skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How? I thought the money was actually banked?
Good idea! - Try checking back in a week or two if you're interested, and I'll properly have it setup by then.
Littlewood’s Law and the global media
Yeah, saw one lying around the Junk section of HARD OFF for not much. It's only rare in the western market.
Firefox's accessibility tool doesn't even see most of the text when making its calculation.
No it implies that rapidly hiring FAANG divisions are so desperate for talent they're willing to outbid anyone else. One could call that a market, but it's a market distorted by a few tech companies that are far wealthier than the rest.
Samsung Galaxy S20 vs. iPhone 11 Pro: A deeper division lurks beneath the spec
I paid about 10 bucks during one of the countless sales. Never pay the full price at Udemy. Their pricing policy is ridiculous. I feel like you only have to wait a few days for the next 90%-off-discount to come along. I counted three times during the past few weeks.

Second this. If you want to take a Udemy course and the listed price is more than about $12.00, just wait. It'll be on sale for $9.99, $10.99, $11.99 or something like that, within a couple of weeks. They're almost always running various sales and promotions... just be patient.
‘Lockdown’ open source firewall app leaps from iOS to Mac
For any non-American here: the website is made for US
I discovered the concept of pensions managed by corporations when Sears Canada went under and a ton of people lost their pensions. I guess it's a pretty common thing. But it seems absolutely insane to me.

Who in their right mind, given any choice on the matter, would want to lock their retirement into the existence and health of a corporation?

Until I saw the Sears debacle occur, I thought everyone basically puts together RRSP (Canadian retirement tax havens, I think 401k?) accounts and rely on their required payments into the Canada Pension Plan. It's much less likely that the government or a bank will fail, and the bank, unlike Sears, is CDIC backed.

I guess my question is: why do we allow companies to manage retirement funds?
(That second link defaults to showing Arctic sea ice, which is declining much more rapidly than the Antarctic sea ice is increasing.)
> How on earth the US has managed to remain economically competitive

Well after you're done working, you don't work anymore. So if a country spends zero on providing pensions, they are actually more economically competitive.

Whether one would want to live there is another matter, but the lower income people have little money to move and build a life elsewhere and the higher income people can arrange a good future for themselves.
I'd say keep practicing, regularly. And accept that some fear is perfectly normal--it keeps you alert to dangers.

Could also look at NLP, which has some visualization exercises to deal with fear, IIRC.
You skipped the "spend 3 hours figuring out why libgcc_s.so.1 won't link when trying to compile that one protobuf tool you need right now" step.

Seriously, I dread every time I have to compile C++ in NixOS and there's no existing derivation already.

Oh, and when the Omnisharp guys start requiring a new version of mono that won't build the same way for whatever reason, so you're stuck on old versions of your IDE plugins if you want C# support until someone else figure out what broke.
Well, they are divorced from the employer these days, because most jobs just don’t offer a pension program at all. Social security is all most people will have at retirement from the comming generations.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/generation-x-stop-slacking...
"Usenet always had a dramatically diverse group of participants"

Who knew this was debatable. Every race, creed, religion, and demographic (even if skewed slightly to the higher end). Every political lean imaginable. People in sports programs, arts programs, and every other nature.

The notion that this group has some natural agreement is not reality based.
Time for ISP's to be under Title II (not that it would matter in this case).
Docker Image in Production – 1GB or 100MB
Mobile needs a lot of love for sure. Thanks for suggesting the solution for speeding up the search field, we have an item in this week's list to fix it!
I think reddit is a superior product to Usenet.

I used to use Usenet in the early 90s, I was even a sysadmin at the time and helped my university install it. NNTP, huge hard drives, constant network stream, it was a big deal but so excited to manage and read it.

But I quickly felt the need to have some kind of upvoting system in order to wade through the noise. At the time, I used jwz' genius "BBDB" emacs extension, which allowed you to weigh posts based on authors and subjects. The potentially most interesting articles would magically bubble at the top of the discussion group and this would tremendously speed up my consumption of all the groups.

But obviously, this is not as effective as the crowdsource voting system that reddit uses. The combination of reddit's voting system (for the voting) and RES (for the customized author tagging) makes the reading a lot more efficient than Usenet ever was.

I personally don't have a problem with the fact that reddit is proprietary. The amount of knowledge and entertainment that I gain from reddit way outweighs my slight philosophical discomfort from the proprietary aspect.

And if one day, reddit fails to meet that criterion, another site will replace it. Digg has shown us that these sites are a lot less permanent than they seem.
Energy is free. Sun's light is either hitting plants (that use it to grow) or it's hitting the ground.

Is water a big problem, in e.g. Europe? No idea honestly... it's obviously 100% recyclable, but it might be in the wrong place at the wrong time...
user?id=taneq was contrasting "electronic design" with the mathematical approach, so not sure which one you want.

