skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Obsidian[1] pointing at a local directory of markdown files which is also synced across my devices via Syncthing[2]. Works flawlessly across my various Android/Fedora/Windows/etc devices. Cost: $0.0/year.

I don't really use any Obsidian plugins. Obsidian has good builtin navigation, search, and markdown processing (e.g. LaTeX, code syntax highlighting). It's just as easy as opening a new file in $EDITOR, except its a markdown renderer & synced across all my devices.

There are also a lot of bells and whistles like graph viz, export to website, etc. that haven't gotten in my way.

[1] - https://obsidian.md/

[2] - https://syncthing.net/
>the same cannot be said for Facebook or YouTube

There are literally hundreds of social media platforms and video hosting sites on the web. Many Youtubers are even advertising their content on alternative platforms.
Never say never. Whatever human problems remain after there are no more humans will probably become tech problems.
> Why is Reuters, an old guard by any account, concerned?

Meta-concerns about "the media" are not relevant to every story that is ever published.
I joined Hasura recently to lead the Product team because I love the tool and the people are nice.

Thanks for the feedback on what you're finding valuable and sharing your dissatisfaction with the lack of communication around bugs and M1 support.

M1 support is very close to ready, we've been waiting on a couple of dependencies to support M1.

For what it's worth, I agree with you that our communication needs to improve and it is something we're working on.

Also, congratulations to Oliver and the Supabase team on pg_graphql! PostgreSQL extensions are slick and it'll help even more people embrace APIs from databases.
You most certainly don't, but many people seem to have lost their minds around packaging.
I don’t think so. If they do, it is either a) not nearly on they same scale, or they b) are way more competent about it and less likely to get caught.

Given the general incompetence of governments in general (Europe is no exception) I doubt it is (b).
I'm not hellbent on proving anything, but looking at the thread at large, it seems you are very much. Carry on.
I respectfully disagree. I'd bet a large amount of money that an overwhelming amount of video-game purchases on Steam etc. are single-item purchases - that is, in the vast majority of cases, adding a cart doesn't help the user experience (and, without the presence of a one-click-add-and-checkout button, actually slightly harms it by adding another step in the purchase flow). So, for most users/use-cases, a cart is much lower priority than many other features.

There may be many other gaps that indicate a nefarious or incompetent direction to EGS' development (and, indeed, vaer-k listed many) - but "The absence of a cart implies that EGS are not prioritizing making it easy to purchase games" does not hold.
Any chance going through the process of updating all my cards could earn a Cashback key? :)
Your comment seem to be manufactured
Aye, zeibekiko is the most characteristic example I know of that:

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

It's 9/8s in uneven splits, but it's difficult to break it down without showing you (by tapping my hand!). The wikipedia page has a couple of different analyses.

The stuff that really messes with my brain is Greek Pontiac dances like dipat, like this one:

https://youtu.be/tTZDVKMZOrk

I don't even know what the rythm is for that. Me and my friend keep trying to count it and failing and dissolving in giggles because we just can. not. comprehend it. (I got halfway to a modern drums diploma and my friend has studied classic guitar for ages. So much for that).

Here's a modern vesrion with more prominent percussion:

https://youtu.be/EeCOl8gn-1A

Here's a different Pontiac dance, Kotsari:

https://youtu.be/IhtBTr0Ip1k

And here's a Baidushka from Eastern Thrace:

https://youtu.be/etU9eqQJweg

Counting which are left as an exercise to the reader.

Have fun and sorry for the nerd snipe :)
The easiest way to incorporate this into a typical developer's workflow is using the vscode-journal plugin: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pajoma.v...

How it works:
From any file, in any project, in VsCode just press CMD + SHIFT + J, select 'Today' and it will plop you into the journal page for today with today's date at the top.
>> Which expert promised you that?

https://www.businessinsider.com/who-says-no-evidence-coronav...

> Moderna's chief medical officer, Tal Zaks, said last month that he believed it was likely the vaccine would prevent transmission but warned that there was not yet "sufficient evidence" of it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/health/coronavirus-vaccin...

> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday walked back controversial comments made by its director, Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, suggesting that people who are vaccinated against the coronavirus never become infected or transmit the virus to others.

> Cranks write like this.

Apologies I'm new to being a social pariah, being under pseudo house arrest, and psychosis in general.

I don't want hospitals to collapse. I'm afraid if we give up this freedom now, we'll never get it back. I'm afraid of the unknown and putting my life in the hands of people (our dear leaders) that really have never cared about my health before.

Even now its not about care for my own health, but for "the greater good".
Yep.. throttling the connection worked for me too!
> CoinDesk ran a story in March this year about how the company was seeking to pay real people to staff the virtual casino for a role that game developer would usually reserve for bots.

