skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel writing notes on paper with my fountain pen really different from typing on a computer.
> Only the former give me the feeling of work well done and some relaxed mind.

Maybe you need to switch to a font with cursive-letters/extended ligatures :-)

On a serious note, this reminds me of my school-days. At my school, a "Hero-pen" was all the rage; All the "cool" kids had one.

Recently found out (i think from some random HN comment!) that the prized-possession of my childhood - The "Hero pen" was "inspired" by the Parker 51!

Not able to find the HN comment, but here are some links from my browser history for some fountain-pen nostalgia :-) :-)

https://frankunderwater.com/2017/02/20/remaking-parker-45-a-...

https://thefrugalfountainpen.blogspot.com/2014/03/hero-616-d...
Good point. Although I have a undergrad CS degree, it's old enough that I got a general engineering education, from thermodynamics to drafting. (A later MSCS at Stanford was 100% CS. And, pre machine learning, did not involve a single floating point multiply. Lots of number theory, no differential equations or statistics.)
https://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/
You don’t have to code at home
There's also the notion of getting married and raising a family. When you have children, you almost automatically become part of a new social network that you may never have even been aware of before: parents. You suddenly have a lot in common with other parents and it's not unlike being part of a special club. And of course it's the most fascinating hobby there is.

It's somewhat ironic that not so long ago, we were pretty much all married and making babies by age 20, and now we tend to stay single through our 20s while strategizing ways to avoid becoming lonely.
FWIW I think your post is very relevant.

I like the idea of a git based database.
Please don't take a single person's opinion as that of the entire community.
Nasa gives themselves and humanity too much credit.

Universe don't care about anything of this. It births and kills billions of stars in a blink of a second, shatter and reshape planetary systems and obliterate entire galaxies while some scientists are thinking of decontamination protocols and coming with pretentious ideas that anything they do has any resemblance of importance.
The issue with the current set of laws regulating corporations is that those laws were made with intervention from lobbyist groups, which changed legislation to benefit those lobbying groups. In reality, the way to do this fairly is to repeal these laws, remove power from corporations giving it back to the state (possibly through actually taxing corporations and the rich properly, along the lines of what Huey Long proposed a long time ago) and removing the capacity for corporations to lobby at all. The problem is not regulation, it is that corporations have the power to change that regulation. An unregulated market would be just as unfair as regulation enforced monopolies and monosonies.

If such changes were brought about, the increased taxes could go towards things like infrastructure and social welfare, which would actually help people, unlike what billionaires pretend is fair compensation to their harms upon society, when in reality they give back very little. Bezos and Musk for example, both got into the space industry instead of putting a lot of their wealth back into philanthropy. The seeming odd one out is those who are like Bill Gates, who do actually give back a massive portion of their wealth.
Pro sports is an interesting comparison, in that it has a very long-chain training and recruiting system, starting as young as age 5-10, and including sport leagues and/or school teams to refine talent. Though professional recruiters may not be looking at younger players, sports leagues and schools are quite conscious of talent.

Professional lifetimes are also frequently quite short. For gymnasts, competing life is virtually over by age of majority, for Americna football, a few years in pros is typical, though some careers last longer. Baseball, cricket, tennis, and golf are longer-lived exceptions.

I'm not saying this as a rabid sport ethusiast, and the transfers to technical recruiting may be limited, but it's at least an interesting system to consider.

Other uneven talent/fame domains are theatrical performance (acting, music), and, possibly, writing.
Also. Separately. If i criticise my government thats between us. Shitty westerners have no right for they have no skin in this game. How dare they complain about my government things that i don't even consider important?!!!
In general, I agree, but this is not always true. Some non-fiction books read very much like fiction. An example that I recently finished is Endurance by Alfred Lansing, which tells the story of Ernest Shackleton's failed mission to cross Antarctica on foot in 1914 (they got stuck in the ice only a few miles from land and spent the next year and a half stuck drifting on the ice before making an escape attempt when they finally reached open water).

Lansing spent years doing research for this book, including interviewing all the living crew members, and it is 100% true. But it has a proper plotline, fantastic character development, and a very climactic and happy ending. Reading ahead won't exactly ruin the story (the basic points of the mission are commonly known anyway), but there's no advantage to doing so.

In other words, some non-fiction books are novels too, and they should be read like novels.
If the people who took over bitcoin are still running around trying to keep the block size at 1 MB every 10 minutes, transactions costs are going to be a problem during any real usage.
This is really cool! I like the increased structure. Have you ever tried doing any retrospective analysis on it?
Attempt no landings there.
Folk song societies are great. Someone else mentioned ballroom dancing. Wonderful activities that take us out of our technology mindset and engage different parts of the brain.
Why would keyboard cleanliness matter more than everything else in the environment?

