skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was recently shopping for laptops in Europe and wished I had gone that route. But instead I learned a different layout (which I am very happy with!) that can only reasonably be used on an ISO keyboard since you need to reach that extra key next to enter all the time.

But laptop manufacturers have seriously started putting physical ANSI layouts and putting QWERTZ (the German layout) on it. There were three machines I would have bought if it hadn't been for the keyboard.
In Norway we are currently building bridges and tunnels to a few islands with less than 3000 inhabitants for more than double the price of this Faroe project.

:-)
I looked for many alternatives to taking notes and Joplin ended up being what I went with, it's fantastic. I wrote a small script to export my notes to a static website because I figured someone could use the knowledge, even if it's just a brain dump:

https://notes.stavros.io/

I also had an idea to make a site where you could take notes and have them be auto-published (like the above, but as a service), to create a community of random knowledge dumps. Think of a Wikipedia, but made of personal sites and not as rigorous, with a very "personal Web 1.0 website" feel, but talking to a few friends it didn't seem like they saw much point in it.
Some neat things going on there regarding the cable. If I see it correctly, it looks like a few fibers snap at 0:02. Then nothing happens until 0:05. Stepping frame by frame with comma and period, it seems like a few more fibers snap, after which the strain is too much and the cable just explodes.

Cable number 2 goes in a more gradual way.

And on cable 3 there is a prominent wave before it falls to the ground.
Potentially explaining the disastrous results
For this much I'd expect far better execution.

What's good an alien monolith wannabe if it's held together with visible rivets?
Trello has been the best Notes and todo app I could find.
I'd say it's downright cheap.
It feels like anyone who is getting heated over this link and the subsequent discussion didn't even read Scott's post to begin with.
Hidpi is still a total crapshoot on linux (depending on distro and window manager).

My current setup uses xrandr to scale my 4k to 1440p.

It's not perfect, but it's better than other options.
The key for US compliance is to build a form of consumptive utility before the sale and never talk to your actual or potential buyers about the things they want to talk about (future prices, exchange listings). Look at IMVU’s no action letter for the kind of guidance US lawyers have been giving but nobody has been able to talk about. The SEC publicly agreed and I can confirm it matches the guidance given to many projects.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book

There are plenty of useful things to learn from others to expand and supplement your approach to reading, but for a total understanding of having a relationship with a book/author, Adler can’t be beat.
As far as I can tell, it's available on desktop, but neither in mobile browsers nor the app. The video language being the same or different from the UI language didn't seem to make a difference.

My current working theory is that they couldn't figure out a way to fit a two-level menu on a phone screen, so they just cut that feature...
... I didn't know that was a thing. I'm naïve.
I've started my first dev job earlier this year at a small company, around 10 people. And it scares me that I already do this.
I used to deliver as quick as possible and working my ass off and finding that the only thing it got me was a little praise and that more was expected from me the next time. Now I'm browsing HN during work time still delivering within deadlines, just not a week ahead, and most importantly, I feel like I'll be sane doing this work for more than a year.
I would not mind. When we get back to office, cubicles will be way more problematic than a handshake.
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Ah yes, the monthly note taking discussion.
For years, I experimented with paper, org-mode, text notes (Sublime Text, TextEdit) to manage my thoughts and life. What I ended up with was folder after folder of disorganized notes, files like daily.txt, todo.txt, log.rtf that ended up disgusting me.

I would so strongly recommended everyone reading this to check out Roam Research (https://roamresearch.com/). At it's core, it's a collection of text notes in the cloud. Just open it up and start typing your thoughts down. No folders or hierarchy. The key enabler is that is that you can link together different pages. Roam Research helps you make so much better sense of your thoughts - I use it personally to plan out goals, projects, brainstorm research, track meetings/dates, and keep a daily log of everything I go through. I can't recommend it enough - even my dad started using it everyday after I showed him.