It's not creating equitable societies in developing countries. It's about hiring low paid workers at a lower cost. It looks like all the promises of Second Life.
Accessibility seems to be an afterthought. No zoom possible.

Hopefully it can be enhanced to produce gracefully-degrading accessible output.

Or in the other direction, we could add a Wasm PostScript interpreter, and explode fonts by default so we get a sea of inscrutable ‘path’ elements. A WebGPU shader could tessellate it further. :^)
Emacs org-mode is better than Markdown.
The whole premise that “nothing in nature or the real world is true black” does not address the fact that text, language, and words are not of the real, physical world. So why should I make my words the color of the deep ocean instead of vast interstellar voids?

What is the natural color of language?
Somehow tech companies have normalized "no recourse" decisions, as well as dark patterns (or straight up impossibility) to prevent actual interaction with a person to resolve your issue.

I agree with you that part of the anti-monopoly legislation updates that are needed for platform companies is mandated visibility of a way to contact a person to resolve issues, and fines for exceeding a response time (maybe 20 minutes). I'm a libertarian and normally oppose this kind of thing, but the obvious abuses from every big tech company are too big to ignore and are exactly the kind of thing where government regulation does make sense.
As every new case is a result of transmission, a difference in the per-capita rate of new cases between vaccinated and unvaccinated people shows an identical difference in the rate of transmission.
Obsidian has LaTeX support without using a plugin?
ArchiveBox is popular - https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
Just 99.99% to go

It would take over a hundred years for a person to watch a single day's worth of YouTube uploads. At this point it would take the literal apocalypse to stop them.
I find I always fail out of the append-only approach (even though I realize it means I'm spending more ~orgnizational time/energy).

I can't claim to do it "regularly" in the sense that I do it every day, but I guess I do something like it in that almost every one of my projects has one or more PlainTask documents (i.e., documents that use org-mode-alike PlainTasks extension for Sublime Text).

These documents usually start one day as a scratch space to remind me what I was doing before I take a break, or to plan out the next few steps. In any non-trivial project, it'll tend to grow to at least a few hundred lines, and almost all of them accrue a top-level section, at the top, titled KNOWLEDGE, where I (my better self, at least) try to record slippery or hard-won technical details I picked up along the way (even if I'm not smart enough to note them the first time or two I have to bang my head against them).

I may not consult most of them again, but they can be a huge help when I get a chance to return to something that I had to back-burner 2 or 3 years earlier, and all of the critical detail has been displaced by newer ephemera...
Fascists Are Weaponizing Twitter's New 'Private Media' Rule
That’s my experience too. The older I get the more frustrated I am that people don’t want to learn from my mistakes.

It’s not that I’m a jerk about it. Most of the time it’s business types saying “you don’t need to do all that stuff - just deploy it like that, it’ll be fine”.

And then it’s not fine - and also, it’s somehow my fault.

It seems to be more about personal aggrandisement (“I’m the boss and my word is law”) rather than trying to build a great business together. I’m pretty over it.
Point number two is more the other way around. You plug a device into Linux and it works. You plug it into windows, and it only works once it's downloaded and installed the driver.

But in both cases, actual user interaction required is very little and decreasing with time.

I will admit though, that if something doesn't work immediately with Linux, there's a good chance you won't be able to get it working with Linux.
>there was a reason green screens and especially amber/yellow displays were popular long after color displays came out...

yes, and the reason was the fuzzy-blurryness of color display technology at that time, and the fact that those in the industry were already used to monochrome displays and had workflows and settings adapted to monochrome. Once color display quality became high enough, monochrome demand completely evaporated.

I'm not saying that there is nothing nice about a monochrome display, and displaying light on black (my terminal and emacs windows are still black background, with a distinct fondness for green; I too am an old-timer), but still...
I'll bet he got flagged for "handjob", which seems like a plausible entry on the list of words disproportionately likely to be used by spambots. Somewhat poetically, "poof" also seems to be on a list (perhaps because in some countries, it's a slur for a gay or effeminate man) [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVlobDyTqeY
Since about 2001 I used YYYY-MM.txt plain text files and have a shell script to help create notes in the most friendly way I could think of from the command line at https://github.com/nickjj/notes.

Totally works fine for a knowledge log when you're streaming high level details from your brain into text. I still use it today. The repo hasn't been updated in 2 years because it's a ~20 line script with a simple API that hasn't failed yet.

But when you want to really go all-in with in-depth notes on 1 semi-broad subject it's tricky because in 1 month's time if you're hardcore deep in the woods of learning, applying and using something you're going to end up with hundreds of concepts from an assorted set of tools and it kind of stinks to have all of that info sitting in 1 file. Think about using something like Kubernetes. That's really Kubernetes, Kustomize / Helm, EKS, various cloud hosting details (networking, etc.), Terraform and ton of super useful commands / context. Details you for sure want recorded for later.

