skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A sheer number of Lithuanians participated in The Revolution. Who invaded whom is questionable. Especially in the light of Lithuanuan Duchy expansion some 200 years before.
Red or Blue DRA 1 Read Aloud
yeah, its stark raving lunacy bollocks.

dickheads trying to make a name for themselves. it'll never get off the ground.
It looks like this was the study (emphasis added):

Sedentary behavior associated with reduced medial temporal lobe thickness in middle-aged and older adults
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Also that those don't use the same set of registers, you're forced to do so anyway
I have used both Jupyter Notebooks and org mode with org-babel extensively and I agree with the OP regrading the fact that the org-babel workflow is vastly superior, OP did point out a few features which org mode workflow has and Jupyter Notebooks don't but I will try and provide a comprehensive list:

1. Plain text format, git and git diffs work

2. You can combine many languages in a single document, and every code block can be part of a separate session, as an analogy to Jupyter Notebooks, you can have multiple kernels backing a single notebook and you can decide what kernel you want the current code block to run in.

3. You can edit a code block in the major mode for that language, i.e. you get all the features of Emacs while editing code: documentation, auto-complete, snippets and anything Emacs can do, and Emacs can do a lot :)

4. You can have internal and external links to any part of the document (or any other org-mode file) within the editor which get exported as links in the HTML file too. Want to refer to a code block you used before, just name it and drop a link. Extremely useful in binding the whole document together.

5. Literate Programming support -- You can decide the order the concepts are introduced in according to the human reader, not according to the execution order the machine demands it to be in:

#+NAME: named_code_block :eval no
function_not_defined_yet()

#NAME: complete_code_block
def function_not_defined_yet():
print("nice function innit?")

<<named_code_block>>

The <<named_code_block>> gets expanded to whatever you defined it and you control the way you want to structure the document to be the most readable. You can keep working backed by a REPL in the initial stages and then extract(tangle in literate programming speak) to a file, again in the order you want using the <<named_code_block>> (NOWEB syntax). So one org-mode can generate your whole project if you wish so.

6. With the internal and external links and <<named_code_block>> (NOWEB syntax) the org-mode file is closer to being a hypertext file than Jupyter Notebook even though Jupyter Notebook is the one running in a browser.

I have covered only the major features of org-babel, I haven't even covered all the features. I love Jupyter Notebooks too, but org-babel is something else. I am currently working on a toy ray tracer in Clojure in literate programming style and loving every moment :)
No, don't do this.

OpenStreetMap isn't an experiment in the legalities of copyrights, database rights and terms of service. Only use sources with clear provenance and clear permission.
The memory part of the brain may also hold clues for anxiety and depression
Deep respect for this. Also humbled looking at my 1 page Vue + Webpack SPA clocking in at about 1mb
Patreon, Flattr, Brave, etc. (many others that I'm forgetting in the microsubscription space) are the proposed solutioms
No, those are your morals. And you're projecting them on to everybody. "Just plain fucked up" is another way of expressing your personal values, not a rational argument.

I get that you value the "but we had a deal" criterion for fairness above the other things people value in this situation. Which is fine! You do you. And I agree that forcible removal is a bad idea that we should ban.

But booking so that the airplane will probably be full and paying people to wait a bit when statistics make it overfull is something that the great majority of the public is fine with. Flexible people like it quite a bit.
> That's quite an understatement, the Russian empire did not do any industrial revolution at all, it was a mostly undeveloped agricultural wasteland.

They did have factories. In fact, factories in Petrograd were one of the hotbeds of revolutionary mind. Railroad in more densely populated areas. Electric power plants did exist here and there. St Petersburg or Moscow were rather similar to cities of similar size in the West. Countryside was just too sparsely populated to do anything with it.

> But none of them succeeded to the extent of the Soviet Union at that time

Succeeded by what measure? GDP? Satisfaction of citizens? Soviet Union had abnormally large amount of people working in agriculture all the way till the fall. Consumer industry never even came close to West. Sure, if you focus on military alone and put oppressive state apparatus behind it, with a lot of natural resources, you can have a damn sweet army. But the rest will crumble. And it did.

> transform it into a global superpower

Russia was already a super power. Purely by sheer size and manpower. They had some great minds in science in arts as well.

The 19th century super powers fell in first half of 20th century thanks to the raise of national identities and human rights. Making vast colonies too expensive to maintain in all sorts of ways. This gave birth to 2 superpowers that ruled the world in 2nd half of 20th century. USA avoided the fall because they were built on freedom and humanity (to certain extent, obviously) to begin with. USSR just avoided all of that thanks to totalitarian regime.
Money might be connected to speech, but that doesn't make it an moral equivalent or practically inseparable. Time is a significantly more egalitarian resource than money. Without their money to leverage other people's time, a rich person has the same 24 hours in their day as a poor person. Sure, a poor person might be working two jobs, have to do all of their own shopping, cleaning, child caring, and elder caring, but a rich person doesn't have thousands, millions, or billions more hours than they need every day to satisfy their basic needs.

