skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My capture templates are here https://github.com/karlicoss/dotemacs/blob/d3d26d4315868298b...

, but sleep logging is in a 'private' config for some reason, so I'll just paste it here:

(setq --my/extra-capture-templates
'(("s"
"sleep"
table-line
(file+headline "/path/to/capture.org" "sleep table")
"| %U | %? | | | |")))

"sleep table" is the heading, under which the table is contained. So:

- I press the capture hotkey (F4 for me)

- then 's' which prompts me for a table line

- %U automatically substitutes the timestamp

- the cursor is placed at %? (second column), so I can just log whatever I need to, tab for the next column, and then finish capture
We used to do that in America when I was a kid. Then parents got scared and now “free range parenting” is a fringe idea.
I mean, on the face of it, Trump's taxes leaking seems likely, almost inevitable, and surprising it hadn't happened sooner. He has no shortage of people who have seen his taxes, and no shortage of disgruntled folks. Whereas a conveniently placed laptop just left somewhere with incriminating emails seems to test credulity. The laptop seems like a foreign psyop, the taxes seems like something everyone thought inevitable, and that he told us he was going to do himself.

There's a reason that sources remain anonymous, and I'm not sure I see an equivalency here. Look at what happened to Lt. Colonel Vindman. It seems like having a standard of "you must lose your livelihood to alert the world to something" might be a good way to keep all sorts of secrets bottled up, to everyone's detriment.
Precisely - physical distance is not a relevant measure.
wow, that is truly amazing!
> This seems similar in some way to Google deleting the Cloud Print service that my printer I paid $300 for uses.

Oh boy, you'd be pissed to learn that IFTTT crippled their free tier, especially of you bought many IoT devices with the "Works with IFTTT" label on it.

One thing to always keep in mind when you buy a device is to never buy it because of a specific service, but for its standalone capabilities.
Better Anki Decks with Orgmode
Obviously CC stream is not readily searchable if you record it with a video camera.
Thanks for noticing! The one I wish had done better was about the classic Iranian singer Googoosh, lots of great music referenced there: https://magazine.vinylmeplease.com/magazine/googoosh-story-e...
Yeah I don't get the author's point either. Is having to always buy the latest software/peripheral an advantage? Maybe for Apple, not for the user.
This is exactly what I found with subreddits.
Yes, in the tech industry there is a power imbalance - but in the favor of the employee!
Hey! Not done! Won't hit commits! Awesome to know!
You know those stories about cities emptying out and leasing prices dropping?

Thats because millions of people are moving in the middle of a pandemic, even inviting movers into their homes and driving shared uhaul trucks.

If you’re “at risk” then caveat emptor, if not then “middle of a pandemic” is not an excuse for everything.
One way car rentals are expensive AF.
I once heard some good advice that I'm going to repeat: when someone tells you who they are, you should listen. The GOP is telling us who they are with their party platform.

Anyway, I hear what you're saying a lot, and yet:

- The GOP enables Texas social workers to refuse LGBTQ clients[1]

- The Trump administration allows doctors to discriminate against LGBTQ people[2]

- The Trump administration allows taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to turn away LGBTQ parents[3][4]

- The Trump administration targets homeless trans people[5]

But most importantly, and directly to your point:

- In October of this year, conservative Supreme Court justices chose to speak out against Obergefell[6] at length, for four whole pages, while deciding not to hear another case[7]

[1] https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/14/texas-social-workers...

[2] https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/4/24/21234532/trump-admi...

[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trump-admin-s-adopti...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avgFhrHqBWM

[5] https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/7/2/21311179/trump-hud-r...

[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/us/politics/thomas-alito-...

[7] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-c...
That's a lazy way to justify any anti-consumer practice
> brainstorming without technology.

But what are pen and paper but really old technology? :-) And given they were able to revolutionize human thought, it seems possible that other such wins are out there, waiting for us to find them.

