skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inactive/Failing Mobile Apps: The Many Benefits of Regular App Updates
Using sci-kit learn to categorize personal expenses
Ask HN: How to Bypass Medium.com Paywall?
hey guys

Does anyone know a working method to bypass the Medium.com paywall? I googled a lot and nothing worked for me, even browser plugins etc all does not work.

If anyone could share some lights, I would be very appreciated!

PS: I know I can pay them, just please don't criticize me if possible
Discusses and documents opposition to technological advances, through economic, political, social (labour), financial, power, and other dynamics. Many of which may be familiar today.

Sterns research in this area inspired his stuent research assistant to write the short story "Trends", in 1939:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trends_(short_story)

https://archive.org/stream/Astounding_v23n05_1939-07_dtsg031...

The assistant was a Russian-born Brooklyn-resident of Jewish descent, Isaac Asimov.

Full text available via Sci-Hub[1]:

http://sci-hub.tw/10.1177%2F000271623820000104

________________________________

Notes:

1. Ironic irony duly noted.
Im generally not a fan of web apps but this is incorrect.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation
I also found this statement bizzare, but after some thinking it kind of makes sense, in a way. It depends on how you define “China”. Taiwan keeps a lot of things from the olden days, but that China is very, very different from the one today (thanks to the Cultrual Revolution). Japan also gets to keep much of the same China heritage, making Taiwan more similar to Japan culturally than to China today. CCP makes everything wierd.
Is there a non-facebook link to their video?
Socks is one of the surprisingly good suggestions
True but future companies’ decisions to sell will in almost all cases not be based on FB’s reputation - even if it goes down the gutter - than the material terms of the acquisition.

And as for those that don’t get acquired, I think we can all take a quick look at Snap’s market performance and bleeding execs. That’s not to say that FB will not be disrupted - everyone eventually is. Just that it doesn’t seem likely to happen anytime in the near future.
No, but I think another prevalent one is the "you need less sleep as you get older." Just skimmed this piece on sleep and aging also points out some interesting variables when it comes to how people report their sleep based on race, gender, etc.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995617/
Nervos CKB in a Nutshell: Blockchain Evolution
Can any Google engineers comment on the the large amount of negativity towards AMP found in these HN comments (and pretty much every other HN forum discussing AMP)? I can't imagine working on a project and seeing so many people (especially given the average education level on HN) who can't stand it. I want to hear from you guys about this!
I believe Java is more than 20 years old.
Elixir seems awesome
I've seen one of these too a few years back. I'm waaay into astronomy but, in addition to being very exciting to see, it was still a bit unsettling because you have no immediate way of gauging how large the thing is, whether it might flatten a city nearby, or be 'the big one' (super slim chance, but tell that to your adrenaline).
He doesn’t get credit for all the good stuff and always makes it a point to more-than-generously _attribute_(not share) the credit to the leaders within FB responsible for that stuff.
It is. Happens all the time. What are you really after?
They have an English version in Singapore. They relented on the continuous loop, but you still hear it quite often.

They also have hilariously bad Engrish on their in-store signs. I assume it's deliberate, because anyone I talked to there speaks English just fine.

The baked yams the article mentions are really super popular here, too.
Those are governed by international agreements and treaties, but if the Continental Shelf extends further than 200 NM (the EEZ) then states still have rights up to 350 NM for mineral and hydrocarbon extraction.

I am not sure what happens further out than 350 NM but I am sure there is some UN agreement on that too. Not sure if any drilling takes place more than 350 NM.
Charge more. Delegate.
I know people who believe the alcohol one, and it isn't completely idiotic, since alcohol is a depressant and may help you get to sleep. But the article is correct that sleep quality drops so much that it is not worth it.
Oh, you are going to 'love' Daiso then. Everything 200 Yen. (Or 2 SGD where I live.)
Whatever your mind drifts too while hoping to sleep- don’t engage with that for hours before.

