skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See here on the differences between Dendron and Obsidian https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/683740e3-70ce-4a47-a1f4-1f140e...

tldr: obsidian is easier to get started with and is good for free association of notes. dendron is better integrated into the development workflow and is amazing at helping you organize your notes into well defined hierarchies
DeepL Translator Launches 13 New European Languages
Cool. But Dragon doesn't appear to be to scale with respect to the station modules. Dragon looks much too large compared to all pictures I've seen. See for instance this render https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spacef...
Never owned an Amiga. HAM was used for static screens and photos, right? What were the screen modes used for actual games?
The only problem with your statement is you didn't include women, the disabled, gays, any trans person, or any other newly conjured victimized group in your 100% business attitude. It is simply too politically incorrect to deal with people in these groups as critically thinking beings even if they are so best to just avoid any conversation that isn't absolutely necessary. The best bet is to pretend to be a hapless robot and make the interaction end as soon as possible, much in the way minority groups attempt to minimize their interactions with the police. It is a useful survival mechanism in a no win scenario. Stray into victimization territory and you'll either be asked to self-flagulate or be accussed of an '-ism'. I waiting for the word 'conversation' to be redefined by the intersectionalists much like 'racism'.
> And people very reasonably ask – hey, I notice my side kind of controls all of this stuff, the situation is actually asymmetrical, they have no way of retaliating, maybe we should just grind our enemies beneath our boots this one time.

> And then when it turns out that the enemies can just leave and start their own institutions, with horrendous results for everybody, the cry goes up “Wait, that’s unfair! Nobody ever said you could do that! Come back so we can grind you beneath our boots some more!”

I don't think often of the right to "go away if you don't like something", but that's because it's so basic and essential I barely consider it.
First off. Thank you for your comment. As a white European I need to hear these perspectives and I don't hear them enough.

Your comment reminded me of those email signatures that say something like, "Please think of the environment before you print this." Do they actually accomplish anything or do they just annoy people?

We need to weigh the real impact of actions against their potential annoyance. Because otherwise we're turning people off to the goals we're trying to achieve.

There was recently an environmental action in my city to stop traffic with a banner during a busy Sunday when lots of people were returning to the city. The activists did it because they wanted to get people to notice and care about the environment. The motorists were of course very annoyed and many of them posted on social media about this. Does annoying a bunch of motorists work towards saving the environment or just alienate people who could have been your allies?

There's a similar dynamic happening here.

A name was changed.

The change annoyed some people. Some people were not annoyed.

Nothing else happened.
The conversation is original, the representation, the ones and zeros, is just that, a representation. When someone else reads these posts us two won't be having this conversation again.

> Once again this meme that because ~infinity can be produced the value of all of them goes to zero is somewhat insane. We can produce ~infinity real paintings as well.

The value of things is not dictated by how much of it we can produce. Value is not directly related to quantity but to the relationship between quantity, demand, and time.

> Fine, spin NFT's up and make money. Lets see how we go. If you jump in right now you might be the first to print a million soup cans for a $1.

Not interested.

Lastly, you use the word meme out of context a lot like someone who just learned it, and you keep calling other people stupid, people you do not know. That is no way to have a conversation.
Downvotes? LOL!
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I think there will be a few levels of displacement and migration waves from climate change.

Things like sea level rise, rising temperatures, and more frequent blizzards or cold snaps act over decades. That'll be a gradual shift in migration patterns, not a crisis.

But a lot of the second-order effects operate on much smaller timescales. Hurricanes can cause large dislocation on the timescale of a week: look at Rita & Katrina in 2005, which cut the population of New Orleans in half and gridlocked all the freeways out of Houston for days. Wildfires also can trigger large migrations within a matter of weeks. We've been lucky that most of the West Coast wildfires have been in relatively unpopulated areas, but if one were ever to jump highway 280 in the Bay Area or get into the Pasadena/Glendale/Burbank area by LA, we could have a mass evacuation crisis. Crop failures too: that's what's driving a lot of the Middle East migration. If it happened in the U.S. or China millions of people would starve.

There's also violence caused by resource constraints. We see that in Central America now, in the Middle East, and increasingly in the middle of U.S. cities.
This is the story that Google wants you to believe by fast following Apple with pricing changes. They want to demonstrate that Apple has pricing power to regulators (just my theory). The reality is that Apple and Google are in competition, and if Google actually innovated on business model the way they do with every other aspect of their business, it would actually drive the app store fees down for Apple. Microsoft has tried to do this [1] but they don't have enough market power to move the needle.

[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-store-now-gives-app...
> Which is a reward for processing transactions.

