skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, its because the open web came first: people posted websites, you request delivery of websites, they send you the page/content, everyone was happy.

Then people started using it to do naughty things. Javascript came along. Tracking cookies. Tracking pixels. Crosssite scripts, etc. Oi vey! But they didn't come along all in one go you see. We kept going to sites, and every now and then we noticed people slipping in little bits of naughty that we didn't explicitly ask for or expect when we visited their website.

So the technical amongst us kept up things as we always did, using the open web, but we just wrote a thing to block the naughty: say entries of particular servers into host files.

Then someone started packaging these things up into programs and lists of all the bad things people were doing on the web, and we realized we didn't have to do it ourselves anymore. So we just set ourselves up with our privacy keeping program, our cookie/javascript blocker, and our ad list, and kept on surfing the internet, just as we'd always been doing for years.

The thing to understand is: i've never seen an ad on you-tube not explicitly because i'm trying to screw youtube over, but because we were here first, we surfed the web, sharing content and when bad players appeared, we stopped/blocked them. Many of us just organically reached this position by taking action against things that made that the web experience worse...bit by bit. People started serving us things we didnt ask for, so we just blocked the scripts and servers for the things we didnt ask for.

It seems to me arse-backwards to ask why we don't block sites that have ads: its because the web and users and authors were here first and then the commercial sites and practices invaded. Why would we co-opt our behaviour and our communication to serve the needs of the immoral, the user hostile, the dishonest and the underhanded? So they can sell things? Oh please!

The web is not here to serve businesses and ads.

THEY IMPOSED THEIR VISION ON US! not the other way around!

I'm not spending my time to individually cater to the whims of invaders of the open web. I essentially just have automatic blocks of bad players and behaviours my computer won't talk to and won't participate in.

/incidentally, my blockers do automatically block a number of sites now. news.com.au is automagically blocked, presumably because its gotten to the point where its content to ads/hostility ratio is so low that asking it to serve up content is now indistinguisable to my blockers from a site being genuinely bad/hostile.

but youtube, etc is free to put up a wall or blocker any time they want to stop serving material on the open web. And if you serve something on the open web and people download it, i have the world's smallest violin here to play for you...
It feels like we're moving away from jobs that are purely productive, to jobs that are more creative. I don't mean arts etc, but 50 years ago a company like Facebook/Snap/Gaming/Any digital entertainment really, could not exist because people were occupied work that was required for society to function. Now humans can start focusing on spending their day building things for the entertainment of other humans, and also choosing careers based on what they feel is fun/satisfying for themselves.
You should add Whitespace [0] to that :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...
Wouldn’t it require one of the users of the pirated version to fill a complaint? If the software wasn’t doing anything nefarious to regular users, just had potentially dangerous code sitting in a dll in a directory, it is hard to justify any damage. Kind of like if I had a function to format the C drive in one of my binaries. It never gets executed but would I be liable for having that function in a binary I distributed.
Hello from a fellow white hot property market (London). The probability of anything worthwhile being done in BC is approximately zero. The govt will do stupid shit like issue cheap loans to young people to "get them on the housing ladder" which just inflates prices more. If you're rrally unlucky, your lot might even invent new and more stupid ways to heat up a too hot market.
Yeah, for us etcd is OK as we are running on Kubernetes.
Sadly Apple have stopped developing the Time Capsule, I bought one this week but it doesn't look like there will be any new models.
Pretty sure the PR is a play to politicize his move and paint SV as a brick wall of intolerant liberalism and give the "conservatives" more fuel for their fire just like his speech at the RNC. Still have no idea why he's trying so hard to burn the community that generated his wealth though. Makes one wonder who he's really in bed with now.
I can see generosity working for a single developer but you are not going to build Electronic Arts with donations alone.
How Warren Buffett Won His Multi-Million Dollar Long Bet
When your inside a module and you want the app using your module to catch the exception.
>The difference I see is that historically automation was used to increase productivity.

Is this true? The stocking frame (and the reactionary group of Luddites that it incited) didn't really increase productivity. It just did work humans were doing for less money than a human salary.

I guess I also just don't see much difference. All that will happen will be again a shift away from many kinds of jobs (the easily automatible ones) to different kinds.

I mean, there are all kinds of jobs now that didn't exist 50 years ago (software engineer, social media manager, influencer, etc. etc.)
It seems to increase the risk of cancer by 10%, even if the exact mechanism or cause, is still unknown.

http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k322
Here Are Some Brain Foods That Keep You Focused and Less Disoriented
The problem with ads is that they are not just ads these days. There is a big industry whose "product" is tracking users across sites, trying to build detailed profiles in order to present people with targeted ads they are more likely to click on.

