skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does an EPUB reader provide that a browser doesn't? Because right now it seems to me that the answer is just one, trivial thing: It can treat a .epub file (that is, a zip file) like a directory.

If that really is the only thing that differentiates an EPUB reader from (a subset of) a browser, it seems that the simplest and least-effort thing to do would be:

1. Enable existing browsers to treat a zip file like a directory, under certain circumstances.

2. Describe a machine-checkable restriction of HTML that guarantees fully local assets as described in TFA (this might be as straightforward as requiring all URLs (except for links) to be relative). Declare any zip file that satisfies this restriction to be "a portable EPUB".

3. Forget about special-purpose EPUB readers altogether, both existing and new.
people have a hard time conceptualizing the real size of volume
20% is less than the 30% previously announced?
Netflix got super aggressive on cracking down on shared accounts

Did they? I still share my account with a few people. I haven't noticed them being super aggressive.
The Wealthiest County in the U.S. Is Not Where You Think
users may find this related article and comments interesting: (from 4 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37607851 "French was the official language of England from 1066 till 1362 (frenchleeds.co.uk)"
> This feature reminded me of the MySpace worm in ~2005 (heck, I wasn't even alive then!)

I instantly felt old.
How does Deutsche Bahn compare with European rail firms?
And those places use it because it’s free. You’re already paying for Exchange or Office, so Teams comes free. Nobody believes it’s the best product, but it’s 70% as good as Slack for free.
if I say its 1Bkm x 1Bkm, thats what it is...
> and I think people overestimate the educational value of the former.

I disagree. Some people might overestimate how in-depth the information is, but the educational value of these videos lies in giving someone a basic understanding of something they otherwise wouldn't have learnt about at all. The lower information density helps making the video easier to understand and thus easier to consume, compared to something like a Havard class.

If you want to learn something in-depth, an actual class, a book, etc. will of course always be better, but if that's neither required nor wanted, the infotainment is just fine.
You'll easily find radioactive Potassium (K40) in bananas and potatoes. A good Geiger counter can easily pick them up. They're just bananas and potatoes.

Concentration matters and chemical detection methods are so sensitive (ppb) that without reporting how much was found in the plastic, this information is almost useless. That they didn't report concentrations is problematic.

The base study/publication is here, but I didn't see much concentration information there either.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235234092...
Amon Tobin has lots of great music. Another one to check out by him is the Adventures in Foam album that he did under the Cujo moniker. Very heavy on jazz samples.

Easy Muffin has to be my favorite song of his as well as Get Your Snack On.
Israel likes to say this, but it is not true. The hasidic jews especially enjoy rights that other Israelis just dont have, and they have a large amount of control over the government.
Yeah or people in the US just install something other than Firefox and call it a day when Mozilla decides to do that.
To add some context here - the concept of a unified "Germany" has only existed four times in history. First under Charlemagne in the 800s, then under Otto von Bismarck in 1871, then under Adolf Hitler until the fall of the Third Reich in 1945 (assuming one considers annexation of the Sudetenland and the Anschluss to fully encompass Germanic people), and finally the modern state of Germany since 1990.
While that may be true some hand picked examples, because they are so obviously methodologically flawed that they betray either a lack of basic skills in a field or dishonesty, can completely destroy credibility.

When a documentary tried to explain to me that it was so unsettling that ancient Egyptians were able to build the pyramids with heavy granite blocks that came from 900km away without even mentioning the Nile, I did not think it was worth continuing much further.

(Turns out only a little part was made of granite anyways, most of it was built with stone coming from right next the pyramid)
Nice. Is this open source and/or are you looking for help in any way?
If you want to try to find "beauty" or "ingenuity" in these behemoths, look at "all the processes that company has" and imagine trying to consistently pull off some of some of the bigger projects they do without those processes.

