skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should have mentioned, that later after they got tired with reading Plato and Aristotle again, Cynicism, Scepticism, Epicureanism and Stoicism all saw new light, but usually they were more combined into general useful advice on living a good life.

Cynicism's rejection of social norms, when it re-appeared in the late 18th century, morphed into a disapproval of society in general, and the modern usage of 'cynic' was meant to be someone who rejected social structures, and thus someone's who is negative, rather than someone trying to live a virtuous life without being 'chained' by society.
How does Medium get you readers?

This is a genuine question - i only know Medium from the reader's side, where it is something that makes me about 20% less likely to read your writing!
MATLAB still has a strong foothold in academic settings and in some industry.

But it's really painful watching some of the smaller proprietary packages stay afloat.
Better prices are offered in the form that I don't have to spend 2 hours of my time to get it and don't have to pay for gas to get there.

Heck, I'd pay more to get it from Amazon because of that. I'm not driving to the store to save $4 on a knife.
I generally agree with you, and I like that it doesn't harp on this aspect when talking about his life, but doesn't pretend it's not there either.

I am not familiar enough with Feynman's life to hold a particularly nuanced opinion, but it seems like just that one line intentionally taken out of context seems to be the issue. A one-line summary of the same chapter in the book could show that he was a womanizer without taking a particularly inflammatory quote out of context.

In an unlikely coincidence, that particular chapter of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! was one of the few that I had read.
Taiwan’s pretty democratic.
What's false about it? Equity only exists if they paid into it, and is no different than any other savings.

Is it now unfair that some people have saved more cash than others?
I am in no way saying that this isn't a barrier to entry (and if we're honest I think that barrier is an intentional choice) but you're supposed run a bouncer/logger and just connect your client to that.

It's always weird to me that IRC didn't evolve like email with something like IMAP.
The CFR will be an interesting (though tragic) data point, but I wouldn't generalize too much from it. The demographics of the inmates are probably not representative, and the health care that prisoners receive is absolutely not of the same quality that civilians may receive.

The Princess cruise was a good indicator of CFR for a specific demographic range when they tested early, often, and had access to quality care. If the CFR of this prison will tell us anything, it will be a counterpoint to such information showing what happens when quality of care is greatly diminished.
One hypothesis: kids learn to do what their parents do. If near field work or hobbies cause the problem then it follows that some kids will "inherit" it through mimicry.
I watched the video. Clicky: https://youtu.be/fLmeCbotvYI

It doesn't look fake, but I watched too many ads in my life.

I found more info in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum
The original Deus Ex is still an approachable and fun game from a gameplay perspective, because so many of its gameplay choices became mainstream.

And the story? Timelier every year.
Festschrift for Mike Hawley
3blue1brown has a great video on the topic: https://youtu.be/spUNpyF58BY
I watched the video. It's basically 8 minutes of "we do not know".
Yes when using the word "waste" I am comparing it to being automated, which it most certainly can. Just as we might consider it a waste to have an elevator operator, when that task has been automated for nearly a century. At one time it was just accepted as a cost of running a tall building.
I use iSH, that provides a complete Alpine Linux environment: https://ish.app

A-Shell seems to be very limited and additional packages cannot be installed. What are uses cases for which A-Shell would be a better fit than iSH?
Acoustics are modified in extremely non-linear ways depending on the shape of the room, bodies within it, materials, acoustic reflection, acting differently at different frequencies, and so on.

In theory if the entire 3D layout and material properties were known known in advance you could get clear audio analytically. But reverse-engineering the 3D layout and materials from existing audio is essentially impossible.

So machine learning is used to find approximate solutions that work.
140 Character JavaScript Code Golf
Automatic differentiation. It's useful to so much computational work, but most people only get a cursory introduction to the topic (a rough intro to the minimum they need to know), whereas really understanding it seems to open up a lot of research.
Yep, the only place I ever say IRC in actual corporate environments was for private chats for the sysadmins.
The biggest vendor lock-in is institutional inertia or “laziness”.
If you look at deaths from Sweden and Belgium the excess mortality matches very well the deaths they attribute to COVID-19[0]. Both Sweden and Belgium count COVID-19 deaths in community outside hospitals. It would seem they over-count by some 5%. The example of these two countries suggests that the excess mortality can be basically fully attributed to COVID-19 [1].

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

[1]: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
>I don't quite understand your objection to the tax code example. In every business domain there are real world constraints that cause people to want business rules of ever increasing complexity. The IRS cares about the definition of "income"; maybe your business cares about which ads get seen by which users or how much you should charge for a cell phone plan. What seemed simple at first is almost certainly incredibly complicated after 20+ years of exposure to humans.

