skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To clarify you are against (or I guess not in favor of) art and theatre, story-telling etc. to improve learning outcomes and interest in reading? I can sense you're being super thoughtful in your followup and I feel I might be missing your feedback, which is why I want to respectfully clarify.

If what I paraphrased above truly is your position, we will have to respectfully agree to disagree. Tons of research shows that the brain synapses grow stronger through active participation in the arts/story-telling/theatre. These essential activities at an early age can actually create new neural pathways and fortify those that are already present.

But again, I want to be careful to not miss your point because if you took the time to clarify, I want to make sure I beneifit from your feedback and sound like I'm ignoring it.
I was looking for some speakers recently and ended up getting very traditional tower speakers instead of anything sonos because I'm confident they will continue to work pretty much forever.
Your first mistake was working more than a 9-5. Never ever do that
I hear "experts" on the news too, yet they're also the source of conspiracy nuts. Why is that? Because they have no honesty, and also run many fakers.
A friend of mine today just wrote to me about Kinopio, whether have been bought by some SV firm and it was our new brand. I can assure you, it couldn't be further from the truth - OrgPad.com is in my mind way more advanced and overall better designed tool for both small things and complex thoughts. It is used a lot by anybody from school children to top managers, specialists and academics. What we do much better than most tools in my mind is design of the user experience and simplicity, where we have been inspired by 40 years of research of Zdeněk Hedrlín PhD., Clojure(Script) the programming language we use and Apple when there was still Steve Jobs around.

We don't fear to do hard engineering to improve the user experience. We calculate differential equations on most animations in real time to simulate dampened spring movements. This is quite fast. Together with parts of the rendering rewritten into canvas rendering (e.g. links), OrgPad is now a lot faster than before. We have auto-resize and topologically mostly stable auto-layout, we support rich multimedia in OrgPages, images (even with transparency), iframes so you can embed other OrgPages, videos or even e.g. Google Spreadsheets or Calendar in the canvas. You can read an overview directly in OrgPad here: https://orgpad.com/s/VjMKIa7bfnN

And no, OrgPad is not trying to be a graph database more or less like Roam-research or a Zettelkasten clone. It is oriented more towards those, that think visually and want to mirror their brains in a natural way to have an opportunity to step back and look at it.

To be most transparent: You can try OrgPad for free. We will introduce the pricing on 29th of August (in a few days from now) but leave a limited free tier without adds forever. The standard tier will cost ~5 €/ month and include 5 GB of storage and most OrgPad features although limited. The professional tier for ~10 €/month will include all the bells and whistles plus 10 GB of storage and priority support. Until now, we have worked on the product itself - we are not a traditional startup, so we can afford this less traditional approach.

I hope, this will be understood as a frank recommendation for a tool, that might solve the readers problem in a more fitting way.
"The idea of "differently sized infinities" has always felt like a mathematical game to me."

How do you feel about negative numbers?

There is absolutely no way you can have -3 oranges. There are metaphors, and we're all taught what you can do with a negative number, and there are all those lovely proofs of the properties of negative numbers, but you will never see -3 oranges sitting on someone's dining table.

(And I'm not even going to go into the reals---they're just ridiculous.)

The commonsense notion of "size" is one of those metaphors, but it's a good one: for non-infinite sets, the idea of a bijection and the idea that two sets have the same size match exactly. Consider three blocks, one labelled "1", another "2", and a third "3", and three oranges. Block "1" goes with that big, fat orange. Block "2" goes with the smaller orange. And Block "3" goes with the orange that's kind of pear-shaped.

Now, the extension of "size" to infinite sets is a little weird, mostly because infinite sets are very weird. As is the phrase "almost all"; it's not immediately obvious that, because there are more Rs than Ns, that there are a lot more Rs than Ns.

But it's true (in the sense that it's how math works), and you just have to get used to it the same way you got used to -3.
As an artist I do not like getting $50 per 1m plays.
> An addict who was self-aware, and still couldn’t pull himself out from the abyss.

My experience with addicts is that they are often self aware. Their appearance and circumstance might suggest otherwise. It's very easy to relegate these people to some category of cognitive failure.

Unfortunately it seems to me that addiction tends to defeat good cognition, awareness, intention, all the rest of the apparent defences – it isn't a disease of stupidity or inferiority.

> It was Jekyll talking to Hyde. Bruce Banner talking to the Hulk. And, in honor of my dad I feel I must also include: It’s Data talking to Lore.

I love it.

