skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Obsidian stores everything in plain text file and its config in the .obsidian folder.

You can sync this folder to anywhere. Only problem that occurs occasionally is when two people work on the same file. This will result in sync conflict. Exception is if you work in the Nextcloud UI collaboratively, but Nextcloud does not support wiki links [[ ]] and uses its own linking format (appens file id to any link).

I also git commit my personal vault and use working copy to sync with my phone. On my phone the Obsidian repo is synced with the local Obsidian app folder. This is more complicated to setup. But it works. Moreover my personal vault also contains git submodules. So I can stitch many Obsidian vaults into one (and make a big mess).
Dendron looks very interesting. What's the catch?

Currently using Joplin.
That depends on the distribution of offsets at which a difference is found (if any)

If all equally-sized files on your disk are duplicates, it makes you read both files in their entirety in a scatter version. That’s (expected to be) slow, indeed.

However, if most of them aren’t, chances are you find a difference in the first block read, which means you have to read only two blocks to decide they’re different.

So, what’s that distribution? Also, where is one most likely to find differences in equally-sized files? First block? Last?
One of my hobby is board gaming. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve seen decide that they love board games so much that they open their own FLGS (friendly local game store). I’ve learned that the quickest way to come to hate board games is opening your own board game store. If you want to start hating your hobby, make it into a business.
Was more thinking about Confluence than Jira

Where there is troves of data and schematics about various companies infrastructures
FTA: "She pointed to Operation Ironside, the huge ANoM bust earlier this year that resulted in the arrests of more than 290 people, as a reason for the need for the new powers."

So a successful police operation NOW is evidence that more powers are necessary? What kind of logic is that?
I can imagine this works well in Israel, but for most countries, mandatory service is a complete waste of resources. Paying huge amounts of money for people who do not want to be there get skills they do not need, at the point in life which is rather valuable. From defence point of view (for a country not likely to be involved in a war in its territory), its way better to invest that in training professionals.
Yes, I agree with everything you say. What I meant with that phrase was the opposite - I was thinking that for software subcontracting it is somewhat common to explicitly stipulate that the source code of what is being built belongs to the client. I meant that the (A)GPL would give you the right to the source even if the there were no other stipulations to give you that right to other source code.
That kind of is what we do. But the rest of the population isn't happy just being fed. They want status and luxuries the same as those "IQ120+" or highly productive people, so we have all sorts of politics about inequality and poverty and human rights and what-not. For people that are amply fed without producing much for anyone else.
I am not looking for perfection. Just want to get a laugh out of them.

I also just realized that if I place my laptop camera in the exact same spot, while recording the background video and during class, all I need to do is sit on the left of the camera pane during class, and only stay on the right for the background video, then I just need to stitch the two videos side-by-side in OBS and it should work well enough.

I think I achieved my purpose here. Ask a question from a bunch of smart people. Either they give a great answer, or their response forces you to rethink and figure out a simple solution. Thank you HN for being my AI enabled rubber duck.
Horrible idea. I want it silent while walking around solving a complicated problem. It's only partially the walking, it's also the silence which brings out the best solutions to think over. But a good idea is to walk along a very loud river, the noise also clears your brain.

Random talkers certainly not.
I had a friend decide to quit high school over Everquest.

I love gaming but I saw what early MMOs did and it freaked me out so bad I never touched WOW, but did play others such as Guild Wars, POE and such.

I had such fun with early MUDs and couldn't wait until real-time MP gaming was possible. When it got here it was immediately defied. Man Diablo 2 was so much fun, and I made so much money, I wish my kids could experience that, instead of games being shitty and costing exorbitant amounts.

Now it's all just a cash grab/casino/skinner box/insert evil
I entirely disagree with this. The worst codebases I have worked on have been the under-engineered ones - everything you touch affects a multitude of unknown, unrelated things, and unravelling that sometimes borders on impossible. You can't put any unit tests in place because everything depends on everything else, so good luck refactoring with any confidence. Give me an overengineered codebase any day of the week - it's much easier and safer to put multiple little pieces back together if they don't really need to be separate, than it is to disentangle one giant lump.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Interesting, that article then links to another article discussing the amendments I was referencing: https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2021/encryption-act-has-cost-a...
not too shabby, might use it, bookmarking it for later :). As others suggested: Hover infos over the controls would help tremendously.

Just a quick question: Is your text formatting based on markdown? If yes, is there an option for the user to enter markdown code?
This is an old argument. Read "Japan's Longest Day", from 1965, which is a detailed reconstruction of what went on before the Japanese surrender, from interviews with some of the people involved. Nobody was in overall charge. The Army barely spoke to the Navy.
Planning meetings consisted of the heads of the Army and Navy making statements.
The emperor's role was primarily ceremonial.
The civilian government had little or no control over the military. (For why, see [1]). The surrender was a near thing, with one faction almost succeeding in prevent the Emperor from broadcasting a surrender message.

