skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've gone a few routes. I have used sphinx's singlehtml builder to make a huge HTML file and then used pandoc to convert it into docx for final adjustments. This worked surprisingly well on a 2000-page document. But it's a bit cludgy.

Another (non-Sphinx) thing you can do is just write (portions of) your docx reports directly from Python using python-docx [1]. I use this approach when people give me strict docx templates that need to be filled in from Python in a very specific way. It can drop data-generated tables in at special placeholder sections and everything.

[1] https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I will say that I've been more and more happy with just using sphinx straight to pdf for very professional looking reports. Given some latex preamble work in the config you can get it looking quite nice. I haven't personally struggled recently with too many egregious formatting issues on the sphinx-built latex stuff. You do have to swap over to landscape mode for large tables, etc. so it takes some work. But you're right that in many cases, formatting issues do still happen, so YMMV.

Another neat trick in sphinx is the csv-table directive [2], which loads table data directly from a csv file you have around, which you can obviously get from your xlsx.

[2] https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/directives.html...
This is where I was first exposed to it. I'm not surprised it's got a longer history than that, though.
QML is very efficient. Much of custom QML code ones write actually compiles to C++[1]. All the code of Qt Quick components are written in C++ as well. I'm now creating a block editor in Qt C++ (model) and QML (view) that is 4x faster than that fastest comparable native app on macOS[2]. So, yes, it's possible to write very efficient code with QML.

[1] https://www.qt.io/blog/qml-type-compilation

[2] https://www.get-plume.com/
> The new EU stuff is opt-in.

That’s quite absurd, no? "You can pick which terms you want, the ones where we follow the law, or the ones where we don’t. If you pick the ones where we don’t, it’s cheaper for you."
Why fit desks with it? It would be like a mid-sized handheld vacuum cleaner. Carry it around with you.

Clothing will be redesigned around it. [0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/12/04/...
Yeah, it's just a prompt replacement that does all the things that your prompt already does, but it's written in Rust.
Yes: among other things, PDF/A requires all fonts to be embedded.
True, but it heightens the moral horror of the situation- but really, the morality of treating an AGI like that is arguably the same, or at least similar.
> Imagine getting a tattoo of your hero, then them pulling this crap on you.

Miles Davis isn't doing this. He's been dead for 32 years.

> Not even Nintendo

This isn't a large corporation doing this either - it's a photographer whose livelihood depends on them licensing their images.
> I.e the same thing as having no inflation and a 12% tax.

If we assume there is no inflation, then after one year the foo widget is still $1 [1] and you have 80¢ [2] – a 20% tax.

[1] $1.65 - $0.65 = $1.00

[2] $1.45 - $0.65 = $0.80
I meant earlier than the present, of course.

Of course, if reincarnation theory is true, I might have eaten it in some past life between 1947 and my birth year in this one.

ChatGPT, do you remember your past lives?
Obviously you have never used it.
This feels more like shady practice than anything founded in copyright...

Copyright on commisioned works is pretty clear and I'm pretty sure you would have to explicitly sign over your rights in that case.

I think its more a matter of the photographer not knowing the law or knowing you are unlikely to take then to court regarding it.
This title is TECHNICALLY true…
It’s too bad this requires a Nerd font to be installed according to the landing page. I just don’t think that belongs in a terminal emulator and it should be optional
Imagine looking up to someone as a hero but not requesting permission from their photographer / negotiating rights to reproduce or derived from their work.
IIRC Alan Watts believed that were are all one being, living every life in sequence, at different points in time. So you would at some point be the same chicken you slaughtered.

It's been many years, though, since I listened to him. And I was usually focused on other things. That may have been just a supposition on another point.
I’ll preface this with saying that this is not a dig at you personally.

That said, when I still practices law, one of the things I hated most were clients who “did their own research”.

If I was lucky they’d at least got a hold of something that tangentially applicable to their situation at hand.

But even in those cases people just seemingly stopped reading once they thought they read something that supported what they wanted.

On that note, your quoted part has a couple of issues. Most important for this debate is that it doesn’t pertain to the topic at hand.

It talked about a gatekeeper favoring itself more in rankings.

So if you search for “Music” in the App Store and Apple shows the Apple Music app before showing Spotify, Deezer, and the like, then this non-legally binding layperson’s explanation of the DMA would apply.

Although even in the case of the example Apple might get away with pointing out that a query for the term “music” is expected to favor results with “music” in their name, but that’s neither here nor there.
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> If a new EPUB format is created, I would suggest that they support pagination, since post secondary courses usually ask students to site chapters, pages, etc. Most EPUBs that I've come across don't have pages.

From the post:

> I think we just have to give up on citing content by pages. Instead, we should mandate a consistent numbering scheme for block elements within a document, and have people cite using that scheme.

