skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Internet Archive has also a full-text article search (for older papers, iirc):

https://scholar.archive.org

"Sci Hub" is also popular in the science community. This is a shadow library that "collects" articles from other publishers websites and makes them available free of charge. Maybe the most important feature though is that it has a single search field and it does not matter where the article was initially published at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
Yes but "got access to your chrome" is far far above the common threat level of most people. Physical access is a huge barrier. Sure, if you are being targeted than your phone or laptop being stolen while unlocked is a problem that you will need to address, however for 99% of the population this is a perfectly adequate level of security. Most importantly it is far better than the most common solution of using the same (maybe slightly modified) set of passwords everywhere.
I'm confused, because not only is the article not in "dark mode" in any way (it has a bright white background) but it's css doesn't even seem to include a dark-mode version, so I don't know what you're seeing.
Dynamic Level Design in Mass Effect 3
...I do have to point out, I'm sure Apple would be delighted if Facebook began charging for its service. Apple would get 30%.

The tracking prompts are great, but I don't feel great about Apple's motives.
My personal take is that this type of telemetry is fine. I just don't want to give potentially unbounded, hard-to-audit access to my telemetry data over to the likes of Google. If your application provides a means of learning _what_ is getting sent, and you make it opt-in, and you only send it to infrastructure you completely control (within reason, I'm not going to complain if it's a VPS or something), then there shouldn't really be any controversy.

I don't hate Google. I just don't want my desktop applications to even be capable of telling Google about my computer usage if I can at all help it.
> If we’re being realistic here, this library’s likely intended use is for this is smallish scripts anyways… not large pieces of software that are creating commands on the fly to from arbitrary IO

If we're actually being realistic here, we know users will use this for whatever scenario, regardless of the author's intent.
I'd call it a monopoly by the same standards I'd call Facebook one. It's the only general-purpose encyclopedia on the internet that any person has heard of. It found a need and met it so perfectly that nobody would ever bother try to compete with it, because not only does it do its job near perfectly but it's also free and open source.

And they're not making Facebook money but they're making far more than small business money.

My point was to be that maybe Wikipedia is a case study in how to make a lot of money without sacrificing your virtues, that maybe there are more specific factors that drive other businesses towards being evil besides just having tons of money.
You know... It just occurred to me that disallowing tracking from these apps would force them to seek a business model that is far less destructive to the fabric of society
I hate that too, and it seems to be a very common default behaviour of text selection. Even Vim does it when you copy a whole line.

It's one of those little UI annoyances that refuse to disappear. Just like blinking cursors in unfocused input fields & windows.
Those are intersting. They remind me of the sonographs we collected of bat echolocation calls when we were doing bat surveys with anabat detectors. Just by the shape of the calls you could narrow the bat down to a likely species and determine whether it was just flying around, actively hunting or about to eat a hapless insect.

It was a pretty awesome device.
Based on what we know about the history and ecology of pathogens, the latter is far more likely. I say this as someone with training in the biological sciences.
Sure, but “and not be tracked” is the part @Maarten88 (and I) don’t believe will happen even if you do pay.
> who also probably on average have a higher net worth

is this really the case? I know so many people who have the latest phones but the bank owns their house and car. lot of bling but empty pockets.
Great idea, ios users are rich and should give more money to the poor, for the sake of equality.
> AWS is almost never cost efficient.

A ridiculous blanket statement, despite the "almost never" cop-out...

It is cost-efficient in a wide array of scenarios. Many companies pay for it because they have calculated the different investment scenarios and AWS comes on top of alternatives such as owning the hardware or using competing cloud vendors.

I own a consultancy that builds complex web apps and while I appreciate how occasionally a dev has tried to save costs for me by cramming every piece of the stack (web server, cache, db, queue, etc.), in a single Docker image to host in a droplet, I'd much rather pay for separate services, as I consider it cheaper in the long run.
They talk of how migraine might be adaptive. But isn't it possible that migraine is a side-effect of another adaptive gene for a different effect? Nature doesn't care if we're miserable. Just that we survive (as an individual or community) and reproduce.

Imagine if miserly consumption of some chemical was calorie-adaptive or saved for emergencies, but the same gene meant migraines at other times. The gene would still proliferate, with no need to explain the negative effects as adaptive?
In a kiosk or game this would be nice, though.
Did we expect that?
This was my thought too. How many people are going to be auto-enrolled then get locked out because they dropped their phone in a lake. Either this is going to be a huge issue or they are going to provide ways to reset your second factor. In which case is it really 2FA?
Where have all the Uber drivers gone?
I'll pay if it means that I don't lose random friends and family over stupid political disagreements that were exacerbated by dopamine-stimulating media
Bram has a talk where he goes into the issues with Proof of Stake, centralization and categories of issues that don't exist in proof of time and space: https://youtu.be/2Zlcgt8FVz4?t=510
I see this often, but the trust problem still exists. There's no universe where I can trust Facebook (or Google or...) To not track me. Others have their own standards, but I don't feel like it's unreasonable to consider them APTs no different than the spyware of old. They have datacenters dedicated to exactly that. How can my data be reliably segregated so that it's not 'accidentally' included later?

