skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are running out on premise JIRA and confluence. There are people
Who are constantly drumming the bear of move to cloud install since the on-premise is always running behind in versions.

I guess this is going to give them something to think about.

We have a similar story with our bitbucket, which is on-premise. And everyone wants it to move to cloud because it is falling behind in the feature.

I can imagine my jira or wiki beging down, but for the source code repository it can turn into a disaster very quickly.
Why is every growth hacker I meet IRL an ex-SEO guy who is convinced I want to buy their NFT bs?
I take the opposite approach. Rather than reducing distractions, I make reading more stimulating. (Even if I clear all external distractions, I'll still get distracted by wandering thoughts.)

For tech books, I have clear criteria for taking notes. (And I take them on paper, so I'm not switching between apps.)

Some of the criteria are arbitrary, just to help me pay attention. The big non-arbitrary criteria is, "Every time I see a word/term, and I'm not 100% sure I know its precise meaning in the current context, I write it down (leaving some space to flesh it out later.)" Then I add other observations about the book's meaning for that term as I read.

Of course, that's just one example. My point isn't about taking better notes (though it may increase the quality of your notes.) It's that you can make reading more stimulating by treating notetaking as a game with clear/specific rules.

If anyone has tips for non-technical books, I'm all ears. I haven't cracked that code yet.
It violates individual autonomy.

It creates a motivation to find the innocent guilty.

Never underestimate how absolutely low someone will go to make a buck.
Sounds a lot like the argument against a public USPS: put it in a position where it can't succeed and has no leverage, then point at it and say that a public model can't possibly work and that it needs to be privatized.

Privatization does essentially nothing to fix the issue of rail ownership or use. Making the service privately owned gives it no leverage to operate efficiently: that comes from regulation, which is a separate problem. The biggest difference with a privatized service is that a private service can be bullied out of existence.
The Chinese jail system is as corrupt as you can think, since many connected people would like to take advantage of their connections and noboby wants to deny them.

An inmate's death sentence can be commuted to as less as 12 years after this process. https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%99%E5%B0%8F%E6%9E%9C
The beauty of Obsidian (at least) is that it does not matter whether the company is still around. It’s your files in a standard Markdown format.
Assuming the license terms on the working binary allows decompilation;

could use a disassembler to psudo C on the original binary and same hardware, new 32 bit compile (ideally with same compiler (gcc/clang/etc) used on original binary)

Diff the resulting pseudo source code to see where things get interpreted differently.

Then use compiler explorer on the "differences", https://godbolt.org/z/v4TdvE83b

open source decompile to pseudo-C:

ghidra: ghidra-sre.org

retdec: https://github.com/avast/retdec
Vdtts: Visually-Driven Text-to-Speech
The US propped up pro-western governments in Ukraine and sentiment as a wedge issue in particular between Germany and Russia, but also France Russia. They invested upwards of 5 billion to do so. Relationships between Russia - France - Germany were good in the early 2000s they began to deteriorate from 2004 (Orange revolution) onwards. It has been a long standing strategic goal of both the British empire and now the American Empire to keep these three countries non-aligned. Both project power by controlling sea trade routes, an economically integrated Russia would eventually significantly reduce American influence.

The natural resources of the Russian Empire / Soviet Union / Russia together with the industrial base of Germany and France would have been no match at any time of the 20th Century. Both world wars were fought in part about gaining control of the Ukranian (then Russian) resources. The separate peace of Brest-Litovsk split off essentially Ukraine and made it a protectorate of Germany. In many ways the collapse of the Soviet Union and the attempts at integrating former parts of the Russian empire are analogous.

But yeah this doesn’t explain putins actions. I would mostly agree with your analysis of his motivations.
> this guy was going to die anyways, why not save someone's life in the process?

because, like private "for profit" prisons, it incentivises bad things.

Sci-fi short story on this topic, 1967: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jigsaw_Man
> either it's bad that people get fired for expressing opinions

They're not merely "expressing opinions", they're teaching children "facts" of disputed veracity and appropriateness.

>these teachers are not hurting anyone or disrupting any civil processes

That's the crux of the whole debate, isn't it? By teaching these topics inappropriately or inappropriately early, they are potentially harming children, if, say, transgenderism is a social contagion.
I’m not accepting that as an axiom. I’m asking you (and others) to explain what gender is, in this context, non-circularly. So far, I haven’t gotten a definition.
An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
India is not really comparable to other nation-states. India is one of the few extant examples of a multinational state.
For mobile users, Joplin does not support widgets and never will. Its written in react-native and that does not support widgets. They have an open issue and basically responded with will not implement or support. I'm someone who needs widgets for my notes...
Supposing there were a new variant, or some new illness entirely, recent history suggests the CCP would sooner try to suppress it themselves than admit it publicly.

