skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So how does this sync exactly? Can I use an iCloud folder, an iOS filesystem provider, or do I need yet another service to have my notes on my desktop as well?
> The US represents less than 34% of global research

and yet, the US has about 5% of the world's population. So proportionally, they are punching way above their weight.
A picture is permanent. It seems like my pic is always taken on days I wish I never woke up, or I am Shrek?

There is a glimer of hope data about us online might be found, and deleted, one day.

I can't stand my picture being taken, especially by strangers. I have given up to DMV, but not Costco.

My know it all father retired, and was bored. He decided to buy a camera, and take pictures of the homeless on Market Street. He was big in reveling in other people's missery. (I loved the man, but didn't respect anything about the man.)

He didn't understand why the guys were flipping him off, or running away.

I told him to stop his "art" project, or take pics of birds.

He kept it up, until this huge guy dragged him into a alley, and threw his Canon against the wall.

My dad found a new hobby.
He probably wants a link to your scope.
One reason is that people generally expect large companies to have a level of scrutiny and process associated with collecting that data, and reasonably trust that it won't be used "improperly." That trust does not extend to "some random guy" hijacking those companies' systems.

The other reason is more visceral, in the fact that those photos of themselves and others were displayed semi-publicly. A lot of the tracking that goes on is invisible if you don't think too hard about it (out of sight, out of mind). If they saw a dump of a bunch of people's private messages or search history (even anonymized) posted online for anyone to see, they would likely be similarly spooked.
Same reason I’m afraid to try meditation.
German courts tend to require that a contract exists, perhaps to a larger degree than many other places.

I've seen terms of service that said "we'll change these terms from time to time; check back here to see the amended terms". As I read that, they could change the terms on a moment's notice, not tell anyone, and the changes are binding. A German court might well say that that sentence is void ("unwirksam") because it's not reasonable to require users to conform to something like that, and therefore the relationship between the operator and a user has to be governed by the terms of service that the user read.
It's currently in broad strokes, what's being enabled is micromanagement. You don't have enough calorie credits for that uber, better get hiking.[1] The global food council will also be prohibiting purchases of meat until your next birthday.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSvb_ZTYS6A
It's not glamorous but SQL comes to mind first when I think about this. Compared to the mountains of business-crtitical code written in SQL the number of people who are really good at it is tiny.
Any tools suggestion, to timelapse me as author did, including video conferencing sessions?
The author divulged passwords, which weren't covered by the warrant.

> "Do I have to give you my password?"

> "If we find something protected that we need access to, we'll have to come back."

> Later I learned that there are different kinds of warrants for retrieving hardware versus getting access to secure information, or even accessing email. But I didn't know this yet. "There's no password on the Mac. It should automatically log you in to anything you need access to." It was kind of ambiguous if I had just given them the right to access my email. "There is a password on the PC. But again, there's nothing there."
A very long list of 'required' skills. I see required skills as things you'll need on day one. If there's a huge list it means there's no room to learn things as part of the job, which usually means that either you'll be running around with your hair on fire all the time fixing stuff, or that the company doesn't value training and improvement. Either way it's not good.
Has anyone used Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/)? How does it compare to Obsidian?

I've used Joplin for a while. It's Markdown so I like it. The UI is dry (compared to Evernote).
"Built in to Obsidian" makes it sound like they're running their own servers, not using iCloud.
iCloud and Working Copy are both known to work. Obsidian Sync is also an option.

File Provider is something we'll attempt to implement sometimes in the future to support other sync providers.

More info available at https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian/iOS+app#Sync
I think we can use the 'sheep' plural strategy here. There are, after all, rather a lot of emoji out there.
YMMV.

I'm on my second pair of airpods since launch. (Left pod on the previous pair stopped connecting).

As for wired headphones, no pair lasts over 2 years in my use. The cord always gets tangled and broken and off to the bin they go. No matter how thick, thin or even swappable the cord is, I still manage to break them.

It's wireless or silence for me =)
> Google is the world’s largest data-driven advertising company. Apple is not.

But it reeeeeally wants to be!
Kindle Fire is a pretty generic Android tablet. No Kindle e-reader has a camera (yet).
although I guess it is true the U.S could cut defense spending less than in half and pay 234 billion for everyone, so the original comment isn't totally off.
You can use whatever can look like a folder. So I guess icloud should work fine.

Apart from that they also offer a sync service. And for the technically minded there is also the obsidian git plug in.
It’s difficult. iCloud works (but I don’t want to do that, because it’s not E2E encrypted). Copying manually via iTunes too.

I guess the options will stay limited, as the author wants to sell his commercial sync service.
I highly doubt that even without government intervention prices would be lower.

