skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Europe now, and I'm fine with high taxation. But for heaven's sake, call a tax a tax.

There are so many little things, whether its TV licenses, overpriced interactions with the DNV equivalent, overpriced tolls that were promised to be eliminated. The list goes on.

Fortunately most European countries have an awesome statistics office that gives visibility into government wastage. Unfortunately, the the social democracies historically(?) stuffed their public sectors in lieu of full employment policies, and bureaucracy is an existential threat over here.
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> Soreness? Fatigue? Sure. But rarely pain, unless I’ve made a mistake.

A big part of this is that people inexperienced with pushing themselves will mistake the soreness and fatigue for pain and quit. It's easy for you to say this because you claim to be "fairly fit". You have experience beyond average (at least in the US).
A great heuristic to show this is the article.

It's titled how to leave Google. It concludes with how to leave Google. But the vast majority of evidence it uses to justify leaving Google are Facebook privacy examples.

I suspect the author, who is clearly no Google fan, put some effort into looking at Google's privacy violations, but even then had to resort to pointing to FB's instead to beef up their article.

It's certainly possible that Google has hidden it better, but there is no evidence to suggest that FB does not have the same, or better talent, for that matter, to do the same.
Do you mean it's possible to cleanly auto-inject a .htoprc on whatever machine I SSH into?

If so I'd like to learn about the technique
I tried using Grammarly when writing a novel, and just had to turn it off. It gets things wrong so often that it just turned out to be a distraction. I still like using it for e-mails etc. but for anything that will pass through a professional editor anyway it's just not worth the hassle to me.
Perhaps now the "Why do people obsess over manufacturing?" question that many tech workers ask when other US industries were decimated will become a bit less quizzical.
Looks like there was a lot of Rothko in the training set
The proliferation of markdown forks is a mess. Can't you just use something better to begin with, like asciidoc? I think you can likely just use existing asciidoc mechanisms to support the same thing and then existing editors will still be usable.
http://archive.is/H3vYV
Quick question: If you wanted to put your phone in a field of some kind where it received faked GPS data, could you do it, and if so, how?
Er, isn't it just getting your program to typecheck that's equivalent to proving the theorem (by construction)?

I tend to find this isn't the main consumer of my software budget :-)
Rebels are backed not for their politics, but because of policy goals of the backer. Policy goals like "preventing a communist government from forming/working", or "preventing a government from messing with oil trade". If the rebels turn out to be trouble, there will be a next generation of rebels to back to counter the previously backed one. Or some pretext to invade will present itself.
This comes with a price: the cheapest iPhone SE costs 3-4 times more than a new low end Android phone and 2 times more than a decent Android phone. An iPhone 12 is more than the average monthly pay, so in price-sensitive markets (or price-sensible in the common sense way) going iOS is out of reach for most people.
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How is that a "classic example" of drifting away from reality? "I don't think this startup business that doesn't seem likely to succeed will succeed" is a comment that looks funny in hindsight, that's all
I assume the trademark thing should be a slam dunk? That seems like the most blatant trademark violation ever.
I also switched to Fastmail 6 months ago, and I'm content. It's not bad, but the UX is nowhere near Gmail.
I didn't understand how useful was automatic email classification (Updates/Promotions/etc.) until I stopped using it.
As someone who spent the last weekend getting to know Svelte... And thus fighting with Snowpack, Typescript and @web/test-runner (and then ditching it entirely and setting up jest), reading this was pretty zen-like.

Gonna check to see if he has a template or boilerplate that he uses for new projects.
I'd say that if not doing right by your pets doesn't make you feel sad you should not be allowed to care for anything, least of all something as dependent as a pet.
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I'm actually support for similar tagging to my own personal editor (for my first two novels I used a mix of Google Docs (yes, really) and Libre Office; using my own editor for my third). I'm definitively going to steal ideas from this one...

I don't think using those kind of features requires any technical understanding at all. If anything, people are used to doing "ad hoc" tagging with easily searchable strings.
I read Twitter's reasoning for banning Trump. Basically they banned him for tweets:

“The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”

“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”

I don't see any violence in those tweets and I don't understand what kind of person could classify those tweets as a violent ones. I guess only kind of person who wanted to ban him for anything.
Goethe’s Theory of Colours is another interesting read along these lines.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours
http://archive.is/wsmVU
There was a debate (not a formal debate but a theme I saw in numerous articles) in the 90's (or maybe early 2000's) among Middle East experts who were involved in pro-democracy movements, about whether or not cracking-down on radical Islamist movements was counter-productive even when they were close to, but not directly involved with, violent extremists.

