skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is completely different than issuing company scrip and buying up assets with it to enrich yourself with it.

That is exactly what the fractional reserve banking system does. The dollars in people's accounts don't actually exist, but the bank uses the money that people deposit to buy assets that enrich the CEO and shareholders.

>nobody has lost a single dollar to a bank failure since the backstop (the FDIC) was introduced in 1933

I find that difficult to believe. But people have been scammed indirectly in any case with bank bailouts that pass taxpayer money onto the banks, paying them for gambling with your money and not holding reserves. It's like saying Tether is safe backing only 10% of assets because the government can just bail them out if necessary.
Joplin https://joplinapp.org/
Free, open-source, markdown, cloud sync, encryption, good mobile app
I think that might be a general tar thing. BSD tar had support for rcp since forevr.. Not sure about sysV.

Pretty sure GNU is the only one with the --local flag though!
> Still to this day, I have absolutely no idea how people can write Java for line-of-business applications (its bread-and-butter!) and remain sane from having to manually manage data-flow, implementing Java Beans, and manually writing by-hand getter-and-setter methods...

Lombok, at the very least, eliminates “manually writing by-hand getter-and-setter methods” (https://projectlombok.org/).
A per project markdown file that usually lives somewhere inside /doc, called dev-note.md (pun intended). It is handled append only and therefore quite messy, but grep is your friend.
If you need persistent state is there much of a difference with this approach and a StatefulSet with replicas=1?
I won't disagree that the physical security of the last mile is quite fragile, but I'm not sure the same holds true for the global Internet.

There's no single topology of the Internet, but if I had to try and sum it up: it approaches a mesh at the core, and approaches a star at the edge. Backbones peer with thousands of providers; businesses may have a primary and backup ISP; home users are lucky to even have a second ISP offering service in their area.
The Bugaboos in Eastern BC are well known for having rubber-eating porcupines. Standard practice when leaving a car at the trailhead for a while is to wrap the underside in chickenwire.

https://www.mountainproject.com/photo/105869551/porcupine-ba...
No cowboy would treat their servers like cattle.

Joke aside, the Linux kernel is mainly developed in C and runs in production everywhere.
Two projects that do this with nearly identical output:

- https://github.com/eafer/rdrview

- https://github.com/go-shiori/go-readability

Pipe the filtered HTML output into your favorite textual web browser for an ideal reading experience.
I can't say for certain, I am guessing they may use it to clean in between layers (additive and subtractive)? This article[1] supports the high water use but does not explain in greater detail to what ends it is specifically used.

[1] https://www.sustainalytics.com/esg-research/investors-esg-bl....
re Argument definition: I don't think this person is trying to debate you. That's sort of the core of my point. You're giving a really forceful reaction to someone I perceive to be asking clarifying questions. But, since you are perceiving their messages with a different tone, and I'm perceiving your messages with a different tone, and we're never going to find any ground truth, who's to say who is correct?

And if people regularly bleed and cry at my workplace then I think it's reasonable to call that a toxic environment.

Since definitions of terms and semantics are now a part of this Internet conversation, I think we're done here. You can reply once more and have the last word, if you like. :)
Are there approaches to this problem based on neural networks?
Your feedback is valid, no worries. I thought a lot about the process, which websites to add and how much control users should have about the stumble process. I think I won't add options to control which websites to display. If you found articles that are of low quality or pure clickbait, please report them. All articles are reviewed and all accepted must be of high quality.
The spreadsheet structure point is an interesting challenge - I think often a spreadsheet ends up as the de facto model of a process, but often with, as you say, some redundancy, excessive flattening, and other structural issues that can make it more diffcult to build an app around.

The nice thing, though, is that shifting this structure around does not mean changing the process being modelled - it's more just a necessary part of making a more powerful tool to support it.

