skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note, I'm very sympathetic to not wanting to use proprietary platforms in general [0], but I'm not at a point in my life where I can spend any brain glucose at all on it.

[0] in particular because of the plight of the umbrella protestors in Hong Kong and the government's infiltration of coordination platforms
Yeah at certain points I thought they were trolling.

But still inspired me to perhaps to something like this that bypasses the meter and the city grid, but just a little more limited in scope than running duplicate wiring everywhere.
Unrelated to the main topic of the post, but is this actually true?

> If you were to arrive at your destination and be turned away at the border, they would be required to fly you back to your country of origin

If a border agent denies you entry, even for a reason the airline could not have foreseen, they are required to fly you back? Does that also mean that an airline is only able to offer flights between countries (A,B) if it also offers them between (B,A)? And is there some maximum time allowed between those flights, e.g. an airline can only fly into a country if it also offers a flight back to the same country within twelve hours?

I seem to remember reading something about countries putting denied entries on a flight back, by effectively loaning money to for the ticket… not sure how they collect on it though.
It’s also a major pain in the ass in places where the grid isn’t exactly prepared for that. My parents are allowed to sell power from their EV installation. Their neighbor, who built a much smaller one a few months later, got denied.
Where are these “hundreds” of deaths then?
Anecdotally speaking I see no pattern. I can't see IQ predicting whether one gets lost in a telephone box or not.

What I have noticed is that basement and lab dwellers are hopeless at navigating.
> The pandemic didn’t cause this inflation.

Have you tried buying a car, new or used, recently? Supply chain issues caused by the pandemic certainly caused (parts of) inflation. Then there's geopolitics (energy/oil, food/wheat), also not helping with inflation.

Supply-driven inflation looks to be the cause of at least half the run-up:

* https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/publications/eco...

* https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/data-and-indicat...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost-push_inflation
What does debugging look like?
Take the intersection of two categories.
You've been posting a lot of these. dang has asked you to stop.
"Frequently" is a bit subjective. This is one of those things where it might only happen in a specific area once every couple of years (for more than a few minutes or hours), but when it happens, it sticks around in people's memory -- usually because losing power is a great way to suddenly get a good look behind the facade of modern living.

Even people living in parts of California suffering under the reign of PG&E and their "power safety" shutoffs during potential fire events don't really experience prolonged, frequent outages, but they are a memorable nuisance (speaking as someone who lived in one of those areas).

That said, if you haven't experienced this yet, that's great, but it's likely that you will in the not-too-distant future. Power infrastructure almost everywhere is getting a bit wobbly for a couple of reasons: much of it is well beyond its originally designed lifetime, much of it hasn't been maintained as well as it should have been, and we are currently living through the disruptive effects of an increasingly unstable climate that have been predicted for decades. If your power comes from hydro, then freshwater ecosystems are experiencing deeper and longer drought cycles and the dam that provides that power is probably getting a bit old. If you live in a hurricane area, you're eventually going to get hit by a really bad one. If you live in an area that gets cold, you'll eventually get hit by a severe ice storm. If you live near a wooded area, it's going to burn. If you live deep in an urban setting and your power comes from a nuclear plant and everything has been well enough funded end-to-end to keep it in good working order, then congratulations, you probably won't experience any of these events directly.

But a lot of other people are, regardless of who they or their neighbors vote for.
I'm aware web pages exist.

I don't think there is much argument that HTML+JavaScript was actually a set backwards that we've been trying to build out of for 20 years.

What the web solves is mass distribution.

But for programming it is awful.
If the use of the device genuinely needs continued supervision of a doctor, that's fine. But that's no reason for the device maker to demand eternal payment, which I'm guessing is the case here? If that indeed is the case, then "prescription" is just some corporate lawyer word game.
how easy would this be to rewrite in C?
Umm, isn't that how you're supposed to hold it? At least that's how I do.
All the other comments here make a good point but this is a core problem that I really worry about. Assumption of technology usage. And that eventually you are forced into usage of something you might not want. The amount of businesses and even government divisions that just assume the following.

1) You have a smart phone

2) It is either Apple or Android and nothing else

3) You are happy to use their proprietary app/setup.

I started to become aware of this over a decade back when using Windows Phone. And while I am on an up to date Android phone now, that you are forced to participate.

This is also why Ted Kaczynski was fascinating, An absolute insane lunatic that made some good points about the nature of technology. While his idea about this was a lot more broad, the requirement of phones is just another inch being taken to get to mile took.

