skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zettelkasten are one of a set of related tools for knowledge management, information tracking, and creativity facilitation.

They've been submitted several times on HN, though usually to little discussion: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Among the more active mentions, a submission of mine a couple of months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21208196

I'd also recommend "How to organize personal knowledge", an "Ask HN" with 220 replies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17892731

There are also index cards generally: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

And Pile of Index Cards (POIC): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

And of course, the digital version, Hypercard: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I've recently discovered Paul Otlet's work -- among his creations was the notion of "documentation", a term he invented ~1925. He'd also compiled a collection of over 15 million index cards, the Mundaenium. Recent submission of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22043441

I'd count bullet journals as closely related:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11856987 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18769286 especially.

I've been wrestling with how to make use of a research journal of sorts, adopting some of the concepts from a bullet journal, but also the flexibility of index cards, while leveraging the benefits and capabilities of a bound paper codex. I'm calling this a BOTI Journal, for "best of the interval" (week, month, year...). It's something of a collection of paper-based round-robin databases (a ring or circular buffer), where I note the most significant elements enountered in a period of time, and periodically roll these up to a longer-term aggregate. This gives time-ordering but also an aggregation function.

Things tracked include various documents (expansively defined as per Otlet as articles, books, Web pages, audio and video recordings, images, etc.), authors, concepts, journals, etc.

After a year, or several years, I should have a well curated set of most-useful / most insightful references over the period, a notion I've been frustrated in my inability to track over the past few years.

More generally, the notion of a rotating database file seems hugely useful, see the 43 folders "tickler file" method from Getting Things Done: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

(Searching "43 folders" itself tends to capture many distantly-related links to the website of the same name.)
I've newly embarked on this, and am interested to see how it goes.

There are also other pages interspersed, concepts, ideas, themes, outlines of cataloguing systems (Dewey, LoCCS, Otlet's Decimal Notation, etc.)

I'm discovering that my recent thought that a circular file format ought to exist and be used by ToDo / scheduling systems ... has been proposed by others:

https://medium.com/@criticalmind/gtd-todo-tickler-proposal-f...
I tried the same with the Logical Rules of Go [1] which translate easily into Haskell.

[1] https://tromp.github.io/go.html
I think what's missing from this conversation is the mindset. In the United States, those words on paper are are respected by government and the people demand this to be the case. The culture is such that these things are not optional. Your right to free speech being a simple example.

If don't live in a country that behaves this way it is likely very difficult to understand how this could be.

I lived in Argentina during the time of military rule. I knew that any negative interaction with police could have terrible consequences for me. Even death. Sure, there were laws in place that were supposed to protect me and others, but that didn't stop anyone from committing atrocities because the culture did not honor laws as is the case in the US. I remember being detained with a group of friends coming out of a movie. We where put-up against a wall, spread legs and arms, frisked, interrogated, harassed, laughed-at and held for over an hour. Once the cops were done having their fun they threw all of our ID's on the ground and let us go.

It took me YEARS after coming to the US to not have my blood pressure rise when interacting with cops. I mean, even having a cop car behind me was stressful. After a while you understand that things here are different. When we say "this is a nation of laws" it isn't something that goes on a bumper sticker, it has real meaning. I have a lot of cop friends and even trained at an Aikido dojo for years that was nearly 90% law enforcement. Context is important and the context is culture and laws.

If you want to argue about what would happen if the US government went off the rails and decided to do as they wished against the population. Well, I am sure there's a good movie in there somewhere. Until then, it's just silly.
"Nobody goes there anymore -- it's too popular!"
Yogi Berra
Yeah I love it, it really captures the feeling of being in a very hot and humid environment and the slight unreality of it.
Then the price is $3.30?

Presumably they think more people would pay a higher amount than walk away because they don’t offer a lower amount? or that people who want to pay for smaller space are more likely to use it, or become less attached to the account and more likely to be less loyal and shop around, or don’t want to support the increased complexity...

Card fees would presumably be more of an issue for flat rate $/gb but I don’t think they they are that zero-margin?
Looks really awesome! Does it work in a variety of lighting conditions?
Ask HN: What best crowdfunding site for my PDF 2 HTML converter?
I'm developing a new PDF to responsive HTML converter that keeps text (of course!), but also images and math formulas.

What would be a good crowdfunding site where I could get feedback and supporters for my project?

I have an early prototype, but it'll take several months to reach a version I can ship.

https://readerview.app
Yeah, that's the thing, there's likely to be lots of different alien species, so it is indeed a numbers game. I wouldn't want to try giving the odds of each alien species discovering Go, but so long as those odds are non-zero, which seems quite likely, the total number of Go inventions across the universe is likely to be quite large.