The US side of that story is presented in "Thank God for the Atomic Bomb", by Paul Fussell. (1981) Fussell is a well-known essayist. He was in the Army during WWII, and he was in a unit scheduled for the invasion of Japan if the atomic bomb didn't work.

Look up "Operation Olympic". The first phase, the invasion of Kyushu, was scheduled for November 1, 1945, less than three months after the atomic bombing. This wasn't just planned; the equipment and soldiers were already in Okinawa and Saipan, the staging areas, and that invasion was going to happen if the atomic bomb didn't force a surrender. The operation was at least 3x the size of D-day and over a 500km sea approach. A million dead were expected on the Allied side. Far more on the Japanese side, because the defense was mostly infantry without enough heavy weapons, armor, or ammo.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_15_Incident

[2] https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS1300MET/v12/unde...
And that's just tech. Materials science has moved dramatically. Just look at how planes, cars are built today.

We're entering the age of fully dynamic production lines. 3d printing's true strength here is not printing the object, but the molds.

Medical science, genetics specifically. We've come a long way, but this field is still like computing was in the 1940s.

We barely understand genetic expression as a whole process, eg how the entire genome is effected by modifications, and changes.

Yet when we do, the changes will be astounding. The end of most disease, the ability to use organisms to do our bidding, nanotech isn't going to be metal, but instead, bio.

We're about to set boots on Mars, in a decade we'll likely have permanent residency there. Our first new planet.

With that comes the potential to move industry to space, mining asteroids, power generation, and more.

There are endless, massive changes coming, we're merely in a period where they are all coming together.

The next 50 years will make the last 50 look glacial...
I also a return to analog in some who have grown up with cameras in their phones.

I guess the experience of only having 24 pictures and developing becomes meaningful/ interesting when you are used to unlimited and direct.
> One (codeulike) apparently thinks simply being "bored" is what drives abstract thinkers

This is a pretty huge leap from what the commenter actually said, which was:

> I'll tell you what though, if you have a programming task that you find boring, over-engineering it and over-architecting it can make it _so_ much more enjoyable.

It seems you've misinterpreted many of the comments. People aren't upset about any kind of architectural design, only where it crosses a hard-to-define threshold into "over-architected". This is pretty hard to quantify exactly, but it is entirely likely you, codeulike and the rest would have an identical threshold where you'd say "you've gone too far ..." on some design.
> Risk Impact (1-3) Likelihood (0-10) Risk (I * L)

> ... table ...

This gave me PTSD from FMEA analysis. Why not just write the arbitrary product only, or rank the risks, or don't rank them at all. No-one is forcing them why do this? Is this curriculum now?
In 1955 needing to go to the doctor didn’t bankrupt your family.
In Sweden it has never been hard getting a job as a developer, as far as I know. I have never had to do gruesome coding tests. Just very small ones. Say, finding syntax errors in a page of C++.
I thought that would be the case too, but after a few years and after adopting Doom Emacs, I've reached a stable flow. I don't fuss with it anymore. I just write new commands occasionally.
Ah yes, capitalists and mortals can't handle abundance so they blame a central institution managing a interest rate that has no natural market forces in the case of abundance. Once there is deflation interest rates have to become negative but people can take their money out which raises the risk free return even though sitting on a pile of cash does absolutely nothing for the economy.

Awareness about our monetary system has gotten so bad people think the central bank is the source of interest and that debtors are just a fictional entity equivalent to the tooth fairy. Interest rates are raised according to the availability of solvent debtors the same way stock prices go up when the company is earning more profits.

When interest rates are lowered future income streams become more valuable. That means non reproducible assets like land become more valuable and it is not just a speculative fluke if you make money off of it since land is needed to live, work and eat. Every single plot of land has a monopoly on its location. You can't manufacture location. The only thing weakening that monopoly is the government allocating more land to residential zoning, meaning sprawl. Just like inflation and low interest rates weaken the monopoly of money.

The solution is permanent ground leases from the government or just progressive land taxes where individual home owners pay capital gains on land when they sell and anyone above a threshold pays the full land value tax on all his land holdings.

Alternatively we start a war, destroy all the sources of abundance and suddenly interest rates are 10% because investors have 2 billion potential borrowers, whose population is increasing, standing in front of ruins that need to be rebuilt. Yes, that is the time in which boomers lived. Our benchmark for success is a destroyed world that quickly recovered. How long until the next war to satisfy investors?
I wish the blog post opened with a sentence or two for context. This is a snip from the readme [1] on GitHub:

> Please note, the compiler is in a very early stage and not usable yet for compiling real Rust programs.

