skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can also hit Ctrl-x Ctrl-e to edit the command line in your preferred text editor, and run it when saved and closed in the editor. So you can type the mv, tab-complete the current filename, and use the editor for the new filename.

This doesn't seem to work in readline's vi mode. Do you know the equivalent there? EDIT: Ah, kesor points out elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22861894) that it's just 'v' in normal mode.
Ask HN: Now that you have an extra 60 min a day what are you doing with it?
The normal US commute is 30 min each way. Since you're not doing that commute... what are you doing instead?
As does F#.
I have a Chrysler Pacifica and with all the seats dropped into the floor the cargo volume is tremendous. There’s still practical limitations on width and height due to the rear wheel wells, curvature of the interior walls, etc. A pickup can’t be beat for large bulky items.

Getting all the kids car seats out and back in is no fun though.
That also applies to people right?
`material-ui` react component library. obscene amounts of boilerplate + every update would require refactoring the mess they made me make.
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Way lower insurance rates too.
Oh, it doesn't get me down at all, quite the opposite. It's not myself I'm worried about, it's broader mankind.

Take my suggestion at the end - does it not seem odd in the slightest that one of the highest concentrations of powerful minds on the internet seems to be more interested in complaining and pointing fingers, little different than any other social media site, rather than trying something new?

How bizarre do things have to get on this planet before a little curiosity starts to form about how we got where we are today, and if perhaps there's something HN could do to get us out?
That's generally not true in the auto world. The dealer makes more when you finance a car vs when you pay cash. You can generally get an overall lower purchase cost by agreeing to finance as the expectation is the finance arm of the dealership makes it up there. Just finance through the dealer and pay off through your bank within 30 daysm
It isn't clear yet that someone who gets COVID-19 can't get it again. In this case, fear comes from not knowing much about the virus yet:

https://health.usnews.com/conditions/articles/if-i-get-coron...

> Not every virus functions the same way, though, and extensive research into whether the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 generates enough antibodies to impart a durable immune response is unclear. But there’s plenty of reason to hope that a vaccine can be developed, and, in fact, clinical trials have already started.

> For one, it appears that some people who get COVID-19 may not develop antibodies to the virus. Additionally, there are still many other uncertainties related to the body's immune response to this particular pathogen.

And long term:

> For example, is this virus going to behave more like the flu, which changes each year and thus requires a different vaccine formulation each year? Or is it going to be more like tetanus, which is a more stable virus. The tetanus vaccine typically covers you for about 10 years at a stretch.
Pandoc and make totally. I have a personal workflow for all my academic articles; which is expanding to books, and which involves chapters stored in individual markdown files in github, pandoc to build with a makefile to tie it all together[1], and zotero spitting out CSL json bibliographies, etc.

Honestly, though, I find writing in Markdown in vim/emacs to be really unergonomic. The unit of writing in code is the line (or the function or the block or the s-expression or whatever depending on language and task---something comprehensible to vim and emacs anyway); but with prose in Markdown the unit of writing is much less defined---sometimes sentence, sometimes paragraph, sometimes clause... and the movements just don't work for me there.

So I just do the writing in Sublime Text. Seems to work for me.

[1] But I'm not nearly good enough with make to do complicated things like back up or build every file in a directory. I hacked together my own backup utility @ https://github.com/paultopia/writingBackup
I didn't know that! Why does it work?
There's one against static linking in development or with lots of deployments: You can't use layers efficiently. With shared deps you can install them before the app itself. With static linking your last layer always includes both, making it larger and slower to down/up-load.
I poked around and I think I understand Urbit now. I wrote down my speculations here: https://twitter.com/ianbicking/status/1249862161758916609

This satisfies some long-held desire to unpack the mystery. But now that I know what it is, I know that in fact I'm not interested in it, and (unsurprisingly) it's not the future of computing.
Because doing something like that without a type system (which Python doesn't have) to guide your hand is practically impossible.