Healthcare is not a free market and yet Americans still try to pretend it's one. The information asymmetry is huge and nobody's going to negotiate/look around for anything when they think they're close to their deathbed.
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I think it’s only less surprising because it happens more often, so that ‘everybody’ knows about it, not because it is inherently less strange.

As examples of merging, if you do

s = sin(x)
c = cos(x)

would you find it surprising if that generated a single sincos instruction if the CPU has one?

If you do

typedef struct s { char a; char b; }
s c;
[…]
c.a = 3;
c.b = 6;

do you find it surprising if the compiler generates a single instruction that is equivalent to (exact code will vary according to the CPU architecture, and this may need a further cast to avoid undefined behavior):

*(short *)(&c) = 0x0603;
Complaining irrelevantly about "mandatory vaccinations" in your opening paragraph is a good way to get readers to assume you're an idiot.
:(

Turn that frown upside down!

):
The word Emoji makes it sound to an English speaker like it should have something to do with emotions (like emoticon does), but that is pure coincidence: it just means 'picture character' in Japanese (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji)
I hope it's not completely unencrypted, but they definitely have access to iCloud backups and will provide your data to law enforcement.
Europe's climate masterplan aims to slash emissions within a decade
Free Internet - An internet where Spamhaus forces everyone to use Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo or else not receive or send email reliably.
That’s normal monthly wage in lots of places in Europe. And maybe half of average salary in Germany. So the limit is absolutely reasonable.
And once you see them, you do what? Rollback reality?
To your point about negative interest rates - these have been a real thing for years depending on where you are, but this can be overlooked because banks have generally avoided passing them to everyday users - however if you are a corporate or high net worth client in Europe these are absolutely a thing, eg Credit Suisse charges up to 0.75% on high CHF balances, but pays interest on smaller deposits.
I'm sure it's a generational thing. The only place I actually see a lot of emoji use is stuff reposted on Reddit, usually corporate twitter accounts and MLM marketeers.
That's lovely!

I've started using Obsidian just yesterday and have been loving it so far. I had to get 1writer to work with it on the go, and now this, problem solved!

It was my only major gripe with the product. Now it's perfect!

It's really really useful when notes about a topic surpass one page, and need good organization.
> why do most programmers prefer slower to vastly slower languages such as JavaScript, Java, C#, Go, Python, PHP, or Lua?

So your argument is "people not using C don't care about the speed of C"? What is this supposed to be proving?
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> Apple laptops and phones objectively last longer than the competition.

I'm not sure if you've spent much time watching Louis Rossman's youtube channel, but it is full of examples of Apple telling customers a device needs to be replaced when simple repairs are possible. [1][2][3]

Apple worked with US Customs and Border Patrol to seize replacement batteries for laptops that apple will no longer service. [4]

Rossman has a lot of videos so I did not find original sources for the following, but he has also called Apple support about replacing a charging port on a phone. Apple support told him the charging port was soldered to the motherboard and the phone needed to be replaced. But that charging port on that device is attached via a cable and is not soldered to the board. It can be replaced for a few dollars in five minutes.

Rossman also says that apple prevents third party chip manufacturers from selling to repair shops. So Rossman could repair certain macbooks with a $6 chip from (I believe) Intersil, but Apple (being an 800lb gorilla) has asked Intersil not to sell those chips to anyone else. So apple won't replace that chip on your motherboard but they also won't let anyone else do it.

It's great that apple will replace batteries, but I seem to recall there was significant consumer (or government?) pressure to offer those replacements. And I would be curious if they do that worldwide or only where legally required.

But watching Rossman's youtube channel, it is clear that repair is about much more than batteries. It's good that their products are long lasting, but at some point they will all eventually break. Millions of apple products must break each year. Apple could help extend the lives of those products, saving customers money and cutting down on waste. Instead, they seem eager to blame every problem on water damage and quote $1200 for repairs which could be done for a few dollars. (the first three video links make that clear)

I don't see the point in defending Apple here. I am sure other companies are bad too, but Apple is the industry leader and their failure to embrace repair sets expectations across the board. If it was consumer pressure that led to their battery replacement program, we may be able to apply similar pressures for right to repair. But only if we're willing to acknowledge the problems with their behavior and push back against them.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2_SZ4tfLns

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1A9y4S60kg

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7RXJP4mxCc

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVL65qwBGnw
https://github.com/fukuchi/libqrencode

This doesn't look "simpler" after a quick look, and it's a hard dependency of the GP solution.

(I completely agree on the local-only guarantee that this one provides, though)
This sounds about right given RE Village is now on sale on Steam etc. I don’t think new release multiplayer games go on sale so early (happy to be wrong here).
> less costs for infrastructure maintenance

Not sure about that. In general it's centralization that reduces maintenance costs. Centralizing in terms of location lets you use bigger, more efficient hardware, and gives you economies of scale. Centralizing ownership reduces administrative costs and allows for savings not possible with distributed ownership.

