skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep a pseudo-bullet journal in markdown. Unfortunately, I rely on two things this (and a lot of other) Markdown editors won't do:

First, "-", "+" and "*" are all legal bullet characters for creating unordered lists.

This allows you to put further semantic meaning into your plaintext (for me that's notes, new tasks, events respectively) though it does get lost in render. This editor loses that distinction.

Second, and this one drives me nuts with MD editors not supporting it, "+<TAB>text" is just as legal as "+<SPACE>text" for Markdown--the spec, such that it exists, is just whitespace after the bullet.

I personally use that to create a bujo-style gutter column between the <UL> bullets and the text where I can insert a space and a resolution symbol without disturbing plaintext alignment.

So, "+<TAB>New Task" eventually becomes "+<SPACE>^<TAB>New Task" to indicate it's been tracked, for a final render of "o ^ New Task"

nvAlt is one of the few that does this right, and will actually copy the "+<TAB>" to the next line as a leader instead of only copying "+<SPACE>" or not treating the "+" as a bullet at all if a tab follows.

This editor won't even let you input a tab character. Tab always indents, whether it's opt-Tab, ctrl-Tab, or what.

I think Markdown is great, but the value I've seen is more in the semi-formatted plaintext representation than just being a text-based way to WYSIWYG. If I want WYSIWYG there are significantly more direct ways to get that. I wish more of the MD editors concentrated on optimizing the plaintext experience, as nvAlt is getting a bit long in the tooth.
Lila: Free open source chess server that powers lichess.org
malloc usually gets more aligned with time, not less. The tagging we're talking about goes in the high bits of a pointer.
Indonesians invent device to aid internet-addicted
Where do you get the less than 100X growth from? And if it is less than that, what is the exact amount of growth - since if you know it is less than 100x it seems reasonable to assume that you know exactly what amount it is?
It's Dunkin now. They too hip and trendy for donuts, you pleb. Forget that Dunkin got started by providing working class people garbage coffee with warm donuts. It's all upscale now and they don't need no donuts, or Onion bagels.

Edit: Pepsi and Coke taste worlds different. I don't prefer either but they do have massively different flavor profiles.
I would argue that still happens though when a product becomes ubiquitous.

Read: "Don't say Velcro" campaign
You’re actually not supposed to memorize checklists, it leads to complacency.
Everything is impermanent. Through your practice, develop perfect equanimity. Anichoooaaaa
> > That triggered what Uber called “action suppression,” in which the system held off braking for one second

> A hardcoded 1 second delay during a potential emergency situation. Horrifying.

Also laughable, if it wasn't so horrifying. The self driving car evangelists always argue how much faster their cars could react than humans. It's basically their main selling point and the reason why these things ought to be so much safer than humans.

Sorry, but I as a human don't have a one second delay built in. That's an absurdly slow reaction time for which I would have to be seriously drunk to not beat it.
I think vzaliva didn't quote the right part, and was referring to how the Yubikey is going to depend on Windows to enroll your fingerprint with it.
Your bosses are acting like feudal lords. I dunno about you but I still live in a democracy.

Speak truth to power when you can get away with it. And get away when you can’t.
Brad Templeton's Analysis of the Uber Collision
Jeff Bezos losing half his wealth in a stock market crash wouldn't help my poor neighbor any more than it would help me, so I would say the same argument applies.
Elasticsearch and MongoDB has really started an interesting debate on Open Source Licensing..More Power to Opensource Software Providers that need to reap the benefits of their work.
Rawls argued that whenever inequality would allow the worst off to be better off in absolute terms, then it was okay. He gave a thought experiment argument for this that he called the original position: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position
He gave several talks on CRDTs which are good intros:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5NULPSiOGw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCcWpzY8dIA
Brad Templeton has also written his analysis of what went wrong in the crash.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2019/11/06/new-nt...
In your case, it would be a problem because you need to defend your copyright in order to keep ownership of it.

But in this case, the guy isn't making a different product with the same name, he's just reselling the bloody product. So this has nothing with trademark protection, just their "quality standard", as if people buying the donuts from his trunk didn't know that they spent 4 hours in his car before getting there...
Next-generation protein could come from air, methane, volcanic springs
California discloses investigation on Facebook privacy practices
> "388 individuals possessed as much household wealth as the lower half of the world's population combined"

My goodness! This completely shocked me. I wonder if we are all complicit in allowing this to happen. I know wealth buys power and vice versa, so it likely would be hard to change but aren't we all indirectly allowing this to happen?
Sure, but I don’t think this publication was thinking about that. Call me jaded, but I feel like they were more thinking “hey can we call him a kid to get more page impressions?”
As long as regulation stands in between producers and consumers, regulators will always amass power.
FWIW I think fountain soda costs less than $0.25 a serving, the restaurant markup on soda is way bigger than most people realize
Show HN: We made a community-powered cost of living insight site
Hollywood's Student Loan Crisis: “There Are People Just Struggling to Survive”
the problem is that is doesn't lower the cost of goods and services. If we were all paying the same prices they pay in developing countries for drugs maybe you could argue that it's fair when we accept their wages and working conditions.

