skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 for Google Drive, I actually scan and keep all my documentation (receipts, statements, scans of documents like passports, driving licenses, etc) by year and rough category and share the entire folder with my wife so she can do the same for electronic receipts etc. I then shred and dispose of all but the most critical documents for which originals may be required (certificates etc).

This way I can use Alfred/Spotlight to search both by name as well as searching through the content for OCR’ed PDFs.

Overall the system has been working pretty well for about 10yrs now but I wouldn’t mind OCR’ing some of the earlier documents for easier search.
We have -20 years of sustainable fossil fuel available to us (i.e. our usage is unsustainable and has been for 20 years). Even if there were only 100 years of Uranium on the whole planet, switching would still be a sane time-buying measure.
D3D11 is much easier to use and more reliable than OpenGL etc, using OpenGL would increase the cost to finish the game and no meaningful gain since Linux is essentially irrelevant.

Also most game devs don't have Linux machines to build or test the game on in the first place.

I thought about it once, tried installing Ubuntu-- it wasn't as simple as I'd like, but eventually worked.. except it didn't seem to be aware of the GPU and was running at 640x480 or some shit.. deleted it.
Silicon Valley VC 7BC Capital Expands in Europe, Recruits First Venture Partner
Zoom works well enough.
By everything you mean solutions such as what? State paid orphanages? Free best education? Then free healthcare on top of that right? Let's continue with cheap and nutritious enough free food, likewise housing.

Where will you find enough qualified teachers and nursing staff as the parents are obviously unsuitable? Cooks? Farmers?
State would literally have to order at least some of those people to take such jobs.

Maximum of factor is perhaps 10 per person, likely much less than that to provide proper quality. Unless you will invest heavily in teaching and nursing staff.

It is an interesting model of a society halfway ran like military. Ultimately not too bad and orderly, but the problems of allocation are hard to solve and corruption is still likely.

The old adage is that the more you want to control, the more you have to control. (Providing strong incentives might be enough.)

Mind you EU socialdemocratic model is only halfway there, and thus limited in results. (Orphanages and nursing are too few, poor people are not relieved off parenthood. Free housing and food is very limited using merit as allocation through social services.)
That was indeed in 2004 – long before nuclear stopped being cost-competitive with renewable energies.

Oh, and renewables are also faster to deploy than nuclear plants (which take years to build).
Creating a Mobile App in 2020: Native vs. Cross-Platform Development
What do you mean, "soon"?
TLDR: If you book a taxi by phone or online, the driver is legally obliged to only start 15 minutes after that.
That's the big thing that keeps surprising me about thorium. It's supposed to be great, cheap, abundant, and much safer than uranium, and yet nobody is actually doing it. If the claims about thorium are true, you'd think we'd see thorium plants popping up all over the place by now.
That's the direction I was headed, yeah. I do like the convenience of managing it all from the firewall web interface, however.
I was asked to "sign in" to "facebook" therefore I have no idea what this post is about.

(seriously, concerned citizens should consider browsing fb incognito and never stay signed-in)
Spoiler alert: the author of the article is using Wayland. Lots of things aren't working on Wayland yet. (I'm also being pretty handwavy here about Wayland. Wayland "the protocol" isn't a piece of software you use -- lots of problems are not specific to Wayland, but to a particular compositor).

Screen sharing works OK on Linux under X11. I can't remember the last time that was a problem. I was definitely doing it on a daily basis back when KDE was somewhere at a 3.x release, so before 2008. At least single-monitor setups work fine, I can't say I've tried it on multi-monitor setups in a very long time. When I did (that was so long ago my two monitors were bulky CRTs) it was OK but who knows, maybe it got broken in the meantime.

I mean yes, once in a blue moon I run into a system that has a weird glitch, but that's just as true with Windows and TeamViewer. Every once in a while you run into a machine that just won't budge and you need to ask Google. That's true on any OS.

(Before you tell me how you've had no problem with Wayland on your Thinkpad running Fedora 87 or Arch, yes, I get that. Making it work on everyone's laptop, and getting it to do what everyone needs, is a real hurdle in software development, and Wayland isn't even halfway there when it comes to this particular hurdle).
Actually we've made huge progress in stemming growth. Fertility rates in most of the world have been falling, and in most developed nations are now below replacement levels. The big exception is Africa:

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

There's some lag built in, so even with a fertility rate below replacement, population can still grow for a while, but the root cause of population growth is already solved in much of the world.
> because it took me a full brain-wrecking week to figure out how to do this properly

I would appreciate a guide as well, really for anything Wireguard adjacent. I tried to get a simple client / server configuration with forwarding set up about 2 months ago and gave up after 5 hours of blood, sweat, and tears. Disclaimer: the server was an OPNsense based router. I probably could have done it between two Linux servers from the terminal. I was using a guide I found online, but it didn't help, which may have been due to using OPNsense, I'm not sure.

