skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note taking is solved, find me an app that solves note organizing and note retrieval and I will pay for that
Looks really interesting! Thanks for sharing
In the current iteration, they don't solve that problem.

You still need a centralised entity to enforce ownership, making the blockchain redundant.

A future attempt might be better, maybe.
"...for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill." - Gandolf (fictional character by J.R.R. Tolkien)
Read the Anarchist FAQ, Why is capitalism exploitative? You can find it on the Internet for free.

Marx's Capital discusses relations of production, surplus labor time etc. as well, but is famously not an easy read (certain chapters any how, including the first one).
Advice is a way to get someone else to try out your hypothesis.
>2x is a fashion statement

The top 2 voted comments including yours made me understand for the first time that some people hearing others talk about "2x benefits" perceive it as silly superhuman braggadocio. (Maybe the "2x" does sound like Patrick Bateman's American Psycho morning routine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjKNbfA64EE)

Yep, I understand what your humor is trying to do.

As counterpoint, the blind have been using screen readers TTS (text-to-speech) at 2x to 3x (~300 wpm) for a long time but the masses didn't notice. (E.g. A blind programmer using TTS at 450 wpm which is about ~4x normal speaking speed: https://www.vincit.fi/en/software-development-450-words-per-...)

However, when popular websites like Youtube added "2x" speedup function to videos, the general public suddenly noticed how it made many lethargic and dull videos more bearable to watch. (Or it turns 20-minute videos that are too long and stay unwatched into more manageable 10-minute videos that are easier to digest.)

It doesn't take superhuman ability to comprehend many videos at 2x. A lot of us can just do what the blind have been doing with playback technology.

(As for those productivity maximizers who looking beyond 2x and are interested in superhuman 4x+ abilities, there may be evidence from blind people that the brain can be trained to understand extremely fast speech: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-can-some-blin...)
There's no fundamental problem with the color chosen, so those last two probably won't be of much use. Anyway, I have no problems with the background. Curious you had that visceral of a reaction
That or the pharmacist made a horrible mistake and would be headed to court and possibly jail. Also newsworthy and also a relatively unlikely explanation.
ROS 1 or 2?
Tesla releases the 2021 Holiday Update jam-packed with fun and features
PageRank was a massive, huge improvement in search results.

The emphasis should be on the 'was' there. PageRank was so much better than the competition that it gave Google an effective monopoly on search. That lack of competition meant Google could focus on how to get users to click on ads displayed alongside search results rather than how to return better results than the competition. Consequently now Google search is only OK at returning what you're after, and the page is 50% ads.

Google hasn't been coasting along on the success of search for decades though thankfully. A lot of Google tech is very, very good (Gmail, Docs, YouTube, GCE, etc). Search is still better than the competitors but that's only because there's only really Bing. The problem is that it's really only Search that drives revenue.

I strongly believe that if anyone made a better search engine than Google, and consequently Google's ad money took a nosedive, Google would be faced with an existential crisis unlike any other business in history. If Apple are building the search product they're rumored to be building all Google staff should be very worried because no jobs will be safe.
This looks great but I wish it had some of the features that NaSC [0] has. It's a really amazing tool but it's awfully crashy to the point where it's barely usable. That being said being able to say `solve(... = 512 MiB)` and getting an answer is unbelievably amazing.

[0] - https://appcenter.elementary.io/com.github.parnold-x.nasc/
"It depends", as always :)

Some people may do it because it's more approachable to them (and/or others). Others may have language models/runtimes that align closely with the target language. Or they may want to "stand on the shoulders of giants", benefiting from the higher-level optimizations of the target language. Also, for example, LLVM still doesn't target as many architectures as gcc (though I'm not saying that's necessarily very relevant for most users).

That's just what comes to mind. I can't say for certain anything about this particular language though!
because it’s a complex product, and having empathy for customers is far more helpful than having contempt.
Wow, amazing site! Wish I knew about it earlier!
"As is often the case with a loss of power, there may be some hardware that is not recoverable..."

No. Not even rarely. If they lost hardware because of this something much different than just loss of power happened on their servers' mains rails.
For #2, I think that a secret to being perceived as a great advice-giver is that, in their heart of hearts, most askers already know what they want to do, but need your help discovering it. It's more effective to simply restate the question in a novel way than it is to just tell them what to do.
Egress fees can make replicating databases, storage buckets, etc. between clouds very expensive. Multi-region is a much more affordable option. Multi-region outages aren't unheard of among the major cloud operators, but they're less common than single-AZ or single-region outages.

