skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obsidian is crazy good for how new it is. And the team is moving extremely fast. It seems like they really know what they want out of this product.

I've tried dozens of knowledge management tools and settled on TiddlyWiki a couple years ago. It took a lot of customization to get anywhere close as useable as Obsidian is out of the box.

Here's what I love about Obsidian:

- Local files, syncs via iCloud/Dropbox/etc makes it future proof

- Markdown with [[ ]]] bidirectional links and - [ ] checklists.

- Automatically updates all old links if you rename a file(!)

- Compatible with 1Writer on iOS

- Really nice keyboard shortcuts

- Runs as its own app (in a wrapper), but can be styled via custom CSS

- Automatically parses external URLs (don't necessarily need to use the markdown format for simple .com URLs)

- Great editing experience, e.g. auto indenting bullets

- Autocomplete for everything (tags, linked pages)

- Lots of extra nice touches like graph view and the pane system to open multiple files at once
oops.. fat fingered the target again..
Fish branding and how pollack became one of UK's most popular fish
Could someone explain what Gatsby's path is to eventually making a lot of money? I'm always a bit wary of open source frameworks that claim to be all about their community getting funded with lots of venture capital.
This is sweet. I've been building and working in a markdown-based zettelkasten locally for a while, and this does provide the added killer benefits of the graph visualizer and pretty-preview functionality that I'm currently missing in the terminal. Nice job, looking forward to playing around with it!
Well, I don't really mean mind map; I don't think those are very useful at least not in the traditional sense.

But yes, I think directed graphs would help me. Take the use case of modeling social relationships: each node is a person or company with a short bio, links can include "funded-by", "worked-with". Suddenly you have a tool that you can use to traverse professional relationships to find a connection to an investor funding a certain type of company. You can sort of do this with LinkedIn and Crunchbase, and it's possible with TheBrain although its UX is very tedious.
It's not so much with regards to whether boeing will be fine, it's more about how the general state of the economy as a whole.
I understand your point, but it's just the way they do things. I believe it gives them more scheduling flexibility.

I read somewhere that the first 'operational' SpaceX <-> ISS will be in a couple of months.
This is the letter from the Boeing CEO: https://boeing.mediaroom.com/news-releases-statements?item=1...
Which queries in particular? I've found duckduckgo to be quite useful especially for IT questions because it actually listens when I tell it to search a phrase verbatim. If I try to google an error then I keep getting all kinds of stuff that is vaguely related but with no mention of that particular error whatsoever.
Not to mention the whole experience made me feel terrible.

For the workers involved being overworked and under paid.

The wrong products I received.

The added expense in not making a trip to the store.

My feeling of selfishness and laziness.
How could they be related to something that did not stand in court, in other words did not legally happen? This is quite the contradiction.
As you said, Pox parties and all weren't exactly a brilliant solution - now your kid would be carrying the chickenpox virus amd have a risk of shingles later, and using things like saliva from lollipops means that your kids are also now at risk if getting all sorts of fun diseases like hepatitis. There's a reason we use vaccines. We dont know the long term risks of covid (case in point, recently it's become clear that it can trigger blood clots and strokes in otherwise low risk individuals, and the inflammatory syndrome in children is highly concerning). That's why we dont do challenge doses.

There are companies deliberately breeding strains that are less dangerous (attenuated strains) for use as a vaccine, so people are working on that actively. It's not one of the approaches further along in trials though.
2. Link as first-citizen.

sits up in chair, attention captured

Where can I read more about this? My current personal wiki is powered by TiddlyWiki and while I don't necessarily love the performance, I do LOVE the link structure of TiddlyWiki (I can create a "table of contents" page a random tag, and then every page using that tag gets rendered on said page). I have similar plugins for VSCode to collect all of my todo comments all into one document, linking back to their respective files.

Curious if Obsidian has a similar feature beyond the mind-map view shown on the features page?
Only on initial use. Most DNS records have a cache time of 24 hours, so if you're using the internet every day, you're unlikely to notice.

