skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My network has expanded, but it was deliberate on my part. Acquaintances that I meant to talk to more often, especially geographically distant are now much easier to make regular contact.
Before, conflicts with travel, out of the office meetings, at workshops made it very difficult to line up calendars. These days, there is a good likelihood that a 30 minute meeting will work.

It’s been much easier to avoid the time burners that pounce on me at the office. It’s been wonderful missing out on their complaining and uninvited ‘thought leadership’. They can post it to Yammer and LinkedIn.
Stack overflow exception
it indeed doesn't work anymore for single CPUs but still seems to hold for other thibgs. eg memory (ddr5) or chipsize (see 7nm chips)
> The average person seems to have no large stretches of idle time.

If you killed the Internet after work, and did not have a TV, do you think you would suddenly have larger stretches of idle time?
I wonder if some good samaritan could use this to make a canned solution to automagically turn off every HP "DIRECT" wifi that's unused 99.99% of the time and pollutes the wifi spectrum in any residential setting.
Even though it's restrictive, I find most of my notes of a creative nature are all done and markdown and git. Another commenter was saying how their best work was on pencil and paper, and I agree, I'm very creative in that medium as well. The only thing that comes close on the computer is markdown.

I do use OneNote at work, but it's a classic example of where the tool molds the use case. Typically I will use OneNote to track a problem, or gather notes and links from other sources. It's a great way to put together a dossier on a problem so to speak, but I don't really use my creative juices in OneNote.
13 year old me was confused by holter monitors, which are wearable heart monitors invented by Norman J. Holter. Everyone seems to pronounce it as halter, and mine was kind of like a halter. 20 years later my Dog got one I and I saw it spelled out on a receipt..
Want to jump in here - I have worked at a company where engineers are not on call for their code, and it was a living nightmare.

_You_ might not be on call for your code, but _somebody_ will be. Often some poor SRE/ops person that has absolutely no idea what the app is doing/or why it's failing in production.

Not being on-call makes engineers complicit. I've seen it all, known memory leaks shipped into production, apps where half the endpoints couldn't even be compiled, code dumping the production redis at 1AM ... and every time the pain just felt on deaf ears.

If your code is what wakes you up in the middle of the night, you have:
- Incentive to fix/mitigate as soon as possible.
- No blame game to play. Either the error was made by you, or someone on your team. It doesn't have to go up 3 rungs on the ladder then back down again.

I don't think the author was suggesting that everyone should always be on call, just that you _must_ be responsible for your own code in production
I take notes for others (collaboration and knowledge sharing) and to create a concept for problems I cannot keep in my head. Additionally I use a note book for quick notes, drawings and so on. Usually I will take pictures of parts that might be useful later and add them to my digital notes.
Also figure the US Government probably had this 5 years ago
That makes sense. Scope creep is the main thing that's killing large software project. The client doesn't know what they want yet every middle manager and department is constantly requesting new features. If a software contractor wants to deliver anything within some time and budget, they have to manage the scope tightly.
The folks over at Athens Research [1] (open-source Roam alternative) have made an exhaustive comparison [2] of current notetaking apps with bidirectional link support.

[1] https://github.com/athensresearch/athens

[2] https://www.notion.so/db13644f08144495ad9877f217a161a1?v=ff6...
"In this scathing indictment of our current global financial system..."

Ugh. Lost me right there. I even agree with nearly everything it says in the summary, but if there's one thing I'm _not_ looking for, it's a book of "scathing indictment" of anything. I get plenty of anger and vicious conversation for free on the internet, unasked for, to want to seek out more.

Calm, reasoned analysis would be welcome. If this book is actually "scathing" (and that's not just some publisher's idea of what people are looking for), I can do without, thanks.
I'd recommend watching the "1 minute presentation" video linked at the top of the page. It mentions generating the model from a single image.

https://youtu.be/-1XYTmm8HhE
That hit hard. Thanks for sharing.
The worse you are the chess, the more you want to keep pawns on the board since they tactically restrict the game. The more pawns that go off, the more the game opens up into sharp tactical lines which give experienced players an enormous advantage.

All of that leads into my recommendation for getting good at Chess as a beginner:
Don't waste any time with opening preparation. Pick two openings you like (one for white, one for black) and stick with them. All your time and effort should go into tactics.
Easily https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 and its comments
GPT-3 Generates a Resume
Accelerating iOS on QEMU with hardware virtualization (KVM)
It's hard to make your game physics simulation numerically stable and consistent across a wide range of timesteps, unless you make it really complicated. Things like collision detection are often implemented in a way that only works for a certain range of object speeds and timesteps—and that's just one of many glitches that commonly result from running the physics simulation at an unintended frequency. Dividing things by unexpectedly tiny numbers can produce surprisingly big results.

