skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This simple idea changed my life:

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I derived mine directly from a comment [1] on a writer (as in book authors) oriented forum. That one comment is worth a full blown website on its own.

I don't need tags. Willing to come across patronizing and say you don't either (not for personal knowledge management). Pretty soon you need to sort tags, find tags, cluster related tags, create tags of tags and other goofy gunk (see tiddlywiki to scratch this itch)

I keep things organized under 10 topics (so far used just 7). All plain text files. At the moment it lives in simplenote [2] (thats how I found the link above as a demonstration of its utility). I found notational velocity [3] and its alter ego NValt [4] useful when I had a Mac. Did not look for alternatives on windows. I just email myself these days. Look in my comment history for some tip around how I use that.

All of this is good for digital stuff. But for the deep, analog stuff that really matters, nothing, nothing beats the utility of taking notes in a 1 subject college notebook with a Pilot G2 ( i use a .38). I use the right side only (trade off for using cheap books). First page is the index. Each page numbered. I just make clusters of related words on each page. The main topic is circled to draw attention (4-5 per page). Anything related to it gets words around it. Details, references, long thoughts, go on the backside. Stacks well. I take pictures of good stuff. Don't fret if I lose any books (not lost any permanently till now). Do explore this route and see where that leads you. (hey a collge notebook is $00.75 in staples last I checked. What have you got to lose ?)

[1]: https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/large-scale-info-mana...

[2]: https://app.simplenote.com/

[3]: https://notational.net/

[4]: https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
The New Scientist article is talking about network of two entangled optical atomic clocks, which is a step beyond entanglement within one clock.

Here's what Oxford's physics department says about it:

https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/quantum-network-entangled-...
There are reliable ways to create superposition particles: when you measure in one direction, the other direction is a superposition (https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/43974/how-can-we...). I have no idea how to create entangled superposition particles: maybe read https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/473741.

You can tell the particles are in a superposition because they behave differently than those in a static state:

- Double-split experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment - only particles in a superposition create interference patterns

- Bell's paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7jctqKsUMA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiyKxhETXd8 - entangled particles in a superposition can be measured to make predictions with more confidence than if they were simply static particles with different states

I guess a good search term would be "Polarized light and quantum mechanics" because IMO polarized light is a good example which you can even simulate yourself if you have a polarizing filter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZHYo7ONs&t=736s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZudziPffS9E, https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Physical_and_Theoret...)
Hire a CFO or head of finance would be a good start - if possible. With 30 employees you are probably missing a lot of opportunities related to accounting and expenses.

In the meantime, clearly setup and define spending controls as it pertains to bizdev. Create -per-department/-per-project budgets and limits (e.g. approvals required over $X amount) with incentives to stay below these lines.
Cool, they're gatekeeping making money from courses.
I believe a society where one is not free to use one's body however they see fit is not worth living in, and not worth keeping together. It should be opposed and sabotaged at every turn, dismantled, and remembered as an example of how good intentions can create monsters.

>I hate this "live and let live" type thinking with drugs because it enables people to ruin their lives.

Yes, one of the consequences of self-determination is that you're able to make wrong choices. You know what doesn't make any wrong choices? Cattle. The farmer decides for his cattle what and when they eat, where they sleep, when they mate and who with, and when they die. It's completely impossible for a cow to make choices so wrong that it ruins its own life. Now, I personally don't find living like cattle to be very appealing, but perhaps you disagree.
To start a ICE car you need ignition. Maybe something similar, so long as the conversion process could be split between powering the car for use and continued fuel conversion.
JPEG XL Art
Strongbox looks amazing, thank you.
Surely the example shown on the web page would be easier and simpler to write in plain C? By using the loop tick style approach that games use? That’s what I have always done when working on no-OS-to-the-metal code. For low-power usage I pause the loop (if there is hardware/OS support for it) or use an interrupt to trigger a single loop step. And prioritising tasks can be done by only running certain steps every 2/3/4/N ticks. It’s simple. It works.
I have land in City of Monterey that I have not been allowed to do any construction on because there's a moratorium on new water meter issuances. (Update: One cannot get approved for new construction without a water meter.)

I am still required to pay full property tax on it each year.

