skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Apple Notes and would use it if it did not have the following limitations:

- You cannot link between notes like a wiki (like Evernotes evernote://$note-guid)

- You cannot export all your notes in a standardised format.

- You cannot store notebooks in specific offline only encrypted disk images for privacy.

- Cannot change background (must use paper emulation)
GoDBledger – open-source central server for all your financial transactions
> if something isn't valuable in some way then you don't get paid for it

They say "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." Naturally that's a sword that cuts two ways -- many "correct" early Wirecard short-sellers lost money, but also many "incorrect" Wirecard bulls got rich on its rise. The weighing machine can take a long time to do its job, and in the meantime a lot of wealth destruction can take place.

Not that I think there's a better solution, just that the system is imperfect and is improved by many of the baseline regulatory functions of government. Government isn't all a money-pit :p
“Irresponsible” hydroxychloroquine study is not being retracted
Browsersync-saving synchronised browser testing
It's not really a question of values because depending on what the actual death rate actually is, you can make informed objectionable decisions based off of it that two rational people with different values should agree upon. For example, if you determined that the risk of death from Covid was less than the risk of death from driving in a year, than I would argue that you should accept that risk if you're okay with driving.

Basically, in order to be rational, you should be willing to accept the risk of dying from Covid if it is less than something else you do that is more risky on a daily basis. So the idea that it is a question of morality and differing opinions of N and M isn't really accurate. It's also why we compare death rates from Covid to Influenza and other diseases because we need to understand just how big of a risk to society it actually is to properly weigh our response.
I have to agree with this. I was on Notion for a while, and I've tried every other app out there, but found I was wasting too much time thinking about the structure and features instead of the content.

I've gone back back to Apple's Notes and other native apps (Mail, Calendar). Yes, these apps are not perfect. Undoubtedly there are things other apps do better. But they fade into the background, they're simple and unassuming. They integrate into the OS well, are private, and will be around as long as Apple.
There used to be a number of funny videos in one of the earlier worms versions that I haven't seen since.

I found them on YouTube now that I started looking for them, but I've been missing them from my Worms game (on steam) :-)

For anyone wondering: here they are: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wV5AFxEnuBo

I think I first saw them in 1998 or something.
In principle it’s not too far fetched ... there’s almost certainly some kind of data-driven algorithmic processing going into a lot of speech writing these days; some of the drops are so implausible they’d almost certainly have to have been suggested by a machine!
While true, there is a reason that the GLSL standard includes builtin data types for matnxm for all n,m in {2, 3, 4}. The single most common matrix operations in computer graphics are related to linear transforms on color spaces and geometry. Both of those max out at transforms on 4D vectors, for RGBA and 3D projective geometry.
Valve had the same problem people there are free to join or start any project they like but it just resulted in projects being started but being scrapped half way through
Yeah :-) I kept it as a neat hack for selling lead from a shipwreck that had paid for itself by selling off the gold and other bits, and the salvage operator was effectively eeking out a few more bucks from the geek crowd :-).
On a tour of a London they mentioned that everyone wanted Wren to design (build?) their churches after the fire. There were too many to manage, so he made them a bargain: church first, steeples after all the churches are done.
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17100626

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11058500
Write.as – A Place for Focused Writing
Great. None of these do anything for the real problem: Cobalt-60.
Identifying a problem and offering a solution is very different things. The latter might not fit the scope of the book. Another reason is that if one doesn't offer a comprehensive solution, but rather a shallow one, too many people will just shut-off and discard it as utopian "anti-capitalist" or "socialist".

The weird thing is that this usually makes people throw out both the diagnosis and the proposed solution, even if the former is accurate.
Small Basic Parser with F# and FParsec
Yeah they’re typically mimicking a style of speaking that they’ve heard other people use but don’t really understand the subject matter themselves ...
re: rooting, another anecdote there -- grapes have traditionally been dormant grafted and rooted vertical. But some people I know in the grapebreeding community have had more success recently with horizontal cuttings; at least for green cuttings, more experimentation required for dormant hardwood. In any case, a massive difference in terms of the amount of new root material produced.

And this makes sense when you think of how a grape would naturally clone itself in the wild (which they do, like _crazy_); they'll layer along the ground and send down roots from a horizontal shoot. So they're likely some kind of dominance for roots in that formation. We may have been propagating grapes wrong for 2000+ years :-)
I'd really like to think that the "West" will survive. Yet, part of me has a hard time shaking the feeling that we're all living in a period of decline.

I think about the world my parents and grandparents grew up in, and then I think about what life is going to be like in the next 50 years (I'm in my mid 20s) and it makes me anxious.

