skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am about to have this problem right in my back yard. I know the farm field that is 50 feet from my back door is going to grow sunflowers some time soon, and my driveway is the obvious way for people to access it. I have seen cars parked carelessly on major roads in the area when the same farmer used other fields, and I am really not sure what to do when the problem comes to me.
I will be fortunate in that the field is slightly hidden and off the road, plus sunflowers can't be planted in the same place every year, so there is only a single season for people to discover and seek out the site. I am just really not looking forward to dealing with all of the people driving down my driveway to get their shot.
I've had similar thoughts in the past. My conclusion was that education and misinformation is a huge problem these days, so part of my mental/time resources are being spent trying to improve general "information" handling to people. Bad actors are doing too much, and the common person doesn't have tooling to aid them against this endless stream of information.

I'm working on this through implementation(s) that are centered around:

- A UX that focuses on small information (the goal of being easy to consume, while linking back to source material to not lose context)

- distributed / federated (naturally sharable, not platform locked)

- immutable (aspects of it can be immutable and source material from the internet should be archived into the system for permanent reference)

Point 2 and 3 are largely implementation details that I feel are important for a system. The first point, the UX of "small" information is an attempt at reducing the data load on humans these days. To expand:

We've got a world of information at our finger tips. I can spend hours digesting information and forming conclusions but not only do I need to mentally retain my work, but I have to mentally retain the components of my work to back up how I came to those conclusions. I find this extremely difficult. I believe it would be beneficial to promote people recording these conclusions, and conclusions from conclusions (and so forth), in such a way that it can be easily shared, digested, debated further and improved upon.

While I've been slowly planning this for ages, recently I bumped into Kialo[1] and found their UI to be quite similar to what I had envisioned. notably how in the debate, statements are linked to other statements to breakdown conclusions into smaller, digestible components. This is tailored towards debates not specifically generic information, but I think it's all meaningfully related.

My implementation is too early to share, but I'm speaking about this because I believe the information tooling is important to humans. If this interests you I look forward to your contributions in this space :)

I appreciate your desire to help humanity.

note: I should note that my implementation has a bunch of technical aspects that may or may not be worth while to the overall goal. The distributed and immutable nature of the implementation might detract from the overall goal. I believe point 2 and 3 have merit though, but that debate is out of scope haha.

[1]: https://www.kialo.com
It really depends on their intention, whether they consider that part of the work DIY or not.

If I paint my wall, I would generally say it costs the price of the paint, not whatever I'd have to pay to have someone do it for me.

Or what about the people who tinker with their own smart home solutions with arduinos and raspberries. If you factor in the price of work/research/coding, it would be very hard to justify not buying an off-the-shelf solution instead.
That's very interesting if true. Can you give any reference? All I can find through search engines is some references to "about 100 years" and a single thread where someone mentions a 120 year prediction but then the rest of the thread is everyone else correcting that person.
So what's Linux market share for desktops these days?
Put up a gate and charge $50 to access the site :)
This has been a problem for people already thousands of years ago. Stoicism is one way to deal with it. https://zenpencils.com/comic/aurelius/
I’ve done Beijing to Chenzhou a couple of times on China’s HSR. 8 hours, 1700km, but there is no airport in chenzhou so it works out vs flying into Changsha or Guangzhou and transferring to the train for another hour or two (China doesn’t have many airports with train stations, so the transfer is 1+ hours).
It also ignores the way a car is being used. Sports cars are consistently more dangerous than say, minivans. This is true even if the minivan is poorly rated and the sports car is top-of-class in its safety rating.
>If they are so mad Tesla is saying "We have the best crash test rating of any car", why not change the test to include those issues?

Or, they can do what they have done and tell Tesla to stop exaggerating the claims, which is a pattern with this company.
The “coding seen as too low” mentality is slowly changing. Most of the very well paid employees and even many of the founders of newly found companies are known to be good programmers. People who look down on code are (rightly) missing out
> Well, you are right but I expected to find an article speaking about Wine running on native Windows without WSL

While it isn't all of Wine, it is a fairly well-known usecase to build certain Wine modules and run those on Windows. It's been used to support ancient games that depend on certain old quirks that have changed in more recent Windows. It's also used by graphics driver developers, because Wine's implementation works on both Windows and Linux, so they can study differences at the driver level on both platforms.
2030: you can generate a deepfake selfies portfolio in 500 ms and algorithmically choose the best looking one in another 500 ms, but people still want "the real thing", a real proof they were there. Popular spots offer zero visibility due to selfie sticks. Croatia is the first country to ban phones, in Dubrovnik.
A few years ago, my friend who moved to and now lives in Thailand told me something similar to the contents of the article. Specifically, a quiet beach area that locals would go to became overrun with tourists after Instagrammer with lots of followers posted the location.

