skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only someone that doesn’t understand what censorship is would say this.

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient." Censorship can be conducted by governments, private institutions, and other controlling bodies.

Amazon, Apple, Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. are multibillion-dollar corporations that control a colossal share of online communications.
Exactly, I need to take lots of notes and beyond search and sync, I need it conveniently everywhere with me on all devices.

That's why I use Google Keep --- which is pretty terrible... except it's free, it's everywhere there's a browser, there's an app for it on every phone/tablet, and it works offline when I sometimes don't have internet connection.

Works ok since I write notes in plain text, with some markdown notation (but without actual Markdown support in Keep).

In the past, I've used Notational Velocity and other fancy things, but I find plain text is best. And now I need sync on all devices, so went with Keep.
FWIW, I have used single panel outlines for years starting with Omni Outliner on my OSX 10.0.1 days. However, after switching off Mac, I've come to depended on Ecco Pro[1] which I presently use on Ubuntu/Gnome via Wine.

Ecco Pro only has one level of undo but it just does just what is needed and I've never had it loose any data on me. It was last compiled in 1997 but there are ways to tweak it out for modern OS's.

I have automated scripts to convert Ecco outlines into Markdown also have time invoicing outputs etc. As Ecco does not have any rich text or any intrinsic special formatting coding, its easy to use Ecco as your own personal note taking DSL. For Example:
.: <title_block> :.
[.] - todo (open)
[x] - todo (done)
[~] - todo (in progress)
etc...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecco_Pro
The figure with the pointy hat and the soundtrack, reminds me of the game Monument Valley for iPhone and iPad by Us Two games. If you love architecture, Cornelis Escher’s art and puzzles, I highly recommend it.
You'd probably want to avoid citing Japanese TV shows as reference. They are all fake and completely scripted/heavily edited from start to finish.
“Cogito ergo sum.” There is, by nature of anything existing at all, definitionally some objective reality.
With a value of $95B, they are the largest yc alum now. They can afford to invest in building lots of new products.
The good thing about the ceremony is having the whole team see whats being planned and giving input and helping each other out. But there might be a more efficient way to do this. Get everyone to read a published "this is our roadmap" page or something like that.
Would you mind explaining what Mdbook does in this context?

It seems like it fulfills a completely different purpose than what's being talked about here.
Go vegan if you want to save society and the environment.
Regulatory capture has arguably the best ROI of any "investment". Fighting it should be well supported and well funded.
So, the difference is that they encrypt data before they send it through?

I'm not sure if my assumption is completely incorrect. While it's onion routed, the grunt of the work seems to be done by "trusted partners".
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As part of the Stack Overflow April Fools' prank, we did some data analysis on copy behavior on the site [0]. The most copied answer during the collection period (~1 month) was "How to iterate over rows in a DataFrame in Pandas" [1], receiving 11k copies!

[0] https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/04/19/how-often-do-people-ac...

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/16476974/16476924
Yes, have a developer program and sdk and review every app to make sure there’s no back doors or malware. Oh wait.
+1 for Notes, but I use Notes as like my scratch/dumping area and then move things into Notion.

I make an Inbox note in both to just dump stuff and then move it around. In my Notion I have a "Knowledge Garden" page which is like this hyper linked super wiki page of all my knowledge and as you dig in to the links it gets deeper. (e.g. a toggle for "computers" with bunch of paragraphs talking about [Cloud] and [AWS (Cloud > AWS)] and etc. links)

I should probably just use Obsidian or Roam but things working well on Mobile is important to me and the Notes and Notion apps work exceptionally.

To be honest: if Notes would just let me make non-share links to use to navigate between notes (without all the hacks you can do) I wouldn't really need Notion.
This is even more interesting because prior to the 1920s 他 was a gender neutral third person pronoun. And in ancient Chinese 也 was probably pronounced differently to today's yě, perhaps more like the ā of tā. A great resource for looking up the history of individual characters is Wiktionary:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%BB%96

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%B9%9F

Wiktionary is neat because it also shows you pronunciations in several different Chinese languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, Minnan, Hakka etc) and the relationship to Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese, if it's there.
> Any idea how to donate money to make sure this term is the end of Manchin’s career (unless he gets in line with the rest of the party)?

