skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is somewhat off-topic, but I'm worried about closed ecosystems, the shift towards censorship, and the end of private ownership. Good examples of this are walled gardens that break basic web links (Twitter for example), or DRM-encumbered digital books.

If I buy a physical book I can lend it to someone, or sell it if I want. If I buy a digital copy (which for some reason often costs more), not only can I not lend it but I can't sell it to anyone either. I also need to ask permission from the platform to read the book I rightfully purchased.

The Google/Apple app store duopoly is another example of this. Apple for example only allows you to use Safari, and makes it very hard for you to have any choice about what software you run on your own device.

It feels like there's a slow slide into a world where we no longer have any choice about what content we consume or how we consume it. Instead, we're spoonfed what the platform decides is good for us, and in most cases good means most profitable for the platform.
I can think of a few cases. For example, an app monitoring memory usage in other apps. Or an app made to intercept certain types of calls from other apps. (A music scrobbler, for example.)
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> It's just cheaper that way; while not all oil is alike, crude oil is fungible enough to make this feasible.

If it really was cheaper that way, there would be no need to intervene.

But maybe some of the expense is caused by regulations which don't make sense. Could I get you to consider repealing the Jones Act so that it's legal to ship oil between different ports in the US using tankers? (Technically it doesn't make the tankers illegal on the face of it. It just requires them to be US built, owned, and crewed by citizens, like all other use of boats in the US. There are no tankers built in the US today; there aren't many boats built at all. Puerto Rico and Hawaii suffer in particular as a result must import key supplies from outside the US.) Yeah, you'd still be burning oil to move oil, but it's not like sending it in trains and pipelines is free either.
seems like chat, email could automatically convert or add both. shrug.
Lessons learned from building a commercial open-source bot development platform
Seeing as your list is pretty comprehensive, it might be worth having a look at Writemonkey. It's been in development since 2006 - so long before the markdown editor trend in recent years, and probably even pre-dating the distraction-free trend about a decade ago.

The most recent incarnation (v3) fits your two criteria well and its plugin system is very versatile. Sadly cross platform supports only came with version 3 and that means saying goodbye to the small Windows native downloads, but it's not an Electron monstrosity.

Just a long time fan and always feel a bit disappointed that it never comes up in these kind of discussions :)

http://www.writemonkey.com/wm3/

(And in a pinch, away from my own machine, StackEdit is great.)
Hypnospace Outlaw – 90s Internet Simulator Game
this is a joke, right?

https://www.google.com/search?q=texas+covid+cases

https://www.google.com/search?q=florida+covid+cases
nm is "nautical miles". A "nautical mile" is a unit that feels more natural to people concerned with the globe shape of the Earth than the conventional mile (of 1609.34 metres) because it was equivalent to one minute of latitude.

Today it's just defined as 1852 metres.
I've seen this one in 'the old days', but never actually took it, just skimmed through the introduction. It was hard for me to grasp what I would take from it, even though it seemed interesting.

Can you please summarize what you took from the course? How would you use outside of the course the information you've learned?
I would imagine something like "I've learned a model A that can be applied at real life situations such as a, b to get better insight", or maybe even "I can write a simulation to predict how some system will evolve in the future"?
could ML language models be turing complete if they are able to solve functions given parameters in English?

e.g. “x is a variable. y is equal to two plus x. if x is two, what is y?”

and when run, it outputs four. what would be the implications of this?
I find it hard to get people to write down anything. And if they do, they often times don't put enough effort into it, like writing down some bullet points without context or screenshots without adding text. This is a personal and cultural problem at companies and in teams. A lot of people don't know how to generate value from taking notes/documentation and aren't good writers in general. I'm still thinking about how you can teach people what's important when it comes to writing and when to take notes.

I couldn't agree more with your second point. Search is probably even more important than taking notes in the first place. I find myself searching through my notes multiple times a day, even if it's something you can find at Google at the same speed. But my notes are mine, meaning I know what I can't remember or in which form I need some piece of information. Sometimes, I write a long article about something and other times some bullet points are good enough. When I share my notes on a team/organization I try to make sure the context is clear. It's a bit like code: it's read by an order of magnitude more often than written/changed.

We built Emvi [1] to make note taking more collaborative and with focus on searchability and ease of use. I hope I can write more about this topic on our blog. In case you have ideas on how to solve these cultural problems, please let me know.

