skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Roam, more-or-less daily since late 2019. Prior to that I had spent a lot of time with TheBrain as a tool for organising thought, before that there were others. I also spent a couple of years building a tool that Roam supplanted but that may, in due course, supplant Roam.

I would agree with the authors assertion that Roam is well suited to write-once/read-maybe. I certainly spend far less time reviewing notes than I ever imagined I would (that might be related to Roam's poor search/explore experience). Where I diverge from the author is that I find the Daily Notes page answers the question of where do I put this?

I have a daily notes template that includes headings:

TODO

Talking With

Found This

Thinking About

Working On

Completed

Every day a new slate, but ordered around the same core principles. At each heading I use tags, for example under [[Talking With]] might come a heading [[Some one]] & [[Someone else]] from [[Foo Corp]] and then proceed to take notes under that. If I can I will [[topic]] things but if the notes are contemporaneous that can be difficult. Under [[Thinking About]] are any of a set of headings I am current musing on, along with a fragmentary thought I just had. If I ever do review I most likely jump off from the [[Thinking About]] tag.

This allows me not to worry about where to put things but, for example, I can usually find notes of sessions with clients quite easily and branch out from there if I want to follow a train of thought.

As time has gone by I've found the product remains useful although my hope for it and the company is not high.
Just use a spreadsheet?

Does having a list of friends on a spreadsheet make you a data controller?
ascii using cleartype seems to work fine for me, I don't see the issue.
The founders of BLM are far-left extremists ("trained Marxists", abolish capitalism, dismantle the nuclear family etc., it's not like their agenda is a secret.)

Does it boggle your mind that many people who support BLM and believe that black lives matter aren't literal communists like that movement's leaders? People can support the general goals of a protest without being fully on board with the entire agenda of everyone involved.
How did you conclude he’s talking about friends? In the whole article word "friend" doesn’t appear even once. Also, a person can hardly have hundreds of friends. Three, sure. Seven, very probably. Twelve, maybe. But hundreds? Impossible.
I don't think the comparison is apt.

I think this is something that's being glossed over completely: friendships are two-way, and also flexible. It's not a medication that needs to be taken on a schedule, and it's not a kid that completely depends on you to do things. I don't think a relationship that's only alive because of scheduled contacts can be called a friendship.
PDFs in Django like it’s 2022
Obviously, code that old couldn't have been originally committed to git. But it is quite common to have old repositories migrated to git and one would expect the original time stamps been maintained after the migration.
> Aren't syntax and grammar synonymous? Or, if not exactly the same thing, essentially two sides of the same coin?

No. (Syntax is a subset of grammar.)

> If Markdown has "no official grammar", it is because there is not one thing called Markdown, there are many.

No, it's also because it's a pattern-based preprocessor. There are efforts to produce Markdown grammars; some have been done.

> That claim makes zero sense to me.

My claim that it was a point of contention? It really was.

> The non-core syntax is (near-)infinitely flexible, but I could say the same thing about C or Java. In Tcl, I can define (near-)arbitrarily named commands that accept (near-)arbitrarily named arguments; in C/C++/Java/etc I can define (near-)arbitrarily named functions/methods which accept (near-)arbitrarily named arguments, (near-)arbitrarily named structs/classes/etc which have (near-)arbitrarily named fields, etc.

No, these are not the same.
Yeah CodeMirror is good. I highly respect Marijn's endurance to work on something like that and have it come out so slick.
Wolves are very risk averse and generally only attack pets or livestock ( as long as they are not roaming alone in the mountains unprotected ) if they have no other choice (i.e. their natural habitat was destroyed). The last thing wolves want to do is to roam around the countryside looking for pets or cattle because that greatly increases their chance of encountering humans.

And in any case most attacks on pets and humans are by wolf-dog hybrid which are much more aggressive (and less fearful of humans) than wolves.
This reminds me of anecdotes from... Time Management for System Administrators, by Tom Limoncelli. He talks exactly about "Won't people think I don't care if I have to write it down in a diary?" and mentions how, at least in his experience when reaching for diary for everything, people actually reacted positively - the extra effort of ensuring a note was made, calendar appointment created, schedule arranged made them feel that he was willing to spend some effort on them, instead of just doing the minimum.
I think the brand was gyes, I have one in a cupboard somewhere.

