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Ask HN: Best way for a Markdown based blog and eBook?
I'd like to write an ebook (epub, mobi) and web based book similar to what you see in many places. Anyone have a solid method, or tool recommendations to do this easily and look good? I'm thinking about using Astro for the web version.
> With a word processor on a computer, I can easily start browsing TikTok instead of writing my paper.

Is that a personal problem, or a computer one though? Many people (myself included) have zero issue ignoring Twitter and Instagram while we work. In fact, typing on a computer is much easier than using a typewriter for a number of reasons:

- Don't need to buy ink ribbons or paper to continue typing

- Don't need to stop and switch out stamps to change your typeset

- Can infinitely reproduce a single document as many times as you want

- No white-out or paper strips required when you make a mistake

I don't know if you've ever used a typewriter before, but it should simply be common knowledge that it's the slower and more distracting way to type. Every second you spend using a typewriter instead of getting comfortable with a computer is wasted effort. Every time you take your typewriter apart to make a simple change, that's time you could be spending writing uninterrupted on a digital medium.
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Nothing says "I'm up to some shenanigans" than the ? : syntax in C.
Kiiiiind of disappointed to not see the alley from King of the Hill, I tell you h'what.
Turn academic papers into AI-generated audio discussions
I'm weird that I have no problem getting function pointers but have to look up the syntax to declare an enum every damn time.
Got half of the time of that developer, while knowingly and directly laundering that money for a cartel? :D
OpenAI Head of Alignment steps down
> it divided attendees into two groups: those who see war as a matter of money and strategy, and those who see it as a matter of death

Seriously. What a juvenile way to frame war. War is absolutely about contest and strategy—and yes, money—and it also causes death. It’s always horrible, more horrible than the belligerents imagined at the outset.

But it’s part of reality, like sickness and disease, and while I think we’ll eventually conquer it (as with those) it’s not something everyone can stick their heads in the sand about because it makes them uncomfortable.
I liked this part. They got Knuth to review it, and found mistakes. That's kind of cool, in its own way.

We are deeply grateful to Donald E. Knuth for his thorough review,
which not only enhanced the quality of this paper (including fixing
several errors) but has also inspired us for higher standards.
Looking forward to using this. Curious about how far away WebGPU/WASM support might be, it could provide a single cross-platform backend.
Pretty sure Elon Musk is the new Oppenheimer trying to "win" at nuclear war... https://wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield
Oh, I personally don't currently use them. This was in the past, starting from playing around with my Dad's manual typewriter. Took typing course in 8th grade on a manual. Owned a Smith Corona electric in high school. Used IBM Selectrics for school newspaper, etc. I'm old. :-)
And this attitude is why there is so much of it.

Why don’t you call it what it is: destruction of public property?
If you find a schuko in Italy, it will have the center earth pin.
Wow this is very impressive!
Jan Leike's (ex-superalignment lead) thoughts on safety at OpenAI
The space-time geometry of our world is not Euclidian, not even Riemannian. The story of "Operation Chaos" looks more chaotic than scientific. That fits with the books of Poul Anderson I've read, like the excellent High Crusade: he likes going wild and doesn't care much for the scientific pretense.

For another take on non-Euclidian geometries, I have good memories of Inverted World by Christopher Priest.
> carrot instead of a stick

But wanting the carrot and not wanting to get hit are both kinds of discontent. The donkey is dissatisfied at not having the carrot so it pulls the cart that would otherwise be still.
Could the detection and reporting of this inaccuracy be crowdsourced, either with mobile devices or perhaps SDRs? Fetch tower time, fetch real time over GNSS or NTP, report delta with tower ID and drift to a central server? Perhaps even include a map, like the map of GPS error rates derived from ADS-B data feeds.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39771354
LetzAI Launches in North America
> However, one can head to their local hardware store and buy generic "Wood Bleach", which is also Oxalic Acid. It is not legal to use the wood bleach to treat your hive, even though it's the same chemical compound.

It's not, or to be more precise: there is no certification testing done to make sure the "wood bleach" is just oxalic acid and that's it. The stuff you can buy at a veterinarian, however, is certified to be 6% oxalic acid, 47% water and 47% sugar, and nothing else.
inb4 takedown notice from NY Times
all good points, to get started the network and the hardware components you listed (in different tests perhaps):

- CPU
- RAM
- Storage IO

To start of my idea would be to virtualize server with some resources, overwhelm it and see what it would it take to overwhelm a bit more resources. I am running Ubuntu 23.10.

For the next stress test, I would be looking to overwhelm an app that's connected to a Postgres database, running in a docker container on the VM. I have endpoints that write and read from the db. Same thing again here, would try to break it down, give it a bit more resources and try again. Learn things along the way. Hope that makes sense, thanks for the breakdown
What are you objecting to? The way the journalist is using tone and centering their subjective feelings?

