skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have moved on to a plaintext lifestyle that isn't tied to any tooling. If I have to protect/encrypt the content, I will look at doing that at the container -- such as a Vault.

Tools such as Obsidian[1] are a good option for me, as I can use it as that -- a tool and not worry about the content being tied to any platform - open or otherwise. For your Vault protection, tools such as the Cryptomator[2] works well.

I reason that tools will come and go. Even for many open source ones, I had my experience of being unable to rebuild/recompile because of the outdated libraries, unmaintained code, etc. The world moves on, real fast. Plain text is and will still work in the future. I'm also OK, spicing it up a bit with MarkDown, which still can maintain human readability even if the reader doesn't know what Markdowns are.

I'm not against using tooling in a group/team, where the tooling plays a good role in making the experience smooth. I would also definitely love to pay for tools that helps the team improve and save time and frustrations.

Best of luck to your product, and I hope it serves the use cases of others who need it.

1. https://obsidian.md

2. https://cryptomator.org
Finally after trending on Twitter for days they do the right thing. This forum kiwifarms was outright attacking doxxing harassing people and yet were defended by CF over and over again.
I was stereotyping a bit for the sake of brevity.

And yes, even the queen is not universally accepted. Famously, the Labour party used to be republican, but seems to have mostly given up on that plank of policy.

In any case, my main point was that intense local rivalries exist, but actual differences between neighbouring places are typically fairly minor.
GPS is widely used as a cheap way to get a timestamp from an atomic clock. Most datacenters will have a GPS receiver to seed their NTP services, for instance.

At the massive scale of GPS, all observable behavior of the system are features that someone is relying on.
True. Reducing customer support calls that get to a real person contributes to the performance and cost metrics for a call center. Some companies may try to make a useful phone tree. Some may use it to introduce friction and cut off nuisance calls. I won’t say the companies always have nefarious or uncaring intentions but it can feel that way from the customer end.
I can generate a 768x896 pixels image on an RTX 3090, using 23.4/24GB
Market outcomes don't have to reflect your preferences. People vote with their wallets, and their wallets vote for Ryanair-style flying.
> They weren't attacked, Cf was attacked for employing them

That sentence is illogical. Attacking X's employer for employing X is an attack on X – it is saying that X is unworthy of being employed

> Cf has a habit of financially supporting actual far-right activists such as Westboro Church

You make it sound like they donated money to WBC. From what I understand, at one point they accepted them as a paying customer. WBC is an atrocious organisation, but a business having them as a customer isn't "financial support" – do you apply the same standard to the many other businesses who undoubtedly have WBC and/or its leaders and members among their customers? Who is their cell carrier? What supermarket do they shop at? Which airline do they fly?
That doesn't rebut my point in anyway. Please address the findings of LeDeR.
Exactly. Using a day rate has several more advantages. You can skip a lot of the bookkeeping. And companies are a lot more mindful of your time when they buy it by the day. If I have to join a 15 minute meeting, I lose more than just those 15 minutes. It's a context switch, I might want to prepare before hand, reflect on it afterwards. Etc. If I bill by the day, than that's fine. I'm yours for the day. Neither of us will be staring at the clock and it's not like I'll be doing anything else that day.
No, her personal statement isn't enough, how could she know who did it? I'm sure in the heat of the moment someone going thru something like that would make assumptions and galvanize their position somewhat, it's completely understandable, but it's hardly evidence. Also the article doesn't say anything about the timeframe between her dox being posted and the incident.

The admin explicitly saying for people to stop "encouraging SWAT pranks" when speaking apparently(?) about two other elements is a bit closer but still quite weak, its an open forum from what I gathered so far surely there would be archives or some screenshot or something for said "pranks" towards the streamer being discussed right? especially if there is mention of him actually having to deal with the FBI in previous times.

I didn't overlook the tweets, I just couldn't find a single mention of swatting there.
Carbon capture as discussed here is usually more a matter of catching carbon byproducts of industrial processes. In which case it's typically more concentrated and easier to catch than random carbon molecules drifting around in the atmosphere.
I'm sorry but no. The law is the minimum level of enforcement for a working society, not an ethics guide. You're allowed to do better than wait for the situation to go from multiple suicides to a PR crisis before taking action.

If I offered protection to a group of unreasonable actors and discovered they needed protection because they like to bully people into taking their own life for fun, the last thing I would want is to accept money from them, let alone offer them protection.

Sure, the law can do better too.
Okay, this is cute, but by going against design conventions I think you have a landing page that most people will bounce off of.

The navigation settings are at the very bottom in the footer area where I normally ignore things like "privacy policy." I found myself clicking around the fake menu bar at the top trying to figure out what this was, because there's no screenshot on the landing page.