Some latency when visiting a new site seems like a small price to pay for side-stepping all the shenanigans that ISPs have been doing to DNS, without having to defer trust to yet another cloud provider.
My daughter was super excited to find a game website that had just cloned a lot of games from the play store because it worked in the browser and I had adblock on so it was like magic to her, not having to watch an ad every 30 seconds. Like when I was a kid video games were ad-free and TV was the source of ads but its the opposite for a lot of kids growing up these days.
Is there any point in downgrading to Mojave from Catalina? Haven’t looked into it, so I assume it’s a pain. But the semi-daily kernel panic, over heating, kernel tasks taking up 80%+ CPU is rediculous for a $3k+ laptop
Notes on Building a fast and lightweight web(site)
Boeing is in the worst-performing segment of the economy for the foreseeable future.
This is just the start of the trouble for Boeing. They are technologically quite substantially in arrears to Airbus, and with none of their products able to pull in particularly hefty profits anymore they don't have the funds to make the necessary investment in R&D to close the gap. The double-punch combo of the 737 MAX scandal and the pandemic will have left them in serious strife.
Google is overdue on regulators cracking down on their BS
I read somewhere they realized that just giving a thumbs up or down on a title is much reliable than having star recommendation system
I've been using Whole Foods delivery about 3 times a week, and it's been fantastic, I may never go back. Sometimes the fruits aren't the greatest, but the rate of that is low. Compared to the amount of time I save, it's totally worth the risk.
Umbra – Privacy Preserving Stealth Payments on the Ethereum Blockchain
We are working on fixing this problem "the right way" by virtualizing the x86 Flash plugin in WebAssembly. For more info see here:

https://medium.com/leaningtech/preserving-flash-content-with...

https://medium.com/leaningtech/preserving-flash-content-with...
The lag on that touchscreen is bothering the hell out of me. It reminds me of crappy in-flight entertainment systems. Is it physically turning a camera, or is it just that bad?
Actually you are incorrect, HBO Go and Now still exist as separate products. It is complicated for people that already have trouble tracking where their shows are on several different services. Even if they intend to merge Now into Max completely which likely is the case they still are making it confusing as hell for the common user.
Wars are a cost center. The US is eventually going to have to start redirecting tax revenue back to taxpayers, away from the military.
I love Bear! Here are the only drawbacks I see:

- Only available for macOS & iOS.

- Not free if you need sync. But it's only $1.49/month! I'd rather pay for a tool because then it's more likely to last.

- Has [[one-way links]] but not two-way, so I feel some FOMO when I see people getting so excited about Roam Research.

If you migrate: Go to Preferences and turn on Markdown compatibility mode. Then use Import Notes to read all your files from Typora & Joplin.
Some art is imagination-drawn, lusciously-filmed cinema, some art is raw documentary. These days, many in between.
I haven't been subscribed for about 6 or 7 months and the algorithm is mainly what drove me away. Outside of sports it's a service that seems to want to be every channel at once and that's mainly just not what I want. I'm not interested in game shows, reality shows, hgtv-type shows and it seems like there's no way to stop seeing this content no matter how many "thumbs down" I give each show. I'm not expecting to not see stuff I don't like but I want to at least give it a thumbs down and get it out of the interface.

HBO Max I'm on the fence about. I really like HBO but not sure I need or want everything that comes with the Max flavor.
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You don't get any discount in this case though. You're still paying $2-3/lb for bruised apples that are like you said literally waste at that point and $2-5/lb for chicken that if you picked out yourself would be of higher quality.

Even if they did give you a price break for lower quality food. They'd still do things like give you a pineapple that will never ripen before it rots like we received last week.
If anything, doesn't that strengthen China's hand?

More reliance on the mainland for jobs and handouts, more protests and counter protests so they can justify additional crackdowns. Less westerners and less international firms, less exposure to the West.

