skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apply HN: “atomic knowledge”: a new way to manage notes on everything
1) Theory: We have many systems (wikis, evernote, cyc, etc), but all are crippled by relying on human language as a fundamental layer. To more powerfully manage knowledge, we can approach it more like an object model created on the fly by just using the system: what you know about a pen, say, is best expressed as numbers, relationships, and code (mass, owner, behavior ...); the human language words can change when the knowledge doesn't.

2) Vision: Be effective on an individual level, then link OneModel instances (find others' data, subscribe to changes, copy, link, etc), to build large and comprehensive systems in wiki-like ways (with the power of the network effect), but without the crippling human-language limitations. Think wikipedia but all the data is effectively computable, and locally controllable.

3) Today: The AGPL prototype is like emacs org-mode in being keyboard- and desktop-oriented, and feeling like nested lists galore, but uses postgresql, allows having the same data linked into multiple places, is much easier to learn & use than emacs, and has a bigger long-term vision. It's (for me) the best personal organizer ever: very fast to navigate, and very flexible. The web site is generated from its data.

4) Next steps: Community-building and funding. I could really use feedback. The current target audience might be note-takers who touch type, like speed (and don't need mobile--cough), and need to be able to put the same information in more than one place in their notes. And anyone who wants to help move the big picture forward. Like, I hope to add anki-like features, and ways to attach code to classes of objects that were "modeled" on the fly as a side-effect of using the system (eg, so you can change the date on to-dos, in ways you specify, with simple code, or eventually run simulations, etc).

Much more info AND A WORKING DEMO or downloads to try, are at:
http://onemodel.org
Writing a dynamic assembler for the JVM
This is a bad title along with a bad article. Either the author has no idea what a package manager is supposed to do, or its intentionally clickbait. Really disappointing.
correct! reminds me of: http://i.stack.imgur.com/ssRUr.gif

I think SO has gotten a little better about this, but not much, IME
Evolution of topics through Romeo and Juliet
Something seems a bit fishy. An uncorroborated source says WG skipped the due diligence part but in any event had they tried Theranos would have rebuffed their inquiries (because "secrecy") Could they not just compare and contrast results against known technologies, why rely on theranos's data at all?
Fun story about NoScript. I used to use AMP[0]. But I reverted that for two reasons.

1. The size of their js is ~170kb roughly 17 times larger than most of my pages.

2. It loads from a 3d party domain which means that NoScript/uBlock Origin users will see a blank white page.

The project does impose some constraints that will help reduce page weight and increase page speed, but for my page sizes it's ridiculous to use their JS.

0: https://www.ampproject.org/
Do you mean construction like building a house? Or computer hardware like embedded devices?
Lawgeex uses AI to make contract review free
At a high level [and at lower levels] I am not clear on how this is used. But I'm interested in learning more.
I do understand that and I'm not making a religious statement. Merely stating facts with Legos. The matter we are made up of are the Legos. We are the sum of the parts. When we die those parts go on to be part of other things. Now why that happens is that science has not yet caught up :)
If they ever make a sequel to the movie The Big Hit, The "AdBlocker-Blocker-Blocker" will have to be used instead of the "Trace Buster Buster": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw3G80bplTg
Companies are investing into diversity, for example Intel will invest $300M over a few years. Hiring prominent feminist seems like a good way to do that.

Also such event often makes profit on donations.
A happy life and religion are not mutually exclusive. Oh the horror of controlling your impulses and donating a little bit of money.
> For servers, really? I don't get it, they could just use RISC-V.

x86 is a mature established architecture, RISC-V is not. Indeed I think the privledged mode architecture is still under development (i.e. what you required to run an actual OS rather than just embedded applications). I'm sure there are many other features x86 possesses than RISC-V lacks too.

