skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're looking at the homepage, you won't see it there. I wanted the homepage to be clean. Click through into, say, features, and you should see the message in the upper left below the main navigation (on desktop).
I do see how having a specialized set of calls for directories breaks the abstraction that directories are files. Isn't that the very definition of breaking the abstraction?
This is a really really good post because the ideas used to solve this problem are applicable in almost every control theory problem which is one of those tools all good engineers should have in their backpocket because they're so versatile.

Still, at the time of writing all 10 previous comments are about plotly. Talk about missing the forest for the trees.

EDIT: I also seem to remember that a couple of months ago there was a youtube video posted here on HN about a bycicle-like contraption that allowed you to simulate an environment of zero friction. The comments under that post quickly became a flame war on the subject of countersteering. To those people who might be reading this, I doubly encourage to read this post and make a good faith attempt to understand it.
This remind me of this microblogging for hackers script: https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/blob/master/README.rst
> Several of them feel like variations of the same theme: I know I'm right, so I can disregard evidence|opinion|counter-argument because .. an axiom of the system is I know I'm right.

This if taken to the extreme is just narcissism and can wreck havoc. My father very frequently just gets possessed with insisting how only his interpretation or memory of the events is correct and ignores all sorts of even the most basic evidence, to the extent of absolutely distorting the reality. Not hard to imagine what sort of chaos and pain it has created in the family. Maybe sometimes this helps in running a business but if one takes it to personal interactions it can be simply ruining.

Also I do believe that the best leaders aren't the ones who insist on being a jerk but are instead those who can objectively evaluate evidence, genuinely listen to others and immediately acknowledge their own folly when their previous beliefs are wrong. Such traits can only be a plus, while distortive stubbornness is only negative and is a trait found in many depressed people as well.

> (I'm not a person who gets stuff done btw. the mantra my get-stuff-done colleagues say which feels apposite is: "do the shit work first" which kind of makes sense: they don't procrastinate about things they'd rather not do)

Sound advice.

> Another one: seventh might be they believe implicitly they are the smartest person in the room

How is this very different from the "personal exceptionalism" thing? Aren't they exactly the same? (The only difference might be that the original author insisted upon "macro-exceptionalism" but I doubt people can easily draw such a line in their self perception).
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Cheap meta drama and overgeneralization is not substantive.
Very cool. Cron jobs IRL ;)
Cargo Cult Science: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science
This headline is misleading. Nate Silver writes:

"It's extremely misleading not to mention Musk has a long history of also donating to Democrats, including in this political cycle."

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1018211558835404800
I agree that salaries for college-educated people are shockingly low in Spain, I think it is a reflection of the lower general (not necessarily individual) productivity in Spain - as in bureaucracy, labor laws, etc.

Please keep in mind that MANY college-educated people in the US never get to even $100K (teachers, architects, there are more).

Also, it takes at least 10 years (perhaps more) to get to $150K for software engineers (with a B.S. degree), and you need to live in one of the bigger cities (where the cost of living is higher).

The numbers are a bit skewed here because a lot of the posters on HN live/work in the S.F./Silicon Valley area, which is a world onto itself.
I've stopped using Google Maps as a map altogether and subscribe to the service of a navigation map maker directly. Their maps (they do combine proprietary materials and sources like OpenStreetMap) are of higher quality and have a satisfactory degree of completness as well as good search.

Gmaps has stopped being useful to me since searches in a given perimeter do not show all results spatially at any given zoomlevel, and whole roads and labels go missing if you zoom out a little bit to much or too far in. It used to be a fairly good product around 2012 but has since then declined in utility, especially in contrast to all the catching-up the competitors did in the meantime.

I suppose a huge part of Gmaps business nowdadays is the embedding of Gmaps in 3rd-party products.
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And they line up to ridicule millennials for having sustainable and comparably very simple common-sense standards.

I always respected elders, but it was far easier to do with the Great Generation. I really respected them. My respect for collective baby-boomers has diminished.

On the bright side, it’s probably all uphill from here. As they begin dying off, we will build a drastically more humane world for ourselves.
Projects were cut. They did not touch our benefits in any meaningful way. Take the 40 or so projects that are going on, sort them by profit/cost, and chop the bottom 2/3 off.

They were dumb projects anyway.
Show HN: Buboflash – spaced repetitions software with PDF incremental reading
Greetings, Anki and Supermemo users,

I created a new website for learning: https://buboflash.eu - it has incremental reading and flashcards repetitions. As a long term aficionado of spaced repetitions, I come in peace, to complement Anki and Supermemo :-) Buboflash is on the way of better and better integration with Anki now.
Buboflash lets us upload a PDF, annotate it in terms of both text annotations and image occlusions (in incremental reading process), and then export it to Anki (or Supermemo, I figured out their XML "factors" later).

