skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been an org mode user since 2012. When I started using it, I was learning emacs at the same time, really didn't know anything about lisp. But I had used a lot of other organizational systems going back to palm pilot days, I knew what I wanted. This website gave me everything I needed and I was able to start adding pieces one at time to my config file to get them working. It's a big part of my setup and I'm really grateful for the person who put it up that they did it (and kept it up to date) for a long time.
Guide for building a startup, example of cleavable.com
https://www.cbronline.com/news/halifax-port-scans
>Given Facebook's propensity to attract and hire young twentysomethings then surely their exact location in the Bay Area is immaterial

Twenty somethings are the exact group of people who don't want to live in a socially dead place. And except for recent college grads even twenty somethings will have significant others who won't want to suddenly move to somewhere else. It's why startups keep being created in SF which has the worst costs out there.
I don't listen to him, but he is basically the essence modern masculinity. Reddit and HN skew very heavily on the male side, so it's not surprising he's this popular.

I personally think of him as King of the Bros and think it's kind of sad that he's become the model man, but it is what it is.
linux evangalism is counter productive. In each of these threads, all the mac/windows people will come out of the woodworks and talk about how if only linux did xyz better, they would switch. Unfortunately, it doesn't, so they can't. Nobody learns anything new. The cycle repeats even if xyz is solved later with some new xyz. And in my experience, you cannot "convert" people to linux except for people who really are a blank slate (young and old people fit in this bucket, but average people do not). They have too much baggage, and nobody wins. People need to discover their own things.
> And the Java ones don't look anything at all like typical Java, either.

Which ones do you mean?

> But no, the C/C++ ones have not been all manually vectorized to death.

True.

> The binary-trees one, for example, is a fairly clean C++ implementation, and runs in less than half the time using less than half the memory of the Java version.

Unfortunately I can't benchmark this myself because it uses some library I've never heard of. The numbers on the Debian site look pretty outdated, Java binary-trees takes about 1800 ms on my machine. And about 1450 ms after letting it warm up.

> AOTs are really good.

So are JITs, but we are both really deep in hand-waving territory here.

> Return types consistently being on the stack without requiring escape analysis is really good.

The fast path of object allocation is bumping a pointer into an allocation buffer and checking it against the buffer's limit. Objects that are short-lived enough that you would want to return them by value in C++ will usually never leave the allocation buffer. So it's not the exact same thing as allocating on the call stack, but it's not far.
- a bunch of choices of really good backup apps. I never got this running well on Windows.
As many in here mention, org-mode has a few very good features but is much too complicated to get into.
My absolute favorite for self organization is Joplin:
- self hosted
- markdown
- file attachments
- cross device
- lean interface
- encryption

Those are my core must haves, but there is much more which really motivated me getting into Joplin.
Moscow is a great place to live/base, but $800/month for a comfortable middle-class life here is definitely an underestimate. I'm from the US - lived in NYC, Boston, and LA - and have been based in Moscow for the past year; it's hard to overstate what an amazing city this is, though it's important to note that there is a massive difference between Moscow (or St Petersburg) and the rest of Russia. I've traveled to many places within Russia and they might as well be different countries when compared to this mega-city. Speaking of Moscow specifically: it's incredibly beautiful, it has the best metro system I've seen in the world (to the point that some metro stations are actually tourist spots), world-class international food, plenty of museums, shows, theaters, active nightlife, plus all the conveniences you'd find in the West. And of course there's the comfort of a European feel to the city, with the excitement that comes with learning about the Russian/Soviet culture and mindset of some people (esp. the older crowd, whereas the younger educated muscovites are basically European). Flights to the main European, US, and Asian cities are cheap and frequent: a roundtrip nonstop flight Moscow-NY is usually ~$300, London can be as cheap as $15 (yes, that's fifteen dollars), and I've even booked a flight to Hong Kong the day before flying for like $200 direct. The people are super friendly, and although the majority do not speak English, it's fairly easy to find English-speaking Russians or expats if you hang out in the center or know the spots (I have many expats friends who've been here for 2-3 years and don't speak a word of Russian beyond saying "thank you", yet manage to live very active social lives).

