skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may just be that for much of our history we couldn't do anything meaningful at night, so being up at night was mostly a waste of energy.
It's nice that this guy's initially sad story turned out well for him. But why is the focus on the fact that he fell for a "direct report". Is the purpose of his post to tell a story about how he turned his life around through love? Or is he trying to suggest that becoming romantic with someone you manage is good? It's a nice little story, but it has an agenda.
Crackpot website design sensibilities have come a long way since TimeCube!
Lies, hiding, coverups.. so many people are coming forward these days that you can simply laugh to government.. lol

Top of that YouTube trying they best to hide and delete researchers accounts
Don’t forget about the Dewey decimal system. For the books with ISBNs, you can sort them into boxes by their Dewey decimal. If you don’t have time manually categorize the books without ISBNs, they can be put into “other” boxes and left unsorted
The average distance to the next public transport station in Switzerland is 360 metres. In cities it can drop below 200 metres. Yet the average delay/tardiness/late arrival is 16 seconds.
I was going to second that; it's the first thing that came to my mind—but then it doesn't work for books without barcodes (or does it now?). I worked with version 2 a while back, it was great. The iPhone app to scan books without the laptop nearby requires version 3 though. The Mac app could also check the price the book sells for online.
You can hear someone coughing here. Probably a volunteer recording sounds while sitting beside the microphone. I'm not complaining but that sound caught me off guard. http://acoustics.safeproject.net/07:00/12/3298
Is there a good repository or aggregation for tech-related anki decks? I was thinking about creating new decks for books I'm reading to keep the contents in my memory but for some common topics someone might have already done the work of creating a deck.

Stuff like:

* what are the four golden signals for monitoring services

* tar flags

* ssh tunnel flags

* etc
Because some people have to work with complete barbarians who chomp with their mouth open whole Granny Smith apples, whole bell peppers and whole celery sticks without cutting them up, as if to deliberately annoy everyone in the vicinity.
I'd like to clarify that retrieval practice has not only been proven to boost retention but of meaningful learning [0] as well.

Thus, casting Anki as a mere tool of memorization is simply misleading.

"Educators rely heavily on learning activities that encourage elaborative studying, whereas activities that require students to practice retrieving and reconstructing knowledge are used less frequently. Here, we show that practicing retrieval produces greater gains in meaningful learning than elaborative studying with concept mapping. The advantage of retrieval practice generalized across texts identical to those commonly found in science education. The advantage of retrieval practice was observed with test questions that assessed comprehension and required students to make inferences. The advantage of retrieval practice occurred even when the criterial test involved creating concept maps. Our findings support the theory that retrieval practice enhances learning by retrieval-specific mechanisms rather than by elaborative study processes. Retrieval practice is an effective tool to promote conceptual learning about science."

[0]: http://sci-hub.tw/10.1126/science.1199327
Paintings were very expensive, upper class commodities. They frequently idealized their subjects.

One British king had portraits delivered to him of a potential mate and was disappointed when she showed up and wasn't as attractive as her portrait. One source mocked him for it, saying he should have realized it was probably idealized, after all, it was his own portrait artist he sent, a guy who had been making him look good for years.

Colloidal silver still sometimes causes blue skin:

https://supplementpolice.com/colloidal-silver/

See also:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria
I think you may be misunderstanding “single-payer”. That term refers to there being a single entity paying for the care (generally speaking, this is the government), vs the US system which is multi-payer (you pay part of it, public or private health insurance pays another).

In a single-payer system, there can still be many healthcare providers, and the single entity doing the paying is incentivized to push aggressively for low prices from providers, because that keeps their own overhead low. Likewise, they’re incentivized to keep their premiums low, because when you’re the government, if people think you’re screwing up their healthcare they vote you out of office.

As an example of this in the US, take the Medicare system, which can negotiation super aggressively on pricing from healthcare providers because a provider who lands a contract for Medicare knows they have a massive pool of humans to provide care (and thus receive payment) for/from.
Staging.techspecs.io – explore the specs of consumer electronics products
Hi all, I would love to get your feedback and opinion about a new platform we're creating called TechSpecs. It's a search engine that makes it easy to find and compare the specs of consumer electronics products.

Check it out staging.techspecs.io

Let me know what you think.
There are active ongoing efforts to push wasm beyond the web client. Which makes perfect sense, since it could, in theory, deliver JVM's "compile once, run everywhere", but with a lot more flexibility for the languages on top.

