skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much have you paid for Linux and all its utilities and apps on your computer? How much are you paying for your TV and hard disk drives? How about food? clothing? furniture? That's all become so cheap that people constantly give it away to the thrift stores.

Sure, private businesses want to charge as much as possible. But they only succeed when they've managed to get the government to limit or eliminate their competition (as goes on in health care).
>the understanding that anyone found using them for any purpose other than a proportional response to a existential threat will be ruthlessly annihilated by everyone else

I don't understand how this outcome results in anything other than the extinction of human life on this planet.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployOffice/microsoft-sear...
HTML is really all you need to reduce requests though. You don’t need AMP. Obligatory motherfuckingwebsite.com and bestmotherfuckingwebsite.com links.
The answer is that art is not a reliable job and never was. This it is not likely to become one.

Even if you extend it to writing, making music, advertisements, taking pictures and making GUI.

Unlike these, mathematics (the M in STEM) is almost every other non-physical job that is not data entry. T is the remaining ones that are physical (mechanic, electrician, hydraulic).
S covers additionally the teachers themselves, doctors and biologists who don't need as much math.
Heck, even modern agriculture.

The remainder is probably building, some service works such as sales, nursing, care for small children, purely physical labor, parts of logistics, gardening and forestry.
I'm surprised it costs so much per file ($14). What happens if the conversion is lousy? I wonder what percentage of purchasers request refunds because the output isn't useful to them.
Ask HN: Apple iOS “maybe” suggestion on phone numbers
Does anyone know how Apples feature of suggesting who a number you do not have in your phone book might be? I only thought it was from searching through emails locally.

I am a little bit worried seeing a suggestion today. I have a co-worker who's number I already have in my phone book who has written a message to me and another colleague whom I do NOT have in my phone book. But it correctly suggested that it might be my colleague.

This is on my private phone and I have no email from the one Apple guessed in my inbox, the only thing I have is a LinkedIn request from him, but that does not contain his phone number - so how in hell do they suggest it being him? I only thought it looked locally on my phone, but I cannot in any way see how it should find information on my phone linking that phone number to him.

The only way I can find that connection would be if they had it from potentially his iCloud account - but I would hope that they did not transmit that information. Or could he actively had selected to transmit that information?
I've never understood what motivated financial institutions to grant Mint access to account transactions and balances? Did pre-acquisition Mint somehow reach a tipping point in active users where financial institutions decided their customers would choose other banks if theirs wasn't accessible through Mint?

Are there other competing tools that have similar reach connecting to financial institution accounts?
I think we are working on different ideas. Women Make is more focused on entrepreneurs and makers, whereas they are more into tech career advice (maybe like a LinkedIn for women). Also, Women Make is an indie project.
Ooh, I hate these. Maybe I hate these even more than the ones that appear immediately.

I don't know how most people react to these popups. I think there are stats since I guess that people who put these on their websites also put all sorts of trackers, but for me, it is often a signal to simply close the tab and never come back.

The reason is that it completely breaks my focus. I am reading an article, browsing stuff, and find it interesting. Then the popup pops. Now, I am distracted and start to think. Is it that interesting? What am I doing here? Then tell myself I have better things to do than stay on a website with aggressive popups.

And if the content really is good, I will just close the popup and continue reading. I mean, I am in the middle of a good article right now, I have better things to do than filling some form.

Don't worry, if your content is so good that I want to subscribe, I will find your button, you don't need to shove it in my face.
I've worked with federal government, and I can say is if rather that they pay private contractors. I used to find all paid government devs sleeping in toilet cubicles all the time. If rather Amazon or the squeeze on its employees to perform than shirt unmotivated public sector management.

And this comes from an unabashed hard left big government voter.
It's a two lane roundabout with an integrated instruction manual that makes it much easier to use.
It's worth pointing out that the installer doing this is a business-only installer. So while, yes, it is removing the user's preference, it is also a corporate tool for enforcing corporate policies on corporate machines.