This dirty keyboard theory seems entirely implausible to me. Do you have any evidence supporting it? Or is it purely speculative/anecdotal?

A search of the academic literature for «"subclinical infection" "repetitive strain injury"» turns up zero results.
Monitoring global financial stability
People have these crazy custom systems, and more power to 'em, but I just use Apple Notes connected to my self-hosted mail system (it doesn't need to be self-hosted, just standard IMAP). It stores your notes essentially as pieces of mail in a "Notes" folder, and you can search within the Notes app or any email client (Apple Mail hides the folder, though). Then you get a nice desktop/mobile/tablet apps, rich text editing, and your data stays yours.
Well, you could put Function.toString() in a Blob, like this, but it feels kinda eval-y to me.

http://jsfiddle.net/tndm5hev/

Edit: looks like someone wrote an NPM package already:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/spawn-worker
Cue was discussed previously here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20362951

Looks like there is a nice new web site.

It seems a bit too feature laden to take off IMO.
Most surgical instruments are absolutely not disposable. I don't think you can realistically represent yourself how much increase in healthcare costs that would imply. We are talking billions.
Cheaper in Seattle? I don't have the exact number how expensive it is to hire folks in Singapore but I can tell you this: those google folks cost at least 150k USD base without bonus and RSU. Someone like Steve Yegge will have total compensation north of $500k USD at Google so Grab should at least pay him 700k-1M USD.

Google Fresh Grad total compensation should be between 150k - 300k usd in Mountain View. Fresh grad. Seattle usually cost 10-15% less total compensation compare to Mountain View.

Heck even recent Microsoft offer for fresh grad base:110k, bonus 10-20%, and rsu. That's MSFT, not FAANG. FAANG will give you signon bonus on top of that ranging from 50k-100k.

Keep in mind Grab RSU is paper money at the moment.

I highly doubt Singapore engineers, given the same level, make that much. Probably only the top 0.5%.

I don't see a good discussion as you still think that these folks don't come to North America and open R&D lab because it's cheaper than Singapore since that logic does not make any sense out of the gate: India is way cheaper, why not grow there and don't even bother opening a lab in Seattle. You do know that it is damn hard to grow an R&D Lab in the USA due to regulations and immigration policies right.

In order to avoid repeating the facts on the field, I would suggest you to reach out to the executives in those companies and ask why they do so as I have done before to avoid confusion, assumptions, and guessing games.
I'm considering writing How to Read Ten Thousand Books, as mentioned to a friend in a similar discussion earlier. Once I complete the preliminary research.

Adler's book is indeed highly recommended.
Modern services such as reddit and Twitter effectively usurp the role that Usenet/NNTP and similar distributed protocols used to fulfill, but without the advantage of decentralization / lack of large single points of failure that such protocols embraced. That's what I was getting at, and maybe I'm full of shit.

In the 80s if a university campus internet connection went down, only that university was affected. Now, when a single AWS availability zone goes down, a much wider swath of users is impacted. Such consolidation / centralization shows a disregard for the spirit of the early internet and design considerations that went into it.

Again, maybe I'm full of shit. Lots of people here seem to think so.
Found the original discussion!

Let the Fountain Pens Flow (nytimes.com)
130 points by CaliforniaKarl | 8 months ago | 114 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18771984
1Password by Agilebits. Though the UI is a little clunky for long-form typing the cross-platform sync works well enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQ3R

As recommended by the book "Your memory: how it works and how to improve it" by Ken Higbee. As I recall, Higbee says there are many reading comprehension methods, but the fundamentals are all the same. The book's dated, but Higbee argues that research backs up the fundamental ideas. I don't know what the latest research says, but I doubt the basic ideas here have been overturned. Maybe they've been refined.

One important thing I learned from the book was that speed is not always good. Your need to process and organize the information to best understand and remember it. SQ3R is basically a series of steps to do just that.

Note that I read almost exclusively non-fiction and SQ3R isn't meant for fiction.
His collaboration with Underworld was fantastic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teatime_Dub_Encounters
Presumably picked up by someone’s insurance plan, or a “not my problem” situation for the attending surgeon.

Sub-sanitized instruments should not be a possibility given our current understanding of infections and their root causes.

In my case, I’d rather have one less test to confirm something, if it means I get to have my surgical implements experience one more run through the UV sterilizer or the autoclave before they are used on me. Better yet, why not use a whole new set of virgin tools following a time-proven blueprint?
Deep reading should be saved for books worth the effort.

There's far more written than you'll ever be able to read. The cost of discovery is a large impediment to that.

Skimming / scanning (contents, index, bibliography, intro/conclusion chapters) is part of the informational assessment. If the book holds up to that, keep digging into it. If not, set it down, and feel no guilt.

