skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not rely on browse bookmarks too much. Recently I lost a large amount of bookmarks for google chrome sync overwriting my local copy. The bookmarks.bak file was missing too.
Applying a Machine Learning Process to Humans
I didn’t know it, but if you have a link to previous HN discussions about it, that would be nice to have here.
Are there any on-premise alternatives to Sentry?
What are HN users using as an on-premise alternative to Sentry? Why did you chose it? What problems did it solve that Sentry didn't?
The Modulus Operator – A Guide with Practical Use Cases
Sure, could always be worse. But coal is probably the worst form of gathering energy.

The only benefit is the quick ramp-up enabling them to jump in to gaps where e.g. atomic power ramps up to meet demand.
Ironically, the creation of monopolies over individual publications is the express purpose of copyright.

That is, of course, antropomorphising copyright in a common figure of speech. It would be much more logical to say that humans are subjective here, thus to appear in subject position of the sentence. The officers of the law instrumentalize the law. "the law" is objective only in a figurative sense, but it is a type of procedure. The courts have a good reason to lawfully observe the intent and purpose of the legislator. The legislature had a good reason to law copyright. That's what I think you said. But there is no good reason for legislature to uphold the law.

Meanhile, Elsevier has failed tremendously at protecting the IP. If that constitutes breach of contract, the contract may be suspended.

This would be circular reasoning, if the court is supposed to offer such protection. There is hope they will continue to fail.

But there is no hope that a state who likewise paywalls public documents like certain laws and statuts could see its conflict of interest.

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To be derisive: It is ironic that an ex-sovjet country citizen would fight against centralized pooling of resources. Sovjets could not make a five year plan work, but the free market can handle a 70-year plan? Give me a break.
I do not remember using much calculus other than usign it to pass the college courses. Can you point me to some resources that would teach me how to use calculus(or ODE if that's more interesting) to solve interesting problems?
KDE Frameworks 5.60.0 Released
Maybe not a coincident that random reward works best for continuous purchase/engagement. For example Youtube video recommendations.
In LISP-like languages a compiler/interpeter is a simple example.
Discovery is an unsolved problem. I can’t think of a single media platform that does it well.
I don’t think that being a hermit (avoiding any social interaction in ‘nature’) and being a criminal (acting against law) are mutually exclusive.
And I think it’s very interesting to read about people who chose to become hermits, because I don’t understand the motivation and may learn something.
I find it less interesting to discuss stolen batteries, because I understand that motivation and logic.
You may choose to not understand things that you don’t agree with, being that kind of intellectual hermit is your proper, if sad, choice as a free human.
Now what if you saw the same guy there, for 5+ years. Everyday he wants you to give him money with a different scheme/story. Everytime some gullible tourist gives him money you see him immediately walk into the nearest 7-11 to buy lottery tickets or alcohol. At this point you realize his job is actually to beg professionally. That is why it seems like nobody cares when you go to these cities with large 'visible homeless' because every local has seen these same people in the exact same spots for years running the same scams.
10x Engineers
And the environmental costs for nuclear were internalized by regulation, while the same did not happen for coal. This is still well within the realm of economics.
I wonder if they would be diagnosed ADHD or on the autism spectrum if they had to function in society.
A Japanese hotel has built a lifesize flight simulator into one of its rooms
Scooters, including by Bird, have dramatically increased the amount of street obstacles one can run over. It’s absolutely relevant because the entire scooter model is “blanket the city with them”

On top of that, because many of the chargers are “contractors”, you get situations like the OP described where random people just throw scooters in their pickup, unsecured, and then they fly away on the highway.
Runalyze – running analysis, statistics and forecasting
Hey Amit!

I still think the best I have ever written or contributed was from editing discussions over time into content. Slowly.

