skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote the first draft of my first novel in Vim using Markdown. I've since switched to Scrivener, mostly for the general convenience it offers and especially the mobile apps and syncing, but there is a lot about that old workflow that I miss. It's really convenient to have everything in a single buffer optimized for keyboard-only navigation, and with Pandoc there aren't really any concerns around exporting to .docx.

I absolutely hate WYSIWYG editing when I'm writing fiction, because it's totally unnecessary and only serves to muddy the waters when it's time to export the text, e.g. if some of the devices I was editing on were set to use smart quotes and some weren't. The text of a typical novel doesn't have much going on besides chapters, sections, and paragraphs, so Markdown really has everything you need, and for fancier formatting (like the side-by-side verse paragraphs in Stand on Zanzibar, just to name one example off the top of my head) I get the feeling that Scrivener isn't really flexible enough. There are better tools, like Vellum, and I think traditional rich text editing exists in a sort of uncomfortable middle ground where it offers just enough functionality to get in the way.

But obviously installing and using a command-line utility like Pandoc is not something the typical author can really be expected to do, so they're stuck using the standard industry-favorite tools that do it all from a GUI.
This only holds if people still think they are a "Virginian" first and an "American" second. I've lived in several states, have close family in a dozen different states, and extended friends and family in almost every state. For me and many others, the state borders don't mean a whole lot, they're artificial lines drawn based on political maneuvering from 200 years ago.
But America is special.

We are a melting pot of thousands of different cultures coming in and out all the time. There are not many other countries like America. Certainly not on our scale if they are similar.

Of course we were going to get a bad case of Covid.

Could the response have been better? Of course.

But we are uniquely special in this way. Our diversity is usually an asset. In this case it was a detriment.
They seem to be doing pretty well, economically-speaking.

I suspect, so long as they can continue to provide good lives for their professional class, the country will continue to grow in world influence. The professionals that drive growth and innovation probably desire to live in a less authoritarian society, but life is generally good enough for them to remain complacent, and turn a blind-eye to injustice.
About half of these look like the part of the final scene from Akira so I disagree with the title.
Was hoping to see more than just chat apps. For examples, see also:

https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2018-10933.tx...

https://mitls.org/pages/attacks/SMACK
A smoking gun is just circumstantial evidence.

The real damning thing in that repository are the few lines that play Toy Story 2 if you run them.
No, it is a conspiracy theory.
This is because China is afraid of what just happened to Iran.

The U.S. could force MS to suddenly ban all China IP addresses. This would hamper software development for a month or so there.
I don't think reddit is that unique. The main problem is that forums are no longer monetizable, so people don't have an interest in maintaining and moderating separate websites, so not unbundling.

My use of reddit, and what i observe in general (by looking at other people's post history) is to visit a few specific subreddits often, not the homepage, not r/all. It seems there used to be a time when everyone was there for the giggles, r/pics, r/politics etc, when the content was very viral and entertaining. Nowadays all the major generic subs are filled with so much spam (i mean politics) that they're barely useful other than as a place to blow off some steam against the other team.

Topical subreddits could fork off reddit if they wanted to put the effort in it. HN is nothing other than r/technology or r/programming without the politics, and it exists because YC has an interest in maintaining it. Nomadlist exists despite r/digitalnomad/ etc.

Reddit is aging, and it shows. There are subs with the same moderators for more than 10 years, who often end up removing the interesting parts in order to maintain an imaginary "culture" in their heads. And there are a lot of shady moderators too.
>A better way would be to start excluding MPA and their behaviour in our open source licenses.

This is a remarkably good idea. Add an explicit clause to major open source project licenses that disallow use by the MPAA and similar groups, along with enough explicit damages spelled out to give it teeth.
Yes it would be hard. At best you could put a ceiling on the bitrate and increase the complexity of the decoder.
As somebody who founded and ran R&D-heavy companies in Czech Republic and in Bay Area - this is complete bullshit. Arguably the per-capita amount engineering talent is much higher in Eastern Europe, and it is untapped because the target market is small and there's lack of entrepreneurship tradition.

Sure, if you take 300M market like US and pool all the best talent to west-coast, there is a lot of engineers. But the market is saturated, and it's nigh-impossible to hire a team of the magnitude you can get in Eastern Europe. Canada? Oh please...
Vaughan Jones, winner of the 1990 Fields Medal, also lost to 2020.
You’re not the only one.

I am personally taking a mental health day today. Yesterday I hit a brick wall where I am unable to produce.

Anxiety tendencies have been creeping up over the months because I’m in a sensory overloading environment, and I struggle to make the choice each day to kill 30 minutes for a fake commute to help keep my sanity.
I gain energy collaborating with others, even if I’m the main or only person driving things.

