skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't sweat it. A runaway hit like the onions piece is like catching lightning in a bottle. It's not really something you can plan and, so far, I haven't found a formula where you can reliably recreate it to any degree.

(I've had two posts do about a tenth as well on HN as your onions piece, both on different blogs of mine and that didn't result in follow-up posts on those blogs being similarly successful. So my opinion is somewhat informed by firsthand experience, fwiw.)
Ironically, purely from an amoral preservation point of view, having the antiquities in a museum in the United States or Western Europe has a higher chance of preserving the artifact for future generations.
I do. I started because I would find myself surprised by the occasional credit card bill that was larger than I expected. It made life easier later when I started seriously putting money in investments, and then much easier when my mother died---she had put my name on all of my parents' accounts so I inherited two more, different bank accounts, two retirement accounts and some honest-to-gosh stock certificates. By the time I got everything cleaned up, I had a love affair with GnuCash and a checking account number that starts with seven zeros.

I track transactions in and out of accounts that I get statements for, with a "cash" expense for withdrawals (I know someone who would track his pocket change in spreadsheets.), and broadish categories for income and expenses (my Books expense account is ... large).

I wish I had created some kind of asset account when we bought a house; instead I just treat the mortgage like rent and have this great big windfall followed by an equal expense when we moved. :-)
I was thinking another decade further back than that, or so. :)

Also, Half Life 2 was a state-of-the-art video game for an audience that largely had fancy gaming PCs.
Onenote is so close as a perfect system for me but what it leaves out really hurts.
-No task Hierarchy
-No alerts for due dates (Yes you can add outlook tasks but its flakey)
-No automatic reporting
Not guaranteed, but it suggests that their company processes aren't Password Manager friendly.
How Google & Apple outflanked governments in the race to build coronavirus apps
The killer upcoming features:

* Wayland support for running native GUI apps. X410 is pretty good, but it has all the limitations of a remote X server.

* GPU Compute, for pytorch etc.
seems such an emoji is actually part of the newest standard as I just saw someone mention on Twitter: https://emojipedia.org/people-hugging/
Brilliant! My free credits plan was about to expire.
That’s a lot of words to say “the majority of Facebook users are using Facebook”.

That you just ignore the country with the largest population because Facebook doesn’t operate there is a big tell.

Also, why would you assume the kind of products people might sell and thus their pricing? I’ve seen (and bought!) stuff online for ~ 11THB. 35 US cents.

You can say a lot of people use Facebook and that’s fine. But if you’re going to say “the majority of people” you really need to define which people you’re talking about.
You derive a master key from a password, and use that to encrypt other keys, or a more complex key chain if needed. You then only sync encrypted keys with the server.
Just read the Ringer link.

It's an interesting take. But give Jordan one or two off seasons to adapt to the modern game, and he would be a good to great 3-point shooter. The article even mentions the NBA Finals game where he made 6 threes in the first half, just because.

There are no DNA mutations between the players in the 90s and players today that made so many current NBA players better 3-point shooters. The owners and coaches favoring demanding those skill sets led to players practicing them more in order to increase their value.

(And I've considered before blogging a take on Jordan-Pippen-Rodman playing the 3-4-5 could be the core of an amazing modern small-ball line up.)
Don't all ad-blockers work with (regex-like) rule lists these days?
Facebook has >50% of their TAM, which works for me as a definition. TAM: - over 13 years old with internet access and not in China.
I wanted to avoid starting a discussion about conspiracy theories which is why I qualified it as personal, but given that you're asking, I categorically reject conspiracy theories because conspiracy logic is by definition paranoid, and I don't believe any of them.
I doubt it's prohibited, but any bills are equivalent legal tender for legal debts. If old bills became worth less than new bills people who lost lawsuits would start acquiring them at a discount to pay their debt, and they would drive up the price of the old bills until they equaled the price of new bills. (IANAL)
I've been using YNAB. I want to switch out because YNAB is too expensive. What I miss with open source alternatives is the mobile app. I don't like to link my bank accounts, so I enter expenses manually whenever I buy anything. The mobile app is critical for that to work.
That could be part of it. But I think survivor bias generally gets much more credit as an explanation than it deserves, and I strongly doubt that older generations of tools would have been designed like modern tools even if, say, simulation software had been available then.

It could be just relentless pressure to reduce costs, after the people who knew why it should be done a certain way had all retired, and a customer base that changed into one that either didn't know how to recognize quality, or valued it less.

