skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also a projection of:

- Desired process: Parlaying emotional suffering into last-ditch displays of heroic boldness

- Doing what needs to be done come hell or high water (or, come softness/weakness)

- Mowing down one's fragile sense of self in order to become a new and stronger person via some objective process like meeting a goal

- Winning at all costs (and there will be costs)

Interestingly, the Soviet march-style (just move forward) tech and economic focus has been noted as being a polar opposite to chaotic freedom. In the USA we are faced with a very strange dichotomy in this way; we are ever attempting to transcend historic barriers by uniting economic expedients and technology with a sense of freedom and ethics. This makes us the "weak" state, in various narratives.

In the Soviet Union model, the individual must die; individuals are not leveraged positively in the economic model. It's interesting if you look at the end of the Soviet Union and the tempting role of individualist culture.

IMO it's an interesting archetype, the Soviet Union, but in individuals it can be somewhat worrying insofar as it portrays or carries the subject's inner state for them. This is far from uniformly true across the board, but there are often evidences of striking face validity if you do a lot of work with individuals who are A) in tech and B) suffering. The Soviet Mindset carries a perception that they must forget themselves and go to work, winning at all costs. However if the boss pushes themself this way, for example, their employees may find themselves suffering unfairly under a covert contract with what amounts to the Soviet Union mindset, and this is not exactly the world's healthiest leadership culture.

(I designed a productivity system around these concerns and spent a lot of time reconciling symbol and implications for productivity)

There's also the reverse case, in which one is basically stuck due to subjective emotional complications, and they are effectively rescued by this Soviet mindset. If one needs to adopt an executive mindset, few executive mindsets are going to execute better than the Soviet ;-)
Maybe a description of my notetaking practice will be useful to others. I don't know if this is strictly a "Zettelkasten" or not.

My note box for the last little while is Dercuano: http://canonical.org/~kragen/dercuano. The notes are longer than a single index card (there are 882 notes averaging about 1300 words each), and they are hierarchically organized into sections and subsections. They often include links to other notes or other web pages, and they also have a chronological order and a set of tags. And I frequently grep them. I kept them in Git to keep them synchronized across different computers.

Typically a single note draws from many sources, and I tried to keep their contents in a readable order, which is easier to do on a computer where you can insert stuff in the middle. Some notes are one afternoon's thoughts, while others got added to and reorganized for years. So that's one way I make connections: I add hyperlinks, new data, explanations of how and why the entire rest of a note is wrong, new sources, etc. Another is that the process of writing a note involves bringing together different ideas, since few of the notes are just summaries of things others have written.

I learned a lot writing Dercuano, but in the end I was more frustrated than effective. I have a series of paper notebooks that are much less voluminous, only a few hundred pages a year, which are worse for text and hyperlinks, but much better for drawing, even things like schematics. Computers offer the potential of doing simulation, calculation, logic, optimization, rendering, data analysis, and data integration, the things that Engelbart and Kay envisioned in the 1960s. Yet Dercuano is stuck in the textual world without even transclusion or sketches. A much better medium is possible.

And we have lots of examples: spreadsheets, Jupyter notebooks, observable explanations in JS, diagrams in KSeg or GeoGebra, Observablehq and all of Bostock's previous excellent work. These show us that a better medium is achievable. But incorporating such a model into a note like the ones in Dercuano maybe requires some UI work. I mean the whole revolution of VisiCalc was that you could see the results of your calculation as you changed the calculation, and that doesn't really fit well into editing text files in Emacs.

Things like Darius Bacon's Doe and Halp do go some distance toward that integration for textual output. And R-Markdown integrates statistical analysis and data visualization with text, and Ward's Smallest Federated Wiki incorporates different media types on one page, including bytebeat. And I understand that org-mode SRC blocks offer the possibility of displaying image output inline. Still, none of these seem like they can scale to interactively doing a compass-and-straightedge construction or drawing a schematic for an analog circuit. Maybe I'm dismissing them too readily?

So I'm trying to figure out what this looks like in https://gitlab.com/kragen/derctuo.
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It's a UN regulation that the US doesn't enforce. Having just checked, it's actually just 6m.
I don't think there is a paucity of research that shows that higher performing sites get more users and are generally more valuable for the site owners. The problem is not lack of reference material, the problem is that nobody considers the problem that important (generally) when presented with that reference material.

Now the thread is quite big so I have not read everything but I have skimmed through it all, and have not seen anything that would be a really useful argument for getting someone to consider maybe we should try to improve site performance. A bunch of people complaining about Google, Wired, and a few other things that they complain about is not as impressive as just the hits you get if you search "effects of site performance on user retention" (replace user retention with other useful metrics to get sources for the argument being written up)
True, it's mostly a passion project as well. I've worked with Godot so much and thought this was a missing feature for most non-developer hobbyist that want to make games. My plan was maybe to sponsor some game-jams to get more known.

