skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI

> Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks.

I'm looking at doing that for calculus made easy by sylvanus Thompson but I need to overcome my lazyness first
For those interested, this YouTube video covers the MP944’s use in the F14 and arguments over what the first microprocessor was pretty well: https://youtu.be/YpruA5mC7wg?si=GC1mU5BO-DJyPW0V
The west did not invade a sovereign nation. By definition they cannot escalate, only respond with sufficient force to repel the invader.
But you're refactoring an existing codebase so it's not prematurely dry. You know exactly how these classes diverge.
Major public organizations and interest groups (such as the EFF, ACLU or AARP) that are independent from the state:

Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere. By other authors, civil society is used in the sense of 1) the aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that advance the interests and will of citizens or 2) individuals and organizations in a society which are independent of the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_society
The only cases where students may possess firearms on school property of which I'm aware are when they are necessary for a school activity.

For example, my oldest daughter is involved on the trap team (a shotgun sport). Her firearm is cased and unloaded except on the shooting range itself, and practice is outside of normal school hours. In practice, that means she only has it in my vehicle when I'm taking her to practice or picking her up from practice. It's a non-issue.

As of about five years ago, when I went through instructor training for shooting sports, there had never been in an injury caused by youth shooting sports in our state in the ~100 year history of the program. Further, the group I was working with, 4-H, had a perfect safety record nation-wide. To muy knowledge that is still the case.
You can use the openlibrary.org API to get the popularity (want to reads, rating counts, reviews) to get you started.
What this industry has taught me:

1. DRY initially when your organization is afraid of refactoring because they'll never let you touch it a second time if "it works".

2. DRY later when it's clear the code will not change into genuinely separate branching workflows.

3. DRY it initially when mid-level management uses duplication as a metric to evaluate "good" engineers, especially when your salary is impacted by that perception.

1 and 3 have been a symptom of micro-management from the business side. Only 2 is valid.
> Lots of major news sites pulled the trigger on the headline for nothing more than clicks.

Are you saying data was stolen? Because the headline here is "allegedly." So, unless you know absolutely one way or the other, allegedly is accurate.
Nop : « manheim attaque » brings fresh news in France.
It is reasonable to use gold plated connectors when the jacks are gold plated just as with any other electrical connection. Matching metals avoids oxidation do to galvanic action. Sure it probably doesn't matter with audio cables, but it is reasonable in that case.

But of course $20 gold cables connecting two $1000 electrical components with steel jacks doesn't make technical sense. For many people it makes emotional sense in a way where nobody gets hurt so it's not a place I find my outrage and it's not the most ignorant thing I am likely to come across on any given day. YMMV.

Anyway, you can measure the difference between a 1000Hz and a 120Hz display with an ordinary oscilloscope. With audio cables not so much.
What are some of the advantages of case sensitivity? Are you saying you actually want to save "Book draft 1.docx" and "Book Draft 1.docx" as two separate files? That just sounds like asking for trouble.
In Germany there is a lowercase letter ß. It actually is a ligature of the letters s and z. It does not have an uppercase variant, because there is no word that begins with it. One word would be Straße. If you write that all in uppercase, it technically becomes STRASZE, although you almost always see STRASSE. But if you write that all in lowercase without substituting SS with ß, you are making a mistake. And although Switzerland is a german-speaking country, they have different spelling and rarely use ß -- if not ever.

This is just one of many cases, where case-insensitiy would give more trouble than it's worth. And others pointed out similar cases with the Turkish language in this post.
You have to generate addresses before you can use them. That doesn't seem very convenient.
> Block him. He’ll get bored.

I wish that women were this fortunate.
> You do not actually know what is being stored on the file system

This makes no sense to me. Did the user's file explorer (whether GUI or via commands like `ls`) suddenly disappear?
We talk a fair bit! Gutenberg is the source for 95%+ of our productions, and personally I upstream any transcription issues I find.

What differs though is the mission. Gutenberg generally wants accurate digital translations of the original source texts, whereas Standard Ebooks tries to balance that out with better readability. Both are valid approaches, and there’s space for both of us.
For anyone diving into Ulysses, I highly recommend checking out The Joyce Project [1].

It's filled with interactive notes that are very useful for understanding the linguistic and cultural references.

Here's my reading method that I found effective:

1. Read a section on paper.
2. Go through the same section on the site.
3. (Re-)read on paper.

I toggled between 1-2-3, 1-2, or 2-3 depending on my mood, and it worked really well.

[1] https://www.joyceproject.com/
I think a lot of people are mis-seeing these Pegasus attacks as a problem of political will ("we need sanctions on NSO/Israel!") or memory safety ("rewrite it in Rust!") when there is a deeper problem: parser complexity.

Specifically, we're using context-sensitive and Turing-complete parsers up and down the software stack, which (at the Turing-complete level of complexity, says Gödel) guarantees that determined attackers can expect to discover an exploitable "weird machine."

