skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't mind an Electron or web-based app with a subscription, you could also look at Zenreader [0], Polar [1] or maybe even Readwise [2]. Zotero will also have a PDF Reader app with Markdown export soon [3]. And some cross-platform note taking / PKM apps also have some kind of PDF annotation support (directly: Logseq [4]; via plugins: Obsidian [5], Roam Research [6]).

That said, all these offerings are very different from each other so you'd have to look closely what fits best.

[0]: https://zenreader.co.uk
[1]: https://getpolarized.io
[2]: https://readwise.io
[3]: https://www.zotero.org/support/pdf_reader_preview
[4]: https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/9512/0/major-l...
[5]: https://publish.obsidian.md/alexisrondeau/Obsidian+PDF+Highl...
[6]: https://github.com/c3founder/Roam-Enhancement#pdf
Agreed, and I hope that the three options presented by this author do not in fact constitute ineluctable destiny, because frankly, none of them appeal to me. I don't want to hustle for business and I'm not sufficiently obsessed with my work to become a "senior individual contributor". I've done some management in the past and I don't want to do it again, because humans are a pain in the ass.
I'd like to simply continue doing what I'm doing now, which is writing code for my employer, and mostly being left alone to do so. Can that not be arranged?
The first time I ever understood the purpose of Twitter was when someone, a year or two ago, explained to me that Twitter's original intent was to provide a way to group-text friends, since smart phones at the time had no good way of accomplishing that. Suddenly I "got" Twitter.

In terms of what Twitter is used for by everyone these days ... I don't get it. Every time I've created an account and tried to "get into it" I ended up getting bored and never returning. Someone somewhere must find some kind of a use for it since it's still a thing. But I just can't figure out for the life of me what that use is. When people explain that they use it to follow people/pages they like or keep up with the news I keep finding myself using better tools (for me) to do those things. I guess I'm out of touch but I can't figure out for the life of me what problem exists that Twitter actually solves. Then again, I really don't use a smart phone at all either so maybe that explains the disconnect. Now get off my lawn.
Howdy! Good question. It's one I seem to not be able to answer satisfyingly even in, uh,

$ wc -w wiki/ratf/src/notes.adoc

7621 words. (Geez.)

The "wrap-ups" (the distillation process from daily -> weekly -> monthly -> yearly) is of potentially enormous value and are a direct result of the daily logging. I stand by that.

It's hard to put a value on the notes as a capture system because it's difficult to know what I might have lost without it. I do know that if I don't write down great ideas, they're often lost forever, "Dangit, I had a clever little solution to Fermat's Last Theorem in the shower yesterday, but now I've forgotten it!" I am convinced that capturing them has increased my total idea retention.

Plenty of technical ideas I've jotted down also make it into my wiki and/or website, and those things are potentially referenced many, many times. I have absolutely searched for and found things in the digital daily logs. But as I say in the article, searching is really hard because I remember the "wrong" keywords later.

As you say: "the act of taking the note is of value" and I guess an additional benefit I'm just now thinking of are all of the ideas I have NOT acted upon. By writing them down, I feel more confident I won't forget them. Which means I'm more comfortable about not acting on them "Right now before I forget!" Which means when I see the note again (even just when transcribing the next morning), I've had time to cool off and make a better decision about pursing that thing. (ALL ideas are written down, and 99% of them get transcribed even if I have no intention of pursuing them.) I'll add this to the article.

Finally, once I stopped logging brushing my teeth and that sort of thing, the effort-to-value went way up. :-)
I changed careers at 40+ years old. I'm very happy that I did it.

People have all sorts of constructs / ideas about how careers work (based on experience) or how they think it works, or how they want it to work. I talk to some college graduates who tell me what they're planning for and have ZERO clue what industry they're talking about, their description is unrecognizable to me ... even tho I know it is the one I work in.

I find your experience and paths can vary greatly company to company, even job to job.

We all find truths we want to hold on to about work. I recall trips to the valley where my coworkers where astonished to hear tales of people doing the same work they did, but doing it slightly differently elsewhere in the country. Their view of how that job was done was entirely shaped by the couple places they worked (and everyone seemed to cycle through those couple companies). You'd think these folks though that if you didn't fill out the TPS report right to left that the world would end... I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people fill them out left to right but I didn't feel like telling them that, it might have been too much for them to handle.

"
I think there are three main kinds of career destination, at least in the tech industry:

Independent
Senior individual contributor (IC)
Management

"

I have no idea why those are the only destinations ... for an article worried about being happy that seems kind of limited.