That was a nice read. I like to be reminded of how messy life can be and at the same time how close death is. We're all on borrowed time. Reading about dads struggling from the perspective of their children is also a uniquely motivating thing. I hope my kids don't end up reading through my journals trying to get to know me after losing me unexpectedly.
"Why on earth are you on a forum that specializes in startups and venture funding with this little due diligence?"

You are awfully quick to sling insults with a 37-minute old account. For-profit companies aim to make profits. Pharmaceutical companies make profits from selling pharmaceuticals. This is not controversial nor is it some kind of "dog whistle".
Apple clearly has millions invested in this system. The sophisticated cryptography for the private set intersection which is needed to keep the hash database concealed and unaccountable is far from trivial. Neuralhash, faulty as it is, is far from trivial.
I run https://takehome.io and https://clubman.app on the same stack.

Backend in Go with a simple MVC pattern, no framework. All data in Postgres. Front end is server rendered HTML using MaterializeCSS for components, migrating to TailwindUI.

Hosted on GCP using Cloud Run, deployed using the gcloud cli orchestrated in a makefile. Database is a Cloud SQL instance.

Google Cloud Tasks for the message queue. Amazon SES for transactional emails and S3 for blob storage.

I have written a LOT of single page front ends over the years. I think the decision to go back to plain HTML templating has made it dramatically faster to add features. Same for the switch from microservices back to a well constructed monolith. I can just get right down to the feature I want to build or the bug I need to fix without wrestling the plumbing.

Go has also been wonderful for keeping things simple. I was always tempted to make things “clever” in nodejs.
This make much more sense, so most time the cardinality which people refer is with respect to the set of natural numbers, but according to you, we can have this relation between any two sets. The problem is not make those things clear in the wording. Why not just called it "the cardinality order relation", and try it always like a binary relation, instead of a property that each set has in insolation.
> My biggest shock was how much "PR" was generated on Reddit

Here is Twitter event by Tech Insider.[0,1]

[0] https://twitter.com/TechInsider/status/1430654887327682565

[1] https://twitter.com/TechInsider/events/1430648239171198984
I do have that, actually. I'd very much like to not rely on that, though :)

My post you're responding to was a little dramatic and really just a response to the idea that I cared about whether the actual work gets done. I just care about my family.
> Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant.

I think they still have a point. How much more? 95% efficacy to 96% efficacy?
might be. either way the numbers are impressive although i am afraid this massive bandwidth is necessary because of the docker's and ci/cd's that don't use caches...
Maybe it's the time of day, but HN is usually good at cutting through the usual politicised stuff, and just discussing the issue at hand.

At the end of the day, Spotify isn't a Podcasts platform, and nobody I know associates Spotify with podcasts. Surely somebody on Rogan's team knew this, but I suspect the money was simply too good to pass up. Imagine starting a FinTech SaaS with the sole purpose of being acquired, and then being offered $100m by a Biotech company. I'd probably take it.
Hey just a nitpick here but please don’t use spaces before punctuation.

For example: thank you. Also, exa…
Maybe not the most formal of meanings, but my favorite is a probabilistic one: given a random element, how likely it is that it satisfies a predicate? If some elements don't, but it's still satisfied with probability 1, that's pretty clearly almost always.

EDIT: yeah you guys are right, I wouldn't worry too much about the prior not being a proper distribution, but still - this doesn't seem related to the cardinality of sets in a simple way after all!
cough neverware cough https://www.neverware.com/
Corporate philanthropy triggers my BS detector a bit though. Do you think a non-profit would be different? Like, say, ASPCA or UNICEF instead of the Exxon-Mobil Climate Taskforce or whatever corporate philanthropy means (I actually do not know, could you elaborate?).
Head-desk. That's exactly what I was thinking of.
I think it's still a fairly new phenomenon where white collar work often consists of sitting in front of a computer monitor all day. Not for leisure, but for work (something you possibly don't want to be doing to begin with).

For me, less screen time (for work, but also in general) and more time spent outside and/or in the presence of people I like has really made me a happier person.
> What's your rap these days? Most of us have one. Is it a disquisition on the stupidity of television, the rapacity of multinational corporations, how the Yuppies had it coming to them, the thrills of motorcycling, the perils of tuna fish? Some people are always ready to mount the soapbox. (It's the twelfth time you've heard this guy's tirade and it was already boring the second time around.)

