skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, there is nothing to manage in Netlify. Just first time connect the git repo during sign up procedure. Additional benefits (at least for starter) are 1 click SSL management. They also provide functions and form, but I have not used them so not aware of how useful they are. :)

Sure they are not a huge improvement compared to your setup. But streamlining the procedure for someone not familiar with the pipeline is a great benefit.
They also kicked out Karl Peterson, who designed the first MVP logo (the diamond with the large MVP inside it) and wrote about 3000+ reply posts a year in various visual basic groups. The reason? He was a VB6 MVP and very vocal against VB.NET. Yes, you can't have the spear head of a community you just kicked in the nuts with a 'VB.NET' in the program that is designed to promote that successor tech, now can we...
Well the previous poster was talking about eminent domain so in that case the government would set the price tag as it always does in eminent domain cases. However, eminent domain need not be used. The government could also purchase the copyright. Or the government could purchase a license that says something like "anyone subject to this law may copy/disseminate/etc. it" and simply make that a requirement of its procurement processes. Maybe the ICC doesn't want to play ball (and assuming no eminent domain), but in that case they wouldn't get any money at all (at least not from anyone bound by such a policy).

Of course this would change the business model, but it's not like there isn't a way to monetize the work in such a system.
The notion that anything the law references becomes the law is quite absurd. Healthcare laws require insurance companies to cover the latest in preventive cares. Does that suddenly make various medical journals part of the law? Of course not.
That brand is disgustingly ironic.
Macros make some people happy, so what, all languages should have macros?

And, oh yea, consistent formatting between projects makes me happy. Different people have different preferences and they can’t all be accommodated.

Not sure how me advocating the trade off of consistent formatting over allowing formatting idiolects makes me “psychotic.”
Might be time to plug my very orgmode-esque Vim plugin: https://github.com/nfd/disorganiser

I recently came to the same conclusion as the article but was dismayed by the performance of the popular Vim plugin (and wasn't ready to switch to emacs), so I wrote a very, very minimal implementation which is enough to get me headings, folding, tables (including formula solving, the syntax for which is currently left as an exercise for the reader), unordered lists, dates, and various other things.

It's very much a work in progress (in particular, the syntax files expect a graphical Vim) but it's definitely improved my note-taking. Requires Python 3 support.
I use Zotero with [Zotero Connector](https://www.zotero.org/download/connectors) plugin for Firefox. When saving a webpage to Zotero, it will also save a snapshot of that webpage (a configurable option in Zotero preferences). I tried it with latest two Distill posts, and didn't see any missing images. Actually for those interactive images, there will be a static version and an interactive version of that image in the snapshot, which is acceptable for me. Another problem more annoying is that those inline citations will show up even if you don't hover over them, thus covering underlying texts.
You could train your classifier on a labeled private dataset, use it to classify unlabeled samples from a public dataset, then throw away your original classifier and use its classifications on the public dataset to train a replacement. That new classifier will only leak information that could also have been derived from the public dataset, if it had been labeled.

I can think of two ways that procedure can fail:

1. If some aspects of the private data aren't represented in the public dataset (e.g. codewords in classified documents), the final classifier won't recognize them. On the other hand, I'm not sure whether there's an actual use case for making a classifier public that's required to work on data that can only be obtained from a non-public source.

2. If some aspects of your labels are sensitive (e.g. which political opinions you agree with) then labeling the public dataset retains that information. In that case, you'd likely need to apply techniques similar to those studied for removing racial or gender bias from a model.
If it could be made 1) openly 2) efficiently 3) for a good cause (i.e. something where companies pay for computing power, but likely not crypto mining) then I'd be all for it. It's at least a workable micro-transaction.

"You aren't a subscriber. Do you want to see the article while running a cpu intensive script, or pay $0.50, or pay $10 for a yearly subscription?"

I'm not too optimistic this would work however. Bandwidth issues, and the short stay would make it very tricky to do something efficiently.
To be fair, you get 100 submissions/month for free. And since you get drop in honeypots and reCAPTCHA those are typically valid submissions.
The history of these companies (also the British east India company, and the various British and French companies of the Americas) is a massive part of modern history, and how the world got to where we are.

They were richer than monarchies, had armies, controlled massive colonies, founded cities, printed money, made international trade deals/wars. They ran circles around the older form of monarchy-run-empires like the Portuguese and Spanish. Late European colonial empires inherited their empires.

When Marx wrote about international capitalism (eg capitalism as a "fourth estate") in the 1840s, this is what he was referring to.
Site appears to be down already anyway... slashdotted?
Meh!

Men are not some robots that us pessimists programmed to turn into all the list of attributes that you just now prescribed when met with so and so situation.

Just because I bought a cat or dog doesn't mean I am going to abuse by feeling entitled and owning it.