The whole article feels very pie in the sky to me.
This was in my feed, seemed relevant. Father facing jail time in france for using a signal jammer to keep his kids off the internet https://hothardware.com/news/a-father-who-used-a-signal-jamm...
My Samsung "TV" draws almost 40W of power when it's turned "off" - I have to physically cut the power to it. There's also no way to disable Bluetooth. Spyware seems to be the fait accompli for Samsung.
My secret to enjoying Twitter is:

- I’m fast to follow, fast to unfollow. I try a lot of folks out, but am quick to drop them if the value is not there.

- I try to only follow people not orgs. So, I tend to follow individual reporters instead of the main newspaper account (for example).

- I don’t tweet. In fact my account is private with no followers so I couldn’t even if I wanted to.
Looks like you're trying to use Twitter for "serious" purposes — getting researched information, professional networking and so on. That's one way to use it, but not the only one.

Personally, I use twitter to rant about politics, occasionally post something programming-related, but mostly for shits and giggles. Although I follow quite a few Twitter influencers like Naval, most of my feed are just local people that I like, that have nothing in common with my career, who post pretty mundane stuff about their lives, sometimes — nudes. I've met a lot of these people in real life, sometimes just for drinks, and more than a couple of times it developed into ONS and serious romantic relationships.
> If it keeps Teslas with 'aggressive' autopilot from doing illegal and dangerous things like rolling stops

It doesn't do that. Tesla would still be able to push out whatever updates it wants. Drivers would just have to either go to a service center or leave the state to install them.
I don't understand this world where you're playing a game for 3-4 hours, every day, for a month, and come out of it feeling like that wasn't enough.
I dunno if humiliated is the right word for that. I’d be very humbled to be around that.

For me it’s quite humbling to be around people who can connect with others almost instantly, seemingly with no effort at all.

I’ve resigned myself to accepting I’ll never really be like that. It’s quite exhausting, at least for me. I dunno, maybe it is just a skill I could learn but the desire to do so isn’t there and so here we are…
Roku has more built-in tracking than anything you can possibly connect to your TV.
A shareware (freeware?) program called Graphics Workshop was popular in the 1990s and available from many BBSs. For example, you can get it at http://files.mpoli.fi/software/WIN32/GRAPHICS/. I mention it because it supports an IMG image format.
No, because you can turn that into actually fair (if unpleasant) policies.

For example the proportional representation. Just always have it always be proportional, no matter how the distribution changes. That's fair (again, probably unpleasant for some groups).
That spyware thankfully isn't no mine, and if you're forced to use it (if you for whatever reason can't use Jitsi/Teams) then I strongly encourage you not to install the app and instead use the web version.
The part about OTA update being a benefit to all - yes I agree.

But aggressive autopilot being evil? That's a stretch.

Sure human operators need to stop every time, look both ways, proceed cautiously. Makes sense.

But a car with sensors operating 24x7, never getting tired or taking an intersection for granted? The rules can be different. Should be different. Because there's no added risk; because we can adjust them should an issue arrive, and they will always, always do it the new way.

Computers are different from humans. They drive differently. Insisting they behave the same way, is like insisting drivers have a person on foot proceeding ahead honking a horn and waving a flag (as early localities insisted drivers of the new automobile should have to do) because they might scare the horses.
It would discourage deals involving debt to last that long. Maybe as a society, we will understand that debt is not only bad, but toxic.
People may not change much, but the same person can behave very differently under two different systems or leaders, or with a different workload.
It seems there may be a typo on the linked page:

How we manage a fully reemote company
I read that naked ass thing as something that's an example of a worrying trend. In a way like "if these are on the screen now, who knows what else will be there later?".
> it's kind of hard to set up scientific methodology to prove things

Why would you? It works, it's a teachable method. To my mind, the inquiry doesn't have to progress far beyond that. Unless perhaps you value doing things solely for knowledge, which is something academia stopped doing ages ago (and arguably never really did).
The Russian disinformation is an interesting thing to behold. A lot of blatantly claiming black is white. And if you point this out the attitude is more - how can you be so naive as to worry about that - than embarrassment.

They have a different sort of credibility in that they do send in the troops and kill/poison/imprison people maybe more than the west.

It seems more like dealing with a mafia protection racket - they may say they are nice people who just want to protect your business but their credibility comes from violence rather than being honest in what they say.
http://la.causeuse.org/hauke/macbsd/symbios_53cXXX_doc/lsilo...

But, its still an abstraction, and would have to remain that way unless your willing to segment it into a bunch of individual product categories, since the functionality of these controllers grows with the target market. AKA the controller on a emmc isn't anywhere similar to the controller on a flash array. So like GP-GPU programming, its not going to be a single piece of code because its going to have to be tuned to each controller, for perf as well as power reasons never mind functionality differences (aka it would be hard to do IP/network based replication if the target doesn't have a network interface).

There isn't anything particularly wrong with the current HW abstraction points.

This "cheating" by failing to implement the spec as expected isn't a problem that will be solved by moving the abstraction somewhere else, someone will just buffer write page and then fail to provide non volatile ram after claiming its non volatile/whatever.