I did eventually find the screenshots link at the bottom, and only then did I notice the "try it" thing. I can see now that it's on the landing page as well, but it is positioned exactly where my brain expects to find a "try it free" button, and is styled like one to boot. In other words, it was completely invisible to me.

I'd add a screenshot to the landing page in addition to a huge "Press ⌥X" call to action. You clearly spent a lot of time on the demo, make sure people find it!

The non-2x screenshots look out of place with the high-resolution dock icons.

Sometimes ⌥X fails to do anything. After playing with it for a while I can't find any rhyme or reason for when it doesn't work, and there are no errors in the console.

Anyway I'm not really in the target market for the app (long-time Alfred user) so I don't have any more substantive feedback than that.
Meetup HN: Hyderabad
Hello folks, few of us are planning to meet over the weekend for a in-person meetup.

Which location would you prefer? >> Gachibowli

Join here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BQfTs7HuJguJ0w1ZB8M1hy
It's really incredible. All these people defending Kiwi Farms, accusing Keffals of various crimes, and claiming Near didn't commit suicide, genuinely seem incapable of correctly gendering trans people for long enough to accuse them. I even told you Near's pronouns! There's no way you don't realize how bad this makes you look to people who aren't transphobic, or how obvious it makes your motives.
It feels like an unnecessary gate left in place, in the hopes that some callers won’t get through, this reducing total call volume to the humans.

More likely, it’s just not worth it to implement the interface between the systems.
I think the commenter is not talking about the validity of climate change or environmental damage, but about the troubles of assigning which is “nature” and “anti-nature”. This dialectic isn’t really helpful to really solve the problem since that if you assign “anti-nature” as both human and corrupt, then the natural argument goes to Malthusian control of populations (believing the existence of “more humans” in itself as dangerous and shaping societal organization within this limited framework)

Instead, I suggest we opt for throwing away the concept of “anti-nature”, and instead acknowledge that humanity is part of nature. What has changed over history is that we are active agents in changing the totality of nature instead of being passive agents only being “affected” by it. This creates a more optimistic path towards a better future, since while it acknowledges that we have the capacity to destroy ourselves it also creates hope that we have the agency to actually “change” nature itself towards a direction we desire. Welcome to the anthropocene… (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene)
> At the same time I like analyzing the tournaments from the perspective if the best team (according to a criterion that either players or spectators care about) has the highest chance to win.

And I declare that 'liking' to be 'entertainment'. Might be a pretty broad definition of entertainment.
Many shortcomings, none of which mean you can ignore them in favour of manual testing.
IANAL and you could be right.
Because I’ll also have to create my own power company and solar panel manufacturing facility at the rate things are going
Seems like this was last updated in 2017. IMO there has actually been a lot of cool `modern unix` kind of development in that space since then. Sure, these new tools are not always drop-in replacements and not available everywhere, but they are often easier an more fun to use.

https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix

There is also this nice awesome list with a more extensive collection.

https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
Article headline: Samsung Suffers Another Massive Data Breach: Should You Be Worried?

This really needs renamed. Samsung did not 'lose' anything. If I 'rm -rf' data without a backup, that is data loss. This is a breach in which the only loses is 'Samsung loses control of singular ownership of your data putting users at risk'.
After spending my teens in a mid 50s suburb (now considered near downtown), I've always lived in inner city neighborhoods. They are MUCH DENSER than current zoning codes permit.

Narrow frontages, separations and streets with garages on back alleys give you lots of density AND neighborhoods people want to live in.
Cloud-native search engine for log management and analytics
Working in the industry, lots of companies rely on outsourced work through Business Process Outsourcers. Basically you are calling Target or another company and in their internal system probably run by Avaya or Cisco on ancient hardware and only can process limited inputs like DTMF/Touch and a tree format. When you transfer to a person, that agent works in a different region/office/company and on a different system. Since they transfer through a phone number, no data passes so they have no idea who you are and chances are have a different system that sees a limited set of information to handle your call.

Telephony is a cost center for most companies and the work to build clean experiences for callers is not a priority so a lot of companies have these broken systems and spending money maintenance to keep them running instead of understanding how a proper experience for someone helps their business and brand.
I also left roughly the same time as you, so I agree with what they were, but the range is truly wild now. You'll still find $80k positions but the ceiling is now easily 3-4x as much.

