skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Keybase does chat well and their code is open source. One issue I see with them is that they seem in a perpetual beta phase, so who knows how dependent you can be on their software. I also don't like the React Native based phone apps as they don't feel native and lack polish. I also worry about them having joined the crypto train with no reason besides being backed up by Stellar foundation. The stake from Stellar into Keybase isn't clear and may influence decision making in direction of Keybase.

The chat clients do have a nifty feature of setting up a time based, self destroying message. And you can share git repos within your registered clients and peers. They also have a shared filesystem and team based chat. You can also generate a PGP key pair for identity. The feature list is vast.

The main point of Keybase is also sound in my book, which is to have a network of proof such that you can prove who you are in your correspondence in whatever social media or chat you use. You can even use the encryption / decryption services of Keybase only and send the encrypted payloads however you'd like.

I think with more polish on their clients and proven stability that Keybase will be a great service to depend on. But I do think they need more personnel and/or they need to step up on their social aspect because their last blog post was 200 days ago.
obviously yes, apparently general social consensus here seems it is hygienic than using paper to do the job.

At-least middle class families & above have water faucet to go along with western model toilets; though the concept of using tissue paper for cleaning shit is still alien for majority here.
The medical team at the University of Pennsylvania, who actually examined the victims and published their findings in the peer reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association, found that the victims suffered real injuries and psychosomatic illness was ruled out.

Meanwhile, all these people who have never examined the patients keep speculating the opposite. Color me skeptical.
Just wane say most people have no time to think about this (outside western countries) they just want to survive
The answer depends very much on the context. Are you a high school graduate look for a field to study? A mid-career person looking for a hobby? Someone considering a career change? A end-career wealthy person looking for a place to dump money on?

Personally, I believe the most important problems are mostly relationship problems in other words politics. The solutions there are simple but not easy. For example, world peace is simple: Everybody just stop killing each other. However, getting everybody to agree on that is ridiculously hard.

My general thoughts are:

1. I have a certain set of skills and strengths that I can contribute. I should use them instead of doing stuff I'm not good at because that should optimize the global productivity.

2. I should work on things where return of investment is best. So do not work on things where a return is unlikely, e.g. intergalactic travel or fixing email, or where the return is not worth it, e.g. cheaper ice cream or a flappy bird clone.

3. Keep track of big problems where the time/opportunity has not come yet. This is inspired by Hammings talk on research. It also applies to lots of free software though. For example, if Twitter would shut down tomorrow, then the Fediverse would be there to catch the fallout. So it is of some importance to work on open alternatives to popular services. The iPhones success was mostly waiting for the right time, when mobile Internet, mobile computing, and app-store market structure all were ready enough.

Unfortunately, in terms of my hobbies I'm still mostly suffering from the Paradox of Choice. Too many options to make a decision, so I don't do anything. Let check Hacker News again...
>There are plenty of "Einstein was wrong" or "The circle really can be squared" cranks out in the general public.

Yes, but those are kooks, where the consensus between physicists is specific and solid and their predictions either pan out or not (except in wild areas of exploration, like string theory and such).

Whereas with economics, economists don't see eye to eye (except on trivial parts that are 99% mathematical results), and anything applied with the intention of making a prediction is rarely better than random guesses.

Simply one discipline concerns a fixed reality, where preferences and opinions don't matter as to the behavior of e.g. matter, energy, etc. and we try to model it as best as we can (a fixed target).

And the other a human activity, where political biases, private interests, personality quirks, morality, cultural norms, backroom deals, laws, outlaws, the press, and everything in between pull in various directions, and where even if we could get close to an accurate predictive model, there would still be huge (trillion dollar huge) motives (political, financial, career related, etc) to make black appear as white and vice versa.
The US has reduced staffing at affected embassies and has probably taken other precautions. Don’t you think that hostile governments have good reason to hinder US operations on their territory? A lot of intelligence gathering happens through embassies.

It’s not as far fetched as you make it sound.
I agree. It's just so convenient to use Google Photos as a backup and method of sharing albums that the threshold for leaving the service is super high, at least in my book.
@probonopd wrote:[0]

> Olive is a professional open-source video editor in the making. And they are publishing continuous builds in #AppImage format for #Linux which makes it trivially easy to follow @oliveteam[1] development. Pro tip: Use AppImageUpdate for binary delta updates[2]

[0] https://twitter.com/probonopd/status/1079154249253179392

[1] https://twitter.com/oliveteam

[2] https://github.com/olive-editor/olive/releases/tag/continuou...
Very true, I'd say a downgrade is the trend. I saw like 10+ people deciding to switch from "superphones" down to mid-range models, and even dumbphones for their new phones.