And its entirely possible to build "open" disk controllers, but its not as sexy as creating a new processor architectures. Meaning RISC-V has the same problems, if you want to talk to industry standard devices (aka the NVMe drive you plug into the RISC-V machine is still running closed source firmware, on a bunch of undocumented hardware).

But take: https://opencores.org/projects?expanded=Communication%20cont... for example...
>I concussed myself so many times when I was 17 on hard falls, just completely out of it sitting on the hill. It’s a very dangerous sport. Probably as dangerous as football in terms of TBI risk.

This is why, honestly, I will never suggest someone to bother learning it as an adult. Unless you are extremely athletic and completely set on it, it's just going to be an afternoon of pain and frustration. I've seen it happen over and over again. Learning to ski or snowboard requires falling thousands of times. Which isn't a big deal when you're 12, but at 32 it's a whole different story.
That does look good if you have control and its somewhat simple html.

The particular use case I was looking at was integrating a web based rich text editor based on contenteditable. It had to be a proper webview, and the issue is that the interaction with the text (cursors/selection/typing/onscreen keyboard) was completely broken.
BlueWallet – A Bitcoin and Lightning Wallet
Our experience has been similarly good.
750k monthly active users between iOS (29%), Android (60%) and web (11%). Supporting low spec Android devices has proven to be a much nicer experience for us using flutter.
Here you go,

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange ("Stack Exchange Data Dump")
What's fascinating to me is that the article makes no mention of female performance in chess whatsoever, which has historically been underwhelming compared to men, seeing how the strongest female player ever never made it into even top-4 of the Candidates tournament, let alone played for the Championship.

Since height and athletic ability plays almost no role in chess, can you perhaps explain why women have underperformed?

Also, I have no idea why WGM (Woman Grandmaster) title is even a thing, since I cannot possibly think of a more discriminatory "consolation prize" type of title in a field where men don't have an inherent physical advantage. Curious to hear what is your take on this as well.
Interesting trick, but I assume this only works well if you're smart about what you put in the parser state. If line number is in there then it will never converge with old snapshots.
Things like this remind me how dependent I am on IM for doing any work, which is weird because it doesn't feel like that should be the case. If you were to measure the raw number of seconds I spend sending IMs, it would be a relatively low percentage of my day, but I always forget how vital that percentage actually is.

As it stands, while I'm not fully blocked from being productive, I am blocked for a lot of work that needs to get done.
Don't know why you got downvoted. All these Americans in this thread can have all the opinions they want. They're not getting screwed by high gas prices right now.
>but I don't think they go around waving a moral banner as if they were saving the world.

Exactly. That is the big PR difference between Steve Jobs and Tim Cook. That is why forcing out Katie Cotton was a bad idea.
I found this really interesting!

This mirrors how Google is also using canvas in Google Docs and basically abandoning the DOM.

This gives them so much control — they’re writing directly to the canvas, they’re not relying on any platform rendering - but also means they need to take over so much of the look and feel and affordances that the platforms provide natively.

This definitely isn’t the kind of tool for everyone but seems super useful for some use cases.
Larry David "fans" make up a minority of viewers. The majority of viewers just see him as a recognizable, funny face. And, to this majority, his character in the commercial was a great fit.

A quick glance at Youtube view counts shows FTX commercial ahead of BMW's Zeus/Hera commercial which was supposedly ranked #1 by a number of online publications -- make of that what you will, but calling it a "big mistake" seems highly subjective, unless you've actually obtained viewer engagement metrics.
> wouldn't sales be a form of IC ?

Not in the sense the article uses: "A senior IC role appeals to those who want to stay technical and keep their hands on the keyboard, or at least the mouse."
What monopoly? Obviously no exceptions. Homes are to live in. If you want to invest buy stocks or derivatives that don't tie up precious land and property while you wait to cash in. What part of this is outlandish or unreasonable?
My life was made much harder when Flash and Silverlight like tooling was taken away.

The craziness of faking UIs with paragraph tags massaged via CSS and JavaScript into a drop down menu.

Now they are back, even Google Docs is moving into it.
Guidance for Scaling – Reversible vs. Irreversible Decisions
A simple “no” would have sufficed.
Some crawlers that are known for backing up things seem to be at work to the tune of what at a glance looks like terabytes:

https://archive.org/details/stackoverflow.com?tab=about
Nothing's changed other than a lot more people are emotionally charged about the topic by media.
Ask HN: Why Did the Original Slack Post Fall Off the Front Page?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30428142 was there originally, gained steam

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30428788 then seemed to replace it

And the second post is only 2nd position, though it's clearly hugely impactful

What's going on that the algorithm downshifts the original and 2nd places the replacement?
Thanks. No wonder why, not accessible outside US.
I see a lot of snowboarders get into an identity crisis as they get older. Should I still snowboard if I'm not sending jumps and jibs all the time? Yes. Yes you absolutely should.

