skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life might not be nasty, brutish, and short for some lucky bushmen, but for most it sure seems to suck: "Bushmen health, in general, is not good though: 50% of children die before the age of 15; 20% die within their first year (mostly of gastrointestinal infections). Average life expectancy is about 45-50 years"
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I've been actively looking for a good tool for personal note taking, and finding lots of things that seem not-quite-right.

Plain Text:

Pros > Simplest, works everywhere/on everything, scales well (append forever!)

Cons > Least automated, no images, no math, no code, hyperlinks depend on editor, no embedded files

WYSIWYG Doc Editor (Word, Writer, etc):

Pros > As easy as plain text, can do images/math/hyperlinks/embedded files, somewhat portable

Cons > Bad at code, not many automated features, unwieldy once file gets large

Markup language tool (Org-Mode, Wikis, etc):

Pros > Powerful, portable, good at code/links, scales well, highly configurable, highly scaleable

Cons > Have to learn the markup language, mostly bad at math, high up-front costs (e.g. needing to set up a server or learn alien keyboard shortcuts), non-wysiwyg feels less like a "quick note" and more like a professional document, image/doc embedding can be hit or miss

Note-taking app (Onenote, Evernote, etc):

Pros > Automates lots of note-taking tasks (e.g. time stamping/tagging), can do images/math*/hyperlinks/embedded files, scales... fairly well

Cons > Least portable (dependent on app-specific sync features which may change), less simple (best use of notebook features are non-obvious), still bad at code

Electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) (labfolder, benchling, etc):

Pros > Good for organizing/presenting data, embedding files, scale very well, have collaboration features

Cons > Very not-simple (most require either require server config, or you don't own your data), most are somehow still bad at math/code, frequently expensive and not portable

Task Managers / To-do lists (Trello, Asana, etc):

Pros > Very intuitive to use, can sort of embed documents/images, have collab features

Cons > Not good for longer-form notes, bad at math, not meant for note-taking, you mostly don't own your data

Others:

Jupyter/Mathematica can do WYSIWYG text, code, math, data, and images all in one document. However, Mathematica is expensive, and Jupyter is non-trivial to get up and running. These tools are primarily geared towards creating a polished document, and are less good at documenting the evolution of ideas inherent in note-taking.

Personal Diary/Journal software is mostly underwhelming, most of these seem like cut-down note-taking apps sold to the non-tech-savvy
Apple can still do so because their charger cable can be detached and has an A plug on the charger itself.

Thus the charger can be reused on a different device with a simple change of cable (a different story is that Apple has their own way of signaling max As to the device).
They will die as soon as the toddler loses interest.
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I think "knowing what the company does in general" is reasonable. Anything beyond that is on the unjustifiable-impractical plain. First quarter.
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zuck obviously has never been one to carry a moral compass, but what's so bad about Thiel?

Anyways, the problem with politicians is their ability to get themselves elected already disqualifies them from the job. At least doctors, engineers, and scientists from the hard sciences seem to have to show some kind of positive merit, even if they're still not a perfect lot.
Pixar have made 18 films. Dreamworks Animation have made about 35 films, over roughly the same time.

I like most of the films from both of them. There's a lot of just terrible content for children, and these companies generally avoid that.
> It's one of the most important projects for the open source desktop, for example GTK (formerly GIMP Toolkit) is one very important outcome.

Is it? GTK/Gnome was created over a historical footnote and to this day is more of a hindrance than helpful overall. It effectively bisected the entire Linux desktop community and caused so much time lost with downstream application developers.

GIMP is obtuse to use and provides an UX that has been out of touch for many years. It doesn't support features that are just bog-standard in other products, for years. (Like >8 bit colour). It is exactly the kind of amateurish project that gave FOSS GUIs their bad reputation.
I'm the speaker. I got started with GW-BASIC and one of my mantras is "learning will never hurt you."

