skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Numerically speaking the IDF have killed a lot more civilians than Hamas. As have the US for that matter, literally hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in Iraq.

I don't know why "numerically" matters. There is a big difference morally between someone accidentally killed while persuing a legal military target, and intentionally gunning down a rave or children at a day care.
We saw a sample of this when they ousted Corbyn
There is no surer way to destroy my feet than to walk around barefoot in even my house.
> I think the answer is a very specific type of good times, namely zero interest rates which favored a business strategy of "expand at all costs and then we'll fix it later."

I need to re-read the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire to double check you haven't just grabbed an example from the last five minutes.
That's not an excuse to continue

I'm not even anti-corporation, but to pretend everything is fine seems silly
You're welcome!

> However, the lack of prior knowledge about pyp has given pypipe its own unique identity.

This is why I think it is not always bad to reinvent things.
Reinventions can have their own advantages,
often through a somewhat different focus.
There can be value in creating (a prototype of) your own solution before you see how others have solved your problem.
(Or even where others draw the line around your problem, which may be different from where you do and override it.)
Reinventing and sharing something is also a reliable way to learn about prior art. :-)

However, you usually don't want to be the one doing the reinventing. :-)
It is not the best use of one's time and resources.
A better starting point is to know the state of the art well and have some disagreements with it.

Let me share a personal cautionary tale.
It doesn't really apply to pypipe but may still be useful or interesting.
I once took it too far with static site generators.
In order to make it a learning experience, I deliberately avoided studying existing ones in depth.
I wrote mine in a niche programming language with what I thought was a fresh perspective.
(It kind of was.
A big part of it was leaning heavily on an in-memory SQLite database.)
I repeated the mistakes of early content management systems, like heavy indirection and too much code in templates.
Soon my static site generator had users!
And I was just realizing how flawed it was.
Oh no.
The users were few, but they used the generator for real things, like an event.
Some knew about my wheel-reinventing approach and weren't dissuaded by it.

I found myself stuck with a subpar design to polish for the 1.0 release.
When it was finished, I had to do a fairly difficult and only partial reworking for version 2.0.
To encourage moving to the new version and not frustrate those with complex projects, I wrote a migration tool.
The most serious projects based on the generator stayed on version 1.x.

So, I advise against going this far.
It is probably best to do the research and learn about the state of the art first.
I try to do it now.

Again, this is much less of a concern with pypipe.
It doesn't create the same kind of user lock-in as a static site generator.
At most, you will have to ask your users to upgrade their shell scripts when something changes.
May I recommend NAPS2 ? https://www.naps2.com/

It's like PDF4QT but works and feel better to me.
Weird title (one of these "true but wrong" things humans keep doing when they reason by analogy), but the post itself meshes with things I've been saying for a few years in order to explain the otherwise inexplicably awful and continually worsening quality of software coming out of companies with effectively infinite resources.

I think there's an additional aspect, though: insufficient supply of "people who care" coupled with compensation levels attracting too many people who don't. That maps better to the weird title, I suppose.
It's going to take a majority of used ICE vehicles to reach disarray before I get an EV!

It's not even that I'm against them specifically.

Look at new ICE cars, useless features and upsells. EVs are doing that but taking it to another degree. Like with any new thing, terms change

I can't help but think Car 2.0 is going to continue down this rent seeking/nearly hostile pattern

I'd rather fall back to a rusted beater than buy one of these, under these terms.

Someone makes a mostly low-tech EV? I may be interested
Secure Caddy server with OpenZiti
It’s certainly not unique, nor does it need to be, nor has anyone claimed Nolan invented the concept.

I share your curiosity and maybe we’ll see one day. But I’m also happy if we just see 30 more movies exploring the same theme.

While Nolan isn’t truly unique in history, I think he’s rare and not many are telling stories like he is.
Will QUIC Become the Next-Generation Protocol for Connected Cars?
PDF-exchange - I have been using this for many years in a paid version. Fast and good editing features e.g. mark-ups.
https://pdf-xchange.eu/pdf-xchange-editor/index.htm
Great! That's exciting.
Of course, for all of that you need money, and quite a lot of money, and where are you going to get it in such large amounts? Eh, I dunno, I am not a politician myself and lobbying and corporate donations probably have nothing to do with that.
That's an incredibly weak and overly dismissive counter to genuine examples of covariant potential causes.

It's seems clear that socio economic status has an enormous influence on child outcomes and is clearly intertwined with other factors.

Do better.
> Yes, so why suggest "more of the same"?