There's no way to achieve that. His state is Republican, and he could easily switch to that party. Also, the recent leftist crazy talk and border fiasco means both the House and Senate will soon be R, which is what you should be really worried about as a leftist.

> Despite having a solid majority of the US behind them

That's debatable. If the Democrats are so sure about their 2020 victory, they'd stop stonewalling the various election audits. But here we are.

> the democrats only rarely have the ability to pass legislation, and this senator is literally setting the country back by decades.

No, Manchin is preserving the existing checks and balances intended by the Founding Fathers. Marxism didn't work in Russia, and it won't work here.

> We can’t afford to put of vote reform any longer, or we’ll transition from a democracy to apartheid.

Everybody wants voting reform - the Republicans want a valid ID and limits on mail-in votes, and the Democrats want unrestricted illegal immigration in case the illegals vote Democrat later. Which one is responsible, and which one is dereliction of duty?

Also, we had racial integration before Obama's intersectionalist White House campaigning. Now we have CRT, which is literally racial segregation (ie. apartheid.)

> Climate change isn’t waiting for congress to get its act together either.

I haven't seen a workable plan from anybody, and even if there was one, China will never be onboard, which is likely half of the current industrial emissions.

I can tell you that the gang-of-27 WHO-corrupted scientists who signed the "lab leak is a conspiracy letter" didn't help with the reputation of science, including those working on climate.
> I’ve lost count of the stories I have heard from others about how our community welcomed them when they needed a friend, felt alienated and alone, doubted themselves, or felt like they couldn’t make it in the world.

Wow, I never thought a programming language community can help people overcome negative feelings. These storeis are really nice.
I mean, you don't even have to go as far as register allocation to see the problems that make it all a big dead end. WebAssembly requires e.g. the call opcode parameter to actually be an index into the global function table, causing an indirection, which is about a trillion times worse than current CPUs which can just directly write the new PC to the register file at once. The spec is littered with stuff like this, for good reason.

Considering WebAssembly is designed to be relatively easy to compile ahead of time, there's no reason to make the hardware worse when you could just ship "firmware" that compiles to an underlying ISA transparently, and reuse decades of existing knowledge. This would make the system behave more like the AS/400 and IBM iSeries, which abstracted away the underlying microarchitecture through its firmware.
You're extrapolating an elaborate political agenda from an extremely brief description of a criminal.
The biggest benefit of Covid that I've seen where I live is that kids are out of the house and playing outdoors. I notice more parents go for walks with them too. But I think having to sit there for online school during lockdown, they really want to get outside after to see their friends.
Youtube has a really good option for this. Like if the creator checks a box, then when the video starts in top left, a small popup comes that its a paid endorsement. Just the user knowing before they watch or read the entire thing is probably enough and what that matters.

Also, lots of TV shows do not need to disclose that but on internet everyone has to which IMO is better.
Is this similar to how Apple shares WiFi creds between nearby iPhones? I've found that quite handy more than a handful of times and have missed having it on other non-Apple devices.
A Boy Who Could DeFi: Meet the 13-Yr-Old Who Built a $7M Money Manager on ETH
Read the test.py then ;)
I agree 100%. So naive. Just think of a world where we (US, EU, etc.) stop investing in this technology while Russia, China, etc. continue.

It really burns me to hear AI professors rail against “autonomous weapons” yet go work at Facebook, Google, etc. Information, especially manipulation of it, is a weapon too.
That’s sad, as when you find yourself iterating over rows in pandas you’re almost invariably doing some wrong or very very sub optimally.
This is getting downvoted, but if I'm wrong, then please do explain to me what is this argument supposed to mean? I mean the one that's usually very explicitly phrased as "the value of the dollar is backed by the US military", which gets said all the time when people compare the value proposition of fiat currency to cryptocurrencies.