My beliefs are getting seriously distorted in this thread.
Eh, sure, but for me the appeal early-on was I could discover a lot of quirky, well-curated indie titles for a crazy cheap amount of money, including some that didn't have any marketing budget but were remarkably good to play. It was exciting. Then big publisher sales entered the fray and it felt less about discovery and more about an opportunity to buy more formulaic games that were well past their prime for crazy cheap prices. It was just another sale.
How come there are no entries for Julia on the Benchmarks Game? http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/ Given Julia's good performance, it is a little strange. :)
One piece of advice: if you're implementing a GraphQL server on top of Django, you're better off building your schema with graphene, and avoiding graphene-django altogether.

graphene-django is pretty buggy, mainly because both Graphene and Django have a lot of implicit behaviour that don't play well together - a common theme among popular Python libraries, sadly. A nasty example (that is now fixed) was that connection fields generated from m2m fields would return every single instance of the target model!
I had a similar experience recently with an employer essentially making an offer, but asking me to jump through all kinds of subsequent pre-employment screening hoops before they would disclose salary (which was, of course, below market when I pushed back and made them give me a number).

I don’t knew if this is some new tactic, but the whole think struck me as trying to leverage a sunk cost fallacy to underpay employees.
There are at least a couple of other examples of similar projects:

NES -> native executables: http://andrewkelley.me/post/jamulator.html

x86/Windows starcraft -> arm/Linux for openpandora: https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/starcraft.73844/

(Tools used for this: https://github.com/notaz/ia32rtools)

For a lot of consoles, particularly older ones, this tends to yield worse performance than a JIT. Between different memory layouts, weird threaded code, jump tables, (and especially) self modifying code, a JIT can do a much better job building efficient code since it has all of the runtime information.

For newer consoles which more closely resemble PC hardware, things are definitely better; the current generation will basically look like the Starcraft port; an API compatibility layer.
Wolves, dogs, and coyotes are all the same species and can produce viable, fertile offspring when interbred with one another.

"Wolf," "dog," and "coyote" are just social constructs.
I once met someone who claimed that while they were in Vietnam they had been accused of having hard drugs. Despite the person's apparent innocence, they claimed to have paid over 500 euro to be let go.

I also met someone who claimed in Malaysia their rental had the windows smashed out. They went to the police and the police didn't care to investigate, look at cctv, or help in any way.

So I just don't see how this is pragmatic in any way for the average person for police to be more interested in road stoppages in these countries to collect $10 from every car than to actually solve crime. Why employ them at all?
I dislike that your post had been downvoted when I wrote this comment. When I consider all of the possibilities in my life, I can very easily enumerate all the things that prevented me from getting institutionalized or ending up on the streets. People who don't want to take that inventory behave strangely towards those that must.

Long story short, I'm an anarchocommunist for a reason. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Build an app for the Google Assistant in 50min
http://tiddlywiki.com/

Sits in a browser tab, insanely quick to use which is the most important thing.

Consider it perfect for taking notes.

I use seperate systems for todo and project management (the project management one I wrote myself)
What parts of Ethernet/networking cause confusion and incompatibility? Please name them specifically.
Ask HN: Is Linux the most important open-source project?
Of course it depends on how you define important, that's part of the question.
What's the difference between naming it after a fictional dog vs naming it after a long-forgotten god from a dead religion like other planets? Either way it's a made up pop culture icon that people may or may not understand the reference to.

There are many reasons to not want to name a planet "Goofy" that have nothing to do with their relationship to the Disney corporation.
I think the semantic criticism is more a criticism of the article's author misleading the reader by playing on their expectations rather than an objection about the definition that's useful to people in the field.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/1496847714-soonish7%20(1)....
Oh so much this.

Never mind that with the older plugs, the cables were basically passive. But now there has to be special resistors in them to signal what kind of power delivery they can handle, and oh so many companies get it wrong. Because there is also a special resistor that need to be used if you have a A to C cable, that overrules all the others.

