skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historian here.

What's on those sites is based off source materials. And those are generally disparate: oral witnesses, family members, documents found in private archives,... but also public records found in your city archives.

Where I live, different offices kept population records through out time e.g. city hall, the Church,... You can easily walk in, and access records from the 18th century and figure out when someone was born, who they married to and when they died.

However, legal provisions prohibit access to those public records pertaining to births, marriages and deaths which are less then 100 years old. Meaning you don't get access to lists of names of all everyone were born in 1936.

Why? Privacy for the living. e.g. someone could walk in and assert that your parents aren't your real parents.

Moreover, privacy legislation states that you need consent from living people before you can publish personal information regarding their names, addresses and so on. It means that even if someone passes away, you can't just publish that they were married or about their children if any of those are still alive.

Publishing pictures is even more fraught. You need consent from the person depicted, and consent from the photographer. That means ascertaining whether they are still alive, or getting consent from their estate in the case of the photographer. In the latter case, it might mean you may have to wait for 70 years after their death before those pictures enter the public domain. Genealogy websites allowing people to simply upload pictures without constraints expose themselves to copyright liability in that regard.

... and then there's the issue of how those legal provisions are upheld on the Internet. For instance, any ancestry/genealogy site who wants to operate in the EU has to comply with EU legislation including GDPR, copyright, right to be forgotten and so on.

For sure, being able to dig into your own ancestry and being able to rely on other people's work through digital technology is awesome. But, as with anything digital, it does come with the same challenges that confront any business case leveraging personal information.

TL;DR: Genealogy is fraught with legal challenges. You don't just get to publish, let alone scour and use those data without consent.
I mean there is no point to use jQuery if you use react.

In that meaning jQuery is legacy.

That is just my humble opinion.
> "If rentech's strategy can be considered an arb, then every strategy can be considered an arb".

Yep, agreed.
40K is a lot to spend on an idea you didn't even try to sell or check how to make money on it.
Yes, but if the user is able to add exceptions to the anti-virus program, the malware would simply automate that.

Things like this are why popular operating systems are increasingly diverting control from the user to their vendor. And frankly I think it's impossible for those vendors to win the arms race TFA refers to.
'Today' is tabloid bilge and has played a big part in the dumbing down of political discourse in the UK. It's hard to take any of the rest of your recommendations seriously when they start with Today.

Certainly there are other BBC programs that are better, and a small number that are very good, but at this point I honestly don't think they are enough to make up for how awful BBC News is and how much damage it's doing to UK society. In the past I would have made excuses for the regressive way the BBC is funded, but it's really hard to do that now.
This is a great resource. I've been slowly building one over the last couple months and had to learn all of it from various sites. It's nice to have this all in one place.

It's a 1000mmx600mm gantry design I made in fusion 360. I've been mostly copying a commercial design (omio cnc). It uses 20mm aluminum plates, ground rails, and ball screws.

For electronics I'm using a teensy 4.1 based grbl board (grbl-teensy-4) with external stepper drivers, 34mm steppers, and a 500w brushless spindle. I'd go bigger on the spindle but I'm limited by wattage.

The hardest part for me is the hardware. My design is simple based around plates with holes in them, but a couple plates require threaded holes in the end.

If you are a software guy, drilling a 12mm horizontal hole 30mm deep into the edge of a 20mm x 400mm plate is surprisingly difficult. It won't fit in my drill press that's for sure.
It's nothing special, just a job. But people are perplexed and they can't imagine why doctors are like that. I said you have to do the hours to understand, nothing special.
> How would you go about storing notes from a book/course so that they fit in this system?

Overall, they don't. Zettelkasten is just one of the folders within my note-taking app (Obsidian), and notes from books go into a separate folder. If there are some titbits that I see being useful outside of the book, I duplicate it into a zettelkasten note.

> Group them together somehow?

I have an "also see" section in my template where I link every other short note that's somehow connected. That's what I meant by "linking them as much as possible". The end goal is to be able to follow the links between similar notes instead of having to search for them. My library isn't big enough at the moment, but once it becomes, I should be able to click on a random note, follow a few links, and have an entire article with sources to back it up with little to no effort, using thoughts I had months or years ago.

> Have an "index" note with just hyperlinks to the rest?

Yeah I also do this. I have a note titled "00 zk" that's an index note for all the zettelkasten notes. I don't fill it out automatically at the moment, but I have a plugin that can do "link all notes within this folder", and I trigger it with a hotkey from time to time. That index note helps me to see similar notes and interlink them, because I never view that folder with a file explorer.
We don’t want it. It is a byproduct of our debt-based fiat money with interest. There’s much more debt than money.
All discussions about estimates are really just discussions about scope. I try to make that as clear as possible when I'm talking about time estimates. There is no 'negotiating' estimates. If someone is being a little pushy with trying to get a shorter estimate, I will always just rephrase it as a trade-off. 'Doing it in fewer than X months would mean dumping X feature/walking back on Y commitment,' whatever the case may be.

