skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exomind[1], a personal knowledge management tool that takes the form of a unified inbox in which you can have your emails, tasks, notes and bookmarks organized into collections. I have an iOS and a web/electron client at the moment, and a simple Chrome extension for bookmarking. I plan to eventually add files (blobs), definitions and support extensibility via WASM applications.

Its backend (Exocore[2]) is built on top of a personal / private blockchain and is made from the ground up to be hosted in a semi-decentralized fashion on your own personal devices (your computer, raspberry pi, a cloud instance, etc.). It is written in Rust and has iOS, C and Web (WASM) clients.

It has very rough edges, but I'm using it daily to organize my life. It has also been my learning playground to improve my Rust skills over the last two years. If all goes well, I'm a few months away from some kind of tech preview.

[1]: https://github.com/appaquet/exomind

[2]: https://github.com/appaquet/exocore
That's an interesting idea, but I think it wouldn't be a great fit. Reason being that, in the interest of speed, the language will need to include some irregular or unintuitive syntax and idioms. It goes without saying that pseudocode shouldn't require a manual!
Garmin seems to find plenty of customers willing to buy high end smart watches that cost even more than Apple watches. Many of those Garmin devices are paired with Android phones.

As one data point I just spent $1300 on a new top end Garmin watch and use it with Android.
... that actually seems pretty legit^^
Claude Shannon's information theory and Language Models
I’m building a VS Code extension, that provides a CodePen-like playground experience, but integrated into the editor. I wanted a way to easily create and share runnable code snippets/samples (like a “visual repl”), but using local files, and leveraging my existing IDE color theme, keybindings, and extensions.

It’s called CodeSwing: https://aka.ms./codeswing
That ties right back into the original comment, though. The quantity of suffering in the world is great, and even those of us with the ability to do something about some small part of it (already a pretty small number) are severely limited in their impact.

For the most part, it's non-actionable info. You bring up "relatives being deported or shot by the police", but the number of people on HN that describes is going to be tiny. The average HN user is less likely than most to have been burned by COVID due to the remote-friendliness of tech jobs.

For me, the calculus works out like this:

1. Is it possible for me to do anything substantial about it? (Throwing a few bucks at a charity or "raising awareness" about the large social problem everyone already knows about does not count as "substantial")

2. If it is possible, do I have the ability? (Financially, mentally, physically, temporally)

3. If the answer to both of these questions is "no", then it is non-actionable and not worth expending my own limited energy on.

The vast majority of things you hear from the news media fail both of these tests. They are intended to provoke you or scare you about something that is mostly out of your sphere of influence.
No, I think it was pretty much a Freudian slip. They caught themselves in the next paragraph: " This case is the result of our ongoing international efforts to detect and enforce against those who scrape Facebook users’ data"
They may not have a choice depending on how their debt is structured. They will have to extend and pretend to push the haircut out. Similar situation with NYC commercial retail.
I'm glad to have this to read. It brings back memories of hanging out at the local RC shop that sold D&D stuff, back in the 80's.

What I've always wanted to read area transcripts of the early players (like Gygax), perhaps at GenCon, working out very difficult encounters. For example: how did the early DMs approach role-playing a supergenius demigod with high-level cleric/MU spells? That's got to be very hard character to inhabit. I mean the Lolth module, Q1? come on, there are so many high level intelligent creatures in that endgame...
Vitalik's claim is a lie. No "OP_RETURN wars" happened. It's a complete fabrication.

See https://twitter.com/notgrubles/status/1187470076833697794
BYTE ftw! Typing in Apple //e ASM code for hours and hours... ... and hours ... and then later, 2600 magazine.
No. He confirmed that the ads will be generic. Not targeted to people based on their data.
44,100 Hz
The signals that someone isn't a danger are not in any way related to if they are or not from what I can tell.
Said what?
I'm building a super inexpensive atomic force microscope with cheap quartz tuning forks and hobby fgpas.
What's your process been for deciding core features?
> Piano is a notoriously difficult instrument even for regular music production…

Er, sort of. I think there’s some incorrect information in this comment.

Piano is an acoustic instrument, and to record an acoustic instrument well, you generally need to have a decent instrument in a good acoustic space with good microphone placement. For most people, getting all three is quite hard. Microphone placement for piano ain’t exactly easy but it’s not really harder than, say, guitar or violin. The hard part is that you inevitably capture a lot of ambiance from the room. With a room that sounds bad or with poor mic placement you’re going to get an inferior piano sound.

What makes, for example, guitar easier is really just the fact that if you have any decent room somewhere, you can fit somebody with a guitar into it. It’s small & portable. You still need a good instrument, a good room, and good mic placement but you don’t need to have the guitar permanently set up.

The frequency range of a piano & its harmonics are not especially difficult to tame in music production.

