skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also aiming for a fully-owned house + enough incoming money to afford a decent life, probably back in my native country (one of the former communist ones).

However I currently live in Amsterdam, where the 47 m2 apartment I inhabit costs around 350k euros to buy, which is quite a bit for a matchbox in a 120 yr old house.

On top of that, I suspect that in NL the age of retirement for me will be around 72, which is ridiculously late; plus, whatever pension I get will almost certainly not be enough for me to have a decent life on. The state pension here is minuscule and the private ones are a racket, like everywhere else.

My point is that you can't really rely on a pension and you should act as if you won't get one (even though that's what's owed to you).
I see your point about shipping costs not available until it's in the checkout line. I guess I disagree that it is dishonest or malicious - they didn't take your money.
Can you explain? How do ventilators harm patients? Are there alternatives?
There is severe population decline and retirement payment is based on taxing working population. This issue will affect Spain and Poland the most AFAIK.
Yeah, maybe if the project is super small and you can memorize everything about it. but this doesn't scale to many real-world size projects very well
This. It sounds like this should be the FIRST thing to try, rather than the last. Sadly this is not very likely how it is going to be for a very long time.
Perhaps an allusion to non-mainstream demographics?
Building a Knowledge Graph of Commercial Real Estate at Cherre – Episode 127
I'm from The Netherlands, and while I'd expect people here to expect or hope for more, millennials and under are generally pessimistic too.

As a self-employed programmer with a decent breadth of experience and as an autodidact with low needs, I consider myself very lucky too, but I worry for a lot of my friends.
Hospitals Deploy AI Tools to Detect Covid-19 on Chest Scans
My blog is at: https://the-cogitator.com/posts/blog/

I usually write about Kotlin and everything related. I've recently finished a Roguelike tutorial series if you're into that sort of stuff.
I write about my personal cloud and web activities I do on my blog https://nageshdn.com
The best solution I've seen for making sidenotes responsive is to move them into the body text. Examples:

http://craftinginterpreters.com/a-map-of-the-territory.html

https://www.martigeon.com/textbook-themed-webdesign/

I'm not sure how well this would work for shorter notes though.
Yes, I know. None of these things seems to have done much to combat grade inflation.
By working around them, which is sometimes the smart decision. Hard to know ahead of time when that is the case, though...
You are proving my point for me. You read the word "Libertarian" and immediately start rambling about Republicans and how cruel I am for my "religious philosophy".

> Sorry if this annoying inconvenient health crisis has knocked the blocks out from under your religious philosophy, but we NEED government intervention right now to save people's lives

This is a strawman, and there's no reason for you to be so offensive. I absolutely agree that government action is proper and necessary to protect the population, especially right now. "Provide for the general defense" is one of the government's jobs.

I think you should take a minute to examine your assumptions about what libertarianism is instead of reacting emotionally whenever you hear the word.
That traffic is monetized in a few ways:

- Autoplayinig video ads

- Affiliate marketing (meal kits, cooking courses, etc)

- Adsense display ads

- Taboola/Outbrain

These don't bring in much money on a per-site basis, but the owners usually own multiple sites, so it can add up.

If you're able to get the site to grow, it becomes the easiest digital property in the world to maintain. The content doesn't need to be fresh, or engaging. People will always search for generic recipes.
There's nothing inherently wrong with snake oil [1], either.

[1] That is, "mineral oil often mixed with various active and inactive household herbs, spices, and compounds": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil
Where do I sign up ? :rofl:
Every external dependency you take is a chaos monkey.
Specification for developer-centric application definition
I accept your challenge.
Canada top %1 does ~500k a year absolute min.
Take all that and give it to the bottom 50% of the population. Thats 10k per person per year.

The issue is not the math. The issue is the ideology of redistribution.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-s-top-1-per-cent-saw-fa...
I also think about it as emotional gas tank. If that’s empty you can get some improvements with willpower but there is the risk of draining the gas tank even more in the process. It’s important to find something that really feeds your soul.
Enroll in a clinical trial. Not only will you not deal with insurance, you'll get paid for it.
Telecommuting will likely continue long after the pandemic
People are quick to dismiss this, but I think it's a fish-in-water kind of thing, where they are so used to the normal git flow, they can't see any way that it might be non-ideal.

I am excited about the promise of patch-based VCs. In theory they are clearly a better, more flexible model, that is a closer match to how we actually think of changes.

As an example, the branch-free model of this post just falls out naturally, w/o the need to rebase at the end.

However, we're still missing a great implementation to make this promise a practical reality (perhaps the upcoming version of Pijul will be that implementation?).
So, what are the lines I need to add to my docker-compose.yaml ;)
Don't forget the fact that some (how much ?) users visit websites with IE because it's the default browser on their entreprise setup, but admins have installed Firefox alongside for compatibility with modern websites.

