skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last year, I went through this whole gamut of the usual suspects emacs(org-mode), plain text, markdown, tiddlywiki/ mediawiki/bunch of other wikis, google keep, one note, notational velocity, anki, evernote, LaTeX. One after the other, they all crumbled. I tried them all and failed. I got to a point of calm reflection based on my experience with each one. I realized what was most important for me. I eventually settled on a combination of email + git + google calendar. I use a separate email just for my notes. Every new thought, todo, bookmarks, quotes, images of doodles, event, information about people becomes a new email. Any update on the same one becomes a reply to the last email on that subject. Any topic or area that gathers enough content or insight that’s worth remembering goes to my git repo’s wiki page. If there’s enough content/files/code, it gets a directory. Common patterns, get linked via their respective wiki pages. I create collections of related topics as separate wiki pages with links back to the source.

This setup has worked well for me for over 6 months now. I do not worry about email / git becoming obsolete. Or how I would move my email/git data when I need to switch vendors. I can access it via any device I own or through someone else’s. Stuff I want to share with people are hosted via git pages or sent via email. I have a plethora of client applications to choose from. And above all... it just works.

I can give out more details but I feel anyone’s personal information needs can be met/exceeded with a combination of email + git + calendar.
The vast, vast majority of people go with LEDs.
Light is important in the catacombs, so it's no surprise that certain lamps are more legendary than others.
The carbide lamps are capricious, require maintenance, ruin your night vision, burn your pants and will explode at some point. But they also put out a lovely light, especially for when you're sitting in a room.

A large number of people go down with the lights of their phones these days.
A couple years ago I was looking into doing things at the reconciler level - either to wrap around PIXI or WebGL straight. Did a bunch of tests: https://dakom.github.io/react-renderer-test/

Conclusion I came to is that React itself is the bottleneck - even when you take ReactDOM out of the picture and even if you do nothing in the rendering phase. Ultimately, once you need several thousand entities, you end up with anti-patterns in order to squeeze out better performance, like keeping all your entities in arrays and objects instead of each being its own component.

YMMV and it's a cool idea - don't want to rag on hard work, but thought it might help to give a heads up of the trouble I ran into :)
> Further, nuclear isn't a particularly good match for renewables because it isn't as dispatchable as other options.

I do want to remind you: no one that is pro-nuclear is anti-renewable. I'd say that if they are pro-nuclear they are very likely pro-renewable. The thing though is that you're drastically over simplifying the energy problem. Battery technology just isn't there yet (they just have nowhere near the energy density, even the most advanced batteries are dwarfed by the energy density of basic fossil fuels[0]). Until then we have to face the duck curve. So what are our choices? Natural gas, coal, nuclear. Take your pick. We need energy sources that can be throttled up and down and can produce continual amounts of energy. Renewable just can't do this without batteries, and batteries aren't there. So it isn't that we don't want renewables, it is that we have picked nuclear vs fossil fuels.

[0] https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Energ...
hi, this one: hsiaosiyuan0@outlook.com
> One thing I don't understand is why political leaders aren't all over this

1. Political leaders in many countries (eg. Australia) have been deeply corrupted by the fossil fuel industry. And they're mostly legally immune because they essentially allow that industry to write the laws (including those permitting them to take up fossil fuel company sinecures when they quit politics).

2. Even when you have less-corruptible or more courageous political leaders, they have to try to convince populations which have been subject to relentless corporate propaganda (eg. from Exxon-funded sources as you suggest) for 4 decades. Propaganda has its limits, but it does work.
Whatever the current numbers are, they must be wrong. The subject article, after all, says that methane is way higher than estimated.

But, if I’m looking for errors, it seems more likely to me that we’d mis-estimate methane leaking out of the ground during fracking or from landfills than methane coming out of cows or manure storage facilities. I mean, you can measure a cow. You can put it in a room and measure the methane. But how do you measure the ground? It seems like the kind of thing you can mess up.
Absolutely. Even worse: It’s not only the direct production of methane but also deforestation for soy production / farmlands that drives climate change.
Because it’s PiHole, you can black/whitelist custom domains, temporarily disable, see traffic, etc
Yes, this is an issue, but one most people don't consider. Personally in on my fourth kindle, either because I lost it or broke it.
Your analogy is of course broken, especially consider most music is purchaeed through iTunes of similar. Of course I'm not renting my book, I bought it and own. And the issue hasn't been decided in the court of law.
I understand what you are saying, but the most people don't know not care.
Huawei’s Yearslong Rise Is Littered with Accusations of Theft and Dubious Ethics
Canva.com Has Been Hacked
On May 26, I received a letter from start@engage.canva.com with a title: "Important information about your Canva account"

The message states that a number of community's usernames and e-mail addresses have been accessed:

"We are writing to let you know that on Friday, May 24, 2019 we discovered an in-progress attack on our systems. The hackers also obtained passwords in their encrypted form (for technical people: all passwords were salted and hashed with bcrypt). This means that our user passwords remain unreadable by external parties."

