skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not a low cost subscription app like Spotify that rewards the publishers (and I hope, by conseguence Authors and Reviewers)? This would be appetible to more general academy world (even low grade schools) and even small business that do research and development. And could create a more virtuose author/reviewers gratification.
I believe that the Western sanctions against Iran mean that it is currently illegal for individuals to transfer money from USA et al to Iran.

If so, it is quite obvious that Paypal and other financial institutions would take steps to prevent this from happening with their knowledge.
There's probably a bunch of patents related to the manufacturing process or mechanisms.
> If it didn't exist, I could have gotten most of the papers from friends in academia, but it would have been dramatically harder and slower.

r/scholar (on Reddit) was the precursor to sci-hub, and made most things available.
Most of the Samsung phones can measure blood pressure for the past few years and works in pretty much same accuracy as the heavy and non-portable ones.
While I think "degenerating" is a strong word, I do think there is a noticeable drop in the quality of comments since a decade ago. I don't have any hard data on this, but I think it's fairly obvious if you dig around in the archive. There used to be a more academic and countercultural feeling to commentary, as well.

Maybe some metrics to investigate are: number of words per comment, vocabulary level of the average comment [1], and so on. While neither of these are solely indicative of quality, I think they are something to consider.

[1] http://www.englishprofile.org/wordlists/text-inspector
Sadly it seem that pyflame is not maintained anymore:

Pyflame: A Ptracing Profiler For Python. This project is deprecated and not maintained

per
https://github.com/uber-archive/pyflame
Streaming and lazy evaluation is definitely a solution here. But do python libraries support it well?
Not on Ryanair. The CEO explicitly said that their plane allocation is defined 24 hours before the flight and if the passengers discover that the plane is a max they are welcome to not fly but they won’t get any refund.Ah, and they had the balls to rename their max planes to 737-8800 or something similar trying to deceive everyone.
Result: it’s almost 1 year that I don’t fly with Ryanair even if before this I used it several times per year.
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front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22005181
Merkle trees and hash functions mostly. Any advanced data structure course curriculum will likely do. Or go the out of the box route and toy around with AWS hyperledger and the like.

Pick up a marketing course while you're at it, the number of people using Blockchain technology for technically sound reasons is pretty small.
A Turing-Complete Superset of JSON for JSON
The operation of the Bitcoin network involves wasting a significant amount of energy.
It's kind of complementary. I use sci-hub for everything with a DOI, and for books I use genesis.
I overanalyze everything.
How can all the study and preparation of a pilot help in a catastrophic mechanical failure caused by some likely design flaw that still is not apparent?
Try Joplin, its a direct replacement for EverNote, can import its database, and has active development to add more similar function. The only one that I'm missing right now is OCR, not sure if its coming, though. I'm using dropbox to sync my phone with laptop clients.

https://joplinapp.org/
Is it really more comprehensive? SciHub lets you get literally every paper that is available even if they haven't already obtained it. That's why it's so popular - you can put in some super-obscure paper from your niche field that only 1000 people in the world care about and it will still spit out a PDF.
Yes also LTspice has some horrible clunk and bugs in it.
Sure, though many people aren't deciding between flying a 737 MAX and driving or taking a bus. They're often deciding between flying on a specific flight that uses a 737 MAX and flying at a different time and/or on a different airline that doesn't use a 737 MAX.
Re-reading my comment in daylight I realize I got one detail almost exactly wrong: we were always <= 2 developers, but it seems everyone understood the point anyway - we were tiny, but not too tiny for Oracles licensing department.
Thank you! I really like your program.
I started the paragraph with "If you're a software developer who doesn't know C", so "This puts you at an extreme disadvantage to software developers who do know C imho"
On a professional context I'll say I'm a software developer. If I want to brag a bit I'll say I'm a software engineer. If I'm with friends I'll say I'm a programmer. If I'm with family or older people I'll dip my toes with "I work with computers" and maybe further explain if prompted.
> Don't bookmark. Instead: Print to PDF.

I "print" to markdown instead, even though pdfgrep sort of works I much prefer text files.
The advice about jurisdictions here is sound with the caveat that you will probably be able to limit yourself to some jurisdictions as being really important for you to focus on.

As far as patents I would only find them interesting if they can be used to secure you more funding. Some sources may consider it a plus if you have something patentable.