Maybe we can do without heat-treating the surface? Maybe just give a quick grind instead of hand scraping the ways? Maybe outsource the castings instead of doing them in-house using the process we'd honed over decades?
I wrote some ideas on how to implement a password reset for end-to-end encrypted apps, reviews and comments are welcome:

https://francoisbest.com/posts/2020/password-reset-for-e2ee-...
Azure Static Web Apps
I take a break every couple of hours to look out into the distance.

I have great eyesight but I think that little exercise helps more with revealing strain rather than actually preserving anything.
Ask HN: How do you track your expenses?
What's your process for tracking your expenses? Do you use an app? How sophisticated are the apps that you use? Do you know any terminal based app for expense tracking?
Notes from the Quest Factory (2019)
Google Play Bans Our Covid App Built for an Indian City Government
Totalitarianism is defined as “ a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.”

It has nothing to do with racism or reasonableness of life. US is not totalitarian (despite having many negative qualities). China is totalitarian.
This deal doesn't make a ton of sense without that (also that is what "exclusive" means). Rogan = Howard Stern, Spotify = XM Radio.
US business culture has two leadership archetypes: The brilliant asshole and the kind uncle who leads by example (think Steve Jobs and Tim Cook). Despite there being two archetypes, asshole culture is endemic in American business. Why is that? My theory is that more often than not, the kind fatherly leader relies on a cadre of assholes to do his job for him. Elsewhere in this thread there is the example of Ed Catmull and John Lasseter that reinforces my impression.
I view this as more akin to a Gartner/Forrester style analyst service coming "down" to the general SAAS market than coming "up" from the Wirecutter B2C arena.

Gartner, etc are all very much the paywalled exclusive access and strict control of reports that OP mentions.

What's not mentioned is that even with their incredible amounts of funding how difficult it is to do an evenhanded analysis of these truly complicated systems.

It's honestly just tough categorizing these things properly so you can get decent comparisons. Case in point Notion is on the front page today, their big selling point is that they can more or less do what would take half a dozen other more specialized SAAS to do. How do you slot them in against those?

Edit: case in point about categorization being hard: the 'web analytics' list is really about 'event analytics' (per the article) - which is fine but you still need web analytics services as well.
Ask HN: What is your least favorite part of the day?
Even assuming you're right - that all of these companies should move away from Python because it's a losing game - it's STILL going to be efficient to spend a million on a drop in replacement that gives a boost for free....while the moving away is happening
This feels like the domainers fallacy.

If this was true, then search.com would be more important than google.com right?
Name clash with KDE MAUI toolkit by Microsoft MAUI toolkit
Considering they were looted from the Parthenon in Athens, which is still standing, I would say "yes."
I am not contesting that the documentation of comorbidities is reasonable or standard. I am however pointing out that the state has said contradictory things when it comes to which deaths are counted as COVID-caused deaths. Their guidance doc reads as follows:

> “Coronavirus Disease 2019 or COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused, or is assumed to have caused, or contributed to death.”

The phrasing "assumed to have caused" is key here and it suggests that at least some deaths were assumed to be COVID-caused even without explicit confirmation (via a PCR test). This means that this prior statement from the state was false:

> “All of the deaths currently attributed to COVID-19 had a positive PCR (polymerise chain reaction) test at some point. A PCR test is required in order to classify something as a confirmed case.”

If the standards for what counts as a COVID-death have changed to be more permissive, then that would have the effect of inflating mortality metrics. But either way the contradicting statements don't help with trust or confidence in their decision making.

As for your statement about Eastern Washington...

> The entirety of Eastern Washington is in Phase 2 or eligible

This literally just came out today. These counties have been asking for this variance for at least a couple weeks and have been rebuffed without any clear reason. Inslee's reopening plans and conferences have historically been vague (without clear metrics or goals) despite claims of being data driven and science based.