Annotating works on regular websites as well, and in case of Wikipedia LaTeX, it creates actual editable LaTeX objects on Buboflash site. The other features are full versioning history that allows for non-conflicting edits by mutliple users and extensive search, like full text search on annotated PDF page ranges, flashcards derived from specific pages etc.
I hope we can expand "global" database of flashcards related to particular books, subjects etc, rather than scattered notes - how many times you have seen a collection called "chemistry", that can be anything, from names of elements, to specialised notes from a lecture? I hope the way I implemented search and versioning will help towards the goal. With versioning, you can only see your edits and people you follow, so flashcards will not unexpectedly change under your feet, but you still benefit from updates from people you trust.

Enjoy - and ask any questions you may have!

Piotr

PS. I am closer to importing Anki databases too, I am almost done with implementing Anki's templating system.

https://buboflash.eu/static5/app/demo/2018.07.15/anki-from-b...

https://buboflash.eu/static5/app/demo/2018.07.15/occlusion-i...

https://buboflash.eu/static5/app/demo/2018.07.15/reading-fro...

https://buboflash.eu/static5/app/demo/2018.07.15/whole-equat...

https://buboflash.eu/static5/app/demo/2018.07.15/image-occlu...
Private equity firms are notorious for being focused on the short term, to the point of doing LBOs to acquire firms and in the process encumbering the acquired firm with a debt load that cripples its ability to compete.

The PE firm may also make the acquired company take on additional debt in order to pay dividends. Or it may sell off assets of the company in order to take dividends out.

The PE firm doesn't get hurt if one of their looted companies goes bust, so there's no incentive to keep the acquired company healthy and viable. PE firms are like parasitic wasp larvae eating their prey from inside.

Just this year this sort of thing drove Toys R Us out of business, and iHeartMedia into chapter 11 bankruptcy.
RTFT&C?
I have an Alfred workflow that lets me copy any text, press CMD + Shift + X, and emails me the snippet. I then have a simple app that connects to my email account (Gmail) and lets me add tags (labels) to notes. This allows me to take notes quickly (I'll just write something in Sublime) and easily review/categorise them later. This has been really wonderful and I am constantly tweaking the workflow to suit me. It's also really simple and only relies on Alfred (which is a great tool anyway).
Some people wouldn't be able to do it and it would be good for them to think about this and realize it, but I hope you don't seriously believe that /humanity/ wouldn't be be able to do it. That vastly underestimates the amount of exactly this kind of problem solving that goes on every day, all over the world.

Don't underestimate humanity by forgetting to look outside of your bubble.
My wife's sister is a paediatric oncologist in India. People come to her when their kids get sick, and she does her analysis and gives them a diagnosis, which might be that there is a fairly high probability that their child is going to die. Sometimes people go away and get Ayurvedic "treatments" for their child's cancer, which claims an efficacy of 100%. After those "treatments" have failed, the parents return, now with children who were much more sick than before, and often when there is nothing that can be done, and so they end up watching their children die.

All of which to illustrate why even though this statement:

> People don't sign over value to companies unless they value what they're getting in return.

reads as convincing, when taken in isolation, it actually says very little when held up against the harsh light of reality. Optimising towards a stupid goal is still stupid.
Google Keep is free, has multiple subsections, and automatically syncs between my smartphone and my PC with no intervention on my part.
I guess there's sometimes a difference of degree. As somebody mentioned below, if somebody is dead set on believing himself to be correct as to ignore all the evidence to the contrary, he'll be perceived as a jerk, is in for big troubles and this is actually a common trait of depression. Also I can hardly see how "dichotomous thinking" can ever be realistic. The real world is always grey.

If somebody has excellent ability in performing correct inferences and a healthy dose of self belief as he knows what he's doing and knows he has indeed accumulated more than many others trying the same thing, those can indeed be positive personality traits. So I don't think they can all be called distortions but I don't believe all of them are sane either.
“Out of Africa” refers to the theory that Homo sapiens (our direct ancestors) came out of Africa. This article is referring to tools made by Homo erectus or another homonid group. So, not our direct ancestors, more distant cousins.
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Mine. Writing my first Spectrum Forth program. I seriously haven't been the same since!
That’s the original title. I don’t see that it was changed after the information about his other donations was added.

That’s not the point though, is it? He’s donating to a group of people that work to discredit climate change science, while selling/promoting/advocating the need for electric vehicles, energy storage and solar paneles etc.