The issue here is that the install is not optional when it should be: admins should have the choice. But IMO it's debatable whether end users (of their corporate machines) should.
This kind of begs the question, though: "Then why shouldn't we fire you and hire someone who is qualified?"

Of course, the purpose of VC isn't to fund innovation so much as make money for the LP's, so this really speaks to "What marketing pitches work on LP's?" But at some point they'll get tired of funding Uber vs. Lyft wars and look for a way out of Hobbesian struggle.
I'll take it. How can I contact you? I'm located in Germany.
Proper USB power supplies don't just randomly die once a year, that's utter lunacy.

And what exactly is stopping you from getting any 5V power source or even just rigging up an old PSU with a 10W resistor on the 12V rail and splicing the 5V onto a USB cord?
This is a non-issue.

Edit: wrote this before your edit, but still stands. If there's anything to worry about reliability-wise in that timeframe it's SD card corruption, but there's plenty ways around that, whether by limiting writes or using other media.

Edit 2: hostile tone not intended, just perplexing seeing something almost akin to concern trolling done in this manner.
Right. Ok. Have you anything to add or comment about taxes?

Esp re what those people have said?
Yeah I have no clue. I performed those same steps but it never seemed to reflect on the budgets and income/debt reports. I've tried a half a dozen times to sort these and other issues out, and I've simply given up.
Yes they are and yes it is, but every other budgeting tool is going to ask for the same.
And not good news for anyone who depends on clean groundwater.
"Under the new regulations, landowners and property developers will be able to pour pesticides, fertilizers and other pollutants directly into millions of miles of the nation's waterways for the first time in decades."

Are we great again, yet?
I haven't been on Facebook in a couple of years now, but I recall similar issues. People/groups would create pages for popular things (again, like "camping" or "sleeping in on the weekends") so that thousands and thousands of people would "like" that thing.

Then once those pages had enough followers, they could be sold off to whatever marketing group wanted access to lots of user data and an outlet to post sponsored content to a lot of viewers.

It wasn't just this bait-and-switch, though. Loads of "meme" pages and similar stuff built up a large enough following and then were either sold or just directly used for marketing.

I think it was bigger when companies/individuals could use Facebook to drive clicks to their sites but I have no idea if that's still a thing these days. Last I saw, most users/posts tended to stay within the Facebook "umbrella" rather than being linked to outside sites.
Are we talking about training from scratch or fine tuning?
In Ghost in the Shell (not sure if it was in one of the films, or in Stand Alone Complex or Arise, sorry), a similar thing comes up, and the Major is reminded that Public Security Section 9 owns her prosthetic body, not her.
Cool Article on Using Big Data in Home Building
so, not good news unless you're someone who wants to pollute more easily. got it
My friend and I both trained GPT2 on our chat logs. It's mostly just hilarious seeing what comes out of it, but I've actually gotten real insight out of "hearing myself talk" -- it's similar _enough_ to my personality that it shows me my interests, bad habits etc. And we can ask each other questions, or write the first half of an answer and see what comes out. It can be pretty weird, but we've actually gotten some great advice out of it too. (When you train it on your own text, it still keeps its "wisdom" from the original model.)

If anyone wants to try, I used this colab thing (I don't even need a GPU! Blows my mind that this is free)

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1VLG8e7YSEwypxU-noRN...

If you use Colab it uploads your data to Google's servers. In this case, they already had our chats (WhatsApp backup to Drive).
I was a member there when they just got started and the idea back then was to make a HN for women and there were more women building stuff in the beginning, now the topics have drifted away from that. (Unfortunate, from my point of view, but maybe people like it more this way)
For me, todo lists and prioritization systems are like mental health yo-yo dieting; I've tried them all, 4 times over and nothing ever sticks.

