skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately extremely true for everything they make besides like Dreamweaver
PDF/UA makes PDFs accessible, which can otherwise be very hard to parse for screenreaders or display software that wants to reflow them (e.g. for reading them on small displays).

Without special hints (that are ignored by regular PDF readers or printers), PDF is essentially a vector graphics format, and any of these tasks amount to an exercise in OCR.

This is a somewhat little-known fact about PDFs, since many viewers do in fact implement many of these OCR-like heuristics to provide features such as text selection, search etc. that make it look a lot like a text-based format, but it really is a vector graphics format at heart. PDF/UA makes this a bit easier.

As an example, consider a multiple column layout, as is often used in scientific articles. PDF-creating software not concerned with accessibility might just intersperse all columns line by line (i.e. present text in presentational left-to-right, top-to-bottom fashion), but it could just as well achieve the same outcome by drawing column by column in semantic order. Beyond encouraging that, I believe PDF/UA also defines a bunch of (invisible) metadata tags that readers can use to figure out semantic structuring of a document.
Try Brython: https://brython.info/
> If the native Americans had the technological ability to extinct the Buffalo

I think it's more the case of if they didn't have the ability to create a balance. Things like the creation of the Amazon rainforest and the domestication of corn, potatoes, tomatoes, quinoa, llamas, etc. were because Native Americans figured out how to do those things. It's likely though that the first Native Americans just didn't know that stuff yet and accidentally ate all the mammoths or whatever because they didn't yet have a tradition of "only eat the mammoths when the third moon rises after Orion returns" or whatever. Those kinds of cultural traditions are social technologies, and they enable ways of life that would otherwise collapse in a few decades.

In the Pacific, Hawaiians and others had seemingly useless taboos like "women can't eat bananas" but following the taboo rules sustained a huge population (estimates for Hawaii vary, but it was at least a significant fraction of the current population without international shipping!).

In the Amazon, manioc is a great staple crop… as long as you serve it exactly right so you don't slowly poison yourself. They figured that out, but I'm sure there were many generations that got it wrong before they got it right.

So I don't think the framing should be "plains Indians didn't know how to kill off the buffalo." Rather a) plains Indians didn't have horses pre-European contact, so that whole way of life didn't exist until modernity and b) balancing with nature is a learned cultural achievement.
> The original message is enough information to deduce what’s probably going on as an expert

I dunno, I had no idea what the original message was trying to convey; it wasn't until I read lisper's comment that I got what was going on.
From Elegance to Speed, with Clojure
I'm curious what communication happened in that time. I'm not inclined to give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt but "vulnerability reported" doesn't necessarily mean "we sent full details in a clearly documented way to the right place where it would get in front of a human".
How are you defining “officially glorified”?
> Meanwhile in China

Outside China, companies and governments usually have to be careful when making investments. They can't decide to start building transmission lines/housing/fast train lines/deploy 5G everywhere and spend huge amounts of money if the return is small/non existent... And so usually things are only built or improved when there's a demand for it.

China can make a 5 year plan to build UHVDC everywhere and the grid operator won't go under no matter what. This has been working for them so far (even though it creates some serious problems) and certainly gives them an advantage, but you can't do that in most places.
Pearl Harbor. Larry Wall wasn't involved.
Get rid of bureaucratic bullshit and you'd get > 250 billion $ a year [1]. Get rid of insurances and other middlemen and you'd get another 450 billion $ a year by going for single-payer [2]. Then, get the homeless enrolled in insurance as well - even if the government pays the premium, every single homeless person costs > 18k a year in ER visits [3], a lot of which could be prevented if these people could go to a doctor before they'd be sick enough to incur serious ER costs. And finally, get as many homeless drug addicts back into some sort of stable housing. A lot of drug usage "on the streets" is self-medication to cope with the immense stress that comes from being homeless. Yes, there will always be a certain percentage of hardcore voluntary homeless people, but that's way better manageable than the status quo.

