skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is an approximate description of my image of the perfect information management tool:

Free and open source preferably but if it has to be paid (I don't mind paying if somebody builds a perfect tool for me, I'll donate if it's free) - it is to be single-time payment, not any kind of subscription.

100%-internet-independent. An option to synchronize data over the internet is a nice thing to have but it must be E2E-encrypted (I feel like a manually-set private key symmetric encryption is ok) and support P2P-synchronization via local network.

It should better work on all the platforms but desktop Linux is the most important and minimally-sufficient.

It is to store the data in a format easy to read and modify programmatically. E.g. SQLite (seems the best choice, also does great storing attached files as BLOBs within the DB), XML, JSON or whatever with sane scheme.

A node can be folder/document, a document section with a heading (including subsections), a paragraph (with support for marking particular spans as non-breakable and inserting manual line breaks), a picture (svg, png or jpg), a numbered or bulleted list (of whatever a depth) or its element, a video, an audio, a table, a formula, a piece of code, an attached file (stored within or alongside the database), a link to a node or to an external URL. Something else too perhaps.

It should be possible to attach tags and custom properties to the nodes. Every node should have a UUID. The tagging system should support implications (e.g. if I tag something with "python" tag "programming" tag is applied implicitly). It should be possible to rename tags and merge tags into one.

Full text search (and replace) by content, tag, property etc.

Drag&Drop nodes migration and reordering.

Export a node with all its subnodes into a file, execute a command line with its name substituted and import it back. I am going to use this feature mostly to author documents (markdown, latex, epub etc) and blog posts via Python scripts.

What I want to use it for:

Writing down random ideas and notes, mindmapping, organizing reasonably small files and scanned stuff, writing lecture notes, papers, blog posts and books and all these with all their hierarchy elements (to the sane depth, treating every word as an node or looking inside attached files would be too much) should be 1-st class nodes displayed in the tree and available for the operations.
The mere existence of a price floor isn't particularly relevant; if your nest egg goes down to 1% it's basically the same as going to 0%. You've still lost your shirt.

I don't know what the floor for industrial uses actually is though; if it's 10% of the current speculative price that might be germane, but if it's lower it might not.
Many of the incentives that act on higher levels are set in the Constitution or well-established law. The laws become a little bit worse from this perspective every year, as new forms of nest-feathering are introduced and entrenched. The system as it exists "incentivizes" this process. This will not be fixed by those whose own incentives lock them into this system, whatever level they inhabit.
Facebook's burnt-out moderators are proof that it is broken
I know Blockstack is working hard on a solution to make sure all browsers support authentication without having to download a local instance of the Blockstack Browser. But Chrome and any other browser based on Chrome's underlying technology (chromium) should work great!
I've done it twice. The first time because I was so young. I'm not even sure "startup" was in our vocabulary in 2006. Oh boy I wish I would've had a founder to help me out. I had no idea how to monetize all the traffic I was getting. I learned to code while building the website, so things were pretty shotty. What could have been...

The second time I had to ditch my partner. I found him stealing money, he had no drive either. Just a wretched scrap of humanity. After taking the code and letting him keep the worthless domain he was supposed to do SEO on I registered a new domain and got the site up in a night. Ended up being reasonably profitable at $2,000 a month, but was just too much work for one person. I sold the site in 2014.

Since then every time I find a "co-founder" it seems I end up doing most of the work. Maybe there is something wrong with me or maybe its really hard to find a good co-founder.
> ...no second chances, like many places in the US

citation needed.
I'd be happy to fund the authors, with money. I don't ever want to see or hear another advertisement in my life, and I never will. If there's an option to pay the authors, great.

I'd love to see adblockers so successful that that "revenue stream" becomes completely worthless and nobody considers advertising again.
That, or they saw the "Beyond Burger" being used in a similar manner.

Beyond seems to be moving into that space, and Impossible is giving them the moment. Whether (or if) Impossible can recapture that market segment remains to be seen.
The pricing benefit really cannot be understated.

Amazon was 40% less than list for books -- which was a massive amount, even if you lived in Barnes & Noble markets (and B&N wasn't as pervasive in 1996/1997 as your average mall bookstore was), where there were similar markdowns.

And of course, you could get any book you wanted from Amazon.

And then Amazon very quickly moved into media like CDs and DVDs. I used to order DVDs from various online retailers in the late 1990s and although Amazon wasn't my go-to in 1999/2000 (there were plenty of startups that sold at ridiculous losses and coupons that 16 year old me took advantage of), I appreciated their selection -- not to mention the gift certificates.