According to Canva, they immediately took steps to fix the issue and reported the situation to authorities:

"As soon as we were notified we immediately took steps to identify and remedy the cause and have reported the situation to authorities (including the FBI)."

The full message can be seen here:
https://www.vpntesting.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/data-breach-canva-1.png

We haven't got a reply from Canvas yet about the number of users affected.
earlier HN item https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19386038
Strict social codes ?
Dangerous ?

Your friend might have been been pulling your leg (or taking himself too seriously..)

There are no social codes.
That's the appeal of the catacombs. The space imposes no rules or structure. It is a bubble of freedom.
Anything you follow is self imposed.
I think he or she is drawing an analogy between Intel and Google both "cutting corners" to save costs, which worked well for them in the short term but had unforeseen consequences for everyone else over the longer term. This could be an instance of the famous "tragedy of the commons".
The springs that hold the micro-USB connector in are on the connector itself. I have one cable that barely holds on to my phone, but brand new ones lock in tight.

If a micro-USB port doesn't seem to hold anymore, I would replace the cable first.
I would like to buy this app but having hard time understanding why it requires iOS 12.1 or later. What new API call had to be in the app to justify this limitation?

I am on iOS 12.0.1 and plan on remaining there for the foreseeable future because I like my jailbreak.
So those who opt in for parasitic payday loans are doing so under stress, can we say they opt for that loan in similar conditions like you are influenced by alcohol and therefore the contracts are invalid?

Many people have ruined themselves with such contracts and it's understood that they had full awareness of what they are getting into and that's why they are liable for all the losses.
No I said its not about 'fuck Google', its about identifying the root cause of a problem.

I didn't forsee this, and I don't recall anyone else predicting it, so no I don't think Google should have foreseen it either, but nevertheless it has happened, so we should endeavour to understand why, so it doesn't happen again. It isn't about blame, it isn't about pointing fingers.

Now we've identified an issue, then the next time an industry moves from big iron the commodity X86 PCs we can ask the question, is this going to be a problem?
Snap employees allegedly abused data access to spy on Snapchat users
Propofol-induced deep sedation reduces emotional episodic memory reconsolidation
Isn't that possibly the map the journalist got to see as well?

> The plan of the above-ground city is traced carefully in pale silver-gray ink, such that, if you read only for the gray, you can discern the faint footprints of apartment blocks and embassies, parks and ornamental gardens, boulevards and streets, the churches, the railway lines and the train stations, all hovering there, intricate and immaterial.

> The map’s real content—the topography it inks in black and blue and orange and red—is the invisible city
Starbucks punches back at Luckin Coffee with online ordering
> A republic is a nation of laws where everyone has the same rules.

Not necessarily. A republic is simply a country without a monarch. China is a republic. Iran is a republic. Russia is a republic. Democracies that are not republics include places like Denmark, Netherland, Sweden and Spain.

The canard you're bringing up stems from a weird misunderstanding of what republics and democracies really are. Democracies have laws, the same rules for everyone, they have constitutions that (try to) guarantee equal rights. Democracies often have better "rule of law" than many republics, but ultimately, they believe that the authority stems from the people and that the government serves the people rather than the other way around.

Fortunately many republics are also democracies. France, Germany, and, as many people would really, really like to believe, the United States of America. The fact that so many Americans don't really care about democracy, undermine its legitimacy with misleading arguments, and support an electoral system that denies minority representation while letting the loser of the popular vote win the presidency, is really sad.
Seems like with as many F1s as were used on each Apollo mission, he should count more than 17 flights. Also, I know at least one F1 was shut down before reaching orbit.

But, wow, what a great presentation! None of the other explanations I read of the full-flow design were anywhere near as clear and comprehensible. My understanding of rocket design principles has taken a great leap.
Doing something, I mean really doing something, requires changing our culture.

Future generations, if there are ones, will look back at this time and see that we have an oil burning culture. Everything we eat, where we live, fossil fuels have been used to produce and maintain it. If it only was cars that was the problem we would easily solve it.

To make a real change a Total War economy would have to be implemented, with the sole function of combating climate change. No-one wants to even start suggesting that because there would be so much inconvenience and angry people.