For this type of info I've been building up a personal knowledge base with https://obsidian.md/. It's really nice and I highly recommend it. It's been working well for keeping things reasonably categorized without wasting a lot of time on the details around keeping links and tags up to date. It also has Vim mode that's good enough where day to day writing feels natural.
Heck, chemistry is practically a baby compared to the 1,000+ years of engineering
Good point. I was thinking of old-school desktop and server operating systems.

Having worked as a Windows admin for a couple of years, I think that is the most tragic aspect of Microsoft's software ecosystem. There is so much there that is inaccessible thanks to poor UI, poor or nonexistent documentation, or "hiding in plain sight" by being scattered across some dated UI, a few undocumented CLI utilities and a couple of obscure Registry keys; and maybe a config file, too, but you need to know where to look. To this day, I feel the urge to weep when I consider that Microsoft's often expensive software does not come with decent manual, while Free/Net/OpenBSD are free as in free speech and free beer, and they have superb documentation.

If I were more paranoid, I might think is serves mainly to keep the countless companies offering consulting, training, and support in business.
As you noted, the judge reprimanded Walmart and specifically told the jury to assume the videos would benefit Ms. Nurse. And yet, "on Ms. Nurse’s claims that she was falsely arrested, imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted and slandered, the jurors sided with the retail giant."

This was a 3 week trial, the NY Times is providing small, selective portions of the testimony. Nobody should assume that from one brief article, they know more than the jurors did. Seems there probably was some solid evidence against Ms. Nurse besides just the videotape.
We train internal support staff as a first step towards career development. Almost all of them have gone on to higher positions or left for positions we can't offer in our exact industry. What we do is have them shadow the experts and do our customer training certifications. Once their team leader deems them ready they start answering tickets, which are reviewed by a senior before sending. Along with excellent living documentation, it doesn't take long before we have high performing new team members. We also do phone support and use a pre-booking system developed internally similar to calendly, customers love it.
> In fact, I wanted to cancel my Youtube Premium, but I know it's not gonna affect their decision in the slightest

Long running project of mine. "Corporate change bounties". Customers leave some supplier and then state why and somehow demonstrate how much cash has exited with them as a customer.

Here's an example. Let's say att lobbies hard against net neutrality and customers were fed up and left. They could go to this site and somehow select "att + net neutrality + i will return if they support it" and then through some black magic prove that they were a long time att customer that paid $X/month that just cancelled.

There's a way to avoid the black magic by making it a "crowd funding" style site but in many conversations effectively zero people would want to give, say Nestle or Walmart, a gift in return for them not being an evil prick.

So there's gotta be some kind of balance. A number representing potential money on the table that can be captured if a policy change happens.

I made two versions of it a while back but new ideas are hard so oh well. But maybe a third time it will work, who knows
100% agree. Azure voices are the best. I wish Polly would catch up since most of our stacks are there but we keep going back to azure for this one specific thing.
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> Count me added to the chorus of folks calling for regulations that will eliminate this sort of abusive behavior against consumers. We need some sort of 'due process' required of companies that operate above a certain scale.

If this is what you want, then you'll need to escalate your problem to regulatory authorities, even if doing so only means they become aware of the problem. I've posted links to forms that you can use to report issues like this to state-level and federal-level regulators here[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28176193
>I'm confused, what is the proposed framework supposed to fix, or how is it better? Is the goal really to reduce achievement gaps by limiting the advancement of top students?

Yes, that is the explicitly stated goal. Unfortunately a large number of ideologues believe that all people have the same inherent intelligence, and that disparities in outcome among children are due solely to racism and other forms of discrimination. That's the whole thrust of "equity". "Equity" means equal outcomes. It's proven too difficult for these people to bring up the performance of low achieving students, so they are left to bring down the performance of high achieving students and eliminate all objective metrics (like standardized testing) that can be used to assess student learning.
I absolutely agree with this, but it think it’s good for hackers to have a play with it just to go down the rabbit hole a bit.

Build some toy security… but don’t deploy it.
Creating art is rarely a waste of time, even if it never finds an audience.
why are they just targeting the israeli firm?
> Otherwise we pride ourselves with pretty incompetent intelligence agencies, so please keep your NWO conspiracy narratives to yourself.

