skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Tom, we're all really sorry we didn't become software engineers, I guess we'll all quit our jobs and go back to college," which (rightly) made me feel like an asshole.

The problem is that MS Word kinda require you to be a software engineer to be able to use it and produce a document which does not look like a ransom letter (and even then, it doesn't look great). Word, just like Excel, are extremely complex and complicated software.

Sure, they can be used in a "simple" manner, but god forbid regular users to select something by mistake then click on the wrong button (among the myriad of buttons around).

> I discovered LaTeX + Pandoc, and it created documents that I thought looked much nicer

About any document editor or typesetting program produces documents that are better looking than Word. It's not a thought.
Multi-stream transport.

If you have a dock with say, HDMI and DisplayPort and have both plugged in, with a mac you can't use a single dock for multiple displays in this way. You'd have to use DisplayLink.
I made something similar for a talk I used to give a few years ago [0]; including source code[1].

[0] http://tojans.me/vuexel/#/sheets/examplesheet

[1] https://github.com/ToJans/vuexel
It's like the one tank variant of the German tank problem[0], except the tanks aren't even numbered.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
No those solutions (and problems) were completely tangent to adding memoization. My point is that I've never seen a performance issue where non-memoization was the problem.
Ah, so his sin was that he called for a formal legal process instead of "trial by rumor". Burn the witch!
I just got a Flexible Gooseneck Arm clamp mount like this: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B082HQJ1JX/

I've got three large QHD 32"s and a 24" on top on aluminum profile. The arm comes in over the top from the intersection of the middle and left monitor, and brings the camera into the field of view of the monitor - i.e. e.g. 1/4th to 1/3rd down from the top - IN FRONT OF the monitor. This is eye level, and also gets the camera a lot closer to my face - which is great (for the StreamCam).

The camera is quite narrow profile from the front, and with my 32"s it certainly doesn't feel like it's blocking the whole display. I can then position the video of who I am speaking with just off behind / to the side of the camera, which is as good as I can get it (a big improvement).

Before I got the arm, camera was too far away, and too far up and to the left - it had to go to the side of the 24", which is centred above the middle 32", and angled inwards so I can easily look up at it. (Perfect for e.g. Windows Terminal, or Slack and such).

For this particular flex mount, I relied on getting it on to the one of the two flat hinges between the 8020 profiles that the monitors are mounted on. Mounting might be an issue without such profile, so.. improvise!

It's easy to lift the arm up after a meeting.

If I had more budget I'd maybe get another Rode PSA1, which I use for the microphone - but it's very pricey (worth it for microphone!), and the flex arm does the job nicely. USB cable is velcroed to it, very narrow profile from the front.

Edit: My profile rig has been the biggest part of my home office upgrade. All the monitors are set up with ideal angles and spacing, and stay firmly put. I also use it for sim racing, but most of the time is spent on it working. I'm blown away by how much of an upgrade it has been. 8020 profile is such a blast once you get used to it.

I've also set up some plants behind my seat for a nice atmosphere, and tech books on a small shelf; the whole rig is facing the wall behind me so that nothing ever accidentally enters the picture. Also I have static picture scenes in OBS Studio a Streamdeck key press away should I ever need to "cut" my video. Same for muting audio input, no fumbling for the on screen mute button required.
Think it gets encoded into the URL as it changes when you enter something. Also you are able to send that link to someone while visiting just https://tinysheet.com/ again gives a blank.
That's neither ethical nor transparent. And the guy writing that post is ex-FBI.

An ethical and transparent way to handle such subpoenas would include:

1. If possible, not being a US company so you might be able to avoid the subpoena in the first place.

2. Have a policy of not keeping user data at all, or keeping it with a third party that is not legally bound by US government subpoenas, so that it can't (?) be subpoenaed.

3. Publish any subpoena you get from the government.

4. Moreover, arrange it so that subpoenas are published before being read, so that if you get a National Security Letter, you would not be able to comply with the non-disclosure requirement. Another way to go about this may be to only open subpoenas in a public forum, preferably with journalists present. Try to consult ACLU/EFF lawyers about this particular issue.

5. If the government somehow gets its hands on user data, inform the users immediately.
PiBox is built by us, KubeSail! We're a YC S19 company that focuses on home-hosting and shipping open-source software to customers.

Happy to answer any questions!
Pretty much all sci-fi set more than 100 years into the future features some sort of intergalactic space travel (Elysium is a rare counter-example). I think ultimately we lack a collective imagination for just how stuck we are here for at least the next few thousand years.
Ditto—though I'm also testing the Radxa Taco, which is hopefully coming soon. It has a 2.5 Gbps network port and M.2 slot, but the overall bus is still limited to 5 Gbps (3.6 Gbps real-world) because of the Pi's internal PCIe x1 Gen 2 lane.

