skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used org and org-roam for a while before (just recently) moving my notes over to Obsidian. I hope to move back over to org one day (at the most rudimentary I find org syntax vastly superior to markdown), and projects like this definitely help.

I've been trying to pinpoint why I felt friction with the org approach, and I would narrow down to a couple categories:

1. Because the notes sat inside a larger emacs context, I spent too little time actually reading my notes. It's nice just to have Obsidian open all the time as a singularly focused tool.

2. I spent a lot of my time tinkering with my config, never feeling totally happy with it, than just using the tool. I'd call this the big emacs problem, though moving to Doom from my own vanilla config last year really helped with this.

3. I run emacs-mac nowadays on an M1 machine, which feels like the fastest emacs experience I've ever had (much faster than on other machines with native-comp enabled), but I still experience lock ups, freezes, stutters, and the like that not only make me sort of sour on notes in emacs, but have started making me think about trying other editors.

4. Obviously the mobile experience. I really like what's going on here, and with org-roam support I think this would be solved for me. I want my notes to look and feel nice, and having a high quality mobile app that particularly supports my mobile wiki would rock. I was never very happy with BeOrg.

If anyone here has had similar issues as I have but have found themselves happy with some combination of emacs, plainorg, flat habits, logseq, .. please let me know your setup! I have felt a little wary moving to a non-free system.
I don't understand how your analogy is even remotely relevant. In chess, both sides can make the exact same moves. Neither side can change the rules. Neither side can impose any extra costs on the other side in an asymmetric way. It's a classic example of a level playing field, and it's the exact opposite of the asymmetric roles that Apple and Netflix play on the iOS platform.

The only way in which your analogy could possibly apply is if you're saying Netflix is free to create its own mobile OS ecosystem where they can impose asymmetric rules and taxes on Apple TV. But it's neither possible nor desirable for every app maker to create their own OS and perhaps even their own hardware.

The definition of "competitive" you seem to be using here is not useful.
BrainTool – Beyond Bookmarks – The Online Topic Manager
How to prepare for technical (live coding) interviews?
Ask HN: Should employee feedback reviews be visible to the employee?
At the company that I work for, we are routinely asked to provide feedback on each other for annual and semi-annual reviews. There's something about this process that makes me uncomfortable - possibly the idea that my coworkers are examining what I do and reporting to my manager, rather than telling me directly.

I wonder if making this process public would alleviate the stress and create a more open environment. You'd always know where you stand with your colleagues.

There are 2 downsides that I can think of:

1. You lose out on your manager filtering the feedback, which could be useful when an employee gives feedback in an insensitive way, or when some feedback is just inaccurate or not useful (such as knocking an employee in an area that they're not expected to excel at).

2. People might be less comfortable giving feedback if they know their co-worker will see it.

In my mind it would require somewhat of a culture shift, towards a more open culture. Curious to hear what people think about this idea.
What does "music as metaphor" mean?

Rock'n'roll may have been mostly dance music, but Jazz, Folk, Blues, Chanson etc. already existed before Beatles. And songs like Yesterday or Let it Be are not really rock'n'roll anymore than say Jacques Brel is.
Is decentralized rate limiting a useful problem to solve?
TIL. That local editing experience looks wonderful. Thank you!
Biggest lesson has been that the effect of tracking has led to positive improvements, because of the awarenes it creates.

Honestly - the data analysis and looking back - has taught me pretty very little I did not already know.

Yes, I can observe that some metrics almost always align, because exercising makes me more aware of my diet (not wanting to "waste" the effort made at the gym) - and that my mood and productivity are closely aligned as well.

I wish I could say I gained some big insight from looking back at the data, but really it is mostly jsut about the forced reflection here and now.
Charge Anywhere You Park
I’m not sure this will work. The device seems to easy to steal while in use, placed on the street.

One benefit they claim is “the Go stows easily in the trunk of your vehicle for easy transportation so you can charge anywhere you park”, but then, I would like to charge while driving.
Stay Current, keep track of individual elements of a webpage
I see a lot of people have taken an issue with my statement. Someone with a few accounts has downvoted every single post of mine from yesterday. Fanbois are really something.

It's great that some of you, most people even, don't have these problems with multiple screens on your preferred OS. However, that doesn't mean that no one does.

Think about it. If everyone had these problems, they would have been fixed. Things are not black and white. Not every setup is the same.
Drugs are a bad example. There exists no free market for drugs. When the choices are buy a patented drug or die, then the price becomes unethical very quickly.
An alternative to an alternative YouTube front end which is efficient by design
I am afraid not.