The correct solution is to run the simulation on a different thread from the rendering, so that the simulation can be run at an appropriate frequency and the rendering can proceed at whatever framerate the user's hardware is capable of. The more commonly used "solution" is for the game to run the simulation and rendering on the same thread, and cap the framerate as a way to indirectly cap the simulation update frequency. Occasionally you find a game that merely assumes that the framerate won't go over 60Hz, and if your monitor is faster, the game itself runs in fast-forward.
Other than a combination of fiddling inside ~/Library and some more SQLite circus there's really no way to make Apple Notes notes portable (across platforms) and even such circuitous hacks might break in any update or upgrade. That's a big enough no for me.

This is one of those instances when the perceived Apple's walled garden convenience just falls flat. I personally prefer FSNotes (it has a long way to go but it's FOSS) and Bear. I am moving from Simplenote.
It's pretty good for incremental updates. It only asks a few hours a year to manage those.

Not so good when you want to upgrade a 5-year-old system. I inherited a reasonably well-built Rails app deployed with Ruby 2.2.1 and would like to update it, if only for security reasons. I can't even run that on a recent Ubuntu. On a system where I can run it, I run into dependency hell with the gems - need to upgrade some, pin lower versions of others. Possibly that could have been handled with pinned dependency versions the first time round, but that breaks the regular upgrade process.
it's actually a 5x markup. according to cogs in filings
Yet another win for the Fifth Element[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrHMBletjXg
Genuine question; did that atrocity happen? Was it real? I know what I think, but maybe you disagree.
Straight-forward and documented is the minimum. Not having to think about it at all ever would be ideal. At some (huge) scale it will eventually become a thing that takes a year and a half and gets blog posts written about it, and I never enjoy losing a weekend to a microcosm of that: https://github.blog/2018-09-28-upgrading-github-from-rails-3...
I've seen another study, which in my opinion is way more useful, where they are able to control a cockroaches using electrical pulses on their antennas. With a camera attached to its back, these cockroachs will be able to find people underneath rubbles.
> The book uses case studies–from Silicon Valley to the financial sector to big pharma–to show how the foggy notions of value create confusion between rents and profits, a difference that distorts the measurements of growth and GDP.

This also reads like the book was written with the conclusions already in mind, and the case studies cherry picked.
Thanks. Yes, I do. There is a lot of work in the field of decentralized identity, but status is still far from a 'solved problem'. Work being done by Rebooting the Web of Trust [0] (see their github repo's) and Identity Foundation [1]. Besides Solid there's a bunch of interesting, related specs evolving like Verifiable Credentials [2], Self Sovereign Identity (I hope for impls without the blockchain).

[0] http://www.weboftrust.info/

[1] https://identity.foundation/

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/
So the last PC I built was with the Intel 9700 and that was ~2 years ago. At that time Ryzen was pretty good but didn't have the proven track record or price-performance it does now.

Now, in terms of pure price-performance, i think I'd want to buy Ryzen but... this sort of stuff is what scares me off AMD. I just want my crap to work. Reading some of the comments here, one commenter suggested there's an instruction to find an approximate determinant of a matrix where both Intel and AMD are standards compliant but those instructions produce different results on each chip.

Of course I don't know if this is true or not but saving $200 on a PC build is just not something that justifies (to me) dealing with kind of issue or, worse, potentially dealing with issues like these.

I buy NVidia for pretty much the same reason.
I took a look at the material (the slides on Method of Moments, in particular) and my feeling is that it is a particularly mathematically-heavy treatment of statistics. As it states in its goals, it aims to introduce the mathematical theory of statistics. On the course's main page, it is listed as a senior undergraduate/graduate course. The style tends toward being expository rather pedagogical -- it's a very French/European approach to teaching mathematics.

It does seem to require mathematical maturity beyond the basics, and in my opinion this is likely not accessible to most beginners without some advanced mathematical training.

If you find it accessible as a beginner then I congratulate you on your mathematical prowess.
>If by qualia you mean slight differences in information processing in human brains, then sure. If you mean anything more than that I would like a) a better definition than the one I have given b) some observational evidence for its existence.

Subjective experiences i.e. how I actually experience sense data. There is no real, objective observational evidence and there can't be. How would you describe taste to a species of aliens that understands the processes that happen during tasting, but don't taste themselves? It's simply impossible. I know that I have personal, subjective experiences (the 'images I see' are not directly the sense data that I perceive), but I can only appeal to you emotionally to try and make you believe that it exists operating under the assumption that you too must have these experiences.

>One problem with "consciousness" is that it's such an overloaded term. I recommend decomposing it into smaller features that we care about and then we can talk about whether another system has them.

