skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a huge fan of Org-mode and so far it's been the most persistent way to keep track of my knowledge base.

I have a single file called "engineering-notebook" and I store pretty much everything in it:

- bookmarks to resources

- personal notes

- personal tutorials/step-by-steps

- cheatsheets

It works fantastically for me
It seems schizophrenic because there really isn't a hivemind. Rather, there are various mutually antagonistic groups who differ in their beliefs in what the "hivemind" represents (as opposed to "authentic" Hacker News culture,) based on their suspicions about what sinister conspiracy is behind moderation and comments contrary to their point of view. Almost no one here seems to trust that people who disagree with them are ever posting in good faith.

Whether a topic gets upvoted or downvoted seems to depend on which camp gets to it first, and the bias introduced by the first comment, which will inevitably determine how long the topic lasts, barring moderator intervention.
Yeah, I actually had never seriously considered riding one, and thought it was a bit silly, then a friend just randomly suggested going for a ride after we had caught up one time. It's actually really, really fun and pretty great for getting around urban areas.

That said, I'm not sure how sustainable their business model will be because riding Lime and Neuron (a Singaporean competitor that we have operating in some Australian cities) is probably leaning me more towards wanting to get my own e-scooter than regularly hiring theirs...
I’m not understanding how snp datasets created this drug?
Sorry, HN doesn't hate on PHP anymore. That's considered elitist and pretentious. HN hates JavaScript now.
> There will also be paid work on iOS once they find someone that can do the job

AFAIK adam is going to work on it, once he finishes up with the android stuff.
I thought quantamagazine was above publishing click-bait, but I guess not.

Neural networks already see in "higher dimensions" (whatever that means). Anyone who's ever used neural networks already knows each neuron's branch (i.e. dendrite) of an N-sized vector can already be though of as a "dimension" of a data set. CNN (convolutions) flatten that data (reduce it or seeing the same pattern over less "dendrites", much like PCA, etc.).

CNNs only make sense when working with image data anyways.
They accounted for that possibility:

> One possible reason for the lower temperature estimates today than in the past is the difference in thermometers or methods of obtaining temperature. To minimize these biases, we examined changes in body temperature by birth decade within each cohort under the assumption that the method of thermometry would not be biased on birth year.

I think that the assumption that the method of thermometry is not biased based upon birth year is probably correct.
Long term, sure. Short term, you'd be looking at the link between air quality levels and chronic diseases like COPD, asthma, and congestive heart failure.

That might show up as an increase in the number of living people with these conditions.
Vdom is not dom. Mithril maintains a previous copy of vnodes (pojo) and only patches corresponding divs when new vnodes differ. Comparing and disposing pojo is cheap. Producing vnodes cheap too, unless you do heavy calculations at render, but that’s true for any framework.
> While reserving respect for Holmes’s reforming efforts, Mazza did not pull her punches. The Greens have “poured millions on the legal and illegal antiquities market without having a clue about the history, the material features, cultural value, fragilities and problems of the objects,” she said. This irresponsible collecting “is a crime against culture and knowledge of immense proportions – as the facts unfolding under our eyes do prove.”

That’s an interesting charge. The article repeatedly points out that the Bible Museum didn’t know anything was stolen, and cooperated to return things when they found out. But its the Oxford classics department that is keeping these artifacts hidden, inaccessible to the public or even other researchers for the last century. It was an Oxford professor that tried to sell them illegally, but that was made possible by the secrecy of and opaqueness of Oxford’s stewardship of the collection. Who exactly is the villain?
> I was able to contribute to this site for years without issue before you came along.

When people go on about how badly they were treated on HN, but omit any verifiable details, I call such comments linkless martyrs [1]. Without links, readers have no way to make up their minds for themselves [2]. The past pattern has been that such claims are greatly exaggerated, leave out critical details, or are made up. Sob stories and tales of injustice are easy to produce, but looking at what actually happened reveals otherwise.

Perhaps your case is the exception? If so, you can easily prove it with links that show how you were posting like this "for years without issue before you came along". pg was 10x quicker to ban accounts than we are, so my bet is that what you're saying is false.

1. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

2. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
The WTF question is not "Why does a giant agency care about this tiny issue" but rather "Why does a public agency think it's a private business?"

(Sure sure, it's a corporation, but its owners are ultimately the taxpayers.)
I helped co-found a large Dropbox-like white label product. We used AWS and especially s3 for storage.

After many many years of experience with systems, I made sure we had as many possible ways to recover user data as we could. The initial solution was a large Postgres database for all the metadata/indices and s3 for the actual storage.

Despite much pushback we built in little things like an individual meta file on the file system for each file we stored. That way, if we lost the Postgres dB for any reason, we could create a script to rebuild the dB and restore access avoiding massive counts of orphaned files. A simple and probably stupid solution but...

