skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is on the demand side, not solely on the supply side. People desire reinforcement not challenge. That is natural. I suspect it is true of us all. Those who are capable direct their potential to be challenged in specific ways, allowing themselves to have biases reinforced in the unimportant places. And they have access to the knowledge in their specific areas.

This is the reason for the enduring power of the filter bubble: it is a stable equilibrium because it serves both the purposes of the demand and supply side.

You can test this by making high-reliability websites that state honest priors. You'll get an audience but the audience will be pretty specific to your subject matter and not be popular. No information source has had all of the following characteristics:

* Broad-based popular support

* High information content

* Novel information, i.e. information you can't get elsewhere

* Sustained presence

This may actually be desirable. Novel reliable information is an advantage, but it may not be a present sufficient advantage, and species survival may depend on presently boosting those capable of acquiring and utilizing information advantage. i.e. a time may come when we need to be good at it - if we have more people with this characteristic then, it'll lead to better outcomes.
Get Nomad Running with Node.js
Our plan is for the next version of HN's API to simply serve a JSON version of every page. I'm hoping to get to that this year.
I couldn't track it down. Would you be able to relocate and link it?

I'd love to see it, as someone who draws and colors all over printouts for reverse engineering challenges.
That's the job I want.
This is not a very charitable view.

Keep in mind that at least in the Anglosphere, a point often raised about the government is that they are incompetent, that they need to be starved out, so usually

- they don't have the resources or backing to hire people who are up to date at competitive compensation levels

- the people left are those who have been able to survive such onslaught from their bosses, so they are presumably very jaded, cynical, and careful about new proposals

Our politicians do not empower the bureaucracy to be nimble, there is no reward for doing so. So I wouldn't expect it to be.

The incentives for government consultants are also generally not aligned to deliver quickly or competently.
Glad it works for them. For me and my team it doesn't.
Clojure, Fulcro and Kafka Streams.

All 3 are a mind expansion coming from other tech. Cannot recommend them enough :-)

https://clojure.org/
https://fulcro.fulcrologic.com/
https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/streams/
Why not export to a different format like html or markdown if you give up on org-mode? Edit: Notion lets you export to markdown.
And criminals using real estate for money laundering.
Spanish and how to play the guitar.
Roam does the same thing, so they may have just copied what was already established. I'm sure there's solid rationale on Roam's side fwiw, just don't know it :)
Not true, COBOL has as much structure as any other language, if the programmers wrote their code that way.

The main problem with a direct conversion is COBOL has database operations in the language, mapping data directly to variables (records). All modern languages you might translate COBOL to use libraries to perform database operations, and may not even have an off-the-shelf implementation of the pre-relational data structures COBOL was originally designed to work with.
Yes, there is some truth to that, but there are different forms of obvious. The effects a food or drug may have on the body after being ingested are never truly obvious. The internal workings of the body of an animal are extremely, extremely complex; there are so many factors involved. This is why there's never been any sort of consensus on nutrition.

Meanwhile, if someone were to say "it's obvious that wearing nitrile gloves and properly disposing of them reduces the chance of viruses coming into contact with your bare hands", true, this is not 100% obvious. There are potential failure modes here, there could be some unknown unknowns. But in general, this seems pretty obvious. We've been using gloves for these purposes for millennia. We have no reason to think they're ineffective at preventing harmful particles from touching your bare hands.

The same is true of a face mask. If a virus is likely to infect you by entering your nose or mouth, then covering your nose and mouth is likely to reduce the chance of infection from the virus. This has again been known for millennia. It's the reason why Asian countries have been wearing face masks since the start of the COVID-19 news. It's why every national and global health organization is now advising that people should start wearing masks. And it's evidence that the Surgeon General of the United States very likely knowingly lied to the US public, possibly causing unnecessary deaths.
I just vouched this after it just got flagged and as it is in response to myself that sent this path in motion and already been covered in this thread and no offence was meant or intended by myself of Don Hopkins, can we please read thru it all is cool.

We are all human after all and words are like code - bugs happen and we all operate our own unique brain-CPU's so things can and do run differently. No lines need to be read between here. Be well all and sorry, just thought I should clarify in the name of fairness for all and Don did nothing wrong in my eye's and it's all good.
curious. how you deal with slugging topics with "Punctuation!". Also do both types of links provide the same affordances? If I write [[Topic]] vs [Topic](topic.md) is there any semantic difference?
It's really weird to invoke Gorsuch in that way, since those quotes are from an opinion where he wants to get rid of the "third party doctrine", have stronger privacy protections, and require warrants in more cases.

https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/394215-gorsuchs-di...

For the locked up, Gorsuch's dissent starts on page 99/119: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-402_h315.pdf
So this is interesting. I was ticked off when it says: "what platform do you use the most?"