Or the account of how some government and industry leaders regard large-scale death as a profitable enterprise and are entirely unconcerned with ethics or the human cost?

Because the latter point seems highly relevant to good journalism. The first is a matter of style.
You got it. You can check again ;)
Reddit admins, employed by the site serve as a line of (corporate) enforcement.

Otherwise, reddit isn't a democracy, the mods can do what they want (within limits set by the admins), just like they can do what they want here.
> Imagine if vehicle manufacturers[2] split their design and R&D teams into a "make the thing go" team and a "don't kill the passengers" team.

Rocket caskets. Can't kill someone who is already dead!
I think you're mistaking a small subset for the general set of home owners.

The root cause of what you're talking about is demand is exceeding supply, by quite a long way. The population is growing - through various means - faster than homes are being created. That means a few home owners will do what you describe.
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That's 2.4X the median household income in the US; it seems very doable. Do you think it would be doable if your 2008 wage had only been adjusted for inflation?
> plain old HTTP REST calls

Please don't add to the confusion around the term REST. These days most people just mean they use the GET/POST/PUT/DELETE verbs specifically, which is just using the HTTP protocol itself, no REST about it.

https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposi...
Honestly the world would be better off if everyone "stuck their head in the sand" regarding warfare. Like quarantining disease, everyone just needs to calm down.
Yes, it does. The "shadow" isn't a shadow, it is a preview of what your mark will look like, before you actually make the mark. So if it isn't aligned how you want, you can rotate the stylus in your fingers to get the angle you want before drawing.

I'm not an artist, but this is actually useful to me even for just writing sometimes, e.g. when writing Japanese characters with a flat/bladed pen style.

You are right that the physical Apple Pencil stylus doesn't have the same geometry as the virtual pen/brush/etc it is modeling, so without the preview mark on the screen when you hover the tip of the stylus near it, it would be really hard to know what the angle was.

Perhaps some real artists could develop a muscle memory, because while the stylus tip is round, the body of it has one flat edge. In my quick testing, it seems that the angle of the virtual brush/pen tip stays consistent relative to the flat edge of the stulus itself, even across drawings and putting the styus away and taking it out again.

But for normal people, I think the preview indicator is very useful and easy to use — although not needed at all for many pen/pencil styles, since those also are modeled on writing implements with round tips.
If I had the financial resources, I would buy every yard service company that serves my immediate neighborhood, specifically those that love to do their work at 7 AM on Saturdays.
You can't win by inventing your own overly narrow definition of what "replacement" means. Under your definition nothing is a replacement for anything, which is clearly idiotic.
I think this is part of what ATProto is trying to solve by decoupling identity provider, data provider, and labeling.

That's not to say a million fiefdoms is necessarily a bad approach. A small server where all the members know each other is much more likely to be run in a way that's satisfactory to all its members than a big one. Furthermore, users have the option to maintain multiple accounts.
Opinions of Mozilla aside; the reason maintainers do this is because people google bugs or "why can't I do this in x" and they land on GitHub issues. They then pepper those issues with either low-tier comments like "zomg +1 op" or totally unrelated comments. GitHub doesn't have a way to differentiate a random Internet user who arrived on a big through an internet search and someone who is a long time user but not a contributor. This, lock to maintainers happens once you know the cause, effect, and what it takes to fix it.
> but when the company says, "We're getting rid of the team that makes sure we don't kill everyone", there is a message being sent

Hard not to imagine a pattern if one considers what they did a few months ago:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/16/openai-quietly-removes-ban-o...
"The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less." - Schlock Mercenary Maxim #29.

They aren't "aligned" past the first step. They are aligned on "not the current US-dominated world order". Past that, they aren't aligned at all.

And they aren't friends. They are interested in using each other to help with the first step, and that is all.
> Is that a personal problem, or a computer one though? Many people (myself included) have zero issue ignoring Twitter and Instagram while we work.

Then it's not for you, continue using a computer. It's a personal problem solved by the use of a single purpose technology rather than a multipurpose one, as I've initially stated.

I have used a typewriter and while it can be slower than a computer, some wasted time is better than wasting all one's time because one can't focus and distracts themselves instead. Sounds like you still simply don't get it, and I'm not sure how I can explain it further as I've restated my points several times now that those who use it can't focus when writing on computers.
I think the unhealthy diet is the fundamental reason, not cooking food at high temps.

"The amount of vitamin C retained from raw potatoes varied according to the method of cooking, e.g. about 80% for potatoes boiled in skin and about 30% for hash-browned potatoes."

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03155...
Yes and then they turn around and immediately charge us, so it doesn’t seem like it is doing much.
The Marathon 1+2 engine back in the 90s allowed for "5D space", ie. "Spatial" Rooms that were capable of overlapping each other, because the engine only defined the floor polygon with a given height and these floor polys were connected to each other at the vertices to create the actual level spaces.

