skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say dang would have even more work to do, keeping up with the discussions around animal exhibits, autopsies, science experiments, all kinds of talks, painting lessons, something different every night, lots of random and interesting things, all in real time and between coffees.

(to what degree was the coffee shop the public-access commercially-supported more hands-on version of the salon?)
My latest project is in Elixir after going through Rust and Python as candidates. Erlang / Elixir isn't the best candidate for _everything_, but I will be using it in the future for just about everything I can because of how much I like it.
Richard and Maurice McDonald, Wilber Hardee, and Little Caesars are all counter examples.
Not sure this makes sense because how in the world can the "seller" post a fake review under my account?
I really liked Andy Matuschak's article “Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking” - https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z7kEFe6NfUSgtaDuUjST1oczKKzQ...

Over the years, I have also moved from one app to another when it comes to note-taking. Frankly, I was using them more as a place to put things that I might want to refer to later than using them to think about the problems that I was trying to solve.

Personally, I find that there are times when I need more of a free flowing format like paper or an iPad, but most of the time, text suffices. For the last six months or so, I have been using Roam Research and related apps(Obsidian) and they do really help me evolve a structure around my thoughts without having to have one when I am starting out.
This is a fascinating book and relevant to some critiques that pop up on HN from time to time.

Too much of the US economy these days has become about wealth extraction or speculation, rather than real wealth creation. We’ve outsourced large portions of our manufacturing ecosystem while arguing that design, services and finance will make up for it.

This book traces the root of the problem back to changes in how Economics analyzes and measures economic activity, and examines some industries through this lense, including VC.

Notably, prior to the development of Marginal Utility, economists from Adam Smith to Karl Marx and everyone in between were concerned with the distinction between productive and unproductive economic activity.

For example, manufacturing was productive and wealth-creative, while rents levied by the landed gentry were unproductive and extractive. Any form of cornering a market and extracting rent is assumed extractive, unless proven otherwise.

The term they used was the Production Boundary, with productive activities on one side and unproductive on the other. A few, like law, that were inherently unproductive but that were necessary inputs to productive activity, are situated on the border.

Marginal Utility made value subjective rather than objective. If a product or activity has demand for any reason and could thus fetch a price on a market, then it has value and is productive. This made economics more mathematically tractable as well, and became the dominant Economic theory. But it has also enabled extractive and speculative activities to claim to be productive, and thus gain political acceptance and support.

The book argues this is the root of the problem facing the US and other developed countries, and that solving it requires new economic measurements and theories that restore the distinction between productive activity vs extractive or speculative activity.
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Profitable for whom? Tesla short sellers have lost close to $10 billion dollars in the few past months.
The fact that it is twitch is really not important to the story, it’s basically a kid who robbed his parents
If story is your bag then Spiderweb Software's catalogue is worthy. Also the Project Eternity games: Tyranny, Pillars of Eternity 1&2.
Ashley Pond in Los Alamos, NM is a pond named after a man named Ashley Pond. It might be more correctly called Ashley Pond pond?
I think part of the reason why we don’t see chess having a predictive impact is because the ability to generalize a specific skill must also be acquired for that to happen. Basically, being able to extrapolate a narrow skill to more general problems, is in its own right a skill.
How to Form a Pandemic Pod
If you like Ruby on Rails so much, why don’t you find a job programming Ruby on Rails? There are so many.
Since literacy or human knowledge isn't encoded in DNA, it's nothing like it.
The atmosphere of the first Mass Effect was incredible. After more than a decade later, I still have fond memories of that game.

The second one though, didn't really click with me, and I stopped playing the series there.

Maybe with EA games being on Steam now, I could give the third one a try.
Sabian, the cymbal manufacturer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabian), was named after Sally, Billy, and Andy Zildjian, the children of Robert Zildjian, when he had a conflict with his brother Armand Zildjian after he was not chosen to be the main CEO and successor of Avedis Zildjian.
I'm familiar with this conundrum. I've been taking notes, managing tasks and appointments on paper since 2015; before that I took most notes in Emacs org-mode and managed some tasks there, and some in OmniFocus.

Lack of search is a definite disadvantage of handwritten notes. Here's what I've done to blunt that:

(1) Every notebook begins with a few pages for a table of contents. (2) When a notebook is full, I scan it in as a PDF.
(3) I type up the table of contents to make it searchable and add that to the PDF. (4) The PDFs are all available on my phone.