That should be way more than enough to hire enough nurses.

[1] https://www.americanprogress.org/article/excess-administrati...

[2] https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/yale-study-more-than-3350...

[3] https://www.newsweek.com/homeless-americans-are-costing-us-m...
This leaves some kind of outstanding balance on your Adobe account from what I remember, which I suspect they can chase you for with debt collection.
It was an icon utility that can record your screen
They can do it. They can not do it particularly well compared to SoTA OCR systems.
This Week in Apple: There's AI and Then There's AI
They are the house of dark patterns.

After a certain point anyone paying attention can see it's not accidental. Oops sorry! No. Their goal is your technological enslavement. Mis-features like that don't accidentally just always end up being evil and oops sorry when there is a real backlash. They wanted to see if they could get away with it, like they do.

I abandoned MS products in 1998 for good. Win98se pushed me over the edge.
Since that looks like your normal camera flash circuit with xenon tube (the cap values are on point for one) I'd agree its likely the cap, unless there is anything visibly wrong with the flash tube.
hey, i might have a good solution... i wrote https://github.com/waveplate/spotifm which allows you to stream spotify over icecast2 and control the playblack with a REST API
I know it’s generally unhelpful to discuss voting on this site, but I must point out the irony that this particular comment chain started with “I haven’t heard anybody saying they want this” and then the one comment saying “I want this” was rejected so hard it was threatening to disappear if I didn’t save it.
Yeah, in ballroom one takes a break between songs iirc. (It’s been a decade or two.) The harder styles of dance and deeper kinds of house music seem designed to put you into a mild trance, thus the need to keep the rhythm consistent.

For D&D, have you seen https://tabletopy.com/ ? I think I saw it here on HN a while ago.
It's just an artifact of the training sample pairs IMO. You can reduce it by fine-tuning the prompt, or even LoRA if you'd like to nuke this mosquito.
I'm a layman here. This is a genuine question because I don't know as much about this as I'd like:

Why do we expect neutron stars to spin rapidly? I understand the "ice skater pulling their arms in" analogy, but why should the pre-collapse star have been appreciably spinning in the first place? To my lay lack-of-understanding, if the neutron star is spinning slowly, then that just implies the earlier version didn't have a whole lot of angular momentum in the first place. What's wrong with that?
There is a great podcast called the publishing rodeo where they talk about this. One of their episodes covered a minimum viable threshold where if there isn’t enough marketing points (a viral tweet, a lot of followers, marketing money, etc) there is no way for a book to succeed regardless of quality.
i feel like an open source version of this would be really cool.

theres a lot of people who have a lot of data they wont want to put into this and run other people's closed source code and you dont really know what its doing.

is there an open source linux friendly equivalent?
Who is checking capacitors by touching them to their eyes!?
Makes sense. Appreciate the conversation! Don't have people to talk to in my personal network about this topic.
> why is that not possible now?

Well we don't have massive communal dining halls or poorhouses.

I think you underestimate the extreme poverty of food even for people in 1924 who had access to a communal kitchen.

Average nutrition in 1924 was not good. It was likely significantly worse than it is now. People were on average several inches shorter and life expectancy at birth in 1924 was less than 60 in the USA and the UK.

The life expectancy for, say, a 24 year old in 1924 would be lower still.

People did "stay alive", but they died young of diseases, many of them worsened by chronic malnutrition. Kids were literally severely malnourished in the USA until the national school lunch program was launched in the 40s, and the UK was only a bit ahead, providing breakfasts and sometimes lunches for kids from 1906 onwards, and then full school meals in the 40s. Adult malnutrition was rampant in the USA of the 1930s.

You are comparing 2024 with a romantic fiction, when the issue is what are the options in 2024.

The era of abundant cheap food, enough time to cook it, labour-saving devices and parents who were not both working is short, and it spans about 30 years from 1940 in the USA, and less in the UK due to rationing.

