skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, I was thinking of that... I did have to code in COBOL for 6 months in ~2000 and I see some similarities in syntax paradigm (though superficial of course) - but I figured the reference would be too obscure for majority of HN audience :->
Published novelist.

I use markdown for drafting via the delightfully minimalistic iA Writer. It is useful for first drafts and editing on a sentence by sentence level.

However, it is not really ideal for getting the text into ms format or for organizing and editing something as complex as a finished draft, so I use Scrivener at that end of the process.

I think there probably is no single tool that is ideal at all stages of writing a novel. In the beginning you want something that gets the hell out of your way and lets you write quickly. Once the first draft is done, you need structural editing tools. And during that process you will want to dip into tighter, sentence-by-sentence tooling for rewriting and revising.
> The Government did not shut down Parler, the free market did.

The new inception of the Moral Majority did.
Parler does not need a app, they can be a fully functioning site for conservative hate speech by using the latest in web technology. They don't need a app.
I feel this very acutely, though as a parent of a small child the reasons for my particular inefficiency might be different than others.

But there is something about the mental exhaustion all this causes. I do still have some free time here and there. In the "normal times" I'd be twiddling around with a side project, but all I do now is watch TV or play video games. I dislike it: I feel like I'm wasting time. But my brain is also utterly fried and the idea of engaging too deeply just feels impossible.
No, not at all. I'm more productive at work than ever before, the whole team is. We love working from home, a few of us have already decided to never set foot in an office again. I'm leaning that way too, if I'm honest.
“ When I attempted to pass this knowledge on, some listened and some didn't”

Is there a manual?
> This just means their CTO was sloppy, Amazon legal department would have never allowed that tweet.

Sure, but we are not talking about "the intern tweeted something incorrect, gather your pitchforks until they delete it".

We are talking about a prolonged time span where AWS completely abused their massive size and market tower to basically do the legal and PR equivalent of laughing in the face of another company they were using and abusing. Details aside, that is a pretty grim view for the world of software, no?
Amazon convinces investors to eschew profits. Unusual. Result: lower cost of capital.

Amazon benefits from extended tax holiday. Result: lower cost of doing business.

Amazon appropriates FOSS. Result: lower cost of development.

Amazon knocks off successful products, competing with their own partners in their own walled garden. Result: lower cost of product development.

Amazon allows counterfeit products, fake reviews, and other fraud. Result: lower cost of operations.

Amazon uses gig workers. Result: lower cost of labor.

I'm sensing a pattern...

Amazon's success, their prime (pun!) advantage, is built on aggressively avoiding costs normally incurred by other businesses. They perfected WalMart's strategy.

Sure, they've done some clever stuff. Throw enough spaghetti, some of it will stick. Free shipping with Prime membership is akin to Tencent's freemium (genius). And figuring out how to sell excess capacity was cool.

I'm sure a lot of other leaders would share Bezos' tolerance for risk, commitment to long term plans, if only they weren't micromanaged by Wall St.
For me, it is that all the problematic elements of office work have returned to remote work.

We started not endlessly being in meetings as meetings were a pain over Zoom/Teams. Now that we are used to that, the meetings are back.

We started out overcommunicating as we were afraid things would be lost in WFH. We have stopped that so now there is lots of getting out of sync again as we are no longer conscious of making sure everyone gets the message.
After an intense period of work from november 2010 to mai 2011, I burned-out because staying at home, working all nighter, not seeing real people, having my desk twenty centimeters from bed, and everything. It was not even lockdown or curfews.

Lockdown is just yet another reason why you may burn out. Personally, I have social anxiety, so I didn't care much in the first time, but in fact, not seeing people is just awful.
The lockdowns are causing a huge mental health crisis. You are far from alone.
Consistent Hashing with Bounded Loads(2017)
A Surprising Security Vulnerability on the Google Search Results Page
>Always ask yourself - do you need to know this number to better than 1 in 10^14?