Thanks for the kind words.
Why are they targeting regular people, and the services that they rely on? At best, this is friendly fire, and at worst it's a mob that has lost its mind. I'm having difficulty getting the medication that I rely on to avoid going blind, because all of the drug stores are closed after getting looted and vandalized.
This is why the need arose for talking about "orders of magnitude". If you use base 10, the order is 3, which is generally considered as a large difference.

For a related reason you need "big oh" notation for computing speeds. But in that case the magnitude difference over larger numbers is what you are interested in. The difference between O(n) and O(n^2) can grow to an arbitrary magnitude difference. If you want a difference of 1000, then take n = 1000, and you get O(n|n = 1000) = 1000 and O(n^2|n=1000) = 1 000 000. But if you take n = 1 000 000, the ratio is now 1 000 000 = 1 000 000 / 1 000 000 000 000. So, a badly written sort function can get pretty bad with large arrays.

Anyway, the latter is just tangential to show that indeed as you say, context is important (abundance and total need for a resource) and factors vs. growth-in-factors over large numbers are different. Resources scale linearly to use in product output, however, so the "big oh" (counter-)analogy is just for the sake of interest.
It could be clearer if you used Raku regexes

my $pattern = /:sigspace
^
score $<points> = (\d+)
for $<nights> = (\d+) nights?
at $<hotel-name> = (.*)
$
/

if 'score 400 for 2 nights at Minas Tirith Airport' ~~ $pattern {
say "the score was $<points>";
say "it occurred over $<nights>";
say "at $<hotel-name>";
}

Or if you really wanted to be ambitious, a grammar

grammar Pattern {
token points {\d+}
rule nights {<(\d+)> nights?}
token hotel-name {.*}
rule TOP {
score <points> for <nights> at <hotel-name>
}
}

if Pattern.parse('score 400 for 2 nights at Minas Tirith Airport') {
say "the score was $<points>";
say "it occurred over $<nights>";
say "at $<hotel-name>";
}

Note that only the `s` is optional `?` in `points?`.
To make the whole thing optional would require grouping it in some manner `[points]?` or even `"points"?`
Thanks! Another guy made a good point about a listing as well, I'll look into that!
Well at a low level we all know that AWS works akin to a Rube Goldberg machine, where a failure in some forcibly dogfooded service means even their own fucking status page can’t be updated, not to mention the dozens of seemingly unrelated services that suddenly don’t work.
There are good solutions for combining multiple faraway players into one draw call. You first lod them and then copy them into the same vertex buffer using a compute shader. Afterwards, you can render something like 8 reduced poly players with the same performance as one full-poly player.

But, that method is difficult to get right in Unreal Engine and impossible to do with Unity. That's why you only see it in high end titles like Battlefield but not in any indie MMORPG.
Some childrens tv series did actually gain recognition on both sides of the Iron Curtain. One example I remember as a kid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colargol .

Here's a sci-fi one that as far as I'm aware didn't make it across except as bootleg dubbed tapes: The mystery of the third planet (1981):

- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305861/

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TAmISW76Rk
Part of it because there is new hot notetaking/KM app called Obsidian, post on Show HN* about a week ago and people seems super interested. Also posted a just little while further back was another service called Roam which similar in principle.

*(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324598)
i'd be ok with at google maps street view approach where they blur out the faces. the original unadulterated should still be available though when the time comes for using it.
A service that detects ‘China apps’ goes viral in India – TechCrunch
I don't think you're allowed to point it out here, but there is a large audience here that is a massive part of the problem. rich, influential people with power (whether they use it or not) riding this generation's wave of prosperity with no knowledge of or interest in the people that are affected by their jobs and lifestyles.

smart enough to learn to code or to polish a pitch to a vc, but lacking any critical thinking skills or morality that would cause them to reflect on their position in society.

flocking to the right at the first hint of something that does reflect these truths.

supporting fascists because you're scared or uncomfortable is even worse than supporting fascists because you're a bigot imo
Polite protests are completely ignored. And if the political system was working for them they would not feel the need to protest.
Similar to https://www.google.com/search?q=mattress where 100% of all the content you see there is an ad (turn off your ad-blocker just to witness the monstrosity).

Isn't this a direct insult to intelligence? And where and when do you draw the line?
Yos :). Fixed. Thanks.
It works really well actually, in the backend I compile a server version of a game, which exposes Godot's High Level Multiplayer API. On the other end you just need to connect to that server and it works! Most of the heavy lifting and the conceptual part is actually native Godot!
https://blog.chromium.org/2009/07/smaller-is-faster-and-safe...