I would expect Clojure programmers (while still functional) don't use these abstractions either.

On the other hand, typed languages, like Haskell, Scala, OCaml, F#, do employ these abstract concepts. Their type system makes these worthwhile endeavour with great payoff.
I just wanted to personally thank you for making this. My 7yr old and his grandparents in NYC are LOVING this. Please keep uploading more great books to the library!
CAHSR is mostly proof of a few things that America gets wrong

- heavy reliance on consultants is not a financially prudent exercise compared to building up a competent civil service, particularly since consultants want to keep the gravy train running

- sustained funding for projects is the way to build up a civil service that can push out projects; conversely, "get a ballot measure passed first and ask questions later" is a very bad model.
Are those medicines actually advisable for covid?
Getting more sleep each day.
I think the buy-here pay-here "everyone approved" dealers that put disabling devices on their cars and those who sell new cars at 0% are kind of different worlds.

I see 0% financing as just an accounting trick to discount a car a few thousand $ without setting expectations for discounts or giving away the money up front.

There may be exceptions, but I've never had or been offered a car loan that had early repayment penalties, so as many other people have said in conversations like these, might as well go for the longest term that gets the lowest rate and pay it off whenever you feel like.
Better than 10% off Zappos.
Do you have some cloning technology we are not aware of? A mono-culture of genetically identical human clones is sci-fi.
I don't think it's necesarily one or the other. Climate change is a stressor, and monoculture makes crops less reseilient to stress.

Crops undergo massive failures relatively frequently. Bananas are headed towards their second extinction this half-century. As stresses perhaps become more acute due to a rapidly changing climate and environment, this lack of resliliency may prove quite harmful, more so than the damage that can be reliably attributed to any individual stressor.
"When companies struggle the first thing they tend to pull is advertising." ... And the huge local facebook advertising uptick I see says otherwise?
Thank you for pointing this out, I had wanted to say the same thing. You can tell the wording is dancing around the fact ("before millions ... motoring"), but to make people think it was only inhabited by animals and leave out the idea that Native Americans lived there is a serious omission.

Unfortunately, the native inhabitants are no longer around to "reclaim" their domain. Imagine if that started to happen, and I don't mean the homeless camping more openly in parks these days.
This logic feels somewhere along the lines of death as a cure for cancer.
Exactly. Plus you have to dig out from under the taxes and fees.

You always want the cheapest money for the longest term. The only reason to go with a shorter term is if the interest rate is significantly lower. Being "underwater" has nothing to do with it.
>sticking the cash into investment

Which is essentially zero (or less than zero) return adjusted for risk and and discounted for inflation. All of which is especially hard to gauge at the moment. Maybe I'd take a 0% loan for something I'd otherwise put cash on the barrel for at the moment. But it wouldn't be for the purpose of putting the cash into an equities bet.
that would be fun, build a big climbing pile that people could park on
It's almost like revenue doesn't come from usage, but form ad dollars, and there's fewer of those being spent right now.
Why would anyone do this!?

"You will get interesting information about the attacks"

(╭ರ_ ⊙ )
My bank refused, as their policy is to not do chargebacks for postponed events. (PayPal also denied my dispute claim.)
MOOCs are the best way to learn data science, says this data science influencer
If a honeypot is widely used, won't scammers just detect the honeypot? or even just detect latency from their connection being proxied elsewhere?
If you gave me $37k in cash today (average price of a new vehicle), I would still immediately put it in the equities market. It is likely one of the few investments left with reasonable risk adjusted returns (>4%) accessible to your average retail investor. Yes, there's high vol currently, but as long as you think the world will continue to exist (and the cashflows generated by said world), it's a sound strategy (dollar cost averaging).
I have a bunch of whitewater paddler friends who are really into their minivans. Lots of space, lots of seats for vehicle shuttles, easy to add roof racks. Personally, I have an SUV but the minivans are nice for a lot of purposes.
> In reality, the only way to be safe is to always wash all your clothing every time you go out, but with a dog, I find that pretty hard.