We don't have that life anymore. It would be better to engineer a culture of street food in the UK and USA, because that leads to more healthy food options for vastly more people (as well as catering efficiency and less food waste)
Interoperability is definitely a problem. I've been in the industry for quite some time, and at one job we got to shadow med lab techs, since they were the operators of the machines that we built. Their workload is insane and after an hour watching them work, I could identify a number of new products that would help them. I brought it up to my management and learned that "marketing is aware of those problems and we're devising solutions." No idea if those solutions ever hit the market -- this was over 10 years ago.

At the time, the solution to interoperability was to buy all your lab equipment from one manufacturer, who would use their own (usually proprietary) protocols to tie things together. That way, at least even if they weren't actually interoperable, the UI's and workflows were mostly consistent.

A large part of the problem is that hospital IT is understandably hostile to anything connecting to their network, so all the stuff we were building at the time that talked to each other, had to use its own standalone network, or serial ports (ugh!).

Standards like IEC-60601 or 62304 (my daily bread) are easier to adopt because they address patient safety. I suspect it would be much harder to mandate an interoperability standard unless you could show that it improved safety instead of "just" making the healthcare provider's job easier. Or maybe it exists, but just never came up on my radar.
Really? My journey was the opposite. That war in combo with another war made me realize the indignation is more or less manufactured and that the elite rather have my face blown into pieces than not lose their face in a figurative way.

It is like watching a self-playing piano pitting me against another self-playing piano and I am supposed to cheer the whole parade.
128 bits is 16 bytes. BIGINT is a 64 bit int (long or long long).

So there is at least additional storage required, and probably some CPU cost as well. And even UUIDv7 isn't guaranteed to produce sequential IDs, but it's probably good enough to not seriously fragment your table storage.

But yes, UUIDs are usually stored as integers.
Yeah, what happened to it. Or not happened. I npm/yarn link my own cli repos everywhere because setting up anything else takes hours and is a mess. I even develop python scripts with `nodemon main.py` (lol) because only n-guys know what people need, it seems.
That much sea level rise?

From New York:
https://psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/12.php

From Stockholm:
https://psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/78.php

Simple: New York is sinking slowly. Stockhold is rising. Especially since the effects are pretty much linear 1880 to present.
Coriolis force. If a geostationary satellite was instantaneously accelerated straight down towards the Earth, its path (from Earth's perspective) would not be straight down as its original circumferential velocity at geostationary orbit (pi * geostationary orbit diameter * Earth radial velocity) would be "too high" when the altitude is lower.

To continue moving "straight down" its angular velocity would need to be constant, which means as its altitude decreases the circumferential velocity would need to decrease. But gravity only pulls down, there's no force to accelerate it in that direction. So therefore it appears to curve off to the side.
Chat is one of the hardest things to build and maintain. It was about half the effort of my past job. But it was mostly scope creep. We did text, image, audio messages, files, then this would break based on different phone models, different OS.

Most of the work is really on the front end. How do you handle live messages coming in? Does it show fresh, making it jump to the bottom of the screen. UI for multiple images and files. Eventually we added a contractor to handle chat.

I'd say buy.
> Avoiding flags also has some interesting effects on encoding density.

That's one thing I liked about the Mill CPU was the belt, but I thought it was misplaced for data, and would be a great way to just carry the FLAGS register instead.

This would make conditional testing much easier and would mean you don't have to be as concerned about intermediate instructions updating flags before you use them.

