skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel mostly the same as the author of this blog post. I have been through so many note taking apps and nothing has yet completely replaced just having a pen and a notepad with me at all times. But, I have gotten close. For me, I am very word-heavy, I don't need to draw (and if I do, I want a whiteboard, not a notepad).

Just this month I started doing notes on my computer again after being introduced to an app here on HN in another thread that seems to have hit the high points for me. More than anything, it seems to work for me because it just gets out of my way. Try Standard Notes if you haven't yet. I like writing in Markdown, so I use it as I would a text editor, but rather than needing to search at the command line and maintain a git repo, it has tagging and search built-in as well as encrypted cloud syncing, but otherwise just stays out of my way. It works really well.
The Probability of Collisions with Earth
Not eponymous, but I've always thought it strange that there's no connection between the names of Jamaica in Queens and the Carribean island.
Thanks for asking! I can't speak for Deadcode (David Ellsworth, the other maintainer). Personally I have a Patreon account, though mostly it pertains to my open-source projects. And of course, tell your friends that Worms Armageddon is still alive and has active multiplayer (see https://wormnet.net/) :)
the productivity is definitely increased.
but I do have a question about "software is just never done", many software jobs reduced over time, one day there might only be very few jobs needed.
Thanks for keeping worms Armageddon alive. It's still my favourite worms game by far.

>Worms Armageddon now runs well under Wine or Proton on Linux.

Was wondering if there would ever be a chance of a true native linux port? I've got one of the later worms games natively on linux, but it sort of pales in comparison to worms Armageddon and while I appreciate the efforts of the proton maintainers and Devs like yourself that work hard to make their games compatible with proton, but I'd still prefer to buy a game that runs natively on the os I use.
In the UK it's a derogatory catch-all term for anyone that vaguely looks South Asian and was initially widely publicized in the 60s/70s around "paki-bashing" (= aka "lets gang up and beat up some immigrants").
Especially a drug which is so supply-constrained, on the time-scale of the pandemic. Even if you ignore the research cost, what's the right price for the one large batch left over from Ebola, in the time until you cook up another large batch?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remdesivir#Manufacturing_and_d...
There might have been noise elimination. Less useless meetings. Quality != quantity.
https://books.google.com/books?id=wk-OxcTKyi4C&pg=PA105&lpg=...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3714297/
I'd love to have fracking or another well put in behind my backyard or, even better, in my backyard. That's a huge win. My cut from the mineral rights would be a welcome addition to the retirement plan.
The transformer model in GPT-3 has a short context window and no recurrence. Without some significant architecture changes that is a fundamental limit on the problems GPT-3 can solve.
You can order stuff from amazon US from the UK (and sometimes even through the UK website). Plus lots of vendors based in China. I wouldn't overdo the implications of this change.
The US drug market is out of control.

Some time ago a friend I was travelling with had a recurrence of a skin complaint that she would usually treat with a particular product. In the UK it's an over-the-counter med, non-prescription, with a cost of about £7. We were informed in the pharmacy at (I think) a Walgreens that it would be a prescription-only med in the US, and cost $200 for the same product.

Is this because insurers can be billed?
Is "Brit" widely used in a derogatory sense when bullying or attacking British-looking people? You can't decide "slur or not" just by "is it a shortened form of a country name".
Dr. Herbert Schlangemann (fake alias for Sci-gen) not only got papers accepted in journals, it was invited to participate as session chair at conference co-sponsored by IEEE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen#Schlangemann
Yes, actually.

I live due east of the SF Bay Area in the Sierra Foothills. Per Google Maps right now it's only 2 and half hours by car, realistically it's typically at least a 3 hour trip or so to make it out here.

I have been working remotely as a software developer out here since 2014, when I left the Bay Area and my commute behind. My property is a little over two acres.

I got into permaculture right around the time we moved. I have yet to try Hügelkultur specifically but am working on establishing a food forest and various other perennial systems. It's slow going - there are challenges to this climate and elevation that I certainly didn't face in the mild climate of the SF Bay Area. Our summers are very hot and irrigation is pretty critical. But working outdoors on the weekends and PTO days is actually a very welcome change from being in front of a screen all day.

Living here the past six years, I have learned tons about what works and what doesn't on this property.

If you want to hear more, seriously reach out - there should be a pointer to my LinkedIn and an email in my HN profile.
Fascinating! But I am a bit disappointed there isn't a video taken solely by an insect. All the tech highlights without a demo.
HN allows users to favorite posts, and to see the posts that any user has favored.

For the latter, just open a user's profile and click on "favorites".
I’ve been doing well just kind of obliterating all the pawns early on. It seems to open up the board a lot and presents opportunities.

