skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally use SumatraPDF on Windows, but it's basically just a fantastic PDF viewer. It does little else in regards to editing/modifying PDFs. Even the PDF viewer in Edge does more.

But for a lightweight, bloat-free experience, SumatraPDF is the way to go.
Rather than an post-hoc investigation model, how about promoting reproducibility in publication, with an expectation that others can run the same study with identical equipment, models, codes, playbooks, etc. For PIs getting government funding, true reproducibility should be a requirement,
and other researchers should be funded to report pro or con on the reproducibility of studies, and then ethical lapses could be much more visible. Science based solely on faith in the ethics of other researchers is just religion with more complicated rituals.
And thus an online expert has declared it is so, drawn a line in the sand and will defend their position until the end of time.
That makes sense. As an aside about your comment:

>It's a shame there aren't specific software

NCEES tried to have a software PE but it withered on the vine and was only offered for a few years. I suspect the incentives in industry don’t support it and the only way itv would get traction is if it were forced by regulation.
For me, it was a post from Levels.fyi, inspiring story about simple and effective tech solutions.

"How Levels.fyi scaled to millions of users with Google Sheets as a backend"

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/scaling-to-millions-with-google-...
Wow that’s cool! And the “all apps” category no less. I guess lots of people got one for Christmas!
He talked at clojure conj 2023, something like 'design, in practice'. Another great one. I think there was a gap in his keynotes because of covid. Also, it's very hard to write/talk about such profound ideas reliably every year- they just don't show up that often.
* Apple M1 Pro

* Noteplan

* PyCharm
I've done both. Software engineering is way easier. In traditional engineering you dont have "move fast and break things" and if you get sloppy with edge cases at best it could cost $$$ at worst people die.

Cars have had computers controlling them for decades and didnt have these problems. What's happening now is auto makers are adopting the silicon valley way of doing things which worked ok for webapps but is horrible for hard goods.
Is this it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0
PDF has been a free-as-in-beer standard since 1993 and a free-as-in-speech ISO standard since 2008. The reality is that PDF is open, reliable, useful, feature rich, and widely accepted. It has no serious competitors.

There's a reason why, unlike raster image formats, there aren't any serious competitors. The thing to realise about printed page file formats is that even if you set aside all of the silly "multimedia" and "interactivity" features, there's still a gargantuan rabbit hole of non-trivial features that need to be implemented absolutely perfectly, from kerning to spot color. PDF does it all very well. There's really no scope for a competitor to come along to make something that's obviously better.
Unless you can find actual figurine or statues, I call BS on chopped fingers.

I'd first look at:

Are they pointing up, or in a particular direction?

What is the most number of full fingers in pictures versus the number of pictures that have missing fingers.

Whats the least number of intact fingers, and whats the mean/avg etc

What do characters with matching # of fingers have in common in their depictions

the symbol could denote identity, rank or some other factor of acknowledgment/signage.

EDIT @Defrost,

I wasnt trying to sound so harsh - all I was saying is that a stencil and a painting could just mean they are specifically curling their fingers in order to stencil a pointing hand with 1 or two fingers?

So, maybe its a symbol other than "Here is a picture of Grock - He Bad. We Cut Fingers For God. We shame him with this stencil of his disfigured hand. You no talk Grock."
It completely depends on which platform you're writing for.

Single Platform Native Code is Easier than ever:

In the 1990s, you could write a CRUD program in a few hours in VB6, Access, or Delphi back in the 1990s. It would run on most computers worldwide, and was likely small enough to fit on a 1.4 Mb Floppy Disk, with help files, an installer, and everything.

This is the software model that the Internet is optimized to deliver. Native code, direct from a programmer. It still works in many cases. GitHub has even made it easier than ever.

However, this is not the model the "market" has been pushed into.

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The app store - a horrible compromise

If you can stomach the restrictions, you can still write native code, subject to review and restrictions, to be deployed through an "App Store".

