skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a tough problem for companies. At my last job there was an "advanced concepts" group which had a lot of freedom and latitude, but they had a poor reputation for not really producing anything useful. The few things they did produce had to basically be redone since the quality of engineering wasn't ready for production.

I'm not sure how to fix that, since lack of freedom wasn't the problem! It probably is just making sure that the right people are leading.

I also don't know how to reduce other engineering groups more focused on practical projects resenting the innovation group working on more fun, low stress projects. That is a hard political problem.
When is the world going to get rid of coronavirus?
The model is not without its fair share of criticisms. Check out this section on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Cr...
Anyone considered “profoundly gifted”, ie IQ over 145, would shudder at the idea of being associated with Mensa. It’s basically an organization for moderately intelligent people with self-esteem issues who like to think they are rare geniuses.
I recently watched Enemy of the State which came out in 1999 and the level of technology and spying was really surprising to me. I wonder how many people at the time thought the government’s ability was overstated for the movie.

Also kind of crazy they were using “terrorism” as a guise for invading our privacy even before 9/11.
Blocking ads mostly results in a much better user experience. Pages are faster, fewer annoyances (and popups), sometimes bypassing paywalls, etc.

For blocking ads, I only trust and use the following on Firefox (and some other browsers):

1. uBlock Origin (not to be confused with uBlock, as the article also says)

2. Privacy Possum (this is a fork of Privacy Badger)

3. The browser's tracking protection enabled.

Combine this with NextDNS (or LittleSnitch if you're on macOS) for blocking ads at the DNS level and you're set for a good experience. Sometimes a few sites will refuse to work when their trackers from these blocklists are blocked. If it's a news site or blog, I just abandon the site. If it's a site that I need to use, it takes less than a couple of minutes to figure out what to unblock.
That would require some more advanced tech though. I don't think GPT-3 can target divisiveness yet, especially since it would heavily depend on the community you're writing for, e.g. driving a wedge into the general population is very different than driving a wedge niches. The Linux vs Windows debate might get you engagement in a tech forum, but it'll fall short with social housing activists, and whatever issues they split on will probably not get you anywhere with the tech crowd.
I’m not sure what you mean by “wrong there too”, that was my first comment on this topic.
21 years ago?! I'm officially old now.
Hello Grogers,

Thank you for the feedback. When reading the literature I came to the impression that a single processor need not agree with others on which valid interleaving is observed. I could be wrong about this. Can you provide me any sources that helped you come to your conclusion? I will read thru and edit the post accordingly.
I did the same and invented MapReduce a few years before the Google paper. I had a different fault tolerance model because the programs only needed a half dozen machines to run to completion, but the programing model was the same.

It was so obviously the only way to handle datasets larger than RAM that I assumed it was common knowledge.

I reinvented database query execution engines and an informal relational algebra on top of SQL a few years later. That thing was basically a JSON service API, except it used a home grown XML RPC layer (it was closer to modern approaches than the XML RPC standards being pushed at the time).

Since then, I’ve developed an appreciation for good marketing people.
Serious Eats is the best!
I definitely would not say zstd has replaced xz, but it is on its way too. I'm not sure it is even the best replacement because the needs of packages differ from the strengths of zstd. Zstd is designed to optimize for both compression and decompression (i.e. It does neither spectacularly but has very good/pareto trade offs) while packages are very much written once and read many times. If xz weren't so memory intensive to decompress it would be a good choice (ie it's not a good choice), but I feel like there is still a better option out there that approaches the problem from a "optimize for size at the expense of heavy compression costs" and zstd is not it
Except it looks like the union is successful at defending members and police overall.
Some of that comes from the political deadlock that came out of the referendum result. Once the process got hard, there was a feeling of "just make this pain stop!" and the result was the 2019 election.

I do recall some conversations (with Leave voters, no less!) where it was felt the government shouldn't have wasted our time asking us. It's not the public's job to understand the details of international relations, yet it was foisted on the people. In spite of that, the government got it's answer, so just do it!
All deleted notes go to a "recently deleted" folder in which they will stay for 30 days.
Although they could be permanently deleted from there and then it is really gone...
StevenWaterman , 2 questions:

- I assume that you yourself never became sick during this period, despite being in close proximity to her?

-Did you wife have other preexisting conditions?
It's not a summary by number of words, but it if someone doesn't want to read the article, it's what I want them to be aware of.