I am generally able to find things this way, but it is not as convenient as i-searching around a giant buffer in Emacs or using something like deft.el. For the moment I am continuing in this fashion, but I do periodically consider switching back to using a computer for note taking. Perhaps some day I will.
It is worth noting that a project that would raise internal criticism would often have a reasonable chance of success as a startup in its own right. Investors are generally more rational than colleagues.
Taco smith would be an interesting restaurant, maybe using an anvil as a logo instead of a bell
From your profile: "Turtl a surveillance-resistant note-taking app". Nice! Looks like you've built your own note taking app. Of course you're not going to use mine :-)
Ok radical. I served 9 years in the military and no one I worked with was evil. Service members honestly believed they were doing good in the world and many felt some of the wars they were forced to participate in were unjust. Life is way more nuanced.
Yeah the donations don't go through Amazon unless it was gifted subs, subscription or bits.
Did you even read that report before using it to refute my statement? Or did you just read the title?

Nothing in this refutes what I said and many things support it. For example they highlight that NPI's are often meaningless because people will naturally avoid some things given the virus risk, this is their justification for saying that NPI do not cause economic harm because even if there were not government mandates then people would have naturally not participated in the economy anyway.

If this is the case then why the need for the lock-downs? it is circular reasoning at its finest.

Further they are talking about the effects of social distancing, mask wearing, and public gathering bans not total economic lockdown like is being imposed in many regions.

As I said in the original comment I support the idea of limiting or eliminating public gatherings, mask wearing, etc.

What I have problem with is the selective picking of which retailers can be open, and which can not, which businesses are "essential" and which are not. All businesses are essential to the employees, owners, and customers that depend on them, and it should be up to those individuals to determine if they are properly manage the risk (i.e enforce mask wearing, sanitation, social distancing, curb side pickup, etc) or if they need to close.

The government response in many regions is pure authoritarianism and an over reaction.

The study also points out some GLARING differences and limitation between COVID and 1918, a few of them are

1. COVID19 has a much lower mortality rate then 1918 flu for prime age workers

2. They acknowledge that NPI's where far less draconian in 1918 in most regions than many governments response to COVID was, this likely increased the economic impact of NPI's in those regions

3. The closure of schools in 1918 had FAR less economic impact in 1918 due the much lower female labor participation

4. Their study of economic conditions leading up to 1918 is incomplete as the data set is not there

5. WWI .... that is a pretty big impact.

So no I do not find this paper to be a compelling report on how the response to covid depressed economic activity vs COVID itself, also in no way does this paper support the conclusion that "opening too soon does indeed kill people " as it is absent any analysis on if banning public indoor gatherings + mask wearing is just as effective (or more effective) than the complete closure of "non-essential" businesses

It also has no analysis on other items such as population density, weather, mass transit, and about 100 other factors of virus spread
I had a blog (still do, though I publish extremely infrequently), but the value of Twitter to me is the discussions, where I can ask about things and learn new things from people who reply to them. What's the equivalent for that in this system?

Now, if you said "get a personal domain and set up ActivityPub," then sure.

The other approach I've liked here is the "planet" model - I read https://planet.debian.org/ fairly frequently, and occasionally one blogger publishes something and a couple of people follow up a day or two later "This is a response to so-and-so's post, here are my thoughts," which is always fun. But it wouldn't be fun in a newsletter model - Twitter makes it so that you don't see replies from someone you follow to someone you don't, because those replies will generally lack context. I wouldn't want to spam everyone in my newsletter with "These are some questions I have for some other person whose newsletter you don't read."
Curated Micro-Course, Game Design and Gamification for Better Products
GPT-3 is just Eliza on steroids, and once you know this, it's pretty easy to spot that it's a bot. For example:

> Q: Are there any animals with three legs?

> A: No, there are no animals with three legs.

I would expect a human to say something like, "There aren't any animals that are born with three legs (that I know of) but there are some four-legged animals who have lost a leg for some reason who now have three legs. I saw a video of a really cute three-legged dog on Youtube just the other day."

NOTE: when I used the word "just" above, I in no way meant that to be pejorative. Both Eliza and GPT-3 are really cool, amazing technical achievements. But neither one represents much progress towards GAI (IMHO) except insofar as they show that naive approaches like this won't work. Which is really useful to know.
You got the joke! ;-)
Because legalizing doesn’t mean a greenlight.

Cigarettes and alcohol harm those near them, but there are stiff regulations in place, there are social stigmas attached, and heavy legal consequences.

The legalization gives the government the funding to actually do something about it in proportion to demand.

We already have seen this during prohibition. It’s either regulate demand, or pretend that it can be banned and let a non government entity rise up and take power.
Innovation is an awful word because it means different things to different people.

Doesn't it just.