People who had ultrabooks, often try Atom based notebooks and sufraces. The key deciding factor for such people, I think, is having a good screen and bearable ergonomics (no microscopic keyboards, or batteries.) The data I have access to tell that the "big screen, small CPU," is the category with the biggest year on year growth. Atom based 14 and 15 inchers are selling like hot cookies.

As a person working in the industry, I can say that's a very visible trend. People switch their devices more due to battery and physical wear than actual need for more features.

In that respect, things got very "Japanised" in respect that Japanese cellphone makers are often making new models every season with no real changes other than cosmetic.

Japan is also the only developed market where "dumbphones" ever saw few upwards trends in last 5 years.
Maybe that's a sign that incentive structures are the most important (meta) problem to work on.

Maybe the most important problem of all is to make it trivially easy for people to solve the problem of this thread. (And not only easy, but lucrative.) Once that mechanism is in action, you'd have done 100x more good for the world than you'd have done choosing to work, say, in the energy sector instead of AI.
Re: forgotten context

I use Firefox's tag feature for this, helps you give a one or two or three word context like: linux, firewall, iptables or devops, cicd
IPv6 is in no way more complicated than IPv4, especially if you include all the things you need to make IPv4 work in practice (NAT, techniques for dealing with NAT, etc.). IPv6 is different which is probably why you are having trouble: you wanted something just like IPv4 but with larger addresses, but that is not IPv6. For me the key to understanding IPv6 was to view it as something totally different, and not try to map my understanding of IPv4 onto IPv6.

Now I am aggressively against IPv4, because over and over I see problems resulting from NAT, or collisions in private address ranges on two LANs, or broken path MTU discovery, etc. The only arguments for IPv4 are economic or political; at this point the technical debate is over and IPv6 is a clear winner (the majority of technical problems in IPv6 deployment are related to compatibility with IPv4).
The cards are not the issue. Drivers can be problematic with certain workloads (like rendering UIs) and not others (like loading and running non-graphics programs). It's also a lot easier to debug and deploy a fix to a farm of identical servers with identical drivers than it is to be compatible across a huge breadth of configurations.
I just play a right-handed guitar 'upside-down'. While this makes it harder to finger many chords as I need to reach over the lower strings to reach the higher ones it makes it easier to just pick up any guitar I come across. I learnt it this way because of the way I learnt to play guitar, by picking up one of such and starting to play it - little did I know I did it 'wrong'.
I jot down very basic ideas on the most convenient medium I have at the time - often, it's gmail on my phone (write to myself).

I later organise them using mural.co (originally it was called mural.ly) which is a web whiteboard which I find very good for organising different kinds of materials, links, etc.
>It's a short life, so I want to be careful with this decision, to avoid any future regrets

Work on what you enjoy and/or can make you a living.

You are not here to solve some big world problem that you don't particularly care for (but think you "have to" care).

In fact, why even think that your contribution on that sector (healthcare) would be that big or required, seeing that you don't even know if you want to work on that area?
I spend a lot of time in all the major cities and what strikes me about the Bay Area is how geographically constrained the suburbs are. You basically get degrees of freedom to the South and North (and some in the East Bay) but unlike NYC you can’t spread out in all directions.

I’ve never formally studied this in detail but my intuition says geography led to many of the Bay’s housing and transportation problem.

When viewed through that lens this superhighway of Caltrain makes sense.

Not rocket science but thought I’d share.
How does hedge fund add value to normal people?
>If you don't have soap

I don't think unavailability of soap posed higher risk than unavailability of the toilet by itself. I guess areas where soap/water is unavailable, they go 'Bear Grylls' of cleaning with leafs.
Everything you just wrote is either wrong or whimsical.

TL;DR: To get hypertrophy, lift a weight more than seven times but less than fifteen times and to exhaustion; take a short break; repeat to exhaustion. For protein, eating 1.5 gram per kilogram body mass is the consensus in the scientific literature, though some figures go up to as much as 2.0 grams.

Everything else I wrote reasonably assumes OP is interested in the topic and would appreciate primary sources. Those are not far-fetched assumptions.
I decided a long time ago that I wanted to work on things that there aren't any design patterns for yet.

Any potential client/startup that comes to me asking for help with their e-commerce business, unless it's something truly unique, I always say, get a Shopify/Squarespace account first don't waste time on designing for something that has so many established design patterns already.

Whereas if someone comes to me for help with robotics, crypto, trading, AI, complex services in healthcare etc, that's where I want to help.