I have been looking at a handful of projects in this space, including notion.so and Roam, but am seriously considering moving back to Markdown-folder backed by Dropbox, for which there are a variety of editors including The Archive, and mobile apps too.

I urge you to allow zero-friction bidirectional sync at the very least. For me, unless I have complete data portability, a note-taking app that might disappear in a year is a non-starter for me.

[edit: I read deeper and see you have it, thank you]
A thread from 11 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19708982

This topic is uncommon enough that we won't call this a dupe (this came up yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22781498).
Walmart's margins are low, but their employees aren't in great shape. They usually live off of state benefits and presumably have worse education and health outcomes than the average American. What kind of society do we want to be?
Yeah this was up to +6 for a while. Pretty bizarre.
Analytics and AV tagging/insights. So I can give them a bit deeper stats from data that they all have than what most teams can get internally, but then via tagging tournament audio and video can also show any clips that lead to the statistics. They can also upload their practice and scrimmage footage for private tagging and review.

Say Team X is the best team at Objective Y, they can filter that down and watch tournament footage of their strategies on that objective only instead of scrubbing through footage manually.
I’ve used Max for more than 20 years. It’s awesome. If you use Ableton, Max is far simpler to use than the alternatives.
Same guy that won’t admit Taiwan exists?
Haskell and compilers at the same time! Following Appel’s awesome Modern Compiler Implementation in ML: https://github.com/tdp2110/HaskellTiger
Can somebody explain why I can send high definition video over WiFi, but not over an average quality USB 3 cable that is extended to a 6m length?
This sounds good in an edgy r/im14andthisisdeep sort of way. But in reality, having integrity and ethics in business is actually more profitable over the long term.
Elixir and Phoenix!

It's been a long time coming, but finally doing it now.

After coming to grips with functional programming concepts (introductory in Ruby, more advanced in JavaScript) I decided to explore Elixir and what I found really surprised me in the right way.

So I've decided to dedicate myself to become very fluent in it.
> In academia, lying in a publication can be career-ending, which acts to broadly 'scare them straight'. For academics, it's desirable to be highly read and cited, but to be seen to be dishonest is the end of the road. Could it be possible to create similar incentives for journalists?

The problem is that these incentives for academics aren't created out of purity of heart, but because of the system to which they belong; you will no longer be highly read and cited once it is clear that your results can't be trusted. Unfortunately, this seems not to be true in journalism—you can purvey intentionally, and explicitly, wrong information, and it will still be consumed actively by those whose biases are confirmed by it. We can discuss how to change that, but changing what kind of news people want to read is surely even harder than changing what kind of news journalists write and publishers publish.
> A fair amount of doctors tend to believe it is promising

There are a couple of red flags about that article. No peer-reviewed (or otherwise) papers are mentioned and no clinical trials are discussed. The article does not even attempt to evaluate the truth of whether it's an effective therapy.

Even judged on its own terms, the article is a weak. After looking at that survey they're flogging, it'd be pretty interesting to hear from Spanish doctors, since that's where most of the enthusiasm seems to be coming from, but they don't even attempt to talk to anyone. Well... it's the Washington Times.

> of course I would want to take it

"Of course?" I hope you would at least consider the opinion of the physician treating you.
It appears to be down now -- death by HN?
At the very least they won’t require the physical presence of a mainframe and that’s something.
I don't mind rescuing businesses. People need jobs.

I do get a bit annoyed at businesses who've gone out of their way to avoid as much tax as possible by using a variety of weird schemes, and who've gone out of their way to pay their workers as little as possible using a variety of weird schemes, suddenly deciding that The Government isn't so bad after all and asking for a handout.
This doesn't really solve the Fox News problem: if an audience agrees with what you're saying, they will begin to trust you regardless of the facts. Many people have no way of knowing what the truth really is when they get their news exclusively from the a small group of propagandists coordinating a message.

Who gets to decide when someone is lying? What happens when that power to determine truth from lies is obtained by a bad actor to create a new truth?
Not forcing them to is different from assuming they can't.
grep -B / -A / -C [lines Before / lines After / lines of Context]
is very useful for when you have multi-line text you want to extract.
It's being downvoted because you failed to appreciate the joke and instead went on an angry rant about what you mistakenly assumed was being made fun of.
This is, in fact, the approach the poster I link advocates for. So I am most interested in note-taking apps where you can swap the editing UX seamlessly, and not be locked into a particularly non-portable format.

'"So the question is: How important has it become for anyone to really have plain text file system based zettels? Has it ever been a real limitation to store zettels in a richer format in a more proprietary store like Evernote?"

