skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’ve brought my text files with me since 1990, from Mac to Windows to Linux to BSD

> But plain text? Always. Everywhere.

Quite obviously you have your files in ASCII. Anyone who needs more than 26 letters (or god forbid non-latin ones) are fucked. Sometimes quite literally.

> Your writing should outlive you. Depending on companies is not an option.

ASCII? Sure. EBCDIC? Ughh. UTF... 8? 16? 32?

> If you rely on Word, Evernote or Notion, for example, then you can’t work unless you have Word, Evernote, or Notion. You are helpless without them

And you are absolutely helpless if you can't access your ASCII/EBCDIC/UTF8whatever plain-text files.

> Plain text can be converted into anything else.

Date: 2022.02.03

Is this March 3rd or February 3rd?

> NEED HIERARCHY

Sure. But in the year 2022 I want not only a hierarchy but crosslinks too.

> CONCLUSION

> Reliable

If you know the encoding. IF.

> flexible

See #date

> portable

See #date

> independent

Sure, but what about dates and encoding?

> and long-lasting

If on the suitable media. Good luck accessing your precious files on Google Drive when the mighty AI decided you aren't worthy to access them. Or your CD-ROM isn't readable because the last machine with working [0] CD-ROM compatible drive were thrown out 5 years ago because it can't run any modern OS[1]

> Plain text files will be readable by future generations, hundreds of years from now.

[x] Doubt

Real conclusion:

Sure, plain-text files are way better than binary blobs with unknown structure, but they are not a silver bullet. You still need to think about how, where and in what format to store them.

5/10, would not recommend.

[0] The last machine in my house with CD-ROM drive is X301 which is .. somewhere. My desktop's NEC-45xx was dead last time (6 years ago) I tried.

[1] CentOS8 performance with Gnome on ThinkPad X301 is abysmal to say the least. Even Windows 10 (!) runs better on it.

PS: to the kind person who bothered to downvote this comment: do you prefer your UTF encoded files with BOM or not? And your preferred editing software?
One of the things I miss most about switching to iOS. Thank you F-Droid!
This is exactly why I love Markdown and why I heartily disagree with this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395130
"with an offer package that totaled almost $450,000."

Sounds like he went from the bottom 1% to the top 1%. That's impressive.
The same is true for Android development - we saw build times cut in half after upgrading to M1 machines. Another advantage is that there is no noticeable slowdown while Gradle does its thing, so multitasking is now significantly easier.
I love Obsidian, but I'm now beginning to move many of my documents to Notion for sharing with a team.

I really wish Obsidian, or something like it, worked well for teams. Maybe it's on their roadmap, I'm not sure.
Do you have any sources for this claim? Also, I think this topic can be discussed more civilly without suggesting genocide as a solution.
> “Git for everything“ would be a multi-billion dollar startup easily.

In addition to plaintext documents, I have found that a simple JSON diff is also a very effective way to demonstrate changes between 2 complex biz objects. Non-developers can cope with this as long as the differences are visually obvious (red=removed, green=new, etc) and the object graph is reasonably flat. Everything can be trivially serialized to a JSON document, so this scales super well in my experience. We use a port of Google's DiffMatchPatch to generate human-friendly HTML reports of object diffs in our latest administration tools.
A judge will end up judging cases involving this and deciding whether the trade secret seems reasonable and it seems like a huge gamble to risk jail over getting cute with it
AMC is charging more for The Batman to increase their profits.

End of story (truly). Saved you a click.
To quote a saying popularized by Donald Rumsfield: "The absence of evidence is not th evidence of absence". I - a male - haven't heard of any stories of sexual harassment or assault in my social circle (or at the office), but that doesn't mean it's not happening.
It's a fairly common observation that there's more middle class racism than working class racism.

Working class racism certainly exists and can be very nasty, but it's not endemic and casual in the way it can be among the middle classes.

One possible explanation is that the working classes know they're at the bottom of the heap, while the middle classes are much more finely tuned to differentiation markers of all kinds.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/07/white-...
You're okay working with people so bigoted that you have to hide them away from certain parts of their job because they might fuck it up with their bigotry? Why are they still employed? How can you be okay with coworkers that can't be expected to treat everyone in the company with a certain level of respect?

Do you believe that's just the way "they" are? Is that the way you are?