The idea was that by including such violent-adjacent (but not directly violent) people into the political mainstream, they would be over time deradicalized even if they might praise violence abstractly, they would eventually become invested in the political process and participate.

Many of the articles discussing this talked about how socialist movements of the early 20th century often started out radical but then became centrist.

On the other hand, cracking down on the violent-adjacent would just further radicalize them and push them into the violent underground.

The debate became something of a moot point eventually, in the 90's it looked like democracy advocates in many Middle Eastern countries would gradually gain power and would need to make decisions about whether or not to crack down, of course that did not happen (except in Tunisia, where I think this debate still has some significance).

Anyways the current discussions about whether or not to "deplatform" the far-right remind me a little of these debates in the 90's. Of course, deciding whether or not to "deplatform" is very different than deciding whether or not to round-up and jail everyone, and so the parallels are strictly limited.
That's the kind of need for text manipulation I would expect of a typical writer. Hence why bother with markdown at all (unless it's the only thing available). Rich text is a much cleaner solution for that. Markdown really shines when it comes to text that has to be formatted just so for web layout. e.g. tables, bullets, multi-headings and linking.
>You'd need a human editor to do all that. Automatically fixing run-on sentences and removing repeated words is possible. Activating passive sentences is challenging; Grammarly gets it wrong all the time, in my experience. Replacing cliches and fixing wordiness would be very challenging without deep linguistic and cultural knowledge.

Well I don't know why I was downvoted so heavily. I dont disagree.

My goal isn't so much to write a novel but rather improve upon my englitch. Now I have chosen writing a novel in order to improve but I dont know where I went wrong.

I would love a human editor but that costs $. I doubt anyone is giving me a dime for my book. I don't have >$1000 to get my book edited.

Of which any hired editor will just shoot themselves.
Thank you so much!

What do you mean about having a key?

> a way to jump to a genre or theme

Yes! That's a good idea!

I'm also thinking about personalized visualizations based on your favorite books, maybe this could make it more shareable on social networks in order to get traction.
What do you define as the Fediverse?

My understanding of the term is that RSS & Webmentions are part of the Fediverse. Email is probably the best-known part of the Fediverse. ActivityPub is just a new/upcoming technology that's as much a part of the Web as RSS.

Not everything in the Fediverse is part of the Web: email, mastodon & matrix are examples that exist outside of the Web (though mastodon is mostly Web-based, and there is also webmail, Element webapp, etc.).

And obviously, not everything in the Web is part of the Fediverse: mainly Facebook, but also most SaaS out there.
No, that's not right. See Brandenburg v. Ohio - incitement is explicitly not legal, per the Supreme Court. The classic qualifying line is "imminent lawless action".
Have you seen how much BBC bosses and stars are paid? Far higher than other public servants, so yes I would be against making it compulsory

https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/bbc_rich_list_2020_37_5m_b...
Hofstatder's law: It always takes longer than you expect, even after accounting for Hofstatder's law.
I would agree with this. Various world leaders did 10x of what Trump did on Twitter, but since it wasn’t in the US no actions were taken.
It's fundamentally the same thing, at first I was pretending. Now when I have to access positional memory I see it in my mind and it doesn't feel artificial at all. I can walk through places I've been and remember small environmental details if I focus on them, which is very convenient when I get lost (I have no sense of direction). It's real in a way that it never was before, which is not dissimilar to what we're talking about.
I'm surprised that they don't have better tech people. HN has a fair number of people expressing support. I'd have thought that they'd be able to attract some engineering volunteers.
The license changes are described here: https://www.elastic.co/blog/licensing-change
I wish there was something better than Elastic for indexing large volume of text.
I had the same thought, that I'd seen one before. Thanks.
Wordpress because its easy, especially for marketers that aren't techincal
> Really, I don't see what you like about Halmos definition of the determinant...

Halmos shows (it is almost trivial) that the space of anti-symmetric n-forms Wn over L_n is 1-dimensional. Wn(Ae1,...,Aen) = const*Wn(e1,...,en). This scalar const is called determinant. It has all the properties you would ascribe to Volume like volume spanned by collinear column-vectors is zero. This is a nice bridge to geometry in Ln. Also, in a space of just one page (p.99) he introduces determinant and proves its main properties like det(A*B) = det(A)*det(B) and therefore det(A^-1) = 1/det(A).
It's so strange that New York Times is the only news site that forces a paywall and is acceptable to be posted on HN.
Against the huge wallet of Amazon? Litigation isn't free. How much "justice" can Elastic afford?
Because it's not a bother. It's pretty much just plain text.