I never had time to deeply think about it. Does someone want to tell me why this is actually a bad idea?
Nawh, it was Aldous Huxley. I could hear the wailing from here drowning out my downstairs neighbor's 2 inappropriate-breed-for-apartments yapping and howling dogs.
Maybe because you're biased having read the article? I just looked at a picture of me waving at the camera taken 2 weeks ago, and my fingers are splayed apart with even spacing.
What was the security issue? More spectre-like bullshit?
It's not about testing it with your eyes, but about where the shrapnel might end up if things go very wrong.
I can also imagine that Recall could grow and cook my food for me, but it can’t do that either so I don’t really understand your point.
Here's an example: https://github.com/marler8997/zigup/blob/4d25c7e387a996c6b83...
Glad to see MLC is becoming more mature :) I can imagine the unified engine could help build agents on multiple devices.

Any ideas on how those edge and cloud models collaborate on compound tasks (e.g. the compound ai systems: https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2024/02/18/compound-ai-system...)
NYC Bet Big on TV and Film Studios. Will They Survive an Industry Shakeout?
I'm actually more interested in side effects of prolonged IF or fasting in general. My impression over the long term is it can contribute to gastritis. I don't see any evidence to support this other than anecdotally how it feels to me.
hijacking for a bit of shameless self promotion: if you're an obsidian user, I recently built a plugin that simplifies web pages, parses out metadata, and saves them to obsidian as markdown files: https://github.com/inhumantsar/slurp

arXiv comes through a bit ugly atm but it's high on my to-do list. I'm leveraging the library that Firefox uses for reader mode, so most sites come through quite well. A lot of my work right now is expanding their metadata support and fixing parser issues.
Time is a great filter. That's why it's commonplace to complain about 'art these days' and to be nostalgic about past books and music.

Some of the greatest, most interesting books I've ever read are thousands of years old.
Capacitor is #1 suspect. If not, probably flash tube is dead after dropped or had another type of impact. Just replace the flash tube with something similar to this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/165491505983
It turns out homeowners with veto rights are a lot more powerful than capital in the US.
No mention of the importance of diet? For those who may care...https://www.livestrong.com/article/107269-importance-exercis...
It is rare in my part of the world, but it isn't (currently) rare in places where roofs don't have to withstand snow. No comment on the historical trend.

> Apartments have the opposite situation for weird legal reasons; there are almost no condos built in California anymore because the laws allow the original developer to get sued over quality issues, whereas for apartments the landlord has to deal with it.

This feels like it confuses a couple of issues - one really needs to know the recourse a homeowner has against a home builder and how long this lasts (and to compare that recourse to what is available to condo owners)
I get that, but it's very unlikely to happen. The benefit of your code vastly outweighs the potential downside. As engineers, we're used to only hearing about the problems. It's really gratifying when you hear from someone who says, "tell your engineers that they saved my life."
'I could have learned' this lesson from Warren Buffett a lot sooner
You can image and get in vivo estimates of brain volume. Here is a paper that does so:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8583264/
Rent-seeking is not new human behavior, it’s just been enough generations that the lesson must be collectively learned again.
Agreed on all of these. It's a skill more like juggling than writing. You'll end up relying more on reflexes than something you thought of, and the practice helps to build the reflexes.
I miss Norton Disk Doctor, not because I work on drive recovery but because it had an interface that respected the user’s intelligence.

Every other storage-related system I’ve ever used either had inscrutable gibberish like:

“Mode 5/7?” [Y]

Or overly dumbed down questions like:

Are you sure? [N]

What am I sure about!? What is mode 5? Or is it 7? Both? What!? [1]

Norton meanwhile had several paragraphs of text explaining what every decision meant. It explained concepts inline. It provided an explanation of the benefits and risks. It let you make an informed choice instead of just hitting Y over and over and hoping for the best.

This kind of respect for the reader / user applies to all forms of technical writing such as manuals, user interfaces, blog articles, and API docs.

Instead of trying to dumb down the text for a “lay” audience, try to educate all audiences to become more technical after having read and understood what you wrote.

[1] That is verbatim from a Hitachi SAN array that was holding all of the data for a government department. The manual helpfully explained that this option toggles between mode 5/7 being either on or off. If you choose wrong the array will erase itself and kill your cat. Or neither of those things. Who knows?
> The point is, that it is likely after a while humans will be extremely predictable by the model that machine learning will come up with and select competing models.