Remind me never to apply for a job at your company. JFC.
It seems close to pointless, but a dedicated window per
PWA pinned to your taskbar/start menu is handy. It also doesn't get clustered together with other browser windows which I like. And the icon is visually different. If you don't want the feature then you just don't install the "app" (strong word for it). I like it for a couple of things (JIRA, email) but not others (social media). I wish they hadn't removed the feature and I'm probably going to switch browsers because of it although I'm loathe to do so.
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Oomnitza offers enterprise IT a unique solution to manage the entirety of the digital estate. Sales has a CRM for it's system of record, HR has an HRIS/HCM. We suggest that IT needs Enterprise Technology Management (ETM), and that's what Oomnitza is building.

I'm hiring the first Security Engineer in our organization, a full time position (fully remote, as our entire company is) either based in the USA or Ireland. This person will be running the full gamut of security activities and great for someone who wants to go broad.

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We're also hiring in a number of engineering roles including Product Managers, Full Stack engineers, backend, frontend and integrations.

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You need to turn that system off. Right now. This isn't a request.
Exclusions include:

> contracts with executive and management personnel and employees who constitute professional staff to executive and management personnel.

Has anyone looked into what "professional staff to executive and management personnel" means in practice? The broadest reading could include software engineers as "professionals" who report to "management personnel" (their engineering managers). That seems broad enough to make this basically useless, so I assume I'm missing something.
Huh, most people do not have time and patience to learn all the differences unless they absolutely have to. Back in northern India anyone from southern state is just South indian , no knowledge about Telugu, Kannadiga, Tamil, Malayali and so on.

Similarly in south India I wouldn't be surprised if a typical local think all North Indians are same butter chicken/paneer eating assholes.
so "the US" could be offensive? Just curious, English is not my main language.

EDIT: Also totally agree on your other comments about Signal vs Telegram
Congrats on the launch.

There is both a large need for improvements in npm supply chain security and a market willing to pay for them.

Concerns:

1) npm Open-Source Terms condition four[1] states.

You may access and use data about the security of Packages, such as vulnerability reports, audit status reports, and supplementary security documentation, only for your own personal or internal business purposes. You may not provide others access to, copies of, or use of npm data about the security of Packages, directly or as part of other products or services.

This statement seems vague enough to potentially include your use case. It also seems to include what snyk, jfrog xray, sonatype, and white-source do, so maybe this is not an issue.

2) It appears that this will be an open-core business. What capabilities are you willing to provide in the free/community edition and under which licenses?

3) The website doesn't show pricing. Can you provide details on this?

Questions:

1) What are your thoughts on using reproducible builds[2] plus Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC)[3] on the dependency graph to ensure build artifacts originate from known git repositories? Disclosure, I've been working on this for a few months now.

2) Where do you run your analysis? AWS and DigitalOcean have terms that prevent running high risk code.

3) Do you have examples of previous attacks and how your tooling would handle them?

Best of luck.

[1] https://docs.npmjs.com/policies/open-source-terms#conditions
[2] https://reproducible-builds.org/
[3] https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
Are you proposing that the music for Your Song (written by Elton John) was not part of the songwriting? Or should we just say that he chose a poor example and would have been better off with a example where the lyrics and music were written by the same person.
So it's not really Silicon Valley's caste system, it's India's caste system, which rears its ugly head in SV because there are so many 1st gen Indian workers.
Markdown is actually awful. There's at least 3 different dialects that are all called Markdown, so if you want your text rendered it's a toss-up as to whether or not it'll look how you intend.

I think that Markdown's success is due to a lack of a widely-used, simple alternative that's well-specified.

Org is easily and objectively the best markup but of course it's only very very recently that there was a non-emacs implement worth a damn.
Some key points:

--There will always be plenty of free, non-commercial software in the public domain for reading and editing text files

--Whether future virtual reality, or a chip you can implant in your earlobe, plain text will be there

--Maybe it’s just another distraction, focusing on the tools instead of your thinking

--They offer some convenience or features, but at the cost of flexibility, portability, and independence

This is why I still love my AlphaSmart Dana running CardTXT. I have done a lot of writing with that machine, and it has never let me down. Even if it did, I could just swap out the SD card.
It's china. They have been caught putting chips in servers to infiltrate US companies.

It's everywhere. The CCP takes what the CCP wants. If you work for one of these companies like Huawei, or Boox or whatever, when the Chinese government asks you to do something nefarious, you comply because you want to keep existing. They ain't asking.
Until you copy and paste from a website that is using em dash, en dash or smart quotes...
HTML works quite well for images and text placement. Latex (and its derivatives) work even better.

Word isn't bad, so long as you keep paying your subscription.
For implementations which don't have it, you can stuff, into the file_actions, say, 4093 close action entries into the file_actions, targeting descriptors 3 to 4095. This big file_actions object can be cached and re-used for multiple calls to posix_spawn.