There are some instruments that are kind of “easier” in a sense, like vocals, electric guitar, or electric bass—but I don’t think the differences are all that stark. The main difference is that you are much more likely to use only a single microphone for these instruments rather than multiple mics, and you’re more likely use multiple mics for piano / acoustic guitar / violin / etc.

If there’s one common instrument that requires the most effort in music production I’ll say that it’s the humble drum kit, hands down. If you’re in a home studio, the drum kit might spur you to add more channels, make you work harder setting up the instrument and mics, and make you do more work with acoustic treatment.
Not yet, but once it's capable of solving most AoC problems, I'll throw it on GitHub and ping you!
Am I? Then what ‘closing bootloader’ is if not their form of giving permissions? If I understood correctly they would not “help” with specs and we do not know what bootloader capable of. Why? if their goal to keep it open? Let’s see the tendency.

They have put a complete control over IOS devices since the beginning of IOS, including the apps that were not allowed at all. Since then they are trying to bring this into a ‘personal computer’ domain as it seems.

they started slowly but steady to put more and more control over Mac apps,

then they started limiting root access,

Now the bootloader ...

So where they are going ? As I see it the tendency is to close MacOS completely just as IOS unless they face a strong resistance, then they go for ‘as much as they can get’ or ‘as much as they can get away with’ strategy, feeding some ‘calming pills’ on the way that some perhaps are happy to swallow. They have changed things from, “of course it is not our business what you boot” , to “of course, we may allow unsigned kernels .... for now” (if it’s true at all, we still need to see this in reality) Yes it is not as strong as “we will not allow at all”, but for sure it’s their permission now. You may say, oh it’s just as before. No , it’s not, they have taken some of the existing freedom and intend to take more next year possibly. And who knows what their bootloader does? What if it would be controlled remotely ? What if to load some “unsigned kernels” which are called just kernels by the way, they would still require some online check? Who knows? What of the above is not true or incorrect?
It is a matter of personal preference.

I find that regular expressions and text-wrangling tasks are faster and easier in Perl than in other programming languages due to its accessible syntax and regular expression engine speed.

This article shows the regular expression syntax in several popular programming languages: https://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/regex/

This GitHub repo gives some regex performance test benchmarks: https://github.com/mariomka/regex-benchmark Perl is pretty fast among the scripting languages that were benchmarked.

If you are familiar with C / C++, then learning Perl is relatively fast and easy: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro
At 41, I'm not sure I'm old enough to comment on "how things were", and I'm not enough a student of history as I should be. But I believe the current trend across the globe is from democracy to autocracy[0], and toxic political polarization[1] is moving opinions so far apart as to effectively eliminate meaningful discussion about compromise or allowing yourself to change your opinion closer to what you believe to be a wholly terrible if not blatantly false perspective.

To rephrase, I don't think most discussions around policy involve providing peer-reviewed studies with relatively conclusive evidence in regards to a potential policy change, or objective evaluation of the communication, legislation and vote records of politicians. It is too easily converted into ad hominem attacks, bold assertions that one might believe have evidence but if (quite) thoroughly investigated might be disproven. More regularly each side dismisses the other based on strongly held beliefs formed on very shallow investigation.

[0] https://www.v-dem.net/en/publications/democracy-reports/ (specifically https://www.v-dem.net/media/filer_public/de/39/de39af54-0bc5... PDF)

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00027162188187...
FWIW, oil prices have a really high (negative) correlation with obesity

There's weirdly enough, quite a bit of scholarly literature on this.

Here's a decent survey, scroll down to see the links

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/energy/g...

There's also studies that show increasing gasoline sales tax is predictive of future obesity prevalence (see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5415832/). The correlation appears robust enough to generally use petroleum prices as an indicator of obesity prevalence as measured through BMI.

They're all pretty careful to note that "the relationship between gasoline prices and physical activity must be empirically determined".

Maybe, for instance, people purchase less food or go out to eat less frequently in high gas-price places. (See https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/j.1550-8528....)

Maybe people spend less time commuting in high petroleum prices areas, which increases well being and decreases obesity prevalence (see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11524-012-9678-6)

Maybe petroleum-based fertilizers lead to high obesity (see https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-n...).

Maybe the psychological activity of driving affects metabolism (see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009174351...).

Maybe this is all p-hacking and it's nonsense.

Regardless, if scholarship is to be believed, moving to a place with high gas prices might help you lose weight. Yes, it still sounds nutty to me as well.
They need to have a MacGyver episode where they're trapped in a cave armed with just a blue LED light and they need to figure out magnetic north to get out.
Maybe it works better on Teslas, but my experience with other cars is that auto wipers are a gimmick that I would pay not to have. I can't say if it's more because of the sensor, or the programming.
It's been a while since I've last watched it and I might be completely wrong here as I am no expert in accents, but I believe that none of the languages spoken had an accent that sounded like someone from the 1940s.