So dropping IE is almost a service for them.

Source : french administration with thousands of employees.
When I've finally solved an annoying technical issue I've spent hours trying to fix, typically with web development, I like to write it down to save others the same pain:

https://matthewhoelter.com/blog/

Some of my most popular posts are:

* Painless Deployment of Ruby on Rails: https://matthewhoelter.com/2018/09/18/deploying-ruby-on-rail...

* Setting up HTTPS for localhost: https://matthewhoelter.com/2019/10/21/how-to-setup-https-on-...

Currently my site is built on Jekyll, but I've been thinking about migrating to Ghost.
git checkout -b new_feature_branch is an onerous workflow?
I'll give them a break if the text predates RFC2606 (1999) and the product hasn't been touched since.

> Confusion and conflict can be caused by the use of a current or future top level domain name in experimentation or testing, as an example in documentation, to indicate invalid names, or as a synonym for the loop back address. Test and experimental software can escape and end up being run against the global operational DNS. Even examples used "only" in documentation can end up being coded and released or cause conflicts due to later real use and the possible acquisition of intellectual property rights in such "example" names.

(emphasis added)
A careful review of the scientific literature will show you that there has actually been virtually zero progress in boosting educational effectiveness over the past several decades. Many new techniques have been tried with encouraging initial successes, but nothing has really worked at scale.
But I don't/want need the bulk and the price of the fitness stuff. The last, cancelled generation of pebble had a black and white screen, many apps and was something like 125 euros for the watch.

I really loved the way I could control my Pebble (time steel), with just 4 buttons, so smooth.

But, ok, out of all brands, Garmin seems nicest to me and they have a payment solution as well.
I agree with this definition. From my understanding, when the whole idea of a Black Swann was offered, people genuinely didn't believe they would exist, or it would be so improbably that they would be super surprised.
They would have to lower rates otherwise by law, and presumably take a loss next year. If they lower rates too much, they will get way too many short-term customers. If they don’t lower enough, they will lose many long-term customers. This is a half-measure.
A second potential Covid-19 vaccine, backed by Gates, is entering human testing
That's a good thing, otherwise universities might be teaching 1950s "industry standards" that employers need to un-teach interns. Let the schools teach first principles and the industry shape new graduates.
It should be completely free for everyone but regulated to jettison all that non-education stuff (except for some "soft" services like healthcare, therapy/counselling etc). The soft services should be 100% controlled by student unions so as not to be pillaged by rent-seeking vultures. Then there can be a whole economy for luxury experiences for those who want it, but it should be firewalled off from everything essential.

It's analogous to money in politics or insider trading as far as conflicts of interest go. I guess it would help if education was enshrined in our constitutions as a human right, which institutions had fiduciary duties to uphold.
Still waiting for my reparations from the Normans.
Like others say, writing a VM is a great project for your own education! I thought it would be hard to target a real system like x86 but after trying to get started on older Nintendo systems I gave up and just did x86. It's simpler because it's more familiar and the tooling is more easily accessible.

Here is a series of tutorials I wrote on building an x86 emulator in JavaScript:

https://notes.eatonphil.com/emulator-basics-a-stack-and-regi...

https://notes.eatonphil.com/emulator-basics-system-calls.htm...
The octagon gate is actually a hindrance for some techniques in melee, notably wavedashes and shield drops.
The point is, I think, that the very concept of a pension will become meaningless by the time millennials retire. Why would you pay more into something that you don't expect will give anything in return?

Not to mention that for a lot of people paying more is not an option since they simply wouldn't be able to afford it.
It's income. He would have had to pay it if it weren't forgiven. It's a contractually obligated debt.
This is an interesting article. I do find it pleasant to use git without branches. It allows you to invent a different type of agility and resourcefulness with git operations. I would not recommend this to new users or teams.
If I read correctly, this is trunk-based development.

https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/

And this is also my experience, I absolutely hate spending time to merge things and resolve the conflicts and bugs.

I think this should be the default behavior for small/medium teams.

Branching should only be used when trunk-based dev is no longer possible.

I really liked this article from the Our Machinery guys, who created the Bitsquid engine.

https://ourmachinery.com/post/moving-away-from-git-flow/

This other article is also interesting:
https://medium.com/@mattia.battiston/why-i-love-trunk-based-...
Yeah, this sounds like hell to bisect.
Because examinations they're passing and all the classes they're not attending are conducted entirely in English only. What I've observed happening in some places is that some specific schools are predominantly populated by rich international students from China and they pay someone else to attend classes and take their exams, or otherwise behave in cheating behavior to get the grade, but they themselves are not attending class or learning anything useful.

