skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but let's not conflate this specific use case with every day usage.

I'm a gigantic privacy advocate and probably senselessly cautious about tons of technologies, but that's the result of a conscious choice. Set and forget encryption, or programs that advertise they can skip the first step, are dangerous in my opinion/experience. It can give the wrong impression about security and lead to dangerous decisions/actions or lack thereof.

The concept behind thoughtless encryption is noble, but for all encryption models/schemes I know of, it has to be a concentrated and intentional decision else you end up with:

- Lost data due to key mismanagement (not a bad thing, but extremely inconvenient)

- Incomplete or ineffective encryption

- Vehicles for intentional deception that allow bad actors to get you to share sensitive/personal data under the impression that it's protected

and much much more.

Steve Yegge said it best when he said that Security and Usability are constantly at odds, and from my perspective, this is a good thing to some degree. With so many FUD apps that promise security, for the time being is a very convenient litmus test for laypersons to know "how much should I trust this app?"

I know that it's popular on HN to shit on Telegram, but in my current country of residence, Telegram is the most popular messenger program...for normal non-secretive messaging. It is extremely well known not to trust TG for secret conversations, illegal purchases or any other illegal activities, and so on. Not even on the basis of the security model of secret chats, but the discoverability of them. Basically the thought is "If you could find it without being a member of some ring of trust, so can the police". It's one reason why the conversations that frequently happen on HN about Telegram feel so misguided to me -- those who have conversations that may put themselves at risk __aren't using the app for such conversations__. They're not using any such apps, and either doing disposable communications (burner phones, pen and paper convos, etc), or they're arranging meetings in other ways.

Encryption/security has been commoditized by app and platform creators and packaged into a marketing tool. I wouldn't trust Telegram or Signal any more than I'd trust WhatsApp, Messenger, Messages, or whatever Google's monthly name for their chat app is to have such conversations in most countries.

To wrap it back to the GP's comment, I get the complaint about Apple Notes not being E2E encrypted -- but, if you've got sensitive data that needs to be recorded, why are you cloud-syncing it in the first place with a company that has frequently been investigated/prodded by the US Government, and even more frequently probed/violated by data exfiltration companies that work directly with the aforementioned government?
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Yes, quite so.
> when we find ourselves in a situation where 20% of the workforce is suddenly unemployed due to a shutdown of economic output, the government can spend to help stabilise aggregate incomes without risking inflation

The root problem with printing money is not inflation, it's wealth transfer. Printing money, whether it leads to inflation (increase in average price level--note that this usage of the term "inflation" is itself a product of Keynes, its older and more proper use was "increase in the quantity of money") or not, always means a transfer of wealth from whoever does not get some of the printed money to whoever does. In other words, it is a transfer of buying power.

In the current situation, where the transfer is spread widely across everyone and has the explicit effect of compensating people for loss of income due to no fault of their own, it is hard to argue that the transfer is a bad thing, and it won't cause much economic distortion or misallocation of resources because the printed money is going to be spent on much the same things as the lost income would have been spent on anyway. So the buying power is being used for much the same things as it was before.

However, in most cases of printing money, the transfer is very different. The way the US government has been doing it basically since the Federal Reserve existed, it is a transfer from everyone who is not a financial institution, to financial institutions. This causes serious economic distortion and misallocation of resources, because it significantly changes what the buying power is used for. That is why, for example, we have McMansions galore in the US and newly constructed office space sitting empty for years in many metro areas, while we also have many ordinary citizens having trouble making ends meet, crumbling infrastructure, and underfunded basic services: because printing money and giving it to financial institutions redirects buying power to housing purchased with mortgages and commercial construction funded with loans, instead of what the people whose buying power has been transferred away would have spent it on.
That was how Cygnus made most of up its money, not the contracting. In fact when we merged with red hat both organizations were about 200 people, but we had over 160 developers and they had about 20-30. The development group you mention is the descendant of cygnus’
Decentralized search in p2p / federated networks.

Privacy-respecting decentralized online identity.
Yes this is self promotion, but its also under a thread about people frustrated with note taking apps so I think it is ok - I made NitroNotes[0] because I was annoyed at even the slow startup speed of Apple Notes.

You have 7 Dots, each one corresponding to a separate note. You swipe between each note (or on macOS you can Click Cmd+1, 2, etc).

The app is less than a MB on iOS, and just over a MB on macOS.

It syncs using your iCloud account between macOS, iOS & iPadOS.

Its like the Sticky Notes app for Mac, but cross platform and with zero-friction sync.

Email me @ adam@adamfallon.com if you can't afford the $4.99 and I will send you over a promo code.

[0] - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/nitronotes/id1502080216
> Sometimes what works now won't be competitive in the near future.