So... maybe.
A solution springs to mind, but I fear it would be impolite to state it directly.
This is amazing. I think it'll make a good party game also, especially if the attendees are well-traveled or international.

edit: Would be amazing if you added a competitive mode also, where two or more parties would get the same series of videos (randomly generated from a unique URL or something). And see who can get the most points out of 100 or so. Even better of the options are labeled A-D and randomized so groups in the same room can discuss which one they want to pick without leaking information
Everyone in UK is an organ donor by default

You might criticise that there is still a death penalty

You might criticise the justice system is not good enough

But taking the organs from prisoners that were sentenced to be executed that day doesn't sound that unreasonable, if that guarantees better organs to save someone else
Every programmer is diffent. Do you enjoy math? If so maybe you would like Haskell?

For me the real fun in programming is high level work and web/UI design. I really don't like C/C++ much at all.

Things like PyQt desktop apps, SQLite database work, Vue/React on Node, CSS, etc.

Also, Arduino programming is pretty fun, if you're just doing typical embedded stuff like "Make a kitchen timer". It's a lot less fun if you start building your own network protocols or anything that needs a malloc().

It's still C++, but you're on a known fixed platform, usually doing tasks that don't involve any real data handling or dynamic stuff. Almost all the challenge comes from just dealing with hardware issues.

Low level programming isn't a particularly miserable job for me, but it is still mostly just a job.

Another thing I like is contributing to FOSS projects.

The one trap that took me the longest to get out of was writing new programs from scrath for personal use. I always wind up not enjoying them, and then on top of it, throwing them away completely when I decide that the existing stuff that's out there is better, just because I don't have to maintain it.

Now I'm pretty aggressive about not allowing code I have to maintain into my life. I don't even look at tings like Arch, or anything advertised as "Lightweight and flexible".

Nearly every project I've ever done on my own is now totally abandoned, because it's so hard for one person to build something that saves more time than it uses. It's possible if you have extra constraints that prevent you from using existing software(Like a hatred of Electron), and a desktop/CLI workflow and great touch typing skills.

But otherwise you have to REALLY look for projects. 99% of what I see on github I have zero understanding of why it was made, and a lot of it seems like it would be an active nusiance.

Like the famous kumar-asshole.sh, that restores a database to the last backup if it detects an email with certain keywords, or a script by the same person that started the coffee maker, perfectly timed to be ready in the time it takes to walk to it.

The amount of time they save is fairly trivial, and kumar-asshole doesn't even address the issue of why they keep breaking it, and the perfect coffee timer just deprives you of an extra 30 seconds of away-from-the-desk time.

On the other hand, if you specifically enjoy using DIY software, it's a lot easier to find projects.

GDevelop/Godot games look somewhat fun to work with if you take the time to learn them. Plus, as creative projects they don't take six months of development to feel like they were worth doing, you can make a game in two days that(Probably not, but maybe) people actually want to play.

I haven't done game dev in a while though.
I prefer Space Opera (e.g. Dan Simmons), but I have read pretty much every other catergory of science fiction, too (dystopian, hard, soft, parallel worlds). I have a bit of trouble wit Steampunk. But anyway, even this is always better than (e.g.) thriller fiction. Always try reading thrillers once in a while and always regret that I started reading.
> Only disadvantage I can tell for HN is lack of comment indentation beyond one level... which might be a deal breaker.

HN indentation works with spacer gifs, so you'll have to enable inline images for that to work. (Press o and tick YES for the Display inline images option.)

EDIT: also if you're using debian you'll also want to install the w3m-img package. Or change the Inline image display method to img2sixel (and install libsixel) if your terminal supports sixels, or to kitty (and install imagemagick) if you're using kitty.

(If your w3m version supports Inline image display method, that is. It's a relatively new feature.)
I'd push back on 3 - I thought it was about gender and sex was a strawman, but the Lia Thomas stuff changed my mind. There are people arguing about sex in such a way that doesn't make sense, has substantial 'heretical risk', and hurts women.

JK Rowling is castigated because she makes a distinction that the more aggressive people try to pretend doesn't exist.

The math thing probably refers to dumb policy in SF to remove algebra and standardized tests (the latter spread to some universities too which MIT recently reversed). It'd take longer to dig into this - but there are nuanced non-racist views here that would definitely get you into heretical territory pretty fast.
> I doubt you could find a woman, disable person, or LGBTQ+ person who seriously would rather spend their life in 1970s America than 2020s America.

