skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a small town that is actually quite near to Canada. It's 175 miles to the border, where there is medium sized Canadian town on the border. There's ~500,000 in the whole region, it's just not the same, passenger rail would be extremely expensive to operate in parts of the US that are like this.

For reference, it's a bit further from Detroit to Toronto than it is from Berlin to Prague.
An alternative would be to leave readmes alone, but then to provide a nice, concise, universal documentation format.

The way github structures their doc trees is also not nice for easy navigation, which is required often for docs when they are structured that way.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't Iraq and Turkey specifically created by the British Empire in order to NOT have these countries follow ethnico-cultural lines, thus making them weaker, with the Kurd situation being probably the worst example?
I'm somewhat offended that this post has downvotes. It's not like this is some anti-vax bullshit.

If we never questioned ourselves we'd still be using bloodletting as medical treatment.
If we can't secure our own stuff, what's the advantage of having NSA hacking others? Maybe we need a separate branch of NSA to test such software
“Facebook’s argument is along the lines of arguing that the police shouldn’t crack down on burglaries because doing so might hurt pawn shops that have been thriving during a years-long crime spree.”

Excellent comparison to put the point across.
This is working as an employee at a single US company (I live in Canada). It was total compensation (salary, bonus, annual stock grants). I grew from 1/3 of this 13 years ago though I changed employers several times. Eventually the small raises / bonuses / stock grants kept piling up.

During this period for about 2 years I was an independent contractor and was at around $250k annually (could be higher, but you don’t get paid for vacation, conferences or marketing/sales efforts).

Building a small lifestyle business is another pathway to making a lot of money, though it too tends to take a few years. I have friends that have built niche industry software apps that gives them about $1m-2m a year. Enough to hire staff to keep things running.
I don't love the terminology either, but it's like a lot of evolving linguistic culture: it tends to stick in the craw of those of use who grew up using different words, not because it is "wrong" per se but because it is different. I think the linguistic shift actually does map on to a notably different attitude toward the way cultural products are produced and consumed, as other commenters have noted, as well as the democratization of the resources for creating things like video due to the ubiquity of smartphones.
Surely there is? Some sort of signing method?

While they could be banning I think its unlikely it is an effective strategy - id say there are easily millions of accounts if not tens of millions in this region alone.
Good it'll build peoples immune system.

The toxic chemicals from the smoke is definitely a problem but the microbes?

When we become a country of hypochondriacs?

Edit:
The modern media is having a field day exploiting peoples misunderstanding of statistical likelihood to drum up all kinds of nightmares and terrors in peoples minds that have existed since the dawn of mankind but are now suddenly something to be terrified of.

And people who just follow along with whatever the mainstream says.. are eating it up.
It'll be our problem too. Whose going to pay for all our "free stuff?"
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/20/boeing-737-...

737-8
it's even worse than that. semgrep wouldn't even discover the earlier mentioned problems in Huawei code, which purpose explicitly was to evade static analysis tools. They could pack all their calls to strlcpy (wrapping strcpy & friends) into a separate lib that is outside the scope of the security audit.

what makes this article still great IMO is:

1) the shout-out to the Huawei security problems which are not because we're dealing with a hostile malicious adversary with a strategy to change the channel frequency of 5G towers in a theater of war and fry our citizens brains[1] but because nobody even needs a malicious supply chain implants when you're dealing with poor quality code.

2) an accurate picture of why DevSecOps isn't a thing. Shoft-Left is a fools errand when most companies promote the experienced people who would be suited for a birds-eye-view / full-stack role, into management.

albeit both points were probably not the intention of the author.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Fleet_(novel)
Early postdoc is probably the sweet spot for (individually) working on what you love.