If you really need the sustained performance, especially if you want to use it for things like transcoding, it's better to get more supported hardware.
1) I have never had to get an H1B, so take anything I say with a grain of salt

2) sponsorship is more of a commitment (in time at least) than hiring someone without sponsorship, so you might need more than 6 months' professional experience to convince someone to do that

3) remote work might be a lot easier to get now, if you are willing to go back to Europe for a while, and if you've been doing remote work for a given employer then in a year's time they might be a lot more interested in sponsoring an H1B because they will know you're worth it based on having worked with you remotely
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 app works with both Wifi and cellular by configuring itself as a VPN. I've been happy with it for a few years now.
Maybe you grew up speaking a language where penultimate and antepenultimate's cognates are in common use, like Spanish.

I still remember hearing a Mexican friend whose English was, at the time, very basic use the word "polemical" and I could hardly believe it. I'm not sure most English speakers could use it correctly; I'm all but certain that I at the time couldn't.
No code, or low code. I dont care as long as it is not "any thing you want that is not a straightup feature requires LOTS of ugly code".

Hasura allows me to create a schema and then use it in a type safe manner in the front end (through GraphQL). This is a game changer to me: very little code in the model/controller layer.
> UK likes to put your full name on bank cards

Do they? I had three unexpired bank cards to compare.

My good bank issued me my non-contactless credit card, which is a backup and also the card my Phone "is" when I use that to pay for stuff, which is most of the time. That card (which a little worn) has my first and last name with middle initial.

My good bank also issued me a debit card very recently. This card is entirely black on the front except for the name of the bank and the logo of the card network. However on the back it has my initials and surname.

The other bank I use that does card transactions issued me a more traditional looking card with just my initials and surname on the front.
Or maybe, the problem isn't as hard as you think it is.

Look, I started programming in GPUs a year or two ago. I've begun to "think in parallel", and now I'm beginning to see all sorts of efficient patterns all over the place.

The actual CPU-architects have known about kogge-stone carry-lookahead longer than I have. I'm still a newbie to this mindset of parallel computations... but I enjoy reading the papers on PDEP / PEXT / other parallel structures these CPU designers are doing (and these structures have gross implications to how GPU code should be structured).

But I've had enough practice with Kogge-stone / Carry-lookahead / Prefix-sum / scan pattern (yeah, its __all__ the same parallelism), and this pattern has been well published since the 1970s. I have to assume that engineers know about this stuff.

Instruction length decoding is very clearly a kogge-stone pattern / prefix sum / scan problem to me. Now, I'm not a chip architect and maybe there's some weird fanout / chip level thing going on that my ignorance is keeping me out of... but... based on my understanding of parallel systems + very, very common patterns well known to that community, I'd expect that chip-designers would just Kogge-stone their way out of this decoding problem.

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Like, I'm coming in from the reverse here. I suddenly realized that chip-designers have incredibly active minds about the layout and structure of parallel computing mechanisms, and have now taken an interest in studying some CPU-level parallelism techniques to apply to my GPU code.

The CPU-designers are way ahead of us in "parallel thinking". I'm a visitor to their subject, they do this stuff for breakfast every day. They have to see the Kogge-stone solution to the decoding problem. If not, they've thought of something better.
> Your name isn't unpronounceable, people are just lazy.

That isn't necessarily true. We all have a certain set of phonemes we can enunciate, and further have limits on how they can be combined together. It is far from inconceivable that the OP could have a name which effectively _is_ unpronounceable to people speaking other languages (and you can't just put in more effort to fix this, so those people aren't "just lazy").
Literal soyjack poggers-posting reddit cunt. "Love this lol."

Please kill yourself in a fucking dumpster so nobody has to inconvenience himself cleaning up the mess you left behind.
They do touch upon the rationale in their announcement blog post [0] but I do struggle to think of specific use cases.

[0] https://postlight.com/insights/introducing-tinysheet
You just described the Google Voice voicemail experience
4) should probably also include WYSIWYG website builder platforms like:

WordPress, Squarespace and Wix... As their userbases dwarf all other systems mentioned
> it's more that I've had people delete function declarations from scripts while never cleaning them up in the data warehouse

Ah that makes sense. I guess you could hack around that by having a script reading all your declarations that are checked into code and removing any that exist in the db that aren't in that list, or something.
quite, we've been travelling backwards in accessibility terms for a while.
> Obviously has never heard of Crypto

Obviously has never heard of revenue
They're production and supply constrained. They need to continue to outsource some of their battery production well into the foreseeable future even if they go full steam ahead on their own batteries.
I haven’t seen this anywhere when I’ve looked, so I’ll ask here on the slim chance maybe they really added something I badly want and somebody knows…

Is there any application forced sandboxing feature yet?

