skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep seeing articles about Zettelkasten pop up every couple of weeks on HN lately. Notetaking and productivity articles tend to get me thinking about how my own system works (I still have a bunch of Zettelkasten articles I would like to read...)

I've been using Anki as my SRS system for language recall for years. A couple of months ago I started putting in random facts and bits of information that I would normally put into a note. This sort of thing tends to get inputted, filed, and forgotten about until I do a purge of notes every few months. But since I've started using Anki for this, I now 100% remember these types of random facts. A few examples:
- FQ_CODEL stands for Fair Queueing with COntrolled DELay
- ADSB is to air traffic what AIS is to marine traffic
- In CAP theorem, must choose between availability and consistency
(For Anki nerds, I have these as cloze deletions)

The biggest benefit for me (aside from actually remembering this stuff) is that the cognitive overhead of inputting and studying is super low. I can stay focused on doing important work while not having cognitive overhead of learning new things affect my output.
And a big benefit of a phone number is that if I want to contact the same person on Snapchat, or some other service, I can.

Per service identifiers just build walled gardens and in the end hurt users.

Phone numbers are the perfect identifier because the default is 1 per person, but you can easily get a few more if you want to be anonymous, split business from home, have two personalities, etc.
Project plan for a new browser:

1. Copy Brave.
2. Remove everything except the part about paying monthly and supporting websites you visit

Who's with me?
How many businessmen do you know that have been summoned by very powerful people to help fix their country's problems?

To Da Vinci it happened several times, he spoke and had relations with some of the most powerful people of his time: Medici, Sforza, Borgia, Francis I (king of France) and for each one of them he designed and often built infrastructures for their cities.

Even the Sultan of the ottoman empire Bayezid II asked Leonardo to design a bridge for him, in 1502

It would have been the longest bridge in the world at the times, MIT tests proved his project was solid and centuries ahead of times, in 2011 Norway built a bridge based on that design and Instanbul Is thinking about it as well.

So, all in all, he wasn't so bad at doing business.
The second Laplace quotation in their paper is rather pithy:

"The mind, like the sense of sight, has its illusions; and just as touch corrects those of the latter, so thought and calculation correct the former. (Laplace, 1825, p. 91)"

(Paper at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3149224, link in a first Mar. 2018 post, linked by this post).

P.S.

as an amusing bonus to the 2018 post, a commenter quoted "Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity."

It's from Jonah 1:7, which I hadn't come across before. I'm now trying to resist the rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleromancy
"While AMP itself isn't a ranking factor, speed is a ranking factor for Google Search"

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/about-amp

Google using technology they have developed to rank other sites on their search engine while making sure that nobody cna leave the Google-verse (as AMP sites are served from Google's CDN and not the original source). It would open them up to huge anti trust issues, so at least officially they have said that it's not a ranking factor.
I have been using https://github.com/wcota/covid19br which pulls data from each brazilian state.

However, the military government will start to fudge the numbers even further. They are moving numbers from covid-19 to any other deaths. All other numbers of causes of death are spiking. All this with a brutal underreporting of covid-19 deaths.

I lost another family member yesterday. A young mother of 2 girls.
You aren’t missing anything. There has been a concerted effort to move COVID-19 lower on the priority list so that people would open up. But it’s still just as infectious as it was in February and March, and cases are starting to surge in a number of southern and western states where lockdowns ended earliest.
One distinct difference is Bollinger trucks currently exist as more than rolling prototypes. They have already started production and let people outside the company drive them.

Bollinger trucks are also Class 3 vehicles, which means they don't have to pass the same crash tests a more mass market truck like an F-150 does. I've actually seen speculation Tesla may be planning the same trick with Cybertruck, which is fine, but that means you can't expect cyber truck to be built in Model 3 or Y volumes.

Tesla has clearly built in a pretty steep decline in battery costs, otherwise the pricing they announced simply isn't possible. Tesla is in a pretty good position to make predictions about future battery costs, but it's likely their lower costs will mean lower costs for everyone. Since there is no real date for cybertruck yet, the costs for other EV trucks may be quite a bit lower by the time cybertruck actually arrives.

There is a reason cars and trucks have body panels and bumpers that are not structural. With the structure exposed I'd be worried about minor damage activating the crumple zones and writing off the vehicle. Even the best body shops are not equipped to work on stainless steel. If Tesla is pulling the Class 3 trick cybertruck may not have crumple zones or other safety features to worry about, but that's a whole other problem if people are planning on making it their daily, family vehicle.