IMO, most companies just aren't sensitive enough to downtime that multi-AZ + multi-region deployment within a single cloud provider isn't good enough.
> how many note-taking systems have S-expression formulas that support nested functions?

Obsidian, Workflowy, Roam Research, Dynalist, Quire, Asana and Org Mode, just to name a few off the top of my head.
What do you think the "figuratively" part of the statement means? I presumed it to mean exactly what you suggested. In my mind anyway - a figuratively spineless corporation is a corporations where executives and others are the spineless ones.

Please enlighten me on what a figuratively spineless corporation is, if it is not that.
Good info thanks!
Breaking the site guidelines like this will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: fortunately you don't seem to be in the habit of it (that's good).
I was thinking of windows too when I said all platforms.
I'm trying to remember what satirical slash comic book guy style sites + examples like this there were to ridicule bitcoin.
I wonder if this means they will try to discourage students, particularly graduate level students, from studying overseas. Could have a big effect on western universities if true. Or they might offer incentives for graduates to come back to China. That might have an effect on the number of western startups.
> With an NFT, the art itself is available to anyone, regardless of if you own the NFT. You never needed to buy an NFT to enjoy the art. The only thing of value in an NFT is the NFT itself, not the art that it represent. If the NFT is not authentic, it's a much bigger deal because now it loses all of its value, not just a portion of it.

I can easily print out a high-quality Mona Lisa and put it on my wall, and I can enjoy it, but I wouldn't pretend I own it.

> To replicate the art of an NFT, it just takes a few clicks. It's not difficult or expensive to copy it. If you can't figure out how to do it, you probably don't need to spend more than 10$ to get someone online to do it for you.

It is mathematically impossible to copy the NFT. It isn't the same smart contract, it isn't the same NFT. It is theoretically possible to arrange atoms in the precise location of a physical object, however.
I've thought a lot about this recently: what type of person is subject to a greater amount of variance in the outcome of something due to good/bad advice than a founder?

Other professions with the potential for drastic upticks of success or net worth (e.g. a professional athlete, an entertainer) are so standardized that the advice to follow is pretty much down the center of the fairway.

Given the complexity/uniqueness of a company and its market, almost any piece of advice given to a founder is at best inadequate, at worst, gravely detrimental.

Paul Buchheit had a slide at founder school that read something like "Advice = Limited Life Experience + Over generalization" - I have no idea if I interpreted it correctly, but most advice I've received (and thought was great at the time) ended up being wrong. The people giving me the advice weren't being malicious - they were just looking at my problem with _their_ life experience and abstracting it a very general way.

And the worst part is - and I say this with a lot of experience - when someone else's advice was wrong, you can't blame them, you can only blame yourself.
No mountain high enough: study finds plastic in 'clean' air
"Most of the device’s functionality, including the e-paper display, do not work at this time."
NTIA Access Broadband Report 2021 [pdf]
Altavisa! Lycos!

But even before that, when there were no search engines, there were directories (https://dmoz-odp.org/) which tried to take a taxonomic approach to the whole web, webrings, and putting your URL into print to get people to type it in. The latter culminated in an early version of the QR code: regular barcodes and the "cuecat" barcode scanner.
That solved it, thanks! :-) Now I have nothing but good words about Speedcrunch!
because 'change from the inside' is a legitimate and often more successful approach to political/social activism.

You're probably right in that it's much harder to change a behemoth.

But we've seen recently the power of employee activism.

Google & china search, twitter during the election, climate strike, reddit for a few things didn't they hire and then fire a known abuser?, Google AI ethics saga (though maybe I shouldn't put that Im not sure that's a success lol, is that conservative lady still there?).

I'm sure there's a bunch more but that's just off the top of my head and maybe some aren't the best examples but other commenters I'm sure can chime in with better ones.

And of course it's more complicated. Can argue corporations would do some of this on their own simply for marketing reasons.
How does Numi compare to Soulver 3[0]?

[0] https://soulver.app/
Not as critical situation as WeChat, but otherwise I say the same about LINE.
Much thanks for all the work done through these decades. LWN rocks!
It means the GC design is fundamentally broken.
The other issue with IMDB for me is that reviews are international. As a Frenchman, I find SensCritique to have much better reviews.

It's a bit like food, Americans, Italians, and Koreans will not appreciate the same restaurants.
How many of the non persistent mines will fail to disarm and still be a danger? I would expect quite a few.