It's as you say, since the process is known, it's usually very clear exactly how the app should be, which under our model can inform how to shift the structure of the spreadsheet accordingly in pretty practical way. It's cool to see the same thing work in both directions!
If you like tail calls, look into CPS. Many forms of (pure) code can be rewritten in such a way.

Everyone who writes Haskell quickly learns to write their recursive functions so that they are (mutually) tail recursive.
I kind of wish I wasn't contributing to the topic tangent/hijack, but whatever...

Hawaii's interisland flights probably most closely resemble this air travel experience. Aside from Sunday & Friday fares that have a $30 premium due to work-week commuters, currently current week tickets are $49 and next week and beyond tickets are $39. And if you want to believe that's just a covid effect, there was a $29 special going last year right before covid.

Pair the process with chill, small-ish airports* and the hassle of flying is about as low as it gets for controlled commercial air travel.

Years ago, it used to be the norm to Judy show up 10 or 15 minutes before the flight.

* Obviously Honolulu is an exception, but it does have a separate interisland terminal.
On a tangent, the author could have used "this person does not exist" to generate fake images of people and a random name generator.

EDIT: If it weren't for hosting costs, it might actually be fun to spam the slanderers with fake posts on fake people.
Archaeologists discover mysterious monument hidden in plain sight
I disagree. Constructor:

> Foo f = new Foo(a, b, c);

Factory:

> FooFactory ff = new FooFactory();
> ff.setA(a);
> ff.setB(b);
> ff.setC(c);
> f = ff.create();

...or the same in XML. Fluent APIs turn it into oneliner, but it's still good only for adding hours to your bill.
After trying out various ways, online and offline (including studying Luhmann's famous "Zettelkasten" http://ds.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/viewer/image/ZL1A1001/1/#topDo...), and the one that I stuck with is using plain text files.

One's knowledge is too valuable and important to entrust it to a particular binary format that can soon no longer be read. Plain text is durable, portable, easy to process using UNIX command line tools, it can be full-text indexed with a reasonable overhead.
It can be version controlled easier than binary formats or formats with heavy markup.

I often summarize scientific articles, write down new ideas or need to preserve how I did something (run a system, install a tool) for later replay, and plain text is great for that for the most part. Occasionally, I used LaTeX
commands e.g. for embedded $ maths $ or #hastags to tie
together files by topic for indexing.

Importantly, my workflow is OS independent (I mostly use Linux and occasionally MacOS X/iOS) and editor agnostic (I use Sublime and Emacs).

I would very much like to hear from others how they address their KM needs.
Yes, but because they talked about it using proxies of ethnicity, such as religion, geography, or nation*, we are to believe they were completely race-blind.

* The word nation came from the Old French [8th-14th century] word nacion – meaning "birth" (naissance), "place of origin" -, which in turn originates from the Latin word natio (nātĭō) literally meaning "birth". - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation
There's no society on earth taking climate change as seriously as warranted if the worst projections are to be believed.

And there's no precedent for the level of global cooperation -- which would have to transcend nation-level political realities -- required for meaningful change.

I'm long on humanity. But not because I think we're all going to wake up and fix the climate in a coordinated manner.
This was posted previously a couple weeks/months ago.
Auctions have an issue for rare items - they require at least TWO bidders to get an idea of a price. One bidder might have been happy to spend a million dollars, but the item still sells for $0.99 because nobody bid against her.
ETHBTC is up 40% this month. The chart is totally chaotic. ETHUSD (sometimes) goes up after Bitcoin does because people hear about ETH after they hear about bitcoin - most price movements in either pair are due to new money. The prices of all cryptocurrencies also respond together to any regulatory threat.

The weak correlation between ETHUSD and BTCUSD has many obvious explanations.

Most things crypto are suspicious. I don't think there is anything suspicious about the ETHBTC chart.

Edit - This may be informative:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_(finance)
Okay, I use NoScript. It's a hassle, but it's an eye opener, so I keep using it. Here, I needed yet again to enable JavaScript to read what ought to be a static, text heavy article.

