skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the article. It inspired me to make a follow-up note on one of the memes: https://win-vector.com/2020/07/03/data-science-is-not-statis...
And from the GitHub repo [1]: "Org-roam is a Roam replica"

[1] https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam
Limiting the number of models to choose from is not that useful from a practical point of view. For instance, I am yet to come across any practical use of the Vapnik–Chervonenkis dimension.
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Solomon is depicted in the Biblical accounts as fabulously wealthy and a prolific builder. That should have left a mark in the archeological record. 1 Kings 9:15-19 suggests we look at Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, Gezer, Lower Beth-horon, and Baalath. Some of those sites are impractical to excavate or unknown. Hazor, Megiddo, Gezer, and Beth-horon have been excavated and have uncovered little that can be plausibly attributed to Solomon. And given the almost irresponsibly extensive excavation done by the University of Chicago at Megiddo in particular, that's surprising. There's plenty there from earlier and later periods. At some point, the lack of evidence that should be there is evidence (though hardly conclusive) of absence.

What's my suggested account? I don't know. Perhaps David and Solomon existed but their reigns were exaggerated for political and/or nationalistic reasons. Perhaps they were invented out of whole cloth for similar reasons. What I'm more certain of is that the Biblical account here is questionable in a way it isn't in later periods.
Coronavirus isn't descriptive. SARS-CoV-2 is unbearably clunky. Covid refers to the disease caused by the virus (it's short for "coronavirus disease"); people don't communicate a disease, they communicate a virus. This is like the HIV/AIDS distinction: you can't "catch AIDS". Hence my terminology. Talk about petty, though. It's from wuhan, so calling it "wuhan coronavirus" or "chinese coronavirus" strikes me as more than reasonable.
Leveraging GPT-3 as a Marketer
Forth tweet says "so this happened" and is a picture of a wedding ring on a woman's finger. Next is a Voltron gif, a pic of some woman's makeup, and a fantasy corset.
How would this work under automation, like in a CI/CD pipeline?
I'll check out Marvin Minsky, thanks for the mention.

I am planning to take advantage of this weekend and try to get a little caught up on how to play videos for my games. I've got 6 designs already filmed (Cake Walk is the one that's a finalist in a game competition): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDjU-rdSngu-eeqJnc2On...

If I get the newest one up this weekend, it will probably be called 'Shared Fate'.

I didn't think Show HN is really the place to show off analog board games, so I wasn't really considering it. I don't have anything published yet anyway (just one game signed with a publisher), so they're all prototypes.

Does anyone know if posting my game design videos on Show HN would be appreciated? I come up with a lot of designs, though (my 'need to make a how to play video' backlog is like 30 games at this point). Assuming I got more consistent at filming videos, I could probably post one every week or two. Several of them you could probably play at home with components from other games.
Sorry for the late response! Tasks supports infinite depth subtasks for offline, CalDAV, or EteSync tasks. Google Tasks are limited to a single level
Your issue is ad targeting, and most of it is done manually by advertisers. Ironically, this shows why ad targeting can be done much better at the hands of Google and Facebook because they can track the user behaviors more accurate than advertisers.
Are you sure systemd overwrites it? I believe it maintains its own /run/systemd/resolve/{resolv,stub-resolv}.conf file, and it's up to you whether you want to symlink /etc/resolv.conf to one of these or not.
link to the thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716451
For millions of years, the largest moving object humans had to deal was the size of an elephant. You can look at the time the object travels its length in and get some rough estimate of speed from there. You won't be mistaken that much.

Now, take a 50 meter long airplane or 100 meter long train. Or a 300 m long ship. It's not going to work - fatal accidents ensue.
I can recommend Zim wiki which is a GTK+ desktop app that works as a personal wiki / notebook. Has a WYSIWYG editor and can export to different formats, it can even render the wiki as html and serve it. Also supports plugins for extra things like tables and charts if you wish.
You can have separate notebooks for each project like home/work/etc. You can commit to git from the UI, have git hooks set to automatically push to a remote on every commit.
Not fancy but very functional and pleasant to use.
https://zim-wiki.org/
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You're missing the forest for the trees. There are countries where the case numbers have been at hundreds or thousands of new cases daily for months, in some they are still or again rising beyond that.

Germany, with its very successful lockdown measures that have been eased gradually now had a case last week where basically an entire meat packing plant got infected, over 1000 people, leading to ongoing infections in that area.

