skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually working on an app specifically to address this problem.

https://getpolarized.io/

It builds on the idea of 'bookmarks' and we have a new take on them called 'pagemarks' which is basically a box that spans multiple pages.

This way you can keep track of the parts of the book you've read and jump around.

I like reading multiple textbooks, articles, etc and go back and forth often.

This allows me to easily suspend and resume.

I worked on a proof of concept about 6 months ago and I've been expanding it in my spare time.

You can read about it here:

https://getpolarized.io/incremental-reading.html

Polar is free and Open Source btw.

It blew up on HN a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219960

I'm about to re-announce as we're just in the process of porting it to the web to make it more accessible to people (mobile, tablets, chrome OS, etc.).

It goes FAR behind this though and supports document management, offline, and supports capturing web pages for offline usage and archival.

Additionally it supports annotation so you can take any page and add highlights, comments and flashcards.
I'm getting a popup with no X.
Naming Things and Cunningham’s Law
Bikes kill people because cars kill people.
MTA is the public transport system I like the most in the US. Even though it is outdated and crowdy, it has some really good coverage.
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I would recommend reading Lean Customer Development:

https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Customer-Development-Building-Cu...
Having to write all those components from scratch would be a real pain in the neck, and they'd look very basic. I don't use bootstrap, but I at least use something like bulma so I have a professional-looking starting point.
Can this dude have any more ads and pop ups on the page?
I'd say Trump is the real cure for depression. Get to work, stop being a snowflake ;)
The compute module isn't really an option for the _vast_ majority of tinkerers buying Pis. It's certainly not a replacement for any of the consumer boards, which all are microSD based.

You effectively can't even do anything with the compute module without buying another motherboard to slot it into. It literally has no IO ports beyond a DDR2 SODIMM conector.
Even in an office environment I've seen rough estimates of 5 (6 at most) 'billable' hours per day for longer term projects. The rest is admin, housekeeping, chitchat, etc.

Studies seem to support the 4-5 hours of useful work per day over long periods. It's easy to peak at 8+ for a short time (and twice as easy for personal passion projects) but it wears off.
Exactly. Common methods of execution are putting a tire around your arms and chest and setting you on fire, and cooking you alive in a giant microwave. Just hearing about this stuff is enough to give you nightmares, and that's the whole point. There was an episode of The Americans where someone was killed with the tire method and even on TV it made me sick to my stomach and left me feeling disturbed for several hours.
OT: Why is Thomas Kurian's tie so long [0]?

Attaching a substantially lengthy strip of flappy silk snugly around one's neck seems generally dangerous.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/Ku9cAa8.jpg
Perhaps there's a strategy to reducing debt in the long run that involves taking on more debt in the short term? Spend money to make money as they say.

Slightly off the beaten path, but:

IIRC, roughly, the U.S began transitioning from a creditor nation to a debtor nation around the time of the Nixon handshake. Some argue that period marked the beginning of the end for the U.S as a superpower. Of course, that result has not fully materialized yet - if it will at all.
So actually acquiring stolen cc numbers is very easy - there's a bunch of marketplaces that sell thousands of them. Figuring out a scalable way to extract value out of them, however, is hard. More than visible or invisible barriers, what makes a fraudster want to spend time getting around the defenses of a specific business is the value of the offering (e.g., banks vs an app that sells a service)
If re-establishing the principle of decommoditization is the goal, then I think the solution is simply to ban phones and cameras. This is difficult to enforce, however. Ultimately the problem is similar to that of what happened to hippy counter culture. It becomes cool and those that seek to exploit it will do so. The tie-dye shirt had its day and the culture was offensively exploited by all kinds of entities that had no understanding of the culture nor interest in taking upon the values. Burning man has an advantage here because it is centered around a location, and a difficult one at that. I disagree with the notion of exclusion. Inclusion is a priority to spread the principles and values to those that would benefit, while making the exploitation by corporations and apathetic individuals very very difficult (or just not worth it).
For those without the time to read - there is literally nothing in this article suggesting or alleging any corrupt dealings on the part of former governor Jerry Brown or anyone else. It is about the difficulty and expensive of purchasing all the parcels needed for the right of way, but, again, literally nothing in the article that ties into the parent comments assertion
What kind of work in Alaska?
617M stolen records up for sale on dark web
That said, I'm still waiting for a js framework to come around that uses the shadow dom that isn't terrible in some way. Like something with the light-weight unopinionated-ness of jquery, but modern features. I don't want to use whatever paradigm some framework enforces, just let me use the new features, with whatever paradigm I feel like making myself.
>... I also don't agree that a project should be killed because it's cost has increased ~$20B over what was approved in 2008.