I really like the vehicles that Tesla actually builds and sells. They are getting better and better at running a production line and the Model Y teardown looks great. I'm less keen on the Tesla hype machine on unreleased things like roadster and cybertruck. Announcing pricing years in advance on unreleased cars results in needing to employ underhanded tricks like selling a $35,000 off-book model 3 you need to know a special process to order. All that to satisfy a commitment you made long before engineering was done, bill of materials complete, and a production line existed.
Something they didn't mention is the rise of personal wealth. As people enter the middle class, they start having fewer children. As to why - I'm not a economist or sociologist, but I expect it's partly because they aren't family farming anymore and don't need the free labor, and partly because they have access to birth control.
I know I might be in the minority here, but tech problems that are already affecting users (even indirectly in the form of missing features), I tend to consider as more than tech debt. The payment has already come due. If there are real world impact beyond just standards & best practice compliance, we have to fix right away.
You are not browsing the notes at “random”. You read your notes because you are working on something and what to see how your collection of notes might help you.

It takes effort to support this workflow. Notes have to be self-contained and of a somewhat permanent relevance. You don’t put raw reading and meeting notes there.
I live in the biggest city in Brazil, São Paulo. On one side, we have a significant number of deaths (8,2k in 36K of all country), but the local government was capable of building campaign hospitals and now we have near 80% of the occupation of hospital beds. So the situation is controlled, I can say.

But the mental toll to deal with this president is very high!

I thought a lot before posting here because this government has a lot of fanboys/fangirls that use war tactics to hide things. The first posts here were of people trying to show that things are ok and numbers are being publicized, what is a lie.

These same people will come back here to downvote any comment that exposes the real situation. They do this in news portals, social media, WhatsApp, etc. It is disgusting and tiring.
The important thing is to find a way to let yourself off the hook.
No. Avoid ColdFusion - it's a language from a bygone era when Adobe was trying to be what Microsoft is now. They failed and the ColdFusion community will die. The community, while made up of great people that I am still friends with, by and large was not interested in improving, learning new techniques, or growing beyond ColdFusion. They wanted to learn a skill and cash in on it for a long time. The language is dead and their skills are becoming useless as a result.

Maybe in 15-20 years ColdFusion will become like COBOL or ADA, where there's a bunch of code running some necessary systems and nobody knows how to maintain them. But it's a long bet for a payoff that would be much higher if you spent your time somewhere else.
I think the modern internet is just TV anymore.

Early internet was innovation. It was almost as if you had to innovate merely to get on and use it.

Now it's a commercial resource, and the major effort will be extraction.

Dislosure: I'm also old. I almost spelled "internet" with a capital 'I'. Harumph.
> Needless to say, he doesn't provide any scientific evidence of that -- he knows full well his supporters need nothing more than his word to believe in anything.

I want to live in a world where this is actually viable everywhere, where we can trust our leaders to confer with experts and change their opinion if the situation changes. (Living in Germany, I do trust Angela Merkel that much, for example. I want that for everyone.)
Recaf – an open-source Java bytecode editor built on top of Objectweb's ASM
Online reading group for D2L.AI book
The primary change of thinking that a Zettelkasten system requires is giving up the idea of keeping notes about a book or meeting. Instead, keep notes about topics you care about, using the book or meeting as a source.
An answer to stackoverflow asking “Why no love for SQL?”
So, just rename all occurrences or create a named hyperlink?
Why do we keep coming up with already solved problems.
The intent/label doesn’t matter if the practical result is the same.
My Django Internationalization Misadventures
For the data-driven folks I highly recommend https://brasil.io/covid19/ as a source for numbers on coronavirus in Brazil as official figures are completely tainted now.
While it's not directly stated on the page linked, clicking on "SCHEDULE" will reveal that the current focus is on building reading groups for the D2L.AI book.

We had the first group of 5 people yesterday and the idea seems to work out great in practice.

I would love to build more reading groups.
When in doubt, make it stout out of stuff you know about.
Doing the following has helped me in the past:
1. Print out calendar view of the day (Outlook for Windows has a printable view that shows your calendar for the day and to do items)
2. Write down a prioritized list of tasks if they're not already there
3. Write down on your calendar when you're going to do them
I agree! What I hoped to showcase in this post, is a way to support users without JS, while not changing how the web app is built. You would still _develop_ the site using JS :)
Yes, and it was a joke in very bad taste that belittles the very real issues people have with this.
1. Dependency Injection and convention based routing allows to get started on projects quite quickly.

2. An integrated approach to data access and view generation is a god send when you are a lone developer. With the front-end and back-end separated, there is twice the cognitive load to handle, no matter if the languages are same on both ends.

3. Reasoning about a web-app, in terms of views (or pages) is much easier to start with. Of course, we can always complicate the thing by adding JS, but ASP.NET Core MVC provides a very well laid out template to begin with, that is suitable for most web apps.

