skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly alarming to see. Mine build up, I keep them for a few weeks, bookmark a few, and burn the lot periodically - which suggests I shouldn't have bothered with them in the first place.

My bookmarks are dumped in a large pile to be one day sorted out. I have hundreds of them. And rather annoyingly are there now with forgotten context.
I can't even access the creation dates on Chrome/ium unless I export and data wrangle.

I have decided I'm just going to write a system where I paste the address/or use a bookmarklet, and insist on small text or context and/or the ability to tag and group. But it must be a simple and cross-browser/system.

The most annoying thing about bookmark managers is presentation.
I'm pretty sure Mozilla just don't care about Linux these days. It's been getting steadily worse, and 64.0 is almost unusable for me due to a bug that has nothing to do with graphics which hangs the whole thing for minutes at a time.
At some point hardware is "good enough" and people have to upgrade less often, or are able to push the hardware more.

We can see this with for example laptops (and PCs though that's an older example). The laptops of this decade are all still useful unless you're a hardcore gamer. And even for gamers (a specific market and niche) the need to upgrade their gaming laptop is lowering if they're OK with not the latest of the latest settings.

We should also take price into the comparison. A phone costing between 1000 and 1500 EUR is a lot of money for people.

Finally, we should take into account Apple's biggest competitor: the second hand market of iOS devices. Everything older than 5S still works with the latest iOS.
I'll skip over what I'm actively working on because I think this deserves a mention: I'm a hobbyist digital archivist. This is something where most people can likely make a meaningful and long-lasting impact, that nobody else could if they didn't.

Archiving, for me, is a way of travelling forward in time. Think about "time capsules" and what not.

Here's what I mean by this: If you write a message on a piece of paper, and read it the next day, your message has successfully traveled forward in time by a day. But as the days pass, the message's survival chances diminish greatly.

The goal of archiving is to give information the highest chances possible to travel forward in time, as long as possible. It's hard to evaluate how good our chances are now, but 2000 years from now, if archaeologists find information on our current society, is it more likely to be the piece of paper you wrote, or an archive that was given the best chances of survival?

It's extremely rewarding and it truly is meaningful. Archive anything. Sort and order it, index it, describe it, upload it. Do it for something you work on. The odds for you to archive something that was not done by anyone else are very high.
If you want to check out more about high-throughput incremental view maintenance in a Datomic-like system, here's a decent read (caveat: I'm involved):

https://www.nikolasgoebel.com/2018/09/13/incremental-datalog...

Also, a recent video from ClojureConj on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgqFlowyfTA
The linked post is a bit poorly expressed, but I think there is a good point there: fixed-size binary floating-point numbers are a compromise, and they are a poor compromise for some applications, and difficult to use reliably without knowing about numerical analysis. (For example, suppose you have an array of floating-point numbers and you want to add them up, getting the closest representable approximation to the true sum. This is a very simple problem and ought to have a very simple solution, but with floating-point numbers it does not [1].)

Perhaps it is time for the developers of new programming languages to consider using a different approach to representing approximations to real numbers, for example something like the General Decimal Arithmetic Specification [2], and to relegate fixed-size binary floating-point numbers to a library for use by experts.

There is an analogy with integers: historically, languages like C provided fixed-size binary integers with wrap-around or undefined behaviour on overflow, but with experience we recognise that these are a poor compromise, responsible for many bugs, and suitable only for careful use by experts. Modern languages with arbitrary-precision integers are much easier to write reliable programs in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation_algorithm
[2] http://speleotrove.com/decimal/decarith.html
I use Trello.

I have a board called Ideas for collecting. Usually I just put the thought in the card title.

From there more details can be added in the description, and eventually the card can be moved into its own list or board for further expansion.

Since I'm on Android, I have the Add Card shortcut on my home screen, which means there's very little friction to adding new ideas.
> Hey, let us south-paws have this one societal convention that feels natural to us!

Haha, sure, no complaints on this one. Not to mention plenty of other cases where left-handedness is an actual advantage (tennis, boxing, etc.)
FFmpeg, SOX, Pandoc and RSVG for AWS Lambda
You Cannot Improve What You Don't Measure: FPGA vs. ASIC Efficiency Gaps for CNN [pdf]
> Carl Sagan once hypothesized that the cultural link between left-handedness and badness arose due to the left hand’s use for hygiene purposes in nonindustrialized countries

e.g In India, people eat with their right hand and clean shit with their left; both in bare hands along with water without any tools.
For me:

- healthy body is the foundation of healthy mind. I started swimming twice a week and it changed me in good way.

- mindful meditation. It works for me.

- dealing with burnout. I was unfortunate to have a chance to use HN's advice. It worked for me.

- Toastmasters as the way to improve one's communications skills. It works and there many other benefits. You meet many interesting people for example.