The usb port was a standard that's rarely used, but wasn't proprietary.
Perhaps it would sound something like the house settling.
Free markets have a tendency to breed oligopolies.
Doesn't seem sensible to invest your operating cushion in something as volatile as the stock market, especially given the corralation between a recession causing your operating margin to crash and a recession causing your business to need that operating margin

The US stock market has been ridiculously pumped from the last decade-plus of money printing, I wonder how many people think that's normal.
What about my alcoholic friend I've known for 20 years that is destroying his life and lashing out at me right now because he is sick? Or my heavily depressed friend of 30 years who I sat with on the weekend? Not everything is about extracting maximum personal happiness. Friendship can also be about service.
Trading is a clear example of money helping to make money. When wealthy you can take more smaller yet useful risks, wait longer, have more time to learn from mistakes. Low capital means waiting for very long to accrue anything meaningful and often you'll lose it all before you get to learn or have to sleep/eat less to gain new capital to invest.
I'm sure when you break down written Chinese into all the basic shapes and modifying radicals, you will find a number of segments that is very close to the number of bits needed to encode a single character. Written Chinese looks very complex because it codes far more than 7 bits per glyph. But that doesn't mean it is wastefully encoding.

I add the caveat that traditional vs simplified Chinese suggests I might be wrong on this specific example, and that institutional stability and standardization froze Chinese writing in place before it naturally evolved to a simpler state.
Hey, I’ve done what I could. You can listen to your FDA and go contribute to GoFundMes when people die of diabetes. That’s one way to live life. I choose another way, but I’m not demanding you join me. You can always enjoy the fish mox.
I'm retiring in 3 months. I'll miss the work and people, won't miss the stress and hours.

During my career, I've repaired mainframes and graphics systems. I've managed Unix systems for over 25 years. SysVr4 on NCR frames, AIX systems, Sun Systems and now a mixed environment of Linux and AIX. I think I'm reasonable good at it, at least no ones complained.

I've worked in a variety of industries, finance, food service, distribution. I've work at a PAAS startup that successfully exited. I know the business world better then when I started and can relate to business employees a lot better than I did when I was younger. I've also learned how to coax a problem out of a non IT employee, especially when they really can't describe the problem.

I've found as I got older, I mellowed a bit, I don't rush to judgement as fast, and I've learned to look at a problem and try to understand it before I try to fix it. I've also got a long history of troubleshooting to lean on when I need it. If I did something wrong or screwed up, I admitted it and apologize. If I didn't understand something, I also admitted it and asked for help. I can also use Google with the best of them. I've found out that though the joints are creaking a bit, I have no problems keeping up.

I believe that I've given fair work to whatever company I worked for, for the compensation they gave me. Consider I'm still employed in the field after so long, I have to believe it's so.

I've also learned not to put anything in writing where it can be used against me in the future. I would never post this question on such an emotional and inflammatory topic. I really hope no one knows your real id, otherwise this could bite you in the future.

I also hope you keep this someplace and read it when you are in the middle of your career. I think you will be dismayed at how callous you were.

Good luck.
> It hints at Europe performing yet another economic suicide.

Foreign companies are:

1) Taking away valuable citizens data

2) Taking away ad money

3) Not paying taxes

If anything it's an economic suicide to support the status quo.
Nice story, but probably untrue.
LOL, I searched for "UCU strike", the first result was "UCU strike calendar"

They have so many strikes they need to organise them to make sure they don't overlap each other
Another Fun(tm) rendering bug: In Firefox, when a word is split across lines between two characters normally connected by a ligature, the ligature doesn't get disabled and the two characters rendered separately, but the ligature is sliced in half and rendered across lines:

- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479829

- https://bug479829.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=36373...
Criminal negligence? Some of the articles linked by other comments indicate that the Post Office ordered all meeting minutes that discussed flaws in the software shredded and in some cases even prohibited note taking to ensure that there were no documents to disclose on the issue. They actively and intentionally went out of their way to destroy peoples lives just so they didn't have to admit fault.
Rather structural matchers.

Like match in functional langs or lisp matchers https://www.cliki.net/pattern%20matching
Unification is so much better than regex hacks.
>, but I think email lists the most accessible decentralized substitute. [...] my comment where I select email precisely because it uses boring old technology that is already available as native applications. No one has to install FTP servers to use email, they simply have to use their existing email setup.

If you're talking about pure email-clients-to-email-clients (p2p) as an implementation of a "mailing list", then yes, no extra software or host server has to be installed. However, this type of p2p setup is not scalable for adding new contributors. (E.g., many users would not want 1000s of email addresses of people they don't know in their personal address book just to facilitate FOSS discussions or bug reports.)

Instead, the typical mailing list requires a server to host the messages for people to subscribe to. Most programmers (e.g. leaders of a FOSS project) would only have "existing email setup" like Thunderbird/MSOutlook _clients_ and therefore missing the mail _server_ architecture. This means your assumption of "already available native apps" doesn't apply.

If a FOSS project wants to use a mail server, they need to figure out which software/service to use and how to pay for hosting.