(I do agree with the sentiment that pen/pencil are currently the best we've got along multiple axes, probably with the exception of search.)
They do have holding cells in the Capitol Building as I recall, and Congress can refer things to DoJ. If the President stonewalls, there may be some need for someone to get creative, but the Courts are unlikely to intervene in any obstructive fashion whatsoever.
Running a 40-plus-year-old piece of code in today's browser
Archive.is link

https://archive.is/aOgnG
So let's say you're a university, and you want to host a controversial person. Let's say they are a white supremacist, militia type, or a terrorist or former terrorist, or whatever.

You conduct a legal analysis and believe you're not breaking any laws by doing this, and are prepared to defend this in court if necessary.

Large in-person gatherings are not an option in 2020, so is there a "decentralized" videochat platform that the university can use and host themselves, so that they bear the entire legal risk?
Heh, I appreciate that! And that's the exact reason I included the other options in my comment. There's a lot of good competition, I'm happy there's more :)
No, that would be a different argument. If a vaccine does not exist, no one has the choice to get it, which is a very different situation.
I lived in Michigan until I was 35 and moved south in 2013. I have a litany of reasons for moving including soul-crushing endless winters, lack of reasonable summer, depressed economy, and a political landscape without an identity and with an extremely short memory (shorter than average in my view). I also spent my summers in Northern Michigan camping and have extremely fond memories of that. For the beauty that Michigan offers, you have to really, really enjoy the winter months and do OK with a lack of sun to make it there. I struggled something awful with Seasonal Affective Disorder [1] as an adult along with Vitamin D deficiency [2]. It's also worthwhile to look at things like insurance rates, vehicle registration, and cost of utilities for the municipalities listed. Take into account school systems if you have little ones - Michigan is not widely considered to have the best around, and routinely ranks in the bottom 1/3 of the States [3].

I clearly have a lot of bias against Michigan, so please take this for what it's worth. I did try to provide some backing for my bias, but I spent a long time saving to escape and if there's anyone aligned with my concerns, I hope I saved them a trip they'd regret.

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/seasonal-affe...
[2] https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Michigan/annual-days-...
[3] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education
I use, but I don't find that I really need to track daily TODO's most of the time. But when I have lots of small-tasks to manage, I turn back to it. I do think that emacs and org-mode can lend themselves to excessive yak-shaving; but if you get everything working, then maybe you can settle into it. I did use org-mode to track my pathfinder roleplaying character, which worked fine.

I've tried using it for document production, but found it too restrictive. I've not tried it for literate programming, as I still find RStudio and MATLAB better for IDE's for R and MATLAB respectively.
I passed along this thread to Ritchie, so hopefully he can chime in as he has time. We actually talk quite a bit about Neuralink, and have colleagues that work there.

Speaking for myself, I love to see the resources increased in this area of research, but am nervous that expectations are too high. Brain surgery for a consumer product seems pretty far off and the early applications will almost have to be medically motivated. That said, Neuralink seems to be doing a phenomenal job in productizing and further developing off of current electrode techniques. I hope the technology becomes available for the research community!

Re noninvasive human neuroimaging, fMRI, fNIRS, MEG, or EEG are your best bet today. fMRI is probably the best of these in terms of what can be decoded from thoughts/perception, and has the highest spatial resolution. I think these have come down in size as to fit in a van, but certainly not very mobile and require powerful magnets. They also capture a proxy of neural activity, the blood oxygenation level, a proxy for neural activity.

ipad dying so will try to update this comment in a bit...

Edit (continued):

> Could ML / signal processing increase the resolution of EEGs? Could we ever extract video signal from an EEG?

The skull acts as a low pass filter and most of the high information content resides at higher frequencies. This seems to make it impossible to decode, say, speech or imagery from the brain’s activity. No ML can save you from a low pass filter.

> Can an EEG induce perception into a brain?