There are projects that can only be done by large entities and part of the boredom you feel is the systems "work" if workers are equivalent/replacable units.
When I see the Microsoft logo, I always lower my expectations accordingly.
Mozilla Is 'Extremely Disappointed' with Apple's EU Browser Engine Change
Oh, not at all unattainable - a Unix derivative as unified as Windows is macOS. I've got a terminal and an Emacs running on my Mac right now.

But a free software one? No - that's the point of this article: the free software desktop users aren't willing to put up the resources it would take to develop what you're seeking.
In the USA it is a national sport to trample on French origin words.. look at the Motor City "Detroit" !
Whereas "AndrewKemendo" provided first-hand testimony, which added value in the form of a datapoint, I struggle to see how your opinion of his testimony added any value, other than negativity.

It's fine to dislike something - and just move on.
The 1951 UNHCR convention [1] would like to disagree that only an entitled line of thinking presupposes rights of refugees.

[1] https://www.unhcr.org/about-unhcr/who-we-are/1951-refugee-co...
Strategies have limits on how much money they can manage. By limits, I mean - either it's impossible to put in more (could be because there are no more counterparties to trade with above a certain amount) or it would significantly decrease performance.
I specifically think the mixed use of the word "occupation" to imply that the state of Palestine should include all of the current state of Israel one of the largest trust busting tricks in the modern discourse. I think it is natural to think that the Gaza and West Bank situation is bad and I suspect the majority of even slightly western views would agree.

What shocked me, is that there are some on the far left that fully think all of Israel is an occupation of Palestine. More, they got rather upset when I pointed out that that line of thinking is, ironically, in support of people that have shown genocidal intent.

Curious if you have numbers on how many intentionally refer to all of Israel in this way? (Also curious if my take on that is unfair to folks?)
White House calls for legislation to stop Taylor Swift AI fakes
The unsaid disclaimer here is "on your hardware." It seems to take mine much less time.
ALL of the comments make no sense after reading this line:

> Unlike Nvidia, which offers its GPUs out for other companies to purchase,

> Google's custom-made TPUs remain in-house for use across its own products and services.

nobody can purchase one of these.

and even if someone external to google could purchase one, why would they trust google for software, documentation or (the big if with google) ongoing support. this isn't their core business.
Reallllly depends on the the industry, the company, the department and the team.

——

Questions to ask yourself when looking at job so you can be picky:

- What industry are they in (helps determine if it’s interesting)

- Their place in the industry (helps if there’s growth)

- What is the next frontier for the industry (helps determine if you are going to be laid off)

——

And when they interview you, be sure to interview them, especially if you get to talk to technical members:

- What does your specific team work on (helps determine whether their work is interesting)

- How big is the team (helps determine if you’re gonna be a cog)

- What kind of inter-team collaboration goes on, including non-technical teams (helps determine the culture)

- Talk to me about your architecture (helps you determine the tech you will be working on)

- Ask questions about why they built in that way (if they cannot answer these, I would run)

- What’s their release process like (you’re almost looking for key words here)

Don’t be afraid to ask. I asked questions for like an hour before deciding this job was for me. It should flow like a conversation with a friend though.
Who told you they couldn't leave? 40,000 people came and went every month.
Aral sea disaster ought to take the cake for sheer destruction.
The notion that the problem is religious fundamentalists is itself propaganda. The people are just people; the problem is a brutal racist occupation that has gone on for far too long.
fines are getting ridiculous for some people when you look at how much the value of life is, according to the rich.

EPA says its less than $10 millions.