The only bright spot about Covid is that it rapidly accelerated social changes (work form home) and gave people time to think about the kind of society they want to have.
Correct, which is why I'd like to see this same analysis redone once social distancing is relaxed and the situation on the ground (e.g. in Seattle/Portland) stabilizes, but people are still working from home.
Wasn't there a Doug Llywelyn on the show, The People's Court? Any of us who saw daytime TV in the 1980's know how to pronounce it..
That's more like it. Actually, I've just checked and my ISP here in Portugal (MEO) is now offering 1Gbit down / 200Mbit up, no caps, 1 month minimum contract length for €45.99 (... seems I need to move package!).
MapFight: Compare sizes of two geographical areas
I might be totally misunderstanding the IPO process, but as the company, I sell,
say, 100 shares at $10 at 9:00 AM Eastern of the first day. At the end of the trading day at 5:00 pm Eastern, for my balance sheet, it doesn't matter what the share price is, up or down; I've made $1,000 from that initial sale. There are follow-on effects to the company when more shares some time later, but the amount my hypothetical IPO raised is limited to the $1,000 at the start of the day.
Our cost of living is so high we cannot afford to not make money to pay to others. That's why.
> This shouldn't be surprising to people. The NBA has a bigger fanbase in China than in the USA.

I disagree. The size of the fanbase is surprising, and so is the implication of this behaviour
My bank does allow setting a per transaction limit, but nothing on a daily or weekly basis from what I can see. I agree it would be a great feature for controlling spending, or for setting reasonable limits for kids and teens.
“Doesn’t matter, I’m in government”
But all research relies on massive banks of publicly funded research so the cost of research was already paid for by tax payers.
This website appears to be a (not very subtle) collection of dogwhistles masquerading as historiography.

From the "Introduction to Metasophism"[1]:

> The above proposals may seem sweeping, but we are only getting started. Particularly concerning is European demographics arising from low fertility and deepening social divisions. A society is beginning to divide along ethnic lines is one where any debate will be tribal; higher ideals such as discovering the meaning of life will be ignored. Ethnic issues must therefore be de-dramatised. The Fellowship programme described earlier would help unify society by engaging diverse groups in common tasks.

> But we must go further: to dispel ethnic tensions within Europe, asylum-related migration needs to be limited. Chapter Nine therefore discusses a way of doing this that would prevent further asylum immigration while ensuring that migrants would have prosperity and security. The central idea is to rent a small amount of land on the coast of Africa for one century, give it a basic constitution and access to EU markets, and ensure legal and physical security. Such an area would become an attractive place for investment, thus providing jobs for migrants.

[1]: https://www.themetasophist.com/chapter/introduction
Show HN: Tax, the CLI Task List
Time to undust my zooka and go back playing some Shopper and Roper
Sorry, I mostly meant the VM/platform, not the Erlang language. I assume it'll give all the great features like process trees (with dependencies), introspection, logging, discoverability and other tools that make it great for distributed programming.
I think they removed that before going on their woke crusade, because they figured it is actually too vague. Different people consider different things evil.

But for individuals, I think it is still an OK choice to make to not work for companies they personally consider evil.
Families Take on Rare Diseases
> ps: It would be nice to run QuickJS in a WASM runtime

Not sure if it helps, but I did that some time ago, with minor QuickJS patching: https://github.com/saghul/wasi-lab/tree/master/qjs-wasi
> Apparently there is a condition people who have sinus surgery get which is very similar but I have avoided making it worse by researching it.

Yeah, here's the wikipedia page for that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_nose_syndrome
I feel bad for the parent, who took responsibility and admitted fault. I don’t see why Twitch can’t undo the transactions, which were clearly fraudulent.
My great-grandparents lived in an era before the car. They lived through seeing cars, planes, and finally moon landings. The internet is the crowning achievement of this age, but that also means that in a way physical achievements have lost their focus and luster - that doesn’t mean they haven’t existed.
The problem eventually seems to boil down to this: 'if you don't make stuff, then there is no stuff' (E. Musk)

And there are less and less incentives to contribute in making / selling things vs. just making more money out of money for a living.

It's an important debate that the MM is trying to facilitate. And actually quite a good historic recap of the term value over time.

But while the finance economy 'feels morally wrong' (especially when being on the loser side), that doesn't make for a convincing argument yet.
Huh, TIL.
I always assumed this to be a rather old instruction, but turns out it was only added fairly recently on x86

https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2019/09/08/popcount/
Cisco Fires Workers for Racial Comments During Diveristy Forum
How?

