skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reaching Maine, I realized I did not enjoy my trip as much as I should have. I was just obsessed with getting there, by bike, no rides. So I left by bud visited Niagra falls, had a great time at the Youth Hostel there. But it was cold, took another bus to Cincinatti.

Rode from there to Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and finally Memphis where I met another friend. Flew back then rode to Key West. In the end it was a great feeling to accomplish. I had many fun stories to tell for years to come.

Part of my decision to do the trip was the idea if I did not, when in my life could I. I had enough money, and was not worrid about finding work. When I was ready to look for work, the company I had left was on its dying gasps, closed by March. They had a lot of great people there, it did not fail because I left. But that is a different story.

It took me a few months to find a job, did contracting, making more money than I know what to do with ... so after working 9 months, and turning 27, 2 friends and I traveled to NZ and Aus for 6 months ...

My biggest regret was not getting a work visa and staying in Australia. Since I did not have one I would have had to leave, get the Visa and return.

Instead I went back to contracting, turned 28, tuored UK for 2 months, by bicycle of course. Then settled down to a real job ... house ... wife ... kids ... laid off etc etc

But I alwasy cherish the choice I made to quit and start seeing the world by bicycle.
Not sure how to fix the first one.

I'm totally opposite on point #2, I have social anxiety and don't like interacting with people if I can help it lol.

Third point: sometimes they are jerks too, and provide shitty service. But if I had their job, I would too - so I totally understand. Many don't speak much english here.

Fourth : Use a disinfectant wipe. The cashier touches lots of money, and the register, then may touch your food, drink containers, fries, etc...

Fifth: My first job was McDonalds, I've worked at Steak-n-Shake, a Mexican restaurant as a busser, and Papa Johns (Delivery) All before I was 20 (38 now).

It was valuable to me, but I believe in universal basic income, and I believe that in order for it to happen, and for us to move into post-scarcity we must haste the transition to automation. I'd like to see as many jobs as possibly turn over to machines in the next decade. It'll force conversations about alternate ways for society to exist.

We could choose to put all non-workers into concentration like camps, where they're fed shitty food, and just exist... maybe they ride bikes to power society and watch social media shows all day (Black mirror ep. on this)...

Maybe we give everyone basic income and they can afford a roof, food, clothes, education, and maybe many will start some side project or entrepreneurial thing when there aren't traditional jobs, there might still be barter/trade of sorts outside normal commerce.

30-40% of jobs will be gone by 2030 (that's 12 years away)... This is just one part of that move.
The EU's biggest fines on tech companies
Hackernoon – Today's Web Is Tedious
Everything that computers were used for before the internet?
I was going to ask, who came up with a dumb idea of using a link (i.e. URL) to access receipt data over the Internet, but fortunately it seems to not be the case - the QR code on the receipt posted by 'savant_d[0] reads:

t=20170221T095900&s=30.00&fn=99990789659&i=501&fp=4189225230&n=1

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17601617
Those tweets cannot be used to convict someone. It's also not really their fault given they just took existing public data and reposted it...

But the final nail in the coffin is that simply put, 99% of the posts are from people who know it's public, don't care, and intentionally fill the description with stupidity. I can't count the number of times I've gotten venmo payments sent to me with salacious descriptions.

If you're actually breaking the law you are probably fine because far more people are just screwing around and you'll blend right in. And also, if you are breaking the law and think it's a good idea to admit that repeatedly via internet payments, maybe you aren't the brightest.
Simply eliminating parking on many main through-roads would provide plenty of space for cycling. Parked vehicles occupy a huge amount of public space and prevent it being used for more productive purposes.
Why was this flagged? I think it was a rather interesting read.
Then it has an international caller id. Most people get so few international calls that they will quickly figure out that it can't be real. If it had a locale caller id it is obviously spoofed because otherwise the call wouldn't have come in from the foreign telco.

Once someone does this, legitimate telephone companies elsewhere will become interested as well, and may "play nice" so long as local laws allow it.
No, you cannot be charged literally without evidence. A judge would throw the case out, and likely censure or sanction the prosecutor.

Can you be charged on weak evidence, or even in some cases fabricated evidence? Yes, but that's a different matter.
I created Smart Receipts for receipt tracking and OCR a few years ago. I worked as a traveling consultant and needed to track receipts on a weekly basis, and I got tired of manually typing in the data.

It's available on both Android and iOS for download here:

https://smartreceipts.co/download

It's also open source:

https://github.com/wbaumann/SmartReceiptsLibrary
https://github.com/wbaumann/SmartReceiptsiOS
The people described in this article live in highly manicured NYC suburbs or in Manhattan itself, not some podunk town outside Syracuse. They'll be hard pressed to find a Chappaqua in Florida.
I can write very nicely if a make an effort, thanks to a lot of drafting I took in high school back in the Dark Ages, but after more than few sentences, my hand starts hurting.
I can't imagine a scenario where I'd have to prove that I brought, say, a donut.

