skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a curious question. I love LaTeX. Can we build a programming language for the web which just focusses on the writing and takes care of the styling for Web, Mobile etc. I mean Markdown is already there doing somewhat similar but it still needs to set up properly and styled to use it correctly.
Can LaTeX type tool be developed for web where the user writes what he wants to write and generates a static web book or blog post or article confirming to the same style?

Apologies if this is stupid question.
Intergalactic Digital Research's CP/M was a very close copy of DEC RT-11, though not quite as close a copy as MS-DOS was of CP/M, so CP/M had a great deal to do with DEC.

VMS, which came later and is therefore irrelevant, used . to separate directory names in paths.
Great list. I go a little further on notifications: Do Not Disturb (DnD) mode 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, which inhibits all calls, texts, messages, E-mails, and most importantly notifications. This allows you to use the phone on your own terms and schedule, not on someone else's, including app developers desperate to prod you into their apps. A big part of the smartphone problem, in my view, is how we have all become slaves to them--using them when they demand to be used, rather than when we choose to use them.

If it's important, they'll leave a message or E-mail, which you can check on your own schedule.
And this is from a huge organisation. There are many more medium-large organisations that still operate under the Chinese-walls model: perimeter defense, but once you are inside the VPN/intranet the security is a lot more relaxed (if any). That is the security culture and very hard to change.

The market forces those orgs to start offer services online. They run those (relaxed security) services inside their intranet, so they start poking holes in their firewall. The next decade is not going to be pretty in that regard.
> And that's despite the Swiss having an opinion for being like Germans, but without the openness and legendary sense of humour ;)

Friendly help from a native English-speaker: I think you meant "reputation" rather than "opinion." :)
There's thousands of tools like this, called "static site generators". Most include a barebones default theme like you describe.

There's so many because a few years ago they were a big hype and everybody and their cat built one.
I wrote my wiki server [1], as I was missing a proper freeware at that time. I run one instance at home for my private stuff and one on my office computer for confidential infos related to work.

The wiki stores pages in simple text files that are easy to backup, it automatically calculates birthdays of my contacts (stored with semantic annotation in an XML style), and provides an Android App to synchronize all pages on a mobile phone. Many wiki pages are organized hiararchically, but most times I use the full text search.

Technically it runs with Java on any OS, and has a built-in web server.

[1] https://moasdawiki.net/
CrossFit storms off Facebook and Instagram, citing long list of grievances
Twitter Favs and Safari Reading List (iOS and Mac) • to quickly capture items I’ll want to revisit in the future. For instance, I added this HN discussion to my Reading List, so that I can later review the other suggestions and try them out.

Drafts (iOS and Mac) • quick thoughts I want to bang out before they dissolve. Drafts is focussed on being the fastest zero-to-blank-page experience on iOS, which makes it very handy for rapid spur of the moment universal capture.

Quiver (Mac) • I periodically review the above two, and catalogue them here for long term storage. There’s no structure to review, this is just my brain’s external HD.
Thank you for an absolutely awesome piece of software, my senior capstone in undergrad would have been so much worse without overleaf.
Thanks for sharing. I wish Apple would make it easier to outright block websites/apps system-wide. The “time limit” on categories of apps is weak and easily dismissible. The user should have to dive through settings to temporarily enable an app.
You can email GitHub and have them remove the link to upstream after the fact too. I did this after I forked upstream to send a bunch of patches and then decided to take the project in a different direction as an experiment.

Github has a bunch of issues, but the way they fork is not in my top 3.
The website looks good. Obviously early days since pricing is missing. Probably sorting out value proposition, how much they can get away with charging, etc.

A comparative point is using Cloudflare and Argo tunnel which I'm currently using.
How a Home-Made Tool Became Essential for Elite Athletes and Amateurs Alike
That’s why they usually have backup keys that you physically keep in a safe place.
AI robots guide visitors during test trial at Tokyo Station
I am currently experimenting with Notion, really well done knowledge orgination, but not open-source and paid... so long term might be hard. Anyone has any experience with Notion?
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> To me, it's Pandora's Box.

