skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question isn't whether or not a representative discussion "could" be held, it's whether it happens or not. Letter was held up as an example of nuanced discussion, the specific example given was one-sided.
Neuron is a new Zettelkasten project that shows a lot of promise. The developer is very active and responsive. I like that it is an editor-independent cli tool, with plugins currently for Vim and Emacs.

https://neuron.zettel.page/

https://github.com/srid/neuron
Performance and dependency management are the big ones. Huge binaries are another pain point as well. We would like to run code in lambda functions, but the binaries (which aren’t that complicated) are too big 250MB so we have to run them in ECS tasks which take something like 30s to start up and building the images takes a lot longer as well (we could probably spend time to optimize the docker image builds).
Things like this seriously need a download link, otherwise it might be archived but really it's just a copy in Google's servers.
Yes, I also looked into Obsidian. And I really liked it. But their license scheme would have forced me to buy a subscription to also use it in work environment.

So I switched to Zettlr and never looked back.

Would they have allowed the personal one-time bought license to use in professional working, I would have sticked.
From the author:

> “Our dosing also differed from other studies not showing a benefit of the drug. And other studies are either not peer reviewed, have limited numbers of patients, different patient populations or other differences from our patients.”
No bank should ever use third party resources. Problem solved.
I think now that we’re old, a lot of these games that require seemingly contorted, complex nimble movements are too impossible to achieve. To someone who’s 15 and hypnotized by what’s happening onscreen, not yet so impossible.
This guy has no idea how much those McMansions pay in taxes.

"Don't expect me to subsidize..." - said the Tax Cow
The viability of using Google maps really comes down to the application. An application with a lot of users that rely on the usage of street view can become very expensive.

Nice quote: “Don't lose out on the potential of tomorrow by thinking too big today.”
That is semantics. The zoning determines what permits and codes are applicable to the zone.
Given the tobacco industry fought to have warnings and packaging restrictions upon their products, I'm sure they created a whole play-book of things to try, though note that they eventually failed. Whilst applications are not going to give you cancer, you could fairly equate the analogy within the digital World and your personal details and digital persona being eroded away via cancerous applications.

Gets down to giving the consumer a fair and informed choice, so however they frame this - I'm sure it will only serve Apple well. Indeed, any EU investigations into Apple would probably see this move in good light and with the competition contrasting it in a different light, I don't think Apple could of asked for anything better to stash into any legal war chest with the EU when it comes to showing they are good guys and looking after consumers better than others - least that is how they can frame it.
Did you contact your doctor to ask why, and when they will be rescheduled? What did they say?
I think we are agents of accelerating disorder, somewhat like a growing fractal with order inside but a much higher disorder produced at the edge. The internal order supplies the growth, and the external disorder grows exponentially atop it.

Behaviourally, when you look at a lot of the things we do (e.g. breaking big chunks of metal to tiny coins and distributing them into people's pockets, or turning big clumps of clay and tree and metal into small piles to live in, or retail stores in general), you can see that humans are pretty good distributors, dis-aggregators, disintegrators.

At least so far, we don't disintegrate most things to the point that they are useless. Only to a point where they serve our growth. If one day we were to become a truly spacefaring, or an intergalactic, disintegrator, we might meaningfully hasten the advance of universal disorder as a whole. What better purpose for life, as a function of the universe, than to advance the march of a primary universal trend?

All that said, it's hard to see how our work will meaningfully bring about a true final state any faster, because we're not likely to accelerate proton decay. Maybe protons decay faster in isolation! Maybe we'll find out that we can poke them just the right way, and it'll be surprisingly useful.
Wasn’t my experience as an American living in London.

Labour and Tory mapped well enough to US politics.
One thing this ecosystem is missing is a measure of how effective people are after switching from one tool or another.

E.g. our company implemented the use of Zettelkasten in a randomized trial and engineering efficiency improved by x% in the experimental group compared with y% in the control group.

It seems like much of the ecosystem is like some areas of the Linux ecosystem, where the goal is more to focus on getting the tools and process just so than on the impact the tooling has on actual productivity.
For syncing I'm using a private github repo, then syncing is easy and on iOS / Android I use GitJournal or WorkingCopy (iOS only IMHO).
I just started one last month. Not sure if it's what you're looking for though.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN66Pz78qCMzGa1eNdBxWfQ
It's almost like it's not really about slavery or racism.
I saw something very bizarre yesterday, which seems like it could totally explain the surging case counts while death rate continues to fall, but I can’t quite believe it’s really happening.

Apparently since about mid-April the CDC decided that the COVID Case Count would include not just positive tests, but also “probable” cases.