Probably for a startup however the cost of patents will be more than they're worth, just like for a startup having a dedicated devops team and onsite servers probably isn't worth it.
'This airplane is designed by clowns':Boeing employees KNEW about 737 Max issues
I helped design Meow Hash using AES-NI. It is not general purpose crypto strength, but ridiculously fast, targeting a theoretical performance of 16 bytes per cycle on some processors, too fast for memory to keep up. https://github.com/cmuratori/meow_hash
> Should we as well follow the thought leadership of drug cartels and the Saudi monarchs?

Yes? Maybe not follow them morally, but a drug cartel lord will have more insight in leading a multi-national organization than me.
I wish the HN settings would also change the background of the Y icon to match the rest of the topbar.
I have been in the market for watches, regular analog automatics, and many of the images of people wearing them are so frustrating. Why? Because they are wearing them upside down!

Just look at the first image of the watch next to the header "THE PREMIER WEARABLE BLOOD PRESSURE MONITOR AND MUCH MORE."

Why is it like that? You wouldn't wear the watch that way. Why is this a problem you ask? Because now I can't imagine what it looks like anymore. Just picture the watch as you'd wear it!

I expect I am not in a majority with this opinion, but that doesn't really change how I see it ;).
Related:

Jacques de Vaucanson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_Vaucanson

Origins of Precision and first project introduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNRnrn5DE58

(The last video, incidentally, is related to the problem of being stuck on a desert island, and how to rebuild tools that produce other tools...)
The AR section was the funniest. I think China is more likely to build powerful products here than anyone else, the question is whether they see a need or not. IMHO AR requires a revolution in lots of other areas to be useful for the wide masses.
Yes! The problem with the LVM approach trying to replicate anything ZFS is doing that you have to use a myriad of different tools. And then you have to pray that they all work correctly together, and if one has a bug you possible lost all your data because there may be so many data corruptions emerging because of it.
The core development team hasn't really been fully trustworthy since they spent years pretending their cpu scheduler wasn't hot garbage for desktop usage, denied the need for a pluggable scheduler to allow multiple schedulers to be selected from, then seemingly an age later implemented something in the same vein as CK while giving zero credit.
The 'proven track record' is pretty much non existent at this point.
But you can first learn the subset of C which doesn't use pointers and such, just normal variables and loops (which I studied in high school).
No one in this thread has pointed out that Zuckerberg states that he is literally planning to bring how WeChat works in China (one marketplace for literally everything, sent through conventional apps and all fielded by a single company) to the entire world with Facebook.

That ambition is impressive, amazing, and terrifying, and everyone is completely ignoring it.

The 2020s are going to be interesting.
Next day: Apple acquires Omron to improve their Watch product line.
And here I am just wanting a fitness-stuff-less watch with long battery, always on screen (monochrome is fine) for under 150 euro's. For simple things like notifications. RIP Pebble.
Linus’ comment on ZFS lacking new development / maintenance is really misleading. OpenZFS is doing both and there is a very large, vibrant development community.
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If sent through the USPS, that's incredibly unlikely.
> positive effects of free and open science are even comparable to piracy

Could you elaborate on that one?

Also, this phrase suggests that you are of the opinion that piracy is unequivocally bad. Why not think about it as a two-sided coin, with a positive and a negative side?
Yes, don't use ZFS! Use FreeBSD and ZFS!
From my back of the envelope calculations at the time of the second crash they had worse safety than a car. Did you run the actual numbers?
There is only one reason for me to use it: as a historical reenactor, I strive to make my equipment as accurately as possible, and I read various articles regarding roman military food, how widespread were certain metal alloys, how they used to do soldered joints, and so on. I wouldn't make an account to JSTOR just for a hobby - I use their search to find DOI's, and get them via Sci-Hub. I do buy books and stuff as part of my documentation, but there are really specific articles, usually a few pages long, that I can't find in both a convenient and legal way.
I've been using Samsung phones for years. It can measure heartrate and blood oxygen saturation but I'm pretty sure it doesn't measure blood pressure.
It wasn't just bad mortgages in Nevada...
Google+ comes to mind and the time when thousands of engineers couldn't stir the interest of public to turn to the service
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Mail fraud (FedEx/UPS aren't mail) gets you a felony, and as long as you send through USPS you should be more than fine.
Although most, if not all, masters of memory use methods involving vivid nonsense images, the more nonsensical and crazy the better! Like if was learning "mesa" ("table" in spanish) I might picture a giant mesa in the desert, with lots of tables on the top of it, with members of Mensa sitting at it talking about tables.. You would think that meant having to remember a lot of extra irrelevant stuff. It's rather surprising that it works at all.
Open source, decentralised exchange, no registration required, all keys stored locally: https://bisq.network/
Looking at reviews seems questionable accuracy but a step forward from existing offerings in that form factor.
Makes the acronym less offensive.
https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Mail-Theft
https://ehome.uspis.gov/fcsexternal/default.aspx

Lots of people are employed by the Fed to handle these exact cases! I'd recommend getting it investigated, if nothing else, it'll help them keep justifying their jobs.
Yes, I agree. But what this has anything to do with the probability of emitting a photon in a specific direction? The parent was speaking about absorption and re-emission, not reflection.
You don't think that this specific watch always show the face turned "right", in the same way as your phone does when you turn it?
It is included but disabled by default[0].