Folks should watch this panel and other talks by Meredith L. Patterson (co-collaborator and wife of the late Len Sassaman) and Sergey Bratus (previously at DARPA, now Dartmouth) to get a sense of the problem and the solution.

https://youtu.be/8tAxHrntBJs?t=806

These folks are saying that, just as the industry handled over-the-wire insecurity with TLS and e2ee (and not rolling our own crypto) we can handle device exploitability with well-described data and automated parser generation from those descriptions (and not rolling our own parsers, which these folks say should be verboten for the same reason as rolling one's own crypto: parsing is too hard for non-specialists to get right).

Moreover, we don't have to redo the whole stack for it to be meaningful: big players can start using this tooling (e.g. https://github.com/UpstandingHackers/hammer) for parsers handling data from very untrustworthy inputs, such as message payloads sent to a phone number.

Apple's Lockdown mode is a step in this direction, though in such a crude, "burn the village" way that it makes the phone almost unusable. But sacrificing usability shouldn't be necessary with current methods. If these folks can make safe parsers for PDF (https://www.darpa.mil/program/safe-documents) it should be possible for anything.

Another great talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY
9998 left to go.
That tempo could change after November, though. Donald Trump may be a convicted felon, but there are still people who will vote for him, and those people are the ones most strongly opposed to supporting Ukraine.
*This is misinformation.*
> For some years I was thinking about using CLIPS for algorithmic music composition

This is a great use case! I'd be interested in seeing what you come up with.

> in which format the code/rule-base is kept

When you use constructs-to-c, the generated C files represent your rules engine constructs as pointers to pointers of CLIPSLexeme, CLIPSFloat, CLIPSInteger, and CLIPSBitMap structs. It does not store it as the raw clips code fed into the interpreter. You can later use functions like `save-facts` to generate the rules in CLIPS syntax based on these pointers to pointers of structs.
Activation of Adrenergic and TAA Receptors by Phenethylamines in Supplements
Digital bitmapped images over an analog channel.
Jokes get better with explanation, right? If Fire and Water are elemental, then their combination, Steam, is molecular, no?
Perhaps pg thought “I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened..."?
A slightly different take:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/30/spotify-begins-offering-ca...

Context:

https://fortune.com/europe/2023/12/04/daniel-ek-to-slash-blo...

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4444678-joe-rogan-deal-sp...

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/29/daniel-ek-salary-spoti...

https://musictech.com/news/industry/spotify-ceo-daniel-ek-co...

Spotify is under constant fire due to its low royalty payout rates. Ditto reports that an artist receives $0.003 – $0.005 per stream on average, with 30 per cent of those royalties going to Spotify.

Spotify paid out $48 billion to the music industry, paid out $250 million to Joe Rogan and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek cashed out $118.9 million in shares - which combined with the rest of the Spotify executives totaled $250 million in stock sales.

Whereas:

https://www.wired.com/story/what-soundcloud-created-can-neve...

If Spotify is happy to brick hardware that customers paid good money for, then is it valid to ask if Spotify should be bricked?

Is Spotify doing good by its streamers?

Is Spotify a positive force for new music discovery and promoting promising talent, or is it embracing long tail effects to maximize its own profits and those of its cronies in the music industry?

How does the situation change if everyone cancels their Spotify membership in protest, or sells short the SPOT stock?

How does the situation change if the majority of shareholders and paying customers demand that the entire Spotify board is thrown out so that Spotify can be restructured in favor of streamers, employees and listeners?

Could a few hackers and makers, perhaps with the help of some benefactors who won the internet lottery, throw together a p2p app that negates the need for Spotify's existence?

Are any of these questions unreasonable, given the recent behavior of Spotify?

The predictable nature of all of this makes me wonder why the disruption model stops at a handful of people getting morbidly rich at everyone else's expense.
> In April 2004, Google launched one of the first web apps that worked just like a native app: Gmail

I thought it was Outlook that pioneered Ajax. It's not even mentioned in the article.

> In 1998, the Microsoft Outlook Web Access team developed the concept behind the XMLHttpRequest scripting object

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)
I hope I underestimate it, but observation has taught me a good deal of cynicism.

Remember also that, in the short term, the regressions for content blockers from moving to v3 are comparatively minor. That tends to be a knell: there’s not enough to get outraged about straight away, probably only if you could compare the situation a few years later.
Linux will mount HFS drivers and files like nothing...

This setup it's overcomplicated and hackey, but dumb in the end. You can mount old SCSI drivers with modern adaptors just fine, and Linux/BSD will either mount or extract HFS images with unar (I think) or hfsutils/hfstools.

Or just spawn ymodem/zmodem compatible software (as he used a Fax setup for modem) and the problem would be solved in minutes.
Take != take a copy.