Both the English and German were much closer to a 21st century accent than a 1940s one, and so was the French one as you mentioned.
When they took the investor’s money, Greenwald and Poitras both explicitly decided to focus almost exclusively on their jobs rather than becoming media execs; they weren’t their own boss as much as they had an arrangement where the boss would never speak. Obviously that was a strategic mistake on their part, in hindsight, but there is no proof they would have been good managers anyway. I guess they underestimated how quickly a well can be poisoned by just a few individuals, once steering is agreed up top.
>an attempted coup

I believe you are now projecting

https://twitter.com/MarkSZaidEsq/status/826262311560216578

The left has openly stated they are conducting a coup. Jan 20 is less than a week away, and Trump has put more troops in DC than in Afghanistan. I guess we will find out soon, yes.
No good generalized solution for this it seems. The best you can do is to specialize per situation and leverage all the assumptions you can while being cautious not to leverage the assumptions you can’t.

This problem contains lots of incidental complexity and it doesn’t help that folks do the opposite of the above and add a ton of accidental complexity on top. For example, for a situation with a crossfade or morphing set of 2 buttons you should:

- leverage the assumption that there are only 2, and static, buttons.
- not assume that there are only 1 button present at any time.

Some end up inclined to create some “reusable” abstraction on top and end up doing the opposite:
- generalize to handling n dynamic buttons. Without realizing that some important properties of that specific situation would have been lost.
- (usually due to the lack of experience/focus/interest on the problem) oversimplify and assume there’s only 1 button present at any time.
Portions are now massive.
McDonalds, once upon a time, had small and large sizes of french fries; the little white paper pouch or the red cardboard sleeve. Today I believe they have two even larger sizes. The smallest size of soda doesn’t even exist any more.

Other restaurants have retired round plates and serve meals on platters.
I wonder if this hypothesis was pre-registered?
Because it's frequently connected to technology?

It's hard to discuss net neutrality, or content moderation, or even applications of certain technologies (stems cells, for instance) without mentioning politics.

And that's not even touching science topics like evolution or climate change.
I'm making something I call "newsbetting" - you get an article stripped of title, author, or source information and you have to bet on whether the article is right or left wing based on the content.

It's definitely not ready for primetime, but my hope is that I can show 1) it can provide a viable business model for struggling news sources 2) it is possible to change the incentives around our news ecosystem to be less ad-driven and sensationalist. I have lots of other ideas, like integrating social media and cryptocurrencies and allowing betting on something other than political bias, but I have my work cut out for me as is. As I'm not really a developer, I'm using this idea mostly to learn
Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World
I might be in the minority here but I enjoy the political threads. I think the reason they often devolve into "discussions" of sub-par quality is that much of politics can't be explained by reason, and so is it with most of our values. We might attempt to do so, and philosophers and logicians have, but in the end that feels hollow. So then we might devolve to social pressure (i.e. resenting those who do not agree with us). When that fails, there are insults and after that violence.

It does not look like there will be any underpinning of all values and morals that a majority of us will accept or understand. So that leaves us the question: how should we disagree? I think the current way is fine, perhaps we could all strive to be less enflamed by views contrary to our own held beliefs, but do not think that the situation couldn't be way, way worse.
Only if you enjoy all of the negatives of EVM-like smart contracts including chain splits, gas problems, subtle bugs that could drive exchanges to insolvency, mass theft, broken multisig, the list goes on...
A SwiftUI interface design tool, so you can design completely visually / without coding skills and export SwiftUI code.

The idea is to give  platform app designers and app developers a completely honest bridge... two can be looking at the exact same work artifact and discuss it with dignity.

No more developers being like "I don't think it can look like that" and designers being like "why does that look off?". If it looks like that, well, that's real SwiftUI you're looking at so it can look like that. If it looks off, well, you both know how SwiftUI works now so update the design and send a new copy!

Just working on adding necessary features to the app and growing the community

DetailsPro: https://detailspro.app

If anyone has feedback, I would love nothing more than to hear it
The hue of light is not something I would have expected to pay a role in this. Nor the presence of hunger.

What other studies were affected by the time of day they were conducted?
To your first question, yes it's just a style of solving a problem that can be implemented in software for 90%+ of the time.

For your second, I think that's part of the problem. Most people confuse how a human brain learns with what is actually running in a machine learning program. It's similar at some level, but not really doing the same thing at another.
I find that in most US restaurants the portions are a bit small and I need the desert to fill me up. People always remark about how much I eat though. Most of them completely fail to notice that I eat only at meals, so even though it seems like I'm eating a lot, over the course of a day I'm getting no more than them. However most of my calories are not empty snacks (even counting the desert).