That is an apt description. In the myth, Pandora closed the box after the horrors had escaped onto the world but while hope was still in there.

So... according to Pandora's tale, we live in a world where everything is terrible. And hopeless.
The CNN interview that aired today with some FB exec on this issue was such a cringe-worthy disaster. Could not answer why they made the decision to delete these profiles but would not delete a fake video of Pelosi slowed down meant to make her look drunk or stupid. It was wild.
Me too! I think it’s gaining a little extra appreciation lately. For us the wow-factor was the ease of tying it together with a C host program in lieu of some conf file based alternative. For example our Keybow (Raspberry Pi-powered mechanical macro keyboard) product uses Lua to let users easily define and share macros. Not only does this trivially exceed any effort I could have made to design a domain-specific configuration file format, but it’s allowed users to try things I’d never conceived.
I use Zoho. For about 20 bucks a year I can add unlimited domains and the UI is quite nice. I use catchalls with rules so I can have a different email address for every login and every subscription.
Are there ALPR companies with a workflow where the truly unrecognizable plates go in a review queue for image recognition by a human offshore somewhere, in a low cost location? I'm thinking of the standard call centre salary for people with an average level of education in second/third-tier cities in India, in Pakistan, in Bangladesh, etc.
Underwear store uses 3D scanner for body measurement
somehow sf create its poor homeless? Perhaps by being a very expensive place they made it happen more likely to happen to marginalized people.

Did they make the ones in boston, nyc, atlanta, seattle, salt lake city? It's a nationwide problem. it's bad in lot of places.
You're making a good argument to point out that 'ownership' takes a lot of different forms. And an interest in one class of thing isn't the same as others. Ownership comes with differing, restrictions, rights, and responsibilities depending on the thing.

An opinion of mine the ownership of a company through stocks is secondary to stocks being a quasi-cash financial instrument like bonds.
I think tab completion for forward slashes works in powershell
Usually you can just port forward a port above 1024 on your router to port 22 (SSH) on your computer inside your home network. This has worked for me for the ISPs I have used.
Avexis, the company that developed this drug before Novartis bought it, spent ~$700M to get it approved. The drug will treat a few hundred patients per year. So they have to charge a high price

zolgensma is the second gene therapy ever approved in the US. The technical risks are very high and making them at scale at a high level of quality required rare and expensive expertisr
64-Bit Programming Models: Why LP64?
I'm also a fan of Anki, I never create cards on mobile (though review them almost exclusively there), but from desktop you can check out https://github.com/MFreidank/AnkiVim and https://metacpan.org/pod/Anki::Import. Raw cards are just text, and you can create them with any editor. https://github.com/corollari/ankiTab is also awesome for reviewing.

If you want more theory about Anki / Spaced repetition, https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition is the ultimate resource on topic
So you're saying it does support it, and is often packaged that way in Linux. Remind me how it doesn't support it again?
For fun factor, one can peek Common Lisp's support around make-pathname - http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_mk_pn.htm#make-pathname - just scroll down, and you'll UNIX, LISPM and VAX formats:
I started with the augmentingcognition.com spaced repetition model, and then decided to augment it with a catalog of everything I read(1). For my own original thoughts, I write them down in a few paragraphs and then treat them like any other reading material.

At some point, I ran across the idea that a library card catalog is really just a combined topical index for the entire collection, with each entry being a card. That seemed like a decent model, and I’ve been happy with it so far.

My system is currently a physical card index because I needed the flexibility of pen & paper to figure out how I wanted it to work, but I’ve been slowly computerizing it as I figure things out- you can certainly do something similar with flat text files, spreadsheets, or any other general purpose document software.