I think in general these conversations always go better when you make the other person feel like they have a choice. Really, in today's corporate world everyone is playing CYA at all times. The person trying to bring down the estimate is probably doing so because they are anticipating what their boss will say. By listing potential trade-offs for them, I'm helping them by giving them fodder for that talk that they'll be facing, and they'll be able to give their boss a choice.

You always get better reactions out of people when they have choices, rather than just presenting a stone wall to them. Having said that, some times the person will really just keep being pushy, and then fortitude is necessary. If you are someone who has trouble definitively saying 'no' when it's required, you're doing your team a disservice by being the person giving estimates. You really need to never slip with this; all it takes is for you to one time cave and say, "okay, maybe we can try to shave a week off" and now that person knows that your estimates are negotiable.

If you consistently phrase them as facts rather than bids (like the sort of estimate a contractor gives you for a house), you'll get better results.
It is the class of functions that have the constant value 0, with a canonical exemplar f(n) = 0 (and despite having tried, I cannot find any other function, up to choice of variable name).

In terms of algorithms, I suspect that no actual algorithm fits into it and as such it is more a curiosity than actually useful.

However, O(0) is not the same as O(1), as we cannot find a constant c such that 0c dominates all possible functions that 1c can dominate.
Electric cars for the vast majority is not too far away. Petrol cars will still exist, but just as super sports car for enthusiasts.
> no way for them to prove I was actually owning a television

(Emphasis mine)

This "playing fast and loose with language" that they do (and that you inadvertently did too, just now) makes me so irrationally angry.

Why would the burden of proof be that low? They need (should need?) to prove that you received broadcast television, not that you simply owned a TV.

We hear these stories about TV detector vans as if finding a TV set was ever sufficient evidence.
> So they offer and they make the commitment that if you attempt to modify terms, they will instantly reject. At that point, you won't get the service and they won't get the data.

What about shadow profiles in that case? I assume companies track a lot more data on people that just what you put into your account explicitly — photos of friends not on platform, 3rd party sites using Pixel etc.

It's one thing that's really missing from GDPR style controls — if I have an account, I can request that my data is deleted (but not validate it really). What can I do if I don't have an account?
Judging by the comments on these and similar threads, it seems that the biggest danger to democracy is voters who have different ideas about how the country should be run.

The fundamental danger, of course, is money. Everything else is noise.
Suppose there exists consciousness and there exist human selves through which consciousness flows. Suppose a new human self is created during every session of sleep and the previous one is archived. Suppose it's also possible to arbitrarily construct additional selves, which some people do out of trauma.

What kind of object is the self in this case? I've been contemplating this stuff and I'm not clear on how to model things that evolve over time in this way.
Especially since listening to the radio doesn't require a TV license anyway, so it's not like only watching catch-up TV to avoid needing one.
Yes that is a downside at the moment. But for Deskreen things may change in future and many cool hackers will come to
our github page and add their codes to hack modern OS to think that there is an external display connected.

That was my wish and I see 318 stars on github repo!!!!

Thank you all guys!! I see a lot of you coming from here to deskreen.com

Dreams may come true one day :)
Perhaps you could make it mandatory for a voucher good for 1 year of license to be sold alongside every TV. You can then credit that voucher to your household account.

(If you bought more than one new TV per year, your TV license account would be in perpetual credit. I don't see that as a problem.)
I have seen it argued that because HN is founded by Americans everything should be assumed to apply to America unless otherwise stated.

As HN readership isn’t strictly American, I don’t see why specifying that engineer is a legally protected title in Canada is a bad thing...

From the article, Mat’s previous job was Geological engineering. “His firm was hired to analyze a block cave in British Columbia.”

Also from the article “In Canada you can’t even call yourself a “Software Engineer” unless you’re accredited!”

The article specifically mentions Canada.

I’m sorry if I’m not reading into the most generous possible phrasing of your comment, but I can’t figure out what point you’re trying to make.

To me this is similar to the comments of the form “found the x” on HN. In this case you could have said “found the Canadian” and I still wouldn’t know what point is being made.

So, to my point, HN has international readership, some of which is Canadian, having people on HN point out some of the specifics about practicing engineering in Canada (or any other country for that matter) seems to be a useful addition to the commentary. Some HN readership is still in high school or early into their college or university studies and not everyone has access to the same resources, mentors, or even knowledge of where to research answers to their questions. Sharing on HN is a great thing and can be beneficial to these people. I know I’ve personally benefitted a great deal from HN comments.
> Do they really believe these things? This is the Kool-Aid you have to drink as a society, in order not to go crazy when you pay for things you never use and benefit from.