And having it as plain text means adding your own special annotations is easy. E.g. I'm writing my third novel in my own editor using Markdown, and key for me was that it was easy to write small little scripts to e.g. process front-matter with similar "@pov" tags etc. to let me trivially cross-reference
things.
OTOH, I built an MPCNC router that is good enough for all my needs, and was also the cheapest solution I could find.

I not only don't want to replace it, but I bought a diode laser CNC in addition to it. I could wish that the laser had a larger bed or was more powerful, but it really can do the vast majority of what I want. I maybe eventually buy a better one, but I doubt it.

Going budget on both of these was a good move. It gave me what I wanted while not wasting money.
Still on the wait list...
Yes.

AWS should build a real serverless alternative to it or buy Algolia or something...
how do you convert from markdown to standard manuscript format?

starting to write in markdown or even plain text is fine, but once the first draft is submitted to the editor or sent to a publisher for consideration it usually needs to be a word or rtf document in standard manuscript format.

once converted i am stuck using libreoffice to revise and edit the story.

i found tools that convert from markdown to ODF (which i can then load and export as word) but i have not found any way to apply a standard manuscript style in the conversion process.

without that i'd have to manually reformat the document each time i want to submit a new revision.
Most of the popular VPNs are already blocked in Turkey. Before that, most people was using VPNs to access the internet. Nowadays we can only use privately deployed VPN.
My dream job was to be an MD. I went to a grade deflationary undergrad, UChicago, and was too interested in music, social life, and sleeping to achieve a high GPA. I scored 90th percentile on the MCAT and had choruses, piano, humanities, and research in my background, but merely having a 3.35 GPA meant I got 0 interviews after 11 applications to medical school.

How devastating is that: you dream to be an MD for a decade, you work on it for 5 years, spend thousands of dollars prepping and applying, and you receive ZERO responses from a human voice, just automated email replies? Okay, dream A was quashed, so then what?

I fell into programming for healthcare. I'm not good at it. I struggle to understand basic SQL joins, intermediate R, and intermediate statistics. I can barely solve beginner-level coding interview questions and I never pluck up the motivation to build side-projects, given all the "real life" chores and hobbies distracting me. I lost my last 2 healthcare coding jobs for being too outspoken with my criticisms and opinions. I didn't have the political savvy or grit to swallow my objections and play nice.

I'm still looking for my next position. I want to use SQL, R, and statistics to solve real-world problems in healthcare or climate. This isn't a dream, but it's interesting, it'll pay better than anything else I could do, and I can tell myself I'm lessening suffering and improving human lives. For this next post, I'm going to have to find a place that accepts my openly disagreeable nature, or just swallow it down and say "Yes, Sir" to whatever my bosses demand.
hey is there a possibility to preview the editor with tailwind UI? I am on the fence if i should ask for a license in my company for both but would like to see the templates for TailwindUI (at least in the same way i can see locked previews for the other themes)
Watch the video. He mentions it by name.
Please use the stdlib with Go. Try to refrain from recommending "patterns" as something like "building blocks". Go code design works better without "patterns". Thinking and refactoring are encouraged.

Let's say, here's an example, explaining why the different components compose into good/bad design, performance, whatever. Sometimes/usually full idiomatic code makes sense, other times not. What's idiomatic might change too.

There might be very valid or invalid reasons companies use internal patterns. They all tend to turn sour after commoditization. If a stable library fully encapsulates a separable need, might be good to use it.
> Within November 2018, another data breach was found within a Google+ API software update. The bug was fixed within a week and there was no evidence that any third party developer compromised the system.

Please explain how this is anywhere near the level of FB & CA?
It is the direct time of flight between the computer and watch. However, the way Apple implemented it, the devices both connect to an AP first to mediate the connection; it's similar to how Airdrop connects two computers.
I think an important ingredient in having a dream job is to be in tune with society to some degree. You don’t have to do what everybody else does but you need to know how to work the system and get along with people.

From my observation there are people who do their own thing but don’t get along with people. And there are people who get along with others but don’t have their own goals. The lucky ones are the people who can do both.
Most of the time it might not be not just what you write but what that means in the context and which actions it triggers.
Can you use a VPN, and your parents or friends postcode in iPlayer?
While the author's reasoning mostly resonates, I agree with you and disagree with them on this particular point. For a typical user of htop, what matters is not "a process" or "a thread", but a killable unit. A piece of software that, should it misbehave, I can kill and possibly restart later. Killable units are almost always individual processes. Almost never threads - I can't think of a piece of software that can recover from having its random thread killed. Sure, I like to see threads - particularly in tree view - but I think the default should still be to hide them (with a more discoverable toggle than just Settings screen).
I am writing a novel in Markdown using Emacs. For most of the novel writing process Markdown is enough. I have been toying with the idea of tweaking the markdown like this novelWriter does, mostly because I constantly find myself wanting to annotate my text, or temporarily mark out, but not delete, blocks of text.
> Does distributed mean it’s replicated across machines?