I think a lot of us forget that Amazon wasn't the only big e-tailer in the late 90s, it's just the one that survived. There were lots and lots of bigger and smaller places that straight up went out of business after the .com crash, but Amazon, despite taking a massive beating, survived.

Price was a huge reason for its success -- but I agree with others who point out that Sears and other incumbents had a chance to take them on, if not on price, than on selection and speed, way earlier than they did.

Instead, many businesses chose to partner with Amazon (Borders, Toys R Us) for a time, to their ultimate detriment.
While there are a lot of really delicious meals that can be made without any meat or attempting to imitate meat (Indian cuisine is really good at it), there's a lot of culture in food. I'm from Wisconsin and summer grill outs just don't feel right without beer and bratwursts (or some fair approximation), for instance.
> Like how nobody wants to have their accounts frozen with no notice?

This is not a concern for 99% of people. Nobody is getting their bank accounts frozen except for high profile criminals.

> Or how people don't want a private company to be able to dictate what they are allowed to buy and sell

Another fake problem. 99% of people can buy and sell whatever they want. There is a very very small intersection between what is legal and prohibited by the banks. Once again, this is only a use-case for criminals.

> don't want to have to be constantly vigilant to ensure their simple 16 digit number doesn't get into the wrong hands

Do you not see the irony in complaining about vigilance over a credit card number in a response about the work of having to back up your bank cryptocurrency private key? If your 16 digit card number is stolen just cancel the card and any fraudulent purchases will be remedied. Crpyocurrency is clearly worse in this comparison.

> All money systems have tradeoffs, cryptocurrencies are just another option

Cryptocurrency is not a "money system" with "trade offs", it's a hamstrung toy that facilitates some dark-market commerce and that's about it, it is otherwise demonstrably useless and certainly not an alternative for the incumbent financial system.
Dropcopter uses drone to pollinate trees
> These coworking spaces are terrible.

They're like Monkey Joe's for tech bro's.
Ultimately, it's commodities all the way down anyway. The only real "moat" that Apple's OS, MS's Windows desktop, Google services, etc. have is first-mover advantage, and that's not going to last very long.
I think we need to reassess how we treat data generated by users via phones, devices and our digital activities. We had the concept of private and public property long before intellectual property became codified by law. I believe that we are entering a new phase which may require the development of a new type of jurisprudence around things like location data.

I'm definitely not a lawyer, but I'm starting to believe there is an argument that despite the fact that mobile phones and devices facilitate the generation of location data, that does not necessarily mean that the device manufacture 'owns' that data and can transact with it as they please.

This may all be moot because most of us agree to Privacy Policy contacts, but maybe a mind shift in treating data you generate as a type of property that is covered by property law is required to change behavior.
> The only thing I can think is that, if I'm buying something expensive, I'll strictly only purchase items "Sold by: Amazon.com Services, Inc"

If you are trying to avoid counterfeits, that's not really helpful, since the problem with counterfeits is magnified by commingling, by which items sold by Amazon itself, and FBA sellers that do not opt-out of it are mixed and orders fulfilled with goods that may have been sourced by any of the sellers.
Good work.

If it had been HSV(rand, 1, 1), which you didn’t do, I would anticipate accidentally learning to map subjective brightness to hue. But you avoided that entirely, so no matter :)
That's a lot of glass for the cleaning crew to wipe down each night. I wonder if it takes special training, or if someone just sticks a "Do not touch" Post-It note to the thing.
> in point of fact its insanely complicated

I disagree. I'm not sure what you've read about GPDR, but see the link I posted above. If you read the ICO guidance and still think it's insanely complicated, I'm not sure what to suggest because by that yardstick any legal matter is going to be insanely complicated and you'd be saying the same about any legislation. Do you have an example of any legislation that you'd say is better?
Yes, CCTVs in busy streets, sometimes in shop entrances. Not in Random places in the middle of an airport.
Thank you again! Take a look: https://github.com/WojciechMula/toys/tree/master/avx512-remo...

Your AVX2 is better in benchmarks than Zach's AVX512VBMI, wow. I have to admit that looked at the code but got lost. :) Will need more time to digest it.

However, in despacing English texts and CSV, Zach's variant is still faster.
I'm a returning student about to complete my degree at the end of this year. I went to an art school for a few years out of high school and ended up in customer service positions with some great companies. I didn't want to continue in customer service, so I decided to go back to school. Started with two years at community college, and now finishing up my last two at university.