Yes, because over time thousands of multiplies and divides means you will get more than a penny off. The more high frequency the more floats become a problem.
> I have no issue with app stores moderating their own service. I just want 10 equally reach weighted stores instead of 2 that coordinate.

Do you have evidence that Apple, Google, and Amazon actually coordinated (e.g. met and agreed on a common plan)? I think it's more likely that they made similar judgements based on the same information.
Ulysses deciding to switch to a subscription model, locking all of my works in progress after I purchased their app for $50, pushed me back to vim for writing. It’s remarkably unremarkable and fine.

I wish this project the best of luck. Down with Ulysses.
Size, mostly, I guess?
It is thought provoking to think that the USA's interest in Taiwan is more about protecting TMSC than protecting a democratic state in East Asia. By this line of thinking, building capacity in Arizona, or anywhere outside Taiwan, is good for TMSC and for the USA but weakens Taiwan.
I worked at Intel in 2012 and 2013. Back then, we had a swag t-shirt that said "I've got x86 problems but ARM aint one".

I went and dug that shirt out of a box and had a good laugh when Apple dropped the M1 macs.

Back then, the company was confident that they could make the transition to EUV lithography and had marketing roadmaps out to 5nm...
No.

I work from home since 2014.

The only work related change is that I got more customers since the pandemic hit. I'm a technical writer and developer relations advocate, so this isn't surprising.
Thank you! I enjoyed writing this a lot, but I have to admit that having kilo as the predecessor allowed me to focus exclusively on Rust without having to worry about other things. I hope to find the time to write a different tutorial soon.
I'm ok working from home - I just wish the Ontario government would reopen schools so the kids weren't cooped in the house all day.

The biggest downside to WFH for me has been the significant increase in synchronous meetings. While my client was _technically_ able to switch seamlessly to 100% remote, they haven't changed _how_ they work so I spend 80-90% of my time in meetings leaving very little time for actual work which results in overtime.
Tried installing via pip3 on Debian Buster, and it segfaults immediately. I'm sure it's an issue with my system, but I can't figure out what; there's no useful debug information, even though it tries to open KDE's bug report dialog.
Eksctl – How to Create and Manage AWS EKS Clusters
Capone went to jail for tax evasion.
Right, but that's the sort of setup that's detrimental to society and therefore we ought to consider regulating or otherwise setting up an environment that is disadvantageous to it.
For promoting "freedom". I think it's in practice an open question between free speech and propaganda - we really like free speech - 1st amendment, and we really dislike propaganda - Germany, 1930-s - and we really don't know how to deal with this.
This might be a dumb question, but is there any information out there about how much official monitoring goes on for amateur bands (and other bands, for that matter)? Are there strategically placed logging stations that allow triangulation of signal origin based on RSSI etc? I guess this stuff is super commonplace in SIGINT, I just don't know much about it.
Forgive us for choosing to aspire to high ideals instead of being content with the garbage fire world we have right now.
Well, I work a career I dislike for the financial security of it. I regret it every day.

Work sucks, as a rule, so why
not at least do work you sometimes enjoy?
One of the things about being a personal sovereign ruler is that you get to put your face on all the money — “render unto Ceaser” etc.

(Social media TOS are not a direct analogy of this, but as the saying goes: history doesn’t repeat but it does rhyme)
Yes, but that decomposes into blasphemy (against a deity) and defamation (against a person). For example, Jehovah probably doesn't exist. That's blasphemy, but it says nothing about those who believe in Jehovah. It's optional to include defamatory swipes at believers.

For comparison, recall that Santa Claus also probably doesn't exist, and examine your emotions to see how you feel about the contrast between Santa Claus and Jehovah.
> most authors need to scale their system WAY back

Oh, no doubt. I've seen entire chapters devoted to "character evolutions" and the associated spew of repetitive skills/character sheets.