No, it is a reward for finding the next block. Miners can optionally choose to include transactions if they wish.
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FreeBSD is comparatively more friendly to proprietary blobs, as it maintains a stable kernel ABI within major releases. [0]

Even choosing to ignore any blobbed drivers, Linux will still have better software compatibility, and still generally superior hardware compatibility. Certainly not worse hardware support. Linux supports more classes of hardware like wifi adapters, while FreeBSD is stuck trying to bring up newer standards. It also requires the same firmware blobs that Linux does -- in the end, whether on Linux or FreeBSD, if you dislike binary blobs in your drivers, you just have to limit yourself to hardware that doesn't require them.

[0] https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=284199+0+/usr/...
Hey Cliff! We haven't met, but I'm the proud owner of a Klein Bottle (and a couple "Portraits of Gauss"!) :-)

Thanks for reading! Some of these great innovators will be making an appearance in Evervault Papers in the near future. Stay tuned!
The ethics concerns of this should be put right up there with genetic modification.
I was a long one note user. I think they have great UX. I found it difficult to export from one note or drill down to something specific quickly. If it helps, we do have a bunch of former one note users as well as scripts to convert from one note to markdown
True. Also, office politics means that senior management at large organisations tend to be very risk-averse (the old "try not to be in the room when a decision is made" trope).

Telling the geeks in the IT basement to change the name of the "master branch" on that "git" thing that the organisation apparently uses, so that thousands of angry people (some of them journalists at large media organisations) aren't shouting at you on Twitter seems like such an easy choice to make ;)
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That’s the rational thing to do. Lots of risk, little reward. Everyone reaps what they sow eventually anyway.
Not a developer, and if I were I might find such a question puzzling. Here's why I use it:

+zfs +(poudriere & /usr/ports) +(helpful mail lists) +bhyve !systemd

FreeBSD since 1994, Debian since 1998.

But underneath it all is a philosophy about how to live your life. If you want Big Corps deciding your computational experience, good for you, even Linux can provide that for you now. I don't. I don't care if I'm irrelevant. I approach cooking, reading, travel, etc the same way. And there are ranges. OpenBSD goes even further. I respect that.

My partner lives in Big Corp IT land during the day and she loves the in house experience of our rather extravagent mostly FreeBSD "cloud". Some Debian in there too; got to run some appliances like unifi-video.

Writing this on a FreeBSD NVIDIA desktop. Which I'm going to use to do my own taxes myself, with org-mode, and I'm going to file here shortly. For that I need chromium, which works fine. Otherwise I use Firefox, which ports tracks releases quite closely.

All this unnecessary effort! Why would anyone do such a thing. Mysteries.
Unfortunately even if most people wanted to "donate" their medical data for research purposes, much of medical data (images especially) is locked into difficult to access systems.
Developer should limit the height of the main image to something like 80-90% of the viewport so that it doesn't hide the play button.
A solar carport doesn't save you from having to plug the car in to charge it. That's the real appeal of having "wireless charging" (solar) panels on your car.
Avoiding security vulnerabilities.
Until recently the base branch of git repositories was fairly stable. Coming from a long history of revision control systems where the base branch was incredibly stable.
A mouse embryo has been grown in a jar–humans could be next
"Hosting wikipedia accounts for roughly 2% of their total expenses"
Last time that I posted about it I ended up getting mass-downvoted though https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26056276
I've used to do this for a very long time. I've tried to customize almost every aspect of the system. At the time, I've also used to bash on Macs a lot.

I've later figured out it all stops being funny whenever I have some work to do quickly and am not in the mood for bothering with my tiling WM having too many windows open or some random broken packages.

It finally clicked when I had to collaborate on a UX desgin project and it was a big pain... My teammates used Sketch and Photoshop. Sketch is not available on Linux (which I used at the time) and GIMP just didn't want to open/save PSDs right (there was always something wrong with layers).

I've switched to macOS, it was quite a big change but I've since figured out I don't need to tweak every aspect of the OS just because I can.

Don't get me wrong, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD... are great operating systems. They do just work for lots of use cases. It's just that customizing your OS often doesn't justify the time spent.
When someone shows you the moon, do you start talking about her finger?

Peace!
I encountered this and wrote about it in other meditation thread. Here I've inlined it below.

Meditation is a blade with no hilt.

I _accidentally_ fell into a vipassana state of mind after the first time trying a particular religious chant, seriously, from out of the pains of boredom as a 20 year old.

