skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, note taking posts have been ramping up in the last few days/weeks. I’ve noticed that as well. I’m enjoying it, to be honest. I’m always looking to make my process (which, currently, is rather hodgepodge) more streamlined.

I wish I had the link, but last week someone linked to something called `bash_log` which was someone’s bash function that created time stamped md files for simple journaling. Nothing groundbreaking, but for me it was a step up.

Currently, I’m using StandardNotes, the forementioned bash utility with GitHub pushing, and god-help-me random moleskins. I’ve also tried Dynalist which was nice but I didn’t like that I couldn’t lock it down and link it to GitHub.

If anyone has any suggestions in the context of what I’ve posted, I’m all ears. The article gives me some ideas, as does your response. I’d be interested in more concrete examples of what you’re doing if you wouldn’t mind.
mods are still allowed to opt out of front page. i encourage mods to do this.
There's the 2hr commute that some people avoid and can use for TV.

There's all the weekend time.

There's jobs with only 30min unpaid lunch.

There's the hour of morning time that only needs half hour.

There's dinner prep where the kids might have free time.
Live CO2 emissions map of electricity consumption/production
How would your response change if the shortage of "good" developers stops? Or when they decide 2 "bad" but cheap developers cost less than 1 "good" one?
The bath salts were a similar story, right?
In case you still haven't found it, bashlog is here: https://github.com/jodavaho/bashlog
Absolutely, this project has a great DIY vibe and might be better suited to build into the wall.

Using a Kobo eReader on the other hand is a great purpose for when you’re not using it. Now when I leave for holiday I just take it from the wall :)
Can you provide a concrete example of a range of numbers that you think obeys Benford's law?
I'm surprised that Merriam-Webster puts that definition in the first position. I definitely consider so-called to have a negative connotation, as in the second definition.
Oh perfect. Thank you. I’m on my phone otherwise I could have done the author justice, thanks!
The copyright owners usually have better lawyers than the alleged infringers, but they can be sued. https://blogs.lawyers.com/attorney/intellectual-property/con...
I think it depends on what the consequences are for missing a deadline.
Reddit still has good subs. If you limit yourself to those, you never see the bad stuff.
There so many posts with stuff like this, but what’s really had a positive impact for me is using my own custom notation. Nothing fancy, no org mode, wikis, markdown, just brackets and characters.
> Being a New York Times Columnist

The article (not the NYT one, which is just typical whiney urban cat lady trash) has a lot of the components of a marketing submarine. Particularly obviously as .... well, who is this person?

I do think apps are pretty helpful in stuffing vocab in the brain. Mixed bag though. Duolingo is shit for me; they don't have continental Portuguese (Memrise does). The rest of it rings true as well (I listen to Portuguese radio at home to work on my understanding when I'm not being a slug).
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Three points are worth making here.

Nobody lives in the Sahara, the population centers in Africa are in the tropical regions and the Mediterranean.

Africa will be the only continent experiencing population growth post-2050. Africa's largest economy, Nigeria, is expected to become the third most populous country in the world by 2050.

The effects of climate change on monsoon-dependent areas (the Mediterreanean coast of Africa and the semi-arid regions bordering the southern parts of the Sahara) are not well-understood and the effects are more complicated than everything will become a desert. For example, the Indian monsoon is expected to produce 10% more rainfall because higher temperatures allow the air to collect more moisture. This is going to be a huge boon for certain semi-arid regions of the country.
I find taking notes on "the guide" revolutionary. It's a tree like application to take notes.

https://the-guide.it.softonic.com/
> Only the owner (or an authorized agent of the owner) can claim infringement. I suppose the claim of being an authorized agent is also free of perjury penalty.

Forget perjury, why isn't this outright fraud?
Pedagogy is hard, but I am inclined to agree.

But it's really easy to put a kid in front of some cartoon and forget about them, they'll re-watch the same thing over and over and over, lacking interaction, competition and surprise. So "screen time" is probably a good enough proxy for "passive screen time", which would be bad by your definition too.
Part of me is disappointed that there’s no link to the article in French. :(
Yeah, the article says they investigated in base 3 first.

In that base, it can by 0, 1, or 2 mod 3 (for the final digit). Primes clearly aren't 0 mod 3, so all (not 3) primes end in 1 or 2. They found that primes "liked" to alternate between them.
Yeah and TV will make you blind and videogames will give you epilepsy.. I heard so much nonsense when something new gets wide adoption, stop forcing the old world into your kids
Almost all fields of pure math use a much stronger set of axioms called ZF and essentially everyone also accepts the axiom of choice (making it ZFC). The axioms in ZF are reasonable but the axiom of choice is surprisingly controversial for an axiom. There are some unintuitive consequences of the axiom but even more unintuitive consequences without it or with the negation of it.