So now, I have three interacting systems: a citation list that records where I can find things to read them again, a combined topical index of everything I’ve read, and a flash card deck of things I want to remember without having to look them up.

When I run across an interesting article on the web, for instance, I save a PDF of it to Dropbox for safe keeping and print a copy to read away from my computer. As I read, I’ll make margin notes and have two different colors of highlighter: one to note index headings and another to mark passages to be turned into flash cards.

After my morning flash card review, I go through the material I read the previous day and turn all of the notes and highlights into cards(2). Once everything has been moved into the indexing system, I have no further need for the physical copy, so it goes to the recycler.

(1) Of sufficient length; generally 3 or more printed pages.

(2) Initially by hand, now with the aid of a custom piece of software
I used Chromium and it is very easy to use on Arch. Not sure why you act like it isn't supported. A lot more than what is available for Firefox.
Because it's the same way unfullfilling as a drug addiction. Sure you have miles instead of needles and dots on the suit instead on the veins, but in the end you miss the one thing that matters-passing a legacy, influencing other life's in a good direction, for a socially acceptable Trainspotting reenactment.
I never knew how many fake profiles exist on facebook until I tried to buy a $10 amazon gift card with paypal in one of the groups I was joined. I missed all the red flags. First, the profile was an attractive female with little account activity. Second, when I tried to send the paypal payment it defaulted to PHP currency (Philippines money) even though the seller said they lived in the United States. Third, the account was non-us unverified. Then when the person actually did scam me, they immediately deleted the profile.

Needless to say, that was the last time I trusted random people on facebook.
As a t/roff and eqn and tbl user I never found the story compelling. The uplift cost to latex in 1982 was north of my painpoint and in 1990 I managed to do things in tbl and eqn I never imagined possible. Tex font fascism was also a bummer. A phototypesetting expert I knew preferred the actual type to digital type, the microfilm typeset stuff was amazing (I saw galley proofs in bromide and they were crisp and clean)

I think I "get" it better now. It's just at that time there was another school of more pragmatic engineering aligned thought in Unix using Dec10 RUNOFF derived concepts which morphd into t/roff and stuck there.

Maybe it's like Emacs and vi? Dec 10 SOS editor was like ed which led to ex and vi. If you walked into the TECO door you went lisp and Emacs.

To launch into Tex and latex you needed a professor leading you there rather than an engineer doing nroff and t/roff
Not saying that there is anything wrong with it. It is still funny though :-) It is like somebody saying they tried to go to the moon, but after walking for an hour they discovered it was harder to get there than they initially thought.
I’ve had a paid subscription to Fastmail for 10+ years. After thinking that email was not worth paying for. It’s that good.
Corporate profits were at historic highs up through the end of 2018. That's why everybody was complaining about greedy corporate profiteering. Many of them are sitting on huge cash hoards (eg. Apple and Oracle both have about $65B in cash & short-term investments), which is why they're returning cash to shareholders.
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Would you mind sharing what libraries you are using?
similarly, consider one partner entering with $100k of student loans, or $20k of credit card debt.
we basically sold the Transrapid to them didn't we ?
Didn't have the impression that it's untouched or uninterested by foreign culture.

It seemed to me that they are, but at the same time managed to maintain an independent "personality" and adapt the imported things.

I'd argue that most of Europe has been westernized and English is widely spoken. This doesn't seem to be the case there, or at least it's not so visible.
Here's the answer: an exponential times a sine/cosine wave is what you already have in rectangular coordinates. The Bessel functions show up because they are the cylindrical coordinate equivalent of sine, cosine and exponential. "What does that mean," you say? It is quite simple, as sine, cosine, the exponential function and all Bessel functions are defined as the solutions to specific "fundamental" differential equations. The basic thread between solving Laplace's equations in any coordinate system is, you separate variables and break down the equations in other ways until you have factored them into a set of standard ("prime?" I don't know if that's a good word, I'm not a mathematician) DEs that somebody like Bessel has tabulated the numerical solution of.
This looks really cool :)