You aren't even close. The fiscal impact statement of what was voted on in 2008 was:

>...State costs of about $19.4 billion, assuming 30 years to pay off both principal ($9.95 billion) and interest ($9.5 billion) costs of the bonds. Payments of about $647 million per year.
When constructed, additional unknown costs, probably in excess of $1 billion a year, to operate and maintain a high-speed train system. The costs would be at least partially, and potentially fully, offset by passenger fare revenues, depending on ridership.[6]

>...First, 10 years of inflation alone from 2008 to 2019 accounts for $10B of price increases.

How are you calculating that? The cumulative rate of inflation from 2008 is < 17%.

>...The annual payments on the bond would be around $1B/year, out of a total annual budget of $200B

How are you calculating the bond payment? (It sounds very low.) In the original ballot measure, where 10 billion was issued in bonds, the payments on the 30 year bonds was estimated to be about $647 million per year. Your total annual budget number is misleading - I've read that only about 22% of the CA budget is discretionary.

>...the laughable assertion that a train from Bakersfield to Merced is a good idea is clearly a face saving measure.

I agree. This is now a train to nowhere and makes people leery about any spending on infrastructure.
Jailbreaking often voids your warranty.

If it's already out of warranty,then ok. But know the risks.
Installing a browser by default that cannot be uninstalled or even disabled then claiming it's the most installed browser, is a a little bit exaggerated. It's like Microsoft claiming that IE was the most installed browser on PCs, even if a great number of people only ever used it to download Firefox or Chrome.
It seems like the opposite.

The Brexit vote question was: "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or Leave the European Union".

For better or for worse, UK is set to leave the EU, and nothing extra will happen. In other words the question exactly matched the reality -- largely because of rather than in spite of its brevity.

Californian referenda are infamous for containing long confusing texts and for including spending promises. It is precisely by pretending to spell out the details that they fail to match the reality.
"... lower than the abuse rates for other hallucinogens like ecstasy and LSD."

Ecstasy is a stimulant, not a hallucinogen. I thought bloomberg was generally considered to be better at fact checking than that.
Yeah I suppose I should blog it. Never occurred that people would be interested in reading about failures.

A lot of the early stuff was me trying to help my wife with her business. Food made good cash flow but poor profit margins, and because of that the risk was quite high. We flipped to a more traditional role where she helps support my tech ventures now. Tech is high risk, but also much higher margins and thus less risky.

My freelancing career is actually going quite well despite all the setbacks here. The big thing was realizing that payment on a project basis is really bad.

Also it occurred to me when reading this that this is why people go to Silicon Valley. Every country has plenty of cheating, but it's worse in a bad economy, especially when you can get away with it. Dynamics of Silicon Valley make it harder to cheat/deceive someone and run away, so people can focus fully on building their businesses. The other half of failures is due to incompetent management, which is also something that happens much less in SV.
did you build every banking software required or bought some and built only the services? I know some startups in Australia are building similar thing like yours. From what I know they buy software for core banking but provide additional services on top.
I wonder who will be watching this. Instagram Live isn't catching on with users and LinkedIn engagement seems even lower. Maybe they need to combine it with some exclusive content like Office Cribs or something.
Mergers don't improve anything in my experience. Service does not improve (USWest + Qwest + CenturyTel = Centurylink, MileHigh Cable getting swallowed by Comcast come to mind readily), price does not improve, at best stays the same.