What I personally like is when there's a secondary resource (aka a wiki) which tracks changes to the various character sheets and skills over time. Perhaps this could be done within the novel by using appendices? Wouldn't help extensively with Patreon-based web novels, sadly.

All that said, litrpg - not to mention software development books, cookbooks, etc - do still need these kinds of extended typesetting resources.
Yes they do. Powershell is smart enough to find the argument as long as it's not ambiguous. For instance:

Remove-Item -r -fo ./path/to/some/directory

Powershell is smart enough to know that -r means -Recurse and -fo means -Force because the Remove-Item cmdlet has no other parameter that starts with -r. For -f there are two possible arguments: -Filter and -Force which is why you need to be more specific with -fo.
I'm doing better, but I was burnt out this past summer/fall. It didn't help that I had just started with the office 2 months prior to the lockdowns and WFH situation. I was not properly integrated into the team yet, and they were not prepared to actually get anything done with remote work so the first 2 months of the lockdown were very idle times (a lot Pluralsight training because my C# was rusty and I couldn't access the codebase anyways).

It's gotten better with some structural changes at the office as they've adapted to the situation.
Egyptian HA-300 Supersonic Fighter Jet (1964)
> FOSS and its gift culture ethos just isn't working in today's world.

It absolutely is working the same way it always has (to which “gift culture” matters only around the edges). It doesn't work for people who want to start a business with a business model of using copyright law to extract monopoly rents, but then, it never has, and that's always been the point.

And, yes, it's not, for that reason, a good fit for narrow software entrepreneurship, but that's always been the domain of proprietary software.

What's new is startups building on OSS to build mind share, and then trying to shift to rent extraction while wanting to pretend to still be interested in OSS.
> Becoming the cheap option is likely the beginning of a death spiral...

Maybe. I didn't suggest becoming the cheap option I suggested re-evaluating its premium pricing strategy in the short-term to reflect current and future customer value. Margin stickiness seems to be a built-in bias similar to the sunk-costs fallacy.

Server-side Neoverse is a threat but a slow-moving one. I'm assuming that "Breakup" (going fabless) will not show benefits for many months if not years. Price seems like an obvious lever; perhaps I'm being naive about pricing but it's not obvious to me why.
This article seems to mix up AMD and ARM
>> Bandwagoning isn’t coordinating

> This is a loophole that deserves to be closed.

How is it a loophole? It's freedom of association, which is protected by the First Amendment.
The Arab Spring was not an organic, local movement. It's been YEARS AND YEARS of American support for a "Westernized" style of freedom and individualism that they have promoted in that region which became that.

Not saying that's the right or wrong way to live, but you have to realize that the US has been very actively promoting people to rise up against those leaders for years and years without considering that the kind of political instability they themselves face right now (in the US) could not be tolerated in countries with lesser means.
Assuming the Tether exchanges remain functional, yes, everyone will try to get out of Tethers and coins are the only option.
People would then try to get their coins off the exchange. It will be a terrible scramble.
The question is, what happens to BTC/USD on USD exchanges.
My best guess is that panic and additional supply withdrawn from tether exchanges (for those who manage to get out) will crash the price.
I can already hear the cries of censorship. "What do you mean crimes aren't protected speech?"
AMD has already done an ARM 8 core chip. Then abandoned it.

ISA changes require a long term investment and building up an ecosystem. Which were out of scope for AMD at the time.