I guess I wouldn't mind this if it meant we became more receptive to making life decisions to help preserve the environment, but it seems like the outcome is mostly just about getting addicted to upvotes/likes on digital platforms. Ah well.
May I ask why you need that many distributions? It really looks interesting.
(Actual question:) How is a standard journal-style typesetting a big upfront cost?

Surely the authors do all the hard parts, make the graphs, section, maths markup, footnotes. What's left that can't be automated in almost every situation?
computer does not turn on even connected: UPS connected to itself
They may not be technically difficult, but they sure are challenging in other ways, and that makes them interesting to me!
>I’ll take this blog post from Tesla over, for example, the Ford commercial showing their concept electric truck pulling a train, any day.

Sounds like you have some pretty serious bias. Meanwhile, Tesla claims their non-existent truck concept can pull 300,000lbs. Has Ford ever claimed something similar?
There was a similar situation in France on a lavender farm where the farmers put a gigantic sign up to ask Instagram to not destroy the fields. It effectively ruined their shots by being unavoidable in the frame.

You could also try to make lemonade here though. If the demand is there offer a private tour of the fields for $40/ea. Let them take better pictures than the roadside people with the sign and make some cash.
I think the point of that oath is not that you can't take out a heart but rather the intent of taking out that heart should be to introduce a new, healthier one.
Costs of publishing in a journal are a part of the grant proposal(s).
If appropriate laws existed, you could still put pressure on them. Something like "if your international partner sends more than X spam calls, you're responsible for them". The telco would have a choice of getting fined or dropping the interconnect / filtering that source. On the other side, the telco in Bangalore doesn't want to lose the ability to handle calls to the US, so starts monitoring itself.
> Capitalism describes a system where people are free to own means of production.

That's a fairly broad definition, so broad you lose all the meaning. By this definition, half of socialism (all but Marxism-Leninism) counts as Capitalism. Same for many economic system around the world since the beginning of History, while historians unanimously describes Capitalism as born in the late Middle-age/Renaissance in Europe (they don't agree where though, some talk about the Protestant counties (Max Weber), others think it was born in northern Italy (Fernand Braudel), while some consider the Jewish community as being the cradle of Capitalism).

I think your definition is highly influenced by the US anticommunist propaganda of the world war, who tried to create a dichotomy between Capitalism and the totalitarian communism. The reality is way more complex than this black-and-white narrative.
Virtual camera that can see around corners
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Spies#Consequences
I’m not sure how you imagine communicating such things to a child. Do you have a flip chart with full frontal nudes in red and feet pictures in orange? It’s not like there’s anything more prohibitive than “absolutely not ok”. Both are beyond that. Your argument sounds like needing to clarify that Fentanyl is worse than heroin, and that if I don’t make it clear that fentanyl is worse, they’re going to do both?

If you can prevent either, you should prevent both.
The Beijing to Shanghai HSR is direct. But the same tracks support other lines that stop at other cities along the way.
I have thought about that. Maybe when the time comes I should make a deal with Farmer Kenny. He really doesn't like the people trampling around to get pictures either, but maybe if I organized it and shared $10/person with him it would be better for everyone.
Here in Holland at the fields with all the flowers we have this issue with tourist in general. They walk into the field for a picture, destroying the crop costing the farmer thousands a year.

So the farmer put up a big signs telling people to take pictures outside the field etc. Queue the German/Chinese boomer who conveniently 'did not notice it'... People are just trash
Accountability == Witch Hunt? Where have I heard this before...
Xkcd #2186: Dark Matter
If you do London->Edinburgh by train now, then assuming you're willing to book to a specific train and book a couple of months in advance (which is probably what you were doing with your plane ticket) then you can get a ticket for 50 or 60 quid each way, total time of about 4 and a half hours. Of course if you're starting a little further north (say, Cambridge), then the train is cheaper still. Plus you have to allow for the cost of getting from where you start to the airport if you're flying. So the economic argument has tilted considerably since your experience of two decades past (though the plane still wins if time-elapsed is your primary requirement).

Personally I take the train for this journey -- last time I did Cambridge to Edinburgh I paid less than 30 quid for the outbound leg and not much more for the return. And you can get decent prices for first class if you want a little bit more luxury at way less of a premium than the airlines will charge you for that...
Does a TV tube's use of magnetic scanning not present a considerable difficulty in using them in an oscilloscope? IIRC, a CRT television typically used some rather hackish special-purpose circuitry to linearize its horizontal and vertical scanning, each just at one specific frequency?
electric fence?
In 2015 I was flying from Copenhagen to Helsinki with Finnair. I missed the flight after checking in, and they didn't unload my bag, although they should have.

