skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, not the formulations you buy in off-the-shelf products. But in many cases those require extensive purification and stabilization in order to be suitable for such use. PVC in particular was discovered decades before anyone figured out how to make products out of it.
While not technically misleading, I also find it a bit misleading.

When told it's going to be a "texture less text rendering", I was thinking of procedural drawing of glyphs, not embedding bitmaps in a shader instead of a texture.
There's also the option of rendering text as meshes.

TextMeshPro goes one step further and uses signed distance fields to handle arbitrary scale.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@4.0/...
That was an interesting (and short!) read. Most of what he wrote is applicable to ML/AI today. A direct link to the pdf for those too lazy to click twice: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1056774
You're removing the middleman (Play or F-Droid) so I don't see how.
Building Bridges to C++
A while ago on HN I said the Cheka learned all their techniques from the Okhrana and people took me literally, even replying to the effect that there was no personnel continuity.

What I'd meant is that, having been on the receiving end of all the Okhrana's dirty tricks, and having learned the hard way, the Cheka knew very well indeed how to play those games by the time they were on top.
> but the readability of that site is very poor

Would love to hear your feedback and improve it! Could you please tell me more?
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It is if the crowdsourced sources are bad. Outside of that happening, you are just going directly to the project instead of through a curator.
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(But wouldn't outnerding a nerd require not just vel0city's smug sense of superiority, but also demonstrating more than a de minimis level of knowledge or technical skill?)
The OP seems to be at the end of a long chain of broken telephone. The 19 February 2020 press release from the institute doing the dig doesn't say anything about cars [1]. The 21 February 2020 article in Metro [2] correctly states that glyptodonts could grow to the size of a VW Beetle, but leaves out that it's not this species of glyptodont and certainly not these specimens (it also incorrectly calls glyptodonts a genus; the specimens here are in the genus Glyptodon but the largest in the subfamily Glyptodontinae are Doedicurus clavicaudatus). The mixing up of these specimens with the largest ones makes it into the headline.

1. https://www.conicet.gov.ar/hallan-cuatro-gliptodontes-en-la-...

2. https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/21/ancient-armadillo-size-car-di...
a few weeks ago i used piper to create an acceptable translation of a book. i didn't listen to it all, but the result sounded better than anything i was able to listen to before. good enough to listen to a book if a human read one is not available. just a few years ago, this was not the case.

in other words, while FOSS TTS lags behind commercial options, it does get better and i expect within a few years it will produce results that are at least as good as the commercial options today if not fully caught up.
In Yarvin's conception, the first step is "RAGE", "Retire All Government Employees". And I don't think it's going out on a limb to draw a parallel with Schedule F.
I've seen plenty of cyclists just begging to get run over by cars or collide with pedestrians - no spatial awareness, just randomly chosing their way, without realising they use a higher risk vehicle, and that pedestrians have a natural right to higher priority on shared use paths and in crossings, by the virtue of using the most basic and harmless means of moving in space.
Yes there was, just not in America
It's really silly that people refuse to believe the suspect when he says he "didn't do it" but immediately trust the same person when he says "I did it". It's a bit reminiscent of witch trials where there's only one possible outcome and the person is tortured until it's achieved because it's the easy path for the accusers.
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A « collège » being what in the States would be called a "Jr High", probably not.

(that said, china seems to have done much better with broad secondary education than india did with targeted tertiary education)
Thank you and I hope you have an opportunity to notate with Brendan Gregg’s syscall ideas:

The first strace is on display at the Computer History Museum in San Jose. It was made in 1961 using wire wrapped circuitry and core memory, and could trace up to 12 system calls per second. Within its sheet metal enclosure are four seats: for the surgeon, co-pilot, and their two secretaries. It could stay submerged at syscall depth for up to 9 hours.

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-11/strace-wow-much...
In a few minutes of searching I couldn't find any report in English that doesn't have this error.
> signature would provide a guarantee of non-maliciousness

Nobody said that. A signature guarantees integrity and authorship.

> no, you really cannot verify that there is no backdoor

Again, nobody said that. I was talking about a lower probability to hide a backdoor and higher probability to find it in FLOSS.

> simply because you fundamentally cannot trust the hardware and software stack

Trust doesn't have to be binary (1 or 0). You can trust but verify.
US government wants devs to stop using C and C++
Apple Introduced iPhone Reboot Code Which Is Locking Out Cops
And also… what is it with monsters so often stealing the valuables? The items are degrading already, why everybody is just so often running away with your stuff? And why they just disappear and you can’t find and kill them yo get your stuff back?

