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Show HN: Twtxt.net turning out to be a nice decentralised micro-blogging app
Do you know anything about the status of this project? I started following it on Github a couple of years ago when it appeared but it does not seem like anyone is working on it
I think you're reading too much into the list. What's the non-name meaning of "Debian" supposed to be?
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> Maybe the real lesson is we don't expect human-written comments on discussion fora to be particularly coherent....

How could we expect it? After 35+ years (BBS and Usenet onward), we've learned that they are often not.
I understand your point, even if I do disagree somewhat. While the freedom to interact in ways that are not electronic is still an option, it is such a tiny fraction of the choices most people make when communicating, that the presence of this option almost seems irrelevant.
The people holding on to the past lose. It's not complicated.

Hopefully they don't use a bunch of violence in the process.
An outliner app like WorkFlowy (YC S10) or TaskPaper is nice for adding nesting and the ability to zoom in and out.

You can also directly link to any node, at least in WorkFlowy.

My approach is similar to yours except it's one hierarchical entry per day.

https://workflowy.com/

https://www.taskpaper.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner
Use cases:
- missing ingredients
- want low sugar
Soviet Spacecrafts != 100% Russian Spacecrafts.

Because Soviet Union consisted of 15 republics and many nations works on creating Soviet Spacecrafts.

Alexander Zasyadko was Ukrainian, born in Lyutenka village (Poltava oblast, Ukraine), gunner and specialist in rocketry.

Sergey Korolev was Ukrainian, born in Zhytomyr (Ukraine), studied at an Odesa Trade School and Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

Valentyn Glushko was Ukrainian, born in Odesa (Ukraine), studied at an Odesa Trade School to be sheet metal worker.

"Yuzhmash" and "YUZHNOYE Design Bureau" located in Dnipro (Ukraine)

JSC "Khartron" (formely NPO "Electropribor") located in Kharkiv (Ukraine)

"ANTONOV Design Bureau" located in Kyiv (Ukraine)

P.S. For Apollo mission to Moon NASA used LOR[0] initially developed by Yuri Kondratyuk (real name Oleksandr Ignatovych Shargey), born in Poltava (Ukraine).[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_orbit_rendezvous

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Kondratyuk
>PayPal by no means invented online payments they just popularised it.

I'm not sure it's even so much that PayPal "popularized" online payments as it somewhat democratized them. When I had a small side software business in the early to mid-90s, it wasn't easy/cheap to get setup with a merchant credit card. Mostly, people mailed me checks although at some point I struck a deal with a local BBS operator/reseller for him to take payments for me when necessary.
Turing only proposed his game as a hypothetical argument, so he barely specified any rules on how to actually perform such a test in practice. He referred to the judging party either as "the man" or "the average interrogator", he never specified a number. Official Turing test events have had anywhere between four to hundreds of people judging.
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This is an example why exiting global cooperation such as the European Union is bad for the economy. Another side effect may be that For example the real estate market in London goes lower due to less foreign professionals competing for housing. Plus the price of vegetable at the supermarket will be higher due to more expensive imports from Holland the gardeners of Europe and Spanish fruits being more expensive. There is a benefit less carbon emissions from transport. Amazon selling less may be good for the local economy in that local producer can sell more local made products. Consumers will be hurt as they can buy less goods for the same amount of money.

As a European I hope UK will want to rejoin the EU. This will take time. I see price inflation in UK due to less foreign trade will lead to price increases. Inflation will make central banks raise interest rates which will make it more expensive with mortgages. I guess this was not the story UK brexit politicans sold to the UK people. And yes less income less income to UK national health service in form of taxes which was also not what was sold by politicians. Hope UK will rejoin EU soon. Frankly post Covid-19 the question is if UK can afford to exit EU.
Maybe loss in western food, look into Indian food as a solid replacement.
Did you read the article? :)
Yes I use Apple Notes for actual notes. It works well enough for everything I do with the only draw back (to me) being it isn't available as raw text. Although copy/paste works just fine so not a huge deal tbh.

For anything that I find lives in Apple Notes a bit too long I move it over to plain text and use iA Writer. I try to keep anything in Apple Notes as short term notes. Anything I plan to keep around as more (small) documentation I switch over to iA.

A few years ago I just got tired of trying out all these different notes apps. I figured I have iA Writer and Apple Notes and that works well enough so gave up trying every new note taking app that came out and haven't had any regrets.

Recently I tried out Notion and god it was awful. I felt I spent longer arranging things in Notion than I did working on things.

These days I find a more limited and simpler solution is better for me. I switched back to Things 3 a year or so ago as I found Todoist overwhelming after a while. Sure Things is more limited but I like that. It is basically a post-it note and I realised that is all I needed.
I believe they theoretically could, but I guess they don't consider it cost-effective, or are waiting to see what happens, or they are already planning to do it but it will take much more time.