Even if the data stays all first-party, they make so many copies and it gets put in so many datasets across the world that co-mingling and abuse of it just feels inevitable at that scale.
Diffgram: A new open-source machine learning data annotation platform
A really good point, and all the more reason to make developer-visible async behavior something the developer has to to ask for, even if the call is in fact async under the hood and might let, say, code handling another request run while it's waiting on I/O.

I think a pattern where there are one or two great places at the lowest level of a Node program for program flow to act async, and then a bunch of business logic where it rarely is (probably running "under" the part where async makes sense, if you take my meaning) is far more common than those where async-friendly flow is what you want for over 50% of calls. "Call this chunk of code async, but run everything in it exactly in order" is super-common, and the interface to achieve that is exactly backwards in Node.
Agree, for a lot of code you can be pretty sure it will not change. And you should be able to refactor your code base, if not there are larger issues.

In general I subscribe to the at first make it as simple as possible, when you have two examples of it being too simple it is time to refactor.

Of course when creating libraries it is different. In that case to protect users on the API surface and try to make that stable.
Yes, by all means start charging, so long as they stop doing the other stuff.
Peer reviewing is typically unpaid in all cases. People are donating their time and the result of their hard research work to for profit businesses because it's the only way to get ahead (prestige).
>Other compositors give the option for both. GNOME only gives the option for CSD, and tells others to "fix their app". You can use SSD or CSD, I don't care, but I also don't want to hear "this app doesn't work on mutter", or "use libgtk to make this app work on our special compositor".

I'm sorry I'm confused. I was responding to your suggestion earlier about making it SSD only, which I think is much less feasible than having it be CSD only. I believe I've said my position regarding the option already: If the problem is the apps don't want to write their own code for drawing window decorations, there are multiple solutions to that aside from SSD, that would require about the same amount of code in clients as SSD would. So to me it's not really an issue of the app working in mutter or not, or needing to link against gtk, or whatever. It can all be handled transparently with the right solution. Maybe eventually someone could create a version of libwayland that handles decorations transparently, with no changes needed to the apps at all.
CUDA programming with Julia, Pt. 1
Author here, would love to get other people's thoughts on this.
No..

>"The thing they are fighting against is people are getting a lot of money in stimulus so there is no desire for them to work."
> Where went the quick and dirty results of server-side generation of HTML tables and such?

Still here in the 20 years old technology you know, only changed in some paradigm, words, tools, but the core is always the same hyper text metaphor.

> How can old-timers quickly and easily get a modern-feeling but simple-to-make UI?

There are a lot of frameworks available todays, but if you have been ibernated for 20 years, I bet you'll like to try do it by yourself.
I've taken a look on the WebAIM surveys from the last years and have seen that NVDA is on the rise. It's so nice to see that JAWS finally loses their market share.

I was asking because back around 2008 when I was more involved with Accessibility on the Web, we built a website that had a legal requirement to be as accessible as possible. So therefore we were trying to generate accessible double-paged PDFs, voicing over DAISY books and all. And doing so was so much work. We spent thousands of man hours just on document conversion, even when the underlying source format for the documents was RTF which is at least theoretically easy to parse in regards to layouting.

Every time we tried to make things compatible with JAWS, we realized that JAWS was just a pile of dirty Trident hacks that wasn't integrated as nicely as someone would expect such a software to be.

It was before the rise of AI/CNNs so therefore converting a vectorized PDF back into a semantic one was totally impossible. These days tesseract seems to make huge progress, but is still unusable for the task in practice due to its high failure rate in recognized words that you cannot fix with tricks like a Levenshtein distances or dictionary statistics.

Eversince I've been more on the Linux side of things, though. Here the ecosystem is so bad that I cannot even start to describe it. Most TTS engines are literally from the last millenia, and projects like Orca aren't made for anything serious when trying to embed it into your software to give users more access and control.

Maybe you have also some hints here? Are there better alternatives that I'm not aware of?
Isn’t this worth more than $13 million? Is anyone going to go to jail?
Look, I agree with you. I don't think we should mess with anyone's genitals without their consent. I'm just pointing out that there's data to support the health concerns.
It's like my local newspaper's way of handling paid subscriptions. Read as many articles online as you want through the tiny little window we allow the actual content to exist in, sandwiched between animated clickbait ads, some which masquerade as other news stories, with the occasional popup.
> Fiber is unnecessary unless you eat too much undigestible plant matter

I am not exactly sure how to parse this. Could you explain?