It's the same argument for taxes, isn't it?
A hosted version of Python spaCy to easily deploy NLP models in production
The funny thing is that as long as you render any kind of services on any level, they are inevitably to society, you're already benefitting it. Society has exploited your skill, and you have benefitted its members with your services, and for that you get paid.

Nobody owes "society" past that point, but it's extremely profitable in the West, specifically, to double tax people with guilt trips into having artificial indebtedness to "society".
The people who blame the poor for their situation are imagining something like an alcoholic gambler, not an entrepreneur who made a bad bet.
> The choice of Rust as the main execution language means that memory usage is deterministic and avoids the overhead of GC pauses.

While such projects are welcomed, when value types finally land, the argumentation would need to be upgraded.

And as someone that has to track down memory issues in C and C++ projects, not having a GC doesn't mean the memory usage is deterministic.
Taskmaster is a fantastic program that everyone should watch at some point. The premise, the tasks, the twisted comedy of the hosts. It's perfect.
LOl :) I is 100% about the futility of trying to be a "good" hacker but really only really every having a superficial understanding of what is going on.

I'd love any thoughts or feedback and its up on Medium too if you prefer that to Kindle: https://kylebenzle.medium.com/blue-screen-666e3f176829

Here is the full blurb:

Peter Gustafson wants to save the world.
In the year 2984, Peter is an average kid with a secret; he’s a well-behaved tenth-grader by day but cryptographic entrepreneur and hacker by night. When the electricity mysteriously goes out in his hometown, Peter takes it upon himself to investigate. The adventure leads the young hacker to a large transmitting station and into a battle of wits with the greatest AI ever created. The machine requires a human to help "throw the switch" and give it full control so engineered the power outage as a test to lure its latest recruit, Peter Gustafson.
I think Raku ( https://raku.org/ )[1] is a facinating "hobby" language - taking a lot of the Ruby "optimised for joy" stuff to a whole different place (leaving a lot of the ruby simplicity and going for sheer raw power and brevity, at the expense of the learning curve and density).

It's really interesting to check out if you want something really powerful and able to hack stuff up quickly / differently.

And all the perl languages definitely have some of that "we code in C for boring stuff, but need something fun and powerful for what we enjoy" ethic.

There was a blog post at one point somewhere talking about a supposed divide between "East coast" and "West coast" languages, which I can't find right now...

[1] It was called "Perl 6" once upon a time...
I have no idea what you're talking about.

Take a look at the first column of https://www.tvinfo.de/tv-programm/ard

Pretty much nothing in there is also shown at any third programme. The programmes are almost completely distinct.

Evening news are actually the one part where the third programmes show the same as the ARD.
The book’s message about fantasy is much richer than you’re giving it credit for.

Gatsby isn’t simply a wild dreamer, he has a very specific dream, a dream that is wrapped up in the individualistic American dream and its tension with class. He’s also not living in an illusion, it’s repeatedly noted that he’s chasing the past (which he had with Daisy), but fatally cannot catch it because he needs something he had to have owned before he was even born. Nobility.

Gatsby is an enormously capable and wonderful person. He is both ridiculously resourceful, and interpersonally treasured. He falls in love with a rich young woman, Daisy, who herself is interpersonally treasured but also whose wealth is an inevitable draw on the dirt poor Gatsby.

Against all odds, Gatsby rises through American life to be possibly even richer than Tom Buchanan, the old-money rich man Daisy marries. Despite Gatsby’s accomplishments and abilities, he is still unable to wrest back Daisy from her old money life, highlighting the distance between them that was always class-based and foundational, a distance that would had wrecked their relationship even if Gatsby had never gone to war and left Daisy. The old-money Daisy and Tom “were careless people”, notes Nick the narrator. Gatsby’s fatal flaw was how much he cared about and believed in the American Dream and those who supposedly occupied it. He cared and did everything right, but they didn’t care that he did, because the American Dream means nothing to the upper-class. Climb it, against all odds, and they’ll still sneer, or in Daisy’s case be too weak to abandon the security of class.

I don’t think you should read The Great Gatsby for it’s moral message about living in an illusion. It’s a story about the American Dream and it’s conflict with class.

Having written that out stream of consciousness style, I’ve gone to check the Wikipedia and under Analysis the top two subheadings are “The American Dream” and “Class Permanence” so I think I have picked up what Fitzgerald was putting down, more or less.

I initially loved The Great Gatsby because Fitzgerald writes beautiful sentences, and because Gatsby had a Randian hero quality to him. But after a while the political and gender commentary has become equally as valued.
Setting aside emotional value I guess monetary value is a good estimate.