Regarding your "shipping to Australia" example - that is just regular fulfillment of Amazon.com orders from US stock, with an international destination address. That will continue to work in all EU/UK marketplaces, this change is only about fulfilling e.g. amazon.de orders from UK stock and vice-versa (EFN) and cross-border movement of not-yet-sold stock (Pan-European FBA).

Regarding EFN: There is already a similar cross-border program called Amazon Global Store, where Amazon ships e.g. US stock to amazon.co.uk buyers (example: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00AFTQ4X8). It also works for 3rd-party sellers, in which case Amazon buys the item for itself in US and then ships it to the customer in UK ("Allow Amazon to buy my products to sell globally" in Amazon US seller settings).
However, this is much more limited in scope of products compared to what EFN currently is, and those items do not currently ship "internationally" (e.g. I can't order a Global Store item from amazon.co.uk to Finland like I can with EFN items).

Regarding Pan-European FBA: I believe Amazon does not want to move non-sold 3rd-party stock across customs jurisdictions, or at least it has never done that before.
Shipping sold items to end-customers (which they do, e.g. Australia example above) is a bit easier, as e.g. valuing the items is easy (it is exactly the amount the customer paid), and Amazon never has to be at the receiving end.
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I could be off, but here's what I recall:

A couple years ago Switzerland changed the rules that companies shipping to Switzerland must collect and administer Swiss VAT and companies the size of Amazon said fuck it! and thus don't ship from the US any more. I suspect that the same goes for Amazon Japan.
Musi does work well for playing music in the background on iOS.

A downside to Musi is that after playing a video a full screen ad will often pop up in a way that feels invasive and can be difficult to avoid inadvertently clicking. The behavior feels like malware, which leaves me concerned that the developers behind the app might hold flexible ethics and engage in practices such as covertly monetizing user data.
No tests, sorry. I would gladly make some statistically significant experiments, but I am not in professional medicine. I am more math/computer/physics guy by trade.

From math/physics perspective: mask has a porous structure and stands in a way of the air. So it is clearly adds some resistance to overcome with an additional suction.

Healthy people can provide that suction, so their O2 remains untouched.

Not-so-healthy people may hit the physical limit of their suction and this is the situation when adding an additional barrier (the mask) will lead to O2 decrease.
>Reports: Edmonton CFL club will drop 'Eskimos' name

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/29482242/edmonton-cfl-c...
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Post viral syndrome is a thing and may be a covid thing too.
I just hope we have a clean option like Pinephone with flagship quality hardware soon.
That's more a consequence of our terrible electoral system combined with the most incompetent / most poisonous opposition leader ever.
>Edmonton to drop 'Eskimos' name

https://www.tsn.ca/edmonton-cfl-franchise-to-drop-eskimos-na...
This is a loose transcript of presentation given at ConnectDev'16.

Video of the presentation: https://youtu.be/4ZIPijEqrNI
Have you considered linking notes from one notebook to another? E.g. if you named each notebook and numbered pages, you could just point to "page X in notebook Y", and wouldn't need to transcribe. Would this be something helpful to you?
Had a really terrible experience with Coursera lately. Signed up for the free trial, started the class and it recommended signing up for another class as a prerequisite. I signed up for that one as well but it required a bunch of materials I didn’t have on hand. Then I got busy and lost track of time. I never got an e-mail from them about starting the trial, nor did I realize the billing was $50/month for each class. Anyway I was checking my bank later and they were just silent charging me- $300 dollars so far.

They don’t offer refunds or even have customer support.

I remember taking Andrew Ng’s ML course several years ago and being so grateful and excited for the new possibilities, and now I just feel like Coursera is a scam, using dark patterns to make money instead of trying to make a great experience for students.
> The UK voted to keep Europeans from coming over here and taking our jobs and our women with their sophisticated accents.

This comment expresses an appalling amount of xenophobia and classism. This warped, cartoonish portrayal of "Brexit" voters on HN is not unexpected, but it is disappointing it seems to escape moderation.
My understanding is that SARS-CoV-2 has novel amino acid sequences (eg. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7114094/). Shuffling genes from other viruses wouldn't achieve this.

The original article doesn't seem to address this directly. But I'm not a virologist. Perhaps you know more about it than I do.
Have you tried using OneNote's handwriting recognition feature? I am curious if that experience would allow for the regaining of the pen-to-paper "magic".

Edit: typo
Sorry, I meant smartphone interface like Plasma mobile, Phosh, Lomri for Raspberry Pi; Desktop environment terminology as with Linux on desktops could be wrong.

Right now, you can use traditional desktop environment like LXDE/MATE with PostmarketOS on Raspberry Pi but I don't think there's a working smartphone interface for RPi with the projects you've linked[1].

Furthermore, Convergence feature of UBPorts (Ubuntu Touch) via Lomri helps our phone to be used in Desktop Mode. Here is my video demonstrating it[2].