> and cholesterol is not as simple as “it’s bad”. Most men are cholesterol deficient.

LDL cholesterol is pretty bad given that they build up in your arteries causing arteriosclerosis. I think it is pretty well understood that saturated fat found in animal products as well as dairy products raise LDL levels. Fiber reduces cholesterol levels in addition to aiding in regulating metabolic function.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates/f...

Not exactly sure about cholesterol deficiency in men, I have not heard that before. Pointers to that would be helpful.
Internet Archive has it back as far as 1999, so I've put that year above, though it could well be older. Not much older, though, since there's a 1996 reference in there.

https://web.archive.org/web/19990117022746/http://www.compla...
I'm surprise people say it had gory videos. I've being watching Liveleak for the last year. There were hardly any videos with violence and gore. The videos could be classified into 4 categories: traffic accidents, drunk/stoned people doing stuff, police cam recordings, industrial accidents (cranes, ships crashing etc.)
Being OK isn't mutually exclusive with defending yourself. But if you're really OK, you might not feel the need to engage, because it might not really matter. The point is not to let your emotions control your response. If you calmly decide that you need to push for something, then that's the response you go with.
Monoloco 3D vision library for human localization
Facebook should just pay users who enable / allow all the trackers. Something like a fraction of a cent each day on which it's enabled. Making users pay is certainly not gonna work and because there's no argument to be made why a user should allow tracking this might be the only thing that works.
Cable companies are also double dipping. High charge rates + advertising
Crap. I clicked the wrong comment link. My bad! I'll remove my post.
I have been running https://netboot.xyz/ from a docker container for years and don't look back. I even set it up to have local copies of the distros I most install, so it picks it up from a local server instead of downloading a fresh copy each time.
"The phrase and the acronym are central to Robert Heinlein's 1966 science-fiction novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, which helped popularize it."
Perhaps we should make it illegal for all to use written language except for the most highly educated and those with the most serious of intent? This would weed out your qualms.

"Contacted" isn't the same as "attempted to contact" so you are semantically incorrect even though the syntax is well formed.
Google goes nuclear against Roku by adding YouTube TV to the main YouTube app
Thanks for the recommendation. I just ordered it.
Viewer attention is increasingly limited these days, so avoiding small mistakes which limit your audience is recommended.

Dark mode content such as TFA is practically unreadable outside in bright light. Your reader will need to remember to return to your page some other time when they can see it, but chances are they will not return.
Obviously the benefit of better ads, is that making an app is not free, and highly profitable ad models allows companies to not charge for apps.

If these ads business models become significantly less profitable, then it becomes more difficult to provide free apps to everyone.
Biologically speaking, can we live a healthy strong life on non-meat diet?
Surprisingly there isn't, though a port is often requested. (Nevertheless there're similar tools with either too many or less/none options.) But considering what it offers can be attained with dd+mkfs maybe a Rufus-like program can be hacked with aforementioned tools, some bash, and yad...
I've been an Android user since they mostly caught up to Apple in UI (Nexus line, I believe). However, my wife will be getting a new iPhone in two days (hush hush) and I think I'm gonna take her old iPhone for a spin.
Uber = you own nothing and use your digital platform to connect the people doing the actual work (cremation) with those that need it (grieving families)

Owning their own crematory as proposed in the end would have been much less of an “Uber for” business.
The Canadian version of the app recently added “secure anonymous usage statistics”, which aren’t particularly anonymous (since all we have is their word that they don’t log your IP), and that aren’t particu secure (messages are encrypted with HTTPS but it’s not too difficult to infer the contents of the message based on their length). And, you can’t opt out of them.

I still have it on my phone (although at least within my house I’m blocking their metrics via pinhole) but I 100% understand why someone would not want it on their phone.
You weren't a monster, just an effective capitalist.
Ask HN: How do I find a good startup idea?
If you're like me, you've wasted hours searching online for startup ideas. You've read dozens of 'Top 30 startup ideas for 2021' articles which all say vaguely that 'crypto' and 'fintech' are ideas you should pursue. Maybe you've perused r/Startup_Ideas but were overwhelmed by random people's musings about dog social networks. You've likely read pg's essays on the topic, but trying to be open-minded while observing the world around you so far hasn't led you to any amazing breakthroughs. And maybe you've bought some domain names and half-built an idea or two, only to realize it wasn't a good enough idea to be worth spending more time on.

Building something for your own use and then realizing its broader commercial opportunity worked well for Slack, Plaid and I'm sure many others. But I haven't had that luck yet (call it what you will).