My answers would be "very important" and a resounding "yes". The value of simply formatted plain-text is not in future-proofing data — pretty much any program can export my data in some reasonable format these days. The real benefit is that, because there is no difference between the internal and external representation of plain-text data, I am free to use whatever program is most suitable for my needs at the moment. I add new zettels to my zettelkasten mostly through The Archive, but I also have my zettelkasten added as a folder in FS Notes (where I keep my short-lived project-specific notes as well as my non-zettel reference notes) and in iA Writer (where I do my long-form composing). If I'm putting a table into a file, I'll open it up in Vim and use table mode. Sometimes I'll take live notes in org-mode, and I'll want to look something up so I'll pull up my archive in deft. Tweaks to the ZK can be done directly in any of these programs with no context switching. I find it immensely valuable to have my archive available directly in these programs. And no waiting for app authors to pretty please implement some feature.

I've found tremendous benefit from just deciding to use a directory of markdown files so I can stop wasting energy finding the "perfect" solution. For my usage, the union of functionality of the gaggle of apps that operate on a folder of markdown files is more than enough.'
If you really need to process the configuration in multiple places throughout the app, then you could put that processing code in a service class and put the debug statements there.
“We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute.”
rust. the ownership system it embodies seems important and I want to understand it deeply. also, the language has momentum.
I mean, they have a point. I've adopted Emacs mainly because of org-mode, and things you can achieve with org-mode and Emacs are incredible.

That said, it's just plaintext in regular files on your disk. It can be as complex as you wish. If you use a reasonable subset of org-mode, you can parse it (there are lots of libraries in different programming languages), and then implement any tools you wish :) Not familiar with vim plugins for org-mode specifically, but I've heard Atom support is okay?

As an example: on Android I'm using orgzly [0] to work with my org-mode files. It shares absolutely no code with Emacs, yet it supports 90% of what I need from org-mode.

[0] https://github.com/orgzly/orgzly-android
> > It's easy to lie without lying. As a society we replaced any sort of value for our value proxy, money.

> But in reality, having integrity and ethics in business is actually more profitable over the long term.

Both your parent's view and your view could spring from a belief about how the world is, rather than from non-anecdotal hard data. I'd like to believe the more optimistic version, but I find it hard to do so. Do you have some data to support it?
If you consider how knowledge decays, your strategy makes more sense. You get to something like Pareto proficiency in a subject and can then ‘reactivate’ that knowledge more easily in the future, should it be required.

You are also of course aware of that knowledge in the first place, which may be even more important. In the timeless Rumsfeldian: you have pushed back a bit at the unknown unknowns.

The alternative path of deeply learning something you may never apply (e.g. what happens to many PhDs) seems inherently less desirable, in my opinion.
> the only caller is dynamically configured in staging_env_4.json which is emitted by config_generator.py which always ensures the precondition for foo, but only if it's also generating prod_env.json at the same time

That sounds specific enough to be based on a very bad day or week at the office. You have my sympathies.
So I changed the z-index of Div A to be 5 or something. But it didn’t work! In Firefox, div A was on top, but in Chrome, Div B was on top. Argh! Why?

... why indeed? I can't think of any (presumably fairly simple) scenario where that would happen.
Makefiles aren't executable - they are fine. .bashrc is badly designed. Bash should have a proper non-executable config system. But... it's Bash. If you're expecting sane robust design from Bash you haven't been paying attention!
This comment would have been better made on the article, where an editor might see it.
Until you see the alternative. Wanna take a look at some configurations written for big Kubernetes cluster in a not at all full-blown language a.k.a "mysteriously templated YAML"?
Zoom – or why my IT department is sending this to all our users
Hi Dan,

That's great news! Is there a way to be notified (eg, via email) when this comes out?

Thanks.
I used to use online fax services but I never quite felt comfortable with them having my data. So last time I had to, I looked into it a bit and it turns out Twillio has a programmatic fax option, so I signed up for a fax-enabled number and put it in a lambda [1]. Upload the fax somewhere accessible (e.g. dropbox/s3) and sent the url to the handler.

It ended up being really cheap/easy so I keep paying for the fax number now just in case I ever need to do it again.

[1] - https://github.com/J-Swift/lamda-starters/blob/master/exampl...
Web app development using clojure/clojurescript. Also learning clojure itself. So far its been an absolute joy/blast. I'm really wanting to use this professionally but the amount of jobs using this tech stack is incredibly non existent.

Hopefully that changes soon
Introduction to Python for Middle Schoolers
So hasura just exposes a Postgres database through GraphQL?

That sounds kinda nifty, but does it then allow you to write custom code to add business logic? Glancing through the documentation, that part wasn't clear to me.
> exec(Path('config.py').read_text(), config)

I'm guessing that this is in place of just importing the config module, because of this line:

> You can even import the very package you're configuring.

Which sounds like a recipe for circular import disaster.
President Trump's hope for NFL's return doesn't align with college football real
Have fun writing a GUI to edit your config file...
This is similar to what we're doing! Hasura + AutoCRUD framework + Metabase is a great stack for putting together a solid business application in no time.