I think the explanations required around the process/reflection makes it too difficult to "market" - so I have put it off.
The most well-known write-ups of the not great guy vilerat are his racist tirades against African people.
> The last pair, found incubating an egg, was killed there on 3 June 1844, on request from a merchant who wanted specimens, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot.

So saddening.
Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters
> I gather Kingsway is relying mostly on its artists’ reputation for being willing to license for sampling on reasonable terms. I don’t see any guarantee that samples will be licensed, much less on any particular terms.

There have been instances when artists disagreed with the use of their work, and they're kinda sensitive to that. For example some artists try to steer clear from politics, and so for example the Rolling Stones requested Angela Merkel's election campaign to not use "Angie" (whatever they were thinking when deciding to use that song in the first place given the lyrics, but that's a different topic :-) )

There are other situations in sampling and other forms of creative reuse where artists prefer to have the final say who gets to reuse their work and in which context, and such a setup is quite suitable for that.

The software equivalent might be various "ethical licenses" (https://ethicalsource.dev/licenses/) ranging from "Don't use the software to build missiles" to "The only corporate structure that may use this code is cooperatives", although they often predefine the terms instead of falling back to "call us and we'll see."
My comment was more in reference to the fact that it is now legal for UK companies to dump raw sewage into the water. It means that the practice will likely proliferate to other less well funded regions.
I'm wondering if anyone has more detailed technical views of the malware? Considering it's pretty infamous and found on multiple civilian phones, I guess it's not impossible to find a sample somewhere?
It's not append-only. No one is suggesting that any new service must only pull keys from GitHub once and then it never changes. GitHub is just a convenient source to bootstrap from.

You might need to go into your new service (possibly through another factor like physical access or web admin) and manually revoke compromised keys.

I just don't think any of this is a reason to have a separate key for each service you use, that still seems rather unnecessary.
Neutralinojs v3.0 release and upcoming features
Quoting for example from https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202..., "The Court of Justice confirms that EU law precludes national legislation requiring a
provider of electronic communications services to carry out the general and
indiscriminate transmission or retention of traffic data and location data for the
purpose of combating crime in general or of safeguarding national security":

"Thus, in the judgment of 8 April 2014, Digital Rights Ireland and Others (C-293/12 and C-594/12) (see Press
Release No 54/14), the Court declared Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of
15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly
available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive
2002/58/EC (OJ 2006 L 105, p. 54), invalid on the ground that the interference with the rights to respect for private
life and to the protection of personal data, recognised by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
(‘the Charter'), which resulted from the general obligation to retain traffic data and location data laid down by that
directive was not limited to what was strictly necessary. In the judgment of 21 December 2016, Tele2 Sverige and
Watson and Others (C-203/15 and C-698/15) (see Press Release No 145/16), the Court then interpreted
Article 15(1) of Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the
processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on
privacy and electronic communications) (OJ 2002 L 201, p. 37), as amended by Directive 2009/136/EC of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 (OJ 2009 L 337, p. 11) ('the directive on privacy and
electronic communications')."
It is scary how the internet is turning into a walled garden so I welcome all efforts to decentralize it. For example, we will start seeing "Sign in with Ethereum" in addition to "Sign in with Google".

To begin with, I am more excited about DeFi on Ethereum and the disruption of the traditional financial industry. We are not there yet but the movement has more than enough momentum.
> For most users, popular products are likely to be more future proof

Psh, the average user clearly hasn't heard of the Lindy effect[1]! /s

Sarcastic condescension aside, I was really taken aback by the sheer fanfare Notion had when it released. In my circles, adoption was driven largely by one designer; in fairness he's always excited about new technology but when everything is the best thing since the iPad, a few eyebrows get raised. I'll bet lunch money they would be first to migrate to the next-hot PKM tool for the slightest feature offering.

As for me, I want to spend the least amount of time adapting my workflow. My workflow must help me work, not be something I am constantly working on. So it's all about inertia for me; Evernote needs to fuck up big before I leave.

In fairness, there was a time (around 2015s) when Evernote had frustrating bugs. Even beyond that, their editor was also subpar for such a long time. But I'm really satisfied with the current version which, I suspect, came about due to the threat Notion posed to their user numbers. Yay for market competition, I guess somehow I still benefited off Notion. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
I agree that they don’t have to support multiple versions of the same thing indefinitely, however they do have to say what they are supporting and for how long they're going to support what.

The fact that Big Sur was released does not automatically mean anything about the support for Catalina, because there are all kinds of reasons not to make a major version upgrade even if the hardware is still compatible with the new version; the major upgrades do break certain aspects of software and implement changes to functionality and UI, not just fixes for security bugs.