Just try it out and starting typing a few notes. It'll start off as a simple graph for text notes / documents, but there are so many more powerful features to discover, too.

EDIT: Roam is a cloud-based service, notes are not end-to-end encrypted. It doesn't bother me, but if it bothers you, there are many open source, offline-first alternatives that the community has created (emacs-org, Foam, Obsidian, etc.). I am in no way sponsored by Roam, I don't know anybody at Roam, I don't run any of those bullshit Roam courses, and Roam is expensive as fuck, but let me tell you this: there are so many features and UI optimizations that make Roam have the best user experience. Don't compromise your time and user experience.
Funny. To me this looks like something that can be turned into a commercial product.
Obligatory mention of foam for vs code here.
Sure, you can do this via the agenda [1], which essentially aggregates your tasks in various ways. You would organize your tasks as headers as follows

* some project :tag:
** open tasks
*** TODO Fix widget
a stacktrace
[[screenshot.png]]
*** TODO Extend screen
some notes on xrandr
** tasks done
*** DONE Profit
some notes about making money
more notes about how much money was made

Then you can use the agenda to show all TODO items in that project, which preserves the order you have in the Org file.

[1]: https://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-Views.html
> You just state that "there is no middle ground", then go on describing instances of what arguably is "middle ground" as "absurd hacks". What's it gonna be?

There is no middle ground _in the protocol_ and that's why I explicitly said hacks. Any system can be rehashed into anything else with unlimited extra layers on top of it - by your definition everything is everything.

> What's really needed is something that can, for example, distinguish between a journalist scraping Facebook to map out a terror network vs. some other entity scraping Facebook to sell your embarrassing photos to the highest bidder ten years down the road.

Sorry but that sounds uneforcable and rather absurd.
We have the framework in place already - if you don't want something to be public don't put it out in the public _explicitly_. To add we already have legal framework in place for copyrighted and/or protected content like photos and against any sort of malicious attacks like ddos.

Our web is getting extremely centralized and most of these majors are natural monopolies: google search becomes stronger the more data it has - google can scrape the entire web freely yet it's competition can't; facebook becomes stronger the more data is has etc. etc.
One way to restore balance is to ensure that public data remains public and the ecosystem can have healthy competition and growth otherwise we're moving to a very dystopian corporate owned world.
I cannot convince Twitter that I am human
Miniature horses can be service animals, and I’ve never seen one fitting under a seat. You have to fit the seat over the horse instead.
> which in 2008 was worth $55 billion.

This is why I find it bizarre that <$1 billion in aid is reducing the financial opportunity of the country where a majority of the supply comes from. This is a devil's deal. I don't understand how the leaders of a country are so corruptible.
Reposting my setup here. It's not the best setup but it's based on trying different things. Might be useful for those who are trying to figure out their own setup:

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Just another opinion on the balanced note taking method:

I think org-mode solves almost all offline note-taking requirements

* org-roam makes it super-easy to link notes

* emacs as an editor is as usable as any other editor

* Rich media is possible and easy to do in org-mode. Attach a snapshot, embed a video file

* Code with documentation is a feature not available in most other note taking methods/apps. It's possible to run code snippets and add comments, documentation about them in the same space

* Latex support is advanced. Inline equations work seamlessly

* Search support is advanced

Drawbacks:

* One of the main drawbacks is that all your notes end up offline. This was a deal-breaker for me. ox-hugo helps in publishing your notes to a (private) static site where it can be searched, viewed but not edited on the fly

* Publishing through ox-hugo is separate from maintaining a backup/sync of your notes in /org/ format. You'll have to do this separately through Dropbox/GDrive/etc

* A backup of your org notes is not usable until you set up your emacs environment and download all your notes
Is there any proof that they actually placed the Utah monolith and are not only trying to make money from it?
I get the point of the article that today's improved hardware allows things that weren't possible before.