It's a scam on both sides and it devalues the degrees.
I think you should save your breath for defending libertarianism from the mindless hoards of people who actually claim to be libertarian themselves, but don't know what it means. Because I know very well what it means, and don't claim to be one myself.

I've done nothing anywhere near as offensive and self-centered as what Rand Paul has done, first parroting Trump by downplaying the risk of Coronavirus, then knowingly spreading the highly contagious disease after he was exposed to it, by following Trump's idiotic advice to go about your normal daily life, instead of following sound medical advice to quarantine until he got his test results, which were positive. On top of his medical training and long career of opposing universal health care.

He's a physician: he should have known (and does know) better than to do that, and that makes his policies and behavior perfectly aligned with the stereotype of the heartless libertarian who doesn't care about anyone but himself. He can't fall back to Trump's ignorant "I'm not a doctor, but take this pill from a company I've invested in" defense.

We needed universal healthcare BEFORE the pandemic struck. Why have you and your ideological colleagues fought tooth and nail against it for so long, to the point of lying about and sabotaging Obamacare? Are you finally changing your tune, when it's way too late?

https://www.businessinsider.nl/rand-paul-introduced-obamacar...

So what was your position on universal health care before, and what is it now, and does that align with the "true libertarian" philosophy, or are you "no true Scotsman" yourself? I'd love to hear your defense of Rand Paul's actions. Is he a true libertarian like you? And how about Eric S Raymond: do you think he knows what he's talking about?
This reads as extremely ethically dangerous.
I'm not sure it's possible to justify any course of treatment leading towards individual neurocircuitry 'tweaks', even for an unambiguously good cause.

Harkens too closely to 'scientist seeks to cure homosexuality through direct brain stimulation' in the 1950s.
( en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath )
I like this quote from Ira Glass:

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, and I really wish somebody had told this to me.

All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But it's like there is this gap. For the first couple years that you're making stuff, what you're making isn't so good. It’s not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not that good.

But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you're making is kind of a disappointment to you. A lot of people never get past that phase. They quit.

Everybody I know who does interesting, creative work they went through years where they had really good taste and they could tell that what they were making wasn't as good as they wanted it to be. They knew it fell short. Everybody goes through that.

And if you are just starting out or if you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week or every month you know you're going to finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you're going to catch up and close that gap. And the work you're making will be as good as your ambitions.

I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It takes awhile. It’s gonna take you a while. It’s normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

—Ira Glass
Lockdown was supposed to be an introvert’s paradise. It’s not
I write regularly about security, programming, and several other topics at http://robertheaton.com/ . They’re detailed, offbeat, and very funny. I’ve broken several high-profile privacy abuses, most notably:

* Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open - https://robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wacom-drawing-tablets-tr...

* “Stylish" browser extension steals all your internet history - https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extensio...

* HP printers try to send data back to HP about your devices and what you print
- https://robertheaton.com/2019/09/15/hp-printers-send-data-on...

===

I write the Steve Steveington Chronicles, in which you and your good friend, Steve Steveington, exploit weird security and privacy edge cases in the internet:

* Fun with your friend's Facebook and Tinder sessions - https://robertheaton.com/2014/12/08/fun-with-your-friends-fa...

* How Tinder keeps your exact location (a bit) private - https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/09/how-tinder-keeps-your-lo...

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I write a lot for “advanced beginners” - people who understand how for-loops and if-statements work, but who aren’t sure what to do next:

* Programming Projects for Advanced Beginners - https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/08/programming-projects-for...

* https://robertheaton.com/pfab

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I write about being a parent:

* Childbirth: a father's-eye view - https://robertheaton.com/2019/06/17/childbirth-a-fathers-eye...

* Plus five more episodes (and counting), linked from the bottom of that post

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Finally, I write detailed explanations of complex technical topics:

* HTTPS in the real world - https://robertheaton.com/2018/11/28/https-in-the-real-world/

* How does Tor work? - https://robertheaton.com/2019/04/06/how-does-tor-work/
Covid-19 and the Weather: Data from Italy
> How that works, especially with freedom of movement from the rest of the EU, is anyones guess

This was already answered. Germany has a welfare-system which is basically a restrictec UBI, and there were non-german eu-citizen demanding access to it and went as high as the European Court of Justice.