It's frustrating the number of silly things you can do at the command line that persist for backwards compatibility reasons. But we can at least add warnings for them. It would have been much better for the user to have been told at the time they failed to add a netmask that they made a mistake. It would have removed the need for the support ticket entirely (at least, one hopes so.)

mkswap is another example of this. Karel Zak had thoughtfully added warnings in swapon already if you enabled swap with insecure permissions https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.g... but nobody had bothered to warn at the time the swap file was actually created. So I had someone add that: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.g...
One of the interesting unique features of Worms Armageddon is that it somehow has the ability to predict the results of various elections:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Trlf2He3c
Very interesting article, if a bit worrying for the UK's economy in the short/medium term.

I think it could well be right that they're hoping for the (likely impossible) blink from the EU, but between that, the heavy political toll a US trade deal would require (it would have a big impact on the UK farming community+possibly other areas) and the expanding spat with China, it's really not shaping up to be a good period, economically speaking.
Diversification with Altcoins Is an Illusion as They Depend on Bitcoin’s Success
World's highest dwelling mammal is yellow-rumped mouse at 22k feet in Andes
Funnily enough, I don’t think there is a really good one. There’s lots that almost do it but not quite.
- Evernote: no note linking
- Bear: lovely but no web or android version
- OneNote: appalling in the way only MS can be
- SimpleNotes: too simple
- Zoho: too ...urgh
- Keep: too Googley
- Apple notes: too Appley
- Standard Notes: too buggy

I’m clearly a fussy sod. But really, just a nice, oss, local files, ability to encrypt, x-platform apps: surely not too much to ask....?
From the Wikipedia article:

"There are also cases where the principle appears to have an effect, but weakly...In the United Kingdom, the SDP–Liberal Alliance, and later Liberal Democrats, between the February 1974 and 2015 elections obtained 1–10% of seats forming a third party, albeit with significantly fewer seats.[16] This share of seats is despite gathering around a fifth of votes consistently over the same time period.

In the UK there is no president and thus no unifying election to force party mergers and regional two-party systems are formed. This is because Duverger's law says that the number of viable parties is one plus the number of seats in a constituency."
I've tried a lot of note taking apps over the last 8 years. Over the past few months I've become less fussed about the tools and more focused on the process: I now have a file for each week (I call it a journal or weekly notes), with a heading for each day of the week, and a sub-heading for each meeting/conversation/thing I'm thinking about. At the each week, as part of my weekly review (GTD), I review the weekly notes file. I scan my notes for each meeting/etc. and consider whether I need to do anything with them: I often have to create a task; sometimes I want to hang on to something so I move it into an evergreen note [1] on the topic (at the moment, I have one for work, and one for personal, but I expect I'll split these out as they accumulate). But for most things in my weekly notes, no action is necessary and I'll probably never look at them again (unless I need to refer back to something someone said later, which is easy to find if I wrote it).

So far it's working pretty well for me. I think the key is the regular review/processing.

I think I could implement this in just about any tool, so long as there's an easy way to quickly add an entry with a timestamp to the current weekly note file. I happen to use org-mode in emacs for this with org-journal (using doom emacs, only switched a couple months ago) but other tools would work just as well I bet.

[1]: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4SDCZQeRo4xFEQ8H4qrSqd68ucp...
Request for Technically Risky Projects
What technical projects do you think should exist in the world? What hard problems exist in your field? Where do you think the frontiers of science/technology lie?

I'm interested in learning about hard technical problems you think are worth solving.
You are in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise, it is crawling towards you. You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you are not helping. Why is that?
It’s not exactly what the quote says - 90% of the traffic goes through nodes _controlled by Erlang_. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17218190
This is a Big Deal in MRI image reconstruction. As the MR scanner samples in the frequency domain (or k-space, in the nomenclature) one can significantly accelarete MR exams by using C/S reconstruction. The only restriction is that the sampling mask is random. This causes incoherent artifacts in image space, which can be removed by denoising the image in a sparse domain, e.g. wavelets. See also the work by Lustig et al. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mrm.21391
Reading thru the posts here, I realize that what we ought to be searching for isn't what makes us smarter but what makes us more able.
Humans have much more context at their perusal than a simple prompt.
I was just remembering I played worms on a slot loading Pentium two last... I sound like the guys taking about PDP-11 access when I was a kid.
I think I will write that software and push to github at some time.