Quarantining the exposed clothes is a better method IMHO, just setup a FIFO of quarantine bins. Add sunlight if possible. I've been using 2-3 days personally, depending on what it is.
I've been struggling with health issues for the past 3 years. My heart races. My blood pressure spikes to dangerous levels. I get heart palpitations. I get pains in my chest. When it happens it's alarming and it's easy to fall into fear. I've gone to the hospital a few times absolutely sure I'm having a heart attack. But it seems that my heart is fine (as far as anyone can tell). I have a host of other problematic symptoms too, but for years nobody could find any real problem.

It's easy to say, "It's a panic attack". It does not appear to be life threatening. But boy does it feel life threatening. The doctors all say, "We can't find anything wrong with you" (apart from you heart racing randomly, your blood pressure spiking to dangerous levels, heart paplitations and various other problems). But what if they missed something? It's pretty hard to gamble your life on this stuff. I was absolutely fine until one day I wasn't. Something must have changed.

One of the problems with getting symptoms and not being able to diagnose the illness exactly is that you will never know. Pain in your chest. Difficulty breathing. Complete lethargy. It could be corona virus. It could be a panic attack brought on by worrying about the corona virus. You will never know unless you are tested (and even then it might not be right).

My experience has been that sometimes I take comfort in imagining that I have some strange disease that nobody knows about. It certainly feels better to me than, "My nervous system is making me ill through stress that I don't know how to relieve". But, I've also found that if I believe I'm ill, then the symptoms feel worse as well, even though I get some psychological relief from the stress of experiencing the symptoms.

The best way that I've come to deal with the problem is simply to believe that I will feel well again soon. I may feel bad now, but soon I will feel better. I may have an illness. I may not have an illness. It may be life threatening. It may not. Even if it is life threatening, there is nothing more I can do. So it is best to believe that I will feel better soon. This has helped me immeasurably, even though it is quite difficult to do.

I recently (and as a last resort) had a sleep test. I averaged 52 apnic arousals per hour. In other words, at most I was sleeping for a minute or so at a time. They gave me a cpap machine and while I would be lying if I said all my symptoms are magically going away immediately, I do feel a lot better now that I've started to get used to the machine.

But the reality is that your belief is powerful medicine in an of itself. Whether your are ill or not. Whether you have corona virus, or the flu, or whether you are just very tired and stressed: believing that you will feel better soon will help enourmously in my experience.
What the fuck

It's kind of funny to me though that there's an actual language out there where you can do use-after-free and all sorts of other C-level stuff but can't use tabs.
Which would in fact be good news in a certain way, because either it's as deadly as reported and nowhere near as contagious as your last paragraph suggests, or its far more contagious and widespread but thus nowhere near as deadly as is being seen from case fatality rates derived from known cases. I'm not stating anything new with this really, but your case is likely one of many, many others in which a person felt mysterious illness symptoms for days or weeks and never was registered as a positive case through any testing procedure. This is not to even mention all possible asymptomatic cases. I'm sure many COVID-ralted deaths are also under-reported bit I strongly doubt the level of inaccuracy is nearly the same as that of cases being under-reported.
It's a small rural county and they haven't finished processing the tests and it's a couple weeks old at this point and maybe it isn't reliable and so on, but San Miguel County didn't have a lot of people test positive in the 1600 blood tests they have results for.

https://www.sanmiguelcountyco.gov/590/Coronavirus

(the blood test should find people that have recovered from the infection)
> Theranos was committing fraud - selling investors a product that didn't exist

Well, the FDA is not the SEC--and Theranos was also providing patients with erroneous lab reports! This is more than a bit worse than wasting the time, money, and reputation, such that it may be, of Tim Draper, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, et al.
Knowing the owner doesn't affect the rate of random failures in the middle of the bathtub curve. The only thing it gives you is maintenance data.