Take requires /remove/.
Jeez, no floppy drive on this laptop? How did people install stuff back then? But thanks, this is inspirational :)
Lots of folks have the intuition that, 'slightly worse' LLM models means unacceptable rates of nonsense answers.

What's an acceptable rate? Is it 99%? 99.9%?

The closer it gets to 99.999% good answers, the more damaging the wrong ones become. Because people have been trained, too. Trained to trust the answers, which makes them lazy and vulnerable to lies.
All Santander staff and 30M customers in Spain, Chile and Uruguay hacked
>I'm not sure how else to address these kinds of problems in society except with some kind of well regulated security apparatus (making the big assumption that it is well regulated here).

The whole populace being under surveillance is a much worse outcome than the chance of some politician being assassinated being relatively higher. Mass surveillance to prevent the latter seem absolutely in the worst interests of the average citizen; spying on people to protect the elites is what every nasty dictatorship does.
This should be a comparison with mac pro not macbook air.
> To me personally, I find it strange that "D.txt" and "d.txt" means the same file, since they are two very different characters.

As a native English speaker, I agree with this.
In order to make mass transit more attractive we will have to do something about the other riders. A lot of people that I know in the SF Bay Area simply don't feel safe on buses and light rail (although Caltrain seems to be fine). Our failures in housing and mental health public policy have turned mass transit into ersatz homeless shelters. Plus there are plenty of regular antisocial assholes playing loud music, yelling, littering, sometimes begging. Rules are not enforced.

Punishing drivers isn't a solution. We need comprehensive solutions that make regular people feel welcome on public transit. Otherwise those people won't support public transit funding.
I've been very persistent over the past few months in developing a system for agriculture as a primary use case. I want to deploy features to classify crop type, height, vegetation stage, and other important metrics to achieve real-time or near real-time analytics.

Do you have any suggestions on how to proceed further? So far, I've procured a Jetson, five cameras, a stand to fix and calibrate the modules, and a cam array hat to equip four cameras and the jetson.
I was checking out VPU and NPUS and other hardware as well but struggling to identify compatible hardware.
How can I get ahead and build such model to test and validate in 3
Months of time ?
They are, but most people don’t expect privacy in forum DMs, and forum site DMs aren’t usually used that much.

Lots of people mistakenly assume their DMs on Discord (and their iMessages) will be private.
Looks really nice! Not sure if it is intentional, but "stille" means "silent" in Norwegian :)
Dupe comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40536368
DB9 serial to USB Null modem cable + some simple file transfer software would have solved this in minutes.

Since the mac had a built-in modem, you could have used that software to transfer the file via xmodem or ymodem protocol.

I guess this isn't common knowledge any more.
It'd be more useful if they explained why some of the data is so inaccurate, so you could decide what to trust and what not to. In my neighborhood I found some houses not casting shadows, or partial shadows, lot of missing trees, and houses casting shadows onto themselves in ways they can't.
At least in English and German, it would help to spell it right. "Manheim" is an automotive auction company. "Mannheim" is the city.

Searching "Mannheim" brings up plenty of news about the stabbing.
Man scammed after AI told him fake Facebook customer support number was real
I think in this particular (macbook) case the problem was lack of proper software. Yet, I recall if there was modem installed, a terminal software had to be present as well.
Ignoring slow-running tests in Go
You can do all the above with crypto. Except for the visa thing, which has nothing to do with cash.
and the initial "fix" from AMD to stop it was to laser burn a trough between the contacts, so that you couldn't draw a line between them!
> I try a bunch of different OCR programs, but can't find any that can transcribe the document with 100% accuracy. They often confuse certain letters or numbers (like 0 and C, 9 and 4, 0 and D). Sometimes they omit characters, sometimes they introduce new ones. I try different font sizes and different fonts, but it doesn't matter.

I decided to OCR a hex dump from an old computer magazine a while back and fixed this problem by writing a tool to help verify the OCR result. Basically you input the OCR'd result and segment the numbers. It'll display the original segmented characters ordered by their class, and the human eye will very quickly find any chars that do not belong, e.g. 3s sorted under "8" etc.

https://blog.qiqitori.com/2023/03/ocring-hex-dumps-or-other-...

https://blog.qiqitori.com/2023/03/ai-day-in-retroland-prolog...

I wrote two blog posts about this, and the tools are also linked from the blog posts. Note: the tools are just slightly more user-friendly than sendmail.

