skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always wonder how our own evolution affects our long term chances of survival as an intelligent species.
Homo sapiens only exists 30K years and until recently survival was hard, making it an advantage to be intelligent. But our recent technological and medical advances make survival more and more easy so in terms of evolution, other biological features become more useful, such as for instance the rate of reproduction.
So suppose we keep improving our life standard like we have been doing so far, how will humans as a species develop over the next, say, one million years?

I think biology itself provides us with some clues of what is likely to happen. There have been other species in the past that because of climatological or geological changes suddenly had a very easy time surviving. Take the Dodo for instance. What happened to them is that they gradually lost most of the survival features that they didn't need anymore.
Perhaps this is the future of any intelligent life form and maybe this is why we don't detect any sign of them in the universe.
Reply to the rebuttal is much more convincing, imho:
https://quillette.com/2019/09/29/right-of-reply-our-response...
Your audience should post the content about the screenshare session. The point of the screenshare is to share information. Your audience confirms receipt of that information by posting about the session.
The Great Computer Experiment: Ruby Edition
Where in Europe are you based? I'm seeing the exact same behaviour you're describing here in Germany all over the place, all the time, and I think it's a serious problem.
Mostly meetings and word of mouth. That's why I lose one week+ on a lab software that I cannot make run on my local development machine. Even personal projects I spend a few months on are better documented than the software that is used here in production.
Their choice is either do it, or lose a significant portion of their business. For some business, maybe not Basecamp, it would mean going out of business if you don't have enough visibility on Google.

Because Google has a quasi-monopoly on Internet search, something that ideally should be a neutral infrastructure service.
"Team fit" mostly means social skills.
It is attacking Spain; it's treating Spanish people as mere children, incapable of making their own decisions because local TV told them what to think. While conveniently not applying the same reasoning to their opinion in 1975, despite all the media and education having been controlled by the same guy for the previous 40 years.

As someone who was predisposed to think the push for independence was foolish, there's nothing like reading a bit of anti-independence propaganda to get one to think that maybe the independentists have a point.
I've been really enjoying Notion. I used to use evernote and apple notes. Apple notes is still so much faster for quick stuff. But for writing/thinking/capturing etc. I'm in the notion camp.
I use google keep for writing notes. In work we use the enterprise garbage all others use too. Google calender for datespecific stuff. Anything coding specific i have in github as markdown documents, some remain as drafts in my blog repository.
I wrote and published one blog article a day for 365 days. AMA
Writing every day has had a huge impact on my life over the last year: I made my first revenue online, I wrote a book, I obtained my first freelance gig...
Have you ever thought about getting into a consistent writing habit? Well, I'm here to answer your questions :)
This was my line of thinking when everyone was deathly silent during the data retention "debate". Only one article by a local newspaper junior emerged discussing the pro's and con's, which framed it in a really silly way (such as the only con being "well...hackers might get to it"). Also, that junior got promoted to a Senior Tech Editor role in a big national paper, and did strange things like posting their own local file share directory within their articles which involved a few pictures here and there, (I mean no personal offense to the individual, I just remember following it closely at the time with a slight feeling of horror).

The general mood in the media at the time the ball got rolling for these sorts of laws was that they were some sort of protected species who shouldn't be subject to them...just the general population. Some looked as though they were advertising their perceived sense of self importance and potential value to the governments of the time.

Sorry if this sounded a bit snarky, I didn't mean it to be, it's just that we should have been talking about this much much earlier than today, yet no-one wanted to until now.
EDIT: Check OPs history, he asked this exact same question 46 days ago!

Ive never heard of this startup before, now they're all over this thread. Do you reckon they made this whole thread for marketing purposes? OP is a pretty anonymous user.

I already dislike them now & hopefully never have to use them. Someone else posted Tiddlywiki which is an amazing open-source program, suggest everyone at least check it out. It changed my life. I obviously have no stake in it, so why doubt me? No disclaimer necessary.
Thanks, that was the only usable answer.
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Thanks for the discussion! I'll try implementing it and see if it's faster. It might be the case that with mutable strings in Ruby it's only faster on really big templates? I think pretty much everything required is in place and it's just a case of connecting stuff together with an option to use an array, except for implementing writev for CRuby which also shouldn't be too hard. It can even be an extension for now.
Seconding TiddlyWiki.

I use it as a personal wiki at work.

It even supports LaTeX (via KaTeX)!

Here are the customizations I found useful:

* Table of Contents:

By default, there is not Table of Contents in the wiki. So a TableOfContents tiddler was added.