This entire discussion has been about consciousness in the philosophical meaning i.e. the ability to have some form of subjective experiences.

>If we twist words far enough then of course they do. They are following the laws of physics after all which is information processing, going from one state to another. But then all physical systems do that and its usually not the kind of information processing we care that much about when talking about intelligences. Technically correct given the premise but useless.

This isn't about twisting words, some people genuinely believe that everything is conscious with more complex system being more conscious.

>We're already making the assumption we have the technology to simulate a brain. If you have that ability you can also implement any debugging/observational tooling you need. AI research is not blind, co-developing such tooling together with the networks is happening today

The point is that it's about _subjective_ experiences.
Can't you change your google ad preferences?
A quick summary:
In older times, since 400 AD and possibly earlier, Nsibidi was a script system in South Nigeria. Nsibidi is something difficult to understand for modern people, because it is a pictographic (or ideogramic) writing system. And indeed it cannot be used with modern computers.

Some attempts had been made to design syllabic systems, in Nigeria one of them is the Nwagu Aneke script. It was developed for a dialect of Igbo in the late 1950s but never reach wide acceptance.

This attempt is different, it is also a syllabic system but it can be used easily with a computer. Ńdébé has only 1174 characters. It is considered for inclusion in Unicode.

https://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/IUC38Presentation.pdf
Please send a link
How to find new music. The blog linked has good resources, and the HN comments have even more.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22194107
I considered using 24V for my living room lighting, but availability is an issue. The much more common 12V works fine as long as you consider the wire gauge you need to prevent the voltage from dropping too much.

For example, if you use RGBWW strips (i.e., four channels; RGB plus warm-white, as you rightly recommend), you could have one -12V lead shared with a thickness of 4mm², and four separate 12V leads at 1.5mm². At around 4.2m distance (at the farthest) I measured an acceptable voltage drop of 3.9% for 405 SMD5050 RGBWW LEDs.

But yeah, you do need to consider the wire gauge of your cabling, depending on the number of LEDs driven.
Tex-Mex is from Texas... that's what the Tex part is, and it's distinct from Cali-Mex, because while both cuisines originated from Mexican influence into the area using local ingredients and traditional techniques, the ingredients were different and the influences originated from different regions of Mexico which heavily influenced the cuisine. Tex-Mex originated with the Tejanos who resided in Texas while it was still part of Mexico and mostly originated from Central and Northern Mexico while Cali-Mex is predominantly a result of immigration that occurred later on mostly from Western/Coastal Mexico.

Tex-Mex and Cali-Mex aren't the same thing, and California has no claim to Tex-Mex...
Does anyone remember what magazine gave this game? I think it was a magazine called "full pc game" but I can't seem to find anything on google.

Got age of empires II the same way.
Or it just means that the cover blurbs were written after the book, which is normal practice.
Equal Rights Amendment
Sunk cost fallacy is real, but sometimes ambitious pursuits accidentally end up making the world a better place.
Heavy side - it’s a pun
Correct me if I'm wrong: it's only supply constrained due to patent protections, no? Or is there something inherently hard to replicate if a rogue country decided to reverse engineer the drug?
Cool Retro Term
I'd like a spider cam. I find it a great mystery how spiders survive in rooms which seem absolutely empty/abandoned etc.
The recent game The Outer Worlds is also very FNV-like. I really like it!
Check https://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/books/ooc.pdf from 1993.
It has been mentioned and discussed earlier on HN, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011540
They can be, just ask Faux News
I'm in the same boat with standard notes, been using it for a few years now. Recently after a bout of RSI I've been trying to do more note taking and sketching on pen and paper to alleviate the typing between coding and other tasks.
Alan Kay asks, “ What if "data" is a really bad idea?” Rich Hickey responds.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945722

(Thread is from 2016; I first saw it much later.)
I love reading stuff like this, but wow does it put my mental state in a bad place, maybe this is part of the problem...
Finally Write That Short Story
All things pass
Thanks for the perspective, my country (Canada) doesn't have DO so it's not something I understand too well. Here, "allopath" seems mostly used as a derogatory term by naturopaths, homeopaths, etc.
This one - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961560
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mobile-home-origin/ What do you know?
Not to sound like I'm on Reddit, but in the category of surprising and infuriating, this one takes the cake.
When will this happen to keyboards?
These types of books should all be under 'identify problems, offer unrealistic solutions' category.

It's really not that hard to identify problems. Weaving them into a somewhat coherent narrative is a little more work. Having realistic solutions is the real kicker.

Take Windows, the operating system. It is not unlike a political system - full of problems. Imagine people writing books about where it went wrong and how we need to rethink operating systems to fix it. Wat?