These days, it is extremely easy to get maintenance data for many late model used vehicles. Many manufacturer websites will spit out all of their maintenance records as soon as you register an account on their "owners" portal and put in a VIN.
Ask HN: Still in Use of Browser Bookmarks?
Today I found myself creating bookmarks bar folders on Chrome first time for the last year. I put there some references on Peter Thiel, logical fallacies and a couple of Reddit users' profiles for my further articles to be written.

Do you have some magic skills in managing your browser bookmarks?
Has anyone tried this? I'm hesitating on buying a VR device because of motion sickness/eye strain, but this looks so cool.
This interesting aspect of the situation to me is: how many people have actually read such handbooks, versus how many people behave in these ways?

If hardly anyone has read these books, yet the behaviors can be easily observed in massive quantities, perhaps there is some other underlying cause.
Wave has passed, just wanted to pop in to say this is really cool man. Great job..
To each their own. I still have a lot of money in equities but I'm keeping or have switched quite a bit to cash or near-cash as well. It limits the upside but offers some floor if things really go south.
> I hate to say it, but I’m actually jealous of people who have gone through and recovered from COVID-19. You can enter normal life again, you don’t need to have the fear, the rest of us are simply waiting because the chances of us getting it at some point is very high.

Even if you have antibodies it's not going to be normal a life. There will still be social distancing expected and enforced, capacity limits at stores, many businesses closed, and you still need to exercise caution to not spread it unnecessarily just like everyone else.
It couldn't. You need to enforce that you really do reboot pretty often (e.g. by scheduling a weekly reboot).
You can also bind "edit-and-execute-command" to another key in your ~/.inputrc .
China Great Firewall - no comments, just a huge idiotic waste of time and a major, major, major PITA for every normal person that lives in China.

Webpack - I ain't no frontend dev, coming back to it episodically to discover that FooBarPlugin is now BarBazPlugin, moved from alice: setting to bob:, XxxPlugin just stopped working at all and unsupported (after like 9 months), and ZzzPlugin now nukes the entire dist/ dir as a side effect.

XPS 15 9570 fans, they're controlled by BIOS and start at 45C specifically to annoy people to no end. So under Linux, after much googling, you need to build the dell-bios-fan-control utility which sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, in shamanic ways. E.g. running lspci resets fans and they spin up again. Load kvm modules, spin up again. I've spent probably way more than 100 hours to make the laptop quiet.
Ask HN: Academic projects that were monetized by their creators?
In the spirit of "Successful one-person online businesses" ¹, - I'm curious to know about academic research projects that were monetized by their creator(s).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22858035
Next: name all 99 one-cent increments between middle C and C#.

Humans love nomenclature in music too!

Naming 32 gradients of smell between veal and beef might be useful, come to think of it.
Nope, and I've been searching.

The issue with the spotlight engine that everyone uses is that it excludes "hidden" directories and in particular every dot file and dot directory.
I organize by category. I have a few dozen categories arranged alphabetically.
This is superb!

You're almost at a point where this can be made into a browser extension, to include sites like Netflix, Hulu etc..

Also, please make it more like an actual movie theater were we could sit down and talk (audio chat).
Hopefully I'm hyperbolic. I'm not rooting for the collapse of the country I live in, and the country of people who I grew up with and raised me. I just find the truths I trust lie more in laws of nature and laws of power, rather than higher-level societal constructs.

The West Coast is abundant in natural resources, provides good natural port access to the Pacific and Pacific nations, and provides a direct conduit to Alaska and its oil fields. The prospects of invasion depend on a cost benefit analysis.

Maybe cross-border drug traffic increases exponentially without DEA and Border Patrol, and you want to secure a region bent on escalating retaliation. Might also be an opportunity if half the population is too coked out to put up a fight. This was the First Opium War in China and the Century of Humiliation.

