skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your point about how Netflix and the like are quite the opposite of short term profit maximizers is a very interesting one, because they apparently are not what people expect when lamenting the absence of long-termism (otherwise there wouldn't be much absence to lament), quite the opposite actually.

So what is that difference? It must be long term bets vs long term stability. A long bet can only be consumed in the literal sense, by selling, until there is nothing left. Whereas a dividend producer will keep producing until failure. It's almost like give a fish/teach to fish. A good portfolio of bets may well be more profitable overall than a bunch of dividends producers (and thanks to the market, we can cash in on those bets at or own pace! (and even bet on greater fools, but that's a different story well deserving of double-nested parens)).

But in the context of retirement, there is one important difference: the cashing in of bets forces us to think about our mortality when we plan our payout (no matter how formal or not the payout plan is), whereas with dividend producers this is only an optimal (even if important) optimization.

With a sufficiently wide spread and high volume, you could realistically live off whatever meagre or fat harvest your retirement package provides each year, and leave all dreams and worries about valuation to your future inheritors. It would not matter at all wether you'd live five years into your retirement or fifty.
I don't see any void. I see Dali, Q Acoustics, Fyne, KEF, Monitor Audio, ATC, Spendor, Acoustic Energy, Roth, Mission, Dynaudio, and Ruark.

Every one of those companies had won at least one award for their speakers.

The speaker market is so crowded I can't imagine how anyone could begin to say there is a void.

Name the market void and I bet I can name 20 companies building exactly the speaker you want.
I drive but I never use navigation as the handful of times I have I've found it distracting and it's led me astray a couple of times. I prefer to just look at a map. Often that nap is on the phone, but I don't need it to tell me where I am or where to go
Typora! I just found it recently, but maan, I was searching for something like this for a long time! It is basically a Markdown editor but with an unique touch and extra features like outline, sidebar browser, built-in image viewer and stuff. It's very beautiful.

https://typora.io/
Easy way to earn online money in just 1 minute
Oh. So we allow people to be assholes when they have power. Got it.
I tend to use several machines/devices during my working week, so anything installed locally is a no-no.

My solution was to knock up a web app in php (you can use the backend of your choice) that lets me create notes using markdown, these are auto saved to the server and browse-able via another php page.

Like a poor-mans markdown notepad, but online.
> Why would anyone want environment variables

> when you can have config files

You still need a way to tell your program where the config file is.

Environment variables are just like a configuration file that's automatically opened by the OS when a process start and automatically parsed as a set of named strings by the libc. In the many cases where one does not need more complex data structures than that, then to introduce a config file is just making things harder.

That being said, I wish envvars had namespaces of some sort.
Products from www.literatureandlatte.com deserve a mention on this list - they are called Scrivener and Scapple. I realize they might not be for everyone (both are paid), but I find them delightful.
Diminished mobile phone battery life and environmental concerns are the standard counter-arguments to this approach.
Is the one you wrote public? I'd like to try it if so.
No one has mentioned this yet: remove the two private doors and install a single door in the common hallway.

Yes you lose some convenience by having to be clothed while entering and exiting the bathroom. But at least you guarantee the door is always unlocked when not in use.
As someone who thinks marijuana should be legal, I thought it was a reasonable article.
I don't think they detect the ad blocker here - they just put that image underneath the image/iframe of the ad, so that if the top image is blocked, the bottom image is visible.
windows installation is 42mb. i better stick to notepad.exe(245kb)
FWIW the first comment in that blog post shows that at the time of writing the post, the compiler could not detect that error.
Building a Simple URL Shortener with Just HTML and JavaScript
I tried these solutions as well, but I found it too slow to add note. With evernote, I can click ctrl-alt-N from any app I am in, and a New note window pops up. I still didn't find how to achieve this with web version.
For the crowd that happens to have a Synology I switched to DS Note when Evernote went 2 device only, it even imported all my notes. Has desktop and mobile apps, best Evernote clone I've found.
Not the original poster. But I would call C and C++ hacking languages. They were designed to make really low level work possible. You haven't written low level code until you had to access hardware registers by memory address :). This is such a completely different experience from really high level languages that I feel that the distinction should effectively be closer to the compiled/interpreted (JITed) divide.
The problem is that companies that just chugged along and paid a dividend have basically died out in favor of companies that borrow against their long term profits for not a lot of upside other than short-term boosts in share price. A lot of recent failures and bankruptcies can be attributed to this phenomenon.
EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS CHARACTERISTICS AND SPREAD
> plain text files and your favorite editor

I tried this solution as well, but I missed one core feature of Evernote, that you can search by tags or keywords, and it instantly list all related notes.
MapTiler Cloud is also an alternative based on OSM data. It is free for personal use and prices for businesses are fair: https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/ We also offer many advanced services like hosting own data, easy map customization tool, support for 55 languages with an autodetection and much more!
I recently learned that the FS-UAE (which is a macOS/Linux port of the WinUAE) supports Amiga PPC emulation using the QEMU plugin. I've spent this weekend installing Amiga OS 4.1 on something that was my dream machine two decades ago (but emulated): A4000 060/PPC 604e with 128 MB.