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

This alone would make me vote for Trump (not that it would make a difference).
FBI recruits Amazon Rekognition AI to study 'nudity, weapons, explosives'
Something tells me nothing will be paid. Does anyone actually get paid in these huge verdicts? What happened with that Alex Jones Sandy Hook $1 billion judgement? I think they just use various delay tactics and asset protection schemes to avoid paying.
> The trash still ends up in the ocean

Huh? As you say, Japan doesn't litter. And AFAIK Japan incinerates most/all of its plastic waste. They don't exactly have the land to landfill. So very little, if any, is ending up in the ocean.
This will not happen. If Apple complies, it complies. They can’t blame Apple for not following a random EU directive in jurisdictions outside of the EU to begin with. They’re even different legal entities. The EU is not going to do anything about this at all and if they try: it will be blocked. I’ll check back here in 6 months to see how this aged.
That's Spotlight, not Finder.
Part of the problem is Phosh is basically fucking GNOME and inherits all the GNOME enshittification including a render path that requires considerable CPU/GPU oomph to draw smoothly. Windows has a smoother UX on old/weak hardware than GNOME. I don't know why this is and why they can't (or won't bother to) get their act together, but when it comes to a responsive UI, a bare X WM that uses regular 2D draw calls trounces GNOME. On the PinePhone that pretty much means SXMO.
yes, this is a real thing
I used to think the same. But after nearly 30 years of doing this. I no longer think that people will meet the standard you propose. You can either work around it or you can abandon mainstream software entirely and make everything you use bespoke. There are basically no other choices.
What would the late heavy bombardment have done to the Earth's surface?
Docker Quick start:
docker run -p8070:8070 -i schapman1974/pytincture:example010

Pull up in browser:
http://localhost:8070/py_ui
Why should the Palestinians leave? Palestinians leaving is ethnic cleansing.
Apple users aren't as picky about what their device should be doing, or achieving.

Half the time, they have no perception of, or perspective whatsoever on what's buggier than what they were previously using.
Yes, Apple stated they have 5 different app stores.
>Petrol's higher energy density doesn't matter as much as people think.

When vehicles uphill, ramp, and fight with the increasing wind resistance due speed, it is needed a high torque for to motion.

The petrol's energy density is translated in high torque, that the gearbox latter transforms progressively.

In electric vehicles, generating high torque and cooling the overheated coils for to obtain such high torque drains the battery quickly, the range drops quickly.

And for to increase the range, more weight is added (more batteries), that requires higher torque for motion, that requires more energy again, and so on.

This is why the energy density it is important, in batteries are the watts hour per kilogram. As also it is important the number of cycles before such batteries start to drop energy density until to fail (to note the weight keeps being the same along all of this degradation).

With the current technology, due the magnetic fields strength generated in the coils, and the energy density of the batteries, EVs just can not compete with petrol vehicles. It is about torque, among other things.

What is needed? batteries with bigger energy density ( higher Wh/Kg with higher number of recharge cycles), and/or higher efficiency generating magnetic fields of high strength (ambient superconductivity, also stronger magnets would help some coil's topologies).
> it doesn't let you watch arbitrary expressions

You can't watch expressions, but when the debugger comes up, and I think if you're stepping through too, you can hit "e" for eval and do any expression you basically want. Any variables used would need to be in scope, etc ...

(this is with sbcl and slime ... I'd bet sly supports similar)
Maybe carbonated drink consumption is the diferentiator? The plastic of those tends to be thicker.
Forests that never decayed because nothing could break down liglin molecules for millions of years. Many buried underground and I believe turned into coal/oil.
Is that garbage from Japan or, say, China? When a cargo ship carrying "recyclables" from the US to China loses things into the ocean near Japan, does it not wash up on Japan's shores?
Throwing messages in conversations is not the same as contribute to curate a linguistic data base, both in term of cognitive load and easiness to lucratively despoil contributors.
I have been making an effort to only buy athletic wear with 100% recycled polyester. I guess now I throw them all out and only buy wasteful virgin polyester athletic wear?
Professor Leonard [0] got me through calculus in university.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorLeonard/playlists
I do not believe your comment is in good faith and thus is violating community standards.

But yes, people that are good at evading the police are in fact able to "freely" commit murder. I'm not sure why you thought this would be be a convincing retort considering it is true by definition.[0] You do in fact have to be captured by police and subsequently prosecuted. I am glad that you do understand the most basic operating principle of the judicial system: you cannot imprison those who are not in your custody. (A bit tautological, don't you think?)