That said, I don't know if these old Apple laptops came with anything resembling a programming environment (or at least that ancient version of Microsoft Word?), but even if not... There must be a better way (even without hardware hacking)!
Wasn't the old old Windows Update a web app that used ActiveX?
Author here. Seeing how difficult it was to get a reliable OCR transcription with commercial software from a pristine, computer-generated representation of the text, I suspect trying to OCR photos would be even less reliable :)

I simplified some things for brevity in the write-up. I did indeed try a bunch of fonts/font sizes (trying a single page at a time and manually inspecting the results) without much improvement.
No. It was a proxy war against the Soviet Union. China didn’t have good relations with the Soviet Union at that time, and they’ve had centuries of bad relations with Vietnam. Shortly after the US pulled out, China invaded Vietnam. They just didn’t make our mistake of engaging in a futile protracted war.
Good thing you can use fake data with Ticketmaster purchases and aren’t forced to display matching government ID for access to venues.

Oh, wait.

There should be real, criminal penalties for leaking authentic, government-ID PII these days.
He says that there are internal speakers, but no jack. If it were me, I would have cracked the case open and tapped into the audio going to the speakers directly and recorded it from another device, but then again this makes a much more satisfying hack.
Reaction to the name and not the site: it would be cool to see a listing site for jobs that are truly asynchronous: as long as you get the job done your actual hours don’t matter.
It was before the bombing. Russia shut off Nordstream soon after the invasion, as a way of punishing Europe for its support of Ukraine. That's the energy crisis they were discussing.

The bombing came later. Nobody is sure who did it or why. It probably has something to do with the Ukraine war, giving the timing, but exactly what is anybody's guess. Maybe Russia blew it up to punish Europe more. Maybe the Americans (or allies) did it to prevent Russia from re-opening it (to fund the war). Or somebody else for totally different reasons.
That's just what someone who is bluffing would say.
You're moaning about conservative justices ignoring the law for ideological reasons, in the discussion about a case which went to SCOTUS because progressive judges in the Second Circuit ignored the law. Gaslighting won't work on me, so you're wasting your time.
The Spacetop G1 is an AR laptop with no screen
You can use Standard Ebooks tooling to create a white-label ebook skeleton if that would help you get started.
Just curious... do you ever reach a consensus on a text that you decide to share between you?

Can you actually share the full .EPUB file, or do they object to the expanded size with bundled fonts and formatting, resulting in identical HTML but otherwise different content in the ZIP?
Thanks for taking the time, and being vulnerable.
How we built a RAG app on Trump's 2024 court transcripts
Because AWS gets to choose when the actual deletes happen. The metadata is marked as object deleted but AWS can process the delete off peak. It also avoids the s3 api server being hammered with qps
> Seems like a worthy device to hack

I haven't opened mine up yet but there's not a lot there that an ESP32, a screen, and an encoder couldn't replace. I'll probably disassemble mine for the encoder knob and see if I can't repurpose the screen. The actual hardware isn't particularly compelling otherwise.
from the article
"...there is also no evidence suggesting that Russia, Belarus, or Lithuania are Pegasus customers. Latvia appears to use Pegasus, but the country is also not known for targeting victims outside of its borders. ...., Estonia does appear to use Pegasus extensively outside their borders, including within multiple European countries. "

It would be very surprising to see Russia using Western tech such as Pegasus, you can't just outsource your spy tools to your enemies. They most likely have as powerful if not more technologies.

This whole NSO spectacle is more about the subversive BDS movement than a genuine care about political suppression and spying on the citizens.
Fireship got hacked. Ticketmaster had user info stolen. et al, so when I see:

> I log barely enough to determine whether the server has crashed.

> We do not collect nor track...

I'm 50% sold by these principles alone.

It's 2024 and not being a data creep is a product feature now.

Thank you.
I mean who says that gas prices will not 10x in the next 20 years ? Crude oil is a scarce resource and it has become very inefficient to extract. Which is why even fracking is nowadays viable (at $100/barrel)
I sympathize with the notion to fix things in software instead of buying hardware (an SCSI adapter): You have to spend money, wait for it to arrive (or even leave the house to get it yourself!) and it's one more future plastic waste.

If fiddling around and getting creative is something one enjoys (and has the time to do so), doing things like OP did is a nice alternative :)
If it had "fax software" it almost certainly had terminal emulator software whereby one could use something like ZMODEM and not corrupting the files in the process.

This was painful to read, like using a butter knife as a precision screwdriver.
or extremely expensive, if the contents are not as described
The lack of care for e-waste produced makes me sick. Spotify should at least open the hardware or sponsor a contest for a smart re-use / open source firmware for the device, would probably cost them less at the end and make them look better.
>I'd rather see efforts to make mass transit more attractive and encourage its use in a POSITIVE way, rather than using a stick of clogging the roads and punishing people into using mass transit. Win the market, don't just quash what you don't like.

Impossible. Mass transit, walking, and non motorized bicycling do not mesh with individual motorized traffic. It’s just physics.

The classic individualist vs collectivist dilemma that nature presents. You have to sacrifice one for the other.

As proof, simply look at all the best places for mass transit. Individual car usage is painful in all of them. The more painful using a car is, the better the public transit can be.