With mail order women, women get just the same rights as any other women in marriage. Police would be after me otherwise. It is the responsibility of such women who voluntarily participate as mail order brides to educate themselves of their rights to assert them whenever apposite. Mail order transaction is perfectly legal and has no more abuse risk statistically than other kinds of mainstream marriages.

>It is not like they would be ordering her for any other reason.

Actually plenty said it is like they would be ordering her for other reasons - love, companionship and marriage.

You are again and again drawing premature conclusions like "People who own a kitchen knife are damn sure to be murderers!".

Udik explains it better -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19622835
> Rockefeller was the first man in history to ever accumulate more than $1 billion (nominal dollars) in total wealth.

The first person to reach $1 billion USD isn't that impressive, since USD has only been around for a short period of time.

Other people before Rockefeller were richer, including a large number of monarchs, emperors, etc.

Augustus Caesar, for instance, was once estimated to have a personal net worth of $4.7 trillion, substantially more than Rockefeller.
Reading the comments here, it feels like people miss the whole point of markdown.

Markdown's raison d'être is, "if you follow these conventions when doing ASCII art formatting, the my program can transform this to HTML or whatever other format".

The conventions being mostly the ones used in the pre-HTML email era, like underlining headings with a bunch of ======.

Orgmode is completely different to that. Orgmode is an "outliner/GTD" at heart, but this aspect has been buried under a ton of features.

Then if you want "prawfishunal qvalitat" advanced formatting, typesetting and layout control what you really want is something like Latex. Yet another whole different thing.
The purpose of advertising is to manipulate you into buying things you don't need, not to inform you about a product that is useful. Turn on the TV, or the radio, or any website, and show me one advert that is purely informative.
In my country (Denmark) all companies reports everything to the IRS. Most people just have to review their numbers (on IRS website). Most people rarely has to alter that info or add to it. It is rare that a private person needs to hire an accountant to help with the tax filling.
The basic questions about universal basic income
I sure hope your job doesn't involve anything that is related to websites. Regulatory capture of this kind will utterly kill small website operators.
8MB fits in L3 cache these days.
Yeah, HDFS is a toy in comparison. It's barely comparable to the original GFS, which was retired... Almost a decade ago?
Your family’s only measure on whether you’re alive or not is the yearly birthday reminder from Facebook?

In all seriousness, what do you expect them to do? They can’t have a checkbox “I am dead” for you to click after you pass, so they’re using a bit of data science to try and reduce the heartache of accidentally reminding someone when you might be dead.

I’m no fan of facebook, I don’t have an account and I think they are a net negative in the world, but sometimes they’re just trying to do the right thing, and credit where it’s due
A story I know first hand:

An unemployed PHP web developer struggled for 2 years to get a job. She had taken time off to have children. In that time PHP had acquired pariah status.

I suggested that she do a Udacity "front end developer" course. A thousand dollars and 3 months later, she finished the course, found it valuable and obtained a job. She was promoted to project manager/leader a few months later.
I don't look at automation as the bad guy. In many cases, automating an industry changes the overall question, which can lead to further answers, that end up creating more employment.

For a start, who will create the tools? The manual labourers are the experts on what the tools need to be able to do? Secondly, if automation decreases the price of a product, it will often expand the market for it, and thus also related goods and services. But also, cheaper, automated products may make related products viable which previously weren't due to excessive cost.

IMHO, automation can increase economic activity sufficiently to absorb any labour excess, however it definitely needs the right planning and control. I think relying on the free market is too simplistic.
It does look nice, and I'd be more than happy to put some effort and use Org-Mode, instead of Markdown, if only
- There was a standardized release outside emacs which would consistently provide the same results.
- There was an easy way to render documents (like the Perl script markdown has)
- There was serious support for plugins for my editor for easy rendering to pdf/html/whatever.
"becomes too easy for the government to nearly invisibly turn up the tax rate"

Or not.

Source. I live in a country where the vast majority have income taxes handled by their employer. It would still be front page news if income tax rates increased or decreased.

Painful transparency is just pain.
>How do you remember things?

I don't. As I mentioned in a previous post, without photos to look at, my past is a complete, impenetrable, black hole. I've been aware of this for a very long time, but never thought it strange (I don't know any different). The tape in my head is non-visual and seems to only stretch a few weeks back. Photos are the only way for me to relive these moments.

>How do you read the books without imagining what is happening? How else do you convert letters into meaning?

I was a voracious reader as a child, reading dozens of novels per year. I can't see the story, but I still like hearing it. By the sounds of things I am missing a very large part of what makes reading enjoyable (this makes me sad).

>What happens in your head when someone says "a car"?

I unlock the "car" concept in my mind. This does not include an image. I guess it's the same for you if you think of something with no embodiment such as a taste.

> How do you imagine your future?