I've never done this, but I do know that many things just don't align with their business model.

So, if you're going down this route, you have to price your software, and meet the arbitrary restrictions of the walled garden it's going to serve. You will, at least, be able to run native code directly on the device, so that's nice.

However, when the owners of the garden change their mind, your program may disappear, or you may be forced into changes that are otherwise unacceptable

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The web - a descent into madness

If you're unfortunate enough to not be able to write native code, directly deployed, the environments in which software is expected to work have become abysmal. For you, it was unavoidable that things got orders of magnitude worse.

Now, you're expected to put the interface of a program through the internet into a web browser that might be on a desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone, or even perhaps a smartwatch.

There's no consistent interface. Thanks to a lack of secure general purpose computing, nobody is willing, nor should they be, to run code from somewhere else, unless it's from an "app store".

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I don't see things getting better for another decade or so. Eventually a consistent set of GUI widgets and interfaces will be found, and a consensus will be reached about how things should act on a Desktop vs Tablet vs Watch, etc.

The shift to open source software was a great advance, but the shift to installing/downloading dependencies from the internet at install time was a horrible choice. There needs to be a way to lock all dependencies, "security" be damned. You should be able to run programs written a decade ago without having to rewrite it to adapt to all the breaking changes that seem to be so quick to happen in Open source.

Security is part of the OS, and any application libraries shouldn't be able to make the situation worse. Only capability based Operating Systems can resolve that dilemma.
That’s easily games as well, though. Bernie Madoff was able to screw over a lot of people based largely on his reputation. While bad, at least that was “just” money and not something safety critical.
Thanks for your suggestion about RWKV. I'll read up on that.
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
Dont let science and evidence get in the way of a guardian article.
Since I haven’t really tested this device (as school hasn’t started yet), I can’t really give a comprehensive review of how well this device works and fits into my workflow.
This sounds like your standard “hands-off” PI who doesn’t dig too deeply in the day-to-day research and analysis. That can work, but at least make sure your postdoc has collaborators you trust will keep them honest. If your lab doesn’t have a culture where people give productive honest feedback (warts and all) on work before it’s publicized, then that’s a failure solely of leadership.
There’s a Papua New Guinea tribe that cuts off a part of their finger each time a loved one in their family dies.
The vast majority of engineering is done under industrial exemptions so licenses don’t apply anyway. The main concept is mitigating risk, and there are multiple ways to skin that cat.
This is how every enterprise works.

The CEO gives the talk about the awesome product because they set the roadmap.

Benefits flow uphill, blame flows downhill is literally how any hierarchical organization works.

Now, you might want to say that science shouldn't be hierarchical, but we don't have any flat organizations like this that involve the kinds of mentoring and training required to build new scientists.
Qt should just copy Cocoa already, on both desktop and mobile, and both in API surface area and appearance (on desktop, at least, i.e. the Mac look). Now is a better time to do so than ever, given the flattening of Aqua, which makes it easy to mimic, and the Oracle v. Google precedent moving API copyrightability out of the grey area.
Well, in my opinion, inertia is a dominant factor. There is an enormous amount of inertia present in the current systems and thought patterns. Redesigning the world from scratch while applying different principles is hard, especially when you need to catch up with 30 years of evolution and situational developments.

The point of the article, I believe, is that the current set of principles underlying modern systems are not necessarily sacred and immutable. It does not follow that applying differing principles to today’s ecosystems, where current principles have metastasized, would be easy or even necessarily achievable.
You can only share games between accounts on your "home" switch.
Nice to know. There are actually several Redactle unlimited sites as someone was trying to impersonate my branding.
This is lovely, mob programming at its finest
My understanding is that earth-sun L4/5 also collect; not asteroids but dust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kordylewski_cloud

I believe you’d have to avoid the point itself and orbit around it.

