skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A data point: 11 years of note taking → 1,860 notes.

I've been keeping notes for work in a structured way for quite some time.

I log everything that I might want to recall later (project/app ideas, active projects, meeting minutes, phone call logs, people/companies I interacted with).

Typically I use two methods for retrieval:

(1) full text search: I simply search for a keyword; most common access

(2) via backlinks: mostly for people when I need to figure out when I last talked to a person and what we agreed upon. I link the person in each meeting minute so that I get a list for links on the person's page.

Frequency of access:

- For active projects, pretty much each (work) day

- For older notes, infrequently, maybe once a month. The older a note becomes, the less likely it is that I will have to access it.

I started out with Circus Ponies Notebook, migrated to Scrivener, and two years ago started working on my own app, Life Notes[0] (I really wanted links and backlinks and the ability to keep regular files/PDFs next to my notes).

[0]: http://kitestack.com/lifenotes
Just to be clear, there's a lot of researchers making money that aren't producing squat. There are many AI ethicists I admire, and there are many that can't code, can't produce, and just spend their time getting into arguments with people like Yann LeCunn, who actually have produced groundbreaking research.
As I recall, that's how Mozy did it for online backups way back when. (I think it was encrypted in any case but they handled the key management by default.) They let you handle your own key if you wanted to but gave a stern warning if you elected to do that.
This seems like more of a sad story of people needing love and attention from the people around them so they don’t need to seek it out from anonymous people online.
The main downside of pretty much any purchase like that is that it distracts your attention/time/money from other safety gear.

For instance, an extra fire extinguisher on the other side of the house is probably a better purchase for most people in terms of safety. But someone might spend their "safety" budget (time, money, attention) on the armor and then be left without the basics.

Also, unless you have a gun already or you are physically strong, armor doesn't seem likely to be effective.
Is there any deterrent benefit from potential jail time?

Companies with armies of lawyers are pretty good at establishing plausible deniability, so the "because your employees made a mistake" argument, while you advanced it in good faith, is constantly exploited as an excuse.
Video supercut of Trump urging supporters to “fight like hell”
Sound Semiconductor – IC's for Music Creation
This could allow a malicious party to trick the user into thinking it's microphone is not recording while it actually is.

If this action can be performed using the hardware button it is likely that it can also be performed software-wise, it would be a nice addition for malicious software such as malware.
Userspace Networking Stack and WireGuard and Go
What's very interesting about this is that it makes a great data counterpoint for the "AI will never just spontaneously decide to do [bad thing]." If releasing the HypnoDrones will help sell more paperclips, it's gonna happen.
What machine learning can do for developmental biology
The decision wasn't political. It was based on repeated terms of service violations (as proven by the emails from AWS that Parler itself leaked).

Whether AWS was able to make that decision because of the political calculus had changed (e.g. there was demonstrable evidence of real-life violence stemming from plans made on Parler; others had taken action against Parler; AWS's employees were publicly calling for Parler to be removed from AWS) -- that's a different question.

The timing can be political but the decision apolitical.

This is ignoring that Parler's continued prior existence was likely in part due to the politics (i.e. American conservative allegations that Big Tech's pervasively censors right-wing and Republican voices).
I do not see one (does not mean it is not there). When I used to watch this project more closely you had to just goto the game db and hope someone tested it. You can also look through the commit logs and usually the reference the specific application they are fixing. The rc bits usually have the bugfixes and those too have which app that bug has fixed. They have a ranking of how good the game is. So there may have been a bug fixed but it is still broke because of 10 other things.
There is no middle ground when it comes to freedom of speech. I find it interesting to read Khamenei's statements, even though I find his regime repugnant for killing gays, jailing dissidents, stifling women's rights, and threatening Israel. It's important that we be able to see what he says. It doesn't mean we're glorifying him or legitimizing him, and those elements in the West or elsewhere who may agree with him will get it from alternative sources anyway.

Likewise, it's important to see what violent elements in our society are saying, even if we disagree with them and find them reprehensible.

You can't stop ideas from flowing; you can slow them down temporarily, by banning them from the mainstream marketplace of idea exchange. But ideas still have a way of leaking through.

If someone is advocating assassination of the President on social media, they should be reported to the FBI. Simply deleting their posting accomplishes nothing.

These media platforms mistakenly think that they are arbiters of ideas and information, when in reality they're just glorified bulletin boards. It should not be up to them to decide on others' behalf what is appropriate to be seen and what is not.

Just my opinions.
Double translation especially on a lower end hardware doesn't make it a good experience I bet. Linux is a much better option for gaming.
The Parler CEO initially said they would be offline for a whole week, in order to “rebuild from scratch”.
Again, it is not up to Facebook to serve the needs of the government. It’s why transparency is so critical for the platform, and they are transparent that they value American ideals.. which no surprise include skepticism against government.