I consider things that I think will make me happy and work toward them. No images are part of this.

>And fear is also visual

For me it is visceral. I don't see anything, but am filled with an unpleasant sensation or dread if the fear is strong enough.
This should not be downvoted, it is historically accurate, the VOC imported 10's of thousands of slaves to do work that they were not prepared to pay for.

It's a nice example of there being a huge crime at the foundation of huge riches, the VOC was definitely not a clean company by any stretch of the imagination and to this day the names of those who were responsible for the worst atrocities are proudly on display in the streets of various Dutch cities. Nothing to be proud of.
So cool :-) I found 2 interesting hacks on first visit.
Both users and bots use the same API. All that's different is that Bots have 'Bot' in their auth headers. That and some endpoints are limited to just Bot accounts.

Bot on normal account detection is based on outlier usage statistics from regular accounts, like too many requests or something.

All Ripcord requests (to discord) actually have Ripcord in their User Agent header, discord can immediately detect it's usage, they have not banned anyone for using the software specifically, only for the same reason they have been banning Selfbots (Users ending up spamming the API)
Getting syntax errors for Office Libre
Same in NL. I just press next-next-next-finish like I'm installing software in 2005.
Yeah. I use markdown hosted file and do the markdown -> html conversion entirely clientside via http://dynalon.github.io/mdwiki/#!index.md. I don't think it's possible to do that at all with orgmode?
Wow, really? Because GP describes my exact experiences.

I've job hopped for going on ten years now, and every slot I've inhabited was just a bunch of self-important, pendantic board game experts throwing their weight around, until they struck fear or induced mental fatigue, and wore you down to get their way. Nasty pieces of shit, barking like tiny dogs about syntactic preferences and vocabulary pissing contests, nothing more.

There were a handful of rare birds at one place, and when I say rare, I mean it, because even inside the company, there were all of maybe ten people that sharp, and there rest were posturing imposters.

Let's recount some of the worst. Fat nerds, pissed off about constant usage versus scooped variables, and getting in people's faces about JavaScript factoids that lack real value. Girls who code waiting to receive their daily pair-programming ass kissing session, because girl (that's right, TWO X chromosomes, AND I sit at a desk all day! Please, please, no autographs!). Meanwhile, numerous 40 and 50 year old women lumber about, chatting up fellow parents about their latest medical condition, news about their kids, or both. Walking talking dick-for-brains brogrammers talking about last years epic spring break bikini contests, while swiping through their phone's photo album brimming with tits and ass, as if they're TRYING to provoke the fat nerds into an active shooter incident. Non-binary conversation chores scuttling about with darting eyes, because they're walking around in their latest experimental underwear, dosed on horomones and looking for reasons to name drop pronouns and ask if you'll be attending the activist meeting on Wednesday. True robots that lead you to question if the machines are already walking among us. Tempermental, neurotic Jews. Culture shocked Indians that rush home at five sharp, to clock in at their arranged marriage. The extremely rare black guy, extroverting blackness as hard as possible to compensate for role he's expected to play in whatever buddy movie Mel Gibson can't do another sequel for. And, oh yeah, Asians because someone lied and told them programming was really about math. Also, godless communist Russians keeping a low profile because their smuggling malware payloads behind firewalls for Putin.

Is that everybody? Let's see... Who am I missing... Oh yeah, inept QA disembarking from the short bus, and autistic security "experts" incapable of engaging in conversation that doesn't involve Warhammer 40K trivia.
Love Bugs Game
'People make it sound like they are able to see the same with their eyes closed as they can see with their eyes open.'

It's a spectrum of vividness. At one extreme, a few per cent of people are classified as aphantasics. At the other extreme, people have a photo realistic mind's eye. Most people sit somewhere inbetween.

I don't think people are necessarily overestimating. Some people just imagine the world very clearly.

I would say that I can see objects in my mind with something close to photo realism. The only time that things become hazy is if I imagine the entire city in which I live. I fly round imagining every street and I can see familiar areas very clearly, but if I stop and examine a street I don't know so well, I can't remember which exact shop is where. But that seems to be a problem of memory, not visualisation.
The argument isn't that Markdown is bad because there are competing implementations. The argument is that Markdown is bad because there is no standard for those implementations to adhere to, so they end up being wildly incompatible. With HTML, there will be browser differences, but there's a pretty well-defined standard which browsers try to adhere to; there will be bugs, but at least you can know you're writing standards-compliant HTML, and then work around particular browser engines as necessary.

You say Markdown has a common set of features, but what is that common set? There's no standard, and I find myself surprisingly frequently struggle with figuring out what's the correct way in a particular markdown engine to do what I need to do.