The one I have is $500 and rather well built, it's simply criminal to throw away so much material due to a stupid switch being broken.
>Discovery of the world's highest-dwelling mammal

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/07/15/2005265117
The system just works as designed. https://chomsky.info/commongood02/
Why Slack wins with Rimeto while Microsoft does not with LinkedIn?
Covid-19 – No one knows why Thailand has been spared
This won't result in any security related bug, you'd be updating the referenced version instead of a copied version. Both testing and use of the written code will show this "bug" if it's in fact a bug for this specific codebase. So now the question is, does rusts difficult learning curve warrant removing this "maybe" bug? There are other things to consider as well, memory fragmentation, performance etc. Have you measured the performance of code that both copies and updates?
https://youtu.be/DGUDXs8Z31A
This seems like a counterproductive example. The author points out that the module system ignores the directory structure for good reasons, then demonstrates a complicated way to set up a module tree that mirrors the directory structure! It’s just reinforcing the complaint the author is trying to argue against. A better example would show why you wouldn’t want to just automatically derive the module tree from the filesystem.
>As if it’s not hard enough to make very small robots that can , once you’ve gotten the power and autonomy all figured out (good luck with that), your robot isn’t going to be all that useful unless it can carry some payload.

The very first sentence doesn't make any sense. I think there's a word missing. Also, the writing style throughout the article is choppy and hard to read. Too many commas?
Taking notes is a process. If you're tired of the apps, then you haven't put enough thought into the process. The available apps are fine.

Picking a tool to solve a problem is the opposite approach to how you solve the problem. You instead need to define the problem and then find the tool which is the best fit. If you're frustrated with the tool, then you might need to put more thought into the problem.
> In the given example, if Cisco were to transfer the innovator to another division, give him some money, on the same terms and conditions as a VC, perhaps it would have borne fruit.

Cisco actually has a program like this. They maintain right of first refusal to acquire the resulting company, and call them spin-ins.

I think the problem is that they won’t fund things that directly compete with one of their own products, even when their existing offering is terrible.

To do that, they’d have to admit the product is terrible, and that upper management isn’t competent enough to fix it.
Innovation is an awful word because it means different things to different people.

In my experience, end of the day, “innovation” or “creating value” or “getting shit done” boils down to solving problems. It could be big problems like fundamental research or little problems like moving a desk in an office.

Either way, big organizations, private or public sector, create their own problems that are difficult to solve. Inefficient or dumb process sticks around until times are tough because the process gives someone power.
Thank you for the clarification. What simonh is trying to say is that from the western side of the Iron Curtain, we failed to differentiate the second world, often referring by synechdoche[1] even to Warsaw Pact members, let alone the various республик, as "russia".

прімер: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union
"In the English-speaking world, the Soviet Union was also informally called Russia and its citizens Russians,[22] although that was technically incorrect since Russia was only one of the republics.[23] Such misapplications of the linguistic equivalents to the term Russia and its derivatives were frequent in other languages as well."

[1] similar to the way in which the logo from just one of New York's baseball teams can be considered as referring to the entire metropolitan area, an area which, strictly speaking, spreads over three distinct US states.

PS. For what it's worth, I could easily see our "Festbank" village fêtes in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXI_T_9uU6s . We may be alcoholics, but not being savages, we also eat while we drink. Apart from folkloric costume, the biggest difference I could observe is that we have copious amounts of melted cheese along with our pickles and potatoes.
This is why there exist variants of chess purposely designed to change that dynamic such as a fully randomized initial placement of pieces.
That always baffled me. Never bothered to check. Thanks.
obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/927/
Matthew Sadler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Sadler
I just use whatever comes with the phone, never understood the "market" of note taking apps.
Show HN: Dendron – a roam like open source markdown note taking app
Ask HN: What's your favorite HN post?
Been asked several times but interested to see references to more recent posts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12496558

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3996652

Have any Hacker News threads ever truly changed your perspective on life, or technology? Post them please.
I loved apple notes, and have used it for years. I left (for joplin) because there was no easy way to do an export/backup without scripts or workarounds.

I don't use the document scanner tho :(
Yes of course it does. So does listening to classical music and having leather-bound Shakespeare volumes in a home library.
“I use gendered language because coding is a men's job, women belong in the kitchen! ;-). No, just joking. Women are also welcome to become Citrine users. I just think the opening sentence is beautiful, it combines the concepts of male and female in a lovely, natural way ignoring today's PC-bullshit.”

Dude, really. If you gave a crap about effective communication you would not just have said that.