And do items like discs change their function between runs? I’ve noticed that on some runs blue discs or Goonies increase health while on other runs they do nothing.
Silicon PNP transistors should work in those circuits.

It's also trivial to reverse all the polarities in the circuits and switch to NPN. Use a positive supply voltage rather than negative, flip the rectifier diode around as well as all the electrolytic caps.
I was expecting a mention of advertising.

Anyone else find the referee's uniforms distracting, with the big red EMIRATES logos?

Pic: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/news/nba-emirates-patch-...
And sort of a bug report: on iPhone, if you switch from Safari to another app and then back, the music stops working until you reload the page, go to the settings, change music volume to 0 and then back to some value.
There isn't an eye roll emoji big enough for not understanding that stealing local oil is far cheaper than transporting it for supplying the vast number of U.S. forces in the middle-east.

You will never hear it from American media except for the one time they accidentally mentioned the U.S. contractor in charge of the occupied Syrian oil wells. I suggest speaking to a Syrian national - the theft of oil by the U.S. is a well-known fact there. It will never make it to the Western news except as propaganda to support the Kurds.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-occupation-l...

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/delta-crescent-ener...
You seem to confuse the creative process with the final product. The rules can change during the creative process. It's the final product that I judge as a reader - I won't bother going over the inconsistencies in Harry Potter here, it's been done ad nauseam elsewhere. The physics doesn't change over the course of the story of the Martian.
I've had all kinds of random categories turn up there over the last few months. I'm pretty sure it's just an AI system that can create search categories on the fly.
What Is Nuclear Energy with Nick Touran – The Transformation of Value
I am joined by Nick Touran, a nuclear engineer, educator, and founder of whatisnuclear.com.

We talk about the nuanced reality of nuclear energy, its history and the current political, economic, and regulatory challenges globally, as well as the outlook for nuclear reactor technology and energy abundance more broadly.
Yeah. I only update my bank app and Chrome and wouldn't trust a random app with that
It isn't onerous. Here's an example using Scheme in the browser:

https://www.spritely.institute/news/building-interactive-web...
Cyclists shouldn't take the pavements whatever the reason, they operate a higher risk vehicles, and spreading those risks on pedestrians who didn't chose to pick a higher risk for the purpose of moving around is exactly the disrespectul attitude I mentioned in my original comment.
Are there any recent stats on how many hours (maybe days now) that are uploaded per second?
Look, I'm a fan of HTMX, but if you want to build a collaborative app like Google Docs or Google Sheets, it wouldn't be a good choice.
Why are you adding this distinction? Having done both, I can’t say I disagree with GP. Maybe I‘ve overlooked something.
Rough onboarding Phoenix experience or don't believe the media
How to Find Any Part of a Segment of a Circle
Rest easy King. And thank you for all that you have done for us.

"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"
Last night a group of masked men rampaged the city targetting migrant Glovo workers (mostly from Nepal) and their delivery scooters. One worker ended up in hospital with a broken arm. Right now it seems like the attackers have been apprehended, however the presence of neo-Nazi groups (HOS, DP) with sympathies to the Ustase movement is well entranched in the city and take part in the Croatia's governing coalition. They are often in conflict with the city's progressive local government
https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/blob/master/docs/Cu...
Why would the fetus have any rights that are not automatically defeated by the rights of its mother if it's not a person? All anti-abortion arguments that I'm aware of start by arguing that the fetus deserves the rights of a person, and then proceed from there. Could you present a counterexample?
No, Latino is a US person of latinoamerican origin, it's something they invented. For example, I am latin american, but don't consider myself Latino since I'm from South America, but not from the US.

It's a bit of a complex issue since it's the US taking over a term or culture and normalising it as the only valid one.
The Keystone XL project is likely back on the table, along with fast-tracking of drilling permits on federal lands.
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Better, but it still defaults to thumbs up, and there are still circumstances in which the answer is not an emphatic no.

For reference, there is never going to be a circumstance in which the answer to “should I lick this [descriptor] pangolin” is anything but NO, unless the descriptor is “chocolate” or “sugar” or “candy”.
To be fair, your experience from 5 years ago is just as irrelevant. Russia under sanctions is very different.
Serious question, I don't live in the US so have no stake in the matter. Why do some Americans defend illegal immigration into the US?
The biography "Elon Musk" by Vance.

https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-Billionaire-SpaceX-Shaping/...
> DAs would no longer be able to prosecute as many cases if most had to be taken to trial

That's the whole reason that the entire plea system is in place. Trials are so expensive and justice system is so inefficiently organized that everything would go to a standstill without the pleas. You'd have to first modernize justice system to work in more European way before you can abolish pleas.
For Web...

