skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TeX is about representation, not semantics, by design. To do anything useful with a function (like plotting) you need to get semantics.

An often cited example: what is f(x+y) ? Is it function f with x+y as its argument, or constant f multiplied by (x+y) ? TeX gives you no clue.

Or what is this i in your equation? Is it an index variable, or a square root from minus one?

You as a human figure this out by looking at the context and using domain knowledge. So does a "TeX to HTML/MathML converter". It is ultimately built on heuristics, and cannot be otherwise.

That's why I said basically "for the same reason a paper page is not interactive". It was designed this way!

The goal of TeX was to generate beautiful printed page. The need for semantic structure was not anticipated. To do semantics you need a "semantic version of MathML", or a language used by Wolfram's product, etc.
Oh that would make sense. Thanks for the guess.
> If you accept that premise

Personally, I don't. I think the flaw in this reasoning is to think that people join social networks with the sole purpose of exchanging information effectively, but I could probably make a list of 50 reasons that make people participate more than that.

There is also the aspect that SNR is frankly a bad metric. We are quite able to filter things ourselves, which means that in the end we will flock to the places where the total signal is what matters, regardless of how much noise comes along with it.
Morality is what separates us from animals. The suggestion right and wrong don’t exist is the real tyranny. It's what evil people say to do evil things.
It is a little more sophisticated. They say they use an exploit that was found where a URL with five characters with a dash will get autocompleted by YouTube (I wonder why that is.) That improves sampling by 32,000 times apparently
Someone says "hey if we had 900GB of RAM we could make a lot of money" and then someone else says "that's ridiculous and impossib- hang on a minute" and scurries off to hack together some tech heresy over their lunch break.
You’re thinking of FNS
You seem American.

Here in the UK we take this seriously. Yes, police are actually trained.
On one hand: just two formats? There are more, e.g. H264. And there can be multiple resolutions. On the same hand: there might be or might have been contractual obligations to always deliver certain resolutions in certain formats.

On the other hand: there might be a lot of videos with ridiculously low view counts.

On the third hand: remember that YouTube had to come up with their own transcoding chips. As they say, it's complicated.

Source: a decade ago, I knew the answer to your question and helped the people in charge of the storage bring costs down. (I found out just the other day that one of them, R.L., died this February... RIP)
This is off topic on this point, but I wanted to point out a privacy issue with invites (as these codes are given out on forums like these to random strangers). The invite codes show which account was created with those to the person sending invites. I’d rather this be completely hidden (just saying that the code was used is enough) or give an option to the person signing up if they want to reveal their account to the person who invited them.

Would it be possible for you to highlight this to the right people in the team?
It should stand a test of time. Don't pick-up books released this year. Search for the ones being recommended by people you trust and that are at least 5+ years old.
User agent detection is never a good idea, perhaps just checking if the api is available and if a device can be obtained (see samples on the WebKit website) is enough (and reliable).

As with all STP releases, this is the time to report issues before the feature makes it into the next version of Safari.
I did not read the OP that way: cross platform support, fault-tolerance and ability to integrate into a bespoke client/server solution (iow, there is already a network client and a server).

Even with that, librsync highlights that rsync is really a protocol rather than the CLI tool GP post referred to.
That was probably an Amstrad PCW series computer. Never used one, but heard a lot about them. The machines of the era were very remarkable that they made the most of its users write programs, something we see rarely these days.
I do agree that seeing the original film is part of the charm of seeing an old movie sometimes
Thinking further on the analogy, yeah it's better than nothing but I would _not_ recommend people leave Ebola in a glass jar in their kitchen. What if someone accidentally knocks it over, cutting themselves on a shard while doing so? What if someone, looking for cookies, fumbles around inside and gets it on their hands? Sure these are not "best practices" but the point is that it should be difficult to do the dangerous things, not easy and certainly not recommended by tutorials everywhere.
Damn, this is the first I've read about the steam class action. Did you just sign up via one of the firms advertising online?

The first one I found wants a 40% cut of any settlement. I have no basis to know if that's reasonable or not - on its face it doesn't seem crazy, and 60% of something is still more than nothing, but I can't help but wonder if there's a better deal out there. How are you being represented in the class action suit?
I'm confused. Was SQLite for the migration?
When the very hyped Magic the Gathering Lord of the Rings sets came out, there was an expensive pack of all of the 'commander decks'. Apparently almost every person who ordered it ended up just getting one of the four decks instead. Amazon didn't proactively refund or... do anything.
I don't mind people's voting rights being restored for any reason. It is too fundamental of a right to infringe, especially for small things like weed possession. I'm not even convinced we should take felon's voting rights.
Yeah, you can't call this hacking. This software is operating according to specifications, as far as we know. The hacking was from the guys who uncovered this, much appreciated.