I would have thought commercial RISC-V will be IoT/Embedded applications first. Fewer features required, lower costs (less to loose if it doesn't work out) and fairly static software supplied by a single or small group of vendors.
Some organisations target civilians first and foremost. For me, that's the difference.
The long mode 64b instruction set is similar enough to normal 16/32b i386 ISA that droping the 16/32b part will make no significant difference both in terms of IP and hardware resources.

On similar note, first AMD's 64b chips had some intentional limitations in backward compatibility with i386 ISA (that's why Microsoft says that it is not possible to run 16b programs on 64b windows due to hardware limitations), but newer chips do not have these limitations, probably because any cost savings are insignificant (which given the fact that most of the die area today are caches and not logic makes perfect sense).
But we're not talking about cell death. We're talking about the death of sentient entities.
I tried a Theranos test once and it hurt like hell.

The problem want the finger prick itself. The problem was that the nanotainer isn't that small and that they had to squeeze REALLY FUCKING HARD for quite a while to extract enough blood. It hurt for a while afterwards, too. And it was slow.
Capital-A Agile is essentially collectivized micromanagement, and brings together all the well-known advantages of collectivization and micromanagement.
They complain about how CBOR is a superset of JSON data types and so some CBOR values (like bignum) might not down-convert to JSON cleanly, and then in the next paragraph they talk about how Ion is a superset of JSON data types including 'arbitrary sized integers'.
Bad doubletalk. Boo. (I have implemented CBOR in a couple languages and like it. Every few months we get to say, "oh look, _another_ binary JSON.")
Your points are only valid if the founder of the company are making the decisions. VC Investors don't care about those points, and by the time companies tend to go public these days, the VCs are the ones making liquidity decisions and they don't give two shits what the founders have to say about it.
2 weeks? I'd kill for two non-multiplexed days...
Cool, I'm going to check it out later today.
GCHQ/government would claim people aren't spied on until an analyst looks at their data. They have normalised 'collect it all' and created a mental distinction between that and mass surveillance. Obviously running analysis on the data doesn't count as someone looking at it for this logic to work.
The funny part about your reply is JS-heavy websites delay instant gratification on slow connections or machines. They can take 10-30 seconds then objects start jumping around as you try to click them.

Whereas a cached static page or templated dynamic loads pretty instantly if it's mostly text content. In a way they understand if it's graphics.
it comes from german 'volk' used to describe 'The People'.
It didn't work very well! Reddit is strongly pro-Bernie.
I want to punch that guy who is laughing way too much. His jokes are kinda funny, but not that funny.
A New Workplace Paradigm
>Is bulk data collection government regulated? Meaning, is it legal for a person to start building and sharing databases about other people e.g. about the same people working for the organizations mentioned in the article, MI5, MI6, GCHQ?

Yes, the Data Protection Act implements a number of EU directives regarding personal information and privacy.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998
I Hate My Job; Should I Quit to Look for a New One?
Ask HN: What's worse, noise or glare?
Fair enough!

I didn't investigate much. Looking back, yes, this file was not used!

Definitely using your app and recommending it to my friends!
Also, which animals are our role models? For any behavior that you want to rationalize, you can cherry-pick the animal to be your role model.
I follow the "fib heap" method of keeping my apartment clean: don't bother keeping your apartment clean during item insertion, and instead clean your apartment only when its time to retrieve an item. Constant time insertion cost and amortized logarithmic time retrieval :)
1M People Use Facebook Over Tor
Why is that unlikely? We have seen documents about CIA rendition across Europe, and Europe has even forced presidential planes to the ground on behalf of the USA. I don't share your optimism that Europe cares so much about Snowden that it would respond differently in his case.
I can't help but add that it's a DOS PC + a game that still loads faster than some web pages. At some point, even the apples to oranges comparisons start saying something because it's glaringly obvious.
"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace", an amazing 3-part documentary about computers, society, the shortcomings of systems-thinking. Also by Adam Curtis.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11538019
>Apollo software got us to the moon. Doom wasted millions of man-hours on a video game.