I've always understood this to mean "if people stop accepting the USD, the military will make them do so by force". But by all means, do tell me of what other ways aircraft carriers can be used to support the value of the dollar.

I'm not even saying that this is factually incorrect (though I don't know if it is). I'm just pointing out the perversity of this argument. It gets brought up surrounding the current inflation debate all the time too. I don't like the casual-ness with which people can say what amounts to, essentially, "don't worry, we can always resort to deadly violence if we need to."
What is an "art game", and how is it different from a mere "game"?
In addition to his age the most unusual part of the story is that he's already taken an investment from Mark Cuban. Can a 13 year old kid really get a good deal from a shark?
Titan token goes from $60 to $0 in 24hrs
Ok, so the core count is not the right level of parallelism (except by accident).
Still not quite right; still centers on destruction being the intention. The problem, I think, is that you're reaching for the most emotionally-charged words when they don't actually fit. We don't hate animals; they just taste good. So it's just slaughter on an industrial scale.
It is not having quarter acre single
family homes with garages and 2 car driveways. And not having 6+ lane wide intersections. And using traffic circles instead of traffic lights.

But mostly the first one. The second you start giving everyone a 2k+ square foot home and backyard and front yard and 2 car parking, you now have everything spaced so far apart that you need cars. And everyone needs space to put their car, so that means huge setbacks for storefronts, huge parking lots, etc.

You cannot have a community optimized for both numerous cars and non car traffic. It is one or the other, and once the layout is done, it is not politically changeable. Certainly not the huge personal vehicles almost everyone drives today.
You wonder if he was just "done" or if he was sufffering:

> At the end of the tour—in a second-story sitting room full of personal artifacts—we were presented, matter-of-factly, with a copy of Eastman’s suicide letter, dated March 14, 1932: “My work is done. Why wait?” Eastman shot himself in the heart with a Luger pistol at the age of 77.
Imho, the author had n
poor idea how electronics is actually manufactured
Miles Davis is like the Forest Gump of music in that despite dying at age of only 65 in 1991, his career spanned so many epochs in US history, and always adapting with the times. Such as from the Jim Crow era of America from the 40 and 50s, to the era integration and social upheaval of the 60s to the 70s, to the digital and synth age starting in the 80s, the ending information age in the 90s. Nowadays, it seems like artists are stuck in a fixed, amorphous state of time between the early 2000s and present, whereas in the 20th century each decade was distinct in some way culturally, socially, and musically.
urbit sigils with 8 colour options seems like a no-brainer then.
"Lots of people have been shot, and the shooter is still at large on your street. We have a good description of them but don't want to tell you".
It's the Snopes mentality - some people are more concerned about the words in a sentence, than what it actually means.

It might be an OCD thing.

If you talk to pro-level musicians, they all have more than 10 years of experience playing daily, which dovetails with about 10,000 hours. That's enough proof for me.
Don’t get me wrong, I love technology. But the other edge of the sword here is that the ability to text and Zoom and YouTube and DoorDash etc. is the only reason that lockdowns were even possible in most of the world. Without these tools, it would have unconscionable for policymakers to try to put millions of people on house arrest, especially if their class’ own livelihoods were liable to be as damaged as physical small business owners and workers. Andreessen is treating lockdowns as an inevitable natural force here rather than a policy decision with particular tradeoffs. In their own (unavoidable) way, these tools enabled lockdowns just as much as they helped people during them.
The complaint is under "Related Materials" on the right side of the page.
You are failing to understand the information component again. Insiders can definitely trade. The low-paid worker and CEO can trade just like outside investors. But the CEO is under much closer scrutiny and thus usually have regular stock sales so that they can claim "I have been selling 1,000 shares every month for the last 3 years" when faced with criticism. Again, the low-paid worker is free to trade whenever. But if the SEC spots an someone who consistently gets outsized returns in peculiarly timed trades, they are going to investigate. That person better have no proof of material non-public information at the time of those trades.
One of the things that baffles me the most about SO is that I can't sort answers by _newest first_.