I do see the various benefits of everyone running their own energy production, but costs and reliability aren't them.
I always used to point out something in the line/sentence above... When did it change to a smile?!
The rise in health care prices at a faster rate than inflation started in 1968, coincidentally with the arrival of Medicare/Medicaid (an attempt to reduce costs).
This is why I’d always have an always online DRM. I don’t mind not being able to play when my internet is down. Yes I know some people are on metered connections or don’t have internet at all. Even so, it’s better than this if you absolutely must have DRM.
My understanding is that the "encourages" part relates to agencies that are independent and are therefore not directly under the control of the president. He therefore cannot directly order them to do anything.

However, from what I could gather from news interviews, this has not been published without the collaboration from those agencies, who in general are on board with the changes.
Perhaps not unique to Wechat, but still a cultural thing.

In Europe a plain smile is still just that, a plain smile. Reserving it for communication with your manager or boss, is not how it is used.

The LOL or ROFL emoji is to me out of place, as you don't roll on the floor laughing while sending text messages.
Laughing out loud is ok from time to time.

Still, emojis are better when they have a global meaning, e.g. the simplest interpretation possible.
Try using that excuse next time sometime finds a bug in your code
Qatar launches a state of the art smart country platform
I was forced to use a Mac, wehen I worked at Apple. Absolutely horrible piece of hardware. Keys sucked, touch bar useless. Had to carry around an external keyboard. Luckily I could bring my own external keyboard, which meade it somewhat bearable.
I don't disagree that it's a sad state of affairs, but there's really no connection between the Secret Service and local police departments. Even neighboring local police departments are entirely separate entities.

I bet if you had a legitimate case that the secret service were interested in, calling that line may actually get it looked at. Whereas calling a local PD about a problem that should be relevant to them doesn't always get it looked at.
Another extremely normal thing assembly allows you to do, but C doesn’t: access carry and overflow flags.
> Superannuation is essentially a payroll tax.

Isn't the whole point that it's not a payroll tax? Ie instead of the government getting and using the super money to fund its activities (whether they be welfare or what have you), the money remains the individuals own, just forcibly saved in what should be cheap or free index funds, but in many cases unfortunately isn't.

I guess a halfway point would be for government to get the money, but rather than using it to fund its activities, the money is pooled and invested and then that money is given out to fund retirement according to need down the track? Is that what you're referring to?

> Skeptical that super gains shouldn't be taxed highly - a broad, universal welfare state means everybody needs to be contributing

But that's the thing, it kind of doesn't and economists have been pointing that out for decades. Economists across the political spectrum agree that pretty much all taxes, including payroll, capital gains, stamp duty etc etc be completely abolished for everyone and replaced with taxes on wealth, carbon, consumption etc etc instead. But that will never happen, because people don't get it and neither do politicians.
> How this works is not something that can be easily explained in a single paragraph.

Where can we find the explanation?
UK Government launches campaign encouraging families
Government has launched a campaign to promote leisure activities for children and families this summer
I was responding to the claim that Excel "doesn't alter data without being asked either." I guess it does, and it should?
Yeah, I've used both. I think the main things that Obsidian does better are its UI (which is pretty good, some annoyances around creating new notes and managing folder structure), and the fact that its notes are one-to-one with actual .md files on disk.

In comparison, Joplin keeps its notes in a more opaque format, where the notes database is a bunch of files with garbage filenames and so on... and the UI is, er... functional.

I've been trying to switch away from Obsidian to Joplin though, because Obsidian is payware (with add-on subscription services available too!) and Joplin is simply open source.
We can fear machines and technology but we can master them, at least enough to be confident they will survive the Atlantic weather. The balloon broke on take off and yet Branson and Lindstrand believed in their journey because they believed in their tech. It then became a matter of finishing it off without anything else going wrong.

At the other end of the spectrum is the anxiety about what other people think and say about us and how well we will do when faced with a challenge or change we brought on ourselves, especially when we really stick our necks out on something completely new.

HN is full of people who are maestras and maestros of technology who are sticking their necks out in the capricious people-centric world of business. It’s a site built for entrepreneurs even if the majority of us visitors (myself included) are tech janitors.

And in terms of the transformation the most surprising part, I think, wasn’t the dress. It was the lipstick.
Obsidian is the closest thing I've found to the Pensive from Harry Potter. It's a data recording format good enough for me to extract thoughts from my mind, represent them with enough fidelity to reconstruct later, connect them to the concepts that they are related to in my head, and then forget the thought completely so I can move on and process it later.