How many millions of man-hours Apollo project wasted for a PR stunt?
It could be a 'use the default or link your own' situation, which then wouldn't influence a whole lot.

But I agree, overall.
The site informs me "Your browser is shit". That probably qualifies as extraordinary UX for some definition of "extraordinary" but, for me not a particularly interesting one.

Curious about the development stack.
Not too hard. As giancarlostoro said, I simply skim in the mornings - open my favorite sites, find posts I think are worth reading and middle click a lot. Go through the resulting new tabs and bookmark what seems interesting for later.

The goal isn't to read every single new thing on the Internet, but between my pre-filtered sites and the morning skim I get a nice slice of interesting content to read throughout the day.
A classic piece of FUD. It is indeed disappointing.
Scientists accidentally create batteries that last a lifetime
>If somebody else comes out with a chip that's substantially better than x86 for servers

I like it that you make it sound like that's easy task, when it's gonna take a good amount of time and a few billion dollars to do.
She needs to hire the same Russian crew (Olgino trolls) who do anti Ukraine information warfare. They use the bad cop good cop approach of information shaping.
It's getting bot in here – botcamp
I've an unlocked phone, so in my country I'll get it before those with phones locked to a network. You can use sites such as xpericheck.com to confirm that currently 7 locations have MM on the D6603 variant of the z3 phone.
Not necessarily. The "whole human mind" and the "soul" are very metaphysical concepts so it's tough to say.

In my estimation, the "whole human mind" or "soul" of a person is not annihilated when someone dies. Our minds are an amorphous network constantly in intercourse with and dependent upon eachother.

When a loved one dies, all of the love they gave and words they said exist in some form or another within us, within our hearts and minds which we then pass on to others in turn.

Picture a field full of one type of flowers. If that one type of flowers grows old but never dies, soon enough there is no room for newer or better flowers to grow and evolve.

So as old minds pass away, new minds are born which draw upon the old minds' knowledge but also build upon that knowledge with newer and better ideas.

Alan Watts - Acceptance of Death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK1BJkBJdtY
Looks like it's pretty close:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=thomas%20the%20tank%...
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
> It's just lies to keep people happy.

That's like 99% of business, anyway. There's a difference between what people think they need to know, and what they actually need to know. Unfortunately, just doing the work isn't enough, most of the time you have to play the game and tick the boxes. The key is not letting that bullshit consume your time.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10737058
Even though it's been the Willis Tower for several years now everyone I know still calls it the Sears Tower.
Machine Learning to Kickstart Human Training
disclaimer: my own blog - https://blog.thekyel.com/?anchor=Why_I_Block_Scripts_and_Ads

I kept looking for a "minimal" blogging platform, but they all had too much bloat/JS/etc. I guess minimal means different things to different people. I ended up just writing my own. The biggest post I have is 7.41 KB.

I used to be interested in front-end design, but since it's the industry standard to use $latest_framework, instead of tried and proven practices, I've given up on that idea.
As an engineer at a company recently acquired by a public company, we had a decent amount of work to do to become compliant. Code review, deploy procedure, etc all needed to be documented and formalized. These weren't too difficult, but they definitely tied up engineering resources for a decent amount of time.
Actual press release is here: http://correctrecord.org/barrier-breakers-2016-a-project-of-...
Built by suckers!
The problem of having humans centrally accessing information
This is why I prefer git merge to git rebase — I delete code left and right, and occasionally I need to restore a method or two I thought I won't need anymore, but I was wrong. Much easier if you keep your git history sacred and don't rewrite it.
Is it the tactic or the price that is shocking people? The tactic is common - heck the same people probably got excited about NASA Climate department correcting people on Facebook. I would be happy to get a million dollars, but it doesn't seem that absurd when you would need a small team for the last year - computers, desks, office space, payroll, benefits, software, etc.
(the example given is key logging, not sure if there's other ways)

You can get mouse events besides keystroke events, grab windows including the root window (screenshots), you can send keystrokes to other applications.

tl;dr assume no isolation between any X11 applications. Typing in your credentials in some terminal? You should trust all other X11 applications that are currently running, including the browser that runs untrusted programs all the time.