Having said all of this, however, I am also very aware that my experience here is very different from the average Russian. Being an expat, from the US, speaking English, and being able to afford a comfortable lifestyle in the center give me a much rosier perspective than if I were a low-income worker having to commute 1+ hours to get to work. I'm ethnically Latino and look obviously not-Russian, so people here are curious about me and act extra nice - especially when they find out I'm American. It's not uncommon for someone to approach me on the street, a park, or a bar just because they heard me speaking in English. On the other hand, however, immigrants from ex-Soviet countries (particularly Central Asia) face discrimination and racism, as do non-European Russians (eg: Russians from the Caucasus region, or the east of Russia), and it's not uncommon when looking to rent an apartment to see the words "FOR SLAVS [white Russians] OR FOREIGNERS ONLY", something that would be completely illegal in the US. Don't get me wrong, as an expat from the West I find Moscow to be just about the perfect place to live, but I totally understand the perspective of many Russians or some immigrants that criticize it harshly. I love this city, and I think loving it means also being aware of its shortcomings.
Too many distributions is also part of a bigger problem and why there will never be a "year of the Linux desktop". We are looking at insane amounts of developer & administrative resources being wasted by every doing mostly the same thing in a slightly different way. Imagine the progress that could be made if all of this workforce was actually united and was working on one (or a handful, think server/workstation/tablet editions) good distribution.
I've watched a few episodes.

- He gets high-profile guests across a decently wide spectrum and at an overall high volume. >95% of his interviews don't interest me, but for the 5% that do - say, John Carmack - the name is the main draw. These people just don't get interviewed all that often so it's an event regardless of the MC. Probably the same for his entire audience, just different 5% slices.

- If you know the old mystery TV anthology show Columbo, he does a similar routine to the titular character: He plays the unassuming everyman and then asks unexpectedly smart/pointed questions, using simple terms but with reasonably deep implications. His interviews seem generally well-prepared. They don't go particularly deep on any subject matter, but if you're familiar with the subject matter they still prompt interesting responses from the guests - you can see someone like Carmack or Musk go into rubber-duck debugging mode trying to digest complicated thoughts into succinct answers and that has an interesting information side-channel to it (it tells you what they really think is important to say or highlight, and Rogan seems to be aware of this - he is good at getting the bits they personally find important).

- Related to the above, the macho/masculinity slant aside he acts humble and un-obnoxious. I might feel differently if I watched any episode with a guest I really dislike (because he seems to be more accommodating than challenging/critical, for sure), but in the episodes I watched I wasn't annoyed with him.

- Part of his prep is also clearly to read up on recent/controversial things related to a guest and probe for it during the interview, so there's the shock value/titilation factor that adds to the entertainment. His skill is that both him and the interviewee anticipate this but he still puts his subjects at ease enough in the moment to make the responses compelling. It has your brain constantly working to sort through what is guarded and what is not (=real), just like quality reality TV (everyone knows reality TV is scripted -- the entertainment is in trying to identify the sliver of authenticity in people's emergent behavior on camera).
I would argue that there should be no employees and only independent contractors but this is going to be kind of offtopic for this thread.
> But there is also a very practical reason Rogan can say whatever he thinks: He is an individual and not an organization. Eric Weinstein, another podcaster and a friend of Rogan, told me, “It’s the same reason that a contractor can wear a MAGA hat on a job and an employee inside Facebook headquarters cannot: There is no HR department at ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’.”

I think that might be the takeaway for me: modern companies have over-optimized for political correctness. I wish more companies would be honest about their politics and that of their employees.
The intent and justification is what's different.
This was an interesting read. I kinda knew all these things already, but it was articulated in a very precise way, which helps to understand your own thoughts in a deeper way.
I guess if you want to only look back at 2019 data you will miss the fact that renewables passed coal this year. The rate at which the coal industry is dying is remarkable and is well covered in the media.
Your architecture. For example by generating static html documents stored in S3 and delivered through a CDN, you can handle tons of visits at almost no cost.

A WordPress server with many plug-ins without cache on a slow VM will cost more and will be overloaded very quickly.
Just for my understanding: this wouldn't have happened if the user in question would've used a VPN and/or TOR right?

Don't get me wrong, I really don't like this in Thailand and it's absurd that you would even need something like that. As a foreigner visiting Thailand I don't feel that comfortable with my browsing habits. Usually I trust a local provider enough to just browse and not care about what I'm looking up, Thailand is not one of those places and I always use a VPN. (Mostly routed to Singapore)
Recently I came across a device that claims it can help you break addictions via voluntary electric shocks: https://pavlok.com

It seems plausible that it could work, but it's suspicious that the site doesn't address the most obvious question: Wouldn't I just stop shocking myself? Curious if any HNers have tried this thing.
But there's only one distribution.
Though dragonfly is a fork, it's not a redistribution.. or is it?

But "Linux" is just a kernel.
This is an ongoing debate that comes up from time-to-time, and I think it’s a nuance that both has merit but also potentially detracts from the efforts of people who want to change. Most commonly I’ve heard it come up in the context of “sex addiction” or “porn addiction”.

For me, I’m on the side of “compulsive behaviours that have a negative effect on your life, and yet you continue to do them consistently” is the definition of “practical addiction” for me, and the “negative effect” part is critical, not the distinction between “chemical/physiological” and “psychological”.

