skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just recently learned about using two square brackets in OneNote to make arbitrary links to existing pages or instantly create a new page on demand. It is quite similar to the linking in [[roam]] but the later offers up a drop-down of pages with similar names to click from, while the former just does an exact string match.

I'm not sure which I prefer, but it has helped me in my OneNote uses recently.

Having starte my personal memex journey with onenote 2010 and blending in the likes of mempad, notewiki, and dokuwiki for specific use cases, I'm feeling like I am close but not quite arrived at a program I can trust to feed more than the work notes of the day.

The ideal app is a combination of Onenote, dokuwiki, and mempad, and seeing as I've not discovered the app that has all the following features yet, I may end up writing it for myself.

1. Rich text support without required markup (but can convert markdown to RTF on the fly would be a nice bonus). Links need to be drop-dead simple to create, even two square backets feels like it could be simplified. Maybe I go for NoteWiki stye camelCase or PascalCase words?

Winner: Onenote

Losers: Notewiki, dokuwiki

2. Offline first saving of files to a single encryptable file. I'm thinking if I end up writing something, it would be an scrypt encrypted sqlite database with a different file extension. Using the sqlite format enables later mobile apps to have a common save format.

Winner: mempad

Loser: OneNote, Dokuwiki

3. True image / audio / table support. This program doesn't have to necessarily support the creation of these assets out the gate, but I should be able to copy/paste them into it and have them saved and retrieved safely. A file picker dialog box should be something I CAN use but never should have to.

Winner: Onenote

Loser: Mempad, Dokuwiki

4. Full export to HTML with files placed in relative directories. A Microsoft Binder-like solution could be a bonus.

Winner: Dokuwiki?

Loser: ?

5. Entire sqlitedb search for a given term

Winner: Onenote, Dokuwiki, Mempad

Thanks for skimming the wishlist. I've heard of notion (too online), CherryTree (no mobile app), NoteWiki (no images), and a couple more, but if you think you have a program that addresses most of these, I'd love to hear it.
Since the common cold is caused by coronaviruses a decent chunk of the time, I'm not sure it's even inaccurate for someone with a non-severe case of covid-19 to conclude that they have a cold.

Maybe that's the tricky part that helps it spread. Having a cold isn't enough to stop most people from going out in public. In my experience among people I know in the US and Canada, having a mild cold isn't enough for people to stay home from work.

But while a covid-19 infection might really be just a cold to a large chunk of people who get it, it's unusually deadly to a non-trivial percentage of people as well.
Thinkpad's New Name Scheming
> sandbox clusters

i mean yes. i am of the same sentiment as the original commenter. you don't wanna be messing with production clusters from your mobile phone.

getting alerted and monitoring is fine though. i am very curious about all this...
MI5 chief asks tech firms for 'exceptional access' to encrypted messages
That is yet to be seen. https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/f94zcr/would_you_use_m...

They have the money and resources to create a competing compiler that does it's own ABI and fixes things in the language. If they could get a 5 - 10 % increase in performance would people move ?
I think Haskell's or F#'s syntax is a lot better, OCaml has a lot of edge cases that require parens. OCaml is an old language and it really shows in the syntax. I personally think Reason's cleanup of strange parsing rules that OCaml has is a good step forward, though changing match to switch is kind of annoying, I must admit.
> And how much developer time did it cost?

The nice side effect is they did migrate to .NET Core

And as another commenter said, another side effect was they got fault tolerant infrastructure. So not every minute they spent on migrating to "spot" instances is dedicated to that.
That seems very strange. Because they are licensed by the UK FCA under the "emoney regulations" I think you should be able to take the case to the financial services ombudsman if you are a UK client, have made a complaint and they haven't resolved it to your satisfaction. Most other European countries would have a similar setup.
I am inferring this from the language they decided to use.