Works great! I love installing classic OSes :)

https://imgur.com/a/z7T8Z53
I guess it's a matter of price as well — in a sense that music is way too cheap for what you're getting for.
Good point.

But, I still think some of those are high end, some of those specialize in pro-audio, some of them target audiophiles. What I mean is, someone for everyday use - JBL or Bose, minus the "smart" options. This company's strategy will not include any smartness, just focus on building good quality, good looking speakers. Say, someone like Sony (their bookshelf offerings are quite good), but without any long term plans to include smart assistants or something similar.

If you still think it's a crowded space let me know, but nevertheless, it's good feedback.
For me not so much audio, but I'd be very interested in a proper dumb TV with a good sized modern panel.
Physicists are unveiling cool, new findings from South Pole neutrino observatory
Best part is I can save them all to a 'notes' folder / directory (I get yelled about calling it folders apparently) and oh look I can open them anywhere else, and archive them and take them with me anywhere and even put them in 'the cloud' for super cheap storage.
Are you memory conscious because you're downloading this to some embedded device? Serious question.
This is how moveable prosthetic covers are made for bionic limbs
A STORY OF FREE ENERGY
I've purchased unregulated 80% lower receivers (they're only legally "a gun" if more than 80% of the machining work is complete. At or below 80%, they're just considered a chunk of metal.) and machined them using nothing more than a woodworking router, a hand drill, a jig, and a vise in about 30-45 minutes.

The jig is the most expensive part, costing about $160 or so, but once you have it there's no wear parts and you can use the jig to build as many as you want.
>> Amazon and Netflix barely turn a profit, even though they could

Could they? That is speculative. Nobody knows what would happen if these companies started increasing their profit margins. It definitely would affect consumer behaviour in a negative way; we just don't know how significant the impact would be.

Also, I don't think that the strategy of trying to monopolize the entire world economy under a few central authorities is going to work in the end so in that sense maybe Amazon and Netflix actually do think short term.
Russia is Россия in Russian.
Kind of related, but does anyone have good software for dealing with PDFs?

Any important letters (or something I may want to refer back to later) I scan and email to myself. I used Evernote previously, the nice part is it OCRs the PDF so I can search text within them, but the workflow isn't that nice (and I'd prefer something self-hosted).

When I've asked before I've received recommendations for full blown enterprise document management systems, but all I want is something with an interface like Gmail for PDFs (I'm suprised Google themselves don't do this within Gmail).
There is a huge difference. It's proprietary, what I mean by that is you can't really edit it with anything else than Emacs. I used it with Spacemacs, and when an upgrade broke it, I left with no notes... Very frustrating experience, I immedieately abandoned it when it happened. Never used org-mode since then.
I don’t think the illustration is accurate. You can imagine a room where the doors are right next to each other.
Idiomatic Python – Use of Falsy and Truthy Concepts
I just buy studio monitors and be done with it.

Can speakers possibly sound any better than appropriately sized studio monitors plus maybe a sub?
What are you talking about? There's literally a "WiFi only" toggle in Google Maps app.
The solution is to ban political advertising on the internet.
The solution still allows you to lock your own room from bathroom entry (though it isn’t this way, weirdly, at the hotel in question).
I like standard notes but having only plain text with no ability to attach images makes it unsuitable for me. I often take screen shots or photos as a note.
For a good solution within a market system: kill everyone but myself and a small harem. Now there is a perfect market of one and all resources are optimally directed to me
> On a related note, Firefox on Linux came with duckduckgo as default and I am so impressed with it's search results.

I gave DDG a new chance a few months ago, first just on my phone as a pilot. It was good enough that I switched on all my devices.
Huge difference from a few years ago!
Definitely this! I only want the ability to connect an HDMI input and have super picture quality. I don’t need a WiFi “smart” TV. I don’t even want speakers. Basically a really nice monitor at 65”.
> This seems more of a method for a group of people to profit from a non-profit than it does a new method of actually financing non-profits.

It is both. If the method works, this group of people won't profit from non-profits in exchange for nothing -- they'll get paid for picking non-profits that accomplish their declared goals.