I don't think it's controversial to say that if you equate money to speech in the political process, then rich people (and non-people entities) will always have more speech. By my reckoning, such a system favors creating laws which favor the existing rich, which gives them even more speech to protect and entrench themselves. If I was designing a societal feedback loop to create an oligarchy, it would look like that. If you look at American post-war anti-socialist propaganda from sources like the National Education Program, a large part of their assertion that American capitalism is morally just is our system's wide distribution of wealth. The situation has changed significantly since then. I believe equating money to political speech will accelerate that change.

Fortunately we have a really great way for people to directly express their opinion about who should be elected: a vote.
There's no reason why they can't. If you're an employee and/or a student then everything you do should be reported to the government, taxes should have automatically been withheld, and the government should be able to figure out everything on their own. They always double-check your calculations anyway.

Only if you're self-employed or have special situations should you need to file anything, and even then, many of these situations can be something where you tick a box or submit a document and then they still do everything automatically.

The situation in the US and Canada is ridiculous.
Would you mind answering why it took the US more than 20 years to catch somewhat up with Russian rocket engines even though they had access to information on how it was made if it is so easy? The best Russian rockets from the Soviet era wasn't beat by the US before SpaceX did so.
I have a theory, more of a headcannon really, that coughing and sneezing actually evolved (in part) to deliberately spread infectious agents, as opposed to less-atomizing means of clearing mucus. Airborn viruses are typically non-lethal (otherwise it would wipe out the species readily), and it would have the effect of spreading these and creating survival pressure which culls the weak, freeing up resources and enhancing selection.

The anti-outsider effects would also be a perk.
I did my ~30th jump with a guy who was approaching 20,000 jumps. He seemed to get just as high off of it as I did.

Over time, the high changes -- from a feeling of "holy shit I'm alive!" to a much more sublime appreciation of the sensation of freedom while in freefall. You're not just dropping like a stone: every surface of your body becomes an aerodynamic control surface, and you feel like you can do anything (except, er, go up). That feeling of freedom never seems to diminish.
The ancient Athenians would reject our form of democracy because they regarded popular elections as a tool of oligarchy. They also executed officials for abuse of power.
Patriotic Correctness: The Warrior at the Mall
I'm a US citizen and live in the US, but I'm going to tell FB that I live in the EU and must be protected by GDPR. Hope it works!
Even Apple struggles a bit with their maps despite financial resources. MS got help from HERE to get good maps...

Building these things is hard
Facts like street addresses are not copyrightable. The visual drawing of roads and other features on maps can be, however.
We dig up numerous and various animal remains from dozens of millions of years ago. Some are pretty well preserved.

While any particular structure has a very low probability to be preserved in 60M years, some specimens of ubiquitous artificial structures have reasonably good odds of survival. Something like a coke bottle would more likely signal a part industrial civilization.
Thank you for all your hard work!!

Understanding what it took for Jupyter to be where it is, and how much work it took, who pushed for it, and how many people had to work to make it happen, this is important.

You're absolutely right to emphasize that it's not free to build. I worry that promoting a mentality like the author's that open source and free to use is honest, and for-profit is "dishonest" dramatically undervalues and undermines your work as well as the funding model. If we treat Jupyter like it's our right, and not a miracle of funding and hard work, we will make it more difficult for Jupyter to attract help and to succeed.
They're already reading your thoughts from space anyway.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
On the other hand, FB and Google take 80% of online ad spending so traditional online media have every reason to stand against them.
> non-tracked experience

You can use DuckDuckGo today to reduce your exposure to tracking:

https://duckduckgo.com/
For the Google-averse, the same trick seems to work with DuckDuckGo.
Mention USSR and suddenly HN turns into Reddit-level discussions. I wonder how many replies it takes before the "USA won WW2!" is posted.
Wow. I scored 34% on the second one, i.e. no better than random guessing. The last part that added the random noise to the faces didn't make a difference, since I already couldn't do worse at the task.
Likewise - in the decade I was active in the sport of skydiving, I heard plenty of stories around using the sport to help with stress, depression, and other issues back in the “real world”.

Never heard of a tandem jumper saying that, but then, how big is my sample size?
Man that last idea sounds sweet! I'm up for that whether it prolongs my life or not!
You can also get one of those fanless x86 mini PCs from Aliexpress at $120 or so... Much better performance than the XU4, better connectivity, upgradeable memory etc.
No they are cute
HN Proposal: Hacker News in Spanish (or Others)
I cannot certainly tell if this has been proposed before.

It would be nice to have links and feeds in other languages apart from English.