They don’t attempt to solve authoritarianism in Turkey, but they do not allow authoritarian comments which lead to harm.

There are obvious issues with Facebook, but this seems pretty cut and clear. Turkey is free to ban Facebook but what kind of values do you want to spread to the world?
How is that different from a SWE? I see DE as a specialized SWE; tons of overlap, but DEs focus on different tools and concepts than other SWEs.
And the framework for this already exists. Each of the browsers has an addon built in and an API to do screen captures. All you would need is a file storage API like Firefox send, a remote trigger piggy backing on something like DoH and Bob's your uncle.
I don't find it too surprising. I think more people would want to work with the conceptual work in the data science space, like models. The ETL stuff seems extremely boring and it seems it pays less too.
No, Old Norse “maðr” and English “man” have a common ancestor in the reconstructed common Germanic stem *“mann-”; neither was loaned from the other.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic...

Further analysis upward is more tentative: hypothetically, the word could share a common ancestry with the Latin stem “ment-” for “mind” which would make the semantic origin of *“mann-” to be quite obvious. It is likely related to the Sanskrit stem “manu-” which indeed means either “thinking” when used adjectivially, and “human” when used substantively.

Old English certainly did not loan it from Old Norse and the Old English form of the word “mann”, reflects what would be expected if it descended directly from common Germanic.

The Old English words for “male” and “female” were “wer” and “wīf” respectively; Old English “wīfmann”, as in “female human” is what gave rise to modern English “woman”, and “wer” almost completely died out and only survives in “werewolf” and “world”, the latter a simplification of *“wer-old”, as in “a male's lifetime”, undergoing significant semantic shift. “wīf” is of course also the origin of modern English “wife”, but had no implication of marriage in Old English.
Thats fine, but then don't title the blog post "Doubling down on open", make it "Creating a more profitable business model".
Disclosure: I'm a just plain scientist, without the data. ;-)

Since "data science" appeared on my radar (in other words, on HN), I've noticed that we fling the "scientist" and "engineer" terms around without asking whether the practitioners have science or engineering backgrounds, or something else such statistics, math, programming, etc.

It strikes me that "do we need scientists or engineers" is not unique to data science/engineering. I think we need both, but of course it's an open question as to how many of each are needed. Also, both "scientist" and "engineer" are loosely defined in practice, with some overlap.

Painting with a broad brush, a scientist wants to learn how things work. An engineer wants to make things that work. If you're in the business of making things that work in order to sell them, then you need lots of engineers, but maybe a few scientists. It's about 10:1 at my workplace.

Overlap? Of course. Engineers use scientific knowledge and methodology. Scientists have to make things work in order to make experiments and theoretical computations work. Also, scientists often show up in emerging fields before they become recognizable engineering disciplines, for many reasons: 1) We need the newest stuff, right away. 2) We are opportunists by nature and necessity. For instance many of the older "software engineers" at my workplace have science degrees, but the younger ones all have computer science degrees. The oldest people I know who did programming, digital logic, and embedded systems, did not have degrees in those areas. The youngest ones all do. At my college, the physics professors had personal computers, and were ripping them apart, while the CS professors used the mainframe. That's part of why I chose to major in physics, though I was interested in programming.

Another reason for overlap is that both "scientist" and "engineer" titles include things that are not strictly within either area. A lot of people with science degrees end up working as technicians, marketeers, salesmen, managers, etc. A lot of people with engineering degrees do little or no quantitative engineering, but work as programmers, designers, marketeers, salesmen, managers, etc.

Something to ponder is if there are differences between how scientists and engineers think and approach problems. Naturally there's a lot of folklore about that, probably little hard evidence. That's where I think you should start if you want to know whether to hire scientists, engineers, or both.
See funny thing is as a French person in London.

I don't think I can spot accents from different parts of Paris, but I can definitely spot accents from different parts of London.

I think there's something else at play, I'm not sure what. Maybe how much people have moved in last few decades? Maybe how much of a hyper-local life there is in each area?
No, that's not the only thing.

Other characteristics of V100 that may be interesting to people buying GPUs for data centers:

- higher capacity GPU memory. 1080 has 8 GB, V100 has 16 or 32 GB.

- higher bandwidth GPU memory. V100 has HBM2 with a peak of 900 GB/s, 1080 has G5X with a peak of ~300 GB/s.

- ECC support.

- data center certification + warranty

(The geforce warranty covers normal consumer usage, like gaming, and does not cover datacenter use)

- availability of enterprise support contracts.