So the title is actually the news. We know many companies donate equally to both parties, but it is a surprise that he of all unscrupulous and selfserving corporations would be donating to the side that undercuts his whole world view and interests.
Thanks for the link to Functional Java, I had not seen it before. I added Functional Java to my programming notes for Java resources - might use it sometime when doing a Java project.
"Like yesterday nothing extraordinary happened in 99% of India today" isn't newsworthy though.

But maybe DW should emphasize the local aspect of these reports, like the foreign office does: https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/aussenpolitik/laender/ind...
Germans aren't used to a single country being that vast and diverse.
Making Interactive Fiction: Narrative Design for Writers
Highly Available Grafana Running on AWS Fargate and RDS Aurora
Regulating AI in the era of big tech
There is Orgzly, but it's not very practical.
Like the EU GPDR, or every weird country laws, it is better not to care too much.

Just be legal in the place of incorporation, where you live and where you run your business, then let it go.

Lawsuits? If Europeans do not like that US sites do not respect the GPDR or have no license for something, yes, they can sue.

But given the 1st amendment, I don't think anyone is going to be extradited for free speach!
> what's the 'order' which 'the biological system' is trying to maintain?

Being stable, ie. not entering a cascade of events that leads to death.

> And what's a 'free energy functional'?

"free energy functional of their internal states" means the free energy, computed as a function from their internal state. ie. each internal state has a corresponding internal energy.

> The title sounded like a perpetuum mobile, but that doesn't seem to be it.

Actually, it is. It's just a very very complex mobile. With some energy input (drinking, photosynthesis, ...) and some energy output (heat, sweat, ...)

> Can someone ELI5 what this article is about?

I'm going to try, but I'm no biologist or chemist so I can't certify this is correct.

Living beings are very complex systems, which could easily enter a bad state, which would lead to a worse state, etc until death.

To prevent that, they restrict themselves to some "good" states, which have little "free energy". The thing with "free energy" is that it cannot increase easily, so the beings cannot enter a state with higher "free energy" than they currently have.

If all possible bad states have higher "free energy" than the current state, then they cannot reach it, which is good.
I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of the module system, but please note, that it's still experimental, so not all fun and rainbows. As of now, the Go issue tracker still has 53 open issues with the "modules" label[1], and Go 1.11 should ship around August. The system works well for most cases, but there are still rough edges, especially around vendoring, undocumented or not-so-well documented behaviours, and features which may or may not be "in the scope" for the module system.

Overall, I am trying to be optimistic about the future of Go dependency management, but I am not planning to switch the projects I work on in my company from dep to Go modules until most of those rough edges are either smoothed, or officially recognised as "works as intended", with viable workarounds.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+l...
Shouldn't qualify as a Show HN.
The presence of a correlation isnt the interesting part of the story (as noted by others, what isnt correlated with Alzheimer's?), so should not be highlighted in the headline. The interesting part is the proposal that amyloid beta is protective.
I guess it may depend if you're running on Intel or AMD hardware i.e. if the Intel ME stuff has total memory access and its own Minix OS and networking etc.
I know something similar happened at another Vista owned company I have peers at. They don't always leave engineering alone.
Okay, but I think it probably isn't a good outcome where a serious comment saying the same thing is more welcome than the ironic one.
Dangerous. Just don't.
I assume they must meet to discuss the algorithm beforehand.

So they could choose as algorithm: never attack

(Even if they cannot meet beforehand, the above is a strategy they can figure out on their own assuming the other is also choosing an optimal solution. Never attack is better than always attack because it doesn't depend on timing)

Then they need no communication yet know what to do and what the other does.

So problem is solvable, and something is wrong in the proof? Or alternatively I missed something in the problem statement preventing the above.
>> > Nor was share price assumed to be the best proxy for corporate performance.
>> Since when have shareholders cared about anything except getting rich?

You get rich by taking the profits of the company through dividends. Anyone trying to get rich from selling the stock is playing the greater-fool game.

Share price is nice, but it's not the best game to be playing.
Looks like Blink. It’s pretty awesome. The layout is relatively simple for using special keys and it works great with a keyboard on larger iOS screens. The UI is also almost entirely text based for workflows once you have servers setup. That was always the most annoying thing about using Prompt and other SSH clients on iPad. Pecking around on the screen to get to a shell before you can start typing away. Blink supports Mosh as well.
> Anyone who freelances, creates something alone, goes solo as a startup founder etc. needs these "cognitive distortions"/"mental disorders", I see them as necessary beliefs. The opposite would be someone who just blends into and becomes yet another functional toothed wheel without any manifestation of desires. A good portion of our society is like these, some people don't want more and are happy/contented.

I don't think those two things are dichotomous. (Is this dichotomous thinking being displayed right there?) One can very well be motivated by what they're doing but still understand and accept that they're fundamentally not very different from any other human being, and that they can look at the evidence, listen to others' ideas, and admit their mistakes, without jeopardizing their pursuit.