There is exactly zero indication that it's over, just that lockdown and distancing measures are working, and that a subset of them, combined with diligent testing and contact tracing, may be enough.
Is this using OpenAI's API or are you running GPT-3 on your own machine?
They will invest, they will just price in the risk. The same as any other asset. We don't discourage this behavior in other areas, so again, why do we protect house assets? This is especially striking with homelessness being such a massive issue. Why would we protect and inflate housing investments when so many are perishing on the street?
That's really neat. It reminds me of generating a CLI based on docstring, which is another pattern that I like a lot.
You might like Lewis Carrol's "Feeding the Mind", it takes that metaphor and applies it to a method of how to read books.

On Gutenberg.org too: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35535/35535-h/35535-h.htm
I never knew, I know that's what popularized it for kids around my school around grade 5 or 6. Now I'm curious where that actually came from.
Because every programmer should at least once. Writing a compiler/interpreter is the ultimate exercise for any CS student/professional. that and maybe a file system/database or toy OS or server, because it encompass most aspects of CS.

Anybody that can do this things can probably take on any programming job, because they require a fundamental understanding of how computers and programs work.

Furthermore, It also help when suggesting realistic features to other language developers, or write proposals, or assess languages themselves.
> Is not empirical Bayes basically the same thing, but with priors stemming from the known data?

Yes. The problem is that either you end up using the data twice (once in the prior and once in the likelihood) or you have to choose how to split the data between the prior and likelihood, which can lead to other problems (particularly if you want to compare different models).
Let me explain it another way.

As a user, I often see the same ad 100s of times. Yes, 100s.

On most ad software, you can set it so that the user sees it maybe 3 times.

The fact that I see an ad 100s of times means that the ad market is inefficient. Maybe the competition for that ad space is efficient, but from a user POV, advertisers are wasting time and space.
Having used duckduckgo for a few years, which does not personalize results by default, I don't think it's even that much. More like, a factor of 3-5 on select searches and not at all (occasionally even negative) on others.
All the the recent Org Mode content on HN has really gotten me interested. I feel like I’ve tried so many systems over the years (including just using one big text file in Joplin currently) ... this one seems to be very well-liked, but the learning curve, at least for someone who is new to emacs, seems steep. I’ve started by just installing Doom on my clients and am slowly learning my way around.

Two questions for those with more experience:
1. Do you think this is a good system for someone NOT actually working in emacs all day long (I’m not a programmer)?
2. I see some mobile apps out there that claim to allow Org Mode use on phones ... is this system of note-taking / task mgmt actually usable on a mobile device?
I use a flat folder structure. All my markdown files are in a single folder.

I use metadata sections in the header of each document to organize and configure it.

The documents themselves are structured differently depending on their topic. My journal document is a long running single document with timestamps. Other documents are structured in paragraphs, others are simply bulleted lists. Of course, everything is linked by tags, which are the core organizational mechanism.

I've found that rigid organizational structures don't lead to better outcomes. It's best to let the structure develop naturally through tagging.
There has been some discussion on org-roams Discourse about this [1].

[1] https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/project-name-change/154
Watch out not to end up with a "with Special Offers" version like Kindle.
It’s funny too because any ad attribution methodology that’s not tracking users is going to suffer so much confounding to render it utterly useless. Of course it will show you Big Lift! but the reality is you could have negative lift and the attribution methodology won’t be capable of detecting it or accounting for necessary confounders to isolate the effect of the ad from other effects.

In essence, if you’re not tracking user-level behavior, then you should not be caring about any statistical attribution methodology at all, just use something different entirely, based on simple aggregates or top line metrics like revenue without modeling return on ad spend at all.

Anything that tries to do attribution on different cohorts, like demographic slices, etc., without controlling for individual level confounders, is complete misleading hot garbage.

So these customers of Apple’s sexy new ad attribution are probably paying a big premium to get ripped off with useless data. Such a system categorically can’t exist (and shouldn’t be desired) in cases where you don’t want to permit individual level tracking.
> "Publish the Same Result Several Times"

Do not take this too literally. Usually it won't work or will get you branded as a self-plagiarist (not exactly a deadly sin, but not a good reputation either; people will discount your work for this). In Rota's example of Riesz, the first publication was "in some obscure Hungarian journal", the second one was in Comptes Rendus, and the third was in a "real" journal. The choice of venues is no accident; you couldn't do it the other way round. Comptes is specifically for short (ca. 4 page long) communications that mostly serve to announce results and ideas; it's not unlike the "extended abstracts" you submit to conferences. And there are no obscure Hungarian journals any more in the age of the Internet. You won't get the same result published in 3 "normal" journals unless at least two referees are asleep at the wheel.

