skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The space of markdown based note taking apps is getting more and more crowded. I'm wondering how many more are sustainable, especially as many free (and open source) ones are available.

Regarding Inkdrop: this page really doesn't tell me what's their USP, why would I use this over something like Obsidian or Roam (just to name some examples)?
I remember reading this article and being concerned that state actors had simply flooded the tor nodes to allow them to them to perform attacks to deanonymize a user. It’s possible that Arstechnica just has some agenda against Tor because it seemed like for awhile they were putting out articles like this every few months on the Tor network and people being arrested who used Tor.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/tor-u...
I don't think he mentioned race, I think the word he used was "ethnicity" which is inclusive of culture, and doesn't necessarily include race at all. Culture is a shorthand way of saying "behavioral trends within a self identifying community." You might say its a "dog whistle" for race, and you may be right, but we argue the point and take people at their word, in good faith, here.

If I were a white person that lived in a white community that had problems with women getting raped, I'd leave. There are communities like this, and plenty of people trying to find a way out of them. If I were a brown person that lived in a brown community with these problems, I'd leave, which is why I am sympathetic to immigrants leaving their countries and going to ones where women don't get raped all the time.

Also, after reading more of this thread, I don't think he's saying "this ethnicity rapes people" necessarily, I think it's more like "when someone from this ethnicity does rape someone, they don't get punished because the judges are afraid of being wrongly called racists, so if I move away from them, at least the rapists where I move will go to jail. It's not safer because they rape less necessarily, its safer because the rapists are in prison."

But that's all beside the point. You can't fault people for generalizing, we are pattern finding creatures by nature. It's a shortcut to bettering our lives. The pattern might only be correlation and not cause, but that doesn't change the improvement we get when we make decisions based off the recognized pattern, hence the evolutionary advantage to pattern recognition. The apparent pattern might not even exist, but behaving as if it does might not cause us any detriment at all, so there's no selective pressure against it. Berating people for this doesn't solve the problem, it in fact worsens it, and if you're indeed right, then over time people will meet nice people that fall into a negative stereotype in their mind and adjust their world view accordingly, no lecture required.
I've noticed that one article which was marked for deletion on Wikipedia is marked as "hooray survived deletionism" on deletionpedia, but only got changed to a redirect after a lot of data was deleted.

https://deletionpedia.org/en/Jeopardy!_College_Championship
I seldom provide a cover “letter”. If I’m emailing somebody I’d include one or two paragraphs about what I find interesting about their company/product/etc… or if applying via a career page I’d put that on the cover letter field.

But IMHO more than cover letters or anything else, talking with somebody above a recruiter is one of the best things that you can do! If you can send a message via LinkedIn or have a connection to somebody that works there, use that! If it’s posted on HN who’s hiring and the hiring manager posts his email, use that instead of applying through a career page. No matter how good your cover letter, a referral is always better!

In my company referrals are pretty much guaranteed at the very least a calls, so I’d suggest looking more into how you could get in touch with somebody at the company vs investing tons of energy in crafting the perfect cover letter.

For reference, I’m in a similar position in my career as you, about 10y of experience.

Good luck!
In a way, yes, but mostly: iPhone
There are meaningful things on other social media that make them Pareto distributed too and I disagree that the SNR of HN is higher than elsewhere
Your contributions to this thread have the tone of a wishful, rosey, cherry-picking trip through history motivated by the desire to arrive at a predestined conclusion: that we all should be living in a Communist utopia today, because it's logically the easiest and most available organizing system for humans. Therefore, we don't live in that world today only because intense energy and effort is directed into maintaining a non-optimal status quo.

At least please provide some specific and tangible reasons why you believe this is so obviously true, instead of repeatedly alluding to these numerous, incontrovertible, imminently applicable examples. Your statements are, I imagine for most readers, directly opposed to what history has shown about human nature and the nature of power.
I do, and find it kind of fun, it's great to avoid burnout by making your project less 'intense' because when you are slighly drunk you usually take routes that are not perfect but works which makes the project move at a steady pace. Perfection is for my sober self, who was years of practice in his craft, when I'm buzzed I am just a average programmer that wants things to work. The compiler does not allow me to drink too much too so there's that.

The coolest moments are when you get into the flow, and forget to drink, and you sober up. Those are exceptionally productive moments.
I absolutely love Inkdrop. Its pretty much my go-to drafting editor. I like that it doesn't spellcheck or grammar check by default -- perfect for drafts where you just need to get your ideas down and before editing.

