skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand what you're saying wrt to rtf versus text but I completely disagree and I say this as somebody who used to have all of my notes in thousands of plain text files.

I've never felt like rich text editor's have gotten in my way, I can start immediately typing into a note in Evernote without ever feeling like the rich text somehow hinders my ability to be able to quickly transfer my thoughts.

For you, as you've said, you don't see the utility of rich text outside of presentations. But when I'm drawing up and working on new projects I like to have embedded imagery for my flow charts, when I'm working on music I like to include snippets of melodies, and I like to be able to easily take screenshots of things I'm working on and transfer them and embed them easily.

I like the ability to be able to copy code blocks from programs like visual studio and web storm knowing that I can preserve the color scheme and monospaced font. It makes readability great.

When I want to make a note about remembering how to perform some complicated task in Photoshop (for example) I might make a quick animation as a gif file and I want to see it animated and embedded in the note.

Evernote also lets me link notes to each other and can even do some interesting auto related suggestions for notes that are similar in context as well as allowing me to tag notes in addition to putting them in a traditional folder like hierarchy.

I am not a casual user at this point as I have about 5000 notes with folders and tags associated with them. I've been building this note store for the last 10 years in Evernote after switching from One Note. And at least for me the search capabilities are for all intents and purposes instantaneous. Evernote in particular does have a few minor issues with the inability to be able to do regex searches or partial word versus whole word searches but they're minor and don't really impact my daily experience.

Another key priority for me is set up and ease-of-use, it took me less than five minutes to understand how Evernote worked and to have it syncing and searchable across my Macbook, my PC, my android and my iPad.

I do think you make strong points but fundamentally we have very different workflows and that's what makes our requirements so vastly different.

You said that you used Evernote in the past, I'm honestly curious why you abandoned it. If it has limitations with regard to notetaking I certainly haven't encountered them - of course as a safety measure I also make weekly back ups of my Evernote store as a series of exported HTML files. To me this is the biggest shortcoming, ultimately I don't control the central repository, if I ever found an Evernote competitor with comparable features that could connect to an s3, FTP or even dropbox i would switch in a heartbeat.
I understand the first point, but I disagree that is always going to be possible or the correct path. If you blindly trust every employee, you will eventually end up hurting the company, the employee, and yourself.

Second point, sure. That's the ideal. But it's not always going to happen, and you need to be able to deal with that situation to be a well rounded manager and leader. IMO.
> There is no way that their upper management didn't know that they would be an amazing target for a hack

Presumes facts not in evidence.

From the nyt article https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/opinion/solarwinds-hack.h... "The market loves to reward corporations for risk-taking when those risks are largely borne by other parties, like taxpayers."

See articles https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds-articles/culture.html

Notice the report to SolarWinds: https://arcticsecurity.com/guides/2021/02/12/solarwinds-goin...

What does that tell you about their culture?
My view is: everything is comparative but if you make everything a comparison, boy you are in for a world of hurt. Life is mostly unfair so better treat the good times like the bonus that they are.
Much harder to kill a language than an app, no?
>The simple page you could make 20 years ago is the simple page you can make today. With a few minor tweaks, it will work as well as it did 20 years ago.

Which doesn't address the concerns of the author though, because the key is not that you can make the same page in 2021 (sure you can), but that nobody will pay your for making it in 2021.

Whereas if you knew how to make a pair of shoes in 1999, or to use a CS example, how to write good C in 1999, people would still pay you for the same knowledge...

>If for some reason you decide to use the tools meant for complex web apps to make your simple page, you're going to feel like everything has gone horribly wrong. But why are you doing that?

That's not the author's concern. His concern is that the fundamental technologies and best practices get thrown out every 5-8 years, and people in web frontend have to relearn tons of stuff and throw out hard-earned knowledge, plus add all kinds of stuff that was never a thing to stay afloat the current practices...

One could chalk it up to "well, of course you need to read to stay ahead", but the complain goes beyond that, to the volatility of front-end concepts and practices that makes this far more demanding that most areas of development (see also the related "js fatigue").
I was involved in some RF*s on Amdocs side for a bunch of telecoms in USA, Europe and Asia a few years ago.
Security requirements were very long and rather reasonable, to a point that it was pain in the ass to follow all of it.
Part of what we had to submit was deployment architecture that included security architecture that was reviewed by security teams. We also had some meetings with security teams which were more like serious interrogations (they just could go with waterboarding to speed up things). We even had as result of those discussion to alter somewhat product architecture (not "lets stick in tls". actual changes in how system works and interacts) in order to enable more secure deployment and operations.
But those were Tier 1 telecoms. Smaller one probably less strict but I don't know as I didn't deal with them
> at least can answer FaceTime calls because the answering interface is so easy to use.