Feels like a calculated move.
this is a good time for Boeing to invest into R&D so that when aviation does recover (a while from now) Boeing would be ready with a novel high quality offering.
The only difference between you and the 300 million other people in this country who did that, is that you admit it to yourself.
My personal monthly usage is in the 100G region; this particular failed update has cost me 20G of burned bandwidth. Where I live around 2% of the country doesn't have access to decent broadband. Since these updates are released every 2 months or so in a very back-of-the-envelope fashion failed updates amount to 0.2% of the country's total bandwidth usage. I might be an order of magnitude off but that is still an incredible waste.

Maybe they did run the numbers, but the amount of engineering effort required to fix it is absolutely minimal (couple of lines...). A significantly worse outcome for society as a whole at the cost of a try-catch block.
My wife and I have had several disagreements over whether something happened last weekend or two months ago. It all sort of blends together at this point.
In the case of Facebook at least, there is evidence they knowingly allow their algorithms to promote divisive content: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-it-encourages-di...
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Preventing Ventilation in Covid-19 Patients
In Russia, we have a wonderful saying: "The mice cried and pricked themselves but still kept eating the cactus"
Kids are hacking their schools' edtech software
> I had an interview once with a team that was all remote and the person on the other end had literally just crawled out of bed a few minutes earlier

Earlier this year, I had an interview with a fairly serious company which shall not be named. They'd sent a mass email on LinkedIn a couple of weeks earlier, so that was my contact with them. After a chat with their in-house recruiter, they asked me to do a couple of tests, one a simple server application, one an intermediate-complexity SQL query. I'm willing to say that my SQL is competent, but it's not a focus for me, so while I got the idea, my query didn't actually work. The recruiter told me that it would be a good idea to be ready to explain why, and how I would fix it, for the technical interview. I rustled up a couple of acquaintances with better SQL than I, we worked through it, I knew what I'd done wrong and was ready to discuss it.

Technical interview came, on Zoom, and it was a car crash. There were two interviewers, one was on time, one was late - the late one was also only on audio, and it turns out mixing one audio-only interviewer with one on video was a bad idea. They mostly asked me about my background and experience for about half an hour, then ended the interview - never asked about my tests, didn't go into anything technical at all.

I didn't hear anything back, so I pinged the recruiter a week later, only for him to tell me he wasn't working there anymore, but he'd pass on a message for me. I then pinged the one other person I'd had any actual contact with at the company, the HR/admin who'd setup the Zoom call, to be told "we will not go for further process as rejected by hiring team."

I was pretty unimpressed.
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Satellite archaeology is surprisingly effective - the outlines of buildings show up in crop patterns, and precise LIDAR mapping from the air can also reveal things.
People preferred it because Google - at the time - had found a scalable solution which gave (mostly) the best results. Why should I search for hours through directories if someone give me what I want after only entering a few words?

No one has found the "page rank of movies/series" yet, so I think HBO has a better chance here.
Motorola Moto G Pro l एक स्टाइलस के साथ लॉन्च किया गया: कीमत और स्पेसिफिकन
I could buy their reasoning for AMP and site speed, if and only if they make it easy to get the URL.

When it first came out you couldn't get the URL either and they added it after people complained.

The removal seems to make it clear that it's really about control and keeping things within the confines of their own system.
That's a great marketing gimmick that some companies have made, but it's largely false.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/26/18240399/food-waste-...
Even if quality is there, how ripe do you want? Are you going to use those avocados tonight, or later in the week? Do you like green bananas or ones that are turning brown?

Let alone the "what looks good today?" or "what's on sale today?" method of shopping!

Even packaged goods are tough. When I'm in a store, I know quickly which product I want. I may not remember the brand name, but I can scan the shelf and find it.

Online, I have to sort through a myriad of options, not to mention sizes and variants.

BBQ sauce, for instance, returns 58 results on Peapod. Sweet Baby Ray's, which I like, is 22 of those. There are 13 different variants (original, hickory & brown sugar, honey, buffalo sauce, sweet'n spicy, honey mustard, honey teriyaki, sweet teriyaki, sweet vidalia onion, maple, sweet chili glaze, honey chipotle, no sugar added) and 7 different sizes (14oz, 16oz, 18oz, 18.5oz, 28oz, 40oz, 80oz).