If anyone has advice on how I can go about growing a community of people in a similar predicament to eventually engineer a class action suit against the county govt.[1], please share in a reply to this post. (Paging: Peter Thiel.)

[1] on the theory: if you're charging me property tax, then give me a water meter just like my neighbor has. And if I can't do anything productive with this land, then give me a huge discount on the property tax. (I'm not even allowed to park a travel-trailer on it for more than 2 days at a time.)

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Edit: Water Meter Waiting List (there are people on there waiting since 2003 for a water meter):

https://monterey.org/Document%20Center/CommDev/Planning/Wate...
I don't know what Photoshop has done in a decade, but Krita is way ahead of GIMP.
Transaction costs have come down a lot in the past 20 years. 10-20 basis points is probably reasonable for a retail trader with a good broker. Double that for a round trip trade.
This argument sounds very much like "the problem is not communism, all those countries just weren't doing real communism".

And I'm not even being quite as flippant as it sounds about communism here. Communist economic planning relies on accurate central planning, which we've learned the hard way is essentially impossible at the scale of a nation state. In the same way, UML assumes you can meaningfully model a complex computer program in advance, which tends to fall flat back in reality where requirements are poorly understood and evolve continuously.
https://jxl-art.surma.technology/wtf.html

TL;DR messing with JPEG XL predictors to create interesting glich art images (or celluar automata, or whatever) in a tiny file
The claim about Garry is untrue. He, for example, has donated to Sonja's legal fund.
What happens in a lawsuit against the city? The city might have to pay, but this is basically the people paying themselves - tax payers pay the tax payers. If you sue the city and win, the judge orders the city to follow the law, and they still don't, do elected officials go to jail or something?
Yeah, so basically you just can't actually get millions of results.

But others have pointed out that those index numbers don't resolve rationally to results.

It seems the index number is a different match than what they choose to show.
Ok well that’s a different scenario. I mean I agree some things are dumbed down way too much.

I’m just saying there’s a decent reason for some of it. A huge audience on YouTube are children, teens.
Oh I'm so glad you mentioned Dreaming Spanish. From the first video I'm already learning new words, phrases, sentences in Spanish - without any English at all. This immersive approach, and the bite-sized self-contained video shorts, are just what I needed.

https://www.dreamingspanish.com/
I'm another very happy user of keypassxc. Passwords are too vital to me to depend on the security and reliability of network services. They also have a browser extension, so I mostly don't experience a large usability difference.
Underrated joke
Moonshot programs are what create demand for the sort of R&D that Dupont did to bring kapton to market.

Polyimides date back to 1902, but you couldn't buy anything like kapton tape before the space programs created a need for such materials and capital to build out plant for them.
Currently, I'm not currently working in a dedicated modeling tool at all - just draw.io. We started with Enterprise Architect from SparxSystems - it's a bit janky and covers a lot stuff beyond SysML, but it works fine. Cameo Systems Modeler is good too - it omits the non-SysML garbage that the other platforms include, and has the best Model-to-Html rendering I have seen, but was double the cost of EA so did not use it for work. The open source tools, Modelio etc. were all a broken waste of time.

For my use, there is a sweet-spot for "models" spanning only a handful of diagrams (5-10) where any drawing software with SysML templates will do. The dedicated modeling tools like EA or Cameo become relevant once you're trying to keep model elements consistent across a large number of diagrams. Draw.io is free so the whole team can use it, and the the lack of model representation keeps diagram count low and not over-specified.

Cool products, btw.
So if you can't install a water meter, can you get it trucked in? Perhaps better than the alternative?
Saying it's untrue is a step. Surely it would be easy to prove/disprove?
Nivea.
Registrars seek power to deny outgoing transfers of legal domains they dislike
I'm not very concerned about chips (or crisps, where this video was taken I imagine). I'm more worried about armrests and handles not being disinfected and what's in the water containers and heaters. Those are real gross I heard.
Most larger SV tech companies pay senior+ engineers that between RSUs and cash.

FAANG pays that to new grads. (500k stock over 4 years and 140k salary is pretty standard).
the “Sue San Francisco Fund,” a fund recently launched by YIMBY Law executive director Sonja Trauss.

She's also the founder of YIMBY. This is an organization headed by a woman. It's not an individual stockpiling money.

