skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I feel like that's making git which can be a super helpful and powerful tool nothing more than a means to an end.

It also feels like a clunkier workflow than just using git from the command line. It's probably easier to get started that way, but learning the basics of git from the command line isn't too hard.
Who is going to report on the cameras there.
I still pull it down every now and again, but probably not going to contribute in any meaningful way. Once it's closer to being complete I'll probably go in and do a big Linux support patch.

Odds are good for TrueCraft, though!
I'm glad that you like them!
There's something to be said about reading documentation rather than relying on stackoverflow answers or possibly inaccurate tutorials.

Substitute C, Java, Python, etc for git. You can probably do something with those languages, but you aren't going to get very far without reading some sort of documentation.
All those little tricks you described are part of a strategy usually called Conversion Rate Optimization. They do this because it works. What you described was likely A/B tested. Some visitors to the site saw the nagging message, while others didn't.
For the most part, researchers would prefer to publish open access, and agree with your stance about public money 100%, but with the current state of things, it would have a negative effect on their careers. You have to publish in certain highly-regarded journals to advance.

In some countries this is basically enshrined in law: there's a big table of journals ranked from high to low, and you need a certain number of publications in the high-ranked journals to keep your job with a public institution. Many of the high-ranking journals are closed access, for-profit.
Automation has not been explosive in the last 15 years, I'm not sure why you think this. Productivity growth (the measure of increasing automation) has been the lowest its been in decades, see here: https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user330...

As for whether we need 30 million engineers, thats entirely up to what we want to be as a society. If you don't think we can come up with engineering work for 30 million people I beg to differ.
I hadn't looked at google news for a while, so went to see what headlines they'd offer compared to the Apple news app. I wasn't looking for it, or expecting it, but, second headline under "For you":

"Letter from Foo Fighters frontman to Cornwall Council goes viral again"
RHEL source code is free. You pay for the RHEL value adds like a compiled version of RHEL and support. If you want a compiled version of RHEL for free, then go with CentOS.
Thats not an argument in favor of UBI, its an affirmation of what you would do if you got free money.
Yeah but with UBI everyone would suddenly have a great source of credit. Who wouldn't loan someone $10k to move at a low interest rate when you know that person by being a US Citizen is receiving $10k/yr.
Thanks, now I understand what all those "Debby's" storefronts were when I visited my hometown over the holidays.
Sears reaches deal with Chairman Eddie Lampert to save company and 400 stores
which is why you should work for yourself.
My wife suffered a horrific back injury a few years ago. For medical reasons she had to wait about 6 months for a surgery and all that time the doctors she saw were scared to death to prescribe real pain meds even though she was often in tears from the pain, couldn't bear to walk more than a few feet, and couldn't sleep.

My personal story is of a loved one needlessly suffering mind boggling amounts of pain for half a year because the DEA had so scared our doctors.

Luckily the surgery was a 100% success and she doesn't need to rely up on the steaming pile of crap that is the DEA's interference in the medical community.
The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll does a great (and entertaining) job of showing what the Internet was like early on:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg

Telnet, academic connectivity, military networks, international intrigue and espionage, UC Berkeley hippy/nerd culture -- it's a fun read.
Sweden absolutely has higher taxes on the middle and lower classes than the United States in order to fund its safety net (one old source: https://lanekenworthy.net/2008/02/10/taxes-and-inequality-le...). You are correct about that.

However, you are just presenting numbers in misleading ways that do not accurately reflect the actual taxes paid. Please stop.
Ask HN: Is there Show HN-like website for data-scientists?
Ask HN: Is there Show HN-like website for data-scientists where people can show their open-source/closed-source projects targeted at machine learning engineers and data scientists?
WeWork CEO Profits as Landlord to Company
A more complicated Web
This isn't hard to believe if you've worked w/ the Edgar system!
They did this in Japan. You're require to have an emergency sprinkler system for fires as just one example. If you don't have one, getting one installed is apparently around $20k so that prohibits lots of people from getting started renting out. Then as well they have to registered. If it's an apartment/condo building you have to get permission from the building management/home owners association. And I think it's max 90 days a year.
Urban Design Should Come from the Bottom Up
Very elegantly worded, thank you.
The risk to the CEO here is pretty small.
Crofflr: automated deliveries from your reading lists to your e-book reader
> The patients demonstrated improved brain function

If this part of the quote is actually true, then what you are saying is either wrong or irrelevant. They appear to have evidence it is true, and are continuing to verify it.

