skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows applications are conspicuously missing from the list.

Others mentioned OneNote. For PDF annotations, Edge browser isn't all that bad. Foxit had some features too, AFAIR (and is cross-platform). Personally, I currently use Drawboard PDF - it's UWP, but a very nice and stylus-friendly viewer with a lot of annotation capabilities and a circular menu that's extra convenient when using a stylus.
Take it from me, they are fucking with you. There are algos out there that detect "real" traders like you and me and endlessly fuck with you on equities long/short and all options. I assume also on commodities and Forex, but have no direct knowledge. No clue about cryptos or any of that trash, but you're swimming in shark-infested waters with cryptos anyways. That stuff is all completely manipulated trash.

My suggestion if you want to beat the "market" is to develop some kind of algo that can trip up other algos and cause them to show their ass and then buy that dip.
Or perhaps you could put them in a field.
In this instance AI research is directed at beating humans. Creating agents that will beat humans at games. This adversely impacts human drive and motivation.
Yes that's true you could be linked if using a custom domain and someone can determine that nobody else is sharing that domain with you.

That's why I added the additional username feature to compartmentalise aliases and also the UUID aliases.

The UUID aliases all share the same domain e.g anonaddy.me so it is not possible to link ownership of these to any particular user.
Sounds like a job for Literate Programming.[1]

This could also be done, for instance, in org-mode, with embedded source-code blocks.

Normally, the source in the org's source code blocks live directly in the org document itself, but there's no reason it couldn't pull in the source from external documents instead. I wouldn't be surprised if there's isn't already an extension or org feature that does this.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
>I know many people with student debt and they all manage to have a car and relationships/families.

How many have defaulted on their loans? Again 1M default every year...how many do you know?

Home ownership, car ownership and marriage are all down with this demographic and millennials overall.
AlphaGo doesn't appreciate the game at all. It is just trying to survive in a hostile environment. You might as well say that your gut bacteria appreciate the food at your favorite restaurant better than you do.

Put another way, Chess is literally a matter of life and death for AlphaGo, because chess is all it knows. It has no exterior context for which chess is a metaphor.
I believe you’re confusing “nothing to do” with what the OP task was: “making upper case letters mixed case”. It needs to be done right? This work is analogous to what is done every day in every office in every country. Believe it or not, most of what people do is this type of work (again, my opinion).

If there’s not other pressing needs, and there’s a business need for the work, and you have a sure fire way of solving your problem, then take the path of least resistance and keep your staff from being idle.
But it's not the human species that's at risk(except for some world-ending catastrophe that we cause), it is the modern world ending that is at risk.
I think it must be something like stress and deteriorating mental health more than those frankly. They existed 30 years ago (and as I understand were more popular then) without as much negative effects.
Thank you for all of your great Ansible work! I leverage a lot of them at work and they have been great! (I’ll be playing around with these!)
This link does not support the claim that carbon taxes are progressive.
I've created Quoter[0] to address this point in particular. I read a fair amount of materials on daily basis (books, blogs, discussions) and some times I want a to save a sentence. With Quoter it's just one click away.

To get reminded about the quotes (or annotations) that I've saved: I've configure it to show a random quote every 3 hours.

This quote was shown when I was writing this comment :)

>Every time you create something – whether it's a website, a client app, a blog post, a powerpoint presentation, or an email – ask yourself, "so what?" If you can't answer that question convincingly, reformulate and try again.

It also have the ability to export saved quotes, I a script to process the output to a page on my website[1].

[0] https://getquoter.app/
[1] https://mhasbini.com/highlights.html
Ask HN: What do you think? is wealth inequality a problem?
How would you fix it? what if corps just limited the amount founders and investors could own/make with a cap.
Good idea. Where do we start this shaming? I don't have the resources.
The presumption is that teenagers are unmarried, unable to support an independent household, and of a mindset that lacks self-control. It's just a lot of correlations with various kinds of chaos.

We certainly don't make it easy with our law. We enforce a minimum age to marry, work, and purchase a home.
sure, and by the same logic, any health insurance company who rejects claims unfairly should be supplanted by a competitor who will not and who will scoop up all those patients. unfortunately the health care market and system do not meet the assumptions that are implicit in your line of reasoning, and we do see a lot of such anti-consumer behavior by health insurance companies, even as the profits of health insurance companies soar (proving that they are not at the 0 margin that naive economic reasoning would predict)
The alternative is not pretending that DRM works. It's a giant layer of complexity that exists solely so that we can lie to the business people and tell them that we've protected our IP from piracy.
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You make human sound too grandiose. Human are still driven by the ape inside all of us. We filter facts that don't comply with our predetermined conclusion.