As you become more senior, responsibilities start to accrete around you. You can make more progress on something, but you start to do so by supervising others and writing grants to make it happen, rather than just doing the work yourself. This can be satisfying, but can also devolve into endless paperwork.
Also of interest - https://www.transamtrail.com

My dream is to do this, or at least part of it. I'm an adventure motorcyclist and ride a lot here at home in South Africa. For the TAT I would probably rent a smaller motorcycle like an F650GS. Or maybe just buy one there and sell it on my return.
I feel like I'm reading something off of Fark.com.
Where can I buy a $30,000 Model 3?
What are you taking about? Sweden reported that this November was the deadliest in the last 100 years since the Spanish flu in 1918. Compared to Norway, Sweden has 20x more deaths from covid (Sweden 8000 vs Norway 400 deaths) and Sweden has only 2x population (10M vs 5M). And Norway has a better GDP than Sweden despite stricter lockdown policies.
>California’s wealthiest 1% pay approximately 46% of total state income taxes
> That 1% (which, unfortunately, I am in)

This illustrates to me that the 1st percentile receives vastly more net income than the 2nd highest percentile (and that the stats should subdivide the 1st percentile further).

Is this really unfortunate for you? I don't think so.
Oh yeh I totally get the size and scale is in an issue. Maybe what I mean is more of the culture and comfort of using the train lines that do exist in that way. Opening up the places that sort of gotten bypassed along the way also.
Assembler's a great illustration of this. Assembler imposes very few constraints on what you can do. Which, in turn, makes assembly language programs very difficult to manipulate, because there are just so many special considerations to worry about.

A language that doesn't let you decide what registers will be used to store data, or interleave conditional branch statements in clever ways, or carefully select which instructions you use in order to tightly synchronize the program's execution to some outside signal such as the monitor's vertical retrace[1], is a language with a lot more freedom to do things like compiler optimizations.

[1] Dated example, I realize. Unless you count playing TIS-100, it's been a minute or two since I last did anything interesting in assembler.
It is insane. It is also insane that the system is so rigged in favor of wealth accumulation. An insane solution to an insane problem. I pay a lot in taxes, and I am good with that. I also give a fair bit away. The truth is I should make less, as should you.
Unfortunately the truth behind user-upgradable RAM is that very few users do it, particularly on laptops.

It's also impossible to do if you are going down the system-on-chip route.
Statement from Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty about new strain of Covid-19
Hi, I'm the author. I have limited budget and made a trade-off. I just decided it's less probable I'll run out of RAM given its performance and my usage of the computer, than that I'll run out of disk space. That's all.

It's easy to type a comment about bad decisions and garbage, but the world doesn't work in terms of absolute truths, the decisions we make are made under certain circumstances and the success of the results is subjective. I risked something, I know it, so far I'm happy with my choice.
They're not really comparing compensation outside of the context of surveillance. They're saying that $10/hr cashiers are more heavily watched than police officers. It seems to me that we should maybe have more oversight over individuals whom we decide to present with lethal weapons as tools?

Kinda makes one feel like money is treated as more important than human life, when you look at it from that perspective.
Well, there's also the theory - articulated best in Orwell's 1984 of the places I've seen it argued for - that language also shapes what thoughts can be held or shared. Given how much impact choosing the programming language has on a technical project I'm inclined to think there's something to that idea, and Stallman may be more sensitive to that than the average bear.
An appendum: I acknowledge "thriving" is not the ideal word to use. However, bullying within academia exists and is increasingly more common than people release. Often because it's something that goes unsaid and unreported, in part out of fear of repercussions for the reporter rather than the bully because the academy protects the latter.
I wonder what field you’re working on, but it seems that you’ve never experienced the difference between theory and practice.
Show HN: Bithub.com
This is a combination of Show/Ask HN.

I've been working on my side project, BitHub.com, for several years now. The issue is that on the revenue side there’s a big fat zero and I'm kinda lost to where to go from here. I'd love to keep the project going, but it obviously needs a new perspective and some novel ideas.