They know that the Go team are going to read this : "The Fuchsia Platform Source Tree has had negative implementation experience using Go...". They could have sugar-coated a lot more, but chose not to.
Merlin works really well in my experience for both ReasonML and OCaml. Also there's LSP support so OCaml/ReasonML have as much editor support as any other language.
I don't consider a language supportive of functional programming unless it supports tail-call optimisation, which is performed by some but not all implementations of Common Lisp.

The article recommends SBCL, which does support TCO.

An old (2011) survey of TCO support is at https://0branch.com/notes/tco-cl.html
Hackers earned nearly $40M in bug bounties in 2019
No cameras indoors.

When I did have them (for monitoring a puppy) I put a camera on a physical switch so power could be completely cut when I was at home. For awhile I had this on a WiFi enabled switch, though I used a different switch brand than the camera to add layers that would need to be compromised.
Can tech for good be as profitable as plain old tech?
Singapore’s Court of Appeals Rules Against Quoine in Landmark Crypto Case
>>Like most of the banks, right?

Yes and no. "Predatory" can mean different things.

Most banks are super-cautious, day-to-day. They can be predatory in certain way, taking advantage of customers with things like outrageous overdraft fees, exchange rates and such. They can be feckless, accumulating long-tail, systemic risk with Heads-I-Win-Tails-You-Lose games.^

The old banks are bad in lots of ways, but actually very safe in terms of big individual risk.

Revolut is feckless and/or predatory in a more startup-ey way. They'll "bet the house" on growth. They're also prone to the start-upy customer service "minimalism" math. Customer service is hard, expensive, and generally follows the pareto principle (80/20). IE, most customers don't need much support. Say 8% do. Those 8% are not profitable, and Revolut is willing to (even prefers to) lose them as customers. So, if something goes wrong... you could be in shit.

They also just plain takes risks, like. Last years, their CFO walked out suddenly in response to risk.

All this is not unlike Google and many other companies. I have had downright awful experiences with paypal. For a bank though, this is scary.

I use Revolut. The service is convenient for me, but I won't keep much money in it or be dependant on them for anything critical.

^ HIWTYL - Pronounced Hightail
I used to get 18k monthly bill on AWS, moved everything to DO and now it costs me 8k a month. Billing is so much easier to understand now as well. It was k8s to k8s cluster transfer, so migration wasn't very painful.
The first person to do that might at least be able to get their attention..
Everyone is endangering animals in other countries. And when it comes to preserving their own wild animals, china is much better at it than europe who wiped out pretty much all their major fauna. The US isn't much better since we pretty much wiped out most of our native wild life.
Hi all, I made this. I just received a notice from Zeit that they blocked it:

> I am writing to let you know we have blocked your deployment: whereisscihub.now.sh

> This is because the deployment contained illegal content.

> Please let me know if this is not the case or if you have any questions.

I hadn't noticed it was on Hacker News, but that explains the sudden attention.

While I don't believe the site was illegal (it's just a link, after all, and proxied from Wikidata - so that would be illegal too?), I understand that Zeit are not too happy about it.

The source code to the website is at [0], if you want to run it yourself. That said, a recent Wikidata policy change resulted in the data not being great any more [1]. For now, I'd recommend just visiting the Wikipedia page on Sci-Hub to get a recent URL, or use an alternative [3].

Edit: I should also add that this was just an afternoon project I did once, and I should plug the main thing I'm working on in this area. I'm trying to remove the incentive for academics to publish in "top" (but closed access) journals: https://plaudit.pub/

[0] https://gitlab.com/Flockademic/whereisscihub/

[1] https://gitlab.com/Flockademic/whereisscihub/issues/9

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

[3] https://sci-hub.now.sh/ (though also hosted by Zeit)
And even DO is still quite expensive (though the cheaper alternatives do tend to have limitations - e.g. if you're ok with Europe only Hetzner tends to be far cheaper, but that doesn't work for everyone).
There was a mention last week that WHO would not reference SARS anymore, out of fear of widespread panic. Hence my question.
Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
https://www.icpa.org.uk/portal/money_laundering/tipping_off

In my experience at UK banks (trying to avoid embarrassing anyone by name here) what you're obligated to submit a SAR for is pretty broad and once you've SAR'd someone you almost always close their account with no reason given. So this experience will be reasonably common at every bank that does business in the UK
Two main reasons: Elasticity and Availability.