[1] https://emvi.com/
Hey there HN,

I'm Jieren, creator of SourceScape. SourceScape is a query engine for source code that lets you build up constraints for the code you want to see, much like a SQL query. You can also think of it as a very fast no-code builder for static analysis checks.

Throughout my career, I've always felt that there was this gap in our ability to dig through source code quickly. Text search is good, but very unreliable. Static analysis takes too long to write. I wanted something that could, for example, find all `.create calls from any instance of UserServiceClient` with 100% accuracy, and quickly.

Earlier this year, I was working on a microservices logging migration that took way longer than it should have. The frustrations I encountered on that project around coordination and verification of the migration became the impetus for me to build SourceScape.

Would love to get your thoughts on this.
It's a backdoor way for Google to add more tracking.
The correct response to, "I've got nothing to hide," is a smug, "You definitely have something to hide."

Then the person responds, "What are you talking about?" you say:

"I can post it on Reddit tomorrow if you're serious about this."

Wait a few seconds, then change the subject.
> Nobel Prizes for Medicine out for funny discoveries

Yes, just like they give oscars to pointless movies. Even roman numerals had its fervent defenders.
PEP 3124 – Overloading, Generic Functions, Interfaces, and Adaptation (2007)
Your experiences make sense with such an extreme difference in uses. That said, in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23723331#23724541), cesarb made this point well:

> Abolishing single family zoning does not imply abolishing all zoning.

One can concurrently believe that some zoning is reasonable (or at least that some zoning is much less likely to have unintended effects), and also that single-family is unnecessary. As an easy example, in most jurisdictions single-family excludes duplexes and triplexes. Those don't have any of the problems you described.

SFH zoning is unique because it's so prescriptive about the allowed uses, it covers a huge percentage of residential land
(https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/amid-seatt...), and it has a 75 year head start (current zoning is not what anyone would create anew today). High impact and little room to adapt to the actual market.

(Parking is its own challenge: https://www.vox.com/2014/6/27/5849280/why-free-parking-is-ba.... The root cause is that it's dramatically underpriced, so people have started to treat an extreme subsidy like a right.)
What happens to this metaphor when we crack hydrogen fusion?
The True Cost of Knowledge
Yeah, because malaria isn’t transmissible by breathing...
I think that’s disappointing because there is just so much more value to technology than those things listed previously. For a teenager today, to take it for granted seems disingenuous.
The Last Supper – Attributed to Giampietrino and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
For real. Sometimes people just want to build something and put it out there for the fun of sharing something cool.
Extracting video and audio from used police body cam
You could just buy the neighboring land and only lease it out for purposes you deem acceptable.
Holy crapoly.

The quality (in both senses) of the output given an appropriately constructed prompt is incredible.

I wonder if it's possible to get it to do the opposite of summarizing, ie. give it a plot summary and have it expand it into a fleshed out story that conforms to the summary...
> Google search is infinitely more useful

I can definitely see how it could be more useful, but I don’t agree that the actual factor of this increase in productivity is infinite. Maybe a factor of 3 to 5.
I got to help teach one!

This answer doesn't answer the question that was prompted, but I volunteered for Stanford's Code in Place (introductory CS) and it was kind of amazing getting to be on the other side of the MOOC experience as a TA. I lead 5 assigned class sessions with a small group of people (never more than 10) and held 5 other office hour style sessions as well.

It was a really rewarding experience and I think a lot of people who can volunteer for it should consider doing so if Code in Place continues.
This is probably the (unintentionally) funniest comment I’ve ever seen on this site - you don’t have any coherent understanding of the economics of price controls, so you just go on about Communist China and and the Holocaust. Surely at some level you realize this is embarrassing?

> how can we possibly allow these parasites to live on

Private charity is and always has been more effective than government welfare, although the proponents of government welfare would like you to believe otherwise. With the elimination of the rule against perpetuities in the West, the Waqf model would be a superior solution to what we have now.
I reject that discussion will be inherently flawed without representation. I further submit that representation can cause flaws in discussion.

To use your thought experiment as an example, say if we are critically examining Sumerian religion and their creation myths, we may not want the Sumerians in the room even if they were readily available, since they may well take offense at us disrespecting and dissecting their beliefs. If we are discussing Sumerian religion with Sumerians and we don't want to cause them offense, we would have to tiptoe around the fact their gods well, aren't real, and subjects like "what might have inspired the Sumerians to ascribe this trait to that god" can't be discussed at all.