Because it solves the problem? The person making your clothes is in front of you and you can tell them make your pockets a certain size.
Do you mind reporting those issues either to SumatraPDF at https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues or directly to MuPDF at https://bugs.ghostscript.com/ if it also has the same issue? Thank you!

There are many wonderfully weird PDFs and epubs out there, but we do our best to fix issues. :)
Writing correct code is hard/tedious, as is writing C. You can extrapolate the rest.
> China takes over *Risk* V development.

There indeed is a RISC of China leading in development.
You should probably stop because this is not a Go-way. And you wan't find anything with "batteries" other than https://github.com/gobuffalo/buffalo and https://github.com/beego/beego

Haven't see anyone actually using them in production though.
Having a surgeon physically cut the plantar fascia muscle.
Implying that anyone touting the benefits of an established technology is against learning is just intellectually dishonest. Being able to tell what is and what is not worth looking further into is a mark of a seasoned expert in any field.
NASA uses metric
These rates are mandated of payers, not providers (outside of hospitals), and essentially every national plan has published rates online for all providers they contract with. They are not the cash pay rates, because that is not how most patients consume healthcare.

Second, there is a standardization of codes for the most common procedures one would shop for, which is CPT. There are HCPS, DRG, and other codes as well - but they’re much less common among the types of care one would reasonably shop for in advance. A crosswalk between code sets is also possible for many procedures.

There is certainly not a standardization of the use of codes in all cases, which I alluded to in my message. It’s extremely challenging to know what codes you will receive. And placing provider malice aside, often times providers themselves do not even know what it will be before going in.

To this end, bundled episodes have become increasingly common for certain types of procedures. But it’s far from exhaustive and there’s much room to go.

In any case, the goal was never for this data to be directly used by patients. It was to expose the data, and make it available for third parties. Most of those efforts have fallen flat not for lack of data, but lack of a patients ability to reasonably engage with it for the reasons mentioned above.

You can see more about the act here: https://www.cms.gov/healthplan-price-transparency/plans-and-...
What is the most Lisp-like type safe language?
> I think there's an additional aspect, though: insufficient supply of "people who care" coupled with compensation levels attracting too many people who don't. That maps better to the weird title, I suppose.

You can care as much as you want, but if the people responsible for making the final decisions and cutting your paycheck don't care, your ability to write good software in that place is limited.
An investigation into the death of a scientist who was studying a prion disease
Unmasking a Go HTML Parser Bug with Differential Fuzzing
AFAIU qualcomms proposal for extra 32-bit instructions is https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-profiles/attachment/332/0/cod...

It adds new addressing modes, and things like load/store-pair instructions.
Police is definitely bound to the law, like the right you are referring to.

This doesn't mean everything has to be true : an example from an earlier comment of mine is lying about which evidence they actually have.

edit: https://nieuws.nl/algemeen/20180203/de-politie-in-nederland-...
You know I never thought of Rome this way: grow at all costs, consolidate, enshittify.

I have a contrarian view on Rome: it was good that it collapsed, though it would have been better if more effort were made to save works of knowledge and maintain expertise. Even with the consequences though, the collapse of Rome made way for the eventual rise of enlightenment thinking and modern republican democracy. I doubt that would have happened under the Roman imperium.

This is what Rome's leadership looked like by the imperial period. It was pretty bleak.

https://www.walksinsiderome.com/blog/about-rome/the-scandalo...

Also there's a whole bad history meme about how Christians destroyed the Library of Alexandria. The bulk of destruction was done by imperial Rome:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#Burning_...

Roman statue avatar Xitter accounts can suck it. We have more freedom and prosperity today by many orders of magnitude, and we build greater marvels too: space stations, reusable rockets, 3nm integrated circuits. We've taught the sand to think for f's sake.

... which leads me to yet another view I sometimes feel is contrarian: Western civilization is not in a state of collapse.
I am seeing posts that are pro-Palestinian on both FB and Twitter.

This also seems to fit a pattern where if I see a post or article on ostensible censorship of topic X, I have also seen recent content on topic X, which leads me to believe that (a) most censorship discourse is really an attempt to play with grievance dynamics and (b) if anything is being actually supressed I probably haven’t heard about it.
Really nice piece of work. Very easy to understand.

It would be good if it could tell you a retirement spending number given all the other constraints (assuming you want to draw down most of your funds eventually).
The secret formula behind the priciest anti-aging cream
The Hamas attack was as despicable as they get. As far as terror attacks go, it is right up there with 9/11. As is Israels reaction.
> middle-aged dads who care about nothing other than practicality

Damn dude, I didn't ask to catch strays like this :(
Hi, in this case, the title is referencing a quote and internet meme and is just referring to men. However it's quite problematic here IMO as it presents a cyclical view of history and masculinity that is both simplistic and incorrect.