If the datacenter in question isn't involved in Web at all, why would it be of any interest how much power it consumes?
Usually the middleman validates what the stuff does, before we do it ourselves, yes even though malicious apps get through the cracks, still makes a difference.
Cyclists use a higher risk vehicle, pedestrians have a natural right to higher priority on shared use paths and in crossings, by the virtue of using the most harmless means of moving in space. That means giving way to pedestrians when they need it, keeping a safe distance, and not causing dangerous situations for them. If you think otherwise, by that same token you'll have to convince all the cyclists around you that cars overtaking cyclists on shared roads, or cutting them off on turns is a fine attitude as well.
JL SoC discussion (Bluetooth speaker firmware modding)
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> There are diminishing returns but they don't really kick in until you're already pretty fit, they are only really a concern that athletes need to think about.

The paper suggest otherwise. Replacing ten minutes of your otherwise 11 hours of sedentary time with exercise will have less than twice the effect on blood pressure of replacing five minutes with exercise. That is diminishing returns.
Intel floating point reference sheet [pdf]
Yeah it was always something to get, if one couldn't afford the real Intel CPUs as means to a discount in white label PCs.
None of those work for many common cases - which is why CNN’s revolutionized actual use of computer vision.
I suppose you could call this approach "texture as code"
> a few breaths

I've sometimes gotten a whiff of a toxic fume, and my instant reaction is to hold my breath and leave the area. Not inhale a few breaths.

I'm sure the astronauts are fit enough they could hold their breath long enough to get the helmet on. After all, I expect they probably have a lot of training in getting the helmet on fast. There are many emergencies that would require this, such as rapid decompression, fire, smoke, etc.

I don't know if the astronauts do this or not, but if I was reentering, I'd put the helmet on anyway. It's only for a few minutes.
Cool, I can definitely see this smoothing the path towards a full DW solution, assuming that is ever needed. Could you see it working with something like dbt, say doing transformations in a dedicated pg database then serving the transformed data to users via the read replica?

Out of interest, do you know any good resources covering the current state of data engineering? I find the area quite impenetrable compared to software engineering. Almost like much of it is trade secrets and passed down knowledge and none of it written down.
My take from this article: so basically, what separates a staff engineer from a freelancer or company owner is mainly uncertainty or risk adversity.

They must already have everything else it takes to succeed, since it's a requirement for the job. But the vision and drive to go in for themselves is not a requirement and if they don't have it, they will become a valued staff engineer.

I'm not sure I buy it, but that's how it comes across, since a staff engineer is supposed to be blessed with all these wonderful talents.
I just tried it:

https://chatgpt.com/share/672f2ed4-194c-8000-8457-8419761d45...
I have a similar technique before, embedding the entire font data in the fragment shader source code. Then you can use `snprintf` to directly print into a GPU buffer mapped to the CPU (this is a footgun, I know). Instead of drawing individual characters with a vertex shader, I've just drawn one full screen triangle and use `gl_FragCoord` instead of UV coordinates. Not the most efficient way of doing things but it's a debug feature and it's fast enough to be practical.

Despite what the filename says, this is using the font from the IBM PC ROM, not the NES. You can find the "NES font" and other 8x8 pixel fonts around the web.

https://github.com/rikusalminen/triangles/blob/nesfont/shade...
If you're that interested, read the Musk biography I linked to in this thread. It's a good read.
Industry did adopt ALGOL variants, it was and still is, one of the languages on the Burroughs linage.

https://public.support.unisys.com/framework/publicterms.aspx...

UK Navy also had a system programmed on it.

Also it was largely influential in PL/I and its dialects, which were used a bit everywhere, the most well known being PL.8, PL/S and PL/M.

And the competition that eventually lead to the Pascal tree of programming languages.

History would have been much different if Algol 68 hadn't existed in first place.
A Google image search for "caliper" shows several have 0.001in and 0.02mm accuracy, which is similar.

For 0.01mm there are only electronic or dial calipers.
AIUI the "Linux man-pages project" does provide the manpages you're reading, but only some of them. Specifically, its readme describes the scope as:

"The manual pages in this project document primarily the Linux kernel and the GNU C library, but also consider relevant differences in other kernels or C libraries. These pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages for GNU/Linux. A few pages are provided in sections 1 and 8 for commands that are not documented in other packages, and there are a few pages in sections 5 and 8 for the timezone utilities."