Edit: apparently, there are two Earth Trojans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_objects_at_Lagrange_po...
In multiple years despite huge amounts of hype and investment and trivial access to the technology by anyone on the internet no one has managed to find a single one besides “selling” “rare” “art”, which bombed spectacularly?

NFT art didn’t work. NFTs in games didn’t work. NFT shares of things didn’t work.

Enjoy your intangible beanie baby. At least those had a (small) intrinsic worth.
They recently dropped support for MacOS 10.12. They're cutting it close since many Valve games only work on MacOS versions <= 10.13
That’s fine! My complaint is only that all games are made for gamers like you. I just want a few made for people like me!
I'll be real honest I'm personally just not a fan of it (or Apple's development tools in general) so it didn't really cross my mind. But if Neat doesn't work out I'll keep this suggestion in my back pocket just in case bc tbh it does make a lot of sense!
In my neck of science/AI/ML we've been talking about negative results being important as a community for a long time. But it never really happens.

It's so much harder to judge negative results than positive results. And it's so incredibly hard to attribute blame. Why was this result negative? Did you screw something up? Something very trivial you don't normally even report on? It's totally possible and that makes negative papers hard to swallow. Anyone can produce an unlimited number of negative results by being incompetent.
I don’t think we’re talking about the same thing - what you get at Home Depot is mostly a gimmick or a convenient point solution like light bulbs. You’re right that privacy is compromised on those solutions, but I also don’t think it’s bringing the full and integrated experience of home automation to the consumer because the full solution is still too complicated, because of the need for deep hobby-level interest in its successful configuration and maintenance, right?
The SWE may not have a certification but their products sometimes do. If you disagree, try writing avionics software without having it going through a certification process. They aren’t perfect, but to the OPs point, they serve an important function in terms of risk mitigation.
Already posted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38764936
Similarity of titles is all.
> Unless you can find actual figurine or statues...

Say what now? Figurines | statues are crafted, they could easily be fashioned to have two heads or seven fingers. They say much about what the artist might imagine, not so much about what is real.

The evidence drawn upon here is from handprints and stencils .. hands pressed in paint and then against a wall, or a hand placed against a wall with pigment blown across the hand to create an outline.

In parts of the world (Northern Australia for example) this has been a continuous practice for tens of thousands of years until the present day.

The examples they have show partial fingers.

The mystery is whether these are lost to accidents, biting animals, etc. or parts chopped off as punishement or parts sacrificed to give thanks or request a favour from some higher power.
I’ve been expecting “sooner” for like 10 years now. Somehow it just won’t die.

Just when it looked like crypto would finally be over someone glued on the fantasy word NFT and everything was dumb again.
From ChatGPT,

Yes, Google and Meta (the parent company of Facebook) do allow businesses to upload customer email addresses and phone numbers for advertising purposes, under specific conditions. This process is part of what's known as "Custom Audiences."

1. *Google Customer Match:* Google allows businesses to upload a list of email addresses through their Google Ads service. This feature, known as Customer Match, lets advertisers target or retarget their advertisements to these customers across Google products like Search, Shopping, YouTube, and Gmail. Businesses must comply with Google's policies and data protection laws.

2. *Meta Custom Audiences:* Similarly, Meta (Facebook) offers a feature called Custom Audiences, where businesses can upload lists of emails or phone numbers. These are then used to match users on Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms in Meta's network for targeted advertising. The data is hashed to protect user privacy, and the businesses must have the right to use this data.

Both companies emphasize privacy and the necessity for businesses to have obtained the data lawfully and with the user's consent. Users also have tools at their disposal to control their ad preferences and understand why they are seeing certain ads. It's a balance between effective targeted advertising and user privacy, governed by both internal policies and external regulations like GDPR and CCPA.

Google and Meta are building social graphs across this uploaded information.
It’s about as legally meaningful as wedding vows in our legal system.
Ask HN: Software for advanced filters for music playback?
Years ago I would always use KM Player on PC for its advanced filters so I can listen to specific parts/sounds on a particular song. For example there were features like, vocal focus, vocal remove, left-only, right-only, etc. Now KM is all bloated with ads and no longer includes these features.