What do you mean by that? I can understand in terms of hiring devs, this is true, but any other reason I would be curious about. Because I work with/in many companies, I see a lot of different tech and competitive is usually just what the team knows best. So unless you are making a new team, I cannot phantom why you would switch.

Java with Servlets/Spring and C# with asp.net have been competitive for almost 2 decades; maybe some people can shave off a few minutes here and there but in the grand scheme of a serious company with a serious project (500k loc+) it is not going to matter. There are exceptions as for instance machine learning but those gaps close and this was about web frameworks.
The fact there's yet to be a modern equal to SupCom is really unfortunate. As fun as quick games are on FAF, I really enjoyed your long thousands of unit games... and the game just can't handle it.
Someone has to make shovels, houses, clothing, etc. The people who find the cash also end up spending it on other things. It doesn't matter that the money isn't initially earned for useful work, as long as it gets spent on useful work.

Since it's digging through a mine using drill bits to break up the rocks, you can call the idea "minecoin bitting"
I’ve seen ex python or node.js developers say they are just as productive in Rust.

After a few years of Rust experience, it still pales in comparison to Erlang productivity for me.
Modelling the lanuage of the immune system with machine learning (first steps)
Yes, I am talking long term, our species is not designed for isolation. I don't think we (USA) will have a serious conversation about what lockdown has done to people's mental health until after the election. Too much money and power at stake to distract the public with real issues
TL;DR: Pyre and Divinity Original Sin 2

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Disclaimer: I'm not a person to dwell too much in the specific wordings in games, mostly valuing worldbuilding and the immersive aspects of storytelling, but I do pay some attention to it.

Divinity Original Sin 2 has some excellent world building, and while the overarching story might be a bit cliché "chosen one"/"zero to hero" type deal, the moment to moment narratives are pretty well made, and the quest lines are very well tied, not only giving you stuff to do, but giving opportunities to learn more about the world.

And also perhaps anything made by Supergiant is a good pick, in your case I would specially recommend giving Pyre a try. I held from playing it for the longest time because I was skeptical about the in-story "sport" gameplay, but it is very well made and perfectly enhances the narrative.
store txt/note in Dropbox, then you also have the sync.
Do you know if the problem was in the driver or in the game, there are some games that worked by accident and years later will fail to work in newer driver/windows versions. I had such a bug with Oblivion,Nvidia and Win7 but for some reason I could play the game under wine in Linux.
TL;DR: I decided to write things down, because no single note-taking app convinced me so far.

Well, obvious. I use Notion (and love/hate it), and write things down a lot. What a surprise.
We have a bigger problem we see everything as a competition for scarce resources. Like we have pretty huge unemployment in the US developer community because US companies prefer to hire foreign workers. You're more likely to be successful as a business builder if you come from elsewhere like none of the "Paypal Mafia" were born here. We basically see those of us with the misfortune to be born in the US as slaves at best. The US upper class are retired boomers. Hardly anyone from Genx or below has made it out of basic serfdom in the modern medieval system here.
Trying to use all the bells and whistles of a note taking app is a distraction from just using the app to write things down. Depending on the platform, get yourself a stylus and just write as you normally would on paper. Later you can learn the features... Worked for me and I love it! I use my digital notebook as a secondary brain.
The project is currently hosted on digital ocean so I suppose some bots might be monitoring those IP ranges too. Makes sense that these bots are monitoring specific IP ranges instead of the whole internet.
I got the chance to casually work through this course while stuck at home during COVID-19. I highly recommend it to anybody who has a surface-level understanding of statistics and wants to dive deep. This is NOT a course for absolute beginners. It is rigorous and thorough. Overall a great resource, especially the notes, but the lecturer is entertaining too.
Have you worked for a high profile tech company? This isn’t unheard of at all.
C is definitely bigger than people assume.
I had the same issue with Rails as I have with Node : the churn is detriment to long standing projects. Most projects I do run for years and even decades; you go run an update for security for Rails code that is 10 years old. It is a nightmare. I did not have issues like that with php, asp.net or spring.
Dijo – scriptable, curses-based, digital event tracker
Actually, if a quasi-famous person happens to be in a mailing list (I'm talking abou mailing lists, not newsletters) then it might answer your emails and participate in a conversation.
I've been on the fence in learning erlang. I use python mostly and the industry around me uses Java or maybe golang.