Maybe too many Americans are fleeing desperate circumstances into Mexico, and Mexico wants to stop refugee outflows while playing the hero bit. This was Vietnam + Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge.

Maybe global warming causes a chain of collapse towards underfunded and overextended governments in South America, and Mexico is itself invaded from the south and is running north. The collapse of Venezuela is a rehearsal of sorts.

The Federalist Papers contain examples out the wazoo of a "country" turning on itself, as warnings against disunion. Highly encourage reading them.

Quite frankly, it doesn't need to make sense. It needs to be possible.
Came to say the same thing. Fascinating look into a time machine—what problems are we still wrestling with and what celebrated innovations then do we see as problematic legacies now (e.g., when a language allows 1 + ‘1’ to equal 2)? Very fun read.
I don’t know if this is important but I just listened to an hour interview last week with an economist, retired from the Federal Reserve, who said if you remove the statistics for cars sold to corporate fleets, rental companies, or any other corporations, car sales to end consumers has been going down for three or four years.

Our economy is driven by consumer spending and from my non-expert point of view consumer spending will never come back to anywhere near old normals.

EDIT: the economist was Danielle DiMartino Booth who wrote the book “Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America”
It's mostly a pipe dream but it's not an absolute zero.

See how Nintendo crafts its games, they layer complexity through symmetry in early levels.

I agree that most users are not in a place to solve their problems, especially with the state of software as it is (too many ad-hoc rules). But when presented with the good lego bricks, I believe people can progress.
I was actually thinking about catastrophic failure, as in something on the chip burning out and making the clock stop.

My guess is that they were probably cooling it with beer (or at least cold beer bottle bottoms) to get that last critical Mhz, before drinking the beer.
This would be an awesome opportunity for AR-based training.

Imagine being able to "see" the simulated virus in the air and on surfaces. See it spread due to airflow and gravity, see it diminish over time due to sunlight, surface cleaning, etc.
If you don't get tested - the odds are you won't - the relief of recovery is quickly replaced with doubt, "was it really Covid-19?" And you must fearfully go on acting like it wasn't.
Relevant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

The presence of pure mercenary advertising increases the global noise floor, which increases the information asymmetry by decreasing the visibility of quality signals.

The irony is that Google sees itself as a company that increases access to information.

You know what that would look like in the ad space? Product testing, reviews, and endorsements. Something like "Verified by Google" (aka Wirecutter).

Instead, Google absolves itself of responsibility via algorithms, steered by marketing folks in charge of their primary profit center.

And we're surprised by the corporate decisions they make?
Exactly.

In my early 20s, living in Cincinnati, I used to hate the stress of being tethered to car maintenance and ownership. So I moved into “The City” (Chicago, then SF) and got rid of my car. Well, that worked great in my able bodied youth days.

At some point in my early 30s, frustration with having complete dependence on someone else (MUNI/BART, Uber, Lyft) or worrying about having rentals available to get me from point A to point B became too much of a burden; too much of a time suck. At some point spending an hour a day total on transportation aggravation made the suburbs look appetizing. I told myself I would never settle for that commute again.

Staying in the city, I bought a car. I still hate maintaining cars, and EVs don’t require very much long term maintenance. Going EV simplified getting a car.

Renting in western San Francisco, everybody has a garage. It’s all suburbanesque mid century tract housing. Parking at home is not a problem.

What is? A 30 minute walk to Forest Hill station or :15 minute bus ride to Forest Hill station. By driving myself, In 15 minutes I could be in Civic Center without having somebody from Stockton get lost In SF In their rental Nissan Sentra with loud sales bro taking a conference call in a Uber Pool.

I can say the convenience of living in the city with a car is unparalleled. In (especially western) San Francisco, the transportation infrastructure is geared toward driving.

Hearing that BART stops at 9 PM now reinforces the practicality of my decision.