Holy crap!

I know what the label looks like, and I know the bottle is about yea-big. The images online are 200x200... I can barely SEE the label.

Then, what if what I want isn't in stock? Is it going to appear on the page? Am I just not going to get it? Would I get a substitute, as I might if I was in the store?

By the time I do that mental exercise for 50 items, I might as well drive to the store.

These are hard challenges.

One thing that might make a difference is integration with club cards. Giant knows what I buy down to frequency and UPC. Why haven't they done better integration to link my in-person buying with encouraging me to buy the same items online?
Seasons are great for noting the progression of time.
I am generally a little down on online shopping. With fresh food you definitely want to see it first (not all tomatoes are the same). I have tried Instacart a few times but almost very time I was disappointed with the quality or the replacements so I won't do it again.

With other things it's the same. I have bought backpacks online that had a weird fit. In store I would just have tried the next, but online it's an ordeal to return things. Same for watches, phone cases, clothes and a lot of other stuff.
Says who? If history is any proof, I highly doubt this will happen.
Really appreciate them also having UTC on their website [1].

[1]: https://www.spacex.com/launches/
I believe that's exactly what Newgrounds is doing. See https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
> Extensions then, would be apps on the OS, and probably won't slow it down.

How does that follow?

Are you looking for some kind of compiled-language extensions maybe?
I was wrong - Miraste shard an article where apparently the combining technology really is a lenticular lens.
Notwithstanding the baby carrots example, most ugly produced is still used and sold. It’s made into soups, salsas, juices, etc.

I’ve read that one reason we get so many e-coli infections from lettuce is that there is no secondary market (no lettuce juice) so the farmers drive it to the livestock farms and track back germs to the lettuce farm on their wheels.
Having ACE2 receptors depleted increases blood pressure and changes the properties of blood itself (probably the source of the weird clotting issues), so it makes sense that there would be more risk with Covid-19. Plus many or most Covid patients are probably already polypharming with 5+ drugs already given their age, unlike people going on vacation to Bali or wherever.

I wouldn't trust the trials showing that it's dangerous, but I wouldn't assume it's safe either.
The data from those hundreds of millions of doses were on people who did not have COVID-19. It's not contradictory to say that the drug does not tend to cause these effects generally, but does cause these effects in a specific context. Like, say, a deadly disease wrecking havoc on your oxygen levels. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. Hard to know anything.
Thanks for taking the time to critique my psyche, reading habits and personality. It would have been somewhat better if you stuck to the topic in stead of lowly as hominem, but in some cases this is too much to expect :D :D
Yes. BND originated as West German intelligence agency.
We moved about three years ago and replaced 50+ bulbs with 2 1/2 brands of LEDs.

Phillips - around 40 regular socket, BR30 recessed, and 4x hue bulbs. Not a single failure or flicker. Am particularly a fan of the warm glow for nicer dimming at night.

Hyperikon. They were the only brand with the smaller PAR16 bulbs at the time, at least in warmer color-temp. They look absolutely fantastic as down-wash lights on walls. However, 2/8 are out or intermittent after just 3 years of low usage (they were in a low traffic area).

Random brands from promos / utility give-aways. Used three of these in the garage, and 2/3 already burned out.

TLDR: Quality matters, and high quality bulbs definitely last IME.
Slipping in code without alerting anyone... Fun!
mongo is good if you don't use it for much and i'll refer to any of aphyr's analyses. i imagine whippersnappers don't read these. i personally won't touch a database which hasn't been in aphyr's private db hell. only a few gray hair, too.
"Let alone the "what looks good today?" or "what's on sale today?" method of shopping!"

That one is really important with fresh food. Maybe the lettuce looks good or the cucumbers, who knows?
Seattle, so yeah.
I enjoyed reading that the paranoia of the Soviets that it was a western plot was justified, but as their allies bought the technology it gave second hand information from Moscow anyways.
Which is great for Greenfield projects with engineers that keep up to date with these latest developments.