Also, aim for a full night of sleep. 5 hours is not enough. Being unreasonably underslept can make it harder to fall asleep. By the time you’re noticing major productivity hits you’re likely deep in the red.
> Why not just build more universities?

Because universities are fortresses designed to protect the weirdos who can't survive in the real world. We're passing through this awesome enlightenment phase where there's room for everyone. But you can't just throw one up on a thursday afternoon. Universities need a kind of social contract. (i realize the one true scotsman weakness here, but i think the point holds)

Universities are where you stick the rich kid that's not strong enough to run the family business. Sometimes, you don't even have to be rich.

The thing that's neat is sometimes an idea pops out of a university that's pretty good. Newtonian physics and evolution spring to mind. i'm obviously nuts.

i would encourage you to read [1]. I'm not exactly making an appeal to authority, it's more of a here's a much better, less cynical interpretation of what i'm trying to say.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~vl/notes/dijkstra.html
Probably yes. In browser history updates, browsers will trigger a regular page navigation if the domain changes.

I suppose with keep-alive, all sub/top domains in the same TLS certificate, and immutable far-future caches, one could pull off an animation at ~5 fps.
TLDR, birds have nothing to eat, and freeze to death if they stay in cold weather for too long. They are mobile, and move to places where that is not the case.
You don’t need to own the underlying, you just need to define your risk by, for example, buying a far out of the money call. You would need to have funds to cover the buying power tied up but many options plays like this would be done over a short period so it can be viable.
I presume it's because a thing following a great circle from Russia would have the thing coming in from the north?
It sounds a bit like Five Below here in America.
That's the biggest problem of our time in that ownership of tech is being transferred from the user to the corporation in various ways and Google is on the front-line of that... mainly because they built their business on advertising and therefore data mining. That's their forte so everything they do is centered around the objective of data mining. And really Google needs to be slowed down for this reason... and that's only going to happen through government intervention.
Looked it up and it appears to contain lavendar - which iirc is a potential hormone disrupter
Jeff from SC here. Thanks @nobbis!
The CDC page he linked to defines "eliminated", as does his comment: "absence of continuous disease transmission for greater than 12 months". You can have outbreaks of a disease that have been eliminated from a population: the disease can be reintroduced from some other population. But what you don't have is person-to-person transmission within the population.
I find it somewhat amusing that it's mostly thanks to low inflation that Daiso can keep the 200 yen / 2 SGD price point for so long.
The laziness of these articles is astonishing. Myth #5 is "Hitting the Snooze Button". That's not a myth. It's not a claim or belief of any kind.
They are branded Don Don Donki in Singapore.
He's saying detecting skittle colors is "trivial" in the field of computer vision, and he would be correct. A 50 line Python script with a popular classifier library would solve this problem with high accuracy. This is perhaps the easiest problem to solve with CV and would be a great first tutorial for such libraries.
Exactly. If that was a vehicle/projectile, even watching the dashcam videos of it, it's quite obvious that parts of it underwent rapid, unplanned desintegration. So it likely would't have done anything significant if it was (it was not.)
A whole neighborhood run by Google? That's even more dystonian than many Black Mirror episodes.
I mean, does anyone have a scientific threat model for subtle changes in privacy policy? I doubt it. I imagine we’re all just guessing.
I believe once you follow someone, you become federated with their instance. and you potentially receive all content from that instance... I think?

there are also admin controls for managing moderation and federation.
Fair enough. I also live in a upscale residential area of Minato (Azabu Juban). I'm actually considering a move to Shirokane, as Juban is getting a bit too crowded.

I admit I am biased in that my nearest Donki is the Roppongi location.
My favourite example if that kind of store is Miniso. It's a Chinese chain that pretends to be Japanese.
I was more so referring to spacy, where (IIRC) a lot of the lower-level tokenization & parsing is written in Cython, so (I assume) the simple fact that Bling is written in C++ wouldn't explain the huge performance gains.
I would rather not being subjected to the adverts and the associated data mining in the first place. Nothing more creepy than the feeling you are being stalked through your internet journey to sell you yet another useless product you don't want or need.