[1]http://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_3

[2]https://twitter.com/heavyinfo/status/1251048583190609920
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I think that besides taxes and fees, the main issue - and bottleneck - will be customs.

In EU you have free movement of goods and people, so if I buy from Amazon DE, FR, IT, the item will be shipped and moved around EU territory and easily get delivered to my door.

If I buy from Amazon.com I'll get an email from the customs where they ask me for proof of purchase where the proper taxation/custom fees were paid. This is what will happen in with products coming from the UK. This means the package is being processed by a foreign entity with no time window to be released (because part of it will depend on you as well).

Amazon simply cannot keep UK in their european fulfillment network warehouses because it will have items go through customs. It would be a bottleneck in a seamless movement of products. It's not about geography, it's about crossing borders.
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> Is there another pre-existing meaning for "poubelle" that makes this naming unexpected?

I mean, it _is_ the French term for "trash can".

It might be surprising to you, for example, if you'd suddenly find out that trash cans are named after "Michael Trashcan" or something along those lines.
There is a lot of feature overlap between these note-taking apps, but I always find one or two missing critical features. It seems like most apps try to be a one-size-fits-all solution, and they fail in doing so.

My new approach uses dedicated apps for each use case. I am trying Raindrop.io (or Pinboard.in) as web clippers / persistent bookmark managers, I am using Todoist to organize (and gamify) my tasks, and I use VSCode for general note-taking. Especially VSCode, with its vast extension marketplace, seems to be a balanced solution for customizing the note-taking experience. I can pick my preferred Markdown extension with LaTeX math support and add additional comfort features like TabNine or Grammarly for a better writing experience than whatever these one-size-fits-all solutions such as Evernote or Notion can offer.
You just weigh the egg you're going to use.
I really like this progressive interpolation idea... it fits well with my mental model of learning to read Japanese (as a native English speaker). I used a mnemonic technique to quickly learn the general meaning and proper writing of all ~2000 common use kanji. It’s like a medical student memorizing anatomy—no real understanding of the practical significance, just associating a name with something. However, as it turns out this process creates something like a mental scaffolding which makes it much faster to learn new words and their nuances of meaning because that information can “attach” to an existing knowledge structure.
I have a pair of shorts that are just about to wear out that have a pocket like these, and I love them! Sadly, Patagonia stopped making them years back, and I can’t find any back stock with them.

These trousers look great. I wonder if he’ll make me some...
I put everything in Apple Notes as well. I love how I can sync my personal notes to iCloud and my work-related notes on Exchange.
I find this hypothesis compelling, and this is such a strong write-up.

One part that I’m a bit confused about is around the origin of the furin site. The post has a challenge in explaining it, since it’s such a large stretch of nucleic acid. They end up explaining it with the idea that the virus actually pulled it from human lung mRNA but isn’t there at least one other very strong possibility?: it was inserted there intentionally in the lab.

It’s been a little while since I’ve done any actual molecular biology in the lab but I have to believe that either direct insertion of an RNA sequence into the viral genome or an indirect method using DNA for the manipulation with subsequent re-insertion into the virus is possible.

I actually appreciate that the post only mentions in passing the possibility of genetic manipulation as they’re explanation seems slightly more simple (and certainly less accusatory), just seems like it deserves at least another mention at the end as a logical possibility.
Skills from chess certainly would translate to other fields, but that is true for any activity. The question is whether chess is better than alternative than other things.
What I find especially fascinating is that our own knowledge of the world is bootstrapped by intelligent systems already. We compare some of the capabilities of this system against an already intelligent super connected system we use every day. Every mind over time contributes content, knowledge, misinformation, and interactive systems to the internet. We seem to be approaching an inflection point of aggregating all this into a single more automatically conversational query engine.
Try to stay on topic, buddy.
PageRank was named after Larry Page?

MySQL is named after the one of co-founder's daughter, My?

I knew the Debian. but this is mind boggling.
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What's the difference? Can you have one without the other? Are they part of a larger whole? I've never met this distinction before.
I’ve tried many, many different apps, and approaches over the years. On of my peeves is doing things twice, so here are, to my mind, the important decision making factors:

1. cross-device/platform support. Once I was entirely Apple, I settled on Drafts (post processing when necessary), and Apple Notes. If you have multiple OS’s involved, the decision is harder (Evernote). The logic is that I wanted some contextually sensitive templates for field notes, and Drafts does that with its version of ‘macros’. Having the MacOS version makes writing reports from my notes is dead easy.

If you’re less concerned with re-typing, and/or transcribing, do what you want.
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Nicely done.

FWIW, I dimly recall a numeric library, maybe a float to string, which tested everything for verification. Took a few days to run.