Well guess what - the DB got corrupted and after some ado, we restored all access and none of our customers lost anything.

No it’s not full backups but...
CVE-2019-19781 exploited in the wild
I had never heard of it, but if it is enough of an existential risk to amazon's profit that they pull a huge front page banner about it, I'm excited to try it.
It’s all I need, I have tens of thousands of lines of notes at this point, can search them (text, regexes, tags, whatever) essentially instantly, can export to html or slides or pdf or $format, will never go down or close down or disappear behind a paywall, it’s perfect
SirenLess: Reveal the Intention Behind News
I liked the part about horror movies and the primitive mind. Why bother with logical consistency or exploring philosophical questions when the audience will rate your movie based on how jumpy it made them after watching it?
There was a healthy discussion here on HN 8 months ago about .NET 4.X when MS announced .NET 5:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19840763
Australia has generally gotten wetter over the past 50 years than the first 50 years of the 20th century: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2020/01/are-australia-bushfires-...

This is a deep drought but it's coming on the tail end of a wetter than average decade. So plants have had plenty of time to build up combustible fuel over the past decade.

"As former State Fire Chiefs call for a summit on bushfires, expert and scientist David Packham explains that it has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with fuel-loads."

https://volunteerfirefighters.org.au/scientist-david-packham...

David Packham warned about the fuel loads in 2015.

Bushfire scientist David Packham warns of huge blaze threat, urges increase in fuel reduction burns
Darren Gray
By Darren Gray
Updated March 12, 2015 — 4.05pm

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/bushfire-scienti...

The Aussie government apparently didn't listen to its own experts on this 4 years ago.

Worse still, they actively discouraged and fined people for attempting to remove firewood from national parks:

https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/news/removing-firewood-fr...

That's negligence of the highest order.
First rule about downvotes is we don't talk about downvotes.
Check what features of BTRFS SUSE actually uses and considers supported/supportable.
It’s called “right back at ya”, a quite effective (online only though) strategy. “Give the other cheek” and similar BS is not going to work with crazy lunatics and bullies.
I have been using a text file (actually an org mode file) since 2009. Before that I used a plain text file.

It doesn't handle video/bookmark/pdf. If I have to save those, I put them in a separate directory and make a note of it in the text file.

It's pretty well organized, thanks to org mode. It has a section that is by date, like journal entries, and a section that's by topic. Since it's just a single file, it's very easily searchable. It will never "go down". I don't need to run a database (I tried using wiki software for the same purpose). I can even "link" different sections, by having plain text labels. For example, I can refer to "ZFS Setup 2009-01-01" which is another place in the document I can search for.

I can "jump" to sections by using the orgmode annotation. Searching for "* Computers" will go to that top level section.

I liked this system so much that I also use it at work. People are very impressed that I can find things in my "notebook" so quickly. It's just text search.

Websites disappear. Web apps disappear. Apps disappear. My text file, does not.
Eh, I'll believe it when I see it. Saying this from a perspective of:

- Usually reading seeing what's new in this space every year. Wrote my last comment in https://lobste.rs/s/ahy28r/remarkable_perfect_tablet_for_aca... .

- Taking some of the "developing markets" speech with a grain of "geek heresy" salt. It's out of my domain, but from what I've heard there's been a problem where technology in education has been rushed to as a cost-savings mechanism yet in practice the content / usability issues make the education experience worse.
Until and unless these replace cars on the road, which is unlikely due to weather and other cases like grocery shopping, they will be a nuisance for everyone.

A better solution for private transport over short distances would be low speed neighborhood electric vehicles (basically, big golf carts) that can carry more people and stuff, and coexist with cars, instead of taking pedestrian and bike space. They might not be as safe as cars, but they are safer than the scooters.
I agree. My favorite part is when they examine average temperature by birth decade within each cohort, under the assumption that differences in birth decade will not affect the accuracy of the measuring technique.

> To minimize these biases, we examined changes in body temperature by birth decade within each cohort under the assumption that the method of thermometry would not be biased on birth year.
I just finished reading the whole thing. It was definitely an honest and transparent testament to his (and others') struggle. I wouldn't say I felt moved by it, but I take away a renewed perspective in life, an understanding of how good I have it, and insight into what potentially the worst possible fate is.

To anyone else that may see this link: use Firefox compatibility-view.
Success is 1% inspiration 99% perspiration.

Being successful at business is a different skillset than having good technical ideas. The best idea in the world won't build you a sales force magically nor will it put into place a manufacturing chain for you.
Chasing the Dragon (Jackie Pullinger) is the account of a British woman who moved to Hong Kong and felt led by God to help the underprivileged in Kowloon City, with dramatic results. No illustrations, but a riveting read (if you have an open mind).
I don't need decentralized moderation actually, I would prefer highlighting comments of people that I like and people that they like. This would be enough for me to find constructive smart people.