Our services are highly elastic, and can vary from processing 8 million events/day to 600 million events/day. Same as with our users, which are mainly active during work hours, with some running night shifts, and then fewer running weekends.

We are probably the prime-case for cloud, since elasticity is where you save cost by going away from dedicated hosting.

As for availability; our customers are highly dependant on us processing their data live, and them being able to monitor, get alarms and react on their data. They rely on us to notify whichever technician needs to fix their production line when it's stopped, since they loosing money for every minute the line is not running (true for almost any manufacturing company).

This means that we need a lot of redundancy, and these things are built-in to almost all AWS offerings.

--

There's a case for dedicated servers still, I'll agree on that, but we are definitely benefiting from the cloud.
I thought this article was interesting: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coron...

Particularly the point about "Why build hospitals?" Because in strongly centralized, command political systems, grand projects are one of the few things done well. And so crisis management becomes "What can we build, to show we're taking it seriously?"
iOS has Reachability[1] which is a similar solution the same problems.

The problem with solutions like this is that they are often hard to discover.

1: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph77bcdd132/13...
Padding Is Hard
Counterpoint: my org got a large credit pool, but out development and engineering team were closely communicating with relevant leadership to explain costs and processes. We stretched out the credits for 3 years, despite spinning up/down nearly a hundred thousand VMs. Our infrastructure team still controlled access and setup, but it was a lot easier to say "director, Bob wants $200/month for this project, approved?" Then it was created in a way the costs tank to that project. Slower than Bob with direct access, but much faster than traditional systems since the VM is up in minutes and could be put in a sandbox if needed.

So in our case, credits got us into AWS, but instead of treating it like free money, we spent a lot of time improving efficiency and reducing our bill so when the credits ran out we could run our system for an affordable rate.

I take pride in reducing costs in the cloud. I don't argue cloud is the only way, but there's a lot of use cases where it just makes sense -- CloudFront+S3 for static websites, for example.
Toward Scalable Growth for Single-Crystal Graphene on Polycrystalline Metal Foil
2020 SaaS Conferences
Remarkably similar to a previous gig I had except they were focusing on music industry data rather than "generic". Needless to say, that didn't get very far...
An Interview with Kevan Lee (VP Marketing – Buffer) on Social Media
If someone has that much physical access to your machine they can capture your password far more easily with a physical keylogger assuming you use an external keyboard like one time.
Show HN: Open-source list of 200 freelance developers
What Is Data Visualization and Why Is It Important?
I think this is generally a good thing. Two questions I've often seen surface on HN though weren't answered:

1. Isn't this better implemented at the OS level?

2. Isn't centralisation to two DoH providers more centralised than five large ISPs?

Others are probably better suited to answer, but the answers I can think of:

1. Yes, but it is not, so this solution is second-best. If Operating Systems decide to tackle this problem at some point in the future, Firefox can always be changed again to use that.

2. Given that Firefox doesn't own the full market, the net result is indeed less centralisation: five ISPs that handle traffic by other browsers, and two DoH providers that handle Firefox's. That said, the main factor here is that the track record of ISPs in the US is abysmal, whereas the current (and hopefully potential future other ones) DoH providers have committed to far stronger privacy protections.
St Scholastica Day Riot
It seems some consulting companies prefer to push AWS over other service providers. AWS has the advantage of a lot of professional certifications and a big catalog of managed services to meet all kinds of needs. Cost is often mostly dev time for a lot of software running on it. It does pretty well at saving developers' time.
I have no probs with a rpi and usb cam.
I use motion to only store movement.
And point the camera to the entry points to avoid privacy concerns.