I have recently further decided to focus on industries with jobs aren't desk related (i.e. where you don't sit in front of a computer).

These make up 80% of the just that exist out there yet only get around 1% of the actual investments from ex. Sillicon Vally investors. So our venture studio is now also focusing on that which is a very interesting space and kind of allow me to come full-circle with the kind of jobs my parents had (cleaning lady and plumber).
Hey, it's exactly like me
Google has a history of abandoning its projects (https://gcemetery.co/). What formats does Keep export to?
Even with money I use integers. Instead of dollars (or local currency), I store values internally as pennies (or local equivalent 1/100 of main currency). Sometimes when working with interest I'll need to work with floats, and some databases I have values stored as DECIMAL(8,2) instead of INT, but for the most part I've saved quite a few headaches by keeping my values in INTs.
Competition and bypassing de facto monopolies by big banks.
Prior reporting is the one resource they can guarantee will not turn into a dead link.
Which regulation is that? I've worked on financial applications, but not gambling, and I've not heard of this regulation. I should probably know about it!
Yeah.

Their own "innovation" was raising the prices, and saying ", the only viable strategy it was left with was to raise prices to extract higher rents from its existing user base" is just ignoring elasticity and demand.

"Sure, just make your customers pay more, that will work out fine" yeah, right
General purpose universally available tools like Google Docs, which makes it easy to copy and paste links as well as rich text, graphics or anything else you want to describe them, and share and collaborate in real time, are an enormous improvement over bookmarks! There's really no point to using bookmarks any more.
>Anyone can probably reach the top 5% in most non-athletic areas given enough time.

At any given time, only the 5% of the population can reach the top 5% in any area.

If anybody could do it and e.g. just 10% did it, then there would be a new 5% (the top 50% of that 10%), and the rest 50% wouldn't be in.

>Thus, I'm a big fan of Peter Theils advice to work on things that satisfy the property that: "if you weren't working on it, this problem would not get solved".

Which is a self-aggrandising way for Theils to say that he helped solve some problems that wouldn't have been solved otherwise.

Unless you have tons of means to contribute (e.g. billions) to some cause, the idea starting out as some e.g. college student that "this problem wont be solved without my help" is 99.9999% BS.
I find being left handed and using the mouse in my right hand very useful.

I can have a pencil writing notes in my left hand, while I control the computer via mouse in my right.

Similarity, mouse the cursor with my right and type with my left.
Weird - I had the same problem, leaving the board untouched for a while (a year) then trying again to reflash and failing completely. I just assumed I’d messed something up accidentally
There are two important aspects here: getting ideas recorded, and organising them.

Note pads and text files are great for getting ideas down, but bad for organising them

If you can’t organise the ideas later, the whole system breaks down and you stop using it

I looked into different SaaS apps etc but they all had some features I didn’t like or were extraneous for me.

I realized the only way to do this was to create my own note taking app with a UI that was optimised for my way of doing things and would contain as few bottlenecks as possible for recording and organising

The result is an app where I can type something out in markdown format, apply tags, and then filter all my notes by tags

I uses local storage because I hate the idea of a login getting in the way of recording the idea
The main issue I have with the gpu blacklist is that chrome provides the user with no information or notice when it triggers.
I wish Signal did route through the phone and allowed to send regular texts from other devices.
It does not need to be "made a crazy company, or is a major player in that company" to be opportunity. For a rural or inner-city kid, opportunity could mean securing a career where they can save for retirement and raise a family.
There are so many kinds of jobs out there, but many disadvantaged folks will never even realize they can do better than being a local lumberjack or working at a local retailer. They don't know the opportunity even exists.

I skipped out on about a decade of software development because it was not something someone did for real money in my locality, and the income it could command was very low the year I had briefly looked into it, and the rent in those areas where you could do programming was too high. I seriously considered working for the local lumberyard because I had trouble wrapping my head around other opportunities. You can find my path to software in another comment here. I think schools could do better than "career day" to expose kids to the opportunities out there.
Main SSD:

A few partitions each containing critical system images like Windows 7 and a few Linux OSs, and then all non-critical system images live within /pool. My home directory is limited to 2GB because no work happens in my hypervisor OS.

Each system image has a home directory which usually contains ~/Projects, ~/Scripts, ~/Documents/notes, ~/Documents/maps.

For literature and reference materials, I use the BISAC[0] system for storage with a folder for each heading and subheading. I feed these into Calibre which maintains its own internal library so this doesn't matter much anyway.