Instead companies use sweatshops and slave cheap labor to boost their own profits while charging us a premium and expect us to compete with those workers while refusing to compete with the prices offered in the "global economy". If they want to pay workers at the lowest prices on Earth every American should only be paying the lowest prices for products and services found on Earth. That means that the drug that costs $1,000 in the US should only cost us $4. The movie ticket for $13.69 today shouldn't cost us more than $3.51.
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Lots of clicks but no inquiries might mean the hook is solid but the actual pitch is lacking.

Could you post the pitch here, so we don't have to log into fiverr to see it?
Cold start for this product is the same as warm start, as described in the post: 35 microseconds.
> I was able to sign in to the AWS console and resolve the issue

Kids these days.

I had a RAM stick fry in one of the physical machines sitting in a colo 1 hour drive away. Not die, but just start flipping bits here and there, triggering most bizarre alerts you can imagine. On the night of December 24th. Now, that was fun.

--- To add ---

If you are a single founder - expect downtime and expect it to be stressful. Inhale, exhale, fix it, explain, apologize and then make changes to try and prevent it from happening again. Little by little, weak points will get fortified or eliminated and the risk of "incidents" will go down. There's no silver bullet, but with experience things become easier and less scary.
They can always just ensure people who like them get elected. Facebook has a significant influence on elections now.
Tldr: Google is a kid handing out discount pizza coupons in the waiting area of a pizzeria
Wind and solar could be free and we would still have currently unsolved problems of either storage or clean peaking capacity.
For those emergencies that demand quick action, commercial pilots do have to memorize the relevant checklists.
You mean the price of Coke and Pepsi vs Big Shot cola?

I would prefer buying nothing at all vs dunkin donuts. I guess I would pay double for Krispy Kreme because to me we are talking about something I want vs something I never want even for free(Dunkin).
"research purposes" sounds pretty benign though. Most people don't mind helping out some scientists for some intangible greater good. On the other hand if it was phrased "so we can pin crimes on you or your loved ones" people might not be so keen.
No, cutting that guy's source of income.
Mapping the physics research space: a machine learning approach
People routinely buy Pepsi|Coke at twice the price of off-brands and I wouldn't call them moronic.
I think this is fine for computer programmers but being a nurse or a policeman or even a founder requires a lot more than 25h per week unfortunately. I can't see a way to suddenly find nearly 40% more staff in these kinds of industries?
Yet another company that uses the open source community to grow and then rips the rug out from under them.

This corporate take over and redefinition of open source needs to stop. The "Business Source License" is not an open source license, and lying to the community about it is nothing short of gaslighting. This decision is bad for the community, and no amount of marketing speak and lying from sentry is going to change that.
No doubt that they are neo-Nazis: the first event in the calendar is Joseph Goebbels' death day, even though that seems a bit overdone to me. I didn't know they were fond of Gavrilo Prinzip, but his birthday is also there.

I'll keep the torrent alive a while, just in case.
I wonder if they violated the website's terms and conditions by creating a fake account and uploading somebody else's DNA (not that this would be necessarily be illegal).
I am absolutely arguing in good faith. If people want the free choice to choose a different set of properties, for their own money, then the fact that they want it is a good enough reason, in an of itself, for such a money to exist.

No other reason or justification is necessary. “Because people want it”, is good enough.

Freedom of choice is something, in an of itself, that people value. And because people want something, is a good enough reason, alone, such that it is justified.

People can want things that you think are “stupid” or “ridiculous” things if they want, and your opinion that they are stupid or ridiculous, does not overrule their own value system and wants.

There are basically no situation where your opinion on this, would matter. It would be like saying “Why do you like ice cream! That’s stupid!”. Such a statement is just meaningless. The fact that you think it is stupid that someone else likes ice cream is irrelevant and doesn’t matter.

The fact that I just like ice cream, is a good enough reason, in an of itself, for me liking ice cream. Me liking something, or not liking something, is circularly, self evidently true, and I need no other justification or reason for it. I like it, because I like it, and that’s it.

