skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite explanation for the well known “worse is better” observation about systems software is that it’s a downstream of the fact that worse is free.

There have been vastly superior systems to Unix but with commercial licenses.
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Remote: Yes

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Résumé: github.com/qudent contains some short references and quantum information research, full CV and references on request

email: fi1w+hn@outlook.com

Some more text:

I am looking to break into data science/ML, switching from quantum information theory research. I did an internship at an NLP startup before, so I have some experience with Python/the PyData stack (pandas/numpy/scikit-learn...) in addition to data wrangling with bash scripts and NLP concepts like word embeddings and transformers. I also want to learn some frontend skills over the next months.

I co-authored some published research on quantum computational complexity theory (see my GitHub for details). Besides German and English, I speak Spanish and Russian at an intermediate and Turkish at a basic level.

A recent project: Recently, I created (and am using) a script and Telegram bot that helps me with language learning. A user may enter an arbitrary text they are interested in reading (e.g. a newspaper article), in any language. As necessary, the bot creates (using ChatGPT/langchain) translations to the user's native language and/or language to learn, hides some words and phrases in the latter, and creates Anki cloze cards from the text split into sentences. It also adds ChatGPT-generated definitions and mnemonics for the vocabulary. As it turns out, the idea is somewhat similar to the diglot weave method [1] - but I hope (and feel) that the method I use is more efficient in remembering specialized vocabulary actively (because it asks the user to actively recall words). I am happy to tell more if we have a call =) More generally, I long had an interest in education technology/technology that accelerates discovery and learning of information, in particular at research level.

[1] https://shop.weeve.ie/blogs/blog/what-is-the-diglot-weave-me...
Is there a tutorial on how to extract table from pdf or image for Apple Vision Framework. I tried the two links in your post and it just extracts the text without maintaining the table structure.

AWS textract provides sample python code to extract tables into csv which works great.
Location: US, Oregon, Portland

Remote: Preferred. Local commutes OK as long as not every day at rush hour.

Willing to relocate: prefer to stay in PDX, but everything has a price

Technologies: C++, Rust, Linux/Unix, x86 assembly. I know how cache hierarchies work.

Résumé/CV: I'm a Unix systems person, primarily. I like the old joke that "I'm a full stack engineer - I can code for user space AND kernel space."

I have experience with a wide variety of Unix platforms. I spent several years at a configuration management company trying to make their tools behave the same across Solaris, AIX, and a dozen flavors of Linux. I have some fun war stories from that job that I'd love to share.

I have also spent a bit of time doing some blockchain things in Rust.

My full CV is up-to-date on my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/branan-riley

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In case anyone is interested, I played around with a novel musical notation paradigm in the form of an iPad app a few years ago: http://composerssketchpad.com

(I don't think it works anymore, and I don't have the ability to update it at the moment due to work conflicts. Also, sorry for the crappy trailers: I barely knew what I was doing back then!)

Basically, you draw pitches directly on a horizontally-infinite canvas. By default, pitches stick to equal temperament gridlines, but you can turn off this snapping if you want to play around with a microtonal tuning or annotate a bendy guitar solo. The intent was to create a notation system that's intuitively usable and (theoretically) able to represent any pitch-based music.

I wanted to add the ability to specify arbitrary snapping grids as a v1.1 feature, but I ran out of time. Will come back to it someday; hope to move it to a more universal platform and add power user functionality that would take it out of the "toy" category and turn it into an actually useful compositional tool. Also, this was before MIDI 2.0, so arbitrary per-note pitch bending was implemented as a huge hack — definitely looking forward to that refactor.

None of this is intended for sight reading, though. It's more about being able to jot down completely arbitrary pitches with relative ease.
Remote: Yes (more than a decade of leading in fully-distributed organizations)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Linux, Postgres, AWS, and many, many more (multiple decades' worth)

Résumé/CV: CTO for small and medium-sized companies looking to take their engineering to the next level

Email: jobsrchthrwaway@gmail.com
If you do it please consider porting Crisp Game Lib, the framework used to create this game, which will net you hundreds of new C64 games in one go.
I wonder how much of big cloud one can replicate on a diy cluster.

Database works via this. S3 via minio. Redis. And maybe openFAAS?