The modern way to get high publication count "for free" is doing a lot of incremental work (as opposed to trying to write up something definitive and general) and splitting your papers up into "least publishable units". These aren't bad things to do, though: Often you have to do incremental work as a warm-up before you have a chance to see the full picture (unless you are Grothendieck, presumably), and the thinner your papers are, the easier (and faster) they will get through peer review. It's a matter of knowing where to stop.
You can use markdown to link to images and use a markdown preview extension to view the image inline.
Ask HN: Have you built a mobile app with Qt?
I used Qt a lot back in the day to build awesome desktop apps for Linux and Windows targets. I had a great experience at the time, but it's been about 10 years now.

I see that Qt can target mobile devices (Android, iOS). Has anybody used it to build a X-platform mobile app? How was your experience?
You can only use GPT-3 via OpenAI's API currently.
On the one hand: Police having privacy while on the job.

On the other hand: Not letting police get away with torture, murder, planting evidence, lying about what happened, throwing innocent people in jail.

Hmm... tough choice.
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That's a bad idea. A lot of policing is taking someone aside an giving them a warning, defusing a situation between angry people, etc... A camera only complicates these matters.

What might be a better idea is stripping them of their privileged position. Today, if a police officer says something in court, it is automatically the truth. Take that away from the police, and let the camera be the official truth teller. Give accused people automatically a full version, so prosecutors can't edit against them.

UPDATE whoops, this should be attached to the grandparent post.
Psychology in general for start
I once made a simple little GUI generator based on effbot's "Generating Tkinter User Interfaces from XML"[1][2]. I added a tiny parser (written with SPARK[3]) that converted a simple DSL to XML (technically an ElementTree object, the actual XML isn't serialized/emitted at any point) which is then "realized" as a tree of Tkinter widgets with event callbacks.

[1] https://www.effbot.org/zone/element-tkinter.htm

[2] https://github.com/calroc/pygoo

[3] http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~aycock/spark/ "Scanning, Parsing, and Rewriting Kit"
The source code of each page contains a small little easter egg comment at the top, btw.
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Are you by chance talking about docopt? I love that tool!

http://docopt.org/
Yes, the TIGER problem is, but I don't think missing (or wrong due to physical abandonment) is a US-only problem.

For cycling stuff I'm mostly ensuring that mountain bike-specific trails are in OSM and properly tagged (eg: highway=path and NOT highway=cycleway as some are wont to do), with appropriate intersection markers, names, etc.

My goal is to ensure that these trails are in OSM so they'll flow down to Garmin, Trailforks, Mapbox / Strava, etc. I also use the OSM data, exported to vectors, to make PDF maps to support the local trail advocacy/building org that I'm part of.

As examples, check out my edit history: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/c0nsumer/history#map=7/44...

Here's examples of the print maps I've made. Versions of these hang at many trailheads in southeast Michigan:

1: http://www.cramba.org/storage/maps/stonycreek/CRAMBA_Stony_C...

2: http://www.cramba.org/storage/maps/pontiaclake/CRAMBA_Pontia...

3: http://www.cramba.org/storage/maps/riverbends/CRAMBA_River_B...

Print maps are made using osm2ai.pl to get the routes into Adobe Illustrator (AI) format. I then stylize things there. I know I could use GIS software, but QGIS is a pain to get things looking the way I want (similar to Michigan DNR maps) and ArcGIS is too expensive for unpaid volunteer work. It's also way more hand-off-able in AI format; I can send the files to any graphic designer and they can keep-on with it. GIS software requires far more specialized knowledge.
I was wondering whether this might be "the" Robert Morris, made famous by the internet worm. After a glance at his MIT web page I concluded, no, this is a different Robert Morris. This one looks much too young! But he is the Robert Morris.

https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/robert-morris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris
If you want to prove a result (for example the existence of a unique minimum-variance estimator) for a class of models, but can only prove it by restricting the class, then restricting the class is useful for that purpose.

It may not be useful in applications, other than if you want assurances provided by results that have been proven about the class of model you're using.
I'm pretty sure there is an "objective measure of success" in the most plainly obvious way possible -- sales. Versus the bullshitty stats like impressions or accidental click-throughs that dominate online advertising.
The most primitive clipboard manager you can ever find
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"Aviate, Navigate, Communicate". https://pea.com/blog/posts/6-pilot-rules-that-everyone-shoul...