Just consider the fact that everyone thinks they are above average in compassion or intelligent and stuff that like that. Even if you scream in their face that "HUMAN OVERESTIMATE THEIR PLACE IN THE AVERAGE!!" they will still claim that they are in the 51% percentile.

If anything, technologies and networking have made human a lot more stupider in that its harder to climb against all the misinformation.
That sharply increasing line for older women pre-2008 was incredibly depressing.
It is now, but the threat of climate change's short- and medium-term effects has people scared (quite reasonably) that our record of increasing safety will come to a screaming reversal in the next 50-75 years.
I also listen to different genres (70s pop rock, some punk and light jazz, old style metal, 80s disco and more modern stuff etc.) though I found prog to be more interesting as a wannabe musician; much easier to grasp than the hardest jazz and closer to my origins (Rock&Roll, 70s-80s Hard Rock etc). I also have a thing about swing and big band sound; one of my dreams is hopefully being able one day to take many well known tunes and play them swing-style using rock and big band instruments together. I often hum "normal" songs swing-style while driving my bike and I found that the number of them that could be rearranged as such is surprisingly high.
I'd like you to consider doodledocs.com, which is my side project. I recently submitted it as a show HN [1].

It has a web annotation feature in which you can draw over a website with your stylus. I haven't seen the combination of a pressure sensitive stylus web annotation collaborative doodle app.

It's still very much an MVP though, so the collaborative aspect doesn't always work. The annotation aspect should work a lot better.

I wish I could pursue this project as a small company (I have quite a lot of ideas in this area), but I'm having a hard time finding the audience who might enjoy this (currently that says more about my marketing skills than anything else). So side project it is.

Edit: Bluebeam, Good Notes and Apple Books are missing [2]. It seems that there is no consideration for stylus-based annotation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21399910

[2] As an aside, I recommend Good Notes over Apple Books, but it's close. Bluebeam is a good application if you have a Microsoft Surface.
Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry
I don't know the specifics of Crimea that well but there should be some easy heuristics to see who owns what country.
- When items are sold, which country collects sales tax?
- Who provides the police, driver license, mail?
- If there are elections, who to the people vote for?

Does Crimea not have simple answers to those questions?
Wow! 100g acceleration, Mach 10 in 5 seconds. I can't imagine the level of noise from that.
> And they were just detained, not shot dead or sent to gulags forever.

They might've just lost their jobs, ended up late on rent, or going without medicine, but they were "only just detained."

> Is there any chance to not being depressed with all of that stats?

These are deaths of effectively random chance, not of systematic persecution riding on the back of nationalism waving a fasces. Each one of these detentions is a policy failure and, as we live in at least nominally Democracy, there is culpability on every American unless they take any action. This weight is what bears down on people, but it seems that you are, rather worryingly, insulated or alienated from this violence.

> what are your chance to feel yourself content and happy?

Why are so eager to change this to a subjective matter when this directly deals with objective violence?
It's both. Everybody takes a cut of the benefit for a good long while.
Ok, I provided one example. It's on you to prove the point then. Please provide relevant facts proving your case. Prove my point is wrong.

Oh, and the majority of present-day ignitions in automobiles are still the exact same mechanical interlock switching types used since the 60's. Higher-end vehicles have solid state switching, but it's not the majority of vehicles.

Also:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/bmw-recalls-million-vehicles-fire-...
I don't buy it, but the article includes a quote that appears to attempt to address your concern:

> "Their true intent could not be clearer," Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Helms wrote in a sentencing memo this month for Rampeesa, one of the eight recruiters, of the hundreds of students enrolled. "While 'enrolled' at the University, one hundred percent of the foreign citizen students never spent a single second in a classroom. If it were truly about obtaining an education, the University would not have been able to attract anyone, because it had no teachers, classes, or educational services."

Their argument is that, because no student ever attended class, all of the students were knowingly attempting to commit fraud. That claim seems suspect, considering that there were no classes for the students to attend.

I suppose you could argue that, if a student found out that there were no classes and did not attempt to report the university or un-enroll, that they were complicit in the fraud, but still, what the hell?
While some feel it may border on entrapment in this case, a failed 'test of ethics' generally is illegal. If you do unethical things because the threat of getting caught is all that matters, you are not a good person by any standard.
Before you call an Uber or a Lyft, you'll want to know about 'Vomit Fraud'
After 2 weeks of digging through our code I’m 100% confident it wasn’t our code. Was able to hook up to a total of 3 additional accounts via api, all 3 books matched, and were started at different times.