That seems like a lot of the key building blocks already.
Yes. But you have insurance for all that kind of activity. I hope.
Do you have product manager? Ask them. Showing interest in the business side will get you noticed.
I'm waiting for the language and toolset to mature before I give it a serious chance. Not having an increment operator also is kind of disappointing. Why not name Odin C+=1?
Based on what you've written, for your specific use case I'd probably go with "local SQLite syncing with remote server whenever possible" even if PostgreSQL was 100% perfect. There's just so much that can go wrong with an internet connection, or you end up with "that one entrance where hand-scanners don't quite work because of bad reception in that corner", and stuff like that.
this is really smart
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How much experience do you have with both of those?
Kids these days don't realise the sheer dexterity that was needed to flip a CRT monitor to face away from you while pressing backspace.

I'll grant you that the modern way of having a dedicated "Shift" key on the keyboard is more convenient, especially if you need to type a lot of lower-case letters in a row. But we got by alright.
> From what I've read, this was handled terribly.
Source please?
It's made out of LK99?
Not just for gambling ads, all ads. Something like the Vision Pro but as unintrusive as normal glasses today and running an open platform.
Yeah, and the Ehrlich test agent is hyper-specific, so very easy to test if it's legit or a potentially harmful analog.
I think the challenge with this piece is that it tries to present a nuanced, balanced view of a static character. And based on the limited observations available to those of us with no special access or insight, Elon seems in no way static; rather, it seems like he is in a self-destructive spiral of poor decision making and mental unbalance. However much nuance you apply to his -- quite impressive -- previous actions and decisions, it's not clear that the description applies to the next decade, or even the last year or two, of his decline.
Everybody in Frisco (I lived there for a decade) knows the true anti-shibboleth is saying "The 5" instead of "5". 90% chance the person saying it grew up in southern CA.
https://jade-lang.com/ is close to html and not verbose.
I never said they were assholes, I just said they chose not to inconvenience themselves.

Some people wore masks regardless of how much they actually helped - on the off chance they actually helped at all - they chose to inconvenience themselves
From the River to the Sea is usually said in the context of Palestinian liberation, Israeli occupation or zionism, so applying the same logic it seems to affirm Palestinian liberation and decolonization or deny or nullify zionism. Doesn’t really sound like a dog whistle in that context.

Wikipedia seems to agree with my assessment:

> All Lives Matter is a slogan that was created as a negative response to the Black Lives Matter movement. It is a conservative rejection of the acknowledgement of police brutality and ethnic violence that is the purpose of the Black Lives Matter movement.

> "From the river to the sea" (Arabic: من النهر إلى البحر, romanized: min an-nahr ʾilā l-baḥr; Palestinian Arabic: من المية للمية, romanized: min il-ṃayye la-l-ṃayye, lit. 'from the water to the water') is a political slogan that refers geographically to the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, an area described as Palestine, which today includes Israel and the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, including the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.

> Palestinian progressives use the phrase to call for a united democracy over the whole territory while others say "it's a call for peace and equality after ... decades-long, open-ended Israeli military rule over millions of Palestinians."

Even the Hamas charter is pretty explicit about what it means (where the context is obvious):

> Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea [...] along the lines of the 4th of June 1967

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_river_to_the_sea
This is the problem with almost all nutritional studies. They’re almost always based on correlation. But human life has millions of facets, and each facet is correlated with thousands of other facets. It’s nearly impossible to discover a causal relationship between two lifestyle variables unless the effect is very pronounced.
"According to some estimates, China was ASML's largest market after Taiwan and South Korea, but made up nearly half the company’s sales in the third quarter of 2023"

Beginning of the end for Western chip manufacturing.

Old business proverb: "Never, ever turn away a paying customer. That's business you will never get back again."

Without those Chinese sales ASML can't get enough funding to maintain its technological lead. Those sales will go to the fledgling Chinese FAB builders instead, allowing them to catch up and then surpass ASML.

In ten years' time, ASML will be no more, and Western semiconductor manufacturers will be very sick if not already dead. And yet another Western industry will become yet another Chinese monopoly, following all those other previous Western industries to oblivion.
You know what would be really cool? if there is a way to use it as a lightweight alternative to Electron. Is that possible?
You seem interesting to talk to.
There are floppy disk emulators that allow you to use USB keys. They don't cost much
Many buildings are designed that way. It is a useful thing to do, but there are trade offs - you pay for that extra space in other materials and extra time. For an office the office/cubes/open layout is installed by the renters after they lease the building and thus the space you are talking about isn't part of the initial construction effort. They still plan/reserve space for the pipes and large wires in initial construction. Generally the bathrooms and break rooms (kitchens/cafeteria) would be done in initial construction and so carefully planned out.