I was only willing to try it out because I had heard it mentioned [0] on CGP Grey's cohosted podcast, Cortex, in the episode they did on productivity software subcultures. Specifically I think CGP Grey was saying he didn't "get" Obsidian but had observed a fanatic fanbase around it of people who thought it was god's gift to note-taking because it represented the links between knowledge in a unique way. Apparently I'm one of those people because I went from installing it for the first time to writing all my new thoughts down in it in the space of 3 days.

I suspect the real reason I liked Obsidian right away is that long ago I used Microsoft Onenote as a freeform notetaking app to just spew unrelated thoughts into that I could organize later. Onenote's interface was good, but there was no way to port those notes in an exportable format to a new computer when the one with a Onenote license died.

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/CGPGrey/comments/ihkqjp/cortex_105_...
> > A woman cannot divorce a man

> A blatant lie. False. Untrue. As I said, you're just a flat-earther.

Problem is, what I find online agrees with me. A man can just divorce, for any reason, at any time. Most but not all sources claim there's a waiting period, some allow instant divorce. Some sources claim it is "discouraged" to go this way.

A woman can ask an imam for a divorce, which then may or may not be granted. There needs to be a reason for the divorce. Most sources seem to indicate this is a fairly general right of people. The man can ask for the same process. The "police"/state can ask for it, at least in some countries/interpretations. Some family members can ask for it, or can ask for it to be denied. And it does seem there are plenty of interpretations of sharia that state it should be flat-out denied if a woman initiates it.

And then there's Shi'a islam, where a right to divorce exists, IF agreed to by the man and woman before the marriage.

So I don't see how what I said as a lie. A man can divorce a woman, a woman cannot (if I add "by herself", would that make you happy?). She can ask an imam to dissolve the marriage, and of course a number of American Imams seem to have started to blindly (not hearing both sides) grant them for a few dollars, which is very funny I must say. Still doesn't change matters.
There is a difference between a work being driven by madness and a work that is madness. A schizophrenic programmer who builds an OS by pressing the "m" key a million times is different than a schizophrenic programmer who produces an OS that actually works driven by schizophrenic motivations. In other words, the future archaeologists might be confused by TempleOS, but they would be wrong to think it is meaningless.
It would be handy to include an option to walk back in time without start downloading until a certain site size is met, to exclude 404s, domain for sale placeholders etc, which aren't uncommon among old sites, so that the Archive.org precious bandwidth isn't wasted.
bad people income tax +5%. raise slowly every year.

all normal sin taxes still apply.
Dunno if you realized this, but once online-only games become unprofitable, the servers are down for good and the games become useless. If all games up to this point were like this, we wouldn't be able to play childhood games anymore.

Gog.com wouldn't exist without all developers going back to patch their online only games etc.
More pollen may translate to more fruits/seeds, which may translate to more saplings.

The first step would require a corresponding increase in pollinators, but pollinators (mostly insects) have reportedly been declining for decades.

I’m curious about the “amb a 1 allergen” which has been increasing according to a link in the article. Do we know what role it plays for the ragweed in reproduction, if any? What’s the advantage here?
> If you write other types of programs the compilers speed and your programs speed aren't the same at all. People that write other types of programs care more how fast the compiler is and less how fast their programs run. People that write programs that process entrusted data care vastly more about no surprises than they care about speed. Even more so, in modern code bases the hot sections are very small parts of the total code base. For 99% of the code, CPU speed doesn't matter.

Literally everything you ask for here is fulfilled by not turning on compiler optimizations. That's the default. I don't understand what your complaint is.

And since nobody stated it plainly to you yet: This whole world view is completely bogus. Entire branches of the industry require C++ compilers that produce the fastest possible code (to name a few: Games, HFT, image processing). I don't know how you convinced yourself that compiler writers are the only consumers of compiler optimizations, but it's dead wrong. I don't claim your experience or what tradeoffs you seek in a compiler are wrong, but they are extremely far from universal.
Was waiting for this, will try out git to sybc data between desktop and mobile.
For me, it took almost as long to get a 980 when they were still new. It got shipped through Australia. I live in Austria.

Which is one of the MANY reasons I mostly use "Austria, Europe" in conversations nowadays.
My brother had him at A&M. Heard he was great.
Maybe not "IT" because IT includes printer toner replacing and stuff

but software engineers? definitely.
I went a step further and started using tone indicators. /li
I was actually very surprised to learn from a comment above that you are also working on Dynalist, something I'm a happy user of. While I understand that Dynalist is an outliner and that Obsidian acts as more of a knowledge base, I'm still curious to know whether you see Obsidian superseding Dynalist in the future? Would I also be able to transfer everything I have in Dynalist to Obsidian in the future?