skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What triggered the sudden surge of interest in these knowledge management platforms in your opinion?
Are you and your kin being killed, or assaulted everyday in the streets by arbiters of the state?
Has the system failed you to the point where every day is a struggle to survive?

Please, do tell me about your own greievances with the government and why I should give a damn and support you in your protests
Yeah, I have my first name and first initial of my surname on an old Gmail address, have at least 3 separate people who seem to put it in as their own email address
I'd be more impressed if the site had a chatbot to talk to. The actual site [1] is just one of those pages that wants your email.

This seems to be a generic problem with chatbot companies. I have yet to find one with a bot intelligent enough to answer basic questions about the chatbot product. Most chatbots are about as smart as "press 1 to pay bill, press 2 to return product..." with a weak natural language system on top. A basic web site is more useful.

[1] https://xatkit.com/
Yea, this is why companies destroy perfectly good hardware- so this doesn't happen :(
Seems GDPR prevents that in Europe. I see now such option at the linked url.
"Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture" by Apostolos Doxiadis.

Not a math book, but a really well written, full with math history novel about the value of mathematics in a human's life. It gives you the reason, why you should know (higher) maths, even if you will won't become a mathematician.
It depends on the application, but I don't think they're necessarily larger in size. I believe the format is quite compressed (Mapbox Vector Tile/MVT, which I believe is a variant of protocol buffers).

Many vector tile encoders have wide flexibility in geometry simplification/removal depending on zoom layer and this helps big time with tile size. I find them to be quite nice in lower bandwidth situations because you can overzoom them and still have them look good: if you zoom in and the tiles for the next zoom level haven't loaded, the vector geometry is still able to look decent, rather than pixellated like a raster tile.
My partner works from home too. Our dog hangs out in our office with us while we work. I alternate working and exercising. My current job is big on autonomy and letting people work. Days go by without meetings. It's been great. I don't feel all that isolated to be honest.
That's weird, there is no "Project Lighthouse" option for me. Is it rolled out only in US?
It's a lot easier to do now, because we are in a dependency-based system. We can often replace tens of thousands of lines of legacy with a single call to a SaaS API.

Of course, T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L, so caveat emptor. Needless to say, picking the right dependency is a big deal.
The requirement is that mailing lists should be opt in. This means both no opt out option checkboxes that default to opting in are non compliant.

Laws and regulations are not code, especially in Europe, a "well technically" approach is not going to get you far
Android is still a mess of an ecosystem where most OEMs bundle their own crapware, most don’t provide updates for more than a couple of years if at all.

I had the displeasure of using Google Search without an ad block for the first time in awhile. God it’s awful. Not to mention AMP pages being the default for many popular new sites when linking from Google on mobile.

GoogleTV/Android TV/Chromecast are all worse than Apple TV and Roku

Give me Office 365 over GSuite any day on either mobile or desktop.

No one had to convince me about Google’d brands. Google’s entire reason for existing is an advertising operation. 90% of their profit comes from advertising.
But again in the Windows ME vs WinNT/Windows2000 case it wasn't a re-write. It was improving an existing product and using it in a consumer space.
That "Limit Ad Tracking" setting is already available in iOS, just not enabled by default, and not easily discoverable. People who have already set it will not be bothered, and I suspect a number will set "Limit Ad Tracking" just to avoid the popups.
> If you just want to try Vue 3 out - you can do it right now with Vite. Vite (https://github.com/vitejs/vite) is a new dev/build tool that we created that is lighter, faster and produces smaller bundles. It works with Vue 3 out of the box.

From https://github.com/vitejs/vite:

> Vite is an opinionated web dev build tool that serves your code via native ES Module imports during dev and bundles it with Rollup for production.

I wonder if Vite/Rollup will end up replacing vue-cli/webpack in the Vue community.
HackerNews, obviously
Yes. There is a link in the email that leads you to the settings page but I hadn't logged in a while so after entering my phone number along with the code they sent me I also had to enter a code they sent to my email. My point being that clicking the link in the email should automatically turn off the "feature" I shouldn't have to log in.
I have installed Firefox Sync as my default browser. It clears all cookies, and everything else except things you have downloaded when you close a tab.

So I just click allow on those popups and let the user agent do its job.

I highly recommend it to everybody. You can still keep a chrome tab open for those sites you need to login to.
I was once investigating "partner reporting that our embed loads slowly". The investigation result was something like: their HTML injects JS, which injects another JS, which injects GTM, which injects an SDK, which injects the embed.

