skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These articles are as bad as the notes people they are bagging on.

The trouble is that people try to fit the kitchen sink into the note app and that doesn't work. As a programmer, I have specific workflows for each note that I take.

Example. I want to try stand-up one day. Each snippet that I think of as a joke, I write down in a note. All snippets go into the same space. Sometimes I think of a snippet which could extend an existing bit (a joke which is larger than a one liner.) Once this page got to a certain length, I didn't even have to think about new snippets anymore. All I would have to do is open this page and they would jump out at me.

One approach is that if I feel like I got nothing, I can simply scan the list and find something which hits me. Like, I'll see a line and immediately think of something which could extend it. Or I'll see multiple lines which hit me and I can come up with something which mixes the two together. This may start a new branch of a joke.

Apply this to every reason I might add a note. Yes, I have what's basically a trash bin where notes go to die. But anything else is sort of like these jokes, they go into a place where I have a specific way to use them. Within my notes app, I have a system of navigation and discovery, which is basically like a website where you follow links and use metadata to place things in certain spots (unless you're adding to an existing note.) I use a template which fills in most of what I need and then the remaining is a quick add. I can then query that metadata as if it's a real DB.

I use Obsidian for this. I used Roam at one point, but it didn't have a way to hide things which weren't in my navigation path. Everything leaks, because, NETWORK! Nah, I look at it is like building spreadsheets. Each spreadsheet has a certain usage. I don't cram all the data into one spreadsheet. I use multiple spreadsheets. Then the app I use (Obsidian) has the above mentioned tools for nice navigation.
> To be fair the US is pretty much the entire military for all of the West, Japan, Korea, and Australia.

That's not true. France for example still has strong military. So does UK, Israel... Not saying it's a good thing that these military institutions exist, but except maybe in Ukraine nobody in Europe would feel (more) unsafe if the USA military would disappear overnight.

> But I definitely agree we could get rid of war. We've been in long peace. It seems very possible.

I agree it's very possible given the right mindset/circumstances. But we're far off from it. War feeds from countries with mafia-like governments who take all the people's money under securitarian pretexts, and these governments have never stopped waging war. In some countries like France, the government has even pushed for military patrols in the streets (since the 80s), training for kids in schools to anticipate attacks (since 2015) and the return of mandatory military service (or so-called universal national service, since 2019 i believe).

The US is still at war in several countries, and so is France. We don't feel it on the mainland because the propaganda is really strong here (whenever we're talking about it it's along the lines of "don't ask questions, we're just killing terrorists") and the consequences are very remote. But war is still really real for many people on this planet, and is still (mostly, though not only) caused by western imperialist powers imposing their will on the rest of the planet (see for example what France is doing in Mali to exploit all the riches in the north) or by the governments they arm (see what Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen).

To be fair, i'm not saying Russian or Chinese military are any better. I just don't understand how we could stop wars when the military establishment is stronger than ever in our own countries, and still causing wars and suffering abroad. Such criticism can still be interpreted to be illegal, as France has banned insulting national symbols (since Sarkozy), and anti-imperialists militants such as Jean-Marc Rouillan can still be condemned (after spending decades in prison) for denouncing the lies of the propaganda of the french empire.
If you actually get some value from re-reading and reorganising your old notes, that's great. It sounds like you don't have the problem the author is addressing. But many people write tons of notes and save them but almost never look at them again, and subsequently worry they're wasting time writing and saving all these notes. This author is saying this worrying is misplaced, it's not a waste of time. The act of writing a note is valuable for tidying up the ideas in your head, even if you never look at them again. And that while you don't really need to save them (as you've already had the value from writing them), it can be easier and quicker to just save all your random notes, as a general policy, because trying to determine which notes have potential future utility is fairly pointless and stressful activity. Notes don't really cost anything to store. This policy doesn't work so well for physical possessions.
And it does all that without requesting untrusted third party JS? Amazing! Have my upvote.
>That article is from last year and it just says black canadians are right to be wary because healthcare is racist. It doesn't say most truckers or occupiers are black (or indian?).

I was providing a link in corroboration as to why there is a disproportionate amount of not-white people protesting. While some media are covering how this is not white supremacy as claimed by the CBC... https://notthebee.com/article/come-and-laugh-with-me-at-the-...

The point is missed.

>The truckers are overwhelming white men.

So the reason why the convoy exists is antivaxxers. The way averages work, if Black canadians are at 50% vaccinated 'because reasons' and our average is 85%. This means white people are even more vaccinated and not concerned with the change.

>'m in Ottawa. I was at the protest yesterday that stopped a convoy of trucks, all driven by white men.

So you're a counter protester? I support your efforts so long as you also remain peaceful.