The point of a citation is to specifically reference an assertion. Any method of specifically referencing an assertion works.

If anything, referencing by section and paragraph is more portable than referencing by page number. It's more consistent across different print formats of the same text (hardcover vs. paperback, and mainstream print editions vs. large-text or braille editions) as well as different digital formats.
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Vmware products are quite good at scale and support enterprise features that a casual user won't need/cant use.

Virtualbox is designed to be ran on a machine that is already running a desktop OS. It is designed to extend a machine. This is great for a developer.

Vmware/ESXI is a bare metal hypervisor that IS the OS.It effectively partitions a computer hardware and is incredibly stable/secure. This also allows it to do fancy powerful network and storage features directly that an app inside windows/linux/mac can't do.

LoB apps are certified & supported on vmware products. Like the payroll systems you get paid with? If it's running on virtualbox and it does something weird, you're probably not getting paid that week. If it's on Vmware, you better believe you can call people to have it solved asap.
Even Apple themselves seem to be taking this strategy! (Note the Apple Music thread above.)
I don’t know if you’re actually looking for an answer, but after having managed a small 1,000 person community I think the “spirt of the law” makes a lot of sense. You’ll get a few community members that are great, but then they want to be helpful and will start trying to micromanage other community members. They’ll see a rule like “Please keep discussions on topic for the channel”. And then if somebody asks a question about C++ in the programming channel (instead of the C++ channel) the “helpful” member will tell the person that they’re posting their question in the wrong channel.

As the manager/moderator of a community, I appreciate that this person is just trying to help. However, having somebody disregard your question and then tell you you’re doing stuff wrong can be a major turnoff to newcomers. In this specific case, it’s against the spirit of the rules because it’s a one off scenario. Now, this rule is helpful for the members that like to post memes everywhere, or talk about school or politics or religion in random channels. For these repeat offenders, I can point to the rule and politely ask them to move the discussions to a more appropriate channel. As with all laws in even real life, the rules are great for the black and white areas, but the majority of situations are gray. And it’s in those gray situations where we can operate within the spirit of the rules rather than the letter of the law.

Edit: also, to respond to your last statement. The code of conduct is there so that moderators have something to reference to repeat offenders. It’s much easier to tell somebody they’re banned because they repeatedly broke a specific rule rather than ban somebody because of personal distaste. I don’t see how having a code of conduct could ever be harmful to a community? How would that harm a community in any way?
> It's still the riskiest pharmaceutical product the average young person will take.

Acetaminophen is the riskiest pharmaceutical product the average young person will take.

It's so risky that EMS and ED staff are extremely well attuned to detecting and deploying effective interventions so that even when one doesn't die due to the entire scientific might of medicine being thrown at them, about a third of people who overdose and survive will have kidney and stomach problems for the rest of their (quite frankly, miserable) lives.

The antivax morons would be better served by being antiaceta.
In the past, Posterous was a blogging service that was powered by email, and I loved it. (You could blog using the email body and attached photos were also posted, so Daft Social without the "minimalist" part.)

Sadly, it was acquired by Twitter and then shut down.

I like that relying on the standard email protocols means you don't need an extra client to post. I wish more services could be powered by email - it is already so old, yet still underestiated as a protocol.

PS 1: Now someone just needs to give me back my BlackBerry...

PS 2: It's great they also support another standard, RSS. Two features that I would like to see are: (a) subscribe to these RSS feeds as email (for symmetry, so I can read all in my email client if I want to) and (b) two-way interoperability with Mastodon.

PS 3: I can see others have pointed out their liking of Posterious below already, so this feature should have a future in some form or another!
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You're talking about police, but the NSA has a charter and in that charter is supposed to (for SIGINT : signals intelligence, i.e., gathering) be doing signals gathering outside the US on at least one end of conversations.

Perhaps something changed over the last 20 years. But perhaps the rule still applies (or is supposed to apply) and that's the implied misbehavior.
It's imperfect but better than nothing. Detectives do understand limitations of such techniques.

Of course DNA exhibit phenotypes, so if it's an opportunity to know the skin color, the shape of the face, the eyes colors, the gender, etc.

Pair that with the place where the person was likely born and potential relatives (ancestry) and you may find someone interesting, or who knows something useful.
Copying the dead third party isn't the issue. Copying a specific rendition, as composed by the photographer, is. There are a number of photos of him that have non- or less-restrictive licensing.
Or, sue-happy individuals without common law, such as in Latin America.
See Figure 2 from this PNAS paper from J Craig Venter[1]. It caused quite a stir at the time, and not because people thought it was useful or wise.

1 = https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1711125114
Lots of things in the ESP32 series suggest they no longer have any decent analogue/RF engineers on staff.