Firstly, it promotes toxic masculinity by implying that men are either "weak" or "strong," with the former being undesirable. This feeds into harmful stereotypes that equate strength with aggression, dominance, and lack of emotional expression while devaluing attributes like empathy, emotional intelligence, and vulnerability. It also suggests that war and conflict is a necessary component for the development of "acceptable" masculinity. This dichotomy of "weak" and "strong" men reinforces an outdated and harmful ideal of masculinity and promotes a culture that shames men, among other things, for expressing emotions.
I don't think this is in any way related to "good" or "bad" times, but rather something much simpler: software made by way too many people is invariably bad. Software made with the wrong incentives first (promotions, pleasing the board) is invariably bad. That's it, really, and it's completely orthogonal to "good" or "bad" times.
Their primary target audience is defined by where they get their coffee?
4 Plutos sounds pretty close and I doubt most grasp the distance of Pluto
Check out https://savingtool.co.uk for a similar tool, but it does tax calculations too.
Art is wonderful when it fits its purpose. Modern art is garbage because since the beginning of the last century art became an opportunity for investment. Modern software is garbage-y for similar reasons. It could be wonderful. But to make it so you have to somehow overcome the corrupting forces.
People like to try on pants, and people who just want normal pants with functional pockets are the LAST people you'd expect to be looking through niche clothing boutiques lol. Not to mention custom clothes are super expensive.
Rome was the global superpower all the way until they weren't

Edit: However, I will concede that I think nuclear annihilation is more likely. So in that case you would be correct by accident
I believe Qualcomm are proposing dropping 16 bit instruction support, exactly like Aarch64.
Sioyek beats SumatraPDF for academic text work. Sioyek has Overview[0], Smart Jump and more features that helps academic text studies. Digital versions of page earmarks, pen highlighting and margin notes that are common in academic text usage. It feels like the main developer and contributors have personal experience of that kind of use and gear the application for it.

In contrast the SumatraPDF dev seems focused mostly on light, casual PDF viewing. Read short pdf files from start to end, add a few highlights, occasionally search.

One good feature SumatraPDF used to have, but removed, was an option to store annotations (such as colored text highlighting) in external .smx sidecar files. Similar to how VLC and other video players support sidecar .srt subtitle files.

Since a few years SumatraPDF now only writes annotations into the PDF file. That has some advantages (greater cross reader annotation compatibility, all in one file) but also disadvantages:

- Third party tools can't search or operate on the plaintext annotations. With the sidecar approach if highlighted text were to be stored as plaintext with location data in the sidecar file third party tools could use ripgrep or similar to do fast, powerful searching and filtering on highlights across a whole pdf collection.

- Annotation versioning.

- No convenient way to load different sets of annotations for a single file. Useful for academic text work where one source document may be highlighted differently for different research topics. With an API and support for third party tools toggling such sets could be instant and very user friendly. Without sidecar files the user has to keep separate copies of the pdf file and write different annotations to each.

- Modifying the source pdf can be an issue where text integrity is crucial. Many pdf documents are used as a shared source of truth and simple hashing can verify that all parties use the same unmodified document. That gets more complicated when annotations are written into the file, since different pdf applications do such writing differently.

Even though Sioyek is better for academic work I think there is a lot more to do. In some ways academic text work on a physical book still has a better UX. For example a glance at the edge of a physical book gives an overview of the earmark locations. A digital version of that would be a code editor minimap style sidebar that overview highlight and bookmark locations in the whole pdf document. The minimap could have a heatmap feature that colors (and gradually fades) locations the user recently has viewed in the pdf. As a way to mitigate getting lost when jumping between locations in a digital document.

[0] https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek#overview
It's childish and unrealistic but it's actually consistent with the prevailing HN attitude in just about any thread where economics shows up.

We need a variant of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect where individuals are eager to forget that they are themselves not experts in the topic at hand, and are therefore unqualified to evaluate a large variety of statement and scenarios.
Most?

Is that true?

What is the total number of cities today in a world of 8+ billion?

No cities in Australia were built on ruined former cities .. cities such as Dublin and London appear to have been continuously cities since their founding.

It's an interesting claim, is it one that you can back with any data?
Slightly less grim, with more humor (albeit still very dark) is "Papers Please": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papers,_Please
This is for those that enjoy playing regular soccer, skiing or basketball:

I hope you never have a knee injury. It sucks. But what sucks even more is reinjury.
Control your urge to play again. Professionals get back on the field in 4-6 months and thats their full time job.

