skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> to solve crash problem without upgrading my plan. I just simply created a cron job which restart my server automatically every 2 hours

Love it, immensely :)
Point number is painfully true from my experience. I say that as someone who has been a consultant for more than a decade, and worked on tons of side hustles. From “never got off the ground” (most) to “making six figures in revenue” (current one).

Juggling client work and my own profitable and slowly growing projects for the last few years has been one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done. Really hoping to hit escape velocity in 2019. But I said that about 2018, and 2017 too.

Sigh...back to work.
There does seem to be a correlation between certain religious beliefs and a society's propensity for violence.
If I recall correctly 3blue1brown is actually a team of people, and it's founder created a python library which helps generate the animations.
> Given that VSCode and Slack are basically other browsers, how much does OS responsiveness matter? Has the responsiveness battle just moved to the browser?

You can't build a responsive browser on top of an unresponsive OS.
Any research on how this compares to FoldIt, or is it apples and oranges?
theoretically cryptos may solve the payments part one day. CDN and certificates are not requirements (yet). DNS remains one sore point of centralization for the internet.

> Because this one is fresh out of freedom.

Let's not be so pessimistic, but instead marvel at the how cool it is that the internet was built from the get-go to be decentralized
Native widgets don't just mean "look". They can also mean "feel". This is particularly true on macOS.

On macOS, I expect certain widgets in order to accomplish certain tasks. I expect that they will respond to mouseover and button presses in a certain way. I expect to be able to use certain key combinations to cause certain widgets to do certain things, I expect keyboard combinations to be able to be redefined in System Preferences.

On the accessibility front, I expect VoiceOver to be able to read what's on screen, I expect it to be able to tell me what a widget's behaviour will be, I expect to be able to get back to where I was using a standard key combo, I expect images to respect colour inversion settings, I expect text to scale according to the system's Dynamic Type settings.

When it comes to handling text; I expect fonts to have the system's native rendering; I expect that Unicode support is complete, I expect macOS' emoji picker to show up; I expect system-wide text replacements, smart quotes, and orthography checking to work as expected, I expect selectable text to show a list of system-wide Services in the context menu, I expect all text to be draggable and handled correctly by the receiver of the drag action.

There are plenty of other things that I can't think of, but this list could get quite long. Suffice to say, Apple put a lot of default behaviours into Cocoa, and apps that (A) don't use Cocoa, or (B) only use Cocoa for drawing but not inheriting behaviours, they don't just look a bit off, they feel _wrong_.

I think we may be immune to this to some extent on mobile, and Windows users haven't known anything other than complete inconsistency, even with Microsoft's own built-in interfaces. But for some of us, if the interface feels wrong, the app goes straight into the Trash.
Look at the ingredients, noticeably lacking in all of them in 1940 will be HFCS.

And since the advent of HFCS in the 70s it would is now found in everything named above coke, ice cream, hotdog/burger buns (and condiments) and fries. And the amount of sugar in food stuffs has increased substantially.

We have thousands of years of agriculture showing us forcefeeding corn to animals leads to fattening them up and in particular fatty livers (fois gras). Since the advent of HFCS in the 70’s we have seen the first cases of childhood t2 diabeties and non alcoholic fatty liver disease in the US in the 80’s. Once HFCS made its way into the UK we saw childhood diabeties there too with the first cases in the 90’s and you can follow the spread of western diseases to every country where western HFCS foodstuffs were introduced, for example Okinawa, which once had the best life expectancy in the world and now has western foods and an explosion of these chronic diseases.
Money was simply not an issue: all medical expenses were paid for by the state, and all of them kept receiving their (state-funded) retirement pensions until they passed away.

All the things you mentioned were cared for by my mother, myself and my siblings

I've known people in countries with state funded healthcare, like Canada, with serious health problems in the family, especially among minor children. I've heard how much of a hardship that can be even if medical bills are not part of the picture.