If one chooses to pour time into improving the GC instead of the language, the benefits are reaped both by existing projects and new projects by old-school developers.
A political machine that can make use of the 'who did Joe voted for' information is likely to have access to the ballot id database and link 'ballot id 43abfd32' to Joe.

On voting machines, good point. We should not use voting machines either.
I’m glad it worked out in this case. He seemed careful and diligent. If the wrong person did it I could see this leading to people getting hurt (falling off the catwalk) or damage to cars (improper fastening). Overall I love it though.
Which is relevant insofar as Boeing's Starliner was on track to be the first American vehicle to deliver astronauts to the ISS in nearly a decade, but after their pretty bad test flight SpaceX overtook them and are now getting that sweet PR instead.
Anthropomorphising a region full of companies and assigning that collective some active goals seems weird. Seeing a company with multiple departments in real life should be enough to destroy that idea.
Thank you, I remember reading this as a tweet but couldn’t find it (twitter search is.... lacking)
"Maxinator", "Five Eyes"

Imagine being in the brainstorming session to come up with name for intelligence agencies alliances.

"It must sound dangerous, yes, but not evil. Like some kind of anti-villain"
If markets continue to behave as they have, this job cut is a signal that BA is going to soar in the next few days.
FISA Renewal in Jeopardy
firebaser here

Both are indeed correct: you must now provide a credit card to use Cloud Functions, and you do get a free tier on the Blaze plan.

In fact, the Blaze plan comes with a free tier that is bigger than the limit of the free plan was, but you can no longer use it without entering a credit card.

This change came while adding support for newer node.js versions. Cloud Functions now uses Cloud Build to create its containers, and while Cloud Build does offer a free tier, you'll have to enter a credit card to use it.
GraphQL? REST API? Why not have BOTH? (for free)
I've given up on Mac-to-Mac networking in Catalina. All my other (older) Macs in the house can talk to each other just fine, but the new Catalina Mac just pretends to connect to them and fails. I have to use thumb dives to move files to/from it.

Apple networking had mostly "just worked" since the 80s. It took a big hit when they abandoned Appletalk, and now with Catalina it doesn't work at all. Apple has fallen a long way since its glory days.
I agree with you regarding spotify (though in my opinion lastfm was better ages ago), but I completely disagree with Netflix. Even if it weights genres I might like, netflix always recommends me whatever is popular at the moment.

It might be because of the service balkanization, but in the past I was able to find hidden gems on netflix, the same afterwards with prime video, but nowdays not only I have to browse in the text catalogs you might find online to quickly search among all the stuff I don't like, to find something I might enjoy that would certainly be buried in netflix UI. And even worse, I find myself rewatching my favorites instead of being able to find something different than blockbusters in the platforms.
One alternative could be instead of shooting surface based garbage into the Sun can we not not just sequester the thousands of dead/decommissioned/dangerous human launched objects orbiting around our planet and launch them towards Sun?
The best part is that Caltrans inspected it and left it up!
From the source article:

"Certain countries were deliberately not allowed to join because within the Maximator alliance they were considered as lacking relevant (signal-/crypto-analytical) expertise and/or experience. Allegedly, these countries include Norway, Spain and Italy."

And

"Belgium is a notable exception in north-western Europe; it had not been invited to join Maximator because of its lack of SIGINT (and COMSEC) capabilities." adding in a footnote that "Belgium’s cryptographic behaviour and discipline were problematic. For instance, at least once it compromised its own communications via a basic mistake in key management;"

:D
> They are technologically quite substantially in arrears to Airbus

I thought Boeing’s composites tech is way ahead of Airbus’s.
This is why I’ve backed away from it. I don’t mind paying for delivery, but the fact that I oy both a direct few and a variable extra markup per item, and that markup seems to vary so much per item makes it hard to swallow for me. It just feels like scummy enough that I’ll go to the store.

Give me an option where the cost of convenience is obvious and straightforward and I’d come back.