Nothing new so far. What's interesting however is that instead of the article, I didn't get the usual blank page. Instead, I could read the following quote:

> "Appropriate technology" was a movement beginning in the late 1960s that aimed to shift the emphasis from mass technology to smaller-scale, affordable technologies, informed and targeted to local needs and customs. Many of its ideas are as relevant today. So is one of its major shortcomings: why would we rely on technology to mitigate the harm technology does?

Turns out I got redirected to https://reallifemag.com/appropriate-measures/

How ironic. When trying to disable a technology that's quite useless as displaying text (and more often than not is more about tracking me than serving me), I got a lecture on appropriate technology. And a fairly good one at that, which should probably be reflected on by proponents of crypto currencies.
Replace UML with python data classes. You'll be much happier
How much of what you pay for "digital rentals" goes to creators

FWIW, Apple answered this partly recently. At least as it applies to music. It's not very much, but it's supposed to be a lot more than most other services.

I believe the context was refuting accusations in the Spotify dustup. I saw it on a site like macrumors, so some salt may be required.
More people need to do this. Focus on growing your business not optimizing your pipeline.
I see two sides of this. There's information collection and knowledge keeping.

The information collection: When I'm learning new things and sorting by what is interesting I simple bookmark a lot of stuff. It could be a blog post, a research paper, a book recommendation etc. All this is raw information until I take the time to consume it and digest it. Here I use https://lxi.ai/ (disclaimer: I built this) to keep my bookmarks organized with a lil ML.

The knowledge keeping: While I consume/digest I take notes in obsidian. I like working in markdown and having everything stored locally is something that keeps me comfortable. The real key here is putting in the time and actually merging what I am learning with what I already have in my obsidian "second brain".
Don’t we have debug symbols or something like it to be able to translate the optimised version into the thing you saw in code? If you need to dive into the assembly you are in for a hell of a ride anyway due to all kinds of optimisations happening.
Most of humanity, for most of our existence, have been and are "busy and determined" though.

It's easy to forget, but we really should not.
>>Moreover, DRM prevents copyright content from entering the public domain. In my personal opinion, anything that's not available without DRM shouldn't get copyright - otherwise it subverts the deal at the centre of copyright.

Inasmuch as I am sympathetic to the argument, how would a government force DRMless software without attacking encryption itself or violating a company's 1st amendment rights to sell whatever digital products as it sees fit? DRM is protected speech so long as encryption or encryption schemes are protected speech (malware a la Sony's rootkit notwithstanding).

>>Copyright is not a natural right, the balance is totally out of whack. Copyright terms have become abusively long; the deal is not fair anymore.

Copyright isn't a natural right but neither is someone else's content or products. Without copyright, every smart person would keep their inventions as trade secrets with limited disclosures/demonstrations that, like Greek fire, will eventually be lost to the ages. While copyright terms can be abusive and long, that alone does not make the concept invalid.
Some context to my comment, last time I was doing app distribution I used the contemporary best practice which was SVN. I’ve read a dozen articles on the theory of Docker vs VM but still don’t get it. Apparently it saves resources by not replicating the whole OS. Do everyone’s apps really not rely on the specific kernel at all? Even in i.e. PHP apps I usually have binaries tied in that are compiled for the kernel I’ve developed on.

Containers are peripheral to my work so I don’t understand but I’m curious.
This is not true. Buying shares in a company increases the company's value, which allows it to raise more money to fund future enterprises.
> Second, hundreds of billions of dollars doesn't get you much train in the US. California tried to build a high speed rail route between SF and LA.

It does, just not in hyper regressive California.

You could build a full high-speed rail network between Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio for $100-$150 billion.