> gccrs is a full alternative implementation of the Rust language ontop of GCC with the goal to become fully upstream with the GNU toolchain.

I'm happy that there's work on alternative Rust compilers though!

[1] https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs
> The fun premise from the beginning is that booleans do not need their special type, they are effectively Optional[Void], or for FP-heads here, Optional[Unit]. That is, it just does not need to carry a value. But when an Optional does carry a value, a lot of if-then-else logic for handling that value just gets eliminated, replaced by a pattern match that combines both the boolean aspect and the value-handling aspect.

We could take it step further.

Option[T] is just Result[T, Unit]

Then a boolean is Result[Unit, Unit]
Gandi supports U2F as well.

And it's just something about a very aggressive marketing strategy like Hover's that doesn't give me a very secure feeling about their product.
There's also the "benefit" that if the future doesn't resemble the present, you don't have to make mundane preparations for it, like contributing to a 401k (since dollars will be useless), to say nothing of promoting beneficial government efforts (like social security or health care).
I'm a member of the Lansing brigade which for some reason isn't on the map. Though to be fair we're only meeting online right now.

https://brigade.codeforamerica.org/?_ga=2.123875274.19435526...
Wow! Thanks so much for this thoughtful response, really appreciate it. I know what I'll be trying tonight!
Whisperword – Some Online Notepad?
So… Google’s plan to rid itself of GPL’d dependencies moves one step further.

At what point are we going to call out Google for doing the “popular” embrace, extend, extinguish act?
Alright, so I see this thing called whisperword and I think it's kinda cool
I don't know why you're being downvoted, because you're right.

Nuclear is the good solution, not renewables.
As a counterexample of your “nut case” hypothesis, in anti money laundering, now, across the globe, a bank not having enough profiling information about you is deemed a red flag, and assigns you more risk - that may rise to the point that they close your accounts or that your assets may be frozen proactively by the bank without a judge, or the police for that matter, to opine in the freeze.

Not many banks use facebook as a datapoint but mobile phone and address? Par for the course. And this is going to increase with fraud and aml converging.
The downside of that is that judgement by outsiders can only be based on what is visible; the only person who knows you're still sticking to those values when there's no one to see it is yourself.

Additionally, of course you can echo outside judgement. I know a number of people who I'd consider particularly ethical, and they know I do.
“The Chair”: A Straussian Interpretation
"Under the reasonable person principle, the first thing to do is work it out privately. [...] Indeed, many people would find it unreasonable to bring in third parties before trying personal discussion."

Imagine if everyone getting angry at some group, strangers or neighbors followed that advice. It's also the recommendation from my government for disputes about tenancy, trade, employment, etc.
Scrivener is a popular writing program that allows you to compose pieces of your content and reoganize them later as you put your document together. I encourage you to give it a try as it might just be what you are looking for.
I have friends from Europe who studied architecture in the UK and they say that after the 7 years of studying and working it takes to become an architect they would struggle a bit to have an intellectual conversation about architecture at the same level in thier native language; they didn’t have the vocabulary or an understanding of the zeitgeist in thier own country. They still spoke thier own language mostly like they had when they had just left school.
Any chance this could be integrated with OBS? To select filters, show previews, etc.

Going forward, I wonder if OBS will offer pipewire or gstreamer streams (if those are a thing) for consumption by other apps?
I keep getting recommended animal rescue videos of The Dodo and something about them always rubs me the wrong way. Maybe it's the emotional music or maybe it's the fact that they're making money off animal suffering, even if it always ends with a feel good happy ending.
> Fingernails worked on my Palm m500, fingers did not.

Palm m500 is a very early device. Resistive screens did get better. I remember the pain of using fingernails on early devices but the kinds of PDAs I fell in love with had were full colour screens running Windows CE / Mobile rather than monochrome displays and could run Tomb Raider in landscape mode with virtual buttons on the screen that were clearly only possible to use with your fingers. A version of it you can see here: https://youtu.be/ZJ1GR9mQamI?t=1070 -- but it looked and played soooooo much better on my device.

Bare in mind the first iPhone was released ~2007 vs ~2000 for the Palm m500. That's a lot of years for screens to improve.

> I know but people weren't too happy with them. They need both hands, and easy to loose.

That's true for the largest generalisation but you'd be surprised just how many people do prefer a stylus. I've even seen people use styluses with modern capacitive screens -- which I really don't get because those things are just as fat as fingers so always struck me as the worst of both worlds.