However, this was a huge step backward. The company bypassed the legal system via code, to add obligations, and secret functionality to the client. How was this found? By others who would and do circumvent the law for their own reasons.

These reasons might be as noble. Just. Enlightened.

Having spent some time online, I of course, am skeptical.
In my experience, the bigger the city, the less police seem to care. Or perhaps they are busier and have to prioritize differently, but to the victim it's the same effect.

My brother recently had success in having small town cops go to a person's house to retrieve his lost+found IPhone, even. I was sure they'd tell him to sod off as a civil matter, but they retrieved it and even drove it to his house a solid 20 minutes away.
If you contextualize your request (e.g., "this is hypothetical"), GPT4 answers quite a few medical questions.
In my previous roles our lab used archaic lotus notes software which had information about which physical tests are being performed by whom. You needed to boot your laptop get on VPN and open this clunky mess of a software program to check if your test was scheduled or not.

I figured out a way to have a desktop computer on the intranet, a python script to scrape lotus notes database and some way to push all this data to Teams list every 5-10 mins.
Eventually the teams api team shut my access but fwiw I managed to get the list to sync with a teams channel for few months straight. Hacky, stupid and dumb. that’s how everyone could check the status without needing to open an app.
Blue Origin, Others Make Buyout Bids for Rocket Maker ULA
Good tips for me, I always mess up my slides! Thanks
This might be the first game requiring physical skills that an AI robot outperforms humans. It surely won’t be the last.
In which ways were the Cambridge Analytica thing and the openness of Youtube APIs (or other web APIs) related? I just don't see the connection
Of possible interest

https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/pi/2016_2017/phil/...
Specifically, flat files scale very far if there are no concurrent partial updates.

And "fork off a new process just to do the save" helps move that point farther away.
In my youth I did VJing at a local night spot, and one time (the first time?) my PC didn't boot up (not uncommon after being tossed in a car and driven 40km). Naturally I didn't have a monitor with me to debug it (since my 19" CRT weighed about as much as I did), only a composite video output card which didn't work until after the system had booted. So after pondering my predicament for a minute or so, I unplugged the computer and gave it a sharp smack on the side of the case. This re-seated whatever had been un-seated, it booted fine and from there the gig went off without a hitch.
They also have an official "ChatGPT Classic" that turns off plugins including Bing.
> Seattle—Amazon central

You need to be near Amazon warehouses, vs Amazon HQ

Or maybe they're short on drivers in your area?
I bought and built the clock kit, it's great!
Yes I looked it up and it was one of those Amstrad PCW computers.
They are putting the whole LLM into SRAM across multiple computing chips, IIRC. That is a very expensive way to go about serving a model, but should give pretty great speed at low batch size.
I don't really get what this person is complaining about. Sure, old film upscaled, coloured etc. is not as good as if it had been shot on modern equipment. Still looks better than the original, for the most part. I couldn't even really see the problems in most of the shots on the site.
The Act of Creation [pdf]
The first word that comes to mind when I hear CompuServe is, 'gif'.

I did graphic art and software would always refer to the gif format as 'Compuserve GIF'.

The open-source community was pushing PNG because CompuServe was (right or wrong) being fussy about owning the gif patent and wanted more parties to pay for the pleasure of generating gifs.
This is the smoking gun that Amazon has been operating as a monopoly. As soon as a competitor comes along from another part of the world they’re able to lower their fees by hundreds of percent.
In all the attempts that have been tried there was no separation of judiciary power (generally it’s a lot easier to murder and rob millions of their property when this is the case) so good luck suing the state that controls all courts
Reading that tweet makes me cringe.

"It's ok to lose your job if you post a personal opinion in your personal time on your personal blog."

That sounds like something a Soviet dissident might say into the cameras, while some state-employed thug is holding a gun to their spouse's head just out of view.
Are you me?

I’ve been working on the same thing for a few months now.

Not only is it more customizable / less complicated than helm / other solutions, but GNU gettext is almost 30?! years old at this point, and environment variables are probably realistically double that age. They aint going anywhere anytime soon.

Plus I feel that more complex logic removes value from the configs we are building, and so am not interested in many other tools.
I've never dealt with car/home insurance where they didnt send someone. Claims far less than what this was.
It feels like this article is written exclusively for other film buffs. The author should have started with a video showcasing exactly what they think is wrong. Except for the folders, I didn't understand what he was talking about, especially with the downscaled screengrabs, until I saw the Beatles Now and Then video [1]. It looks a lot less natural when motion is involved, which really emphasizes the poor lighting and waxy look.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opxhh9Oh3rg
I once worked on a project for one of the largest vendors of chemical lab equipment. The application was in... frickin' Microsoft Access, not my choice. This would've been the 90s. The idea is that the sales person would enter in what the lab needed to do and the database would show them the equipment they needed.