I think the market has changed somewhat, and they don't have to do all the heavy lifting. Would be interesting to see what happens there.
I wondered the same. I have no idea, other than to speculate. In this case, it might be out of habit (since this is usually how textbooks are written) or laziness. I can’t recommend any of these books for self-studies unless the person studying is fine with posting every exercise they do online for correctness checks or can hire a tutor.
discussion from two days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25817320
Why not? Will you care who oppresses you?
I'm wondering if this was specifically posted wrt the "deplatforming" as of late. In other words, has there been murmurs of people using radio to coordinate actions now that social media is unavailable to them?
Friendly advice: This is helpful to know about, contextually relevant, etc and I'm glad you posted it, but you should probably disclose that you're the CEO.
You would be surprised how many third party companies support closed source software product of another company. This is very common in enterprise world. It is also a common way for a vendor to get their foot into an enterprise entrenched with a competitor's product.
Presumably this site is dead now - it just showed "Showing Results" when I tried it (after drawing a picture).
> it's ideas and sitting down in front of the keyboard and actually typing

This is the crux of the challenge for every writer. At least for me, I use "finding the right tool" as a way to procrastinate from actually writing...
Writing from the US: parallels to organized crime abounds in law enforcement here as well. Look what happened to Adrian Schoolcraft [1]

> After voicing his concerns, Schoolcraft was repeatedly harassed by members of the NYPD and reassigned to a desk job. After he left work early one day, an ESU unit illegally entered his apartment, physically abducted him and forcibly admitted him to a psychiatric facility, where he was held against his will for six days.

The issue is that people here assume things like this are exceptional rather than systemic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft
I thought GlobalFoundries was US based, and they have a fab in Vermont (and Germany and Singapore)
Epidemiology of post-Covid syndrome following hospitalisation with coronavirus
You may have a look at Zettlr: https://zettlr.com/ (open-source)
It’s a problem I’ve grappled with for a while. I used to use Scrivener but eventually got tired of its syncing capabilities, as I took a lot of notes on my phone in markdown and wanted an easy way to integrate and transform these notes into longer form pieces. Scrivener does support this, but it’s definitely not the most polished feature of the tool and it kind of clunky and annoying to work with in my opinion.

Tried using vim+git for a while. This combo is great for portability, but my eyes get tired staring at a terminal all day, and while git feels nice, it doesn’t give you huge advantages and is just more work when many GUI tools like scrivener have good enough version control built in — some would probably find a complete git version history useful, and use branches for different drafts etc. but I personally have never needed this and find it’s just another distraction from actually doing the work of writing.

Now that I stare at a screen for several hours a day during my day job, I’ve settled on pen and paper for my own health. No idea yet whether or not I’ll be able to translate this into finished products or if typing out handwritten text will prove too tedious.
Incorporate the bones into new mousetraps that smell like cheese.
I think the idea is that in scripts you should use the full name for maximum clarity and self-documentation; in your own terminal invocations, be as terse as you want.
Not necessarily. Remember that field strength goes as the inverse square of the distance from the transmitter.

Suppose you need a certain minimum field strength for the receivers to work, and suppose it turns out that there is also a maximum safe field strength.

With a system based on a small number of powerful transmitters to cover an area you can usually place those transmitters in somewhat out of the way places that few people get near. You will have variation in field strength as you move around within the service area, but it won't be a lot of variation.

If I'm 1000 m from the transmitter and move 1 m closer, the field gets 0.2% stronger.

With a system based on a large number of weaker transmitters those transmitters need to be closer to where the receivers are to get the same minimum field strength throughout the same area. But with people much closer to the transmitters, there will be a lot more variation in field strength as they move around, so it would be harder to make sure that no places where people commonly go stays under your maximum.

If I'm 100 m from the transmitter and move 1 m closer, the field gets 2% stronger.

If I'm 10 m from the transmitter and move 1 m closer, the field gets 23% stronger.
Not only that, but you actually are prohibited from encrypting ham radio transmissions. This means, practically speaking, no ham Internet, as everything mandates encryption online nowadays.
Ask HN: Paddle and test accounts / multiple webhook URLs
Hi, quick question for who uses Paddle for subscriptions/payments.

I was told by someone of the staff when they approved my SaaS that I could create test accounts so not to pollute the main/prod account with dev/staging data.

When I signup it says that they will verify the account, so it's weird if they verify multiple times the same company. I asked but I am still waiting for a reply.