The core issue is that simple questions like "Is Catalina being supported as of 14th November 2021 or not" and "Which is the date when Big Sur support ends and you are expected to migrate to Monterey or later for security updates" deserve a clear answer from Apple, and it seems that they are refusing to answering that with any official, published policy.
She sure loves the social engineering jargon. I know there are a lot of people who are steeped in the culture of victimhood, but I’m glad I don’t personally know anyone like that.

Apart from that, my son suffers from medically undetectable problems. His symptoms are real. Medical science acknowledges that but the doctors say they don’t know what to do. We’re all frustrated but we don’t whine about it.
Interesting stuff. Most (basically all??) of our existing psychiatric drugs are small molecules. I presume this is related to how much of a pain getting proteins into the brain is - which is exactly what this research helps enable. They show that by grafting on specific structures into a protein (GLP-2) they can drastically increase its speed and effectiveness at delivering into the brain.

I don't put much hope into GLP-2 being anywhere close to useful for actually treating anything in humans - I think it's just a nice model to demonstrate the technique.

It's interesting, and I think the article does a great disservice because:

a) This technique doesn't seem extendible to our existing drugs, which means this technique can't help mitigate some of the challenges of our existing drugs (one of them off the top of my head is that it just takes a long time for them to fully saturate your system, meaning its a total pain to figure out dosing). I feel like this should have been commented on.

b) This technique potentially opens up an entire category of candidates that were previously ruled out. I feel like this should also been commented on directly.
Throwing from a signal handler on Linux is also UB. Or rather, it will blow up on Linux too, and that's why it's UB in the standard, because it'll blow up on any platform.
Besides the fact that you have in the end a "worse" building compared to traditional construction or prefabricated, 3D house printing may be an idea in first world countries where you can this way reduce man work (spending instead on the machines/technology).

It makes little or no sense in less rich countries where not only workers are (relatively) cheap, but there is unemployment and hiring people to manually build houses actually contributes to the local economy.

If you want an example of (very fast) building "terrible" houses, there was the "balloon" method that dates back to the sixties (and is actually very efficient/fast/costy saving):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binishell

Only for the record a "modern" approach to similar "dome" houses (but pre-fabricated):

http://www.i-domehouse.com/
that page redirected like 10 times while I was on it.
> considering the clear conflict of interest?

Because:

> You judged something as either good or bad on the basis of where it comes from, or from whom it came.

> This fallacy avoids the argument by shifting focus onto something's or someone's origins. It's similar to an ad hominem fallacy in that it leverages existing negative perceptions to make someone's argument look bad, without actually presenting a case for why the argument itself lacks merit.

* https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/genetic
It's worth noting that the main beneficiaries of QE are the fixed-income desks at commercial banks, unlike the actual helicopter money proposal, which would benefit the people most hurt by recessions, holders of debt outside the financial system.

It says a lot about the quality of public discourse on finance that the debate around QE has mostly been around whether it is inflationary, and not who benefits from this rather peculiar way of dealing with the failure of traditional monetary policy at the zero lower bound.
The one time I had a Mac book some years ago external screens would only work if the laptop was on power, and after sleep I had to reattach the screen each time. This is issue was present the whole time (some months) I had this 2000$ beast (for the whole series, not just my Exemplar), afaik the 2015 macbook pro. Forums filled with the problem, no solutions in sight. Honestly a horrible experience that I could do nothing but wait with such crucial issues.

On Linux I could just edit my xconf and everything was fine.
It's difficult to have tax residence in the place you don't live at without committing fraud, typically tax residence is linked to the place where you spend most of the year or which is the center of your personal life (e.g. where your family lives) if you move around a lot.
Because race is a social construct it will never disappear because of some real world action like mixed relationships. If it goes away or becomes more central to our lives then it is today it will be because of political choices by people.
Yes. I am aware of that. I will clarify that in my comment
Complaining is how problems get fixed. If we took your advice we’d still be living in a country where voting was restricted to white male land owners and most of us would be dreaming about rate reductions at the company store.
we love these large companies. less people to trust, plus free-ish services
Its a bit complicated. Disclaimer: Im not a nuke engineer, I just took some nuke classes and was surrounded by then for a while.

New reactor designs promise to throttle, but I don’t know if any have been deployed.

This is a bit more complicated than a gas turbine. With a gas turbine, you just inject more gas as needed to keep the turbine turning at a constant speed. The combustion chamber is a violently small part of the whole.

The heat producing part of a reactor, by contrast, is massive. As a result you have thermal gradients, and these gradients are different at different power. They’re also larger at larger power.