> The worst sort of rap is the pet peeve. Pet peeves manage to smuggle their way into every conversation, no matter what the topic. Marty is hung up on America's foolishness in not imposing tariffs against the Japanese. It's not clear why he takes this so personally, but he's definitely obsessed with the problem. The topic of conversation is Monday-night football? Marty contrives a quick segue to the state of television in America, orchestrates a smooth turn to the subject of the future Japanese control of the entertainment business, and— presto— tariffs. Marty's rap is boring for the same reason the preacher's is— it's predictable— but it's also an imposition. He uses friends as a sounding board for his venting.

- From the book Everyday Ethics by Joshua Halberstam
No, it's an entirely different meaning.

Because yes, almost all values of 1/x are defined -- for every real value of x except for one, the number zero.

While saying "almost all" real numbers are irrational... is saying that real values are all irrational, except for... the entire infinitely large set of rational numbers.

The idea of "almost all" and "except for an infinite number of items" is not even close to the same commonsense meaning, not even remotely.

That's my whole point -- that meanings are being mixed up, that this way of classifying infinite sets shouldn't be conceptualized as "size" at all because the analogies break down, well, instantly.
> What the author considers "burned out", most would consider just another day.

This statement is very much like saying "what one person considers 'depression' most would consider 'being sad'". Burnout is not what most people consider just another day. It isn't being overworked, harried, and under pressure.
Ligolo-ng: IP tunneling via tun interface
Do you mean of master planners of recycling? Since rest of manufacturers mostly just make toxic plastic waste, not something that can be used 4x longer and then safely recycled...
Agreed. If you're burned out, consider moving to a lower cost of living area (assuming SFBA or similar is your current situation) and take a lower paying job. The stress of FAANG/startupville doesn't make sense for a lot of people.
I have a couple of SaaS products: Belt drive design tools for companies in the mechanical power transmission industry, and dealership management software for manufactured housing ("mobile home") retailers.

Back end:

- Windows Server 2012
- MS SQL Server
- ASP.NET
- Web API 2
- C#
- Dapper "micro ORM" (I dislike heavy ORMS and would rather write my own SQL)

Front end:
- Bootstrap
- jQuery
- DataTables (https://datatables.net/)

I use these "boring" things because I'm familiar with them from contract programming work for companies where Microsoft stuff is common.
I can also recommend Xperia 10 II with Sailfish OS, it works very well! :)

The installation took longer for me, but that was because I decided to change the default rootfs and home LV ratio, which included shrinking the LUKS container home lives on, which was a bit stricky, but I was successful in the end. :) Definitely not something 99.9% users would need to do but its still cool its possible. :)

As for Android support, I've installed that and it seems to work fine for the Android apps I've tried so far. Its apparently even possible to install MicroG or even full Google Play Services, if you have apps that need it.

Agreed, its a bit of a compromise if you want to use a non Google/Apple device in the first place, but still given that the Android emulation layer effectively lives in an isolated container, which you can also turn off at any time, its already quite a bit less intrusive than on an actual Android phone where it effectively permeates everything on the device like mycelium.
>> Do the people who are refusing a vaccine because they were already infected have a good point now?

Yes. But this has been speculated about for several months now. I'm not an anti-vaxxer but was holding out. On the verge of getting the vaccine I caught covid. I currently see no point in getting the vaccine. With indications that the real deal is more effective at providing future immunity (simple logic suggests that too) I think someone needs to prove some benefit to me getting the vaccine.

This is not my fight, I do find it annoying that people forget about us previously infected folks and act like there are 2 categories - vaxxed or not.
Adding TechTangents too: https://youtube.com/c/AkBKukU

And CuriousMarc (he’s a legend): https://youtube.com/c/CuriousMarc

And Cathode Ray Dude: https://youtube.com/c/CathodeRayDude
I think their numbers are completely irrelevant, now that we know the visual hash can be gamed. Since it can be, it will be.

Basically, that 1 in a trillion number has an implicit "assuming people aren't cheating", as most mathematical models do. But it's already evident people can cheat this system.

I don't know what the odds will end up being, 1 in a trillion or 1 in 100, but they will not be based on statistical analysis. The odds will be based on cultural and social factors... how quickly do Apple reviewers get overwhelmed? How easily can script kiddies use the tools to fake hashes? Are there consequences for false reports?
How many people want to get you in trouble?
Honestly, I kinda always assumed the game plan was first to get as many vaccinated as we could, then use exposure and/or more vaccines for variants, and eventually we have an inbuilt resistance to most the tricks it can throw at us and it becomes more like the flu and/or rhinovirus seasonal variants that we're already used to.
I installed lubuntu on a comically low powered AMD E-350 computer for my grandmother when her old desktop died.