Because you were mapping (something like) "citizen-initiated policy requests about what to reward/penalize" to "customer requests for software features". To the extent that that mapping is valid, it is not (I claim) the cause of tax complexity. Rather, such complexity comes from the inherent difficulty of operationalizing "income" against motivated parties, which (I claim) is more closely analogous to "inherent domain complexity".

Now, to be sure, you can go back a level and frame "citizen desire to tax income [without realizing the implied complexity]" as a "customer request with inherent hidden complexity" -- but still, you were claiming the source of tax code complexity was from "desire to reward specific behaviors", which it (still) isn't.

In short, "Let's reward electric cars" does very little for tax complexity compared to, "oh crap, people can dodge virtually all their taxes by having employers buy their personal needs".

>JIRA seems like another great example, actually. JIRA's key feature is that any organization can customize workflows in whatever way they want. Is it slow and bloated? Yes, all that customizability comes at a cost, even if you don't use it. That customizability was driven by customer requests.

No. There is no inherent reason why being able to customize workflows comes at the cost of e.g. a browser not being able to keep up with my typing speed or a hundred trackers having to load every time. (There are a ton of other unnecessary pains I've encountered unrelated to that but I'd need to check my notes.)
I found this article useful: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explai...
I'm gonna assume that for purposes of the thought experiment you're supposed to envision a point-shaped elevator, not one where you can place two baseballs next to each other.
Building a Brain
> their text editor

Good luck getting this to work with every text editor your engineers will use, and not having them revolt because it messes with their workflow…
Ask HN: Public Knowledge Bases
What public knowledge bases do you know and find interesting? If you're an author of one, why did you make it public?
A pretty nice example is https://braindump.jethro.dev/
and https://www.gwern.net/ (they have said before that some people say reading his blog is like seeing his brain)
How is he going to convince his government to stop building concentration camps? To stop harvesting organs from people they don't like?
Just this morning I realized I had a need for a decent SSH client for iOS, although I don't need something that includes vim, clang, and Lua, Python, and C, though.

That's extreme overkill for my needs -- I'd just like the ability to log in to a few hosts (preferably using public key authentication!) and run various commands just like I normally do in a terminal.

If anyone has any "favorites" they recommend, I'd be interested in hearing about them. I'd prefer something open-source (out of principle) but I'm certainly not opposed to paying a reasonable amount.
Measure theory.
The A344 May have been closed but the A303 still goes pretty close.

To be honest I don’t think the Stonehenge is a particularly memorable day out either. I get how it’s an incredible accomplishment given when it was built but it’s a pretty underwhelming experience to visit. Personally I consider it one of those rare occasions where pictures of it actually do it justice (usually you find pictures can barely capture the magnificence of historic or cultural landmarks)
If you replace IRC with SMTP the story is very different. IRC has a lot of protocol problems but the biggest one was honestly just not having an IMAP equivalent. IRCCloud is just providing the complementary protocol to IRC. Its existence doesn't necessarily mean that IRC is a bad transport protocol.
When you actually need to defend your country you bring in people who can do the job, it is not a diversity program. Even startups mostly have men, it is not without reason, men are just better at certain things.
Okay, but CentOS offers the same thing, sans contract. Why bother paying when you can get the same thing, with no support, for free?
Fetching Resources in a React Suspense World
Show HN: Open-Source Coronavirus Dashboard
Medium had such a great stab at doing this before they completely lost their way. I think someone should make another attempt at this, there doesn’t need to be a billion dollar company here to still get very rich and, more importantly, make something people want...
Nice!!!

What iOS really needs to make this useful though is a way to project to a proper screen and keyboard/mouse configuration. Like Samsung DeX. Kinda hoping this will happen as they are making the iPad Pros more like a computer.
Even just watching a random clip on Youtube, it's fairly easy to forgive a low quality video feed but bad audio gets really annoying very quickly. Any lag or stuttering or artifacts etc in the audio is a dealbreaker for most people.
It’s in the App Store, for one.
I think the elevator scenario is imagining that the earth is a point source, and you are neglecting the (much smaller) gravitational forces for the sake of illustrating a more general phenomenon.
Quantum spin. Electrons aren't really spinning, right? But why do we call it spin? I know it has something to do with angular momentum. What are the possible values? Is it a magnitude or a vector? Is there a reason we call it "spin" instead of "taste" or some other arbitrary name? How do you change it? What happens to it when particles interact?
(though a portion is outstanding)
Unintentional? Are you blind? Nah, just a member of the elite boys club. Bye.
Interesting paper. Actually it's not only the developers who are challenged. Even lawyers often have trouble understanding these licenses, because often formulations are used that are not written by lawyers and are not common. Moreover, final clarity on the exact interpretation and effect of these licences will only be achieved once there are judgments from the highest courts. And since every country has its own legal system and there are many different aspects to clarify, many such judgments are needed. So the matter is not so simple. Whether the developers understand the licenses or not is just one of many problems.
Often a proverb will have an opposite proverb (though the example you give isn't a proverb). For example “too many chefs spoil the broth” and “many hands make light work”
Non-linear optic explanation from quantum standpoint (classical explanation is quite clear).
Do you still have problems accessing aws.training? I can reach it fine now.
I still like the idea that Fermat had a legit proof and that one day a simpler one will be found.