>The people who I see driving around with giant flags, yelling at pedestrians are all white men. The people at the LCBO fighting security without masks on - white men. People at the grocery store harassing actual essential workers - white men.

Here's the thing. The narrative that the truckers are a racists, sexist, etc fell apart. You can watch several eloquent Indian truckers explain in depth about how this is not about race.

There is a very relevant video from the notthebee page above: https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1487513119119261696

A counter protester with a sign saying 'white nationalist agenda' is confronted with reality.
So good! Websites rarely have personalities any more.
Note: You can do many of these one-liners using tools that understand Python: Xonsh or Pyp. You won't need to learn Awk -- let alone any non-standard dialect of Awk. It won't be as fast as some Awk implementations (maybe), but you'll have a gentle on-ramp and off-ramp to a more featureful programming language.

I think the problem with DSLs is when a problem only partially fits into what they can do.
The economy must grow, no matter what.

The problem is that if the economy stops growing but productivity keeps going up we will have to work less and less. However, we don't have a solution to sharing jobs. We think it is more efficient to employ a single full time employee which makes some people perpetually redundant while simultaneously running into the paradox that these individuals could work but don't have to. We still blame them if they don't work. We blame them even though the products the full time employees produce have no market other than these unemployed people.
Direct link to the book: https://yakvi.github.io/handmade-hero-notes/index.md.html
If someone doesn't drive safely there can be negative consequences.

If people don't read the agreements they agree to there can be negative consequences.
Not if you ship them to Ukraine for free. And even if it stops being the case Ukraine is still too poor to be lucrative customer in high-tech weaponry that US would like to sell.
I couldn't draw/write that neat until I was probably twice that age.

Nicely done
Ironically, I get annoyed because my Macbook Air treats my LG monitor as a TV and doesn’t allow me to adjust the volume.
How is the right for women to vote symbolic? The political landscape would look completely different if only men could vote.
Im wondering how is this informative in any way? And, why is this worthy aplomb?

The point of view I choose to take here; if this is not field of work (50/50) by standards other than politically imposed hiring bias (which it might be, I do not know), they (the hiring policies) are creating dis-balance in employing more competent male workers.

So the logic of the situation is: If this field is inherently market driven ~50/50 in terms of gender ratio then there is no news. If this is not true of the said field of work then this news should be read as self-congratulations at gender discrimination (against equally competent males). I fail to see the moral here.
> When Son spearheaded the $31bn purchase of Arm, he saw it as a wager on the future of the entire technology industry, which was crystallising at that time around the IoT concept. He proceeded to push the executive team firmly on the course to designing chips for this future of machine connectivity.

Son did not push anyone, ARM was IoT crazy before it was purchased:
http://web.archive.org/web/20151006082751/http://www.arm.com...
What's funny with people like OP is that they forget that most people never take notes and are still able to achieve as much as people who take notes. It is like developers who use vim, they deliver as much as people who use VS code.

But instead of saying 'yeah whatever' they try to prove that their way is the right way
It's usually unlabeled buttons, unlabelled icons, divs that change color on click instead of actual honest to god native HTML checkboxes, inaccessible drag-and-drop, no heading structure which makes navigation harder, weird date pickers that screen readers cannot handle and so on.
I think it's because most tech/product people incorrectly assume that other people also search for the best products to solve their problems
Refusing to align with people who are 90% in agreement with you is why you aren't getting a formidable political bloc.
How did Afghanistan work out as a distraction from the things you mentioned?
It takes about four years for your solar panels to pay back the co2 used to produce them.

And the co2 eeded to produce your car's batteries I do not know, but probably several years for that too.

So I doubt your daily driving is carbon neutral just yet.
Global study finds the extent of pharmaceutical pollution in the world’s rivers
I doubt that one can make a universal case for a whole class of actions that always works. If you block critical infrastructure to 'have your way' because of a luxury position you're not trying to 'fix an institutional problem', you're being a dick to everyone around you while they can't fix anything for you anyway.

Imagine someone honking their horn at your bedroom window all night because they wanted a McFlurry but "the machine was broken".

If all a protest does is mess with society, it'll just end up with counter-protests and civil war light edition.
I saw that, but many other places cite numbers such as 3,000. Having lived on that continent for many years, I’d expect many would go unreported in official tallies.
which, of course, is self-fulfilling.
Thanks for clarifications, that makes perfect sense. I'm still more angry at the criminals-in-robes we call judges, but of course testifying your software has zero flaws (in any case, and especially if you know otherwise) is ethically wrong.
What browser do you use where history is at all usable for finding any specific thing? Combing through 150 or 500 by-domain YouTube entries with no other metadata? That thing that was a week or three ago on, uh, some domain with --ohhh look-- multiple subdomains? Hope you remember some words from the page title?

