skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm building a similar editor for an app, adding [1] at this very moment for pan and zoom, this is nice work.

[1] https://github.com/anvaka/panzoom
Spot on. I guess it’s the same thing with alcohol and cigarettes. If the kids want to try it, they will find the stuff. (FWIW, I didn’t smoke a cigarette until I was 20 or so. I was curious, just not about tobacco.)
I often wonder what life is like as a patent troll attorney. Wake up, read emails knows, get to work on filing motions, read some hate mail, post some scammy ads, make a few calls to other people in the racket.

Sure, maybe they get paid enough not to care… but the have industrialized patent trolling. It’s a job like any other for most involved.

That life seems… I duhno, pretty sad.
The chrome extension 'Make medium readable again' solves this for me:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/make-medium-readab...

It is ridiculous that I have to install an extension to make a website usable though. I'm genuinely curious why people publish on Medium.
Interesting! I will never make 1% of the money that man made. But, I don't regret that either. :)
What does it do and why is it awesome?
I was not being just argumentative and I absolutely disagree about product improvement. Product improvement is refinement which is absolutely not premature optimization. I honestly believe you are fishing for excuses to qualify mediocrity whether for laziness or fear of the code.
That's good, but it's from a certain school of thought and I wouldn't follow that as some sort of tao. For example plenty of people got rich doing stuff that isn't so new, innovative or technology focused. Manufacturing obscure parts, import/export, affiliates, car dealership or whatever.

Also people can get rich without owning a business: CEOs, hell even coders at FAANG, who then invest. Crypto traders.

My definition of rich is $10m+ though. ($2m + PP if you on't intend to have a family) so that's a lot lower than a lot of people who would classify the rich threshold to be a lot higher. To me rich means financially independent.
What happens when the ETF value goes down not because the value of the underlying stock goes down but because people are selling the ETF?

Won't they need to rebalance then? The way it will happen is they will have to sell all the stocks in the ETF according to their percent allocation
> To add some context, this is a version, prepared in ConTeXt ...

Nice (un)intended pun. :-)
Pure fantasy. The only real advance in the last 400 years has been the development of an organised, systematic approach to science. The scientific method has driven all development. And the science says we're not travelling between stars any time soon.
It certainly extends to taste, I wouldn't be surprised if nutrition also.

I don't think you can be as simplistic as "US chicken bad" though. The US has a very well established industrial food chain that reaches everywhere, but it's not the only thing going on. The US industry has some economies of scale that work for it too.

Quick-cheap-and-nasty chicken in the UK is just as flavorless as in the US. And you can find better stuff in the US, albeit at higher cost. But the same can be said of flavorless but cheap Holstein milk & butter, or basically anything that has been subjected to aggressive optimizing for cost per unit/volume whatever. Applies to factory bred chickens, but also tomatoes designed to ship well.

The end result is usually pretty cheap, and pretty bland at best.
What they're doing to Huawei will have nefarious consequences to the US. Who can ever trust a country that can use this kind of tactics to destroy a comercial competitor?
We are talking about the federal government - do you think suits from the three-letter agencies will accept that reasoning?

No. If they want quiet intercepts, that's what they get... even if it means "slow down conveyor belts and post agents to manually read every incoming package label before it hits the scanner".

This was either unrelated or an intentionally loud message.
SpaceX Starlink Satellite Train
Valhalla multi-purpose routing engine
Cheney's algorithm (stop and copy method of tracing garbage collection)
f=/tmp/youtube-urls;sed 's/^/url=/'|exec curl -K-|exec grep -o "https%3A%2F%2Fr[0-9][a-zA-Z0-9.%_-]*"|exec sed -n 's/%26/\&/g;s/%3D/=/g;s/%3A/:/g;s/%2F/\//g;s/%3F/?/g;s/%25/%/g;w'"$f"'';case $1 in --help|-help|-h|-?)exec echo usage: echo youtube-url\|$0 \[fmt\] \[saveas\];;*) a=$(exec grep "itag=$1"\& $f 2>/dev/null);case ${#a} in 0) echo "the fmt (itag number \""$1"\") is not available. here are the available formats:";exec grep -o "itag=[0-9]*" $f;;*)exec curl -4o ${1-$c} $a;esac;esac

The idea of interactively selecting the format seems like it would become cumbersome after the user learns the formats, i.e., itag numbers, that she can play on her computer.