If anyone from the community has any recommendations as to where to look for a better direction for the project, I would to love chat. I'm almost at a position to sell the domain and shut the whole project down, but something inside of me fights against this idea.
Of course it excludes real-estate. In California the only legitimate wealth is the land you inherit.
"Content" has a pretty broad definition. In a social network, "content" is people (and what they post). In a search engine, it's documents (and what's in them). In an app store, it's apps.

If there was nothing worth reading online, no one would use Google. If no one was posting anything interesting on Facebook, it would have no users. If there were no apps worth using on the iOS store, iPhone wouldn't have nearly as big a market share.

You're looking at content in a very narrow definition. A database is content, as is a casual conversation with your friends.
Top Technical Advances of 2020
Yep, you can probably get a position at some backwater university that will pay (in the rich Western World) still enough to live a "normal" life. But of course everyone thinks they deserve a place at the top of the totem pole and anything less prestigious is a catastrophe. It's understandable. Many were always the top or one of the top kids in class or in school, won various local competitions but then it comes to competing against everyone across the globe and suddenly the story changes and it's no longer automatic and a given that you are at the top. It's a cold shower to many.
Amazing to hear of this, I'd always dreamed of a coast-to-coast bike route and never realized that it's actually been in the works for decades. Curious to see how it deals with the Rockies, looks like it goes through Wyoming which has less extreme slopes but is still extremely elevated. I'll definitely be donating to this, even if I won't get to experience the full thing for another 20 years.
In America in general it's about 40% [1]. When put that way, California taxes seem about right as they are.

[1] http://papers.nber.org/tmp/7707-w24085.pdf
> This proposed scheme will simply lock away most of IP (especially IP with any cultural significance) in the vaults of a few conglomerates.

The difference being that right now, most IP (regardless of significance) is already being locked up in this way, the conglomerates don't have to pay or take any overt action to keep them locked up, and orphan works are lost when all copies degrade before the lockup period expires (early film, in particular).
Two key points IMHO. First:

> It’s an unfortunate quirk of the English language that free as freedom and free as in beer are very different meanings of free. But when you see an ad headlined “Apple vs. The Free Internet”, most people would assume they’re about to hear an argument about free as in freedom.

> Not Facebook. They’re arguing about free as in beer. I mean, they’re alleging that Apple is taking away freedom — the freedom of small business advertisers to benefit from unrestricted tracking for ad targeting — but their argument to the public is that such privacy initiatives will cost users their free beer.

Second:

> Apple clearly has no control over anything related to the advertising on websites, other than whatever privacy controls are built into Safari. Apple isn’t limiting the ability of apps on iOS to show personalized ads, either. They’re also not limiting the ability of ad-tracking technology to track users. What they’re doing is giving users awareness of and control over that tracking. In broad terms, changing tracking from opt-out to opt-in.
Migrating to Ubuntu LTS: six facts for CentOS users
Until it's everyone with a net worth of a million or 100k gets the tax. It will.. probably include everyone in the end.
Divergent goals, divergent choices.

I think the disagreement largely boiks down to semantics of the word "readme." Both versions can coexist, probably will. They're just going argue about which one is the "real" readme... the old school or the one that the author wants you to read.
I think maybe the HCQ should have just been one point, I got 5 points in about hcq and how President Trump is dumb, and I gave up. This comes off as yet another political piece as a result even if thats not what it is.
To having a corrupt system is a tragedy

Trusting a corrupt system is a comedy
The Simpsons and the Death of Parody
It took me years of trying before I could find a decent job to jump ship to. Employers are very skeptical of someone still in academia who has never had a "real" job before. Even if you've been doing crazy advanced research, the HR bots don't recognize that when scanning your resume.
Viewing Euclidean Distance Queries as matrix multiplications
Hi, I'm the author. English is my second language and by performance I assumed the overall performance within all the constraints, that is, temperature, noise, and battery included. If I was to type everything explicitly, the article would be very exact, but very long and hard to read. The exactness wasn't so important in this sentence, as I think it's clear I'm aware of how it is given I earlier mentioned I enjoyed articles where this is considered and explained.
The system is not set up for this. You cannot play copyrighted music in a stream or YouTube video without jumping through hundreds of hoops with licensing. Especially if you are listening to a variety of songs (e.g. Spotify or a radio) this is a nightmare.