Gave her a simplified desktop with a weather display and big icons for her email, her Facebook, and the obituary page of her hometown newspaper.

She transitioned to it just fine and only once in five years did I have to walk someone through the fsck process from what was probably hundreds of unclean shutdowns.
Actually the proofs depend on philosophical assumptions that both can and have been questioned. The conclusions likewise.

If you go down that path, then "uncountable" can mean something closer to, "a self-referential tangle is involved" than it does to "more". For example you can't enumerate the reals. But there is a countable list that DOES include every possible real - you just can't always figure out whether things on that list are reals!

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27847353 for previous discussion on this.
Thirty years latter, and the same baby is still swimming after that dollar.
I think Apple may have figured out that the best way to get people to accept backdoored encryption is simply to not call it backdoored, and claim that its a privacy feature...

...as if having a trillion dollar corporation playing batman and going on a vigilante crusade to scan your private files is a situation we should already be comfortable with.
Give me Docker or give me death.
thats really interesting, and makes sense to me, but i wonder about how feasible a weak central govt would work in such a globalized capitalism that we have today...

wouldn't such flexibility/decentralization hurt national competitiveness vis-a-vis say, u.s vs china, or russia etc?
I’ve been running private torrents on Hetzner for years and they’ve not kicked me out yet.
> I get to see another culture

Well, cartoons of another culture.
The problem with a lot of existing strategies is they are aspirational - rather than realistic: conforming to our limitations. We can only write so much, and remember for so long. Have an idea, write it down, half way through you might have forgotten the original idea or become distracted by something else. I think it's just starting to come to light with the Roam-style tools, that imposing structure from the beginning doesn't work (too aspirational?), so I'd propose that aside from the happy surprises of the Zettelkasten only bound by relationships to other notes, its much more in tune with the way Minds work to have more unstructured notes. Individual islands that relate to others, but not strict hierarchies, or at least let the hierarchies be interchangeable.
>But that’s like saying it’s ok for banks to sell everyone’s bank account transactions because it’ll catch those pesky criminals when they make a transaction.

You're right, it's not okay. But it's totally okay (and mandatory) to send certain transaction information to the state (ie. FinCEN).
Not available for US? They have an option to send old batteries back to them after a replacement but OOW machines are SOL.
> Spotify is trying to be the one that owns it.

If you're interested in pushing back on this, the Podcasting 2.0 community welcomes you. Check out https://podcastindex.org/ for details.

Podcast 2.0 apps have more metadata, chapters, cover art that can change like a slideshow during an episode, etc.
Latest supported hardware is Xperia 10 II, which is still quite recently and pretty fast (I got it myself).

Also, you can get the previously supported Xperia devices cheaply second hand. Just make sure it has an unlockable bootloader or else you won't be able to install Sailfish OS on it.
Same problem and on Safari as well.

But I do think the problem is fairly recent as in the last 4- 5 years after certain macOS update.

It works when you have little to no CPU usage, but even at 20-40% CPU typing speed lag start to show.
> It lays out observations and a hypothesis that might explain those observations.

The part you're missing here is where those hypotheses are tested. A field that consistently makes accurate predictions is more scientific than one which rarely does, regardless of how much effort is expended. A field being more scientific than another isn't a matter of researchers trying harder. The quality of their results, independent of the magnitude of their effort, is what really matters. If researchers dutifully follow the scientific method by the textbook and, due to the subject of their research, can only get slipshod results, their field is less scientific than one in which researchers easily get high quality results.
Removing "Ubuntu" from the title is probably a good idea. We can see who wrote the article from the domain. At first I thought, "What? Ubuntu is 30 yrs old?" As others mention it's not... it's Linux that is. This is just an Ubuntu blog entry on the matter.
Someone must have written at some point "the myth of a pandemic". Its incomprehensibly stupid to dismiss any kind of threat as a myth unless they prove that it's impossible by laws of physics. And still then there would be room for error. Sad thst a respectable magazine posts such naive articles. I dismiss it from the title before even reading it.
It's amazing how well it reproduces how some psychedelics warp vision. Those act on the brain, this tricks the eyes, similar result.

I experience something similar while cycling on trails. If I watch only the road rolling under me for some time and then look at some static object, like a big cloud, it appears to move towards me (or away, can't remember right now).