I used to use gists, but my browser wanted to spellcheck me all the darn time. I just want to write with a bit of sensible formatting, no distractions.
It's not stupidity. These are incredibly inteligent people behind all of this.
I read their comment differently. I think they were saying the admins can’t even use the excuse that any specific deletions or deletions generally are necessary to save space, because deleted items are not erased completely, but are still available to admins.
I am Dutch / European and do not understand why change/amendments of the constitution is not generally acceptable/attractive by the US population.

Surely societal change must and does change the efficacy and context of law over time?
Modern trackball,flexing, etc. multi-blade razors are expensive, but idiot proof. You can copy one of the Gillette commercials and just mash the thing to your face and make one long stroke through the chemical foam. Bam. Done. If you're happy with this, be happy. Read no further.

What this article isn't telling you is that DE razors can be almost as fast, but there's a learning curve. They don't flex, bend, or rotate to the right angle, so you must hold them at the right angle, even when you're going around curves. There's just one blade, so it's easy to apply too much pressure and give yourself razor burn, so you must learn to use minimal pressure. It takes time to learn these skills.

Is learning how to shave with a DE correctly and quickly worth saving money? If money is no concern for you, then no. However, there are other benefits. One pass of a five bladed razor is, you guessed it, five blades being dragged across your face, and likely with more pressure than is necessary given how much pressure is required just to make the flexing, rotating razor engage with your face. If skin irritation, ingrown hairs, etc. are a problem for you, then learning how to properly shave with a DE razor can dramatically reduce those problems. However, things may be worse at first while you're learning technique. This is all even more true if you're the sort who suffers from irritation and reuses cartridges too long to save a little money. Dull blades make skin irritation worse.

Another thing this article isn't mentioning is shaving soap. Most of us are used to chemical gel's or foams. To be blunt, they all smell awful and feel gross. Again, it takes slightly more time and a little technique must be learned, but traditional shave soap with a badger hair brush, lathered on the face, is something everyone should at least try. There are some awesome smelling soaps out there, and lathering on your face with a good badger brush feels amazing. If you hate shaving, this is a switch that might change your mind.

If you hate something, you can spend less time on it, or you can look for ways to make it more enjoyable.
Personally I don’t understand this “notability” deletion process. It’s text, even the most unremarkable article weighs less than ephemeral logs.

Additive metadata is more than as effective for filtering and boosting what’s relevant.

It’s a really asinine policy, I’m glad this project exists
even pre-pan, johny srouji wouldn't let the silicon team move into the open plan UFO and built them a trailer or something in the parking lot

(per this https://www.macrumors.com/2017/08/09/apple-park-employees-op...)

guessing goodfellow has specific reasons for this move (like everyone), but feels increasingly like wfh has exposed gaps in our ability to manage or even measure the productivity of knowledge workers
Good researcher != good director/team leader.
It's not "anti-union rhetoric," come on.

When is the last time a union has been formed in a workplace where everyone is happy, well paid, has great WLB, etc?
This is so cool! I love the embedded aspect of it, that was a big goal of Pion. Really exciting for users to not have to setup/configure a service to get connectivity going.

re: concerns about STUN I would love to experiment with adding NAT-PMP/PCP support to pion/ice. STUN server usage seems to be a major sticking point for people. Talked about it a bit here [0]. I am all for doing it, just would like to know the code is actually wanted before writing it :)

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/_pion/status/1522365018855165952
I assume he just thinks Siri sucks?
Cover letters are still the brown M&M test [0] in some fields. It's a sign you read the application guidelines which specify details, usually including a cover letter. No cover, it gets tossed in favor of people who follow instructions.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/
Whether or not it’s true about the origin of the quote, “write drunk, edit sober” has yielded pretty strong results in creative writing.

If you can fight through the inevitable next day and look at it a couple days later and see what you were reaching for, well, it’s an iterative process no matter the state of mind. Ever read a teenager’s break up poetry?

There’s a reason most of those books ended up in the trash (or archived from LiveJournal).

I’m not advocating these methods, but I’m also not denigrating them.
I don't know about that. I mean, look at Longhorn. And Microsoft was unbeatable back then.

Being huge and powerful is no guarantee of success when it comes to shipping software. Size can often be a hinderance.
Rechargeable Molten Salt Battery Freezes Energy in Place for Long-Term Storage
The author of this article wants me to believe wikipedia has been taken over by the "super woke" but frankly they just come across as having an unhealthy obsession with IQ as a heritable trait and desperately want to use this to tie race to IQ.

They describe themselves as a "contrarian scientist". At the end the author complains that their wikipedia page has been deleted twice, my heart bleeds.
Yes: https://github.com/openziti/ziti-sdk-c/
Seems like a large part of the complexity is enabling the creation and use of reusable UI components that work in a variety of UI hierarchies and modify a variety of backend models (or app states), in a type-safe way. Is that right or are there other problems attempting to be solved?