Probable cases are not like the Presumptive Positive cases we had early on where a state lab had a positive test but they wanted to confirm it at the CDC lab.

The criteria for a “probable case” does not require a positive lab test at all, but simply a combination of symptoms (like a cough or fever) and contact with another person who themselves was positive or probably positive.

Collin County (6th largest county in Texas) had a council meeting which included a presentation on this where they walk through the new criteria, which includes a slide showing how 1 positive lab test can result in the case count increasing by 17.

Here’s an excerpt from that part of the council meeting;

https://twitter.com/sav_says_/status/1278090647140995073?s=2...

And in case you’re dubious, here’s the whole meeting, and you can scroll to about 15:25 to see this part;

https://collincountytx.new.swagit.com/videos/62477
It could be WhatsApp but I think it would be trivial to figure this out any number of ways.

You have a Facebook account, if you don’t check it on your phone presumably you do on your notebook or desktop. You probably browse the internet at home from the same WiFi network with both your computer and phone. Different cookies from the same IP address would indicate the same household. It wouldn’t take a lot more to know they belong to the same person. IP addresses can strongly correlate with a geographic area.

Since nearly every website has those social media buttons Facebook can track you from site to site even if you’re not logged in.

For sure Facebook knows where you live and has matched up your facebook-free phone to your Facebook account.

I’ve got no experience with actually doing any of this, it’s just what seems obvious to me. I’m sure the whole truth of it is much scarier.

I haven’t had a Facebook account in over a decade but my current girlfriend had my ex-girlfriend from 15 years ago pop up in her recommended list. We live about 10,000 km apart.

If there are any Facebook engineers reading this I must salute you. Your work is amazing.
Are they moving into ads as the hardware business dries up for them? In my personal experience, many people don't replace their phones as often as they did, say, 10 years ago. A similar story played out earlier with laptops. There's no obvious new hardware category for Apple to pivot into so maybe software is their next play.
You tried to defend the irrationality of someone experiencing fear.

Is assuming you're in a vacuum based on reality for someone on Earth who is experiencing symptoms of hypoxia like astronauts would?
Counter balance: I have also been WFH for the past several years. I enjoy it and prefer it to working in an office.

The thing is, WFH is not for everyone. Some people will thrive in it, and some will not, and that's OK. Don't try and force yourself into a pattern that doesn't suit. Once the pandemic is over, revert to the work environment you enjoy most.

In the meantime, if you feel lonely, try always-on voice comms with your teammates while you all work as usual, mostly the audio will be quiet, but it does allow for people to spontaneously ask questions, or bounce ideas, is if you all were still in the office.
How does it go beyond the headline and general info?
I kind of share the authors dislike for the concept of entropy, at an instinctual level. But the fact remains that we know that energy is conserved, but there is still something happening as time progresses, where the world is changing from one state into another. Calling this difference "entropy" seems like the only solution, even if the definition for entropy is hard to really get comfortable with. (Though I appreciate it can be made very rigorous for specific physical calculations)
They contain some of the worst ones, yes. What a weak counterargument you make!
Yes, it sure sounds like things got screwed up. Which is my entire point in this surprisingly controversial thread.
A non-physicist writing about entropy most often leads to a incorrect article full of slightly incorrect statements and misunderstandings. Case in point this article.
Velodyne becomes latest tech company to go public using a SPAC
That's an obvious example of journalistic malpractice. I wouldn't edit a quote like that in a legal brief--and that is something that is supposed to be slanted rather than objective.
Some admin removed the "version 1.7" from the post headline? Why that? The news is that the version 1.7 - after 4 month of work - was just released a few hours ago... ️
I like this idea! I'm not sure how it would actually play out, but one of the things I feel is missing about OCW is just having someone else to chat with that is going through the materials at ~the same time. The standard MOOCs have forums but the student discussions there are also usually not great/not really what I am looking to recreate with my "side learning".
I'm pretty sure they used to, a long time ago
Trump proposed a 'Virtual border wall' and democrats are on board
I think the problem here is that fighting these PC efforts just reinforces the egos of those who champion it because 1) it gives them more "enemies" to righteously battle against and 2) they're currently winning.

As an old school liberal with subversive tendencies, maybe the right way to throw a monkey wrench into these language policing efforts is by reductio ad absurdum or killing them with kindness. Push every possible thing that's offensive into these lists, particularly targeting terms common in business parlance. "double-blind testing"? Offensive to people with low vision. TTYs in Linux? Sounds like a NSFW word. "Pros and cons"? Offensive to inmates who have served their sentence. It's not even "in bad faith" (the ultimate modern thought-terminating cliché); do it fully and sincerely in line with their desire to eliminate all possible offense. Just totally fill up their PC dictionary with stuff until it becomes clear that it's impractical to eliminate all possible avenues of offense without being reduced to grunts and gestures.
>the ad industry can disappear overnight, and I don’t think life would get worse without it

If you're concerned about extreme materialism and the effect it has on the environment and mental health, then it seems life would not get worse, it would get better.
I’ve actually been creating a monetization strategy for my online website that lets users purchase map skins in the game.
Systems like Zettelkasten are interesting to read about, but again, everyone's brain is different and for me a bunch of folder categories and one misc/daily folder is just as good.