And to use a example more grounded in reality, a group of men can't have properly conduct a discussion on how to attract women with women in the discussion. I am well aware that this sort of discussion has pejorative connotations with how infamous the PUA community has become, but the fact is that young men do need to social spaces and groups where they can learn this, since it is skill that needs to be learned and practiced.

Or to use an even more absurd example, a group of rape victims can't have a discussion with a rapist, even though the rapist would be able to add their side of the story to the discussion.
The author is British - U.S. partisanship doesn't really affect him, because he can't vote and isn't subject to U.S. laws anyway. This is how the rest of the world sees us.
Although rare, natural nuclear fission reactors are known to have existed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
Also, deaths lag cases.
You still need to be a bit careful, because what you're describing as entropy isn't how much information is in it, but rather how much you didn't already know. Hence random noise has the maximal 'information content' but isn't useful in the slightest.

And really I wouldn't worry too much about finding some mathematical justification for everything. It's an easy way to get caught up in technicalities for something that you already knew.
The court will decide if it is “murder”. The official autopsy shows he didn’t die from asphyxiation, rather a heart attack, likely from a lifetime of drug use.
Everyone should regularly be reminded that Google was caught paying professors to publish papers "friendly" to Google.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/paying-professors-inside-google...

Convincing the public that they are correct is how Google normalized the idea of sharing private information without oversight.
Well, if so they've failed in my case. I've got a customer doing £1m annual turnover on e-commerce, and we were about to start an integration with Algolia. The new pricing has stopped that from going ahead. I've been asked to find an alternative.
BigSpender Exploit in Some Bitcoin Wallets Allows Attackers to Fake Transactions
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Petition to Block the Google+Fitbit Merger
> You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps.

I have lived by those words for many years, but somehow I was never able to find where I had initially read them (yes I tried googling, somehow that quote doesn't show up!)

This works very well, especially if you are involved in research and hobbies in very varied area. For example in running you will learn about interval training - alternating short burst of training interspersed with rest periods. What about using that when training neural networks? How does this map to game design, when you put high intensity on the player for short burst of time? How is it similar with the pomodoro technique? Obviously you end up with many spurious connections but it can light up certain topics in a different light.
He's the founder of Strong Towns: https://www.strongtowns.org/about a non profit advocacy for financial stability in communities. His background is civil engineering.
Ask HN: How do I self learn psychology?
Interesting thought I came across recently : "If you are building a business (which is for humans to use obviously), you'll have an unfair advantage knowing about human psychology"

If I am to start learning about human behaviour, where should I be starting and what path should I be taking?
In my state of Georgia it was the only thing I failed on my driving test (we didn't have driver's ed when I a kid, you just practiced with your parents and then took one test). I yielded and looked but didn't come to a full stop. I remember it took 15 or 25 points off of my score, but since it was the only thing I failed, I still passed the exam.

The things is, I don't remember the written test I took having any content at all about railroad crossings.
https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)30534-8/ful... suggests 66% reduction in mortality with hydroxychloroquine alone and 71% with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. Zinc is not mentioned in the paper.

I’ve informally been following testing and it seems like every paper published against hydroxychloroquine is either not peer reviewed, the data is suspect and unavailable, or are promoted by groups with financial interest in another solution.

Assuming that hydroxychloroquine in fact has no benefit, there also seems to be limited evidence that it causes complications and has been widely used without issue until this pandemic. If me or my family were hospitalized with COVID, I would push hard for immediate hydroxychloroquine treatment along with whatever schedule was prescribed assuming no known contraindications.

If tomorrow a new treatment emerged and had consistently repeatable results described in peer reviewed journals, I’d gladly change my strategy. Screw media and political fear mongering. Show me repeatable statistics.
And the native domain owners end up taking full responsibility for the data liability
> Apple engineers also said last week the company will bolster a free Apple-made tool that uses anonymous, aggregated data to measure whether advertising campaigns are working and that will not trigger the pop-up.
> “Because it’s engineered to not track users, there’s no need to request permission to track,” Brandon Van Ryswyk, an Apple privacy engineer, said in a video session explaining the measurement tool to developers.