As far as Node.js being the only JVM alternatively to take seriously, I don't even know what to say. There are lots of enterprises with mature .NET (not Core) business apps, doing all that very stuff that you list - EAI, ETL etc.
Fair enough. If nobody has an incentive to commute to central London by car, why the need for a congestion charge?
>it is now the recommended practice for developers to create their own embedded runtimes with the JDK tooling

I am unfamiliar with Java and am curious: if I open 2 Java-based apps on my Mac or Windows box, how much of the memory devoted to Java tooling that would have been shared if the apps were built with the assumption that there is a JRE already installed locally is instead duplicated because of the recommended practice that you describe?
What Uber Left Behind in Asia
The Saudi National Company of Aviation has established a new flight academy
Claims that breakfast is a health panacea may be unsupported
From the article:

> During Earth’s earliest days, it was covered by a sheet of molten silicate rock. Dr. Hosono’s team wondered what would have happened if Theia had crashed into Earth at that time, rather than during a later, cooler, more solid phase.

This is the simulation of how a moon could have been formed, this is not supposed to represent the formation of the actual Moon.
Research uncovers the psychological burden of being unemployed
It derives from middle ages Spanish racism. Visible veins to show their fine white skinned blood wasn't contaminated by the dark skinned Moors.

The Moors occupied territory in parts of what is now Spain and Portugal for nearly a thousand years.
http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/vision/BFS-Auto/

though this is to scan whole books in case there are rare ones..
Politically expediency. Neither the democrats nor the republicans want to go after the elites. So naturally they take turns attacking illegal immigrants. But it's all lipservice. Neither the republicans nor democrats want to stop illegal immigration. They want to use it to get votes.

Stopping immigration isn't an inefficient game of whack a mole. It's been done before through american history. And it's been done in most countries around the world. If the political and business elites wanted to end illegal immigration today, we'd end it easily. It's really not difficult to stop illegal immigration if we wanted to.
Are you saying you don't think that Mozilla have the capabilities; I'm not. My "how hard is that [for Mozilla]?" is specifically "I think they have the capabilities but chose differently, but if I'm mistaken and there is a technological bar to this then please correct me". That's why I didn't write "That's easy!", nor "How hard is that!", but used "how hard is that?" -- the implication is that's not hard for them to do so why did they chose to do it differently.

As it happens I've just had to flip "xpinstall.signatures.required" and it's working for me. So it seems "not at all hard [for them]" was the answer.

FWIW people have chipped in saying this specific issue was raised, so it's not that they hadn't conceived that such a situation could occur (indeed that's surely why the config above exists).
My source is any novel/non-fiction or newspaper article I would be reading when encountering the word. I usually copy the sentence, maybe trim it a bit, and cloze on the word. The hint I give depends on the word, sometimes an English translation, sometimes a definition in the language itself, or sometimes a cognate word in a different language I know.

An additional benefit is that I remember the content of books more easily, since I am passively reminded of passages through Anki. This means I can put aside a book for months and get back into it without problems.

A problem, though, is that because I only use active recall of the word, I sometimes can't remember the meaning of the word when I encounter it, especially when the context is different. This can be quite subtle. E.g. I might put in "aborder" (to approach) in the context of "how would you _approach_ this question", but then when I read somewhere "the man was approaching" I would recognize the word, but be unable to make sense of it.

I have been trying to remedy this by sometimes choosing a more typical example sentence (from a dictionary or something) rather than the encountered one, which could be too poetic. But as I remarked, with all these changes it is hard to measure the effect in the long term.
> Wearing blue latex gloves, [the FBI agent] displayed the Bible, carefully opening its weathered pages.

Don't archivists dealing with old books use their bare hands as they are kinder on the paper?
The one person I know who probably has argyria has dark-grey skin with a very slightly bluish tint.
I was reading QSDK page [1] and it seems to me that they are doing something different from openwrt.

>The QCA Software Development Kit (QSDK) project allows users to build an OpenWrt based platform containing additional enhancements for Qualcomm Atheros chipsets that have not yet made it into the public OpenWrt repository.

I'm not aware of the project goals so I may be wrong.

[1] https://wiki.codeaurora.org/xwiki/bin/QSDK/
Yes I can certainly understand the reasons startup culture leans towards the less verbose less boilerplate demanding languages.

For me, my short term memory is too bad for languages without types and autocomplete on the level of JetBrains products.

I feel like C# specifically (I don't have any real Java experience) is a lot lower on boilerplate now and I can usually get a working prototype of something together in a day or two and it allows me to target games, desktop, mobile, Web, ML, etc. But it's not to everyone's taste and that's fine.
AllegroGraph

https://franz.com/agraph/allegrograph/
> Of course, Sara Hallager, the zoo’s curator of birds, adds that the keepers have a relationship with “every bird out here, except perhaps the flamingoes.”*

OT: What does that star(*) denote? I'm always irritated if i can't find the corresponding footnote.
Sorry to be a bore, but it really depends on what someone means by 'dangerous'.

If you mean 'potentially dangerous if encountered', then I guess it would be. When it comes to birds that might slice your abdomen open, it's in a class of its own.