I approached someone in charge of innovation for a part of the UK's National Health Service. I offered some software (at no cost to them until they were content it met a need) based on a project I'd worked on in a different part of the public sector where the same idea had been successful. I was turned away, not because it wasn't actually innovative, but because to the NHS innovation meant funding deployment of commercially successful, mature software with existing customers and I didn't own the software from the previous project so I'd written a new (and improved) version.

It still puzzles me. I occasionally wonder how much time he must spend turning away people who have innovation ideas wondering why companies with mature products aren't calling his innovation department.
Most large companies encourage testing in prod. It's called split test. Clearly precursor to that is staging, and precursor to that is integration tests and whatnot. But none of that catches what you can with a/b test, and great monitoring.
Also, many people like Journals and plain text because these methods don't lend themselves to blaming the tool. They force you to think about the problem rather than the tool.

Plain text doesn't fix note-taking any more than it can fix to-do lists. Again, there's no tool to blame.
It's completely made up. But I am unable to flag it.
Quite apart from Turing tests and the search for AI, chatbots and NN-trained language models could be quite useful to provide inspiration and points of departure for authors, poets, comedians, and songwriters.

It's a pity that AI technologies aren't more widely available to artists, authors, and musicians.
that would be against what brexit was voted for. the idea at least the one politicians were selling was that it would help improve local production by making EU products less competitive.
Ah, my bad, sorry.
What front-end framework (Poll with over 200 votes)
How can we ever know from now on if something was actually written by a human? This gives me ... discomfort.
Try 100,000. And it’s a civil war mixed with jihadism. You can’t attribute all violence to the US.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/...
I recently discover that mesmerize is also named after a person

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Mesmer
That’s really close to what the article says. It also suggests flexing the feature in Prod, which is a totally valuable thing.

The article is mostly about the “Chuck it over the fence” mentality some developers and engineering cultures have about code that has shipped into production.
Not the maintainer but a longer time gamer:

That’s just how Worms was originally (eg the DOS game) because that’s how turn based games were originally paced. A large part of that will obviously be due to the capabilities of systems back in the day but it was also that a lot of games weren’t so fast paced as they are now.

You see a similar thing with beat em ups too. Take Street Fighter 2 on the SNES then look at Capcom games on every console each generation after and there is a noticeable difference in how the pace increases with each new release. Same is true for a lot of other genres too.
Depends on school, district, grade level, etc. If I walked into any school in the country and saw it not/occurring, I would not be surprised or perturbed at all. It's just kinda part of life.

Think how Japan does calisthenics before work/school every morning. Not everyone does it, but enough do that it's kinda just part of Japan.
> If you are in an organization filled with vindictive employees, I recommend terminating them all if you have the power, or finding a new place to work.

Finding and terminating toxic employees is the single best thing every company should do to improve its health, but few do. Probably because some of the most toxic people are very skilled at looking good to their superiors while causing huge amounts of damage.
In Miami there is a bar called Churchill’s (Sometimes called the CBGBs of the South) in Little Haiti, not exactly the safest neighborhood in the world But that only adds to its charm.

On Monday nights for god knows how long they have had jazz nights on the inside and open mic nights on the outside. Not mathematical and scientific pursuits, but the greatest art I’ve ever had the pleasure of experiencing being created before my eyes And to me that makes it a place of intellectual pursuits (I’ve always called it the future of culture).

Just as an example I believe Marylin Manson had his official debut at churchill’s. I once watched a kid (wouldn’t be surprised if he was 17 and still in high school) walk up on stage in a dress with a harmonica and guitar...and I’d swear he’d give bob dylan a run for his money. And in all likelihood no one will even know this kids name or be moved/influenced by his music. One of the important things to take away from this article is the reality Newton was in his 40’s before he was “discovered“ living in near isolation as a unregarded professor and it was by happenstance Newton became Sir Newton (having already solved a problem his peer happened to be discussing and the challenge issued).

My insight would actually be these types of groups are everywhere, getting together and discussing and pursuing their passions with other likeminded people, it’s just unless you share the same passion or they are lucky enough to be discovered and transcend to be embraced by society at large they will simply be lost to history like Newton might have been.

Be the change you want to see in the world, I’d start maybe by going to a local university (covid may complicate this) and personally invite a number of professors from various fields to the campus bar for an open mic night. MC it but don’t put any restrictions, if they want to talk about work fine, if they want to read their own poetry fine, I think you’ll be surprised how quickly people in such an environment will share their unknown and undiscovered talents.
Conversely, Porsche is named for Ferdinand Porsche and not the female name.
Can RL from Pixels Be as Efficient as RL from State?
> Can we have opinions on our clothes without having to give every random person on the Internet a full justification?