The simple way to do this is a callback system. Why is that not appropriate for Rust? Does it require custom ownership dynamics that the borrow checker does not support?
I wonder how Donjon-Smit happened. (Smit is a famous real world International Rescue, headquartered in Rotterdam)
I have both a double edge razor and a cartridge razor. I used to use the double edge razor more. I now use the cartridge razor more, for two reasons: first, it takes less time. Second, I figured out how to make it cost less money and generates less waste.

The trick on the latter is that I discovered I can keep a single one of Target's store brand Mach3-compatible cartridges going for 3-ish months. This was due to a combination of tricks I had already been using to keep Mach3 blades going for a while (dry after use, store in a dry place, strop before use), plus the more recent discovery that Target's generic blades are higher quality and greater durability, at a fraction of the price.

With double edge blades, on the other hand, I can get two shaves out of one, tops, before it starts to give me nicks. I've tried stropping these blades, too, but without much success.

So that works out to me being able to get about 2 years' worth of shaves for about US$7 with the cartridge razor. I'm not sure what the exchange rate is right now, but I think that works out to about 1/3 of the £10/yr that the author calculated for safety razor blades.

(On the other hand, I can definitely get a better shave out of the DE razor.)
Good catch! Yes, the plan is to implement _ConditionalContent. It would look something like this:

if_view(bool_predicate, || view1(...then...), || view2(...else...))

Whether we end up having a proc macro that has similar functionality as ViewBuilder in SwiftUI is an open question. For the time being, I'm seeing how far I can get with just vanilla Rust.

I'm generally pretty hopeful about the ability of the Rust compiler to handle big complex types, but it is a risk. There other projects out there that also stress it, and the compiler team is pretty serious about making this work well.
>I really need you to point out where I “glorified” anything.

The commenter you replied was questioning if a nation could maintain it's character after wholesale replacement of it's population by other people, and you said yes, and implied that thinking otherwise is dangerous.

>yeah something definitely sounds wrong

What is that something ? If I own a car or a house, I can control who gets inside that car or house, and I can exclude people on whatever basis I like, including race and culture. This is not ideal, but that's the reality. Changing it is likely to be extremly hard and violent.

A country is "owned" by it's population, if a substantial majority of it's population don't want to let certain people into it, why is that such a problem ? Do you think those same people who want to immigrate would welcome a country's worth of people into their own land, if that were to happen ? Nearly every single culture in existence values itself more than others, and feels threatened when it's numbers decrease in relation to another.
The youth wanted Melechon and then were forced between Macron and Le Pen..
Check about AnkiDroid on Android or Anki app on Apple devices. The latter is a bit expensive but well worth the investment.
The best part of Anki is that it has its own cloud service that works for free. With that you can have the exact workflow you described.
And then banks will decide that it's not secure having multiple devices and actively prevent you from doing that.

Right now my bank requires my phone to get a 2fa code for anything important. I can only have a single device at a time, if I lose my phone, I can of course reset it if I'm in the country and go to a branch. Of course with Covid that was difficult when I last lost my phone, so I had to download a form sign it and fax it to be able to set up my 2fa on my new phone. It took 2 weeks before I could access my bank account.
By acknowledging that these experiments are relatively pointless
What if we already do so, the status quo is already the equilibrium, and thus your idea already worked? But it cannot find any more understanding in those doing their complex routine. You’re asking to sleep less, to work more and to get less from people literally competing to have some nice time.
The individual in question needn’t outperform the rest of society, they merely need to be critical to the activities of the rest of society. Whether Their criticality is necessary, just, or effective doesn't matter. But it does mean that they can pay bodyguards better than everyone else, and there is no inherent reason to believe the body guards will beanle to step into that role.
That seems like it would offer no advantages, but would result in all of worse performance, smaller remaining available packet size, and "more code".
Yes.

We are always doing what we want to.

Perhaps I should have added "given restrictions of reality"? I mean you can have diarrhea and be currently shitting your pants. And you may not want to do that. Seems like a stronger argument than equaling heroin to reddit. But in both cases your options are limited. From those, you choose what you want. And you are then doing what you want to do (with or without telling yourself that you don't really want to do that - whether that's shooting heroin, going to rehab or changing your pants). If your argument is that what you want was not available as an option, then your problem is wishful thinking. Reality is what it is. You are here now.

As far as I understand it, a heroin addict, at times when he's not craving and has some choice, has a choice to continue doing it or to go through hell and then some. I doubt there is much cognitive dissonance before dosing. But I just don't know this context enough (except for the fact that random dude view's on life are very unlikely to help).

But in general yes, if you murder people you can apply this thinking too. You will either decide that's not what you want or have less cognitive dissonance while doing it. Happily slashing without thinking that you don't really want to do that.