But neither spell checking nor its more advanced siblings spelling correction or automatic spelling correction is solved.
Here is an example:

"I want to by Apple"

"I want to be Apple"

"I want to buy Apple"

Because "by" is a genuine English word, a spellchecker based on a simple hashtable will not detect the error, which obviously exists.
We need to look at the context of the whole sentence or even document. Today we can use deep learning and word embedding to solve/improve that problem.

A simple spelling corrector that is based on edit distance would always prefer "be" over "buy" because "be" is the more frequent word of both.

So the risk of all the easy accessible libraries for a certain task is, that you think the problem is solved, but you overlook many problems because the topic is much more diverse and deep than you would think at the first glance

Another point is that while hardware improved, also the expectations have risen. We expect milliseconds latency instead of seconds, we often require the software to work in a multi-tenant architecture with thousands or millions of concurrent users.

So even for seemingly simple and straightforward tasks, and despite all the exciting advances in hardware, always new challenges present themselves.
> I have special place in my office where I put a book so that it is visible to me whatever I do. It serves as a constant reminder to get it finished.

Tangential but I do this with everything. I like very high levels of organization (blame my aspergers) and thus I found that my motivation to hide unnecessary things from view is pretty high. High enough that I place things in view as a reminder to get them done. An extra laptop on my desk -> I need to transfer the remaining files into my new laptop so that I can finally remove it from view. Book on my desk? Needs to be finished. Sticky note on my island? need to order groceries before I can remove it. I'd turned minimalism into a lifestyle/todo list. Same with the digital world.
Sure thing.

It's a script called "d" (for diary) that I keep in my home folder. I try minimise mouse usage, so I've got a keyboard shortcut for opening a terminal, and then in the terminal I run ./d

=== start of script ===

#!/bin/bash

y=`date +%Y`;

ym=`date +%Y-%m`;

ymd=`date +%Y-%m-%d`;

if [ ! -d "Dropbox/diary/$y" ]; then

mkdir Dropbox/diary/$y

fi

if [ ! -d "Dropbox/diary/$y/$ym" ]; then

mkdir Dropbox/diary/$y/$ym

fi

vim Dropbox/diary/$y/$ym/$ymd.txt

=== end script ===

I could probably refactor the hell out of this. But I'm an old beard that prefers explicit readability. For example I don't need to use YYYY-MM for the month sub-folders (I could just use MM), and similarly I don't need the full YYYY-MM-DD.txt for the day files (I could just use DD.txt) - so your preference may vary.

And yeah I use .txt files because I can edit those natively in the Dropbox app on my phone too. Don't need any special apps installed to manage my notes on the go.

In terms of the contents of the files, I've kept the searchability really simple by using hashtags, example:

=== Dropbox/diary/2020/12/04.txt ===

## #keyword1 #keyword2

Here be notes on keyword1 and keyword2.

## #keyword3

Here be notes captured later on the same day on keyword3.

These can span multiple lines if I want.

## #keyword4

Here be notes on keyword4 captured even later in the day.

===

I use the single hashtag keyword system for quick grepping (and future indexing if I want to build a searchable database out of this one day), and the double hashtag ## at the start of each note snippet so that I can parse individual snippets more easily.

Hope that helps! :)
I lived in Rotterdam for a while before internet was so widespread.

It's a Dutch person. They were always good at English and sounded like this.
'Dirty methods' in Brexit vote cited in push for new laws on Europe's elections
Google. When I tried to figure out what products you offer.
Right, but they're going to remain a tiny niche. They're priced so highly that there's no risk of them cannibalizing Amazon's own AArch64 instance-types.
I actually think that you highlighted the wrong date: this paper was put online in June, received for review in July, approved in November, and published in December.

June version: http://ftp.iza.org/dp13319.pdf
> To be clear, I think emotional support animals are ridiculous

ESA are an accepted therapeutic aid for mental issues. In fact airlines require medical evidence under 14 C.F.R. § 382.117(e).
And yet nobody ever brings up this objection when it's negative press.
I am certainly biased but I would like to see the minimum employee comp package include:

* 83b election standard with employee on-boarding paperwork.