I'm reading a lot of material, though I'm not satisfied with my methods or progress. I've found Adler's book highly useful. The principle problem is that my interests have both breadth and depth sufficient that the volume of relevant material is enormous, and quality assessment is complicated. I'm doing the best I can.
Um... what definition of study leads you to think that this does not fit? It seems to fall quite cleanly inside the one that seems relevant:

"A detailed examination, analysis, or experiment investigating a subject or phenomenon"

Similarly, "research" is a very broad term and quite clearly can involve just reading without performing any experiments.

I would (less semantically) argue (and the editors of "Psychiatry Research" would seem to agree) that pointing out inconsistent classification criteria is important to understanding the reliability of experiments based on those criteria.
Hong Kong burns during another weekend of violence
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Has Been Assembled for the First Time
The risk to the surgeon is the same in all other surgeries - ie. cutting yourself etc, although in Ortho theatres there can be good splashes which can throw fluid up over your head. You should always wear a face mask that has a visor or separate goggles in surgery to avoid splashed but the pulse lavage used in Ortho washouts has the potential to really spray fluids about.
When I want to understand something I don't read a book, I read multiple books about a topic. I did this and got quite informed about many useless topics (energy industry, austrian economics, history of science). Instead if I jump topics from one book to the next, I lose basically everything.
Also if you re-read books after some time, you get new insights.

As for programming (probably for anything you treat as a profession), I've noticed that you cannot beat practice, but if the topic is new to you, it's better to read the whole book first. It's much faster because you see what to expect and don't waste time when you practice on stuff that is easy and not as powerful as something else. Also you don't waste comfiguring tools only to discover that the tech doesn't really interest you anyway.
Okay, yes, it does matter that 3 of the 4 top browsers are dependent on ads for revenue. Where I'm confused is why you think that this is a defense of Brave, which is also dependent on ads for revenue.
i like the idea of voice dream reader in theory, but in practice i find the voice synth kind of poor and difficult to listen to. i should probably just subscribe to audible but the reason i wanted it was for audio of pirated ebooks.
This is primarily how i built my english vocabulary. Seeing words in context and connection makes them stick better.
Where did they say that?
Curious if any sort of data analysis on such a journal would be of use to a doctor (securing this would be a nightmare, of course). Perhaps combined with the notes a doctor takes to validate/disprove expected behavior or effects from medication or simply provide insights otherwise difficult to glean from a hurried conversation.
I'm certain we're talking about two different things. I'm talking about the West's distance from the depravation of the state of nature (capitalism certainly causes), and you're talking about some cherry picked metrics that make some countries in the West look better than others.
If someone comes into hospital trusting the opinion of their doctors that this procedure is going to result in an improvement in their quality of life, and then instead of returning home better they have extended complications, it is just awful. I’m not sure how else to explain it - but consider if your mother/father/partner went to theatre for an elective joint replacement and then instead of being back at it in a couple of months, better than ever, was still in hospital undergoing rescue surgeries and strong antibiotics
It depends on the work, writing, my state of mind, etc.

As I learn more about a topic, bad writing gets easier to read (there's little in it), good writing gets harder (it keeps jogging other associations or revealing new sources). I have to actively assimilate that information. Increasingly, I track down interesting references as I'm reading, if possible.

I can read an easy novel (two of the most recent: The Martian and The Circle) in a few hours. It may take me months or years to work fully through a meaty book, though a week or so is possible if I'm focused. (I rarely am.)

This incidentally makes working with library loans almost impossible -- I don't have as much time with the material, and my reading style is quite active, marking up, starring, or making marginal notes. That's fine for my own copies of works, it's exceedingly disrepectful for shared texts.

(Though I still have fond memories reading through a uni library copy of a Jane Jacobs book in which an earlier reader had penciled "God bless you, Jane" to a particular passage. I agreed with the sentiment.)

For focusing: sometimes I just tell myself to focus on the material at hand, take quick notes if necessary (index cards), and plough through. When that gets too hard -- after an hour or two usually -- I figure it's time to stop and switch to something else.
I work for Google, I definitely think the behavior of Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, and others hurt the idea that "open wins". Google tried hard with XMPP, OpenID, OAuth, ActivityStreams, WebFinger, OpenSearch, FOAF, OpenSocial, et al to build distributed, federated solutions. Even Google Wave was designed with federation support. At some point, even they had to admit, they were losing.

The problem is, tech geeks love it (open), but consumers don't care, and after the smartphone revolution, it's far easier to build siloed apps, and get people into things like iMessage, WeChat, or WhatsApp, than it is to get people to adopt a federated protocol.

If Email had been invented in the modern era with consumers controlling what wins, we would not have SMTP. We'd have proprietary platform specific mailboxes, and people would have to create accounts to send people mail on a platform.

The internet had a brilliant run in the 80s, and early 90s, before the great masses arrived, back when protocols were designed by people interested in technical capabilities, not money, when these things were hashed out at IETF meetups and mailing lists.