This naturally introduces the idea of a "universality constant" for any given game, i.e. what percentage of species will have invented that exact game. For obvious reasons this figure is likely to be much higher for, say, Go, Connect-N, or Hex, than for something like Chess.
I had never heard of these video interview analysis methods prior to this thread.

I think it’s at the very least way too early to rely on this and at the worst just... terrible.

AST’s are already notoriously bad and this is just a whole new level of just plain bad. Time is precious, sure, but so are human relationships if time means anything.

It’s like nuance was completely disregarded in the pursuit of corporate contracts.
Legislation requiring them to do so. If they have the capability, eventually law enforcement will start asking for the data. If Tesla don't provide the data, you get a lot of headlines about how police are unable to solve hit-and-run cases etc. because they're not getting data that's just there for the taking. Cue legislation.
The vast majority of universities are accessible by more than just cars, such as buses/shuttles, biking, and walking. If all else fails, you can organise your own shuttle service through carpooling.

I don't see why students who don't use parking should subsidise those that do. Driving is a preference and is absolutely not mandatory, so it should be paid for separately.
The article doesn't seem to have anything to do with the "principle that you should not be penalized by the family you are born into".
Great work, looks nice! Earned a bookmark.
I don't really understand what you are trying to say.

In the US the Bill of Rights is taken very seriously by everyone, from citizens to the heights of government. That's just the way it is.

Forgive me, I just don't know what you are trying to communicate.
Could someone explain what this means? I read it as proof that quantum computers cannot compute more functions than Turing machines, is that correct?
I think the opportunity lies in the other direction. Say that fund managers for index funds aren’t generally accountable for performance (assuming they actually comply with the index. Differentiate the funds on their voting strategy. I don’t really give a crap about my investments if they’re well diversified across large US companies. But I would 100% prefer a fund that promised to vote for climate and civil rights issues.
What I find quite annoying is that Medium has clearly spent a lot of effort on SEO. Whenever I Google a technical topic, the top results always include poorly written Medium articles.
I think the problem is you get crushed by the incumbents before you have a chance to take off. John Deere has lots of infrastructure (manufacturing, service) already in place. In a different market, see Google trying to break into the ISP space.
The speed the pieces are fired at is constant within each round, and then increases between rounds.

Obviously the tetrominoes are being fired by a variable speed railgun and the current is being increased with each round.
Yes, definitely.

'Paying money' is not like the old days when you'd flip literally a few cents out of your pocket for some candy.

Money transfer in tech comes with huge headaches across the board.

Privacy, compliance, international taxation, VAT, risk, etc. etc..
200 GB of storage on Google One is precisely $3/month
Repeat that but with a cleaner who is struggling to get by with 2 jobs while studying and is providing for kids. It seems much more likely given the location in this story too.
> If there was a young guy dressed in sports gear and appeared to be somewhat of a lout, no matter what the colour of his skin I would cross the road.

I didn't say anything about Black men. I said if I saw young men in General that looked like louts I would be wary.
Cops asking politely! If you've done nothing wrong you've nothing to hide, etc.
Feodor’s Guide: Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky (1996)
> There was one good Lisp, Lux lang, but it went unnoticed

Not sure why you're saying "was", seems the language is still being worked on...

> which is a shame because it's much better than Clojure.

Seems Lux lang is inspired by Clojure (and others), and the compiler being implemented in Clojure. What's the main differences that makes Lux much better than Clojure?
The currency consequences come in the form of inflation. So it's already happened. But if you mean real, paradigm altering consequences like what's happened to places like Zimbabwe or even Argentina, no, it'll never happen as long as demand for their products (and currencies) remains high.
Towns are fine, it's suburban sprawl that's the problem. If you like the outdoors and wilderness, you should want more people to live in the city so they don't tarnish the countryside. I would really like to see hunters start getting along with urbanists, they have more in common than they know.
> Index funds “are great for investors,” says Elhauge, “but part of the reason they’re great for investors is exactly because of the anti-competitive effects.” Elhauge says the trusts of the late 19th century that gave rise to today’s antitrust laws also involved a form of common shareholding.

> She might want Coca-Cola to take big risks to crush Pepsi, and invest capital in new products and markets to do so. An investor who holds both, on the other hand, would prefer that Coke and Pepsi avoid price wars.

So the way we can solve this problem is to outlaw shares ownership of competing companies? Seems like a fair solution.
Colleges generally do require you to wear clothes to class.
I don't remember how I discovered it but I used Bounce last June in NYC. Very easy to use and cheap. It was very convenient on my last day in the city.
I think for a certain class of workers, their car is used exactly once to get to work and once to get back. If that were the case I could see Uber usefully taken control of the car in between.

