skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d recommend you to check out Obsidian [1] from the makers of Dynalist. It’s also a tool made mainly for Zettelkasten, but it is offline and local by default. It’s not an outliner like Roam, but rather a free-form text editor.

I feel that Obsidian’s values align more closely with the values of a general HN reader. For example, the files (Zettels?) are plain markdown files, so the portability is much higher than what is the case with Roam (which is online only, and your data is somewhere in a database in a proprietary format).

Another example would be the support for plugins, which are first-class citizens (although the API is yet undocumented) — many of the core features are implemented as plugins and can be turned off.

And there’s a Discord channel where you can discuss with the devs, which are very responsive — so much so that I’m surprised they can rollout new features so quickly (at least one feature update per week, from my limited experience with Obsidian).

(Not affiliated in any way, just a happy user)

[1]: https://obsidian.md/
It sounds like you didn't read my post. My complaint was that its lazy developing to just take your web app and put it on the desktop. I was not commenting on the merits of this tool.
Even so, the decision to make this opt-out instead of opt-in is extremely questionable. If it’s just a spot to put badges, why is it so critical that it be rushed through next week? And why are you so carefully avoiding talking about the opt-out when a significant chunk of the people in this thread are telling you that it’s the main thing they’re upset about? “Sorry that you feel this way” is the worst kind of corporate-speak non-apology that makes it clear that you’re apparently not interested in responding to feedback, but just making soothing sounds at everyone until the smoke clears and you get to continue doing exactly what you planned.
The difference between them is that the blue collar workers knew they were in the middle, and the valley workers who thought they were at the top are about to find out they've been in the middle all along.
Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them
It is misleading. driving on the highway is by far the easiest part of self driving.

Going from 3 nines of safety to 7 nines is going to be the real challenge.
> A cancelled credit card does not mean bills are automatically void or the recurring subscription cancelled, but it's a scale whether it's worth it for the company to try to collect or not.

Excuse me? If the bill is prepaid you bet your ass it means the subscription is cancelled. You can't pay, they don't continue to provide the service, end of story.

> If your rent autobill fails, I think everyone realizes it doesn't mean you don't have to pay.

The difference is that rent is paid after the fact and is typically part of a lease contract. What contract are you signing to get Netflix?

> A $5/mo subscription? Not worth the time of the company to try to collect.

Who's out here providing $5/month post-paid subscriptions? I have literally never heard of such a thing. Metered billing is a different story, but the discussion is lawsuits over Netflix subscriptions.
Oh, definitely. Especially in these pandemic days that was something that I tried and failed. On the Turkish web apparently the news outlets gave up any hope of respect and now every single one of them is doing it. The biggest ones, the leftie ones, the right-wing ones, the cushy with the government ones. All of them.

No way Google isn't aware of this, there's a local Google office in Turkey, they have a large presence and full Turkish language support on most of the products.

Maybe it's simply part of the business model now. If a supermarket wants people to find their opening times, maybe they should buy an ad placement. There's no money in the high-quality organic search results I guess.
I don't get why you'd think it's okay to suddenly make private information about your users public. The lesson is not "We should've included a screenshot" but rather "We shouldn't automatically opt our users in to sharing information they thought was private.". This is a betrayal of user trust.

I saw your email in my inbox but didn't read it. I never would've noticed with improved screenshots or not. Do you read every email you get?
> Yes interest rates are low right now, but does it make sense to buy a depreciating asset and increase your monthly interest costs at this point in time?

At what point do you suspect the "vast majority of Americans"--who apparently can't afford to purchase a 10yo used car outright--start genuinely contemplating the financial impact of asset depreciation and overbearing interest in a strategic manner before signing a purchase agreement...you know, the one with all those legal words for lawyers and such? Call me impractical but...$1,201 just chillin' in the bank, yo!
Agreed - Figma is a very good example. I stand corrected.
You mean "co-operation" in this way?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCeDr07oh64

Almost every frame of it is stolen either from CD projekt or Riot, so did of this company's many other popular titles, top 2 game company and they earning big.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1a5411s7bi

Doesn't even try to hide anything.

You should read some Chinese history textbooks, to see how much hatred is instilled since young, there will be only one left.
It is not just ”altruistic”. The idea is clever: they loose <0.1% inactive users but will win new ones blocked now behind worry ”what if I will not really use it”. Their bet is that the second group could be larger than first, and by order of magnitude. And if not, then it is still not so expensive marketing. I wish ’use only if you really use’ would become norm.
Not sure about the specific features of hypertext, but in general: bi-directional linking, block references (Roam is an outliner like Dynalist or Workflowy), block transclusion, graph view of your page network...