OpenVPN may be more complicated in theory, but one really nice thing about it is that there are tools that make setting up a configuration trivial on just about any device that supports it. Not true for Wireguard (yet). I'm sure it will get there eventually.
Aren't those mostly human-related fires? Maybe I'm not seeing everything on mobile but it looks like they're clustered around population centers (such as they are in the Yukon)...?
Yeah. And while I'm not saying the OP is doing this, "overpulation" is often used as white supremacist dog whistle and call for eugenics.
Please don't do this. You'll cause a reverse-cobra-effect once this becomes widespread, where illegal fishing ships shoot seagulls on sight.
"How page looked"? Any reference on this? When I ask Google why XHTML fails it replies https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-XHTML-specification-fail which mentions first invalid pages not rendering then more subtle interoperability problems, not "how page look".
I'd read a discussion some time ago that guessed it was the adipic acid present in some types of polyurethane foam. Polyethylene foam doesn't seem to have the issue.
Linq.js: A simple JavaScript library that mimics some of the C# LINQ Extensions
Come on, you can easily determine most of the time that a person is too poor to have a kid. (The other cases are usually an exception.)
Isn't discord supposed to be audio focused anyway?

I thought it was GenZ's version of Ventrilo and Teamspeak
My office asked me to sign a blank sheet of forms that the doctor would fill out after our appointment. When I asked to wait until after the appointment the receptionist person huffed and said I always signed them this way. When I pointed out it was my first visit, she looked agitated and argued that it was not my first visit.

I think she wanted it so she could start prepping my insurance submission. But it’s sad to me that trying to improve a burdensome administrative system makes it casual to have patients misrepresent. Similarly to being asked to sign a form saying I’ve read the medical privacy policy, but not being allowed to see the policy.

The assumption is that patients will sign anything, which kind of defeats the purpose of patients signing anything.
Finishing Reform
IaC in same repo as application code?
I have been searching for examples and best practices on IaC for larger teams. Today I'm in the infrastructure team that manages all terraform in the company, but we discussed about moving that into each application repo. That gives us the advantage of knowing exactly the infra that was deployed with each app version, and gives the app team responsibility over the resources for each app, leaving us the job of maintaining the reusable modules, and reviewing their IaC changes before applying.

But I haven't seen if this is a good/common practice, and if the tiny changes to the infra (say, changing an environment variable value or ASG desired count) triggering a whole application build/deploy would be good.

Thoughts?
Ironically, many of the the same people who are cheering on and covering up the crimes of Trump for teaming up with Putin's KGB and Xi Jinping's China and Erdogan's Turkey and Kim's North Korea.

And even more ironically, one of the few Republicans who isn't mindlessly cheering him on and lying in support of him is a certain hard core right wing neocon who the Jane Fonda haters used to worship but now suddenly desperately despise and don't want to testify:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/us/politics/bolton-book-t...

>Bolton Book Puts New Focus on Trump’s Actions in Turkey and China Cases

>Interventions in Justice Department proceedings draw scrutiny after the former national security adviser raised concerns about the president’s embrace of authoritarian leaders.

It's almost as if they knew for sure that Bolton's testimony would incriminate instead of exonerate the president, don't you think?
Request HN: Refer Me to Autistic Freelancers
Hi HN,

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I'm here for any questions.
>>> European quizzes grew more capacious as well. “I’ve looked in old quiz books, and the questions are dreadful, frankly,” Jack Waley-Cohen, one of the question editors for the BBC show Only Connect, told me. “There was an assumption that everybody knew the same things.” Now, quizmasters don’t ever ask who the chancellor of the exchequer was in 1973, he said. “For one, someone who is an expert in television or music has an opportunity to demonstrate it, because there are questions on that. But also, the questions I like don’t test absolute knowledge. They test lateral thinking, and your ability to access knowledge.”

I’m sure there are plenty of Only Connect fans here (and probably some contestants too). If you’ve never seen it, it’s well worth a watch. Any question I manage to answer is a massive outlier, but frequently enough I’m left thinking “I Should have seen that”.
> Both humans and robots mimicking human vision will be susceptible to it.

Obviously but the bar is much lower for tricking cars than it is humans. And I think that is the problem being highlighted by this. Not that you can trick the computer but that you can do it with something that would never work with a human. Self driving systems and driver assists are always marketed as systems that improve some things humans can already do and the expectation is that recognizing lane markers or signs on the side of the road are some of those things.