If you phrase them as universals, thereby implicitly criticizing everyone who has different tastes, expect pushback from everyone whose tastes disagree.

If you phrase it as personal preference and accept the less dramatic expression that that supports, you’ll get less pushback.

If you phrase it as a universal and then have an offended response to the pushback because people should respect the difference in tastes, then, well, you've got a reasonable complaint but are directing it in the wrong direction.
That's before you get to WTO MFN which would mean we would have to reduce tariffs to zero not just for the EU but for the whole of the world, so our farmers would be competing against low wages everywhere. It would devastate our farmers in short order.
As opposed to everyone else's manipulation of op-eds...? 'Manipulation of opinion by editorial' is kind of the point of 'opinion-editorial' sections. If we go through the NYT op-ed page for the past 5 years, would we find more positive or negative mentions of Google and Facebook?
> Disco Elyseum

Thanks for reminding me of it! I loved it. I didn't finish it though and might come back to it.
Remdesivir will cost insurers $520 for a single vial. Production cost: 93 cents
Obviously you should do what you feel comfortable with, but now is a good time to go the doctor and get that checked out. The numbers are pretty low and stable for the moment. And FWIW, I had surgery last week so I'm not giving advice that I wouldn't follow myself.
There seem to be two meanings of “unexpected” not being differentiated here:

1) name-derived terms like Debian, or the French ‘poubelle’ in the comments, which have become genericized to the point where most of its users don’t know the derivation

2) a more interesting subset of (1), like PageRank, or Lake Mountain in the comments, where part or all of the name itself looks like a normal word appropriate for the situation. (a related concept is nominative determinism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism)
.de tends to be the "catch-all" Amazon for EU, and I suspect would be used for Ireland, as it is available in English (which .it, .fr etc aren't).
Queen Elizabeth I was president of the United States in 1600.
Do You Dare Switch Jobs in the Coronavirus Economy?
My suggestion for beginners would be to write modules inline and then use the IDE refactor command (IntelliJ plugin has that) to move them to another file. This is the best way to "get it".
> the question is why nobody fixed this yet

Because fixing it would be a breaking change to the archive format.
It’s only a bit surprising because it makes perfect sense if you think about it: memory is where the future happens, not just the past. You need a good working (I guess the human term would be short-term) memory to plan ahead. The better it is, the better plans you can make because you can analyze more futures/longer futures.
I’ve set-up an iPhone’s Shortcuts workflow which basically replicates the shell script above. Works very well. Reading on mobile is a bit painful, but doable, and I mostly do it at a computer anyway.
Ńdébé: a modern writing system for the Ìgbò language
It is a bit unfortunate that your comment is now at the top - it spoils the test :)

Saying that, I briefly saw the first sentence of your comment and went to read the article with the idea that trickery was afoot, specifically guessing correctly the nature of the article. And yet, even then, on the back foot... it fooled me. Incredible.
Oh forgot about Russians in Syria: http://sn4hr.org/blog/2019/09/30/54271/
The real spam prevention will always go back to reputation and web of trust. Even people writing for urbit understand this. The idea that $10 solves everything is silly. Ultimately the $10 thing (and even the limit to the number of planets) is impotent in the face of natural reputation.

> By convention, booted addresses are expected to have some existing reputation outside of their name alone, since they’ve been used on the network. Reputation, good and bad, comes in many forms. Did the address operate any useful infrastructure? Did it get placed on any blacklists for spam or abuse? Did it simply send and receive messages? The ability to programatically track reputation is still in its infancy, but we expect the tooling to develop as urbit grows.

https://urbit.org/blog/value-of-address-space-pt3/

This is to say that you do not need limited address space or even a cost barrier to have spam prevention.
Archive.is: http://archive.is/wip/AOSTK
I've tried dozens and none work better for me than

$EDITOR $HOME/txt/note

where $EDITOR is Good. The only thing I want from a notes app is to sync txt with my phone, let me edit the files and do exactly nothing else. They all fail.

Side note: there was a laughing emoji in the previous text but HN removes it. Anyone know why that might be?
None of those use the food an adjective /adjacent nickname. They are all possessives.
Very much agree with this. The idea of separating the "dump" phase from the "organize" or "refine" phase has been an inspiration for what we're building at Bytebase: https://medium.com/@bytebase/an-iterative-approach-to-notes-....
It always baffles me when people claim "Paki" is an ethnic slur when used for Pakistani citizens. Do you consider "Brit" for a British citizen to be an ethnic slur as well?
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