Suppose $X is spent on non-profit donations, and Y% of non-profits don't meet their goals. Then only $X * (1 - Y) is deployed in a meaningful way, and $X * Y is wasted -- it's the hidden cost (Hc) of today's allocation mechanism. So long as the investors get paid less than Hc, contributing $X to the donor fund instead will result in a strictly better world.

I think this is promising. I would definitely consider contributing to this fund.
I'm not sure I understand his point. He wrote the function, and in under a second, he was able to easily run it to test it and got a type error.

The only difference in a static world would be the error would have showed up a few seconds earlier, before he needed to run it in the repl.

I mean, the error was definitly vague from CL, but is that really because it lacks static typing that the error is vague?
I'm male and not terrified, nor even worried about such things. I'm not who this "you" is that you're referring to.

Regarding the chances of arrest, that makes sense to me. I suspect the police are rationally responding to the likelihood of violence.

Regarding the fellows who are considering mass murder, I suggest you notify the police.
An Alexa as a music speaker? Barely a step beyond a transistor radio when it comes to audio quality. Listening to serious music on that is blasphemous.
Mobile access, I often needs to jot down or read a note on my phone
The myth of India's population explosion
Other features I use often are:

* manage to-do-lists based on the page they occur, and/or their tags, deadlines and priority level.

* table of contents for a larger one page note

* auto git add/commit upon application start

What I would love to see is:

* automated and robust git push/pull with GUI based conflict resolvement so I could collaborate with colleagues who are not too comfi with git using zim

* organize pages using a nested tag structure (like gmail lables) instead of folder structure.
I've never been able to find the one note-taking system to rule them all, but that seems to be because the contexts in which I need to write/access notes are quite different.

At the moment I've settled on a three-tier system:

NVAlt - as a scratchpad, clipboard buffer and other transient notes.

Moo.do - for structured notes, Todo lists, reminders and agenda/scheduling

Dokuwiki - for long term knowledge base stuff and for documenting personal and home projects. Love this because my family can easily read and use it too.

I've tried loads of tools but I've stuck with this set longer than any other so far.
10 Future Medical Technology That Will Blow Your Mind
> Most people who complain about not being able to learn how to deal with people are afraid to or just don't want to put themselves in the position.

I wouldn't use the word most, more like many.

But regardless, you make it sound like there is something wrong with such people for feeling insecure when in fact people exhibit insecurity in a wide variety of contexts (job interviews, heights, closed spaces, etc).
Ask HN: Is there a platform to organize social media messaging in a single place
So that I can see my customer's messages from Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp etc in one place and quickly respond from there itself?
I get what the author is getting at. But this particular example doesn't really help with the conclusion. The solution is still about locks, just that the 2 locks are now linked together.
HomePod doesn’t “spy.” The Siri stuff is anonymous. Apple doesn’t know that you asked Siri for directions to a porn shop: unlike Google and Alexa where their business model is based on “spying.”

You can actually use Siri to identify songs (thanks to the Shazam acquisition.) “Hey Siri, what’s this song..” it then listens and identifies the song.
If it were my design, IPC (auto-generated) to a corresponding method in the kernel.
Further down in the article:

>"In the past three decades, more than 100 papers have described correlations between the presence of HSV–1 and the risk of Alzheimer’s... Most recently, Ben Readhead and his colleagues at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai showed that two herpes viruses, HHV–6A and HHV–7, were more common in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients than in those of healthy people."

And the article continues to point out the links, though hedges as to whether it is a causal link or not in either direction.
Well put. Lately it feels like "open source" it's used more often as a buzz word to use when trying to market a product rather than a philosophy to be followed.
I guess that the most common case is not an interactive work, but some kind of automation systems built a long time ago, that just works, eg. Amiga 2000 running school heating system [1] or C64 running driveshaft balancing calculations [2].

[1] https://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/1980s-computer-cont...

[2] http://wbj.pl/auto-garage-in-poland-uses-commodore-64-to-run...
You could try one of the Garmin handheld hiking GPS. I have an eTrex 20 that can read OSM maps and runs for a week on two AA batteries.
On Apple TV, in audio settings, you can select home pod sources. Pretty seamless.
Just for the record, Norway is just about on par with the US if you count foreign born population, and Germany is even slightly above:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
If a company focuses on the short term to the detriment of the long term, the investors will figure that out and the stock will tank. The only way short term-ism can be profitable to shareholders is if the people selling at the high have inside information that the company is hollowed out.

I seriously doubt that subterfuge can be perpetrated successfully quarter after quarter.
It seems to me that it's a computer analog to bike-shedding[1]. A problem 'easy' enough that people feel comfortable explaining it. Same reason there are lots of articles on linear algebra, FFTs, etc. or even why there are so many static site generators etc. -- they occupy that sweet spot of something useful, not entirely trivial, but not too complex that they reduce their audience.