(There is a workaround: start applications in separate Xephyr sessions.)
Arguably sites have been increasing in size for one simple reason: It directly results in increased sales.

Everything is sales.

If cleaner, 'purer' sites made more money you bet the average web page would be 10kb.

It's all about what translates to more sales. As such, you won't ever see a return to more traditional websites. Look at Amazon with it's virtual dress models, heavy as hell, but they most certainly land more sales.
Probably because they felt they didn't have the luxury of time on this one. They were probably worried that Rite Aid / CVS / other competitor would beat them to the punch, and figured that it was worth the risk to move quickly, at the time.
The $1M would be better spent buying random folks Reddit gold or acts of random pizza. Then "leaking" it was her PAC that did this.
Are you implying someone else paid for her speeches instead, or that she gave the speeches for free?
I see at https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/guides/security/ that snap applications default to run in jails. I really hope this becomes the exception because sooner or later that would deny me to do something that I want to do. Just imagine the file manager in a jail and the text editor in another one. Even the browser shouldn't be completely isolated by the rest of the system. I want to do something with the files I download, right? Or imagine Gimp being able to read and write only to ~/gimp instead of into any of the directories of my projects.

TL;DR: I don't want to end up with an iOS on my desktop.

However I understand that sometimes, in ways I can't figure now, I could want to run programs in a jail. Maybe games? The music player? Skype?

But the big security risk IMHO is that vulnerable libraries are not updated into every single snap I have. The unmaintained app will break the security of all the system.

A not pleasant consequence of snaps is that we'll have to download upgrades for every single snap whenever a popular .so gets updated. It's going to be hundreds of MB instead of a few kB. This on top of the extra space required by all those jailed apps. I better have to hurry up and buy a very large SSD.
Sierra: Small, light SCSS library
I have to wonder why the board of directors didn't, you know, direct. In an ideal world this would damage their reputation as directors with future companies. But not today.
I wouldn't say the tongue-parasite is under the fish's control, but rather that the parasite is "deciding" to emulate a tongue for its own purposes. IIRC it will eventually take off and leave the fish to starve.

I feel it's worth noting that there are a lot of functions of our bodies that we don't explicitly control. When describing them, we tend to use "other" language to describe them to the extent we don't control them, e.g. "my body did this" vs "I did this". Artificial limbs will fit into that framework just fine.
To be fair, X has that issue since the mid 80's. I am quite sure my vintage SPARC boxes running Solaris 2 are equally exposed.
What mechanism of paying for roads would you propose?

Light vehicles don't do a lot of damage to roads, but in many areas weathering takes quite a toll, so it can make sense to charge all users rather than push it all on shippers or whatever.

Also, do you have an example of governments taxing solar? The trend I'm more aware of is net metering, which is a great deal for the homeowner (the wholesale value of electricity is lower than household metering, on an open market the power company would not purchase power for the retail rate).
Scott Wlaschin is excellent, and his website http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ is great in general.
I think GP is implying that it isn't really speeches that they were paying for.
This is a little far off-topic from arctic suicides, but I just can't resist.

Bush I: Oh, hello, Sad-um, I didn't see you sitting there. / But isn't this where / Kuwait used to be? I can see, maybe, / you got a little lost on your way to the market, / but driving 'round a tank, there's just never anywhere to park it / is there? / I'm a'let you finish, 'fore your mic starts gettin' mossy, / Just wait a couple minutes as I introduce my posse. / Hit it, Jaber.

Jaber III: Howdy, neighbor. Sure is good to see ya visit. / Err'body 'round here know you just a whiz at / throwing a party, / but ain't nobody like the guy that's fartin' / in the punch bowl.... / Hang on, slow down, I think I'm feelin' dizzy. / Gotta pass my mic to MC Saad, up in this hizzy.