Number theory uses a much smaller set of axioms.

It should be stated that most mathematicians don't really mind the logical foundations of their work when they are actually working in the same way that most programmers don't worry about assembly language or transistors.
South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux
You joke, but just wait...
Sounds incredibly inconvenient. What if your guest is expecting/gets a phone call that day? Or they want to show you some holiday pictures? What about smart watches?

I'm really conflicted, as your approach is privacy focused but I just can't imagine following it in real life. Perhaps I'm part of the problem...
Interesting, I don't disagree, but what better alternative would you suggest?
They went from a non-speaker (A0) to a B2.

According to CEFR link in article, a B2 level:

Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in their field of specialization.

Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party.

Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

CEFR Estimated time required to academically learn B2 level French: 560-650 hours

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_R...
Yeah or if, as non-technical people, bad and good are indistinguishable to them!
Thank you for sharing this.

I'm a strong technologist who has inherited people management responsibilities for some junior technologists and I definitely consider people management to be the thing that I suck the most at in worklife.
I assume the “Possible End of Progress” section is what the OP is referring to.
Please, please don't mention Factorio, it's too addictive. I bought it on Steam during Christmas 2 years ago and almost forgot there's a world outside. I spent 80 hours playing it in a couple of days and it was just one game. Later I found out that most people beat it much faster (https://howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=17455) and it made the guilt of wasting time even stronger.

It is an awesome game though. Just don't start.
FYI, this is not a USA government web site, it is run by Deloitte and is republishing public domain US government data under an AGPLv3 license.
All of the data sets are listed here:

https://datausa.io/about/datasets/

You should probably also check out the federal data catalog at:

https://data.gov
you also need to map the circle firs to the surface, a circle on a world map is not the same as a circle on the globe.
A 1-government world is dystopic in my view. Where to hide if/when it becomes tyrannical?
A better link: http://theguide.sourceforge.net/features.html
Basically the vast majority of people take very few 400-800 mile interstate trips so that doesn't matter [conversely the trucking industry does so long distance trucking would be a strong market]

As you said the Taco Bell trip doesn't matter.

The one area where it does matter is for the longer distance commuter--the unpleasant experience of spending an hour every morning and every night in stop and go traffic.
When did 1:1's become manager interrogation sessions? What happened to just connecting and providing space to talk about whatever is on the emp's mind?
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Apollo is honestly the only way to tolerate reddit on iOS (despite all the shortcoming everyone has pointed out). But the most interesting thing about Apollo is the dev's tight feedback loop with his users. Apollo's subreddit has activity that most indie developers can only dream of, and it's well deserved too; Christian goes the extra mile to interact with his users and constantly takes their input into account.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but every company that has ever bought another company always started the sales-pitch with: “we don’t want to change anything. We just want to give you the resources to grow...” — blah blah blah. And they are always lying. It’s like a test to find who’s gullible enough to believe it.

Since your deal is already done, there’s not much you can do, other than to watch out for things they will inevitably try to push on you.
They'll just lobby the government and say such a thing would make it "too risky" or "too hard" to enforce copyright. Actually making sure a DMCA complaint is valid is too much work and they shouldn't have to do it. What they want is a magic button that deletes from the internet everything that matches their content but doesn't come from them directly. They don't care about false positives or fair use either, it's just collateral damage.

Copyright laws exist to benefit corporations, not the public.
By all means, I don't mean for fellow workers to be unkempt, but relaxed outerwear can be dressed neatly.

What bothers me is the song and dance of "professionalism" taking a seat before actually getting things done.

You make a good point about neckties being a shared symbol of respect, but perhaps these come with some baggage as well. To me, a necktie also is a symbol of bureaucratic management. I propose a middle ground, not held by the unfortunate baggage of the status quo; and a symbol of humility among peers. At my workplace we shall all wear bow ties. Any color or pattern will do. This will unify us under a common symbol and we will know who is on board and who is not.

> More than anything I'm sick of not knowing who around me just rolled out of bed ten minutes before showing up to standup.

That gave me a chuckle, although isn't usually obvious who consistently performs like they just woke up 10 minutes earlier.
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The fact it removed 4 dictionary entries for the word "did" including Merriam Webster is really the worst part.

DMCA is completely broken and the accounts abuses are endless. We had an entire subreddit with 25k subscribers taken down by a person using fake DMCA requests. For months we had random completely innocuous posts with zero copyrightable content taken down do to "copyright infringement" by an off-kilter person who people on the subreddit pissed off at some point. Then eventually the entire subreddit went down due to "repeat copyright infringement".