You are right that many (not all) YouTubers and streamers are businesses, but pinning this on streamers for being cheap/greedy and not wanting to pay ignores the reality of the situation. If this was in any way realistic you would see a certain percentage of streamers pay and legally play popular music. Instead, that percentage is zero.

There is no reasonable path to pay for playing popular music, and that is entirely the fault of the record companies.
Grand juries, in practice, mean approximately nothing.

We should always presume innocence when law enforcement makes an accusation.
I don't want to scavange the Internet for music and I don't want to own a bunch of music files that I'll forget about in an aging drive. I'm totally fine with music as a service. But I totally agree that we can't let go of the possibility of owning music files.
The Eurorail was out of my price range in high school/college but the continent is beautifully accessible by car. We did a roadtrip with an old car and a tent just after college, 3 weeks, 8000km, 11 countries. Beyond amazing there’s so much to see that you don’t get by plane.

USA is huge by comparison. Did a long roadtrip a few years ago, 3300km, and we barely made it from SF to the Grand Canyon and back.

Trains and roadtrips beat planes when you wanna see the country.

One day I wanna do all of USA on my motorcycle. That would be grand.
>Taxing someone who spends only 60 days in the state in any single year—and extending that tax over an ensuing decade—would be something new under the sun.

Wow. That's nuts.
What drew me to AltaVista was that it gave me results that didn't exist elsewhere. It took some boolean gymnastics to get precise results, or going a few pages deep, but stuff, if it existed, was findable.

I almost wish there were less precise and more obscure options out there today. A search engine that purposefully didn't index mainstream news, social media, nor shopping/product sites.
>Remember that before the ps3, games could not have bugs.

They could, and did. They even had bugs patched, in the form of later manufacturing runs containing newer builds. This practice goes back to at least the NES.
Your sad comment reminds me of this stanza: "The sweeping up the heart, / And putting love away / We shall not want to use again / Until eternity." (Emily Dickinson)
I live just off a portion of this trail (the Racoon River Trail) in Iowa. Judging by the pace of trail construction here, it will take many years to complete, but I am still excited to see it happen.

I have ridden over 1000 miles on the RRVT in the past couple of years and especially in the pandemic it was a great way to relax and recharge. I never get bored of riding the same trail segments. This provides:
1- Moving meditation, just pedal, relax, contemplate.
2- Exercise
3- Motivation - There are Strava segments all over and around this trail, I really like to compete against myself. Friends supply encouraging kudos.
4- Connection - Even at a social distance, it is great to see "trail friends".
5- Nature - Lots of wildlife along the trail. Extra race in heartbeat when you see the back end of a skunk aimed at you.
6- Safety - Other than road crossings, avoiding cars is a big deal. No fear of some texting driver smashing you from behind.

There are all kinds of bikes and people on the trail, recumbents, ebikes, families, race teams, etc. The trail is well maintained and affordable at $26/year for a pass. My guess is that >90% of the users don't pay the fee.
Great way to help further diversify the Texas economy. I want to thank the Californians who voted in these politicians.
Totally. Sleeper trainers are an awesome way to burn off the miles on some of the longer journeys as well.
Three Warfares
This startup makes an Xbox dongle that will keep watch against cyberbullying
Like what? This is like me saying I have a mostly html/css/js website, and I just need it converted to a native Android app.

Well no right? I have website. I don’t have mobile app that just needs to switch platforms.

