skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Since you are familiar with the TeX StackExchange, perhaps you can ask there?

I have. I don't want to link my HN identity to my SE identity (which is tied to my real world identity through mathoverflow) so I won't link here.

> Needless to say, the guide you followed is 8 years old; Perhaps some things have changed.

As I said, it was updated in February 2024. I was written by Ulrike Fischer who's also very involved in latex3. It's basically the current state of the art in accessible PDFs. And it's still not good enough.

I wish it were otherwise, but latex is the pinnacle of design-by-committee and tech debt. Given how latex3 turned out, I'm very pessimistic. The only thing latex has going for it is inertia.
https://hackerone.com/github

$600 for a low seems pretty good to me.
And with thoughtful care could do a better job a transforming it some more.
Yeah, "in order to create a file of N MB, just seek to the offset you need and write 0 bytes" has been one of my favorite pieces of trivia for a long while -- this pattern even survives in Win32's SetFilePointer.

On Windows, the resulting file is guaranteed to have any intervening bytes zero-initialized, but for DOS, that wasn't always the case, and any thus-created file could recycle previously deleted data, especially on redirected filesystems (e.g. LAN Manager or Novell NetWare volumes).
I see your contemporary hardware choices and raise you my P900 ThinkStation with 256GB of RAM and 48 Xeon cores. Eventually it might even acquire modern graphics hardware.
I'm hosting all of this and more on one old x260 thinkpad with 1TB SSD and 16GB of memory gathering dust in my basement. And an external disk for backup. Total cost? 500 euros or so?
You missed that boat by at least 5 years
Redshift is an increase in wavelengths and a decrease in frequency. As an object moves further away from a reference point, all waves emitted from that object have an increased wavelength.

Imagine a basketball player bouncing a ball up and down at a fix frequency. The wavelength is inversely proportional to the frequency.

The wave here is the ball bouncing up and down.

Now imagine the moment the ball hits the ground they start moving away from you at a fixed speed.

Because they have accelerated, light now needs to travel some additional distance since the ball at the top is further away from you than the ball at the bottom was.

But their new frequency remains the same because the displacement is now accounted for in the wavelength.

If they stop moving, opposite happens and it blueshifts.

If they keep accelerating, the distance increases and so does the redshifting.
Have you had a direct conversation with them? If not, have one with a line manager, an out of the line technical expert, and a member of HR. Explain specifics, and how expectations are not being met. Then be silent and see how they respond. Develop an action plan with dates. Mention consequences later, if the action plan is not being followed. Bad things happen to good companies. You must use a process to get out of it.
Was not sure but had to look up a definition.
"Syndactyly is a condition wherein two or more digits are fused together."

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

I thought maybe it was some sort of condition that caused finger to contract like that.
Did you try muPDF?
I’d also consider the possibility that artists might use their own hand as a reference when detailing hands in a painting, and their own physiology might be affected by long hours working with a brush. Artists training other artists might reinforce this collective conclusion that this is a natural relaxed hand pose, because when they look at their own hands that’s often what they see.
Science is forming a testable hypothesis and then testing it. So you hypothesize "as stars accumulate fusion products their cores get heavier and the rate of fusion increases, making them brighter" and test this both with modeling and looking if this matches the stars we can see. How is that now science?
> the companies doing deliveries are required to report every package so the government knows who send stuff to whom at any given time

I would be genuinely surprised if this was not true of every current day "western" society.

United Stated Postal Service takes, stores, OCRs & shares with law enforcement photos of the cover of every letter you receive.
For the Love of Linux
They run server side. That's why his friend was able to take it down with a fork bomb.
This could be a humor or real hack.

Get a copilot PC with recall enabled and quickly scan through the documents by opening in Adobe acrobat reader. Voillla! You will have an sqlite dB that has your index. Few days later, Adobe could have your data in their llm.
> It is worth revisiting, dropping old cruft, entrenching UTF-8 support, and other areas.

I certainly won't say anything against supporting UTF-8 absolutely everywhere, but "dropping old cruft" is IME usually what people say right before dropping useful features or breaking platforms that are actively in use.
Yes paying customer of all three. Sometimes for fun, start a task with the same prompt across all three. Within tree interactions Gemini start giving woke lectures, and provide worst or unusable results while the other two shine.

Just try it....
It depends how big a deal you consider Netflix. They block HE tunnels.
"calm down, Lovell!"

That's a fun listen.
Because design trends ebb and flow I'm sure at some point color will be all the rage again as people get tired of minimalism and neutral colors.

Personally I'm hoping it's sooner then later because I want to see more color in design.
> I also don't need fail2ban or to configure any of these new OpenSSH features

Me neither. If your password has sufficient entropy, you don't need any of this.

