skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a world where competition exists, this is simple - one publisher can carry one author, other publisher can carry others and you just buy the content from the one you prefer.

In a world where everyone defends consolidation into monopolistic platforms and you need to choose which tech platform will own your life this becomes a problematic political issue. At least it's convenient right?
What about bubbles in protective packaging?
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Computer scientists show what makes movie lines memorable
> There's no open source standard. No LibreOffice or Krita of notetaking.

There's UTF-8 and JPEG.
Cooking and eating are one of life’s great pleasures, especially when shared with family and friends. Cooking for yourself is a great way to learn and experiment, so that you have a skill worth sharing. And, for me it has the added bonus of being entirely unlike computers.
Classically, the only way things like that are “hard forced” on a company that refuses to be canceled is visa/mc stop accepting them. This is a real case for crypto-currencies.
I do not follow Naomi Wu but one of the funniest moments in the movie "The aviator" is the scene in which Hughes (di Caprio) tries to convince the censoring bureau (whatever its name is) that showing part of (I forget the actress) a female breast is NOT pornography.

That sequence has stayed with me for the clear depiction of prudishness and stupidity to which people can reach when censoring something.
Well, to be clear I agree that it's very likely it originated in Wuhan in 2019. I believe the evidence for a lab leak, the EcoHealth stuff, Fauci's involvement etc is well beyond the balance of probabilities at this point. I just don't think an argument about phylogenetic trees can prove it, because of the way those trees are defined.

To play the devil's advocate:

- "a cluster of dozens of undiagnosed pneumonia cases was enough to trigger a deeper investigation and rapidly pinpoint the new virus"

A cluster of undiagnosed pneumonia cases ... that occurred right next to a large coronavirus research lab. Which presumably the hospital staff knew all about. If I worked at the local hospital of a vast virus lab then I'd be quick off the mark to test people showing weird symptoms for novel viruses too.

- "Either it would have to be the case that the progenitors did not cause these symptoms (and if it didn't, well, how was it Covid?)"

That's easy. COVID isn't defined by symptoms, is it? The definition of COVID being used by governments is "tested positive on a SARS-CoV-2 PCR test". The clinical symptoms of COVID include all possible symptoms of any respiratory illness including no symptoms at all, which is useless.

- "you'd still need to explain how the actual spread of Covid, after it was discovered, was a gradual process rather than being found to be massively prevalent all over the world the moment it was discovered"

It comes and goes in waves. If the start of testing was triggered not by the actual new emergence of the virus but by the proximity of some cases to a massive lab with hyper-vigilant doctors, then as test capacity ramped up we'd be able to observe the next seasonal wave and we'd think it was the first (incorrectly).

- "Are you claiming that samples of Covid have been artificially dropped from the tree to make it build with such a recent common ancenstor?"

COVID is literally defined as "the presence of a viral RNA sequence that can be fitted into this phylogenetic tree". Anything else isn't SARS-CoV-2 and thus not COVID, by definition. Consider that the tree has two roots! It has to have two roots because right at the very start COVID did have a clinical definition and the viruses they were finding didn't trace to a common ancestor. The re-definition of COVID as testing positive only came later with the introduction of mass testing.
Why should one have empathy with people who deny other peoples' basic human rights simply because of their gender, sexual orientation or religion?

Back in 1939 the world decided they had enough of my ancestors (I'm German) and put a stop to bigotry by using force. These days, such views can get you elected to US Presidency.

What a goddamn shame.
See what the judge said[1], specifically:

> The labels themselves are neither false nor defamatory; to the contrary, they constitute protected opinion.

All media sources hide behind "being just entertainment and not factual opinion" just like the New York Times or MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, who, when she was sued for saying OAN is "paid Russian propaganda”, won the case because “The statement could not reasonably be understood to imply an assertion of objective fact, and therefore, did not amount to defamation”[2] even though MSNBC couldn't prove OAN was paid by Russia.

[1]: https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Faceb...
[2]: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/568213-oan-loses-appeal-i... "paid Russian propaganda”
If the hysterically prudish standards of many online services were to be applied to museums containing old artifacts, they'd hack off Michelangelo's David's dick and put a pair of boxers on him.
> With "declarative" I still have to find out what's the intuition WHY it's supposedly better,

Declarative is better because you write what you want to _have_ not what you want to change, which means you need implicit knowledge of the state of the system, and leave the complexities of figuring out the in between to the tool you're using.
That's less than 0.2% of the doctors. Not really impressive.
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If that's the case then I would love to know how reliable this method is, and whether she actually did this research before making the claim that other videos are not demonetized. If there really are not while hers is, then obviously YouTube has a problem.
I’m not writing notes to refer to them in the future.
I’m writing notes so I don't need to refer to them in the future.
Well, they sort of did choose though. I imagine Joe Rogan gets more listener hours than Neil Young does. It is also showing your values for the future if you remove Joe Rogan, whereas Neil Young is basically blackmailing them, in a pretty hysterical way.