Creepy and deceitful.
At this point, it should be an official HN rule: "do not read the article, go directly to the comments and speculate what the article is about based on the character-limited title"
Personally, I think Google would be much more competent at designing a good city than the government. Privacy fears are way overblown.

It's popular right now to hate on big US companies, but this project always sounded promising to me, and I really hope they get to finish it. Maybe they would come up with technical innovations that could improve other cities.
NCU researchers make solar cells for room lighting
CA market was so competitive, and with a free and open CAs coming in the future, IdenTrust probably grabbed the opportunity. It would be someone else if it wasn't IdenTrust.

IdenTrust has OV, EV, managed PKI, and even DV certificates with 2 year validity that some legacy organization infrastructure requires.
As mentioned, I've done testing on actual devices on actual high-latency low-bandwith connections, hundreds of times. That's the "facts on the ground".

If you say pretty much every AMP page you've loaded has been instant, please post the specs of the devices and network you've been using for testing.

Additionally, if the latency between the device and the nearest server is over two seconds, the latency to a far server as well as the click latency don't even come into play anymore at all, instead the number of connections needed becomes much more important, and bandwidth also becomes a much larger factor.

Your claim that HTTP/2 would have worked towards better latency on lower connections is also false, on bad mobile connections HTTP/2 actually increases latency, which was a major reason for QUIC aka HTTP/3 in the first place.
Stick to the prole tenured job
Thank you for remembering us ;)
People are concerned. They just don't understand what's what. This is not an easy issue to grok.

A friend is writing a book about privacy, surveillance. I had done some policy work (voting, medical records). He solicited my input. I shared my conclusions. What I was saying didn't match his preconceived notions, so he blew me off.

Some time later, friend contacts me, apologizes.

Him: "You tried to tell me, I just didn't get it yet."

Me: "Yup. Me neither at first. This issue is an ass kicker."
Samsung's folding phone breaks after 1 day
Writing Testable Code. Main Rules
>All of lightedman's comments here are terrible

No, all of my comments regarding HN are terrible - to you.

Sadly, they echo many others. And they, too, have reason.

Pure fact: Shadowbanning is 100% cowardice. It is lazy. It requires zero effort. And all that does is further reinforce our view that the moderation staff is bull-headed, piggish, and outright stupid.

The rest of my comments, in technical threads, are fucking spot-on when it comes to my topics. But those don't get seen, as well as all the other help I've tried to provide by answering questions that people ask here - IN SPITE OF the moderators hiding useful comments AND ONLY UNKILLING THE BAD ONES.
Yeah I should have said "solely a matter of faith."

Many early scientists and alchemists were driven by a desire to discover through theory and experiment the mind of god. Archeology as a field was largely formalized by members of christian societies hoping to find the historical sites of miraculous events, to bolster their faith. Even as these searches strike out in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries, religion still clung to the near universal belief in material of life being different from inanimate matter. The proof in the existence of god was as simple as looking in a mirror--you were made in his image, and so obviously different from the mechanical substances that made up the rest of the world.

The discovery of evolution as a mechanism for the explanation of life, and the later elaboration of life's mechanical nature really closed off the final possibility of there being everyday real-world proof for the existence of god. It was then that the philosophy was adopted that ALL of religion was a matter of faith alone, untestable by science.
C&C also used to stand for the old game series Command & Conquer.
The fact that anybody could say that privacy fears are overblown given what we know today is absolutely surreal.
Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase "autoamputation" to describe the phenomenon of shutting down when overstimulated.

I don't know if his insights have since been confirmed.
Gulp. 177 pages. A book.
This is interesting, and hadn't thought about the cashing out of index funds with age. Given that idea though, the money IS being spent, put back into the economy.
Hackers in popular culture – the curse of being an eternal rebel
I read Hesse in high school, liked Steppenwolf, but found Glass Bead Game quite boring (probably didn't get it, don't remember much about it). Why is it important to you?
I'm using NLP with Spacy for my slack bot and it's awesome! Glad to see they're offering a more advanced course to use their library.
The cost as well as the duration of the process has been revised several times since 2011, and will be revised again in the decades to come. It is nonsense to put a definitive figure on it now. Or in 20 years.
You expected anything less from Knuth?
Unfortunately, if your "paranoia" successfully protects you, you can't prove that nothing bad happened because of it.