(If you are buying a ton of GPUs to put in a datacenter, you probably don't want to end up on the normal consumer support line when something goes wrong)

- fast fp64

There are probably others
> simple way to get something running where I could easily onboard friends/family

He's not talking about himself, he's talking about (non-IT) friends and family. Most of them probably would be barely able to find the register dialog on HN, that's at least what I would say about my non tech-savy friends. A good chunk of them doesn't even have a PC.

For those people, Signal is optimal. Its onboarding and usage is a lot easier than Matrix.
The art at the top of the article looks suspiciously like it depicts dholes.

https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/dhole
Show HN: Pandemic Puzzle (game play feedback requested)
"We vote on values, we bet on beliefs" - Robin Hanson.

Voting tells us what we value but that doesn't mean what is good for us. It also treats all content as somewhat equivalent, which isn't true. A call to (maybe violent) action isn't the same thing as sharing a cute cat video.
I have my own personal document (any text editor would do) for notes attached to whatever I'm working on. What's on it depends on the task but usually, I write down all the things that need to get done and the status of where I'm at.

The notes I write aren't that specific to code though. Like, I'm not gonna write "I was looking at x file at code line y" but I'll write "Finishing serializer up" and any other notes that might help.
It has gained new nuances in the process. I wouldn't call it a simplification, given that foreign speakers often struggle with some of the finer points of slang.
Who Will Control the Software That Powers the Internet?
Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems purposefully disingenuous. Not to say that there definitely isn't a liberal bias in Twitter moderation, but this article's evidence is that they banned the US president but didn't ban three rando tweets with five or fewer likes/retweets. Surely the more likely case here is that moderation has missed them so far? On the other hand, the KillTrump hashtag is indefensible, since surely this isn't the first time that's appeared, and it seems super easy to spot and ban without needing a ton of user reports (though admittedly, looking right now, all tweets under that hashtag are using it to criticize the hashtag...).
This seems uncharitable. Most people can intuitively understand the danger of a table saw. Just the sound alone sends a shiver up your spine even if you aren't a woodworking expert.

But we've conditioned users to accept a million dialog boxes to confirm random choices that are mostly inconsequential CYA.
>In reality, there is nothing that Apple or AMD are doing that Intel could not also do, isn't already doing, or isn't in a hurry to also do.

On the contrary, Intel has refused to do any architectural innovation for nearly 20 years. They are capable, but overly conservative. They should have been in a hurry 10 years ago. It's well documented that they weren't and were resented for it. AMD came up with a winning strategy (multi-die packaging) and Intel still doesn't seem in a hurry to catch up. You could swap "AMD" in that sentence with "Apple" and maintain the meaning.

When superscalar or simultaneous multithreading came out you didn't see competitors mill about waiting for the customers to forget about the advantages.
https://www.darlinghq.org/
I guess the idea here is to make enabling the option enough of a pain so that only people who need it are going to use it, and button smashers will be spared.
So it is ok because it's about Trump?
In Case You Didn't Know:

Big Sur on M1 (and possibly on Intel) maintains a persistent, hardware-serial-number linked TLS connection to Apple (for APNS, just like on iOS) at all times when you are logged in, even if you don't use iCloud, App Store, iMessage, or FaceTime, and have all analytics turned off.

There's no UI to disable this.

This means that Apple has the coarse location track log (due to GeoIP of the client IP) for every M1 serial number. When you open the App Store app, that serial number is also sent, and associated with your Apple ID (email/phone) if you log in.

Apple knows when you leave home, or arrive at the office, or travel to a different city, all with no Apple ID, no iCloud, and no location services.

This has always been the case on all devices using iOS, too.

This change is essential for blocking such traffic, and I'm glad for it, but there is a long way to go when it comes to pressuring the pro-privacy forces inside of Apple to do more.
> I don't know if the Go releases are still done on Plan 9, but it seems likely that's still an active use of the OS.

Go still builds. It's just difficult to build it out of the box on 9 because of bootstrap issues. Though not sure if the latest 9 build bug was squashed.
> banning Facebook would cause Google to miss their quarterly earnings

how exactly?
No kidding. If you run windows deployments the bitlocker key backup to domain / azure / whatever is a must / lifesaver.

FAR FAR too many situations where users don't keep their keys. It can be as simple as upgrading the chip on your computer - which happens with AMD machines because they've had a long run of AM4 socket support. Boom, you fTPM is gone now, and user is complaining they've lost their irreplaceable stuff.

I've seen this on IT side with backups. They set up an encryption key on the backups (pub / private) 6 years ago. 6 years later, when it comes time to recover under some time pressure, no one has a CLUE where the key is and old staff are long gone. Absolute nightmare.