We wrote support and they told us they would investigate. Never heard back.
The quote is resonant because anybody with first hand experience with the way "corporations" think internally about such matters KNOWS that this is EXACTLY how it plays out.
Having people do that manually is garbage work. It can be done with a quick script by any competent programmer or system administrator. Having people sit down and do that for hours, days, or weeks, is a sure-fire way to kill any interest they have in contributing meaningfully to the business. They will hate you, themselves, the company, and either seek out a new job (best case) or remain and occupy space continuing to do garbage work.

If your staff is idle, give them meaningful work, training, or the day off. All of those are better than giving them garbage work.
Our healthcare costs are not high because six people are redundant.

The health insurance business was almost a $900 B market in 2017, that's enough to pay 12,000,000 people $75,000/yr. Adding six, or six thousand, or 600,000 redundant employees affects that market very little.
Show HN: A modern app to watch public domain movies
Ok have fun performing psychological experiments on your brain using "informal" merriam webster definitions
> Our system will then silently discard any further emails and you won't be forwarded anything else for that alias.

Be careful you don't run into legal issues here. I remember reading somewhere recently that silently dropping emails isn't allowed in some jurisdictions.
I had this happen to me. I was hired as a contractor for a big company and was shown to a cubicle I was to share with another developer. Only, I had nothing to do. I was told what I'd be doing when I interviewed but that project got put on hold by the time I started. After about a week of not being assigned anything I started to kind-of freak out. My cube-mate assured me that everything was fine and he explained that the department head was given the OK to hire someone and he took advantage of that opportunity so that he had me available when he needed me.

I was a contractor there for almost a year and was never really given anything of importance (that I could see, anyway) to work on. But, I guess I was still providing value somehow... I hope?
On average having healthy parents and grandparents seems more likely to create environments where a child’s wellbeing can be a focus of attention. Or more crudely, a dead grandparent can’t teach a child banjo or help with fractions or pay for glasses.
A big part of the stigma around teen sex is rooted in thousands of years of religious taboo associated with it among the world’s major religions. This is likely because those belief systems were the original dominant form of birth control.

This is likely a case where the evolution of human culture hasn’t caught up with the available medical technology.
I never had a _really_ bad trip, but I some some things which felt quite evil to me up to the point of pure existential crisis which stayed for some time.
if you start sending staff home then your management will question whether or not you need them, and you might not be able to keep the head count.

Then a few days or weeks later some difficult work comes by and you’re understaffed and overworking the people you were able to keep.

Besides, the lower case letters still need to be upper case. Don’t you know that most “work” being done around the world isn’t much different?
Also if you sit near the Android people, let them know I'm going to be irritated if I find that my parents have been tricked into activating location tracking on their phones again! It seems like I have to shut off all the various Google privacy settings every time I visit them. They don't want to be tracked.
> AppImage on Linux

Oh, if only there were more than a handful of applications on Linux distributed as AppImage, and any support given to them at all by file browsers, life would be so much simpler. Linux community hates desktop so much they completely ignored an embedded ELF icon standard and have consistently poo-pooed every non-repo way of dealing with applications ever.

> You want a constantly updated cache of the programs you use in case of the apocalypse

Why would I want that? So I could discover that something I rely on was broken by a recent update only after I have no ability to do anything about it? Well, lets assume so. On Windows this is relatively simple, just keep a copy of Program Files and most applications will still work fine. It's not ideal, but I'll take it over package managers not even being able to install an application to a different disk.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification

To this day in Baltic states there are places where people were moved in by Soviet Union and even today most of the people hardly speak the language of the country they live in. Because of this they mostly watch Russian national tv and think that Soviet Union was the best place in the world.

The Baltics are still very vurnerable to Russian propaganda, for Ukraine it's even harder to escape propaganda, because of Slavic roots and similar languages.

Edit: If there's a majority of former Soviet nationals thinking that they are somehow "abused" by living in the independent Baltic state, so do you think father putin should save them by occupying the country? Or should those people need to buy one way ticket to their motherland and never come back?
Interesting interpretation of the data. It would proably lead to the same conclusion though, that teachers are being rewarded for having naturally smarter/more developed students rather than their own performance.
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What do you think is the best way to evaluate teachers, if any?
DHS creates fake university, arrests foreign students for attending
Solving Go is an interesting theoretical pastime, but there is no reason to expect any particular overlap between people who are interested in playing the game (like Lee Sedol) and people who are interested in building machines to asymptotically approach a solution beyond human understanding.

Most of the resistance you're getting in this thread seems to be due to the fact that you think people who are interested in the game should also be interested in the other thing, and it just seems that a lot of them aren't (including Lee Sedol).