* Bonus of up to one year salary to cover 83b early exercise costs.

* Employee equity pool size disclosed along with 409a. Ideally contractual protection for the employee equity pool.

* Offer documents must include a 409a valuation and share price. (I have gotten multiple offers with just a number of shares. And in one case the company was literally peddling a false valuation in my offer).

* 401k with company match, even for a small company. Lottery ticket is not a retirement plan.

Ideally in my mind:

* Employees get convertible debt that is either as senior as investor debt or pays a 5% dividend.

* Double standard employee pool to 20%; keep 30% founder pool size.

* No ISOs or non-quals ever. Extremely tax toxic, and employees can actually get driven into debt from the job. Options should be outright forbidden for comp packages under $1m / year. The tax games are absolutely not worth it.

The main way any positive change can happen is for employees either to negotiate for it during offers or for founders to just start doing it to be more competitive. One might argue that Carta has made 83b easier by chasing a private stock marketplace... perhaps there are other mechanisms for change.
The first chapter of the last ringbearer is extremely funny! It relates the wars described in LOTR from the point of view of Sauron's soldiers (they are regular humans, the "orc" descriptions are a ridiculous libel). Unfortunately, the rest of the book describes the continuation after the wars and it is much less engaging, since you cannot draw parallels with the original story.
I've been selling a lot of old ISA stuff to retro computing enthusiasts here in Norway, pretty much the only thing that doesn't sell seems to be network cards!
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> At least between (for example) Android and iPhones there are objective differences that might matter to you in picking one or the other, but for internal components that fundamentally don't impact how the device works it seems odd to have such strong feelings about it.

The choice between AMD and Nvidia has a strong impact on how your device will work - and that is beyond just performance.
Others are Tuxedo [0] and XMG [1] in Germany.

[0] https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/

[1] https://www.xmg.gg/
One of the things that is interesting about the Chinese political system is the large number of engineers and scientists who also have high political positions.

Maybe it is a sign of a society still focused on building stuff rather than redistributing and administrating what is already there.
I like to think of it as a positive bike shedding session - instead of arguing about the color of the bike shed, we all share and compliment each other on how interesting and cool our bike shed designs are.
I love the idea of that but do wish it didn’t require altering so many of the basic facts. The most compelling alternate histories use the same set of facts but show how the victors were misguided and misled by their assumptions, because it is more tragic that way.
I tend to only write stuff down I learned from reading the book, then later turn these notes into flash cards. I feel the stuff that is obvious to me shouldn’t be written down, even if my notes then lack a certain completeness or are incomprehensible for anyone but me. I rather have notes of bits and pieces and tie them to the already existing neurological connections I have about the subject instead of trying to reorder everything in a coherent hierarchical sense.

I feel trying to make a perfect summary of a topic is something that is not really useful to a single person from a learning perspective. Yea you can not easily turn your notes into a blog post, but you train your brain and that is more rewarding in the long run, I think.

Also, yeah, Zettelkasten.
The more interesting question may be what innovation was achieved in performing the experiment, mainly I assume, in controlling and measuring the large number of photons accurately. Hints on those seem to be Fig. 2 [1].

In the spirit of sensationalizing "China" and "supremacy", does anyone know if this technology is relevant to some Star Wars weaponry for example?

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/12/02/scie...
A good thing about parser combinators like this is that they’re unambiguous by construction.

I also find them much more controllable and manageable in practice. I think that’s a common experience with imperative parsing in general, as it’s the approach used in I’d say the majority of industrial compilers.

> It's hard to beat a nice BNF grammar; In fact they felt the need to put the BNF grammar

The BNF grammar there is incomplete compared to their actual code, it’s just a sketch it doesn’t completely describe the accepted language, so hard to argue it’s better as you wouldn’t be able to do anything with it!
Same with the Google Pixel thing, where Pixels had less storage than iPhones, but Google constantly ran ads saying that wasn't an issue because you'd have unlimited storage for all your photos and RAWs, forever, with no restrictions, as long as they were auto-uploaded by Google Photos from the Google Camera on your Google Pixel.