A large thermal gradient isn’t a huge problem by itself (engineers have been accounting for this since the steam engine). The problem is the change of gradient itself. As the gradient changes, the materials inside change shape and this causes large mechanical stresses.

The situation is pretty much the same as when you turn off an ICE car: ever hear those ringing or popping sounds it makes? That is the various hot parts cooling and changing shape abruptly.

The problem for a reactor is made worse because material selection is very difficult: you cant just pick any alloy that has good thermal expansion, or good fatigue characteristics. Every alloy must be from a very narrow set of isotopes (not elements!!) that are compatible with the reactor’s neutron environment (balance, distribution, energy spectrum, etc).
NFTs seem pretty plausible to me. The numbers are surprising but to me it feels like a fairly natural progression.

Have you ever played a game like counter-strike? They have these cosmetic skins you can buy for your weapons. People wind up spending hundreds of dollars on these. But why? It's just a digital asset. Arguably less valuable than an NFT because it's hard to convert into real money.

So why do people buy cometic items like that? Spending hundreds or thousands of dollars? Or what about baseball cards? Or Stamps? Sure they are technically scarce but most of that is manufactured. Rare pokemon cards are just made of ink and cardboard. You could say the same thing about an original piece of art rather than a print of it.

Myself I've never really got into any of that stuff. But as far as I can tell the draw (beyond investing) is status. When you have the rare item in counter-strike people are wowed and are driven to buy new cosmetics to keep up with the Joneses.

In crypto having certain NFt's is already a status symbol. I've already heard stories in passing of people discreetly showing that they just happened to have a couple crypto punks on their phone (NFTs worth millions of dollars each).

So yeah the last thing here, the amounts. These crazy crazy amounts. In some cases hundreds of millions for one NFT.

On the one hand there must be some amount of sketchy shit going on there. Crypto in general is almost like this wire that connections the regular economy to the underground markets in a way that they feel more tightly coupled now.

As I understand there are some tax scams, artificially inflating prices etc.

But I don't think that accounts for everything. Crypto holders like status as much as most people. And they are also much richer than most people.

Seems like very rich people competing for trading cards to me.

I don't know what will ultimately be built out of NFTs, if anything. They do honestly seem pretty interesting to me but the issue you pointed out of it costing a lot of money to even create or buy them is definitely annoying. My hope would be that gets solved on Ethereum or another chain through technical means or a massive price crash.
If We Must Die
AGW is factual reality, not a "MSM narrative".

Even if we think scientific fact changes based upon polling, "MSM" videos on YouTube aren't 55% positive, they're often < 5% positive. Because some people truly believe that clicking a little arrow on YouTube, or disagreeing with a "narrative", changes reality. A tiny minority, and ultimately the total engagement level is a rounding error generally, but throughout this discussion we've seen people take that tiny, self-selecting group and hold it as universal truth.
I wish someone would try to refute what I wrote instead of just downvoting it.
Ask HN: How to stop always searching for the ideal course and start to study?
When i want to start studying something i can spend Weeks searching for the "ideal" resource which in the end results to not start. This happens again, and again, and again.
For real, do we have any more influence in this ?

Looking at what’s happening now, Apple and Google are not under scrutiny because of our collective petitioning or votes, it’s solely because of competitors with deep enough pockets to duck it in court.

As a proof of that, there’s no one to fight Facebook so not much effectively changes on that front, despite all the outcry and editorials thrown at them.
interesting point. I wonder if an incremental regulation can be passed whereas if the marketplace decides to become a participant/competitor, those in which it competes against no longer have to pay the marketplace fees to "even the playing field" at least from a financial standpoint.

doesn't even have to be regulation. these companies can do it in good faith but alas, life's not fair.
Covid is surging in Europe. Experts say it’s a warning for the U.S.
Emscripten actually has an "ASYNCIFY" feature which does exactly that but (AFAIK) down on the WASM level. It also has surprisingly little performance overhead.
This is the same scam as healthcare: Sell a product, but don't disclose the price, and the charge the price later.

The government authorities should refuse to pay the corporations. Corporations shouldn't get to use government incompetence as a tool to rip off consumers. They should have to deal with counterparty risk, not force individual citizens to do so. Otherwise, they should be subject to a windfall profits tax for the privilege of being a corporation.

Corporations are chartered, and get special privileges, to serve the public; they have no natural right to exist.
A16Z Opines on Payment for Order Flow PFOF Market Microstructure Debate
Radiooooo: The Musical Time Machine
What a crazy and horrible story.

Best wishes to everyone who was ok with providing irradiated cows to the plebs.
With all due respect. How much time do you think it will take to download and install an update every few years?