"127. A technological advance that appears not to threaten freedom often turns out to threaten it very seriously later on. For example, consider motorized transport. A walking man formerly could go where he pleased, go at his own pace without observing any traffic regulations, and was independent of technological support-systems. When motor vehicles were introduced they appeared to increase man’s freedom. They took no freedom away from the walking man, no one had to have an automobile if he didn’t want one, and anyone who did choose to buy an automobile could travel much faster and farther than a walking man. But the introduction of motorized transport soon changed society in such a way as to restrict greatly man’s freedom of locomotion. "
It's philosophy all the way down, wikipedia style.
There are far better analogies than opiates though.

There's no reason why a treatment that is working and is expected to continue to be effective indefinitely should be withheld because a doctor's appointment didn't happen during the scheduled window one month, any more than my glasses should stop working because I didn't see my opthalmologist this year.

Freedom to choose suboptimal outcomes is not a bad thing.
Of course the UK government can avoid the training cost by hiring foreigners. From my personal experience maybe half the NHS doctors are from overseas.
I will be surprised if this get's to the BBC, since it's main page has been nothing more than the official Hamas Webpage for the last few weeks.
https://github.com/Hafthor/zsvutil?tab=readme-ov-file#what-a...

> Any escaping or encoding of these characters would make the format less human-readable, harder to parse and could introduce ambiguity and consistency problems.

Found the wording of "could introduce ambiguity and consistency problems" a bit odd, but guess they mean that even if things are specified precisely (so there's no ambiguity) not everyone would follow the rules or something? And they want to play nice with other tools following the TSV "standard"
no they're not. Not when you're dealing with potentially large loads. an extension cord rated for 13 amps with 16 gauge wiring, with a 110v dryer running on it, will cause a fire, sooner or later. A proper 10-gauge, 20 amp-rated extension cord will not.

that this system won't exceed ratings is a fair point, but extension cords are not just extension cords.
Thanks. How does Textract compare to come of the common cli utilities like pdftotext, tesseract, etc (if you made a comparison)?
Ya re-upping gov/state incentives is the theory I’ve heard in a few places. See e-bikes/EVs/general combustion leases where the same happens. Luckily, same as housing and transportation it dumps a bunch of lightly used but performant gear into the market for people like me.
> By "we", you are referring to you and others who want to know only this.

Right. I am referring to all those who want to know only this, along with everyone else. Because those who want to know something else would use another measure. Those complaining that inflation doesn't give you some other economic indicator is like someone complaining that temperature is not a good measure of distance. Well... duh.

> Some people (not many) want to know what is going on comprehensively

Absolutely. Which is why we have many different ways to look at inflation. In fact, don't White House economists use 30-some-odd different measures of inflation throughout the course of their work?

But eventually you are going to want to put it to practical use, mathematically, and our formulas require a single number. CPI is the one we picked to standardize on (but, of course, you can choose another if you want). It won't be 100% accurate – determining that is fundamentally impossible and you know that going into it – but it will be good enough.
There is no mention of anything even resembling gain of function in that email or the linked grant information. There is mention of extremely basic observational study of naturally occurring coronaviruses in Chinese bat populations.

You know, the kind of research that is extremely important and utterly sensible in the real world.
See links on https://sunboxlabs.com
If businesses operated the way they want, they would take 100% of everyone's money and provide nothing of value. Everything else they do is just an inconvenient step on the way to the goal.
The single most famous one is Milano, and there is also Verona.
Thanks for the link, I read every source cited by the wikipedia page, and so far it's been a bunch of uncorroborated claims, and in particular no official confirmation --

https://archive.is/2aWzN -

> U.S. and Israeli officials said they have no firm evidence so far that Iran authorized or directly coordinated the attack that killed more than 900 Israelis and wounded thousands.

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-fighters-trained...

> U.S. officials said Iran has regularly trained militants in Iran and elsewhere, but they have no indications of a mass training right before the attack. U.S. officials and the people familiar with the intelligence said they had no information to suggest Iran conducted training specifically to prepare for the events of Oct. 7.

I'm sure this reserved stance from officials might have something to do with the US not wanting to get dragged into opposition with yet another potential nuclear power, but still.

(In case you're wondering, I suspect your choice of word "Orc" might have something to do with the downvote as well...)
My team has built an open source tool for self-hosting applications just as easily as buying a PaaS

https://cndi.run/gh?utm_id=hnshia
In this case we have pretty strong proof since we know exactly who was killed in the strike, don't we?
You lost all credibility with, "Extension cords are just extension cords."

For any type of generator running exterior to interior would require rated extension cords to reduce fire risk.
I understand it is a VM like Java. I was just under the impression that it was somehow better, more streamlined, that would offer enough performance improvement that you could start treating it like running a 'native' local app. Like if I build a 'native' app, a 'thick client', I could now run it on WASM in a browser. Thus not need any local installs, but have same performance.