Of course, you could throw a bunch of scripts together to approximate these features — but you don’t have to, since Roam (and Obsidian and others) exists.
They should take it further and pay equivalent employees in the same office different rates based on whether they live in an expensive neighborhood or not.

Rent makes up the biggest expense living in Sydney by far but it can vary wildly depending on which area. Pay those in rich areas more to cover costs and watch the leaps of logic unfold.
All car renters are full of dark patterns but in my experience Hertz was the best one amongst them.

After a while you realize how it works: Use some CDP code to rent for cheap on their website and refuse all the addons that are pushed onto you at pick up (where they are trained to scare you). That clears 99% of the dark patterns
A lot of people here advocating for strength training, but aren't mentioning the caveat: potential for injury. I used to spend 6 days a week doing a mixture of HIIT and strength training. Despite my best attempts, there were occasional lapses in form, and I found that I was developing joint pains, and indeed a few injuries.

Controlled breathing, as mentioned, is central to the wim hof method, the yogic practice of pranayama, and to many kinds of martial arts and meditation, and doesn't really have the potential for injury (with the exclusion of the more physically demanding martial arts). Some of those practices are also more accessible to people with mobility issues.

My personal experience with yoga and meditation, is a very significant uplift in mood, and better sleep (I used to have a very bad snoring problem). I also do a mix of weighted exercise, callisthenics, and cardio, and I've found the combination to work very well.
> I suggest we start publicizing the problem and teaching these skills.... and using them here.

When I was in university 30 years ago I took a class in logic that was required for my arts degree just because we needed more critical thinking. We've not had a shortage of emphasis on empiricism and critical thinking in the last few decades.

> Is there some uncertainty involved in the problem space?

Only insofar as "we need to cultivate critical thinking" is still viewed as a valid response to mass hysteria and delusion.

> If we were to go through the effort of decomposing and explicitly unpacking this sentence,

You've mistaken an illustration for an argument.

> How about we see if the more capable than average minds here at HN are capable of it?

The community at lesswrong.com has bred a bunch of officious assholes, and no general improvement in the community of thinking. Also, Silicon Valley is synonymous with the "more capable than average minds here at HN", and what we have to show for it is the globalised ad market destroying local journalism, and an opt-out surveillance network that intelligence agencies couldn't have dreamed of 50 years ago. The more-capable-than-average minds have proven themselves to be more self-absorbed and venal than the most cynical evangelical preacher could have imagined.

My objection to your idea is that we've had ideal conditions over the last two decades for enlightened thinking to dominate, and it has proven to be more effectively un-enlightened than anything that has come before. We've made a wealth of information available at everyone's fingertips, and the result is unparalleled tribalism and cherry-picking.

Seriously: The most obvious con-man possible is president of the United States, at a time when we all know just how awful a human being he is. You can't plausibly suggest that more of the same intellectual diligence is the answer. We've had ready information and endless proselytizing for critical thinking, and the most powerful nation in the world has the least intellectually capable/honest leader possible. Donald Trump is a reductio ad absurdum of your response.
Next: drones that can detect a laser source and point a mirror back to it.
Income tax, you mean.
If all you're doing is creating an MVP do whatever is easiest. But yes ideally you would have two separate codebases and obviously it's dependent on your project how much tools can be shared between the projects.
I love gitlab but I run into two issues constantly:

1. Gitlab CI with DinD kills the docker cache on every build. For a large monorepo this is a huge pain. Really needs to be addressed with some host volume mount of the docker daemon layer cache per concurrent job.

2. No say to specify CPU/disk/memory usage of a CI stage. I have a large number of builds that need ~512mb of ram per build and another build that needs 4GB of ram. Because of this I need to make sure every instance of the runner has exactly 4GB of ram available. This is a large waste of resources.

Gitlab is a fantastic product and I'm super happy for migrating multiple companies to it and that they keep innovating.
Email released the Friday before Memorial Day weekend. What are the odds!
I’m a little surprised that there aren’t any mentions of Obsidian, while there are at least two mentions of Roam. To all Roam lovers, and to all intellectuals in general, I’d recommend you to check out Obsidian [1] from the makers of Dynalist.

It’s also a tool made mainly for Zettelkasten, but it is offline and local by default. It’s not an outliner like Roam, but rather a free-form text editor.

I feel that Obsidian’s values align more closely with the values of a general HN reader. For example, the files (Zettels?) are plain markdown files, so the portability is much higher than what is the case with Roam (which is online only, and your data is somewhere in a database in a proprietary format).

Another example would be the support for plugins, which are first-class citizens (although the API is yet undocumented) — many of the core features are implemented as plugins and can be turned off.

