skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It usually doesn't except when your threat model includes a scenario where physical compartmentalization is supposed to prevent giving up the secret under duress (you don't carry the out of band device with you to wherever you go). But in that case you're better off being able to plausibly deny the existence of that secret (or the communication channel) in the first place.
I get what you are saying: cp/scp should have consistent behavior when the second arg is a directory. The "problem" operation you describe is analogous to copying plain files, though (copying contents to a new name).

I don't think having to create a target directory first is obvious, although neither is the fact that bare "cp" doesn't copy directories.

Finally, for remote copying it would be a nightmare for scp to require the destination directory to exist. To copy a directory tree to a remote server with a new name you'd need to either ssh a remote mkdir command, or add a flag to scp to specify the new name.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire, eh?

Sure, Apple Notes may have native window resize, but can you tell if the app is syncing right now? When was the last sync? What happens in case of a versioning clash? Will it decide to work with patchy Internet on that upcoming train ride? Will it sync once you go back online? Will it decide to party with some random Exchange server you used for work once, and how will this affect your notes? Are your notes safe from random changes in formatting when Apple rolls out improvements to the Notes app?

Don't get me wrong, I love my iPhone and have used Macs for decades, but I wouldn't trust Apple cloud services with anything even remotely important. I'm even a little sceptical about Mac Finder at this point, which is ten minutes away from becoming a cloud service itself.
This is a really fascinating psychology question. because I have been
trying to present the same question in cybersecurity for years now.

The closest I have gotten is that a defensive posture motions toward a
stalemate, where as an attack mentality mobilises toward a win.

For peace, a (static/deadlock) stalemate is a good outcome. So at
heart, the question is about the difference between a war footing or a
peaceable one.
Lack of relevancy is no major obstacle to the formation of any sort of political body.
My commute is only about 10 minutes and I’m driving 35 for most of it except for about a minute at 60 on a highway. So I’m going to be going slower on my bike and slightly farther.

I have found that riding my old bike always gets me sweaty outside of narrow temperature and humidity bands in the spring and fall, but perhaps I’m not using the gears correctly. It is a hybrid not a road bike though.

I’ll be parking it inside at work so I’m not worried about it being stolen there. If I try to replace some grocery runs I will want to lock it up outside there and will definitely want the electric assist.
Sounds like you're describing ineffective or incompetent managers. A good engineering manager will teach/grow their reports, helping them focus on the things that they love while harnessing their energy towards building good systems and products. Few groups of engineers are able to work together effectively towards a goal without some sort of leader or manager in place.

Middle managers are a totally different beast altogether and are supposed to be coordinating resources for strategic rather than tactical goals. It's a lot easier to coast in this position, however, as many competent frontline managers often have the same skill set.
Ours understood how to open doors by jumping up at the handle and pulling it down. Another could clearly tell we were angry when we frowned.
Having spent the past three years observing two quite different cats who came into my life via a relationship, I'd say the answer is "eh, a little".

One of them has learnt to do basic tricks for treats, and has also learned to turn on two different robot hoovers by pressing the right button - she only does this late at night, which I take either as attention-seeking or just boredom? The other one is the Zoolander of cats.

Beyond this, they seem quite limited: sleep, eat, wander around, watch the world go by, occasionally hang out with us, sometimes play or hunt.
Maybe you did? What are they buying with that money, or if it's siphoned off where is it sent? Especially military aid, if they don't use it to buy from Russia the money probably goes back to the US, as the nr. one arms exporter by a significant margin (https://www.statista.com/statistics/267131/market-share-of-t...).

With large weapons systems come decades of additional purchases, for training, upgrades, maintenance, spare parts, and an increased chance for buying other systems. That "aid" today can buy a lot of income over time, so rather than aid it actually is a kind of purchase itself.

Googling I see a lot of links telling us how much the US is "giving" in aid. But few of those pages bother mentioning what happens with that money next. "Hoes does the US spend foreign aid" is common (to whom and where does it go), "What does the US buy with foreign aid" is not. How much aid really is free no strings attached? I guess that's most likely for emergency funds after some catastrophe. As I see it, aid more often than not is a purchase too, but few bother finding out what the US purchased. It may be they don't buy anything concrete, but so do businesses investing in PR.

Example: "What we buy with foreign aid" -- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12289893/
Soo .. did I disagree with the OP of this thread? ;-)
all for open source, but these are two different products.

from their website:

> To fully utilize Meshroom, a NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPU is recommended. The binaries are built with CUDA-10 and are compatible with compute capability 3.0 to 7.5. Without a supported NVIDIA GPU, only "Draft Meshing" can be used for 3D reconstruction.

versus an easy to use iphone app.
Putting Big Bad Pharma Back on Trial in the Covid-19 Era
And easier returns. And a marginally better interface (which isn't saying much.)