Consumer behavior and investment decisions today inherently force centralization I think, and it's hard to build a truly open system these days.
Yeah, I mean everyone knows real artists don’t ask for money.>.>
A lot of these customers are so abusive that they should be facing civil or even criminal action.

These are not customers who annoyingly ask for a discount or need a little hand-holding to get through some forms. These are customers who scream abuse, make threats of various kinds, insult people, and are generally just horrible.
Acsii art?
Please excuse me if this is an uninformed question, but could this potentially be a use case for robotic/remote controlled surgery? It seems like getting a clean room set up where no humans outside of the patient are present could at least prevent operator in terms of contamination.

Of course, my fear is that the contamination comes more from everything that's not the patient or the surgeon as it pertains to the surgery -- nurses, cleaning staff, etc. Every actor and entity in that chain needs to ensure sterility, so the screws would have to be sealed until opened, the cleaning staff would have to use these kinds of space suits (or clean remotely) and likewise for the nurses. Unless or until this all becomes possible, the whole system is not going to be set up for sterility.
The drive controller could strongly enforce the onceness of writes. Possibly by attempting a read before every write. Or if that's not enough, with independently articulated read and write heads, the write head's movement could be mechanically restricted...
My office is split between Excel and Sheets users. I was once trying to mash-up my Sheets knowledge with an Excel colleague. I told him it might be easier to accomplish his task with Sheets because query() uses a SQL-like syntax. I told him Excel doesn't have that. He responded, "lmao you can do that with vb". I looked up instructions on how to that and realized he had no idea what he was missing.
In your ideal world with things like biomarker screens and MRIs, what exactly would you try to correlate any physical evidence with? You can't say "these genetic markers have a high correlation with schizophrenia" for example without first screening for schizophrenia via something like the DSM. But if you can diagnose it with that already....
Miller 5.5.0: Positional indexing and other data-cleaning features
While the deeper review is fine, Why wasn’t this better planned with more resources allocated to the review process to keep the time in 2-3 days. And when I submitted my game - Word Hookup -for internal testing it took 8 days for approval. Why should internal testing require this prolonged review. 7 days for internal testing is a painful and unacceptable waste of devs time.
Perhaps I should have said biologically meaningful. Yes ASD, schizophrenia, bipolar and ADHD are heritable at around 0.8, impressive. But there's also a good amount of research showing that mental illness in any form is correlated and there is a "p factor" that seems to predispose people to mental illness in general. There could be many possible genetic variations that lead to the same DSM diagnosis. Similarly multiple neural derangements can lead to the same set of symptoms. And research based on brain imaging (e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05317-y) suggests that our DSM diagnoses are probably not mapping reliably onto underlying brain dynamics. Plus, if I just randomly throw together a set of symptoms e.g. {back pain, chronic bloating, insomnia}, I wouldn't be surprised if it was heritable at 0.3 or above given that whatever genes are involved are going to get passed down and often genes sit next to each other on the same chromosome etc.

The exciting research I care about is more along the lines of < https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30696271 > where we observe neural dynamics, hypothesize causality, intervene with TMS or other focal neuromodulatory tech, and see if in fact region A is causally linked to outcome B, or if neural dynamical state A is causally linked to outcome B.

I also meant that the DSM is biologically unreliable because it is only symptom clusters, and we cannot intervene at the level of symptoms, you have to intervene at the level of pathology. Symptoms are not pathology. It's the brain that is experiencing some pathology, so we need to ascertain the brain pathology and intervene at that level, and DSM, as noted by brain imaging studies, does not seem to reliably map onto that biology.

Aside, are you involved in software engineering? What brings you to HN?
I dislike that we can't downvote.
Perhaps the Eastern European immigrants are drinking a lot of it.
For some reason alias sampling is not well known, even though it strictly dominates using a search tree when generating randomness (it's faster, it uses less memory, and IMO it's easier to code). It even works better when generalized to the case of preparing superpositions on quantum computers ( https://algassert.com/post/1805 ).
I have no idea.

Anecdotally:

A mom of someone with cystic fibrosis traced her child's lung bleeds to exposure to chemicals used in a dark room to develop photographs. They were then able to prevent further bleeds, at least from that source. (IIRC, her child was a teen or young adult taking a class or pursuing a hobby.)

A woman who works at the CDC was undergoing cancer treatment. Her husband took photographs regularly of her arms, I think. Photographic evidence convinced them her symptoms were getting clearly worse. They used this to convince her doctor to change her chemo drug sooner rather than later.
There's been some pretty detailed discussion of exactly these ideas in the past on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19971327
That's true, but for me, it certainly is an important data point or signal. Part of how I've gotten a lot faster and productive is having the right judgment about when to tweak and when throw something or some part of a composition, arrangement or sound design away and just redo it from scratch when I don't think it's going in the right direction.