I'm glad your family was fortunate in that regard. But your assumption that I am projecting the American experience onto foreigners is in error.

It's certainly better to not also have the medical bills. But being unable to work full time while having greater than average need remains a hardship, even in countries where the state covers all medical bills.

It's just vastly better to be healthy, even if medical care is completely free.
Laura Loomer Makes Fool of Self, Defames Muslims, Doesn't Know History
My "rule" for these kinds of activities is to ask myself, if every visitor to the area did this would it cause a problem? If so, for the most part, I refrain from doing whatever the thing is. I think this applies well to the rock stacking.

Unless you are marking an off trail route or a faint trail please don't stack rocks, its confusing or just vandalism.
I tend to believe this argument is correct but has nothing to do with crypto, and everything to do with evolving REST into providing uniform extensible media types for describing state transitions and data.

https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/StuC/ill-see-you-on-the-wr...
Best of luck to you. Maybe this will help you feel better. My mom had 50K items. It’s been a years long project of selling things at a loss (her stuff is in the $10-20 range) to have it cost less than the disposal fee, running promotions, taking advantage of the periodic disposal promos Amazon offers.

They haven’t made it completely unworkable for her yet, but it’s bad. Much of her line is unique, and we get these counterfeit cockroaches that sell on her listings (which is against this particular category’s guidelines) and ship some piece of crap and gets negative reviews attached to the listing. Every time she opens a case to deal with the counterfeiter or bad review, she has to walk it through various obstacles thrown out by the agent, like it’s day one on the job for each of them. It’s a total nightmare.

She is working to pivot to a different type of category and sell to brick and mortar department stores. The type of hell they offer is looking pretty good compared to Amazon these days.
I don't find that analogy analogous.

Alice goes to Home Depot. Aviators cost $50, but they're on sale for $5 if your name is Bob. Alice tells the cashier that her name is Bob and shows an (obviously) fake ID. The cashier isn't paid enough to care, so Alice gets the glasses for $5.

I agree with you that anything Alice does after this point is her own business. I could accept an argument that Home Depot should've paid the cashier more to help prevent the issue. But I don't think that makes Alice's actions at the point of sale less fraudulent.

> And as I also said, there is a very simple remedy for publishers - stop sending the article to people they do not want to view it!

Which the publishers do. They don't send the article unless they think you're Googlebot.

> Your argument also implies that it is illegal to suggest someone visit a URL with lynx to avoid a javascript popup

My issue is with intentionally changing the user agent header to impersonate a well-known crawler that has been given access to the site under specific terms.

I don't have an issue with using other browsers or javascript blockers or ad blockers. There's a difference between spoofing a client-> server request and blocking a client -> server request.
Why is Facebook getting into reinforcement learning? Are there applications of RL to improving social connections or extracting more data to sell to advertisers?
I do. It's fantastic for browser-and-code hacktops with limited ability.
Assume positive intent on my part.
I don't call that a defence when it's already out in the wild, and people are already talking about it like it's "good enough" when we are already able to use its version number as justification when it's clearly not.
> Nobody can be forced to do business with BitChute if they don't want to.

to bake the cake or not to bake it? that is the question
Also unrelated, but hopefully not flamebait: the code blocks run off my screen on an iPad because they’re too long. Having just fixed this issue on my own website yesterday, a bit of unsolicited advice: add “overflow: auto” to them and constrain them to the standard margins for your article.
> Ever seen a non-technical user move the mouse with the same dexterity as you or I? I haven't. The mouse always roams around for a month of Sundays before it eventually arrives in the right place.

Not just non-technical. I hate having to hunt for the tiny target. A very highly technical friend of mine invented a term for that: “pixel spearing”. I am truly insensed at how much time I waste trying to spear the exact right pixel.
> Yet, we aren’t that far removed in time from selfie sticks being a joke.