There are various ways this could be helping (if it is):

1. The amyloids are a cause of Alzheimer's

2. The amyloids are a symptom of Alzheimer's, but are a cause of the memory impairments

3. The drug has a side-effect which helps the memory impairments.

In any case, what is your expertise? I love random comments that say that scientists who have spent decades in a field are simply "wasting their time" because they haven't read some article that was posed on the web. (NB, this may not be the case with you, if you are indeed an expert in the field.)
JS injection into display ads, which happens a lot more often than you would think when it comes to ad display network content.
This is just like McDonald's, the real money is made owning the land they sit on.
> It is to be scrutinised for the right kind of African representation. You are required to perform the rituals. You are required to bow to the expectations of citizenship.

I totally get this. I wanted to write a book which centered around my life in high school. One thing that worries me is that even though Africa is a diverse place, there's an expectation that "African literature" should be written in a particular way on particular subjects and experiences. I doubt coming from an upper class family attending a fancy private school counts as such.
One way this better than Spotify & Apple Music - it contains user-created remixes and mashups that aren't available on the streaming platforms.

But for users who are interested in that content, I don't know how this is much better than just browsing the songs directly on YouTube.com.
I'm glad this is illegal in Chicago, but I feel for the rest of Illinois.
The only situation I can justify this if there is an undeniable proof of FRAUD. That is a different person takes phone interview and from the one that shows up for in-person.

Its very likely that some one did not do due diligence and ended up with a wrong candidate and wanted to cover their budgeting ass.
Total Internet shutdown in Zimbabwe following protests
I don't like the term "Video Gaming". I play video games. I'm a bit of a gamer. But I am in no way any sort of gambler. Conflating the two makes one look less a dangerous vice, the other more of one. Video games and gambling terminals are totally different things.

(Yes, the lootbox debate, but you know of what I speak).
if that were the case, it would be legal for a company director to trade on information they gleaned from an internal meeting. Which, as far as I understand, it isn't.
PostgreSQL is used much more widely than MongoDB, and has a much freer license. Lots of people make money developing and supporting PostgreSQL.

I also content that MongoDB built their project on top of a mountain of Free Software. It rings a little hollow to me when they complain that others are making money from using their software, when the MongoDB team is also making money from using others' software. Last I checked, they weren't a major contributor to the Linux kernel, or GNU, or GCC, or Emacs/Vim, or...
I was in Spain and got an airbnb which did not have sheets for the beds or towels. The host, who was in another country on holiday, had me walk down the street and meet her mother, who didn't speak english. Her mother gave me a musty top-sheet that seemed to have been in a closet for over a decade, and asked me to pay her 5 euros in cash for it. This whole process took about 2 hours.

Still didn't get a towel.. should have listened to douglas adams.

I also stayed at the cheapest airbnb in miami beach, which was an unwalkable room full of children's-sized bunkbeds, and populated by fully grown humans with the consideration of children. There was so much chaos i couldn't sleep, and since i was there to compete in a tournament the next day, I literally walked around the streets of miami at 3am until i found a patch of grass where I could sleep. I couldn't bring myself to pay $200 for 3 hours of a hotel.
Investors in general prefer multiple founders, and they want the founders to have roughly equal equity too. In part this is because they want the ability to push a founder out if he/she isn't working out.
Reverse engineering has always had some sort of black box element to it.

Call it deobfuscation, code translation or simply reading, but calling parsing of Javascript reverse engineering is just title inflation.
It's been sold in the media for years, if you're successful then everything is permissible because "job creators". If you constantly glorify crime, that's how you get more criminals.
This post captures so many of the thoughts I've had about how it is NOT a simple answer of "going back to self-publishing on our own websites", because the nature of running websites is no where near as simple as it was. I have continued to write on my own blogs since 2005 ... but with all the ever-present security issues - and the need to do constant updates to my servers/vms, it's hard to keep up. The siren call of simple, centralized systems that take care of all of that for you is indeed a strong call!
The odds still matter. If no one ever won my lottery, I think people would eventually stop playing.
Bad investments hurt everyone and increase inequality.
> people viewing companies basically just as convenient extensions of themselves rather than distinct legal entities with separate interests

I think it goes beyond that, by people viewing whole states as such extension
Don't ask the peanut gallery. Go see a marriage counselor.
> (getrandom(..., 0) is probably the right long-term solution)

Glad to see you've come around.
$1000 in the bank is enough to feel like you can cover rent, bills, and meals. $50 is not. Do you think he would feel like he wouldn't know whether he'd have a roof over his head next month, or whether he should start skipping meals entirely?
The good old email trojan continues to be all you need.
Same is true for me.

In my mid-to-late-twenties, I remember thinking "Damn, why are hotels so expensive? I'll just stay in this Airbnb, which is so much bigger anyway. This is the new way and it's disrupting hotels."

Now at the outset of my thirties and a more settled phase of life, I will gladly pay a premium to stay in a hotel.

In the same way, it's becoming more likely for me to flag a London black cab than book an Uber via the app.