The tag $:/tags/SideBar adds it to the nav bar, and the field list-before controls the position.

New entries are added to the table of contents by adding the TableOfContents tag.

Note: the same code can be used in tiddlers to list tiddlers with a given tag.

* Journal:

New Journal date format was changed to YYYY/0MM/0DD (DDD, MMM DDth). This makes lexicographic ordering of Journal tiddlers to be chronological.

That is, Journal tiddlers will be sorted by date when sorted by name.

Visual theme:

The layout was changed to fluid-fixed
Settings - Appearance - Theme Tweaks - Options - Sidebar Layout: Fluid story, fixed sidebar

Sidebar width: 350px

This looks particularly well when occupying one half of a wide screen.

Appearance - Code Foreground was changed to #0a5701 (green, used to be red). This affects the color of text enclosed by single tick marks.

New Journal, Attachment, Configutation, Manager buttons were added

* Plugins:

The following plug-ins were added:

KaTeX for LaTeX support;

Highlight.js for code syntax highlighting
Do you use any specific structure for your markdown documents? Confluence i believe helps structure the knowledge
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The evidence is not what you would make it seem, nor are counter-arguments based on theology. See the the rebuttal to Coyne I posted above if you have an open mind.
I am starting a new venture and will use BookStackApp (https://www.bookstackapp.com) as my single source of truth.

It is searchable, offers markdown and WYSIWYG editing, page templates, and is quite opinionated on how to layout things.

My reasoning for this is to layout basic templates and processes for sales, support, ops, and office management.

This is also used to lay a foundation for ISO 27001/27002 compliance and certification along with Eramba (https://eramba.org)

The last part is really niche, but coming from a Healthcare background taught me hard lessons in NOT HAVING YOUR DOCUMENTATION AND COMPLIANCE SHIT TOGETHER (TM) when you get vendor or compliance audits.
Last paragraph.
If 4 ads is "burying", what about 3? 2? 1?
Might trademark law have something to say about this practice?
Do you live within the borders of a state? Then you are protected by it. How is that so hard to understand?

Do you feel confident you can call 911 and get a police response if you need it? Then you are protected by the state, which provides those services.

> How are the people — the majority of whom did not vote for our current leadership — to be held accountable?

Civics 101. All governments are composed of the people they govern.

True, your state has been corrupted. But, you are just as responsible for that as any other citizen. And I think your position is how your state got corrupted in the first place - "I'm not responsible for the crimes of my government!"

Alas, you are. And failing to take responsibility for them is how they get committed so rampantly in the first place ..
Well, if you're one of first five then it's practically like joining a band and the idea that you wouldn't discriminate in making your band is outrageous. Like if someone sued because they're a fine enough drummer but the band didn't really feel like jamming with them, they'd look kinda dumb.
The fact that there are so many issues in the workplace in the news / personal accounts and the fact that men and women have only been working together for a relatively short time clearly indicate to me that the jury is still out on whether men and women can truly work together and that it's best that way.
There are definitely lots of hints that there is live in Mars, but not a smoking gun yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars#Possible_biosigna...
In Hong Kong this is daily life, on public transport everyone is glued to their phones. When walking, people are just walking around like zombies, often bumping into each other because they aren’t paying attention.

Admittedly, I’m on my phone too while on the bus or metro. But when walking I rarely take out my phone.
Amazing. I also plan to build that.

I wonder if telephone providers have some sort of recognition to detect people using (abusing?) a free call plan for transfering data. Certainly, if your "call" takes several days, that may violate some TOS.

(The use case I have in mind is to save money by using cheap prepaid SIM cards without an internet plan. It is purely for interest/proof of concept, not for scamming...)
youtube's revenue remains undisclosed in google's financial statements (see https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/technology/youtube-financ...). The $15-25 billion is merely a guess.

The fact that google chose not to reveal youtube's financials is stark evidence that it's financials aren't great (otherwise, disclosing it should lead to better stock prices for google!).
Pavlov’s Dog: The root of your smartphone addiction
Korean here. The law is widely regarded as a failure, as there were lots of backlashes from both the game industry and the citizens. (PC gaming is one of the most important aspects of Korean culture, so regulating it is widely regarded as a dick move, except for old people and parents with kids to send colleges to.) It was announced in June that the government will gradually abolish this law.