I find that folders/tags inevitably just run into the issue of notes not fitting into any particular schema. So often time I just use the search function, or use a particular note that consist mostly of only organized links. This way I can have multiple schema of organization even if they overlap. Or rather, overlap is a good thing. It means you have multiple ways to find a given subject.
Ask HN: If you have to sum up your Last 6 months of 2020 How would you define it
Not software but services.
this is a joke, right?

Cases != fatalities.

A lot of places are doing a lot more testing. That causes case count to rise. That doesn't mean the disease is spreading beyond control. If it were, the fatality rate would also be increasing, which it's not.

Sorry, but you're going to have to find some other reason to justify your partisan hate boner.
Yes, I should know because my surgery was "outlawed"(seriously?), and had to be rescheduled. Was not clear how effective lockdown would be, needed time to get COVID testing facilities operational, so anyone coming in had been screened ahead of time, also some states were sending resources to states more heavily affected.

Also your electronic solution sounds like it'd take months to implement. Why didn't you code it up and offer it to your doctor's office?
Brain-Computer Interface: Privacy Issues and Other Problems
Precomputing raster tiles became painful once screen densities started to demand @2x and even @3x resolution images.

https://github.com/go-spatial/fresco and https://github.com/maputnik/editor are TileMill-like editing programs, though specific to one tile format and renderer (MapboxGL)
> humans are a complex chemical reaction that has reached the point where it can release energy through splitting of atoms

Could you expand a bit on this point? What are you talking about, exactly?

By the way, a reaction concerning splitting of atoms is not called a chemical reaction: it's a nuclear reaction.
I know how unlikely it would have been, but I wish Apple just dropped this out of nowhere, because with this delay all the user tracking platforms will now just store the id they can currently access somewhere locally (if they aren't already) and keep using it going forward.
I started that course, by my God his presentation is so...sleep-inducing for me. Contrast this with Peter Norvig, who is engaging and scintillates with passion about the subject. By contrast, Sedgewick has this smirk on the whole time, and talks in a monotone. His content is first rate, of course, but sheesh, he's got to work on that pedagogy!
I would define it as :

QUARANTINE - QUARANTINE & QUARANTINE only.

What about you ?
16 out of 1024 apps... Surprisingly low. Lots of these are games, presumably funded by ads and/or iap, scrounging a few more bucks from email lists fits right in.
> I dont think this nitpicking achieves anything, his overall point stands - we have hundreds of military jets and pilots with fuck all to do (fortunately). How many intercepts are there, one every few months? It makes no material difference against the backdrop of training and eqipment used in a regular business as usual.

Maybe stores should stop hiring security guards in towns where the police don't have much to do. The cops are just sitting around anyway, right?
Let me plug OpenLayers, which uses OSM and is way harder to use than google maps but once you stop hating on it you realize it can do a bunch of things that google maps really can't and is more versatile in numerous ways

I have Open Street Map on my phone, and "harder to use" describes it well. The problem is that for me, and, I'd bet, for many others, "easy to use" is the most important thing a map app can do.
I can't believe nobody bothered to link TiddlyWiki [1] here... Especially since this crowd here should be able to run it directly from npm, which makes it much easier (conceptually, for me) than "a self-modifying html file". :P

For Zettelkasten (and research more generally) Stroll [2] is a flavour of TiddlyWiki that has many of the features you'd like, including (most crucially for me) backlinks.

Edit: the reason I brought up TiddlyWiki here is because I tried Zettlr and while I see how some people would like it, I certainly didn't.

[1]: https://tiddlywiki.com/

[2]: https://giffmex.org/stroll/stroll.html
>So the taser is deadly?

It can be, depending on how it is used.

> How many times can a taser be fired?

This depends on the model but ones which can fire multiple shots are issued to police.

>Brooks is running away, are you seriously suggesting that he posed a serious thread to the officers?

Yes, because he did.
Did... did you just gatekeep feeling nostalgic?
Joplin and Standard notes are great as well. I lost one week of data due to some synchronization issue with Joplin though - but the markdown editor is great (they even have a new WYSIWYG editor). Standard notes is good but it's missing good file/image support which is really annoying.
My Thoughts on AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Writing a fast cache service with millions of entries in Go
saying their hardware business is "drying up" is some pretty extreme hyperbole
If you consider "organism" and "environment" to be separate systems which may exchange energy/entropy, would it be fair to suppose that living organisms dump entropy into their environments to maintain internal order?