Once she has that knowledge, she will just be looking for the same itag numbers every time, e.g., 18 or 22 are popular for mp4.
The Memphis package exchange is something to behold. It's the hub in a massive hub and spoke model.
> Instagram is based around a public photo-blog. Snapchat is ephemeral photo-mesaging.

> you would be requiring social media sites to replicate each other's functionality.

This is ironic, considering Facebook's Instagram has already copied Snapchat's funcionality wholesale without government intervention!
There are plenty of studies that make it clear just how good J Random Schmoe's odds are of succeeding. (They're terrible.) we should not be talking about this as if the question is still open. The time before index funds was great for bankers, for money managers, and for brokers. It was terrible for the public.

E.g. https://www.umass.edu/preferen/You%20Must%20Read%20This/Barb...
With respect, I think you don't know what you're talking about. I've never seen cases where a researcher will cite a paper to poke fun at it. One might cite an erroneous paper in order to point out errors if one were interested in surveying the types of errors which occur in Science. However; (i) that paper is unlikely to be famous and; (ii) even then it's considered poor form to shit on your colleagues.
Was that colleague Neil Peart?
ha i thought it got re branded to Gusto.. then I realized Gusto was called ZenPayroll, hence the mix-up.... Oh these stupid startup names...
I used the Atari browser CAB [1]. It had auto reload capabilities, you could have the browser open in a window in the background and it would reload the page while I was editing the html in the foreground window. Very handy for developing. Not sure about timeframe though, 98?

[1] https://atari.clauss-net.de/cab.html
For a small scale offline alternative I can heartily recommend https://imageoptim.com.

So simple, yet so effective.
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Yes quit. But life is not binary. I personally slip into a schedule of 4am sleep and noon wakes when I'm not obligated to be anywhere. I'm 27 and it's a struggle to find my place in the world. However, I tried to ride out a similar situation until I found a different job, only to be fired when things went too downhill for a variety of reasons. Your situation sounds like my nightmare, but many peoples dream, what you decide can't be wrong, and if you have any resilience in this world then you'll figure it out. I highly recommend fucking around a bit—perhaps as the Nomad you decry. It's fun, and when you haven't had fun in a while, it's awakening. It's a bigger and more damning risk imo—if you have savings—to stay put and not change things up. I think it's better to work hard and suffer in a positive way to find something that brings you and others value—and you positive mental health state—than to suffer in a negative way for no discernible positive outcome other than money. My overall recommendation: Don't trade your life for money and perceived safety. Try something else and let your damn hair down. True hippies btw are awful, nomads just like to explore and basically just tend to get out of stagnant corporate grinds.
Blacklisting Huawei is for national security reasons not because of the trade war. Because of the trade war the US has stopped turning a blind eye to misdeeds from China and state backed Chinese companies.
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China's tactics aren't really any better (allow blatant IP theft).

I suppose the only real difference was that this wasn't well-known in advance. It's like the Joker's statement about people losing their shit when something happens unannounced but being orderly when much worse is announced in advance.
DuckDuckGo staff here. Just want to point out that we do not track users - opt in or opt out. We do serve ads that can be disabled (opt-out) but they’re contextual, based on individual search terms rather than any form of tracking.
I quit my job in 2010 after matching my income with my side project. I’ve ran it full-time ever since, but despite the best income I’ve ever had, I still wonder if it was the “right” decision. Should I have stayed two more years to finish my Master’s degree loan-free? What if I stayed and saved all that side money I made instead? Etc.

On the other hand, I watched a colleague leave a stable job to start a project from scratch. He had a good reserve, but he burned through it and the project didn’t make any money. Last I heard, he got a new job.