Google and Mozilla have both completely shit on the entire idea of personal browsing continuity. Just close all your tabs at night, then go to the home page they provide and start from scratch every morning and nobody gets hurt.
...then they destroyed every extension by completely changing the extensions architecture.
I think dang might disagree with you there.

Also "illegal" is a little over the top. Are we talking misdemeanor or felony, here?
Do they pay well? SpaceX apparently doesn't
GeoFS – a flight simulator based on Cesium WebGL Virtual Globe
> Threats. That's one form of violence. Yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theatre, that's another.

Threat is instigating fear of injury. Violence is causing injury. You can have your own personal definition, but from a legal perspective, threat is not a violent crime.

Yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre isn't even illegal. Let alone a violence. Inciting panic is illegal. If you incite panic through yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre, you'll answer for inciting panic and will bear responsibility for the actual consequences, if any, not for the yelling.
nothing sad about being incentivized to drive less.
These are overly technical things that technical founders will be drawn too.

But it's not what matters (at least, until you have hundreds of pages ranking).

Google Search is very similar to LinkedIn, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram in the sense that the better your UX metrics are (time on-site, pages visited, return visitors, etc) the more visibility Google will give you in the SERPs.

For most SaaS, there aren't a few valuable keywords, there are hundreds of valuable pages representing thousands of keywords to drive a qualified audience.

This means after you learn how to create highly valuable content, the next step is to scale your publishing velocity to increase your footprint in the SERPs.

I've brought 4 websites from 0 to 100,000+ organics/month by focusing on creating more reader value than any other page of content Google could show for the keywords I want to rank for, and publishing hundreds of pages of content.
Ah. Not seen so much of that in London though in the comments section of the Daily Mail some people rant about cyclists. Guess it's more seeing them as an enemy tribe rather than them actually cluttering the road. In London the bigger aggression issue I've seen is cyclists having a go at pedestrians which also puzzles me a bit if less so.
But you can't really download a car, can you? :) Joke aside, I think we are actually going in the opposite direction. Looking at the way Tesla wants/already does keep a score of your driving, maybe self driving cars in the distant future, I would predict that we are going in the wrong direction when certain people and groups will want cars to drive away from you back to their home base or your car to refuse to start or unlock if you misbehave.

Somehow I am not sure why, we as technical people, and I would even think that most of the people in these fields are also into fiction and sci-fi, we are taking only the worst things from novels and stories, instead of the good ones, VERY slowly transforming our society in an dystopian nightmare.
I know these outages well ;). Running zk on its own (small) cluster helps a lot. I also nice the zk jvm all the way.

Another tip for the desperate who find it -- when solr cloud totally locks up you should look up who is acting as the OVERSEER in zookeeper and focus on restarting that node, possibly with others all down.
FriendlyCaptcha is not even a captcha. It's just a client side rate limiter.
There's no way for them to take your car away... Yet.

Maybe one day your Tesla will simply drive off if you don't pay the bills, or worse work for the SEC
One of my reddit accounts was suspended because I exclusively use it within Tor. I contacted support about the matter and they restored the account once they saw it wasn't doing anything against the sitewide rules.
Yes, because "big updates" regularly trash Firefox in Red Hat.

This happens all the time.

What a fiction indeed.
Ignoring range restriction is a very common and very consequential statistical fallacy. I'm not going to blindly assume that Google engineers are above statistical fallacies. Especially ones that embody universal human cognitive biases, like thinking that what you see is representative of everything that's out there.

There's plenty of evidence that grades matter in other contexts, so I'm not going to throw all of that out because some Google guy made a vaguely general claim based on his limited and very biased sample.

As I said, all Google has to do to refute my doubts is point out its huge population of very low GPA, very successful engineers. If GPA is meaningless, this should be a trivial thing for them to do.
> What ought to be my main focus?

Develop your technical skills during the week, develop your social skill during the weekend. A lot are only doing the first, even on the weekend (or only the second, even during the week). While raw skill is cool, it's important that you can work in a team, that your boss likes you and your colleagues can work with you. Attend parties, talk to strangers, learn how to do some small-talk. A lot of it is really just practice and confidence. It also helps you in your personal life, you have to survive adulthood too. You might move into a new city and need to make friends, or your girlfriend/boyfriend could leave you and you might need to talk up somebody at a bar. University is really ideal for this, there's a lot of interaction during your day. Adulthood can be very lonely. Really try to make some friends that are NOT studying computer science (I can't stress this enough, huge error on my part when I started).