The why not I build part: network effects are strong, so I think it's really hard to do something that people would use.
Momentum is a vector. The sum of the vectors is preserved.
The Democratic Party is a mess of conflicting patronage. Sadly, there is still a voting constituency who does not think the wealthy should control every aspect of the lives of the working poor.
Cheat – create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line
Show HN: Lodash Function Finder
There's a non-Rust implementation in the same repository, at https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3/tree/master/c (in C).
See also Roam (https://roamresearch.com)
Show HN: I built a roguelike game with Redux and learned some stuff
Having debt may not be a mental health illness, but mental health illnesses are significantly exacerbated by debt.

I was discharged from a mental health ward 3 weeks ago after an unsuccessful suicide attempt. My brother was murdered a year ago and I've been struggling with depression since.

I lose my job a few months ago and money has been tight in my household, to the point where I began to see myself as nothing buta financial anchor weighing down my partner.

Freeing her from having to manage my debts was the primary justification for my suicide attempt. My mental health illness (mixed anxiety and Depressive disorder) is not caused by debt, but the affective symptoms (in this case suicidal ideation) were.

Or to put it another way: the easy way out of debt allows people to rationalize an an otherwise irrational decision. (°)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/201...

NatCen analysed detailed NHS data about adults’ mental health undertaken for the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute. It found that 13% of people in problem debt – about 420,000 a year – think about suicide and 4% of them – more than 100,000 people – try to end their life.

Suicide attempts in people with debt are around 400x more likely than those without debts (it's around .01% in the UK yearly), which surely counteracts the idea that nobody is claiming that people in debt are more likely to be suicidal?

Having debt certainly isn't a mental illness, but we can't ignore the effect having debt has on people with mental illnesses.

Edit: sorry for any typos or grammatical errors, my medication causes difficulties typing and recognising errors

(°) Of course, it may actually be rational, since her financial security would be significantly improved by the removal of debt and the extra mouth to feed - but rationality does not necessarily imply correctness.
100sqf per inhabitant isn't particularly uncommon in Hong Kong, even in normal flats. It's quite common to fit an entire family in 300-400 sqf and that flat will set you back nearly US$1m on HK Island.
He is wrong. He's focused on performance; people use ZFS for its features, not its performance.
Essentially, War is Hell...

From the article:

In 1988, the crew of the Vincennes, a U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser, mistakenly shot down an Iranian airliner flying from Tehran to Dubai. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the U.S. military mistakenly shot down a British Tornado jet when a Patriot interceptor mistook the warplane for an anti-radiation missile. And in 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down by a Russian Buk missile over Ukraine.
BeOS was cool and all but I loved the BeBox with the GeekPort.

When I worked at a dot-com 1.0 failed startup in 1999 one of our big wigs was a former exec at Be, and he was like the coolest dude I knew at the time. Still up there.
For those not familiar with midwestern US agricultural parlance, "tile" refers to underground perforated pipe used to make soggy ground more amenable to farming. In other areas it is called a "french drain." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_drain

It is used on more than just wetlands, though in all cases it speeds the movement of waters to main arterial rivers.
"Manjaro delivered a systemd upgrade without enforcing a minimal kernel version."

Systemd didn't break his file manager. Manjaro maintainers broke his file manager.
Isn't this a problem for any over provisioned storage pool ? You can avoid that if you want by not over provisioning & checking space consumed by CoW snapshots. Also what does ZFS do if you run out of blocks ?

I have actually managed to run out of blocks on XFS on thin LV and it's an interesting experience. XFS always survoved just fine, but some files basically vanished. Looks like mostly those that were open and being written to at exhaustion time, like for example a mariadb database backing store. Files that were just sitting there were perfectly fine as far as I could tell.

Still, you definitely should never put data on a volume where a pool can be exhausted, without a backup as I don't think there is really a bulletproof way for a filesystem to handle that happening suddenly.
How to examine which parts of SQL statement overconsume CPU time
I hope when I get that degraded I will live in a society kind enough to euthanize me, rather than slowly torture, drug and humiliate me, while extending my demented, horror-show 'life' to the maximal possible extent in order milk my children, savings, and/or the state. Soylent green is a utopia compared to what we have now.