The ur-book for EE is Horowitz and Hill's The Art of Electronics. It can be found online with a little scrounging or for $100+ on amazon. H&H is extremely dense, fairly comprehensive and more like a handbook than an introduction. If you are very math-oriented maybe it will work for you, but be warned that this is over a thousand pages of formulas, greek letters, graphs, and subscripts and superscripts. It's... taxing.

As for a higher-level friendly introduction like taneq was talking about, there are a ton of resources that all cover small but essential parts. Unfortunately that means a ton of repeating things and difficulty in bringing everything together. Arduino resources are great, the adafruit/sparkfun articles/blogs are great, whitepapers from TI and others are great. I don't know of a single atlas to bring these together or say them in a single place, which sucks. I may try giving it a shot- I'm certainly math-dumb enough to understand how to translate.

The EEVblog and sparkfun youtube channels are excellent, particularly for PCB design. IMO PCB design is essential to transition from tinkering to a true hobby. Most sophisticated components only come in PCB-only packages. PCBs are far cheaper than breadboards, and mandatory for any project with more than a dozen parts. PCBs make debugging far easier. They're required for anything operating over a few MHz, and most digital stuff. Unfortunately the software still kind of blows- Kicad is the best, but still a huge pain.

I can't recommend electronics enough as a hobby! It's more intense than brewing beer, but the scene has blown up exponentially in the past two decades and is incredibly accessible. Electronics are more affordable than any other engineering discipline- PCBs are simple and incredibly cheap to order in single lots, and 80% of components can be ordered in single units. Compare eg metal prices, which are easily 20% the price in bulk vs. small units. Single electronic components are 75-50% of the cost in bulk. Entire industries are dedicated to making cheap, simple modules that handle incredibly sophisticated tasks like location tracking, video, wireless communication, or battery power. You can do anything you can think of.
Another angle on this is the economic models. Physical social spaces are generally social as a side effect -- it's not how they make money. People go to a restaurant or a bar because they want to be around other people, but bars an restaurants make their money by selling food and drink, not by selling a "social experience."

The economic models we've seen so far online are different -- the product is "be social here" and I think that's problematic. Few people want to pay just to hang out, online or off. But those selling this space have to make money somehow -- so if you're Facebook, you make your money by advertising to the people hanging out at your place, meaning to make more money you need to get more people to come be advertised to, or convince advertisers they're getting more value per ad (and so you start intrusively data mining your advertising targets).
The web as a GUI toolkit
Thanks, yes, for now. Canada will be added in couple of weeks, followed by countries in western Europe.
If I'm understanding this correctly, that's a pretty big savings: $500/yr versus $198/yr.

Can anyone confirm this?
Actors in principle (isolated objects assigned to threads) sound great until you need to SHARE data, then you enter a new universe of compromises where you need locking mechanisms (for performance), but no language semantics support it natively. Pony introduced reference capabilities but that still created a cludge for those times you needed synchronous access. There is no model yet where locking primitives are associated with resource handles.
I came into the comments to say this. I'm surprised the auction description doesn't mention that it has been worked on.
> I'm too young to have been a part of Usenet, but it seems to me that there's no good way to recreate the space described in the article without keeping most people out.

Hahahah no. So the biggest problem of usenet wasn't really the throngs of the "Eternal September" people (I hate the expression, btw). It was that nearly every Usenet group had its resident troll with too much time on their hands and an extreme obsession. So you'd post about, say, plans to build a 2nd railway track between Chachówek and Radom, and you'd get some dude go at you about how useless that would be and how improving transport between Warsaw and Radom would destroy the public infrastructure of the entire country. This is not theoretical, I've stumbled on usenet archives from _a few years ago_ recently and have seen the dude still going.

And it was everywhere. Operating systems? Some journalist going off about how Mac's better than Linux in Every. Single. Thread. General "whine about the world" group? Some random libertarian to tell you that actually it's you who sucks.

It wasn't many people, but they were active enough to ruin everyone's day. You could mute them, but unless you muted every thread that included them (and nearly every did) you'd still be exposed to them. And, because I happened to meet a few of them personally: if you further restrict the space by means, credentials and "interest", all you're going to get is a higher concentration of these people.
I think you can do this with Netlify already by publishing to IPFS in your post-build script or use something like the gatsby IPFS plugin. The DNS portion would require some setup though which is probably where this product shines.
This is a surprisingly informative article, given that it was published by McClatchy itself. Nice to see that journalistic standards stay high, even in the middle of what must be a harrowing time for everyone there.
In my experience, Squaresoft is pretty secretive about their development process. Their staff will talk on the record about the process and drop tidbits, like the interview above, about stuff that might have been cut, but it's pretty rare that they'll go into any great detail or provide "beta" screenshots. That stuff rarely happens unless we happen to find it dummied out in the game code somewhere.[0]

For the rest, we sorta have to look at what came later and work backwards from there to try to envision what the features might have looked like. For example:

> One of the most significant changes was the removal of the option to take multiple routes through the game that led to several possible endings, in contrast to the linear journey in the final product. [1]

Since this system eventually showed up in the game's sequel, Seiken Densetsu 3 (Now called "Trials of Mana" after its Switch port localization), we can probably assume that it would have worked something like that. It's also probably safe to assume that some of the other unused concepts from Secret of Mana eventually found their way into SD3. But I'm always hesitant to get too specific, since game developers change their mind all the time during development.

