skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so the article does go in details about how just "wget-ing" a website isn't sufficient. this is what WARC files are built for, and that's why i insisted on that principle.

but while it's true that some sites require some serious javascript stuff to be archived properly, my feeling is that if you design your site to be uncrawlable, you are going to have other problems to deal with anyways. there will be accessibility problems, and those affect not only "people with disabilities" but also search engines, mobile users, voice interfaces, etc.

if you design your site for failure, it will fail and disappear from history. after all, it's not always the archivist's fault sites die - sometimes the authors should be blamed and held to a higher standard than "look ma, i just discovered Javascript and made a single page app, isn't that great?" :p
How far would an elevator have to fall to entirely take out a building?
1998 Yahoo! turned down a 1 million dollar offer to buy Google.
Sounds like how I work.
Toronto peeps are exceptionally good at marketing themselves, beyond their means, talents and skills. So I am not surprised.
>As others have said, the real issue is how they get all the way down to $200.

Wasn't Dubai trying to collect DNA on every citizen and visitor to their country?

Not saying this company is in anyway connected to Dubai but there are any number of reasons why a company might want to amass a large sampling of DNA and, although not a lawyer, I can think of some plausible ways to use that data too.

If they burn through any VC money they have amassing a database, then file bankruptcy or sell off their assets to satisfy debts before dissolving... "hey other company, that's totally not us or our investors, we gotta pay our taxes so we can dissolve, wanna buy some genomes wink wink?"
Thanks for this! Can you be more specific with how the tally hat works? I admire the idea I just have a hard time implementing the reflecting part.
Because someone writing for the economist would know more about internet history than zuckerburg and the people running facebook.

Why is there so many facebook propaganda crap everywhere now?

Everyday without fail, you can expect a few here. If we had real journalists in this world rather than propagandists, that would be an interesting investigation and article.

Why is the entire media/propaganda apparatus from the nytimes to the economist spanning both sides of the atlantic spamming non-stop propaganda about facebook?
Nice question! There was a useful discussion on this over at the Product Manager Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProductManagersCommunity/sea...

One of the best tips shared was the make use of your sales / customer success team - they have the closed relationship with your target audience, so they will know more intimately how they go about using your products, what their needs are, what pain points they are facing, etc. They're outside of the typical product development "team" but may have some useful insights for you.
I can see this working for going between home and office, where you have keyboard/mouse/monitor already setup at each. But for other travel where you don't have that setup at your destination, are you going to lug keyboard/mouse/monitor along with your mini?
In the UK it can still be seen on iplayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02gyz6b/adam-curtis-b...

(As with the equally amazing Hypernormalisation: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b183c/adam-curtis-h... )
>> hauling a Mac mini between work and home

Have done that for 3 straight years without a hitch. Yes, you might feel the weight a bit, but the only time I had to carry it was from home to home parking and office parking to cubicle.

For portability (think making presentations in a conf room), I would just have Screen Sharing & Remote access enabled. Worked fine.

I used Carbon Copy Cloner for bootable backups to 2 disks, the second disk being my bootable volume for the Air. When traveling and updating my Air volume, I would just use Chrono Sync to sync my home folders on the mini and the Air.

This was at my earlier workplace, and hope this helps.
I upvoted your original post as I think it's well written and adds value to the discussion. I downvoted your response to yourself because it adds nothing of value.

Same can be said for this post, I suppose, depending on perspective shrug
I'm not sure how bringing up personal experiences and racial stereotypes contributes to any conversation, especially when it is about the entire population of China (1.4 billion), its culture, and its history.

I highly recommend reading about the mandate of heaven[0]. While not particularly relevant anymore, it is important context to the cultural attitudes of your average Chinese citizen.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven
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But if you're not rich, "You're just Lazy".

Because everyone who isn't a millionaire, is just an embarrassed pre-millionaire.
Just because they're solid state doesn't mean they're not still susceptible to impact and thermal shock between the PCB and components.
Obviously the failure rate won't be anywhere near the same as a spinning disk, but it still is a possibility for a system that was designed to not move.
I have dietary restrictions against Electron apps which is why I didn't mention Webrecorder player. Besides, last time I suggested anything touching node.js to LWN readers, the answer was a clear "nope" so I tend to thread carefully there as well. ;)
Some previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14687936

(Full disclosure: it's my thread)
The down sides for me for me are Dart - no thanks to learning another language, and to Google lock in. As others have pointed out, Google has a pattern of developing and then abandoning products and technology. See https://gcemetery.co/
"Feeling safer" has almost nothing to do with the Government watching you and it's almost entirely caused by the local social norms. Case in point and to partly answer your question: I have a woman colleague who has recently moved to London from Bucharest. She told me that while living in Bucharest she had no issue at all going back home alone at 2 or 3 in the morning, while in London she avoids going out all by herself after 8 PM, because she does not feel safe.