We adjusted all the infrastructure around driving to fit humans. The height or appearance of a stop sign accounts for this. It's possible that we'll have to tweak this to be more suited for cars now which would come with a different set of design rules: shapes, colors, materials used, etc. to better fit computer vision + lidar/radar. But as it stands today it's far easier to trick a car than it is to trick a human and I think that's an important thing to be aware of, not just find excuses for why it happens because of brand affinity or anything like that.
Would have been nice if they said what State Farm was. A Wikipedia search led me to this article about state owned farms in the Soviet Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovkhoz

Doing some more searching it seems to be an insurance company in the US.
Before you do anything, you need to be convinced it can be done, not just for a moment, but for long enough to learn or invent it. If you've never done something or seen it done, then it may be as remote as landing on the moon, even if there's one (simple) weird trick to it.
> Before, around 2010-2012

Eh, people were being jerks to each other on usenets and bbs's way before this.

Godwin's law is 30 years old at this point.
> great, cheap, abundant, and much safer than uranium

Some of the claims are true. Cheap, abundant and safer. It's the "economically viable" part that's tricky. No-one has solved that yet. India has a ton of thorium and are highly motivated to build a commercial reactor but haven't been successful yet.
I’m not sure what you mean: https://isocpp.org/std/the-standard
Four days before the UK general election, Facebook apparently "received activity" relating to me from an anonymous, icon-less organisation with a cryptic name, who appear to be completely un-googleable.

Well, that's reassuring.
Eixample
Books like "Growing Up Digital" by Don Tapscott (that introduced the term "Digital Natives" IIRC) were very influential.

Disclaimer: I own a copy from the office, but I never more than skimmed it. Like most business books, it's a couple pages' worth of insights diluted with anecdotes into a 300+ plus doorstop.
Dissatisfaction with Democracy 'At Record High'
In the US it is allowed in every state. It requires patient consent to disclose the information.

So I can refuse to share that information and then every long term insurance company will refuse to issue coverage.

It’s not allowed for insurance companies to pull information without consent.
Came to the US from Europe in 2014, been living in a small 2-room NYC apartment ever since. I realize that not everyone enjoys living in a urban shoebox, but damn everytime i go outside NYC i realize just how much STUFF and SPACE the average American househol has. The huge property, the huge house, all the small and big appliances, gadgets, tools and obviously the riding lawn mower.

Things like the tiny house movement and the sharing economy still have a long way to go.
i.e. the tax payer's responsibility?
Never is a strong word.

The initial version of the PS2 had dedicated hardware to be fully compatible with PS1 games.
Specifically, generics and immutable values. Lacking of generics lead to much repetitive code. I don't like using exported variables as final values, so I need to use functions to return the final values, which is verbose and not elegant. Lacking of read-only values also causes some unnecessary performance losses.

Too network/tools oriented is also a reason. Porting C/C++ gfx libraries is not an easy job, especially multiple C/C++ gfx libraries are involved. And the performance is not high as C/C++ even if the porting is done.
Does anyone have a good cost comparison of nuclear, gas, coal/lignite ? Total cost, with decommission. My understanding is that even with Carbon Tax coal is cheaper.

From HN comment:
> Take the average IPCC meta-analysis numbers [1] at face value: 820 gCO2-eq/kWh for coal, 490 for gas. Those are both extraordinarily high. This is because they both combust carbon in the presence of oxygen to form energy and CO2. They're both very high-carbon fuel sources. If we are trying to reduce carbon emissions, we need to build things that do not combine C + O2 to make CO2 + energy. Options with less than 50g CO2-eq/kWh (in decreasing order of emissions) include solar (41), geothermal (38), hydro (24), tidal (17), nuclear (12), and wind (11).
It’s actually very expensive.
In 2004 solar power was still far too expensive to be a viable option, to the point where he didn't even bother to mention it: "there is no chance that the renewables, wind, tide and water power can provide enough energy and in time." This is no longer true; installing new photovoltaic generation capacity is now cheaper than continuing to run existing coal plants in much of the world, and although the humans still need to ramp up production capacity to build enough panels, it looks like they are on track to make the switch in the 2020s. The total solar resource is about three orders of magnitude larger than marketed world energy consumption.

We shouldn't fault James for not seeing this in 2004, but now we know he was wrong, as many of us were.

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

Edited to add: competitive-bid power purchasing agreements hit a new low this week of US$15.67 per MWh in Qatar https://archive.fo/UBWWi but there are projects in many equatorial parts of the world hitting similar lows. This is a factor of 10 less than what end-users currently pay for electricity in California and roughly a factor of 3 less than the average wholesale cost there.
> Apple has been caught making their products slower and unusable as they get older.

That's FUD.

Apple was indeed "caught" doing that, in one very specific and generally customer-friendly sense.

Apple throttled the phone CPU as the battery aged to avoid spikes that could cause the phone to die. When people complained about it, they introduced a toggle to allow that behavior to be disabled.