Anyway, we eventually developed a feature that allowed the application to copy out the lab process and equipment list to a separate database, zip it up, and FTP it to a server. It would also export a CSV file with the name of the lab, salesperson, date of sale, and other searchable information and FTP that up too. I wrote a "web service" (this was late 90s, before that term was cool) that would collect up these CSV files, aggregate them in one big CSV file, and then from within that application that CSV file could be searched and the appropriate ZIP file downloaded and merged with the local database. It was written in Perl and ran as a CGI script on some internal Windows NT machine's IIS instance.

It was janky as all get-out, but it worked and we did it a couple of years before the big web services mania hit.
How did you make a Windows executable work on the web?
I am afraid you are being naive... You see only one factor out of many.

Being able to link directly to the relevant part is irrelevant (pardon my pun!). Such links are machine-readable, not human-readable. Scientific text need visual citations and being able to name the referred part for reading comprehension.

And Harvard-style citations (AKA name-date) exist for a reason; when your read a paper even in interactive format it helps when you can recognize citations to certain papers and not having to click on them or memorize numbers.

Other styles have their own advantages and disadvantages; that's why they all exist and used by this or that journal, and no consensus on a single "right" style was ever reached.
Thanks for sharing thoughts, it's been a great discussion. I'm gonna call it an end here (otherwise I could go on forever), but if you do ever end up putting up a blog post on it, please do share!
Does anyone know how to get Korean text to display consistently on macOS in the terminal?

If you create a file in Finder with a hangul name, by default ls in iTerm2 will display the name incorrectly, with the composite syllables expanded out into separate characters. There is an option in iTerm2 to 'normalise unicode' which corrects this issue if set to HFS or NFC (if I remember right). This mimics the behaviour of Terminal.app.

However, different interactive terminal apps seem to have different expectations of terminal behaviour for this form of unicode hangul. With the 'normalise' setting off, fzf will corrupt the display when showing hangul. But with it on, vim/neovim will corrupt the display when navigating lines with hangul text.

It seems there is no way to get consistent and user-friendly hangul handling in the terminal on macOS, but I'm not sure who's at fault (except Apple of course).
Really well done. This will be replacing Sublime Text which I use as a scratch pad.

Please add inverted add and syncing to iCloud Drive.
> Kevin Zheng wrote a whole bunch of scripts to do the dialing, and over the course of several months, we collected more than 10,000 truly random

Several is 3 to 5? So 4 months.

10 000 videos over 4 months. So 2500 per month. If we assume 20 work days.. that's 125 per day. Over 8 hours.. 15,6 per hour.

Those scripts seem to be quite slow? Was this done by hand? A video every 3 minutes.
In all seriousness, I was once looking for a truly ancient version of WINE (mid-90s, I was curious about its Win16 implementation in those days). There didn’t seem to be any standalone archives surviving, but source and binaries were present on a mid-90s set of Debian ISOs. I’m glad they make stand-alone artifacts.
Hooray. Your individual experience is not universal.
You can call for both legalization and high regulation… that’s literally what prescription drugs are.
Why would Youtube be any more of a public utility than any other commercial entity?
Just curious - what device and OS version are you on?
It's definitely happening across swaths of the US. Maker spaces have high positive externalities but low margins and require a lot of work and upkeep. With rent prices shooting through the roof and redevelopment taking cheap shop space offline maker spaces are getting squeezed out.

I find it heartbreaking but it seems inevitable. Not a lot of people want to keep an old building available for rent when they can sell the property for redevelopment into "luxury" apartments or condos.
China announces rules to reduce spending on video games
I'd love to try it, but absolutely no deal with the immediate request to login.
Many people on the autism spectrum like my little pony because it teaches explicit social/friendship rules.
Are you also including finding your car in the parking lot and finding a parking spot at your destination? I find a lot of folks neglect that part of the time taken.

When in Manhattan, the subway can 100% beat a car over the length of the island. (Car can beat the busses going cross town though unless of course you add parking back to the equation.) Getting to Queens seems to be faster on the subway than taking a car across the bridge too.

D.C. and San Francisco are both towns I'd also rather take mass transit than drive.
This is hinted at very briefly in one code comment [0] in the article, but this application of SVD is a well-known (to the point that it's even taught in university) method for dimensionality reduction, and typically referred to as Principal Components Analysis (PCA) [1].

[0] Said code comment is "# Plotting the principal components".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_component_analysis
Unfortunately it would be pretty hard to explain "GPU access" to a regular person in a little dialog blurb
> Items stored in domestic Amazon warehouses will always be more costly than Shein’s direct shipments to consumers from China, which also skip inspection and taxation by U.S. Customs

Everyone likes cheap things, but these policies are quite insane.