Do you have a website built in another language already? Then sure, all you need to do compile it via WASM. What I bet most of you have is a program for a totally different platform. In that case, you have to redo it, so why not just do it right.
Choose Your Own Framework: The Curse of JavaScript Fatigue
There is work in anesthetized monkeys (the neural and behavioral signatures of anesthesia are similar to those of coma) demonstrating that high frequency thalamic stimulation is sufficient to restore some markers of wakefulness, even while the monkey is continuously receiving anesthetic. It’s wild.

[0]: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.07.190132v1

[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S08966...
Well, I never pretended to say that Microsoft has just one source of inspiration. But even admitting* that Microsoft got those before, they were not the pioneers either.

* I say that because Mac OS classic was not the only operating system Apple developed. They had their A/UX operating system from 1988 to 1995 where things like protected memory, preemptive multitasking and the usual stuff from a Unix system of the time were present.
It was always Delphi that is ahead of everything else
I’m reading Capital in the 21st Century, and Piketty notes that the growth rates that characterized the decades following the world wars were aberrations, not the norm. Growth has largely been very, very slow across most of human history. It’s also worth noting that the intense post-war growth followed by a return to earth has occurred in most countries around the world, regardless of domestic policies, with some, like China, being accelerated in a “catch up phase”. Much of the third world has yet to experience this catch up phase, but are likely to in the next 50 years.

It seems entirely possible that there is no way to replicate what was a relatively short period of hyper-growth that has defined most of our lifetimes, and instead we need to base our policies and planning around the idea that what we’ve considered to be stagnant growth rates are actually the norm.
cry me a river, that's way more than the average person has
Can an “Invasive Species” Earn the Right to Stay?
but living expenses are also very high, as is student loan debt and other recurring expenses
Isn't this what typically happens to companies as they grow? Technical people get pushed out of power by money people?
Where do you see that? It’s on “worldwide net worth”. That includes real estate.
I would happily pay $5 a month For an ad free search engine that didn’t index Pinterest.
If a surgery’s effectiveness has not been evaluated vs a placebo, you cannot assume it to be effective based on anecdotes. Obviously there are many surgeries that are effective (repeating broken limbs, emergency surgeries, etc). Those surgeries having to do with pain relief are more nebulous.

My partner is a physical therapist, and in cases where it’s ineffective, it’s often because the patient is noncompliant or is doing it just to check off that “attempt” prior to surgery. A relative, as an example, goes to PT for all sorts of issues, but her real problems are psychological/neurological (due to brain damage); no amount of PT will ever heal her mind or change her excessive perception of pain.
> Stripe gets lots of airtime and is a Shopify competitor.

Barely. AFAIK Shopify Payments is built on top of Stripe. They only compete on their Capital products, though given that most of Shopify's financial products seem to be built on Stripe, I'm not even sure if that's true.
7. smartphones
Not in the way you understand. Bacterial infections can be deadly. This would stress out human biome defenses and change biomes in some cases increasing in lysogenic bacterial strains. It's not the same as eating dirt.
Does anyone have experience with air quality monitors? My home partially burned in a wildfire 3 months ago, and while I have damaged areas sealed off, I’m still not sure how safe the outside air is from the surrounding charred forest. Would love to understand better what’s in the air both indoors and outdoors. But from what I gather, monitoring is not so simple?
On what basis do you make that assertion? We don't know much about the system.
Not exactly the same approach that you describe, but Million Short allows you to exclude the most popular websites from your search results.

https://millionshort.com/
My attention was drawn by the following explanation of the Front cover design: The roses in the foreground (Roses by D. R. Fowler,
J. Hanan and P. Prusinkiewicz [1990]) were modeled using L-systems. Distributed ray-tracing with one extended light source was used to simulate
depth of field. The roses were placed on a background image (photgraphy
by G. Rossbach), which was scanned digitally and post-processed.

Computation has evolved quite a lot in 30 years, which makes it even more magical how Prusinkiewicz imagined these wonderful concepts. By the way, does somebody else also wonder why his wikipedia entry doesn't mention a birth year?
Millennials Control Just 4.6 Percent of US Wealth