skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing that compares to using your preferred text editor to write personal knowledge documents like this. I swapped over to [Foam](https://foambubble.github.io/foam/) in VSCode recently when it was released, and it's like a breath of fresh air. I can use my keyboard shortcuts, extensions, and snippets. Nothing else can compare.
I suspect that age has something to do with it (and he even alluded to that in his last point)

Lots of great scientists are not recognized until the body of their work has had enough time to be recognized and stand out.

so known "great scientists" are old or gone, but maybe we are surrounded by future great scientists but only notice the youtubers.
Nick Knight on Designing Kanye West's Yeezy Supply Website
This is how old air-to-air missiles worked. They would steer until the image of the target stopped moving. This was something simple enough that you could make it work electronically in the 1960s.
If you want discussion, look at regional mail lists, perhaps, if the UK one is anything to go by. I don't share that impression of the data in the UK.
It's not that. Wikipedia, for example, has a separate "pages that link to this" view.

What makes Roam Research different is "block addressing", i.e. you can get a reference to a single paragraph and use it in other docs (either referencing it or embedding it).

(and of course a nice UX for editing)
It looks like a large percentage of the trial patients had a high BMI. This indicates to me that high BMI is a factor in severity of this pathogen.

Those given HCQ alone had 78.9% steroid administration, whereas those given neither med had only 35.7%

The two best combos had a larger percentage of steroid administration. HCQ alone had woderful results. I think it is statistically significant. I just wonder how much steroids played into it.
> 80% of the world population lives in the northern hemisphere where the flu season is pretty much over and covid with it.

The most cursory glance at the case numbers proves this wrong. Look at Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Portugal, Romania...

> And remember that the average age on the planet is only 29, and for people under 50 covid19 is no more dangerous than a regular flu.

Except it is, very much.

Stop spewing this bullshit, please.
I hadn't seen that "sanity check" and "dummy value" were being replaced too until I see this comment. I am _dumbfounded_.

But I suppose we will have to replace that word too.

Jfc.
I've tried it. I do like the built-in features, but the design makes me despise it.

It doesn't follow any system preferences, even replacing the standard minimize/maximize/close buttons (seriously, why?). Some of the stuff should definitely be a plugin instead of a core feature. Don't need a pomodoro timer / readability feature? Tough luck, you can't even remove it from the interface, let alone remove it completely.

There's also no plugin support, so you can't extend the features in any way.

I'm using Obsidian[0] instead. A little rough around the edges, but it doesn't have these issues.

[0] https://obsidian.md/
This is just the official airport tax that is normally included in your airline ticket price for most other airports/countries.
It's cash only, and they'll gladly accept major foreign currencies at greatly inflated rates if you're caught unaware: https://www.clark-airport.com/
I get that people are reacting to companies that are saying they only consider people with side-project portfolios. Yes, that's terrible. But the pendulum-swing reaction to say "side project shouldn't matter" is just as bad, maybe even worse. People who talk about "side projects shouldn't be a consideration" don't know what they are asking for. They have either forgotten or never experienced the history of why side projects are considered in the interviewing process today. To ask for side projects to not be a part of the hiring decision process is to ask to set back hiring by at least 15 years. Do you think the tech industry was more equitable 15 years ago?

Considering side projects came about when people like me got our turn at being hiring managers. When we were first entering the industry, we got told explicitly that our side projects didn't matter, that the only experience that mattered was professional experience. We could prove we could do the job and we still were being told we would not be considered for the job. We started considering side projects specifically to be more equitable in hiring.

I grew up in a rural town. I went to a local, state college. I graduated in the top of my class in Computer Science and I still couldn't get a job in programming out of college. I didn't have a dad at Microsoft to get me a prestigious internship. I didn't have a prestigious school behind my name and our school "only" did Java and the local companies "only" did .NET. I had been programming in .NET for 2 years by that point, but it wasn't going to be considered because it wasn't professional experience.

The only job I could get was entry-level QA. You didn't even need a degree to get the job. I had to beg to get commit access to the repo to prove I could fix the bugs that I identified. That was the only way I was able to get into programming back then.

I spent 10 years doing web and database development at consulting companies. I hated it. Consulting might be fine for some, but I can't stand it. I tried for years to get out of it, only to be told that my experience in consulting didn't matter, I had never worked in product development and it was supposedly "soooo different" that nobody could take a chance on me. The only way I was able to get out of it was... to start a side project. I built a VR project that got me a small amount of internet fame. Now, 5 years later, with 15 years of professional programming experience, and 20 years of side-project experience, I'm the head of VR at a company.