Does anyone know of any PC software or Android apps that can do something similar?

I can find plenty of apps that can control basic EQ or have presets like bass boost, or "rock"/"pop" EQs etc, but nothing advanced like the ones I mentioned for old-KM.
I own this car and the engine. I did extensive engine repairs and maintenance (rod bearings, valve cover seals, throttle actuators, SAP, plugs, coils, sensors).

This is insanely expensive amount of parts in this video, not even counting the work itself. Basically it would never make economic sense to do a rebuild like this.
Wow! Thanks for sharing. Sometimes I get disheartened about programming, then posts like this remind me how complicated the world actually is. And how much perseverance and elbow grease we put in to make the world simpler.
Even Peter Molineux seems to have given up.

I feel like the rest were riding the hype train for investment or just looking for the next free-to-play to cash grab.
You are a great example.

It’s this mentality which is the problem — that only PMs are thinking about customer/biz success and so they must prioritize and figure out what everyone should work on and when it should be done.

Let’s do a rewrite in Rust. What does this engineer know that we don’t? Why would they say something so incredulous. What if they are thinking about the customer and biz but from a different angle.

Builders - people writing code and designing the actual functionality and experiences somehow became strictly “resources”. The thing that made tech great and allowed for so many companies to flourish was the tech/geek/nerd/hacker spirit that let those who write code decide what to do and how to do it.

Now, we’ve McKinsey’d the whole thing into boring processes that make work for people who don’t design or code. Jira, Google Docs, Slack, etc etc etc
I got curios and looked it up: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Engineer

Does not seem to be legally binding, so it’s just nice sounding mumbo jumbo as far as I am concerned.

They should make SWEs take it regardless…

Edit: quick search gave the same results for lawyers
Before they don't want to lose the customers who would think it's stupid,and they don't want to throw money through the window.
Which is why I said decent infotainment. CarPlay became the solution to manufacturers producing garbage head units for a decade. Tesla's isn't bad, which is why you don't hear people deem it a dealbreaker nearly as often.
tl;dr a Chinese guy bought a bitcoin mine with Tether which is super duper dangerous because the banks weren't in the loop.
And then there are anonymous LLCs

https://wyomingllcattorney.com/Blog/New-Mexico-Anonymous-LLC...
Not in every hierarchical organization.

For example, a ship’s captain takes ultimate responsibility for any collision or sinking, whether or not they were actually steering the ship. There was a tradition of the captain being the last one to leave a sinking ship.

Many cultures had a tradition of executing commanders that suffered defeat.

I think our culture is an anomaly where blame does not flow uphill as well.
Fair enough, they didn't block his testimony in the suit.

In general though I think the legal system worked pretty well here. I don't think the board's initial position was crazy. The dispute was escalated to federal court, and the court made a pretty reasonable judgment. Probably could have happened faster though.

Edit: trimmed my comment so that it's less cranky. Merry Christmas!
The iPhone came out the year before crypto.

One of them literally changed the entire world.

The other caused totally unnecessary climate change and a bunch of people lost all their money.

So, I’ll ask the question that I seem to have to ask in every thread. It’s been 15 years. How long do we have to wait? 30? 50? 100?
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Just because you put something in robots.txt doesn't mean they will adhere to it.
I have read your blogs and The Little Go Book. I must say that they are great. Thank you for writing those and keep writing.
Even if they were the oath doesn’t really mean anything beyond personal beliefs
Yeah but I wouldn't trust half the people who build software projects.

Seems like the money gets sent to people who know how to talk, not on their abilities.
That’s wildly inaccurate. Musk regularly displays a much higher level of tech skills compared to most CEOs, with the exception of a few, like maybe Jensen. You may not like musk, but musks way above someone like altman in technical skills
So it’s a fungible store of value that cannot be turned into useful currency.

