousal (2009)
> grew 65% in a year in the UK

This sounds like a Daily Mail or Mirror quote, where generally their source is a pest control person or other business attempting to scare people into buying products.

Obviously everywhere is at risk for bed bugs but I don't think the UK has some major shock infestation in the way you're trying to imply.
A simple home media server such that I can attach an external hard drive with music and/or movie files for A/V hardware to play. I am just thinking file system navigation and codec execution on demand.
The reason for making Fornite sideloaded is informative. It's not because they wanted to get around any of the supposed user protections of App Stores; it's because the App Store was leaching too much money.
PDF: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24222049_The_Role_o...
Meh.. I mean a lot of consulting is tasks like writing or idea generation. Using something like chat GPT to do it [faster, better] doesn't negate the value in what they do, since they are hired to do those tasks, those tasks are required for the broader work.
Absolutely bonkers algorithms that no one can make sense of unless they dedicate time to study and debug it

Also, it will have to be scrapped when anyone wants to tweak it a little. Sure monkeys randomly typing on a typewriter will eventually write the greatest novel in existence... but most of it will be shit

May $entity have mercy on your soul if the business starts bleeding tons of money due to an issue with the code, because the codebase won't
> Findings suggest that voluntary control of sexual arousal can be achieved through attentional focus on nonsexual cognitions or sexual fantasy.

So this seems to be about human attention and not transformer model attention.
The article notes that the translation and documentation is a very manual process based solely on coroners' records.

It's more than likely that class structures at the time simply didn't record deaths of commoners, or else commoners may have simply dealt with such things within their own communities. Official bureaucratic systems of the time (for things that weren't related to extracting wealth) were part of the community of the elite.
Why people hate one of the biggest, active online community.
Paris could try being less filthy. New York has the same problem. After getting bed bugs from the Sofitel, the remediating of which involved plastic bagging literally everything and nuking the place with insect killer, I refuse to stay in Manhattan anymore. I stay in Westchester or sometimes Jersey.
> Germany invading Poland

Germany and Russia.
Cluster a group of undisciplined, arrogant, wealthy, supremely entitled male egos, unsupervised in one smallish city and tell them they're the greatest - and what would you expect?
A Serbian emigrant here. There hasn't been 25 years of work to join EU. The actual work has been done between 2001 and 2004 and between 2008 and 2012. Since then, since the current governing parties are in power, there hasn't been anything done. They don't care.

For the first time I am actually concerned and I don't believe the de-escalation is a given. If you read the government tabloids, it's a frightening picture.

My current estimate is that it's about 50-50 chance that there will be a very short war, that will end up in Serbian defeat of course, and a probable exodus of the Serbian population of northern Kosova. It will also leave Serbia under Western/EU economic sanctions, renewal of the visa regime to Schengen, and an even tighter grip of President Vučić on the country.

I just hope NATO does us a favor and actually go all the way and occupies the country. That's the only way to neuter Serbia for a generation of two, and the only hope that I have for a return to normalcy.
Thanks for desensationalizing that awful title.

I also found the part about effective accelerationists and "decels" to be amusing. Sometimes it feels like we're living in a badly written sci-fi.
>LLMs are not worthless for programming.

They can be worse than worthless. They can sabotage your work if you let them making you spend even more time fixing it afterwards.

For an example. I've used Gpt4 as a sort of Google on steroids with prompts like "do subnets in gcloud span azs" and ", "in gcloud secret manager can you access secrets across regions". I very quickly learned to ask "is it true" after every answer and to never rely on a given answer too much(verify it quickly, don't let misinformation get you too far down the wrong route). So is it useful? Yes, but can it lead you down the wrong path? It very well can. The least experience you have in the field the easier it will happen.

>You just cannot expect it to ship a full programm for you, but for generating functions with limited scope, I found it very useful

Entire functions? Wow. I found it useful for generating skeletons I then have to fill by hand or tweak. I don't think I ever got anything out of Gpt4 that is useful as is (maybe except short snippets 3 lines long).

However, I found it extremely useful in parsing emails received from people or writing nice sounding replies. For that it is really good (in English).
In a world-first, T-600 heavy lift drone launches anti-sub torpedo
> You still need to know what you’re doing though, you can’t blindly copy and paste.