Here's a quote from the books' page:

> The lesson here is urgent and sobering: to rescue our economy from the next, inevitable crisis and to foster longterm economic growth, we will need to rethink capitalism, rethink the role of public policy and the importance of the public sector, and redefine how we measure value in our society.

The lesson is that we need to rethink something? Very cool, we are going to rethink our way out of living in a dysfunctional plutocracy...
This reminds me of the Ferenghi lore of "The Great Material Continuum"

https://stt.wiki/wiki/Great_Material_Continuum_Texts
> The share of IMs sent between 6 PM and midnight has increased by 52%.

While I like the idea of “social meetings” (non-work virtual meet ups), this trend of IMs outside of core work hours would make the change to remote work a net negative for me.
https://www.webliero.com shows it's possible
The graphical abstract on sciencedirect¹ lists some product names, so the 'devices' are apparently all available for purchase.

¹: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S00489697203393...
> I have kids and live in an area where the class divisions are pretty stark

How do you mean? I was asking for an illustration of the "class system" that you find oppressing to your person.

> most of the population is bombarded every day by outright racism and hate.

Well that's not true is it.

> The British upper classes make a joke of it

What might be considered Victorian upper class constitutes practically no one. If you don't like the media don't consume it.

Honestly I do not understand this unhealthy fixation on class that you have and frankly reject your assertions regarding it. At a guess you are using it as a simplification to understand a landscape you can't fully understand without it.
Nope, it's fairly common that the client cancels the project and repeat with another contractor.

They will try outsourcing abroad, then outsourcing locally, then try developing in house with a couple interns and developers they can find.
Yeah. It solves the "I forgot I already have a note on this" problem too, by making search and creation the same UI.
If you do a feature by feature comparison , including data retention , uptime , throughput , graphics support ( writing enables unlimited diagramming ) , power requirements , reliability — Pen and paper come out on top every time .

I recommend getting into fountain pens. They are the mechanical keyboards of the writing world . And the ink flow is cathartic
I wouldn’t much like to trade the things that fill my house for shovels and other money-digging items. How many people can the economy afford to allocate to money-digging before the production of other things that support our current quality of life begins to suffer?
Show HN: Intro video on database indexes and performance
children can only have 1 canonical parent but can have any number of backlinks to other nodes in the graph
No one is forcing you to use it. Besides, if read the project description, you'll see that Dendron brings a number of features to the table that I haven't seen in other editors.

The most interesting to me is document schema, which let you add metadata to your nodes to facilitate search / new note creation.
Both publications notably do not capitalize 'gold standard'.
The first book simply calls it 'aptly named', pointing out the aptronym, but does not attribute the name to Harry Gold.

The NCBI says that Fisher (the famous statistician) established placebo with randomized control trial 'gold standard'.

It is coincidental that Harry Gold, a pharmacologist, is the progenitor of placebo therapy in American medicine - as the NCBI notes, placebo therapy is "as old as medicine itself".
Thanks, I'm aware of it. There are quite a lot of tools in this space already. Unfortunately, many are unaware of each-other and therefore making the same mistakes and learnings over and over again.

Looking at all these tools makes it clear how difficult it is to create one that actually "works".

Most of the researchers at the canonical debate lab created their own tool in the past and are now discussing how a next-generation tool should look like.
Struct composition is used pretty much everywhere in the Linux kernel. It's a pretty nice pattern, along with container_of() macro.
Class is still a big thing in the UK: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/25/too-poor-to-p...
Panasonic GH4 meets Fujinon XA55 (2015) [video]
On the first point: If the assumption is that some community members are interested in developing cheats, would it not also make sense to assume that some community members are instead interested in hardening the netcode and developing anti-cheat systems?

On the second point: Please have the powers-that-be consider doing a partial release of the parts that are not under that agreement. Some code is better than no code at all.
also environmental impact.
Better Babblers (2017)
there's definitely a lot of similarity to foam - these are both markdown-based knowledge bases build on top of vscode and extensions. the major difference with dendron is its focus on hierarchical, lookup based retrieval of notes (https://www.dendron.so/#hierarchies)
Team Leader Anti-Patterns
Did you win the Putnam?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
The "cold-start" problem of new social network sites
IMHO this misses the mark. For me the crux of it is that it's only possible for liberal western values to exist in contexts where most people have enough wealth to not have to seriously worry about their physiological- and safety-related needs.[1] And the reason we're at this level of wealth now is only because we've been unsustainably borrowing wealth from the future, and as per all unsustainable things by definition, sooner or later this situation is going to come to an end. Saying things like climate change or political corruption or whatever might cause western civilization to collapse is accurate, but that's not really a good starting point. There's a bigger pattern here that you should be mentioning.

[1] I realize Maslow's Hierarchy is not an accurate model, but close enough for the point I'm making.