4. C# is an amazing language to work with. It's mind blowing awesome, especially after working for a year with JS/TS. To quote Steve Jobs, "It's like giving someone a glass of cold water in hell"

5. Async/Await in C# is easier to work with.

6. Expressing Ideas in C# is very easy and systematic.

7. Performance is fantastic. Just see the Techempower benchmarks. Performance is money, in today's cloud world.
In a market economy you don't pay for things in proportion to the value they create, you pay based on the supply and the demand.

An EpiPen might save your life, should you pay for it in proportion to the value it creates for you? Or maybe you can pay based on the availability.
I don't see this as particularly problematic if it's not replacing an existing referral code. It should definitely be opt-in and more transparent though.

In fact, as a Firefox user, I would like to be able to activate a feature that would make Firefox the default beneficiary of affiliate rewards linked to my purchases. After all, I would not be visiting this website without it.

Am I missing some way this could be hurting someone?
A big thank you to those who are starting to support people like me who are js-allergic for varied reasons of security, efficiency, privacy, and general control over our own machines.
Wow - that is really weird that it has been going on for that many years. Also strange that he had a friend who experienced the same problem. I suppose the pizza shop should do more to avoid it.
This is really cool, thanks for your work! I really love couchdb. I have seen tickets for document based ACLs on their github recently, I think this is the last feature they need to open up usage across many more domains. The core app works great for replication between dbs and to the edge using pouchdb, but almost everyone is turned off by the database-per-user that is required to use it. If they solve that I think their adoption could skyrocket, if they can get over the hurdle of years of neglecting this core feature where everyone became disillusioned by it. It’s positioned as a “put your db up on the internet and interact/replicate over http” but it doesn’t work for most non trivial use cases because everyone can then see the data, so you end up layering adapters on to do ACL. This should really just be built in to the core app.
And yet, somehow, being able to get two collateralized loans for peanuts in value are comparable to being able to get many uncollateralized ones rolled over for years (yes they were junk before covid) for billions…

No gross mis-allocation of resources or moral hazards as far as one eyes can see… surely the companies will use these funds much better this time for capex… lol
Artist/Entrepreneur- Bonni3
Debugging issues with libcurl and publickey authentication
Pittsburgh paper accused of barring black reporters from covering protests
> It doesn't offend me at all.

Which means this is NOT ABOUT YOU. The fact that something does not bother you has absolutely zero impact on how other people feel about that same thing.
Humans are subject to selection both genetically and memeticly. Some portions of the population have high birth rates. Fecundity in modern environments appears to be partially heritable and can be inculcated to a degree. There is little reason to think human fecundity will not go back to historically normal, Malthusian levels eventually once selection for fecundity takes its course.

One reason to be bullish on religion is exactly this. Secular cults such as Randianism, modern wokeism, and arguably Reform Judaism are (whatever you thing of such idealisms) largely sterile and so unlikely to persist in their modern forms in the very long term.
I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neither Should You (2018)
Similar approach. I use loose a4 paper in a binder, which can be more easily scanned and ordered by project etc. later on.
"The code should be bad enough that it allows you to ship as fast as possible" - I agree with the sentiment here, but not the expression. Speed and "validation" is obviously the outcome, and the ends should justify the means. But to say that fast must necessarily equal "bad" I'm not really sold on.

Coupling is an obvious example. If you want to retain agility in your product, the various components inside should be pretty loosely coupled and have restricted domain of responsibility. When you find out the product needs to change - massively - you already have a lot of the bricks you need to make the new product.

On the other hand, it's clearly wrong (in my experience) to go full-bore microservices out of the gate, because you end up spending a lot of time on wiring and infrastructure.

So for me, the question isn't "what's the minimum level of quality?", because at every stage the quality should in practice be pretty good. I know people say "be embarrassed by the first version you put out" - but people also say to be obsessed with the product/problem. Product teams with high standards (in general, but including code) tend to be more successful. If quality work starts taking up substantial effort, that's a pointer to other decisions (choices of technology, for example) being wrong. Again, all IME, YMMV - I don't think there's a clear rule of thumb that applies to all startups.
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First, the article at the link is comparing Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs. My comment was made considering that context.

Second, I'm sure there were people in Leonardo's lifetime who recognized the differences between those with exceptional artistic talent and those with exceptional business acumen. I can't imagine any reason why such distinctions would not exist then.
The Art of Political Storytelling – how leaders win hearts
Zipline is such an awesome company. I love that their largest target market is Africa. Almost every high-tech startup starts with conquering the US en EU markets even though double-digit growth of economies is now mostly happening in emergent markets. It’s one of many interesting points touched upon in Hans Roslings last book (Factfulness - a must read!) and here we have a company that did exactly that. And they are doing it with such cool technology as well!
I’m very well informed on the fast and furious scandal.