This section spoke to me in the same way, as each time I a new system up (or an old one back up) it works until I have to deal with an emergency day, where even the act of updating the list goes out the window. And then, the next day it's "hey, I made it through yesterday, I don't need that system today." and then it's done... until my emergency is "holy hell, I have no clue what's on my plate for the day/week/month, I need to fix that." where I'll pick up my go to old system (kanban style Trello board) and repeat the cycle anew.
In my RFC I dubbed them (&& and ||) the pipeline chain operators because you use them to chain syntactic pipelines together conditionally.

The POSIX shell spec calls them AND-OR lists, which I didn’t think was as descriptive.

To explain the pipeline idea a bit better, there are two ways of seeing a pipeline (in PowerShell or in a POSIX shell). One is at runtime; a command executes, taking its input from an input and spitting it out to an output. Chain a few commands together hooking the output of one to the input of another and you have a pipeline. (In POSIX shells of course these in/out locations are file descriptors, whereas in PowerShell they’re memory locations.)

But also a pipeline can refer to the syntax of a pipeline; something like `ls | grep “* .txt”` is a pipeline in terms of the POSIX shell grammar. Similarly in PowerShell, `gci | ? Name -like “* .txt”` is a pipeline syntax. And since you can chain these pipelines together with && and ||, I called the operators “pipeline chain operators”.

BTW, if you ever want to look at the abstract syntax tree of a PowerShell command, it’s very easy to do by wrapping it in a scriptblock and grabbing its AST:

$ast = { gi file.txt && rm file.txt }.Ast
$ast.EndBlock.Statements[0]
An analysis based on pure short-term utility with no consideration for long-term effects. Modern business culture in a nutshell.
wow awesome trick, thanks.
In HK we are somewhat well known for having a very equal society in terms of opportunities for men and women. We're also quite well known for having strong women which has been underlined by the equal participation on the frontlines of the current social movement.
Marina del Rey, eh? I was expecting downtown. Not easy to get to, a shame.
That's interesting, Crimea and Tibet would like a word with your stupid nonsense.
I think the point is that these are good tools to use anyway. So VC companies have produced lots of valuable companies and products.
Grow really fast. It’s fairly one-dimensional: if you are growing at +50% month/month, then you will be able to raise substantial rounds with minimal dilution.

If you are not posting exponential growth, then you will likely give up more and more control with each subsequent round.
I assumed the reason the tool got axed was because in short order, Microsoft released its own desktop search, and then integrated it into Windows (Vista?); and Apple added Spotlight to OS X. In retrospect it’s a little surprising to me that in just a couple of years, the notion of indexing your entire hard drive went from novel to taken for granted.
Procrastinating on HN reading about procrastination...

Better get back to work.
A potentially easier fix would be to roll back the changes made to the US primary system in the 70s and go back to letting parties pick their candidates internally rather than throwing it open to an electorate where only the most partisan bother to vote in primary elections.

The old system had its share of problems but I think that, all in all, the old smoke filled rooms worked better than what replaced them. Using approval or ranked choice voting to have more than 2 parties would solve most of the issues with the system anyways and we ought to do that as well but that seems harder to get in place.
"We're the cleanest we've ever been" - Trump

Yeah, nimrod, because of those protections!
Actually I'm more concerned about online voting meaning 142.3333% turnout.

Not that I'm scared of some malicious foreign hacker getting paid to break the voting system.

I'm just terrified of the human being getting paid to do the programming in the first place. Never trust them. -(Source: I live inside one of them.)

All this reminds me that I have to remember registering to volunteer at the voting booth for the local French elections in a couple weeks.

You know, those local elections where no one will agree on anything, except the results - who will have been (not that painfully) counted and recounted from good old paper ballots by volonteers who could have spent their Sunday night on hacker news like serious techies.
Thanks, I think we are on the same page then how it works.

However I'd also add (this is just a personal opinion) that words, phrases which do relate to underrepresented groups might be more exciting for everyone because of the definition: it's not common but more unique.
> Personally, I don't think two single political parties can represent all the hopes and dreams of all 300 million citizens.