It won't close descriptor 4096, but that's probably beyond giving a darn in most cases. If you have an application that opens high descriptor numbers, you probably know.
my pet theory that they can't leave ukraine right now because they are stuck. totally messsed up logistics. this giant convoy could run out of supplies/fuel. they maybe literally can't drive out. ukranian drones started to blow up trains with fuel inside russia yesterday and belorusian partisans started to screw with train system in belorussia (for real, they demolished a bunch of control equipment centers. trains can't go anywhere).
their communication is shit (https://twitter.com/sbreakintl/status/1498619303717142529?s=...) and some of them simply can't reach command center to get orders
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So you're unable to even point out what part of my comment was not correct or outdated. Doesn't sound like you actually even know. Maybe you should take your own advice with respect to commenting then.
This has an inaccurate title which does not match the source. This is also at least the second submission of this study with the same inaccuracy in its title: see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30481053 .

Original headline: "in Human Liver Cell Line"

Submitted HN headline: "in human liver DNA"

Abstract: "we investigated the effect of BNT162b2 on the human liver cell line Huh7"

huh7.com: "Huh-7 is an immortal cell line composed of epithelial-like, tumorigenic cells. The majority of Huh-7 cells show a chromosome number between 55 and 63 (mode 60) and are highly heterogeneous."

When it comes to stability of their genome, huh7 cells are not even remotely similar to human cells. Much less similar to human cells than mouse sells. Probably less similar to human cells than an average bacterium.
That’s exactly what it’s supposed to mean. How big of a loophole it is remains to be seen. Would this loophole fit $300,000/year McKinsey consultants? Would it fit $75.000/year Accenture engineers?

The idea is that the CFO people are compensated so highly that they’re not substantially harmed by the existence of the non compete. Losing out on a $100 million opportunity when you made $10 million in the last 4 years is much, much less painful than losing out on a $130,000 opportunity when you made $70,000 last year.

Granted, a lot of CFOs are making $300,000 or sometimes even less. But they are seen as having a lot of power to destroy a business.

Another way this works is that people like Anthony Levandowski could get a “CTO” esque title to go along with their stratospheric salary so that the non compete is still strictly binding in Colorado, even absent proof of trade secret violations.
This is why I keep telling about the idea of "enforcing freedom."

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

Sometimes you have to force people to be free. There are people who will, bizarrely, fight for the right to be enslaved. Why? Because their brains are broken.

Some broken by years of humiliation, some because they were born that way, some because they thought "it's hip, suave, and I'll get into cool kids crowd." Such things were novel for the West, but now you see them more and more.

It's very much like a stance on whether you do forcefully treat people from alcoholism, or substance abuse. You see it being very destructive, down to such person becoming a danger to society once they run out of cash.

Similarly, you would not want such people to hit the bottom of brainrot, when they will be ready take Russian money, or turn their country into another Hitler Germany.

The seeds of current crisis were sown when the West thought "job's done" when USSR collapsed, and scat on Russia instead of keeping trying to make a proper country out of it.
Yeah, in high school I and another student did our essay peer reviews using annotated diffs once. It was so much easier than Google Docs, since we didn't have to leave our editors.

Wrapping version control with a non-tech-friendly porcelain could help a lot of people escape user domestication from vendor lock-in.
How much better can that be than an inflation-adjusted bond? It may be more satisfying in a theoretical way, but does the difference matter, and how much would people pay?
Prior to becoming hereditary, the caste system was employment based, so yes, in a sense every society has had some sort of caste system as someone responsible for say, cleaning shoes, was probably looked down upon in most societies compared to say, a king.

However, the key point of difference is that it was more deeply ingrained in Indian society and was made into a rather rigid hereditary system. While in other places the child of a shoe cleaner might end up marrying a trader or might end up working as a trader himself, doing so would have faced more resistance from society in India. This can still occasionally be seen in villages and sometimes even towns and cities, where individuals from different castes want to get married but are murdered instead, either by the community or even their own families.

This effectively forced those in 'lower' jobs like cleaning drains into that position for generations, inflicting a lot more unjust suffering upon them.
I think it would be awesome if Socket could be used through an auditable GitHub Action where developers can manually send over just their package*.json files.
> Why are they any different?

My understanding of it:

General employees have minimal bargaining power, and while they may have knowledge of, or even be responsible for generating IP - overall they're not seen quite as important as senior executives who have knowledge of longer term plans.