I was waiting in the lounge as it kept being delayed further and further, with the standard 'go to gate' message. Unfortunately they were also slow at updating the status and it went seamlessly into 'gate closed'. I ran to the gate, but was too late. The staff there seemed surprised that they'd missed me - they weren't even aware they were missing a passenger.

The fun then started trying to get my bag back. Copenhagen airport made me wait around for hours for my bag to arrive at the designated unloading carousel, and wouldn't open a missing bag ticket. Eventually they had to concede it had gone missing somewhere after I found the baggage handler who'd unloaded some bags from my flight saying he hadn't unloaded mine. They still wouldn't admit it had flown ahead of me, even as a possibility.

When I then got to Helsinki on the next flight, I went to the counter and told them they had my bag. Again they told me there was no possibility they had it, and wouldn't even look. So I gave them my ticket number and left. They found my bag shortly after I left, of course.
Launched a beta of the search for structured data
Expensive adapter makes the Nintendo 64 look good on modern TVs
For me, it looks like the European GDPR - that received a lot of harsh words here, on HN - is a little bit improving the situation for everybody on the net, at least regarding the Big Players.

Maybe some regulations is not bad after all (at least for de facto monopolistic business like Google, Amazon & co)...? ;-)
Indie game designer here with a long history of self-education. My history isn't really applicable any more but it may help with your journey.

With an interest in comic books and cartoons, I began practicing animation in the margin of my paperback books. Flip-books got me interested in Flash, and I spent some years learning basic frame-by-frame animation. Setting up menus and basic playback controls opened the doors to ActionScript, which got me started with choose-your-own-adventure animations. As I experimented with basic game mechanics, I started to play more games, and eventually turned to Java to learn "real" programming, where the concept of game loops and loading external images was introduced. After practicing on and off for years, Unity appeared and opened the doors to 3D game development (I was taking a computer graphics course in college around this time as well). I took some time to read up on level design, since I never really worked in 3D space prior to this. Since then, I've picked up bits and pieces of incorporating stronger media (textures, music, sfx) and polishing the user experience (more attention to the GUI and overlays). Most recently I've added analytics and other metrics to improve my understanding of how users behave. Funny enough after all that, now I'm designing tabletop games.

That's my journey, at least.

Comic books -> Cartoons -> Paper animation -> 2D Digital animation -> Scripting games -> Developing games -> Using external assets -> 3D games -> Level design -> Low-level concepts -> Polishing media use -> Polishing GUI -> Analytics -> Tabletop
What work in particular? Minkowski did a lot of neat things. (But I'm not sure I'd describe any of the ones I know of as more intuitive than multiplication.)
Whether or not they are actually listening to you is a detail. The creepy thing is that they obviously know you as good as if they were listening. How that is achieved isn't really the point.
What all the stuff in email headers means–and how to sniff out spoofing
>I doubt anyone is missing much aside from a few nostalgic gamers.

There's tons of 16-bit SCADA stuff in the world that it would be nice to not have to run on a ~20yo version of windows.
Okay, can I charge people a fee to call me?
Sapper: Towards the ideal web app framework
I like cargo and easier threading. The syntax is annoying though. C/C++ really would benefit immensely from a central library repo.
> the stricter your language’s formatting is, the easier it will be to grep source code

Well that makes sense, the less reliable your input text, the more complex the regexp.
Cybersecurity Pros Name Their Price as Hacker Attacks Swell
No, but it might be less than $300.
What's preventing Sci-Hub from having it all, and who is backing up Sci-Hub?
>Because LIDAR is expensive

So is the battery technology, and electric vehicles in general. Is there anything unique about LIDAR to assume the costs won't decrease significantly over time?
I was abhorred to see a teenage girl pouting for a selfie outside the gatehouse of the Birkenau concentration camp.

Everyone else was ashen faced after an exhausting day of horridness.

I wondered about saying something but decided not to.
A Framework for Moderation
Gitlab Founder and CEO, Sid Sijbrandij [video]
I have to say I think all those problems would have been worse without Valve and Steam, and will become so as Steam becomes "just another" DRM agent. The dream of perpetual rental will never die.
Working on Wine – A Guide to Developing Wine
FedEx to End U.S. Ground Deliveries for Amazon
It’s easy to hate on people for wanting to go to a place they’ve seen in a photo and to focus on the fact that they want the same photo there... I think that’s a casual knee-jerk reaction. The impulse to have a destination while traveling isn’t a new one, and people have been taking photos for decades upon decades. The problem is that we now have a platform that concentrates attention so efficiently on the 20% of attractions anywhere someone might go. I don’t know the solution, but shaking our heads at people for wanting to experience the world they live in (even if they aren’t doing it to our creative standards) isn’t going to help, and seems to be how a lot of articles about this topic bait peoples’ attention and ire.
Coq with tactics does not fair particularly well on anything more than toy examples: https://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/docs/experimental_evaluation_...