Dr. Scott Alexander writes well here on how we treat the demented: http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/

"And now every time I hear that phrase I want to scream. 21st century American hospitals do not need to “cultivate a culture of life”. We have enough life. We have life up the wazoo. We have more life than we know what to do with. We have life far beyond the point where it becomes a sick caricature of itself. We prolong life until it becomes a sickness, an abomination, a miserable and pathetic flight from death that saps out and mocks everything that made life desirable in the first place. 21st century American hospitals need to cultivate a culture of life the same way that Newcastle needs to cultivate a culture of coal, the same way a man who is burning to death needs to cultivate a culture of fire."
I use tiddlywiki with noteself on a self-hosted server.
"Money isn't everything, not having it is." -Kanye

Or, money is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for happiness.
I'm sure it's important for somebody to write about the less fun side of the guy ... but I want the fun side.
bounced between windows and os/2, never really used beos as an os, mostly just as a toy for fun. the one thing I remember is that I could play a video that for the time looked amazing without issue. I want to say I even played Quake on it, in a window!
Boeing Employees Mocked FAA in Internal Messages
Eight HTML tags you need to be using (and five to avoid)
On paper Singapore, should have been the perfect market for eScooters. A central, urban, well-developed infrastructure, low crime, stable warm weather without seasons, you name it. Starting December PMD's were banned.

Mostly because people behaving like idiots riding scooters on the sidewalks leading to at least two serious accidents per day. Bicycles are still allowed.

Lessons learned : The urban infrastructure needs to have space for the eScooters to co-exist with other participants (cars and pedestrians alike)
What can Git do that Fossil or Mercurial can't?
I've been writing PHP professionally in some form for over 15 years. I don't think I've been out of work for more than a week and I currently make a very good living (well into the 6-figures in the Midwest).

While PHP has it's issues as a language, it works very well for many companies...and if you are good, you can get paid very well.

True story.
> ah, the catch. blake3 targets 128 bit security

Not really. 128 bits for collision (using a 256 bit hash) is not the same as 128 bits for key recovery or preimage. It is much, much stronger.

Preimage and key recovery attacks have a linear drop off: halving the number of tries halves your chances of success. Collisions have a quadratic drop off: halving your number of tries divides your chances of success by four.

Moreover, it is easier to find one key if you have many keys to try (finding 1 key among N is N times easier than finding any specific key). No such considerations for collisions: finding any collision is just as hard as finding one collision among many.

512-bit hashes were never needed for their security levels. Though in some circumstances (deriving multiple keys, EdDSA), bigger digests come in handy.
there are some scooters you can buy that go way too fast, but the ones you can rent usually max out around 15mph, and that's only on a warm day with a full charge. it's definitely less stable than a bike, but every time I've hit a pothole I've just ended up awkwardly running alongside the scooter for a few steps. I'm not quite sure what people are doing that leads them to eat concrete. I've certainly never seen it happen in my city, even with squads of drunk college students riding them on the weekends.
You have duct board. It can’t be cleaned, only replaced. If you want to spend a lot look at double wall sheet metal ducts and never let your house sit without dehumidification.
There's an option to disable all touches without greying anything out, but I agree that it's too cumbersome to use.
Of course labor makes up a fraction of the total cost of a phone, so doubling your labor costs does not double the unit cost of a phone.
The aim, from memory, is to gemify most of the standard library so why not release it as a "blessed" gem?

Edit: I see there is already the pattern-match gem [1], released as a proof of concept, although obviously it has slightly different syntax. Still, the reason why `case` is chosen (because `match` cannot be used) seems very thin.

Should've stayed as a gem, IMO.

[1] https://rubygems.org/gems/pattern-match
A new generation of Denver bars is targeting people who don’t drink
I pinched the title from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20495077 since it's more informative. If this is inaccurate, please let us know. (Submitted title was "Micro-Cap User Downloads – Now Free".)
Mini splits still need to be cleaned and evaporator coils collect mold/mildew/contaminates just the same.

Regardless of what you have periodic maintenance is what makes a difference.
As others have pointed out, regulating SIM swapping might have unintended side effects. A better approach may be to pressure internet companies, and especially email providers, to drop SMS as a method of authentication.
KDE's January 2020 Apps Update
That's for the old "fat" LVM snapshots, right ? No way the new CoW thin LVs have such a big overhead for snapshots.
This has got to be one of the most terribly misguided, typo-ridden, and judgmental posts I’ve ever seen about a programming language.

1. “Crappy language for crappy developers” Seriously? Because Facebook among other very large companies still use PHP

2. An “industry”? Stuck? I’ve seen so many people easily transition out of a job using PHP because people don’t CARE about what language you’re using, they care if you’re a good engineer. I can promise you, referring back to point 1, that there are “crappy developers” for every programming language. Companies worth working for care about your skill set as an engineer overall, not which language you might have worked with.

3. No actual arguments on why PHP is bad from a technical standpoint? The ecosystem and language has only been getting better and better. You can’t just say “PHP BAD!” and act like you have some coherent argument.

Not worth my time spent. It’s clear you favor Ruby, but I’m not sure who you’re trying to convince with this narrative. The “lol PHP sucks” meme has been dead for a while now.
The "too much crypto" paper linked in the specs recommends to lower Chacha20 down to 8 rounds.

Blake3 wouldn't compete with Chacha20, it would compete with Chacha8.