Though full disclosure, I clicked for the jokes about Greenspun's tenth rule, and I'm vaguely disappointed I didn't find any.
Over the last couple of days the REAL problem behind this ban has appeared, the all these non profit "associations" are in reality governed by US laws. I now have the urge to search what is the relative situation with the UN headquarters which are located in the US and similar US sanctions to UN members - probably covered by some exception but I want to learn more now
I guess it might be a great tactic depending on your culture. I tried going with 24/7 silent mode, and then with no phone at all, but had to give in after being repeatedly badgered first by my coworkers, and then by my boss. They expect everyone to be available all the time, in every single company I know of (from friends/acquaintances). I still ignore most emails and phone calls outside of working hours though.
+1 for Runbox
I have something called "Diensttagebuch", which is awkward to translate ("Duty diary"?), it's a Jekyll blog (currently at https://www.pchr8.net/d/dtb/) for things I know I'll have to google later. I have two bash scripts for creating-or-opening a new page and for deploying (upload to server + commit to git). I use https://github.com/rking/ag.vim for searching though the Markdown files on my local machine.

For more general knowledge, Semantic Mediawiki (http://pchr8.net/f/), but it's basically a big link database now. I can sort it by rating / complexity / to read / domains / keywords and found it quite flexible.

Also, Anki for things I want to memorize. https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition describes the theory quite well.
You're correct, I meant the Catholic church. Thank you for pointing it out; I agree that it's an important distinction worth noting.
He's trying to tell you, in an indirect, humorous way, that the name of your product, when spoken in English and pronounced a certain way, sounds like something other than the name of the planet and mythological god.

His comment has been downvoted according to HN's sense of humor, or lack thereof.
https://github.com/jpillora/chisel
Globalization is a nice idea in theory, but it looks like the human psyche is not ready for it and neither are politics.

The world order seems to be more fragile than you think, I don't understand why you're so confident.
I don't think you're wrong but it is a very controversial topic
I love Dynalist and I've been using it for the past 3 (?) years or so, I just wish it had Vim controls.
If you are technically capable to set it up by yourself using OpenVPN, you can get a dirt cheap VPS with one IPv4 address for less than $1/month ($12/year). lowendtalk.com is a community that discusses these deals.
That's not true either. Depending on how closely one looks, individuals start to melt into groups, regions, nations, etc.
Looking through the https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/punch/blob/master/tunnel... seems to indicate it is just using a ssh connection between your box and their server and then forwarding traffic through that ssh connection.

If ssh is blocked by your IT admin, this will not work. In that sense this isn't doing any holepunching. In a more traditional definition of holepunching it meant to establish connection between two machines behind NAT stateful firewall and neither have static public IP addresses.

Also, looking at the code, there seems to not much emphasis on security w.r.t ssh host key verification or bootstrapping the chain of trust with pre-verified credentials etc. Weird choices for a project with cypherpunk in it's name.
Previous discussion (>100 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20000034
"Plans are useless but planning is indispensable."
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It seems to be using ssh to tunnel your http connection in the first place. So, if ssh is blocked in your network, this won't work.
I hadn't actually read your GDPR series, thanks!

Absolutely agree, and to further it I think this data liability goes beyond PII. Any data which could be used nefariously if publicly available is a potential liability if leaked - NDA'd documents, product roadmaps, source code of closed source software, private keys, pre-results earnings, the list is enormous.

With the shift in the economy from physical goods to IP I don't see why laws for physical goods storage, warehousing and safekeeping (eg. safety deposit boxes) won't be updated to include the digital equivalents in the not too distant future. And at that point I wouldn't want to be a Dropbox, EC2 or DigitalOcean unless I was very very sure of my security systems, never mind being a Facebook or Google.
Typo: “With our low cost, secure tunneling service, you won't run out __or__ reasons or ways to use it.“
I think you're correct, that these will become more common. A couple of years ago I was chatting with friends who were doing APIs, because of market/regulatory pressure EU's PSD2, exporting JSON of transactions using COBOL for use in online. Because that bank - almost an order of magnitude larger than First American in terms of employees - will do everything in order to not move off COBOL / it's legacy system.