Something users can control to forcibly stop bad behavior from certain “must have” apps. Chrome, for example, has been caught doing entire drive scans on Windows, and I’m not sure I entirely trust Zoom either. So I’d like to lock down what they can access in terms of files, paths, devices and so on and be fully confident that even if my employer demands I run some software installer provided by their “partners” that it hasn’t installed some creepy daemon and configured launchd to keep it running after I kill the app or even kill -9 the process.

Yes we can use VMs for this, but Mac laptops aren’t generally beefy machines, so that’s not an optimal solution.

There used to be sandbox_exec, but I’ve heard they removed it entirely from this version. We’re now supposed to get things from the (cr)App Store, which guarantees the app will only have entitlements that Apple approves. But vendors are abandoning the App Store in droves for many good reasons, and after recent events I don’t totally trust Apple to prevent malicious use piggybacking on top of a legit entitlement.
This is cool. I will dig in deeper and take a look. I'm working on a spherical display.. so maps with fast zoom will be a must.
OF COURSE one of the most arrogant posters on the antepenultimate subthread is an anti-free-speech fucking goon. Fuck you.
Not quite. Mazda were inspired by the design of the Lotus Elan, but the MX-5 was never designed in any part by Lotus.
Why use big Word when small Notepad do trick?
Wow, I didn't realize that was a common problem, and didn't realize it was related to external monitors. Thanks for the link!
I spent a little time testing Kubesail when I was testing the PiBox, and I have to say I really liked it. I typically don't run 'managed' solutions for K8s, but the way everything connected together gave me Rancher Labs vibes, it was simple to use and mostly intuitive.

With a little more polish I could see myself recommending it to more people, especially in tandem with units like the PiBox.
> Neither. Access to legislation must be possible at no cost for everybody. Otherwise you can't expect people to follow it.

In the real world, most people follow legislation without ever reading it. People build a rough mental model, based on media sources, government websites, common sense, etc, which divides acts into "probably illegal", "probably legal", and "grey area". If they stick to the "probably legal", they are unlikely to have any legal problems. If they are seriously considering venturing into the "probably illegal" or "grey area" zones, a wise person hires a lawyer and gets some professional legal advice first. The majority of the population has no hope of ever understanding legislation – something people on this website tend to forget, because most people on this website are significantly more intelligent and better educated than the average person is. And even those of us who aren't intimidated by legislation and case law and law textbooks, in the way that the average person is, ought to remember the old adage "A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client"–if you don't have the formal training and real-world experience of an actual lawyer, it is easy to make a costly mistake–e.g reading some law literally, and unfortunately you never found the case law which interprets it to mean something quite different from what it literally says. Keep the amateur lawyering as a hobby, maybe some real world situations where the cost of being wrong is low (such as challenging a parking ticket), and rely on a professional for anything actually important.

> Of course, that doesn't entitle you to a copy, making it available at libraries is already enough.

Well, ISO standards are freely available at some libraries. Generally national libraries, major public research libraries, university libraries (some of which are open to general public, others restrict admission to staff/students/etc.) Your local public library probably doesn't have any copies of ISO standards–mine doesn't. But, my local public library doesn't seem to have copies of legislation and case law either – my local public library has very little in the way of serious/professional/academic legal texts, just some very introductory stuff aimed at the general reader.
Specifically WRT community, I saw this today: https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2021-10-25/nation...

...which talks about community trust and whether different groups believe that others in their neighborhood would be willing to help out, and resonates with my neighborhood experiences while living in various different places, including among those of other/no faiths.

Edit: My personal experience and observation has also been that those active and devoted in my faith have much greater success in solving the inevitable problems of life, and having united multigenerational families, than those who choose other paths (but we still love them). And that increased devotion correlates with increased education, and with success in having a stable life with ability to help others. (So many examples...)
We’ll be getting over 100kg/m2/year. Construction varies but typically $450/m2 for a lit greenhouse.
They're hard to find right now, but a PineBook Pro might work for you, and they've got USB-C charging.
yeah absolutely promote it
There's a pretty broad statement. Evidence?
I love everything about this except the included 15W power supply, which seems too low for a CM4, fan, display, two SSDs, and the SATA controller.

The CM4 draws somewhere between 7 and 9 watts under peak load, and each SSD would be around 2W under load. That feels pretty tight already.

I'm sure it would be totally fine at idle and low loads, but I just can't see it being enough juice at full load with two drives, especially if there are other services running on it and the storage is encrypted.
And I remember that :)

So thank you for the quality comments. Especially from people working in the ads industry. Which often get attacked on HN just due to its nature.
> rude

to Apple?

Why can't this be a predictable hold and drag, like everything else?

They expect users to... what read a manual?

There is an alternative, make it so that users can intuitively discover features by playing around. I believe Steve Jobs told some pretentious story along that line when he launched the iPad.
Having owned 5 Pixels so far I can honestly say never again to MBG, Android and especially Pixel, and even Google Fi.
These products suck. The QA is awful. The Google store customer service and Google Fi service is a nightmare.