Doesn't that inherently create new criteria for fitness to be judged, conditions that humans could then exploit through marginal and expected creative digression?
As long as it’s not near my back yard - America
How do you feel about history?
> Under what ethical reasoning should they be deprived of their property ?

Ask the Spanish government ?

Otherwise most countries have adverse possession laws, the only difference being how drastic the requirements are. Spain just decided to lower the bar that much.
I Visited Apple's Secret iPhone Testing Labs [video]
Not an expert. How slow would it have to spin for it to be appreciably “slow” after it speeds up as a neutron star, and how many celestial bodies are spinning that slowly in general?

So, why do bodies accrete in a non-uniform way as to inherit a significant spin far more often than not? Is that bias found in the matter being accreted? Similar to why things seem to rotate the same way: one direction eventually prevails?
Speak for yourself woke-nut!

I'm very left wing (not just "leaning"), and don't experience any of these symptoms.

These neurotic symptoms are the result of a massive failure of perspective: people fail to appreciate just how lucky they are to be alive...
Many of the projects in my OS class in college involved building on top of the xv6 operating system. I remember one of the projects was building a scheduler for xv. It was definitely a great way to learn about different pieces of an operating system!
The pre-collapse star is spinning for the same reason: any nonzero angular momentum in the very extended gas/dust cloud from which it formed gets concentrated as it collapses into the star. In fact, there's typically so much angular momentum it can't go into the star, but instead either goes into more than one star, or into a pre-planetary disk around the star.
That's true towards the end of the war, but in the beginning ?

The US didn't join the war until they were attacked. Same goes for UK and France - they technically did declare the war when Poland was invaded - as there was a defensive agreement between the 3 countries - but in reality they didn't send any help.
Probably by realizing that people who work in tech are no better and not more moral than people working in any orher industry.
>what the hell does this mean? The message doesn’t exist, but I can copy its contents? If I can copy its contents…why can’t I save it?? If it doesn’t exist why do I have to discard it??

Maybe it should be even less descriptive.

"This message will soon no longer be available. Make sure you copy the contents of the message before you discard if you want to use them later."

Talking about the cache doesn't help the user. Really the solution is to add a button at the end of the message that says "save message contents to device." Then the message is clear and easily actionable.
The square crop used as a test image is just her face, but the original, full-page shot shows all her body, and she is very much nude.
It's not, it's a tweet.
Like I said, the official former embassador of Ukraine in germany is a big fan of him. (and there was a scandal about some of his statements, so he was pulled back, but rewarded).

A ambassador is not a private person, but pretty official.

And no, I did not say all of Ukraine glorifies him.
My grandfather was a medic and was part of the storm of Normandy beach on D-Day. He never really spoke of it and had a stroke and passed away before Saving Private Ryan came out. We wondered what he would have thought of the beginning of that movie, as someone who was there and was running around helping people the whole time.
My reading is slightly different. It is not about a 1p team, but about a 1p team just starting and learning. Once finish learning you still have to go back and refactor for future maintenance. He has to reuse these codes as part of an engine, just like a larger team.
Nasty bug with simple exploit hits PHP just in time for the weekend
> From my experience “experts” who are unable to explain well typically have an incomplete understanding.

You also have to give yourself permission to step several tiers back and think about how to distill "next pieces" into what they know.

I also find myself handwaving away a whole lot of edge cases or rigor away in order to have a bite-sized step that will help the student make progress.

> Personally I have had subject I thought I was an expert an and when I went to explain them I realized the shortcomings of my understanding. Later when I was truly an expert my ability to explain them improved.

Conversely, I find every time I've done this exercise of stepping back and breaking it down for someone else, my knowledge has deepened.
Senators say no one told patients about UnitedHealth stolen data
https://archive.ph/Qw2Kf