In my mind they should have been banned like biological weapons. And the US could take leadership
Giving unsolicited advice is disrespectful and will do your relationship with the person in question no favors. Contrariwise, soliciting advice from someone else is respectful, and will often improve their disposition towards you. The simple rule that I endeavor to follow is to never give unsolicited advice, but to give solicited advice if I can be helpful.

A blog post isn't unsolicited advice because nobody reads it without choosing to visit your blog. Incidentally that indicates the reader has at least some respect for your thoughts. It probably won't be as helpful as personalized solicited advice, but it's still potentially valuable.

Another rule I follow for advice-giving is asking myself, am I suggesting a way that is really better or just how I would do it? If it's the latter case then I'll often demur, or at least say it's really just my opinion and there are probably other, possibly better, ways to do whatever it is.
i share the same mindset as i really miss traveling but the only way to explore places to go when i’m abroad is yelp, google maps, and my own excel sheet. all of which are very slow on international sim cards or in remote areas. i’m thinking about building my own yelp-like site which is just static content on a cdn, images would by default show the “alt” text with an option to download the image.
The gallery thing drives me nuts. It's so buggy on old reddit.

Also links constantly come up with backslashes in them, probably some change in the new interface and they are just letting it be broken on the old interface.

They are without a doubt just letting old reddit slowly fall apart until it's totally broken.
This links to a random comment. I don't understand its significance.
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"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

Many users can't seem to resist hurling flamebait and feeding flamewars. Please don't be one of those. This is not a site for smiting enemies or being an internet warrior, regardless of how right your views are or you feel they are, and regardless of how much badness there is to denounce. None of that is what we want here, because it's repetitive, predictable, and self-reinforcing. HN threads thrive on diffs, not repetition. Diffs are what's interesting.

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learn both. golang is vastly more productive than rust for me. better tooling, faster build times, smaller less complex language.

rust is fantastic for building highly performant safe code at the expense of developer productivity. builds times are atrocious and tooling isn't as polished as golang.

both at great languages.
In fact, in June, comparable paroxysms of internal and external outrage were directed at Ms. Weiss’s one-time boss, James Bennet, head of the Times Opinion pages, after he published an op-ed written by a U.S. Senator arguing that federal troops should be used to control the looting and violence that was becoming associated with street protests. Within days, Mr. Bennet was fired – neatly decapitated by a Times staff "cancel culture" testing its power.

To be fair to the NYT -- to be the devil's advocate, as it were:

The reason they backpedaled on the Tom Cotton piece wasn't because of the basic ideas expressed (the idea of sending federal troops, as such): but because the surrounding text was, well, basically unhinged and disconnected from reality -- and in that sense, basically irresponsible and (considering the historical moment) profoundly inflammatory.

As the Times explained in its notice explaining its decision to formally backpedal:

For example, the published piece presents as facts assertions about the role of “cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa”; in fact, those allegations have not been substantiated and have been widely questioned. Editors should have sought further corroboration of those assertions, or removed them from the piece. The assertion that police officers “bore the brunt” of the violence is an overstatement that should have been challenged.

That's why the editor who approved this hot, steaming piece of mindless -- and essentially pro-violence -- drivel got "cancelled".
I'd guess the "Robotic Operating System" https://www.ros.org

It's not an operating system though, but a middleware and an ecosystem for lots of tools and so called "packages" for robotic and educational use. Language bindings are C++, Python, Java and Lisp (maybe more I don't remember).
Do modern graphics cards have optimizations for applying a kernel to a texture? If so, that should work well with cellular automata too
Does it have good test coverage? That’s most important to me for what the code does or is supposed to do.

Otherwise I’m not even going to bother.
Starting up is hard on electronics due to the inrush current. There may be marginal devices just barely operating that will not survive a reboot. Things like bad capacitors aren’t always detectable during steady state.

At AWS scale it’s highly likely there are more than a few of these.
A couple of months ago some colleagues and I submitted a very basic request practically begging Twitter for access to users’ follower/following graph on the new API. The use case was super-simple and obvious (allow people to import their followers into a new app) and didn’t involve any sort of data mining or spam or anything.

It took days? weeks? to get a generic rejection message from a “no reply” email address. Meanwhile — much irony — A16Z can help apps like Clubhouse get super-access since they were also a huge investor in Twitter.

All of this pro- and anti-web3 stuff is a sign that all of these inter-connected webs of egos in our industry are jostling for power in an ecosystem that doesn’t need them very much. Meanwhile, there are lots of people in other verticals who completely missed the boat on the web investment play who are beginning to realize this is their opportunity to jump in and scale their capital alongside the people on the ground. A major investor / operator shakeup is about to take place.
> Every FAANG/MANGA corporation needs to change.