The fact that I like ice cream, is axiomatically true, because I am the one who decides what I like, not other people, and so it make no sense, and is just a meaningless statement to say that it is “stupid” that I like ice cream.
For reference, the 3 richest Americans hold more wealth than the bottom 50% of the country.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2017/11/09/the-3-ric...
The biometric verification, yes, but you need to somehow register/enroll a fingerprint with it. The article says that it's going to depend on Windows' native biometric enrollment and management for that.
What if there's a need for inequality? I.e. if everyone is about same as everyone else, how would the society organize any work that requires coordinated effort of many people? How would it maintain the required discipline?
+1 for Erlang. Learning how to write OTP apps in Erlang taught me so much about building reliable systems.
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I feel like there is this enormous fallacy baked into the attempt to make this some kind of movement which is that all of these specific proposals for how to do work need to be structural and enforced via laws or labor agreements.

I am a huge supporter of an individual business opting for a 5 hour workday and if the reality is that this turns out to be the way to maximize productivity (I hear this argument all the time) then they are going to do it anyway.

But it's not like the US (or anywhere else) needs to enforce this across the board in one big yes or no decision.

Like this doesn't need to be advocated for at all at some grand political level or as a movement. If you want 5 hour workdays either convince your company to give it to you or find another company that will.

It's the logical equivalent of having a political movement to ask for better snacks in the kitchen. It's an individual decision between you and your employer, no one else needs to care.

I understand historically that it was important to have organized labor fighting against unhealthy/ unsafe/ or broadly manipulative labor practices but those days are long gone and there is no big ethical or human rights issues here, just personal preferences.
If we're talking about Walmart vs a non-chain supermarket, 5% is going to be about the best possible case. Things like bulk goods or cheap cuts of meat can pretty easily be 30% cheaper. Even looking at a pickup truck and the higher European prices, I don't think a 30 mile drive would rise by more than ~$6? That might still persuade people to make fewer trips and buy more food at a time, though. Which doesn't save local grocery stores, is still a pretty good outcome - cheap grocery bills with less gas burned, and decisions that are closer to reflecting the overall cost of driving.

There's a reason people who live "10 miles from anything" absolutely hate rising gas prices, though. If you commute 20 miles a day for $25k/year, an extra $3/gallon would eat about a week's pay just getting to and from work.
"Shut down operations"...or what?

<Laughs in First Sale Doctrine>
This kinda makes sense - esp since housing inventory is a recurring revenue generator.

That being said, I am curious how much of the inspection cost they'd pass on to the lister -- it seems like getting a guy out to check each listing is gonna be $25-$100 an inspection depending on how many places you can lump together, so someone's gotta pay the costs there.

Maybe the end result will be an "AirBnB-verified" badge and increased search exposure (a la Amazon FBA/Prime listings have better ranking, or like one of those a pay-to-play Alibaba approved vendor kinda badge that creates financial downside for people who spuriously list lots of fake listings)? At which point I can see the choices for AirBnB hosts become "pay X to get verified" or basically don't get traffic.

Am also curious how this would play out more as plenty of under-the-table renters (barred from AirBnBing by their HOA) would end up getting enhanced visibility of their activities due to these verifications. The whole obfuscating address thing on AirBnB seemed to be a huge hack to get around HOA/landlord/legal rules so extra verification would seem to hurt some core, grey part of the business too.
Oh yes, I agree, Peanut is terrible. I recently moved to a new area and left all my mom friends behind, so I was desperate for a way to find new ones, but it's useless. There needs to be an OK Cupid for moms.
It costs the ad creator money every click and rewards google for mixing ads into the search results in a confusing way. This is a sketchy practice when the ad is for the exact product or site you typed into the search bar - as another commentator mentioned, the dynamic forces you to buy the ad to keep competitors from stealing the spot. Toxic
AFAIK those are dying. DLC's killing them. You buy (or rent) the disk, you only get like half the game. The rest can't be resold. Consequently, second-hand prices for disks seem to be dropping quite a bit, outside certain categories where that's less of an issue (Nintendo, kinda, and certain genres that still aren't that heavy on DLC like JRPGs). The dropping prices might but OK but with digital stores competing, and providing pretty good prices to anyone willing to wait for a sale, volume (both coming in, and being sold) is surely going down too, at least relative to total market size if not absolutely (and I suspect it's dropping absolutely, too).

Gamestop & friends seem to be muddling along through inertia, the larger-than-it-was but still-small retro gaming market (less Gamestop, they don't carry stuff that old), and selling non-game materials. And new games that come with DLC tickets and such. Not so much used sales or rentals (remember renting games from Blockbuster?)
Do you think that the situation is due to an arms race kind of scenario? -If everyone but one stopped advertising then the one still doing it would reap massive benefits? So advertising is a form of obstructing the competitor.
It's depressing how much trouble some people have in understanding the idea of defense in depth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_(computing)).

Oh, you have access controls in place? Great. What happens if they fail?

Oh, you have a deprovisioning process in place? Great. What happens when someone doesn't follow it?