I’m aware I need to monitor my own health more, and be ok to take breaks. Even take days off.
It’s tough, the anxiety doesn’t seem to subside until I produce well. This creates a perverse incentive, a toxic spiral.
Showing some vulnerability and asking for help or care is tough too. This whole quarantine thing is stretching in some ways, damaging in others.

And yet here we are.

edit: I want to clarify, because top comments seem to be talking about the USA in the news. I am not experiencing anxiety because of the news, or worry of safety for self or others because of the pandemic.
For me it’s simply mental health issues because of isolation, loss of normal healthy coping patterns, and sensory exhaustion and sensory over sensitivity in my home converted to a home, school, and office all in one. Sucks.
Open source my ass, more like a CCP controlled shit stain
...and that's a wise decision, if you take a look at these horrors:

https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/results/psi-1.0/seed0527.pn...

https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/results/psi-1.0/seed8073.pn...

https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/results/psi-1.0/seed8119.pn...

apparently it's a very fine line between "dream girl" and "nightmare girl"...
Redhat and IBM are already offering JDK and JVM without the Oracle badge.
> Everyone should know about jury nullification.

Prosecutors would really rather you not because it has the chance to completely screw their case and they already put a lot of effort in maintaining conviction records. Also it's one of those things where it's not officially an option there's just no punishment available to prevent it.

It does mean something you can say yes or no to 'will you rule based on the law and the evidence presented in the case' you don't have to know the law to agree to do that. It's not phrased exactly like that either it's a series. [0] #15 for example is basically a question directly about nullification. 13 and 14 are also around the subject as well.

[0] https://www.njcourts.gov/attorneys/assets/attyresources/juro...
The standard you're applying is that if anyone, anywhere holds mistaken beliefs that the marketplace of ideas has failed. It's all well and good to imagine what it looks like next to a utopia of angels, but in that case we wouldn't have to worry about any system, would we?

The question is whether the marketplace of ideas works better than other actual systems or cultures found in the real-world. Here's what I do know, the marketplace of ideas was conceived 300 years ago in the Enlightenment. Since then, the amount of human liberty, tolerance, peace, and prosperity has exploded. The societies that adopted the principles of the Enlightenment first experienced the earliest and largest gains along these dimensions. The societies today that most adhere to Enlightenment principles and the marketplace of ideas are by far the freest and most prosperous. Over any reasonable span of time, tolerance, freedom and peace continue to monotonically improve. Especially for the most marginalized groups. Particularly in the most liberal societies.

In what universe could anyone possibly lock at this track record of success and not conclude that the Enlightenment and its principle of the marketplace of ideas has been a resounding success. Arguably the most resounding success in all of human history. Honestly, what possible system, real or imagined, do you believe could have produced better results?
Nice implementation of RSS! I am dogfeeding something very similar to this.

I actually wanted to see how fast i could set up something similar and this is what i came up with : http://cloudnews.sapico.me/ ( i will delete it soon fyi)

AWS: http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=AWS

Azure : http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=azure-devops

GCE: http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=gce

Cloudflare : http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=cloudflare

You're layout is way more organized and "use-case" specific though! Very nice

Just a heads-up though. I didn't see a monetization strategy behind my side-project and it does a lot more than what is "shown" now.
Basically shareware with source available, we have come full circle.
My team pipes some of these feeds along with others that we care about into a Slack channel. It works really well for staying on top of new releases.
Things you can do to stay motivated as a developer
OpenCores: AoOCS – Wishbone Amiga OCS SoC (FPGA)
If anyone is looking for a reddit unbundling idea, it has to be a secondary market place that’s integrated with Reddit. There are a couple of half baked ones but the opportunity is there. Solving the scam issue alone is going to be a big feature. I would also like to see “blind” mailing labels.
Commmunications act 2003 sec 368 specifies it applies to television programmes

A Tim Dodd livestream of a spacex launch, or Potato McWhisky live-streaming a civ6 session is not a television programme.

(If they were they would be subject to various ofcom rules)
Could GitHub mount a case on this - that they (MPA) have been making so many of these these bogus 'good faith belief' requests over time that those words don't actually have any meaning anymore to them, and as such have been lying through their teeth when making them now?

That would make it interesting...
> If you define determinant as volume, how do you define volume?

How do you define "length" and "area"? I guess that if you don't have already a very firm grasp of these basic concepts, then there's no business for you (yet) in studying determinants. Much later, once you master thoroughly lengths, areas, volumes and hypervolumes; and also linear algebra and determinants (however they are defined), then you can embark in the elegant definitions using exterior algebra and the like. Notice that Halmos itself says that his treatment is appropriate for a *second* course in linear algebra, preparing the field for the later study of infinite-dimensional spaces.

> And strictly speaking, determinant is not volume because the former is dimensionless.