Since the effects are only a minor inconvenience yet, for people in the developed world, its much easier to do nothing. Some deny there is a problem, others acknowledge it, but put it on the back of their minds mostly (I'm in this category). The effect is the same. Politicians follow the path of least resistance, that is how they are elected.
I just recently upgraded to a 1920x1080 101 cm flat screen TV - I'll consider upgrading to UHD-1 HDR when more content is available - most of it seems to be upscaled 2k, and when I tried to buy Planet Earth 2, they didn't even have it in stock ! (Not to mention that I would have had to buy an Xbox just to play it...)
> I am really annoyed by what Apple did to software pricing

Me too, but for almost the opposite reason: Apple is disallowing GPL software in the app store, and is thereby not allowing decent collaborative and communal efforts to supply good alternatives to the glut of dinky nickle-and-dime apps.
It is actually preferrable to get a line of credit instead of investment as it is non-diluting, especially if the interest rate is low.

There are a ton of ways to get loans or lines of credit.

In Canada (and there are probably equivalents in your country) there is:

The Business Development Bank which is government backed and will lend to riskier businesses. I have taken advantage of it. It will not take on risk like a VC but if you are already profitable, it can help you grow. I've done this to a large extent as the interest is often prime + 4% which is generally amazing.

The Export Development Canada which is a bank that will fund export oriented projects. You need a contract and they will advance you the expected payments.

There are high interest ways of factoring accounts receivable, but the interest rates can be quite high. I've never done that as I can not justify +30% interest rates.

True lines of credit are hard to achieve from a standard bank as they will want collateral that they can seize if you run into trouble. I have a software company so I never had true collateral, thus I couldn't get a true line of credit.

Lastly, there is the possibility to use VISA and personal lines of credit that are tied to your assets. Just be careful that you do not screw up and put your hard earned assets at risk.

Also this seems to be realistic: https://www.svb.com/blogs/alex-mccracken/guide-to-financing-...
Biofuels do exists, but afaik they were a net negative so far. You can't simply grow so many plants, and you also need plants to eat, not just burn.
Why use Machine Learning to identify kids? Simply ask "Identify the Karate Kid actor"

if they pick Jackie Chan over Pat Morita, you know they are a kid 100%.
Well yes, "good enough" is very subjective.
I'm French, and I find it pretty easy to believe. I even have another example: some elite schools teach oenology. Now what could possibly be the point of formally educating people on the finer details of wine making and tasting? It's simply how the aristocracy recognise themselves. There are other class recognition examples: for instance, rich kids tend to play tennis more than they play soccer.

I know third hand of someone who paid attention to his watch and smartphone to get a job (or a promotion, I don't recall). It was in finance. The idea is, if you belong to the right social class, you are allowed to go up. If they spot you for a commoner, you're not. Simple as that.

Think this is a stretch? I'v read an article (American article) about how someone was denied a job because of how she dressed. Oh she was dressed all right, neat and all, but she also had a dark skin (okay, she was black), and here is what the boss said once the interview was over: "my, you don't wear a tank top under your shirt, you wear a silk shell!".

Such a little detail, but that was nevertheless a sign that this applicant was perhaps not as rich as she should have been.
> Chernobyl has turned into a really big nature preserve. Wildlife is thriving there.

To give this more perspective:

For the last several years, I have spent many months each year in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Most of that time is not in Pripyat, or at the extant plants being decommissioned, it's in the nature areas throughout the zone.

My observations: birds are rare. I've seen an eagle once, and some other smaller birds occasionally. In Pripyat, I've never seen a bird. Insects are also rare - I once saw a swarm of flies inside a building at the Duga Radar facility, but never any bees, cockroaches, or other insects. Not even mosquitoes. I've seen moose, once. Horses several times (Mongolian horses been introduced to the area post-disaster). There are foxes, but they're often the same foxes I see time and time again. Dogs are probably the most common animal, I would estimate I've seen 30 - 50 different dogs, always hanging around where humans are. The catfish in the cooling pond canals are enormous, and plentiful.

Although parts of the Exclusion Zone are exceptionally green, such as Pripyat itself, much of the zone has a feeling of unhealthiness. Infamous areas such as the Red Forest remain too high in radiation to spend any amount of time in. The areas around the cooling ponds (which are large enough to appear like lakes) look like what you imagine an environmental catastrophe would look like - grey and barren.

I see more wildlife in any major city - and would be reluctant (and that's an understatement) to call wildlife "thriving".

Aside:

As you point out, human lives lost were relatively few. However, this place will be an ongoing disaster for many thousands of years to come. There will be ongoing huge expenses (the most recently installed containment structure will only last another century). Reactor four needs to be contained for thousands of years, and the other reactors will require another sixty years to be decommissioned.

And after all that, the main danger, deep inside the debris of reactor four, will remain an enormous danger to the planet for any foreseeable future.

In general, the radiation levels throughout the Exclusion Zone are low, comparable to many cities. I have many scheduled visits upcoming, the next being in August.

BTW, I'm not taking a stance here on pro or anti-nuclear, just trying to add some context from someone who has seen this place, up close, many times.
> As a programmer I'm used to walled gardens and competing standards. MIDI is a breath of fresh air. I hope whatever 2.0 brings can keep this spirit alive.