Is there a name for that strategy or maybe it will backfire against better players.
Pleasanton, CA

From Wikipedia:

"Its name came from John W. Kottinger, an Alameda County justice of the peace, who named it after his friend, Union army cavalry Major General Alfred Pleasonton. A typographical error by a recording clerk in Washington, D.C., apparently led to the current spelling."
Sure, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Nth vial cost $0.93 to produce.

The first vial cost $2,000,000,000.

Don't forget about the other drug research projects that failed and also cost billions in fruitless R&D.
What can change the nature of a man?
I read the official document several times and still not feel understanding the module system. But I feel like an expert after reading this :) Thanks Shesh
Microsoft Teams. Thoroughly shabby. Free to my company, and worth every penny.
Holy Batman! Now apply Moore's law to that and figure out where we'd be in 10-20 years #SCARY_AF
I'm thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

Who will own the copyright on the video?
I agree; you cannot expect the voters to just once make a decision and then get it right.

The Brexit referendum is for me the worst possible example of how to do direct democracy; facultative with a vague question and once-in-a-lifetime. That's just not going to work. If a referendum is facultative, why even bother? If it is a vague question, what exactly voting are they for and if it is once-in-a-lifetime, how can you expect the people to actually vote on the issue at hand instead of just making a protest vote?

For a direct democracy to be working properly (and I don't propose that it's working properly in Switzerland!) you need to have an engaged populate that has built up a culture of participation, that know these referendums will have an impact and that their decision will not just be overruled by the political elite.

I don't know much about the political situation in the state of California. But honestly; the political system in the U.S.A to me seems just plain broken at this point in time.
The Truth About Protonmail
Yes, I may have assumed that all other variables are held constant, which is usually not the case. Although on your other point, I feel as though your argument sounds more like the 10,000 Hour rule popularised by Malcom Gladwell which I don't 100% agree with.
I searched far and wide for a good note taking app a few years ago, only to find that the best solution for me was right in front of me the entire time.

git init fall2020

Git lets me keep track of everything, and I have free hosting at multiple different websites, or my own server if I want to. It's simple and customizable, and depending on what type of notes, I have different scripts to automate new notes and searching.

Next semester, I'm going to run the above command and then make a directory for each course I'm taking. In there, there will be a series of markdown documents numbered 'nn.md' with a header at the top of the file with the date and the subject. After that, it's just plain markdown. I alternate between VS Code and Vim, but both get the same job done. When I'm done, I just 'git add . && git commit' and move about my day.

Since I currently use GitHub private repos for hosting, if I'm walking to class, I can view the rendered Markdown right on my phone. This is nice for getting a quick recap about what the last class covered.

I also use a Git repo for my journal, but with different ways of formatting entries. The entire thing is very extensible, but not as friendly as some other note taking apps if you don't like plain Markdown. Writing a web interface for this setup wouldn't require much work, and it's something that's on my list of things to do.
That is all true, but they might still have agreed to name it after Larry Page - I'm certain they all had a sense of humor
If you've read "The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future" by Oreskes and Conway, what did you make of it? The collapse they portray (and they're not so much saying "this is how it will happen" as just running with an idea) is driven by climate change and a refusal (political and social inability?) of the West to save themselves, if I recall correctly.

You certainly touch on this in your first section, although Spengler and Toynbee discuss other ways for a civilisation to collapse.
It depends how you built that network.

If it’s mostly the people You met at smoke/coffee breaks or going to lunch with you that network won’t grow much remotely, stagnate at best.

If it’s mostly people directly working with you, having everyone on the same playing field (nobody is physically closer to your desk, or to your office) can help that network to expand.
One immediate benefit. Not being on the hook for that shitshow:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/18/eu-leaders-rec...
"Firstly, what is logging then?"

"Secondly, if you're running an aws/azure/gcp based server you now have a ridiculous amount of tooling for production diag, analytics and tracing."

This presume that you, the person expected to fix problem X actually have access to logs and the servers where problems are happening. I've been at multiple projects/companies where this simply Isn't Allowed(tm).

"You wrote this code, you need to fix it! It's broken!"

"Let me get on the server and take a look at the logs to see what's going on".

"That violates our security policy! You can't do that!"

I was tasked with 'finding a problem' and was told to look in the logs. We knew what day the problem was, but I couldn't get anyone to confirm if the log files were in UTC or something else (turns out it was something else).

HOWEVER, I never actually got the actual log files. I didn't have access directly (that takes about a week to go through the chain of command to approve), so someone just sent me small snippets from where they thought the problem might be.