It of course isn't illegal to make changes - but it is expensive and thus not something you should do. (though some things are much easier than others to retrofit half way in.
That’s one definition, but it’s often used to just mean something very surprising and good.

Or, if you’re an economist, just anything mildly unexpected.
Normally we'd call it a paper... I think it's just phys.org writing the headline a certain way.
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Those fall under making money and surival (and honestly sex and enjoyment as well)
Not going to happen without TAS.

At around level 247, you start to get game crashes without clearing any lines, just because the 'wrong' kind of piece appeared.

Now try to clear a bunch of lines with restrictions on what kind of pieces are allowed to randomly spawn.
The idea of adding a bit of friction is incredibly powerful. On desktop I use the excellent "News Feed Eradicator" [1], which removes the main news feed from popular destinations, while still allowing you to browse remaining functionality (e.g. subscriptions page on YT, messages on LinkedIn/Reddit). Fully open source, and available for Chrome/Firefox.

On mobile I use "One Sec" [2], which injects a short delay before opening any apps you specify. The delay is configurable; from a few seconds, to half a minute.

It's impressive how only 3-4 seconds are enough to re-engage your prefrontal cortex and make you think -- "wait a minute, why am I opening this app again?".

[1] https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator/

[2] https://one-sec.app/
And just like that, I can kiss my productivity goodbye for the rest of the day.

Sent from my cheap-arse $99 Android phone.
dillo is more lightweight, although it doesn't support html5, while netsurf does support some html5. The website itself of dillo does not render the same in dillo.
https://archive.is/dGht0
From a human vulnerability perspective, there is minimal human threat in North America's poisonous snakes, compared to the areas of India, China, Australia, and other nations in this area. Driving down the population for reasons of human risk seems reasonable there, by reversible means.

With Florida's problem of invasive snakes, extreme removal efforts seem likewise warranted as non-native species should be completely removed from the local environment, especially considering their profound negative impact on biodiversity.
It'll be interesting to see if Disney tries to stop it. If they do (maybe via trademark [which "should" fail]), it'll mean more publicity. If they don't, then the film will probably quietly make a bit of money and we'll see people playing around with more old characters in new lights.

I'm not super into mickey mouse, but the huge variety of rather enjoyable Sherlock Holmes parodies tells me that characters and stories becoming part of the public domain will be a net good for culture.
They’re pretty commmin in at least France and Germany: I’ve seen manual “belt operated” ones exactly like your video, as well as fancier electric ones with metal slats and the slat storage box mounted outside.

As well as giving true darkness, they also have much better sound and thermal insulation than curtains or blinds. I would love these on my apartment!
That's load balancing, the early years. "Power" was mostly for commercial daytime, while "Lighting" load picked up in the evening.

Also, many early power companies provided the light bulbs. You could turn in burned out ones and get new ones.
Native iOS apps can work with password managers too:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/password_...
Haha. This is funny because you're making a slippery slope argument that consists of chastising gp for making a slippery slope argument (which they didn't).

GP was just saying (given their assumptions / understanding) that it's a bad trade-off to allow people to take these particular risks. That the costs outweigh the benefits.

You, on the other hand, claim gp's (supposed) slippery slope will lead down the path of banning anything... in other words, that if we ban people from taking [these risks] it creates a slippery slope to arbitrarily banning all kinds of things with any risk involved.
> Aren’t they? Are you sure you understand what is the finding?

Yeah, I got it.

> But that is what they find. The human looks at two almost identical looking images of flowers. And yet when they are asked which one is more cat like they pick the one which the neural network thinks is cat-like too.(Or at least they pick it more often than if they were just selecting randomly in this seemingly nonsense task.) That is exactly “similar in some way”. Similar in which image they find more cat-like. That is the similarity.

I'm saying the implication is that there is a not-yet-understood deeper connection illustrated by this discovery. I don't think they tested for that and I don't think it's hinted at. There are lots of reasons why this trick would work on both humans and neural nets that would amount to effectively no similarities in structure or process otherwise. That isn't to say it's not related somehow, just that their experiment simply shows the outcome is the same, but doesn't indicate why it's the same.

Having said all of that, you're definitely correct to imply I haven't read the full study. And I'm happy to admit my original comment contains misunderstandings. Sorry about that.
I'm biased, but I agree! This is a great article that further illustrates how we are a bit conditioned to use off-the-shelf vendor tooling that we can run ourselves.

https://kiwiziti.com/~matt/wireguard/

Of course, there are tradeoffs you have to make (security, uptime, criticality of the system), but homelabs exist as perfect experimentation frameworks.