Compare the decision tree, effort, and costs for email server -vs- Discord "server":

- https://huridocs.org/2016/06/setting-up-an-email-discussion-...

... vs ...

- https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/204849977-How-...

> Guess what you also have to use to reset your Discord password -- that's right, email.

Right but an existing email account (on somebody else's mail server) -- is a different beast than an email server to host mailing lists.
That should be made compulsory as a reminder in the start screen of any computer/smartphone, etc.:

Remember that software is crap.

I would add that - particularly when money, or people's lives or reputations - are at risk, the "sensibility" of developers, assistance, etc. should be much higher than it is common today, besides the developers (that still largely insist to believe that their algorithms and implementation are perfect) there is the whole chain of people below that - when confronted with a bug/issue/inconsistency - still instinctively believe that the computer/program/app is right and that the human (customer/operator/etc.) is at fault.

The solution to failing/failed technology (which is anyway right/correct - say - 99% of the times) is to make the friction needed to solve the remaining 1% edge cases/bugs/etc. simpler via human intervention through a documented, transparent and fair process.

Before or later this 99% will (hopefully) go up to 99.99% but still the procedures to correct errors will be needed for the 0.01%.

To give a practical example, not completely unrelated, I recently had a look on the various "online bank cards" (like - only as examples - Revolut, N26, Monzo) on TrustPilot, and found that they have extremely poor customer satisfaction ratings, clearly due almost exclusively to people that for one reason or the other had one of these rare cases and support/assistance was not capable to solve problems or to solve them in a timely fashion.

Even if you look at the various complaints here and there on Hacker News about (say) Apple, Google (and their app stores), Facebook, etc. they mostly revolve (besides the privacy/monopoly related ones) to the total lack of assistance/support and/or the total lack of transparency in the (sometimes with relevant consequences) decisions they make.
Dude, this is awesome! Huge kudos to you!
>I don't know where you find the limits here, in the sense that at some level there is a mistake here. People make mistakes.

I worked in a highly regulated company, we were under supervision of FDA, EMA and German EMA. We once missed a bug in database migration where a boolean field was false by default in java (non-nullabe), but it could be null in database column. It apparently broke a few reports (NOT running software, just pdf reports) for pharmacological clinics, 2 developers, 2 testers, our PO and out CTO had "disciplinary" actions (don't remember what it was really called) and their actions were under supervision from external consultants our company had to pay for.

It's crazy we don't have such rules in finance, food, data processing and publishing industries.

> The situation at the Royal Mail is likely to be dramatically more serious, because there's a significant chance they were both covering up serious failings and knowingly directly prosecuting people to do so.

Yes, RM decided to start internal investigation that lasted a few years, instead immediately contacting police, this is why it lasted so long and were so many victims.
Skateboard is of course twice removed from (ice) skates, with roller skates as an intermediary step. I guess it's pure coincidence that we don't call snowboarding "snowskating".
I’m not OP so can’t answer your question literally. If you’re questioning why use the phrase “elite” and not professional or competitive:

You can be a professional (by definition being paid) athlete and still never be in the top 10% of players (see decades of PGA [golf], ATP [tennis] results etc). I’m not sure on the definition, but there’s absolutely tiers of professional players. Take the NBA (basketball) - there’s over 500 players in the competition, they’re good by definition but there’s a subset that are elite. There’s further subsets, for example “generational” which are “once in a generation talent” etc.

However, being an Olympian doesn’t make you elite by default (in fact there’s numerous “loop hole” athletes that prove this is the case, eg Elizabeth Swaney).
People with ADHD sometimes forget people even exist when they're out of sight.

Just because your built-in OS lacks a scheduler and notifications to remind you to keep a connection with friends doesn't mean you don't care about them.

Sometimes the person might even receive the notification but fails to act on it because of poor social conditioning.
We have a lot in common indeed at this stage but there is a lot of incoming features that would differentiate us.
They have a great team and their execution is excellent. I had the itch to start such tool for a long time and seeing that the ecosystem was growing, including airplane.dev inspired me to start my own.
Isn't being offered stock in your own company broadly consistent with Marxist principles: workers own a share of the wealth they create? Maybe not as much of a share as they'd like, but I wouldn't have thought that was reason to avoid taking any.
There is a Russian anecdote: to raise the quality of a phone call one could say just 3 magic words: "Moscow, metro, bomb".
A TV show. One man and one aurochs enter an arena. Only one of them emerges alive. The name of the show: Steak Your Life.
I am a Ruby/Rails developer that is currently not writing Ruby/Rails code on the job. I use it for my private stuff and I would have loved to go back to developing in Ruby/Rails for money. On of my ex-coworkers and Ruby/Rails devs is currently also not working on paid Ruby/Rails code and is in a similar situation.