Hell, you would not even have thought of saying that; never mind typing it, reading it back to yourself, and then hitting Post cos you still think it’s a good idea. SMH

Your enthusiasm is admirable but your limited expertise is clearly showing. Instead of saying that you’re here to answer our questions, you should be the one who’s listening to our criticisms and then asking searching questions of us. A bit more humility and a lot less hubris. You and your product will be a lot better for it.
These days everyone uses basically the same 15 or 18 with extruded upper and polymer or milled lower, with only subtle differences as piston at the front or in the BCG, or buffer at the butt or above in double, or lock in multilug or trilug, what kind of innovation and in which direction is going to break this plateau?
Agile did it. Developers became resources to be pluged into existing projects sprints.

Want it quickier just add more resources.
> The same applies to video game training

Eh? I read the introduction/summary of the linked article, it appears to say not that there's a failure to transfer, but that it depends on the game:

> Enhancing perceptual and attentional skills requires common demands between the action video games and transfer tasks
Adam C. Oei and Michael D. Patterson*
Division of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Despite increasing evidence that shows action video game play improves perceptual and cognitive skills, the mechanisms of transfer are not well-understood. In line with previous work, we suggest that transfer is dependent upon common demands between the game and transfer task. In the current study, participants played one of four action games with varying speed, visual, and attentional demands for 20 h. We examined whether training enhanced performance for attentional blink, selective attention, attending to multiple items, visual search and auditory detection. Non-gamers who played the game (Modern Combat) with the highest demands showed transfer to tasks of attentional blink and attending to multiple items. The game (MGS Touch) with fewer attentional demands also decreased attentional blink, but to a lesser degree. Other games failed to show transfer, despite having many action game characteristics but at a reduced intensity. The results support the common demands hypothesis.

Given that this linkage appears to be misleading, it's hard to take the conclusions of the article seriously; what else are they misleading the reader about?
> Creating value out of nothing is way harder than simply not screwing up existing value.

I disagree. Not screwing up existing value is way harder than simply creating value out of nothing.
I was thinking the same thing until those animated dots continued to fly around the screen while I was trying to read the words. A strange design choice...
This post, which has a title that could be construed as critical of the protesters, has been flagged. You can search "portland" by date at HN and find many other stories about the unrest which have not been flagged. Articles are being flagged based on politics.
Just use a piece of paper. What's so hard about that?
Data comes in, response is determined by the associations built up in the brain both over the subject’s own life time and all of evolution.

I don’t see the need to add some mystical third component, sounds to me like philosophers just made up something to talk about because they don’t get paid unless they have something to talk about.

From wiki:

Examples of qualia include the perceived sensation of pain of a headache, the taste of wine, as well as the redness of an evening sky.

Nothing here seems to be above and beyond simple developed response to stimuli, same as a meal worm.
Light years away from being useful.
The ability to do these tasks is neither necessary nor sufficient for recognizing something as human. Helen Keller was human after all. What differentiates us is language.
In capitalism there isn't really isn't a need for a 'winner', its not zero sum. Britain and Germany would have been both 100x better of to not fight any idiotic wars over strategically worthless land in the Balkans.

Many people from both sides realized this but the German leadership sadly was of a more conservative mindset.
Irresistin: A “poison arrow” to defeat antibiotic resistance
Are there any note apps still around that take an endless tape approach? It seems like everyone's gone away from it, but my mind still works best with endless tape + tags + search.
I think you could even generalize that a bit, and say that limits tend to foster creativity.

My best software designs happen when I'm taking notes on paper, and I think it's largely what you say - I can't write as fast as I can think, which more or less forces me to think more carefully.

The founder of You Need a Budget makes a similar argument about budgeting and not spending on credit - the financial limits encourage you to manage your entire lifestyle more creatively.

It's often observed that small, scrappy, hungry companies tend to come up with more creative solutions than large, well-capitalized corporations, and even observed that formerly small and creative startups seem to lose that spark as the money rolls in.

There's that section in The Odyssey with the island of the lotus-eaters.

Speaking of poetry, I suspect that many poets would say that their creativity is enhanced by working within the limits imposed by a poetic form.
The issue with the chinese room thought experiment is that it does not take algorithmic complexity into account. The experiment describes a dumb lookup table, the table size would grow exponentially with the number of input output combinations. While NNs encodings allowing them to store the same information in a sub-exponential manner.
The most efficient manner to translate chinese is to understand chinese including every-day nuances that might be relevant to the translations. Just like a human translator can benefit from knowledge in the field about the text which he is translating.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.136...
How I Made My First App