I would agree with this. The problem with the article though is that assumes that changing the structure of the political parties is the best way to solve that problem. An alternate solution is to solve fewer problems politically, since the best person to advance one's hopes and dreams is one's self, and political solutions (whatever the arrangement of parties) necessarily are about enforcing conformity.
No one has an interest in impersonating you to pay your bills.

Someone might have an interest in impersonating you to steal your tax refund -- these scams do happen.

Impersonating a bunch of voters is potentially easier when you're just presenting yourself as a computer with an internet connection rather than a flesh-and-blood human body.
This is missing a critical web design aspect that I see most developers miss: Space.

Paying attention to how things align, how big they are, how much and how consistent the spacing around elements is will make a huge improvement to the perception of the UI.
Whether or not the occupant has just been impeached for leveraging public assets against political enemies seems to also be a relevant factor.
“Cleantech” Can Also Mean Caulk and Insulation for Energy Efficiency
I'm not a woman, but I imagine that when you're a woman in a male dominated community it can create a lot of anxiety to participate in the community because women are often harassed or dismissed because of their gender or appearance. The harassers are almost always a small minority, but it only takes one persistent asshole to ruin your day and discourage you from participating. From what I can tell, the goal of this community is just to offer women a place to feel comfortable without being denigrated or receiving harassing or suggestive PMs.
Signal's auto-delete feature is optional and off by default.
Oh, okay. Unless you're relying solely on your "intuition" of what the U.S. military uses resources for, please post sources or figures for your quantification of U.S. force projection and how it's "mostly" used for assault.
Small form factor PCs and NUCs are great alternatives and fit that power requirement.

I personally run an Intel NUC8 at home, but I know plenty of folks who run SFF PCs like used HP 290's with great success and around 15-20W at idle.

The pihole folks have an official docker image as well, so you're not limited by the hardware alone (just time and tinkering).
It usually only makes sense for bigger files where the whole UI of an app or a website is done. Since the pricing isnt fair for smaller files, I'll release a pricing based on artboards in the next few weeks. Stay tuned. As per the refunds, there's a 100% refund policy. If you're not happy you'll get your money back. So far the feedback has been good and very few refund request have been made.
HN may not be the target audience for this feature, but I've absolutely proposed writing a browser extension to synthesize confidential search results with public search results before, because it's a need that remains unmet to this day. If Bing is integrating their confidential cloud with logged-in search, that is a game-changer. I hope everyone gets past the visceral reaction against it and starts building browser extensions that compete. It is possible to do this without depending on a single search engine to perform synthesis for you. Metacrawler can live again.
But it's a translation in two parts, at least it would be for me:

1. They say it's the truth; I interpret that they think it's true, but it might not be.

2. They say it's the truth; this may be a signal of their character or motivations. Perhaps they are a bully or a zealot.

Even if I trust that you'll understand me in the (1) sense, I'd rather you didn't misjudge me in the (2) sense. Therefore, I don't tell people that things are simply true.
As long as parties are default opposed instead of default collaborative, Democracy necessarily heightens group divides: Anyone who leaves your group gives power to your enemy, so the enemy must be demonized. Demonizing the Outgroup is how you police Ingroup. This is true even in multi-party democracies, though its not always as apparent.

(Of course, once you see someone demonizing you, there's very little choice on your side but to fight them...)

> we now have... a genuine two-party

Okay, but how did we go from non-genuine-two-party to this so-called genuine two-party? The policy proposals here are fine but they didn't exist in the 60's either. Something non-mechanistic changed.

I don't think its exactly the two party system, but the concept of ideology as an identity that is the modern component of this problem. Rather than dwelling in their own thoughts, being a human being, living and experiencing things and gaining wisdom, people restrain all of their wisdom faculties with these chastity belts of ideology. If ideology becomes one's identity, having impure thoughts is not thinking, it is a blow to your sense of self and therefore dangerous. In the political realm, it means that compromise simply isn't possible in ways that it may have been 100 years ago. There's no "if we get this, you can get that", ideology doesn't see differing people with differing interests, it sees you — sacred, you could never compromise yourself — and when it thinks about the obverse, it can only see an enemy.