At $250 a SysEx ID it seems MIDI 2.0 is exactly the opposite of that spirit.

> To implement MIDI-CI and MIDI 2.0, you need a manufacturers SysEx ID. A SysEx ID by itself is $250 a year, but it is included with your MMA membership.

A membership, not an open protocol.
Wow, crazy website!! thanks for share!!!!!
Thanks for responding! For such lines of credit, did you have to demonstrate your business’s viability in the past? And if so, how long of a track record did you have to show? Also, would you factor accounts receivable if interest rates were lower? And agreed on being very careful on using personal loans to finance business operations.
Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit (2017)
One of the most used podcast apps on Android has to be Pocket Casts, and they support removing silence : https://support.pocketcasts.com/article/audio-effects/
Inflation is itself a form of transfer payment - from creditors to debtors, and from people in markets with no pricing power (high competition) to people with high pricing power (no competition), and from cash-holders to asset-holders. You're right that this has very different winners & losers than just paying interest on the debt, but it's the same general principle: government debt and money itself are both fictions, so the only way they can influence aggregate welfare is if they disincentivize productive work.
They are still a train, right? Most of them bunched up, moving fast.

I also caught them this night and they looked amazing (but moved in to the shadow quite quickly).
I am acknowledging that all the real problems are solved. The only roadblocks left are literally in our heads. Let’s talk it out :)
Extropy: Complementary Dual of Entropy (2015) [pdf]
I wonder if return1 can benefit from this. He also wonders if it helps other people to refer to them in the 3rd person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4FxhUA0SKM
Hey, I wouldn't put myself in the Anti nuclear camp. Its just the costs, they're high and increasing.

My point about nuclear not being dispatchable is that if wind is going to be the cheap backbone, then any expensive generation has to find a niche that works around that. Nuclear doesn't have that niche.

I seem to be taking a longer view than you, maybe in the 20 - 30 year time frame you're right. But in that sort of time frame is it even worth trying to start building a new nuclear power station? Where after all the politicking you've spent 10 years before you've even broken ground.
I think they were more driven by biological evolution than by climate change, though. At least some of them (Cambrian, maybe also Dinosaurs).

Humans are actually very adaptable to all sorts of climates. They've lived in the arctic and in the Saharah.

Also, mass extinction events OK, but we are talking about a runaway effect of heating up the atmosphere, turning it into a Venus like planet. That doesn't seem to have happened before.
Humans seem to be very adaptable, though. They live in all sorts of climates.
I still remember Henry's contributions on comp.lang.c thirty years ago.
Adtech ought to die. Ideally, I would want to pay for Google and Facebook the same way I pay for Netflix and Spotify. In exchange, I would want them to treat the data about what I do online with the same respect with which my doctor treats my medical history.

The model where Google provides a service and users pay for it is more efficient and more societally healthy than the model where Google provides a free service, a million companies pay to place ads on it, and pass the cost of their AdWords budget onto users who get a 'free' service.

It is a model where consumers get better products, and where millions of creative minds aren't wasted making web pages uglier (or ruining cities with billboards, for that matter). It is a model where competition is also a little easier, because an alternative search engine can undercut Google's prices and carve itself a starting market niche, even if their service is not quite as good as the established competitor; instead of the current model where first you need to be better than Google in every way, and then you have to fight the network effect.

I have no clue how to get to world to switch to this model. It will require that elusive white whale, an online payment mechanic that is truly as frictionless as cash. And it will almost certainly require legislation rather than mere market pressure, because people can see their monthly Google bill but cannot see the vast costs of the marketing industry which they pay for every day.
Will never happen.
I think the argument that you posed in your other post to be challenged in one particular way. You claim that there is no time to deploy carbon scrubbing. I immediately see two major issues with this argument. The first is that greenhouse effects are not irreversible. As you remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, you change the heat equilibrium. Even feedback effects can be mitigated both by temperature change which reduces the feedback as well as by simply managing with their (causative) consequences - which tend to be an increase the gas emissions, by removing those emissions. In other words human social change does have a limited timeline of viability, but scrubbing does not.

The second is that everything is relative to other options. The first major paper (to my knowledge) regarding imminent danger from climate change was published some 40 years ago. The first 'alarming' governmental report and subsequent media involvement was 30 years ago. Since then there's been effectively 0 change by reliance on social systems, treaties, agreements, and so on. Nearly all of the progress we have made is because natural gas became cheaper than coal, which would have happened with or without these agreements. I don't see this inability to effect social change in any way changing in the future. So by claiming there's not enough time to enact scrubbing (which by the earlier point is not necessarily a reasonable argument to begin with) you're suggesting that other viable alternatives can be enacted more rapidly - and I also see no reason to believe this to be accurate.