[0] Assuming "freely" means "able to commit crime without judicial repercussions". I assume you don't mean "freely" in reference to having capacity as such a definition wouldn't be conditioned on legality.
I want to know if you want to meet up occasionally to discuss/work on the course and the labs? (i.e., be the "other students" you mention.)

I was thinking about starting the the Spring 2024 6.5840 course just this past week. I ran across the course on YouTube while studying Raft and Zoo Keeper. I saw their labs and they have you build RAFT and a KV store on top of RAFT. I'd love to get the experience of building these. I have never written golang, but I am sure I could ramp up on it quickly.

How far along are you?
It doesn't seem like the Palestinian people are extremist Muslims any more than the Israeli people are extremist Jews.
One of my favorite uses for it is in Rebecca Sugar's music for Adventure Time and Steven Universe. https://www.tiktok.com/@rebeccasugar/video/73273903131719303...
Pinboard looks pretty neat. I'll check this out, thank you!
Is there a reason why Oct 7th (the massacre that started this escalation) was not discussed?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1696896000&dateRange=custom&...
We really need to kill this meme. All the “pipe to shell” trick really did from a security perspective is lay bare to some naive people the pre-existing risks involved in running third-party code. I recall some secondary ‘exploits’ around having sh execute something different to what you’d see if you just inspected the script yourself, by way of serving different content, or some HTML/CSS wizardry to have you copy out something unexpected, or wherever. But really, modern-day Linux is less and less about ‘just’ installing packages from your first-party OS package manager’s repositories. Beyond that, piping a downloaded script to your shell is just a different way of being as insecure as most people already are anyway.
Use wago instead of wire nuts.
My prediction: This is hyper-optimization of legacy media and Netflix will get disrupted by AI.

We'll be producing Netflix-yearly-content-hours per day on 0.0001x the budget.

Innovator's Dilemma: Netflix is not set up for discoverability and distribution here.
Yes and yes.

These applications specifically because anything that looks at anything on the micro scale includes these as “possible applications”. They sound cool and exciting, and the urge for making them has been around since before Feynman’s Room At The Bottom lecture.

But my comment is mainly surrounding the farce of making a cool discovery that progresses an area of understanding, and then being asked a question that is best posed to engineers: “but what can we do with it?” Wrong field, wrong people, wrong question.

Imagine if astrophysicists were asked these questions. “So you’ve discovered a new kind of star that is made entirely of sponge? What applications do you think will come out of this research?” “Well we hope it will help with Dyson Spheres, Astrology and sea navigation”
> But I can’t imagine switching my main axe up with a holy shit moment a lot crazier than tree-sitter in 2024 and not having the render loop be in JS.

I can't parse this sentence -- could you unpack it? Not being a dick, I really want to know what you mean.
Several additional problems with your argument past what D.C. just said:

1. Israel has in fact immense support, far more than the South African government ever had.

2. Apartheid South Africa was a system of minoritarian rule, which does not exist within the 1967 borders of Israel (further, Arab Israelis have nominally full citizenship rights, and in fact fight for the IDF; they are a minority, unlike the victims of Apartheid, but they're also not living under an apartheid system).

3. For a majority of Israeli Jewish people, there is no other place in the world for them to go. There is no prospect of a negotiated settlement that forecloses on a Jewish state. Their BATNA is war. That wasn't the case with the Boers.

In these kinds of discussions I feel like people conflate the situation in Gaza and the West Bank with that of Israel proper. Continued Israeli occupation of Gaza probably is untenable! That occupation will eventually be disbanded, the way South African Apartheid was. But here we're talking about the entire state of Israel. Like I said, start with Texas, because that'll happen first.
For what it's worth, I'm jewish and there are many jews who would disagree with my answer to the question you're responding to - just keep in mind how much diversity in thought exists. Though, the sentiment of your answer I do tend to agree with.
Yet you waded in to comment, when you could have clicked on any of the other 29 links?
Surprise! Google Chrome Goes Native for Windows on Arm
Why are we more concerned about the safety of Israelis than the safety of Palestinians?
That's another great point, though. Early adopters are a fickle market, precisely because they're early adopters - being more wont to try new things also means more wont to move on if something more interesting comes along.