Of course it all loads only when the user does not have any adblocking or tracking protections enabled.
The Millennium Falcon (2016)
I started using open source apps and limited the closed source ones to Google's (which can do what it wants with my phone anyway), WhatsApp (or I won't be in touch with anybody), Messenger Lite (I can almost uninstall it, it's a desert here), car sharing, banks.
PEP8: Requiring English Is White Supremacy
Sometimes, as a website owner, you may be wrong regarding the kind of information visitors are looking for. A bot can be also useful here (people not finding what they are looking for may ask the bot, the bot probably won't be able to answer but, if you're using a decent bot platform, you'll be able to easily get a report on what questions people are asking and then add this either to the bot or to the website if you prefer).
You may find it more expedient to maintain a "ok to use" list. The number of apps I am willing to install on my personal android or iOS devices is somewhere between 5 and 10. Most of them are productivity tools from vendors I trust with my most sensitive IP.
Giant sea scorpions were the underwater titans of prehistoric Australia
Just FYI: please don't submit meta-questions like this. If you think something might be of interest to the community, just post it and see what happens. If you're really unsure, you can email hn@ycombinator.com and ask for the mods' opinions, but that's usually not necessary.
"explaining why the world needs yet another bot solution"

I'd be interested to hear your take on this. The dozen or so prominent bot startups that popped up over the last 5 years nearly all ended with acquihires. Even Facebook, who once thought they could create an uberbot to do literally anything, have all but abandoned their bot aspirations.
The "This week in virology" people [1] in episode 609 [2] also dismiss the idea that the virus is "man-made".

Edit: Of course it is very important to know who is right.

[1] https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/

[2] https://overcast.fm/+HPbtHwvQ/13:25
> No authentication - Handling passwords and user state is a pain. Just let everyone see everything!

yes. exactly

and the whole concept, though simple, is just amazing. A one-stop shop for updates. Great job!
Perhaps not 100%, but I've never considered installing the app. The regular mobile experience on Reddit is unbearable.
Do you think people really believe in all the crap/BS you're posting here? Go elsewhere and stop this behavior, contrary to the site rules.
Oh yeah. I remember that clearly. It was Copland- er, MacOS 8.

What a cluster----. Back then, crashes would result in a special kind of debug screen called MacsBug[0].

When you walked into their "release-ready, hands-on lab," almost every screen was displaying MacsBug.

The change didn't actually happen until NextStep became Cocoa.

I was also at a Microsoft "Longhorn" prerelease event. They were showing "live code demos," but you could clearly see the presenter quitting Director, when they were done with their demo.

That became Vista, another famous success story (but at least, it did ship).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacsBug
Have you read the RFC before posting this?

There’s a magic method called “match” that you can override to support matching.
All you need to do is to drag the orange “pill” found under “Updating Stroll” on https://giffmex.org/stroll/stroll.html onto a tiddlywiki instance, then click the “import” and “reload” buttons and you're all set.
>believe Microsoft would be so bold as to not even give me some small, hard-to-read "no thanks" button somewhere.

I will never ever forget the time they considered closing a nag popup (that they installed through security updates) by hitting the X in the top right as consent for an operating system upgrade. That was depraved.

To this day, I don't know how people could forgive them for that. Like... look at this incident in comparison. They installed a browser. That's nothing.
It also reminds me of “Unauthorized Bread” https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...
> 1. If we have time to enter something into a knowledge base of any kind - then we have time to just jot it on a piece of paper.

There is a kind of generation gap here I think.

I have 3 devices at arms reach while writing this, but it would take me 5 min to find a working pen and a blank piece of paper.

If I used it pen and paper more it would be closer to me now, but it would be the same wherever I go. Then I’d need to capture that paper or bring it with me until it has no value anymore, which is a PITA.

Our current society is tending to a paperless state, writing stuff on paper is just not fast, natural or reliable act anymore.
Marketing departments want metrics that justify ad budgets and thus the Marketing department's budget. Ad metrics that show ads are ineffective, while valuable to the business, run counter to the Marketing department's incentives, and are thus suppressed.

In a rational company, ad attribution, or aggregate-level analysis using techniques like Vector Autoregression (VAR) should be owned by the CFO to avoid that conflict of interest, as shown in this article:

https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-h...
Art of Problem Solving is popular with the Math Olympiad types. I see that others on this thread have recommended it already.

https://artofproblemsolving.com/
I've noticed that doesn't seem to always work...
Sure! It’s always a gamble as to whether or not your content will get noticed, but there are non-computing topics discussed all the time.