There's a reason why some business models and establishment types 'just work' throughout history and it's not entirely because of well-funded lobbying and conservative lawmaking, as we were maybe led to believe in the early Airbnb/Uber days when anything disruptive was shiny.
'Rock 'n' Roll' was arguably a white commercialization of Rhythm and Blues, for which there was a lot of amplification of resonator guitars and harmonicas for live performance and recordings. There's a natural progression here of who started mass manufacturing instruments as opposed to who built the first ones....
I never quite understood why many central banks expand the money supply by purchasing financial assets instead of just handing out money to everyone.
Derek Lowe (of In the Pipeline, probably the most widely-read blog by a drug development scientist) had a funny take on the state of the amyloid hypothesis for Alzheimer's: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/06/12/an-...

Considering that every single anti-amyloid Alzheimer's candidate has failed--even those that made it into Phase III trials--anyone suggesting something that attacks amyloids has to overcome a lot of skepticism.
There are plenty of times where printing money didn't produce hyperinflation. For example, the US pursued a policy called quantitative easing over the last decade which involved dumping trillions of dollars into the coffers of banks; inflation is still sluggish. This is because there are four terms in the equation of exchange: MV=PQ. If you increase M (money), P (price) will only go up if V (the velocity of money) and Q (demand) remain constant. In the US, V was very low and there was a lot of slack in our productive capacity (mostly because construction had overbuilt during the bubble years). The result was no hyperinflation or inflation of any kind.
arp-scan(1) can also do this without harvesting your data.
My biggest issue is, i can't remember when i clicked on a ad and was not closing that tab asap.

It would be really nice to see those people buying to understand it more.

Amazon for example still shows me washing machines after i purchased one through amazon. But that feature is still here on a high traffic user landing page!

Perhaps it matters for products which are clearly build for a very specific target (like a startup selling a shopping service to 30 year olds which work all the time) but there might also be a lot of standard products which everyone would buy?

Dog food, dog toys etc.

Also i often enough see companies paying (at least those are ads) for there own name. When you enter 'Miele' (well known german company for washing machines and other stuff). You get an ad for miele.de but miele.de is already the first hit. The same when googling 'Samsung S9'.
> How can it be that having intimate knowledge of someone would not allow you to sell them more stuff? John has a 10th wedding anniversary coming up. Mary is single and goes to the gym every day. Steve just got a promotion and likes the BMW 3 series. Michael is overweight but has just gone on a diet. Are such details of no significance determining what ads to show these people?

It's possible that some combination of efficient markets, semi-inaccurate/incomplete tracking data and chaos theory combines to make it mostly irrelevant.

So Steve just got a promotion and likes the BMW 3 series, but advertising to him is useless because he has already decided to buy a BMW 3 series. Whereas Larry has had the same job for ten years, and the same Ford for ten years, but if you put a luxury car ad in front of him it may get him to take a test drive and actually create a new customer.

The data says Mary is single and goes to the gym every day, but it only thinks she's "single" because she's in a committed long-distance relationship and isn't interested in dating anyone else. And she's a fitness expert who is willing to spend her time researching fitness products, so she already knows everything there is to know about those products, already buys the ones she wants, and advertising them to her isn't going to create any new exposure. Whereas Jane never goes to the gym, so you might actually sell her a gym membership or a piece of fitness equipment because she doesn't already have one or know anything about it yet.

John has a 10th wedding anniversary coming up, but he has also known exactly what he's going to do for years. Whereas he has a third cousin whose wedding is coming up and has no idea what to get, so you should be showing him ads for toasters and flatware rather than jewelry and chocolate.

In general, you may do better to advertise your stuff to the people who aren't already interested in and knowledgeable about it. Which actually looks kind of a lot like random scattershot rather than targeting.
I couldn't agree more. My wife's doctors were so afraid of the DEA they left her in 6 months of mind boggling agony before she could finally get her back surgery. Never mind her being treated like a criminal every time she went to the office and having to take a drug test.
Standalone Headsets Drive VR's (Slow) Rebound
The article is about how to get a more fundamental understanding idea on how git works, and this book demonstrates fundamental ideas on how git works. I don't see a problem in this reccomendation. If you want just a cursory knowledge of how to use git to get by, this probably not the right choice, but that's not really what this discussion is about is it?
Ask HN: Advice for coworker with ADHD
I have a coworker that has hinted may have ADHD. I don't much about ADHD so I will just describe what I experience and maybe someone has advice on how to deal with this (keep in mind we work remotely, and the coworker has been here longer than me):

* Sentences are difficult to unpack. A paragraph might be talking about 10 barely related things. It often takes me quite some time to make sense of what I'm being told.

* Strong opinions that are often wrong. This coworker is senior and has worked for some high-profile SV companies so the words carry weight. Unfortunately, the advice I receive sometimes makes me drag my feet for weeks on the wrong path. I don't assume there's ill will though.