When you say that side projects shouldn't be a consideration, you're not asking for more people to get interviews. You're asking for fewer. The only people who are going to get interviews in that scenario are folks who went to prestigious schools. All the people drawing up barista-cum-coding-bootcamp-grads-who-don't-have-the-time-to-feed-themselves-and-work-side-projects-at-the-same-time archetypes: those people aren't going to get interviews. The only chance they have is to dig deep, build a portfolio, and hope they run into a company that is progressive enough to look past the lack of credentials.
Nice. This is how I prefer ads to be done. Relevant, unobtrusive, useful, timely, and not in your face.
> Are they useful to humans?

No, probably not. I'm sure they are just giving Nobel Prizes for Medicine out for funny discoveries rather than for findings that form the basis of most of our current and future medicine.

> Could they be done without testing?

Sure they could! But scientists just love to make animals suffer!
I'd say thermodynamics and entropy describe the woes of our time quite well: Ecologically, we've seen that releasing sequestered carbon into the atmosphere in order to extract its stored energy is a form of entropy that leads to a low energy state which it takes a lot of energy to undo. It's like we've rolled a rock down from the top of a mountain, only to realize how difficult it is to get it back up, how long it had taken for nature to build up all that potential energy over aeons. And economically, we're seeing that capitalism itself seems to be a process of entropy, moving us toward low-energy states with wealth concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer, much like stars forming from cosmic dust creating gravity wells into which other material becomes more and more likely to fall. Not to mention between tax havens and transfer pricing, we seem to be waking to the fact that our economic system is not a closed system, but is slowly getting the fuel siphoned out of it.
You haven't done a "warmed up" version of benchmarks game — so you don't know how much or how little difference it would make for those tiny tiny programs.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
You have time to do side projects outside FT employment? Does that mean you either have no life, or were not working hard enough for your current employer. That's how it's interpreted.
Is Your State Doing Enough Coronavirus Testing to Suppress Its Outbreak?
Indeed, a lot is due to PostGIS. I'm using mimirsbrunn[1] a lot, lately, with Elasticsearch as storage; especially because it is fast. It does lack a processor that listens to changesets and imports those, though; so I still need to run a nightly rebuild of the entire database.

Thanks for pointing me to your StateOfTheMap session. I'll "attend" it for sure.

[1] https://github.com/CanalTP/mimirsbrunn
Show HN: Draw/Animate directly in the browser at DrawPool.com
Potentially!

Looks cumbersome to set up for iOS, tho: https://www.reddit.com/r/Syncthing/comments/ese82l/ios_users...
Absolutely right. I can't believe you're being downvoted for. Haven't people driven on rumble strips before? The note is dependent on your speed and how far apart they are spaced. Change your speed and it'll change the note, but it won't affect the relative distance between the various notes.
Yeah, wondering about this as well ?! I get the advantages of privacy but maybe there is something in the middle? Opt-in?
How do you explain the spike in cases among 20-29 in MN right after the protests[1]? You can call me stupid all you like, but the data speaks for itself. Even Fauci referred to protests as having the "perfect set-up" conditions for hotspot spreading to take place[2].

The next step is to ask yourself why no similar spike in cases happened after protests in NY or Paris, even though they also had this "perfect set-up" for spreading.

1: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ebpl1DVU0AAPHMs?format=jpg&name=...

2: https://www.businessinsider.nl/dr-fauci-protests-perfect-set...
Reminds me of this store:

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
What's Wrong with Timezones? You
Many companies that monitor also prevent running ad-hoc excutables.
In your scenario Walmart wouldn't allow Target's customers to park in their lot.

Target would have to weigh the costs/benefits and decide if they wanted their own lot. In some locations that decision might be no or a small lot. But they can't choose that because it's against the law.
The issue is not neatly divided into one of puritanism vs sexual license. In just the same way that a segment of the lesbian and gay community is hostile toward transsexual and bisexual and asexual individuals, and certain feminists have issues or not with transsexuals, etc, the divisions are far more multifaceted. In this case, we're discoursing on the usage of words in or out of context, or, more accurately, that to some there is only a singular context. Under such strictures, it is impossible to succeed in asking for nuance around the idea (or image) of a woman being tied up and hit.

And going by the best barometer of these things (that of its portrayal in publicly broadcast material) transsexuals and gays and lesbians have a measure of the normative. Such a thing cannot be said for BDSM. Outside of specialized media, it is almost universally coded in the negative. Here, we should not confuse popularity with the non-negative. The prime example is 50 Shades of Grey, a piece of media that can exist because it is fundamentally founded upon the notion of the 'brokenness' of such a state and practices, the narrative thrust all leading to the eventual redemption and healing of the protagonist, allowing the audience the titillation of the 'naughty thing', all while safely packing it away as being 'wrong' and always having been so.
Sure, at 450MPH all bets are off on the high notes, but rumble strips don't suddenly stop making noise when you drive 90 MPH.
Not a second surge in the US. The first one never let up.
Are there similar channels for software engineering? I'm aware of Engineering Man, other than that?
This reminded me of an article I read about "dachas" in Russia, which are basically allotted garden plots with a small house that tons of every-day Russians have.[0]

Combined with plentiful public transit, remote work, good community layouts,etc, I think the ideal living conditions for people would be something like this. Low density housing, not made up of McMansions and chemical soaked lawns, but of space where people can connect with nature, enjoy the land side by side with neighbors and family.