And then there's the question of why so many counties in central Washington are not given variances...
ADHD tech stack: auto time tracking to get actionable feedback, not guilt
> particular well-known machine was unracked

are you able to comment a bit further on why this machine was well known?
One of the frightening things is when you notice that, as society becomes more dystopian (e.g. more totalitarian, more extremely unequal in the division of wealth etc.), there doesn't develop the strong awareness that it _is_ dystopian. It that the sense of what's normal and acceptable degrades. At best you get this weak sense of a general malaise.
A leader can also be described as someone who pushes colleagues/subordinates within the limits of what he can do hence that fantastic MJ line ' I never asked anyone to do something I could not do myself. '
There is no such thing as being pushed at your own pace.
Show HN: Library of quality content on marketplace startups
The original article was crap since the author stated "spent an hour trying to find blog and ...nothing" Any reasonable response would have been an hour trying to figure out where the "return" key was is NOT the same thing as an hour spent searching. Blog, by folks that don't give a crap about Googles SEO requirements exist, have existed and will still exist in the future.
Does the $50 include the CPU package?
In a bloated org, they can get away with it though... we had to let one high level Uber hire go because they couldn't code to save their lives, had insufficient technical expertise to guide any kind of substantive project, and played a lot of politics to seem important. I've run into at least 4 high level hires from Uber with the same kind of profile.

At the end of the day, it's just a reminder that careful screening is important. Could be a cultural issue that impacts certain unicorns, but it's also on the hiring company to thoroughly fact-check and test a candidate (and no, leetcode and simple arch questions aren't enough).
It would be neat to have an HN like place that restricted posts to only blog like content (where the rules are defined in some way to try and prevent marketing blogs/ad-farms).

A subreddit could be the place for this, but it might be tricky to kickstart a community with interesting content. Then if successful could move it to its own community somehow (similar to CMV).

I created one here: https://www.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/

There might be a way to set up rules that lead to interesting posts, if the content is restricted to bloggers posting their own content it could get more attention than competing for space on HN (as long as there are people there to comment).

Happy to open up wiki editing or make suggested changes. [Edit]: I made an announcement post there for suggestions.

Also if you have a personal blog and a favorite post - you can be the first one to submit something, though I might be the only one that ends up reading it :-). [Edit: Anyone reading this please do! There are a decent amount of people clicking the above link so it'd be neat if there were posts that got some traction).

It almost feels like needing to revert to the pre-search engine era when there were pages of curated links to interesting content.

One issue with HN is since it's general links of interesting content it can be hard for personal blogs to compete, maybe a focused community could make it easier.

Someone posted a first blog post, I added one too.
I don't really want a GUI - or the GUI I want is a spreadsheet.

I have some charts and graphs embedded with the data - like net worth over time, brokerage over time, etc. My worry with a baked system is it doesn't have the data in a way I want in a chart, whereas with this system, I can pretty much create whatever I want from the raw data in the sheet...
Logical for MS to copy here. Airtable is such a powerful simple solution, I had people who had never worked with computers using it daily.

I've now built 2 companies on Airtable - thank you for building wonderful software! Right there next to Figma for me.
I've been using Obsidian. It's obviously still a work in progress, but it's pretty good already. The killer feature for me is that I don't need to put my data in someone else's cloud. Hoping for basic outlining features. That would make it a superapp.
Regarding your first point, totally agree 100%.

I want to use notion, it's such a nice UI/UX. Problem is, it's just too complicated.

Trello is basic, but gets the job done.
> How do you upgrade the UX of a legacy product like Access without pissing off everyone?

Incrementally.
0: / 1:28 RRD a library for Go
Theoretical articles like this ("proving" that X won't work) are almost always doomed to be wrong, because you can't enumerate all possible ways that something COULD work, but won't.

A shorter way to say that is that something can fail thousands of times, but only has to succeed once. If the right technical, social and business factors come together, you get working micropayments.
Fun, unrelated fact: The Bosch Axial Glide saws use a Sarrus linkage[0], which is the oldest perfect straight line linkage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarrus_linkage
I don't listen to his show, but as a general podcast fan this is sad. This isn't the first podcast to move away from having a free and open feed of the show, but it is certainly the biggest and it opens the doors for a lot more exclusivity deals in the future.
> If you consider college tuition to be the money you pay to be educated, you're definitely right.

If I think of class theater in an education that led me to 100k+/yr, that is a good deal.

If I think of class theater in a certification that led me to 100k+/yr, that is a good deal.

That it is a good deal doesn't change the the fact that class theater is a shady practice.

It's also detrimental. But since we don't have the tech to do speed runs against the versions of ourselves who took non-shady intro classes it can be easy to shrug.
Outline could be an alternative if your main usecase was internal team documentation. I understand that Notion can be used for a lot of other things too…

It is BSL licensed, the only restriction is that you cannot run a hosted version for other organizations to use (aka compete with the only way the project maintains itself).

https://www.getoutline.com/
It's not that weird. The founder of Hobby Lobby is an evangelical Christian, among other things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Green_(entrepreneur)
> Sports at the highest levels require extreme competitiveness and aggression.