So 98% of store receipts go straight in the trash. Before I've even left the store, if possible.
> Financial debt does not slow you down, technical debt does slow down work.

It slows down your spending, or it ought to.

Instead of spending money, technical debt is spending time.
User can search with Google Places and the website then adds the data (opening times, phone number) from Google Places to its own database? That would be against Google's terms of service https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/policies "you must not pre-fetch, cache, index, or store any Content except under the limited conditions stated in the terms."
So like this ? http://mandalagaba.com/#xOJg3W
Can't speak for HN, but I really liked tinkering with it. If I remember correctly, its data structures were just basic JS data structures under the hood (e.g. JS arrays, objects, etc), which meant it didn't show the same perf benefits of a language that uses persistent data structures under the hood (e.g. Clojure, OCaml/Reason). I wonder if that has changed since I took a look.
The photosynthetic sea slug is becoming almost too rare to research
Manufacturers generally don't want to be big in retail because that would require them to hold a lot of working capital as inventory. Apple is fairly unique in this regard because of the hefty price premium they command. eCom still works out because you can aggregate orders to the factory supply chain and that smoothes out some of the demand variability.
Perhaps something like content based addressing, or using something like certificate transparency to protect site contents.

The problem with https everywhere is - for all its good aspects - it adds a layer of fragility to the web. It seems like we're leaving the day where a website can simply be, untouched, for decades. Now if you don't update your TLS certificates every few months, the thing goes poof.

It would be nice if there was a good way to publish content to the web without having to tend it constantly.
Linux users that accept some closed-source code won't feel insulted. I get that.

So, it is OK to insult FOSS centric guys because they'll never be his clients?
And most of the rest of Europe too, certainly in Norway. And anyway modern engines reach operating temperature so quickly that most people have abandoned the use of engine heaters that used to be popular here 30 years ago (a 230 V electric heater in the engine block).
The article doesn't load for me in Firefox or Chrome. It's stuck at 'Loading enhanced PDF...'.
It isn't really about nuance. Cost and return of capital, convexity of yield curve spring to mind.

It is a student project.. treat as no more.
Peter Thiel seems to be persona non grata in HN circles because he supported candidate Trump (in 2016) and later joined some sort of inner circle when Trump became president (is what I can make out from half a world away).

This kind of flagging is borderline insanity imo. (I have no stake in US or SF politics / social phenomena)
Now they should go over Dolby and HDCP 2.2 requirements that render good equipment obsolete and forces you to "upgrade" so that you can watch content you already paid for.
I would strongly suggest him to remove the DNS entries for the store, snd redirect to a cafepress or donation page instead.
Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2018
Louis Rossmann will disagree with you on that one. I won’t quote him but he has a ton of content on Youtube, you can hear his opinion for yourself.
I hadn't looked into this for a while, but the idea of a browser backed by standards (webvr) and open source (A-frame) is REALLY exciting. I don't want to get overly enthusiastic, but this feels geo-cities-ish. I love the idea of hand-crafted VR "websites", mostly because it forces the "hand-crafted" (literally, I suppose) part, which leads to the wonderful diversity that made geocities fun.
There's scanning cabinet, part of Perkeep:

https://perkeep.org/app/scanningcabinet
KiCad 5 is an exciting release.

Most notably over kicad 4 it allows arbitrary placement of vias not attached to a PCB trace. It sounds like a small change, but it was really one of the last big features that other EDA programs like Eagle or Altium had and KiCad did not.

When I first got into electronics Eagle (closed source) was the defacto standard EDA software for those learning how to make PCBs and many online projects. Now there is no little/no reason to use it over KiCad.

CS toolchains have a long history of being FOSS, but for EE / embedded electronics a lot of important tools are closed source (and often very expensive). Its really exciting that a FOSS PCB layout tool is competitive.
Yes the Zoe is all electric.
This doesn't match my observations at all. In fact, way more importantly, often what is being shouted is, "we are creating more technical debt than we can possibly handle by doing X in Y way to meet Z deadline, this is going to bite you in the ass after we all switch teams/companies because nobody wants to deal with this."

Edit: If developers are warning the CTO that there is an issue with technical debt that should be a warning flag. Particularly if these are senior/experienced developers who understand the insane costs of re-writing production code.
Thanks for sharing! We're Supermedium from YC W18. We built Supercraft to easily allow people to intuitively build their own worlds with their hands in VR that can be shared with just a URL.