EEG is a recording technique, but tCDS has some mixed evidence for increasing alertness. Transcranial magnetic stimulation definitely can trigger a percept if done over visual cortex, but it’s not very fine in detail. Targeted ultrasound may do better in the future.

> With regard to optogenetics, what are the things currently being studied with the technique? What pressing questions can it be used to answer? Are there any improvements to the technique that could push it further?

So much to say here, will direct you to our lab website for a brief sampling
https://web.stanford.edu/group/dlab/publications.html
As an exercise, try and read the different translations of the bible, you'll notice that it's easy to have different meanings just because different translators interpreted the text differently. Even with a single translation, it's completely possible to interpret different parts of the bible in different ways. Fundamentalists take one extreme interpretation and tend to only acknowledge the parts of the text that seem to agree with them and ignore the ones that don't.

It's the same with the Quran, the Torah, the Bardo Thodol. Religious text tend to have a lot of allegories and ambiguous texts that are ripe for different interpretations...

And someone who is religious could always easily claim that god may be perfect and omniscient but men are fallible and that the text has been imperfectly re transcribed over time (the oldest copy of the complete Bible, the Codex Vaticanus is from the 4th century for example).

But then again, I don't think in absolutes and that's why I'm an agnostic... I don't find any religion likely but I can't claim to know everything and be completely sure that there is no god, or entity or whatever.
I wonder if the hacker themselves was a patient in the database. Do they have a grudge? Obviously they have mental health issues themselves and likely have been to a therapist themselves already. Maybe that is where they got the idea?
It's free! You only get into having to pay for it once you hit a device threshold (I have a bunch of devices and haven't hit the limits). You can also run a controller yourself, therefore it's free even for super large networks.
As someone who recently (-ish) moved to Oak Ridge, TN where we still have shitty Comcast and AT&T service I really wish we had what Chattanooga has. I love the area, but I do not love the internet service providers I have to choose from.
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Is this better or no different than the good old days of flame wars in bbs and irc? At least one had anonymity back then.

It’s like living in bizarro world now.
Sure, but someone is being blocked while traveling temporarily, they can log in again once they travel back to their place of residence. I don't see why geo-blocking is unreasonable.
Landing pages are not a super interesting problem to solve design-wise, they've have been optimized for decades now, to a point where most creativity goes to content and copywriting.

Of course you can make it really special, but I assume anything that requires extra developer hours will be prioritized against other requirements.

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That being said, this '4 decades dated to 1 decade dated' is not an useful way to criticize a design. Great design is atemporal.

You could try to mention specific things do you don't like about it. Or at the very least, emotions it causes in you.
seems like this user only created a HN account to pull apart the privacy policy statements...

Although good and constructive criticism, it is harsh on a team that is trying to launch something into this world, and scares off other users considering this service. I bet one could go through the privacy statement of a large co like youtube / facebook and nitpick similar issues. Of course it should be aligned, although i think it never is, a privacy statement is definitely not a reflection of how good a product’s security is.

Best of luck to you and your team!
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Congress could arrest the agency's officials one at a time, and keep them in jail, until they get to one who decides to fulfill their duty to the nation.
Your last comment is a true statement but it isn't an argument. Just because X11 was done in the age of terminals and before gpus existed doesn't seem to support your point unless "old = bad" in your view. I understand how type systems can help, some patterns are good, but some of those ideas existed before X11 actually, so no period of time has a monopoly on good ideas.
The police in the UK are exceptionally unlikely to shoot you, whatever your colour, leaving you free to pursue your wrongful arrest case with a side-order of claiming it was racially motivated via either (mostly) free legal aid or a number of specialist no-win-no-fee lawyers.
> Statistically minorities are also undervalued in terms of investment

Have you considered starting a venture capital fund that does a better job of investing in businesses that existing capital allocation underinvests in? Again, failing to invest enough in businesses that are worth the investment should be bad business, and companies that fail in that way should face competition from companies that don't.
Rarely get articles from Medium.
Thanks, I will try. I love trains. I was in Europe this past year, and hopped around from city center to city center on 200km/h Trains. It was great.