[0]: https://create-react-app.dev/docs/making-a-progressive-web-a...
you comment as if bitcoin and other currencies aren't used DAILY for transactions (that get cashed out regularly by the way) by people who got their coin in shady ways and want to get their cash without interference. There are all sorts of fairly simple ways to circumvent the supposed obstacles you mention and they're especially useful for controversial donation-type scenarios like the above. As long as the crypto being sent has been anonymized along the way, anyone in any fully registered exchange in any given country could easily cash it out without there being any connection to the crypto having come from a donation to some X site that's politically controversial.. This is basic stuff. Despite inherent flaws, it works for these types of things and definitely more so than paypal or other large companies which regularly freeze transactions for all sorts of bullshit moral, political, social and etc reasons that don't even require illegal activity.

Crypto may be sort of crappy for major money laundering (drug cartels and mafias already get plenty of help on that from happy managers at huge "respectable" banks, see case of HSBC and Mexican cartels as an example) but crypto could definitely work for small transactions that aren't illegal but very likely to be blacklisted by companies like paypal.

I mean, if I were running a wikileaks, porno or similar type site, crypto is exactly what would be a useful fail-safe. It may be imperfect and I know the HN crowd has an emotionally laughable collective disdain for it but let's use some common sense no? Instead of just criticizing groundlessly.
Something that could go by the same title is the use of tensor networks for ML. I think it works like a pre-optimization step by dimension reduction of the solution space, but if someone could give the right intuitive explanation I'd be much obliged.

It seems to be a way to lessen inductive bias by making decisions about available ML algos. That is, it vastly increases the solution space but remains effective by omitting unlikely solutions.
Current events in Iran aren't a factor -- this is a sanctions issue and always has been. If you tried to make a Paypal donation mentioning Iran a month ago, that would have gotten blocked too.
I have been perpetually sitting on the fence about Devon.

My use case: before Google+ folded I saved all my history there, because 99% of this was links to pages on stuff I found interesting/fun/relevant.

So now I have a large amount of urls (some will probably be defunct by now but it is not relevant). What I would like to do is to feed these urls to something (DevonThink?) that could access the article, and index it so that if - as an example - I want to prepare a RPG campaign on modern day pirates I can just write in the search box ["pirates" "shipping" "modern"] and hopefully get a list of web articles that are relevant.

Now, I know that Devon has some sort of automatic indexing/clustering facility for documents you have on your HD, but it is not really clear to me if it works also with stuff you only have an URL to.

(If anyone has some alternatives to suggest I will be very interested - I toyed with the idea of putting together an ElasticSearch VM for this but it remained on the backburner for years).

Here is my original request here, btw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18882167
> I have a PhD in physics. I have zero problem with anyone downloading any of my papers from scihub.

Out of curiosity: why don't you just host your papers on your website then - or, if you do, why don't you think it's enough?
Vue-cli at least has a very neat feature; if you build with the —-modern flag it will create two versions of your scripts, one with modern syntax, smaller and faster for modern browsers and another legacy version for older browsers you have to support. It then uses the nomodule html attribute to automatically load the version your browser needs. This also has the nice effect of saving you bandwidth costs.
Iranian Missile Accidentally Brought Down Ukrainian Jet, Officials Say
One of the big problems with disrupting journal publishing has been that there is no way to get access to the massive archive of papers that have already been published. Sci-Hub took care of that before the publishers even really understood what was happening. It is now much easier to just bid adieu to Elsevier and the rest.

I predict that the preprint servers will take over, killing most of the journals which are barely read anyway, and a few top tier journals will survive because academics need to signal status. I personally find https://www.biorxiv.org/ the most useful place to browse for papers at the moment, and stopped browsing actual journals some time ago. If something important gets published in an actual journal, I'll hear about it on twitter.
> I see a lot of posts about people trying to set up FreeNAS at home and it seems silly

I set up a 6 drive FreeNAS box in an old gaming computer I had around, just for the purpose of learning how it works. And out of love for BSD, of course. Not everything has to undergo a cost/benefit analysis, some like to play.
I thought Google Glass had some success within companies?
Read the article and not once do they offer the data that would give this metric any real context. How much hiring was going on in that same period. For all we know 64K layoffs occurred in dying sectors of the industry while 100K jobs (made up hypothetical number) we created in new segments. Without context, 351% means nothing.
Well it's not offensive in the first place.
Frans de Waal has written about these kind of things extensively, and I can recommend him.
The UK counts suicide deaths differently to the US, and it's likely the the UK over counts while the US under counts.