This really depends on the context. If you are working on euclidean space, you already have "units" and the determinant makes sense in itself, as the volume spanned by sets of vectors.
On modern day Intel cpus (no idea on AMD's side) math using longs is faster than math using floats. ymmv depending on architecture.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2550281/floating-point-v...

Floats were not historically adopted for speed, but because you can get more decimal places with small numbers like 8 bit numbers.

Today with 64 and 128 bit numbers, floating point loses most of its historical benefit, but of course it still has its benefits.
I have a Pocketbook Colour which uses E Ink Kaleido and it takes multiple refreshes to correctly display colours - there's 3 or 4 flashes on the coloured areas.

Go to about 3:57 on this video and watch the book covers flash on and off as they do multiple refreshes - easier at 0.25x but still visible in real time.

https://goodereader.com/blog/product/pocketbook-color-e-read...
I thought that's what you meant by this.

> Crazy implications if true!

Well, the implications are most likely delayed until someone invents a qualia detector
For what it's worth, the light colored text on white background makes it harder than necessary for me the read the already tiny letters... sorry.
I'm not convinced China is anywhere near showing what you describe. I do think some systems like github can still be productive.
I've found a lot of places where you can just say it normally.
>Japan is the same country where shows featuring brother-sister incest are aired on television

I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that's what Oreimo is about, even though the theme and idea underlies the series :-)
Castle doctrines and make your day laws have to be updated to allow automated defences and booby traps. Right now the classical legal question of securing your mail box against vandalism and theft leaves you vulnerable to civil lawsuit and criminal prosecution. I can see this product finding customers in the Prairies and certain parts of the Midwest. New York and California? A one way trip to jail and bankruptcy.
I assume it also has just as much to do with Microsoft buying it.

See also: skype.

Not just because they don't want Chinese code stored on foreign servers, but because they want it on servers they have easy access to.

Even if this is far-fetched, it's not about what we think, but the risk China perceives.
Many of the companies you are targeting probably already have HR generalists who do such events online now because of the new reality . Perhaps you should consider a pricing package where you provide the games and training for the host and make it self service for the hosts to run these events for their companies. It would be more scalable and doesn't erode any value.
You can make GH be just a mirror
To be fair, starting with something like a BSD might be easier in terms of networking. Mainly because the tooling hasn't been all over the place in the last 2 decades.

Also, a lot of network knowledge is not OS specific. Learning about IP, ethernet, routing protocols etc is valuable no matter which OS you use.
Wow amazing article. Thanks a lot. Interesting to see that most of the technology comes from Europe and US. Also interesting to see that it is complete independent from Asia.
Url changed from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/time-private-us-media..., which points to this.
FireEye gives details of SolarWinds hacking techniques, gives out detection tool
Yeah at our core we do CloudFormation deployments. Whether thats through Serverless Framework or CDK (using SST https://github.com/serverless-stack/serverless-stack). So in the case of SAM it would be similar, deploying the CF stack on the users behalf. The deployments process roughly looks like: install dependencies > package functions > generate CF stack > deploy it > monitor progress. We do some optimizations along those steps but thats the gist of how it works.

Hope that helps. Feel free to get in touch if you want to know more jay@seed.run
Well, now I know about Nyaa.si.

Thanks, MPA!
You are right that those applications benefit from a higher single-thread performance.

Nevertheless, unlike in competitive games, the few percents of extra clock frequency that Intel previously had in Comet Lake versus Zen 2 and which Intel probably will have again in Rocket Lake versus Zen 3, are not noticeable in office applications or Web browsing, so they are not a reason to choose one vendor or the other.
Neat. Still can't make the switch until they have an equivalent to Firefox containers.
> making it a jurisdiction of Immigration Court, with expedited process whilst you have limited rights and deportation at the end

Aah got it, that makes sense now. So it's not just political posturing for the extra-tough- on crime stuff.
I personally think renting content is a joke, let alone renting censored content.

For example, why would anyone want to rent a censored version of Interspecies Reviewers - which is a show about brothels and prostitutes and sex?

And let's not foreget that Western companies like Funimation censor Blu-ray releases.

https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/02/02/for-second-time-fu...
HNers praise how great Amazon is for product XYZ.

HNers praise how great Amazon is for Graviton.

HNers praise how great Amazon is for leaving Azure and GCP on the dust.

HNers praise how great Amazon is for FOSS project XYZ.

HNers bash Amazon because yet another project made the wrong assumptions how to make money out of MIT/BSD style licenses.

Yep, I am seeing a pattern definitely.
That's not an argument for them having more than their population-proportional share of representation.

One person, one vote.

Not to mention that the US has a surplus of food, and the US government often pays farmers not to make food, so their value is really overestimated, if anything, especially considering all the subsidies they get at the expense of more populous states.