> Malware can steal your credentials, it cannot steal mine

The only solution around this is a hardware key or MFA. I find the convenience of not needing anything with me to be superior to the low risk of malware. I understand your opinion may differ here.
> where the Al couldn't use it's raw computing power. I'm not really sure what that would be, though (if were, l'd probably write a novel!).

You may enjoy Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks, which features a plot point along these lines
Oversimplifying, there are two metrics: Bugs, and features. You're pointing out that the existing ones have bugs, parent comment is pointing out that the existing ones have features. Rewrites tend to have less of both.
The thing that gets ridiculous is Americans trying to argue that storing (state, state_local_driver_license_number) is somehow different than storing (federal_driver_license_number).
manufactured "tiny homes" that come in on a trailer.

Getting utilities sorted out gets a bit more involved.

I bet they throw a complete hissy fit if you use the bathroom in one of these.
Not sure why this is titled "C" at the time I write this: the title of the linked blog post is "New Consent and Bot Management features for Cloudflare Zaraz"

Nor am I sure why it's upvoted 3 times already: posts about Cloudflare abuse management tend not to lead to very useful discussion here...
Disney pulls plug on high-priced Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser
Great video. Very “The Dude dreaming of the dancing bowling pins” vibes.
When you've spent many a year reading machine translated chinese xianxia then indeed many stories on RR are 4/5 star worthy in comparison.

Royalroad is not a place you go to find objectively good stories, it's the place you go to enjoy your particular blend of delicious trash because in the end you'd rather read chapter 1600 of the long running braindead litrpg than you would whatever just won the hugo's.
The wave is a change in whatever the wave type is (air, pressure, EM field strength, water height, etc.). I think your comment is a bit confused tbh.

I did a PhD on waves... and tbh I didn't really understand them until then.
Fire them. You are obviously paying senior money for a junior. Unless of course you tried to rip them off by underpaying them. Then I suppose it balances out.

Evaluate the hiring process, how did you mess up so bad? Fix it.
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I assume I read far more than the average person (though possibly just average for HN) but I see clickbait headlines like "10 Best New Hard Sci-Fi Novels Released This Month" that just make me feel anxious as a reader that there's more content out there than I can possibly comprehend. Must feel even worse as a writer.
Hey, thanks for the feedback. I know this is something I need. I've just been reluctant to do it because I want to hire a lawyer and get it done right, but not before validating that people actually want to use the platform. I'll probably put a stop-gap in place this week. In general, I plan on being pretty author-friendly, as I'm an author and I wouldn't want someone else controlling my content / data.
Acid synthesized by AI might be cool - adjust for strength, peak time, heck...slow release double-peaks.
Models are not stars and very incomplete. They are different stars. Feels like you could drive a supernova through the black holes in the sloppiness.
I have my own set of flags that I recorded because I always forget them when I want to do this. Interesting to compare the differences.

https://kevincox.ca/2022/12/21/wget-mirror/
You seem to be confusing "OpenSSH" with "OpenSSH Portable Release". As explained here: https://www.openssh.com/portable.html

> Normal OpenSSH development produces a very small, secure, and easy to maintain version for the OpenBSD project. The OpenSSH Portability Team takes that pure version and adds portability code so that OpenSSH can run on many other operating systems.

Unless you actually run OpenBSD, what you think is "OpenSSH" is in fact "OpenSSH Portable Release". These are very different things.
https://archive.ph/2P5V7

(Site blocks EU citizens)
The post-hoc rationalizations are clearly defined, which makes people more comfortable paying homage to WWII despite it being incredibly dicey. I say post-hoc because the US actually had a rather large Nazi party forming. Most people joining the war were pretty aloof as to why. It was only when those troops encountered the the Nazi death camps that the state of things became clear. The US primarily joined the war effort not because we heard what was happening to Jews, not because there was a massive land grab occurring, and not because two countries had gone an absolutely psychotic blitzkrieg - but because the Japanese Empire dared to bomb our strategic island fleet. It was a major blow, but just enough to wake up a sleeping beast.

I say WWII was dicey because we literally burned cities, we dropped nuclear bombs, we leveled entire cities with bombing runs as show of force. You can argue these things were necessary - and I agree! But it's important to realize much of this occurred before we knew about the atrocities.

If you read enough Sun Tzu, nobody really knows (from a warriors perspective) why they go to war until you're there. The populace almost never knows the truth, even through time, because most of what they're told is a story that changes with time. It's true of most wars.
Hey thanks! I plan on fixing that this week. Let me know if you have suggestions for it.
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
So as I see it, local white collar background citizens are either stretched too thin trying to maintain their peak life style, or maybe not stretched but also not sharing enough.