Trying to get back on the horse in that timeframe without a professional support structure will result in reinjury. Running on a treadmill and some PT does not mean you are ready for a contact sport. Your reflexes and natural balance take a while to reset to baseline.

I hope this message saves someone from reinjury
>It is not universal. Not sure why you'd claim so unless you've looked up the laws for every country.

Probably because humans are not formal proof automata. When the parent said universal they meant "it is a thing across the world and across periods", and not "no X exists, where X is a country, and in X it's against the law".
> You'd perhaps want to track a small window of nonces to account for this.

Just send a signed UTC timestamp instead of a nonce. Make it valid for like 5–15 seconds to ensure it doesn't break if clocks are out of sync slightly – it will still be better than cookies that live practically forever.
So does that mean they are investing back greatly into WordPress to improve their core product experience?
> they are fighting for a Palestinian state

If they were fighting for a Palestinian state they would have collaborated on the Oslo accord which was leading there. Or they would have waited for the state to form and then taken over that state.

I suggest you read the link that you provided. Read it. E.g.

> Palestine, which extends from the River Jordan in the east to the Mediterranean in the west and from Ras al-Naqurah in the north to Umm al-Rashrash in the south, is an integral territorial unit. It is the land and the home of the Palestinian people.

They want the entire country. Not a separate state of their own. They know they can't get to their goal with a direct conflict against a far superior fighting force, so they use this approach.

> No one is ever forced to make war crimes.

I didn't say that. I said the Hamas is hoping for that or at least something they can present as war crimes. It's actually pretty easy to incite violence and rage. Just burning families with their babies alive pretty much does that to people.

> If it is done, the perpetrators are never considered the victims at least in a sane world.

Sane? Have you seen the pictures and read the stories of what they did?

They are now surrounded by a lot of soldiers who read these things and are furious. That's no excuse for war crimes but all it takes are a few soldiers who go a bit too far.

> What I can see your comment is some version of, these savage people are forcing nice people at the Isreali army to make war crimes.

That's very selective reading. Israeli army soldiers did lots of bad things. This is documented mostly by Israeli groups e.g.

https://www.btselem.org/

https://www.ahimlaneshek.org/

And many others. But here's the difference, it's a country of laws. Things get reported and even soldiers can be tried for crimes. Does Israel have a perfect record?

No. But it's pretty good even when compared to other liberal democracies such as the USA.

I never said or implied that the Palestinian people aren't victims. They are caught between the Hamas and Israel. The thing that bothers me is that people blame Israel for this conflict when the blame should be on Hamas first by a HUGE margin then on Israel. There's justified grievances to have against Israel (especially the current administration which is downright criminal), but this should be a footnote after the blame on the Hamas.
Why not reject invalid top level domains then? This is going to catch a vastly larger amount of typos (including foo@gmailcom) without eliminating any valid emails.
> Why it has worked flawlessly since the first iPod with a monochrome screen and quarter of computing power of modern watch, but can’t be done in a flagship product of the most advanced operating system in the world?

Because of the mythical man-month.

Apple's operating systems have grown from just iOS/macOS to include ipadOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, audioOS with a myriad of new capabilities. They are also behind the scenes migrating a lot of older Objective-C code to multi-platform SwiftUI which explains why Music.app in particular has seen so many regressions.

Now their development teams have grown but not proportional to the overall scope. And that's not going to change because teams simply can't scale linearly for ever and Apple likes smaller teams. So there are inevitably going to be far more times where quality ebbs and flows as priority shifts.

But hey that answer is only a paragraph and not a provocative answer about society collapsing, men getting weaker or some other incoherent nonsense.
surveillance capitalism is not "left leaning". get out of your bubble and start thinking
I tried signing up to timeline, unfortunately have to pay for a trial in order to see the plan for a client
How Counterfeit Money Works [video]
Another solution is to increase people’s salaries… but what do I know.
I don't know how to measure things in anything but capybaras.

https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-761322#asteroid-...
> you can be sentenced to a maximum of 2 years imprisonment

Yeah, but that involves a charge, and you get a lawyer.

I would have refused to answer anything without first consulting a lawyer; I won't take legal advice from the investigating policeman. "You say I have to answer? Fine, I'll answer if my lawyer confirms that." What can go wrong? The worst that can happen is that they charge you (with something?) for refusing to answer. Voila: legal advice.

I guess Craig's devices didn't have much of interest on them; he travels a lot, and has been mauled by the law more than once. So he can give up the passwords with confidence. And presumably they already knew what meetings he'd attended, with whom.
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