That's a great tradeoff when you're first trying to build a market for a new innovation. But I doubt Netflix even particularly wants that kind of customer anymore - at least not enough to actively chase after them. They want stable, reliable ARR, and for an incumbent like them that means slower-moving consumers who will subscribe and then just keep their subscription and watch whatever happens to be on Netflix simply because it's on Netflix and they already have Netflix and inertia.
Well deserved. Congratulations, Bob!
Investing your time (working) in the company gets you an immediate return - your paycheck. It has no direct bearing whether the company succeeds or not. In large companies, unless you are very high up, your individual actions have no influence on the company's stock price.
It baffles me that with over 500 comments, no one has mentioned that `zed` is one of the back end processes that monitors health of ZFS file systems.
Is there something that approximates org-mode outlining? I don't need all the other stuff org-mode does, but just the simple outliner functionality combined with all the other Emacs stuff is my golden handcuffs.
Thanks. My problem is finding the specific podcast!
It's worse than that... Even for ideal, highly recyclable materials like aluminium and glass, the majority is thrown away globally.

Aluminium and glass are more economical to recycle than sourcing virgin materials! comparably simple and infinitely recyclable - and yet we still can't get that right - Plastic is expensive and complex to recycle, the idea that recycling it was ever a solution to plastic pollution is complete BS, there will always be a significant quantity that ends up in the ground and in the sea.
I feel like the Wikipedia article understates the reach of IEEE:

- Produces 30 percent of the world’s published literature in electrical engineering, computers and control technology.

- Holds annually more than 300 major conferences.

- Has nearly 900 active standards with 700 under development.

https://umaine.edu/ieee/what-is-ieee/
Too bad they pulled an Other OS with it.
It's my opinion (but one I strongly hold) that good maintainable code is modularized and clean - with strict types and a heavy emphasis on clean contracts between different components (since in an organization/large open source project many people will be contributing in parallel). It relies heavily on common patterns and styling for easy recognition and tries to do things in the least sneaky way possible.

If you're aiming for this state of a codebase you'll lean heavily towards Object/Modular oriented styles which strongly resemble Java/C++ etc - even languages that express them in dramatically different manners (like OCaML) end up looking really familiar when built in a sustainable manner. There is a common visual expectation we have around code that promotes readability[1] and we'll form code in most languages to match that common visual expression. This is actually one reason I decidedly dislike python - since it's visual expression is encoded into the syntax evaluation of the language itself.

Anyways the TL;DR is that, IMO, clean maintainable code looks like clean maintainable code and the language only minorly impacts this appearance.

1. That isn't to say this is necessarily the best visual expression - it could just have been chosen early on and then just ingrained in us all.
The Vision Pro can run any iPad app by default and Netflix disabled that ability for their app. It's a pretty apt analogy.
Had my aerial removed last year - the little broadcast TV I watch is via Sky TV satellite, the rest is via streaming.
Government bodies also move slowly, and they usually telegraph their moves years in advance. When corporations act like they're caught off guard by a new regulation it's usually (though not always) just a PR move.

It's not improbable that Apple could have predicted that separating the ecosystems would be legally beneficial, even if they didn't know about this specific regulation back then.
If I recall this was based more on region/country. I could be totally wrong, but I think it more of, they got more aggressive in certain places, but not all places. I vaguely remember seeing a mention of Canada being one[1].

[1] https://mobilesyrup.com/2023/07/20/netflixs-password-sharing...
I rather enjoy python, but somehow the culture is different. We don't spend much time talking about how much fun we're having. (I assume I'm not the only one having fun.)