I have wanted to learn Rust and Erlang, but I've wanted to learn Erlang longer. I know there are different reasons to learn either, but what makes you feel erlang makes you more productive?
There’s a middle ground and for medication that will be used by millions the middle ground is not a 56000% markup.
Fallout: New Vegas is essentially a big choose-your-own-adventure platform with several major choices of varying mutual exclusivity. The real heart and soul of FNV, though, is in the incidental stories found in side quests and companion quests--while they are rarely necessary to "win the game" (i.e., trigger the credits screen), they are often more compelling than the major quests (find the MacGuffin and pick A, B, C, or D) and allow much greater opportunity for forming the player character. I'm not sure that you'll find the total storytelling better than that of a good or great book, but I think New Vegas still leverages the type of narration that is unique (but not guaranteed) by video games.

edit: Just remembered that Planescape Torment was created by Black Isle, the studio that also worked on the first two Fallout games. Black Isle later dissolved, but the key players later formed Obsidian, the studio that developed New Vegas on Bethesda's behalf. I imagine it's very likely you've already played FNV (in which case, I'd love to hear how your experience aligns with mine), but if not, it's probably up your alley.
> the company moved away from the framework without technical justification

I think this alone is enough justification to look for a new place to work, but I’m just a job hopping millennial.
US apple store, for the ones in the US [0]. Just made me discover that the Apple App ID is the same. Only difference is :s/GB/US/g

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nitronotes/id1502080216
Pillars of Eternity and if you haven’t, the Baldur’s Gate series.

The Shadowrun RPG setting is very 90s but if you like that sort of thing the Dragonfall game a couple years back was quite well written - I had no prior experience with the RPG world but enjoyed it because of the story.
Visual Novels. Danganronpa.

Hyperdimension Neptunia games made after 2013.

I would love to see games with emotionally involving improvisational acting with A.I.
characters but we're not yet there yet.

Social interactions in virtual reality can can you into an intense places: characters can invade your personal space (to the point of causing an adrenaline dump) or make you feel uncomfortable by keeping too far away. Will we see something that is halfway between "Frog Blender" and "Ender's Game?"
That doesn't sound accurate. The human eye's resolution is in the tens if not hundreds of megapixels [1] with high sensitivity (meaning the compression isn't very lossy so the bits of information remain). Even if you assume only a few frames per second that's far more than 11 megabit/s.

[1] https://clarkvision.com/articles/eye-resolution.html
> You are not analysing everything you read for oddities in writing style.

I certainly do, don't you? When I read a blog post and it's full of poorly-integrated buzzwords that make it seem like it was churned out by a non-English speaker being paid very poorly per word, I stop reading and move on.

I recently read a few pages of a book someone had recommended to me and stopped reading because of the writing style.

Heck, you can read a few pages of, say, a Dan Brown novel, and based on the writing style might choose not to read it, since the style tells you a lot about the kind of book it is.
Just another of FB’s PR stunts, for those who still believe a word they say.
I don’t think this is because of the hack. Balaji seems more worried about censorship and “cancel culture.”

Ex: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7w3zw/silicon-valley-eli...
> We’re a startup. Startups don’t tend to fail because they moved too fast. They tend to fail because they obsess over trivialities that don’t actually provide business value. It was important that we reach a reasonable level of confidence, handle errors, and have multiple levels of fail-safes (i.e., backups)."

Do established companies, or stopdown, fail because they moved too fast? Can we dismiss Charity's astonishingly good advice over perceived startupiness? That's dumb.
I don't understand why they would buy it from the recycling center, ship it to Asia and then dump most of it in the environment.

When I say it is sorted and marketed, I mean they bale up plastic by type and sell the bales. There's some possibility that the bales, which are 99% the same material, are then shipped to China and sorted for value, but not really.
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That's nothing. In 1939, The New York Times did an article about Hitler and his mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden, about how he goes there to unwind and be amongst nature.

https://www.nytimes.com/1939/08/20/archives/herr-hitler-at-h...
The syntax and patterns laid out by Express (which in turn was inspired by others) have stuck around for so long, so it's super exciting to see a fresh take like this spring up.
I found this to be a rabbit hole. e.g. Ideally you want 24V not the 12V most of the cheap stuff is. And then you really want one that has warm white LED instead of just RGB'ing the white.

...and pretty soon you're looking at real money
At the end of a rainbow – The varying American fortunes of Grindr and Blued
> Fewer apps would not make the apps better.

I don't think the author is saying this.

You can agree on the following simultaneously:

* More competition and innovation in this space might lead to better tools and possibly better individual outcomes.

* More options might lead to more exploration, experimentation and high switching costs, paralysis by indecision, procrastination via tinkering, and possibly worse individual outcomes.

The truly major innovations are behind us: language, writing, writing instruments, paper, word processor.

Of course, other tools could accelerate your process but depending on what you're working on, if you don't pick a system and stick with it for a while, you might experience worse outcomes.

> the non-satisfaction with note-taking applications shows ... more choices are in fact needed.

Satisfaction is as much a function of our perspective as it is of the tool.