Does the person who spends 6 hours/day refreshing HN have an addiction? Maybe, maybe not! Are they underperforming at work because they can’t stop themselves? Maybe it is a problem they should get help addressing. Does someone who must take an anti-depressant every day, lest they go into withdrawal, have an addiction? Probably not, even though they’re chemically dependent on it, it likely makes their life better not worse.

For me, the mechanism of action matters significantly less than the effects and outcomes when you define addiction.
Government requests hold and reversal on the FCC's Ligado decision
And then I remembered a passage I had read in one of Suzuki's essays. "What is the Dharma-Body of the Buddha?" ('"the Dharma-Body of the Buddha" is another way of saying Mind, Suchness, the Void, the Godhead.) The question is asked in a Zen monastery by an earnest and bewildered novice.

And with the prompt irrelevance of one of the Marx Brothers, the Master answers, "The hedge at the bottom of the garden."

"And the man who realizes this truth," the novice dubiously inquires, '"what, may I ask, is he?" Groucho gives him a whack over the shoulders with his staff and answers, "A golden-haired lion."

what better place and time is there to crack open a few heads than art school in the 60s?
You visit the sites as well, since you're seeing his content directed your way... maybe you're also his demographic or view content that is related?
This has been the case for a long time on Appveyor which was is one of the reasons we stick to it for CI. Do you happen to have experience with it? I'm wondering if and why we should switch to github actions, for the repositories we have on github anyway.
Ok a question about all this remote work - why hasn't outsourcing generally been that great an experience for companies?

I've worked at a few places that have outsourced and it was not particularly productive.

Funny enough at one place we had some people from India in India, and some people from India in the office. The people from India in the office were generally pretty good and a pleasure to work with, and the people from India in India seemed lower quality.

Why? If the outcome of the great remoting experiment here is that remote work is generally fantastic?
I'm not sure how does your idea work. The website doesn't describe it, non showing any screenshot. Instead, it asks for email and password ...
I'd be quite happy to do that actually. At least there's a quid pro quo then and it's a nice way to give employees money tax free for the long term. Instead I gave all employees a £500 lockdown bonus to cover their extra electricity, gas, etc. (the UK tax system only lets employees claim £6/week as an expense for WFH which I think is a serious piss-take).
I initially played with passing an instance of a mockable time thing around everywhere that needed time, but it felt over the top to be passing around so many things, solely for purposes of testing. So now it's just a thing you mock at a global level, e.g.

defer dates.SetNowSource(dates.DefaultNowSource)
dates.SetNowSource(dates.NewSequentialNowSource(time.Date(2018, 10, 18, 14, 20, 30, 123456, time.UTC)))
dates.Now()
I always find it interesting that inconvenience is seen as a justification for stealing. Although I did this myself for many years, so I guess I do get it after all. However, I think now in the age of Netflix and Hulu, I can get the majority of what I want at a reasonable price.
I think Mint is a better choice than ubuntu; out of the box it resembles windows, with a menu button in the lower left corner and a window list in the bottom.
Authenticity. Deep conversation on interesting topics rooted in genuine curiosity. The long form is a rarity.
Health insurance is a benefit, paying for equipment necessary to do the job isn't.

I agree that health care shouldn't be tied to employment, but saying a company shouldn't buy you e.g. a laptop, desk, chair, and space to work seems wild to me.
Bio of SciHub Founder
Some of problems they mention on content are real, but ugh I hate the pace of podcasts (even if I adjust the speed, the problem is I don't want a constant rate) and much rather read. Are the reading > listen types really a dying breed?
Inside the link to the .ofocus teardown you can see references to task parallelisation, along with "rankings", "project"-scopes and so on.

All of this is lost on export/import from .taskpaper, since there's no easy taskpaper representation of such data.

Representing this as a "backup" implies that it can be completely recovered, but that would certainly not be the case, this is an export, a new, lossy, representation of data.

That is also assuming that you consistently export to .taskpaper and not just rely on the default format - which is what everyone and there mum is going to be doing. Because consistently exporting to plaintext is not a common workflow.
Shock jock radio hosts are nothing new. Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, etc.

I really wish we could get an editorial/opinion tag on articles.
Sounds like you got an amalgam of bad first impressions. Sorry to hear that!

So, something that helped me get pass that inertia was learning where init.el resided and how it is loaded. After I read about that, installing a package manager that's not constrained to the minibuffer was a 3-4 line endeavour (use-package). Save, reload. After that, you might get a notification of Emacs warning you about trusting an unknown source. (I always accept here.) After that, it was a matter of using M-x use-package and installing packages that I remembered from Spacemacs: which-key, restart-emacs, swiper/counsel/ivy, and hydra were enough to get me up and running.

Regarding the overly complicated commands, I agree that they're a bit lengthy but you are able to change the ergonomics of your keybindings at will. My config is heavily inspired by evil-leader and I put a lot of functionality behind "C-;". So, "C-; f p f" will open a search dialog for all of the files in the current VCS repo. This might be lengthy for some but it feels right to me. I like that about Emacs.