I think on both issues Spotify wins. Financially they probably do, and they get to show they don't bow to hysterical artists. That's a good thing in the long run.
Not yet. Systems like Inmarsat Fleet One can cost $1K a month to get an OK connection. Many sailors make do with the good 4G connections when they're near shore and use satelite to get weather files and send/receive text messages.
Yeah, I take lots of notes (https://dercuano.github.io/ for example), but I can't take notes during lectures. I figure the people who are taking notes during the lecture must be a lot smarter than I am, because if I try to take notes during the lecture, writing distracts me and I lose the thread of the lecture.
https://github.com/berdav/CVE-2021-4034 works more reliably and is simpler.
>Why not swap the brake cables?

They come out of the left side of the frame and one of them isn't quite long enough. I've got used to it now.
My understanding of the phenomenon is the following:

1. The gap between how many things human brain can reliably and easily keep in mind (bringing up every time it is importantly relevant) and how many things do we have (for optimal performance, suboptimal performance means failures and stress) to keep in mind today is mindboggingly huge.

I even believe an average person would be orders of magnitude the Einstein (or whoever you like better) genius if they could simultaneously recall and relate everything they ever learnt (let alone read/heard/seen).

2. Note-taking software can potentially help a lot. Some note-taking apps and some methodologies help some people in some extent.

3. The actual current capability and UX of existing note-taking apps is miles away from perfect (let alone fitting everyone). This means there is a lot of potential to explore.

4. Substantial activity in 3. has been taking place during the pandemic.

5. All the above ideas have became more visible.

6. People get more interested.

Bonus: the very act of writing a fact down (let alone structuring them) itself contributes to learning it.
Why would you want to mandate it? That would kill Fedi faster than anything. Make it an available option that stands the test of time, while other things come and go, and people will use it eventually. (The Fediverse is already over a decade and a half old; almost as old as Facebook.)

Although, there are some proposals in the EU to make it mandatory for social media companies to use open communication protocols like ActivityPub (an exaggeration of their existing obligations under GDPR, which most of them are ignoring already)...
The fact that operating systems maintained by small organisations are more viable than web browsers maintained by small organisations should tell you something about the complexity of the web stack.
Just checked some download scripts and at least 7 big pirate streaming sites use jwplayer, but surprisingly no pron on the first glance.

Edit: correction, shameless/txxx/vxxx do
Not holding them accountable simply because “but they have reasons” means no-one is ever accountable for anything.
I work on static analysis (points-to analysis) that does not use any GPU at all and is mostly single threaded.
Yeah we chose Vue at work too, but it was only because we didn't have enough experience of either.

> Wikipeida chose Vue

Yeah their reasons look very much like dubious attempts to justify the choice someone has already made.

1. You can use it without a build step.

Sure, but only if you're not using Typescript, which would be mad. A build step is a mild inconvenience. Not something that should cause you to choose a worse solution (though they do also use PHP so they're probably used to bad tech).

2. Vue.js may enable us to rely on fewer libraries as dependencies.

Ha! When I added Vue and its required CLI stuff to our package.json it pulled in around 1000 dependencies. React has like 4.

3. The official Vue libraries are evolving in a stable and predictable fashion.

You can still use React classes if you want to. They're not deprecated. It's unlikely they ever will be.

4. Vue.js development is not led by a single corporation whose goals may diverge from those of the WMF.

I mean... come on.
Memory can be improved with 2000-year-old techniques like memory palaces. This doesn't replace note-taking, but low-latency cache can improve synthesis and note quality.
If the original device's DAC has produced a shitty analog signal, the best ADC in the world will only be able to turn it into a shitty digital signal.

The strength of a chain is that of its weakest link.
https://www.quora.com/When-MacOS-X-was-announced-Steve-Jobs-...

>When MacOS X was announced, Steve Jobs said “We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.” When was the last time you licked the screen of an Apple product?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/lickable-buttons/

>“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.” Steve Jobs on Mac OS X’s Aqua user interface, January 2000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfhAcz0OKw

>Steve Jobs Introduces Aqua (UI Design Language): Aqua is the graphical user interface, design language and visual theme of Apple's macOS operating system. It was originally based on the theme of water, with droplet-like components and a liberal use of reflection effects and translucency. Its goal is to "incorporate color, depth, translucence, and complex textures into a visually appealing interface" in macOS applications. At its introduction, Steve Jobs noted that "one of the design goals was when you saw it you wanted to lick it".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(user_interface)

>Design elements: Gray, white and blue are the three principal colors which define the Aqua style. Window toolbars, window backgrounds, buttons, menus and other interface elements are all found in either of these colors. For instance, toolbars and sidebars are often grey or metal-colored, window backgrounds and popup menus are white and buttons (in older systems also scrollbar handles) are accented with a bright blue. In versions of OS X prior to OS X Yosemite, most controls have a "glass" or "gel" effect applied to them. David Pogue described this effect as "lickable globs of Crest Berrylicious Toothpaste Gel".

https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000...