But yeah, the majority of the products are the same thing with a higher price tag.
Sure, after you receive the message you can return an error. This is commonly done for messages that are immediately blocked as spam. When you return an error to the sender the expectation is that the message didn't end up in a mailbox and the sender will probably send the sending user a bounce notification.
Nextcloud Notes might work for you
I think the career happiness and most success comes from when sth someone would have done if nobody would have paid that person is the thing other people need and pay for. It is hard to find that sth. but when you find it, it is gold.

For me it was art, especially concept art. You have to find yours.
Being able to forward an email to create a new note has always been their killer feature for me. The majority of my tasks begin with an email. Does anybody know if any of the Evernote alternatives support this yet?
I think, you mostly banish people who are against war.
Politics, bandits, marauders don't read about in-depth silicone analysis.
My experience is different. These things are planned. There is a grand plan. The planners are incompetent nincompoots, though, and things rarely go according to plan.

I've been in enough power positions to see that grand plans and grant ambitions do exist, as do lots and lots of conspiracies. It's just that the external conspiracy theories rarely line up with actual conspiracies. What's going on inside is usually far, far stupider than even the conspiracy theory.
The ACTUAL reason why Fast failed
It's possible it's both. Natural instinct to bring prey animals for the kitten so it learns might have been adopted to gives proofs to humans that cat serves useful purpose.
But then users store these passwords on a sticky note attached to their display device…
I’m trying my best to create such a product. What you’re describing is something that (1) amateur spreadsheeters can use, (2) the power users, and (3) programmers, will be able to use and not feel out of their depth or patronized. I personally think that given that Excel is a pure-ish declarative language, then building on a declarative language that programmers use is a solid attack on this, which is why I’ve chosen pure functional programming as a basis for my work. It’s been an enjoyable design process to include or throw out ideas that would alienate either end of the spectrum.

Elsewhere: Making all cells CAS gives you a strong foundation for version control, modularity, resizability and share-ability.

Happy to share more thoughts on this. I’m two years into the process.
You might take a look at Obsidian. For me it’s the best of two (or how many you like) worlds. You can sync your files via git or a cloud service of your liking. What bugs me is that it’s not open source but what makes it great is a lot of open source developers contributing plugins and themes.
PSA: React 18 calls code twice in strict dev mode to detect side effects
It is fair when folks are speculating what the people from the past would say about modern problems - which is what this started out as. If one is wrong but not the other, some folks aren't arguing in good faith.
The problem with Federation is that it can be switched off at any time. If you are on a federated server you are just as depend on them as you are on Facebook. It doesn't fundamentally solve the problem, at best it just delays it a little bit.
The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Mortality [pdf]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c07vm9
I found myself struggling with the intuition of this similarly to amingilani until I made the connection you're mentioning to infinity. The thing that helped me understand the fallacy was understanding how truly large infinity is. If you've seen 10 coin flips, or even 10,000 or 10,000,000, those are all effectively nothing when compared against infinity. If you know ahead of time that a coin is fair (so you're not trying to test this hypothesis), you gain zero information about the long-term behavior of the coin from any finite number of flips.

As you mentioned, you don't see the convergence to 50% with any finite sample size, because that behavior is only guaranteed at infinity. All this to say, infinities are weird. 10,000,000 + infinity exactly equals infinity.
The problem is that a lot of the humanitarian aid is not reaching the actual people.

Like building school buildings, but not including anything needed to _run_ the school for more then a very short time, or at all.
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Notion has a very nice feature set. I like to use it for my freelance side business.

Currently it is sadly the best set of features within one tool for me (at least the subset I use). I would love to switch to an open source variant to self host. But till then I will probably stay with it.

Still. I don't like the slowness (web and app). I don't like how it feels just off sometimes. And how the Android app just so-so works for me.
It’s laughable that you think this is an engineer-first product.

Management products are used by engineers LAST. You project management stuff beyond your own Trello/TODO.txt once someone from management tells you to.
Oh yes. And OKRs on engagement.
The short history is that Evernote spent the early part of the 2010s expanding its portfolio into products that didn't really serve its core offering such as Evernote Food and Evernote Hello as well as other distractions. They should have used that time (and money!) to set themselves up for the future and now they're continually playing catch up.