The world has a terrible habit of not counting bad things that should have happened but didn't, even in cases where we know with a fair degree of confidence that it should have gone worse.

Prime examples:

Y2K is often remembered as "Ha! Can you believe they ever thought that was going to be a real problem!"

It was predicted the Kuwait oil fires would burn for years and be a global environmental catastrophe. They were put out in six months.

We didn't celebrate this amazing success on par with the hand wringing we had done about the expected outcome. No one danced in the streets at this glorious news that we averted disaster globally. Instead, it was a minor footnote in stories with more drama.
Serious question: from a user perspective, isn't spam going to be insanely bad in the Fediverse? How do you stop spam without a central authority?
Exact opposite for me. I used to sleep really well. Since I started higher volume running, sleeping has been a challenge. It's only been a few months, so I'm hopeful that it's temporary.
IIRC, Brin's radical transparency thesis doesn't address ownership of one's personal data.
It doesn't look like there's any federation right now, the test site (https://dev.lemmy.ml/) says "Federation into the ActivityPub network is on the roadmap."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19179407
Muji is interesting in that many individual stores only carry specific departments (which are listed on the website).

The one in Zest Oike, Kyoto for example was quite small and dominated by a very large selection of socks.
I suspect the parent's confusion is due to the misapplication of antibiotics to treat viral infections (it's not really clear if viruses are alive or what, but, don't take abx for a cold please). However, as you note, antibiotics do treat other things like yeast/microorganisms in addition to bacteria. For whatever reason you'll more often see antifungals described as "antifungal agents" rather than antibiotics.

Anyhow, fungal infection is bad news, often systemic, hard to eliminate.
Except that if you build something on a model that it is based on sound logic and math, it will have a much higher probability of working than otherwise.

Also, specific to Engineering, there are countless tools that help making sure your product will have a high probability of working as intended, anything from CAD tools, simulation tools (which it could be argued are a more automated way of applying logic and math), QA processes, etc.
Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/remote-for-remote-ok
The Machine that made everything
The Psychology of Getting Julian Assange, Part 1 (February 2019)
New York county announces new ban to fight measles outbreak
AKA: "No good deed goes unpunished."

That last line is all I'll remember about this article. It makes the whole thing into an unnecessary, personal attack.
I went to the Akihabara location while in Tokyo, mostly to see the gamers. Went up 6 escalators and was not disappointed by the intensity of local gaming going on up there. There were dudes who’d brought their own electric fans and towels to keep them comfortable while they DDR’d the night away.
Sure they can, sell the damn stock.
I bought a suitcase there and used it to travel the world. I would definitely consider it "useful".
This is important and high quality research. It deserves an Ig Noble nomination.
Not OSM, but I have been using HERE[0] with success for a while (if only to diversify off of Google products). Curious to know if anyone has done more research/has an opinion on their platform.

[0] https://wego.here.com/
Google is really leaving the door open here for Apple to step in and offer a services bundle with a monthly fee that doesn’t involve stuffing advertising into every nook and cranny of the user experience.

I generally prefer Google’s services to Apple’s but there might be a tipping point soon where I’m willing to sacrifice some features in exchange for a generally less creepy product.
How long ago was that? OSMAnd+ has come along in leaps and bounds in the past couple of years.
Yeah, no kidding. A guy tried to find a way for his company to positively contribute to society and failed while absorbing losses. So he should be lambasted? What did Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein do?

Judging from his articles[1] he's a professional kvetch.