Systems fail all the time. If your defense only has one layer, when that layer fails (and it will, eventually) you're SOL. Multiple layers of defense give you resiliency.
On a slightly unrelated note, did anyone watch the new film Dolemite Is My Name? It celebrates a film financed by a single individual (sort of) that noone in the industry wanted to touch. It's important to recognise that even then (1970s) it was hard to pitch new ideas for films and get funding. That said, Dolemite would have been a tough sell for a newbie film producer.

Regular people are smarter and want more complexity than the film execs give them credit for. I have fond memories of going to the cinema and watching a lesser known or indie film, or going to Blockbuster and picking out strange unknown titles , and having an actual human experience, rather than just being entertained.

Sadly we have more "choice" with streaming, but a limited one. Only those sanctioned for our consumption. Sort of like an "any colour you like, but..." scenario.

I hope that those with big bold or different ideas can continue to create in the new paradigm. Good on Scorsese in making the Netflix deal and keeping his principles.
I like ads if they're relevant to my interests AND they match the mental mode I'm in at the moment. If I'm flipping through an outdoorsy magazine and I see an ad for a neat new camping tool, I might be happy to have seen that ad. If I'm perusing a photography website and I see an ad for a cool new camera, I might be happy to have seen that ad.

I'm not happy if I'm reading a tech blog and I see ads for a car I was researching yesterday. I'm not happy if I'm checking my local newspaper's website and I see ads for the necklace I just bought my wife. These are like the non-chill guy who loudly approaches you at work, "HEY I HEAR YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A NEW JOB!".

Context is important.
> If a technology (especially one as significant as fusion) is viable and the production kinks need to be worked out, then VC-backers are going to dump money into it in an effort to be first-to-market.

case in point - SpaceX. Before Musk private space on a big scale (not the laughable Pegasus) was may be just a couple notches below fusion. Once Musk shown the way for everybody, now we have VCs going all in. VCs are really very risk averse - they aren't going to dump money into being the first to make fusion because it is risky, they are going to dump money into the 20 startups of the second wave to make money for sure even if most of those startups fail.
The file is "heartwarming stories celebrating Americans solving uniquely American problems."
Sounds like a creative new way to get locked out of your own keys.
Child Suicides at Highest Rate Ever in Japan
This is a great post, thanks. On your last point, do you mind sharing what you use to monitor the logs and send out alerts?
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Is this not opt-in on the part of the students? When I took the LSAT, it was definitely an opt-in (possibly default opt-in, don't remember specifically), and it was pretty clear to me that the reason to opt-in was that schools might offer application fee waivers. I did well enough on the LSAT that I was able to apply to only schools that waived the application fee, plus two others that I really wanted to attend.

While I think this practice should definitely have an opt-out, I'm not really sure if I think it's a problem that colleges market themselves aggressively. This is probably hard to rigorously study, but my hypothesis is that application rates (particularly to better schools) are going up because applicants are realizing that there is extremely little financial cost to being rejected from a "stretch" school relative to the total cost of a degree and substantial upside, should one get in.
Right, and it gained independence hundreds of years before any of the others. It's had a lot of time to develop its own dialect.
I am not claiming to know any exact value. But previous comparisons I've seen do it by looking at some good or asset which has remained relatively unchanged since ancient time and then using the modern day price of that good to extrapolate the growth of the economy since then.
How do you propose stopping AWS taking the code wholesale and selling with an upcharge? Is that what open source is?
On long enough scales nothing is renewable. Also, the tides rely on the moon's gravity far more than the sun's AFAIK.
There is a vast difference in the style of doughnut between a regular glazed krispy kreme and a glazed dunkin. It is a big enough difference that they almost don't seem like the same product. Not saying one is automatically a lot better, but people have really strong preferences that make sense given the difference in style.
Next Generation is post-scarcity. Replicators make fighting over a slice of pizza pointless. Just replicate another slice.

It's both a story-telling crutch and obstacle. It's a crutch in that they never have to explain how they provide for the entire crew while out in space. They just transform energy into matter.

It's an obstacle as they can't really tell a story that involves a limited resource unless they explain why it can't be simply replicated. Now, sometimes, they say just that. But it's always something they have to acknowledge.

And we have to bow to the fact that Star Trek is entirely fiction. We don't really know how a post-scarcity society will function. So we will wind up still projecting contemporary mores on them. So the captain gets a special office and larger quarters.

DS9 has replicators, but they're also trying to be the "wild west frontier" Star Trek, so they're not available to everyone and there are non-Federation societies present. And those societies aren't post-scarcity, so money exists. (And then there are the societies that are both technically post-scarcity, yet still materialistic which is just weird)

Voyager has replicators on the ship, but their solution is to remove the ship from the Federation and handwave the fact that for the most part, starships don't require fuel in a traditional sense. I think the fuel for starships would be antimatter, but it's never an issue on the show unless it needs to be.