Many willingly fit themselves into ideological categories that are quite narrow, and by "identifying" with these labels, they are depriving themselves of the contemplation and reflection befitting the question of a person's identity. I wish for no one's life to be easily summarized by the contortions of such machines, but many seem to welcome the labels. When you express concern publicly that politics has taken over people's lives, this is fed into the machines that have taken over, and they churn out their answer: "Everything is political." You might ask them if they have the causality reversed, but at that point you must wonder who, or what, you're having the conversation with.

I've written about this before and I think this has been a long time coming by the way, starting with the printing press which enabled massive one-way communication over what came before it as the default, two-way communication. (TConsider: Before the printing press, you talked to more people, perhaps in a day, than you would read in a lifetime. Now it's the opposite, you will always read/consume more media than talk to others, by a huge margin. This split is imo not well understood). I'm not exactly convinced it can be defeated merely with mechanistic changes to how voting and representation is done, though that's sure to help, otherwise. The real problem is bigger, deeper, and much more subtle.
Doubt cast on story that Apple gave in to FBI pressure on iCloud backups
Why are we wanting, or even allowing, the Executive to unilaterally set pollution standards?

The right way to do this in the American system is for Congress to enshrine the regulations as laws. Then the President does what Congress says.

If we're trying to end-run around Congress's prerogative and responsibility to write the laws, then we shouldn't be surprised when regulations are changed by the caprice of the Executive, as they did with both Obama and now Trump.
A Billion Dollar Idea – HMU Fucking Lonely Drinkers
I HAVE A FUCKING BILLION DOLLAR IDEA.

WHEN I WAS AT SF, I WAS FUCKING LONELY. I HAD NO FRIENDS. I WAS A LONELY ENTREPRENEUR.
ALSO I WAS AN IMMIGRANT. I HAD A MEETING ONE OF BIGGEST, LEGENDARY, GREATEST VC'S. BUT THAT DOES NOT CHANGE YOU ARE FUCKING LONELY IN THIS COUNTRY.

WHEN I WAS AT SF, I WAS GOING OUT TO BARS,ROOFS AND EVENTS FOR MEET NEW PEOPLE. BUT IF YOU ARE NOT LOCAL, IT IS LITTLE BIT HARD,YOU KNOW.

SO I WANT TO MAKE A WEBSITE/APP FOR LONELY DRINKERS. I WANT TO MATCH PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DRINK TOGETHER. IT'S NOT FOR RELATIONSHIP OR GREAT SEX FOR ONE NIGHT. IT'S JUST AN APP FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DRINK TOGETHER. NO MORE OR LESS. (P.S. IF THEY WANT TO HAVE SEX AFTER DRINK, I'M SO OKAY W THAT)

SO, I'M DRUNK NOW. IF YOU AGREE W ME, I'M OPEN FOR CO-FOUNDERS!

I REALLY TRIED TO MAKE A PROTOTYPE AT WIX, BUT I'M TOO DRUNK NOW. SO I DON'T HAVE ENERGY TO MAKE IT.

DEAR MARK ZUCKERBERG, FUCK VC'S. LET'S BE PARTNER. I PROMISE I WON'T ASK TOO MUCH SHARE. (DM ME, I BELIEVE YOU CAN FIND ME)
DEAR OWNER OF TWITTER, I LOVE YOU TOO...YOU KNOW...
My dentist smokes.

Doesn't mean she can't clean my teeth and drill holes in my skull or whatever with high proficiency.
How I Deal with Procrastination
Does this comment I posted earlier answers your question? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22128957
It seems to me like a really complex matter to both investigate and communicate.

Where does the line between the sprawling royal family and the state sit, for example? How do you redress issues with the family of a monarch where does it become a national sovereignty issue?
https://www.toointeresting.com/heart-stopping-bodycam-footag...
I did. I mean, I /could/ focus on only one sentence of a post, argue from that point alone, and insist the conversation hinge on that point but that would be ignorant and rude.