At the time I lived nearby mountains, and after 'coming to', I saw them through the window. I cannot describe to you the overwhelming feeling of beauty and awe that crashed over me. It was as though this was the very first time I had ever seen mountains. I think the best description I can manage comes from 'Both Sides Now' by Joni Mitchell.

'I've looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow It's cloud illusions I recall I really don't know clouds at all'

The experience was so disorienting. As if I was seeing the mountains for what they were directly through my senses and not mediated by my knowledge of what mountains were like, linguistically.

It changed my entire life -- weeks later later I lost my job and fell into a 5 year extreme depression / anxiety spell in the attempt to reconcile my adolescent religious upbringing with the continued insight from that experience. Absolutely worthwhile, in hindsight, but it cost me near everything for it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24186942
Can you name a single person the term 'master branch' has hurt?

Your subconscious bias of being an oppressor is showing. You are pushing your views onto others. This is what some slave owners tried to do. Maybe you should check your privilege and stop engaging in microaggressions before accusing everybody else of doing the same.
The horse allegory is a fictional story involving talking horses. It is hardly any more fictional than a symbolic retelling of communism spreading. Both are intended to prove a point, not accurately portray the details of history.
there can at least be a notification and a delay, so I have 12-48 hours to respond if I get an emergency alert that my service is about to be deactivated
Yeah I think this just shows the trade-offs. The path forward for your manager here is to grok they need to turn the dial, at least in their relationship with you. What I reject is the idea that the dial needs to be dialed all the way away from coding, especially permanently, or that doing so is not without immense costs.

It certainly makes the job of a manager harder when you are forced to reckon with the fact that you can't just throw out coding without it undermining your ability to be a good manager. In practice, I would try to ebb-and-flow with the teams' needs - it's a dynamic, challenging process.

Also, there's a tricky issue of, as a report, being able to identify what is intentional vs unintentional. Your manager is probably failing you, but there's also a chance they are forcing you to grow by disengaging a bit and letting you fall into a few ditches. Sometimes a good coach will just shut up and let you make mistakes. Until you see the net effect of their behavior on you over an extended period, you can't know if you have a good coach who is pushing you in a way that you can't see, or a bad coach who is just failing you. A lot of people with good coaches resent them in the early days for being too hard, too disengaged, or other things, which forces them to push themselves harder.
> So, next time you are annoyed that you have to fix a script or you accidentally type master when you needed to type main, please just take a deep breath, change the name, and remember to reflect upon whether you have are subconscious habits or biases that work against diversity in tech.

Which sounds okay(1) if all I'm working on is a simple document. If I'm in the larger context of making a change in code because it's breaking something somewhere else, the cognitive overhead of switching gears from "technical mode" to "political mode" to "what the heck was I really doing again?" is costly.

(1) I had "great" but downgraded it to "okay" because literally no one is offended by this -- it's virtue signaling to make rich people feel like they look better.
Fair enough, I don't mean to discount the value of the metrics they did use. However I can think of two things that could be gained from testing people weekly.

1) If it actually prevents detectable infection altogether, it's some evidence of preventing spread, sooner. (as I understand we have some of that evidence now that it's in wide use)

2) If there are long term effects of even asymptomatic cases, we'd have some reason to believe that those are mitigated as well.
I think the War on Drugs was far more responsible for that than LBJ.
Ditto, and fully agreed with your post. Though it's odd seeing EGA called a "GPU"... that's later terminology, back then this were graphics adapters or, in our street parlance, "graphics cards" ;)

There was also an odd time where every graphics card got called a "VGA" in its broadest sense, unrelated to actual VGA modes.

I feel it's time to talk about the beloved Hercules adapter and SIMCGA!
The bulk of software that is actually making money and not just trying to convince investors to get in early enough to get rich off of other investors before enough people figure out they're never going to monetize are still selling to enterprise customers. For every 30 people figuring out how to profit off a user-facing web app, there are 3000 chugging away at basic J2EE or maybe Spring Boot now for some proprietary backend business system for a Fortune 500 or the government that no member of the public will ever see. This sort of work seems to have become invisible to web-based developer communities like Hacker News, but they're still there. The need and the demand has only grown.

Granted, I don't know that it means there needs to be dedicated Product Manager roles. Granted, I as an engineer don't particularly want to deal with expectation management, scheduling, and capacity planning, and am perfectly happy to let someone else do it, but most of my work has been for the military and intelligence community and I think we have a much bigger problem there that org structure at the actual product development level can't solve. Our "customer" is an acquisition office, not the actual users of our products, and we're not legally allowed by the structure of contract law to have any direct contact with the actual users. So we cargo cult the hell out of basic agile principles that promise a more responsive and user-oriented process, but we can't legally implement that process the way it is actually supposed to be implemented. Instead of being directly accountable to our users, we're instead accountable to career bureaucrats who are more concerned about adding bullet points to their resumes while taking minimal risk than the actual needs and use cases of analysts and warfighters.
Centering things in CSS
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There's archaic and there's minimalist, and they're definitely not the same. Languages with buckets of features have steeper and longer learning curves, and if they're still actively developed, what you do learn may not last long.