[0]https://www.notechmagazine.com/2020/03/a-dacha-for-everyone-...
Not an AI in a publicly available release that can be obtained by Joe consumer.

Supposedly the development versions we the general public can’t get yet are getting pretty good and would meet your “most of the time” bar on public roads.

But we don’t really know how good AI is at any given moment, because those that are leading in any AI area sometimes have reasons for not telling yet. Or because we don’t believe them when they do tell us.
Social media corporations make millions and billions by catering to manipulate - and often darn right evil - advertiser needs, spying and tracking users for them. And then they want to be all moral by playing identity politics and excising inappropriate language.

This sounds like an attempt to divert the public attention during the Corona + police violence crises the US is currently undergoing.

... and all of this is not to say what I think about the use of these terms. I'm of two minds about that actually.
> Your macbook won't be able to import `planet.pbf` in any reasonable time (think: weeks)

I guess it depends on specs. I recently did it, importing planet.pbf into this PostGis docker image [1]. It took 44 hours and consumed ~750GB of disk.

OS: Ubuntu 20.04

CPU: Intel i7-8550U

RAM: 16GB

1. https://hub.docker.com/r/postgis/postgis
How much of this sort of thing (including the hiding/removing of "problematic" TV/films) is being done/encouraged to draw attention away from the defund the police/better social services message?

Making BLM seem asinine looks like a fairly easy/standard psyop move.
again, gwern writes the longest guide in the world about something
And again, I think you're just fooling yourself. The people you label as "partisans" are not a representative sample. What you're really doing, whether you realize it or not, is pushing out, not the people who "disagree most strongly", but the people who "disagree most strongly with you".

Those people in the wonderful spaces who disagree with you on pretty major issues and cause you to change your mind to some degree?

Those are just the people you're willing to listen to.
"Fun facts:
- We hit every documented hardware bug on OCS in this demo more than once

- The song can’t fit in chip memory all at once (the module is 559K in size)

- We built so much tooling for this demo that it is kind of ridiculous: a register allocating assembler, a new linker, an emulator version with memory protection and instruction level trace profiling, the scene packing tools,.. will be looking to release some of them later"

Impressive stuff!

I was a PC guy, so wasn't familiar with the Amiga scene much. But when I saw Jizz[1] and Stash[2] they blew me away for 64k demos. Of course helped that I was really into goa trance at the time, but still, how had they managed to fit all that into 64k?!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXgseVYvhek

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjiY-TM_3Ns
And we have taken unprecedented major steps to stop the spread of Covid-19. TB and malaria do not have the entire world economy grinding to a halt every year to stop them. Covid-19 statistics can't really be equally compared to other diseases in other years because the response is completely different.
Do tell if you find this has any advantage over Org mode.
Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History
Indeed, we have a disagreement there. I consider the rationalist truth-over-everything-else philosophy to be profoundly, deeply unjust and immoral.
CVE-2020-9771 – mount_apfs TCC bypass and privilege escalation
Presumably the android keyboard market is quite a mature one to enter. People are either stuck in their ways and use the same keyboard they always have or just use the stock samsung / google one that comes with the phone. Plus, having to tediously type a reply to someone when learning the new layout seems like a quick way for someone to uninstall the app...

I do like the swipe to edit / delete feature though.
Ideally we'll get to a point where there is a really well produced course on everything such that new courses will only be required for entirely new fields.

I was commenting to a friend the other day that it's insane that we hire 1000s of teachers to teach roughly the same math class 2x per year for 40 years. Instead I'd rather a fraction of those make a truly fantastic video course and then the remaining fraction could be hands on helpers/instructors for those who need help. This is kind of khan academy, but I'd like to see that happen in the public school system.
lol, care to share what kind of statistics you are looking at?
"guys" is literally literally defined in the dictionary[1] as:

> used to address a group of people of either sex:
>Come on, you guys, let's go.

[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/guy
Another example of a virtue signaling disguised as criticism of virtue signaling.
>I don't want to have PIA planes crashing into others or falling on my head.

Even with sleeping pilots, you still are order of magnitude more likely to die by a car than by a plane.
Good points, especially point 1. About the second part here - I remember seeing a (rather creative) guy post a personal project based on that, on here, a few days ago. He wrote a comprehensive post about his addon which aims to remembers exactly in which context has a user encountered said article/author/keyword in the past. I'll see if I can link it.

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quick update, found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23668507
One professor of mine talked about the LPU, the least publishable unit that is sufficient for a paper.