Also, the law wasn’t enforced that well. There are still some PC bangs which don’t kick out teenagers late at night, and those fun-hungry high schoolers will always find a loophole for these kinds of stuff. (For example, the law is impossible to enforce in software, because even with online multiplayer games you can easily make a overseas account through a VPN.)
Imagine being able to go to one website, entering a location and dates, and seeing availability and prices all in the one place.
We tried. It's pretty much like the normal stack overflow (Question and Answer based).

But we found that in the end - a normal wiki was actually more useful. I think this was mainly because of how our organization works. We're all physically on the same campus, at most a colleague is 2 minutes walking away. Hence we tend to often have in-person communication, or first via Slack, after which a colleague walks over to explain it anyway..

Using a wiki, the person knowledgeable about the domain can just create a document to refer people to which is quite natural. What is not natural for this person is to create a question and then answer it himself. (I know you could use SO as a wiki but than you're losing some of the utility anyway).

I'm not saying that it can't work, but a lot depends on company culture / structure, at least I think so. So if you're in a situation where people often post questions on slack and people respond through slack, maybe SO is a good alternative.

(Oh also, on another note, during our test people would post question on SO and no one would answer because no one is looking, or people think "someone else will answer" and don't bother to check up later. Via slack, at least it's more visible and scoped to the correct channel with the correct people for the domain).

YMMV ofc :)
IDK, I'm an extrovert and a senior developer, I've had mostly positive experiences with interviews, but I think you have to give people the hope that you're the person that is going to be able to make things better.

I think except in the worst circumstances, people can be worked with positively and if you bring a certain energy to the workplace you can bring people around to your way of thinking and bring out their passion.

Some people will dead weight no matter what, but they can be identified and let go.
Tiddly Wiki is indeed awesome. There is one few feature I would like (export to a graph database), and the wiki syntax is something annoying to use but overall this is genious level idea and great execution.
The UK and EU (well, France is my experience) did seem that way a lot. US companies are way better.
Who forces you to work?
They've been around for a few years, and really are a pretty good collaborative tool with a lot of possible workflows and use-cases.

I've seen Notion mentioned often on HN, and after giving it a try I'd recommend to at least look into it to see for yourself.
I was about to create an emacs version of this theme, but as usual, C-x-M-butterfly exists and there exists a version of this theme: https://github.com/emacs-jp/replace-colorthemes/blob/master/...
Pensando?? Is that the best domain name left?
What do you mean? It sounds like you’re suggesting that the intentions of the password-guesser would somehow be worse, but surely that’s not what you mean.
Hi, co-founder here. Would be great to hear what you all think or if you have any feedback on how to make it better!
Are you suited to be a remote worker?
I do this too. I use Sublime text in distraction free mode with a git plugin so I can easily commit/push changes.

On my Mac, I can do the 4-finger swipe to check my full-screen notes. Usually I have a folder structure like notes/2019-10/2019-10-21.txt. If I want to tag things, I'll just write #idea #work somewhere in the text file.

Then easy to search with Sublime or whatever tool you want. I also like this approach because it's future-proof. Just a folder full of text files.

Curious how others are handling this same workflow.
I use our own product (Asana - http://asana.com) to coordinate all our work and it's also become a library and "brain" for everything that's happened. Personally I also use and love Dropbox Paper (http://paper.dropbox.com) for more long-form or ongoing research on topics both professionally and personally (I create a doc that I'll work on for a long time and can easily part it and come back to it, even share it with other people etc).
I agree that depression is an umbrella term, and saying that it's not a real illness is ignorant. It's like saying PTSD isn't an illness.

I periodically experience bouts of (what I call) depression, which I'd summarize as an intense anger that's oriented towards one's self. Paradoxically, it's very intense and at the same time it shuts me down. An analogy would be shoveling sand and cement into a drive train.

I won't get into the typical "how to fix it" part of this discourse, but I think it can be useful for people who have trouble sympathizing with people who experience depressive episodes to know what are some of the things that one experiences. I think it's also good for one experiencing these things to be able to reflect on what's happening, to, at the very least, get some distance.

So the episodes, in my case, have very clear "clinical" symptoms. Blood flow to the limbs is reduced severely, I'll often be on the verge of shivering with cold, similarly to what happens when you have a fever; motoric ability is severely reduced: you'll be tripping on things, dropping things; reaction time is severely reduced: for example, you're likely to not catch something that's thrown at you; appetite loss; glaring morbidity; difficulty sleeping; a strong, general feeling of discomfort in the body, a bit like recovering from a physical shock, like an automotive accident. For me, the thing lasts for 2 to 5 days, and happens every few weeks, rarely more than twice a month.
I’m 3 to 4 months ahead on the YouTube path you have started on. Here are some tips:

Show up daily. Even if it is only for 5 mins. Which means your Guitar should be handy. Pick it up every time you pass by it and give it go.