I’d caution you that the usual discussions end up being about popular reporting on results (like the recent Conway knot proof), but there are definitely experts on HN in many fields.
It's a bit tighter than Memeorandum. That's kind of cool...
I bet a nuclear power plant (and its associated uranium mining) kills many more birds than a cat does.
Yes, the good reasons to believe this are (1) the article states it (news reports tend to be awful, but in my opinion we should at least give prima facie credence to their claims unless a knowledgeable party disputes them) and (2) it entirely aligns with Facebook's/Google's interests to engage in this kind of support/collusion.
TLDR

Don’t re-write from scratch, refactor instead.
Feeling good today? try Hatemail
http://hatemail.me , humiliation promised.
Metabase[0] lets you ask the question step by step. You pick the table, pick the filter, pick the aggregation and so on. I have been working in BI long enough to know that even this isn't going to answer all questions. It is cleaning data, filtering out stuff that shouldn't be included in the data set that somehow is included and other issues that makes it difficult to automate. The is usually a bunch of things not documented. I will be watching this with interest.

[0]https://www.metabase.com/
Yes mermaid is built in.
Just start a tripple apostrophe codeblock with code style mermaid and it will render the graphics when your cursor leaves the code block.
See Computer Shopper of the mid 90s.
Op may, like me, have a dumb TV.

You can't buy them anymore, but you can still buy computer monitors with about the same size so that is probably what I will be doing when it goes.
The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/books/review/the-road-to-...
The future of marketing is already here, and it's influencer marketing, as well as more subtle forms of manipulation on social media.

I guess you could call it creative. But it's also even more insidious and dishonest.
Ah okay, I guess I didn't realize how different they were. Thanks for the info! I'll be sure to check out that book, it sounds fascinating.
so ... anecdata ?

Some of the best coders I've worked with are people that totally unplug off the clock, but I wouldn't try to generalize that...
Looks like it will: https://neuron.zettel.page/041726b3.html
Thank you, I’m happy you like it! Glad my laziness as a developer is also appreciated haha.
There is a reason why experience alone is not enough, and a big part is that serious emergencies are rare, so experience does not indicate preparedness.

Furthermore, an environment where bribery is common practice raises doubts about everything.
Check out betterexplained.com
I liken it to sending a chef to a grocery store. It's not just about being a good cook. Half the battle is in choosing the correct ingredients. Not just a dozen eggs, but free range where the yolks will be a vibrant orange yellow and improve the presentation. The cleanest models with the highest fidelity often fall out as the next obvious transformation of a well groomed and hygienic dataset.
Bring remote camera feeds into OBS Studio; open-source
Using P2P WebRTC, this open-source and hosted free service allows creators to bring in low-latency, high-quality streams from smartphones, webcams, and screenshares for free. Works with OBS, Vmix, and other live video mixing software.

It also includes password-protected group video rooms, ISO recordings, HiFi audio, and fine-grain controls over nearly every aspect, including 40-mbps video bitrates!

Wiki: https://github.com/steveseguin/obsninja/wiki/
Thank you, this is super interesting and may well wind up being something that I wind up using in the future.

I noticed that it only officially supports the Pixel devices.

I've always avoided the Pixel devices because I assumed that the firmware was closed source and therefore a privacy issue, especially coming from google.

However, the FAQ states "These devices meet the stringent privacy and security standards and have substantial upstream and downstream hardening specific to the devices."

Am I mistaken about the Pixel drivers being closed source? If not, how is this statement verified?
What unsubscribe risks?

Either it is a legit list that unsubscribes or it's a scam. So who cares?
These are hypotheticals, but isn't the Blink engine incremental improvements all the way back to KHTML? It has been more successful than Mozilla.
AliExpress does this too. When you are looking at a product and want to share it, one of the share options is AliExpress code. It copies a message to your clipboard, which is this:

To view 【US $21.83 40％ Off | 10 Pcs KN95 Face Masks Dust Respirator KN95 Mouth Masks Adaptable Against Pollution Breathable Mask Filter (not for medical use)】 on AliExpress with code #_qsrSbGW#, copy the whole sentence and open the app.
Really? I use Vue 2 with Vetur in VSCode and it does not type check templates.
> Instead they just got some “alliance” against the Soviets and it is questionable what that actually delivered.

China doesn't like to take credit for that, but personally I believe its alliance with the West was instrumental in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
https://archive.is/Rynhm
Take a super-ultra-maximalist version of Solomon's reign and draw it on a map. The "Empire" we get is small compared to known ME empires, and half of that size is because such a version could go up to Tadmor (Palmyra). If we apply a more realistic (IMHO) version, we get something tiny by Imperial standards.

In the same token, even a straight reading of the text should never give us the term "Empire" regarding David. His Kingdom fights against the very close neighbours and often wins, but is prone to drought and civil war. Even winning fights against close neighbours isn't much of an indication of Empire - when the US wants something from Mexico, it doesn't have to fight for it.