Cheap and chearful. Bash scripts over ssh to turn it on or off.
That's still a very low barrier to entry: sure, they managed to get married, but they apparently can't commit to a long-term relationship.
Regarding the example of Stackoverflow vs Mailchimp, it'll be definitely more on the Mailchimp side.

As for the niche to pick, it's not yet clear to me what I can focus on - it looks like we're targeting the same people - but maybe it'll be clear after a while. Maybe, as @matijash was saying, I can start without differentiating and then do it down the line.

In terms of resources, it shouldn't cost much in terms of money, but it'll probably be in terms of time, as it'll be hard to fit the day job, family and this side hustle together.

Also, thanks for the link - definitely an enlightening read!
There valuation is currently almost 1/3 of the Deutsche Bank market capitalization. Just for your reference..
VC & tech are in a big bubble
> the EV question for Germany is going to be an issue 10-15 years down the line, not now,

The EV question is going to occur the moment consumer sentiment turns into considering ICE vehicles a risky purchase. Like for fear of resale value or high fossil fuel taxes.

Or simply because equivalent EV purchase price becomes lower than ICE vehicle.

Societal tipping point can occur long before EVs become dominant. If I had to guess, I'd say it'll occur before 2025. Eventually, people will be worried about availability of gas stations.
I remember this being a thing for sometime, years ago as you said - always found this approach very interesting and resulting in beautiful and diverse UIs.

Sadly this trend seems to have faded away together with the rejection of skeumorphism and the advent of "design systems" (eg component lib based design)
China’s e-commerce giants deploy robots to deliver orders due to coronavirus
Sci-Hub only access is through a university network if it's the first time anyone has requested that article through Sci-Hub. It does cache the result on its own servers, though, so subsequent requests will be served from those.

(It used to cache them on LibGen, and I think it does still store them there, but I seem to recall it now uses its own servers as well.)
It was also the scripting language for Netscape's web server
Roam looks pretty nice, but TFA argues pretty effectively for a private memex.

How does the author reconcile that with putting their intimate thoughts into Roam aka someone else's computer?
That's way the most appropriate way to develop software is to actually create it piece by piece with the client side-by-side.

Unfortunately, there is such software development platform in which software can be 'sculpted' as if it was a statue, with the client being able to oversee what the software would do at every moment.

In practical terms, here is how software development should go:

1) open an empty canvas (for example in your browser).
2) ask the client what they want. They will say, for example, they want to see a bunch of posts and comments below them.
3) create a list of posts, on the spot.
4) create the ability to add comments below each spot.
5) ask the client 'is this ok?'
6) he/she may say no, so delete the above and restart.
7) otherwise, proceed with the next question 'what else do you want?'.

In the back end, the development mechanism shall create the databases and code needed to handle the tasks in the front end.

After all, the only 4 things we want a computer to do are these: create/search/modify/delete information.
You are missing the point of surveillance, it's not always about bad things, and even if 99% of the time nothing happen where you live you my want to capture the some of the 1% moments. It's also useful if you want to know who came when you are not home or when you have delivery.
That you're not actually buying cryptocurrencies with it. It's just an IOU from Revolut, with very dubious protection. With the unregulated part of crypto I would bet you'd have absolutely zero protection if Revolut went out of business or just closed your account for some unknown reason.
Wikidata, actually, which Wikipedia unfortunately does not yet use as a data source. But yeah, also a Wikimedia project, and also maintained by volunteers.
Onboarding Chasm: The Five Stages from Skeptical Prospects to Happy Customers
PayPal Users Hit with Fraudulent Charges via Google Pay
> Wonder who blocked it.

Zeit did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22412405
> On the website it just says things like "No fee ATM withdrawals up to €200 per month", but what about after 200€??

TransferWise debit card's landing page [1] doesn't have the ATM fee either. Their pricing page [2] does.