Saad: Saddam, my man. Together on the stage at last. / Allow me to express my rage at the actions of your dumb ass. / This is my house, and you disrespectin' me? / Time to take your friends and make your exit, please. / Git gone, sucka.

Hussein: Y'all betta chill 'fore this come to a boil. / I'm only here 'cause I'm followin' my oil. / You don't think I saw your drilling rigs take / they straws out to drink my effin' milkshake? / You drink it right up. / And I'm a'gonna light up / your ears, with my rap of justice / as we discuss this / slant drillin' across my border. / You gonna need to order / a giant check, and put my name / on it, and there betta be the same / number of zeroes that I'm expectin'. / Cuz I don't need a phone to call on you, collectin'.
Create a tie-in with a worthy cause that compliments the interests of your audience/community/clients.

Think Coding Camp for Kids, Local Park Foundation, Cancer Fundraiser, etc...

Tell a story, buzz it up. Show how your organization volunteers/donates/supports the cause. Link to their homepage.
Mandatory: Benefits from Apollo [PDF] https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/80660main_ApolloFS....
Actually, all of life is contingent on death, not just the good in it. We sustain ourselves by consuming other dead beings, be it animals, plants, fungi, etc. They themselves lived thanks to the death of other beings and so on.

The lego analogy expresses the fact that we are not different from these other beings, and that we too must die so that life can continue. The death of an individual in this chain is always painful, but as part of the whole, it is just as it should be.
I would predict that it depends on where the money is coming from.

For VC firms that are experienced in the biomedical space, Theranos changes nothing because they were already suspicious of Theranos.

For firms that are inexperienced in the biomedical space, they have hopefully learned that growth cannot compensate for flaws in science or technology. If they continue to invest in biomedical, they will be much more careful in their DD; or perhaps they lose their appetite for biomedical and leave entirely.

I don't think things have changed for biomedical startups that are based on good science and technology and have an experienced team.

What would be wonderful is if the media learned a lesson from this mess. As I see it, they were a passenger in the Theranos hype machine.
15 Features That Will Help Your Home Sell Faster – And for More Money
Different Chines companies are trying every possible path to a "homegown" server processor and x86 is only one of them. I'm sure somebody's trying RISC-V.
Except sometimes you need those investors' money to get to where your science is locked down and proven.
I had heard this in the past but forgot it. Thanks for the story!
Doom was delivering an experience far more complex than the Apollo guidance computer was. The average webpage is not. It's delivering an experience as complex as a pamphlet with a few phone numbers on it.
> Are web pages much heavier than they need to be? Yes

What about the question "do web pages work any better than they did in 2007?" when we were using full page reloads and server side logic instead of Javascipt tricks.

I see so much basic brokenness on the web today from the back button not working to horribly overloaded news websites with mystery-meat mobile navigation I find myself wondering what have we really achieved in the last 9 years? This stuff used to work
Yes, you're right. To clarify, I was talking about the injection of ethics into relationships. The concept here is that animals treat each other in a certain way, a lack of reciprocity, and so we should follow their lead and act the same way. The implication is that if no reciprocity is offered initially, we should never take the initiative to create that kind of mutually beneficial relationship, the "Eye for an Eye" mentality. However, we have thousands of years of development of ideas of ethical behavior, and while there are many different takes on it, the majority have some version of the "Golden Rule," that we should take the initiative to create a symbiotic relationship rather than meet every hostile action with an equally hostile action. This is motivated not just by blind obedience to a moral principle but also the kind of environment it creates. If we always opt for hostility, we create a hostile and unlivable environment, not just toward the object of our hostility but in our mindset and culture. If we choose to nurture a symbiotic relationship with others and everything in our environment, we at least take the first steps toward a better situation for everyone involved, especially us. Although most animals might not show reciprocity now, we can look at extreme examples like dogs to show that it is possible over generations.