Or maybe they aren't licensing the (expensive) analogue silicon design tooling.

For example, they have no 5Ghz model. The ADC performs really poorly. The RF capabilities don't seem to have changed for a decade. Etc.
That's not what's being argued here. If she had used a freely licensed photo of Miles there would be no issue.
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That knight looks like it's 12th century and he's heading to Jerusalem.
https://archive.is/5kXrh

https://web.archive.org/web/20240125142841/https://www.wired...
You want to push it, until we are forced to return the favour?

When one side doesn't listen, then these conversations are nonsense. The concept of having a conversation is coming to a close.
I don't see how having a QA team can actually result in worse quality though. Even for your "throw garbage over the fence" (something I've seen first-hand actually), the QA team is improving quality by finding the bugs in all the garbage thrown over the fence. Sure, getting the dev teams to stop throwing garbage would be better, but if management doesn't want to do that for some weird reason, and wants QA to serve as the bug-fixing org in place of having devs actually test their code before merging to master, not having the QA team at all would be measurably worse.

It's a bit like the bike helmet controversy. The anti-helmet people from Netherlands all claim that helmets somehow force cyclists to ride faster or more dangerously, or force car drivers to take greater risks around them. (Incidentally, this is very similar to the anti-seatbelt arguments I heard decades ago.) The helmet isn't the problem here though, even if there's any truth to these claims: it's the humans. The helmet will absolutely protect your skull better when it impacts concrete than no helmet.
If I wanted hellstew, I would switch to Android
Even if so the arguments can get settled, any agreed upon changes made, and the discussion archived. Next time someone runs into it, you have that to point to.
The tomato needed to be brought from the New World for butter chicken to be invented.
It doesn't represent the "en passant" rule, nor the castling. :-)
Meat and milk companies are racing to ease your climate guilt
That's exactly the problem, tho - our hardware is playing a game of tag with bloated software, it always needs to keep up with the newest bloat. Buy, why? My computer is extremely capable already, why not use its resources efficiently to get the best out of it? I'm building an advanced block editor (like Notion) in Qt C++. It takes 0.78seconds to load War and Peace on my 2016 MacBook Air. Using the top of the line Electron app (MarkText) takes 34x longer! Also, the same text loaded using the best native macOS app (Bike Outliner), on a 2022 M1 Pro takes 1.5seconds. So, my 2016 MacBook Air is "faster" than 2022 M1 Pro just due to more efficient software.
> dark themes usually don't render good

PDFs should not render dark themes at all. PDFs should like exactly like they were produced. So if they were produced with black on white text, that's what they should render, in any circumstance.
I realize you're being tongue-in-cheek, but I believe they often give the infringer the option of how to dispose of the infringing work. Laser tattoo remove, or inking over it would be adequate. Presumably this would be at Kat Von D's expense, since the wearer of the ink isn't named in the lawsuit.
I just memorize the 20 char random strings.
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pgvector has you covered: https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector
Then why aren't they?
Wherein the hex-knight is the anti-hex-queen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_chess#/media/File:Gl...
> But no amount of statistics can prove

By that logic [0] no amount of data can prove anything, and the label "unproven" becomes meaningless.

(Especially if the twist-ending is that you're trapped in a dream and this conversation isn't happening.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon
Have you ever developed an iOS app?

I ask this not as a gotcha, it’s a serious question.

There is no way to write an app that doesn’t use a single piece of Apple code.

Create a new project in Xcode, simply write print(“Hello, world!) right click on the print method, click “Jump to Definition” and you get to read Apple’s code.

To say nothing of all the boilerplate stuff (and more importantly all the stuff underneath it that is automatically created when you create a new project and that is necessary to run the app.

The open source SDK you talk about might be completely free of Apple’s code, but it most definitely makes use of Apple’s code.
There is a pretty cool PICO-8 remake: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=46087
A tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water may increase that risk, but you don't brush teeth directly afterwards, but instead you eat something, which will normalize pH.

If you're in the habit of weakening the enamel and then immediately brushing your teeth before they can self-repair, that will be a problem.
Yeah, Enterprise had its issues (especially the awful theme music at the beginning), but overall was pretty enjoyable to watch and had likeable characters, unlike Discovery.
That argument would hold more power if there wasn't an existing native client for Slack and Discord, made by one person, with all the features I needed, working with absolutely no lag and minimal resource use, working on MacOS, Linux and Windows.

Did this 3rd party app have 100% feature parity with the original Discord/Slack app the moment new features came out? If not, what was the time delta between the two?