This way, I could check the global anglo-saxon written articles, in my mother language, and also others I'm currently learning/practising, for example.
A four-billion(ish) year old global signal transmission network! Think of the bandwidth in the DNA of trillions of viruses per square meter!

And possibly a galactic network, if panspermia is a thing. What's the probability of life emerging ab initio on an organic planet, vs collisions spreading seed molecules from a source planet to those nearby?

https://www.universetoday.com/137954/galactic-panspermia-int...
> One of the more compelling reasons to use Jupyter is inline images and plots

You can do those in org, since forever. I meant that the files themselves are plain text, which is good for sharing, version control, etc. ipynb files embed images with Base64 encoding, which makes seeing diffs a major PITA.

>This is a wierd thing to say. Jupyter has download as .py right in the file menu. Not to mention download as Markdown, HTML, LaTeX or PDF, if you want to present or share instead of export the python.

You can export org to those formats and more, but the main part is that you can organize your code (e.g, tangling to different files, etc.), and use other languages than python (or whatever other kernel you're running in Jupyter).

Plus, you get to use a proper text editor instead of editing on a browser textarea.
Article is from October, 2015.
The OpenStreetMap.org application is only supposed to be used for editing OSM data. It is not supposed to be used as a gmaps alternative. For that you should take the Planet OSM data and create a map service (WMS or similar) yourself.
It feels a lot more powerful to have a contract that is audited than the current situation. At the very least a class action lawsuit can result if it is broken.

I'm sure many do not care about paying for search and social media, and that's fine. I'd say it is a popular opinion actually - most of my friends who are not involved in technology don't really have a proper grasp of what all the fuss is about.
Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pD_H4c...
> I was scrolling around the world, setting directions for how to cross Russia by foot (which let me tell you in case you ever wondered, should take roughly 60 hours, depending on locations used) in a matter of moments, and it really was quite easy to do.

This post lost me here. I couldn’t cross Maryland in 60 hours on foot. Much less Russia. Missing some zeros?
I suspect that the life expectancy of a pilot is longer than that of a meth addict though...
Dash (and thus also Zeal) has a user-contributed docset of this guide. So, if you want to search this quickly locally, you can do so with Dash.
Skydiving and BASE jumping can be both a cure for and a cause of depression, depending on how long you spend doing it and how many of your friends go in during that time.
I haven't used Knitr (I do my R stuff from within Emacs, and org is a natural choice there), but it does look pretty powerful
The Web has become unusable without uMatrix.
Bitcoin Price Nagios Plugin
Here is the activity survey:

http://www.sdp.univ.fvg.it/sites/default/files/IPAQ_English_...

The paper was confusing because they reported an average of 7 hours sitting each day and 1500 minutes per week of "physical activity" (3.5 hrs a day). So basically anything besides sitting and sleeping seems to be counted as physical activity.

It does sound like almost anything is counted as physical activity:
"on how many days did you do moderate activities like carrying light loads, washing windows, scrubbing floors and sweeping inside your home"
The US-backed Khmer Rouge was propped up to defeat the communist movement in Cambodia. They certainly weren't communists by any post-1848 definition.
The development of the website is definitely focused on helping mappers.

It's fine for individuals to use it for whatever though.
Yeah I do believe it makes a difference, because brain atrophy is linked to a range of cognitive impairments, for example strongly correlated with Alzheimer's disease.

But you're right on the last point though, about assuming thinner is bad automatically. Heavy and chronic cannabis usage has been linked to an increase in density, but a reduction in total volume, which resulted in a slight overall decrease in IQ. The takeaway from all this being: Cognitive function is affected by a variety of parameters and we got more neuroscience to do still.
> goal-directed thinking is counterproductive to the process

This may be a Western influence. Not exactly a corruption, but a tendency to emphasize the "goalless goal" aspects of spiritual practice, because they align with the German Romantic philosophical strains which underlie most of the "woo" between the Enlightenment and modern contact with Buddhism.

It's worth keeping in mind that the Buddha's seminal talk was about ending suffering. It's hard to get more goal-oriented than that. And while chasing after a goal is a mild form suffering in its own right, it's hardly the right place to start.

Thanissaro has a great book with an extended argument about this, surveying the German Romantic foundations of Western "woo" and their influence on Western teaching of Buddhism, Buddhist Romanticism.

> An in-depth study of the pervasive influence of early Romantic thought in shaping the way Buddhism is taught in the West, and of the practical consequences of following the Romantics rather than the Buddha in approaching the problem of suffering and stress.

https://www.dhammatalks.org/ebook_index.html#BuddhistRomanti...

It's based on a much shorter essay, "The Roots of Buddhist Romanticism"

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/roots...