- the idea of lifestyle business and, for bootstraping one person "team", creating rather products to sell than SAAS. I'm currently traveling along this route.

And a lot more (golang, TDD, CQRS, Elixir, Phoenix Framework,...).
Also, there's a PIN code you can use to protect from transferring your number to another device. This is periodically asked by the client app so that you'll remember it.
In his "You and Your Research" talk, Hamming focusses on the selection of the problem you should work on as a researcher. I believe it does apply even if you are not in academics : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw

(transcript : http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html)
Does anyone else experience a "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG" emotion when watching someone doing an action with different handedness from the way you would do it? I get very uncomfortable watching someone cut a loaf of bread the 'wrong' way for example.
thanks that helped! the RYG buttons of Mac now overlap with back reload etc - but I guess I can tweak the CSS to make that fit.

Thanks again!
Against ‘badness’
Yes, except this talk [1] still applies

[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_...
The one I saw (ploom?) was intended for loose tobacco.
Just let it go. You are making an apex fool of yourself in the eyes of each and every health professional reading this. It would be strictly impossible for hospitals to function based on your opinions, which is why the supporting data you are calling for does not exist.
We don't pretend to program better than you do or demand solid data to support your pet language/paradigm. Have a little understanding of others for a change.
You are part of the problem, not the solution. Working on that would be the real improvement.
In Firefox there is a setting to _always_ prompt the user for the location to save the file.
Perhaps this is a question of taste.

The style of piece I mean is 'aped' by the article is "What X can teach us about Y". I've read some really good pieces by The Economist in this tradition, that examine historical case studies for modern insights.

Some other examples from HN in that style. I don't think these are particularly brilliant, but I don't think they're fatally flawed. I found that their analogy explained rather than obfuscated.

http://alexkudlick.com/blog/what-the-four-color-theorem-can-...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/security/what-th...
Simple text files, in markdown format. Currently working on a few little tools to manage them, including a simple web-based editor. That will let me take notes on Mac, iPad, Android phone, etc.
Any reason you mention Signal and Threema but not Wire? Wire is objectively superior as far as I can tell.

For a quick (probably incomplete) comparison, Wire has proper multi-device support (not sure how Threema does that), open source and cross-platform clients and open source server (Threema does not appear to have a Linux client nor publishes sources as far as I can tell), it's free (allowing everyone to use it, even if you're in a country where it's hard to pay from), it has a proper profit model (unlike Telegram, and to a much lesser extent Signal), and it does not require a phone number.

The two major downsides of Wire is the battery usage due to all clients being Electron, and that few people know about it (hence my prompt to give them a mention). Not major stoppers I'd say...
Not clear where you are in your career, but if you're determined to be someone who makes a key breakthrough, your career path is almost totally determined by your undergraduate education.

If you were going to be Elon Musk, you wouldn't be asking us for advice.
I use location and a dash of IFTTT to auto-fill timesheets. I'm aware it's a trade-off.
Does anyone have experience with using Matrix [0] as an alternative to Telegram and Signal?
Maybe even running your own homeserver which stores your history on a server you control and syncs that across all devices?

As far as I saw you can also bridge to other messaging services, even to WhatsApp [1] which is why it might be worth a try.

[0] https://matrix.org/blog/home/
[1] https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp
Index cards, often i want to do a small sketch so pen and paper are best. Make sure to put a date on the cards.

For rewiewing they can be easily clustered and amended.
So, Tox?
Nobody else mentioned it which really surprises me but I use Google Keep.

Allows you to organise cards, colour code then, pin them and share them across devices.

Anyone else use this? I find it's simple and restricted UI reduces distraction; just you and the idea.

Also good for check lists, links and reminders.
Is there a new wave of retro websites? Can't wait for blinktag.js
Strangely few would do the same to a pop-math or pop-physics book.

It's as if econ itself, and not the pop- simplification, is to blame...
Keybase.io is an alternative for secure chats.
Anyone know how it compares to signal, wire & threema?
Native means you also get background processing and access to things like geolocation and camera feed w/o needing a plugin.
I have simply a folder that contains 10+ text files, mostly containing numbered lists:
01_calendar; 02_TODO (just a stack of things I want to do); 03_questions (e.g.: "What substances emit sound when heated?"); 04_ideas (entrepreneurship, organization -- this is helpful because for one thing you start to see the pattern in your ideas -- what you value etc.); 05_opinions&thoughts; 06_self&improvement (my habits are like this and that, I could improve them like this); 07_read&watch&experience (list of interesting people, movies etc.); 08_my_history (contains critical events that have happened to me, it's really useful to see them all at once for self-reflection); 09_principles_I_follow; 10_humor (humorous ideas that I collect in order to create a stand-up routine someday)
Antergos. I picked Antergos because I wanted strong access to the Arch resources like the Wiki and AUR. But at the time I didn't have enough time in the day to set up vanilla Arch. I'd thought that my experience running Gentoo a few years back would ha e helped me with that, but it didn't help me with getting Arch set up tbh. Antergos was a good compromise because I had previously used Manjaro, and found it just a little too far from vanilla Arch at times. As far as customisation goes, I first switched it to i3wm which was a solid experience, but then moved to xmonad. Beyond that I guess just the normal stuff like installing lots of applications and getting a nice Emacs environment set up by hand.