For all the folks saying managing encryption keys at scale is like tying your shoes - 100% false. To manage keys (especially ones where the private key is rarely if ever actually used) takes very very HIGH levels of care.

One solution - have encryption keys periodically "fail" so you are forced to prove you know how to recover your key - but no one does that.

Same issue used to occur with 2FA apps on phone upgrades before they made it easier to move stuff over to new devices.
Let's first consider the case of a single line.

There are 210 stations spaced a half mile apart each. You are starting out at station 1, you want to get to station 186. The train starts at station 1, then stops at 2, then 3, then 4... eventually you get to station 196 - you've stopped 195 times and travelled 98 miles.

Now consider if you had two lines that split the work. The first line goes to every 15th station, and the second line connects each 15th station with the 14 local stations preceding it. So you get on the first train at station 1, it stops at station 15, station 30, station 45... eventually you get to station 210. You have stopped 14 times and travelled 105 miles. Then you get on the local train, it stops at station 209, 208... until you eventually get to station 196. You have stopped an additional 14 times, and travelled an additional 14 miles, for a total of 28 stops and 119 miles travelled.

If you add more lines, there are fewer stops on any given line, but you potentially have to travel a greater total distance as you repeatedly "overshoot" your target. Once you get to 5 lines, each line is just adding one stop between those of the earlier line - you've essentially reduced the commute to a binary search, and adding any more lines won't get you home in fewer stops.

Since writing my initial comment, I have realized that in reality you could improve on this worst case scenario further. Instead of having a single local line that just connects a single hub to its local stations, you could have two lines connecting two hubs to the local stations between them, so that a traveler would at most travel half the distance between the hubs and never overshoot. This doubles the number of lines, but halves the worst case number of stops and substantially reduces overshoot. Thus you could reach any node in the city within 10 stops and a maximum trip length of 109 miles. Thus with the same parameters you could conceivably commute make the commute in 43 minutes, which is more reasonable though still double what Salman claims, and it would still be faster to bike if the city was circular. These 10 rail lines would run a total of 1050 miles, which at an extremely generous estimate of $300 million per mile of underground rail is about $315 Billion dollars, over 1.5X the maximum expected cost according to the article.
I'm wondering how this affects the distribution of x-pack. From what I'm reading, the new Free model probably includes it and we have to turn it off if we don't want it? I wish there was still an x-pack free distribution in this model.
M&A often pays off in strange and discontinuous ways that extend beyond the growth of an acquired division. My intuition is that the payoffs tend to catalyze when the company is refactored, people get shuffled around, IP becomes accessible across divisions, research from one group gets synthesized into another, burgeoning market landscapes become less competitive, etc.

Personally I think strategic M&A is a far more intelligent use of cash and credit than share buybacks and dividends.

Intel has arguably made at least a few solid acquisitions. AMD is buying Xilinx a few years after Intel bought Altera, which tells us that the Altera acquisition couldn't have been totally misplaced -- AMD has the benefit of hindsight with which to evaluate its own acquisition. Mobileye seems to be well positioned as conventional automakers are beginning to offer mainstream EVs.

Perhaps the problem is that there are certain higher-order functions (M&A, stock buybacks) that should generally be conducted only when the lower-order functions (core business) are firing on all cylinders. Companies have finite resources, and executives have limited time and energy, that shouldn't be starved away from the core business unless absolutely necessary.
No one laughs at USA government for doing this too late?

And this news sounds like, only not-yet-infected people are welcome to USA. So you can bring some gifts back.

HN readers always criticize on other countries but so lenient to USA.
It's also important to realize that the backup includes your encrypted iMessage messages, and the key required to decrypt them. Meaning that if you have backups enabled, all the "end-to-end" encryption in iMessage is defeated. Apple and by extension the FBI can read your messages. This is documented by Apple here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

Even if you disable backups, whenever you correspond with someone that has backups enabled those messages are still accessible to Apple.
> If someone is advocating assassination of the President on social media, they should be reported to the FBI. Simply deleting their posting accomplishes nothing.

Let's do both?
The In-the-Wild Series
Calling body armor "Military Gear" as in "only the military should be able to buy body armor" is pretty sad, even by Buzzfeed extreme-left standards. Body armor can't kill anyone.
I'm a scientist first, data person second. I'll use the label data scientist if that's what the employer wants. I'll use data analyst, scientist, researcher, or any other term, so long as they pay me.

What matters is: are we contributing to the betterment of society with data-driven decision making?
Darling

Also, Microsoft previously had a project called Islandwood.
This is my first indie game, which I made in reaction to the pandemic. I'm not aware of any bugs, but I know the game play still needs some work to make the game more compelling. Please share any suggestions you have!

The game doesn't require any permissions or collect any data.