I still use those skills. I just edited a Slack Q&A into a checklist on launching partnership integrations. The difference is I don’t write in the “WikiNow” any more because no one understands it except what someone once pejoratively called “wiki monks”. :)

For reference:
http://www.cloudsoftwareassociation.com/2019/07/11/the-compl...
What counts as "personal" though?

I think it's safe to say that your Facebook profile is definitely not personal, neither is your Twitter feed.

How about Medium? Or a blog on Blogspot? Geocities (or Neocities) should be ok, right? How about a WordPress site? Does it have to be on a personal domain name? Does it have to look different? What if I just use WordPress or a static site generator with the default theme or one of the most popular themes?
I found that book harder to get through than “uninhabitable earth”. It’s absolutely worth it, but society really doesn’t respect sleeps importance.
2019 “Tokenomics”
Podcasters need listening data, so Nielsen is going ask for it
Whatever happened to architecture that is actually good?

Boy, if any of the builders from ancient times were around to see some of the monstrosities we've created.
>I think most normal drivers on a cross country trip need bathroom breaks, lunch/snacks/drinks, leg stretching etc. every 2-3 hours. Great opportunity to plug in and recharge enough for another 2-3 hours.

Everytime I hear this I wonder if the people saying it have ever taken a road trip. Stopping every 2-3 hours for a half hour on a long road trip seems downright crazy to me.

This is beside the point that during the busy season of summer travel there are sometimes extensive lines at gas stations on popular routes. Imagine if every car took 15-45 minutes to fuel up?

Range anxiety is real. EVs are the ultimate commuting cars: known distance, charge at home over night. But for the immediate future, over long distance, gasoline cars are hard to beat.
Bottom-up Connectivity Strategies: Community-led telecom infrastructure
Hey, thanks for your feedback. A few colleagues made similar comments today and I tend to agree but was curious how that would be perceived.
The argument seems pretty easy to follow to me.

If you trade with someone, you help them get richer. Rich nations with rich citizens tend to be a lot less belligerent and much more reasonable, as citizens have so much more to lose.

Poverty and crazy authoritarian leaders are like peas and carrots.

In your metaphor, the more you trade with the drug dealer, the more they come to depend on income from selling drugs, and the less likely they will be to want to engage in armed conflict with rivals. After all, why risk dying when things are going so well? They’re making lots of money selling drugs.

Think of your own behavior. Would you break into a house to steal? Under normal circumstances, of course not. If you were starving, you’d think nothing of it. People under pressure behave violently.
Do you care about your personal brand?
A high efficiency high rise for a much less temperate climate that incorporates some of the same ideas:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoba_Hydro_Place
Okay, you’re not running as Administrator on your corporate Windows desktop. How does that malware replace Firefox.exe — not to mention setting a valid signature?

The answer is why this matters: we’re not in the Windows 95 era any more and a large fraction of users are running without admin privileges, often on a system which does code signing checks. Being able to get a trusted binary to run an add-on is common because the easier direct techniques aren’t as they were a couple decades ago.
For long distance travellers you can check out TravelMap (https://travelmap.net). I built it for my cycling and hiking trips and then opened it to the public ;)
The way I see it, it’s about where the liability risk is placed and how that changes behavior. Because chargers use personal vehicles, Bird can turn their eyes to those people being unsafe. If Bird had its own employees charging them and using Bird company vehicles, the Bird corporate insurance rates would be at risk of increasing with reckless behavior. So they would probably take some time to police their drivers behavior.
The Apache 2.0 license very clearly allows commercial use. The sole major difference between Apache 2.0 and, say, MIT is that Apache 2.0 prevents you from using the trademark of the entity that created the original software that you are modifying.

"This License does not grant permission to use the trade names, trademarks, service marks, or product names of the Licensor, except as required for reasonable and customary use in describing the origin of the Work and reproducing the content of the NOTICE file." from https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

I'm not a lawyer and not your lawyer.
that won't happen. Something that is decentralised but still runs on public infrastructure can be blocked or legal entities can be held accountable. Something that is floating around in the "dark web" or some obscure private server is for practical purposes not accessible to vast amount of users.