As far as concerns go. My main concern is that the OS hide as little as possible while also not making me deal with super low-level stuff unless I really want to. So Arch is perfect for that. I want to be able to build things up just the way I want them, and create my own personal cohesive system. So again, Arch is a perfect choice there. After that it's the level of community support for Arch that has made me finally give in and love it, despite the fact that I resisted for so long.
doesn’t accept a lack of innovation as a criticism

It's really hard to fault a company for not innovating when nobody else is innovating either. It's a mature product category which means all the low-hanging fruit is gone.

For Apple to really innovate their way back into massive growth they're going to need to find another new product category. I have a really hard time seeing what that may be, as do most observers, I would imagine.
> Anyone can probably reach the top 5% in most non-athletic areas given enough time.

I seriously doubt that. People who have no aptitude in a field, even if they are dedicated, will be competing vs people who are also dedicated, but have the aptitude. I'd say maybe that "almost anyone can reach top 50% of most non-athletic fields", but definitely not top 5%.
Duckduckgo supports the same thing :)
Notebooks. Leuchtturm 1917 with enumerated pages and table of contents, more specifically.
Teaching kids in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) how to build their own electricity generation systems.

Access to electricity is a massive problem and the number of people without access is actually projected to increase [1].

We need more people working on the problem and we especially need people from SSA working on it.

We are working to inspire young people and to provide them with the tools and knowledge they need to go and solve the problem of access to electricity. [2]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/561428/forecast-of-popul...

[2] https://localelectricity.org/
Be happy. A happy man will help your neighbour. And your fellow people.

You may be good at something but if you are not happy ... I think mao and hilter could. R said quite good in their deeds and mao is even now has no problem in killing 30m+ (more than 1 time - Great Leap Forward and cultural revolution).

Both are not happy men. May be they have sming pic but I have not aware much.

Be happy. Do no harm.

Assume that we are not in Olympic but we are always in the game of life. With that may I quote the motto, the most important thing in life is not about winning but about participation and you have tried your best.

Good luck.
This is basically why I do in Windows too - I don't use the Documents, Photos folders and the like.

I have C:\Data, with subfolders inside for various 'topics', such as a 'Projects', 'Library', 'Cash Flow', 'Home' and 'Misc', as well as a folder for each family member.

For media and archival, I have 2x 4TB drives in a RAID 1 array. This contains many thousands of photos, as well as videos and films.

I use Seafile to Sync stuff between machines, with my Seafile server storing data in Azure blob storage (which is cheaper than Azure disks).
Or just not keep your chat history , never back it up, never miss it

info which i want to keep just gets send via email
You can also share Keep cards with other people's Gmail accounts.
The centralization itself is driven by the profit motive.
It's also too long for something you type a lot. I use .hm.
MobileOrg for capturing notes on a phone. Syncing via Dropbox with Org mode files on other devices https://orgmode.org/
Yeah, that probably works well for you, but a lot of people want chat histories. In general, telling people to give up features which they really want is not a recipe for product adoption.
Enslaved to men is a kinda harsh way to look at it, as the men were equally enslaved to provide the income the women used.

But it is also not clear to me that the average woman wouldn't rather be home with her kids, cooking etc than working wallmart if she didn't need the money.
how does that work? Can you explain?
For media files like Music, I keep them on Windows desktop which gets synched to OneDrive 1TB account which came included with MS office subscription which I need anyway that is only $10/mo for both app and storage which sounds like a steal against other cloud storages.
> Telegram links an account to a telephone number.

> If you want to use secure and private apps, I recommend: Signal Private Messenger: https://signal.org...