Some insights I picked up along the way:

- community college have great professors

- community college treats you like the adult you are

- community college is underrated

- university treats you like a child

- university professors are more selfish and self-serving

- university is busy dealing with so much extra-curricular stuff that most adults don't care about, it makes you question your decision

- Different "schools" within the university do things differently

- as an adult, it sucks to work in groups with young students

- I picked up way more knowledge in the "real world" than I realized as a lot of what is being taught is redundant

- there should be 4 semesters a year, not 2, people should graduate in 2 years, not 4+

At the onset of this journey, I was enthusiastic to learn, but along the way I've been beat down to just wanting to get "the piece of paper" and be done. It's been a long three years and each day forward is increasingly difficult to stomach since I realized I can learn all of what is being taught to me faster on my own.

I don't think anyone needs a degree anymore to get to where they're going. However, it does make it easier depending on one's path.
This sounds like clean food concepts. There isn't science behind clean/unclean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/11/why-we-...
I feel like Go sits in a very similar space to FPC. Go has a bigger runtime but does a good job of polishing the overall language semantics to be GC-favorable without being GC-centric. FPC is more mature, though, when you consider the large number of Delphi libraries, generics support, etc. Both of them have a much less complex build story than a C++ project since they have actual module support.
I really wanted WeWork to work for me. But it did not.

During my time there, it became apparent that their entire focus was on growth. WeWork was never interested in catering to their core market: people who want to work. They failed to create a productive work environment. They alienated people like me, who were willing to pay top dollar for a decent place to work. Instead they created distraction-filled, tacky places that fostered little except beer drinking.

I'm looking forward to seeing it crumble, or at least for reality to catch up.

PS. If anyone knows a co-working space in NY that actually provides a nice, quiet place to work, please let me know. I will pay good money for such a place. I am thinking like https://misantrope.com/?lang=en
I wonder if they can somehow replicate the flavor in bones. I'd love to make stock or a stew, but so much of the "meaty" flavor comes from bones
I've personally worked with a number of "web developers" who can barely code HTML/CSS. They tend to fall into two categories, people who use Wordpress themes/plugins to take care of everything they need, and people who outsource cheap programmers to do all the coding for them.

I don't know exactly how common either is, but I've run into both categories multiple times doing freelance work.
Making it fit every OS well is indeed a tricky task. Perhaps the option of using native widgets can be given. Actually, ideally there'd be 3 choices for developers: 1) A default single uniform style for a given widget(s), 2) Emulation of OS-specific styles, 3) Native widgets. But providing all 3 without making a mess or bloatware is easier said than done.
SEEKING WORK | Remote

I’m a senior QA with 12 Years of testing web / mobile apps , also worked in the video game industry for consoles and mobile devices.
Experience: Manual testing , MySQL, Jmeter, Soap UI,

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QNhYVx88_2YSvrYOZeeAEVYsbD...
Email: fedeforci@gmail.com
Are there people who still believe the PR nonsense of big companies like Google and Facebook? At the end of the day by agreeing to work for these companies, you gain prestige, $$$, and maybe something interesting to work on, that is pretty much it and those are only offered to you because you bring in much more $$$ than you get in perks or $$$. If you are naive enough to think that these corporations are interested in anything but making money, you are sadly mistaken.
I went back to i3 after trying sway because I couldn't get screen sharing to work in video calls, no matter what I tried.

There were a few other bugs, but that was the only show stopper for me.
> it is possible the grocery store bought the raw product and is selling their own meatloaf.

Possible but seems pretty unlikely. Also, I don't think they'd be allowed to use Impossible's trademark in that case.

I feel like the GP must be misremembering.
> The tech bubble’s financial backer of last resort, the $100 billion SoftBank Vision Fund

That is the most amazing and accurate description of SoftBank I've ever read.
I've described it below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18858538
Iran and Isreal don’t get along
I just finished the book, and am putting a lot more focus on my sleep.

One thing it made me realize is, I don't think it's possible for people to know if they're night owls or not, until they're routinely getting 8 hours of sleep a night.

Of course if you're not getting enough sleep you'll find it hard to get up in the morning and thus claim you're a "night owl" and "can't function in the morning".
Smart move on Mozilla's part to start working on VR. The desktop browser space has been saturated for so long, but making a bet on a new space might help them get a toehold on a whole new world.

This doesn't mean they are not focused on desktop, but strategically this is a solid bed that may or may not pay off, but will be key for long-term survival.

EDIT: plus having commercial sponsors for the eventual Servo-in-VR (as noted elsewhere, not shipping yet) will be key to getting Servo itself ready for production.

EDIT 2: Can we get material properties on HTML elements please? I want <img>s with bump-mapping and specular highlights. :)
I would say there are two main advantages:

1) Encryption. Your content is encrypted with keys that you and you alone control. If there was ever a breach of your self-hosted WordPress server, all of your content (in progress or not) would be freely readable. With Graphite Publishing, your in progress posts are encrypted and in the unlikely event of a breach of the storage provider of your choice, your private, in progress posts would not be readable.