It is frankly a fire hazard waiting to happen.
It creates a better user experience.

We create a worse user experience by waiting until the form is submitted to inform the user of some silly error.

For some applications, the difference isn't that big, but for many it brings a significant improvement.

Is it possible to create crappy client side validation? E.g. not letting the user temporarily input invalid data while filling out the form, or displaying over-the-top red error indicators everywhere as soon as a single mistake is made, etc... Definitely. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

The backend should never trust the client, of course. That is a separate goal of the application, however.
Tried display port and hdmi so far. These hubs (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074TD1CRZ/ref=oh_aui_deta... https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06VVNN8XV/ref=oh_aui_deta...) both on this screen https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YD3DBOC/ref=oh_aui_deta...

It's probably something unrelated to the hubs. Who knows though :) Many moving pieces.
There are many Haskell books. I bought and read a couple dozen for HPFFP, there are more than that but many aren't meant to be end-to-end introductions to Haskell.

It would be surprising if it were otherwise given its origins and age.
And yet Amazon, Facebook, Walmart, CapitalOne, Netflix, Oracle, Red Hat, Two Sigma and a bunch of banks use it.

Makes you wonder how indicative those lists are of anything.
See my other comment in the thread for the thing I've always wondered: How can you compile away an arbitrary calculation that might need to be made at run time?

(assuming we're not just arguing over arbitrary-array indexing to input predefined constants at the REPL/code level).
Ask HN: Was the Suspect in the Crash at London Natural History Museum Ever ID'd?
No, GNU is.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted.

Pitbulls, golden retrievers, wolves--all technically the same species. The prejudice against certain breeds of "dog," or against "wolves," is no different from racism.
Of Pixar's 18 films Cars 2, Cars 3, Finding Dory, Monsters University, Toy Story 2, and Toy Story 3 are sequels. (6 sequels out of 18 films.)
Here's wot I think.

I think there's noone alive today who has any idea how we are going to go from
where we are today, to AGI.

Recent advances are remarkable- but much more so if you're a specialist. The
impact on most peoples' lives is much smaller (and it comes primarily from dumb
automation, rather than actual intelligence).

Machine learning is not enough to get to AGI: relying on huge amounts of data
and processing power is just not a sustainable way to keep increasing your
capabilities.

All the success stories of the last 10 years are at least 20 years old (case in
point: RNNs). Most of those successful techniques were found by sheer blind luck
(famous example: backprop was not invented in the ANN community; it took twenty
years for the idea to percolate all the way to them).

In the end nobody currently alive has a clue how we can get to AGI, or if that
is even possible. Chances are, it will take many, many generations until we do-
or a sudden, gigantic paradigm shift, of the kind that comes once every couple
of centuries- think Newton or Einstein. Except AI is not physics. In statistical
machine learning there is very little theory to guide the way, so people just
try things hoping that something will work. And that's no way to make a quantum
leap.

In this situation, to talk of the dangers of AGI is at least premature. Yes,
it's not completely impossible that AGI will happen in our lifetimes. The same,
however, can be said of an alien invasion. Should we start discussing setting up
planetary defenses, when we haven't even found sign of alien life, yet?

By all means- let's have a conversation. There are people around whose job it is
to have that sort of conversation. But let's all be aware (and let those people
also be aware) that the conversation is most probably a couple hundred years
early and by the time it becomes truly relevant, things will have advanced so
much that it will just look pointless.
Good point, yeah. For some reason I had assumed they’d stick with the same 5V as always, but you’re right, they use 20V for PD.
I'm freelancer and not really looking for a steady job. What I look for in projects is a mix:

* Location; I love to cycle to work

* Pay rate; if it's too low, they're probably not looking for me, and if it's too high, same. Though I'm willing to take a pay cut when other aspects are good

* Technology; stuff that I know of course, but even more stuff that I want to learn

* Interesting problem space; will I just be moving data between DB and browser, or is there something more interesting about it?