I'm not selling any cure, just suggesting that there seem to be no need to ever think "I don't want to do this" and then do it. And I mean it. From cleaning up shit from the floor, through putting your dog down to going to a funeral.
There Is No Liberal West (2021)
https://www.goodreads.com/series/46817-the-demon-cycle
GANs were just low hanging fruit that Schmidhuber already found. By most accounts Ian Goodfellow is kind of an asshole, and there was some drama about him a few times over the years. I don’t know the man, that’s just what I’ve heard.
Amazon recently recruited me for a job, a job that I already do remotely for a different company, and I turned it down for the same reason. The job at amazon paid way more, but I'm far more productive and happier at home.

I see other jobs at amazon that are remote, but this particular department worked with hardware that they weren't interested in leaving the office. Again, I've worked remotely with similar hardware from the company that pioneered this type of hardware and have done so since 2008. We figured out security, remote testing, local development, software simulations, etc. and haven't had a single leak, hack, etc.
I'm also always coming back to vimwiki after trying something else (mostly because I'm so used to (n)vim). I still want to give zk [1] a try though (but it's also vim based).

The one killer feature for me would be a gui for neovim that can display images. (Inserting images from the clipboard works with clipboard-image.nvim.)

[1] https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk/
So why don't you explain what they do mean instead of these mysterious repetitions of "you don't understand" and references to concepts (Chesterton's Fence) that aren't obviously applicable to what's being discussed.
The shift in the use of "capitalism" to mean solely the capital class and not small business owners is a return to the actual meaning.

With any exploitative minority of people, it's in their best interests to convince large groups of people that they're all really part of the same club. It makes the exploited less likely to end the exploitation. Or end the exploiters.

And I don't just mean capitalists. Consider the way both ridiculous, unpopular mainstream political parties use wedge issues to scare people into following them even though they are both known to be corrupt machines full of greedy, self-seeking people. Etc.
I'm saying that, even if somehow all "illness" were cheap and easy to cure[1], we'd still need health insurance for injury, especially sudden and catastrophic injury, such as car accidents.

[1] And defining "illness" as distinct from "injury" isn't all that easy.
Democrats fail to act in unison when they are in power, unlike the Republicans who are much more disciplined in this regard. They also realise that much of America is conservative at its core and will not tolerate views or actions that are too far left of center. For far too long, they have relied on the Courts as a way to do an end-run around legislatures, where they are ineffectual at getting their agenda passed. Now that has come back to bite them in the ass. The Republicans have put conservatives in many important courts now, blocking this (undemocratic) avenue for pushing forward Democrats' agenda. The Democrats would have been better off pushing for a Constitutional Amendment in the first place, but in 50+ years, they have do zilch towards that, giving the lie to their claim that they are pro-women or pro-choice. They are pro-power, as are Republicans, and that's the end of the story. Now they are forced to do the actual hard work of passing legislation or amending the constitution, for which they do not have a mandate from the public.

Of course, the Democrats have already started making noises about following another unwise course, that of packing the Supreme Court by adding more justices that they can install. They will find in due course that they will fail miserably there as well and face a profound backlash.
I guess citations do not directly translate into products?
> My apartment started requiring an app to enter the premises and use another app so wash and dry your cloth and then required an app to enter the place you wash your cloth.

This shit has got to stop. I ran into similar doing a mortgage... They "only accepted the escrow payment through ${RANDOM_APP}." Yea right, y'all can take a check, and they did.

I'm quite sure _all_ the app does is process the payment.:rolleyes: /s No way they collect/sell any info I send through it. Oh, and I'm sure they'll be super upfront whenever their database that my info sits in for eternity with 'admin:admin' protecting it gets popped.
Amazon WFH policy is still flexible though. For example, in my team the current policy is to work wherever we feel the most productive and happiest.

You could have potentially moved within the company if that was only decision factor.
Southern states will never agree to a Constitutional Convention for anything other than an Amendment banning abortion unconditionally, and because a Convention can't occur without those states, and other states wouldn't approve of such a ban, any such Convention is existentially impossible. Even if that weren't the case, the South will never allow a Constitutional Convention for the simple reason that it allows the risk of reconsideration of the Second Amendment.

State level legislation is what we'll have to deal with, but let's not pretend the result of that - women having to risk fines or jail time unless they're forced to give birth or else move to a state that respects their right to bodily autonomy - should be acceptable in a modern society. It is only because half the country doesn't want to be a modern society, and because the power structures of the US are engineered such that that half can drag the rest of the country around by the nose indefinitely.
It seems to be pretty common today, yeah. I'd say it's probably the most important thing for everyone I know, even moreso than compensation lately.