It's not the SV of the north yet -- local VCs are still a joke (expect one to two orders of magnitude worse terms) but it's getting better. The angel scene has actually been pretty incredible over the past few years.
In my experience, the vast majority of people haven't even heard of the NATO alphabet, unless they've had exposure to certain industries which use it heavily, like military/aerospace.
I just reminded "clean room design" technique: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
The planets aligned just right. I’d call it a good omen.
That phenomenon still puzzles me. Why wouldn't it ring right away?
I get that Evernote seems stagnant (or even dead by many accounts) and it certainly is lacking in critical features such as e2ee, but all these (paid) alternatives are only covering a small fraction of Evernote functionally: mostly text notes. No OCR, no easy meeting notes, no templates...

Luckily, where I am I've access to (really!) low cost EN subscription (maybe I've got grandfathered into it? Right now it works out less than 1usd/year) So I'm just never tempted to find alternatives despite it's shortcomings.
I generally agree, couple observations:

1. If the people on the team can't change the process, it ain't agile

2. Sprints aren't a failure of agile, they're a failure of devops. Once you start deploying multiple times a day, nobody will care when one sprint ends and the next begins and it'll be fine

3. Estimates aren't literally the devil, execs need to have a rough idea how big it is, just don't get more granular than months
Good that the students had a strong faculty advocate on their side, especially one with that journalism background. Unfortunate that she has to deal with the suspension process, hopefully this bit of press helps sway the appeal committee towards her case.

I'm a little confused on the relevance to HIPAA. I thought that would only apply to people working in the medical field / with access to medical information. I didn't think deductive reasoning based on attendance would constitute a violation.
From the perspective of your electrical meter, there is no difference between running 2 120V appliances on separate busses vs running a single 240V appliance assuming they consume the same overall wattage. So this would be a very difficult thing to enforce.
This is how we do estimates. Nothing set in stone, all just a rough guide.

However, the "don't estimate" school is just a little crazy. In no other discipline would this be acceptable as a doctrine.

Imagine a contractor you hire to build the house shrugging when you ask him how long or how much it will cost.
Sure, a slightly irritating turn of phrase, not accurate. I didn't think it would be so controversial to hold terms of art/words with actual scientific meaning to a higher standard though.

If we're willing to be so blasé with 'efficiency' then why not, say, 'functional programming'? If it works it's functional right?
I tried it out and I don’t know why but I feel like it’s complicated to me. Setting everything up with an application load balancer, public and private subnet’s and security groups all makes perfect sense. But the network load balancer makes me confused.

But adding it to my list of things to learn and understand better.
I know nothing here, but it sounds from other posts like it is being moderated very aggressively, and posts like these survive for mere minutes.

Violence absolutely should not be tolerated. But it's going to show up briefly on every site, and that's just reality. What's different about KF is that hate is allowed, and people are suspicious that the real reason it's being targeted is for allowing hate, not violence.

I'm sure that's true, and I don't super hate that this shitty site is getting its just desserts, but pretending that this is a "we need to protect life" decision rather than a "we are agreeing with people who want this speech silenced" decision is pretty shady.
timsort and pdqsort seem to be significantly slower than radix sort for random inputs, but presumably radix sort could also benefit from a pile of pattern-finding heuristics.
The ceremonies and pointing are often a big waste of time. I worked at a place that really drank the Agile koolaid, and dreaded every "planning" and "retrospective" because it was so incredibly tedious. "Is it this 2 points or 3?" "What did you learn this sprint? What went badly?"
25-year programmer here. This very much resonated with me. Agreed on almost all points.

Notice it has a direct correlation to Peter Norvig's Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years [0] and a distant correlation to Paul Graham's Bus Ticket Theory of Genius [1].

More broadly, it's like Zen Buddhism's idea of _Shut up and sit down_. Keep doing, keep working instead of talking and thinking. Talking and thinking is only to convince yourself and others, which may not matter so much; salvation lies in the doing ultimately.

I wrote a poorly worded piece on this(non-native speaker here) in case one's interested [2].

[0]: https://www.norvig.com/21-days.html

[1]: http://paulgraham.com/genius.html

[2]: https://legends2k.github.io/post/galls_law/
Looks like 10GB in the README[0] for a 512x512 image - though the fork[1] from the repo in this PR claims to be able to work with as little as 4GB VRAM.

[0] https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion#stable-diffusion
[1] https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion#txt2img
This is misleading if not outright false. Roughly half the country doesn’t have the state department’s line on war and regularly voices opinions as such. They do so without any state backed retribution or widespread media cancellation. What we do have is a strongly access-based media propaganda machine that tries very hard to push the narrative. But comparing what goes on in the US to what the conditions are in China is just invalid in almost every way.
Yeah, reminds me of the old freedoom WADs situation
The eugenics aspect is concerning, that was my opinion, and many who have similar concerns (hence it is controversial).