So I agree with you, but I think half of the exaggeration is due to more modern readings and (in this case) strawmen invented by people looking for something to knock down - the only person referring to "David's Empire" in the linked text is... Finklestein.
A very boring article. The thesis is potentially interesting, but fails to get any real attention from the author. The author proposes to investigate the negative social and political consequences of the framing of the 2nd law of thermodynamics, but puts no actual effort towards such an investigation.

Kelvin and Darwin are presented as equally consequent of a Victorian worldview, whereas they seem to propose opposing tendencies. Darwin describes a world of growth, and creation ex nihilo, whereas Kelvin describes a world of cooling and decay. The social implications of the Darwinian thesis seem to involve preferencing the creators and inventors of the world, while accepting the loss of those who stagnate as not only inevitable, but necessary towards producing growth. Kelvin's theory states that there is a limited amount of free energy in the world, which we might take to imply that those with a disproportionate share of resources are hoarding them and keeping them away from others. This seems to promote a world of redistribution and socialization.

An agrarian worldview would seem to preference a hotter world, since plants rely on a high outside temperature to grow. We also know that photosynthesis can be performed more efficiently at high CO2 concentrations. An entropic worldview prefers colder external temperature, since efficiency of a heat engine increases with temperature difference. I've seen proposed, as a resolution to the fermi paradox, that certain civilizations are waiting for the universe to cool down in order to perform computations more efficiently. Such a proposal could only arise out of a worldview informed by entropy, of waiting in order to more efficiently use the finite resources we have available. The evolutionary worldview, by way of contrast, suggests that waiting entails to stagnation, and ultimately destruction, that success goes to whoever is most nimble.

I would percieve a congruency between a worldview informed by entropy and modern liberalism, which seems to heavily favour the principles of waiting and of redistribution. Conservatism seems more in favour of an evolutionary worldview, wherever it believes that someone well off deserves what they have, or wherever it perceives a competition between groups.

It should be clear that both worldviews have some relation with the real world, that both decay and growth are happening around us constantly. I, personally, would highlight the evolutionary thesis as more hopeful, in that it imagines still greater things to come, rather than the slow decay characteristic of the entropic model. I would also point out it likely has stronger relevance for the foreseeable future, since the death of the sun, much less of the universe, remains an inordinately long way off still. I would therefore tend to agree with the thesis of the author, though for none of the reasons they set out to defend.
You would if you knew it was being tracked and you otherwise liked the job, you'd even automate it. Let's not kid ourselves.
Joel classic, and it always reminds me of times I've seen this happen again and again years after it was written. I don't think I've ever seen a full rewrite bring all of its heralded benefits. I'm sure there are some people who have. There always end up being things the old system did better, and sometimes you wind up with the old and new systems running in parallel because end users need to switch back and forth until v2 is finally mature (it seemingly never finally matures).

That said, I'm in favor of a rewrite when the use cases for the platform have diverged so significantly that you essentially have to bend it in half to make it do the thing that users want it to today. That is, as some point the core use cases have changed, perhaps via a pivot, and you need to build a product that is essentially new as compared to the old.

Regardless, the cases where I've seen a rewrite take place are when the engineers are young, talented, and enthusiastic about new tech and the engineering manager doesn't want to piss them off so they let the devs play (most of them will be off to other jobs in 2-3 years leaving behind a system that is debatable as ugly and busted as the old).
Probably not anyone's first choice, completely unknown in the US and not truly a maths book, so much as a physics book.

Problems in general physics by IE Irodov [1] was one of those "bang your head on the wall, but when you get it it's ecstasy" kind of books for me.

I am not even sure if I would recommend it to every one. Maybe masochists. But, looking back on it, I have some really fond memories of locking myself in a room for 2 days to get a problem that I felt oh-so-close to solving. Eventually getting it is intensely rewarding.

It it right at the grade 10-12 level.

https://smile.amazon.com/Problems-General-Physics-I-Irodov/d...
Safari started blocking third party cookies by default earlier this year.

https://www.engadget.com/2020-03-24-safari-blocks-all-third-...

Previously, you had to flip a switch in the settings.
This is going to be unpopular, but clunky, ugly and antiquated all come to mind when I look at emacs.
The entire Deaf community also has a beef with those who may object to certain signs. We're about inclusivity without any connotations associated with each sign because they are a communication tools. (Same for SCUBA divers and SEAL teams).

The faux outrage can step aside while we sign to each other in relative peace and comfort.

But what happens if hearing people started seeing our signs and get offended and (gasp) started shooting at us; oh wait, that has happened already and all too often.

For that, get off of us. Signs are a communication tool, even the offensive FUCK YOU ones.
You said this was a "uniquely western problem." Uniquely.