I think that is why the person you replied to mentioned that they work together with other intelligence, which is not so much a conspiracy narrative if you've followed this stuff post Snowden.
I’m partial to the Wahoo since they’re in Atlanta and I’ve got to root for the home team. My biggest gripe with the Karoo is that since it’s running a full Android OS the UI should be gorgeous and it’s just... not. They didn’t even modify the title bar. It just shows the time and battery like any old Android phone. I’d love to see them hire a brilliant UX team and just really polish it.
> there is no popular CLI written in Ruby

Chef?
I think some pure breeds, due to their slight inbreeding by design, are going through "inbreeding depression". Probably because some breeds just don't have that large of a gene pool to start with.

[0] https://breedingbusiness.com/inbreeding-depression/
Usability-focused, very efficient and user friendly software.
Lord: I doth smeared mine data with thine Python and lo, it persists in having holes and errors even unto duplicates. Guards! Execute this man!
Omicron variant may have picked up a piece of common-cold virus
It’s the business equivalent of an AbstractButtonFactoryFactoryFactory.
This approach would be a great addition to the AWS CDK. I was trying that out recently and, without constantly referring back to the AWS console or to the docs, it feels like flying blind.
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This is a worthy idea, but not it's not necessarily substantiated.

FYI 'Productivity' is not 'How Hard We Work' - it's a measure of profit/hour.

If profits go down for any reason, including more leverage by consumers due to increased competition, productivity will go down.

'Low Productivity' does not mean the economy is doing poorly.

One other theory, is that consumers have more power then ever, consumer surpluses are greater than ever (through lower prices) and that the money is not going into the companies and therefore not recorded as productivity.

Facebook, Google, Web Browsers, News, email. So much free content.

My favourite Video Game is free to play.

You can buy at Wallmart today what would have cost a lot of money in the 1960s.

Travel is cheaper than ever, more people are travelling, Airlines are always teetering on bankruptcy.

All of that means the productivity numbers are going to be lower than otherwise all things being equal.
Totally agree, especially about the bubbly language used to dress up what is almost certainly a major inconvenience. I've been using their service for years, but if I have to change all of the cards that I have on file everywhere, I might as well just put in my CC details and get the cashback/points.
That may have been true a week ago, with omicron we don't know that yet. Hence google delaying. Jan 10 seems a little optimistic though. i'm not sure why they were even going to bother right before Christmas break anyway, at least in mostly Christian Western countries that slow down the last couple of weeks of december anyway.
Are we sure we want to prevent unnecessary animal cruelty, you mean?
> Namely, though low productivity growth may be leading to rising inequality, it may also be that rising inequality is reducing productivity growth, by stifling “the ability to harness the talents of potential innovators across the income spectrum.

"The ability to harness talents" is a weird way of saying people don't want spend their time working to benefit someone else. When the value extraction knob turns up, the incentive to work goes down. When you're getting cucumbers and the other guy keeps getting grapes[1] it makes sense to stop playing the game.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_9RjDqJ7Zs
ebay answers the phone, call them. the "call me back" option works fine too.
Hundreds of Malicious Servers on the Tor Network Might Be De-Anonymizing Users
Uncertain effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination
> Somehow tech companies have normalized "no recourse" decisions

Yep.

> I agree with you that part of the anti-monopoly legislation updates that are needed for platform companies is mandated visibility of a way to contact a person to resolve issues, and fines for exceeding a response time

This would solve several problems that exist. What if legally-mandated customer support came to, say, 30% of Google's operating costs? What if it was 80%? It's not obvious that banning no-recourse decisions is an improvement to the world.

> (maybe 20 minutes)

Well, no, that's ridiculous. Legally mandated 20-minute response times means legally-mandated no-recourse decisions. Only the computer can respond quickly enough to comply.
we already have a large pool of migrant workers and it seems like there isn't enough.

right now there is a lack of this 'underclass' labor for farms and other intense, low pay industries. they can't function with covid restrictions on that non-U.S. citizen migrant labor pool. So they aren't stealing jobs they doing jobs that otherwise go unfilled [1]

your comment also just writes off an entire class of people and their contributions. America is built on the skill & labor of the 'underclass' and historically there has been movement up the economic ladder.

This article and top comment points out that this economic improvement is currently lopsided against low income workers who are producing the net productivity gain for the owners/corps.

Housing shortage doesn't have anything to do with immigration. But that's a separate and worthy policy change to discuss as well.

There is a lot of research that shows current undocumented immigrants are a net benefit to the US purely economically speaking. Plenty of sources here [2]. I'm agreeing with parent comment in it would also solve our population growth & entitlement problems.

another interesting point in this artificial distinction between skill and unskilled: there is a talk on HN of tech corporations exploiting the high skilled tech migrants which you seem to advocate for.

using the really harsh immigration laws - for instance can't legally be unemployed or between jobs - to get lower than market price labor at the expense of US citizens on this board. Not as bad as holding passports but it is effective

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/business/economy/foreign-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_illegal_imm...
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