In other words, a massive invasion of privacy that may very well come back to haunt us (think of an oppressive government trying to find potential dissidents, either to bombard them with propaganda or worse).

Using my browser as a cryptocurrency miner as I visit a site has obvious problems, especially on mobile devices, but from a privacy perspective it is far less troubling. With the exception of blogs people write in their spare time, most web sites need a way to recover their expenses. Even more so for news sites that employ journalists etc.

At that point, the interesting question is how effective running a Javascript miner is. When I visit web sites using a browser that has no ad blocker or tracking protection installed, I notice that ads, tracking scripts, etc. can use quite a bit of CPU, RAM and bandwidth, too. If I could be sure that a site using crypto-miners does not just gobble up my phone's battery like crazy, the idea is not that bad, as long as sites are transparent and up-front about it.

Some sites already offer a model where you either have ads or make a donation and get an ad-free page. Something similar with cryptominers could work, too.

(All this assumes, of course, that web site owners play fair, which is hopelessly naive all too often.)
I had to study Soviet textbooks. They definitly did mention it. Of course as a completely necessary response to those naughty Whites, and they completely glossed over concentration camps, mass executions etc. etc., but they did mention Red Terror.

Main warlords were generally tsarist generals who may or may not have went to the Provisional Government side, but at least they were generally somewhat educated and somewhat reasonable people. Which, of course, never stopped anyone from committing all kinds of atrocities, but at least one could expect that they would not, after the war was over, engage in mass slaughter for no logical reason whatsoever, which is what bolsheviks did.
Environment variable or config file or command line argument for Docker Services
Yes but I still prefer try! as its easier to see (personal preference)
"...and a vibrant cultural capital the size of Nashville, Tennessee..." ahh yes, as a finn, I know all the us cities/states and their size and instantly compare finnish cities to us counterparts. Indeed I do sir.
Why you need to start a Retrospective in your team
Maybe. On the downside; maybe those jobs won't be available to everyone because there is a skills gap or there aren't enough of them.

If there are people who are left behind; what do we do about it?
I think you are confused, home routers don't even render HTML but let the insanely powerful client do the actual work.

Javascript isn't exactly known for maintainability and clean code either. I'd much prefer C++ for proper applications.
>also choosing careers based on what they feel is fun/satisfying for themselves.

I don't think this is ever going to change in human society. If a job is fun to a large group of people, then it will pay poorly because many people will want to do it. And poor pay decreases the satisfaction one gets from such a job.

The only people who win here are those who find a job fun / satisfying that most other people cannot handle.

There's a reason professions like doctory, investment banking, and consulting pay so much, they involve lots of sacrifice and/or job unhappiness that you have to pay people a lot to get them to commit to the job.
> extracted coconut oil is as bad as butter

So, it's great as there's no evidence that butter is bad.
That's because people expect the food industry to solve the same nutrition problems they put you into.

Nutrition is solved if you take veggies, fish, meat, etc. Whole foods, not ultraprocessed. And make exercise. But that doesn't give them money and does not attach you to ultraprocessed foods like a drug (yes, simple sugars found in ultraprocessed foods keep you attached at them like a drug. It has been proved to affect your mood.). Nutrition is hard nowadays because we have a supermarket full of bad nutrition value. We wouldn't be that fat without ultraprocessed food or fast food chains.

Also, it's your choice if you just eat eggs or take protein shakes because you want to look like Arnold. You want fast and unrealistic results without working hard. That's not a balanced diet and I'm sure it will take a toll on your body.

I've gone from 82kg (20% fat) to 75-76kg (17,88% fat) in 6 months, taking it easy, without doing exercise, just lowering my daily intake of calories and mostly avoiding ultraprocessed foods. I enjoy weekends by having great meals at restaurants or at home. Of course I also take a chocolate bar or another other sweet ultraprocessed food, because drugs (sugar) are hard to keep away.

Now I exercise an hour twice a week and I expect to keep loosing fat and gaining muscle, I don't want to hurry, I'm trying to create a lifestyle not something I'll keep doing intermittenly. I don't take any suplement as I want to make progress by my own effort and in a natural and healthy way as if my daily life was more physical.
A couple of thoughts, off the top of my head:

Programming languages:

- python (for general purpose programming)
- R (for statistics)
- bash (for cleaning up files)
- SQL (for querying databases)

Tools:

- Pandas (for Python)
- RStudio (for R)
- Postgres (for SQL)
- Excel (the format your customers will want ;-) )

Libraries:

- SciPy (ecosystem for scientific computing)
- NLTK (for natural language)
- D3.js (for rendering results online)
Asking honestly, is "I don't have money because it's all tied up in illiquid assets" a valid excuse? That's a personal financial planning choice, is it not?
>To me, that’s a really unhealthy sign, because the thing that would scare some of these bank CEOs is not losing some money or losing their jobs; it’s the prospect of being perp-walked in front of TV cameras in handcuffs, or the prospect of possibly losing your liberty in front of a jury of your peers. That is a terrifying thing. To me, the great missed opportunity of the financial crisis was that prosecutors didn’t do that a single time with a CEO or a top executive of any major financial institution. They might have lost those cases, but at least it would have struck some fear in the hearts of people. That’s just a tremendous missed opportunity, in my opinion.