Doesn't matter that London is one of the most camera-surveilled cities in the "Western" world while Bucharest has almost no cameras, all it matters is that there are more people in London ready to physically and verbally harass a person walking on the street all by her/himself compared to a city like Bucharest. I have no idea on how one would change those social norms, I'm just saying that adding cameras hasn't solved the issue and will probably not solve it.
How much experience do you have with the VA?
> I don't find that to be the case for 'Create React App'

While I do appreciate CRA not bundling redux, et al, it's hard to say having 47 top level dependencies and being over 180MB in size isn't coming with "too much out of the box" for a basic app boilerplate.
When I first tried flutter I thought writing Dart was going to annoy me. But I quickly realized how similar it is to C# and loved it. The vscode experience from nothing to hello world app running on my device was amazingly intuitive.
It was cheaper. Google can’t even run a lousy fiber in a right of way without giving up due to the cost. Now try digging a subway.
Yup, apps like CityMapper will even provide direction based on a Train and Bike hire route.
> Bluetooth monitor

What product is that?
>Why do we keep selling weapons to such a repressive regime?

To a government, £1 billion and the approval of the arms industry are worth much more than a mild disapproval by the public opinion.
They do take longer than they claim, but I eventually got my info: summary information after about 3.5 months and full data on an SSD after about 5 months (measured from purchase date).
> "Citizens with access to benefits respond more favorably"

Of course they do. These sorts of systems always offer a sizable portion of the population benefits, that's how they gain popular support. This doesn't mean that they aren't terrible ideas.

You have to consider how a government affects the people who disapprove of the government, who are not part of a majority, who are not conformists.

Many people don't think this is worth doing. But the sentiment that only the conformist majority matters has led to unspeakable atrocities throughout history, and continues to even in the present day across the world.
My comment wasn't intended to a dig at tus. Like the work you all are doing!
The Orange line in Fairfax County was constructed in the median of I66 to save money. That was a huge mistake. The difference between the Orange line in Arlington where the locals lobbied to have it routed through actual neighborhoods and the Orange line in Fairfax County where it sits in the middle of an eight-lane highway is staggering.
About 80% of obese people with sleep apnea would be asymptomatic if they reduced to a non-obese weight. For this subset of people, shouldn't insurers (and often the Public) encourage the patient to use the free, safe, and natural solution (eating less) before being dependent on an expensive machine?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3021364/
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They don't; they spend decent money on marketing to public opinion, lobbying, and buying members of The Congress.
Do people not have TVs?
Eye-opening Soviet photos
Chomebook and cloud server rocks.
It's indeed annoying that there's a bit of a gap in Apple's product range for a high-end-but-not-excessive machine. I'd go right ahead and buy a higher-end Apple desktop machine, with enthusiast-level components, and the ability to bump the memory, storage, and GPU up myself at a later date. I don't need a tiny enclosure or dual GPUs or built-in screens, so the Mac Pro and iMac Pro are not cost-effective products. I really do miss the old Mac Pro, which fitted this use-case perfectly.

I'm genuinely pretty surprised there's not a market for that kind of thing among software developers in particular.
> What assistance did these people get from the west?

The West has created a power vacuum that has allowed these entities to impose their control.
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Ask HN: Minimum viable transition to AI?
Briefly, I am a mid-30s full-stack (or generalist) developer of no particular pedigree (college dropout, mostly self taught, small time consulting, and working for small technology startups).

I was 'good' at math as a kid but neglected it as I was older and, as a result, have always been intimidated by ml/ai. Until recently, I had it in my head I missed the boat on having the math foundation necessary to do ai.

On a whim (while on sabbatical), I took Geoffrey Hinton's Neural Network course. This required significant tangential studying to get my linear algebra and calculus up to snuff. All in all, I spent about a month where most of my time was either spent on Hinton's course or the math foundations necessary to understand it.

Feeling very excited, I was looking for what to study next, assuming I could probably get myself hire-able within a year or so--in the meantime, I would consult in my "old" work, and build a couple portfolio pieces (my first is just about done already).

Searching the internet and asking around in AI chatrooms, I came across the fast.ai courses. A few weeks after that (this week), I have a tenuous grasp of how to use pytorch, especially with the fast.ai library, and I am able to get shockingly decent results on my own applications of the techniques.

Now I wonder if there is enough demand for deep learning practitioners that I might be able to continue my learning as a junior in a lab somewhere more or less immediately.