And now even compressed jpegs have a size and time limit.
The floppy disk is a very enduring "save" icon. MS Word still uses it as do many other UIs.

I wonder what the kids coming up today think it is.
Interesting, care to share that site?
They're not rivets. They're solid state structural integrity sensors.
Maybe it should've been a feat left unaccomplished. Far too often do we have software trying to carry out the impossible task of guessing what the user wants without asking. I don't want the computer to tell me what I want, I just want it to do what I tell it to do.
During the press conference the NSF gave they indicated that the drone monitoring was continuous. They had a drone up to inspect the array every few hours. It was probably under drone observation for a significant fraction of the time.
The first time I came across the menu icon it was in Oracle Applications and referred to as "the beer mug". Though I suspect the icon might have been rotated 90 degrees for that name to fit.
StackPath is kind of edge-essential services from Cloudflare and AWS rolled into one.

I used StackPath's Serverless functions once before and they worked as advertised (but since moved to Cloudflare Workers).
Exactly. Python maintainer of Nixpkgs here.

What we need is to be able to use a resolver such as included by pip or poetry, to build up our package set. In Nixpkgs this is nowadays unfortunately done manually, and I suppose the same goes for Guix. In Nixpkgs the reason is simple: too eager pinning makes it impossible to resolve a package set that works with the entire set.

Now that pip has a resolver what is needed is a way to use constraints not to set only lower and upper bounds, but to enforce a version when resolving. That makes it usable for downstream integrators to construct their primary package set. One could then even make the next step and construct "stable" sets that extend the primary set.
If I remember right, it was mostly the covers, because I don't think Conan is usually described as wearing scantily-clad leather-fetish armor in the books
Thanks for the feedback! We felt that although it's a very competitive market, many tools out there look the same and are often outdated (with the exception of Notion).

A low priced product does have some drawbacks (at least in SaaS), as you say, and churn is likely to be high. We'll know once we go commercial.

On the way there we want to gather as much feedback as we possibly can, both from our users and communities like this.

It's part fun/part business, but isn't that what it always should be when you launch a startup? :)
Oh no, not again this fake-paper...

In Jena there were about one dozend(?) infected people when masks were introduced. And the imaginary trend-change there doesn't even fit - it is too early. The paper talks about "announcement effect".

Fact is that other places with real outbreaks (>10 times more cases than Jena) never saw any trend-change from masks. It is even very likely that the effect is going in the other direction.

Even if you look hard, nowhere is it getting better - but there are quite a lot of places with massive trend-breaks in the wrong direction.

Reasons:
- Lures old people together without proper protection
- good way to transmit even without being infected
- breathing through contaminated masks is not good.
- contaminating mask is easy

Honestly, would anybody want doctors to walk around the city with their contaminated masks from hospital?
That's what you get from general mask use - Healthy people - exhaling virus. In some regions the trend-changes from mask mandates look like someone turned on the turbo.
Already been discussed 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25194795
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Considering the amount of times I have tried to turn on Dutch spell checking in LibreOffice and given up, it's still a major feat ;)
They have tunnels through a lot of the islands as well - mostly single track with passing places (looked pretty terrifying when I was there a couple of decades ago, though I was never the one driving).
Mosh supports roaming. Or are you referring to something else about reconnecting?
Yeah hidpi on Linux is pretty underwhelming and it seems that nobody really cares. I think Windows needed years to match macOS and is now on the same level. Still Windows notebooks barely have more then 200dpi unless there are from the premium segment. Whatever, at least the software side is great now. But on Linux, Ubuntu just had until last year hidpi only in 100% steps paired with dozens of glitches here and there. Sad since especially a terminal looks just terrific in 300dpi (UHD on 13" or 8k on 32").