You don't need to look to the future. We already have p2p solutions and encryption that if hacked together could serve as some sort of decentralised storage. The public doesn't use it.
Although mostly used in the browser, at https://code.pyret.org/, Pyret (the language used in the book) can run locally on Node.js like this:

npm install -g pyret-npm
pyret --help

Assume you have a file named ahoy.arr on your machine:

check:
print("Ahoy from Pyret\n")
"Ahoy " + "World!" is "Ahoy World!"
end

Compile and run with:

pyret ahoy.arr

Run the compiled program:

node ahoy.jarr
Or make fuel. There are all sorts of ways to make carbon neutral diesel and jet fuel. They just aren't economic compared to pumping it out of the ground unless the externalities of burning virgin fuels are priced in with regulation.
Just...I mean, really?

You have to feed the troll ("orange man") from a different website? It's so irritating that this shit still needs explained to people.
Files you send someone are out of your control whether you like it or not and can end up somewhere on the internet.

The world where regulations can prevent that would be so creepy dystopian, that it wouldn't even need humans anymore.
Yeah, good point. I often find myself wanting to follow what some people are up to (friends or not), and it's always frustrating how it requires you to be a part of a certain platform to do that – you can't follow anyone's instagram, facebook, twitter etc without an account, and even then you still need to go on instagram/facebook/twitter to actually check it out.

I recently created myself a Pixelfed (a federated instagram, basically) and was pleasantly surprised how my profile has a plain, old RSS feed, so that anyone can "track" me without ever visiting a website (which is something that ActivityPub itself also allows, but AP still forces you to be a part of the "system", so to say).

I'd much prefer that kind of Federated world, but I don't see how we can get there in any other way than spreading awareness about it and basically nagging our friends (at the risk of isolating ourselves) – “I wish I could follow your adventures and thoughts, but I don't want a facebook account”. This of course requires a critical mass for basically each person, and probably a way of automatically updating the locked-in platforms (for each post you push to pixelfed/blog it updates your instagram/facebook) so that the ones who take a step out don't need to leave their locked-in friends behind.
Had this man been born in, say, the 18th century, he could have become a garden hermit [0]. British aristocracy used to employ hermits to live on their estates, sometimes in hermitages or grottoes, as living garden ornaments but also counsel.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit
I’m still a Facebook user, but I’m thinking more and more about leaving. Not so much because of the tracking as for the expectation of maintaining tens of hundreds of “friendships”. Keeping track of what former colleagues are up to, meeting someone at a conference every other year and the conversation is 90% “I saw online that you (...)”, and having less time for proper conversations with actual remote friends.

I don’t know how it will end, but I’m confident that I’ll keep in touch with the friends that are actually important. Not staying in semi-touch with people I don’t feel the urge to call, send a mail, or invite/travel to is something I look forward to :)
The inability of foreign workers to move jobs easily constrains labor supply, thus pushing wages higher. I fail to see how any of this is good news for the American worker. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Sorry, I meant in the last 100 years or so.
How do you spot a manager full of bull?

Easy, if they come up with nonsense such as this and proudly share it, they are it!

(This is all excellent advice, I am just bitter that I am not a "ten-ex engineer")
The framing this asshole gets from the press continues to astonish me.

"He didn't come out again for 27 years"... well except the 1000+ times he came out to steal shit. And yeah I'm damn sure 27 years of weekly break ins and theft "caused a lot of anxiety" christ that phrase is doing some heavy lifting. "he tried to cause as little damage as possible" which is a hell of a thing to say about 27 years of making the conscious decision to break into people's houses and steal their shit.
How Amazon Makes Money
Previously a fresh install was enough to fix windows. Does it mean that you need a new online account every time you reinstall?
You can hear frequencies much higher than normal by pressing the sound source against the cranium.
Spoiled Rich Kids
Agreed. That part bugs me. Cities are effectively subsidizing sidewalk space for these scooters that we paid for with tax revenue (and continue to pay to maintain). Most business that want to capture a parking spot need to pay for that privilege, and scooter companies should have to pay for that as well.