Even has a wikipedia page, which also mentions "salami publishing"...:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_publishable_unit
In the US, the blame is still on slavery for black's underachievement.
Whether buildings are mapped, and in what detail, just depends on the area; detailed mapping definitely isn't confined to London. The main utility of mapping buildings for navigation might be to tag them with postcodes, even if that's not ideal. Roads are typically at least as accurate as OS OpenData where I've looked.
Google can't even meet their own metrics. The Gmail landing page gets a PageSpeed score of 24.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...
I've recently started using GitJournal [1] to access my notes on Android, but I haven't used it enough to be able to say whether it's worthwhile. One annoying drawback is that it requires a monthly subscription to get access to all of the (convenience) features.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.gitjournal....
Yeah, a guy upstairs from me was on a path to get an MD and a PhD in microbiology, I think he was majoring in something else as well. Unusual, but it exists. Some people really like being students.
I'm not disagreeing with you but where's the frontier between "pattern matching" and "intelligence"?

I also think human intelligence and creativity will always be judged by other humans as _better_, more genuine - as long as the judges can trust that given creation was lead by a human.

Among creative types "derivative" is a derogatory label used frequently. "Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal" also has an implication that regardless of what else an artist/creator does: pattern matching is a big part of that process.
RUMINATING!

I just watched a bunch of Marvin Minsky lectures about his theory of the Society of Mind. One of his early questions was (paraphrased) "With all these words for emotions where are the words for thinking?" He eventually popped the ones he'd found up on the board. And, of course, I sketched up some of my own. But nowhere in either of those lists was the quite apropos reference to how a whole swath of unrelated mammals have come to solve the process of digestion of rough food material. And, if we consider thoughts, ideas, and problems to be rough material then I think the word works perfectly.

I'd heard of Feynman's process, but for some reason never thought to assign it this very appropriate word. Thanks for the inspiration and reminder. Best of luck on the game! Please Show HN when you can share it. :)
Peter Thiel is reportedly abandoning the president's reelection campaign
Just for completeness $10/year from every taxpayer is $1.43B/year from one billionaire. So the problem of $10 being unaffordable to some is easily handled.
OSM is a really cool idea, and a fantastic dataset! For people curious about what it's like to use OSM in a huge company, a couple engineers from facebook were recently on a podcast discussing it: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/04/17/facebook-ope...

Some interesting tidbits: FB are hyper-conscious of "graffiti-edits" that can sometimes sneak into OSM, so they built a system to self-host the OSM data, which periodically and selectively merges chunks of data from upstream, using fancy algorithms to flag "suspicious" edits upstream.
I think given the context of this thread, it’s fair to mention that there are plenty on the internet who use that kind of rhetoric to invalidate any out-group opinions they don’t like. Not everyone of course, but it happens. These are some of the conversations that are lacking nuance. Sometimes the out-group has something to offer. Sometimes you just need to make them feel heard before you explain to them what they’re not getting. It’s about having the conversation. Why should anyone listen to someone if they don’t get the same respect back?
> Perhaps a community forking system can serve as a countermeasure to network effects.

This type of innovation is exactly why i dont buy into the idea that some reasonable middle ground can be had by industry self moderation and that that is the best we can do.

Its not. There is a better way to do this, weve been lazy. Force facebook to allow free speech, they will figure out a new way to keep people happy. Forking communities along issues is a great idea, not without bubbling problems but it solves the "i dont want loke seeing this" problem.

Its still could be construed as censorship but only if its not optoutable for the consumers.
If it becomes well known that it is a racist symbol, the people who were unaware will abandon it. Then all that will be left is the racists.
Noah’s Heart: Game Dengan Open World Yang Sangat Luas
+1, this all day, over Linux phones with dubious security models/hardware switches that just delay exfiltration if it's going to happen on a non-verified boot device.
Managers always have a means of gauging progress: asking the people doing the work.
I’d try and confirm that but the UX on Prime Video is so bad I can never tell what’s actually exists on the platform
Just no. Your ability to enjoy your land is you ability to enjoy the land around it. You want like for like in your neighborhood and don't expect sudden radical change. You don't want an apt complex right next door to your expensive house. I didn't pay the premium for that and suddenly don't want it invading my neighborhood. Zoning enforces consistency and if it sounds snobby then it probably is. People get tired of dealing with neighbors and the dramas and want space by moving to such zoned locations. They don't want to deal with new issues after the fact, either.
Wow, I had this exact idea just the other day. Letter writing is such an ideal format for nuanced discussion, particularly as it conveys the personal perspective and human element behind one’s ideas. Congrats on making it real.

I will consider signing up, but I strongly resist using my own image as avatar, despite using my real name. Is there nuance to your policy there?

Lastly, your site is not well mobile optimized (iphone SE). The left menu should be collapsed or wrapped vertically inline.