Sure, if somebody has excellent ability in performing correct inferences and a healthy dose of self belief as he knows what he's doing and knows he has indeed accumulated more than many others trying the same thing, those can indeed be positive personality traits. However if one goes as far as really "distorting" the reality/self perception, or look down upon others, I don't think it can end well at all. I would hypothesize that some founders succeeded despite being jerks, but most jerks are not successful founders, and most successful founders aren't jerks.
Sorry, you are still completely wrong and that title is still completely misleading.

Musk also donated $6 MILLION to the Sierra Club: https://twitter.com/SierraClub/status/1018319251428577280

Just in case you are innumerate, that means he's donated 200X more to the Sierra Club. You know, because 200 * 30k = 6e6...
In risk management and safety analysis, they draw the distinction between "hazard" (being the thing that might cause damage/injury) and "risk" (being the exposure to it).

I think it's useful to take a similar approach when considering luck. Good things (big contracts, investors) are the equivalent of "hazard", and good market positioning, professional networking, persistence etc. then increase the "risk" of them paying off. It's not about "being lucky", it's about increasing the likelihood of positive outcomes to a level where your overall success becomes likely.
They may never get a chance to convert the visiter into a customer again.

If they don’t turn into a subscription website and remain advertiser based, how will they ever “convert” you? Would you ever be convinced to whitelist their site?
Short term yes, but long-term they stop growing while competitors come closer
It’s not because you’re not a victim that you should assume everyone is like you.

Considering the fact that you “suspect th police does their job”, it might be better not to assume and check directly, because you may be saddened about the difference between what we think happens and the hard truth.

> Regarding the fellows who are considering mass murder, I suggest you notify the police.

I just told you their story and how it’s possible to prevent their attraction to mass murder, and you’re basically saying “Let’s continue wronging them, and if they feel wronged, let’s put them in the hands of the police.” Your lack of humanity is a blatant display of the state of humanity towards men: None at all.

Good lord you’re ignominious.
> A lot of recent failures and bankruptcies can be attributed to this phenomenon.

Do you mind sharing some examples of said bankruptcies?
I use Telegram and write messages to myself. It's extremely convenient, because it's my main communication tool and it's always open so I don't need to take any special action to make a note.
All the time. I'm curious as to what problems you were having?

Obviously you won't be able to execute code blocks, reformat tables, follow links, fold sections etc.. but everything is just a search away..
I used jrnl.sh for about a year. I was able to extend it to parse the output so I could do some analysis on what I had written (I was using it partially to track time spent on certain tasks). However, I came to find that write long-form on the command line is just awkward. Lately I have been using checkvist.com which has been working out great.
In practice, management can get minority shareholders to approve almost anything, the most obvious being by treating unreturned proxy ballots as implicit votes for management. They can entertain floor resolutions (never put before shareholders on proxy ballots) at investor meetings in locales they choose, but which they know will be burdensome or foolish for shareholders to attend, because they plane ticket alone would wipe out any expected earnings on their shares over the next 100 years.

And that's just in the nominially shareholder-democratic sphere of things that are actually brought before shareholders. Most things simply aren't, and furthermore, in public companies, management essentially CAN'T tell shareholders more than is required by the SEC, because that means making the information public, for their competitors to see and plan around.

In short, shareholder democracy "sounds good, doesn't work." Management has total, dictatorial power, except in the case of major institutional investors like mutual fund managers or investment banks, who often as a matter of policy always support management. Even when they don't, they're so far removed from the people whose money it is that they're using to exercise their power that they may as well be classed with the manager class. Rarely, very wealthy individuals can exercise substations control as investors. More often, they are management as well (e.g. Zuckerberg's control of Facebook is as a manager, not as a shareholder.)
You've just pushed me into 20 Minutes of silent pondering and arguing with myself. My girlfriend asked me if something bad happened because I was just staring wordlessly into the air.

Thanks for opening me up to this issue.
Just put a chip in it #internetofshit
That used to be me. Can I suggest you check out Dynalist? It's actually maintained and updated (unlike Workflowy at this point), with more useful features. I've been finding the colouring, headers and bookmarks very useful.

https://dynalist.io/
> the Indian populace needs to grow up and not behave like insolent children throwing a tantrum.

Well that is the second order bit, the first order bit is that Indian populace needs have faith in its Police and Govt but as you said that is not going to happen.
Isn’t kinda the point of her statement that she isn’t unidentified? She was made famous by somebody else without her knowledge and consent.

When a production crew wants to use footage of you in a show they have to get you to sign a release. There probably needs to be some form of this for online exposure as well. What form that would take is a difficult question.