Yes, and smaller updates is arguable better security for users because they'll actually update. A 3gig download and a 15 to 45 minute down time is a huge incentive to NOT update.
Good idea! Thanks for the kind words!
> It's the job of the police to de-escalate.

No, it isn't. It's the job of the police to enforce the law, if necessary with overwhelming force.
Sorry, I'll make the connection which was obviously unclear because I skipped a lot of steps. Unions concentrate power. Concentrated power is easy to take hold of (cf. Coup d'Etat, E Luttwak). Lots of SWEs are incredibly xenophobic - can tell in any thread on HN and Reddit on H-1Bs. Xenophobes (of whom there are many) tend to be protectionist. Xenophobic protectionists are very good at holding power. Therefore, given sufficient time, probability of any power structure being taken over by xenophobic protectionists is almost 1. I don't want that. This industry flourishes because it is unbounded. No union. Will dedicate myself to scuttling the union if it gets any reasonable power.

Collective bargaining is a powerful tool. I recognize that and think it would be good for good people to have. But the danger is too high here.
> The Tea Party protests were never violent.

There's a big difference in protesting because you're being taxed too much (in you opinion) and protesting because people with your same skin colour are being systematically targeted by police and killed for no reason.
It is worth keeping in mind that mods on any non trivial sized boards have to be transparent to their peers. Appeals do come in and latest at that point others look what one has done.

What one does not want is drama on the board and discussions of disciplinary actions in the open will lead to exactly that. Moderation decision may lead to the loss of a board member but drama will drive away many more.
Floyd used a $20 note that the store owner thought was counterfeit, called the cops, the cops didn't even check to see that if it was a real $20 note before killing him. It was real...
Why would it matter who hijacked a movement the moment before it is forcibly ended? These "fringe elements" don't matter, what's important is what started these protests and what is being done to silence them.
Are you saying it was police fault people went to loot/destroy evertyhing in every city?
Isn't it just the 300k holders of British overseas passports?
I'm confused as to why you find Obsidian not matching most those criteria. I heard about it here last week, and just installed it finally tonight, but as I understand it. It's just a bunch of markdown files in a folder on the local disk. That seems.pretty easy to access/convert, is private, is lightweight, and is future proof (I could write something in Perl to generate the graph in a night most likely).

I don't know anything about the others, since I haven't really used a note system before, so I can't comment on them. Your system seems to violate a few of your stated concerns though (is it cross compatible?), so I'm confused as to why you find it better.
The modern models:

Get paid before making something. Using crowd funding one might not even be obligated to deliver. A serious attempt to make something can be good enough.

There are monthly donations for those who continue to demonstrate relevant qualities. It's a bit like a job contract with a hundred or a thousand employers.

I think we will eventually figure out a system where we can collectively order a work and pay for it after delivery. Perhaps with a series of deadlines.

Strange thoughts: Books still have their value over digital media in that they are a robust storage medium and you can re-sell the copy. It should at least in theory be possible to reduce the number of copies printed to a point where value is preserved. If a book in a good state is new or not shouldn't matter to the customer.
> Anecdotally, the protests I’ve visited in the past have always been exactly as violent as the police initiates.

Things escalate when someone escalates them. Sometimes that's the police. Sometimes it isn't. And even when it is, you still have to be willing to be provoked. Don't.

We have people in this thread justifying riots as "we tried kneeling at football games" as if there is some kind of reasonable progression from there to looting and burning down churches.
The model I used (less than 10 years ago) had a grid of punched holes so you could quickly tell if there was anything in it.
I wonder what Ted Nelson would say to that :)
I think that it's O.K. when a user interface which issues a warning when it detects a dangerous condition.

The problem is when the warning is a "stop" and it doesn't have an override "I know what I'm doing".
These accidents don't really matter as long as the ratio of accidents it avoided to accidents happened is greater than one.

People make fuss when autopilot fails, critic that its based on camera etc etc.
But when accident is avoided, no one will even notice.
The ACID test
Property owners will build more walls. Looting is not protesting.
How is this helping Google not lose to Bing, when the change would equally improve Bing experience (rising tide rises all boats?).
The highest performing teachers in a state with teacher unionization is paid the same as the lowest performing teacher who is totally incompetent.

This rewards ineptitude, punishes high performance and punishes children.

The worst thing about unions is protecting low performers, though.
How do you stop civil unrest by ordering (or threatening to, at the moment) the military to shoot at people? You're making it sound like shooting is the only solution, but it's not. There are many forms of non-lethal force you could use to deal with the kind of situation you're talking about.