Broadly speaking, Apple has had an excellent record relative to the rest of the industry. They provide day of release OS updates for years-old devices, they have shipped major new releases which have actually improved performance on older devices, and they will often block new features on older devices when those features are likely to cause severe performance degradation.
Machine learning-based multidomain processing for texture-based image analysis
Thanks to the Godot devs. I've been using the 3.2 betas over the last months and I was totally happy with the experience. But I am happy that I can work with an official release version now which makes it easier to have others use the codebase as well.
>I'm not sure what the author is really proposing that AI practitioners should do.

If he wants us to work for our moral betterment ('Nobody does AI for our moral betterment') he's asking us become like old-fashioned saints or modern-day activists. But they are not problem-solvers per se. They act like they already have the solutions to our problems.

The irony is that, whatever the intentions of its creators, AGI probably will lead to our moral betterment by giving us a clearer understanding of what it means to be human.
I just recently got a patch into AFL proper, so they are watching. But I didn't see AFL++ yet, which looks much better. Thanks.
Evolution stopping is not a concern, it's direction is.
Just don't try to annotate the screen (or let a viewer do it). I ended up with a blank screen over everything (even the task switcher) and no way to quit. Fortunately I had a keyboard shortcut to launch a new terminal, so used that then typed "killall zoom<enter>". It worked :D
This is a non-solution. Its basically saying, why don't we just go back to living like before we had technology. That is not gone happen because people want do those things and consume those things. And people already have made those decisions.

The people who were predicting doom because of population were utterly and completely wrong and have been for 50+ years now. Just as terrible a prediction as those who predicted 'Peak Coal' in 1870. Guys like Borlaug are good at what they do but their understanding of the economy is incredibly limited.

The idea that population was the big issue is just fundamentally flawed assumption. The idea that population growth needs to end in order not to have a huge catastrophe is also incredibly flawed.

And add to all that, we can have both population and consumption growth at the same time, and we had that for a long time now and we can continue to do it for a long time. The energy inherent in the LITERAL DIRT on the ground alone could power advanced human civilization for 1000s of years and that is before we even start considering space based resources.

Simply put, with the 3x3x3 Cube of Dirt from where you are now, you have enough Thorium to literally power your whole life, including flying around with airplanes, driving and so on.

In fact we can do that AND at the same time reduce the amount of space people actually life on. Forest and other nature preserves are growing in the Western world. Increasingly people will live in population centers and more and more of the land around will have little actual use other then looking at it.
What? I feel like an ITER protest could be broken up by one informed individual coming to clear up misunderstandings for ten minutes. Though, it is entirely possible people lose their mind at “tritium” or the word “nuclear”.
Another example of a product that looks interesting, but the folks responsible for marketing it make it a pain in the arse.

This looks like it solves a problem I have. Looks like it might be a commercial product (mentions of Okta and "get started for free"), but I can't find out any more information without signing up which I don't want to do if it doesn't support the configuration I want or is more expensive than my budget for such things.
I take cold showers every 5th day, timed with my cardio workouts so I get in the cold shower after working up a sweat. I used to take them every 4th day. I agree on the benefits you describe, though not up for only cold showers.

I haven't been able to communicate the benefits to people who don't get it or won't try, but to people who get it, few things match the benefit, given zero cost in time, money, or other resource. Actually, more like negative cost in time, money, power, and emissions relative to

We're getting into the most difficult time of year. My record low cold shower temperature was 39.9F (4.4C), when I was taking them minimum 5 minutes.

I got into the habit through HN, in particular from Joel Runyon's video and page on cold showers, which I recommend, especially his TEDx talk, which is on this link:

https://impossiblehq.com/cold-shower-therapy-guide

(My notes on cold showers: http://joshuaspodek.com/cold-showers-rock)
That piece is from 2004. The installed cost of utility scale PV has fallen by an order of magnitude since 2004. The conclusions he reached then are not relevant now.
Yeah . Nice add. I believe I already was exposed to differents diseases. I grew up in a third world country. Also, I did a exchange program in a multicultural US University where I had contact with different people from around the world.

I will try to expose more to sunlight , arms and legs. I spend all my day indoor.
With what is at stake I'm ok being "difficult". At the end of the day the person running the desk just ensures that you have the minimum required for treatment.

In the US, at least in larger cities, one of the signatures is often to share your data on an ERM network with all doctors/hospitals in the network. I never sign this one and it's never been an issue.
I don't see where you're making the case that they need to update.

They're better than anything you can find in the bracket that you place them in.

Sure, everything can always be better but I don't see much market pressure forcing it.
Yeah. I’d like to add HMS Dreadnought (1906). It was the first proper battleship ever built (truly revolutionary), and it was built in one year and one day.
Hell, I've seen "green energy" proponents NOW oppose nuclear because they want to push their own favorite (solar or whatever). Instead of saying "I support anything that's not fossil fuels, but I prefer solar", their stance is "It's either solar or nothing (where 'nothing' is fossil fuels)".