This! I can't believe how shitty every single other video call apps are! Who invented swipe-to-answe? How did they test that? It's the most anti-intuitive move I've ever experienced and it took me months of frustrations to teach my 80+ old parent when he has an Android tablet... I ended up giving him an iPad just to use FaceTime
Not to sound miserly, but how is this a bonus for the employee whatsoever?
Absolutely infuriating mobile site behavior- try scrolling down just a little, site rips the content across the screen and inserts a garish title bar. Scroll back up just a line and the huge opening title graphic slams down from above. Can I just read this?
Men engaging in dick-waving contests isn't new. It pre-dates not just the current era of men feeling obsolete, but the entire history of humans as a species. Every mammal engages in it and we are no different in this regard.
Are you insinuating that not all weworkremotely jobs are authentic?
Technical talent is necessary but not sufficient. You need other things: a niche that hasn’t already been taken over due to network effects, the right design to address that market, possibly the marketing chops to get the ball rolling. Sometimes you can try to tilt the playing field by exploiting advantages that you have. That is not a guarantee of success either.

Technical talent is plentiful in Silicon Valley as long as you have the secret ingredient, stock options actually worth a lot of money.

Google+ bungled the very first part, the need they were serving. It is somewhat common for tech giants to hire renowned technical experts whether in design, engineering, etc but totally bungle the very first part. Just throw money at these experts and they will suddenly appear. As you can see, money isn’t much of an advantage tech giants have against fast growing upstarts, especially with valuations of high growth tech companies.
Bonuses should be: infrequent, irregular, unannounced, and large.

Otherwise you end up in this trap where people expect the bonus and worse yet, count on it to pay their bills.

It’s stupid to make it a part of your overall compensation package because if you do, then the bonus is always weighted based on overall company performance. So if the company has a bad year no one gets bonuses even if individual teams crushed it. Conversely at most companies, everyone gets a bonus in good years even if you have underperforming teams. Add on top of that these stupid requirements that bonuses be paid out on exactly day X, and you end up with lots of people who do nothing until they collect that fat bonus check and then give their notice the next day.

The bonus system as it stands at most companies incentivizes completely the wrong behavior.
Nice. Didn't realize how competitive in pricing AWS t4a is compared to starting offerings from GCP.
Many years ago I managed a small company that gave out bonuses. It was miserable for the most part. People did come to rely on those bonuses as if they were actual pay.

I worked with the owner to develop a system where if the quarterly bonus was over a specific amount 6 quarters in a row we translated that into a pay raise for everyone and that would effectively remove/lower the bonus but give the employees more stability. It has been a lot of years since I have been there, but the last I heard the bonuses were very small but the avg. pay was nearly 2x over any other company in the same industry. Turnover is near zero and the number of people waiting to get a job there was significant.
Let's also bear in mind that you can benefit from something without "using" it.
I once talked to a guy who was furious that his property taxes funded public schools b/c he didn't have kids. But ... I think we'd all be worse off if there were no public schools and there was an illiterate underclass.
I don't have a car and rarely drive on highways, but I have no idea where my groceries would come from if public roads were not present.
I don't expect to collect social security, but I pay into it with the knowledge that all my elderly family members collect it.

On the other hand, by paying our taxes, we Americans maintain thousands of nuclear weapons, and the largest and most elaborate military on the planet. So ... not all of what we pay for is "good".
To me that british tax law that he described is incredibly simple compared to the loop hole filled tangle that the united states has. Companies like google in the posted article wouldn't be able to spend millions of dollars to find these loop holes. I would think that most people would agree that their actions are clearly an effort to dodge taxes and that law would stop this and similar behavior. Relying on a captured congress to intricately craft incredibly complex tax laws where loop holes are left in a way that affords plausible deniability hasn't seemed to work so far.
I was looking for python TUI libraries recently. I got turned off this one due to the dependencies.

A simpler model is available with https://jwlodek.github.io/py_cui-docs/
Stamps are definitely still a thing! Lots of cool new sets are put out by the post office every year.
No, not categorically, but there's definitely a point at which I'd say the influence of lobbyists over government becomes unethical. Some examples off the top of my head:

- Correctional officers unions lobbying for harsh drug laws to ensure a steady supply of prison inmates.

- AccuWeather lobbying congress to prohibit NOAA and NWS from providing weather data to the public, so that AccuWeather can charge money for it.

- Intuit lobbying to prevent states and the IRS from providing free tax filing facilities.

When the question becomes, "what do we do about it", I'm well out of my depth, but I think the fight is worth having, and the practical effect of corporate lobbying is certainly a worthy subject for journalism like the OP.
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What is your suggested alternative solution?
But... then that would reveal how the software functions leading to possible copying, which cant be permitted
> I'm not sure what the methodologies are.