My opinion on the merits of an individual making personal choices about reproduction and medical treatment for themselves and their offspring was not offered.
Seems like author did his work on a different fork and pushed to this one, which included all changes from the other fork...
Had a similar issue in a band I was in, an electric guitar was picking up radio stations and playing them through the amplifier. For weeks I thought I was going insane until I figured out the cause.
Having recently looked at wages/housing in the same anglosphere, Canada was way ahead of Australia. I know several folks who have left Australia for Canada in the last five years because of exactly this.
It's funny that you bring up the Prisoner's Dilemma:

Because its canonical formulation uses defection as a way for law enforcement to catch criminals.

Similarly, people who reliably cooperate in prisoner's dilemmas can run cartels and conspiracies much easier.
Or the my car has issues based on the flavor ice cream I purchase.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cone-of-silence/
Good, more stock for me!
> We can't have a society that requires CEO to decide who is morally acceptable and who is not.

> If law's have been broken we need law enforcement.

This argument, that if it's legal there's no problem is calling for an over-bearing authoritarian state that micro-manages every interaction of private individuals.

We do not want to give more power to the state, which is why there's a bunch of stuff that's legal but is really unpleasant, and why we use "beyond all reasonable doubt" in the criminal courts. For this to work we require citizens to take responsibility.
> selling homemade hormones to underaged children

What is this? Who is doing this and why?
I had this experience in the US early in my software career. Supposed hardware companies didn’t see the value in software. As engineering leadership came up through hardware, they didn’t manage it well. Management pursued what they knew, and often the focus on hardware was at the expense of the user experience.

Now even in the US I think you see this with data. You see companies with managers brought up through software ranks that don’t understand how to measure and optimze systems and orgs with data (machine learning, but not only machine learning). They want to build complex software, often at the expense of the user experience, that just wants the thing that makes them think less…
I've been programming professionally, full time, for 40 years.

And, like the author, I also play piano. I've been playing for 47 years -- started at age 13 which was way too late. I still practice daily for about 2/hours day (one in the morning and one in the evening). And people who started younger can generally out-play me. The correct age is 5 or 6.
Ask HN: The most efficient method of conveying information is face-to-face
Agile Manifesto states: The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
But from what my experience, written word one-on-one has many advantages. It is easy to look up what was said. Another difference is that written word is persistent, meanwhile spoken usually isn't. You could use some technology to transcribe it and store the text somewhere to get these advantages, but It is not very common (assuming it works flawlessly, text always does). It also has advantages of not having various time constrains. This mostly means eliminating the urgency of having to answer immediately (which you still can) and therefore you can think about it more. Furthermore, it's easier to receive these messages rather than having a talk, and therefore it's easier to intertwine the downtime of not having a quick answer with another activity.
Which one do you folks prefer and why?
Going one step deeper, the issue isn't the forced casting itself but that you're not allowed to have an opinion about it.
I hope this doesn't sound horribly ignorant as I am not well versed in academia. Couldn't students form some kind of union organization and pool their efforts to get proper representation?

It seems to me that to combat abuse is for every student in every school to stand together. Create an organization that supports mental health of students and staffs lawyers, ect.
Are you talking about the denialism of people who reject science and the undisputed fact that the environment has changed frequently and at a high velocity, continuously, over the meticulously documented history of the planet? Or are you referring to those who reject science, and insist, despite the detailed and voluminous evidence, that human activity is the predominant cause of environmental change, without which the climate would be stable?
Not applicable to this subject. :) A comparison between judy1 and roaring would be interesting.
But, before using this, all people are unfamiliar with this proprietary one. If you have to learn something..?
Odd: Israel Banning Planes with Four Engines
> > was popularized by an auto manufacturer, where safety and liability are at least as much a concern as construction.

> Kanban is a core but small part of TPS, it can't be said to be pro or against safety.

The poster's point is that it's not obviously defective from that standpoint, despite criticisms that imply that it is.
I'd say that if Plato's account is so garbled that he gets the date off by thousands of years, the entire story is likely to be useless as a source of actual history.
Point 2 is very interesting. Any anecdata to corroborate?
> Somehow, this attitude seems controversial, and I do not understand it.

If you are not willing to kill babies and adults with Down Syndrome then your argument is incoherent.

Saying it's controversial allows lines, like killing adults with Downs would also hurt a lot of people around them who love them.

Abortion of course is controversial, the are thousands of different rules and time limits in different jurisdictions because it's so hard to understand. One assumes this is excluded from your argument since it's so obviously controversial.

Also this is not 'Iceland' this is the world where people are rich enough to care for the health of their babies. In these place most people chose to abort.

You also have other Sophies choice questions since the first test has a very high false positive you have to test properly with a 1 in 200 chance of miscarrying a fetus that is healthy.