Sorry for the rambling! If you ever decide to try it out again, feel free to message me and I'll help where I can.
The patient's, sadly. The one person whose problem-solving abilities are impaired. Quackwatch.org did help my mother decide things and move away from the treatments above.
your example is a perfect use case for postgresql via the timescaledb extension.
Tesla files to sell new Model 3 with cheaper lithium iron phosphate batteries
I surprised myself when I stopped using org-mode when I "retired" (ha!) March 2019. At my last on-site job, I had to juggle managing a small deep learning team, work on 100+ US patents, and all of my own technical work and research. Org-mode was perfect to keep everything organized.

Now, I rely heavily on Apple Notes (this required discovering a little app that exports the notes for backup, and also realizing that I can use the web apps in iCloud.com on my Linux laptop).

This reliance on Notes may change however as just recently I have developed the habit of keeping a Mosh (like SSH) session always open between my iPhone and iPad to my remote server, with appropriate tmux setups for each device. I was just thinking yesterday about how I could now always keep a tmux pane open to emacs+org-mode.
He strikes a chord with a lot of people simply because he puts out so many shows. I think it would be hard to look at his list of guests from the past few months and not find anything that interests you.
I'll say there's one (and only one) good thing about HDCP: if a source/sink is HDCP compliant then it's a good indicator that it's DisplayPort or HDMI-compliant.

Ever since the mid-2000s through to today there's a load of TVs, displays, etc on the market that claimed to be DP and HDMI compatible but failed on the edge-cases (e.g. pumping 4K@60Hz down a DisplayPort 1.2 pipe). In my experience the gear that was HDCP compliant tended to perform better (but by no means perfectly cough Philips...).

Compare that to the mess of compliance and functionality with SCART connectors in the 1990s. I had a TV with a true RGB SCART input and a bunch of devices claimed to offer RGB SCART output, yet didn't actually support it (I assume because few consumers knew how to take advantage of RGB SCART, given the default was Composite-over-SCART and at SDTV it looks good enough).
Seems fair, I just wish they had some lead time to adjust
This makes no sense to me. Why not just give the employee a commensurate tax deduction? Now the companies will be disincentivized from keeping to quarantine when it isn't mandated, and from hiring back when it is. They're going to deduct it from their profit anyway if it's an employee cost, so it's going to come out of state tax revenues as it is.
> That life would be very empty and boring.

Being addiction-free doesn't mean that you can't enjoy the occasional cup of coffee or alcoholic drink. As long as you're not addicted, some amount of short-term pleasure is perfectly fine.
Joe Rogan is an “average conservative pundit?” He’s an agnostic who is antagonistic to the Catholic Church. And, from his Wikipedia page:

> He has described himself as being "pretty liberal" and supports gay marriage, gay rights, women's rights, recreational drug use, universal healthcare, and universal basic income, while also supporting the Second Amendment. He also has criticized American foreign policy of military adventurism.

He’s basically Howard Dean; and to the left of Joe Biden for the most part.
Great business idea: time-shared schooling across two locations.. Spring/summer in northern places and winter in south where it is warmer, without disrupting children's schooling and social lives.. Sort of like two home families, it would dramatically improve lives of families who can afford it.
Employers should get the benefit of healthy employees, but not incur the cost?
Someone needs to take a closer look into this. It feels sketchy.

This is an article (from yesterday) based on a pay-walled article (from yesterday, and in a different language), which itself is based on a court decision (from April 2019).

This is not related to the current pandemic (which the article vaguely states, but not explicitly).

Also, to give you a time-frame: The linked court decision is from April 2019, the legal fight started in 2016 and went over several instances.
This is rent as in paying a share of the worker's rent. But, as many working from home will concur, most can't work from home well without dedicating part of your living space to office work. That extra room or that part of the living room that was previously free space is now practically reserved for the company you work for.

I don't know if I agree with the policy, but I can see some sense in it. By paying for the living space sacrificed for WFH, companies are disincentivised to push for WFH after all lockdowns are over to save on office cost. Paying the same wage with less cost on office maintenance would be a dream come true for employers, of course, but that would shift the cost of the work space to the employer which I would find unfair.

As the article states:

> Geiser points out that the decision applies to employees who work from home upon the employer’s request. However, employees that work from home on their own behest may not receive rental compensation.

> ... Luca Cirigliano, General Secretary of the Swiss Confederation of Trade Unions, told the paper that companies often use flexible workstations in order to save money on office rent.

> It is extremely unfair as well as illegal for employers to pass costs on to employees in this way, Cirigliano told the paper.

So, if the company forces you to work from home so they can save on rent, they have to pay you for "renting" office space from your house.
objectively speaking, Debian is perhaps the most stable mainstream os in the world. if you want stable give it a try!