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/how-ad-fontes-ranks-news-sourc...

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/white-paper-multi-analyst-rati...

> They strike me all as—

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ don't know what to tell you. It took me all of "ad fontes methodology" in google to find the links above, and their approach is objectively stronger than your or my gut feeling/opinion.

And if you were to ask for my opinion, I'd say that The Guardian leans ever so slightly right, but that's why I rely on objective methods to rank media bias rather than my own gut.
Both good questions. It could very well be that low dimensionality is simply a byproduct of the fact that neuroscientists train animals on such simple (i.e., low-dimensional) tasks. This paper argues that [0]. As for your first point, it is known that auditory cortex exhibits tonotopy, such that nearby neurons in auditory cortex respond to similar frequencies. But much of cortex doesn't really exhibit this kind of simple organization. Regardless, technological advancements are making it easier for us to record from large populations of neurons (as well as track behavior in 3D) while animals freely move in more naturalistic environments. I think these kinds of experiments will make it clearer whether low-dimensional dynamics are a byproduct of simple task designs.

[0]: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/214262v1.abstract
It would be interesting to have a downvote system where the downvote is added as a comment, giving the downvoter an opportunity to say why the post was downvoted. And also give anybody else an opportunity to downvote the downvote itself (with comment). In other words, downvoting a post might impact you if your downvote is downvoted.
A while ago I noticed they set the default droplet to a more expensive one and moved the $5 option off the screen to the left so you have to scroll to see it, but it all lines up so it looks like there’s no more options. Minor change but a sneaky one.
Same. First time hearing about this issue with ytdl.
My old MacBook Pro is in desperate need of an upgrade, but I'll probably wait for the next iteration on the M1 (probably due sometime this fall) before I upgrade. Far too much stuff I use comes from outside the Apple RDF, and is likely to drag its feet for as long as possible before bothering to make a native build.
(Plus I still occasionally have reason to fire up VMware, but I'll soon offload that job to a separate machine.)

Thankfully I've always treated my laptop as a secondary machine, and my current one only gets painful (or really just hot and poor on battery life) when I'm trying to run modern video codec stuff on it.
Concerningly, the treadmill appears to keep running for quite a while after after the woman gets off--does this model not have a magnetic safety key that you are supposed to attach to your body?
A lot of people forget that Altavista (one of the first web search engines) was created there, and that at some point in the time of the internet, a lot of people mistakenly went to visit http://altavista.com instead of http://altavista.digital.com looking for the search engine.
> I think it's a little scummy that they go out of their way to hide it and make the more expensive options the default

Eh, I wouldn't call that hiding it so much as making the current market default the one they default to. If you're looking for the lowest end droplet, then yeah, it makes sense you would want the lower end Intel without SSD, but if you're buying something more expensive at all, there's more of a choice to be made.

Also, I'm not going to fault them for putting forth the option that allows them to more easily decommission what are probably older hardware and disks for newer offerings, especially when the "hiding" is just a radio button above the droplets. It's not that hidden. I suspect eventually the newer gen Intel/AMD offerings will lower in price and replace the current default.

> I'd love to know what they burn on marketing, because their video ads on YouTube are crazy.

That's interesting. I remember seeing some like 6-12 months ago on youtube for the first time, but I haven't seen any for a long while. I must have just been flagged as not part of their target audience (or Google has determined I already use them).
Debian will not issue a public statement on the Richard Stallman/FSF issue
> Otherwise you end up in this trap where people expect the bonus and worse yet, count on it to pay their bills.

Kind of like tipping in the USA. It has nothing to do with service, is a standard percentage of the total bill (cork a $200 bottle of wine versus $20?). And the managers pay the wait staff less with the assumption they’ll make it up with tips.
I have suspicion that a lot of people who jumped to NoSQL just didn’t like the aesthetics of SQL syntax, in the same sense as people would not be ecstatic about Visual Basic.
> Presumes facts not in evidence.

Yep, agreed. Its hard for me to believe that they didn't know they were rolling the dice on security, but just my intuition.
Does this mean that newpipe might start working again?
There's literally a biblical parable about this (though sort of in reverse). I'll paraphrase it (it's from Matthew Ch 20):

A man goes out in the morning to find workers for his vineyard, promising them each denarius for the day. Around lunch he goes to find more workers. During the afternoon, he goes to find even more workers. At the end of the day the man pays everyone, starting with those who arrived during the afternoon. To these folks he gives a denarius. The workers who had arrived earlier see this and think they're about to get a bonus, only to then also receive a denarius apiece.