A better example would have been Waze Carpool or even older the practice of "slugging" which finds riders needing to go a similar way and saves toll or gas.
Because the vast majority of internet readers have no such ludicrous lines they won't cross for arbitrary reasons.
Hahaha, yes. Oops.
The problem is that many problems are so because of their scale. For instance, you have billions of harmful bacteria in your body, but are (presumably) not afflicted because they can be handled by your immune system. It would be bad to eliminate all the bad bacteria (even if this were possible without killing good bacteria) because your immune system would become more fragile in future infections.

For many things, the scale is the problem.
I just also want to note that people shouldn't ignore the psychological cost of paying. Making a decision on whether or not to spend money requires mental effort that doesn't scale down well with price.
Only problem is if someone tries to store or hide illegal goods. Thats where I get concerned.
> Responsibility and punishment are good

If you're a dog, yes.

If you are a human of the year 2020 of the Gregorian calendar living in a developed country, there are better options.
the look that clearview has cultivated is at best clandestine and might even be criminal

it is telling about the attitudes of law enforcement that they skirt prohibitions of firstparty use of facial recognition by consorting with an entity such as clearview
This is why you might consider getting services from companies where the service is their core, rather than home security from a media company. Lower risk of them deciding “oh, that junk we tried isn’t making enough money, let’s kill it off.”
It's all about exposure and discoverability, as Medium does as good job of effectively giving your blog 'free advertising' by recommending your posts to other users. It would be great if there was a decentralized way of doing this somehow.
Its not a perfect match as the inkjet refills are provided by another company (called RIS) but it does cover a lot of printers and has the ability to re-chip many cartridges that are protected from reuse that way
Ask HN: why does HN allow moans disguised as questions?

Nothing productive will come of this topic.
That's easy to say when you are largely insulated by the effects due to wealth, which not coincendentally was derived from an economic system that created the crisis in the first place.

That cavalier attitude cannot be adopted by the estimated 300M refugees climate change is projected to create over the next few decades.
The Pachacamac Idol is probably older and less bloody than once believed
I have used Medium and would consider using them in the future.

Basically, Medium is at a sweet spot of pleasant presentation and zero maintenance. I don't write things to make money and don't particularly care that Medium can make money off my "work." I am also not at a place where I want to actively maintain a self-hosted solution (which is totally possible, I just don't want to keep it up).

All the downsides of the service are real, but they're in line with other services that people use (facebook, etc) and I've generally been skeptical that they're worse. That said, they recently started having much more aggressive "log in" popups and I'm once again interested in alternatives.
It will be hard to predict what will be considered unusable post-brexit. Although, I don't know how an algorithm will be able to adhere to a mish-mash of job requirements laid down by Dom Cummings for running the government, which involves assorted wierdos juxtaposed with data scientists and Y-Combinator alumni. However, if people like Uri Geller keep applying, it will at least keep the HR bods in gravy.
And buying a licensed DVD player is simple and easy and non-destructive.
You seems like a person who knows a lot about stuff.

Could you be so kind to teach me?

p.s.: I have a master degree in philosophy.
Even that analysis is flawed as they base things on distance from city hall. In LA, that would be in a low population area.

Anyhow, it’s always good to remember that NYC is not just Manhattan.
It's interesting to me that this is (effectively) one of the requirements to get Apple's HomeKit sticker: it needs to expose an API that will keep working with HomeKit even if the manufacturer cloud service goes away.

The fact so few smart devices are HomeKit enables says a lot, unfortunately.
I only have/pay for 100 GB. It's also possible to share the storage with other users.
It's super easy to get 10k views on an article. My most read article has over 100k views. Probably less than 10% of the views come from Medium itself or Google so there is really no benefit in using Medium. You could use a static host and give your readers a better experience.
Think of it as Firefox but with the old Netscape UI intact.
My single datum indicates it results in a 100% drop in donations from families with a rejected student.
Who makes the most profit in US healthcare?
Bill Gates is continuing the work of Monsanto (2019) [video]
They gave it to him. They put it on his car.
Is this unique? I feel like there are many companies providing this sort of surveillance/data-scraping aggregation and indexing functionality to law enforcement and TLAs. We just don’t hear about them too often because we are not their customers.

Our government has abandoned us, and total surveillance is the future unless something radical changes.