Lovely.

So everyone just needs to buy enough bitcoin until every business randomly decides to start accepting bitcoin?

Can you provide any examples in history of a similar non-government currency having to wait for such a circumstance? Or a government one that wasn’t just waiting for a predetermined switch over date?
> quick search gave the same results for lawyers

I mean, it might not be legally binding, but violating it will get you disbarred afaik. And if you are disbarred, you cannot legally practice law, so it is kinda legally binding, just not directly.
Hi,
Currently, it is decently good at extracting quotes from a long document, but it is not 100% in all cases and we are working on making it more consistent and reduce hallucinations. It will also give page numbers for quotes with pretty decent accuracy.
Those systems had bugs like anything else, they were just never addressed if the customer didn't bring their vehicle back to a dealership. Have you dealt with code from the 70s-90s before? The codebases I've worked with from that time period were rife with bugs and quality issues we wouldn't consider remotely acceptable today.
What have they done for us lately?
I read your comment a few times but don't understand what you are saying. I think I'm missing some context.
The HUD is order qualifying for me now. I’ve had it in four BMWs, and if I had to do without gauges (which I don’t, because that is idiotic), the only acceptable substitute would be an HUD.
I sometimes wonder why no social networking or social media has really ever appealed to me. And conversely what makes it seemingly so appealing to others.

I mean sure I use this website, so I suppose that counts to some degree, but not very many hours per week and I use it to keep up on tech news and post occasional comments.
Right. That’s why the FDIC and police exists.

Society decided this 100 years ago. We don’t like the Wild West and scams. We like safety.
No one talked about it because they didn’t want normies to know. Might as well just use CIAs though.
I read it as "My father in law pulled up beside some holla, back in the 1970's" with Holla being a regional pronunciation of hollow/holler https://artsandsciences.sc.edu/appalachianenglish/node/492#:...
Try another? The abortion issue is clearly used by either side to drive division, they don't want to fix it. So it's less a stripping and more of a peasants stuck in the middle kind of thing.
In some sense, you might consider it to be a crude one. If you configure your computer to boot directly into full screen emacs, never leave it, and do your damndest to interact only with in-process elisp, you might get some feel for what such a machine could be like.

It will also be a frustrating experience, since emacs was never really intended to be used in such a way. There’s going to be a lot of friction and limitations. Still, it’s a fun exercise for the right sort of person :)
Maybe beside the point but heroin was developed by Bayer in 1897 as a less addictive replacement for morphine.
Hoffmann created it just two weeks after aspirin, really interesting story.
E.g. in Teslas user manual for the Model 3: swap tire every 10,000 km. And in other comments the last times the same question was discussed. Indirectly in the high number of inspection failures due to suspension issues.
Social Media is a part of the world now. Just like any danger in life, kids need to be able to recognize it and have the skills to deal with it - banning them would only make them more vulnerable in the long term.
NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Yi-34B
Is Social Media Making Us Stupid?
Would appreciate it if you tested for compatibility on a Chromebook running Linux via Crostini. The Crostini distro is fairly ordinary Debian, but Crostini has an unusual system mediating USB-device access, so it's hard to predict whether any given device or device feature will work.

(And even if a feature works today, it might break tomorrow. It's too bad the Chrome OS team doesn't appear to dogfood with Yubikeys, for example; GnuPG smart cards will work for a few CrOS releases and then inexplicably break for months/years. VSCode runs amazingly well on a Chromebook, but if I can't reliably sign a git commit, it doesn't matter.)
I kinda want to see a Laundry Files book where “Five Eyes” is an oblique reference to a demon the intelligence services have enlisted.
I really hope the journals pick up the work. The article implies publication is proving difficult. If they don't, this field my become career limiting or give way to studies which directly improve yield rather than indirectly through well being.
No, blocks are lambdas.
Also, ‘gio trash’ is widespread.