Both of us love Ruby and Rails. The language is rather expressive and the language AND community are rather fun. I think Ruby and Rails are making a bit of a comeback because people like us are moving back for our personal stuff and there is still a stream of new Devs coming in. I even got one of my friends to give it a try and he likes it and is planing to do personal projects in Rails.
It is not only the US which is against Nordstream2. Any population which is sensitive to Kremlin aggression is against filling their coffers and giving the Kremlin control of their own economies. There are many countries with such populations.
I've been inconvenienced by construction noise once, jackhammers nearly non-stop and such. Had to decamp to a hotel for a month.

I don't think I'd support doxxing every construction worker and ruining their future lives, and it wasn't even a political protest.

If we start villifying protests, democracy is finished, and we are back into the feudal days. Which seems to be the trend these days anyway, so perhaps it's all moot.
The Fed creates money out of thin air. Still, it does not mean the bonds bought by the Fed are foregone. The US Treasury still has to pay all the interest and principal on them.
Thousands is probably pushing it, they kill around ~500 a year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadliest_animals_to_h...
You might want to reconsider the name if you research it's meaning in Swedish... Just saying.
I have a friend like that. Whenever we meet we have fun, but she never contacts me. She tells me that's just how she is with everyone, and that she really likes hanging out, she just doesn't initiate, which is fair, but it still feels like she doesn't value me, no matter how much I logically know otherwise.

These days I try to override the feeling and initiate first, because I know that she really does want to hang out, but the feeling is deeply ingrained and hard to shake.

What I'm basically saying is that maybe you should try a bit more, because this way has certainly lost you a few friends over the years. Maybe it works for you, though, no judgment.
Is there any way to filter out the paywalled links on HN? I'd rather just browse free web content than fight with paywalls and bypassers.
some institutions need to hold the safest investment, since they might have sudden need to use it as cash - places like insurance companies, or companies that are holding on to liabilities that have a future date, but need to have assets today on hand (for paying in the future date).

You cannot hold equities, or bonds which could lose value for such purposes.
I guess considering this was taken from a course in economics I'm not surprised. They don't criticise markets there or look at critical theories at all.

I guess a few facts like markets are not always efficient, they are often irrational, there has never really been a "free market", its been distorted by governments and powerful agents... Corporations were the ones who created market regulation so that they wouldn't be subject to its vagaries.
It's a hack/trick since it exploits a hardware layout that wasn't meant to be used from the software side.

Like most hacks, it can work for some common use cases but will have a lot of edge cases :

- how to detect the user pixel layout? on web, native applications..

- what about users who switch between landscape/portrait orientations?

- does it make correct gamma rendering more complex? switch to dark mode harder?

Also, I cannot find a simple implementation, focused on subpixel-AA. So people will probably have to start from scratch..

Here is the most interesting link I found:
https://www.grc.com/cttech.htm
In the UK you can stick whatever you want into stocks and shares isas, if you can afford it.

The problem is that housing costs rise to suck every spare penny of income from pretty much everyone so very few people have spare money to put into those isas.
I set up an old phone to run a torrent client (qbittorrent). It was a Debian 8 chroot [1] that I could ssh into.

In the end, it really wasn't worth the hassle. Networking ports would go unresponsive when the mobile CPU on the phone would go into "deep sleep". The battery began expanding after a few months.

CPU was more than capable to do the actual processing work. I/O with the SD card was passable.

I really wish someone would invent some sort of generic battery adapter that could transform any device requiring a battery into something that can run on direct power. I really adore that old Sony Ericsson Xperia android device.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/ChrootOnAndroid
Shit happens, you might have crunch at work for some time and spend much less time on social activities in that period, which means that you loose contacts with anyone but close friends. It requires conscious effort to leave that state. And there are different types of social connections, there are those where not much happens for some time, but then in very short period of time A LOT happens. That is the case for some of my friends that don't live in my city.
> what's the bit rate of information encoded in writing style?

Over a whole copy, high enough to distinguish the handwriting or writing style of different persons, and to probe whether a text is a first account text, a contemporaneous copy or a forged later one?

> And in any case, how much of that subtle, undocumented writing feature would one expect to find in a given document throughout history?

There's a reason original artefacts are kept with great care and their high resolution copy have more interest than the full text-only transcription (which itself can be subject to interpretation in some cases).

> Obviously it was the latter.

Was it? Were ornamented, illuminating manuscripts about quick and efficient production? or about effective and subtle communication?

Particularly in the case of illuminated scripts, where illustrations could bring either additional context or critique of the first-order reading of the text, either visual support to the text meaning to the less literate.
Ivan Reitman, acclaimed Canadian producer, director of Ghostbusters, dead at 75