There it is. Unless there’s a process that other companies can follow to certify that their solutions don’t track users and get same treatment, then in the end it’s about Apple trying to force themselves as player in the ads business.

It’s well known playbook as they’re similarly forcing themselves into identity business, with new logging requirements.
> Neither of those people is anti-trans except according to a narrowly doctrinaire definition.

They certainly aren't "pro" trans either, though. The point wasn't whether or not they were extremists, it's whether they were representative speakers for ALL the relevant perspectives. And they clearly aren't.
Hm yes and no. They are quite similar, but I would say a Zettelkasten is focused on connections rather than the "articles" itself. Cards probably won't contain as much information as a fully fledged article. I wrote about it here: https://emvi.com/blog/luhmanns-zettelkasten-a-productivity-t...
But then wouldn't more people in Tokyo be catching the virus because they're taking a train where they're in close poorly-ventilated proximity to a lot of other people?

But instead, we're seeing their case load actually stay fairly reasonable compared to NYC or Berlin, where there's more car usage.
For teams in different time zones
This always baffled me -- when Guava came on the scene, and when Spring also adopted annotations...

The whole original point of dependency injection was to decouple dependency management from the code, to make it easier to test, and easier to reason about and analyze.

DI via annotations goes ahead and sticks them right back in there. And now we have, like you say, magic code that is difficult to reasona bout.

XML sucked, but annotations sucked more.
State of the art is always open source in MT.
If this topic interested you, it may also be worth reading Leo Breiman’s “Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures” from 2001. https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ss/100921372...
Well, it's easy.
But that goes for any map.

Maps are, by definition, outdated. They will have mistakes. They will have abstractions of our messy world that go awry at some point.

OSM is in some areas by far the most accurate and up-to-date source (which is als othe reason why for several areas, both Bing maps and Apple maps use OSM as source). In others it is not.

I often give talks about OSM and always use this: "Google, for example, wants to make profit, their maps are just another canvas to put ads on. This is not bad. But it does mean, that in places (I pull open a map of Tjad where Google maps show large areas of Nothing; Tjad, is a lot of nothing -sand, really- but it is obvious Google has no interest in making that map anything good) where there is no money to be made, Google won't drive around with streetview cars, they won't buy datasets to merge, and they won't spend effort improving or validating the maps there."
This bit "Thermodynamic theories served a society committed to laissez-faire competition." is just ... I don't know where to begin. Of course it inevitably leads into the idea that if we had just thought differently about the "sense of energy" and whatnot, things would be different. It has the ominous hint of Irigaray's bit about E=mc^2 being sexist because it "privileges" the speed of light ...

No, physics is always there, and it doesn't matter if the original science was done by cutthroat capitalists or gulag-exiling communists. If you want a decent sociological perspective of the realities of physics, I would instead suggest building on just how uncomfortable a given reality seems to make some, everything else is window dressing and justifications.
I guess the developer for that standardized test website didn’t see that one coming... a bunch of teenagers submitting their work using iPhones
I get what you are saying but I also think the parent has a point, if it was that easy to do an end run around the scanning (accidentally or otherwise) then it's not really suitable for auditing external parties. For your internal teams you can probably have some level of confidence they will fix it in good faith.
Is it possible your friends searched you up?
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No, there are people you could save for a couple dollars a day. It won't affect your life either.

It's the exact same thing. You're continuing with the hypocrisy.

When you can answer honestly why you don't do that, you'll have an idea why the super rich also don't do that. There's not just one reason, and maybe the answer makes you uncomfortable when you weigh your justifications against the value of a human life. But it is what it is.
CodePath used to be an amazing resource. They had some of the best guides out there. It went beyond books and delved into practical libraries used in the real-world. I wish those guides were up to date :(
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That could very well be true. Do you have any data to back up your initial hypothesis?
> the CDC apparatus for discovering and reporting such outbreaks

What reporting?
>A fun thought experiment is someone "encrypting" chemical energy into heat, putting the key in a box, only to later go back and decrypt it back into chemical energy.

Unfortunately, I think it's less like encryption and more like compression. And it's actually less like compression and more like deletion. It's impossible to compress information past a certain point (right?), and the amount left in heat seems like it's just been outright deleted.

The Universe wants to debloat its codebase of information: https://youtu.be/8N1BxHgsoOw?t=119
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