It's very difficult to argue this point when employees are very well compensated for the perceived misery of being employed at these companies.
I'd be really curious what portion of this is part 135 vs part 91, and in general commercial charter vs. small-time commercial operations (survey, instruction, etc) and private (in the FAA sense of non-commercial). It seems surprising to me that private (non-commercial) aviation has picked up considering the high and increasing costs of getting into it, but then the fact that used prices for piston singles seem to be going up would tend to suggest that.

I'm a relatively newly minted private pilot, having gotten my certificate shortly after the start of the pandemic, and I've met a couple of other people in a similar situation. I think the pandemic opened up a lot of free time and flight instruction was still operating throughout. But of course many of us are also stymied right now by there being "nowhere to go" in that aircraft prices are high and increasing and GA infrastructure is generally in a bad state in much of the country (no available private hangars in my urban area, community/FBO hangars often on waitlists, prices very high for everything). The extremely high price of new aircraft designs is very frustrating as well, as basically everyone without around a half a million to spend (or more realistically to finance) is stuck with a '60s 100LL design and boxed out of the newer diesel options, as well as safety features like AoA indication (although there remains some debate about how much AoA instruments actually improve safety) and airframe parachutes (which seem to just be a clear benefit with vanishingly few negative outcomes).

Commercial charter operators are of course able to finance very expensive aircraft, but are nonetheless hit by the same impact - per-hour charter prices are extremely high, and a huge portion of that is amortizing how much even used jet aircraft cost. Those prices are going up, not down, a trend which seems to be permanent.
It’s not that strange if you consider that you use image files to transfer images. Trying to store data outside of that (in a custom chunk) isn’t a use case anyone is accommodating so it will get stripped even by accident.

So if you use stego and store data in the image, you have a bigger chance of preserving the data.
Tiktok radically changed the Internet in both good and bad ways.

It introduced a rapid-fire video scrolling app that made content on demand instantaneous, and exposed the world to a bunch of forgotten and unseen ideas and content.

Problem 1 - There is literally no good user-driven choice in the equation. You literally encounter everything form pimple-popping, videos to disturbing imagery of people dying, to funny videos of cute pets.

Problem 2 - The creator system is rigged just like everywhere else, and it fosters theft of ideas and content, rewarding those who hack the system and steal content above the original creators.

Problem 3 - Very few effective measures are taken to ensure proper moderation of content and comments/interactions. Many users encounter harassment and disturbing content without the proper means of limiting those factors.

Problem 4 - The view statistics displayed within the application are often not accurate representations of actual views on each post, due to counts being (apparently) registered on the audio used in videos posted rather than based on actual views of each uploaded content item.

Problem 5 - Certain videos do not show the dates/times they were posted, and accurate information concerning the video length. This issue can be potentially harmful to mental health in distorting time perception and context.

Problem 6 - The platform provides one single success script for content creators, yet supports a wide variety of content creators of many different skills. The platform only rewards creators that adhere to it's dictated rules, which destroys the ability to build a following based on being original.

Problem 7 - Trending music is often overbearing, with no effective way of ensuring it isn't encountered a lot (Such as with the song OhNo by Creeper). This repetitive use of music and recurring sounds to accompany videos may have negative mental health implications.

That being said, The app may perhaps be fine for viewing in short sprints. :P
Tesla applies to install Supercharger stations in Texas with CCS connectors
Advice is free like kittens. Really affecting the outcome of someone elses circumstances costs money and time and very few are willing to do that. Especially when the someone is outside our family or tribe.
I think most advice is bad because the person giving the advice somehow also wants to sound like a hero or at least somebody you would want to look up to.

Unfortunately most of the times the reality to do the things for which the advice is sought is rather mundane and sometimes not even something a person would be proud off.

Like for example, if you want to be a very successful business the reality advice is to market more aggressively, lock people in your walled garden, save taxes, inflate prices, make a commission on other people's work, etc but the advice you give is make better products, innovate, make it user friendly, create brand loyalty, etc.
Being a "generalist" is great and will pay off in the long run but only if you want to do stuff independently (entrepreneur, youtuber etc). If you want to move up the career ladder, I suggest you "specialise" first for quite some time and then get back to being a "generalist".

I guess Feynman says it better.

"Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all." - Richard Feynman
I just installed it to try it out and I love the idea but this is the worst part about it. Even with no history as another said, it still has a delay.
It boggles my mind that someone would make a multi-day drive that they wouldn't otherwise do just so they didn't need to wear a mask for a few hours.