Agreed.

> Like a purse, millions would pay money for it, some even pay thousands.

Expensive purses have intangible value for some. They are often bought to signal social status.

I'm pretty sure a significant portion of ChatGPT Plus subscribers are paying because it can help them with information or cognitive work that some people value.
If anything should be under antitrust scrutiny, YouTube is a great candidate.

They have a clear monopoly on video content and have been abusing this position to suppress unwanted speech as well as competition.
An Evolutionary Perspective on Biological and Artificial Neural Networks [pdf]
Why 'flesh'? It parasitizes plants.
"Who would know these specific individuals?". Hola!
The Last Summer Walk
Making good 'visual storytelling' films requires some real talent, a deep understanding of the strengths of the film as a medium, and a lot of resources. In comparison, a 'talking heads' movie can be made with a few actors sitting in a single room without much regard for cinematography (hell, event a single actor sitting in a car may suffice, like in "Locke"). That's why there has been so few great 'visual storytellers' like Keaton and Chaplin.
> Most of the time, when we debugged why an ad wasn't showing conversions, rather than anything inherent to the ad, we found that it was the flows the user encountered _AFTER_ landing on the platform that made the performance suffer.

This 100%. When picking a VPS I signed for 9 options. In the end I went with Digital Ocean, largely because of their simple onboarding. Yes this is a one time process, but to me it's a critical one. Get it right.
The internet enables people to uncover the worst of society if they so choose. Nobody bats an eye about it, because it grew slowly. Attempts to lock the internet behind an ID verification system fail time and time again because the system was conceived and built without one.

The internet had a period of time where only experts and enthusiasts had access, then in the 2000s everyone started to join what was already snowballing in popularity. Not only did the voices of censorship not really have a say in the rise of the technology, the internet was the bastion of free speech when it came into prominence.

LLMs are the same, except that everyone on the planet can now be exposed to them. Lots of folks are clamoring about safety without seeing the parallel to the internet itself. In the previous era, these journalists might have been writing for a newspaper and not fully aware of the capabilities of what was being developed.

If the internet was being built today with the attitudes of the present, I'd be shocked if we wound up with the same freedoms we have now.

LLMs can say bad things and make horrible suggestions, but this is greenfield. The fact that companies are releasing their systems to the public is a good thing and shouldn't be chastised. Safety will be figured out, but it's too early to slam research and engineering that doesn't incorporate it. If we shut down these efforts, we'll wind up with monopolistic corporate control that is overly censored.

Imagine what the internet would look like if we'd been criticizing it the same way.
My personal heuristic:

- Start with Flexbox. Flexboxes of flexboxes will solve almost everything that’s common, and be easier to reason through and maintain imo.

- If you’re doing something that appears tabular, use Grid. Flexbox will appear as though it’ll get you there, but the moment you start having cell contents that are highly variable in size your columns will start to get out of sync.

- The above is esp the case if you’re trying to do repeating sets of rows. Eg Row type A, row type B, A, B, etc. That’s a Grid problem.

But of course, the only way to get good mental models is by trying both approaches and seeing what the drawbacks are. Maybe try the Grid games that folks have linked in other comments?
It didn't stop Brexit however. Europe might get nasty at some point, if we think of all the far-right posturing and their recent successes. These people are dangerous.
Why would they design the system in a way that enables an app (Microsoft Teams) to interfere with emergency calls?

I know this part is supposed to be fixed, but it's insane that this was part of the problem.
Based on hedonic adaptation it may be the case we can't perceive the true state of society. However, it is also true that past civilizations have collapsed, so it isn't a given that warnings should be ignored.
Is this the best he can do to repent?
Actually not true, the regulation (eprivacy directive /pecr in uk) applies to all trackers including cookies, pixels, scripts,etc. if you can do with only “strictly necessary” across those then youre right.

Also consider visitors are used to these prompts, without one they may wonder: does this site follow the law?
"You" as in, not you specifically, but you who you're arguing for (maybe this doesnt work in English, sorry!)
Why? There are plenty of older useful sites which work just fine over HTTP. If you mean for cases where https is supported, but link is http - I agree.