skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> reminds me of a pdf viewer at some point had an option to "respect permission" or something

Oh yeah, I always say "Don't respect" on PDF readers that have that setting. It's a very nice setting.

In regards to "TearFree" not being on by default, I expect that there's a good reason for it... maybe it adds some amount of latency (whether on hardware I don't have, or so little latency that I don't notice it), or maybe it just flat-out doesn't work right on some hardware that I happen to not have.

Regardless, deciding whether or not to set those settings is the job of one's distro.
After moving from Europe to Australia my sense of East and West was completely broken. I would exit a building and turn the wrong way all the time.

Having done a lot of navigation/sailing in my youth, my brain automatically was computing east/west based on the sun being in the south.
They should but I am in the same situation with IP and code to show and FAANGs insisted on it. Eventually I gave up and consulting now.
Well, commenters made some decent points, but the real issue is that you need a reason, a seriously good reason, to legitimize the expense involved in building an engine.

In the case of The Industrial Revolution, this was pumping water out coal mines, and air in to them. Coal was needed as other heat sources had been largely depleted (or nearly so) in Britain. People generally like being warm. This kind of pressure required the existence of a large population, which required the agricultural revolution to have preceded it. The agricultural revolution was also required because you needed some amount of people to be free of working in food production to have the time to improve and build all of the other required things leading up to automation.

Rome had no agricultural revolution, no need for deep coal mines, rather frequent plagues to lower the population, and plenty of heating fuel.
Or, raster and vector images are philosophically the same thing. The only difference is that vector has more operations than raster. Raster just has "draw unit square at integer coordinates".
Anyone else remember being able to just pop open the case and swap out the batteries of old Nokia phones? Sounds like an obvious solution if you need to “charge” real quick
You don't need logograms for that. You don't need a phonetic alphabet if all you want is a visual alphabet.

You could write a word / morpheme as a string of standard strokes / radical characters, instead of as overlapping standard strokes.
Why would that be easier than uBlock Origin?
Ah, I perhaps should have read all the comments before posting here, because it seems that you're answering my question, and confirm this idea that phonetic interpretation of written Chinese is a "recent" development.

This idea seems to be foreign to all native Chinese speakers I've encountered, and this seems to be in contradiction with what I can grasp from research.

If I may, I've got another related question: Chinese speakers all parrot this idea that literary Chinese is to modern (let's set aside character simplification) Chinese what (ancient?) Greek is to English.

But it's not my impression, at all; my intuition is that they don't properly understand neither Greek nor literary Chinese. For example, a modern Chinese speaker can be expected to read literary Chinese and at least make some sense out of it, but a modern English speaker won't even be able to read (ancient?) Greek, let alone interpreting it.
Yes, so basically the arguments around lack of Kanji leading to worse readability are actually hitting upon the fact that readability suffers short-term not because Kanji enhances readability,but because they're simply not used to processing the language only through kana, and that were they to acclimatize to that, it becomes readable again and in fact easier to read than before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWC0sKCS5oA
New vestiges of the first life on Earth discovered
I misread this at first as “since he ordered the vehicle…”
Did you go out and cut the wood, too? Haul it home? Every day?

> Sucks to be them.

Consider why they had to work so hard, and still died young and malnourished.
Speiss’ videos are good about measuring current. He was an early one on the coin operated ESP8266 movement. Looks like they are outside your energy budget: 2.3mA is the lowest.

The video I linked was from 7 years ago? Here is a more recent one but it doesn’t seem like he measured energy consumption: https://youtu.be/s-GzUTyIH9c

As validation of your PIR-Cam idea, LilyGo sells a PIR-Cam-SSD1306 combo board: https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-camera-s3
> Why would you want this anyway? GTK themes aren't particularly special, it's just CSS.

So that non-gnome apps can blend reasonably well in Gnome (at least the colors)

But, if it's just CSS, then at least an electron or tauri app can make use of it I guess?
I am familiar with that number but this does not address the point the top-level comment is making. The commenter claims is that there exists a class of problems where lifetime and ownership are not knowable at compile time, and makes the claim that for these problems Rust is worse than C++.
Show HN: FeedbackGrow – API-First User Feedback with AI Insights
There are many ways to collect user feedback, but often the systems designed for this purpose are overly complex, with unnecessary features, or require tedious integration and separate logins. They can also be expensive, making them inaccessible to startups and independent developers.

That's why I've developed this API-first user feedback collection tool—to solve these problems and provide an easy way to gather honest and genuine feedback, truly helping startups iterate their products.

Feature 1: Collect Feedback with an API.
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These skip links reek of hacky workaround. Use semantic html. Demand browsers build the jump into the browser.

Every site implementing this slightly differently is a recipe for future frustration.