Then maybe use the spot checks to test for regressions. Weird compiler, toolchain, processor combos. That sort of thing.
Roam Research was the one I settled on. It melds exactly with how my mind works. I think it's probably doubled my productivity.
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Probably. But we were more like 10 to 20 Turing awards way just a decade ago. I don't expect progress to be consistent; those remaining awards could take another century. But we made what might be a huge amount of progress in a very short time.

Or it could be a complete dead end, as has happened before. And nobody could tell until it was done; even those who were correctly skeptical were really just lucky that there wasn't a rabbit in that hat. Sometimes there's a rabbit.
> To facilitate quick note taking I wrote a FUSE driver for it

I didn't understand this part. Why can't you just write the file and then either manually/automatically trigger an import of the text into the SQLiteDB?
I am not tired of my notepad.exe
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Bro, it's literally two clicks away from the Facebook front page!
It’s still unexpected
Is it possible to download and play with the trained models?

I know that training the model would be absurdly expensive, so I'm curious if it is possible to download one of the already trained artifacts of one of the models. I can't find anything online or in either of the HN threads on GPT-3
The horrors of illegal drug economics can easily pale next to the horrors of mass, systematized drug use. There’s no easy solution. Our drug policies are wrong because they’re racist, not because drugs aren’t actually bad for people.
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Beneficial to those plants which do not belong to the sort of early succession. They need disturbed sites and bare soil.

Some of the bread and butter trees of aggro-forrestry establish better on bare soil rather than a thick layer of humus from decaying trees.
Great idea, I've bookmarked your service. I once briefly looked for this feature and gave up thinking it didn't exist.
Humans don't need a prompt to do this.
The test originated from the Imitation Game. Turing envisioned a game in which two people (A & B) are tasked to pretent to be the other (not at the same time, though).

An interviewer is then trying to decide who of them is actually the one they pretend to be by asking questions.

In order to remove any hints from appearance, voice, or handwriting, a typewriter is used for interacting.

For example A could be male and B could be female and A is asked to pretend to be B. The interviewer can then ask questions to decide whether A is male or female (yes, I am fully aware that in 2020 this: https://youtu.be/z2_8cfVpXbo?t=129 could also happen).

Turing then proposed to replace A or B with a computer instead and ask the interviewer to decide which of them is the human.

In this scenario, do you really think the interviewer would bombard the candidates with trivia questions and logic puzzles to find out?

The idea was, that other aspects of human intelligence, like a sense for beauty, poetry, etc. would be used instead to differentiate between the two.

Questions like "Do you enjoy reading Harry Potter?" and depending on the answer you could further ask why or why not the subject likes or dislikes the books.

This would be much more insightful and coming up with such questions doesn't require any particular skill on part of the interviewer.

You can even get tricky and return to the topic after talking about something else to see whether you get a similar response or to test the subject's memory.
The striking name has led to confusion: https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1085770107899576320?s=...
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They dont release them saying they would be too dangerous in a world where people believe everything on social media.
So quite accurate then, since 11Mb/s = 1.375MB/s.

(The conscious mind, of course, is not where most of our learning from experience happens.)
My favourite is the Heaviside function [1], which is named after Oliver Heaviside [2], who just happened to have an appropriate name for a function with one heavy side!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside_step_function

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside
The fuse FS (which, fuse not at all difficult to use, there are many implementations of SQLite-backed fs) implements the trigger that automatically imports it.
GPT-3 is impressive, but is still "a Chinese Room" (1). It does not understand the questions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
To be fair, even some politicians can't pass that:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/when-a-newspaper-gave-blade-runners-...
COVID-19 is going to mask most of the negative economic effects of Brexit.

Brexiteers basically got themselves a get out of jail free card.
The Idjang; the Ancient Precolonial Castles of Batanes
With little records of the precolonial Philippines, I know how Filipinos today longed to learn more about the past. I mean getting to know how our forefathers lived, without the influences of Spain will bring a new dimension to our national identity. The search for bits and pieces of those missing records is an ongoing process, and slowly we learn more. From the Copperplate Inscription to the Golden Tara, we are starting to build a picture of a far more sophisticated Pre-Hispanic Society. Our hunger for the past did inspired some outrageous claims of a lost Filipino kingdom that turned out to be a hoax. To be honest, the Philippines back then was not the romanticized and fabled fairytale that those claims propagate. In fact, Philippines was non-existent back then. It was never a whole nation before Spain, but a collection of archipelagos with scattered kingdoms, villages, and tribes. It lacks a central leadership and it took painful colonialism to groom it into a nation.

But again, going back to those important discoveries like the Copperplate Inscription, lacking a central kingdom was never an indication of a stone age culture. Those scattered civilizations boast far more sophistications and who knows what discovery may still be unseen. And in the beautiful and peaceful mountains of Batanes are structures that proved just that. The Ivatan people once lived in castle-like habitations known as the Idjang.