This is an aviation rule that everyone lives by. There are many reasons for why that is the most sane and sensible approach to this problem, in addition to what is mentioned, the pilot's attention span is always under attack from various events that they have to correctly and swiftly respond to. This does not happen sometimes, this happens all the time during flight. Everyone has to be prepared for it. It is part of the job. You have to train for it, you have to prepare for your attention to be overflown, and you still have to make the most important decisions even under those conditions.

And this has an important consequence: ATC is at the end of that list ("communicate"). They are at the bottom of the attention span chain of the pilot, and it is better for everyone if ATC knows this and acts like it. In other words, leaves the final decision to the pilot.
> I do think that the area of knowledge management is very interesting and worthy of discussion. When it comes to tooling though, I've tried out a couple and I don't find anything superior to a folder full of markdown files + your favorite text editor (I use VSCode, but I don't think that's especially important).

I'd say the most valuable thing these tools provide is a way to link notes. That's the part that was missing from most of my attempts to build my own knowledge base, creating connections between the things I find and store in a way that's personal to how I think.

In the end, my ZK is nothing but a folder filled with md files that are all linked with each other in some way. It's synced to my phone and my tablets, so I always have them with me and I can always amend or work on them.
Which reminds me: it's almost the 10 year anniversary of "Mongo DB Is Web Scale" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Because why not? It can be a fun an very insightful process, as you'll learn about and have to apply techniques you may not have heard of otherwise.
What happened with your Joplin sync issue?

I am interested in using Joplin exclusively and use both apps currently. The Standard Notes development team is nice but refactors happen too frequently and estimates are rarely (never) produced, even though the product is paid Open Source.
Pretty heavy inspiration. Are the CSS styles same too ?
1. People who speak up are often putting their jobs at stake, especially in the US where people can (and often are) fired for almost anything. We shouldn’t have to ask anyone; it’s so not a big deal to search and replace some text to a more neutral term.

2. I’ve met plenty of people who felt uncomfortable about specific jokes being made, words being used and did not feel comfortable for speaking out for various reasons. In at least one case the person explained that it took years before they were able to make the transition from feeling demeaned by a term and being able to understand and articulate exactly why it was demeaning.

We can be proactive and emphatic. There’s no good reason people have to be so insanely motivated to fight against something that barely has any effect on their life but that might improve things for others.
"Good artists copy; Great artists steal."

I don't think that it's some absolutely amazing creation, but we probably shouldn't pretend like plagiarizing isn't something realistic about it. How many MySpaces had that line in them? Reddit's got hundreds of instances of it based on a quick search of comments. There are enough occurrences of it on twitter that I scrolled for ten minutes and didn't run dry of comments with it.
> And if it's doable in a densely populated country like the Netherlands then it's doable anywhere.

There's three different "doables" at play here:

- technically doable: can you actually convert the level crossing to an underpass or a bridge? For example, it's hard to do an under/overpass when there is a river 10m away, or when everything bar the road/rail and a bit of space is filled with buildings.

- financially doable: is there actually enough budget in the city/responsible authority's coffers?

- politically doable: will the population support the necessary construction works and the limitations that come with it? Like, will there be heavy protests of people that rely on either the rail or the road to get to work and would require massive amounts of time to bypass?

It is rare that there is a combination of all three being true, with the exception of course being tragic disasters with people and especially children dying as such events usually eliminate the political and financial blockers.
Michel Foucault had this to say to contemporary critics of Hegel:

"We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us."

It seems any investigation of prior art regarding knowledge base systems comes back to Emacs, where the solution to all problems of note taking and memory retention is patiently waiting for everyone to finally learn Elisp. But Emacs is for dinosaurs, we repeat for the 100th time ...
Your posts are becoming totally unhinged.
Abolishing minimums won’t do any of those things. It will allow the market to dictate how much parking is valued. In sparse suburbs parking levels would likely remain about the same, since as you point out, living there without a car is very challenging. In more dense areas (or near reasonable quality transit) developers can forgo some parking previously required and offer more units.
I find this amazing for my schoolwork. Being able to write papers with images in a sensible manner using Markdown syntax, all the while citing effortlessly using Zotero, is such a game changer. Huge props.
I sell sharp knives as "surgeon empowerment" devices. Anyone can surg!
This is definitely outside my area of competence, but I believe that jets that manage to escape the stellar volume only form under a very specific set of circumstances: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst_progenitors#Co...

I believe current models suggest that a low-metallicity stars (which are the ones who’s core can collage straight to a black hole, with no intermediate neutron star) will typically collapse with no supernova or other visible trace. High mass (> 90 SM) might lead to a GRB, but not a supernovae.

You can follow the references at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failed_supernova
& the supernova wikipedia page for the gory details.