It also allows WebVR and A-Frame developers to easily create good looking, consistent 3D assets that are performant and really low file size, particularly for A-Frame. Here's an example making a simple shooter game in a few lines of HTML with Supercraft assets: https://github.com/supermedium/supercraft-shooter
Exactly! We were undergoing a short maintenance to update our positions and some of the website structure.

Shoot us an application if interested. We are looking for devs with that attention to detail :).
Your ideas around uptime are still in the 70's. Systemd updates require reboots. Then there's Spectre and Meltdown BIOS updates, gotta reboot for those. Oh and the SSD and NIC firmware as well.

To think we formerly only had one devil in glibc. Now everything is constantly being updated and it's fine. We've moved on from the uptime as phallic measuring stick mantra. Patch, reboot, and stay secure.
Thanks! This was very helpful.

If you want an example with some numbers, I can reply further.

I appreciate that. I learn best from working models. But in this case, the solution after you pointed it out is extremely obvious: if the COW bit is set, unset it and alloc+copy the page. No other information is needed.

Perhaps you know of a similarly elegant solution to the other half of what I’ve been struggling with: xv6 is 32 bit, and gives little insight on how to do paging on a 64 bit architecture. So I have two questions.

1. I notice that although pages are 4KB, xv6 uses 4MB (large paging support). How does this impact the two-level page table design? Does it simply mean that fewer entries are required, but the design is unchanged?

2. On a 64 bit architecture, what are the fundamental differences between the 2 level page table design and whatever people do in practice? This is phrased poorly. What I mean is: I am trying to blindly extend xv6’s design for a 64bit environment, but I am concerned the design might need to change. Is that true, or do people do the same thing on 64 bit? I haven’t had time to think this through yet.

To put it more simply, is there anything I should watch out for on 64 bit when doing this? Or perhaps some overall simplification / better design for 64 bit that can’t be done on 32 bit?

These are mostly speculative questions, so perhaps I should wait until I’m stuck before asking. But your answer was insightful.

I’m trying to make something people will use, and xv6 has been my only model to learn from. Any advice or references about 64 bit design for multiprocess scheduling would be useful. Especially in contexts where performance and parallelism is the concern, not necessarily security. (Anything to do with GPU design would be a delightful bonus. But I do still need traditional function calls + lexical closures.)
If you buy a house that's an investment, not an expenditure, so it is not included in monthly expenses. 45% is your marginal tax rate, not effective tax rate.
They could limit the sales to their own online stores, of course. That would severely limit their market share though, hard to see anyone purchasing for higher-than-market prices directly from a manufacturer. It's a clear case of wanting to have the cake and eat it, too.
Which leads to the question of how one teaches general parenting skill.
"And tracking towards the wrong goals can be even more counterproductive than failing to track anything at all."

The author doesn't seem to recognize that KPIs would be subject to Goodhart's Law. ("When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.")
> I don’t see how you could conceivably convince strangers to withdraw cash for you at that scale without raising eyebrows

The book "Kingpin" talked about how most of the people doing the withdrawing of cash were usually "mules" who were in on the scam. They'd withdraw the money, get a small cut and send the rest to a middleman.

The book itself goes into a lot more detail on how it worked:

https://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercr...
It seems more likely that the ATM withdrawers were just normal criminals already integrated into normal criminal organizations. Everybody gets a cut, but nobody takes too big a cut because violence and repeat business. Normal criminals love ATM stuff because it's quite low-risk.
New York is also aggressive about collecting taxes from remote employees. If you work for a NY-based company, but live in another state, you most likely have to pay NYS income taxes. Depending on how your _actual_ home state deals with things, you might end up double-taxed.
That's what backports are for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backporting
And legal. Are either of those fines final yet ?

But I find for both of those fines the stated reason from the EU very hard to believe. Does anyone miss "shopping comparison sites" ? I sure as hell don't ...

And the android search choice ? Really ? None of the other search engines support google assistant, and that's the only searching I do on android. Presumably that would never work without close collaboration between all search engines, and ... that's just not going to happen. Nor does iPhone allow you to switch search providers (nor, for that matter, does the redmi or even the amazon phone), so ... hmmm ... both of these "anti competitive actions" are really the norm in the marketplace. If firefox starts coming with an actually good "mozilla assistant" (Mozique ? heh), then perhaps we can start talking about this.
How I Lost My Windows Insider MVP Award
And I hate the fact that I can't trust the network to not modify your sites when I visit them. So I guess we can both be mad together.

Remember that https offers both privacy and integrity, so even if you don't care about the privacy, you should care about the integrity.
It's nice that Venmo makes the transactions freely available... banks make you pay for that information.
> According to the lawsuit, in June 2018 Everest determined both the 2016 and 2017 breaches were covered exclusively by the debit card rider, and not the $8 million C&E (“computer and electronic crime”) rider

Jeez, insurance companies are all the same. Regardless if you're an individual or a bank with millions on the line... you get treated with the same slight of hands and nonsense interpretations of reality.