The other reason why I would like to use test accounts is because Paddle only allows you to specify a single webhook URL, so unless I use some sort of proxy/forwarder of the webhook requests, I have no idea of how to use Paddle for testing with multiple separate environments for my app (dev/staging/prod).

What do you do to work around Paddle's limitations in terms of testing?

Thanks!
I think it's not the same problem because Red Hat contributes heavily back to Linux kernel
It is more a stance to show Microsoft is ready to put Windows on arm CPUs if x86 loses the market.
Coordination doesnt need to be explicit, it can be circumstantial. And further, coordination isnt a requirement for a duopoly to simply exist and be anti free market. But to put the tin foil hat on, it would be naive to think the heads of these companies do not talk to their parallels. Its a pretty small club at the top. Obviously I do not have access to their calls and meetings and can prove none of this but I've worked with high up executives in other fields and know how the sausage is made even in more fragmented markets.
>Why is the lack of an app on the App Store or Play such a major hindrance?

Would an alarm clock on browser be more easy to use, ergonomic and more private in a web page ?

I was reflecting on the issue with music steaming giants, so I had the idea to have the musicians form a cooperative and create their own service where all the money goes to the creators. The first issue I see is Apple and Google will not allow your app in the Store without paying them a big tax and using web page for music steaming would for sure use a lot more battery and it will not have access to the nice native APIs so good luck competing with the giants.
I started working from home a couple of years ago.

I can't wait to go back into the office. I wonder how many people enjoy working from home now but won't in another year or two.
I feel like that disclosure isn't warranted since like two of them are in the S&P 500 and everyone here probably has some exposure to that.
Oppressing Nazis is still oppressive, nazis are people too. And I say this as someone whose Jewish father survived the Holocaust. I am all for Twitter/FB bans, trumpism should be combated in public discourse, but the current bans on Parler by infrastructure are a kind of slippery slope I am not comfortable with. To copy a quote from above:

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." -H. L. Mencken
Single phase to 3 phase inverters are just a different name for VFD. Running a 3 phase VFD on single phase (tieing all 3 phases together) works if you derate the VFD/inverter. An inverter designed for this application should already be rated correctly.

There is no derating the motor when running on a 3 phase VFD/inverter if you have the correct specs for everything. If you are trying to run a bigger motor than any link in the chain it might work so long as you don't try to draw more power from the motor than the weakest link in the chain.

There is a static phase converter which does derate the motor. They are the cheapest way to run 3 phase from single phase, but otherwise don't have much to recommend them. They are NOT inverters.
There are cells that don't need oxygen to survive. The fact that there is no oxygen in the environment doesn't mean that certain forms of bacteria cannot survive.
I'm sure my dad would rather it all be in one place, but at the same time I'm positive that he'll pay for it if they have content he cares about.

The whole post-Netflix streaming thing is fairly young though, I'm sure in the coming years we'll get some consolidation.
I have used it, and I liked it but back when I used it:

1. It was only for linux (and I hope OS a lot)

2. I either didn't know, or didn't appreciate, that it uses Markdown.

Thanks for the tip.

(I also think there was only an option to install it from a site I did not know if I could trust, and I hate building from source.)
Powershell is smart enough to find the argument as long as it's not ambiguous. For instance:

Remove-Item -r -fo ./path/to/some/directory

Powershell is smart enough to know that -r means -Recurse and -fo means -Force because the Remove-Item cmdlet has no other parameter that starts with -r. For -f there are two possible arguments: -Filter and -Force which is why you need to be more specific with -fo.
> You would be surprised how many third party companies support closed source software product of another company. This is very common in enterprise world. It is also a common way for a vendor to get their foot into an enterprise entrenched with a competitor's product.

I'm aware of that, and have even worked with such companies. However, IMHO it's way harder (and less effective) than supporting an open source product. For instance, it's way harder for a 2nd or 3rd party to diagnose and patch a bug if they don't have the source.