There’s probably not a right answer to your question, but my advice is this: if you’re not happy with that you’re currently doing, it’s probably time to move on one way or another.
I don't want my young kids being exposed to a lot of trash online. But we like to laugh at funny pictures/memes together. So, one weekend I built a primitive tool that lets me share funny images with them: cleanhumor.net

I have a python script that pulls down posts from /r/funny. Reddit has some filtering options in their API, which I use. My script then rejects any that have caption words on my blacklist. It also does OCR to look within the image, and applies the blacklist there, too.

The remaining images I review manually. They show up on my phone along with large "accept" and "reject" buttons. When I click accept, the image and caption become available on that little website I made for my daughters. Many images aren't funny, and I personally still wade through lots of trash. But overall it has been fun for my family.
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I'm not sure that purpose is always so created. For me, it seems to arise from within. A deep, slow, emergent, understanding of purpose. I did not choose it, it came to me while I was busy with surviving. Perhaps I could choose another, perhaps I could re architect my personality. But would that ever be as authentic as the thing that first came into the light? Would it ever be as truly my own as some new construction?

We create ourselves to some extent, but also we are born. To deny that part of us which is born is a great shame.
- Quote "$2" and "$1"
- Use "$@" instead of $*
- Use:
OPTS=(-o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --console-title --restrict-filenames)

"${OPTS[@]}"

This is what shellcheck reports.
You're rather premature in assigning me motives.

I'd been unaware of Banqiao until a few years ago. Its scale overwhelms me. And yet the chain of institutional, engineering, and circumstancial events triggering it offer a huge set of cautionary lessons to nuclear advocates. I recommend reading the history closely.

Today, and for another 300 years, Fukushima and Chernobyl have effectively no inhabitants.

Zhumadian city, inundated by the Banqiao disaster, is home to over 7 million souls.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhumadian

Once dam breaks cease being raging floods, life resumes, for those not fully extinguished, in a matter of weeks or years. Not centuries.

And the factors in assessing, avoiding, mitigating, alerting, and responding to risks are all remarkably similar to those of nuclear installations, save the very long-tail disasters.

The US has seen few major dam failures, though several have ocurred. Johnstown (1889) saw by far the most deaths, 2,200 (it spurred creation of the Red Cross and massive reforms to liability law), but see also the St. Francis (431 souls) and Teton (11) failures, and near misses or ongoing risks at Oroville, Isabella, Glen Canyon, among others.

Elsewhere, there are the cases of Vajont (2000+), Machchu (5500+), and others.

Again, the failures largely accrued from institutional hubris, engineering insufficience, lack of domain knowledge (often deliberate ignorance or denial), poor overall management, lack of disaster preparation, drilling, or readiness, communications breakdown (see Banqiao's comms loss), and inadequate resonse in light of imminent or present threat.

None of these are domain-specific to hydraulic civil engineering or absent from nuclear engineering projects.
Sure it’s post-hoc reasoning, but it doesn’t matter because I’m not trying to invalidate a hypothesis.

I’m looking for variants that win. When I find one that wins I look at it and try to add more of the same flavor to the product.

This process works.
Did anyone else ever use Arachne?
I trust common sense and history. The existance of this article is more important than its arguments. See here for another version of this thinking.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/the-federal-government-s...
Ask HN: Courses and essential readings for Agile project mgmt?
I work at a fully remote software company and I'm looking for resources to add to our onboarding course for freshly hired developers. The topics I'm looking for can be anything along the lines of Agile project management, epic management, and time management. We don't have dedicated project managers - project mgmt tasks are distributed among the development team (who work in small, self-managed "cells"). I want to familiarize new hires to the principles of Agile project management and am looking for "essential" courses or readings on the topic. Anything you can recommend or would like to share? Many thanks!
Perhaps if you'll help me understand what 'dangerous' means to you here. I will wager⁰ $1000 that if there were two kids of equivalent lives and you give one an Echo and the other 3 packs of cigarettes, boy 2 will die earlier, have a lower quality of life throughout, and have a higher likelihood of drug abuse.