And you’ll see that most scooter riders on sidewalks are going max speed. It has made walking in cities with these things a lot more annoying, and it was already bad enough with cars but at least cars are separated from walkers.
Front-end Chinese developer based on Shenzhen city,China. I love this project because it is open source like Nginx,docker,mariadb, etc. More and more devs contribute their time on it( you can find them on forum.blockstack.org and slack).I still remember the first time I used hello world and todo list sites programmed by Larry. At that time, There are no 170 apps like now , and no xordrive.io,bitpatron.co these kinds of websites. Now,devs can find docs and seek support from support easily from forum.blockstack.org. One week ago, I realized how important open-sourced blockstack auth is,because I use vpn in China,gmail blocked my email account without a reasonable reason and forced me find a Phone number to verify it.I use that gmail address for daily works. Suddenly I cannot use it for many websites. I realized ,They(google,github) can block any users as they like. I reduce my use of google drive and gmail now. For general users, use open source software as possible as we can.If even some core developers(Jude,Aran,Ali ) died or did evil things that other devs cannot accept(not offend),other devs can also fork a new project like blockstack, you know that Linux have many versions,Firefox also have many versions in China.

Blockstack Auth pros and cons:

1. You don’t need a phone number to verify your account and worry your phone number leak.
2. You don’t need time to write traditional codes about user registration and finding password. And you don’t need to buy or deploy a mail server like mailgun and sendgrid.
3. No one can block your accounts (blockstack id )like google did it for me,currently.
4. No one can sell your data to others, I don’t how it going for data business in USA , but in China, Alibaba and baidu , every day, they sell data of users to their paid merchants without our permissions.
5.No cost for image storage in Gaiahub now

Cons:
1. No server nodes in Asia, it is really slow to use graphite and xordrive, I mean, most blockstack sites load pages slower than trational websites. It’s time to deploy Asia servers !
2. No 100% decentralized, actually , I wanna say that blockstack websites and apps also based on ip protocols. China government firewall can easily blocked these domains. If some blockstack websites use Twitter,react Facebook js cdn, we have to use vpn to use these sites normally.
Crawling is not entirely synonymous with scraping. Crawling web pages is usually done with the specific purpose of search and categorisation, whereas scraping is much more generalized... Data mining, mirroring, avoiding the official API limits etc...

Google may have written agreements with Craigslist, they're both enormous companies...

Finally, as others have said it's a legal grey area. It's not completely clear and it basically depends on what websites you're scraping, how you use the data and why...

Maybe it's best to just ask the website?
That's conflating two different problems. The issue of someone posting something without permission is one, and what Facebook does with what it distributes is another, entirely different second issue. We are discussing the second.

Is it dystopian to regulate that sites cannot host and distribute pedophile content for instance ? Regulations are needed, in the internet as much as anywhere else.
In other words, that beer gave you the motive to bring twitter down, which you inevitably did by asking that question.
I can't comment on Google Play or Xbox Marketplace but on the App Store, Nintendo eShop and PlayStation Store, it's still hard to discover what you're looking for if you don't already know about it

Over at /r/androiddev, it used to be a regular occurrence for people to post baffled questions like, "I published my app 'Llamas go Picnicking' and I can't find it listed even if I search exactly for 'Llamas go Picnicking'".