So even orgs that tick all their checkboxes of stats/analytics/logging... sometimes seem to forget that access to the collected info is a requirement too.
see other comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23890279
I don’t think that’s fair. My aunt was a member of Mensa. The only reason she chose to be was because of the books of puzzles she got out of it. I don’t think she went to any meetings or told anyone about it. She lent some of the books to me as a kid when I was bored.
The mailing lists I'm on almost always get relegated to a filtered folder where loads of things irrelevant to me come by (e.g. user support). Maybe I'm just on the wrong mailing lists, but the ability to subscribe, ignore, and boost threads is pretty valuable.
How does Wine handle it on AMD CPUs?
Isn’t he just saying that qualia is in the same category as God? It seems like an abstraction we created to reason about and hopefully solve some social coordination problem, but not an essential part of reality.
Rare Nazi Enigma M4 box sells for £350k
Hi thanks for your post.

It jumped right out at me and I had to login and reply right away - because my experience is the same as yours, verbatim, for the first part!

I'm presently as you mentioned: fully remote, fixing the hard problems so they keep me well rewarded, doing it part time and enjoying the freedom, the org is political and non remote with culture issues stifling true innovation .. its striking in its similarity I feel like we could be work twins!

I would love to talk to you about the next level, what it is for you and also how you got there. If I can, how can I get in touch with you?
And yet once again it's demonstrated we're living Philip K. Dick's "Reality".
At least you can step on it :)
I would argue that in a number of ways Apple Notes is one of the most advanced in terms of features.

Yes, it doesn’t bombard you with its functionality and at first glance is a simple place to jot notes (perhaps its greatest strength). But dig into the feature list, and perhaps help me find a similar application that:

1) can combine tables, rich text formatting, and in-line sketches
2) can store any file type in-line
3) can encrypt protect notes
4) can bulk share Notes + live edit
5) has a built-in complex document scanner

I know there are some alternatives that cover most of these but I think Apple Notes is king precisely because of these many layers of functionality.
I have kids and live in an area where the class divisions are pretty stark. Italy has many problems, but at least they don’t enforce classism (and religious separation, which inevitably becomes ethnic division too) from primary-school age.

As for media, UK tabloids are beyond the pale. Nowhere on the continent I’ve ever seen a situation where most of the population is bombarded every day by outright racism and hate. The British upper classes make a joke of it (the “daily heil” etc), because they think it doesn’t really affect them - which is only true until it isn’t, and eventually you get a “brexit moment” when chickens come home to roost. In Italy, newspapers can be partisan or influenced by industrial interests like anywhere else, but tabloid-like hate-speech can only be found in a well-defined small minority of titles. You don’t have a Murdoch-like figure - Berlusconi had his moment and was dealt with like any other political figure. The revolving door between journalism and politics is much worse in the UK, because most people employed in both fields come effectively from the same few classes. You have journalist wives writing excuses for their politician husbands, and nobody bats an eyelid. Somebody like Boris Johnson is free to write lies for decades until he gets where he wants to get.

UK tv is better, I’ll give you that, and the BBC is excellent at being the last bastion of decency in a depressing landscape.
Sweet and to the point, thanks!

Also of note, aside from finding the crate root and dependent crates (these are passed explicitly to the compiler, from Cargo most of the time), all of this is strictly part of the Rust language, and handled by the compiler. I find the language model really clear and explicit. I would not touch it, aside from discouraging the use of mod.rs.

I think there's room for an article that expands into Cargo's convention-based source model, which is a bit trickier. A package directory can contain multiple crates: at most one library crate rooted in `src/lib.rs`, but also the various executables that are discovered from the filesystem: src/bin/*.rs, src/main.rs, examples, the test binary, bench binaries… These are crates of their own, with examples and benches needing a library crate to be enabled to access files in the src/ folder (without ugly hacks).
Make sure you use a long focal length, too. A normal wide angle photo from your camera phone won't produce very desirable results.

This guy on Twitter did some of his own tests and they came out pretty good.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Yokohara_h/status/127239671259470...
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How to make money working from home
When you're Oncall you aren't Oncall 24/7 forever. It usually rotates amongst the engineers in the team. I'm on a team with about 10 engineers in it so you're on call about a week every two months. I call that manageable.

Engineers should 100% be responsible for owning their code, and fixing any issues that arises from it. After all they're the ones that wrote it, aren't they the best people to fix it when it breaks?
Moore's Law doesn't really work anymore. It hasn't held for the last 4 years, IIRC. That's why a lot of focus has been on multicore systems to try and get new speedups based on parallel computing as opposed to getting purely single-chip improvements.
Cogent, polite, thoughtful comment.

But talking about rentiers on hacker news == instant downvotes.

Extra downvotes? Mention VCs.

Even more downvotes? Mention landlords.

Probably won't be able to reply to comments as normally in these threads I get "you're submitting too fast" due to a mod flag.
I agree it's weird, but you get used to it and now I'll occasionaly write code without reassigning to variables in 'normal' languages... I still miss for loops though.
Wasn't remdesivir extra-hard to produce just some months ago? It seems that this article is conflating the price for its constituents with the price to produce.
It's actually saving using imap. So you can configure it to use non iCloud and then use eg. 'imap notes' on Android.