I cook most of my meals at home though, which allows me to get enough without needing desert every meal. Plus my cooking tastes better since it is real flavor not added sugar/salt.
"For the food association, a subject who faced toward the ambient geomagnetic north or east, depending on the experiment, was gently provided with a chocolate chip [52] (nutrient facts, S1 Table) on his/her right palm by an experimenter, and given 30 s to eat it."
They're considering dropping i386, which is interesting. Does anyone know more about that?
Big time bad for business. I'm five months into a contract and five months behind schedule because of a bully. At risk of losing the contract (and subsequently my job), and are already burning bridges with the (well funded) client.
It's hard to believe people are still repeating these verifiable lies.
Not quite that, but I used this theme for a good 6 months once: https://github.com/11111000000/tao-theme-emacs
I’m currently work on a “leaping fountain” using laminar flow fountain nozzles. I’ve got a first attempt nozzle I’ve 3D printed, and now I’m making a second, larger version. My eventual plan is to have four nozzles that create “leaping” water spurts into a single basin timed to music.
Not at all. Also very much true in China. Miners are largely concentrated around the Sichuan area, which is also well known for their massive investments in hydroelectric power.
> Please, enough with Bitcoin. It's an environmental disaster.

Thank you very much for your deep, original, well thought-out and never-heard-before contribution to the conversation.
How many people that keep up with the news actually do a damn thing about it? The vast majority of people that check social media everyday also let "others do the dirty work".

And who are the "people around you"? With the internet that could be half the damn world. It sure is a privilege for you not to have to worry about injustices in the Middle East.

I'm not saying people should be selfish, but I don't see how what you're suggesting is productive either. Even the most well meaning person on this planet cannot possibly have an impact on all these different issues. Pick some areas you know you can contribute to and focus on that.
Talking like "There is a small percentage of far-right and wealthy that largely ignores social distancing" is extremely disingenuous. I was wanted to just point to that. And generally discourage from assigning labels like "far-right".
There are a TON of experiments and language mash-ups in Raku. Let's see here.... Types can include guard clauses that are evaluated at runtime. Typed multi-dispatch on top of that. In addition to normal "sets" it has "junctions", like some sort of funky quantum superposition or something. In theory those can be made parallel at some point. Stuff like that.

One that is particularly funky is the "whatever-star". This is a "" char that can be used in a few places to mean more or less... whatever. For example:

<4 5 6 7>.map(-> $x { $x + 7 }) # result: (11 12 13 14)

That stabby inline lambda there can be sugared down in a lot of ways, including with the whatever-star:

<4 5 6 7>.map(* + 7) # result: (11 12 13 14)

... I've not seen anything quite like that in other languages, not sure if it is a new invention or if only nobody else is crazy enough to try it. And yes, you can use multiplication next to it to make it look crazier:

<4 5 6 7>.map(* * 7) # result: (28 35 42 49)

(also yes, ( * *) will take two inputs and multiply them.)

I will note though that dwelling on these crazy/fun edge cases is amusing, but programs can look quite a bit more like a basic ruby app (with sigils) if you so desire.
You've demonstrated my point. You're pointing out some valid concerns. They're insignificant in comparison to the fossil fuel alternative. Environmentalists make perfect the enemy of good every time.
To everyone who plays the occasional video game during “wfh hours” - that $60 triple A title steam purchase actually is MAKING you money!
I hate the idea of other people having to feel alone and always try to reach out to people when I believe they’re feeling isolated but one of the hard things about doing that is some of those individuals don’t exactly “click” with me.

It sucks because sometimes I know that there’s a community out there that exists for them but even with the Facebook, Twitters, and Reddits of the world, somehow they’re all devoid of the ability to find and form intimate connections with others (Facebook is great for connecting with people in my existing social graph, not finding people outside of it)
Not the same as your idea, but similar is NINJAM, which is tempo synced, but deliberately makes the latency equal to one bar, phrase, or other segment of time. You are always playing live to what everyone else played the very last time around, but you are still playing on the beat together. It obviously works better for repetitive jam sessions than for structured songs, but it looks very interesting. I haven't yet tried it with my music buddies, and should.

[1] https://www.cockos.com/ninjam/
This is a lovely title. Thanks, OP.
I did not find a reference just now, but I recently read that the CCP has at least published their rules for scoring. Which is more than I expect will be the case in the US.
I regret not working for a tech company and working with obscure tech (neoxam and filenet). If I had worked at an actual tech firm and specialized in anything else, I would be much better off today.
This change only applies if you are offering Elasticsearch and Kibana _directly_ as a service.

It doesn't impact your devops pipeline or your monitoring workload(s).

Link to FAQ: https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing
Looks neat!

Have you considered enriching your dataset with what’s also being collected by an iPhone or Apple Watch? (walking speed, step length, walking asymmetry, and double support time in the Health app)
https://xkcd.com/882/ is all too relevant to a result of this form.