I also like that FLT follows easily from the Beal conjecture, which seems overlooked. Maybe its overlooked because its closely related to some other (harder to understand) conjectures.
A potential counterpoint - "Post-traumatic stress 'evident in 1300BC'"[1].

The technology, tools and languages available to humans has expanded a huge amount over recent centuries.

The question, I guess, is whether the psychological consequences of experiencing and processing reality (and, particularly, trauma) has changed as a result.

[1] - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30957719
Yeah I notice that even the websites of LibTerm and A-Shell are almost the same. They use exactly the same icons for some items!

I assume one is a fork of the other?
Explicitly explained 'robots can't feel emotion' tropes actively creep me out.

It feels like moral abdication.

Here's a thing that walks and quacks like a duck, but don't worry about it being a duck, because we tell you not to.

But maybe that's just me being militantly contrarian.

Star Wars occasionally creeps me out too, with its 'these species are okay to murder, these species are not' relativism.
Isn’t the actuall star tracker is the little camera on the guide scope though? Or maybe it’s the software that reads the camera data...
Prime Rat [ New Fud Rat ]
Why does time slow down/go faster with movement compared to another object.

The well known example that if you travel into space you'd gain let's say 5 years and people on earth 25 in the same time or so.

I just don't get it and I can't find any logic explanation.

For instance: Two twins who came to live exactly at the same moment in the year 2000 and both die on their 75th birthday at the same time. One travels into space, the other stays on earth. Earth-brother dies on earthyear 2075,space-brother dies in earthyear 3050 or so...

I know its Einstein's point but that just doesn't instantly make it correct to me.
Entropy. Sometimes you read that it's a measure of randomness; sometimes, information. Aren't randomness and information opposites?
Longtermism
I think he's referring to IBM LSF: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSWRJV/produc...
TLDR: There are three primary tools for harvesting clues about NK leaders, at least among NK-watchers outside of the NSA, CIA and other intelligence services:

1. satellite imagery - can observe large public events that NK leaders sometimes attend, or where their absence is conspicuous; govt motorcades; facility guard reinforcements & troop movements; etc.

2. state media - typically when a problem arises with Kim family member, state media will run long pieces on the virtues of Kim leadership to reinforce public support. Other clues from other sources may corroborate this conclusion.

3. flight tracking - unusual air traffic into and out of NK sometimes provides clues about NK leadership intentions, like sanctions violations and similar.

HUMINT is severely limited and effectively zero, NK govt regime too tightly controlled.
you say you started doing programming as a hobby which means it used to be fun, right?

you might want to isolate the aspects of what made it fun back in the days when it was a hobby and what makes it dreadful at the moment and find yourself something which include the first, but lacks the later.

personally i think the attractive side of being a developer is creating something.
reading you're not interested in business side of tech (analyst, salesman, management) you might want to explore other crafts which maintain the creative part.

that could be anything really. i myself started out as a graphic designer before i got involved in programming which might be something you want to explore...
This attitude is anti-democratic and harmful. Please stop.

> They’re obviously operating with extreme urgency to get the app out. For you.

Extreme urgency is the perfect justification for governments to destroy the rights of the constituents. Never let a crisis go to waste as they say. Right now is exactly the time to be watching everything the government does with a lens of critical analysis.

> Commend the government on some smart privacy and security choices

The government has passed laws that make these choices irrelevant and has a history of botching anything to do with data/privacy even when well intentioned. This government has one of the worst privacy positions in the entire developed world. No one should be commending them for this.

> When asked by non technical people “Should I install this app? Is my data / privacy safe? Is it true it doesn’t track my location?” - say “Yes” and help them understand. Fight the misinformation.

Saying yes to those questions would be disinformation. The answer is maybe at best, probably not.

You sound like you have best intentions in your mind, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Under existing laws, the data and privacy of anyone who downloads this app is NOT safe. If the government is truly well intentioned and wants to help, they need to roll back the insane sweeping anti-privacy laws they rushed through while ignoring the constituents. What you're calling 'HN angry mob mode' is simply these same constituents having the natural, rational reaction to the actions of our government that border on totalitarian. It's not the fault of the constituents, it's the logical outcome of the government's actions. Turning it around like you did is nothing short of victim-blaming.

I'm not going to cover up the sins of this administration by lying to my non-technical friends about the real dangers associated with this app like you ask, sorry.