The rub is that non iCloud is text only, so you lose functionality.
The Truth about Disroot
Yeah, but it's too black/white, i.e. there's no rating, you can't sort by rating, etc.

I have the same problem with Spotify songs which you can either like or not like.
because editorial say: "we want the website to do x" the tech team say ok we'll need 100 staff, and six months.

then, after delivery, the tech team "we need 50% more staff to do this thing, its really good, it'll save 25% in our hosting costs"

Editorial then say: "sure, deliver this feature as well"

This continues, and then deadlines are missed. So tech say: "We have so much tech debt we need to re-architect" which allows ego/CV driven design.
Indeed. As I age, I find I have less and less time for the arguing about which set of nonsense fairy tales is better, and less and less patience with what conflicts with reality. Honestly, who gives a fuck about whether it's the "elites" spinning a tale or some other group, if you can ask reality instead. Sure, sometimes reality keeps its mouth shut, but in the example at hand, it's pretty vocal.

I guess I'd lump you in with so many others; another childish, passive-aggressive sophist (in the insulting sense), unable to actually express yourself despite (I bet) years of schooling. On the plus side, at least I'm not hiding behind a ridiculous "lol". At least you know just what I think of you; no passive-aggressive statements on this side.
20 years later we finally got the answer. Drinking yourself half to death and losing most of your memory in the process can change the nature of a man.
Big fan of worms from my Amiga days - thanks for keeping it alive! Have you played liero? Do you like it?
It points to all this research in support of hierarchical storage, but based off of skimming it it seems like all that research merely only supports directed vs undirected, not tree vs graph. Meaning, a DAG still seems superior to a Tree - does this allow children to have multiple parents?
I think this concept is wonderful. An open mic. night for research sounds delightful.
The proverbial “fly on the wall”
Four methods of integer division compared and contrasted
And - of course - the same lawyers would bill MSFT $5,000
Here's a paper I co-authored about the broader implications:
https://thoughtfultech.org/malicious-use-synthetic-media-mac...

There's a bunch more out now.

This might also be helpful:
https://medium.com/@aviv/what-does-a-world-with-automated-so...
That looks really slick. Nice job!

These sorts of projects can be a lot of fun. I did the same sort of things a couple of years ago on my deck.

I had a rpi and Arduino in the loop cause that’s what I had lying around, the ESP solution sounds much simpler.

Then we moved a couple months later...

https://imgur.com/gallery/E4lbU
As tech companies’ use of H1-B visas has risen, so too has the size of their overall workforce. The directionality is unclear — did they seek out foreign workers to fill talent gaps from the American population, or did their use of foreign workers allow them to grow in the first place?

A question I find myself pondering quite often, as I watch divisions adjacent to mine boast and beat chest at company All-Hands about "growth" in our global/off-shore teams while simultaneously dragging their feet on making commensurate investments on bringing furloughed workers back or investing in back-filling roles that have gone abandoned for quarters on end.
heavy read. thanks for sharing. i'm gonna go hug my sister.
I agree. While it is occasionally can work alright (as with the examples in the article), I recommend a very light touch with this stuff. If you get to the point where you are implementing casts, RTTI, etc, stop and rethink. I say this as someone who has gone down this path and later regretted it.
After looking for something similar I have been playing Hedgewars https://www.hedgewars.org/ which is Hogs instead of Worms, an interesting code base and play mode addons based on Lua. Not looking back to Worms. There's a nice European userbase and if you tune in at hedgehog hour (8pm time in CEST/CET) you'll have some fine company.

My favourite mod is Monarchy: https://www.hedgewars.org/node/6718#comment-34937.
No, the modules are fine
Eliminate your undocumented TODOs with todocheck
That was a GNU documentation problem, never applicable to non-GNU versions of cpio, and not even applicable to the current GNU manual page, which has no mention of info and definitely exists. It also post-dates by years the period where tar and cpio were in competition, which was (roughly) the early 1980s. (The POSIX standard pax aimed at resolving the conflict was in the 1003.1b draft in 1991.) It thus is an entirely fallacious explanation for what happened in the "archiver wars".

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18978064

* https://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?cpio

* http://osr507doc.sco.com/man/html.C/cpio.C.html

* https://manpages.debian.org/sid/cpio/cpio.1.en.html
But I don't believe an adult who started playing chess late and plays 10,000 hours will be anywhere near as good as a child who started playing chess early and played 10,000 hours (all other variables held constant).

Also, I have no confidence in a 10,000 hour (or any other fixed number of hours) figure. The hours it takes to attain a certain skill in chess will vary from person to person, depending on all sorts of intrinsic and extrinsic factors, including their training regimen, the skill of their teachers, and many of the factors I listed in my earlier post.
Elect politicians who will cut police budgets, if that is your goal. Impatience is not an excuse for rioting.