One of the best examples I can think of for this would be the Soul Reaver series, where the original title had a huge amount of content cut in order to deliver the game on time[2], instead ending on a cliffhanger and with the intention that Soul Reaver 2 would finish it up. We have a pretty good idea of what was supposed to happen in the original conception of the story, because we found a ton of leftover assets, voiceovers from unproduced cutscenes, and design documents. There's even a sequence of the main character "gazing into the future" with pieces of sequences that never occur (presumably they would have if the game had been finished as originally designed). By the time the sequels Soul Reaver 2 and Legacy of Kain: Defiance were produced, however, the story veered off into a much different direction. Some of the boss fights that were planned for Soul Reaver 1 ended up eventually happening in SR2 or LoK:D under very different circumstances, or were scrapped altogether.

[0]https://tcrf.net/Final_Fantasy_VII#The_Red_Man

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_Mana#Development

[2]http://thelostworlds.net/
I'd never before heard of the notion of a "white hat SEO". I have to agree with the article -- they're about as common as yeti.
It does look like a good first step towards that. If I ever find that one service I used that one time to build context-aware intent recognition, I'll definitely try that.
On top of several unreliable subsystems.

I think that's a big part of why it's so hard. You've got leaky, imperfectly understood, unreliable subsystems, and you're trying to build the best system you can on top of it. And what you produce inevitably is a leaky, imperfectly understood, unreliable system... which becomes somebody else's subsystem. And so it goes.

You say: We need to create perfect subsystems! Formal verification (or robust type systems, or better requirements, or mathematical reasoning, or some other approach) will save us! But it's not that simple. It starts clear down at the hardware level. How much can you formally prove about your CPU? After taking into account it's errata sheet? The union of the errata sheets of all the revs of the CPU? If you're running on PCs, the errata sheets of every CPU that anybody could conceivably be running on?

If you can't formally prove much about the CPU, how are you going to formally prove the OS and/or compiler? And if you can't formally prove those, how can you formally prove anything else?

It's leaky, unreliable, incompletely understood subsystems all the way down.
>public policy failed them and did not properly account for the ability of the corp to default on its contract using BK law.

Public policy did account for it (ERISA and PPA), and provided for the PBGC to provide a limited backstop, although it's not possible to backstop so many failing pension plans due to erroneous investment return and population growth rate and mortality assumptions.

>A contract was made, and it should be kept (with pensioners coming first ahead of all other creditors).

They are ahead, but there's usually nothing left, and definitely nothing that could satisfy the requirements of a pension. Compounding is a hell of a force, and PPA 2006 didn't come into effect until too late.

And anytime you enter into a transaction with someone, you are subject to counterparty risk, even the government. The US is lucky it has more capacity to print its way out than most countries.
Show HN: Magicdocs – Turn your docs into websites
You're making his case for him. There's no evidence. Facebook is not harmful. The people who believe this overlap nearly 100% with people who believe conspiracy theories about "Russian meddling" (like the EU Commission).

There's zero need to regulate Facebook. It's about the least harmful company in the world today. Its products have no safety implications. If it has an extended outage GDP probably goes up rather than down as people stop goofing off work. It's half way to being an entertainment company.

The only reason this comes up at all is because the European political elites are immersed in a form of groupthink in which they cannot and will not engage with their citizens actual concerns (top concern by the EU's own polling: immigration). So they cast around trying to understand why anyone in the UK would vote to leave the EU and come up with some theory about how it's all Facebook's fault, despite that the EU always loses referendums when people are given a chance to object. So now anything Facebook does must be bad.

The EU will continue to be dominated by US tech firms that don't care about what the Commission think for the forseeable future. The only obvious change on the horizon is that a new generation of tech firms, having seen what happened to companies that hired too many employees in Europe, will simply choose to serve the market entirely from abroad where they can ignore EU law at will.
Read the abstract and glanced through the paper. Both are kind of mush, so I probably missed the main point.