You can read about this era in detail here: https://nira.com/evernote-history/

As we come towards the third quarter of the 2010s, Evernote was being shaped up a bit in terms of non-core products being dropped, on-prem infrastructure being migrated to the cloud and so on but this wasn't without great pains as well.

Not to mention, a non-trivial number of staff appear to have left during that period too which creates a negative feedback loop where the upper tier of potential candidates may be dismissive of an employer like Evernote (if it looks questionable on your CV) which is arguably the type of talent you might need in a period like this where your competitors have true realtime collaborative elements that the market is expecting from you as well as table stakes.

Now after this period, and this is just from my own observations so I don't have any particular stories to link, Ian Small tool over as CEO with a personal focus on continuing to modernise Evernote.

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4I5cq2DfrSpehLO_71NC...

I can't say how that has been received but I have a lot of respect for the "Behind the Scenes" series that occurred, showing Evernote's technical investments such as:

* Sharding their databases

* Standardising feature sets across mobile. Android might have had features for years that aren't on iOS and vice versa

* Standardising their applications hence the move to Electron. In the context of them needing to move faster, it makes sense to focus on one codebase instead of five, regardless of how you might feel about Electron itself.

While I don't know that Evernote can ever catch up, I have to say I have a lot of kudos for the risk that Ian took in showing us what they're struggling with.

That said, I don't use Evernote so I can't exactly say I feel the pain of their customer base but as far as content that might attract new talent, I think transparency like that is pretty much the gold standard next to having a technical blog and so on.
Would be interesting to write an algo to generate defensive puzzles, seems like you could look at positions where the delta between the best move and the next best move is very high in terms of centipawn loss.
It’s definitely not as featureful as Evernote, but Simplenote is working well for me for my day to day note taking.
> Basically Caste in India is as much of a problem as racism is in the US.

Is it common in the US for people to refuse to come into contact with people of other races? To bar them from places of worship? To not even touch water they might have touched?

What you did was just whataboutism. It’s the “yeah it’s bad, but no worse than any other place”. But even if we allow this deflection, it’s not true.
The connection is undeniable, in a journalistic sense. Ie, you can't describe why the US and others are making certain choices without referencing it.

Of course, "related to" and "justifies" are not synonyms.
I didn't know about this meta-syntax, thanks - it looks very useful.

I would have to think about how it fits in with the philosophy of the trailing slash sometime, but I don't want to hurt my head right now.
> my ZDNet blogger hat on

No disrespect but surely this was a hail Mary and not immediately expected to actually work out.
I thought I’d share this in the hope that other developers see it and don’t lose a bunch of time wondering why e.g. code in a useEffect(…, []) block is being called twice.

I created a new Next.js project and was very confused to see my console.logs appearing twice. It might be nice for React to log a warning that it is going to do this as it’s quite confusing if you aren’t aware of it!
That’s true, I was looking at rates in the elderly, only about half of over 80s are fully vaccinated, and very few people have had booster jabs. Combined with the low effectiveness of Sinovac and the reluctance of the authorities to use foreign vaccines, and there are still significant risks.
Yes. Westerners and Russians seems to think that everything is organized by USA and that people of other nations do not have any autonomy.

A lot of people seem to think that Poland or Baltic states were somehow forced into NATO. Certainly narrative that China is trying to sell right now.

We knew very well that aligning ourselves with Russia is just straight road to disaster. And we needed to get as far as possible as soon as possible from Russian imperialism when we had a small window of opportunity.

Ukraine was split on it and it did result in disaster.
Man, if you hate on the pharma business for its failures you must really hate on the hardware and software businesses for things like social media. Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss except with way, way more money.
Opening a file triggering that file to be uploaded to the base directory of your google drive seems like such a weird behavior for them to ever add.
It was and still is fairly common to disassemble and annoate machine code dumps (which were written in assembly) so that it becomes human readable again.

For instance in the 80's, the main selling point of the "Intern" books about various home computer models on the German market was the annotated ROM assembly listing. Each memory location and jump target got a descriptive label, and each line of assembly got a comment describing what it does in the context of the surrounding code. Due to the descriptive comments, this was actually more readable than most modern code bases written in high level languages I've seen. It's also much more readable than assembly code which was produced by a compiler from a high level languages (e.g. what you see on godbolt.org), because the code was written by a human in assembly in the first place.

Here's a 'modern' example for the ZX Spectrum ROM which just turned up as first result when googling: https://skoolkid.github.io/rom/
I’m just going to have to figure out the wardrobe change. Since I usually drive to work I’m used to wearing work temperature clothing covered by a jacket or a coat depending on temp to get to the car and in to work and if I misjudge the amount of cold it is a problem for those two minutes, maybe 5 more while the car heats up.

Now I need to figure out how to handle a much longer time in the temperature and rain, plus windchill (the other day when I tried out my ebike it took 3 minutes for my eyes to stop watering, I’m hoping that is just an acclimatization thing).

I did realize I can probably get some plastic bags to keep a change of clothes in inside my backpack.

I’m sure I just have a bad attitude but I’m working on it over here.
It comes to a grinding halt, just as it does with sites that use CSS for both enabling content and for its layout.
I’m fairly certain I’ve read about someone doing this exact thing before.
>This result could be less tight; for example, if you had a long corridor with many side rooms, and that long corridor was a single cell, then in Quake it would always try to render all the side rooms, whereas Thief would only try to render the entry cell to each of the side rooms (since those cells would always be adjacent to the corridor and visible), but Thief could cull the rooms themselves if they weren't currently visible.

Big if. You had screwed up if you left such a setup as one long vis chunk. Level designers would place vis boundaries strategically along a corridor to control this behavior. It was a bit of an art form but not exactly hidden knowledge, even the levels that shipped with quake SW had this kind of tuning built in.

Weird that at no point in this article is the engine overall referred to as what I and presumably most level/mod designers referred to it as - 'The Dark Engine'. Still, she's a classic. Tuned beautifully for the sneak/rpg gameplay of Thief and System Shock. Not at all suitable for the high speed multiplayer FPS gameplay of Quake. A comparison between the two is always interesting to see.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hermeneutics/

hermeneutics is something else.
I bet Mr P lives in a country that's not high up on Putin's bucket list. It's easy to call others idiots from that relative safety.
> my point is that being able to discern and limit the possibilities to something reasonable is a skill that has nothing to do with seniority and everything to do with general (read: fixed) aptitude

I disagree with that.

You don't need to be a genius to be a good developer, you can be learn to be one or you can be mentored to be one. Some aptitude is required, but nothing extraordinary. Hard work obviously is a good thing, but not a pre-requisite.

P.S. Our success criterias might differ though. I'm not part of silicon valley or FAANG so my standards might be lower than yours.
>The whole iraq invasion resulted in 7k civilian deaths

Sources other than american tv provide vastly different numbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
That sounds about right. :)
I have two very smart cats myself. 16 years old now though, so mostly sleeping.
One of them loves snuggling up in my armpit in my office bed, and will get really upset when I don't come at his calling. Burmese can truly get vocal.
My mother has degree in behavioral biology (though rather old one, she got diploma in 1980, in USSR), and her first job after university was "surgically intrusive experiments to assess learning and intelligence" in cats.
She abandoned this work after half a year, because she thinks it was too cruel to animals.
Her career was ruined, as in USSR you was unable to easily quit your job in first 3 years after university, you have to work for 3 years on assigned job, to "pay out" your education. As result all her subsequent jobs were low-wage ones, like typist, nurse, and sometimes cleaner or dishwasher. Only after the fall of USSR my father started successful software business (we didn't know word "start-up" till much later) which allows my mother to not work anymore.

But as far as I know, she never regret her decision.
For meditation i'd recommend the book Mind Illuminated by John Yates. Written by a professor of neuroscience/meditation teacher with decades of experience.

> I've been meditating for twenty years, not making all that much progress and never quite sure what it was I was getting wrong.

This is the book I wish I'd had twenty years ago. I finally got it - what meditation is, what it isn't, what I was doing right, what I was doing wrong, all of it. [0]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25942786-the-mind-illumi...
All that is useful to the company, but not to the employee leaving. I would agree there are potential upsides to a company, but there are only potential downsides for the employee.

If a company wants to get feedback from the shop floor, they can run anonymous employee surveys.
The Franciscan monk helping the Vatican take on – and tame – AI
The great advantage of having a ZDNet column was you immediately get responses to personal product issues in case you write them up for public consumption.
I agree.

That said, I think this type of quasi-conspiratorial narrative building (like parent) tends to exist because there is no credible good guy theory currently.

Flawed as it was the 90s neoliberalish, globalish ideology was... at least it was an ideology. It had a a sense of good and bad. It had some promises of better futures. Etc.

What we have now is "stuff happens, sometimes that sucks."
I would add that any tool looking to replace Excel will be build on some very powerful but very primitive foundations, I’m order to compete with that flexibility. It’ll never be about adding a special “view” like AirTable or just tacking in Python.

Excel is like Emacs; most users will write some Elisp at some point, it’s designed to be meddled with from the ground up. AirTable is the VSCode; most users will never write a line of plugin code and when you do you’ll find you can’t extend much.