That's not what I meant and, I think, not what I said. I did not say that we _had_ rolled back those rights, but that we were in the _process_ of doing so. Rather than moving in the direction of liberation for these groups, we are moving in the opposite direction, at least in some places, and more relevantly for this discussion, that politics of oppression is normative in the right-wing party here. Graham's essay is explicitly aimed at the left, yet effectively elucidates the precise tactics and goals of the right.
Power socket tells you if your energy is green
Before we try to do SF to LA in ~3 hours, let's get LA to SD down from 3 hours (this seems to have improved about 10 minutes in 20 years).
If you don't guess will the videos show up again and again? I'm not interested in the guessing game aspect, I just want to watch the videos.
I know other western countries were people in their 60ies regularly receive transplants.

This is in itself nothing sinister and cause for questioning. I don't know about the regulations in mainland China that govern organ donations, so I am not equipped to argue in this specific case.

Just the fact that one received a transplant doesn't mean that there is suspicious activity involved.
Currently you can't get out unless you have a business, student visa or permanent residence permit. The word is that tourist visa holders will be denied exit. Getting in is also very arduous.
Some mothers see Bitcoin and NFTs as ways to build wealth for their families
I assume it's usually the younger, higher scored potential organ recipients, even in your own country.
Literally the first result on google from a reputable source says she went to China to get a transplant: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-rose-pak-20160919-...

And China has an extremely well documented practice of doing exactly what OP said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
Fees are even higher in El Salvador.

> This doesn't mention that Visa rewards are subsidized by a ~1-3% fee that is payed by the vendor, and paints the picture that somehow Visa is away something for nothing. [1]

The fees start at 3% for the formerly local bank network, and to up to 5% for the bank that has the AMEX exclusive agreement in El Salvador

> don't forget the 19.99% or higher interest paid by users of visa cards who cant or forget to make payments.

And up to 39.99% APY for introductory credit cards in El Salvador.
"They envy it. They want it. They want us to be less free and more like that."

I logged in to say basically this, but I will expand on this a little.

There is a steady push in US to limit the rights of its citizens. It worked to an extent and had an interesting catalyst in the form of pandemic, but it seems that people who tried to use it expand power overshot a little, because pushback was significant and is now part of midterm fight.

I absolutely agree on your take on China.
On that same note, its also important to not lend much/any weight to the perspective of prior immigrants from China or "greater China" that came in various prior waves. They left, they have a universally negative opinion and haven't been there for 20-30 years. Its not an accurate take on the people there, or the travellers now, as simply surviving this long is a good enough indicator of complacency and comfort.

There is a habit of deferring an opinion to someone that appears closer to the topic - from people that believe they are being inclusive and sensitive - but on the topic of China doing that is completely incompatible. For immigrants, residents and citizens in the west with Chinese heritage this only conveniently plays on a widespread identity and racial ignorance that happens to privilege their opinions, but reduces the rest of our ability to understand and potentially shape policy. As it is a very narrow lens that already matches our opinion of imagining daily woe and oppression from every resident in China, but is simply not accurate.
> 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.

Gee, how would anyone look at a Republican administration whose first Supreme Court appointee penned a seminal decision on LGBT employment protections as not trying to turn back LGBT rights? One wonders.

Attempting to argue that the battles being fought today—fighting laws regulating private conduct in bedrooms versus teaching third graders about sexuality—is disingenuous. So is overlooking that the current flash point on “women's rights” (Roe) is unpopular with women in its full scope—specifically, Roe’s guarantee of elective abortions in the second trimester.

> 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;

Oh please. Social progressivism is an overwhelmingly white movement. Elizabeth Warren’s voters in the Democratic Primary were about as white as Donald Trump’s (85%).
I think another thing that takes a lot of the fun out of programming now is that everything is so complicated. There really aren't simple systems what you can know a lot about and play in that doesn't have a tonne of frameworks and documentation.

So finding a programming environment that minimizes up-front learning and lets you get to the fun parts sooner is a huge plus. One thing like that for game-like things is SDL[0], Box2D, or libGDX (if I recall correctly I used on Android a couple times). My info is a bit old, so maybe others have other good examples of desktop/mobile/web libraries that fit is ideal.

[0] https://www.libsdl.org/
50% raises by FAANG or we will keep on shuffling.
Measuring Universal Intelligence: Towards An Anytime Intelligence Test (2010)
Anecdotal, but I've returned more purchases in the last two years than I did in the last 20 years combined. Part of that though is I have bought way more stuff yearly than I did before. This isn't wise in precarious times, of course, but throughout the pandemic I took up way more outdoors hobbies and home projects than I did in the last 20 years combined, too.

I've returned $300 tents, $500 fly fishing waders, $400 ice fishing shelters, fishing poles, etc. Most of this was from being unhappy when I got the product in my hands, but sometimes it was from brick and mortar retail purchases.

I will say getting more comfortable with the act of returning stuff has led me to return things as small as a $10 roll of wire that I planned on using to repair my garage door opener but I didn't end up using. Probably a few years ago I would have just tossed it in the junk drawer. I don't know why I've made a mental shift but I have.
Heh I remember transiting Chi-town to PA and getting stuck waiting for the Late for Sure Limited (Lakeshore Limited).