This is one of those things were all the search terms are so common that you can't find any specific research or numbers. Very frustrating.
Why couldn't someone else jump ahead and patent S-ketamine first while the racemic mixtures is being sold?
China I suppose? It relies on government subsidies though.
High speed rail down the Peninsula ran into Atherton. Big NIMBY problem.

Personally, I think high speed rail should terminate in Oakland, with a station designed to get you off high speed rail and onto BART in less than two minutes.

I have a paper copy of the Corps of Engineers master plan for the SF Bay Area, 1960-2020. Google scanned this during their book-scanning days, and it's online.[1] They didn't scan the big foldout maps, so it's hard to get the transportation plan from the scanned version.

They thought big. Fill in SF bay south of the Dumbarton Bridge, and part of the north bay, too. Marin was to be for heavy industry. Steel mills in Marin, aluminum smelter at Tiburon. (During WWII, there was much heavy industry in the Mare Island / Richmond area, and some of it was still around in the 1950s, so that didn't seem unreasonable.

Five freeways up the Peninsula - US 101, I-280, CA 1, CA-35 (Skyline Blvd), and one out in the bay on stilts. Traffic jams would be a thing of the past.

A second Bay Bridge was proposed for Candlestick Point to the East Bay. Another bridge to Marin - Embarcadero to Alcatraz to Angel Island to Tiburon.

Little mention of rail.

They saw "electronic business machine manufacturing" and "future products" as the coming thing for the Peninsula. That was insightful for 1958.

Environmental considerations were mentioned in maybe one paragraph. "All available marshlands will be reclaimed by 1975".

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=7141AAAAIAAJ
> but I find myself bookmarking great articles or writing down great books I heard about only to never really find the Time to go back and read them.

Try replacing “can’t find time” with “not a priority”. It means the same in practice and makes for a huge shift in perception and your own personal feekings towards stuff. Especially in the guilt department.

You have more important things to do and that’s okay. When you come across a book that’s important enough you will magically have time for it. Priorities are fun like that.
What young IT professionals want
For projects with federal funding, look at the Davis Bacon Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis–Bacon_Act_of_1931
They were targeting children, who were not capable of giving informed consent. Furthermore, because they were providing financial rewards for installing the app, it was exploitative of the poor.
I don't know if this has anything to do with the decision, but there is also a massive amount of lobbying of the California government by the airlines as Bay Area to/from LA/OC/SD is a major cash cow. Should someone create a more convenient method of getting between the two, it'd be a major loss for them.

The Shinkansen in Japan has to be the most convenient thing I've ever traveled on. Show up 20 min before the train, buy a ticket, two hours later I'm over 200 miles away. Sure the ride itself is longer than the flight, but there are all those other time sinks from flying that no one thinks of - commuting, boarding, security, waiting for your baggage, etc. that add up.

Say I travel from Santa Ana to San Francisco. It takes me 30 minutes to get to the airport, if I'm parking there, say 15 minutes to find a spot and walk to the terminal, up to 30 minutes to get through security, probably 30 minutes at the gate because you make time in case things go wrong, and 30 minutes of boarding. That's 1.5 hours spent (without the commute) before the plane leaves on its 60 minute flight.

A modern high speed train would complete that trip before the plane even left.
Ah, should have RTFA
8 billion is probably not enough to pay for all the added parking needed, cover higher accidents rates, more roads, etc.
> California has 40 million residents, so that comes out to a $2000 loan on a per person basis.