>Everyone expected him to unveil a new computer or two. Instead, Jobs showed off a flashy, completely redesigned Macintosh operating system called Mac OS X [ten], which, when it's delivered this summer, will put a glossy new face--graphical user interface, that is--on the Mac. "We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them," he says. (Some of the design elements he approved help illustrate these pages.)
It's what you want vs how to do it:

Imperative: open the top drawer, then take out a knife, then take out a board, then open the basket, take out a potato, slice the potato with the knife 4 times in parallel, then turn it 90 degrees and do it again.

Declarative: make some diced potatoes however you like, whenever you like. Have it ready for when the frying pan is hot.

Imperative lets you be very precise about what to do and when to do it, what resources you need, etc. Declarative lets the system decide things like execution plans (and thus algorithm and resources) so you can spend your time specifying the target state rather than all the steps in getting there.
"Two patterns emerged to identify the memorable choice: distinctiveness and generality."

"A line will be less general if it contains third-person pronouns and definite articles (which refer to people, objects or events in the scene) and uses past tense (usually referring to something that happened previously in the story)."

"Memorable quotes use more sounds made in the front of the mouth, words with more syllables and fewer coordinating conjunctions."
This is just mostly bike shedding [1]. People waste a lot of time in thinking about which tool to use for note taking rather than actually doing the note taking. The tools are there to just support note taking, most of the times just a pen and paper is enough to get the job done.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
Yes, I am bringing the legitimacy of the word "upgrade" into question when changing the operating system from Windows 10 to Windows 11.

For me it's a significant decrease in usability and the feature of being able to run some selected Android applications from a single selected marketplace doesn't make me want to install the newer operating system at all. It's a rational choice to quote the word upgrade because it doesn't mean that to me.
Unrelated to brainstorming: this blog's typography is gorgeous.
Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs to Utilize Samsung 16 Gbps GDDR6 Memory
It's a USA thing. Where I'm from in the nordics they have bus advertisements with nipples on them. There is no issue with breastfeeding or semi-translucent clothing in most of Europe.
Look at european cinema and TV, there is a lot of nudity.
> Do we all secretly believe we can be truly better people if we can just get this right?

I think you're onto something here. There's definitely some magical thinking involved. We all have a hidden genius that could be unlocked - if only we would find a method to put all that mess in our heads together in the right way. We conveniently forget that if 90% of everything is crap[0], then it should apply to our own thoughts too :)

My take is that notes are overrated. Almost everything I write down becomes outdated in as little as a few months. Anything older than 1 year seems ancient and is only useful for entertainment. I have my digital notes going back to 2014. I never look at them.

What's not overrated is note-taking. The result doesn't matter, the act itself does. It's a thinking tool. A way to offload ideas from your head and let it do some actual thinking.

If that rings true to you, then it makes sense to optimize for writing, not organizing or reading. To me that means a simple paper notebook and a gel pen. I haven't yet found anything that can beat paper in writing experience [1].

Might be an ipad or org-mode for you - literally doesn't matter, as long as you use it with pleasure.

As for evergreen content, my rule is that it should be public. That's what blogs are for.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

[1] I wrote a blogpost about my primitive paper journaling system https://tadas.blog/posts/paper-journaling-system/
This seems to be the public perception: only one side demands censorship. This isn't quite true and only shows you how well one side is at publicizing that they're being censored, which, ironically, means they're censored -less-.

Palestinian accounts on facebook have been deleted for years when they were trying to report on occupation. Facebook also deleted all the accounts of Nicaraguan socialists trying to counter the Western narratives about their election. Anything on social media that is anti-imperialist, especially when it comes from the actual global south, has been silenced, and also silently silenced - because it' not part of the mainstream discourse, so people often don't realize it's gone because they never knew it was there to begin with. It was easy to quietly sweep under the rug.

The new right isn't so easy to quietly sweep under the rug, because it's loud and it's next door to many people in the West, so you notice when the posts are gone, people yell about it and call wolf - which means they have the voice to yell, and the power to cry wolf.

It's an old (very, very old) insight that rules for censorship are made with the the excesses of the right as legitimation for it, and then used against the left. Which is why, on the left, it would be pragmatically and strategically smart to stop clamoring for the censorship of the right. We're just handing the agents of control the tools to silence us with.
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I explain qualitativley to people that the 'cloud' provider is doing a lot on the control plane below the hypervisor.