> I have doubts. Resistive touch screens is very old tech, yet before the first iPhone came out they were mostly used by geeks and corporations.

I know you're trying to disagree with me but you're actually making the same point: they were mainly used by geeks and corporations because the UIs were unattractive. The innovation of the iPhone wasn't the capacitive screen, it was the touch-centric interface. And as I said before, Apple weren't the only ones working on it. In fact they weren't even the first to market.

Go back and read some publications of the era, or design magazines. They all criticise Windows CE / Mobile for it's poor touch UI. It was a common known problem at the time. So much so that Microsoft had several attempts at fixing it. But nobody really knew how to do it right because it was a very young problem. Think of it like 80s home computer systems, how everyone was trying to get personal compact computers right and people largely fell on different implementations of the same idea before the computing landscape ended up with a duopoly of Macs and IBM-clones. That's largely how early smart phone and PDA UIs were too.

> Apple is much better at selling their stuff. And I think they had better product too, despite not even a smartphone (app store launched much later). They did have good features like a unique data plan not available on any other phones, web browser which worked with normal web, and iTunes with all the music.

Apple certainly are. But for what it's worth, smart phones and PDA's prior to the iPhone also supported a browser which worked with normal web (I'd used my one of my Windows CE PDA devices as a mobile internet terminal when on a road trip around Europe in the early to mid 00s). And Winamp ran on the thing so my main usage of my PDAs were music. I even had a compact flash microdrive (which still works actually) in an early model around the same time iPods also had microdrives.
I believe the Raspberry 4B can act as a USB client device (e.g. a webcam using the Pi camera as video source); could this run on one of those? That would give you an external webcam with built-in background removal, independent of your local setup and video call app and OS.
Interesting... I have moved all my domains out of NameCheap for same reason - their "first class support" was just plainly terrible.

Mileage may vary I guess.
No government in history has been efficient. There are moments of brilliance in government operations, but it is never sustainable nor transferrable.

> a noble calling, or at least better, morally, than optimizing ad revenue. I would like to work with people who want to make things that solve problems for huge swaths of people who really need help.

That's what we do in developing Open Source software. No government is required.

Also, there are plenty, plenty of thriving companies that do not sell ads.
The hobby / professional camera field has to my knowledge always been divided between technologists and artists. One group who doubled down on the technical side, and one group coming from an artistic background.

The Venn Diagram of where the two meet is not that big.
As do I. As a customer buying some hardware, I would of course like to have access to the software stack as well. And be it only for long-term support after the device becomes unsupported. But for various reasons, a lot of companies (and it is usually the decision by the company, not the employed developer) selling the products, don't want to give you this ability. Sometimes it is for making more money, sometimes it is for legal and safety reasons, just think of the automotive sector.

If a company decides to sell you a product with closed software, they will do so and GPLv3 won't change this. Not because they are not complying with the license terms, but because they won't touch any GPLv3 licensed software.
Can you explain the vendor lock-in bit with regards to XML?
Thanks alot tornadofart.

It's Quill WYISWG. Quill has markdown modules. I'll go test them and then maybe add them in later.

https://cloverhearts.github.io/quilljs-markdown/
So how's the job hunt going?
They meant primary care physicians might not know about the T-cell covid-19 test, not that they don't know about T-cells. PCPs cant know everything about everything, which is why there are specialists.
Nobody is arguing that you can acquire a good degree of immunity by contracting covid and doctors are certainly aware of such tests but there is little import in educating the public about such tests as there is little benefit to the consumer.

Even if you have already gotten covid you get better immunity with a very safe vaccination + infection than infection alone and supplies in the states are ample.

There simply is no conspiracy because neither the fact nor the motivation makes any sense. I encourage you to think through the matter more thoroughly.
That era didn't end, we just became inured.
I am surprised. I thought the solar capacity being installed was far greater. At least that is certainly true of India. With extensive 'open' coastlines in the US, this might prove to be better.
There is an interesting problem where you have a device that stopped working, but you can't delete the data on the internal flash because you have no access other than when the device is working.

Recycled electronics are regularly scavenged for valuable parts in places where e-waste is sent and labor costs are low. The streets of shenzhen often had small groups of people sorting through green bags of e-waste. The parts end up back in the markets. If a flash chip can be salvaged, likely the test rig being used on the chip can extract the data.

I have 3 or 4 broken phones here that I am very reluctant to recycle after I saw that. Iphones are particularly valued no matter what state they are in.
Don't forget all the endless nuisance lawsuits that try to stop every single project.
Even gas might dwindle faster than you'd think.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/new-study-a-zero-emi...