Personally I'd rather have a slow train that kept schedule than a fast train that rarely did.
Just an observation. The initial prompt (theme, settings) has Previous & Next buttons, but on last prompt titled All Ready, the buttons are Next, ready. It should be Previous Ready.
China has one of the largest organ transplant programs in the world and there's a very well documented practice of well connected CCP members getting preference.
Allow me to paraphrase your comment:

“It’s not possible to solve this problem, except by centralizing all the web through us. Aren’t we generous to not punish our customers when they get hit by this problem?”
I've previously bounced between different open-source notetaking apps but the great thing about any note format based on Markdown (Standard Notes/Obsidian/Zim/etc), is that it's pretty easy to move from one platform to another if they stop being maintained.

Although in the end I ended up with Microsoft OneNote (with Obsidian for special cases), Microsoft isn't going away and they don't have a habit of killing core products like Google does.
> Should I be writing reminders to myself to always double check everything?
> Should I write down the steps to every process?

Yes, but... this should be in the form of code if feasible or shared documentation (README or wiki content) if not. Organizations cannot (and healthy ones do not) rely on perfect execution from every human at every step.

To support this if you have solely been relying on GUIs (IDEs, web UIs, etc.) I strongly encourage you to learn the command line interfaces (or even APIs) of every tool you interact with (source control, build, ticketing, deployment, ...). There is almost no common dev task in modern environments that can't be automated with a simple shell script once you know these. Check those scripts in so they're available to everyone to use and review, correct, or enhance. A working shell script is the best documentation possible for many processes.
I am firmly convinced that all technology which you (and people who think like you) acquired after making contact with Western Civilization needs to be confiscated from you. Cannibals should have no rights.
Isn’t this inline with their values, collective above individual rights? Is it genuinely bad or is using the organs of someone you were about to execute and give someone else life a good thing?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity

Basically, it's a set of socially prescribed behaviours and expectations based on sex. Men wear trousers and are strong, women wear dresses and are graceful. That sort of thing. There's a few different concepts mixed up in the idea of gender, but it's effectively the social aspects associated with sex.
Capital owners would be less rich, laborers would probably be more rich.
>> this whole pronoun thing is about power and who has it, rather than universal respect.

That is my point.

If I provide my name and preferred pronouns, if you respect me and my wishes, why not use my name and preferred pronouns when addressing me or referring to me?

Using "they" when I don't want it as a pronoun is misgendering.
Yes, I hope that they will publish a postmortem.
So - again - it's okay to ban people from talking about certain things, in certain circumstances, especially if you believe those things might cause harm, yes? The debate is not over the thing Graham is talking about, but over whether it's worse to tell young cishet children that queer people exist, or to not tell young queer children that other queer people exist. You don't seem to agree with the essay you're defending.
I doubt people would take days to notice that their steady supply of power, petroleums, natural gas, medication, fresh food, etc. disappeared
I stand by the non circular definition I put in this comment in a different part of this thread, if it helps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30979465
What happened to Fosun licensing the BioNTech mRNA vaccine?
Hm. Does a 10% reduction in silver deserve the term "financial crisis" or "severe debasement"? In modern times we've seen 10,000,000X inflation and used those descriptions. Maybe "A slight public loss of confidence" would be a better term.
Java for the Haters in 100 Seconds
> There was a bro-y norm to engineering culture

There _was_? I'm not sure what field of engineering you're in, but in software, hardware and electrical engineering which are the ones I have the most contact within 3 countries in Europe, this is the norm today. Through friends in mechanical and civil engineering I get the sense it's even worse there.
Have we been looking at different data? I don't see how any mRNA product has performed significantly better.
"Despite making up only 13% of the population, blacks make up 52% of crimes."
I suspect that Chinese law enforcement agencies are offering death row inmates conducive "incentives" and "arguments" to strengthen their good will to cooperate.

After all, it is for a good cause and in a certain moral sense to make amends for their sins against the communist body of the people.
A bit like an eye for an eye, but more visceral.
Scientific socialism at its best.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170207112528/https://www.hrw.o...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170207112528/https://www.hrw.o...
I have been in a situation where I only met my manager once every 6 months. That too, only because I insisted.

It was an incredibly shit work environment. 0 onboarding, sink or swim. My buddy just ignored me most of the time.
It actually doesn't require you to charge more than you want.

It only requires you to charge IF you want to do something that requires you to (global popularity). Having music globally "available" has no cost, I suspect you are referring to globally popular music. And I think it makes sense for that cost to be beared by the artist since they are the one benefitting and desiring it anyway; no point in asking other people (record labels / travel industry) to do that service for free.