40% of Californians don't pay any state income tax so it's closer to $5000 per person. As for the project reducing unemployment- good luck with that being they are only going to finish a 110 mile section between Merced and Bakersfield.
Well, technically, it uses jQuery’s “slim” build which omits some features such as AJAX, but yes. You do have to pull in all of jQuery’s slim build to run it
$77 billion doesn’t sound like a big number because of the absolute amount of money involved. It sounds like a big number because similar projects in other places cost far, far less. That number represents an incredible amount of waste. I think they should focus on getting the project to cost a reasonable amount and then do it, rather than either accepting it as-is or abandoning it.
Assuming they mean MDMA when they say Ecstasy, it does in fact have hallucinogenic effects (depending on the person and dosage) in addition to being a stimulant.
They would have to build new track across the California Coast Ranges[1]. Mountain crossings are expensive and difficult, and mountain crossings that need to maintain the curve and grade requirements of HSR are even more so. The crazy cost overruns for mountain crossings (this one and the Tehachapi Pass) are what killed the project.

This new de-scoped HSR project is basically "the part of HSR phase 1 that doesn't require us to cross any mountains". In California that's obviously very limiting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Coast_Ranges
This is the wrong comparison. They are paring down to the Merced-Bakersfield line to avoid spending the full $77B.
I haven't watched any of those shows but estimating those specs easily gets that high, esp when there's the risk
I can think of a number of people in high places (including several recent presidents) who should not have the right to vote, then.
as in, the backup host connects to the target machines and pulls them back to itself?

Biggest concern I have with that is that to get around file permissions, the backup user needs to be effectively root.

It's much more of a problem is the backup server gets compromised and now they also have root level creds to every target machine.

I'm not sure if something like apparmor or selinux could allow for some sort of 'read-only root' type user, and if that would actually be safe in teh circumstances.
Apparently an unpopular opinion. Anybody could have predicted this outcome because it keeps happening over and over again while a whole new generation of women line up to chase the wild goose.
Currently, a person living in Nagoya, Japan would have a one-way commute to central Tokyo of about 100 minutes. That’s almost too long to live in one city and work in the other. But after the Linear is completed, that commute time drops to 40 minutes each way—much more reasonable. Tokyo-Osaka drops to 67 minutes.

Daily commuting may still be cost-prohibitive, but the distance between business people who want to hold a meeting is basically negligible at that point.

Linking three major cities that are 250 miles apart as the crow flies, with about one hour of commute, and on time. If they can do it in Japan, why can’t we?
Any sufficiently advanced self-interest is indistinguishable from altruism.
Of course California has a prevailing wage law.

https://www.dir.ca.gov/Public-Works/Prevailing-Wage.html
Yeah I can see how some people would get discouraged. But I grew up playing roguelikes. It was normal to try something, fail, then try again, understanding why one approach didnt work. It's actually fun to start something after a previous failure, because you'll be excited to try the path not taken.

If anything the mistakes I do regret is trying to settle for a comfy corporate job after selling my company. The failures were out of my control, and there was little learned from it.
Not $3.5B of it. It sounds like the governor really would like to light it on fire rather than give it back:

> “Abandoning high-speed rail entirely means we will have wasted billions of dollars with nothing but broken promises and lawsuits to show for it,” he said. “And by the way, I am not interested in sending $3.5 billion in federal funding that was allocated to this project back to Donald Trump.”
It’s not that simple. EPS (earnings per share) is a key metric tracked by investors, and buybacks are a guaranteed way to increase that, vs the riskiness of r&d spending
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Violent drug cartels stifle Mexican science
It's a mix, We're building all of our own customer facing software and many things behind the scenes as well.

For instance we integrate with providers for KYC/AML requirements and do not build that in house but for Billpay we are using a combination of APIs that connect directly to billers' sites and building our own tools to discover how to send ACH's or mail paper check when necessary
Typically when you use a crisis to lobby for legislation, you come with a whole bag of items that are useful to the general purpose, but are perhaps not directly relevant to the incident the response is directed at.
This is the fear as I watch my 6-yr old son enjoy oodles of video time. But what to do? Create an equally damaging anxiety of self-denial? What an age, for better or for worse.
Ask HN: Who's applying Bayesian statistics in industry?
Very curious — is anyone out there applying Bayesian stats to business/industry problems?
Some ML face generator I assume
> You aren't even close. The fiscal impact statement of what was voted on in 2008 was: ... $10B

The $10B was not billed as the total cost of the project, just bond that voters approved. The rest of the project was to be funded with "TBD" sources. I believe the initial cost estimates were in the $40B range. [1]

> How are you calculating that? The cumulative rate of inflation from 2008 is < 17%.