My end goal is to build robots that will facilitate mass automation of human labor. And, to do it in a way in which the technology/IP behind the automation will be public/free of patents and restrictions.

Salary/location not particularly important.

Given all of the above, what does the minimum viable CV look like to start getting income in this space? Is there room for non-seniors to grow into capable researchers?

Thanks for any insight.
Yeah, majority of Hong Kong subway stations has malls on premise. Not sure it's owned by MTR too, but it's there.
> There was a time people thought Zuckerberg was a greedy fool

Are you implying that's no longer true?
I toyed with that idea a few times, but this now strikes me as a problem for two reasons:

1. it's a security liability. some content i load in a web browser is private and I don't want to archive or duplicate it anywhere

2. it means a lot of crap. part of archiving content is curating what gets archived and what doesn't. i didn't touch on this in the article, but it's a key idea archivists need to address. for example, archiving the page I'm typing in right now (news.y.com/reply) makes no sense at all because it's solely dynamic content and would mean nothing when browsed later.

So instead I send specific links I want to keep in my bookmarks system, as I mentioned in the article. It's far from ideal, but it's a much better compromised than archiving every time I visit my weather service page. ;)
Wage arbitrage for software Continuing Engineering (i.e. maintenance) talent. This article is eye-opening due to the scale and effectiveness, but unfortunately not surprising.
What about using a vpn to change your geo to try and get geo-based deals? This website appears to have some proof of this approach working: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/07/how-to-ge...
Its just really hard tending to patients without insurance: you would niche yourself on rich and wealthy people exclusively.
> 100% solid state

The storage is but the mini still has moving parts, a fan. Still, I wouldn’t worry much about transporting it daily.
I'm in the same boat. I bought a new MBP several months ago and I'd be surprised if I've used the Touch ID or Touchbar more than a dozen times. I don't travel much these days, and I can't seem to focus on work unless I'm at my desk, so my laptop is more or less permanently connected to its power brick, 2 external monitors, and an external keyboard and mouse (which probably explains why I haven't had many qualms about the purportedly bad MBP keyboard).

I think I would've bought the equivalent Mac mini had it been out at the time I got my MBP. Would've saved me about $1,200, while seeming to offer many more ports, more options for self-upgrade, while taking up less desk space. My main hesitation is the lack of discrete GPU, but I suppose that's not much of a concern with the Mac's support for external GPUs.
Unless the Mini has a hibernate mode then it's missing one of the key fundamental reasons to use a laptop instead. Namely, you close the lid then open it again to resume work. A machine that boots from scratch doesn't generally provide that.
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Anyone have an Explain like i’m Five version of why one would get their genome sequenced? What benefits to me as a consumer would I get in terms of things identified, etc.

Maybe if I’m asking the question I’m not ready for the answer? Haha
When open this website, I get a pop-up to agree to data collection. My only other option is "more information". If I click on that, I get the option to reduce the data collection to "necessary cookies". Once I set my preferences, it presents me with an obviously fake "processing request" screen, with a percentage number slowly going up. I can, of course, cancel at any time. At the end it tells me that I changed my preferences but some "partners" could not recieve those changes because I'm using https.

I really hope the EU actually intends to prosecute those not in compliance with the GDPR.
And the citizens of your governments "allies"?
Ask HN: How would you change developer hiring process?
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Good.

Now let's get UK, France, Spain, and the others still selling arms to the Saudis and UAE to ALSO stop.
Sure it's downward pressure on US wages without the benefits of having an employer, but for third worlders, $15 USD must be mana from heaven.

Calling it a "Software Sweatshop" is a little hyperbolic.
Credit rating has nothing to do with how much money you have. I helped my sister who makes minimum wage move 100k medical debt off her credit record, establish a secured credit card, and taught her how to pay bills on time and negotiate with debt owners and creditors so she never gets any debt reported to credit agencies. All with her own very limited money. She moved her score from 400s to 700s over about 3 years. All credit rating shows is (1) you don’t take out more than you can afford and (2) you are willing to service the debts you have to the limits you can afford. Even with 700-800 credit if you don’t have much earning power you won’t get a big loan, but you will get good rates on what you can afford.
Hi Nick! Yes, I am the same person as ... er... myself if that makes any sense at all. :) I'll followup by email, thanks for reaching out!
Well they had no credit system before so it was awful to get any sort of loan or expect it to be paid back. Lots of chinese people are for this policy.
People have an allergic reaction to the idea that insurance for someone obese should cost more than to someone thats not obese, even though that is actuarially correct.
FWIW, Browserstack does a pretty good job of testing limited-access sites – traffic appears to be routed back through your local machine when using the Chrome extension, so everything works as expected.