I totally agree with your post, just wanted to say that it is my feeling that selfie sticks are on a "downward trajectory", so to speak, as I haven't recently seen as many people using them as 3-4 years ago. The same goes for the GoPro-like photos/videos.
State of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Job Market in 2018
> Netbooks were a fad.

This is one of my pet peeves. Netbooks were great as a small disposable internet console. They weren't just for consumption - the keyboard meant you could use them to compose text. The problem was that people bought them when they wanted a super cheap laptop, and so netbook manufacturers kept making the screens bigger and the processors faster until they stopped being netbooks and turned into crappy cheap laptops.

The new wave of tablets with keyboard covers are basically what netbooks were, but for a good decade there we lost the idea of a small cheap internet console which could be used to compose text.
The key point here though is that they are explicitly designed to consume you. Notification patterns, feed organization, how the online connection between two people is displayed, what gamification factors as included, what metrics are included on each "post/event", the list goes on. In reality only a small portion of people have the knowledge and skills to actively fight against these designs, and that mental power has a cost. This is why both of these platforms at their core start from a bad seed, even if they are able to birth positive things.

IMO there are many solutions, but two very basic things can fix these problems:

- Make users pay to use a service so it is ad-free or ad limited so that there is not an incentive to hold a user on your platform as long as possible

- Remove public facing metrics such as likes/views unless absolutely necessary. When necessary, make them a harder UX to get to so that someone without the need cannot easily access them.

People keep saying the model won't work, but when you look at ARPU for many of these services, many people would gladly pay that. People always frame it at replacing ads, but I think it's much more than that - it's making the experience of using the platform itself better by removing a lot of the incentives that cause bad mental issues with social media.
I think the BGI/MGI will probably provide an incentive. Recent reports suggest that their instruments are starting to produce reasonable data (80% > Q30).

Illumina have ~90% [1] markup on consumables. They can afford to reduce their price to $100 per genome (and have said they will). With the pressure applied by the BGI I can certainly see this happening.

[1] http://41j.com/blog/2018/11/illumina-consumables-are-90-prof...
Solving Protein folding is low key one of the most important scientific endeavors. Understanding and being able to reconstruct the building blocks of the human body's (proteins) will make modern pharmacy/medicine obsolete.
Anglican: A Probabilistic Programming System
>City planning has little to do with loneliness.

>If a city council wants to combat loneliness they should provide its citizens with public spaces where they can organize non-profit meetups for free.

For those spaces to be provided, they need to be incorporated into the council's city/urban planning.
Really happy to see I'm not the only one using Ubuntu on a MacBook air! If anyone is looking for the most customizable Ubuntu desktop (and my favorite window
manager since 2010), I highly recommend compiz!

> sudo apt-get install gnome-session-flashback compiz compiz-core compiz-plugins compiz-plugins-default compiz-plugins-extra compiz-plugins-main compiz-plugins-main-default compiz-plugins-main-dev compizconfig-settings-manager

You'll log out of GNOME, click the settings cog, and select Flashback-Compiz. Then you'll see a wonderfully clean desktop, and then you can go into Applications -> Administration -> Compiz Config Settings, and you'll have complete and total control over your desktop!

This video is kind of gaudy but it might help explain what's possible: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Jb7kFWTj28g MINUS the horrible sidebar, that will be replaced with an upper toolbar similar to Mac.

I actually have a proper write-up for how to get the Ubuntu Desktop you deserve using compiz, but it's very much a WIP unfortunately.
Not sure why this is downvoted this is correct, you get store credit and they get another resell at likely a higher markup than the original.

This is why both publishers and console makers have constantly tried to get into this market, which have already been somewhat killed on the PC the moment CD keys were introduced.
I have an odd image that I think provides a good mental model of this. Bear with me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWR0AS2rW48

These metronomes start out tick-tocking in their own time, but each affects the other until they are all locked in perfect sync.