They get seized at worst, you get a reship. Nobody cares about it as long as you aren't getting 50+ for resale.
I was remote before this, and while I was a little light on hours at first, since the pandemic it’s been creeping up. At this point I figure that we are even, but I’m starting to feel a bit of burnout so I need to work on better work hygiene.
Xbox Live Gold Has Killed Off Yearly Subscriptions on Website
Being on call sucks, clearly. But, the benefit of engineers oncall for their code is that it makes a pretty effective feedback loop --- the person who breaks the thing fixes the thing, and learns to break the thing less often, or to break it earlier in the business day so as not to ruin their evening, or to make it run better in degraded modes so it's ok to be broken for longer and alerts can be acknowledged amd dealt with later.

I like working in small teams because there's less required communication. Having the oncall be the engineer means the oncall doesn't have to communicate with the engineer, they're always up to date because it's one person (subject to sleep deprevation issues).

It's certainly not good for work/life balance though. Some production issues are unavoidable, automation for the common ones can help.

Edit to add: if you're oncall and your alerts are mostly because your dependencies are bad at their job, and you aren't empowered to do anything about that; having the engineer oncall isn't useful. It's only useful if the engineer is in a place to make changes to reduce future alerts.
Brian Kernighan: Unix, C, Awk, AMPL, and Go Programming – AI Podcast #109
Can you believe Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrig's Disease
Yes. The demand for low background steel and lead is in the few dozen tons per year max, not millions of tons per year. Salvaging it is probably at least an order of magnitude cheaper than making new low background steel once you realize the amount of hassle involved. Furthermore, it's fairly easily recycled if you're not launching it into space (which is a common use case for the stuff, since building space probes to study the cosmic background is all the rage these days).
>In the general sense, is out-of-distribution learning even possible?

Yes. Humans can learn to answer questions even when questions (test cases) don't come from the same distribution as the training set.

You need to have some amount of analytical capabilities. Analytic as the ability to form distinct and modular concepts from the input and form representations that can be composed together to generate instances that don't exist in the distribution. The low-level example of this ability could be blind source separation.
Peter Turchin Misrepresents Research
One could try fr33h0ng|<0ng
"Much more than 2% can achieve a 130 IQ score by preparing for the questions and taking sample tests."

Somebody better tell the "IQ measures innate intelligence" people.
Mass Effect 1 spent a huge portion of its attention on world building. And I agree, it's an outstanding achievement. Mass Effect's world is a very compelling place.

But by the time you get to Mass Effect 2, that world is already built. So ME2 instead spends its time telling a more contained story in that world. It's a valid choice, even if not your cup of tea.

ME2's story works because it's a relatively well executed Seven Samurai-style plot. We've seen this story many times before. It's a classic. Sci-fi stuff threatens the galaxy, assemble the crew, watch them love/hate each other through tough challenges, some don't make it through the epic conclusion, etc. Standard. For a lot of people, it's fun to relive those story beats in an interesting new world (Mass Effect) in a novel format (video games).

I think of ME2 as a smart and enduring example of video game writing craft. They were juggling a lot of different requirements: player choices affecting the story (including from the first game); a huge, complicated new setting; making the story accessible to new players without needing to play the first game; developing interesting characters; supporting multiple protagonists (male/female, paragon/renegade) and varied character interactions based on those attributes; supporting high production values (all lines voiced by real actors); fast development timeline; on and on. Hanging all of that on a familiar plot structure probably brought a lot of structure to what was otherwise a pretty chaotic project. Furthermore, what ME2 does better than other games in the series is let characters drive the action, rather than dragging characters from event to event. The writers did an amazing job on ME2 in context.
Which is why millionaire players and coaches are absolutely mute (or are muted) on any China issue, or claim that the issue is complicated.

I think it's healthy to remind people, from time to time, how Hollywod (e.g. Tencent), the NBA, and other American institutions have sold themselves to CCP money.
Detecting Compatibility Issues with the Java SE API
The period when Spengler published his work (1918 and 1922) was a period of deep pessimism for obvious reasons.

At that time, the Baroque era was actually pretty close, less than 200 years ago.

The medieval era, while atrocious in the aspects you mention, was also the start of the liberation of cities and the beginning of some sort of "somewhat free" commerce.

So it does not surprise me that he'd name it the spring. After all, the spring is not an all-pleasant season.