I don’t care what Wikipedia has to say about anything - especially where guns are concerned.
For some reason some of my friends in Russia mentioned they didn't mind being in the army because they liked having 3 square meals a day, getting into good physical shape, getting weapons training, the camaraderie, being sent here and there (without having to pay for travel), etc.

Personally I wouldn't enjoy it, that's for sure.
As usual, the devil is in the details. I believe in a society that is blind to race, gender, class. This is my view of social justice. But this is in opposite of the SJW ideology, who claim that because of systemic discrimination, the only way towards equality is reverse discrimination.
Sorry but this is incorrect. The numbers are being updated once a day at 10 pm.

And yes, the actual and previous numbers are under investigation by the Federal Police.
> However, startups don't fail because the codebase is ugly, or convoluted, or not following best practices.

Startups do fail due to a failure to execute. Best practices aren't always about aesthetics. Ignore them too much and you end up with write-only code. You can compensate in various ways, such as designing the code so that it's possible to throw away the ugly parts later.

You are correct that good senior engineers are apt at striking this balance. I do not agree that the typical senior engineer is competent at this.
The Revolution Will Be Voice-Activated
Ask HN: Landing page to test multiple segments at the same time?
Let's say I have a product that is "generally useful", and I have several potential market segments to go after.

A single landing page seems too generic, I can't get specific with the messaging or workflow.

Has anyone encountered a similar problem?

Thoughts on having multiple sub-pages? Multiple domains? A single landing page to test one segment at a time?

Would appreciate any pointers.
They should maybe consider adding an option for people to point at other repositories and surface them either in the ubuntu software store or in their own software store.
Legacy media attacks new media for being unmoderated. Then it attacks it for being moderated. Its almost as if its just trying to demonise the competition and producing division to do so...
> Can someone shed light on their economies of scale? What are the challenges they may be facing?

A drone like zipline's latest model cost at most $500 in low volume manufacturing.

Making at least 10000 of them in one go will likely to halve the price, and I see them going there over last few models.

With 100km range, you have to put extra droneports on the triangular grid.

To link the US West Coast North to South you will need a minimum of 20 droneports. Add 10 more of them reach most major coastal cities.

So, making a commitment to buy 10k drones over 2-3 years, and operating 20 droneports should cost around $4m-$5m a year. With just $1m going to drones themselves.

Making $5m a year from small package express delivery on Seattle-LA route should be not that hard. 200 packages a day at DHL prices.

You can halve the droneport costs if you make bigger drones for longer range transport in between two major hubs, but that's the problem.

100km is a practical limit of an electric fixed wing drones that carry sub 1kg payloads. If you want more than that, you either make them really big, or venture into play with supermaterials like CFRP, or IC engines/turbines. The cheapest PT6A variant costs $500k...
In what way do you see the Mozilla foundation as evil?

I'm asking as a Firefox user that doesn't have this image at all. If you have things that I should read to update, I would be interested.
It would have been better had I said his performance isn't as impressive.

Whether he had business acumen wasn't really my point. But it's obvious his business acumen isn't his legacy. His amazing art, brilliant ideas, and diversity of ideas is his legacy.
Exactly! As long as your framework supports SSR, and you got an event-based state container, you're good to go.
Educated women is the reason usually put forward - once women are educated they find more interesting things to do than have a lot of kids [1]

[1] https://wol.iza.org/uploads/articles/228/pdfs/female-educati... [pdf]
> a universal web frontend tech

There... that's the problem.
a. Sort of. Poor code quality really hampered Netscape, forcing them to pay down technical debt, while they should have been focusing on fighting on core features against Microsoft.
To OP, or another curious reader, I think you need to take these kinds of posts with a grain of salt. That salary is rare in montreal, but it is also an extremely affordable city to live in. If you are seeking a comfortable life, I personally don’t think you need to be sweating whether you’re earning 120k or 200k CAD in a city like that.
> Engaging with the question itself is assuming responsibility.

I would argue the exact opposite. Let's stay at the factory analogy: If I'm shift manager and never think about the kinds of accidents that could occur under my supervision and something happens then that's criminal negligence. If I consider the risks, put appropriate safeguards in place, and something still happens them I'm innocent. Accidents happen and I did what I could.

Of course if I recognize the risk and choose to do nothing we are getting into manslaughter territory, much worse than negligence; but assuming I'm actually striving to mitigate risks where possible I'm in a much better position by engaging with them.

The same should be true of moral risks. Simply not thinking about them is no solution.
Nobody has said or implied it does.
I gave the book away three years ago (after enjoying it for years), so I am not 100% sure of the title, but I think it was the hardcover edition of "Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings"
India's top telecom operator Reliance Jio Platforms has raised $13B in 7 weeks
Google/SJW is brigading the thread now. All of their incomes depend on the narrative.