Remember kids, if you see something you don't like on the internet (or even more relevant to this era of intolerance towards free speech: anything that "offends" you) just spam DMCA requests. Almost all sites like Reddit, Youtube, and Google don't actually care if it's legitimate or not, and they always automatically take the side of the person who filed it. And if they do push back there will be 10 more waiting by the time the system figures one out.
Where Mindustry falls short for me is where once the waves are over, you're forced to leave your base and start all over.

I'm not motivated to invest in optimization if the production line is going to be abandoned soon; the game becomes more of a tower defense, and less of a production one.
I get some very weird ones with the default settings.

"C'est LYTRE, OLYMPE, SPAIN, SPAINE, REDEEME, REDEEMEEME.
OURSTES, MUSE, RACE, RACE, RACE.
MUSE, LYTRE, LYTRE, SPAINE."

"Quand je te tue, c’est qu’’’’on te l’ffe."
No because mindmaps are trees not graphs.
Do you think that raising a child in front of a TV is a good idea?
Small independent knowledge chunks.

My personal goal with this idea is to make everything quickly searchable, preferably by voice at some point in the future.
“How do I ... in Swift|Scala|Rust”

I built a small Swift Cookbook on my website a few years ago. I recently moved it to Github to update to Swift 5.x and to move towards my goal.

https://github.com/melling/SwiftCookBook

Another example is Chris Albon’s recipes that I’ve found useful:

https://chrisalbon.com/
> You offer a service, and they pay for that.

No, the company pays for that. A manager's job is to help ICs be effective and to help the company make the most of ICs' work.

My first manager told me something really good: don't look at it as a boss telling people what to do. ICs manage code, the manager manages people.
Or when your constraints change as you age and develop your private life. Programming jobs are plenty until e.g. you have a spouse and a kid to provide for, making your salary demands higher and relocation more difficult.
How well does it work on Windows? Every time I’ve tried it there, it was crashy and I wound up going to kdenlive.
Payment would not help. We need reformed copyright laws. Google is simply complying as would any search company, paid or not.
Jordan Peterson's lectures turned into an interactive map
I think this is what happens to a big portion of devs after promotion to management. Do you have any advices for people in your situation?
Automate Boring Stuff with Python is a great book to start
I feel your disdain! I'm an old-timer and remember complaining about using those new-fangled cascading style sheets instead of just putting everything in html tag attributes.

And don't get me started about having been forced to use div's for layouts instead of tables. In fact, I still don't understand why the html table construct couldn't have been evolved to accommodate a layout role.
The SRE role seems to be the most wide role there is. By definition you'd have to build systems in a highly available fashion some guarantees. Systems like databases, queues and orchestrators. You will have to be part of the design of the deployment pipeline, the user management, the secrets management, etc. Hell you might end up being part of the security boundaries too (container, node, namespace?).

Since you'll most likely be part of setting up the deployment pipeline, you have to understand to some extend various git flows. You might end-up consulting developers on how to build applications that will run on a docker container, what are the best practices and what pattern the app must follow (e.g. circuit breaker) in a micro-services environment.

You surely will want to automate some management. So apart from DSLs like terraform and configuration management systems (puppet, chef, saltstack, ansible) you will have to write some API here and there, an application tailored around the need of your systems. This application might end up being written in python, ruby, golang or C.

Now, consider that you have build the CI/CD, the orchestrator, alongside the entire pipeline and logic to drive an application from staging to production. You'll most likely be on call and you'll have to deal with networking issues at TCP, HTTP or DNS level, load balancing, autoscaling, etc. You might have a say on that query which is too heavy because the data is un-indexed because, well brings down the database every now and then.

There is no role I can think of in a modern institution which has the breadth of technologies that an SRE (or DevOps engineer as they are often called) will have to gain expertise.

In short you have to be: A medium-level programmer in terms of concepts, have networking experience, learn dozens of new tech, face ever-evolving problems eventually at scale, design end-to-end systems, debug applications others written sometimes without having context, understand trade-offs of new tech stacks only to explain it to others (which might end in a PITA due to the back-and-forth but you'll eventually end up knowing lots of things you didn't ever thought about).

If you like all that, then an SRE role is ideal IMO even in medium to big corps.

NOTE: The role could be called SRE, DevOps engineer, Infrastructure Engineer and/or quite a few other things depending on where you work. Responsibilities tend to overlap significantly though.
Target's Shipt Delivery App Workers Describe Culture of Retaliation, Fear
Depending on where your daycare is, you could fit in half an hour of commute to and from, where the kid could watch something on the mobile phone...

Then there's dinner. Kid gets done quickly and is bored, off to watch the pad.

At least that's what happens with some kids I know.
Google or any alternative free or otherwise has no choice if they want to maintain their safe harbor under the DMCA. It's not up to them to referee the issue, or they become culpable for any infringement on their platform.