Most of the people that work in agriculture are probably undocumented immigrants with zero votes and zero representation, and those people who claim to care about the welfare of agricultural workers should have undocumented immigrant rights and representation at the forefront of their agenda. But somehow anti-immigrant, and thus anti-agricultural worker sentiment is rife among such people.

Many people are still under the illusion that small family farms are the ones that are being supported when they give agricultural subsidies. But those people are mostly gone. What are left in their place are huge corporations, and it's they who are benefiting most from the status quo.
don't suppose you can make this, but aimed at thesis writing?
Threads usually share address space. There's no way to know particular thread memory usage, so htop just duplicates same information for every thread.
> Thankfully I am not yet required to sign on to github using 2FA that can only be confirmed on a Zune.

Strawman: Microsoft doesn't require you to come from their hardware for any of their properties, and of course Zune is a dead platform.
> Again, you don't seize power by attacking a particular meeting.

Agreed, but that's not my claim. My claim is: these people thought that they could seize power by attacking this particular meaning (however absurd that belief might be). This is documented by posts stating their intent on social media, as well as their actions within the capitol. They also acted on their belief and committed a criminal act. So morally speaking, they had the necessary mens rea and actus reus to be guilty of the crime of an attempted coup.

I completely agree with your statement that this attempted coup was inept and therefore ineffective. I also agree that attempt did not share the characteristics of a historically effective coup. However, I disagree with your contention that a skilled implementation of a coup is necessary for an "attempted coup." Skill in an act is sufficient, but not necessary for an "attempt" of the act.
China is through the period of easy gains in their economic expansion from the days of early developing nation status. The next 10-20 years will answer your question (including, critically, what Xi does from here forward and what comes after Xi). If their model stifles - and or to the extent that it does - it'll become apparent as economic gains get increasingly difficult going forward and the segments they begin to compete in are much more challenging (the US in software, Germany in high-value manufacturing, going after semiconductors, aerospace, building quality automobiles, et al.). There have been potent signs all across their economy for numerous years now that growth has become far harder and more expensive to acquire, how innovation maps to that context will be interesting to watch.

Their style of governing is very clearly not super robust. If it were they wouldn't need to so extremely tightly control their people in every possible manner. They regularly reveal how fragile the system is in their behavior, including how very easily their party ego is injured (which partially reveals how fragile they view their own position, that they're so obsessed with maintaining the facade of omnipotence; they fear any cracks). That also doesn't mean it's a house of cards, the CCP has proven they have staying power, even if it's expensive ground to hold.
flamebait, that is a great word mashup that conveys a lot. Clickbait for starting a comment flamewar, never saw that one before. Gonna keep an eye out for these things with this lens.
Peter Thiel (Palantir) is one of their main investors. that should raise all alarm bellas for a product that advertises itself with "privacy"
Single Covid vaccine dose in Israel 'less effective than we thought'
I have a balcony and find it cool. I dunno about $1000 but I'd definitely think about it.

Cool isn't a "I would definitely buy this product" though because it'd never be as good as I imagine it to be. I might get in on version 5 or so like I did with Roombas
Baidu and Alibaba have open source projects (RocketMQ has been donated to Apache by Alibaba http://rocketmq.apache.org)

Chinese developers are the second largest group of contributors on GitHub

there's also a billion and a half of them, most of them don't speak english (edit: not all of the Chinese people are developers of course)

Anyway, GitHub itself it's not OSS and it's owned by Microsoft

AFAIK open source contributions are not usually rewarded in China by employers, but that's true in general in Europe as well
The fact that Craigslist hasn't done anything to cut down on spam, scams, and duplicate posts is maddening to me. Whenever I do a search I see dozens of phone repair advertisements and completely unrelated posts for cars and trucks. And those posts have the same title and thumbnail!

I simply do not understand why Craigslist refuses to improve in this regard. Look, I get why Craig doesn't want to change the design of his site, but how in the hell do they justify such crap not being removed?
The proper metric is not "authentic" but "useful". If a channel's usefulness is outweighed by it's cooption, then it deserves to be ignored.

Take for example some of the Apple related blogs & ecosystem. I don't doubt for one second that Apple monitors them and may even feed them leaks.

Why would a subreddit be somehow immune from this corruptive pressure? Better to know the system is corruptible rather than look at reddit as somehow above the fray.
“Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.” — Stan Kelly-Bootle
just use the chrom profile it is same as containers in firefox.
I agree. Reddit should have kept their "niche" of being the only large only community (besides 4chan) that is pseudo anonymous.

The profiles bullshit really ruins it. But it's probably profitable in the short term. It's what advertisers want.
Probably the one by the Mozilla CEO, "We need more than deplatforming"[1]

1: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...