If you mean 'actually dangerous in terms of causing injuries or deaths', you could say most. But the baseline for death-by-bird is so low that the word 'dangerous' seems a bit daft (Cassowaries exist in decreasing numbers in areas of relatively low human populations, are infrequently encountered and not usually aggressive). On the numbers, if Cassowaries are 'dangerous', then dogs, horses and cattle are all catastrophically homicidal.
> The numbers being thrown around on this post are staggering. Not the bandwidth, storage or or the number of images ... but the casual tone that they're willing to throw money at services rather than engineering ...

What I found interesting, is that just a sliver of the budget is spent on software rather than hardware. I don't think this is uncommon, few teams are willing to pay for software they can get for free or make themselves. It's a bit surprising (but explainable), that commodity hardware that everyone has access to dominates the budget.
It is not a sample size of one. She gave the history of a thing common enough to have a nickname.

so I was confirming to others you aren't being racist or anything.

Thank you.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/python-programming-lang...
VB, Delphi and Rebol would be three of the irrelevant ones, but what's the fourth?
Is anyone aware of recent arguments and discussions on the topic of superapps in western markets? I was curious about this after reading the above article, but a quick google only surfaced articles with not-too-compelling arguments[1].

FB trying to merge many messaging apps seems similar, but for only one service (messaging), and Uber has a credit card, Eats, and transport but they are more of an app constellation than a super app (perhaps a super app from the driver side, but am curious about consumer case in western markets).

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/michelleev...
Maybe I’m too naive here, but I’m not seeing the potential malicious usage of this model. People will generate text, and then what?
I suggest you really practice the fundamentals, especially es6.
You're gonna use a lot of es6 concepts in React. Really learn the fundamentals and you'll be fine.

Most importantly, practice everyday. Take 10 - 30 mins to create a small react app.
Spaced repetition is a very powerful concept in mastering any skill.
Finally, try building a small project with React. Anything you like. Just build something, here's why:

1. You'll learn more by building a small project yourself than watching those videos/tutorial of any kind, because you'll get to a point where you'll have issues with your code, things won't work, (trust me, this happens alot to beginners), then you'll research online. This'll give more understanding about how React works, than just watching tutorial.

2. You'll have a small project in your portfolio, which can be useful later on.

Good luck.
See "multi dimensional analog literals": http://www.eelis.net/C++/analogliterals.xhtml
Newspapers and radio and TV and billboards and flyers managed to have ads without reporting back detailed info about the people viewing them.

The problem is that once some are tracking, the non-tracking become less profitable, leading everyone to track. But if nobody can track...
The sensible solution, I think, is requiring digital advertisers to support non-personalized ads as a fallback for tracking ads; that is, a digital advertiser would not be allowed to only offer personalized ads. Then allow content creators right of refusal for those consumers who don't wish to allow any advertising at all, and build software supporting this into major browsers. Supplement with things like Brace's Basic Attention Tokens and premium subscriptions.

Will people just make ad free browsers elsewhere that don't respect this? Yes, of course. But hopefully these will be few or niché, as even now many users do not mind personalized tracking and many don't want to move to a new browser.

And yes, content has to to be paid for. If content creators do not want to work for free, let them find alternate revenue streams or cease creating. (And the second is an option.)

The alternative is tantamount to saying creators or their paymasters have a right to personally track me simply because they created content that I happened upon, and it's the de facto situation right now, albeit with a vigorous arms race of advertisers and ad blockers.
> - mount on the center console where I can put my own touchscreen device if I so choose (iPad, Android, phone, etc)

That's probably never going to happen. Devices on mount are a securiry nightmare during a crash and car manufacturers don't want the associated liabilities.
For me it's the smells. Whether it's a scent I love or hate, it's very distracting.
https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph is worth a look.

Although it can be distributed, setting it up is trivial enough to be appealing in single machine configurations.
Now Block JavaScript for Specific Sites in Chrome 75 Beta on Android
Americans might love Cinco de Mayo, but few know what they’re celebrating
I have a fair number of friends in this boat. Most find their way back to the startup game in some form (investor, startup studio, etc). They just can't stay away. I find below myself entering a similar phase (raising money at a late enough stage that there is $10m of secondary on the table or going with a strategic and selling the whole thing) and the fear of complete freedom is a little bit terrifying tbh.
Very, very little. Applications don't include the whole JDK, but a custom runtime they create with a tool called jlink (I meant that JDK tools, i.e. jlink, are used to create the custom runtime, not that the runtime includes the JDK tools). That runtime is only a few tens of megabytes (smaller than the shared JRE, as only modules actually used by the application are included). Also, the decision to do away with the shared JRE was sort of forced by shifting consumer and OS behaviors, that no longer encourage shared runtimes, but are shifting to containers and app stores. So whether a shared runtime is technically a better approach or not is moot, because the entire software ecosystem is shifting away from them.
I guess it's not. But you may ask a russian pharmacy to prepare two boxes for you then visit the country and pick the order. The names in russian are: "антифагин стафилококковый" and "анатоксин стафилококковый очищенный адсорбированный". In case you decide go this way I would suggest you to use second one according to "blood donor" scheme (3 shots of 2ml, one ml into each shoulderblade, with 2 week intervals) and increase all dosages for the first one for 0.2ml (so, ten shot in ten days, one shot each day, starting from 0.3ml and ending with 1.2). You may use insulin syringe for first one, for second one you would need some assistance and usual syringe but in worst case you may use insulin one too.