Very happy with my TMobile $15 unlimited plan w 2.5Gig of data and 5G, paired with the iPhone 13pm.

This phone looks like the Nexus 6P, which was plagued with QA issues. Google is not qualified to make a phone, or run an MVNO.
Show HN: Hide the Notch on Mac
> exactly

I can't find anywhere in the parent comment or the parent's linked page where it was claimed that the ACLU's tweet of a modified false-quote-LARPing-as-the-actual-quote was "exactly" like 1984. The parent commenter appears to have used the adjective "esque", although perhaps it was run through the ACLU's false-quote converter first (in fairness to you, perhaps your comment was as well).

Might I suggest you edit your original quote ACLU-style and write something such as:

> Ah yes, [exactly like 1984].

Certainly, deliberate modification of words is fully acceptable as long as there are half-squares surrounding them.
> For books and similar long docs: ...

I've worked in the book publishing industry and I've typeset books both using QuarkXPress (now everybody moved on to InDesign) and LaTeX. Using Word to typeset a book is a major PITA. Nobody in the professional book publishing industry is using Word to typeset books (well, ok, maybe 0.1% of masochists out there).

Word is convenient to quickly edit crappy looking documents: it's a document editor. It's not a typesetting program.
Content-related opps with startup community
Love HN, but as a tech copyeditor/writer, I find it's dev ops-heavy, not content dev, marketing related.

What's the best place for a highly experienced tech editor/writer to get in front of the startup crowd?
Are you suggesting that anonymity is not an unmitigated good?
I'm not sure which specific elements you're referring to, but it very well could be in your head. I remember everyone complaining about the wasted space in the latest Safari tab redesign, until a designer showed that there is actually less wasted space in the new design than there was before. It just didn't look it.

Not saying it's like this in every case. Just something to consider.
Federate. We went from walled gardens of the late 1980s and early 1990s to the federated Internet, but now we're back to walled gardens. It takes a diversity of approaches to solve the diversity of problems, and that's only really possible with separate organizations all competing to solve those problems for different niches.
While folks are right to point out this should be expected since Snowden, I think it's worth acknowledging that the cozy relationship between government and tech companies dates a bit further back. Enabling this kind of trakcing was the stated goal behind research grants from the same three-letter-agencies during Google's foundational years.

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
If this was an embeddable JS library then this would be pretty neat.
I have this on my phone, and actually get quite a bit of mileage out of it.

Mainly, over the years I've written price comparison functions for various size/weight - price ratio and that sort of thing. Really comes in handy when competing manufacturers use wildly different sizes and prices to obscure the actual price point.
I think everyone will be a lot more motivated to go into space once we figure out how to make living in space comfortable and healthy.
> when the us constitution was written, it wasn't written with the idea in mind that anyone in the world could anonymously participate in the local political process. that would have been crazy talk!

I thought the Federalist Papers were published anonymously.

I understand that you said "anyone in the world". I'm certainly not a scholar of American history, but surely there were European influences being exerted (and likely anonymously, too) on the Colonies around the time of the Federalist Papers.

Far-reaching anonymous political speech isn't a new thing. The speed and ease of disseminating speech is new, for sure.
Making recordings of meetings that are setting out to make decisions or even just discuss things in deep detail means people who weren't able to attend, or are just interested in the discussion had, are able to watch it on demand.
> So the question is what should be the effective response? Those pushing the censorship/free speech framing argue that removing voices is wrong -- banning, deplatforming, etc. That may be right, but it's also incomplete as it doesn't address the dynamic of the well-resourced voices overwhelming everyone else.

It's a good point, but the loud voices that have been driving this "anti-free speech" shift are also a loud minority. The people who got Alex Jones banned everywhere, got YouTube to start demonetising videos, got Trump banned from Twitter, were essentially a small group of influential Twitter users (some of whom also had jobs in the media, giving them huge platforms to put pressure on these companies). It's a "natural law" of human societies that the 1% are disproportionately loud, on any issue, and drive what the other 99% hear and think; not just a feature of online spaces. When you think of a liberal, or a conservative, or a college student, for example, whatever you picture in your head is just the loudest, most visible portion of that group, but is likely a tiny minority of that group. Whatever opinion you have on science, or nutrition, is driven by a very tiny loud minority, whether that's lobbyists, or a few influential individuals (maybe Neil deGrasse Tyson, maybe Al Gore, maybe a prominent scientist, or maybe the Coca Cola company). Without them, the popular mind might think quite differently.

Ergo; the "censorship shift" isn't about giving the minority their voice, it's two warring minorities struggling for control of the Overton window.
Out of interest, where do you see their adverts?
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw.