skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it doesn't but I am assuming current financial incentives of 90% of failed startups are already fine tuned enough. eventually one of those startups would get it right but what this gets us as a whole is to not reinvent the wheel (or at least take the good parts of the wheel) move to the next stage by building on top of existing infra. Big VCs or accelerators like YC should be creating 'commons' to house freely available works of failed startups to be used by next venture.

the big idea is that after a few such iterations startups will focus on solving the core fundamental issues of the target market rather than build out a bunch of infra. IMO this would reduce capital cost for newer startups in the same field, that should impact the incentives but its subtle.

also, who know if all the work is out in open maybe some new startup would get an idea to put things together in a entirely new way. just imagine if BeOS we opensourced when it went under instead of letting it rot in some server.
It seems more like OP is just being realistic.
Unfortunately, it doesn't get you most features out of zsh. It leaves a lot disabled too. It turns on the included completions, adds flashy prompt themes and a pile of aliases that you still need to learn if you want to get any benefit from them. Key bindings are largely left untouched with none of the advanced widgets.
"That is also true of all sovereign currencies, for their own taxes."

Yes, certainly but it bears repeating: that is the entire point.

That lever of control - being the sole provider of a resource that you must demand - is a core feature of the government as we know it.
1. Not true, they were de-platformed for the convoy not for being against the vaccine mandate, loads of people are. Vaccine mandates has nothing to do with YOUR body, nobody is going to your home, putting you in cuffs and forcibly injecting you. It's about making sure nobody is forced to interact with you in public where you may infect THEM. People have a right to not be infected by an easily preventable disease, this seems to me like also a valid right to protect.

2. Feels like a strawman tbh. Even if there are people saying this it's a radical position that's more similar to heresy than what you claim is the heresy...

3. People are really only arguing for gender. JK Rowling is arguing for 2 genders and why she is castigated.

4. Why focused on the left though? Maybe like 60% of "left" thinks the US is structurally racist, that still means most of the US thinks it's not.

5. On HN I expect you to know that you can cherry pick and slice data in any way to present any conclusion. Some people also don't think there's a gender pay gap for example. Your conclusion is not a "heresy" so long as presented with sufficient context, but it's the process of creating that context that betrays racist intent that makes you a target for being canceled. For most people it's trivially shown that black people are at several times risk of being killed by cops.

6. It's a right-wing legislation. Doesn't it counter your own point?

7. Rather than me not paying attention you read too much right-wing propaganda that strawmans issues. There is no democrat on an anti-math platform this is nonsense.
The more you know, the more lonely you get.

I suspect they crave the company of peers more than attention.

Naggum eventually couldn't cope if I remember correctly.

We're failing all over the place.
So you the person that PG is describing. Someone who feels that some things must not be said, even if they might be true, because of the outcomes that might result if we say them.
If you’re going to be killing people anyway it’s easy to start thinking that their organs shouldn’t go to waste, of course this is starting you on a slippery slope that’s better not even to start on
There are line that we should not cross and this is one of them. What CCP has done is inhuman.
Yeah, the Falun Gong own several media outlets, so they have become well known as a group and have strong social media influences, they themselves support or create minor spinoff groups such as "China Tribunal" in order to get plausible deniablility for the claims these other groups make

To them it is taboo to have their bodies altered, similar to other Christian religious groups elsewhere which don't accept blood transfusions

But anyhow, these days it has become more and more obvious for the Falun Gong members that they are inside a big cult [1]

[1] https://ben-d-hurley.medium.com/information-is-beginning-to-...
"The Big Bang is the diffraction of logic around the perimeter of the lens on the universe we call Quantum Physics." ???

(I just don't want to lose this opinion.)
Yes. Are you trying to imply that the Great Resignation was not the result of the outside influence I mentioned – in this case government intervention (lockdowns, unemployment insurance expansion), and a global pandemic that removed hundreds of thousands of people from the workforce and changed priorities for companies and employees?
Realizing that making the sounds for "outside" allows you to go outside is not very far from language. I see people saying this every time dog buttons come up and it's very curious to me. What exactly do they need to do, model the parts of a sentence?
> What are other activities, interests that could motivate developers to write documentation?

This is the wrong way of looking at it. It assumes a premise that documentation is a goal rather than a means.

To get developers to write documentation there's a few key ingredients. It has to deliver value that the writers appreciate. It has to keep delivering value over long time periods (e.g. stale docs can sometimes be worse than no docs). There has to be a culture/routine of writing documentation and kept as a priority so that it doesn't get cut when there's a time crunch or other work priorities. Oh yeah one other huge one is that it has to have minimal friction: e.g. commit it in the repo with the code changes so that it's no extra steps and the doc changes get reviewed with code changes.
> This is kind of a revelation. It means that the special power that the US has in printing dollars is only special in that…

Note that you Have this special power as well: when you write a check you spend dollars even though your bank balance has not changed. That also happens briefly when the recipient deposits the check. The same happens when you do a credit card transaction.

We don’t really notice these because they are quite transient.
> I'd like to see them import airliners

They build their own.

> iPhones or high precision sensors from China.

China itself won't do it, but I forsee that less savoury third parties are probably very interested in partaking this potential highly profitable triangular trade route.
I misread: “math is not racists” - I read “math is not sexist” (implying that girls are naturally not good at math).

I’m not aware of ”math is not racist” so I do not know what it means.
As someone who enjoys all of those activities I will say that meditation offers something that those activities do not offer. There is an inner clarity that can be found in a much more profound way from meditation, in my experience.
Just in time for Caturday
If they don't want people to just end up depending on this behavior in a stateful way instead they should actually deliberately rely on non-determinism, call the functions a small random number of times.
This kind of rhetoric doesn't seem true or helpful. The state is not organizing a genocide against trans people.
ThorCon: Cheap, reliable, CO2-free electric power
China also has much less naturally acquired immunity than everywhere else, and (mysteriously) refuses to make that up with vaccines—it’s not just an excuse, unlike in those authoritarian countries where immunity has already been built up so a lockdown would make a much smaller difference.
The biggest mistake western democracies have made is to trade with dictatorships. Enriching them has not encouraged them to become progressive, it has only made them more powerful. We have sown the seeds of our own destruction through our complicity.
I use Firefox Temporary Containers addon (needs Multi-Account Containers) and the Containerize addon.

I've got it set up so that sites not on an allowlist open in temporary containers. When the tab is closed, the container (and thus all cookies, local storage, etc) gets deleted 5 minutes later.

Sites on an allowlist get opened in persistent containers.

So I can always allow (at least some) cookies: if the site is on the allowlist I'll take the time to select the ones I want to allow, since they'll actually be persistent, but for every other site I can "allow all" and know they'll get deleted soon after I close the tab.
Agreed. If an HN poster doesn't start cleaning their hair after looking in a mirror, their account should be cancelled to prevent further posting. That would work.

(err, that's what you meant, right?)
Grey beard here, lemme toss out my 2 cents.

I use bogus emails like no-reply@localhost. I quite literally don't give a single care in the world what someone wants to say to me, or why. I'd rather select the times when I accept inbound comms. This is a big reason I do not carry a phone, and use one maybe once a month to organize the next cycle with my coconspirators.

I don't dislike people at all, but to contact me after the effort is taken to not be contacted is rude. I wish there were a license that could be used seriously that consists of:

This is forkware

Don't bother me

I'm a nice guy and enjoy sharing. Let's take doritos as an example. I'll share my doritos with you, but I'm not interested in the pleasantries like your analysis of why modern doritos are terrible little crunchy cardboard chunks that mouthfuck your tastebuds into submission. I even don't want to know about the ones I agree with, like how a modern mountain dew most deliciously compliments the retro doritos if you can still find them.

I don't mind if you use my code, I don't care if you take my name off it, or put it on, or write it on your arm, I don't care. Go sell it to facebook if that makes your day. If I change my mind I'll put a license on the next version, but I haven't reached that point yet, so the obese and overbearing MIT license it is, until then.

But know this: Don't you even think about contacting me for anything. I am not a business, I have a fondness for the idea that the byproduct of my struggles may help a stranger without my knowledge. I prefer to live while littering artifacts of what I make so that maybe someone else stuck in the same spot can get some relief.

Why do people think that for me to give away some code I now have to have a support staff of one?

You've got the entire game fucked up. Don't @ me.
I appreciate how you bring up the point of efficiency. One of the things that challenges me in communication and resolving conflict, especially on the internet, is that it often works better if I use more precise language, which often requires more words.

So, for example, adding qualifications can show uncertainty and humility, yet adding "often works" is longer than "works" both from a character limit and a typing it on a phone keyboard.

Another example, saying "that's annoying" can be quicker than "that annoyed me" or more so "that annoyed me and may annoy others like me."

As much as I try to catch myself taking these linguistic shortcuts, I still may give in to the quickness of them, especially when I'm in a rush, and sometimes, especially online, conversations can move so quickly they put me into a heightened rush state.

Anyway, I'm grateful you pointed out this element of efficiency and scalability. I think these conversations can scale better by taking a little extra time to communicate than by always taking the shortcut. Maybe akin to how code can become more legible, and thus easier to maintain and scale, if the developer takes the time to more precisely name things. The name may be longer but may be more precise and prevent future problems.
Closure of 3M chip coolant plant could upset semiconductor sector
this is a great idea. speeding kills loved ones every day, and for what?
If you correct errors without failing the compilation due to a nonzero error count, then you've essentially forked the language. What is an error in the standard language is a de facto nonconforming extension in your implementation of it, and the users will be in for a nasty surprise when they try to port their code to another implementation.

Compilers used to correct obvious parse errors a lot more than they do now. The goal wasn't to make the program pass compilation so that the user can ignore the error messages. That would be harmful, as noted above. The goal is to be able to continue processing the program and uncover more errors in it in a useful way.

There is a gamble there:

- if you make a good correction to the token stream, all is well: you can diagnose more errors later in a pertinent way.

- if the correction is wrong, then the compiler may emit a flurry of nonsense errors which caused by the correct, so that only the first diagnostic makes any sense.

There is a third risk:

- the correction may lead to looping. This risk exists in any correction that lengthens the token sequence. The compiler may have to quit when the error count reaches some defined maximum. The looping may otherwise be infinite, or possibly unpredictable in length (think Hailstone Sequence).

In the 1970's, Creative Computing magazine conducted a contest to see who could produce the most error messages using the least amount of code.

The reason old time compilers tried to correct as many errors in a single run is that the programmers didn't always have use of the computer; they had to produce the program using keypunch equipment onto punched cards, and then line up at a job submission window, where an operator would submit their card deck for execution. You wouldn't want to line up to fix one semicolon at a time.
Well considering that the local password managers make a great fuzz about memory randomisation and protection of localhost communication, I would consider a trojan running under user privileges a threat myself that a password manager should address. Otherwise it seems little better than a plaintext password file saved on an encrypted hard drive. However, my point is that mostly I just want to know what the software is good for, ie. protecting me against.
The idea that there is an “anti-progress faction” is a self-serving delusion. What you have is different people with differing views of what “progress” looks like.

For example as to “feminism”—in 2022 nearly all women agree it’s a good idea women can have bank accounts. But Roe remains deeply divisive and most women reject the full scope of those “rights” (specifically the right to abort in the second trimester). Half of women with children at home would prefer to be homemakers, and many resent the social and economic pressures for mothers to work.

Same thing for “civil rights” or fighting “racism.” Does that mean Black and brown people being able to order food at any restaurant? Virtually nobody disagrees with that. Does that mean Black and Hispanic people getting racial preferences in college admissions or employment? Most Black and Hispanic people themselves reject that. As one of the oft-discussed “Black and brown” people, I would say much of what passes for “fighting racism” today is more like this: https://contexts.org/blog/who-gets-to-define-whats-racist/ (“Rather than actually dismantling white supremacy or meaningfully empowering people of color, efforts often seem to be oriented towards consolidating social and cultural capital in the hands of the ‘good’ whites.”).

Don’t forget that there were lots of ideas advanced in the name of “progress” that turned out to be ideological dead ends. 60 years after “free love,” we have massively retrenched, pushing sexuality out of more and more contexts. I don’t see Malcom X-style racial separatism being the way forward in a multi-ethnic society. “Same sex marriage” was actually a moderate reaction in it’s time—a response to those who wanted to use gay rights as a vehicle for a larger change in norms around marriage and gender.

Finally, we don’t know the ultimate effect of these changes. I can’t help observing that the countries that initiated major shifts in views towards marriage and sexuality in the last 50 years have become dependent for their continued population stability on immigration from countries that have traditional views on marriage and sexuality.
It's a solid, easy to implement and understand, strategy for some kinds of problems.

https://github.com/codr7/snabl/blob/main/src/snabl/fuses/all...
>The anti-progress faction is still very very powerful. Plenty of unequivocal sexists and racists face no punishment.

If I dared to push back on diversity and inclusion mandates in my workplace I'd lose my job. That includes explicitly racist talk about not hiring any more white guys. These "anti-progress" sentiments may exist but effectively in a parallel society, relegated mostly to blue collar work. It's dishonest to pretend that this ideology hasn't effectively taken over nearly all of our major institutions, and this slimy sort of denial is partly how it happened.

And these topics are not nearly as black and white as culture warriors make them out to be, but God forbid if you express the wrong opinion or even ask the wrong question. Progress is great but sometimes you need to stop and listen to the people warning you that you're about to progress right off a cliff.
You're saying the presence of PGP-signed commits is correlated with programmer skill?

I have never signed my commits because I see absolutely no reason to (my repositories are all small personal projects that nobody uses), and I haven't gotten around to setting up a proper key management workflow with my password manager. Maybe I need to start signing them!
> The reason the current wave of intolerance comes from the left is simply because the new unifying ideology happened to come from the left. The next one might come from the right. Imagine what that would be like.

I'm curious how Mr. Graham can look at a country that is in the process of reversing much of the last half-century's progress on women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and disability rights, and _not_ see a politics of heresy emerging from the right. I'm curious how he can look at anti-"critical race theory" laws and "don't say gay" laws, which quite literally restrict freedom of speech among academics and teachers, and _not_ view this as a damaging and dangerous politics of conventionality.
I'm curious as to how he can take a religious metaphor like 'heresy' and not apply it to the US American right which, in no small part part, advocates for a literal theocracy.

These essays often seem very reasonable, to me, when stated in the abstract. Of course we should support freedom of speech! Of course we should be sure that nobody is fired for expressing harmless opinions! But, consistently, the proposed solutions are uninformed, unfeasable, ineffective, or even counterproductive. The best way to make sure people are not fired for speech is not to make it unacceptable for minorities to argue vehemently with their oppressors; it is to end right-to-work, end at-will employment, and give labor more power. The largest threat to the academy is not "mobs" of students expressing their disagreement with their schools' administrations' policies, it is the systematic defunding and devaluing of the humanities, the pure sciences, and the arts.
police officers are citizens too, btw.
I mean, he didn’t say it, but this identity politics driven perspective is entirely the current thing wrong with the left. I say this as a moderate.

Rather than fall back on broad principles like free speech, you concoct evermore Byzantine rules about who can say what, given their race, gender, position of power or wealth. It’s unsustainable. It’s the Terror, but using cancellation rather than guillotine.

This approach doesn’t scale. In order to do as you say, everyone apparently needs to have a constantly updated internal graph, categorising people across an ever increasing number of categories and defining an ever number of allowable or disallowable viewpoints. It’s way too complex. It starts to sound like some kind of a psychosis.

A healthy principle, like Free Speech, espoused in a few words wins by being universally understandable. It just comes with a flip side that you will hear things that offend you. I think this is an OK price to pay.
Evernote missed the opportunity to be the first Google docs. It was perfectly lightweight to capture and organize information, often better than its peers on mobile. Didn’t seem to get ahead.

OneNote is nice except it lacks offline support.

Notion is even better with great collaboration but one fatal flaw, no real offline mode.

Evernote was always instant on and with you for the most part, except where it started losing notes on me.
> It's not unimaginable that they'll be able to keep the planes they stole flying for a while.

The funny thing is, they can't even attept to give them back, the airspace of "the rightfull owners" is closed to Russia.

And accepting any sort of materials/capital from Russia is frowned upon now.
Stuff like this is always a possibility with free software too. I'm still bitter about KDE4.
On raw defaults, I find it hard to see that you can do anything with either bash or zsh where the shell itself does anything where you can even notice a delay. Things like basic file completion or history searching are basically instant. For scripting there are plenty of benchmarks out there and zsh typically beats bash but both are beaten my minimal shells like dash.
I periodically return to Evernote:

* Linux support (closed beta)

* tags! omg, I hate and love tags!

If you wish to hop on Microsoft land, Microsoft Todo and Onenote seems an adequate combo.

NOTE: blocking ads somehow blocked Onenote. Not sure which config I used, only that it was DNS, and wasn't able to replicate.
Joplin is a solid alternative for me. You can also spin your own cloud or just buy a bit of space.
WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App
The client fractal was rewritten for GTK4 (Called fractal-next) and some days ago, the GTK3 Fractal is now the legacy one and Fractal-Next is the new Fractal
I did not know about that but thanks for sharing. this is what I am talking about though I believe it will have more teeth if VC firms have some sort of an alliance that adopts this model. in-fact if they do that they can dictate the terms of s/w release in more palatable licenses than say GPLv3.

overall I feel a lot more work is needed in establishing some sort of commons framework.
America has huge swathes of undeveloped and uninhabited land. Maybe over five times as much as your country.

What would the multiple be if you compared your country’s metrics to just the northeast corridor?
A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle
It is nearly impossible to get an honest current thought from a Chinese citizen about that, many are comfortable, many are afraid that they will be reported for expressing any opinion. There is a worldwide network of snitches of mostly other Chinese citizens that will harm their interests and family in China. Just because you aren't part of it by not being Chinese (citizen) doesn't mean that a non-party line message won't harm them.

It is important to understand that gradient of comfort, awareness and consequence. And how that also couples with unawareness, denial. In the same or different people. In this latter regard, its the same as how you would be on any range of topics. Some topics will trigger a hyper nationalistic response from you, others you accept as unchangeable, some would be totally off limits for you to feel comfortable talking about (ie. regime change outside of the prescribed methods) but this last section is a much broader range for a Chinese citizen to feel off limits talking about and the consequences extend beyond them to their family.
Of Roadside Bombs and Drones: Putin’s Looming Insurgency Problem
Fairly easy way to end up right in the spam folder.