The truth is that there is just no feeling like laying down a sick carve on a snowboard. Nothing compares.
I know someone who did that and in the end he went from well-paid technical sales to homeless with serious health issues. One piece of minor bad luck followed by more bad luck with the health issues, probably a consequence of the former. Some of his former colleagues, years later, when one of them had found him in the streets, collected money to help him out.

There is a risk of stepping outside. It's not all roses. People are not afraid for no reason and it's not just "all in the head" and an attitude problem.
> Pranayama is a science

It's not a science, it's a practice with a long tradition. Those are very different things.
Planescape: Torment stands out as one game where I enjoyed the walls of text. While it was a lot of text, the text was relevant to the plot rather than going off world building as in Baldur's Gate 1/2's pile of books
A Fast, Compact Approximation of the Exponential Function (1999) [pdf]
I feel like you are in the minority. Most people prefer narrated games over having to read dialogue.
My geeky tips for snowboarding:

1. Remember gravity. If your weight is towards your back (uphill) foot, gravity will try to make that the front foot and bad things will happen. The natural inclination (no pun intended) is to shift back when you get nervous, which is exactly what you don't want to do. Keep weight forward for control.

2. Keep the angle between where your board is pointing and where you are heading small. There's a temptation, especially if the slope is a little steeper than you're comfortable with, to really dig in with your edge as you go mostly downhill. This is exhausting, and makes it much more likely that you'll catch that edge and bite it. Instead, go more side to side on steeper slopes, if needed, but keep your board and your direction closer together. It will be much easier and less likely to cause wipeouts. So I'm told. (If you're really somewhere you're not comfortable, you can always leaf down.)
Folks could/should have as many contact aliases as they desire. They can send them securely to others whom they want contact with. A single username per customer is a lame approximation to what humans really want/need.

Further, it's not necessary to be a unique name - there are plenty of Joe's in the world already. It's not ambiguous if you're contacting the Joe you know.

In any case the username is unnecessary when authenticating. Why not prompt for address, or mother's maiden name too? It's all the same sort of weak 'authentication' that could be eliminated with a proper password/access key.
> they are effectively big pharma sales people.

No they are not; At least not in the UK.

When I was young, My GP was a kind and caring man. I remember him asking my mum how my siblings were, recalling their previous visits.

As a grown up, When I manage to get an appointment they are STILL remarkably effective,-- albeit clearly over-worked and trying to make up time.

More recently it has been impossible for me to make appointments for my parents due to long term under-funding, and covid.

>Well, health (or 'disease control') is a business unfortunately.

This type of thinking in UK social care is exactly what has caused the decline of public health. Politicians and business management have ruined the caring aspect of the NHS through constant budget cuts and medical policies. -- And then they have the gall to claim the NHS isn't fit for purpose.

The whole situation makes me rather distressed. Luckily I am 'well-off' now and look after my parents as best as I can.
Is there a legitimate concern that NATO would occupy/attack Russian territory?
The cover image itself is not pornographic, IMO. If it were an image of people actually having sex, then yeah let's talk about that. But it's not. It's literally just a naked ass.

Gotta be honest, I think you're reading a lot more into that comment than is necessary or warranted. That comment did not advocate for showing pornography to children. It is not "obvious". You made an assumption. I read it as a direct response to 'or another named just "Porn" with a giant naked ass on the poster.' in the OP.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
I wonder what makes HN's opinion more positive of Twitter than of Facebook
What such articles lack is that they assume anyone could do anything, but that's just not true.

To become a really well-paid, influential developer (IC called here, I think), you need to be smart, so that others that are also smart acknowledge you as a very skilled developer. Plus, it's probably not enough to be very smart (which in itself most people are not), but you need some level of politics that is always necessary.

For managers, it's also not a default that promotion will just come with years being somewhere, just untrue.

I would say, although depressing, some people in the industry just don't have it to be successful enough in anything to feel great at their job and there is not always a way to change this. I would never fingerpoint to anyone and say "he cannot make it", I would probably not even recognise that person (apart from myself) but I would say they take up a great portion, unfortunately.

Today's environment enforces performance. Those who cannot perform, will have a hard time...
I stand corrected on that one.
Right, didn't we already have that as paleolithic times? No pollution, can just forage for a few hours and then mostly chill. Seems these cavemen have progressed farther than we have.
> 1. Measure happiness in both employees and job candidates.

"An employee has no legal obligation to reveal a mental health disorder to an employer. Where an employee's mental health condition comes to light, an employer cannot legally fire the employee for his or her mental health status or for failing to disclose the mental health issues previously"