* Comments on tickets are really random. When trying to read tickets that this coworker worked on, I often have to read 20-30 small comments theorizing about lots of different things. I'm exhausted when I reach the end.

My natural reaction is to stop asking for advice or sharing my work. Ignoring opinions or second guessing them. I hate that. I can't imagine this is being done on purpose so again, no ill will that I can detect.

I'm not this person's boss. Our boss doesn't seem to care much (he often ignores or chuckles when something odd is said). In any case, I don't hope to change someone's behavior.

So the question is, what can I do so this doesn't become a bigger problem for me? Bonus points if I can keep the work environment "light".
I can beat that one :) My car was stolen in 2001. I lived on the north side, off of the lake (Uptown - not the best, but not the worst part of the city). I reported it stolen. In 2002 I got a parking ticket by mail from the far west side of the city, where I've never been to this day.

This was in the paper ticket era.
> It's funny to me, because AirBnB runs in to all the same problems we had with hotels a hundred years ago.

Every startup is banking on consumers forgetting this. "Hey, X is far too inefficient/expensive, you deserve Y".

If the startup becomes a unicorn, it's never going to be long before they start following the same rules as the incumbents they toppled.
It is. That's the whole point of having systems to regulate it. When those systems are overridden by, in effect, collective freeloaders, any system breaks down.
Then you add the health risks of traveling all the time (driving is the riskiest activity most people take on, and more miles means more chance of collision. Also the health risks of having to sit many hours in a car, although could be negated if you are able to get a workout in on the job.

The biggest risk of all though is that there's a much greater chance any injury can ruin your income potential, as opposed to office or desk jobs where many times you can still keep working. And overtime, rote physical activity will wear away at the body, especially bending over or being on your knees and carrying heavy things on your back.

Health is wealth (quite literally too in the USA), and if you have an option of being well paid without sacrificing it, I suggest taking it.
> Check the @pjc50, @Traster etc comments at the top.

Those are specific examples of corruption here in the US. Are you asserting that you wouldn't be able to find the same corruption, for example, in China?

Please provide a single example of corruption that can occur under capitalism, but wouldn't occur under another economic system. Because I'm asserting they do not exist.

> And @humanrebar already put this in abstract form: "It's worth noting that luminary capitalists like Adam Smith were very much concerned with privately enabled rent seekers in addition to government enabled ones"

Yes, he was perfectly right to. There are always private parties. Even under communism.
> If everyone has another x+12,000 dollars, the amount of money available for low income housing has strictly increased. Landlords are then in a position to raise prices proportionally.

Not really.

First, if landlords go to charge more they are increasing the attractiveness of using housing more efficiently. If everyone is getting an extra $1k/mo and landlords are charging an extra $1k/mo, then I'm saving an extra $500/mo when a friend and I decide to room together. For some people this will make the difference in their decision making, and this will increase the number of available units and put downward pressure on prices. From this dynamic alone, we should still expect prices to rise, but less (and likely much less) than the full amount.

Second, we're not really constrained on "supply of housing" at a national scale. We're constrained on supply of "housing where someone wants to live". "Where someone wants to live" comprises a lot of factors, many differing by the individual, but "sufficiently close to ability to make sufficient income" is usually a big part of it. A UBI directly increases our supply of "housing sufficiently close to ability to make sufficient income" which would now be competing against existing stock.
You must roll with some motivated crowds if everyone has long-term goals.

> 60% of the folks I meet would be pretty content watching TV all day, every day. When you talk to them, they just talk about the shows they watched.
I get the sentiment, but "bullshit jobs" are also a waste of time (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs ); those also have the same downsides as many jobs, like stress, abusive managers, etc.

There are also many jobs which are actively harmful to society and/or the environment (e.g. cold calling), where it would be better for everyone if those workers could just watch TV instead.

I think this is one of those areas that can't be solved by deduction, since there are valid arguments pushing both ways. It needs measurements, observations and experiments to see what the relative impact of those arguments are.
While I won’t agree with “lack of real world experience”, I have noticed that many engineers tend to invest a lot of emotion in language choice when it rarely belongs there.
That doesn't feel much like "PopcornTime for music" to me. Soulseek probably fits that description better.
Having a trailing : at the end of the PATH is the same as :. and occurs quite often.
IMO, everyone's SSN should be public. Mine has already be compromised by both my undergrad and grad school. At this point, I operate under the assumption that it is public knowledge for bad actors.

Hiding SSNs is false security at best. If they were public, banks would stop hiding behind "identity theft" and would start having to acknowledge that its their responsibility to confirm who they are lending money to.
So it served its purpose.
"If everyone has another x+12,000 dollars"

then you have a money supply issue.
Here is one that is just out: https://www.routledge.com/CISO-COMPASS-Navigating-Cybersecur...