I couldn't say which of these is more important; they all count. Money is nice of course, but I'm willing to work for a lower rate if it's close to home and I get to learn something I want to learn but don't know very well yet. The experience is valuable to me, and my lack of experience makes me less valuable to the client, so it makes sense for everybody. And no amount of money is going to make me stick with a job I absolutely hate. Well, maybe some amount of money, but few would pay that much.
If I were a news outlet, I'd publish a vetted credible story if it has real news value, defend it with a minimum of legal power, and if a judge ordered me to take it down, I would.

Techdirt basically did that in the Ayyadurai email case, but still suffered financially.
An 8 day week would actually alleviate the pressures of modern society. Give people another day of rest. We have had enough efficiency increases that the extra day of rest wouldn't 'break the efficiency bank' so to speak. This would probably be in lieu of a basic income. I'd much rather have more time than some baseline of economic necessities but that is IMHO.
Regarding the car that went up on the walkway and injured 11 (at least) on Saturday October 7th... I've read 20+ stories, including those that report his release, but not a single one identified the suspect, nor have any initial reports of the incident been updated with suspect details. This strikes me as odd, unless UK law forbids releasing suspect names.
Personally I research the companies I work for before I apply

I write unique cover letters for each with a copy and pasted section about my skill set

I don’t think a poorly made application process has a lot to do with doing research on a company

That is, my issue is with bad software not necessarily shotgunning resumes
If they can emulate a PowerPC system then they can run AmigaOS and MacOS/MacOSX for PowerMacs to run some legacy programs on Windows, Linux, Modern MacOSX, iOS, etc.

There were rumors that Microsoft would port Windows 10 to the XBox One and then convert XBox games to Windows 10 via the Windows Store, etc. Then you could buy or rent XBox, XBox 360, and XBox One games.

Apple had a Rosetta software that ran PowerMac stuff on Intel Macs until 10.7 removed it IIRC. So Apple has the patents and IP for that.

There was also an old ARDI Executor program that ran old Mac 68K stuff in Windows, Linux, BeOS, etc.
And you can use an event loop in Java today if you want, the question is more about library support.

And that is certainly changing in both alnguages now, in Java towards promises, in JS towards threads.
Try my http://notes.sciter.com - I did it for exactly that purpose. The only thing it renders and edits notes as HTML/WYSIWYG.

I've found that for some reasons I simply cannot consume/read .md in source form.

After all having <h1> rendered in larger font means something, right?
Chiming in a bit late here, but for years I have said that there are really only two kinds of UI that I want: a cli REPL (maybe with something like ncurses), and a full powered 3d game engine. Everything else in between is going to be a poorly implemented version of one or the other of those two, so just pick which end of the spectrum you want to be on for the purposes of rendering and user interaction, and build your browser apps like cli/ncurses, or implement them inside of quake3 and force your users to login by learning how to plasma surf.
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The more technically competent you are - the more you want to be focused on your domain specialization - syadmin, cloud, development, devops, networking, PM etc.

Why would any professional wish to waste time learning the complex compatibility matrix of USB-C consumer cabling?
I like to separate notes from journaling for precisely this reason. I have hundreds of notes in Evernote that I will never see again. They're invisible, as light on me as a feather. Yet they're also searchable, so they're available in seconds if I ever need them.

I have system of using "top" tags to define my working view for a project. Say I'm working on project Foo. At any one time I'll have about half a dozen notes tagged "foo-top." I can take any note from my past and bring it front and center by tagging it "foo-top" and then delete the tag when I want the note to disappear again. Say, for example, I want to see if CouchDB will be useful for Foo. I used CouchDB for a personal project several years ago, so I can search for my note of CouchDB concepts and commands, tag it "foo-top", and then remove the tag if I decide it won't be useful. It's a beautiful way of carrying around a lot of baggage without feeling the weight. It's nice that if I want, I can write down notes and thoughts about something without worrying that I'll clutter up my journal and make it unreadable, or worrying that I'm mixing up the wheat and the chaff. It's not like I spend a bunch of time rummaging through a bunch of junk to find what I want, forcing me to think carefully about what I record. I can record anything that seems like it might be useful later.