You can ask

"What is the best tool?"

or you can ask

"What is good enough?"
I'm really looking forward for Hamler lang to become mature and popular https://github.com/hamler-lang/hamler

It's based on PureScript, which has a great reputation, but adds all the benefits of Erlang.
One of the most valuable things chess can teach is patience.
Totally unrelated to the actual post and apologies for what is arguably spam, but I would love to give a shout-out to prgmr for being the best VPS hosting company I've ever used. I've been with them since early 2011 and run all my most critical personal services (email, static web, etc) on prgmr machines. I particularly enjoy how VPS management (including OOB!) is done through SSH with a pubkey you supply on the billing site: https://i.imgur.com/ckRJzDW.png

I don't record any reliability stats, but I can't remember a time one of my VPSes was down without being announced first. Reboots and downtime do happen because they are extremely on top of Xen security patches, hardware maintenance, and everything else. My favorite prgmr email was last year when a scheduled maintenance got postponed by two days only six hours before it was planned and they sent me an email apologizing that my machine wasn't down just in case I had already planned around it: https://i.imgur.com/yusTBPG.png

Full disclosure: one (only one!) of my prgmr VPSes is billed to me at $0/month because I helped get FreeBSD Xen/PV running at prgmr way back in the FreeBSD 9.0 days when FreeBSD Xen/HVM was rather unusable. These days PV isn't even an option (afaict) for prgmr's VPS and the newest HVM-mode FreeBSD is available straight from them in the management console as a first-class OS alongside CentOS and friends. If that arrangement ever ends I will immediately switch to paying for the same machine and wouldn't even consider shopping around first :)
The runtime allocates and frees heap memory while performing local calculations.
“428: Shibuya Scramble” _is_ writing, pretty much literally, as the game resides in the visual novel genre. However it manages to weave a complex tale of parallel interconnected narratives that is only possible in the digital medium; if you can approach it with an open mind I highly recommend it. One of the very few games that earned a 40/40 score in Famitsu magazine.
ah, ignorance is bliss, except when you're naturally selected away by implicit biases that lead to poor decisions.

no need to worry about paleolithic women, they were probably less fragile and better survivalists in comparison.
This would be much easier to understand if you set the gif's to repeat (I'm viewing on my iPhone and need to refresh the page to view each gif before it completes)
Modern medicine has not existed for several hundred years and these diseases you are mentioning have only started killing a large part of the population after medicine dealt with infections. As we cure more and more diseases other diseases that used to be rare become more common causes of death. Maybe at the end of the tunnel lies immortality, but who knows.
C is not designed for OOP.
You will write much nicer C code without such patterns.
Yeah, the service is roughly $50/mo. There's no way ads could touch that. It might work in the future to monetize the older, "long-tail" content that is less relevant than it used to be. But even then, they'd probably have to cut the content, especially for cloud-related certifications, because A) the feature may have changed, B) I bet those labs get expensive.
Kind of, either you have Google's or some other one provided by the device manufacter.

For me that use them as digital paper replacement, more than enough, just like on the Symbian days.

Before J2ME and Symbian, I would just use SMS drafts as quick notes.

So I am not the target market, whatever it might be.
Flush out the idea and strategy on a whiteboard (typically because I could not map it all out / maintain the complexity in my mind).
Is there a way to use it on a different platform?

I like to use Linux systems and even though Microsoft sells Windows, OneNote allows me to use it in a browser.

Apple still seems to favor their walled garden so that you have to live with all their downsides in order to enjoy the good parts.
Amazon is bigger in Europe than you think. And this is an indicator of a general Brexit-y problems; all small sellers will have to deal with this, not just Amazon marketplace ones.
B is "compile fast enough that people will tolerate it".

"Fast enough to not be worth complaining about" is nowhere near anyone's TODO list.
Bluetooth, a union of different communication protocols, after King Harold Bluetooth, 10th century uniter of Danish tribes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth#Name
>Only that there's something special about subjective experience that wouldn't arise naturally in an NN approaching even animal intelligence.

That isn't at all what I've said. I'm saying that 'qualia' exist and that we have no clue how they arise. Maybe they arise from complicated enough systems, maybe they don't. Hell, maybe panpsychists are right and even a rock has some sort of consciousness. My issue is with people who are confident that a big enough NN necessarily has consciousness.

>I assume that "subjective experience" has some observable consequences, of which you can form memories. Being able to swap out parts of a brain will allow you to have a different subjective experience and then compare them. It is an experimental tool. I don't know what you will observe since that experiment has not been performed.

Unless you presuppose that there is some part that completely determines subjective experience (I don't think it'd even be possible to identify such a part if it existed), I don't see how that would work. Yes, you can swap out a part and see that your subjective experience changes, but this tells you nothing about the subjective experience of others.
"Pilates" recently caught me off guard.
The damage we're not attending to
That’s true. In general, if you customize the prompt for a specific type of question, GPT-3 will be better able to handle that type of question. Prompt size is limited, though, so if you are attempting to create a general-purpose chatbot out of GPT-3, you won’t be able to handle every archetype of question in the prompt.