Years ago I tried to track down the origin of this practice and at the time all I could come up with was a wishful blog post empathizing with people using screen readers, not an actual user study or formal accessibility research.
New telescope images of Jupiter's moon Io rival those from spacecraft
Ha not bad, pagewatch.ai

Look at that video player, apologizing profusely because it doesn’t know why it
can’t load. Sadly, it’s the most relatable thing on your webpage. Your site is
like a desperate dating profile: "I swear I'm different!

I wanted to reciprocate with my tool (not as spicy) https://pagewatch.ai/5f5c1cef-c119-4389-9641-965a4fee2b33/29...
Yeah, Firefox is expert on shooting its own foot, but Chrome is just sociopathic.

I will take the glue sniffing kid over a bully any time.
Sean Carroll’s site is a great place to read about this sort of stuff in an accessible way:

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2016/07/18/space-e...
You can also say backpropagation is the chain rule from centuries ago.
My thoughts exactly. Why wouldn’t they do that?
I do wonder whether kana might be slightly easier to read if ん were written as part of the preceding syllable like it is in hangul.
Show HN: High Availability of Home IoT System
Keeping lights on case of failtures.
I was referring to the Jon Snow resurrection, which came out of nowhere.

While I watched all the episodes, my interest in it dropped dramatically after that.
Tibet is a part of China today. Whether Tibet should be a part of China is up for debate, but the fact that it has been completely integrated into the PRC for at least 70 years now isn't really. I'll be the first one to argue that the PRC's moral claim to the territory comes from it being conquered by the Mongolians during the Yuan dynasty is lame. But it still doesn't mean anything when China controls it today. And that's just the TAR, there are plenty of Tibetans living in areas of China that aren't very contested as not being part of China.
I think GPU rendering was always faster as long as you had a supported GPU. Now that the Cycles renderer has support for all the major GPU APIs/vendors, the only reasons to render on the CPU are if you don't have a half-decent GPU, or if your scene doesn't fit in your GPU's memory. Neither of those are a concern on Apple systems.

At least on NVIDIA hardware, Blender can use the GPU's raytracing capabilities rather than just the general-purpose GPU compute capabilities. Which means it doesn't take a very expensive GPU at all to outperform high-end CPUs.
Written kana drops intonation information that's present in speech. Writing with kanji makes up for this, and also allows for more complex sentences that aren't as common in spoken Japanese.

I personally find the most difficult part of reading kana-only text to be detecting word boundaries. It's much easier when kanji is used, and I'm not even a native speaker.

An English analogy isthatyoucouldwritewithoutspacesandbeunderstood but it's more difficult to read and unnatural.

Young gen-z types on Japanese Twitter abbreviate everything, but even they don't drop kanji.
This might be in reference to an idea called the block universe: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_ti....
Or stimulants. Adderall bravado is real and explains a lot.
The United States also has a way of putting their friends in leadership positions globally.
My impression is that there are (possibly underenforced) US laws that mandate a certain amount of accessibility - the ADA and possibly others. (I'm 100% not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.)

At a previous job, that was the justification for a mandate to make sure our website and mobile app was accessible prior to its general availability. (It's also the right thing, as we knew, but the existence of a legal requirement tends to give doing the right thing a lot more priority in a team's backlog. So there's at least one case of the law working as designed.)

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Ac... -- the experience I'm talking about was prior to the mentioned 9th Circuit ruling or the Supreme Court's 2019 declining of the appeal, but the laws were on the books already. I don't remember exactly whether the Target case is what was mentioned as a motivating factor to us, but it might have been: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Federation_of_the_Bli...>

(I say 'possibly underenforced' because I don't really know enough about the accessibility landscape, but I somehow doubt that every customer unlawfully prevented from accessing services that the ADA covers actually sues...)
> It's a really cool looking

Citation needed
Enter should submit the form from the input. One of my biggest pet peeves. It's not even within a form tag :'(

WHY IS THE "SEE THE CODE ON GITHUB" NOT AN ANCHOR TAG! DO YOU UNDERSTAND BASIC SEMANTICS? DO YOU REALLY NEED TO NAVIGATE VIA JAVASCRIPT FOR A STATIC LINK? WHY CAN'T I MIDDLE CLICK TO OPEN IN A NEW TAB? BECAUSE YOU USED A BUTTON!

WHY IS THERE NO LABEL FOR THE MAIN INPUT. JUST CHUCK SR-ONLY ON THE LABEL ELEMENT, LINK IT TO THE INPUT, AT LEAST THEN IT'LL BE MILDLY ACCESSIBLE. PLACEHOLDERS AREN'T A 100% ANSWER TO DESCRIBE WHAT AN INPUT SHOULD BE DOING.

Don't get me started on the mobile design.