I remember driving through Chicago as being frustrating too. I was going though the city maybe more than 10 years ago. It was actually super scary. Lots of construction on the highways. Lanes blocked off. And I remember a few times where I had to go from almost a stopped position, across a few lanes of full speed traffic, to get to an exit or a booth.
or http basic auth!
It varies and you can navigate around it by finding your niche (in small groups or one-on-one, people are more pleasant). But the ambient feeling of uptightness comes from a few things:

- Guarded, anxious personalities. It’s very rare to have random conversations with people, especially without them acting uncomfortable like you have an ulterior motive. Maybe this is part of city living, but on the west coast I regularly talked to people (something as simple as: in Portland, making small talk about the weather with another guy my age was somewhat jarring for me).

- People drive (and even walk) like they are the only person in the world that matters and that their head will explode if you delay them for 2 seconds. Be ready to have people aggressively tailgate you, prevent you from merging for no reason, etc. every single time you go anywhere.

- Intellectual snootiness / inflated egos / overindexing on status. I think living in the center of the political universe goes to peoples’ heads. The reality is that almost everyone is a cog that is trying in vain (almost always with good intentions) to improve the world.

- Conservative work/life norms. Like, people caring way too much about dress/appearances/etc. People behave like they’re being watched because, well, they probably are (so they don’t want to step out of line). Sometimes it feels like a pissing contest to see who can give off appearances of working harder (midnight emails, etc.)

- Insane heat and humidity in the summer understandably makes people agitated.

All that said, there are a huge number of things that are great about living there. And my views are tinted by the lens of social anxiety and the burnout I experienced there. Someone less sensitive than me may feel much differently.

I hope you enjoy your new city!
I guess if “looks fine” is the goal it definitely achieved that. There is definitely huge gap between software quality and design quality in the OSS work and I’m wondering why.
You would do that even with a GC language like Java. The serious performance code paths in Java also do meticulous memory management to minimize allocations, GC costs, and utilize off-heap memory (Netty comes immediately to mind).

In my opinion it’s the worst of both worlds at that point—you’ve got to manually manage memory and tip toe around the runtime.
Depends if Trump is still in office and influences her.
Here's the thing though: blackmail only works if you let it. Not everything a Congressperson could have in the closet is going to get them in any way removed from office. Once the intelligence community actually makes any good on any type of threat, congressional representatives no longer have any reason to play ball.

In short, blackmail doesn't work on the shameless.
Who is "they"? Are you asking about rysnc developers or filesystem developers?

For a filesystem the developers are free to innovate on any form of filesystem-wide block checksumming and content-addressed deduplication approach. This kind of global block-level content awareness is entirely decoupled from filenames and paths.

Using rsync to underpin a filesystem strikes me as a gross hack done by developers punting on the real challenges of modern filesystem development.

WRT rsync doing better than --fuzzy, the options are more limited since it's a userspace tool working within the confines of filesystem APIs like POSIX.
I’m fine with adding more originalists to the Supreme Court. We have democratic mechanisms to modify the constitution.
Yeah India tech is awesome and often over looked. They launched 20 some satellite in 2 weeks with very little money.

NASA and Elan you can learn some from the Indians!
http://tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TclCmd/try.htm
It wasn't a DMCA takedown notice. It was a DMCA section 1201 notice. Section 1201, which criminalizes circumvention of access controls, has nothing to do with copyright.

John Deere uses it to go after sellers of unauthorized replacement parts for their tractors.

Non-compliance is a felony carrying a 5 year / $500k punishment. Unlike takedown notices, there's no counter-notice opportunity for the receiving party. So if the receiving party believed the notice isn't valid, they'll need to argue that as a criminal defendant in criminal court.
Most companies consider data privacy and compliance to be a subset of security, yes.
Yes, because mortgage rate is essentally set by supply of funds buying mortgage bonds and demand of people getting mortgages.