So even though you were in the same absolute space coordinate as another player, you were not necessarily in the same room.

Good times. <:o)
Your proposed scheme works on Unix, but importantly, not on Windows. This is exactly the makefile problem.
What a funny experience!

I started with 2024, continuing with 2023, ending with 2017. Each time it took significantly less time to open and render the page. I didn't check why that happened though, might just be because archive.ph has less load the archive.org etc, but it was extremely noticeable
Shouldn't a USB-C port have enough power delivery for a 5.25" drive? Or do the external drive enclosure manufacturers not want to step up the 5v to 12v?
Kafka Consumers in Python – A Walkthrough
I remember WSDL being a thing for "web services" that use XML but the world has gone towards using JSON in HTTP APIs.

I also remember WSDL as being part of a Microsoft-oriented stack that had (in my mind) somewhat awkward tools if you were working in ASP.NET (I did) but where you could really struggle if you were outside that world. I remember being tasked with developed a PHP API client for a service that used the WS-stack and figuring out how to get authentication to work in PHP (not well documented, I think I might have been the first.) I ran into even more problems after that and we just decided to switch to a competitive API that was easier to access.

Since then I have worked in Java (a lot like C#) where people often use Jackson or a similar library to talk JSON. In that case your "Schema" is usually a set of simple model objects. Except for ongoing hassles involving date and time processing it works great and is very easy to use. In the JSON world people learned how to get it done without a formal contract between the server and client. There certainly are schema languages for that but people don't tend to use them.
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Palantir's entire business model is taking on customers/projects that the rest of Silicon Valley refuses to. Not only is there an "underserved" audience, they get to charge a premium and for worse products.

The irony is that this is a good reminder of the harsh realities that Oppenheimer himself clearly grappled with - if you refuse to build it, someone with less scruples will.
You're railing against things I simply didn't say.

Of course these vast majority of people at these companies are regular staff. But I was clearly referring to the folks at partner level, not the employees. It's right there, in plain English. And I certainly didn't say anything about being "rich" in SV terms.
On overhead, being modeled after Go also unfortunately hurts otherwise excellent .NET gRPC tooling. A lot of types could have been there based on top of standard library types rather than protobuf's - RepeatedField<T> is just List<T> except forces buffer reallocation. Could have been T[] too and just require the users to procure it themselves. Or a pooled type underneath.

For short-lived RepeatedFields this is non-issue - they die in Gen0 heap and GC just shrugs them off, but the cost is definitely there and is felt with all these new vector DB libraries passing 1536-long buffers of F32s.
Can't you just drag it into place? Am I missing something?

But sadly I find Apple's attention to detail in its UX to be typically rather low. MacOS in particular is littered with broken interactions.

The underpinnings -- the stuff users don't see -- suffers from this much less, and if there were a choice of where to have attention to detail, that would be the right choice. But Apple is big enough not to have to make this choice.
A recipe adapted from that by Camilia Panjabi: http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/jjg/pdf/butter-chicken....

Just the best thing in the world.
No true Scotsman would die on that hill.
How can they make a 3 billion dollar loss?
> Basically, in my ideal world, whoever builds an ugly enough building should be liable to remove it or improve it if it is deemed too ugly by a majority

This sounds like the words of a “community oversight” committee obstructing the construction of housing, and we already know the effects of that on the housing market. Society has swung too far into allowing other people to tell someone what to do with their property already.
Yes exactly. That's what the flag would do. But it doesn't exist.
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If you like this, try Superliminal (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1049410/Superliminal/)
At a guess I would say there are many competing imperatives for OpenAI

1. Stay just a tiny bit ahead of rivals. It's clear that OpenAI have much much more in the bag than the stuff they're showing. I'm guessing that DARPA/Washington has got them on a pretty tight leash.

2. Drip feed advances to avoid freaking people out. Again while not allowing rivals to upstage them.

3. Try to build a business without hobbling it with ethical considerations (ethics generally don't work well alongside rampant profit goals)

4. Look for opportunities to dominate, before the moat is seriously threatened by open source options like Llama. Meta has already suggested that in 2 months they'll be close to an open source alternative to GPT4o.

5. Hope that whatever alignment structures they've installed hold in place under public stress.

Horrible place to be as a pioneer in a sector which is moving at the speed of light.

We're on a runaway Moloch train, just gotta hang on!
Would a compiler be faster by using HVM? Would love to see a fully parallel version of typescript tsc
> I think a huge part of it isnt even corporatism, but social and cultural avoidance and fear of death.

These aren't mutually exclusive. It's like saying "I think a huge part of the desire for fashionable clothing isn't even fashion, but the fear of being ostracized or left behind by one's social circle." A natural source of fear and uncertainty is stoked by people who find opportunity to make a buck off it.