Perhaps the capitalistic system also does a disservice by encouraging them to keep funds in bad investment vehicles (stock, deposits) instead of social capital or a spare home.
What this one that made only two specific colours?

http://www.benspaintsupply.com/2011/05/japan-tragedy-affects...
I don’t see where we (or she for that matter —hah!) disagree.

She agrees that Dark Matter is observations or a problem for something that seems to be matter from our definitions of matter and its interactions.

She didn’t claim that MOND is the only theory or answer — in fact she made a video about this exactly, that she believes she failed to adequately argue that DM is what we are discussing because people put too much emphasis on MOND or thought of it as “the only solution to the DM problem”.
Biggest impact is wind power replacing carbon sources. A close second is solar power. EV's are a distant but non negligible third.

https://climateanalytics.org/comment/will-2024-be-the-year-e...
>There were several streams of development which naturally influenced each other- broadly:

>Libraries [...]

>Kernel window systems [...]

>Network window systems supporting access to multiple windows from multiple address spaces on multiple machines via a network, starting from work at PARC by Bob Sproull & (if memory serves) Elaine Sonderegger, leading to Andrew, SunDew which became NeWS, and W which became X.

PIXIE was another very early networked user interface system from the University of Cambridge, which ran across the network between a PDP-7 with a Type 340 vector graphics display and light pen, and a Titan (prototype of the Atlas 2) mainframe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(1963_computer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-7

David S H Rosenthal's home town is Cambridge, and he was actually a student at Cambridge at the time, and used those same Titan and PDP-7 computers himself! So it's fair to say that PIXIE had a direct influence on his subsequent work on Andrew, X11, and NeWS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._H._Rosenthal

Here's a video of the pie menus in PIXIE:

Flight of the PIXIE - Yuja Wang:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDrqR9XssJI

Neil E. Wiseman, Heinz U. Lemke, John O. Hiles,
PIXIE: A New Approach to Graphical Man-Machine Communication,
Proceedings of 1969 CAD Conference Southampton
IEEE Conference Publication 51, pp. 463–471.

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/documents/PIXIE%20a%20new%20...

David Chapman, Cambridge University Library
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/library/archives.html

This film demonstrates an early graphical user interface in use.
It was made in 1969 to accompany a paper entitled “PIXIE: a new approach to
graphical man-machine communication” presented at the 1969 CAD Conference
held in Southampton.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/EDSAC99/history.html

1965 [...]
Fifteen years of CAD research, initially led by C.A. Lang, began,
using a PDP 7 and DEC Type 340 display (the first outside
the USA) connected by data-link to the TITAN. It later
involved a highly innovative numerically-controlled
machine for cutting models of metal parts in plastic foam.

1969 [...]
Research on screen editing under Wiseman using the PDP 7.

Digital Equipment Corporation PDP–7/A - S#126

https://www.soemtron.org/pdp7no126systeminfo.html

Software for the Titan/PDP-7 link

https://cucps.soc.srcf.net/titan/supplan/pd10.htm
Colorful cars when it is not the norm seem like you would be making some sort of statement, seem less professional, not classy. Maybe seem childish. Just a riskier option. Possibly harder to resell, might get tired of it, etc.
Introducing the pg_analytica extension for Postgres.

Tables can be exported to columnar format via this extension to massively speed up your analytics queries. Exported data is periodically refreshed to keep your query results fresh.
Just because we can’t explain it yet doesn’t mean there is some voodoo involved
Thanks. I had clicked the readme but I was on my phone and wasn’t able to translate it to English to see if it was a web app.
I'm not normally one to gripe about name conflicts, but I knew this was going to get confusing. You could install an implementation of the Mamba LLM using the Mamba package manager!
Mind sharing how to get a foot into the field? I've got a good amount of domain knowledge from my studies in life science and rather meager experience from learning to code on my own for a few years. It seems like I cant compete with CS majors and gotta find a way to leverage my domain knowledge.
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Graph Shows How Car Paint Colors Have Gotten More Boring over the Years
Not all ML is built on neural nets. Genetic programming and symbolic regression is fun because the resulting model is just code, and software devs know how to read code.
A similar point applies to settings menus in software, especially advanced settings. It takes very little effort for people who make these settings to include e.g. a short tooltip explanation for every setting. Yet this is rarely done.
It's harder to resell a car that is yellow or green or blue. Much easier to resell a black, white, charcoal vehicle. I'm sure that's driving this.
I honestly hadn't heard of Asciidoc until I read this. Looks interesting.