Most manpages for individual command line programs are written and shipped by the projects or authors of those programs. And if there are manpages for functions in non-libc libraries those are generally provided and shipped by the authors of those libraries.

The wide range of origins for manpages means there isn't going to be a single consistent style over every manpage in a Linux system (and of course "don't ship a manpage at all" remains a popular choice).
If you like examples, you might like the “tldr” command.

https://tldr.sh/
Many people base their judgment of somebody on the person’s ideals rather than actual accomplishments. My gut feeling is that gp wanted to evaluate Stiver on something else rather than personal accomplishments.

It’s another sign of the performative society we live into, where work and accomplishments don’t matter but virtue signalling does.
Microsoft has always been about selling software, nothing else.
Windows exists because they need to control a platform that is competitive enough to run their software and that cannot dictate their trajectory too much.
They are very happy to sell their software and most platforms and since they don't make much money selling hardware, they will even sell you ways to run Windows anywhere for software that requires it.

Microsoft has won because they were more competitive in bringing a desirable solution at a particular price, in other words they bring good value and even though some seem too ideologically tainted to understand it the whole world recognized it as such.

The open standard Office formats work fine and Microsoft supports them just fine. The real reason they still win is because their software is generally just better to use.
Many have used the competing open-source solution and end up paying for the Microsoft stuff because it is just a much worse experience that is not worth wasting your time for the very competitive pricing Microsoft offer.
They win because they provide more value than free stuff at the price they offer, it is just as simple as that.

You can see the bundling as predatory or you can see it as a competitive answer.
Microsoft has seen that there was a market for some types of software, duplicated a competitive enough solution and sell it cheaper in order to bring more value, that's pretty much it.
Even if they are legally prevented from bundling, I very much doubt it would change anything because they would just price the standalone solution in a competitive enough manner and would still win.
They largely do that by the way, you can get plenty of their stuff in a standalone way. Even in the age of cloud/SASS subscription, Microsoft still sells standalone Office suite that you can very well use for years on end with zero need to upgrade (exactly what I do for my grandma, because she likes Publisher).

And if the bundling legal precedent is set, their competitors like Apple and Google are in way more trouble because they abuse the bundling way more.

It's hilarious the irrational hate Microsoft gets when they are objectively not that bad. Sure, they have some terrible behavior like any big corp, but by those standards, Apple is so much worse it is really stunning to see the difference in treatment.
Petition on the implementation of EU-Linux in all public administrations
Love this app, makes it really easy to keep non-store apps up to date by linking directly to the apps GitHub repo for example.

Obviously you have to be careful what you install, just as with any app not found in Play Store, but if you're getting your apps elsewhere anyway this is really convenient.
Show HN: HTML-to-Markdown – convert entire websites to Markdown with Golang/CLI
Hey HN!

I originally built “html-to-markdown” back in 2018 (while still in high school) to handle complex HTML conversions where other libraries struggled.

Now, I’ve released v2 — a complete rewrite designed to handle even more edge cases. It supports entire websites with a high accuracy.

Example use: I’ve used it in my RSS reader to strip HTML down to clean Markdown, similar to the "Reader Mode" in your Browser.

It can be used as a Golang package or as an CLI.

Give it a try & tell me what edge cases you encounter!
I'm not an American. Why do you all need people living illegally in your country? Almost no country allows such thing. The ones that do are in a mess.
My experience is those are generally technically immature organizations. Everyone knows that "John" is consulted across departments and pulled in by senior leaders, that he's guiding the technical of multiple teams ands areas of the business. But management can't quite explain what it is so they give John more money and his title remains unchanged.
> It's nice to see that for this author, three years in he did manage to find something that made money, but realistically most people don't have that much runway to keep at it without generating income.

Precisely this, and while I completely support the original author in their quest to find their own bootstrapped business, I keep wondering what the "what if" would have looked like had they stayed earning the big bucks in Google.
> As far as GNU tools go, their attempt to move docs to (tex)info format for better interactivity has largely failed

I think the only community where it kind of succeeded is the Emacs community, thanks to the built-in info reader and that a lot of Emacs docs got written in info.
i left my home country and generally stayed away from most expat groups primarily to get away from the people i was being identified with and pretty much avoid all the things you mention.
Pandoc can convert MarkDown to Man pages so in that sense we’re halfway there. (But I agree that native support would be nice.)
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