The irony is that due to public mistrust in the government due to things like AABill, more people may die now than the various agencies ever saved through the systemic destruction of domestic privacy in the name of anti-terrorism or saving the children or whatever other nebulous excuse. Maybe AFP and co can stop their unilateral self-righteous anti-privacy rampage and actually think about the greater good in light of this?
vertical alignment in CSS
The US has a standard similar to that (we call it 'ZIP+4': a 4-digit addition to the earlier 5-digit ZIP code standard) but it didn't catch on in casual use. My ZIP+4 only contains a handful of addresses on my street. A street number and the ZIP+4 would be plenty enough to get a letter to me.

Institutional senders will usually use the ZIP+4 standard, but someone sending a letter in the mail typically will use the shorter 5-digit zip. Most people do not memorize the '+4' portion of their ZIP code.

My 5 digit zip code has about 8,000 addresses in it.
Agragated forcasts related to Covid-19 – epidemiology, medicine and economy
No one has mentioned substack (https://substack.com/) yet. It's a product that seems to be on the right track. More generally I think getting a newsletter from a trusted source is a much better way to be informed than Twitter threads because Twitter in general encourages a weird mind-meld type of narratives where everyone just talks about the same thing 24/7 because everyone is liking, retweeting, and thinking about the same set of ideas in 280 character chunks.
Wave function collapse. As far as I can tell there is no discernable difference between a particle whose wave function collapsed (perhaps via measurement with another entangled one) and one that hasn't.
Is there any way I could use a USB C to DB9 console cable on an iPad Pro with this? I’m thinking this could be a great setup for working in the cramped data center.
> Tens of millions of people have lost their job and income, while bills continue to accumulate.

The fact that the harm is this severe is a separate failure. Job losses hitting such a huge portion of the population don’t have to happen. Other countries have found ways to manage this with far less suffering.

> I'd prefer to work, observing sanitization & social distancing measures, than to have my entire financial life ruined.

It’s not just your health/life you are risking. The contacts you can’t avoid making (home, shops, medical appointments etc) are all directly impacted too.
Project management version: look after the molehills and the mountains take of themselves
Super interesting!

Although it sure would be nice to have explanations for amateurs such as me.
I love Blink, and it is open-source.

https://blink.sh/
How about Prompt from Panic? https://panic.com/prompt/
This is Google shifting legal responsibility from itself so it can run political ads without legal actions etc.
I just take handwritten notes, then convert them into carefully designed and tagged cards in Anki. Even if I forget something, searching my Anki deck will usually not just tell me the information, but what book it came from, and often which page. I'm pretty diligent about careful note collation. I've definitely gotten better since I read "The Organized Mind", a book which was so enlightening for my persona that I built more than 1000 cards to remember as many of its concepts as I could.

Regardless, I'm reading my previous comment and should admit that I'm quite intense about efficiency in learning. Less so about money. I've spent a lot of time tutoring, making this an important subject to me and I get.... emotional. I apologize if my original comment seems rude. It certainly feels that way to me.
Why a flat earth is impossible.
Ask HN: What rules have you come up with to use social media in a healthy way?
Born in early 90s, I have been on social media since 2005. I have gone through the usual phases of digital addiction, constantly refreshing the FB news feed, procrastination and all.

I eventually came up with my own rules to maintain balance, such as never indulging in non-chronological feeds, and not following more than N people.

Have you also come up with such rules? If so, what are they?
In 2017, the French postal service ("La Poste") formalized this and made it a paid service to check up on elderly people ("Veiller sur mes parents"). Relatedly, La Poste was privatized in 2014.

There were some protests as it used to be done for free (so implicitely pro bono / sponsored by the state) for decades.
Ask HN: How to learn a new programming language coming from another?
The question is kinda self-explanatory.
I'm on my way to try to become a career developer and get some context in other languages (for instance, Javascript in general and probably NodeJS), but every tutorial I come with is about learning the basics from scratch.

Considering I'd like to get a side project while learning the new language, how could I possibly be able to boost my knowledge process without going though basic tutorial all over again?

Thanks :)
I wonder whether there were any negative repercussions for the postman? I'd be surprised if there isn't a policy against personally contacting mail recipients.

Surely it'd be some sort of data protection violation for him to have used the data printed on the envelope to find the guy on Facebook and send him a personal message?

Or is ad-hoc sleuthing allowed to a reasonable extent to ensure delivery of mail?

This is cool though, maybe I'm just boring. :)
What's v=ir mentality?
For the record, I just found a reference that states that ~40% of corn grown in the US gets turned into ethanol. 40%. We consume somewhere between a half a gallon and a full gallon of petroleum (between fuel for the machines, production of chemicals, etc.) for every gallon of ethanol we get out of the process. There is no justification for this other than make-work for farmers, chemical companies and the whole ethanol-industrial complex.