What does surprise me is that German romanticism in the 19th century would already fall in the winter period. But I suspect that he blames Marx, the revolutions of 1848 for the decline and ignores the staggering achievements in art, literature, mathematics and physics in that era.
It might have been PC Gamer [1] magazine. I had both Worms Armageddon and Age of Empires II in the late '90s, and I remember some copies of this magazine lying around. I think this magazine would come with demo CDs pretty often.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Gamer
If Doctors Can't Cure Your Cancer, Maybe You Can
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03819
Such protocols would first have to exist. Freenet is mentioned and that's it.
I really wish that had gone a bit further. Alan Kay's ideas are always intriguing but, to me, it feels like he presents them too vaguely and people just end up arguing weather the thing they did based on his idea is inline with his real point. If he replies to those questions at all, it's with some more thought-provoking, but still vague, stuff. Maybe that's the point, keep people thinking and questioning without giving a definitive, authoritative answer?
>I phrased it this way just to trigger you.

This is unfriendly.

>If they feel offended by words they probably don't belong outside the house.

I'm afraid that with this you move from "tone-deaf" to "overtly sexist".
If you haven't seen it, watch Ex Machina. I don't want to give away anything but it covers that kind of idea.
Not so much you might, but you most likely would have used Baker's chocolate: Mr. German, the baker/chocolatier, worked for Baker's chocolate when he invented his dark chocolate formulation, and German's chocolate was sold under the Baker's Chocolate brand. All this took place over 150 yrs ago.

The cake made from German's chocolate was invented by a housewife in the 1950's and the recipe published in a newspaper; General Foods, by then the owner of Bakers, took notice and started to include the recipe in its packaging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_chocolate_cake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Baker_%26_Company
Yeah, but some details are literally unchangeable, that's a part of how we know there was only single abiogenesis on Earth.
GitHub buries 21 TB open-source code in Arctic vault for 1k years
Sadly, I find myself thinking similar paranoiac thoughts simply talking in person at home. We have a number of devices with microphones, and when friends visit, they bring their own devices with who knows what kind of untrustworthy apps (looking at you, Facebook!).

Sure, we're normal citizens with "nothing to hide" - but I've become wary of any possible channel of data collection, regardless of whether the end consumers are private parties or state agencies.

It's dystopian, that I'm having to consciously censor my speech in case anyone is listening. Same with HN - I doubt my comments are of any value to outsiders, but it's possible that someone will associate my real-life identity with this online account, and dig through (i.e., put the data through some extractive process) to assign various values, for unknown consumers - probably advertisers, but maybe even some "good citizen index".

Thankfully I live in the EU (oops, another data point leaked), where there's at least some level of privacy protected by law.
No, that isn't what I'm saying at all. What I'm saying that the level of trust required in a remote node is so minimal as to be almost negligible. Realistically, the worst they could do is deny you service, at which point you can just switch to any other of the thousands of nodes out there.

It's simply not comparable to trusting a third party that can block your transaction without recourse and/or hold your funds indefinitely.
>How do you think manufactures can afford to sell these large screens at such cheap prices.

TV prices have been falling for decades[1], long before manufacturers could truly benefit from the data provided by smart TVs. So other factors are probably much more important - such as cheaper materials, automated production, economies of scale etc.

Also, ad revenue wouldn't explain why "stupid" computer monitor prices have also fallen greatly during the same time period.

[1] https://u.osu.edu/zagorsky.1/2014/05/18/why-are-television-s...
You’re not the only one, coworkers that i only see online feels as distant as most Facebook contacts.

Ultimately this leads to less enjoyable work experience and thus more likely that workers switch jobs earlier than before.
They had to cherry pick it. This article is intentionally misleading.
Democracy didn't really become a thing until after the Baroque era. Maybe democracy failing will bring us back to the "golden age" of the West, like the medieval/renaissance era.
The canonical method for this is to setup a checking account for your child, provision a debit card for them, and transfer funds in as needed from your own accounts they have no access to (so the blast radius is limited to the amount you transfer into their account). This breaks down if your kid discovers your banking credentials (use 2FA!), transfers funds without your knowledge, and you refuse to press charges.

You could also issue an authorized user American Express card to your child if they're old enough (13 is the minimum age), and enable spending limits (they are the only issuer I'm aware of that has this feature, Citi only supports it for their Costco card and the Barclays implementation is very limited). This only works if where your kid needs to spend accepts Amex of course, and will not protect you from "friendly fraud".

Parenting is hard.
FWIW, if you have a new file in WIP state and have changes related to it that you want to stash it might be better to `git add` it so that it gets stashed/unstashed together with the other related changes.
So many (gamers) are fit enough to do two minutes of push-ups, two minutes of sit-ups, and a two-mile timed run?
Using Read the Docs for docs hosting
The EdX course is very good and is organized by the staff from the OCW course.
McKinsey and Deloitte are more about accounting and management consulting. I don't think they do many $100M software projects, unlike IBM/Accenture/Atos/Tata.