Linux user programs are installed in /usr/local/bin which is mounted separately. Windows user programs are installed in a junctioned folder which points to a regular HDD to take some load off the SSD, at C:\Users\<User>\Apps and C:\Users\<User>\Utilities. %APPDATA% and all user libraries are also junctioned and pointing to an HDD.

I have several drives split into two LVM volume groups, with some logical volumes taking up multiple drives. These volumes are passed into my VMs, which see continuous filesystems for each category of data, such as video, music, games, and documents. That way these filesystems can be extended as needed without hassle.

[0] https://bisg.org/page/bisacedition
Imagine how much Google, Facebook, et al will know about your daughter when she finally turns 13 and can open an account.

Cradle to grave data collection!
so there are still some companies innovating, Apple just isn't one of them.

I agree and it’s been true for some time. I was an early adopter of iPhone but went one upgrade cycle with a Windows Phone. It gave me several benefits that iPhone either didn’t have at the time (like wireless charging) or that they still don’t have (easy “child” mode that limits access to specific apps and disables ability to send or read messages).
Usually I do not decide what problems to solve. They just come to me and I try to solve them. I have tried to solve some big problems, but that has never worked out for me.

The "problems" that I solve, or try to solve, come mostly from the following sources: academic colleagues asking questions, natural questions that arise during math seminars, finding the optimal way to reach some goal specified by one of my bosses, finding ways to fix or understand ad hock methods invented by my coworkers, natural questions that occur to me while reading astronomy, math, AI, or economics articles, and lastly, answering mathematical or AI questions about games just because I love games and game theory.

Sometimes problems or questions will remain in my head for years before being solved. Many are never solved, but they are fun to think about.

It is very rare that one of my solutions affects more than 100 people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
That's true. It's also worth pointing out from the same graph that today's "high immigrant population" is the same as what it was from the entire 1870-1910 period. A period that saw America rise from second-tier status to a world power. Most natives can trace some of their ancestry to the immigrants who arrived during this period.
Great! Feel free to message me if you want guidance.
My answer, and some won't like it, but it's true...

Metadata is surveillance.
“Public policymaking” treats a lot of the present political science and economic discourse as, well, established and tested science, hence all the troubles I mentioned. The same thing used to happen to history, there were a lot of past political decisions taken only because an historian had written a good book or two about a specific subject, but fortunately for historians that train has passed. That partially happened thanks to people like Popper writing about the “Poverty of historicism” and about how we shouldn’t treat history like a “hard science” and especially how we shouldn’t take important policy decisiond based on what history says or doesn’t say, I feel that economics and public political science also need their Popper moment.
I use WorkFlowy and absolutely love it. Its essentially a bare bones version of Evernote and proud ...
It's not a regression. It's a more sensible default which makes the general user happy, but the power user can have more control if they wish.
I do something like your touch incantation, but as a bash function (mknote) that takes an argument for a basic "name".

So whenever I make a note, it goes to ~/notes/$date-$1.txt which I then come back to later either manually or with "enote" (which opens emacs for the latest note matching $1 via ls -t). Having the name really helps me see visually what I'm looking for, roughly remember (like any title) what important enough things happened in the last while, and so on.

As for daily notes/TODO, I've long given up on a single TODO.txt, but do have several years of weekly status entries in the "Google snippets" form of "this week, next week". For 2018, I finally gave in and switched to Markdown rather than my own sort of format ("dash means done as planned, X means didn't do it, + means something unplanned happened").

Edit: phone typos.
This is not how it works. If there is a number of people who really really really care about a single issue, it might be advisable for a politician to pander to their particular interests on the expense of the majority who cares only mildly about the issue.
More precisely, disabling the autonomous addressing flag in the router advertisement packet allows you to completely control the addresses which will then only be handled by DHCPv6, which allows you to slice a /64. But that means no v6 temporary addresses for anonymisation, which might be exactly what you want in a managed network/corporate scenario which requires liability tracing.
>and rumor is that we'll see foldable smartphones there...

Wait...

what?

You think making a smart phone fold is innovative?

I don't know man?

I think maybe I'm just crazy or something. I still use my iphone 5, it seems to work fine. I don't really understand why I need to upgrade to the latest and greatest thing every year. But for me, asking me to pay hundreds of dollars for a new phone, when my old phone works perfectly fine, seems a bit silly. And then to say, "But this one will FOLD!!!" just makes me think you're insulting my intelligence.
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Re 2 - Blackberry Messenger used an eight character alphanumeric ID, and was enormously popular in the UK (not sure about other countries however) - until Blackberries died a death at the hands of Apple and Android...
would "units" work?
I suppose the light side of the moon is also a very good place. Good enough to start with. Somewhere to the side to avoid having earth in full view.