And there’s a Discord channel where you can discuss with the devs, which are very responsive — so much so that I’m surprised they can rollout new features so quickly (at least one feature update per week, from my limited experience with Obsidian).

(Not affiliated in any way, just a happy user. I copied most of this comment from another comment of mine)

[1]: https://obsidian.md/
Were you using ACH (i.e. your routing and account number) for payment? To be honest this feels more like a problem of ACH rather than of Amazon. The antiquated ACH system really isn't built to deal with real time e-commerce applications.

To avoid this problem in the future, always use credit card to pay for things whenever it's an option. When it's someone else's money at stake, you can sleep better at night :)
Very cool -- is there a version of Apple Photos where this was implemented? Knowing that this data is queryable suddenly makes it very appealing as a Photo app
I hated car rental companies every time I had to use them, even if it was being charged to a company I was visiting.

That changed after I became 26. Tons of extra fees and requirements are tossed on younger drivers which turned out to be most of the pain I had with them. Just aging made the rental process so much nicer
This is really great work and exactly the kind of response I was hoping for - thank you. I wonder why tech like this is not being more widely used, for example on Amazon product pages. Especially with the well known reluctance as you mentioned of people downloading apps.
The problem is that non-SV companies aren’t generally any better, and frequently worse (cf all the security leaks where they release info that they didn’t mean to publish). The best we can do as individuals is push back against it when we see it happening, and advocate for legislation like GDPR to enforce it legally.

Your original post is poorly worded at best to get your point across; it comes off as a victim-blaming status-quo-advocating cheap quip, which doesn’t add anything to the conversation, either about this particular instance or the general problem.
Some good essays there. Especially the one about Hacker News.

The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat remains a classic.
That's tricky. LLCs exist for a reason and the wealthy have have better means of obscuring ownership/control, so a simple take would only get the small businesses and their owners, possibly shareholders.

Nevertheless, I do agree more should and could be done, especially for fines and penalties (less so for debts and obligations). It shouldn't be hard to prove those are shell companies, or fragments of a joint adventure.
Native iOS alone is a substantial project in its own right. https://github.com/SCENEE/FloatingPanel

There are several of these implementations. I’ve recently had to implement something similar in Xamarin.iOS. It isn’t a breeze.
How accurate are those sensors? I've often thought how nice it would be to get rid of the mouse and use sensors to figure out where exactly on my screen I'm looking.
That’s an interesting thought, but I haven’t seen any change in both attitude and the interviewing process from companies on TripleByte. Do you have any hard numbers showing that companies are willing to walk the walk instead of just talk?
I agree. While there are natural limits to how precise the eye is for interactions (eyes naturally flicker back and forth) I definitely also feel like there's potential here. I did a university project on combining voice and gaze tracking for programming - and while gaze is good for e.g. selecting a region of the screen, it's hard to click small things with it.
Almost every major business cloud provider? Agree with you that something like Netflix is entirely safe, but AWS as a major example has an entirely post-paid model.
Many employers have significant market power in the wage labor market.
Solar energy, carbon dioxide and water directly to butanol. In other words, store solar energy directly as fuel. There are other versions that generate hydrogen, but that has a much lower energy density than liquid fuel.

Just modify your existing ICE to run on butanol and you're good to go. <a bit of hand waving there.>

See https://www.intelligentliving.co/biofuel-solar-energy-co2-wa... for where we were a year ago.
Easier to find the "delete account" link...

https://triplebyte.com/privacy-center
Why is being worse for the middle more important than being better for the very poor? We need to structure taxation such that (some of) the very top's gains gets redistributed to everyone else.

It's crazy to me that I pay a larger % of taxes on my high-5-figures income than Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates or Larry Ellison (or other robber-baron types with worse PR if you prefer).
It'd be helpful for you to spell out what exactly will be public. Even the simple fact that a so-and-so has a Triplebyte profile might be an unwelcome involuntary public disclosure to that person, if they're a current user who didn't read your email and fails to opt out. The (possibly unintended) lack of upfront clarity regarding what exactly will be public by default is also not helpful. Software engineers are probably more likely that other members of society to have strong opinions and expectations about their online privacy, and are probably more likely to be upset if they feel those expectations are violated.
I agree with your assessment but I would not be that harsh with the TSA agents.

They are the cogs that need to make the security theatre run. I would bet that the vast majority of them know for a fact that their job is highly useless and only see it as a way to get some money at the end of the month.

What I still don't understand is how did we get here and why is it still going on even though most people would agree that it's a security theatre.
I disagree. Tesla is a luxury brand. Hertz is not.
I totally agree with this article. Many developers or techies often stay silent about the good work they have done. Either to complete a task or to fix a bug, they just keep that 'achievement' to themselves! haha. I believe "Sales" is important too! Personally I've written a post about sales and tech as well.