You will be managing three things all at once: Strumming, chords and singing. It will be an absolute mindfuck for a bit. The name of the game here is muscle memory. The only way to develop it is with practice. There are no shoutouts.

Most important is to have fun along the way. You don’t want the misery to break you down. I recommend targeting some fun songs with just 2 chords and simple strumming. Mine was “Rudolph the red nose reindeer”. The timing will work for you as well given that we are in Oct.

Once you develop the muscle memory it starts getting fun. But you have to persist.
I can imagine the next big programming language will be one that is split into two language-variants: the "low-level-variant" and the "high-level-variant".

The high-level-variant is a dynamic language with optional typing, which is good for scripting, fast prototyping, fast time-to-market, etc.

The low-level-variant is similar to the high-level-variant (same syntax, same features mostly, same documentation), but it has no garbage collector, typing is mandatory and it runs fast like C/C++/Rust. Compiled packages that are written in the low-level-variant can be used from the high-level-variant without additional effort at all. The tooling to achieve this comes with the language.

A language like this would be insane, IMHO.
I'm not sure if this breaks the rules by not being a substantive comment - but I'd just like to thank you for writing this out. As somebody who is trying to move into a very competitive field (and finding out just how competitive it is the hard way), this kind of insight is really valuable.
LGBT rights are a poor example, as that movement is most heavily associated with the stonewall riots which were sparked by a police raid following decades of oppression, and separately that LGBT rights are improving even in the face of ongoing anti-LGBT censorship of various kinds.
Definitely. As someone with a father on the spectrum the current trend of "Autism acceptance" drives me nuts.
For (1) I think the 'intelligence' that we discriminate for in all those cases is such a vague term that it essentially means 'being good at X'.

If that is the case, obviously we discriminate by it, because we try to choose people who are better at X when trying to find people for X. Tether there is a single underlying characteristic that makes you better at X (a pre-determined IQ) that is discriminated for is perhaps harder to know. I certainly don't think that school for example advances students based purely on intelligence - discipline, even obedience, like-ability, sometimes teamwork, are all at least as important to what makes most good students successful.

Related to 2,my answer is very simple: companies don't take the full burden, at least in most countries. In general, there is a shared burden - the employee has reduced pay, the state is paying for some or most of that, and the company is forced to keep the position open for the employee when they decide to return. In my country at least, they are also free to hire a temp to fill that position for the 1 or 2 years of maternal leave.
Many employment contracts prohibit working a week for another software company, possibly a competitor, without approval from the employer.

I can start working for you - even if it's just for a week - only after I've quit my current job. So working that week before a hiring decision is simply not an option, even ignoring all the issues of time availability.
But Confluence crucially isn’t source-controlled within the same repo. It’s not source controlled at all.

I find this a terrible workflow problem. As often a change to code requires a small or large change to documentation that is best bundled in alongside.
German resident here, around Cologne/Dusseldorf/Bonn. This has not been my observation (Might be due to my social circle bias), unless you are talking about high schoolers. The general population does not seem to have this behaviour.
Spaced repetition [0] systems like Anki are usually used to study technical subjects or languages, but one of my "decks" is titled "my truths" and it contains insights I want to internalize. Repeated exposure is absolutely central actually making an idea part of yourself and acting accordingly. So instead of maintaining a large knowledge database, I'd recommend sticking to solid principles and reviewing them on a regular basis.

Once your team is getting slightly annoyed about how often you repeat something (solid code review principles or the importance of testing come to mind), you know you are saying it often enough.

I'm not a religious man, but an observation in an article called "We only learn if we repeat" in the "the book of life" [1] stuck with me: It's no coincidence that daily repetition of principles is a core tenant of the big religions. There's a fundamental insight about human nature in that and we can apply it to modern technology teams the same way it has been used in monasteries for centuries.

[0] http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html

[1] https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/we-only-learn-...
Install Xubuntu 19.10 on a Raspberry Pi 4
Also, it seems out of question for people who're employed. Not sure how to "WFH one week", paid or not, when you have another job.
I find the diagram on page 15 to get an overall feel/flow for basic git usage a very good diagram. If I'd still be teaching at a coding school I'd hand it out to my students.
They are American, they don't get significant vacation time.

I was really writing about work travel though.
Understanding JavaScript Proxy. Preserving Backward Compatibility in a Library