[1] https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/robin-kaiser-schatzl...
No it does not, we are thinking about it. Extra segmentation of tokens is a great idea, I only don't like (who cares? :-)) inconsistencies that BPE sometimes produce. Looking at how BERT tokenizers for example: "tranformers" is one token but "transformer" is segmented into "transform" "##er". Word "outperforms" becomes "out", "##per", "##forms". It is truly amazing that BERT works so well with such tokenization.
- Or there are investors controlling thought by down voting legit opinions.
Seisent, ChoicePoint, others were tracking everyone in North America by at least 2005, with partial coverage for Central America, South America, Caribbean. Just from public records, which at the time was ~1600 data feeds. Seisent's sales person told us the NSA bought one of their clusters and included their own data feeds (communications, transactions).

I assume by now multiple parties, both private and governmental, know everything about everyone, living and dead, in near real time.
Ask HN: Has Anyone Reinvented NvALT as a PWA?
I was a long time user of nvALT on my Mac before switching to Windows a couple of years ago.

Aside from Quicksilver and Terminal, nvALT is the app I miss most on Windows. I'm especially attached to two features: 1) the search and compose field are the same field, just hit enter to create a new note with the search query as the title, and 2) the application is designed to index a directory of txt files.

Has anyone reinvented nvALT for the web?

It's a separate topic, but I would also be interested in Windows or Linux apps in this vein. I imagine on Linux the answer is vim or emacs? I haven't yet tried either.
Graze – Modern Content Stack
Building a Better Paris in Assassin's Creed Unity
The Hawaii stores were taken over from Daiei (Japanese supermarket chain) and I don't think they've changed that much, still a different animal from the Japanese Donki stores I've been to. In comparison they've opened a couple Daisos in Hawaii recently and the goods are identical to what you find in any Daiso in Japan.
This is Part 1 of a five part series of articles published February-March 2019 by New Matilda, an Australian magazine. The links for the five parts follow.

Part 1: What’s Torture Got To Do With It?[1]

Part 2: The Court Of Public Opinion And The Blood-Curdling Untold Story[2]

Part 3: Wikileaks and Russiagate: Trust Us, We’re The CIA[3]

Part 4: Why Even Some Lefties Want To See Him Hang[4]

Part 5: War Propaganda 101[5]

[1] https://newmatilda.com/2019/02/19/psychology-getting-julian-...

[2] https://newmatilda.com/2019/02/25/psychology-getting-julian-...

[3] https://newmatilda.com/2019/03/02/psychology-getting-julian-...

[4] https://newmatilda.com/2019/03/15/the-psychology-of-getting-...

[5] https://newmatilda.com/2019/03/25/the-psychology-of-getting-...
Iraq bans popular online games to protect children from ‘moral threat
Drag and drop browser based website builder
I've been working through the preceding article to this today and have found it extremely well written and very accessible for someone with an undergraduate CS/Math degree.

I also, coincidentally, have just started talking with a local company working on quantum computing. Things lined up nicely!
I can pick up in Mountain View immediately, cmh at mac dot com.
Two things about this baffle me.

1. Why only put perf data in the blurb? To me it would be much more helpful to first see a few API calls this allows that solve problems I have had before, or may have in the future. It remains mostly opaque to me what this software does.

2. If this is mostly about splitting text into words, why is the code dump dozens of directories with many hundreds of source code files in there?

I understand that they are proud of their perf numbers, but those are (to me) not as important as first understanding what I could do with the project.

Regular expression mangling sounds like it could be useful for much more than word splitting in a search engine context.
People have been speculating that for yonks, though. If it's such a huge opportunity for Apple and so many people want it, where is it?
Why do legit opinions get down voted. When something silly (joke) is posted, or something off topic is posted, then down vote - but to use a down vote to simply silence an opinion is wrong.

He is simply making a comparison the reported price of the disaster to the 9-11 war on terror (which he/she feels was an unnecessary war).
This is 2 minutes paper. And I am your host.
Samsung Electronics to Shut Down IoT Platform Artik Business
Similar to an email service. You rely on the node operators to manage it.
One of the most valuable and successful companies in the world wants to retreat from a communist enclave that hates it? Shocking.