I agree that the ONS is a better source of information than Wikipedia.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

Here's the old definition:

> The previous National Statistics definition of suicide includes deaths from intentional self-harm (where a coroner has given a suicide conclusion or made it clear in the narrative conclusion that the deceased intended to kill themselves) and events of undetermined intent (mainly deaths where a coroner has given an open conclusion) in people aged 15 and over.

It's this "events of undetermined intent" part that is different. In the US (and I guess many other places" those deaths are not counted as suicide.

The US uses this definition:

> Death caused by self-directed injurious behavior with an intent to die as a result of the behavior
Do you have a tor link? Also for scihub for that matter?
Personally I don’t see the quid pro quo nature of peer review (you review in return for your stuff being reviewed) as a problem. But I dislike the fact that the publishers limit access to something that others provided without compensation. Seriously their subscription models are outrageous, nothing they provide alongside the actual content makes it worth it.
> I fear I'd be blacklisted on some list these companies might share, should I bomb one without a lot of time spent reviewing.

AFAIK they only blacklist you for 6 months and then you can try again. Even that may be relaxed if you're trying for a different department or, especially, geographical location.

> numerous days of vacation time used for these interviews in California, it doesn't seem worth the effort.

In India at least, the big companies handle this better than smaller ones - they have one or two telephonic interviews to begin with and then finish off all the face-to-face interviews in a single day.
>- Using it opens you up to the threat of lawsuits from Oracle. Given history, this is a real threat. (This is one that should be high for Linus but not for me - there is no conceivable reason that Oracle would want to threaten me with a lawsuit.)

No. Distributing (ie. precompiled distro with ZFS) will. You are free to run any software on your machine as you so desire.
All perceptions are in the eye of the beholder. Anyway, my unobjective measure is number of interesting articles and discussions I want to read after scanning the front page. It’s declining over the years.

It’s not really surprising since there are two contributing trends:

Online communities generally degrade as they increase in size.

Attention economy brings “heat death” of internet: amount of produced content is higher, quality is lower.
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Is this still an on-going investigation?
Definitely - C is a very hard language to start with, but after you've learnt a couple, then C can definitely add to your understanding imho.
Interesting. Does anyone know how the pressure measurement works?
Trudeau says evidence indicates Iranian missile brought down Ukrainian flight
You got it, that’s why it’s so odd.
There is no classical mechanics, only quantum mechanics. Or are you suggesting it's an optimization of the simulation or something?
Ahh incremental reading in SuperMemo. It makes my Wikipedia addication so much more manageable.
No idea why this is downvoted; it's the plain truth. The same thing goes for other sanctioned countries: (Cuba, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria), as well as for transactions mentioning sanctioned individuals or organizations.
Infinite scrolling is the worst. It’s such a pain to be forced to open all links inside new tabs as most implementations in the wild are breaking the “previous page” functionality of browsers.

It’s such a joy to have to scroll down n times to try to go where you were. It’s even better when on some websites, the “infinite scrolling” is not sequential but somewhat randomized.

I understand it’s way easier to scale pagination that way, but please, just stop.
Jeremy Ruston the creator, says a 100MB TiddlyWiki works fine on a 2013 era laptop, and that browsers are some of the best optimized VMs available to work on (in the video I linked in another comment).
NetPositive was much better in Internet Explorer compatibility than Netscape when it used to matter.
It's quite usable, but of course, do not trust it with your unique unbacked-up data yet.
I use it as a main FS for a desktop workstation and I'm pretty happy with it. Waiting impatiently for EC to be implemented for efficient pooling of multiple devices.

Regarding caching: "Bcachefs allows you to specify disks (or groups thereof) to be used for three categories of I/O: foreground, background, and promote. Foreground devices accept writes, whose data is copied to background devices asynchronously, and the hot subset of which is copied to the promote devices for performance."
Most people probably don't setup RAID/other redundancy schemes often enough to be able to do it confidently in 5 minutes on the command line, so why not use something that makes it easier?
Many (most?) do, that's where Google Scholar took its PDFs from pre-scihub.