There. Non-LLM Roasts. But also some nitpicks. Otherwise, pretty cool.
> Without Kanji, it severely degrades readability. One has to reconstruct the word from syllables, which introduces another layer of cognitive load.

Which is what every language with an alphabetic writing does, and it works just fine. It is not "another layer of cognitive load", it is just a different layer, one that can be said to be much lighter or other languages would not have switched centuries/millenia ago.

The real problem of Japanese is the massive amount of homophones coming from Chinese. It is already a problem in Chinese, but even worse in Japanese due to the smaller phonetic repertoire.
Ah, yet another competitor to the idea[1] I've had in my head for 15 years but never getting around to build into a general-purpose language worthy of showing off to HN (mine is "every expression is described in RDF, just like everything else". It's been used for some 'rule engine' stuff and compiled to SQL for some work projects, and a relative[3] was put to use for terrain-generation purposes in Factorio, but that's as far as it's gotten).

Any thoughts on how this compares to Unison?[2]

[1] https://github.com/TOGoS/TOGVM-Spec
[2] https://unison-lang.org
[3] https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/types/NoiseExpression.ht...
He's got solar things already. How many companies do you want one guy to run? The more stuff he does, it doesn't mean the stuff he doesn't do he's somehow to blame for.
No, it's all power of the Sun*.

Fissile elements were created by massive star Supernovae elsewhere. Fusion is still the precursor. Except it's very quick catastrophic fusion :)
Yep, I agree with this - tried to hint at that when I said “vector images require a much more complex interpreter”.
Letting languages be a free for all is a terrible decision for an org of any size.

1. The more languages and frameworks, the more things need to be updated. The number of security upgrades you find yourself doing scales linearly with the number of runtimes you support.

2. If you can't share business logic, you're wasting time. Gluing two microservices together because the logic you need is in another codebase is infinitely more complex than just importing/copying/submoduling what you need.

3. You're not gonna support all those languages forever. Maybe two will survive. The champions of whatever one off project you have will leave, and that code will languish. You will pay the cost of rewriting that code.

4. There's really no issue with "the right tool for the job." All the languages can do all the things if you wield them correctly. The first version of Uber was written in PHP. There's no strategic advantage to picking a language for one specific project: pick your languages to support the needs of all your future projects.

5. Your greatest bottleneck is going to be people. Hiring and keeping good people is and will always be the hardest task you encounter. If you rush it, you get bad people. You simply cannot hire enough people who are either polyglots or of such quantity that you can dedicate them to each one off project in its own special language.

6. You will eventually need to start scanning for security issues. Multiply the complexity of that by the number of languages and frameworks you use. Explain to your general counsel and CFO why is so slow and costly to do an audit.
That is what whitespaces are for, which Korean also uses.
I dumped the list of blocked domains to this pastebin, since it wasn't documented anywhere.

https://pastebin.com/VHuHTeqp

Interesting that ycombinator.com is on the list, but not reddit

And why would you block Soundcloud? Lots of starving musicians are scraping by on there, and many of them are doing great work.
'the hell is a website called "The Nerd Reich"!?

Edit: per https://www.thenerdreich.com/into-the-parallel-mirror/

> My goal in starting this chain of essays is to expose and highlight the propaganda tactics and strategies at work in Bay Area politics in 2024. We are witnessing a big shift as tech billionaires make a push to buy local power, create polarization and moral panic, and push the traditionally liberal/progressive Bay Area toward Republican-style policies.

> As a journalist and writer, I analyze the underlying tactics and strategies of political messages and campaigns. I spent most of my career in politics, working as a top communications strategist for people like Jerry Brown, Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris and Antonio Villaraigosa. When I write about politics, I do it as someone with "an insider's knowledge but an outsider's mind." (To steal a phrase from Brown.)

So I guess the name is calling out the tactics used by certain tech billionaires?
I think kanji can make more clear the meaning if it can be understood, but not for pronouncing. Kana is other way around. (In case it is difficult, it is also possible to add furigana.)

I think it is beneficial to have both in Japanese writing.
> If anything big tech needs to not only be regulated more, they should be broken up.

You're thinking of the wrong thing. We're not talking about breaking up big tech, we're talking about every little hair stylist needing a cosmetology license.
> I later found out that Google had translated my phrase as something like "There is a phone call for you."

Language learning stories are always amazing because the perpetrator of the comedy is almost always entirely oblivious. Love your story.

My shining moment when I was learning Portuguese... I went to the pharmacy because I'd hurt my ankles hiking. They kept everything behind the counter, so I asked for some painkillers that would work for ankle pain.