Result: they have no right to claim social welfare outside their own country. Freedom of movement in EU has limits and you must behave like a proper local citizen (like working there for some time) to get access to other countries systems. And even then benefits are time limited.
Lawmakers Seek to Decree Retroactive Business‐ Interruption Coverage
China’s Three-Body Problem
The Security Setup: HD Moore
http://sprout.rupy.se

I made the blogging software too: https://github.com/tinspin/sprout
> I’ll just apply them to master, rebase them behind my WIP work, and then use git push origin HEAD~5:refs/heads/master to send them upstream, or something to that effect.

if you're going through the trouble of carefully rebasing to change the order of commits, and remembering exactly how many commits behind HEAD you should push, and remembering what state the remote is in (what is master is actually pointing at HEAD~4?)... why not just go through the comparatively minor trouble of using branches?

also it's not like working on branches excludes the possibility of sometimes committing directly to master. that's what I do for most of my personal projects: small cleanup and fixes happen on master, larger things happen in a branch on a PR until I'm happy with it. ~30% of the time I'm actually not happy with how it turns out, and then I'd rather just close the PR and delete the branch than carefully revert work in progress.
But...if you take it off the policy, there's still risk of having it stolen or it burning down, that then obviously isn't covered.

You do have a point, I'd be pretty pissed if it was stolen. It's sitting in my driveway and not in a garage so chances of spontaneous combustion are pretty low :)
Debugging in a Remote World
Oh wow. I had never seen her work, but a quick Google Images search totally confirms that.
Ethics in human experimentation have come a long way since the 1950s.
But would Tylenol at 500mg daily be a good choice? That's what parent was giving as an example, not your overdose contra-indications.
It's not like O'Connor can do anything (legally) with the sensitive data that's hitting his domain.

He could have sold the domain to someone not concerned with the "legally" part.
This is very similar to electro shock treatment. Causing localised seizures.

I don't really think this should be the first thing to try.
On the order of 10% smaller than WebP, substantially slower encode/decode.
Simple Python Ideas to Automate Your Workflow
Is there further documentation about this, or other papers I can read? This part in particular seemed counterintuitive to me:

> “The less treatment-resistant participants are, the longer the treatment lasts,” said postdoctoral scholar Eleanor Cole, PhD, a lead author of the study.
The US government had stepped in a long time ago and sided with big business as it almost always does. Abandon any hope that they will make a significant move against so called "free market".
Using SIMD to aggregate billions of values per second
5 Unusual Traps of Remote Work and How to Avoid Them
> The UK does an extremely bad job of teaching its historial "religious" conflict, which was rarely about doctrine so much as temporal power-politics.

One essay that does attempt to address the politics is this [1]

[1] https://www.marxists.org/archive/hill-christopher/english-re...
I'm not very confident in my state pension as they can take that away any time they want, but my private pension is just a pot of money invested for me with tax benefits. Not sure what better you can do than that? Buy gold and store it under your bed?
Counterpoint: Quantitative easing. Instead of giving money to banks give them to the people.
CPU-Based Path-Tracer
Ok, looks nice! No privacy concerns? Are there any custom OS's? How is the companion app? Do you need it?
This is not the first highly popular domain he's squatted, so I doubt this made a significant impact on his wealth.
This is really interesting but out of my league technically. I understand that super-resolution is the technique of inferring a higher-resolution truth from several lower-resolution captured photos, but I'm not sure how this is used to turn a high-resolution image into a lower-resolution one. Can someone explain this to an educated layman?
Yep, but come on, any small business owner won't even know what AD is or why it should be used, and they would be convinced to use it by an external consultant (as well in theory belonging to the highly spoecialised and highly paid IT people).

This leaves us with only a part of small businesses (the ones where the owner let his daughter's son, or his cousin, which is "good at computers" manage their network).
I do something kind of similar using stgit[1]. I do everything on a single branch creating patches with stgit. stgit lets you easily change the order of commits (a lot like quilt[2], but more robust because it's using git underneath). When features are ready, I just cherry pick them over to master and push upstream.

[1]http://www.procode.org/stgit/
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilt_(software)
Show HN: Worldwide Empathy for Medics
Exactly. The mechanism is purposefully being misused, I contend.

Edit: The downvotes prove it!
Much as I love the Gamecube controller, it's kinda crap for any fighting game that's not Smash Bros. The 6-button Street Fighter II layout from which all fighting games are descended simply does not lend itself well to the giant, single button in the middle of the controller.
A well written reminder! The Slight Edge is a worthwhile read for those really looking to leverage this approach at scale over time.
I can't write to your experience but I have on many occasions found the very specific thing I want on BH for less than it is available via amazon — if it is even available on amazon.
Where do you get $3,000 a month from? I’m sure if you set the dollar value high enough the math doesn’t work out.
You might take a look at stgit. http://www.procode.org/stgit/
That is About $330 billion. Spains GDP is about 1.2 trillion. That’s most of their GDP just going out to basic income. I wonder who’s gonna pay for it
>Thats 10k per person per year.

So if we tax the top 1% at 100%, we can give the bottom 50% enough to not even make rent in Toronto or Vancouver? See item 3 on my list. Also only giving the benefit to the bottom 50% is not universal basic income.