2) The application is managed for you. No downloading. No deployment. No choosing hosting providers. Some people like all that. A lot of people don't.

This is not to say Graphite Publishing is better than WordPress. WordPress has significantly more features at this stage, but I consider this the groundwork to creating something far better.
Depends on the numbers. Extra ER visits take time of both doctors and the ‘patients’ making those visits, costing money that might have been spent better.

False positives also may increase stress levels of users. harming healthy people more than the gains of having fewer false negatives.
For a sneak peak of the kind of data you can expect take a look here [1] (German newspaper, but in English).

Background story:
Malte Spitz, a Green Party member, sued to get all data collected and retained (according to a law which has been overturned since) by his carrier. Die ZEIT/OpenDataCity cross-referenced the data with publicly available information from his Twitter and party website and compiled it all into one visualization.

Unfortunately, they seem to have stopped paying for the Google Maps integration, but you should still be able to follow along just fine.

[1]: https://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention
Another Kodak moment!

But seriously, whilst it's fair to critique the amount that CEO's are paid, when the alternative might be complete failure the cost is justified. Sears is a failure of the C levels and ultimately a failure of the board.
Remember that next time we all balk at the $xx million paycheck of a F500.
Geddy Lee, in recent interviews for his new book, was pretty explicit about Peart being done with music and Rush being over.
If you can't resist posting this kind of thing, post it somewhere else.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you get enough sleep to even judge whether you're able to wake up in the AM?
Servers have logs, which can have a lot of personal data in them. Not all of that logging is under your control, especially if you rely on 3rd party services like AWS. This is a simple example but there are many more.
Bankruptcy court can determine that transactions before the bankruptcy filing were done to evade the payment priority defined by bankruptcy law. The court can do a clawback to get those assets.
WYSIWYG web tools still exist, but they went SaaS. They’re called “low code development platforms”. If you want to play around with one you can download mendix’s modeler for free.
I believe you meant to reply to me. It implies a very quick exit, which is more humane that a lingering painful one.

I think some chicken processors will use controlled-atmosphere stunning — or “gas stunning” — which desensitizes the chickens to pain before slaughtering. (that last bit was copy/paste from another source).
You might have seen vcompessd in context of sorting; I used it for partition part in qsort.
I'm no expert, but it seems to me we're seeing something like a phase change in economics... nations start illiterate and agrarian and are basically stable for a long time, then they go through this sudden (2-3 generations) shift to modernism, and then... they're stable again. America isn't fundamentally more prosperous now than it was a generation ago. Worse, what economic growth is happening seems to be efficiently concentrating at the top. And it's not just America. European nations are like this too, Japan is like this. Eventually, China will probably be like this.

What's the next phase shift? That's an interesting question. I'm hoping for the abolition of work.
If it works for Jeff Bezos, it's probably good enough for me.

> He wakes up every morning naturally, without the aid of
an alarm clock.

> "I like to putter in the morning," Bezos told a gathering
of Economic Club of Washington, DC. "So I like to read the
newspaper. I like to have coffee."
But then such schools that predominantly work on ISAs, will pre-select for good students, who are most likely to succeed and also for industries where the compensation is higher. Remainder (which is arguably 90%+) of the students will still be at the mercy of other schools + taxpayer.

It seems, this just provides one more payment option to students who are likely to succeed anyway and a refreshing business model for schools that move early into the space.

It doesn't address the real problem with schools i.e. making the 20th%le student successful and not a taxpayer burden.
Over here in Europe when I hear something negative about Amazon from non-techie people, it's always about working conditions. I guess the recent Spanish strikes have helped to publicize that more. Some people are thinking of avoiding ordering from Amazon, but I doubt that actually translates to that much of real action yet.
This tech is taking ages to get to market. I worked at a place hired to come up with app ideas for it 5 years ago. I would have expected a pair or bangles by now that give you hands in VR and a finger gestures library.
Stephen Hawking's son reminisces on his funny, competitive bond with his dad
note: to learn more, searching for "gaia" is futile. always search for "gaia hub" with the quotes.
It's not really tech bro's ... I don't encounter those people very often. I think that fraternity style vibe has kinda gone by the wayside. It's everyone else who aren't really technologists but want to get in on the gold rush. The social media marketing companies, the wordpress/magento factories, the crypto people, the uber-for-xyz... there is a lot of noise both literally and figuratively with these groups.
Thanks a lot for such a great explanation!