> those exclusions rules out coverage for any loss “resulting directly or indirectly from the use or purported use of credit, debit, charge, access, convenience, or other cards . .

How could a spear phishing campaign using malware that hijacked critical parts of the banks infrastructure not be part of the C&E coverage, and merely 'debit and credit'. The last part was merely how the money was exfiltrated. But the entire crime was the result of the intrusion.

This seems like an easy to win case to me. But who knows.
> Given Moore's law, I'd be surprised if we ever see another AI summer after the current one peters out.

I assume you are referring to the often declared demise of Moore's Law. Reports of such demise have been greatly exaggerated: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/transistors-per-microproc...
Yeah I was also thinking the term crisis was a bit of a stretch here. 'Over-Parenting Crisis' is in quotes, however, so I'm wondering if they've taken that title from one of the books?
NLP for Beginners: TF-IDF in Python from Scratch
Currently 25.

Been developing a game as a one man project for the last 11 years, dropped out of school at 18 and started to focus 100 % on the game.

Been going very well, but I'm in constant fear of things changing like they did in early 2010s when a lot of players moved to mobile and thereby really dragging down the average play time per visit.

I should probably really try marketing and throw together a couple of other services and see what sticks, so I don't have to worry that much about entertaining people.

Not sure if I'm regretting dropping out of school(electronics) as my GF just got her master's degree in software development, mostly by just having fun, and her current company seems like fun and nice place to work with superb food, benefits, hardware and so on.

I'm currently earning quite a bit more than most developers, and I sure can get more or less all the work related toys and tools I want, but I'm not sure if the extra stress is worth the extra money and toys. The income tax is also really high in Norway so... Maybe a normal job would be better.

If shit hits the fan and it's game over, then I guess I might get a job as I have 11 years of professional experience with advanced systems. I've never had an IT job, so I have no idea if I would get a good job or how well I'd compete with others though.

Money is nice and fun, but it isn't everything.

And one lesson that has become very clear to me so far: gamers are most likely the worst customers in the world. The amount of people who tries to gain the system by using eg. chargebacks or just has no respect as "it's just a game and I needed money for something else" is really high compared to every other business type, at least based on my and PayPal's experience. Also, don't use PayPal. Use something with 3Dsecure.
> I'm on the bank's side of the lawsuit based on what I read in this article

Did you read this bit:

‘The second exclusion in the C&E rider negates coverage for “loss involving automated mechanical devices which, on behalf of the Insured, disburse Money, accept deposits, cash checks, drafts or similar Written instruments or make credit card loans . . ..”‘’

And never lose the opportunity to blame 'Russian' hackers.

“Foregenix .. determined the hacking tools and activity appeared to come from Russian-based Internet addresses .. according to the bank Verizon’s forensics experts concluded that the tools and servers used by the hackers were of Russian origin”

They're clever enough to hack a bank but not clever enough to disguise their IP address.
I wish they would make self attaching electric/battery trolley busses. The main lines on the streets in Vancouver aren't bad but the intersections are such a mess with the trolley lines. You could min-max a system that combined trolley lines with batteries and use much less of both. Put the starts above bus stops so they don't have to attach at speed and you get to cover the initial expensive acceleration too. Back of the envelop guess from supercharger times is you would only need 10-20% of the routes actually covered in lines to maintain battery charge.

It'd also be nice if more of the self driving companies would go after busses first. Fixed routes seems like a significantly easier problem and you can amortise all your sensor/electronic cost over a more expensive vehicle.

Both combined would pretty radically alter the environmental and economic cost of public transportation.
Forget voice control with kids in the car :)
This is great. Countries and governments have the power to make the future they want happen. Often we see that power used to stifel innovation and subsidize failing incumbents to protect jobs.

Investing in technology research that'll be better for the planet (and China's smog problem) in a way that actually brings prices down long term and not just subsidize purchasing the technology in the short term is a good thing. I hope this continues.
> Best solution is no code or a simplification of the problem to existing solutions. This results in zero liability, while the revenue the solution generates is pure assets.

Not exactly zero liability, but the source of the liability is pushed outside the bounds of your own code, such that the burden is shared among far more people than you can employ on your own. Point being, you may still find yourself contributing code to these shared solutions, but that's a good thing, because such external work will have a wider-reaching impact than anything you build internally.
Well we wouldn't want important services such as the MTA to run out of money and turn into a dysfunctional and corrupt mess.

Edit: I have a love/hate relationship with NY and NYC in particular.
Can you pay your friends through apple pay?