The main purpose of the parable is to describe that everybody who makes it to Heaven is there on equal terms. But there's another truth to it that the article also describes--if you agreed to work for a wage and then receive that wage, can it really be called unfair?
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> Alienware should hang its head in shame at the idea of charging people $3,400 — the minimum price for a Ryzen 9 5950X system — for a boutique PC stuck behind 16GB of single-channel memory without so much as a warning

I used to work for an x86/x86-64 system manufacturer (primarily servers, but also high end workstations) some 15+ years ago. This is truly inexcusable and a sad reflection on how the consumer facing side of the industry really hasn't changed in the past 15-20 years. I saw competitors doing exactly the same sort of thing, selling things to end users who had more money than technical acumen or common sense.

And people wonder why the serious enthusiast crowd still prefers to build their own PCs in the year 2021...
I wish there was something like this for JAMstack/JS only websites that you host on eg Netlify. I know Netlify has their own analytics but they're paid, which is fair enough, but hard to bite the bullet when Google Analytics is free.
>But the basic point, that he started out in business with family financial resources that the overwhelming majority of humans will never have, remains true.

What does all that matter if you leave home at 17 with access to none of it? I'm not saying that's true, but it's what Elon implied and wasn't covered in your explanation how how his rebuttal is deceptive.

I myself have no doubt that he has his parents to thanks in large part for his success. But I would pin that on genetics rather than direct connections in his case. Personality traits like grit, intelligence, and ruthlessness are quite heritable, correlate with getting rich, and I think people forget about that when getting worked up about rich people's kids succeeding disproportionately.
I don't want to make like, a federal case out of this, but since you're asking:

She said, in effect, "don't explain to me how to do plaintext email, I don't need/want that," and though your comment is in small part calling out Apple, it's mostly an explanation of how to do plaintext in Mail.app and Gmail, and then a suggestion to not use it because it's not "real." So it's largely a "let me show you how to do this right" kind of comment.
Yeah, but those are not actual quotes. Usually the actual quotes only contain the grit boasting part only.

I added the tongue-in-cheek admission to my fake quotes for fun :-)
You could fingerprint the user as well:

- look at the statistical behavior of how they operate the mouse

- estimate their reading speed based on their scrolling

- for mobile devices, use the IMU to fingerprint their walking gait and angle at which they hold the phone (IMU needs no permissions)

- measure how the IMU responds at the exact moment a touch event occurs. this tells you a quite a bit about how they hold their phone

- if they ever accidentally drop their phone, use the IMU to detect that and measure the fall time, which tells you the distance from the ground to the height they held the phone. then assuming the phone is held normal to the eyes, you can use the angle they held the phone to extrapolate the location of the eyes and estimate the user's approximate height
Oh wow. Gerrit looks almost completely like Critique (the internal code review tool at Google) now. I really enjoy the user interface and whole flow of Gerrit.
Sure there are shades but ultimately as a leader you need to assist your team is making a decision and going forward with it. Your team is there to shade it and give you all the options, even decide on the options. But you are there to break the stalemate and give your team confidence in execution.
> Nowadays, stock options given to employees often end up being worth nothing, even on a successful exit.

This seems unlikely.

Exits and IPOs have much greater valuations now than they did ‘back in the day’ so far more early employees end up with a significant infusion of cash.
It's ceo was part of it's leadership team during the timeframe when you assert that it was evil the same is true of a lot of folks. It was unethical then and it's unethical now with a strong desire for better PR
It wasn't last year, now it is again, so people might've missed it. I thought you could only deduct $300 though.
When we moved from 3.x to 9x , the start menu was such a beautifully simple way to access everything. Now it's a bloated mess but still kind of works.
This attitude doesn’t have a ceiling. The same person compelled by that impulse also manages to use an unnecessary data structure that introduces complexity. I’ve seen todo-app-like functionality done with serious data structures that made the code needlessly complex.

Why am I here bitching all the time? Because I don’t have it in me to fight someone at work. The underlying tension can be reduced to me saying ‘you know this is crazy right?’, followed with ‘you don’t get it because you are not a real programmer’, and alas, those are both fighting words from both sides.
There are well-known places for well-known purposes.

Your house has a kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms, "and so on". You don't keep your car or skilsaw in the ones listed, but there is a place for each.
> Curl, pipe to some random folder, mix in some sudo access

you mean this:

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg

in the section labeled ‘Add Docker’s official GPG key’, where you download a GPG keyring for Docker's apt repository and install it to /usr/share/keyring?

Really? That's a ‘random directory’?
This is a different point, which is worth its own debate.

My point is: if you want them to not use loophole, then codify it.

This is like your company doesn't write what your job's responsibility is.
There are differences in types of compensation in the very short term because of IRS withholding rules. I think a lot more gets taken out of a bonus early in the year, although of course it's all the same when you do your taxes.