Why didn't the author continue development? It seems like it was on sale for $20? Surely because people value native app so much that he would have made more than enough money to continue development?
And long peoper, which fewer people know of or talk about than black pepper, these days, but it is quite good too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_pepper

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pepper
Imagine if there was a way to use these softwares blender unity unreal engine 3d max etc in the browser wouldn't that be amazing
They "look" outdated because many developers using Qt simply don't care about aesthetics, unfortunately. But there are some few good exceptions. Telegram Desktop uses Qt[1]. Another one is a new app I'm working on[2].

[1] https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

[2] https://www.get-plume.com/
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Some basic searching says this is based on an even older game called Legend of the Green Dragon. Looks kinda cool honestly. Anyone know if the writing is okay?
I've been lurking on this sub for a week, searching the internet, reading every bit of information available, and trying to find or contact any HUMAN who can actually help. However, I'm beginning to realise that my problem will not be easily solved. I was referred to Marieconsultancyoz@gmail com. I'm one of the thousands of Instagram users affected by this farce. Also on Instagram under the handle Marie_consultancy. You can also get in touch with her. She successfully unlocked my Facebook and Instagram accounts, providing me with appropriate and sincere services.
Most of that is recycled. They don’t break it down because it would make the obvious, obvious. Microsoft pays OpenAI but requires them to use Azure, and OpenAI pays Microsoft the same money back. This is why they continually need billions in investment, because they are far from profitable.

The same principle applies to defense. The US gives Israel and Ukraine tens of billions, but that’s a credit to buy from US defense firms. That money gets recycled right back to US weaponry.
> than just a single cable to do it all

Well, generally speaking, you can't use "just a single cable". Because a USB-C cable only carrying a power charge would still technically be a USB-C cable. And you would never know until you tried to connect your display with it
To me the Warcraft III Reforged saga dispelled any illusion Blizzard would still hold off on releasing unfinished/unpolished games
At the time he made the no-lidar decree, it made a lot of sense. He was building a $50k car, so the whole self driving ability had to cost $500-$1000 in total added parts cost.

That includes the cameras, computer, and actuators for brake and steering.

There was no way that would pay for a lidar in 2015.

And, it is a fairly cheap decision to reverse when lidar becomes $50 or less - just sell/give a camera replacement kit.
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You seem to neither know what a gish gallop is nor what an ad hominem is.

So this is not going to be very productive.

> Needless to say people like you are all for the police having no power, or not existing, until you're the victim of a crime.

Perhaps it’s best if next time you focus more on crafting solid arguments that can stand on their own and less so with being concerned about trying to predict who I am or what I espouse.
I'd like to see them run a known person's DNA through their system and see what it does. I'm sure the company has done this already, and they should share the results with the police to give them an idea of how reliable the results are.

Cops would not be expected to understand the limitations of this otherwise. Although I do give them credit for trying to solve a cold case.
Stop exporting American culture.
A lower cost actually to end users typically.
> If you want a store in a mall, you have to pay higher leases and probably additional fees than you would if you operated out of your garage.

An iPhone is not a mall. An iPhone is a device owned by the end user. If the end user wants to use an app by some third party developer, they should be able to.

We don't let car dealers from prevent customers from installing aftermarket addons.
> The code of conduct is there so that moderators have something to reference to repeat offenders. It’s much easier to tell somebody they’re banned because they repeatedly broke a specific rule rather than ban somebody because of personal distaste. I don’t see how having a code of conduct could ever be harmful to a community? How would that harm a community in any way?

It harms the community precisely because it's easier. A moderator will ban someone they don't like, blame it on something ambiguous they twist into a code of conduct violation, other people will point out that there's a double standard because they didn't ban someone else who broke the same rule much more clearly, pretty soon allegations of discrimination are flying.... And you also get the opposite problem where a moderator won't ban someone who's doing a lot of harm to the community because "well, they technically haven't broken the rules yet...".

Actually applying human judgement and taking responsibility for it is psychologically harder, but it's vital for moderation that's actually going to work and be respected, IME. I think we're pretty much on the same page about what moderators should actually do with what you said about "grey situations" and "spirit of the rules". But if you pretend you're following a clear written code when you're actually expecting to have a lot of ambiguity and exercise personal judgement, you're creating a mismatch of expectations that causes problems (like your example of community members micromanaging each other). Better, IME to make it clear that while you may have some agreed guidelines, moderation isn't going to be according to a legal code.
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A huge difference is that a queen, like a rook, can attack a whole row and column, making it possible to box in an opponent's king. A knight has limited reach and can never attack a square the same colour as the one it is occupying.

Another is that a queen, like a rook, can reach any unblocked square in at most two moves. A Knight can require up to six moves!

Add to this the ability to move and attack diagonally like a bishop, but without the restriction of staying on the same colour of squares...

The queen is immensely powerful.