Better tools are still needed, so people really should be building more systems of this kind.
Electric fences are fairly cheap but I suspect you couldn't get away with installing one for the express purpose of dissuading trespassers in much of Europe.
I agree that they provide some service. That service costs at best $500. I just don't see how they can even ask for $5000 for proofreading articles. I don't value the rest of their pre-publication work at all: It is all done by volunteers, and my experience with their (paid) editors is not good: they do just as much a lousy job on getting reviewers to respond in time as any other journal. They change their minds and are very, very swayed by politics. And , tbh, i don't care about the proofreading. Some journals have extremely detailed authoring guidelines that are useless: Typesetting a subscript in italics doesn't provide value to science, and most typos will be found out by anyone who reads your article. The assumption that a paper must be "print ready" is stupid in the 2010s. Anyone can spot your typos and you can correct them on the spot. Proofreading can in no way be a justification for publishing with elsevier or NPG. I found e-life's editorial process much, much more professional and it's open access too. They value the time of scientists and will reject your paper fast. In fact many other journals are experimenting with new formats. Hopefully the new established science reporting format will be something better.

The key is to get reviewers to stop reviewing articles for them. It's this that keeps them relevant. Whether the end publication is on wordpress or on medium doesn't matter much.

Also, https://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-sci...
The editing is not done by volunteers, the reviewing process is. Editing, proofreading, layout, and submit related info to different databases need to be done by someone. Editors for academic journals usually did not do the late part.
It is referred to as Einstein gravity by some.
From 2015: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7985
Why? It doesn't seem like time-sensitive content. Should any link to tutorials or documentation also have a date on it?
It's not my Alexa I'm talking about!

I have no reason to buy one. I made a list of benefits and it really wasn't strong enough!
Seriously, if you have a good data plan, why have a phone number? The phone system is so laughably insecure and limited compared to the voip alternatives. And so riddled with SPAM. There are SIP bridges to it, for the legacy calls.
>They're usually infrared, so Musk's quote makes no sense.

Many of Musk's statements don't hold up to the scrutiny of professionals or specialists.
Maybe the EU can institute an Instagram tax to mitigate damage and base it on image geolocation so that the areas more overrun get compensated accordingly.
AI App Chudo Can Create a Cartoon Emoji of Yourself
If I could block all calls from Bangalore, that would be good enough for me.
> Israel has relinquished all control of Gaza in 2005, and hasn't been an occupying force there since

Nope.

https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/48000/mde15007200...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_of_territories_occupied...
> Going from a final draft to a published, peer-reviewed paper involves quite a few menial tasks, and scientists will either need to fill those roles themselves, or someone needs to pay someone else.

Which stages are you referring to? In my experiences in CS, publishing a _conference_ paper required:

- Writing the paper using a publisher-provided LaTeX documentclass (potentially a significant portion of publisher costs went into developing this style)
- Submitting the paper, via third-party conference management systems
- Review, performed for free by other researchers
- Responding to reviews, performed by me
- Submitting a camera-ready version of the paper. The checks were mostly performed automatically (PDF metadata, page size, fonts, text size, balanced last page, page limits, margins, etc.)
- Checking of the camera-ready paper (this seems like an actual menial task performed by someone on the publishing side, although I think that this was also contracted out)
- Assembling the proceedings PDF (again, I assume this was automated, with the menial task of checking TOCs, headers, and footers)
- Attending the conference itself (I assume the most money goes into this, renting the venue, organising AV teams, large amounts of co-ordination)

Things then get worse, because one specific publisher charges for intstitutional access, again for Gold OA (though Green OA is a free option), and then several hundred dollars for attending the conference.

It seems to me that most of the menial tasks are already automated. A lot of the menial tasks are even contracted out.
I have colleagues who go to great lengths to organise local seminar series, run workshops,
Perhaps I am missing some, or some of these are much more involved than they appear on the surface.
gotcha thank you.
Keep in mind that most of the problems in the world exist because it's somehow profitable for someone more powerful than you for things to be bad. Be prepared for your do-gooding to make you enemies.
From the business perspective, this would not be desirable because it destroys a lot of prospective business cases for self-driving vehicles. Basically all of them that are as-a-service. What good is a taxi service that stops working during bad weather? That's even when there would be more demand for it because people don't want to walk or bike anymore.
Ok, so what is the purpose of Hippocratic Oath?

Why we have such things as Bar Association for lawyers?

Statements are important - at least you have to fight with your inner feeling that "you lied" to all when it actual status quo its just "matter of perspective" bending morals
I have been waiting for ZFS Native encrypted root. Very nice that this is comming.
Isn't that illegal? Or at least, doesn't that cancel the copyright as it explicitly breaches the copyright contract with the demos.