Combine Hasura (automatic GraphQL on top of PostgreSQL) with React Admin (low code CRUD apps similar to Forest) and you can build an entire back office admin suite or form app (API endpoints and admin front end) in a matter of hours.

This adaptor connects react-admin with Hasura: https://github.com/Steams/ra-data-hasura-graphql

Here's a reference application I put together: https://github.com/cpursley/react-admin-low-code

And we're taking a step further and using Elixir to listen to Postgres table changes for an "Event" style architecture: https://medium.com/hackernoon/get-notified-of-user-signups-a...
Getting Started with WireGuard
That would be amazing!

I've been having some fun with the API recently building this tool: https://github.com/dogsheep/hacker-news-to-sqlite
What's wrong with Chapter 11?
Learning Laravel and using it to build a platform to help manage some of the labor intensive activities at my web design and development agency.
I'm learning how to build 3d environments using three.js, specifically react-three-fiber

Fun way to jump back into React while also learning new concepts!
How to solve the rubrik’s cube that’s been sitting on my desk for three years.
I'm learning how to build a backend for a web app using TypeORM, GraphQL and Apollo Server. I'm a frontend developer.

Also, I've been toying with OBS Studio to learn how to make more professional video recordings to showcase applications at work, or bug reproductions, documentation, etc.
Future 2020 popular vote and Electoral College prediction
I am predicting a VERY narrow victory for Donald Trump. I predict based on data from Nate Silver’s 538 that he will lose Michigan and Arizona but keep everything else. He will also likely lose the popular vote by 3.2-4.5 points and the election will have 57-59% turnout among the voting age population. If my prediction is right, Trump will be, in his second term, the record breaker for largest popular vote loss in both percentage and number to be decided by the Electoral College. But, there is a silver lining. We could win the popular vote by more than Obama won against Romney.
Ventilator use is similar to major surgery.

It appears 66% to 90% of corona patients who are put on a ventilator will die.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/02/8261052...

So the whole "flatten the curve" thing is less useful than advertised.
A "real" programming language? Ruby, Python, JavaScript? This is dynamically-typed language propaganda. Consistently, dynamic programming language communities insist on their superiority while raising "difficult" issues solved decades ago by most enterprise-grade languages/frameworks. It's like watching adolescents go through their growth phases.

Try a language that doesn't suck.
I completely agree. Rewriting a system on the fly is absolutely going to fail. There are no requirements and without the domain knowledge, there is no way that anything could be completed correctly in any reasonable time. This is a project that should have been scheduled years ago.

Some level of technical debt will exist in every organization. The problem is that NJ never had prioritized this work and now they have an emergency and they are looking for volunteers. They should absolutely should be paying for this work.
I think your assumptions are correct (I haven't learnt it but have read quite a bit about this and other artificial languages). It's very cool! The people who have learnt it talk wonders about it. However, I find it too limited to be practical. For example, it does not have words for numbers, or for left and right.

Does anyone knows of some kind of slightly extended version of Toki Pona?
I apologize for being ambiguous. You wouldn't gain the benefits of ATS by interfacing with its C bindings from C. You would gain safety and security in interfacing with unsafe C on the ATS side through the ATS type system.

I was speaking about interfacing in the opposite direction.
Markdown and plaintext files is really perfect. I start writing without formating and then organize later.

Plaintext file is great to copy / paste snippet code (wich is more complicated with handwriting notes ).

Finally for mindmap, Dot graph [1] does job

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_(graph_description_languag...
Didn't it? The one we're talking about was developed to fight the last two Coronaviruses.
Death of a Craftsman
I do that on a regular basis as part of my work, and they're honestly not that bad. Complex, sure, but largely due to the essential complexity of the problem domain. For sure, I don't see how mixing in some occult magic would make them better.
The WHO also has a multi country trial that consists of a combo of the four most promising drugs; https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/who-launches-global-...
Hey man, really cool to see you comment here! We've chatted in the Hasura Discord briefly, love your work with the React Admin adapter. RA requires more manual work to set up and the aesthetics are different (Material UI), but it also gives you more flexibility.

For anyone looking for a self-hosted solution that can be more easily whitelabeled, highly recommend cpursley's work.

You should pop by the server chat more often =D
That really depends on the size of the fish and the size of the pond. If you're a whale in an ocean of minnows (hello Amazon) you can effectively dictate the terms of business, ethics be damned.
Friend of mine created a parameterised font for his master thesis. We hooked it up to a face expression sentiment analyser (pre trained DNN). It works in the browser with your webcam, better to use a laptop or pc :)

http://facetype3000.herokuapp.com/
It's still very suitable for configurations. The statements can be used e.g. to configure rules.