The cashier gave me the weirdest look and the rest of the line started giggling. Eventually, after several attempts at repetition and variation, they gave me some ibuprofen - perfect. As I was leaving I processed my mistake - I'd accidentally swapped calcanhares (ankles) for calcinhas (panties), so my series of requests (as a male) had come out as: "My panties are killing me, do you have anything to help? ... Sorry, my Portuguese...I'll try again: My panties. Pan-ties. Pain. Pain in my panties. Panties pain. Medicine?"
DARPA? Which is government??
Location: Toronto, but willing to relocate.

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I'm just graduated from the University of Toronto and I'm looking for work. I took 19 different Computer Science courses in school with an average score of 90 (despite class averages being around 70). I'm a passionate programmer and love to challenge myself. I'm looking for work in a place that will challenge me to grow as both a coder and as a person.
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> Wait, no, it's "incorrect" in the sense that you asked it to do something, and the thing it gives you doesn't accomplish the task.

You believe you "asked it do something," but that's just you anthropomorphizing the model and your interaction with it. Of course the AI companies encourage that perspective, but it's a factually dubious one at best.

Judging whether a model's output is "correct" involves you imposing an external context on both the prompt and response that the model typically doesn't have access to. It also typically has no ability to test its responses.

This is part of why good prompt engineering can be so important - because what you get out is a function of what you put in, and pretending that the model is a question-answering oracle only takes you so far.

Of course what the AI companies are trying to do is train and prompt the models in such a way that their output is considered "correct" from a user's perspective more often than not. In an interaction with an AI company's salespeople, you might argue about "correctness". But that's not going to help understand what's actually going on.
Vinay Gupta was particularly worried about H5N1 back in 2008:

http://guptaoption.com/6.SPRS.php

https://archive.is/sCs8R

The tldr is that Spanish Flu had an extremely high case fatality rate (50–85%) in isolated communities that had no resistance to it, and that no human communities have any resistance to H5N1 (because it's never infected humans before.) So if it ever does make the jump and become significantly contagious, it could be very bad news — possibly as bad as "half the population of the planet dies" bad news.
I’m not sure how an explanation for how time functions means that time is an illusion?
The Amish community is not a commune.
But in practice it seemed to go the other way around. Once the industrial revolution came, slavery was out-competed by automation.

The only parts of agriculture still done by hand are the parts nobody has invented a machine that can do better. Nobody is out there planting seeds by hand or watering the fields with a garden hose anymore. Whereas the modern replacement (immigrant labor) is still used, but only for the things machines can't do (yet).
Thank you, i will completely ditch GNOME and warn everyone who uses or is interested in Linux about it.
Feedback to developers is useful, even if it's on a ranty way, with good reason, those bugs are nasty. They should use the accessibility funds to fix them as some can be considered accessibility problems (the scrolling one).

It's also easy for the developers and contributors to answer well, or at least give some kind of answer (what happened in my GNOME forums post, im just a bit sad it didn't get better). Every time i have a question regarding the upcoming COSMIC or something Pop!_OS related, someone at System76 answers and it feels very welcoming.

Regarding theming, every big OS has AT LEAST accent color selection, all but GNOME.

Edit: I did provide information, you can find sources for nearly everything i talked about. My post on EndeavourOS' forums has more information.
Yeah, their mentored bugs program for contributors is great, and if I wasn't concerned with my career trajectory at the moment I would probably just continue out of pure interest & for the learning opportunities.

Do you think career advancement from continued contributions is likely in my case though? Or should I invest my time elsewhere?
I’m honestly more interested in finding out who’s running a newsletter that’s losing money.
In my practice, I've found that the spacebar (or Page Down, for that matter) works for skipping to "main content" about just as well. Unless the site for some reason puts focus into that scrolling "contents of the page" column on the left of the page but thankfully, most sites don't do that and pressing space scrolls down the main page area one page down at a time.
The best NSFW AI chat app is Nextpart AI. It offers a realistic and engaging chat experience, allowing users to create and interact with their ideal virtual AI companion. Users can earn donations from their created characters and stories, and the platform offers a free plan with 20 messages and shared chats from community characters.
Great call out. Who can claim with a straight face the USA was built on the idea of equal opportunity.

Who would say that country that sprang from the metropolises of the east were built on individualism?

This kind of capital-C conservative appeal to the past is a political signal to light a fire under the Dems and court Republicans.

Not that you’d expect such a statement to turn into a truth telling commission or a treatise on the evolution of the United States but it’s interesting it was brought up.
I don’t trust the machines or the people who make them, and I didn’t have to read the Harry Potter fanfic to know ad hominems are poor arguments. What group does that make me?
Most of the details are here: https://github.com/petabyt/vcam
With the raw gadget code in src/otg.c

It hasn't only just been fun, it's also proven to be a big help with an Android app I've been working on :)
I think windows were flat on Windows 3.1 too and only adopted the 3D raised borders starting with Windows 95.
Yeah. Worth visiting and revisiting now and then