Anyways, you're ignoring the bigger picture, the mountain of bodies that led to this situation in the first place. The civil unrest we're seeing wouldn't have happened at all if policing across the country was done in a sane manner. The numerous reports of unjustified police violence in the midst of this crisis is already making things worse, and there's no need for the military to add to that.
Yes, that's my mistake, but I could not delete this one. The URL is missing for users to actually land on the landing page directly.
One of the original points I wanted to push back against is when the parent said that "your clear designation of [antifa] as an enemy is also clear signaling that you're in for fascism." In particular, I don't think that it is fair to say someone is "in for fascism" just because they call antifa their enemy, or even if they think antifa is a terrorist organization. You can think antifa is a terrorist organization but also be against fascism.
why don't you return it back then and buy something better? Isn't there a money-back guarantee for the first X days?
> The whole goal of Search is to rank items per some metric of "quality", and speed seems as good and fair as any to me.

No matter what I search for, I'm not going to be pleased to have the results listed in order of page load speed. The goal of search is to rank items according to a metric that matches what the searcher is looking for, not a metric that reflects the search engine's internal preferences.
Hasn't FB always been the company where pragmatism and competitiveness trumps justice, moral and general decency? Why did these 600 people start working there in the first place? I'm confused. No judgement, just trying to understand.
IPython breakpoints are nice

from IPython import embed
embed()
It's not really new, but finally the years of spreading the cargo-cult is paying.

There is now roam, a new fancy tool which does nothing new, but spreads hard with the new generation and connects well with the zettelkasten-terms. And there recently was was a book about smart notetaking, which sold somewhat well with people who seek some solution but don't know much about this space.
It was not directly a reply to that case, it was meant to say that even if the license was GPL so that a proprietary fork was forbidden, a CLA could make it so that only the owner of the project is allowed to use your contributions as proprietary.

It was an example of a case where a CLA could have caused what was imputed by the original comment.
You've just listed two possible things the concept intertwined with, those in turn are interwined with other things.
The Java type system is broken (2018)
what peaceful protests are you talking about, it's mostly violent mob that uses a thin layer of idealistic youth in front singing kumbaya to divert attention, while the rest are stealing and looting in the back alley, not giving a damn about causes
The protest is about a police murder, so yeah, they are.
I think US police actually want a riot. They want to create violence.

I think that's unlikely.

Keeping the peace is an inherently challenging job that gets harder exactly when it is needed the most.
> you gain nothing by creating a new linked note under the 'for loop construct' heading. Just do some practice problems instead!

This is when you are learning very basics and not equivalent of literature review.

The proper equivalent would be doing overview of current frameworks. Or learning about bitcoin where you are going through math, design, algorithm, economics considerations and social consideration. Or security where you jump between modeling, attack, defense and tradeoffs.
Keep in mind that while the focus is often on individual posts the moderator may well look also at other posts and other moderation decisions related to that in the past. A post by a new member is treated differently from a post by a member with a good record and that is treated differently from a post of a member who has been warned repeatedly.
Yes. If police departments properly charged their employees when they break the law, there would not have been protests, rioting, or looting. Trevor Noah's attempt at explaining this is very straightforward but adroit.
My views on the Soviet Union have shifted over the years, when I learned about Stalin's offer of a unified Germany in the 1950's which was rejected, for example, and you realise the USA also was guilty of prosecuting the Cold War.

The technological progress made was impressive, although I thought it was made largely at the cost of the people and workers, rather than in co-operation with them. I am a socialist, (anarchist) and anti-Bolshevik. The October revolution was more of a right wing coup, which came after a true broad based revolution according to my interpretation of history. That said, despite the brutal methods employed to reinstate managerial control of the factories and so on, the country did progress from an impoverished, illiterate state in 1917 to an advanced manufacturing state.

The same can be said of China, which in 1948 was developmentally on the level of say India or Africa.
Thank you for your feedback. We did not catch that, because we mainly focus on Desktop. Your point is added to our issue list. Really appreciate it!
Source Code of Germany's Corona App
I got interested in building one about 6 months ago after finding Devine Lu Linvega's memex: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/home.html
NYPD Citywide-1 (used for looting/mayhem enforcement)
Is it not super obvious that this post is just marketing for roamresearch?
I haven't looked at personal website analytics for years. I left them out of my current blog redesign.

Like you, I don't maintain this blog for the fame and glory.

However, I depend on analytics for my monetised website. I depend on that website to make rent. I'd still like to find a less invasive solution.
On the other hand, Seattle has seen many, many citizens arriving after the riots with brooms and dustpans, cleaner and rags. They're cleaning up the damage and the graffiti. They're good people. I wish they'd get a lot more media coverage. Makes me proud of Seattle.
I think that is in reference to Facebook mining your DMs and web searches, neither of which are viewable to your FB friends or other internet users at large. FB accesses any and everything they can regarding your browsing behavior and ends up with far more data about a user than what is displayed publicly on the user’s public profile.
Yes, sorry, that's my mistake. I wasn't able to delete this one. The URL was missing for users to actually land on the landing page directly.
Also the police are willing to escalate violently with one group but not the other.