At $DAYJOB we run a global scale Ceph cluster (S3-like API/object storage), so even at a large scale it's not impossible to imagine.
> I've never seen persianas in the U.S., or anywhere outside Argentina. Retrofitting them into American houses would definitely not be trivial as either the persianas would have to roll up on the outside of the house or ride on rails on the inside of the house, or the window header would have to be moved up in order to fit the slats passing from the inside roll to the outside rails.

I've seen what you're looking for in higher end hotels. In America, for outside of the window it's "roller shutters" for inside the window it's "roller shades".

Most budget roller shades, inside of window, aren't true blackout as they don't come with a track, but the higher end ones do.
A fantastically written article, which goes well into depth on the history of the Ivory Coast and its erstwhile "benevolent" dictator. Worth an hour if you have one.

To me, though, he seems to adopt the usual sophomoric mistaken approach of identifying the cause of a calamity in many different places, which is what I did in my IB extended essay about the fall of Suharto in Indonesia. Now I feel a little embarrassed looking back on this: I was trying too hard not to be wrong, and covering all of my bases in accordance. Of course, that was sixteen years ago, and I was in high school.

In so doing, he buried what seems like the biggest mistake at the end: Côte d'Ivoire bled its own economy nearly to death when cacao prices collapsed in the '80s by internally subsidizing exports of its theretofore most profitable crop. Then they killed the whole industry while trying to set up a cacao OPEC, forgetting that it would be a lot easier for rich countries to just go without chocolate than to live without oil. Sure, war and corruption are bad, but plenty of countries had better performance despite them than CdI did during its long fall. In some sense, the logical comparison is Venezuela's self-sabotaging response to the PDVSA strike of 2002 [1].

It's also another case study in the enduring power of roads: for all the mistakes, CdI built the best road network in West Africa, and those roads are mostly still there, probably helping propel its recent recovery at a faster pace than its neighbors. Almost like a tiny Rome.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDVSA#Politicization
I am an ex-scientist and I can confirm that scientists frequently say this. Normally it's what you say after you read a paper from your competitor.

Realistically, almost no modern research demonstrates causation; nearly all work is associational, ideally with a prepdonderance of supporting evidence and no counter-evidence (which merely means it hasn't been falsified. Now falsified- that's a work scientists rarely if ever use).
My comment was not about electron, it was about your platitude.
Mosquitos inhabit an ecological niche that is much safer to eradicate than snakes. Mosquitos' predators have many other sources of food so they're not critical to any species and they're not predators that keep prey populations in check. They're just a deadly nuisance to humans without access to plentiful modern medicine.

Snakes on the other hand as mid-level predators are likely keystone species [1] and killing them would wreck their ecosystems by letting rodent populations grow out of control. In California they keep ground squirrel populations in check and provide a source of food for all kinds of raptors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species
Seems like more than just "duplicative language". In one case, the language she is duplicating is coming from sentences in a paper where the author is citing others' publications. She could have at least copied his citations/sources along with, or instead of, his language. This just looks like laziness, carelessness, incompetence or perhaps something worse.
Here’s something that’s kind of obvious but only occurred to me the other day — if you sell apps for $3 or less, the App Store fee costs about the same or less than anyone else is going to charge under the small business program.

Unfortunately my next app is going to cost $9.99
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I haven't followed OpenSolaris stuff for long time but I suppose they don't depend on proprietary binary blobs from Sun anymore.
According to Harvard's campus policies these are perfectly acceptable:

- "Disgraced former Harvard President Claudine Gay is finally back picking cotton where she belongs"

- "I think the black students should be picking cotton, not studying at Harvard"

Those quotes are also protected under the 1st amendment. Regardless, they're so unbelievable vile, and the merits of the expression are so vacuous that it has virtually no value for mind-expanding endeavors that universities claim to be for. Similar to calling for a genocide.
I should have been more specific. There's no technical reason for binary apps to be the dominant form of apps on phones, given that most apps are pretty simple experiences.
I have. I only discovered it about two weeks ago, though. But so far, I do like it. Thank you!
> BTW people who use the Mediterranean diet tend to live long, healthy lives.

They also tend to walk a ton and the portions are vastly smaller.

Is it the "Mediterranean Diet" or "Living in Italy" that causes the difference?

We joked about members of our vacation party who would have first, second and third gelato for the day. However, totaling that all up was still less than a single sitting of gelato in the US. A slice of cake was 3-4 bites and not an eighth of a 9" pan. etc.