Indeed, you'd go and search for 'Llamas go Picknicking' and see Angry Birds at the top.
Amazon’s Alexa Calls 911
They shouldn't, true. But they are. And have been for a very long time. People who require anonymity would/should/could subvert all those things. But just to give one example: if the daughter I don't have for example was to be targeted by some ex boyfriend posting private photos, I would like to be able to pinpoint the source of those photos. In the case of Facebook that tracking/watermarking is limited to stuff coming out of the FB platforms. Open any photo done with a digital camera and you can get a lot of information from the raw data as well. What I'm saying - a blanket objection of all 'meta' tracking data is not helpful - because it does and will keep on happening. Education on how to work around it when it's needed is maybe the solution. And in some cases, like the example I gave, that tracking data can actually be used to do good.
>I know you are a gigantic egomaniac and I'm wasting my time writing this, but if you could ever repress your inflated sense of (mis)justice for two seconds, you might notice that the poster actually asked a perfectly valid question.

Also a perfectly trivial one, an insulting one, and one that has been asked countless times, and that has no real place in a post presenting a new language but goes to meta yak shaving philosophy.

(A question like "what are Mirths differentiating points, what new does it bring" would be an acceptable version -- but that wasn't what was asked).

Note that by starting with "I know you are a gigantic egomaniac" and "inflated sense" and "Thanks for making HN cancer", you already show that you don't have a valid contribution to the discussion either. It even seems like the content of the discussion was secondary, just needed to vent at someone...
Facial Recognition Technology Is Growing Stronger, Thanks to Your Face
Stadia’s Pricing Model Will Ultimately Be Its Downfall
> Is it dystopian to regulate that sites cannot host and distribute pedophile content for instance ?

Yes, this is exactly dystopian.
Since we're talking about Steam... is there any way to check _in my library_: which ones are RPG, which ones are 3D and visually stunning (I just bought a fancy card and want to test drive)? API is fine.
Archaeologists Find Rare Viking-Age Boat Burials in Sweden
The speech Richard Nixon would have given ‘in event of moon disaster’
Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals
> From a self driving car

Cue up the [0] Porsche 919 vid to show what a human can do in a car...

[0] https://youtu.be/KsLi7HgSuhI
> Molten salt fuels were first conceived of in the late 1940s, when people began thinking of nuclear powered airplanes!
> The idea was to have very long range bombers in the air at all times

I had never heard of this idea, and thought it was super interesting. Imagine aircraft that could stay in the air indefinitely (for some practical purposes), carrying massive loads without fuel being a concern.

Similar to nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines, at least conceptually.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft
Interstellar Probe backers aim for 50-year mission beyond our solar system
Is WhatsApp doing it too?
That's one reason some of the MSR companies are going with uranium fuel. MSRs don't have to be thorium.
This man deserves it more than most of those who got one (I don't mean to take anything away from them, they did deserve one, just that Corbato's contributions to computing are enormous and more deserving than most; for instance, would there have been a Linux without his contributions? He led the Multics project, of which he was possibly the main figure -> Unix -> Linux). I guess that it comes down to a popularity thing, rather than actual importance.
Stories about Maps on the first iPhone and the partnership with Google [video]
Quit calling this a US issue. It’s more of a West Coast issue than anything else. There are plenty of cities with sane building codes that have a lot of “basic” housing.
Instead of as a disparagement of the product, you could see this as a no-judgement PSA for anyone interested in and capable of running such an alternative.

Incidentally I am precisely looking for something like this so for me that’s valuable :)
Check out the book “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” by David Epstein for why generalists actually have better outcomes than specialists, even at specialized tasks.

Intuitively, I think this makes sense. Imagine skill as a logarithmic function with the x axis being time. Every unit of work you put in to train starts becoming less and less efficient. By training in different skills you are making more efficient use of your training time. And even if the skills appear to be orthogonal to see each, there’s definitely a cross training effect, for both mental and physical tasks.

A good example is programming. For longer than I care to admit I was one of those guys who could code but wasn’t that strong in math. I was frustrated because it felt like I wasn’t getting better. I decided to strongly focus on math, started exercising, and did brain training with dual n-back tests to increase my fluid intelligence.

I was pleasantly surprised that all these unrelated activities boosted my programming ability to a significant degree, in a comparatively marginal amount of time.