Geospatial data, telemetry, chat logs, real names, email logs (we had that one, it's all our mailing list stuff). That is nothing in the face of burning tar in your lungs. I will wager actual money down on this. If you're in SF, I will send someone to meet you or your equivalent representative, with a contract you may discuss with him.

0: In fact, the $1k is intentionally low to encourage you to participate. I will do $10k. I am very convinced of my thesis: introduction to cigarettes is far more dangerous than introduction to voice assistants and will continue to be far more dangerous for the remainder of the century.
Authorized participants [1] will buy the undervalued shares and redeem them for shares in the underlying fund for a profit. FWIW, there is no such thing as "rebalancing" an ETF. The underlying fund can rebalance, but the ETF is an exchange-traded representation of the underlying fund. There's nothing in it to rebalance.

[1]: https://www.etf.com/etf-education-center/7540-what-is-the-et...
They used to make amber monitors alongside green ones. Yellow on white doesn't work, but why use a white background unless you're simulating paper?
Ask HN: How far are we from creating Star Trek Replicator/Food Synthesizer
Is the technology possible?
I used to work on one of Borg teams at Google and now run Kubernetes platform. Nearly every Kubernetes component (node, master, networking) will melt down at fraction of Borg scale. It's not even close.
Living defensively may be good for one's chance of survival but is not that glamorous to tell. That should, as you correctly pointed out, be taken into account. What happens now when one's fear is ending up without having a life to talk about or not living fast enough? Joke aside, I think that, besides a fringe minority whose choices are dictated by kicks and thus subject itself to the high risk of natural (de)selection effect, most of us have lifes dictated by the self preservation instinct.
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I first used SPRY Mosaic as provided by CompuServe (my first ISP). I had written an article for a late 1995 special edition of Doctor Dobbs Journal which still has my screen image captures of the SPRY Mosaic browser:

http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/clientserver-developm...
Oh, you have both, in fact a range of price points.
Not a chance. I don't understand more of that than of any romance language.

Speakers of romance languages probably feel the same way about Folkspraak:

> All mensklik wesings âre boren frî on' gelîk in werđigheid on' rejte. Đê âre begifted mid ferstand on' gewitt on' skulde behandele êlkên in en gêst av brôđerhêd.

Surprisingly, the language has been invented after the invention of keyboards with finite space for diacritics. In so far as it actually has been developed at all.
the biggest one of these I know is "Blender", a 3D vfx modeling, animation, shading, and rendering package.
What is with that website? It’s barely usable on the latest IPad Pro. I wish articles would just stick to HTML.
>Nobody in their right mind would even suggest automatically fining countries or cities based on the colour of pixels on a satellite CO₂ map.

Didn't say they would, and the point I was making was how a location can go over those limits due to external factors outside their control. Which may well be just above normal in themselves, yet combined with another producing area which in itself would be normal, combined - tip the balance. Sure if you have a clear cut case, I'd expect due process, but when the lines are literally blurred, you get a different picture.

Sure sats do give a nice simple big picture, but currently just 2D snapshots of many layers of 3D space. That may well change over time.
> A return capsule for metal/rocks pretty much just needs to be a heat shield on the front of a dumpster with some parachutes, so not very heavy.

The problem is that "just" a cargo return capsule would still be very expensive because everything in aerospace is very expensive. And there would be fixed costs running into many millions.

I think if the scale of the operation was big you could turn a profit at current prices. But a large scale operation would affect the price.

Also having a lump of platinum conveniently parked in LEO is kind of easy mode. If you have to get from somewhere then you're looking at an interplanetary mission, and the cost goes way up.