My understanding is they also must restore the content when a counter notice is filed by the alleged infringer (but I'm not a lawyer).
Not a bad moment (I don't think at least), and it is good advice to remind myself not to let it affect others around me, but I really do not care about my work, my co-workers, my company, or my career growth. That said, I do all my work on time, with above average quality (I'm pretty sure), communicate well, make sure I am never a blocker, and work to help others who are struggling (we're all stuck here together after all). I just hate the fact that I have to pretend like I'm here for more than the paycheck and the health insurance.
> e is no way you can guarantee, even for a few months, that System1 won’t change Waterfox in any of its privacy aspects.

But if they did, they would legally have to notify the users of those changes (GDPR etc) and would lose all the users, rendering it pointless to have bought Waterfox. Not sure why they would shoot themselves in the foot like that.
Yep. Still not a fan.
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Sleep is incredibly important for kids and its also extremely hard to perturb - if we miss our kids bedtime by an hour he is a wreck.
This attitude reinforces the the problem. There are lots of jobs that are beneath people or just jobs. People still work them and do them well. Do they need to be excited and open about all their thoughts and feelings too? There's no reason a person can't hate to be put on the spot, hate to be interrogated by their boss every week, and still be improving their craft and planning to advance at the next jump.

You were super polite but you're pitching a one-dimensional view of engineers.
As a French native speaker, I'm a little bit surprised by the corrected text OP posted in her/his article (http://www.runwes.com/images/learningfrench/image1.png).

Most of the corrections she/he received are not justified at all. Like using the work "crédits" is totally fine in this context. I can't get why they corrected some connectors like "à" or "pour", as the usage of these in the text seem at least as correct to me.
What they pick seems so bizarrely random.

How is it those sites were chosen and the bazillion other sites with the word did... weren't?

And if someone was talking about the show DID... what is wrong with that?
I find myself doing those exact kind of 1:1s with my reports and I HATE it. This at least provides, I think, maybe some inspiration on some better questions to ask.
From my past experience as an Engineering Manager, I can say that some people wait for 1-on-1 meetings and these questions to clarify some things. Not everyone is ok to share their thoughts immediately.
I adore governments' classification system which can state things are classified as 'unclassified', and by extension to hijack the meaning of 'classified' to mean 'top secret'.

On a topic relevant note, from the original twitter feed [0] which announced/released this (as part of FOIA) a helpful person also mentioned a lightweight download of the ?same document[1] (18MB vs 118MB).

[0] https://twitter.com/chris_swenson/status/1225836060938125313...

[1] https://deeb.io/wrdprs/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/comp3321_r...

Also, I notice in the top left corner there's a handy little Doc ID: 6689691. It'd be interesting if if it were possible to FOIA all those Doc ID's.
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If you are actually asking if television can be part of a healthy child's life, I would say absolutely. For example, I watched Sesame Street in the 1970's and my kids watched it in the 2000's and the quality was still great.
It's not DMCA that's broken, it's the people that run those companies implementing the policies that are broken.
You put off your coat and shoes when you enter my house, but not your spycraft? Not that I follow the same rule, but when I think about it, I find it entirely reasonably. It is the rest of us who, including myself, who are mad.
So it's the trauma that does it? Where's the biochemical basis of trauma?

I mean, when you get hit by a car and you get shock from blood loss, you die of shock from blood loss but you also die from the car. You could solve the problem with better EMT's and blood transfusions and stuff but you could also solve the problem by having better public transit and not having cars everywhere, you know?
Hmmm, let's weaponize then DMCA claims to the point they no longer will blindly be followed by drones. So, please start file DMCA for everything they publish that's used to track/infringe our privacy. Unfortunately I do not have required SEO (?) skills, so someone please give specific advice for this - but you folks understand what I'm saying.
A Commons Sense: Protecting Indian rice varieties from biopiracy [video]
> The review of 33 studies concluded reading from screens had a negative effect on reading performance as opposed to reading an actual book. Even stranger was that students had a more realistic assessment of their own skills when reading a paper document. This only held true for non-fiction reading material, leading the Hechinger Report to remark, “go ahead and read Jane Austen on a Kindle.”

So non-fiction screen time is bad?

It's studies like these that get parents like me to get all riled up but with no answers. I should start a research that tests if too much media consumption by parents leads to erratic child development.
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Forcing all mask purchases through the government would be challenging.

The government simply deciding to buy a lot of masks, then sell them as surplus half way through their shelf life, is just a matter of requisitioning funds.

I hope the government is doing stuff like that. I don't plan as if they do, but I hope they do. What's the good of being in a first-world country if the government can't even plan that far ahead?
Yellow Pages?
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Are you too full of cynicism to see that that is exactly what I am advocating for or is your hatred of white men too much for you to think that someone can be both defending white men AND women AND minorities?
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