An example is that in Reddit's markdown; this text:

```
if (true) {
console.log("hi");
}
```

will all end up as inline code, with all the newlines and extra whitespace stripped out. The correct way to do it in Reddit's markdown is to hit the space bar (n+1)*4 times before each line, where n is the indentation level. Some (but presumably not all) other markdown engines would render it as a code block.

Markdown engines are also wildly inconsistent about when they treat something as a link, and whether they require a blank line between a paragraph and code blocks or lists.

They seem to mostly agree about how explicit links and bold and emphasis and headings work though, so if that's your consistent common set of features, I suppose you're right.
Night Wolves Game
The paper agrees with you that the fork models had a reason to exist and that is is perfect for shells.

They also point out that on modern hardware you often should want to write multithreaded multiprocess application.

Their main criticism of fork is that it does not compose at any level of the OS (as it cannot be implemented over a different primitive)

I understand that a lot of people here dislike Microsoft for good reason (not only historical), but drawbacks in fork() are well known and recognized, here they point out that it is also hard-to-impossible to implement as a compatibility layer if the kernel does not support fork.

Also:

> Microsoft "researchers" can stuff it and their company's flagship piece of shit OS.

Do you have any reason to insult Microsoft researchers? They have plenty of citations in this paper of other researchers that appear to agree with them. This type of comments does not appear constructive to me
"If one crashes, a new one is spawned."

I suppose that makes sense on an OS on which crashing is expected behaviour, though some people would want to know what bug caused the crash and whether that bug has security implications.
Palm Bark Textures
That example doesn't serve the main website, like all netlify functions they can only handle requests under the .netlify route for functions https://express-via-functions.netlify.com/.netlify/functions...

Whereas on Zeit Now the root of the website can be a web server written in multiple languages, and offer the ability to make your own "Lambda Builder" if necessary https://zeit.co/docs/v2/deployments/builders/overview
Blackwater/Xe/Academi/whatever they will whitewash their name to next.
Yes, but made up as conventions between people who need a practical way of communicating something. If there is no such need, and the names are not practical for communication, it's more of an in-joke.

Somehow this reminds me of the Borges' tale "Funes the memorious". Being blessed or cursed with a prodigious and absolutely infallible memory, Funes invents his own numeration system which simply assigns to each number a different, arbitrary word from the dictionary. He claims that saying "Napoleon", for example, is way faster than "one thousand two hundred seventy six".
South sea company too.

That said, you could make a similar case about apple. If you measure by dividends, I think the VOC's lead over all those companies grows by a lot.
Every time I read about farm mechanization I remember the Ralph Borsodi work on the book "The Distribution Age". Every efficiency you gain in production scale you tend to lose in distribution efficiency.

The key to sustainable farming is a decentralized small scale. This is the only way to keep transportation, marketing and preservation of the goods low.
First, one needs to distinguish between interface inheritance and implementation (class) inheritance. When one talks about composition vs inheritance, one usually means implementation inheritance.

- Inheritance is static. Composition can be dynamic.
- Composition avoids "fragile base class" problem.
- Modifying base class requires access to source code. Composition does not.
Maybe it's just me, but PDF is harder to navigate/code/copy-paste than a plain HTML page.

I would be curious to know which tools peoples preferring PDF as documentation uses.
But Markdown was advertised as "a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers" [1]. The raison d'être as you stated is not an end goal but a possible benefit. Gruber may have thought that the extensibility of Markdown is done by raw HTML; now we know that's not enough.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
This is shockingly similar to my own mind's eye. In fact, I rely on it quite heavily in my day to day life. I need to visualize things in my mind in order to understand them -- whether if be a code structure, a system design, or a friend discussing their day.

It's so intense that I have to exert conscious effort in order to not get locked in a reverie. If I'm too deep in thought, I literally can't see anything. Not to confuse this with some AR type overlay, just that my focus in purely on the mental imagery to the exclusion of the outside world. Come to think of it, I wonder if this is something my brain developed as a coping mechanism, as I routinely sleep with my eyes open.

I also have absurdly vivid dreams that sometimes span multiple waking sessions; I liken them to movies.

On the other hand, and I believe a direct consequence this: I am absolutely horrible with directions -- and let's not even get started on my attention span.

I can only imagine how people with aphantasia experience the world. I wonder if they are more "present" than those without it.
Although the author makes some good points, it genuinely reads like a... proper Geocities conspiracy page. Wow, blast from the past.
Resisting is a perfectly valid choice.

But the key is that before resisting you need to decide what you want to achieve, what will be the cost, and whether it is worth it.

The fact is that in some situations (but not all) it is pointless to resist because you won't be able to succeed and might get burnt in the process.
Big fan of Univers. The best thing about it for me is the sophistication of the letter spacing - Helvetica is just sort of banged together, and of course in modern usage is often set 'tight but not touching' for design reasons, but the spacing in Univers is so carefully done that the text has a lovely rhythm on the page. Frutiger was a genius.