> Many Westerners, when new to Buddhism, are struck by the uncanny familiarity of what seem to be its central concepts: interconnectedness, wholeness, ego-transcendence. But what they may not realize is that the concepts sound familiar because they are familiar. To a large extent, they come not from the Buddha's teachings but from the Dharma gate of Western psychology, through which the Buddha's words have been filtered. They draw less from the root sources of the Dharma than from their own hidden roots in Western culture: the thought of the German Romantics.

Another highly relevant essay of his for goal-related practice is "The Agendas of Mindfulness"

> ...as described in the Pali texts, meditation is a very pro-active process. It has an agenda and works actively to bring it about

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/agend...
How can we actually answer that? We don’t have any idea what your experience looks like, what you’ve accomplished, or how you work with others.

I work with a guy who has about 4 years of experience and is very senior as a Rails engineer. He has a very deep knowledge of Rails, Rails application architecture, and how to manage and maintain Rails systems. Is he senior? Absolutely, at Rails. Would he be Senior in anything else? Nope.

I know another engineer with a Masters and 12+ years of experience. He has a very wide breadth of knowledge but very little deep. Is he senior? Not even close. But he can pick up a lot of technologies and at least get by ok.

Seniority has absolutely zero to do with number of years you’ve been in this business. Find a senior position you want and try to tie your actual existing skills and experience to it.
I found this very useful when going through my own existential crisis.

[1]: http://www.davidsongifted.org/Search-Database/entry/A10554
The Education Endowment Foundation: Testing What Works in the UK Classroom
A luxury we have in the IT field today that seems so obvious, but did (and does) not seem as simple to everyone else.
Author here. This was true several generations ago (core2, for instance), now the performance penalty is negligible.
What strikes me the most is how impotent many of us feel in resisting being tracked and profiled so extensively.
Excellent Sunday morning long read!

Some of PreData's recent "insights":

"China Trade War Fears Still Running High"

"Mall Blaze Sparks Outrage Across Russia"

In short, nothing that couldn't be revealed from the briefest skim of headlines from tomorrow morning's WSJ.com. One can stay better informed leaving a Bloomberg TicToc (which is partially machine generated) tab open all day.

My takeaway is that the world of the Jim Shinns is rapidly approaching extinction. Deals done poolside at country club dinner dances. Name game shmoozing. And serendipitous encounters on private islands. What was considered the predominant pathway to immortality in Fitzgerald's day.

Viable alternatives exist now. And any business model solely differentiated by prestige will be subsumed by free or near-free competition.
I personnaly host all my data:
* I have my personnal email server
* I use nextcloud to synchronize my contacts, calendars and file
* I have a XMPP server and manage to convince a few people to use it
* I host my own VPN that I use from all my devices
* I use searx for searches with no google, bing, yahoo behind

I try to avoid using any services that try to analyse my behaviour (so no music service like spotify, no video service like netflix, no social medias, no closed messaging service...)

I use ublock on my browsers in paranoid mode (block all third parties and having to whitelist what's needed for a website to work)

My phone is an android on which i've installed lineage with no gapps and i use fdroid to get apps

All this is a pain to manage (at least i learnt a lot managing all this) and can't definitely be done by people who are not interrested by the technical side

It's also quite restrictive and definitly cut myself from a lot of friends.

I still find it worthwhile though and am not interested in stopping hosting my own services.

For me the main issue is that the web isn't privacy friendly at all by default, trying to make it so is not easy and is not something my parent, for example, can do, even if they want to.

Right now Facebook is under the spotlights, but it's the scapegoat of a whole data business.

I don't know why I should trust twitter with it's tracking buttons everywhere.
Why should i trust CDN that centralise queries from a lot of websites.
Why should i trust all those services plugged into websites?

My feeling is that it can only be solved and usable by non technical people by having standards for a specific need and that does not allow this level of tracking rather than continue developping "everything" standards that HTTP, HTML, JavaScript and CSS are becoming.
Found Footage Offers a New Glimpse at 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Its basically about why spiritual things are good for you, and how the feelings you experience during such spiritual things do not need religious / supernatural explanations.

It's different from psychology as it doesn't try to explain / cure things like child development, depression, bipolar disorders or most of the other multitude of subjects that psychology works with.
Literally untrue. If the facts aren't on your side, or you don't know them well enough to know whether they are or not, why even comment?
That is theoretically true in some jurisdictions, absolutely wrong in others, and completely untested in most.

Open Street Map specifically bans doing so, and if you’ve done any edits based on this, they should be reversed, as they threaten the legality of the entire project.
You saved me a whole lot of typing! Thanks :)

I'd add that you can also benefit from other aspects of org, such as project management functionality, outline editing, table editing, tables with formulas, direct git integration via Magit, etc., etc.

I agree that getting people on Emacs is a non-minor issue, but using something like Spacemacs with CUA-mode enabled could go a long way towards acceptance.
Another possible implementation which is log^2(n) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitonic_sorter
Article I Section 2 was amended by Amendment XIV (“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”). The original text is legally void.