Note that I am not claiming that newspapers depict reality accurately. Rather, it seemed that this paper was advocating diverging further.
Or you can buy it from costco.com and have it delivered to your local store for free.
Regarding pensions, I never understood why an employer or a government would have an obligation to pay for retirement. It would seem that The onus of saving for retirement would be on the person. Crazy talk, I know.
And 401ks, for those that have decent incomes to save $19k/year + match at least. So not almost all will depend on SS, but many surely will.
Contra Betteridge's law of headlines, the answer is yes. The only material that is actually recycled is aluminum. The solution is thus to replace plastic with aluminum wherever possible, at least we know it will get recycled, without government subsidies or cajoling.
Hey HN, I built this NoCode platform so other developers like me could easily create and share documents as websites. We are currently focusing on proposals, but it can be used for anything really.

I also made a demo: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ragLfdvxETQ]

What do you guys think?
Technically they had social security. It's pretty clear that that's not enough to fund the average retirement, but the company chose to offer better to stay competitive.
Subsea volcanoes. Nothing to do with the term I am not allowed to use. What a relief.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/energy-department-cli...
Pension plans don’t really make economic sense. Fortunately, private pensions will soon become a thing of the past. Of course, the only reason they ever were a thing was due to tax breaks, but that’s a different story.
A science degree is not an engineering degree, and one is not practicing science in their hot startup. So, fair enough.
According to le Wik, IRAs and 401k plans are indeed defined-contribution pensions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defined_contribution_plan#Unit...
llgo removed from LLVM
There are financial costs to not having good local news:

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/05/study-when-local-news...
I think the “drive-by downvoting from people with nothing to say” problem could be solved by requiring down voters to type even a short rationale. Good ol Slashdot did this well 20 years ago with the “reason” drop-down you needed to select from when downvoting.
4chan was started by people too awful for Something Awful, and I mean you're self-aware enough to recognise that they used slurs to scare people off, so you _know_ it was always a horrible place.
What is the solution? Should Google not put up any warnings?
This is painful to see. It looks like a shopping mall or apartment building logo, compared to other states with proper flags.

And it goes without saying, on this topic, one must watch the short talk on state and country flags: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnv5iKB2hl4
There are some advantages like version control or everyone working in the same document with the latest data.

I've seen it dozens of times. Someone shares the wrong excel file then others keep working with outdated data. Or maybe they all share a file in Dropbox but someone didn't sync for some reason and kept working and generating changes over an old file.
ThirdLove's Customer Acquisition Machine
Don't most human keto studies fail because it's extremely hard to stick with?

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/should-you-tr...
'Long hall' just gives me visions of death metaphors and "light at the end of a tunnel"
There are definitely more categories than what we have and agree the naming can be improved. Next ones we are considering adding are: 'Mid Stage backed by Big Name Investors' and
'University + Govt.' jobs.
I'd like to think the National Videogaming Museum in TX would have put up an offer if they felt the seller was willing to work in good faith, but based on some comments I've seen from some of the Directors on Facebook about their intersections with the seller at conventions, the impression I get is that's pretty much a non-starter.

And the NVM having probably the largest one-of-a-kind prototype system collections on Earth, it'd have been the natural home for the Nintendo PlayStation. That they want no part speaks volumes, and I'm sure there's a lot there left unsaid in the public eye.

No idea who it'll go to now, but it's probably going to be someone with deep pockets or a collective (like another museum, perhaps) with a fairly wealthy network.
2015: NIH paper on success creating chimeric coronavirus with SARS
Haha okay. Toptal is great! How is your experience so far? How many hours do you need to work per week?
Silly Germans, AT&T is always busted.

BTW, if these tutanota guys were smart, they'd be pitching their services to AT&T instead of dragging them through the mud.

Last I checked, AT&T had subcontracted Yahoo as their mail handler. Nowhere to go but up from that mess...
For the record, I looked it up, and the phone I was remembering was the LG Voyager: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Voyager
Ha, image how much Nature Publishing Group are crying in their coffee while they write that headline! Open science has the same free-rider problems as open source, but also, the same network effects with huge benefits.
Yes. The same is said about the Sega-Sony deal, which Sega is often criticized for not following up on. The accounts of former executives make it clear, however, that it was too risky to work with Sony due to their ultimate motives. Sony wanted to dominate the market from the beginning, and they wanted to use established companies as an entry point.

Also, the contract between Nintendo and Sony was signed in 1989, and Sony would have received all royalties from CD-ROM sales. This was at a time when it was still not clear that CD-ROMs would soon dominate the market. However, that had changed by 1991 when the Nintendo Play Station was revealed.

Then-president of Sony, Norio Ohga, said the following in his autobiography: “What we learned later was that Yamauchi’s son-in-law, then the head of Nintendo’s U.S. operations, had apparently nixed the deal. The son-in-law, Minoru Arakawa, had witnessed firsthand the stunning growth in U.S. sales of CD-ROM drives and disks. Arakawa knew that Sony had built a strong position in CD-ROM products. And he apparently feared that Sony would get the better of Nintendo in a collaboration.”