I've seen some apps doing that. But guess it isn't considered 'the way' for the future?
How much Tesla got in subsidies? :)
With doctors you can parallelize treating different patients pretty easily.
Why Vim syntax highlighting breaks sometimes (2022)
All of the code/safety/landlord issues notwithstanding, the price is pretty incredible. If I plug my address into the PVWatts calculator, given the insane price increases from PG&E over the past few years, the payback period is one year. Beyond the fantastic economics, you're getting a decent emergency backup system that should cover at least your fridge, lights, and various electronics.
>pixel-perfect sprite collision detection

This is something that sounds like a good idea when you first hear it, but feels unpleasant when you actually play it. Most 2D games use rectangular collision hitboxes for good reason: it's easier for the player to predict if sprites will collide or not. With pixel-perfect collisions, the same movement will collide or not depending on the phase of the animation cycles. It feels bad to fail a movement that always worked before just because the animations happened to line up poorly. And pixel perfect isn't even realistic in many cases; small details on sprites can represent things like cloth or hair that in reality wouldn't cause a hard collision. And sprites often move multiple pixels per frame, so colliding individual pixels increases the chance of them clipping through each other. Simple, predictable collision detection is generally best.
While 8GB might be able to run macOS quite quickly for basic tasks, there's no way less than 16GB should ever be an option for people using the modern internet or applications. Given the popularity of bloatware such as Electron, Chrome etc.... even 16GB is a stretch. Heck even Apple's own Music app easily uses over 2GB of RAM at times.
I hope someone's got a redundant backup in case of whatever the cloud equivalent of Fahrenheit 451 may be?
I am also like this. I had a fight once with my SO where they were upset with me for not trying to level up my navigation skills. I have a growth mindset about many other things, but I've just absolutely given up on navigation without a smartphone.

I also have a hard time recognizing faces of celebrities, but not people I know in real life.

From reading about prosopagnosia and other agnosias, I suspect there's something funny with my fusiform gyrus.
No, just chessmate.ai
To suggest that everyone should be allowed to decide their own situation is either ignorant or dogmatic. Pretending everyone that works from home gets as much done as in person is either ignorant or dogmatic. Context is important. There are people working from home that shouldn't be. There are people working from an office that don't need to be. There is no single rule that will make everyone happy, nor should there be.
Microsoft has lots of intern opportunities at the moment.

https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/search?q=Intern...

Location — Many (US, UK, Canada, Others)

In office? Many of these will want 2-3 days in an office. Others will not. Microsoft Careers (the link above) has the details for each.
Oh, thanks. I still don't necessarily agree with the author either, but at least there's a passing justification.
No device should require a subscription
Just to be clear, this is a typical sail cargo route because of the prevailing / trade winds
Ask HN: What are your biggest frustrations with cold outreach tools?
Me and my team are currently looking at developing a tool for personalized cold outreach using LLMs. We're trying to understand the pain points with current tools and workflows. What specific frustrations do you encounter with the current tools you use for sending cold emails?

We’re very keen to hear from anyone who frequently engages in cold emailing and feels there might be a better way. Thanks in advance for your insights!
The project to construct a telescope on the dark side of the moon
You will quite likely end up with a non-scalable “services” business instead of a scalable “product” business. I did.
This might help. Idk enough about the topic to really interpret this in a helpful way.

"When people talk about inflation, they usually refer to ordinary goods and services, which is tracked by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). This index excludes most financial assets and capital assets. Inflation of such assets should not be confused with inflation of consumer goods and services, as prices in the two categories are usually disconnected. The prices of some goods and services such as housing, energy, and food do track closely with some financial assets."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_price_inflation#:~:tex...
As far as I know, thanks to quoting it is possible to put basically any data you want in a CSV.
My EV lives outside & right beneath the only safely accessible part of my roof to put solar on... so an explanation would be grand! My only issue is that I need solar->battery->car, as the car is at work 3/7 days...
This copied the superficial data layout without the key benefit of modern columnar formats: segment elimination.

Most such formats support efficient querying by skipping the disk read step entirely when a chunk of data is not relevant to a query. This is done by splitting the data into segments of about 100K rows, and then calculating the min/max range for each column. That is stored separately in a header or small metadata file. This allows huge chunks of the data to be entirely skipped if it falls out of range of some query predicate.

PS: the same compression ratio advantages could be achieved by compressing columns stored as JSON arrays, but such a format could encode all Unicode characters and has a readily available decoder in all mainstream programming languages.
I did, none of the open source parser worked well with tables. I had the following issues:

- missing cells.
- partial identification for number (ex: £43.54, the parser would pick it up as £43).