"The American Way of Death" is a good book to read in that vein, although it's about the pointless, blindingly expensive ostentation of US burial rituals. The book was very successful and well-regarded; didn't change a thing.
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This style of journalism is storied and well-documented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Journalism.

The fragments you chose don't sound hyperbolic, they sound like a subjective account. I'm curious how you made it so far without being able to get a feel for why the author would describe the event how they did.
Keeping anybody alive is worth it. The human species became a civilization only because it kept its then-unproductive weaker members alive - which allowed it to develop learning, technology, and all the things that revolve around them.

Even before that, it was able to survive and exist as a physically weaker species by taking care of and keeping alive its sick and wounded.

This shows how destructive capitalism is: In its pursuit of maximizing the profits to increase the hoards of imaginary wealth, it even destroys the most fundamental tenets that made humans a successful civilization.
Check out https://1lilac.com. Still in development. Pricing is temporary. Keen to hear feedback. This likely falls into the "vastly over-engineered" category. Also, it is only online at the moment. Disclaimer: I am the developer.
Nah, I think you're right. Another poster found an issue with Netgear routers doing stateful packet inspection that ALSO failed. So, it sounds like mIRC had a bug, routers tried to apply some protection and also failed.
Ah good catch. Yes the "D" key can be used to switch light/dark mode, but I didn't account for the bookmark shortcut. That should be fixed now. Thanks!
Hmm, semi-wild dogs seems less likely to me as they'd have to hang around settlements to get food, in which case they'd get noticed and dealt with. Unless you mean they can hunt in packs and take down sheep?
Syncing Postgres Partitions to Your Data Lake in Crunchy Bridge for Analytics
In Portugal you can see poetry being embedded in graffiti which is awesome, TBH
It's doable given a large enough need. But I don't think there's much of a need to do this. People seem to blindly assume this but you have to challenge the assumptions they are making a bit.

Grid storage is not about long term storage at all but about demand shifting so that you can shift over production when demand is low to peaks (evenings typically) when demand is high. That's it. There are some setups with multi day capability but essentially most of the market is about 4 hours or less. That's what's killing the demand for gas plants. It's not long term storage. People build gas plants for base load that is supposedly needed. But then they end up being pushed into peaker-plant roles because the demand for base load just is a lot less than assumed.

The reality is of course that we actually have a lot of base load in the form of nuclear and gas plants. That's not going to go away overnight. We probably have more of it than we need. So as long as we have too much of that, demand for seasonal storage is not going to pick up. That might change over the course of the next decades. But it will be slow and probably cost driven.

Can we build huge batteries that store many GWH/TWH of power? Sure. Factories are already producing batteries by the TWH per year. That number is going to go up pretty rapidly as more factories come online. There's a lot of potential energy stored in (mostly) fully charged batteries in cars, grid storage, etc. That number is only going to go up.

A simple question: how much demand for seasonal storage is there actually? In gwh please. It's a simple question but I've never heard a coherent answer to it. As soon as you put a number on it, it becomes an engineering challenge that you can put a price on. Most of the reports on this front are based on very flawed assumptions. That's how you end up with stupendously large numbers.
> attaching a picture or a file to a message in Apple Mail.app macOS is an absolute nightmare

Am I missing something here? I just drag and drop into the email body and it just works.
Got half the time of that developer for laundering 1% as much money.
She can't simply promise financial support
That's amazing. Thanks for digging that up. Entirely emblematic of early aughts and 90s tech.
Looking forward to the future where Elon can drone strike me from space because of something I said on twitter.
As a bit of background, this was because the Kanak were mourning the people the lost to Covid at the time of the referndum. The pro independance party asked for the vote to be postponed, which was rejected.
The referendum was boycotted.
As such the vote is not recognised by a big chunk of the population.

This referendum was the last of three that were agreed on following violent events occuring in the 1990s.

I think this was a really stupid move from the government, now there will be tensions until a new referendum about independance is organised or insependance is obtained by force.

More information here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_New_Caledonian_independ...
Yes, used in the past. I don't currently use them, though I think they are cool mechanical marvels, especially IBM Selectrics. Those were way too expensive to own personally, but were common in offices. My personal typewriter was a much cheaper Smith Corona electric.
The silver lining is that the people with less scruples might also be less competent and their solutions more fragile resulting in operational failure when deployed, in turn saving humanity.
I don't get it. I also have a typewriter and would rather use Vi to type a term paper than even entertain the thought of switching out LATEX typesets. It's a no-brainer, it's far, far easier to dumbify your computer than it is to modernize a typewriter.
The question at the end - what is the highest value of pi that is playable (doesn't crash). I'm suspecting that when pi is 4, it segfaults because some accesses to the lookup table fall off the end of the lookup table, and therefore the highest value of pi that will be playable is likely to be a very small amount higher than pi itself.