If I search for something related to javascript for example, I know there will be a ton of answers for older versions that I am most likely not interested in. However I can only sort by oldest first (related to date).

Old answers are definitely useful a lot of times, but the fact that there's not even the option to sort them the other way around tells me that SO somehow, at it's core, considers new answers less important.

A strange decision if you ask me, considering software changes so much over time.

If anyone has a possible explanation for this I'd love to hear it.
Unicode uses the term grapheme cluster to emphasize the fact that it can be composed of a cluster of codepoints, and perhaps also to distinguish it from the linguistic term grapheme. But ultimately in the context of Unicode I think you could just get away with using grapheme. That's what Perl did when it invented Normalization Form Grapheme (NFG).
A case for trying Elvish:

I really like Elvish's emphasis on interactivity, its somewhat maximalist approach to interactivity-oriented builtins (like fuzzy filtering, its directory browser, etc.), and the fact that it's distributed as a single static executable.

I also like the developers, who are smart and kind people and generally pretty pleasant to interact with on GitHub or their Telegram chat (bridged to various other things).

None of this is a case against trying Oil, however, so perhaps it will not help your paralysis too much. ;)

NGS' readme also has a good comparison section listing alternative shells: https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs#have-you-heard-of-project-x-...
I really love the candlestick and chess ones! Very cool.
You shouldn't protect people through forbidding them access. Make it relatively complex? Sure. Explain the risks? Sure. Forbid it? I don't think that's the best solution.

I mean, from a parenting perspective which is kind of the role that Apple seems to be claiming over its user, it's super diminishing. Your whole argument is basically "users are too dumb to deal with freedom". How is that an appropriate argument? We let people vote for a reason, freedom is not something that can be taken away just like that.

This issue to me is much more than just "oh, it's privacy" it's an issue on our fundamental rights of ownership and freedom to do with our devices what we want. The reality here is that Apple has captured the mobile market in the most lucrative country on earth (the USA) and they're ruling over people like a lord on its serf.

And to follow up on what you've said, you can already side load apps on Android and you don't really see any of that which you mention? People aren't saying Samsungs are "insecure garbage" as far as I know. More freedom is a good thing, these devices cost hundreds of dollars; they're computing devices why not treat them just like computers. Do you see people saying macbooks are "insecure garbage" because I don't? And you can install all kinds of apps on it, even from "untrusted" developers.
> They are extremely customer-centric

Is someone holding a gun to your head and making you say this?

What you described is exactly my experience interacting with AWS as a (sizable) customer, yes, but it's not remotely what I would consider customer centric. Bureaucracy-centric, perhaps, or bottom-line centric, but certainly not customer centric. Even getting AWS to do something for its own benefit is like pulling teeth. For customer benefit? Fugheddaboudit, unless you are huge and are willing to relentlessly hound them for years and throw gobs of cash at them and deal with the betas that somehow manage to be even more buggy, feature-anemic, and gotcha-landmined than their public-facing services.
Well within the last hour or so on #freenode, root (Andrew Lee) went off on a completely unhinged tirade about BIG FOSS and his perceived victories over it, as well as his totally "FOSS" irc client, which has no source code available (at least as of now), and he doesn't even know the license.

His is apparently the Kiwi IRC client rebranded in an iOS app, but who knows what's in the app itself unless his actual source is released.