I feel it's wrong to criticise Telegram for using phone numbers, and then in the same breath recommend Signal.
Your hypothesis seems to be that things would improve if doctors were less protected. If you achieve putting that into practice you will see your already damaged healthcare system literally crumble to ruins.
You have to realize that whether you like it or not docs are the last line of defense. They are the ones putting in the hours to keep the ship afloat, which is why you have to pay them well.
You are right in saying there are dishonest people in medicine, but if you want change then target the industry and their lobbyists. It will be much better for you and everyone else, and will bring some of the changes you seek.
Telegram got two factor support which a user can enable anytime for security.
Looking for solutions to problems that are not there. Given the volume of traffic I am surprised this is even a starter. If the goal is revenue, e.g. some paid for card that lets you skip the security checks that is a possibility. I doubt anyone can correctly verify identity of all passengers without impacting travel time. So even with a card it is security theater and more of a revenue generation scheme.
Show HN: Founder Stuff – A webpage for founders
A fair criticism. Personally, I've spent enough time around folks who followed their passion and seen where it got them that I'm 100% on board the utility function train.
I just e-mail myself, make sure to include “idea” or “business idea” or “game idea” or whatever in the subject line, respond to the email chain if i want to iterate, and periodically go back through the search results of emails I’ve sent myself.
> Mentioning "nation states" is laughable

In some countries, a “nation state“ is pretty much every local police chief and prosecutor who like their comfy and paying positions a lot, don't like having too many loud democracy advocates around, and know who to call in such cases.

People tend to forget that the state is basically evolved mafia.
What's bad about Nestle? I know their products are very expensive, but aside from that? Care to elaborate?
>Fast forward to the present day, and the fork is the primary implement. Hence, to my mind, it makes significantly more aense to hold the fork in one's dominant hand.

Well, depending on the country, that's what we do. Even right handed people will switch the knife to the right hand to cut something and then get back to eating with the fork on the right hand.

https://www.thekitchn.com/survey-using-your-knife-and-fork-1...
I thought that you can get message history but it is not automatic.
Hopefully with some hand washing involved in between...
I am one of those bullshit jobs deniers. Would you like to explain why your job is bullshit? Feel free to change details to protect your privacy.
Threema is proprietary and I think it's dangerous to recommend it as an alternative. Everything we trust should be open.

Telegram is not perfect but better than WhatsApp. Also there is people who want convenience like history sync - it won't help telling them that it's unsecure. In the end at least facebook doesn't have their data.

For NSA etc. it's not that important where stuff is. From the leaks we know they can do everything they want (expertise + huge money) so if you want something more secure you maybe shouldn't use one of the popular solutions at all ;-)
F.D.A. Accuses Juul and Altria of Backing Off Plan to Stop Youth Vaping
None of these changes are big enough; it is still homebrew crypto. If there's issues with cryptography standards you can be sure your OS (such as your Linux distribution) lost CIA in one way or another. Whereas with MTProto, if that is broken, only your Telegram chats lose CIA. Which raises the question why not use standards?
I like Wire and use it with some people. It allows signing up with email and supports up to three accounts on a device. But I do find it to be a bit slow, mainly in sending as well as downloading images where it’s painfully obvious.

Telegram is better on many counts and is a very nice app to use. Usability will usually beat other factors when it comes to mass adoption.

Signal is the last on my list (it’s slow and unreliable, setting up an account is a coin toss because the verification process wouldn’t work, can’t move chats to a new device, etc.).
Unfortunately it comes down to money I believe.

You did not say how old you are, how long you think you have left, or if you are wealthy already.

For me it comes down to a question of what pays the best (or has the realistic potential to pay the most in the near-to-medium term) for my current or near-to-medium term skills. I need money to live my life and do things that are meanginful and important to me and my family. Selfish? perhaps. But I live a very comfortable & happy life with a very easy but well-paid 9-5 job and can now donate large sums of money to charities and people who want to do more useful things in many different fields (i.e. more than a single person could ever devote their attention to) - to quote Homer Simpson: Money can be exchanged for goods and services.

Money makes the world go around as they say, so IMO it is worth finding the function that maximises that.

If money is equal between what you want vs what you feel you should, go with what you want vs what you feel is the most important.

The reason I say that is that what feels most important now (e.g. you mention healthcare) may not still be important in the middle-term, so you might work on something you dont like but feel is worthy, only to have that problem "solved" by someone else at some point in the future, leaving you with a load of wasted time and regrets about being morally-worthy and "sacrificing" your career/life on something you did not actually enjoy or want to do but that you felt someone-really-ought-to-be-doing-this, but then ultimately you and your work is now effectively redundant because someone else did it better/cheaper/faster.

E.g. take computer vision. People have been working with LIDAR and things like depth perception algorithms and all sorts of stuff for years and years and years (think OpenCV et al) in an effort to make computers "see", then out of seemingly nowhere deep learning and CNNs come along and now pretty much anyone with a graphics card can train up a network in a weekend that out-performs decades of research into "traditional" computer vision techniques. With healthcare I can only imagine that this is worse - you could spend years working on a treatment for something, only for a cheaper/better one to come out from a competitor and make your work worthless, or some breakthrough to open up a more promising area of research again making your work worthless.

tl;dr - YMMV, I think its ok to be selfish in what you chose to work on. Trust your gut. If you want to work on Healthcare go for it, but if you want to work on something else than that is ok too.