K8s is a 'puff' within the 'cloud', and a bunch of additional control plane activity going on below the 'cloud cover' of the hypervisor line is now yours.

Happy days have arrived with the added IP managent, scaling, DNS, &c requirements.
True, both people and organisations have to remember things. But when it comes to organisations, I think the existence of a separate task called "note taking" is often a symptom of slow software development and data modeling.

Individuals sometimes take notes to collect random ideas. That's fine. I do that too. No one other than myself could ever make sense of my notes though, and sometimes not even I can.

When organisations take notes in prose form, it is unlikely that anyone will ever have time to read them in order the extract the parts relevent for a particular task. There are of course exceptions. Someone will surely read the FOMC minutes.

There has to be a deliberate process of modeling and collecting structured data so it can be queried and transformed into something that facilitates specific decisions. At that point, it's no longer called note taking.

In my view, it is this sort of ad hoc data modeling that is too inefficient right now. It's something I'm on working on, but I can't claim to have found any silver bullets yet.
> We like to scoff at Muslims and their backwards policies about women, and yet somehow Western societies are blind to their own

it's the american (or western?) exceptionalism at play - the bar is set to the _current_ western level, and muslim rules that the taliban abide by are seen as a lower level of civility (where civility is defined as _western social mores_).
Many of my notes are write only. I might refer to them here or there, but it's mostly about laying my thoughts out.

However, I love flipping through old notebooks. They're a personal diary made of schematics, sketches, lists and recipes.

I'm now a bit more conscious about dating each page, because I combine those with other data to form a personal timeline [0].

None of this is about productivity. It's closer to an artistic hobby like calligraphy.

[0] https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/timeline
She said she had implants. Do you think she can remove them without surgery?
If you threw a a
Qwerty keyboard and command line on that thing, it would be on the front page of HN right now
You know what the problem is with spotify and JRE. They not only host it, they push it. I cancelled my Spotify because EVERY SINGLE DAY I'd have to see that pathetic loosers face on my home screen.

This is not about 'free speech' or whatever, it is about a company pushing dangerous content with no way to say 'nah, I'd rather not'. They have zero respect for their users & zero respect for artists.

Fuck spotify.
The hard part is interoperability. Apple is writing lots of things in Swift today, but low level libraries that are used in many places are hard to do in Swift. Interoperability with C often requires very difficult casts, and if you do them incorrectly you'll have the same kinds of bugs as in C.
From Containers to Unikernels on EC2
So I have been playing with NanoVMs and I was able to migrate the Google Cloud Microservices Demo to AWS EC2 unikernels. In the process I also created some simple service discovery with HashiCorp's Consul as a DNS server. This was very educational.
What is the counter-balance to this memo? How do F/OSS developers ensure their work never ends up being used by the DoD for any purpose whatsoever?

As a F/OSS developer I am ideologically opposed to my work ever being used by the US' DoD or any of its organizations. Has anyone successfully built F/OSS products with a license that disallows use by military organizations, and if so - what is involved in maintaining that situation?
> Writing an application in VB was several orders of magnitude cheaper

Order of magnitude is big deal, can you be more specific, did you mean 2 or 3 orders of magnitude? Or what exactly did you mean.

By this logic if writing an app in VB costs 20$ then COBOL equivalent cost 2000$ or 20 000$ ?

Ok, 20$ seems a bit too cheap, let's see, if developing VB app cost 400$. So COBOL equivalent would have cost either 40 000$ or 400 000$ ? Is that what you mean?
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> a hack who regularly says controversial things to get into the public eye

This is so easy to say about someone you disagree with. But the other side will say the same about your heroes.

Almost anyone in the public eye will say things to get in the public eye. That's what they are good at. In politics, those things will be by definition controversial to some people. Not to mention the opposing media will purposefully twist what you say into controversial things.

I don't see how Ben shapiro is special in this in any way.
The code is here: https://github.com/diegov/searchbox

But don't let its attempt at a friendly README fool you, it's personal-grade software of "works-on-my-machine", and barely, quality.

If you want to look at something more polished, I think https://github.com/amirgamil/apollo and https://github.com/thesephist/monocle are worth taking a look.

Also there's the https://github.com/karlicoss/HPI library, which you could build on, though it mainly relies on data dumps from the different services instead of crawling and fetching through APIs, which is why I didn't use it. Keeping up with API changes is bad enough, I don't want to deal with undocumented dump formats...
> She makes things, and was accused by the publisher of "Make" magazine of being a fake, with some guy doing the actual work.

That's fucked up. Why would someone accuse anyone of being a fake, just because they didn't look a certain way? Detestable.
A folder of text files on my Dropbox. Google Docs would be fine too. Tried other stuff but keep coming back to plain text files!

Anki is great for foreign languages, chemical names, country flag to name mappings etc.