Some lines I happened to capture:

20:41 < root> Big FOSS is no more. The fossils are gone. It's now time for the future. We will FOSSter a new era of FOSS. freenode is FOSS. freenoe is IRC. freenode is freedom. freenode is for you!
20:44 < root> freenode hasn't been liberated from FOSS. FOSS has been liberated of Big FOSS!
20:45 < root> FOSS IS FORK. FOSS IS FOR YOU. FOSS IS FREENODE. FREENODE IS FOSS. FREENODE IS FREEDOM! GOODBYE TO THE FOSSILS! HELLO TO FOSSTERING COMMUNITy AND PROJECTS! FREENODE WINS! THE FOSSADES LOSE! WE DID IT FOR YOU!
We are lucky nuke didn't happen in 2020, but COVID. And there are people fleeing San Francisco for different reason.
And our government would never lie…
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Will people really tell the difference between on a snowing beach with a sad princess and a neutral expression genie, versus on a snowing beach with a sad princess and a happy expression genie?

Because: (EDIT: Unfortunately, HN seems to strip emojis).

1..n..8 characters, assuming 1000 emojis, is somewhere ~along 1000^9 bits of emoji.

16 skies is 16 bits of entropy.

32 scenes is 32 bits of entropy.

You multiply those together, and you get 5.12e29, or 2^98. That is considerably smaller than 2^256.

-----

To get to 2^256 bits of entropy with an emoji set, you need 25 emojis. That's very long. That's like (HN stripped emojis).

Can you tell a difference between that and ? At a glance?
I felt like I was screaming about COVID-19 months before anyone I knew understand what was going on. I feel like I’m screaming about artificial intelligence, autonomous weapons, and platitude society.
to save everyone else a click, its PragerU bs.
Reading Sheeple talks are always fun.

It's about choice. Even on android, there are many horrible popups that android warns the user before installing any app outside Play Store. (The Epic lawsuit also complained about this) If the user wants to do then give them the choice. Giving Choice is the problematic part.

The security thing is just a joke. The walled garden isn't safe (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22385859/apple-app-store-...)
I'm sure he does. It would be hard to reject everything about Apple but still use their phone. Even though their privacy angle is strong, I'll never use one of the devices either for similar reasons.
Joplin is one I highly recommend:
https://joplinapp.org/
Cross platform, open source, and offers encryption.
Yes, this is a good point, an hour of being dead has zero utility whereas an hour of being delayed has at least partial utility.
Like China, there is really nothing… Dissuading murderous governments like Saudi Arabia from changing their ways. They can execute children, they can harvest organs, in prison huge numbers of religious minorities, and really there’s absolutely nothing any of us can do about it. Short of war, there’s absolutely nothing that can be done.
Considering his history being on speed dial for the tobacco industry when they wanted damage control, I'm not sure it's so innocuous as just wanting to tell an interesting story.
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In my last few jobs, there has been the option to set a meeting to private. It shows on your calendar but people can’t see the title or other details. You could create multiple shorter events if you think people would be suspicious of a single multi-hour meeting.
You’d have to also control external “laundering” of money through the insiders. The hedge funds could pay the insiders for trades or information.
Missing 2018 in the title.
I have one.

The really good thing is that it's open. Like you can ssh into it from day one. No cloud forced on you. refreshing.

I think my #1 use is to jot down notes during a phone call. It is like an infinite stack of post-its. Jotting does not get in the way of a phone call.

#2 is reading ebooks and pdfs. It's a little slow working with .epub books, but with pdf files it is fast.

Actually I convert ebooks to pdf format using calibre. It's a pretty good experience. I've figured out the fonts, font sizes, margins and so forth, and made that my calibre conversion default. Works well for me.
It is shocking to me how often I hear the advice "go to therapy".

Therapy presents its own risks, often never discussed. And it screams of a total lack of self confidence.
Also Bhudism.
I've had a CV1 Rift and Oculus account since a few months after it came out and all that's changed for me is that I have to connect a Facebook account to access some social features of the Oculus Home platform like messaging and adding friends. I abhor Facebook is in control of the Oculus ecosystem. Literally the worst company of all big tech imo to have this responsibility. I'd prefer Valve and next Apple. Unfortunately Facebook has too good of a market position for me to see them losing.
ZimWiki was my favorite until I had mysterious performance issues on macos, so now I'm back to looking at browser-based solutions, ugh.