This is what global digital media culture is doing to us, subtle nudges to conform to a single global monoculture, so gradual that it's hard to see it happening until it's happened.
can cause erosion and damage ecosystems

Oh please. This is so far from an actual concern that I struggle to summon the energy to even shrug about it.

If anything, it's an argument for the sake of arguing. It's almost perfectly illustrative of the perils of trying to get humans to cooperate and agree at all.

First of all, you have brick buildings. Second of all, you have open pit mining. Third, you have mountaintop removal. Fourth, highways. All of which are literally millions, if not billions or perhaps even trillions of times worse.

For reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-pit_mining

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining

I mean, hey, maybe we shouldn't throw pennies in wishing wells, or Old Faithful for that matter, but seriously, if you're worried about this, I have another anxiety: shoes. The durable rubber soles of shoes actually leave imprints in sand, when people wear them while walking. Don't believe me? Try it yourself!

And what's worse? Astronauts used these appliances on the surface of the moon itself, forever contaminating the lunar landscape, previously pristine, and unfettered by human influence. A tragedy of the commons.
Hal Daumé III has an excellent self-published textbook online. Easy to follow, pleasantly formatted, well-written, and best of all, totally free.

http://ciml.info/
This makes it no less impressive, IMO
Just discovered it, so I still have to see if it fits my needs, however if I understood what it does, it could be useful to solve a recent problem: after some upgrades (apt, Debian) all my Windows VST audio plugins I used under .wine through LinVST stopped working. not a single one can be used anymore and it seems a newer .wine version is to blame for incompatibility, so I would attempt to create a different user and install a previous wine version locally then move the .wine directory there and see if running the LinVST patcher there will make the plugins useable again. That way I would not touch the system wine installation which runs fine for other things, ditto for the main user .wine directory, while still being able to test a different version.
I found giving up meat to be a lot easier once I started cooking at home. If you eat in restaurants a lot it's more difficult, although I've found that restaurants in the U.S. and Europe are much more likely to have some non-meat options now than they were even a few years ago.
I miss tooltips the most because I can no longer predict what icons do on sight. Not only are tooltips missing, developers who use these unintuitive icons also remove labels. Thus, users must read articles or watch tutorial videos to discover info a 2 second tooltip would have provided.

The other trend that's pissing me off is - actions are increasingly irreversible. I loved computers because it seemed to have reset or undo buttons everywhere! Most actions / mistakes were fixable in one click. Even Windows Recovery which failed to work correctly most of the time - still provided mental safety and I explored with ease.

Now, things seem to happen for no reason. Flick the mouse the wrong way and something will change, and render a software unusable with no way to fix it unless the application's uninstalled - some changes even survive reinstalls and the only way to fix is an OS change.
Yeah. I don't even drive anywhere, I cycle. I am bemused by people who drive when they don't have to. I am not sure a short walk through the car park is going to to do much for you.
Most retail doesn’t do 100% markup or anything close to that other than maybe parishables and low priced goods that aren’t bought on credit.

Also game stores hope that you’ll buy other items and also sell your older games back to them so they can resell them while giving you back arguable worthless store credit.
> Stealing a camera that someone asked to be photographed with is an old trope of travel literature.

Me and my gf are generally against selfies and as such we distinctly remember the people that we ask for a photo at various tourist destinations (well, most of them, anyway). Yeah, that means that we don't have an endless stream of photos of the two of us taken together but that only means that the ones that we do have are even more special. Plus, like I said, we can reminisce about the actual people that took those photos of us and with whom we interacted (our favorite is a chic French lady in her 50s who offered to take a photos of us while we were on top of the Basilica San Pietro dome in Rome).
On the flip side, however, I imagine it's a lot harder to convince some entity -- an individual, an insurer, a government -- to pay $1 million once vs. $100,000/year for 10 (or more) years. Whether due to psychology (the former might feel more expensive) or budgeting (the latter lets you spread out the cost), the problem remains. It's going to take a non-trivial amount of effort I think to get the American (and possibly other) healthcare system(s) ready for such a change.
Letting Malibu Burn
Oxford Nanopore is currently far more expensive and lower quality than Illumina sequencing. A single minion run costs $500. It doesn’t even provide a single x1 complete human genome.