Again it would be profitable at scale... but the price would be affected. At some point I think there's a crossover.
What is this transparent paper spray?
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Oh. I thought about written language, not about localization (as it comes up when being used in graphical user interfaces). As a non-native speaker in science, we always write out units (3 km or 3 miles), we write out dates clearly (July 2nd or 2018-07-02), the same with units (USD 3 or 3 EUR). As a non-application-writer, I don't see the point. As a programmer, I do, of course.
Heh, you have no idea. Lots and lots of systems. And 5k wouldn't even register there...
Scientists wanted: Recruited by Juul, many researchers say no
UCB on game trees (MCTS) was the first breakthrough that created decently playing Go programs, if I remember correctly.
Three letter agencies are not gods, they make mistakes, they underestimate complexity of some issues and etc. After all they are just people with too much power.
From a workflow perspective, MAB is a bit difficult to find radical improvements from. The radical improvements come from fundamental design changes, of which it would be very expensive to create a bunch of radically different variants.

MAB is best used where you can generate a bunch of variants cheaply and hope for a 30% gain.
What’s your usecase? Curious
> their feed
We're of course still speculating, by given the number of low-level employees that would need to be involved, it would be hard to keep it silent for long.
Top five is a little too strict, but top twenty, yeah, maybe.
Different demographics, different intent, and different mental context all play a factor.
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I havn't looked into GraphQL much at all, so correct me if I'm mistaken.

From what I understand of it, the big idea is that instead of passing parameters from the client to the server and fully implementing the query logic, stitching, and reformatting etc. on the server side, you now have a way to pass some of that flexibility out to the client. Instead of updating both the server and the client as uses change, more can be done from the client alone.

I spend most of my time on the infra side of things and rarely if ever make my way out to the browser so I can't speak to WebSockets/SSE or web friendliness. Being the "backend-for-backend" I just prefer being more tight-fisted about what my clients can and can't do. I mostly deal with internal customers with tighter SLAs so I like to capacity plan new uses.

Maybe I'm just old fashioned.
The comparison was between JoebSchmoe and Money Manager « professionals », not JS and index funds.

JS and his dartboard won’t pay any active management fees.
Just a nitpick, but the Constitution still applies (and worldwide between US GOvt and US Persons), but the courts have decided its rules against unreasonable search and seizure don't apply for customs and immigration purposes with certain distances of a port of entry.

Plenty of laws apply. They thing to remember is that you can't give up something you don't have. Use a blank dumb phone when crossing, restore afterwards.
Short summary of web services:

Phase 1: Ad hoc, free-for-all chaos.

Phase 2: SOAP tries to bring order. It fails mainly because the "S" ("Simple") is a lie.

Phase 3: Pendulum swings hard toward simplicity with HTTP plus JSON plus nothing else, thanks.

Phase 4: Things shift possibly more toward the middle (a little structure), but none of the competing systems have become obvious winners.
Why is Huawei dragging their feet on doing basic library updates on their LTE basestation firmware?

HCSEC asked your company to update to modern OpenSSL a year ago and implement reproducible builds. Neither issue has been handled, and these LTE basestations are extremely vulnerable due to the inaction of your employer.

Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/28/hcsec_huawei_oversi...

Combined with the poor engineering of your employer's Windows drivers, it is reasonable to cease use of Huawei developed software. Security is obviously not a priority, leaving users of Huawei software vulnerable to any person who can be bothered to look up a few CVEs and run Metasploit against your companies products.

Poorly written Windows Driver (priv escalation): https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-backdoor-huawei-...
I think I am fully on-board with giving people the same option Kindle does:

* Offer price with view tracking

* Offer price without view tracking

I cannot argue that this shouldn't be clearly visible, and I think, for the benefit of the consumer this can't be a ridiculous matrix of all the different kinds of tracking. Opt-in or pay the higher price. That sounds fair. But "make it so no one can opt-in": no. That is oppressive nonsense from rich people who would go "How much does a TV cost, man? Ten thousand dollars? Just buy it."
i get in a loop of the same questions. i think it's because i am retired but also study
The openCL tensorflow issue is still open and no Google dev has shown interest..
Yet I'm curious about your progress on this and when this could target AMD / Intel / ARM