I assumed 2% annual inflation over 10 years, inflating an initial cost estimate of $50B.

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Yes-on-Prop-1A-A-21st...: "The project is expected to cost $40 billion and take eight years to complete, according to proponents."
counter counterpoint: the NYC metro is far better than no metro at all.
> Merced, Madera, Fresno, Tulare, and Kern counties have a combined population of ~2.9 million. For the $77 billion price tag, you could buy a Toyota Prius for every single resident of the entire area served by HSR (including children), and still have ~$8 billion left over.

The $77 billion price tag was the most recent year-of-expenditure estimate (which kept going up,in no small part because the year of expenditures kept getting later) for the whole originally planned system (well, the SF to LA part, not including the Sacramento and San Diego connections that were to be done afterwards.)

The small segment Newsome refers to isn't anywhere close to $77B.
Maybe it's time to contract out the entire operation of the California state government to some more trustworthy entity. Someone who can actually build public infrastructure. Someone like France. Or possibly Singapore.
How is that comparable? Seems like a non sequitur
That's impressive!

I agree, I think where distraction comes into play is an inhibitor to actually get started reading.
While that sentiment is certainly alive and well, that's not the actual reason why the OpenBSD crowd is not gung-ho about Rust: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=151233345723889&w=2

The takeaway of that thread is that OpenBSD's "shut up and code" mantra is applicable here. If you want a Rusty OpenBSD, then start replacing pieces of OpenBSD's C codebase with Rust (you might have to fork OpenBSD for awhile in the process).

You'll probably run into quite a few issues. Most severely, OpenBSD must be self-hosting (i.e. able to compile itself) on every hardware platform on which it runs; if a modification causes that to be no longer true, then either that hardware target must be dropped or the modification must be rejected. Considering that Rust doesn't support compiling for all the hardware platforms OpenBSD supports (let alone compiling a rustc that actually does run natively on each platform), Rust is immediately a nonstarter.
Not sure what you mean? I don't use exwm but my emacs gets stuck e.g. when tramp-mode is connecting to ssh. This is not a problem for tasks I use emacs for, but if my entire OS gets stuck because I'm trying to connect a server, I'd get annoyed.
OTOH, somebody commuting via train doesn't want to rent a car every day.
In Windows 10 at least it's Edge.
Empathogen-entactogen with both stimulant and hallucinogen properties. You expose a(n) (over)simplified understanding and aren't really contributing, since you aren't a subject matter expert. Any given class of drug may have any number of additional effects outside of it's class, depending on structure and interactions. This example especially is not a complicated one.

Or expand the name, and recognise it as MDMethamphetamine.
What's the average course of antidepressants, though? I know in my case it's been quite a lot longer than 4 months...
620M Account Details for Sale on Dark Web
Testing isn't everything but it's important
I disbelieve in your "easy enough". Certainly it is a problem that the plans for high speed rail never solved.

You already pointed out that Los Angeles was a problem. For San Francisco the route chosen ran into problems 30 miles south of San Jose, where they were planning to use existing rails (at slower speeds). And once you're in San Jose, you still have a long ways to go to get into San Francisco.

See https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-train-... for verification.
I guess that's what you call a disaster recovery test and they were caught as unprepared.
Don't know if this is related, but after initially being excited to hear about GraphQL, I was very disappointed to find that it doesn't seem to offer any way to (in effect) express joins.

Am I missing something here? Has this been addressed?

Thanks.
Agreed, also LSD doesn't have a measurable abuse rate. It is literally anti-abuse.