You just can't build much of anything in California, period, that's the issue. It's a collapsing state in most metrics that matter for quality of life (and has been for a long time), even the venture capitalists can't abandon the state fast enough. As their capital flees, so goes what remains of California (tech). As taxes go far higher this decade, the flight will get worse, Texas and Florida will keep extracting immense value out of California and New York.
Ha, well... it beats the alternative, at least. All those problems are even worse when it's just a big free-for-all in a monolith with tons of people touching it all the time.
Finally! Impressive ruling.
I hope they expand to other countries. Specifically to Slovakia.
Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) Exam Personal Notes
These are my personal notes to prepare for the LFCS exam. I hope these notes can help you for the exam or get you into Linux.
Obsidian was the mind opener for me. Simple to use. Backuped on Dropbox on my various machines, it is my ubiquitous personal knowledge base.
The fact that you can copy/paste HTML from web pages into it makes me rebuild knowledge I get from the internet into my own version.
Really really a fundamental tool for me.
The Vi of knowledge.

PS: I don't know the other tools (notion, roam,...)
PPS: a big downside in Obsidian, in my humble opinion, is publishing that knowledge on the web. Probably a static CMS on top of the .md file generated with Obsidian can do the trick. But it is a tedious step that I never had/wanted to investigate.
Why couldn't the US government buy the patents at a generous price, then give it away?

Apologies if that's a naive question, I don't really understand the issues at play here. But the article seems to imply people who want to make the vaccine can't, which seems pretty ludicrous to me.
This report [0] suggests significantly higher passenger-mile costs in both fares and subsidies for Amtrak vs. air travel. It looks pretty off the cuff, I’m sure you could dispute the methodology, but... let’s see yours.

[0] https://urbanreforminstitute.org/2019/09/transport-costs-and...
But what was perhaps lost along the way was communicating inner workings through something else than code.

I think UML and its likes still have immense value between developers and teams to communicate complex processes in a way that is easy to understand at a glance and facilitate shared understanding.
It is interesting that they don't seem to compare this algorithm to hqx (hq2x), which in my opinion is the best looking of the pixel art scaling algorithms.
I used to use Evernote for bookmarking and note taking but honestly, lately it’s getting clunky and I’m switching to Google Keep.
Sure, in a total war situation I suppose cutting all long-distance communications would obviously be on the table. But it wouldn’t be up there on my list of concerns, cuz nukes and stuff.

I’d see it as a larger concern in the context of terrorism or very asymmetric warfare.
Everything starts in my emacs scratch buffer (the default file opened upon startup), which is an org-mode file, and when some category of stuff gets big I move it into its own file in Dropbox. The content is just links and written-out thoughts and questions.
After what I suppose has been 15 years of searching, I have settled on the Zettelkasten method using Doom Emacs (Vim-like keybindings) with org-mode and org-roam (https://www.orgroam.com). I struggle to think of anything that could beat it.
The term engineer means different things in different parts of the world I guess.
I’ve opened an issue in LLVM bugzilla concerning jump not being folded with address computation on x86 with a proposed fix. Would love if it gets some attention. https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50042

Also been working on a C language extension to enable guaranteed tail calls along with explicit control over registers used for argument passing. Provided that callee-save registers are used for arguments, calling fallback functions incurs no overhead.

https://github.com/rapidlua/barebone-c
I use Google Docs. I actually use it in combination with this tool: https://spaceli.io/

Then I use this Custom New Tab URL extension to turn my new tab page to Spaceli: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/custom-new-tab-url...
Replit (YC W18) is hiring a developer experience engineer
Hah, I actually lived less than half a mile from the Emeryville station for over a year. I was just thinking in terms of the metro area, but that does tack on some more time!
Rail travel shouldn't compete with air travel. It should be a fast, comfortable alternative to intercity car and bus travel between major destinations.

This model already works well along the Northeast corridor. Even the slow, delay-ridden Empire Service (thank CSX for that) ran full trains between New York and Albany(before Covid). Not to mention the main DC to Boston route.