You can currently get a complete x30 human genome using Illumina or BGI sequencing for similar cost.

It’s not clear that Oxford Nanopore can reduce costs. It’s not even clear to me that the Minion runs are currently sold at a profit. The chips are quite big, and not easily reused. Fabrication costs are likely significant.
People keep bringing this up, but I really don't think I, or anybody, should need an SSD in order to have a fast-acting computer. Spinning rust, RAM, and CPU clocks are faster now than twenty years ago, CPUs have vastly more cache, we have more CPUs, and our compilers and prefetch algorithms are smarter than ever. Why, then, are the same basic tasks not any faster, and sometimes slower? Why is the answer to use even faster technology?
How Do You Create an Internet of Things Workforce? [pdf]
The article states:

"The calamity of the stone stack, in our anxious times, seems admittedly minor. But it’s a prominent example of how social media can generate scale, transforming an activity that would be mostly harmless in isolation into something with planetary impact."

Does this mean, if I do not see any other rock stacks in a national park, I can create my own, since there is no real harm unless it is done at scale? Or would that also be wrong, since even if I am doing only one, it might contribute to the next visitor also making one, and so on?
FYI the building described in TFA was designed by William Wesley Peters, not Frank Lloyd Wright.
Show HN: Initab – A Chrome Extension Dashboard for Developers in Each New Tab
Even when you adjust for physical activity and caloric intake, Americans weigh more than previous generations. Pesticides, non-stick chemicals, BPA, and antibiotics probably have something to do with it: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/whats-rea...
> Package managers are exactly the centralized "app store" model, and there have been plenty of periods where users have had to add third party repositories to get basic functionality (DeCSS, video codecs, ZFS, etc).

And they still work precisely because the user can do that.

> For decades we've been continually looking for better ways of isolating local apps, while also rejecting centralized control.

The main issue is that there is so little real benefit in it. It's possible to isolate e.g. LibreOffice so that it can't access anything it shouldn't, but in general the authors can be trusted not to be doing anything nefarious to begin with, so what you're really doing is limiting the damage in the event of compromise. In which case you're still pretty screwed, because it inherently needs access to your documents, so the focus has not surprisingly been on preventing compromise rather than mitigating after the fact.

> We keep looking, while centralization keeps ratcheting.

The motivations behind the rise in centralization are authoritarian and pecuniary rather than any legitimate security concern. Trying to prevent it by finding alternative ways to improve security is like trying to repeal the DMCA anti-circumvention rules by finding alternative ways to reduce piracy. They'll never be satisfied because their motivations aren't the stated ones.
Cocoa Touch, while being slightly simpler and less arcane than Cocoa, still has a lot of semi-hidden behaviors that are nonobvious to cross-platform UI framework implementers.
To me, this a strange take. I'll never have the genius of Newton, Copernicus, Euler, etc. However I know and have access to so much more than them, just because of when I was born. So while I may be envious of their brilliance and insight, they would be envious of so much of what I take for granted.

So you not being surpassed may not be as inherently negative as you think. Apologies if inferred incorrectly.
> They're unsightly to look at and devalues the leafy suburb view.

This is highly subjective, though. Where I live, most houses have solar panels and they're just part of the appearance of a house. Unless your installer botched the job, solar panels just look like lower power bills and environmental responsibility.
IIRC this is pretty much the mission of glitch.com - democratizing web presence and giving the power to create back to regular people.
We are last generation that can stop climate change
Bash & Homebrew & Terminal app & Nano. It’s a local minima.

There’s probably better alternatives, but I’d have to summon the energy to tunnel my way over the barrier.