Those senior executives may also have better bargaining power - so for instance they might accept a 2 year non-compete for the industry, but in return get a sizable payout upon departure to compensate for that.

It's basically to stop your C-Suites of FooCorp going to work for their direct competitor BarCorp and having direct internal knowledge of how you'd take down FooCorp.
I was confused by the phrasing of the title:

"We have identified the threat actor behind the attack, who is part of a group called the Monday group, which the members refer to as “theMx0nday”. The group has stated publicly that they support Russia in this conflict.

The threat actor is based in Brazil. The majority of attacks transited an internet service provider in Finland called Njalla who claim they are “Considered the worlds most notorious ‘Privacy as a Service’ provider for domains, VPSs and VPNs”. Njalla is run by Peter Sunde, who is the co-founder of Pirate Bay, has a criminal record, and has served prison time."
Leicester City. And they won the EPL trophy straight out of League One the year they were promoted.

I would also argue that this would negatively impact small-market teams, which would all but guarantee a much smaller overall total revenue stream for the sport. (If I'm a small market fan, why should I pay to watch sub-par performance?
There's a reason AAA ball or MLSNext or G-League teams draw much smaller crowds.) Players would get paid less, owners would get paid less. Who is going to sign up for that?

What's funny is that with the power shifts in the NBA to the players these days is that the stars are essentially dictating where they want to play, and those spots (generally) do not include small-market arenas. Indeed, several players have been pretty vocal about this. So we may already be headed in the direction of multiple league tiers for each sport already just by virtue of the shift in player mobility.
I don't think it's anything that sophisticated. I think these are real users who are being incentivised to vote and comment on posts, but who have no real interest in Product Hunt, or in the content they're interacting with.

Another big hint are the reviews:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/teyuto-2/reviews

A lot of the "reviews" are vague to the point of meaninglessness (like "My experience in site is amzing good"), seem confused about what the product is (e.g. one review claiming that "this is great project for YouTube users"), or parrot what are obviously marketing talking points (like "you are not paying $0.50 to $1.00 per user or 5% fee, while you build out a beautiful OTT platform").
Nyxt looks like it could be a real game changer on a number of levels. Not only does it give you the power of LISP in the browser, together with a great key order driven way of navigating which I'd say beats other key order driven browsers I've used, but its tentative ability to use different rendering engines would be a huge game changer I think.
The problem record and replay is expansions of languages and apis too. That is a good thing for some things but it needs to be reworded sometimes too and implementations of things aren't always newer versions of things either.
I was actually surprised : last time I used Git Bash on Windows it did work quite well with .docx files.

Then I switched jobs to avoid touching .docx files ...

The best alternative I've found to generate .docx output is R markdown, which uses pandoc under the hood and let's you program the whole document the way LaTeX would.
Wouldn't it suck if it was a false flag complaint and ukrainians were using it to coordinate? I don't envy the google employee that has to make a decision on this.
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At least the selling part is from Russia.

https://www.reuters.com/business/russia-impose-temporary-cur...
I would honestly completely ditch the Socket "ratings". React = 70 - what the hell does that mean? "quality = 82, license = 70" where did you get those numbers? They are basically made-up.

There are certain ways you can objectively determine the security of a package:

- If it or one of its dependencies has been compromised

- If it and its dependencies are made by a trusted org (e.g. I would trust something from Microsoft more than something from a random developer)

- If it and its dependencies have been audited and verified (this could even be a quality audit, or something like the Elm ecosystem)

- If it and its dependencies are made by you, you can be pretty confident that nobody has tampered with them

Similarly there are ways to determine the quality (e.g. code coverage, usage, whether it has tests). And of course you can see the license.

But state these things directly, don't try to summarize them with numbers. Because ultimately those numbers are almost meaningless and make your tool look fake.
"Teachers in India openly discriminated against students from other castes/jatis/varnas by giving them lower marks."
This is a very bold statement and also looks like you are generalizing the whole Teachers strata. I have not seen or experienced a single such incident during my school/college years.
Sure, but as to Cyprus specifically, that's probably not where the poor ones go. It's a kind of l down-scale Switzerland in the economic and immigration senses.
That assumes a two word guess is the only objective. (And, yes, that's luck.) But wins in the 3, 4, 5 turn category are pretty common absent a lack of luck.

That said, it's probably easier than it looks at first glance and given a decent vocabulary and some sense for word and word pair frequencies in different positions you'll probably finish at 6 turns or less unless you really go down a bad path.
If that was the case, then why does the law not state a maximum compensation number after which non competes are allowed?
Completely agree. Wordle is fun without the hyper-analysis