I agree that this is a typically murky discussion since the concept of entropy for a complex organism gets pretty handwavy...

I'm supposing that an organism in "living" condition has many orders of magnitude fewer valid microstates than the same constituent atoms/molecules would have once life sustaining reactions cease and decomposition begins - there are only so many valid ways to assemble a given living being...
>Except that Google’s stock price is both in the hands of its employees and directly benefits its employees. They have a clear stake in it.

Again, the same is true for democratic governments.
>partisan

First point: Do you really think it's partisan to point out that governors from the same political party tend to follow similar courses of action?

Second point: let's use your own data against you [1][2]. According to you, overall cases are "flat or slightly increasing" but actually your chart is about deaths. The overall cases have doubled in the last week. Which means, all things being equal, that over the next two weeks or so, we'll be seeing a doubling of deaths follow suit.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=tEn_XoKrOpesytMPj...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=gUn_XoLnLJmxytMPu...
One thing that I find interesting is how children also essentially do advanced mimicry to fill in gaps of their knowledge, what would be interesting is to see a more traditional inference engine type approach that then used a GPT-3 style approach when the knowledge of a situation dipped beyond a certain level, and then take the response to the GPT-3 style approach as a datapoint for inference engine style reasoning
Why does it even need to be one mega course?

Millions of institutions exist. Even if you take 1% of them and tell them to create a freely available course, it's good enough. Beside, I don't understand how many public funded universities don't release everything they do or teach. It's just weird imo.

Why does education need to be expensive? Why should you have to pay for it?

It's one of those things that I don't understand the reason for being behind paywall.
She was. The reporting had built up an inaccurate view of reality in her mind.
>>>> Incompetent private organizations fail and go away

The point is that a private organizations often continue to exist despite incompetence because other (competent and highly profitable) organizations are not able to efficiently executing on the choice to end a business relationship.

The point is this: ending a business relationship can take as long, or even longer, than an individual executing on the choice to emigrate to a new region.

Ask any bank that has been continuously trying to move off of big iron since the 90s whether switching off of mainframes is, to use your words, a "dramatic high-cost change to your entire organization".

> ...leaving behind their friends and family and everything they've ever known...

Yes, and so is breaking a long-term business relationship...

My point is NOT that citizens should be expected to move between countries. My point is that your expectation about the efficiency with which firms can execute on their preferences is just as flawed as the expectation that labor can efficiently execute on its preferences (by e.g. moving between countries).

So, no, incompetent private organizations do not fail and go away. That baseless religious belief of market fundamentalists has no basis in reality.
Do you consider TabNine to be a "pattern matching application"?
It's interesting to watch the votes oscillate. For a little while it plunged into grey obscurity as rascists and Confederate battle flag lovers each savaged with the little down triangle, but alas, not leaving a comment to explain which they were. Then back up, up, to dizzying heights of black text again, and now back down, down to the mediocre 1 point which doesn't do justice to its story.
Sure but they are not in a public git repo and I think the public has the right to see the full story. The police are the easiest target right now but those people who take advantage on the riots to loot are kind of left out of sight.
> Why is the government obligated to protect your investment?

They are not. But they want people to invest, and people will not invest if they have no ability to predict the future circumstances. That's why governments try to create long-term systems and aren't running on mood swings.

Nobody will invest anywhere if all the parameters are up for redefinition every day. "Oh, you built your factory based on proximity to the high way and train line? Well guess what, those are lame, and we've decided to remove both because we want to be cool. We are not obligated to protect your investment."
>Make a cash payment to neighbors while construction is happening to compensate for the nuisance, give them equity in your new building if their view is damaged, obligate builders to also build bus stops/bike lanes/whatever to make the streets navigable with high density, mixed use construction with privacy to avoid strangers.

Half of what you say is indistinguishable from zoning (the transit part). The other half runs into the problem of people not agreeing to the compensation.

The reality is that what you do on your property impacts my property and utilizes public resources. There has to be some mechanism to regulate that and enforce those regulations. The problem isn't the concept of zoning but how it has been applied.
Download your FB information and scan through it.
If you can, ask your colleagues to do the same.
FB tracks the websites you are visiting so the local comedy club website is a possibility.
It seems like he is arguing for more environmentalism because the less energy we use, the longer it will take to reach the heat death of the universe?

It's a pretty ridiculous way of looking at things since any human activity is still an exceedingly insignificant entropy gain, even if looking only at our solar system.