The U.S. is effectively subsidizing Chinese companies and penalizing its own companies and citizens.
Sam altman always has good advice for me
If the government sent out a hit team to forcefully rob every single last penny of net worth every US billionaire has, what impact would that income have on the national debt? I'm pretty sure it'd be extremely negligible.
Universal Character Strengths
I imagine it ran server-side (on Windows).
This would require a change from the currently near-uniformly adopted standard.

The problem with this: you need to create a new standard, get everybody to agree to it, and get busy scientists who are concentrating on content and not representation to adapt this new standard in their writing, essentially requiring them to change their habits and spend extra time on writing (which many of them hate), for no obvious gain from their point of view.

I am not saying it's not possible, or not worth it, but it is not easy and simple either.
Using CGI protocol on a Windows server. IIS (Windows' own web server) basically interfaces with executables by running them, feeding them HTTP headers, and server variables through environment variables, and gets the response HTTP headers and the body from their STDOUT. It's very inefficient, of course, since every request requires spawning a new copy of the executable, but it had worked fine in its first months :)

Here is a very simple example from the original sources: https://github.com/ssg/sozluk-cgi/blob/master/hede.pas
When I lived in Beijing I saw a poorly modified compact car (maybe a civic or a scion?) have all four of its wheels pop off while speeding down the third ring road. We were in the taxi behind, these things always happen in slow motion so the wheels popped, the sparks flew beneath the car, it hit another car and finally careened to the side of the road, we saw him get out of the car before our taxi just continued on as if nothing happened.

Anyways, I scratched that off my list of things to see.
> Again, missed the point....

If your absurd claim that Waymo's trials provide just three relevant data points is not part of "the point", then why did you make it? It does not give us any confidence in the proposition that "the point" has been well thought-out.

Furthermore, "the point" keeps shifting: recently it shifted to raising doubts about the provenance of the data whipped up from a six-year-old article. At this point, I feel that a quote is appropriate: "the ability of people to consistently miss/twist the point to fit their own predetermined viewpoint is tiresome."
It's definitely more than just SF.

Up here in Portland (well really the western suburbs) we had a rather ambitious TechShop start up about a decade and a half ago, but they didn't last a year. I made a decent sized donation at the start because I liked what they were doing, and took some great classes there on woodworking and CNC. The woodworking instructor in particular was really interesting as he was an old school pattern maker (patterns for casting) which involves different techniques than finish or furniture carpentry. He could build to 1/64" tolerances by using various combinations of sanders, including a stationary disc sander with a 1 yard diameter. That thing was a pretty cool piece of equipment.

Unfortunately I'm sad to say besides the finances they had some cultural issues. A few of the instructors went pretty heavy on the "boys club" style humor in a way that would clearly alienate a lot of women.
It's a little different because all the ipv4 tunneling protocols were invented either for or to counter that. NAT64 is usually done at the ISP's gateway and the public IPv4 (at least) is shared with thousands of other customers.

(With such internet connections you are always classified as a bot/spam with captcha services that don't understand IPv6 btw)

As a customer, you cannot influence the IPs and neither the ports that get routed through, so you have to connect to a server that you host somewhere else, just for the purpose of tunneling the traffic. So the server at home is actually a client that reconnects to the reverse proxy as there's no other way to have the open connection.

I saw a big chance for WebRTC data channels to fix exactly that, but I've given up because Google and Mozilla both put a lot of restrictions in the protocol to make it unfeasible for this use case.

And this kinda applies for most cable internet providers in Europe because RIPE ran out of IPs a long time ago. On one hand we got Daimler blocking a whole /8 subnet, and on the other hand we have ISPs that have less than 16 IPv4s. Doesn't make sense to me how this is handled tbh.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT64
Barre chords being an inspiration for Dark Souls really resonates. I never connected that similarity between the satisfaction of learning a game and an instrument, but I love that feeling of overcoming a real challenge so much, it feels like it should have been obvious.
Because it directly influences the daily routines and opinions of 2.5 billion people, which is almost a third of the entire global population?

The idea that the same rules should apply to such entities as to "any other business" is nothing short of insane.
Too late for the bonanza here, but back in the day I owned an 8-bit Amstrad CPC 464 machine which came with a built in cassette deck.

Eventually a 3"(!) disk drive was launched which needed some extra space in the upper memory banks to host its driver.

This made it almost impossible to copy certain games (ok, it was Spindizzy) from tape to disk, since there was no longer enough memory to load the game without overwriting the disk driver.

Almost impossible, until I split up the loading process and used the only other remaining RAM possible: the graphics buffer.
So while loading the game your whole screen got distorted pretty bad, but it worked:
I copied the graphics buffer right over the precious disk driver and the game worked just fine.