Playing Go challenges your mind with vast complexity and immediate feedback of winning or losing every game. It's a deeply engaging hobby for people who are susceptible to that kind of thing, and it used to be a meaningful career, with competitions, schools, and professional teachers. All of that changes now that software is vastly better at it than any human can ever be. The rush of competing by the strength of the moves you understand and make, by the unaided strength of your own mind, cannot be compared to picking between different engines to make moves for you based on some heuristics about which engine is better at openings. The era of human Go is simply over, for better or worse.
Just in case the original Alaska message was not sarcasm.
States can not secede from the US. Do a little reading on this. And if they try there will be action from the rest of US starting from police and up to full blown military enforcement. And if Russia will try to protect said state we will have nice little nuclear war. Say bye to your iPhone and Hacker News.
The US wrested control of territory from a massively over-extended empire across the Atlantic.

American Civil War 2 would be totally different.
I'd suspect that they were lying. Do you have such a candidate nation?
I think this is a result of looking at the mean vs. the median. While the average GDP continues to rise, the median remains stagnant -- only up 2.8% since 1999[0]!

The saying "never cross a river that is 4 feet deep on average" is applicable -- the skewness is a critical factor.

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
What’s the problem with buttons? It’s a car, it’s main function is transportation, it should first serve transportation in safe manner then the showroom. To me the model 3 interior looks hideous, stripped of everything just to look futuristic.
Homebrew updates automatically when you use it. There's nothing that the user has to do or to figure out.
The worst case scenario has always been quite bad. So what. In the 14th century the Black Plague killed half the population of Europe. But people didn't stop having children.
In winter, in Russia.
Seems like you're suggesting that, to establish YOUR trust, either the website does not use any third-party vendors or services (in the delivery of the experience to you), or they use third-party vendors/services but do not send them any data ...? If so, in this age of open web services and distributed systems/infrastructure, are either of these scenarios reasonable to expect?
Source? Was it really causation, or just correlation?
This is only on v2. v1 can't do this otherwise.
Agreed, the Borg voices are much deeper and certainly aren't don't have a British accent.
Yes, my point was that 3 is not a lot and it's not even that mainstream there. I don't know if there was an additional undertone in the original comment, but either way it was factually wrong. Dog meat consumption is really not that high.
Despite clear warnings, Europe is out of IP addresses–again
I can imagine that it would be much easier to convince a generation of people who believe Crimea is part of Russia to go to war to win back "their" territory.

One has to wonder if companies like Apple have considered such consequences.
Yep. From what I can tell, Jamaica and the Netherlands are the only countries where psilocybin is legal.
It's not objective though. Countries have arbitrary borders. So if people think those are wrong, who am I to say that they are wrong?

So if you take Crimea, for both Russia and Ukraine it's undisputed. Both think it's theirs. For other countries not, making it no longer objective.
In a way I feel the MP3 format and the digital music revolution in terms of both easy of releasing, sharing and cross-device listening was even more significant than what JPEG did for photos.
Something Changed at Tesla
He could say the given the limitations on the hardware, that writing the software was something that required a level of technical prowess hardly found in your smartwatch. If we define brilliance as the ability to make every cycle count, every memory location count.
Then, I'd agree, that indeed it was an art form.
But given the same engineers, with the amount of processing power of a budget scientific calculator today, they would achieve the same results, with faster processing speed, more redundancy, an infinitely better user interface, more safety and in less time with less people.
Show me a single corporation that has values beyond making a profit.
I wish taking a sabbatical was this thing you could just up and decide to do. A lot of times you’re needed to much by management. I guess you could give them an ultimatum if you’re absolutely ready to follow through and leave.
Using the numbers from the article you linked, and this WaPo article with more details [0]:

2,000 cars in the U.S. and Canada were believed to have had fires related to the ignition switches, which were installed in 23 million Ford vehicles. This is a failure rate of about 0.0087% overall, although Ford ultimately argued that it would only need to recall a subset of the vehicles with the ignition switch: 8.7M vehicles.

There are at least a dozen [1] Tesla fire incidents, and 720,000 Tesla vehicles sold through 2019 Q2 [2], which is a failure rate of about 0.0014%. So Tesla has a lower rate, but not by an order of magnitude, because Tesla has sold far fewer vehicles than Ford did over roughly the same number of years. So it seems justified for NHTSA to take a serious look into the issue.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/04/26/f...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicle_fire_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Sales
Different name depending on language is not necessarily a sign of a political dispute (even if it is in this particular case).
You made a claim, not me. I just said your argument is flawed. I didn't say you're wrong - I believe you're probably right. But you didn't actually provide any data for your claim.

The burden of proof is on the person making the claim.

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...