I was able to find Revolut's pricing page [3], which includes the ATM fee, with a simple search.

[1] https://transferwise.com/gb/borderless/card

[2] https://transferwise.com/gb/borderless/pricing

[3] https://www.revolut.com/legal/fees
Life Inside a Docker Container
Ah! Yes! Oh wow I love this!

Many years ago, back when everyone was just discovering smartphones (we used to call them smartphone back then, now we just call them phones...) and figuring out that widgets need to be larger in order to be easier to touch, I was having a beer with a colleague who was doing design back at the time and we were making an inventory of all the ways that this is going to change things.

And we thought this was going to be one of them, and we had the math to prove it! Fitts' famous law considers all axes of motion equal -- i.e. it's a model that describes moving horizontally, diagonally, horizontally or anything in-between as equally difficult.

This isn't the case for phones, especially not when they're used with a single hand. Horizontal motion at the bottom of the screen is very hard, because your thumb just don't bend that way. So is vertical motion on the right-hand side of the screen (for right-handed users -- left-hand side for left-handed users). Diagonal motion is easier because, well, that's how the thumb bends. It's not just about the difficulty of making the motion happen -- the motion is inherently imprecise (this is what Fitts' law effectively cares about, not necessarily the amount of physical effort).

We tried to sketch a "revised" model but it was a little unwieldy to plug into the beautifully-logarithmic Fitts equation. I think I still have that notebook.

Unfortunately, we never pursued it further. I'm a lowly programmer and not really interested in UX design anymore. My colleague was so burned out by academia that he didn't want to touch anything even vaguely resembling a research project with a ten-foot pole and I didn't even dare suggest publishing something 'cause I sort of valued our friendship.

However, it's something that's been lurking in the community for a while. I've mentioned it every once in a while, and almost every time I've heard something along the lines of "huh, I think I've seen this, too, I wonder if we could make a useful UI like this".

Turns out you can and it's finally happening!
So stop linking to 99% of websites?
Young drivers 'let down over insurance app faults'
Why Netflix is better at sex ed than most schools
Just a small list:

- emptying supermarkets and fighting for products that finish instead of waiting for the shelves to be refurbished (with police interventions, etc.). I've seen people buy 20kg of pasta or 100 water bottles on Sunday

- buying cleaning products and useless face masks for 10+ times the price

- firmly believing that COVID-19 is a military plan or a disease made to kill old and sick people to lower costs

- avoiding all Chinese people, Chinese food or Chinese shops (some people are afraid of goods made in China)

- faking some other illness to avoid going to work

And we could go on with a lot of other senseless things people are doing...

Edit: formatting
So in other words:
1: to fix js chaining
2: to fix js compatibility
Ergo to make js suck less.
This is a well-documented issue with DMT specifically (the active ingredient in ayahuasca), and has been written about extensively.

The search term for those looking for more information is “machine elves”.

https://non-aliencreatures.fandom.com/wiki/Machine_Elf

I, too, find ayahuasca tourism to not be a very good or productive way of experimenting with psychedelics. The mysticism/religion is not inherently beneficial, and you can experiment a lot closer to home without all of the woo if you like, with much the same results.
Thank you for your suggestion :)
The myths that keep you mentally imprisoned
After several months of interviewing, I understood that Google is just another big enterprise company that has all these bureaucracy problems, opaque processes and weird rules.

I interviewed Google twice in the last 15 years. Flew out to Mountain View both occasions. Definitely sensed more of the above sentiment the second time around. Judging from (the admittedly small dataset of) this article and some of the comments here, I guess it's gotten worse.

Don't feel bad. It sounds like you'll have a lot more fun and runway for meaningful accomplishment along the route you've chosen to pursue.

I have no qualms with googlers - I interact with a lot of them at I/O every year and it's a blast. But at an institutional level the company was a lot more humble back in the day (and incidentally, more deserving of the high-caliber reputation they now take for granted).