You can also be an all time great like Magic Johnson, who smiled constantly and seemed to love everyone and never show any frustration.

(I'm sure he had his moments, but everyone seems to love Magic and haven't heard about former team mates holding a grudge against him.)
If the shirt fits...
Do you have Privacy Badger running in firefox? It blocks hCaptcha, which Notion uses (unfortunately).
You can redo a runtime while keeping the actual language the same.

The reason you wouldn't do it in C is that there are so many implementations and only a couple of them will actually update. In most languages the extra difficulty for retrofitting it would probably be less than the difficulty of designing and implementing it in the first place.

> Also, make a giant coroutine has a performance price, because any line is a potiential context switching.

A notable one? You need a stack anyway, and you don't really have to change anything to make it switchable.

You have to avoid taking a mutex and then calling into arbitrary code, but that was already a terrible idea.
It's true they're difficult to do well, but there's just as many problems with not having standups. Engineers get stuck and don't ask for help in a timely fashion, projects slowly slip and no one raises it, people start reproducing work someone else has already worked on, people find blockers but they aren't highlighted to everyone to get it fixed etc. etc. etc. And often those problems are more convenient problems to have for the engineers but impact the business badly.

The key is being intentional about your process, no matter what that process is. If you can put in place strategies to solve all the problems standups are meant to solve, that's great, but the standups weren't originally designed by middle management, they were designed by engineers for a purpose.
tbh that guy's whole deal only makes it weirder
And in addition, it wasn't (quite) her field. (This shows somewhat in the paper linked elsewhere in the comments: you can kind of see the two different jargons in use.) The power of fresh eyes is often underestimated.
The lack of any kind of bluetooth support is an instant blocker for me - but it works great as a server OS.
Thanks for the interest!

Not yet, currently most of our users bring their own sync (Dropbox etc.), so if you edit the same document in real time that might create conflict copies.

We're working on a sync service with end-to-end encryption (for convenience, completely optional), and we might improve it to support real-time collaboration in the future.
Hey there, we've thought about that too and came up with a new user interface concept. Emvi [1] supports interlinked articles already and you can search through your notes easily. But we found the current user interface to inefficient for both, simple note taking and collaboration. You can read about our new concept here: https://emvi.com/blog/a-new-experimental-user-interface-QMZg...

It will come out in about three weeks and we're always curious about feedback :)

[1] https://emvi.com/
Why did Apple choose BSD and not Linux?

Why did Netflix choose BSD and not Linux?

Licensing is often a factor.

The reasons however will not be the same for everyone.

There are more similarities than differences between the two, however one difference IMO is that BSD has a level of "quality control", especially over the userland, that Linux does not. I find that my own sensibilities as a user align better with the relatively small number of people doing "quality control" and development for BSD projects than with the enormous number of people who work on Linux -- for me, the number of Linux contributors is too many to keep track of and I find it difficult to understand what all of their sensibilities are.
I agree with you, but unfortunately, that doesn’t justify theft.
...and this is how podcasting dies.
Seems more likely that Ned Flanders would come into possession of an ancient, cursed monkey's paw...
> "Clickbait" used to mean "Ten Reasons Clickbait isn't what it used to be... Number 8 will surprise you"!

I think the definition has expanded at the same time that the clickthrough/SEO/likes/dopamine optimization has become embraced by editors, who write the headlines. To me, clickbait is more about substance than style. It's an attentional lure into an article with disappointing substance, to varying extents. Various editors will stylize the headline for the sweet tooth of their demographic.
I wouldn't characterize Pharo/Mathematica/Dyalog APL as newly emergent, they've been around for a long time. I can't say anything about J and K since I've never used them but my superficial impression is that they are focused on a specific niche, not as general purpose as most Lisps. They've also been around for a long time.

8th I have actually looked at and it's both _not_ particularly interactive (certainly nowhere near as interactive as Factor) and has a very strange license [1] to boot which makes it a total nop for me. It has been criticized before [2].

[1] https://8th-dev.com/com-license.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15672361
Latter-day Dylan is infix with a Scheme-y macro system: https://opendylan.org/books/dpg/macros.html

Cue arguments, I guess, about whether Scheme is a Lisp, whatever their standards say.