The failure of intercity rail does not seem all that distinct from the general failure to invest in infrastructure in the US, and the enormous costs when the investment is attempted.
The author doesn't seem to be that experienced yet and the arguments/comparisons don't seem so strong IMO. If they say they were hyped about something like Elixir/Haskell but now they are all in for Java, then OK, there might be a quite interesting story to tell. But coming from TypeScript as a backend language to Java as a backend language?... Come on. This is as much of a no-brainer as it can get. It by no means implies Java is any good compared to many other options out there, but is more a testament of how much of a way the JS ecosystem still has to go.

I totally agree that Java is not bad (also chatted with some friends about IntelliJ etc.), but as many have pointed out, it simply has a lot of weird tradeoffs that are already baked into the language. I always say that maybe in a few years I'd just say screw it and go write Java for a big corp. But for now I'd still like to enjoy writing Elixir with similar-minded folks as much as I can. Nothing compares to it in terms of developer experience yet. Maybe it's a form of meaningless stubbornness/resistance idk.
>I can't fathom how a 400 miles high-speed rail route can cost $100bn

In the Seattle metro area, about 100 miles of low-speed light rail has cost $75.5 billion so far. Building infrastructure in the US is just inherently more expensive than in other countries. It is a political problem, and unfortunately, only has political solutions.
> He didn't believe that women would be as capable of doing physics

Interesting, from having read about his sister[1] I really got the impression that this limiting belief was something he bucked heavily, despite having been explicitly taught women were incapable of science by their mother and grandmother:

> Joan was an inquisitive child, and she exhibited an interest in understanding the natural world from an early age. However, her mother and grandmother both dissuaded her from pursuing science, since they believed that women's brains were not physically capable of understanding complex scientific concepts in the way that men's brains could. Despite this, her brother Richard always encouraged her to be curious about the universe. It was he who originally introduced young Joan to auroras when, one night, he coaxed her out of bed to witness the northern lights flickering above an empty golf course near their home

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Feynman
Thanks for this.

Regarding your point 4 - has the progress reducing antibiotic use continued post Brexit? I was under the impression that there were moves to slow/revert some of that once the EU had less say.
Ask HN: How do you personally diagram code?
UML is quite formal and involved. Drawing boxes with arrows on Lucidchart or Draw.io is easy, but the lack of detail is a liability when code gets complex.

How do you personally diagram code so there's enough detail, but you aren't constantly getting lost in the formality of the system?
No, not in Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC. FMV for an entry level software engineer is at least 15% higher than that.
Sure, but so is the world economy apparently:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2019/04/05/the-worl...
Screens Without Strain: An Interaction
> This might end up getting a lot of hate.

no hate from me. it's perfectly fine to run one's stuff without docker.
Shooting to warn is highly dangerous, you can't just discharge firearms in random, non-targeted directions.
> It will create an entirely different system.

Simple as that sounds I didn't think of it before. It seems that if all the old systems can/might/will be replaced by the mega corp we could simply set a modest fixed megacorp-tax of say 1-2% and have the rest go to the creator of the text or video.

It was the author who provided the excuse in the old system why we should pay for easily replicated data. The argument that we should pay to be able to find the data was never a thing. It might as well be but it isn't. We can generously give this party 1% for the great effort they made finding the product I wanted to purchase. (The author should probably pay the megacorp for hosting and bandwidth)

After all, the mega corp is our hostage first and we are theirs second.
My Occam's Razor: NFTs are tax avoidance and/or bribe money vehicles that happen to be attracting useful idiots.

They are perfect because:

1) an unlimited number of them can be created quickly and easily

2) "artwork" value is subjective and therefore the value and short term appreciation/depreciation can't be easily questioned
> This is another problem with UML in practice, that drawing diagrams is a skill, a bit similar to writing code in the sense that it is possible (and quite frequent) to have "spaghetti diagrams" with dozens of classes on one screen connected by long zigzag lines you need to carefully trace by finger.

This still comes to a head with Unreal Engine Blueprints.
What useful information is this going to convey to the business person and how is it going to be better than a conversation with you.
The point of Wi-Fi is to measure time of flight.