Another way I've seen work -- at least for building relatively successful companies, if not industry-shattering unicorns -- is to start by solving 1 specific problem for 1 person willing to pay for it. I believe corporate America has thousands of problems that new tech startups could solve well, but there's a big information gap. Today, you don't just have to have the skills to solve a problem -- which many of us do -- you also have to be lucky enough to be in a position to know the problem even exists.

I don't know what to do, and it's frustrating. I'd love people's thoughts on this.
Thats a huge myth.

The problem was created by amazon and can be fixed by Amazon.

Close the backdoor entrance for chinese sellers, and problem solved.

Amazon made it easy for random chinese companies to onboard as amazon sellers because it lowered every single barrier from an import/ banking/permit perspective

Amazon can close that door anytime it wants.
My Apple Watch accidentally overhearing an embarrassing convo I was having
This article holds up if you replace “design” with “programming” and “designers” with “programmers.”

> And yet, few things are as sacred to[programmers] as process. To which I say, a process is only as good as its fit to the user. [Programmers] continually evangelize procedures [languages, best practices, productivity] with the belief that they will and should work for everyone, when what they actually know is that they work for them. That knowledge is good. But it is self-knowledge masquerading as procedural expertise.

Substitute “developer” or software engineer” if you like, makes no difference.
This is one compelling argument for UBI being far superior to unemployment benefits or welfare. It supports your basic needs, but it doesn't eliminate the incentive to seek employment.
> pricing is transparent

If pricing is intended to be transparent, then why is it completely absent from the user interface? Transparent pricing would be to tell me how much something costs when I order it, not make me use a different tool or find it in the documentation
This looks really cool! I think for me to want to use this instead of a spreadsheet, I'd want a clear view of all the assumptions and constants that are going into the model and to be able to modify and experiment with those. Imho forecasts are only really useful when presented alongside the assumptions they're based on. Otherwise they tend to come across as astrology.
Basically the only academic work since the decline of eugenics that has tried to make this case is the bell curve by Charles Murray. It attempted to prove that the differences in IQ between races are genetic, but it's methodology was not up to the standards you would want for such a provocative claim.

This video goes over a lot of the problems with the book.

https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo

https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo
I made that move earlier this year. TBH, it's not like I trust Apple more than Google or Facebook... but at least for now my interests align better with their business model.

That being said, I've been tempted to get a Motorola Razr flip phone just for the sake of nostalgia, though I would have to root it and remove everything related to Google to feel comfortable with it.
Or maybe ^that^ with a business model requiring it to be operated as a heartless, profiteering vulture for success. That's usually where my mind goes when I read "Uber" - not as succinct as Evilcorp but whatever.
Pontem Network Is Fake
Looks great! I'd add a Copy to Clipboard button somewhere, since that's such a common use case when showing code
Sounds like 10X may never see the light of day. Too bad, since the Surface Neo with 10X seemed like a great idea.
Are you affiliated with GNOME?
Also, pre-digital, incremental distribution costs weren't virtually 0.
Visualize Urban Growth
> financially

This is the wrong metric to study in isolation. If I buy a copy of the Harry Potter book, I am worse off financially but better off overall since I got lots of value from that book in excess of the amount that it cost me.
Depends on what terminal font you use I guess.
That definition of passive voice is extremely general and abstract because it's meant to apply to all human languages.

The Wikipedia definition of English passive voice is more instructive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_passive_voice .

The term distinguishes between sentences where the semantic agent is the syntactic subject, and those where it is the object.

For example: "Bob threw a ball at Suzie" (active, Bob is the syntactic subject) vs. "A ball was thrown at Suzie by Bob" (passive, Bob is the object of a preposition and "a ball" is the subject).
PragmatIC: Flexible Integrated Circuits
There is no need to generate more than one.
Having bought image assets in the past, I agree these these ideas would not make it easier to decide whether to license something.

Sometimes I’ve taken design drafts very far along, including manually removing the watermark, to see a full, if lower res, composite before deciding to license imagery for a final work.

That said there is some useful examples of working with imagemagic here and it does deliver on “more interesting image previews.”
Agreed, funnily (not necessarily ha-ha funny, but you know) enough this happened the day prior to me taking a PTO day to interview at my now-current employer.
Cryptocurrencies are in the process of becoming more beholden, or at least more outlawed: https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/what-do-turkey-s-cryptocur...

Governments have the guns. I doubt that cryptocurrencies will win in the long run, unless they provide hooks for governments to project their power, which includes asset seizure transactions.

As for the people providing the interface, I've since edited my comment. My point used to be that exchanges like coinbase engage in massive market manipulation to aid their own goals, but it's not the only cause for the volatility of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, so I edited it out.