Fun tip: get an old analog radio, like in an old non-connected car or a boombox or walkman or clock radio or something, go somewhere quiet and private, and listen to whatever you want. And realize that nobody knows what you’re listening to—it’s your secret. I find this to be a strangely powerful experience.
Speculative execution optimizations, e.g. branch prediction, are even data dependent. It's a very complex measurement space!
If you use npx http-server -p 8080

You don't need to fully install globally
I think the attraction for writers were network effects. It's kind of like YouTube for text content. Recently, I watched a video about the game Crokinole on YouTube. Afterwards I got a bunch of suggested videos: other videos about Crokinole, videos about other board games, videos about making your own Crokinole board ...etc. Medium does (or was supposed to) do something similar for articles, which in turn should lead to more views on your content.
Abstracting a HTTP endpoint into a continuous data stream
Thank you. I plan to moderate it for now myself. Obvious question everyone asking when I show friends/family: are you Trump's friend or a foe. Its exactly reason why I build the site, because these days every news site/agency seems to have an agenda pro- or against-.

When I review the feed for the news I do not ask myself a question if this piece will put Trump Admin in good or bad light. If the news seems newsworthy and source is somewhat reliable and article does a decent job explaining itself, then I post it.
Or something like this is a legitimate concern due to its ease of reproductive
Please don't. Medium is a very annoying platform and pushes away a significant portion of readers just because of the hosting. I only click through to a medium article as a last resort.

That being said, I also believe authors should be paid for their work. I pay for news subscriptions for precisely this reason, and I'm considering using scroll[1], which seems to be a simpler way to subscribe to a large number of information sources without having to have a subscription for each one.

I'm not going to support a product that I find annoying.

- [1] https://scroll.com/
You must live in a city...
Paying for a parking spot isn't actually taking responsibility for doing that - how does it solve any of the problems that illegal parking causes?

Also, what exactly would taking responsibility entail? How can individuals build public transit any more than they can redesign the movie industry? Holding individuals responsible for their single car's pollution sounds like holding then responsible for their plastic straws while ignoring the impact of major corporations on pollution.
The alternative to Medium isn't necessarily "hosting your own", they are not the only blog hosting service around.

I personally would suggest at least going for your own domain, so you can switch providers if they turn worse, if you're ok with spending some money on it.
Now ain't that engenious. Well done to the students
npx http-server -p 8080
Density is listed page "X" (24) together with cycing performance, as far as I saw. up to 131 mAh.g⁻¹ is listed (theoretical capacity). That is, if I do not misunderstand the article; it is a bit too long and in-depth for a non-chemist like me.
Show HN: Automate HQL partition-based date ranges
https://nomedium.dev/ is a new site, where the author describes what he doesn’t like about Medium including “ When sharing a Medium article, there is a high degree of uncertainty that the person opening the link will be asked to pay money to read the content.”

I learned about it at https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisShort/status/121849195514918...
this is slightly mis-led, but it is true that 3d conversion sometimes doesnt go as well (and often happens at the last few weeks of production, done by the some of the lowest paid people in the industry)

so there are different levels of "made up".

the VFX companies spend months to make the shots look perfect, and then the 3d conversion company rotoscopes some elements creates close enough 3d geometry to project it onto, shifts it in either direction (sometimes both, to try and maintain the original perspective) and finally re-paints or smartly clone-tools the missing elements that were previously behind other elements.

it's honestly surprising it's done as well as it is considering this has to be done once the movie is absolutely finalized and before it goes to the theater.
If you make me the CEO we can explore it now! :)
They don't require it. At least I have an "X" Button.
If you are old like me you remember when stores had minimum purchase limits for credit cards, and some places (esp. gas stations) would charge different prices for cash or credit. The credit card issuers have strongarmed the retailers to curb those practices, so the only rational response for a service that would be entirely dependent on them would be to have a minimum for everything.
Stop using movie scenes as the basis for your ideas of how the universe works. Do you really see two people, face-to-face, pulling out guns to see who gets shot first? C'mon! This is laughable.
True, but there is a market. The names you mentioned are moving upstream and charging a higher price than many independent physicians are willing to spend. Those names also have a practice management tool but want you to bundle their EHR. An independent time management platform makes sense to me.
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
I'm quite hard of hearing. I wonder what the algorithm's analysis of "facial expressions and the tonality of the job applicant's voice" would supposedly reveal about me.

Probably something actionable under the nondiscrimination laws here, thankfully.
Martindale (Unit)
> What you actually don’t hear much about is the 1968 flu pandemic, which was recent-enough to be relevant to any modern discussion of the topic and which killed millions.

The other piece I've seen discussing the 1918 flu was pointing out that there's something of a standard for using 100-year averaged mortality from disease, and in 2019 there would suddenly be a gigantic drop in that supposedly smooth statistic.

It seemed like it was relevant to modern discussion to me.

> A quick glance shows me that I have three books about it on my kindle right now; it is ever-present.

You are not a good sample. Discussion of the flu is almost nonexistent, but you are a person who has three books about it. You are not in a position to judge whether other people talk about it.