During the week, I would take university seriously and augment it by doing some practical stuff at home. A lot of universities are theoretical, they don't really let you built stuff. Or you could built something during your holidays. I always had some project ready that I could pursue if I found the time. This combines both worlds. Also, hackathons are fun. Since you're in your first year, really nail down linear algebra and calculus, it's the basics for all your future academic endeavours. Try to be a tutor for either or both in the second year, it helps to fortify your skill.
Large Braille displays basically don't exist, they'd be too expensive.

Navigation with a screen reader isn't just next item / previous item, though. There are hotkeys to jump between headings, links and so on. That's why good markup is so important for accessibility.
Sure, every cop's DNA should be stored and available. Along with everybody else's.

DNA lets cops catch criminals. Through smart police-work. This is progress.
Maybe they changed it, but after an update the Strava app refused to start activities in the "only when using" mode.

I stopped using Strava at that point, so I can't say what it's like now.
The problem is that you still count them in you 50 characters. If you were to remove the ones that couldn't be represented and count the collisions as a single character, you would get far less than that.
Ah that makes sense. I respect you not wanting to use an app, but most likely >90% of the people who make online purchases also have their bank's app so it makes sense that the flow is optimized for that.

I use Wise too, but they also support 3D secure and it is generally required on European merchants... Works great in the app, but it's probably clunky without it too :/
> You are assuming "almost all users" mirrors the users you know.

> …

> I know many people who…

Uh, why are the people you know more valid than the people I know?

Also no one brought up trying different browsers for compatibility reasons, and tbh, I don’t think anyone does that on their phone. It’s definitely the case that the two comments I’ve gotten are from people who personally care about the engine more than the chrome, but I’ve seen nothing to suggest the average person does.
Keep a daily journal.

Better yet, write in your journal as often as possible. Had an interesting class? Write it down. Met some cool people? Write it down.

A lot will happen in college and yet it will also be over in the blink of an eye. Many of your unforgettable experiences will be forgotten. But if you keep a written record then that time was your own.
Not in the context you’re referring to. Asking at what point doesn’t have to mean some exact discrete point - you’re just selectively interpreting it that way to go on a tangent that I certainly don’t care about.
Importantly as well, turning off precise location does not prevent that data from going to Google -- it merely prevents it from going to 3rd party applications.
> 1. Is it easy to set up the redirect from Gmail to the new account?

Yes super easy. You can do this using Gmail's filter service. However, many services will also let you log in to gmail via POP/IMAP (OAuth for auth) and fetch the email from your gmail for you that way.

> 2. When I send email from new account (custom domain), how are you completely sure it is not going to be on spam? I send unsolicited emails to people in big corps (journalist asking for interviews/comments, not spammy :-)

I guess it's hard to know for sure, but I've not noticed any problems with this when the underlying provider is a well-known sender such as Gmail or Fastmail.
I've had a nagging idea to knock together a small app (using a WebView, MacOS) that takes you to, for example, Hacker News and that's it.

No URL text field where you can type in a different address — perhaps a just back button. In other words, a wildly gimped web browser to keep my surfing much, much more focused.

I have no idea if I can trust myself to stick to just launching that app in the morning, leaving aside the standard browser. I'm not sure if a diet of only HN is smart or right or would make me happier.

Just a thought I've had.
I'd say only someone who has done something so horrible that they fear getting caught worse than they want their rapists caught.

It's a trap of their own doing.
I don't run my brain according to computer science principles, but generally the "current working set" for me are the tabs furthest to the right of a browser window's tab bar.
If you want 8024 characters, you actually need at least 8024*6 dots, each Braille character, also called a cell when Braille displays are concerned, can consist of up to six dots, eight in computer Braille.
At university:

Sleep more than you study.

Study more than you party.

Party as much as you can.
My working set is a workspace. I send browser windows to separate workspaces if I context-switch apart from a few basics like e-mail etc. which has a workspace to itself.

I may start adding things to my "scratch" workspace, and then if I realise this is something that's turning into more than just visiting a single page I'll tear of the tab and send it somewhere.

Many of those workspaces can stay up for weeks or months.
I just don't think we have to take away their right of free speech in order to protect other people's rights to peace in their homes.

It doesn't have to be either one or the other. A more conciliatory approach by the Canadian government would pay off better. My personal opinion, only. I might be wrong, who knows?...
NL to AAPL: FAFO.
From your example the consultancy work wasn't the problem, it was mismanagement of the of the startup.

The only alternative to consultancy should be to close. If you can let go of 1-2 unproductive employees, that should happen before taking on consultancy work. It should happen in any circumstance anyway, but taking on work to pay for other peoples wage and not getting value for that is a recipe for failure. If on the other hand it was high performance developers that really made progress on the core focus on the business it's probably okay.
Climate Change: Annual greenhouse gas index
There's SHADERed (https://github.com/dfranx/SHADERed).

I've only done very basic shader stuff, but it helped me when I got stuck.