An example would be when I, through a misunderstanding, received two copies of a $16 promotional Magic card for free from my local game store. I tried explaining that they gave me something way more valuable than the free 30 card deck I had a code for. They just threw in that free deck as well and didn't want to hear it. The cards have since decreased in value somewhat, and I have other much more valuable cards, but the story of how I acquired them somehow make those cards feel very valuable to me.
I doubt it. Most of the blocks near me are not areas you could legally inhabit (.e.g. state and federal lands) and in some of the other places I understand it looks like large ranches that are far from the nearest grocery store (or paved road) and are marginal farm land.
There is a lot of those shows because they are cheap to make. In reality the BBC's funding has been squeezed for years, largely for political reasons.

The current government would love to kill it completely but they can't do that directly.
I firmly believe this, especially in recent times. Those mandatory fees finance the "public" radio and TV stations, which have a set budget and can freely operate within the budget. They are not depending on advertisement revenue (they have a limited amount of that too) and are not working to create a profit. As a consequence, they do have a certain degree of independence and overall can afford into a lot of good quality content. Of course, they have their share of low quality content too, but overall they do offer an environment where good journalism still can happen. Meanwhile even the most reputable newspapers, which traditionally were a place for quality journalism, are struggling a lot and it is not clear how long they can afford to present quality content.
I think you're more the target demographic than you think. Taskmaster didn't exist when I was still in the UK but the first two were popular enough with my age group at the time (20-30 year old students). You might also like "Have I Got News For You" - it's supposed to have gone a bit downhill recently, but at its peak it was stupendous.
>Make something people want. It's Y-Combinator's motto and a maxim of aspiring internet entrepreneurs. The idea is that if you build something truly awesome, you'll figure out a way to make some money off of it. So I built something people wanted. Consumers wanted it, doctors wanted it, I wanted it. Where did I go wrong?

I'm not sure he still gets it. He didn't built something people want (even less so want enough to pay for).

He built something he merely thought people should want. In the end, people didn't really want it.
While these things feel like taxes they are not because they are not managed by the government. Taxes (no matter their labelled purpose) are pooled and spent according to the yearly budget. Other fees collected by an agency are spent just for that purpose maybe propped up by money from the tax pool. Besides budgetary reasons, having a separate TV fee prevents (in theory) the government from interfering with the public media as there is no direct dependency.
What's the Future of VR in the Workplace
“The Transistor” 1953 Bell Labs short film
I think you misunderstand. Ageism is about discriminating on the basis of someone’s age.

The original comment was about grandparents and parents neither of which you need to have a certain age to be one. Assuming that it IS about age is in turn actually ageist because you are signaling that people should be parents at a certain point in their life.

To be clear, I don’t think your intentions are wrong: you are just trying to right a perceived wrong. I am just asking you to grant others a more favourable interpretation of their intentions as well. I do this by pointing out that your well intended call out of ageism is in turn also interpretable as something unwoke.

Hence arms race. There is always someone who can be more politically correct.
"When we procrastinate, we typically put off something that we find difficult in favor of something easier or more appealing." I can definitely relate to this..
My favourite interview question for engineering grads:

* Someone has just invented a 1 minute charge time car battery. They want you to design the cable for the user to plug the car into the charge station. Can you sketch some design ideas and point out the pros and cons of each?

It's a great question because it's almost impossible... Any cable that can deliver the tens of megawatts needs a ton of copper and a ton of cooling, and usually ends up too heavy for grandma to move. Then high voltages are investigated, leading to insulators which can't do high temperatures, are stupidly thick themselves, or are non-flexible... Sometimes candidates suggest superconductors, but then they need to come up with an answer to cooling, keeping it flexible, and stopping the user getting frostbite.

As an interviewer, it shows me how quickly a candidate can guess the magnitude of each parameter in their design and iterate designs to get everything reasonable. That ability tends to match an engineer who can make a prototype of something in a few days.
jb;dr = javascript bashing; didn't read.
Like other comments I think the author addressed the wrong market.

Essentially he developped a tool to facilitate meta-analyses, both building them and then presenting the results.

So, his customers should have been people who usually are investing in meta-analyses. Doctors are not investing, merely passive consumers of existing analyses they can find.

So, research teams should have been his target, probably mainly in academia and in public health bodies. He could have grasped public funds.

The right market was researchers, i.e. in real life usually the ones owning biology PhDs (and often professor chairs), and not the physicians with medicine PhDs, who are the engineers of the human body (engineers applying known solutions, versus researchers looking for extending or consolidating the knowledge).
Can I humble suggest to explain what is a CNC router in the second sentence of byour blog post?
I do not know that is :)
Worth noting that the license fee is now paid as part of the regular tax payment. So the tax authority manages the collection, as opposed to previously when it was a separate agency.