The Central Bank could just buy the mortgage bonds by putting the mortgage on the asset side of the book and issuing currency on the liability side of the book. The Bank of Canada only does this to manipulate the overnight interest rate, on Government of Canada bonds. However, all rules have been thrown out the window these days.
If you'd told me 10 years ago that someone would be arrested for hate speech, I'd have ... believed you?
> * Doesn't have macros

> * Has types

Your words betray your ignorance. Common Lisp has a type system. Have you ever written it? Do you actually know anything about it? Moreover, macros are a plus - you clearly have not actually used Lisp macros, which are categorically different than macros in other languages.

> * Doesn't have parantheses and the annoying prefix notation

Spelling mistake. Additionally, the parenthesized syntax is a choice, and one that you get used to quickly. Subjective, and therefore not valid as one of the items you listed.

> * Your knowledge of SML can be translated easily to OCaml, Java, Scala, which are more or less part of the same family

Meanwhile, knowledge of Common Lisp transfers to almost every dynamically-typed language ever made, and a good many static ones - including Java and Scala - because Lisp influenced all of those languages. That is, Lisp knowledge transfers to far more languages than SML knowledge does.
The amount of someone's taxes isn't listed in Twitter's privacy policy. Whereas, phone numbers and email addresses are explicityly listed. The policy also makes clear its most important logic:

"Our primary aim is to protect individuals from coming to physical harm as a result of their information being shared ..."
Also money. It may not be much, but it surely factors into the Apple tax.

I'd rather have more effort and energy spent on the device.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1128048/india-launches-record-2...
> They're so much more expensive because they're niche. Not because of anything inherent to the product or producing it.

Careful, your ignorance is showing.
I’ll draw an analogy. Most tech firms will make you sign an NDA as a condition of employment. That doesn’t mean that you are forced to work there.
Note the use of chocolate cookies; I suspect these results would not hold if oatmeal raisin cookies were used instead.
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I read somewhere that the reason is that it helps to keep the social classes intact.
</Tinfoil hat>

However that doesn’t match my experience at all. I received pretty good financial education from my public middle school and public high school. I learned a ton about stock trading, business creation, and entrepreneurship. Just hosting a virtual stock trading simulation with the classrooms was plenty good enough. It forces you to become good at stock picking and asset allocation.
When you run into that problem with Go you stop dead because there is nothing to do.
>That incentivized jerking up to 12 mph whenever possible.

No it doesn't. Driving 12mph translates to 12 * 2.50 = $30/hour. Driving under 12mph translated to 60 * 0.5 = $30/hour. It's a smooth transition.
Honestly, if I'm going to move somewhere for money and work remotely the biggest incentive is zero personal income tax. For that, I'd rather move to Texas (Austin), Washington (Seattle), Florida (Miami), or Nevada (Las Vegas), all of which are also more appealing as city destinations than anything in Michigan.
I grew up in Saint Joseph unbelievably (which is one of the zip codes that qualify).

AMA if anyone is interested in this option (now live in California because of beforementioned soul crushing winters and love of mountains).

Great option for families primarily. Saint Joseph and Stevensville schools are extremely good (like at least private school in the bay area good). Beach life is great in the summer and the fresh water lakes are great if you are into sort of the fishing sort of outdoors. Houses are cheap with a huge amount of lawn (this can be viewed as a downside too).

That said, it is the midwest. You should like watching football and basketball. You should be ok hanging out with Republicans but it is only R leaning, not a crazy MAGA area. There is not a ton of bars and restaurants and church is a major factor in a lot of people's social lives. (But kids soccer games, super bowl parties, etc. are too.)
Thank you for your actually informed, well-reasoned, and thoughtful answer!
Jailing people for contempt of congress requires that the DOJ do its job in good faith. Barr was appointed partly to prevent this
Apparently not in Logan sadly.