Disclaimer: consult your doctor first, it's just a random advice from internets, blah-blah.
Use a OCR service such as Firebase ML Text kit or the Amazon's similar offering or something and take pictures cover by cover, ping an API - even amazon or ebay might do to see if it exists and price of the book on average.

It also shouldn't be hard to up the speed by taking pictures of a stack of books - if you take an image of a stack of books and crop it book by book, training models to recognise books shouldn't be that hard but you could also use a CV solution (firebase, amazon, azure again) and then from the books it found in the stack ping the API for each one. This could probably be the fastest way if you can take a panorama and have it search from that.

Anyways, if you do it - try to get the price, ISBN and editions from the results.
Show HN: Sample App Implementing Android Architecture Components with Dagger2
You seem to misunderstand it. There are less points to intercept traffic at with 1.1.1.1, than without it. Much more feasible to spy on a massive scale, much less privacy and usefulness of client subnet EDNS option completely disappears. In 1.1.1.1 case it's literally irrelevant for privacy whether they do it or not. 1.1.1.1 already hurts privacy massively and not passing client subnet only hurts competing CDNs.
So much needed, bye bye Wordfence and all so-called "security plugins".
This! Certificate expiry is mostly an UX problem. While expiration is needed, the first step should be a warning, not cancellation of service. Imagine if your car simply didn't start when you crossed the service interval, instead of just annoying you with a warning.

I don't mind so much that Mozilla let their cert expire, but I'm pretty angry that I couldn't just click somewhere to dismiss the warning. Of course, I'm talking just about expired certificates, revoked ones are a different story.
Two countries in the EU that seem to be actually concerned with their futures and the welfare of their citizens...
Then we can get back to a form of advertising most would find acceptable.

Might be tough persuading everyone to turn off adblocking even it became law.
In any maintenance-mode organisation that's the reality for everyone. As is spending increasingly large chunks of time that result in almost no lines of code being committed, because you're debugging more and more complex problems. Two weeks to find a stray minus sign. Four weeks to change some numbers in a table. Another month to determine a PCB change is needed. That kind of thing.

(We could do with a serious version of "thedailywtf" for interesting debugging stories, I think it would open a few eyes)
Maybe light hardware scanner will be helpful, something like workers use in warehouses.
Personal best time at competing distance.
Asteroid dust may explain where our water came from with hydrogen clues
Perhaps in our modern environment it is quite rational to be more fundamentally against the notion of well delineated domains of expertise. All should be open to questioning, in particular from fresh perspectives honed in alternate experience. Everything should be questioned: perhaps not in every project, but at least in each generation.

It went as an unspoken, unquestionable assumption that telephony was the right model for data networking. - Van Jacobson

There are lots of "old and fundamental" ideas that are not good anymore, if they ever were. - Alan Kay (2016)

Living in the present: man, you're just out of it. - Alan Kay (2017)

... via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Centralization is fundamentally important, don't you think?

Conflating Usenet with reddit is like conflating the Internet with AOL.

I'd say it's bad for the readership because it gives them wrong information. I always feel it's better to have no analogy than a bad one.
I would check out https://www.librarything.com/ also. They have a decent app for scanning barcodes and retrieve data from multiple sources. Their own database which consists of lots of imported marc records from university libraries I believe, library of congress, amazon, etc. Then they have another project librarycat where you can set up your books as a lending library.

Cataloging a large number of books is not going to be an easy process unless they are all relatively new popular books. According to librarything my library is 439 books, every few years I delete my catalog and re-import them it takes about a full weekend. Older books don't have barcodes, old paperbacks have the ISBN barcode on the inside cover. Some books don't have ISBN numbers or Library of Congress numbers. So you will still end up doing a fair amount of manual entry and searching.
If you don’t use your brain first you’re not a good professional. Any other tool isn’t as important.
And reference counting is a form of GC
Mapping Brain Drain–and Brain Gain–Across the U.S.
from this comment it looks like there is a different way to access the bundle that get's an updated link. in any case they are aware of the humble bundle and seem to promise to update that too: https://tomorrowcorporation.com/posts/world-of-goo-update-10...