A journal would be nice to have, too, though. One note in each project serves as a journal of sorts, in the form of a quick summary of what I've done each day and a quick summary of what I expect to accomplish next. (For work, I find it more convenient to keep a single note for this instead of breaking it out by project.) Evernote isn't great for keeping chronological notes. I only use it because I haven't seen an alternative that is compelling enough to make up for the convenience of using just one program.

One thing I really wish for is a program that could automatically present me with a diary of sorts based on my note-taking. Versioning would be nice, too, so I could see how my notes evolve over time.
This sounds entirely reasonable, and honestly I'd say puts you ahead of many applicants out of the gate. The rest of the discussion on this thread turned into a debate about whether it's reasonable to expect a level of background research and effort on the part of the applicant or not. But it doesn't sound like that's what you were really arguing against, so we all just went off on a tangent :) I can easily get behind the idea that the actual submission platform/software should make it easy to apply.
Was not my claim that the NT kernel is better ;) They are different. There are only 3 dominant kernels left. Two commercial ones and one free. My opinion is just that the NT and also the macOS kernel are in popular opinion a little bit underestimated because they are very misunderstood.
At least it fails open, to the common baseline. “can plug in, play audio, sync at usb2.0 speeds, and charge slowly”.

Compare and contrast 30 pin dock/lightning.
It important to remember though that the reason average life was 45-50 was because of all the people who died early in life. If you actually managed to hit 30 there was a good chance you would make it up in your 60-70ies.
in an otherwise flat city they are just big mounds of dirt running for miles

Same. As a child I couldn’t figure out why we had these big berms and called them a damn. Turns out the terrain slopes so gently (1 ft./mi.) that you can’t even tell
Insanity seems to be the right word for USB-C.
Let's imagine you buy a new monitor, which has a usb-c port. Fortunately, your device also has a usb-c port so it will just work, right?
Well, that monitor could support at least the following protocols over that cable:

- Displayport, obviously.

- HDMI, because that might be useful in some cases.

- MHL Alternate Mode for USB 3.1, which is not-quite-HDMI.

- USB itself, like the external mini video cards created by DisplayLink

- PCI-E, as the monitor could contain any regular video card. Unlikely, but technically possible.

Is the monitor going to work when plugged into your laptop? What about your phone? Will it charge either of those? I'm not sure how this has managed to gone this horribly wrong, but somehow "supports usb-c" has become completely meaningless. Oh, and it can also support analog audio as well!

And if anyone thinks I'm exaggerating, please tell me which devices do and which do not work with this "usb-c to vga" adapter, because to me it is literally impossible to tell: http://www.belkin.com/uk/p/P-F2CU037/
Rosetta was licensed from Transitive, which is now owned by IBM. I suspect they still have the IP for it.
If the penalties are part of the contract, then the buyer has a right, as does the seller, to execute the contract in that manner, as well.

You act as though the buyer is committing a crime, where it is questionable that the seller or their agent may have.
Class of ‘97, wbu?
Notes on a month of daily generative sketches
Are planetary systems filled to capacity? (2007)
Hmm... I wanted to learn more about 0-indexed arrays, but after looking around, I still have not figured out how to declare 0-indexed arrays without extending the AbstractArray interface or using another package.
Isn't it used up? Guys who were 25 are now forty. The team has operating expenses. It's not a pure asset like a vault full of gold bricks.

It is normal to be able to write off asset acquisitions, not only expenses. E.g. I'm a self-employed software contractor. My gov't lets me write off, say, a new laptop, which goes into my ledger as an asset.
Is it possible to generate propellant for the Mars transit from Lunar ISRU? Are the right source materials available there?