I'd say it's pretty good if you're doing basic functionality checks, but it's ultimately not as nice as having the real thing, especially not if you're trying to debug anything graphically intensive etc.
Not secret. And a stain on our society in my opinion.
It's usually the choice that society as a large is making: do we prefer Freedom or Safety? For example after 9/11 American exchanged a lot of freedom for more safety. It's a choice we all have to make.
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I don't use Medium but I know one big reason is for their network and promotional features. If you're not active on social media and don't have a big following you can post your blog posts to, then Medium helps disseminate your writing to a larger audience with similar interests.
Just because sensitive information can be compromised doesn't mean that it should be offered freely. Yes, someone can target you and collect a DNA sample, but does that mean you shouldn't care how securely your genetic data is used and stored?
I want to leave a comment to fellow Chinese citizens reading this thread.

1. "Don't waste your time with explanations. People only hear what they want to hear."

2. Don't get triggered by downvotes. They are just virtual numbers. They won't change the reality and facts. In the future, you will be able to come back and laugh at them.

3. It is not worth your time to explain the facts to them. Eventually people will face the reality no matter how hard media paints it. Just give it some time for the world to sort itself out.

Edit: If you really want to comment, try your best to be civil and substantial. I know it is hard with all the emotions, but not impossible.
> It'll probably be the last computer i buy from apple to set up for others - MacOS isn't as bulletproof as it used to be.

What have you moved on to if I can ask? Windows 10?
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I feel like the argument weakens when he compares countries. I'm looking at the railway maps of France and Japan thinking: 'this entire country is the size of a single, largeish US state'.

Total land area is a problem to be solved in the US for train travel, and we only have Russia and China to compare to.

City to city comparison makes much more sense
I down voted not because I disagree but because your comment is a rant and doesn't offer any justification to your perspective. Hand waving and saying go talk to people doesn't prove your point, it makes you sound silly.
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Or to Latin America
Yes, there are examples like this. Collateral damage will happen in war. It is tragic and always will be, and I say that with all sincerity. National security has always been thus and always will be so until there is no such thing as a nation.
>>$15 USD must be mana from heaven.

It is definitely mana from heaven, but the barriers can be somewhat high depending on the contractor's locale:

1) they need to be able to successfully navigate their own country's tax and self-employment paperwork and regulations;

2) they need enough up-front capital to purchase powerful-enough equipment to do the job in the first place; and

3) they need telecom infrastructure that presumably supports high-speed internet (i.e. faster than dial-up).
Too bad the article doesn't talk about the not so sexy trains which were numerous and allowed travellers to go from small cities to other small cities.

The big/speedy trains only cover a few paths...
As someone from Northern Ontario who moved to SW Ontario for work as a software dev - how did you do this? I'd love to move back home, but there are very few jobs, and the ones that do exist are dramatically lower salaries with outdated approaches (~45k, Visual Basic or C++98 vs ~80K, whatever web tech I want). Do you work remotely?
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As the toffs began to retreat
A problem is that health insurance as it is organized in the us is not risk management. If you are 20 years old and healthy you get a massive premium to support a 60 year old with obesity and history of drinking.

Insurance should be able to do actuarial risk and charge accordingly.
I know plenty of poor people with good credit scores. So you’re statement isn’t true at all.
People here are complaining about the enterprise, but I'm not really part of that segment (the complete IT dept of my company is about 10 employees) and I also feel ignored by Google in my small microcosm.

With the change of leadership I guess small dev teams like mine will become even more ignored as it seems GCP's will focus on the big whales instead of small fish with different needs.

Anyway, from my perspective, it really feels like GCP is living 5 years ago and has zero ambition or understanding of what's going on in the dev space. Also I have to say its marketing is generally doing a poor job at convincing people to use their services.

Some concrete examples to expand on the previous points:

I want a simple and convenient Heroku-like service (and hopefully a better price). For years I had no idea App Engine even existed and after checking it out a couple of times I still have no idea how it compares in terms of pricing.

I want GraphQL services like AWS AppSync, Prisma, or Hasura. Google has zero GraphQL services (AFAIK).

I want serverless solutions like AWS Lambda or like Zeit Now v2. AWS recently even announced Aurora serverless (a relational database unlike the usual NoSQL). The serverless offerings by Google are quite frankly mediocre. Our team is moving away from Firebase and Google's cloud functions offerings are really lagging behind Lambda.
Agreed. But some of us are a bit broken. We do have an adult mindset and good education. But mental problems, in my case ADHD, will still make it very hard to function as a normal adult without aid from drugs.

Think like a beautiful airplane toy with a broken wing. It just needs some glue to fly again.