Go is what I'd call minimalist. COBOL or fortran are what I'd call archaic.
Except this isn't 1950 and internet advertising exists. Why give $100 to wikimedia for advertising for ads that perform badly when you can give it to Facebook or Google or Twitter for ads that perform well.
I am black, and I honestly find this change ridiculous. Born in Africa and lives in the US. And honestly this is ridiculous. At some point this becomes painful it spare the real discussions that need to have about slavery and history.
Good question - I didn't have a very clear goal other than to know/experience the ultimate "truth" or "nature", whatever it is, assuming it even exists. I was a very undisciplined young adult at the time.
What's truly interesting is that ClearAngel is allowing early stage business to compete with Series A level information... Wonder what this is going to look like in 3 yrs?
This thread makes me feel better with struggling to implement this. I'm not the only one.
Your entire comment seems to be advising people about the law and their rights or lack of them. Then you ask repeatedly "What did I advise anyone to do?" as if nothing counts as "legal advice" but "advising someone to do something". IANAL but to me, and it seems others, when you get legal advice it often takes the form of information about the law, your rights or lack of them. Not just advising someone to do something. I'm not sure why this is hard to understand. Maybe you are using a very narrow technical definition of "legal advice"..uh, like a lawyer might, I suppose.

p.s. [checks who you are] ohh it's You! hehe. I read your article about non-rube email! (And some of your other writing) I thought it was impressive, but seemed super-complex, too much for...non-experts like me. Have you thought about setting that system up for people, as a business? I guess so.

https://sneak.berlin/20201029/stop-emailing-like-a-rube/
New England can feed itself minus the cities. That's what they did for hundreds of years - New England was almost entirely farmland until the 20th century. A lot of folks still have small-scale subsistence farms or vegetable gardens in Vermont, New Hampshire, even central/western Massachusetts.
Not sure if this is the best idea from a "brand perspective"
I think you can go bigger than that for potential positives. Imagine growing clones (presumably without a [fully-]functioning brain) for use in organ donation, for example.
Anyone have any ideas about making an 80-character-wide, plaintext-style website responsive?

I really like the style, but it doesn't work well on phones.
I adore 4:3 screens and definitely see myself using something like this as my next laptop just for this reason, even if I would not touch the screen at all. But it must at least run unmodified debian before I consider buying something like this.
Sorry couldn't resist, from wikipedia:

> if one were to measure a coastline with infinite or near-infinite resolution, the length of the infinitely short kinks in the coastline would add up to infinity.

No they wouldn't. The sum would converge. What a bad article.
I vehemently disagree. Such virtue signaling is okay when one is on empirically high moral ground. If the lesson were “stay away from snakes” or “stop, drop, and roll”, there would be no possible debate over those topics and we might all agree that a frequent refresher would be welcome.

However, there remains considerable discussion over oppression, race, and politics. For you to shoehorn in your personal viewpoint here immediately ends the discussion and implies that your side is right, when that may not be the case.

Think about if we changed the names literally to “n-word” and “white whip”. You’d be just as disgusted as I am for the opposing side to claim empirical moral high ground and to force you to accept something that you don’t find to be a settled debate.
Writing Small CLI Programs in Common Lisp
Maybe not the most complex, but the most useful for me are the concepts of Envelope (like flight envelope) and range of operation. You start to understand how hard reality is and how engineered systems are all bound to it.

You can't have, for example, a mic capable of recording both a whisper and a rocket launch. You need to optimize for some function.
My biggest gripe with note taking apps is that basically all of the ones I've seen take the IDE approach. They are not as much note taking apps as specialized document editors. Because of this I'm still stuck with Tomboy which is very far from ideal but at least it's quick and easy to start typing a new note . (Unfortunately it doesn't support markdown, only starting bullet points with typing a *, it does support wiki links, which I don't use much but it uses some xml format.)

Most notes, at least the way I work, start as just that: notes. Then some of them grow more complex and evolve into a larger document (or ideally, could evolve into multiple linked ones), but Tomboy doesn't really support it (at least if it had support for copy-ing away text as markdown...) and I really don't feel like having yet another IDE like app taking up the whole screen for every small note.