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-03-24-how-to-improve-...

Hope to get readers' feedback on the post on how do you all think I can improve as well - be it the accuracy of content, depth of content, punctuations or grammar errors. Would appreciate your feedback with some examples! Looking forward! God bless (:
who reads those emails?
It’s sorely needed at this point, it’s clearly a standard UI control now and countless developer hours have been wasted on it.

I’ve got several apps on my phone (maps, DoorDash, google maps, etc) all doing the same thing, but inconsistently and it’s infuriating. What makes iOS great (IMO) is consistency in UI patterns with things like navigation controllers, toolbars, etc. floating sheets are worthy of that treatment.
Actually would be interesting to replace an existing rental company with tons of physical locations, especially since the margins to buy the cars decreases upfront cost of the otherwise premium vehicle. Low maintenance and high resale value are a bonus.

Just wouldn't work though with the baggage from the rest of the existing business.
I don't think postpaying is a necessary model, there could be a popup saying you don't have a subscription and to read the (full, probably) article is $0.05, would you like to pay this? I would almost certainly click "yes" on a lot of the stuff I don't wind up getting much value out of, and hey, 5c is naturally not that much so it balances out! And maybe that Isaac Chotiner or Bill Simmons (stay with me) 8,000 word'er will be $1. Package deals are easy. In fact, what with d-u-m-b cookie settings, email begs, and rest of the stack of "first 5 seconds" mandatory interactions, right now would be a great time to pop up a less-annoying payment dialog: "[Yes] [Account] [Sign Up] [No]"
Indoor Mapbox Plugin
Indoor inside mapbox, from your own geojson data (OSM origin)
So basically it's an arms race and we should keep arming ourselves with ever increasing cars to stay safe until we ourselves become a 'danger' to others?
I feel super unsafe cycling in cities next to giant cars with poor visibility.

I get your safety concerns but why for the highway? There are no cars coming from the other direction so accident risk is pretty small. At least in Europe accident are way more common in cities then on high speed Autobahns.
The Importance of Studying Arts
Efficiency improvements amplify cost reduction per kWh electricity: An ever growing share of PV system costs stems from every item that is not a a module (inverter, cables, labour etc). Modules are becoming cheaper faster than other components, so reducing module costs further has diminishing returns.

In contrast, taking your module efficiency from 20% to 21% increases electricity generation by 5% and thus reduces costs per kWh by 5%.
Pretty much the entire power architecture group was cut
Do you write much system-level software? I feel like Apple's changes don't affect the XCode crowd much - but under the hood, things are slowly getting worse for command-line developers.

How about when Apple removed /usr/include in its entirety from Mojave? Or when they decided to make the root filesystem read-only? Or when they removed the ability to permanently disable the "only run verified apps" option? Or when they even made that the default in the first place?

How about when they stopped supporting or updating the MacOS X11 server, which doesn't have proper GPU support and probably never will?

How about when Apple replaced gcc with a thin wrapper around clang, so that /usr/bin/gcc generates identical code to /usr/bin/clang? Or how they froze all GNU tools (including bash) at the last-released GPLv2 version, just so that they could retain the option to lock you out from modifying your OS install?

How about the fact that Apple has officially deprecated Python on MacOS?

How about the increasingly slow filesystem access? Not a big deal for app users, but terrible for shell-scripts and system software kind of generally.

How about when Apple removed the ESC key from two generations of Macbook Pro? And also how they replaced the function keys with a touchbar?

Did you know that Apple will soon be using zsh for /bin/sh? Without much regard to how many shell scripts have a #!/bin/sh hashbang and some bashisms in them? You can call those scripts buggy or poorly designed if you want - but they're plentiful and widespread, and will be broken so that Apple can steer clear of GPLv3 code. All so that they can block you from modifying your OS installation.

MacOS was a Unix nerd's dream 10 years ago. It was fast, reliable, and it had a good terminal paired with amazing hardware and software that "just worked". Over time, everything that attracted me to the platform has slowly eroded. I stopped buying or recommending Macbooks in 2016, and only use one now because my employer is an Apple shop.
I made the jump to a System76 Adder WS laptop and pop!os for development after buying the lemon first gen MBP with the terrible keyboard. It was my seventh and possibly last MBP (including powerbooks before it).

I was considering one of the new 13” MBPs but that seems unlikely if injecting network latency into syscalls is the direction things are going.

If you’re not building Mac/iOS apps, find a Linux laptop you can tolerate for development and an iPad Pro for everything else.