Note that Scipress Markdown supports "directives" which in turn means I can include all types of elements like popovers, blur screens, paywalls, etc.
That’s my understanding too
OK, thanks. What makes a wolf a different species than dog, and what species are the offspring of a dog-wolf mating considered?
Means a lot. Thanks!
It seems like colors are starting to come back. GM, Ford and Toyota have begun offering more bright/playful colors on their cars in recent years. For a while now I think people have been afraid to get a "weird" color not only because of resale value but also because people don't want their choice of car to reflect poorly on them in their eyes of others. White/grey/silver/black have been the "safe" choices for a long time, but I think now we're starting to see that change to them being the "boring" colors, and I think that will help fuel the shift to colorful cars returning.
Deadline by the end of the sprint is not how we typically approach things even in a scrum context. I'm not sure whether there's any words about it in the scrum dogma.
I have excellent news: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/...
Resale value is a massive part of this.

Corporate buyers (fleet owners, hire car companies, and so on) don't want to deal with drivers complaining about a colour they don't like - in the UK giving certain colour cars to employees who support certain football teams is going to just cause pushback. Neutrals just make life a lot easier.
It actually worked in some respect, GameStop is worth the same as before the issuance of 75M shares. And his calls were at $20 price, so still up.

Without his actions, the stock could have tanked nearly half, since they raised +/- 3.5B
So we're expected to feel sympathy for the broke bootstrapper?

What I'm reading is someone wants all the upsides with none of the downsides. No one is entitled to an audience, especially that of another, just because they've produced some good or service. Participating in capitalism requires either time or money, usually both, and even then you're not guaranteed success.
Heavy concurrency, for one. MySQL uses threads; Postgres uses forks. You can (and should) help the latter with a connection pooler, but if you then throw one in front of the MySQL instance, it wins again.

Also, if you’ve designed your schema and queries around MySQL (InnoDB, specifically), you can get way faster queries. It’s a clustering index RDBMS, so range queries require far fewer reads thanks to linear read ahead, but only if your PK is k-sortable. UUIDv4 will absolutely tank the performance. It will on Postgres too, but under different circumstances, and for different reasons.

Benchmarking anything is fraught with peril. There are so many variables, and the benchmark itself can be quietly selected to favor one or the other. I’d encourage you to create identically-sized instances, with your actual schema, and realistic test data.
oh, pardon me. One pedantipoint for you.
instead of server it could say "on our end"
The caveat being the Fermi Paradox. If FTL were possible, someone else should have figured it out by now and colonized the galaxy, and so we should see evidence of warp drives and galaxy-scale civilization everywhere. Since we don't see evidence of anything of the sort, FTL in any form probably isn't possible. Negative mass either doesn't exist or isn't useful.
I've been really impressed with Mox, an all-in-one monolithinc mail system written in go: https://www.xmox.nl

Trivial to setup, guides you through configuring SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, DANE and DNSSEC. Handles certificates by itself through ACME, comes out-of-the-box with IP/domain reputation based and bayesian spam filtering.

While I've come to appreciate how much tweaking you can do with something like exim I'm starting to see the advantage of not having to spend time doing any of that :)

Mox also has some really cool (and AFAICT) novel features stemming from the fact that it's so tightly integrated. Have a look at the "Rejects" mailbox, or the nuanced way it rejects spam at SMTP time to prevent the dilemma between causing backscatter or potentially dropping mails (like gmail likes to do). I've also never heard of REQUIRETLS before seeing it exposed right there in Mox's built-in webmail.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll have to see how nasty of a refactor this would be...
Status quo bias is usually justified
I use gum for the same reason. I wonder what amount they used for the study. Afaik the amount you ingest with floss and gums is not very high. I've not been thorough but I couldn't find it in the study.
It certainly uses Coca leaves.

> Coca-Cola might have taken the cocaine out of their drink, but the company still needed to source coca leaves, which became more and more challenging. By 1914, the American federal government had officially restricted cocaine to medicinal use. So, as the government began debating an official import ban, Coke sent its lobbyists into the fray, pushing for a special exemption. Their fingerprints are all over the Harrison Act of 1922, which banned the import of coca leaves, but included a section permitting the use of “de-cocainized coca leaves or preparations made therefrom, or to any other preparations of coca leaves that do not contain cocaine.” Only two companies were given special permits by the act to import those coca leaves for processing — one of which was Maywood Chemical Works, of Maywood, New Jersey, whose biggest customer was the Coca-Cola company.

> This special loophole would carry over in every piece of anti-narcotics legislation that followed, including international agreements restricting the global trade in coca leaves. Over the ensuing decades, the company continued to demonstrate the lengths to which they would go to protect their supply, from supporting opposition to the traditional use of coca, to developing a secret coca farm of their own on Hawaiʻi.

https://www.eater.com/23620802/cocaine-in-coca-cola-coke-rec...
Yeah, but sadd colors [1] have been preferred by Puritans for hundreds of years.

Puritan-descended cultures are today still one of the most dominant cultural forces in America. And with the persistent preference for sadd, it seems less like a trend and more like a deeply-embedded cultural preference.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadd_colors