Interesting skill set: COBOL, DB2, JS, Angular.
Bill Torvalds materialises and unlocks the Linus Gates.
I had a buddy who worked for the NSA for a bit before moving to the private sector. He didn't tell me much, but he did say that they rarely ever break the crypto algorithm (even when compute resources are available), they almost always attack implementation flaws.

That and story about what a pain in the ass the entry keypads were when you were a little hung over, especially since the coffee was on the other side. The digit locations weren't fixed, so you couldn't rely on muscle memory.
Thanks for sharing. Lots of good insights here! Just yesterday I've been wondering if there was a single e-mail in the past year that I needed to immediately reply to and the answer was no. I think having a dedicated time of day for handling e-mail could be an interesting approach.

For me the biggest issue when it comes to wasting time on my phone are the websites like reddit that I constantly go back to.

So far what kind of works for me is LeechBlock add-on where I blacklist time wasting websites and if I ever want to view them I can override the block for 5 minutes. I think the reason it works is that I need to consciously allocate those 5 minutes to waste (with this setup I can't just drift away for 1 hour looking through a subreddit).

I'd very welcome any other tips similar to the OP's.
No one is saying Bezos has $160B in cash. At that level liquid cash doesn't really matter anyways, since there's no way you could even spend that much.

What he does have, though, is $160B worth of influence, a large part of which comes from the money tied up in stocks.
How long would you like to be able to access this content?

If it is for the long haul, plain text is the only way to go (org-mode, etc).

Any proprietary commercial solution will fade away in a handful of years. At best, you might be able to extract the content before they shut down but structure and metadata may be lost.

Open source self-hosted solutions will last much longer but even in that case it might get to a point the source has been abandoned so long that it becomes difficult to keep going.

Only plain text will survive. I have plenty of notes in a more or less organized directory tree, dating back to the late 80s.
Avexis, the company that Novartis acquired to get this drug, spent ~$700M developing it. The drug will treat a few hundred patients a year. Without a high price, it isn't profitable. for these drugs to get covered at such a high price, they have to be very effective, which this drug seems to be

However, did Novartis have to charge $2M? Avexis was trading at a $3B market cap not long before Novartis bought it for $8.7B. Analysts were projecting a $1-1.25M price tag, which is closer to the cost effective range

Novartis probably paid up for avexis bc it was a competitive deal process and they thought they could get away with a higher drug price than the market expected. At the time of the acquisition people thought Novartis was paying a premium for the platform, by charging $2M for the drug it seems like more of a pricing play than platform deal

I wrote a case study on avexis with more detail here: https://www.baybridgebio.com/blog/most_expensive_drug.html
Like the article says, hindsight is 20/20. If it was 1977 and TRSDOS was the only thing that transformed your expensive brick into something capable of copying a file from one drive to another you might be more of a fan.
Thanks, Captain Obvious!
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>It is amusing how this sort of stuff evolves over time.

One that always gets me is the overlapping window interface being a neat hack in order to demonstrate the concept of a multi-process gui when you are on a mainframe with monolithic memory in 1970, rather than 'how you are supposed to do things'.
You're describing how to make it even more of a toy and even less of a tool.
At $2.1M, zolgensma will be more cost effective than spinraza, but it is not at all clear that zolgensma will be durable enough to provide 60 years of extra life

The full ICER cost effectiveness is worth a look: https://icer-review.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ICER_SMA_...
Thanks for your explaining!
I understood now.
Honestly, I didn’t have any idea to this project but I like names of planets or gods, so I named this as Uranus!