What I did to compare is drawing lines around identified text to visualize the accuracy. You can do that with tesseract.
It is simple, but how do you access the price in row #1234567890? If your data doesn't have this many records and can fit into RAM, a basic NLJSON or CSV will work just as well.
Split transformers for power transmission exist, but are rare. Here's a 3 KW system used for non-contact charging of electric forklifts, industrial mobile robots, and such.[1] 93% efficiency claimed. Probably not worth the trouble just to get power through a window.

[1] https://www.wiferion.com/us/
Why start a coding side project? (2021)
Chinese goods have always been cheap? It's just cutting out the middle man
Dragons in East Asian Art
the average lifespan in the middle ages was 35 too. does that mean there were no old people?
The docs have a good overview of this sort of optimization: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/performance...
It would have been fairly trivial to AB test this where the other side is to ask the same question but without all the books in-window.
Looking through the code, Pylyzer seems to be a thin wrapper around Erg [1]. To typecheck, it converts your Python AST to an Erg AST, then runs its through the Erg typechecker and returns the errors.

Faster typechecking for Python is very much needed. But this project seems like it was built in a hackathon -- it is not a true standalone typechecker.

[1] https://github.com/erg-lang/erg
would you prefer if the timestamp was hidden since it takes up a bigass portion of the screen or that being an option to hide it in the extension settings?
> True inflation would measure the amount of prosperity achieved per hour worked.

I think this isn't a measure of inflation per se, because productivity changes are big over the decades. But I do think looking at costs in terms of hours of work is really helpful.

I think back to an event in some HS extracurricular when a group of students got to ask questions of a gubernatorial candidate, and one kid asked if he was going to do anything to make college more affordable at state schools, and this candidate (perhaps keenly aware that almost none of the students could vote) basically laughed it off and talked about working at restaurants to put himself through school (I think in the 70s). How many hours of (unskilled?) labor was a semester of tuition then, versus 30 years later? How many hours was a tankful of gas, or rent for half an apartment, or a heating bill? How feasible is it really to work one's way through even a public school?
The little ssh that sometimes couldn't (2012)
Or conveniently mount one inside your air handler!
Blazor...is not great at this. Currently, the packaging model does not do the justice to capabilities of .NET trimming because of the limitations of how the WASM is currently packaged on top of Mono. If you want to see how well it can actually trim (which everyone seems to like calling tree-shaking, even though it's not exactly right), it is better to try out building regular applications with AOT - they produce small binaries.

The experimental support in runtimelab for NativeAOT-LLVM targeting WASM provides much smaller bundle sizes and much better performance but given that it still is under dotnet/runtimelab rather than dotnet/runtime, I don't know when it will be available.
How do you know it doesn’t :)
I have to have my map on "north up" or I get lost. I'm 60. I also grew up in the US Midwest, where there's a NSEW square grid of roads over a large portion of the region.
So whats your beef? you agree with my points.
Infrastructure like that is a natural monopoly - I certainly would have an easier time switching from Google than I would Comcast, the latter would require me to move or put up with 90's era internet over copper lines.
What is NLJSON?
Well I... umm... hmmmm...
Smooth skins? Is that less offensive to the majority? LOLOL
> visit a YouTube video with captions, which is almost all of them

Depending on what you're watching, you might never come across a video with good subtitles but rather Youtube's auto-generated subtitles.

Whisper can do a better job in a lot of cases, but not all... I wonder if they've had multiple generations of auto-captioning and not gone back and redone the ones that were done earlier.

This extension is really interesting to me because in the past I've tried (and failed) to make a similar one that adds a new .vtt to the list of available subtitles for the video. I sometimes struggle with auditory processing, especially in a noisy environment, and following along with subtitles helps me out immensely, so it's frustrating when the auto-generated subtitles are poor quality. I've bookmarked the extension to see if I can fork it for that purpose in the future.
> Generative AI images from the Adobe Stock collection are a small part of the Firefly training dataset,” wrote Adobe

Interesting I wonder if this add a strong incentive for competitors, or anyone really, to sneak in data like that and then sue later.

It can be a bit like patent trolling but in this case it would be training data trolling.
Revolution is what the would-be proletariat persistently, but perhaps delusionally, assumes it will win (despite the 1% being able to afford more than enough bullets)… end-stage is when the cancer has gone past the point of fighting and you just have to resolve yourself to (in this case human-societal) death. A good sign it’s too late to seize the means of production is when the workers have medical devices that require an active and paid up subscription.
We should enforce rigorous qualifications for doctors. We've relaxed the standards far too much already.