No, in vineyard "distributed" doesn't mean data replicated across machines, rather, big data partitioned across machines. We address cases where the data cannot be fit into a single machine.

> Can this be run outside kubernetes or is it meant to be part of a big set of infra?

Yes, vineyard can run outside of kubernetes, but it would be a bit complicated to setup on many machines as a cluster.

Devops your vineyard cluster on kubernetes could leverage the ability of Kubernetes. We already have integrated with helm and there's a vineyard-operator in our roadmap.
Amazon is the new Microsoft.
Anybody using an android device will help Google aggregate data about you because as soon as your details are added to the contacts app those will be cross-referenced with other data Google has about you.

That’s exactly how Google ended up in possession on my mobile phone number in relation to my mail address: A friend added the same e-email address I use for YouTube to my android contact, which also included my phone number.

His android contacts app then proceeded to use my YouTube profile picture for my contact with my phone number.
"The issue is that an extremely small amount of American corporations are allowed to decide what is deemed acceptable to discuss online."

This is simply not true. This is not what's happening, and again I am trying to understand a reason why you think this is the case.

"If deemed unacceptable, you are relegated to the outskirts and often denied access to say, credit."

I'm sorry again, but this is also not only untrue, but betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how the Internet works. Any Internet accessible website is accessible from any browser at any time from anywhere in the world (excepting actual censorship taking place in some countries, e.g. the Great Firewall of China). This is what your "freedom of expression" guarantees, not access to the popular pages on the Internet.

The city center example is completely wrong because it imposes a false difficulty at visiting a restaurant outside of the city center that the restaurant cannot overcome. This is precisely the opposite of true, since any browser in the world can visit any Internet accessible website with the same level of effort. Your restaurant can still be walked into at an instant, anywhere in the world. Accessibility is a fixed value, and it's nearly zero.

Discovery of your speech is not a human right, however. I'm sorry if that violates your expectations, but it's true. You aren't guaranteed a right to be heard, only a right to speak, and on the Internet you will always have that right, again due to how the Internet works. It's a global network of interconnected computers, there will always be a place to express your thoughts and provide them to the world, one URL away.

I'm trying to give this more thought as our argument gets longer, as per HN guidelines, but I'm having a hard time keeping that goal clear. I would appreciate it if you tried to meet me somewhere in the middle here, to try and understand why I'm explaining things the way that I am.
> It's not Google's responsibility to protect the internet and provide a free anti-abuse database for other browser vendors, and yet Google does do this at significant cost. The fact that they don't do it perfectly is not a rationale for killing it or providing it with infinite resources.

I think that's a naive perspective. Google did not create the database to be nice to other vendors, and it also did not make it available to them for that purpose.

An Internet-wide blacklist represents strategic leverage over competitors (or maybe even dissonant voices, should the need arise) and an massive source of data collection probe points. These facts were certainly brought up internally and deemed worth the risk when the massive legal liability of this product was assessed.

Therefore, because of the pervasiveness of this system, it needs to be handled responsibly. They are not doing anyone a favor by making sure it functions correctly. Google is well aware of this, because they don't need regulators and lawmakers gaining yet another excuse to try and dismantle them.
Maybe you should Google it instead? Not every post has to explain everything. For regular readers, it would get very tiresome.
This should be required reading for anyone who wants to repeal or limit the First Amendment in the US.
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Of course it can solve them. If none of your therapists offered you tools to help you get out of a web of thoughts that you suffer under, that is on them. Of course, if it is your own choice then it is on you :)

For what it's worth, what you're talking about just isn't my experience at all. Perhaps it is your perception, and how that impacts the world around you (both what you see and how people respond to you). It's really no different than reading about a car and seeing that car in traffic a hundred times. You see what you focus on - in this case you're focusing on whatever it is you're seeing here and therefore you see it everywhere. That doesn't make it true.
> https://support.typora.io/License-Agreement/

EULA?! Thanks, but NO.

P.S. ghtostwriter is fully free & open-source, instead of proprietary Typora.
Imagine living in a country where it is a crime to criticize a person, better yet you should treat that person as a deity, when half the world is making fun of him. (There are articles of the current Thai king walking around half-naked in Germany...)
Yes, I would be much happier that. I do not even understand why to do this whole dance with Elastic.
>The former civil servant, Anchan Preelert, was sentenced to 87 years, but her prison term was cut in half because she agreed to plead guilty.

I looked her up, she is 65 now. I don't know why she even bothered pleading guilty.