Ah yes, I love when my government hassles innocent people to make a point to everyone else.
This article purely concentrates on mobile - keep that in mind. There is no debate the native is better than web apps - but now we have React Native so... I am not sure what the point is here.
I find this an uplifting and hopeful message.
HTML5 is easier if you already know HTML / CSS / JS. Qt Quick is easier otherwise.

If you're developing for the desktop, Qt Widgets is definitely the way to go. No, you can't (easily) style it in your own weird, custom, way. Please don't, I want it to fit in with all the other applications on my desktop.
certainly interesting info for health insurance firms
I said ultraprocessed, not processed. It's not the same a can of chickpeas than a 'chocolate' bar.

What I said about the ingredients It's just an easy tip to differentiate ultraprocessed foods from just processed or healthy ones. Another 'rule' could be avoiding food with more than 4-5 ingredients.
NLP vs. CI Who Is the King of Chatbot?
jesus christ have mercy... why do you use so many libraries?
you can write a json-query tool with 20-100 lines of code
> The industry maliciously amplifies our innate tendency to find a "one-fits-all" solution. The bogeyman used to be fat, now it's sugar.

That isn't a fad though, that is progress.

> Soon, people will realize that getting 90% of your caloric intake from protein powders is bad

This is obviously already true. You would get protein poisoning very quickly long before you hit your TDEE.

> the industry will get ahold of the new trend, and they'll start going back to "healthy carbs" or something stupid like that

No they won't. "Healthy carbs" will be a part of moderate diets for a long time, but sugars or white flour won't come back as your main caloric source through any reputable study. Mark my words.

There will always be fads, but let's not pretend that blaming fats decades ago was the same as blaming sugars now. Also notice that it's explicitly sugars, not carbs. Breakthroughs always lead to regular people overcompensating when swinging over, so you get things like your mentioned "meat rush", and people eating bearnaise sauce and pork belly with their bacon wrapped broccoli or whatever.

But let's not portray the underlying studies that led to this swing as merely fads. It's progress, and while it's not solved, it's a lot better than just 10 years ago.

Edit: I was reminded of this article "The Relativity of Wrong" [1] by Isaac Asimov. TL;DR: An analogy is the flat earth. We went from thinking the earth was flat into thinking it was round, which isn't correct either since it's an oblate spheroid. But we can all agree that "round" is a lot "more correct" than flat.

[1] http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm
I wonder how it handles those erratic Ladas flying at you from all directions.
Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passwords
> Fruits are high in naturally-occurring sugars and they are among the healthiest things you can eat.

Can you be precise about what you mean by this, or at least qualify this statement? Modern fruit obviously pushes the definition of "natural" to it's absolute limits, but more importantly, it's at least deeply unintuitive that something that consists mostly of fructose, a little fiber, trace metals, the rare vitamin, and next to no protein or fat could be considered healthy.
Your designer shouldn't be doing any development. If your front-end developer doesn't understand cross-compilation, they're a web designer, and you need to hire someone else to do the development.
It's the parent comment to mine that mentioned bigoted racism, I was just showing that the false equivalence between that and "SJWs" is a bit ridiculous. Just in case you didn't read the parent comment to mine, here's the relevant part:

>I've noted the eerie similarity between them and the bigoted people who used to racially bash me and my sister when we were children.

If any of those people are like Steven Pinker, I'll pass. It's silly science-worshipping nonsense. Science/rationalism is good but it isn't the magical solution to all of the ills which plague humanity (as they like to make it seem).
Understanding CORS
Ask HN: What is your 'end game'? What kind of life are you striving to live?
Something that's been on my mind lately. I enjoy the depth of thought on HN, I always learn the most here.
Yes, all kinds of jobs - but are there actually a substantial number of people doing those jobs compared to the number of jobs that are easy to automate away?
As long as it isn't profitable to help the people left behind there won't be much done. Hopefully the people left behind will start making it unprofitable for the elites to ignore them. Probably won't happen though due to the vast amount of surveillance we're subjected to along with possible robotic police force in the future.
I see Matt Ridley referenced. The Red Queen by him is one of the most enlightening books I've read. I highly recommend it.
Same reason we evolved to have brain receptors for nicotine?

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinic_acetylcholine_recept...