[With that said, I think this is actually a really nice article, and well-presented.]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
Google drive gives you ocr for pdf files so you can search for them.
>the weight could take a more direct path downward as the frame moves.

That should change how long it takes the arm to drop, but it shouldn't change the amount of potential energy released (and thus, projectile speed).
He's missing some important facts in those areas as well. He talks of the effects of the walled garden of Alexa + Amazon Music on Spotify, but it's long been possible to use competing services (like Spotify) on Alexa...
End of an Era: Disassembling my first generation Portabee 3D printer
> The criticism of creative destruction in particular - sure it may have costs but is not doing so any better? Thinking that preserving the status quo at the cost of advancement is in itself a distortion arguably.

That criticism is not even present in the slides. It just says "heartlessness, alienation." You may believe those risks to be justified, but getting defensive about as if these are not real risks is denying the real world data, which coincidentally is another criticism mentioned.

> Defining 'sanity' without reference to reality itself is ironically downright insane.

The word 'sanity' is not mentioned in any of these slides. You are getting defensive over non-existent accusations and in the process are managing to almost understand what 'distortion' means in this context but then somehow get it completely wrong.

All of these five things are thought processes. They can be right some of the time. They can be right most of the time. What defines them as a "distortion" is whether they are the default mode of interpretation of the world all of the time, regardless of what the reality of the situation is. The word is not chosen as a derision - see also déformation professionnelle[0].

A more appropriate framing of the anorexia comparison would be "always feeling that one is fat, regardless of actual weight." Focusing only on the moment in which someone is actually underweight but still feeling fat is both getting it and missing the point at the same time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9formation_professionnel...
APL at Its Core
Ah yeah I say similar time because I don't check it too often but the pricing used to be: free, $500/month, and "contact us"
I have to agree with GP. As I write this, I am listening to a pair of JBL LSR305 desktop monitors, which are quite affordable and sound really excellent. Nothing fancy, just good quality speakers with integrated amps that I can plug into my computer / smartphone / iPod. There is nothing special about these particular speakers - there are other brands that make essentially the same thing for a similar price.
To protect yourself against that, only invest in companies that have been around for years.
Possible traces of cyber-attacks on recent European elections
extremely popular at the fintech firm Jane Street

I don’t know if I’d describe JS as a fintech. Their technology is not their product that you can buy, it exists to power their real business, which is prop trading.
I don't think so.

I'm using our echos every day for time keeping, weather, music and lights.

My tablet (Nexus) I played with it way shorter.

Also I miss Alexa when I'm in a hotel.

What? No music? No timer? No quick weather report? No alarm clock and for the lights I have to use a switch?...

It's not just a gadget it is a very convenient input method.

And it is already super useful but still basically the first generation of devices.
How many cars does one person need?
As mentioned before, Siri with HomePod isn’t “uploading.” Run Wireshark and you can see exactly what is happening. The always on listening happens entirely on the device and queries are anonymized.

Alexa and Google on the other hand..
> Could they? That is speculative.

Not really. They could simply stop re-investing in the company, and then that money would become profit.
So, I guess it is hard to get good ML/AI PhD students these days, given what private companies are offering.
If they just stopped throwing money at research and development of new tech like Alexa they would probably be more profitable.
I love Notational Velocity, but didn't know that it supports external editors!

For linux users, there is nvPy: https://github.com/cpbotha/nvpy
It's a pretty ugly skin, but it works.
I keep an instance of VS Code open that points to ~/notes, which is a folder containing markdown files. I've tried lots of other more branded note taking apps, but markdown is how I think, and VS Code has good markdown support out of the box. Plus, I don't have to context switch to a different set of key commands, since VS Code is also my primary code editor.
Sounds like Google sold you out -- you should probably stop using Google Search. How would a news site know what you Googled, unless Google sold or shared that information?
> I'd love to hear a good solution for this within a market system.

Your wealth won't expand forever, because we all die.
I’m sorry to tell you all that I just lost the game, and now you have too.
The idea that i am using inefficient software boggles my mind. My laptop SSD is 128gb. Unpacked version of this software would be 100MB+ installation. It will also take a lot of my RAM during usage. So for a "truly minimal markdown editor" i get such a monster in my system.

Lets take another monster, Visual Studio Code. Its installation is 72mb, but i get so much more installing it including markdown editor.
The ability to take notes from a phone, render math, search by tags and in line images.

Oh and forwarding emails, adding todos and have them show up as due today, sorted, etc.

The last part could be scripted somewhat easily.
Your smartphone is easier to hack as the isolated Hardwarechip in a smart speaker which listens to you.