I noticed my ears have a notch that appears to be specifically designed to fit the cord of my earbuds.
In my mind large corporations like Facebook are a good example, because not all of their 25,000 are programmers or "high skilled workers". Their will always exist an ecosystem around large groups of people that are diverse enough to satisfy most types of people.

I'm not saying that this is the end-all solution to the larger problem described by the article, but I do feel some hope that it will work itself out. However, the advent of self-driving cars will be interesting to follow, considering how many people work in human transportation. But I'm optimistic!
Maybe SpaCy for NLP. Way more intuitive and fast too. Good list.
This sounds like the classic image classification challenge. The next question I would have is: is this on open world or closed world problem? Meaning, what is the world of images that the model will be exposed to in the wild. Will it only be exposed to sailboat/windmill/bird or will it be exposed to sailboat/windmill/bird and every other possible item in the world?

You also want to deploy this on a standard machine w/ or w/o a GPU? That can have implications on inference speed. But there are ways to optimise for that. The absence of a network connection is not a problem.

Also, do you have training data? If not we can probably leverage a pre-trained model for this use case where, in this case we would only need a handful of training examples.

To answer some of your questions:

Where should I look to find a quality freelancer?
Not sure.

What formats should I specify for the deliverables?
Depends on what tools the developer uses, for example, I would deliver files in TensorFlow export format.

What timeline should I expect?
Using a pre-trained model, I could expect to deliver it in about 40 man hours.

What pricing should I expect?
Probably about $6000, but that depends on the contractor.

What would a good developer expect me to provide in terms and training data?
Using a pre-trained model you would only need a handful of training images. But, of course, the more the better.

What API parameters would they expect me to specify?
I can't think of anything.

I have experience building and deploying these vision models. Feel free to reach out to me for more info. It's my username @ gmail.com
So, sooner or later we end up with all companies being owned by the government. That has been proven to end up badly (by Soviet Union and rest of the communist countries).
Took me a while to find out that B.C. = British Columbia.
This article came up a couple of years ago on HN and basically the author makes a super broad generalization that I think holds near zero water. I am from the US and have spent a ton of time in China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. And the primary reason people back in from actually talking to the people rather than just making some broad generalization about approximately 2 billion people is that in many of these countries people perceive a lack of trust that if there is a car accident they will be treated fairly especially given that many of the streets are heavily trafficked -- the same reason why in-car cameras are popular -- lots of potential for collisions and distrust that in the case of a collision that things will turn out all-right. So they back into the parking spot so that when they exit they can more easily see the traffic and avoid accidents.
I see adblocking as ethically justified because at the end of the day, I am only using my browser to ask for a resource from the content provider, and it is up to my computer, or by extension, the user controlling that computer, what to do with that resource if it is then provided.

If I put a piece of electrical tape physically over the ad on my monitor, I am effectively blocking the ad, but in this case the content provider gets to lie to their sponsor and say the ad made an impression, which just pushes the cost onto the sponsor. The ethics haven't really changed yet it is absurd to suggest that I am not free to put tape on my monitor.

I think it is hard to say that I am ethically obligated to pay attention to the ad just because a content provider unconditionally gave me something I asked for. The choice for content providers then, is to be like the WSJ, and simply quit giving away content unconditionally. If the content can't support itself that way, well, so be it. If no one was willing to pay for the content, doesn't this necessarily imply literally nothing of value was lost?
Yes, router was not the best example, it was to illustrate that writing HTML interface is already common, not necessarily GUI. But there are plenty of devices that use HTML for GUI as well, some new PoS terminals comes to mind[0].

0. https://ingenico.us/smart-terminals/telium-tetra/payment-ter...
>The Dunedin Study, which began as a study of childhood development, has become one of humanity’s richest treasure troves of data on what makes us who we are.

Maybe I'm quaint and silly but this kind of overhyped byline makes me doubt that there will be any kind of insight here which thousands of years of recorded human thought hasn't already captured.
Coconuts are commonly available in Asian markets in the USA. Heck, half the fruits and veggies in grocery stores in fall/winter have South American labels.
Flat tax rate IS equal sacriface: everyone sacrifices the same percentage of their wealth.
> didn't really increase productivity. It just did work humans were doing for less money than a human salary.

this is by definition "increasing productivity" isn't it?

> All that will happen will be again a shift away from many kinds of jobs (the easily automatible ones) to different kinds.

If that's true, then what will the shift be to? These are interesting questions. And how long will the shift take? Because I think there is a general feeling that current levels of inequality - the "hollowing out" of the middle class - are due to trends in automation.
Most jurisdictions do not consider it blocking the box if you enter the intersection to turn and it turns red after. They consider it blocking the box if you enter with the intention of going straight while it is not clear to do so.

This is the case for NY state, see VTL 1175: http://www.safeny.ny.gov/rowa-vt.htm