The title could stand to be updated.
> Fun fact: the newly anointed YC president Garry Tan automatically blocks anyone on Twitter who follows anyone who advocates for housing reform or even likes any tweets from such [1].

While the article you cited talks about Garry blocking people on Twitter, it doesn't mention anything about housing reform.
Giving money to bureaucracies whose nominal mission is to serve the homeless is not the same as giving money to the homeless.
This came up on my YouTube yesterday; it is excellent
Yeah it is easy to disprove: read the third paragraph of the article.
Same. User Mode Linux was my guess; the first paragragh of the article was enought to tell me that was wrong but gave no hint of what the acronym might mean, not even broadly.

I had to google : it is actually about Unified Modeling Language diagrams of object classes and their relationships. I guess nobody who uses UML diagrams ever thinks of UML as an acronym?
No, it is not. The state can withhold funding if they don’t fill quotas. And cities can be sued. Cities would rather pay the fine that be subjugated under the thumb of regional governance. The only reason it seems like this goat rodeo is legal is because the elected representatives are pirates and there is no local governance in California. Now that must be challenged and Sacramento must be sued for playing dictator for the entire state when not everyone voted for the clowns running the show.
Saying it happens "instantly" implies a preferred frame, but the process is invariant under Lorentz boosts.

It also assumes a specific way of representing the quantum state (eg a state vector over all parts) whereas other representations like Feynman paths have no corresponding notion of an instant change.
Fake-Aceuticals
Good point: you cannot be approved for construction without a water meter.
This is a description of the system working. Both outcomes are cheaper for the customer.

Either the customer pays the retailer who pays the truck driver with the exact money the truck driver paid, or the customer does something cheaper and there is more money to go around because the customer is not paying for all the harms trucking does (including their kid's asthma bills and several dollars per gallon in road upkeep).
Related, network jacks.

Not one or two, but any place you think you’ll ever need one. It’s much easier to wire these before you have drywall up.

I did this in a basement reno at my old place. Square room, had one on each wall plus one in the extra bedroom. No wifi dead zones, Xbox and TV had no latency.
Momentum, value, and size are all predictive of future excess returns. If the weak form were true this would not be the case. And those are just dead simple buy-and-hold strategies that anyone can implement.
I think the most coherent argument for failure is the limited automated feedback between real code and the uml
Ah, UML. You were positioned to replace programming altogether in the early 2000s. We were told there would be no need for programmers when you can just turn a crank and get Java generated from UML diagrams.

And CASE! The low/no code of the 80s!

How the mighty have fallen. Important things to bear in mind when considering this era's silver bullets...
What does “instantaneously” mean if we (afaiu) can’t even have “simultaneously” in general?
There are many avenues for enforcement, including and up to the state taking over the city's land use powers if they are unable to comply with state law. At that point, California could issue permits to build.
Some funny ideas about programming.
https://cpj.org/reports/2016/03/north-america/

Some states have them, some don’t, and the US Constitution’s First Amendment puts limits on the laws that do exist.
I dont quite follow how they keep it facing the wind if it's free to pivot

Also if this is a major cost saver, it would work on land too yes?
It's possible that the charities would get less money, probably a lot less money. That doesn't sound like a good trade off to me.
Intermediaries cannot be avoided. Signals between devices are always open to interception whether that medium in between is copper, air, water, something else. That is completely out of scope. The goal is to prevent deliberate third parties and regard unintended third parties as security consideration.
You’d have be completely spineless and without a moral compass to watch that cluster fuck of a situation and walk in by and do nothing.
Chrome showed us that people will change the default when something is clearly a better experience for the user, even when the entrenched giant was Microsoft.

Just like with what happened with IE, as Google Search becomes worse and worse quality with advertising cruft, SEO spam etc. filling the first pages of results there will come a point where they’ve lowered the bar enough for a competitor to come in.

That said, I’d still prefer to be asked on first use “which search engine would you like to use?”.
So then they can car pool or catch the train for two months and pay for a better car with the extra freedom afforded by the emissions dividend which then costs them less in maintenance too.
> It's full of what I like to call PINOs (borrowing from RINO; Progressives in Name Only).

I call them PINO NOIRs: Progressive In Name Only, NIMBY-Only In Reality.
I don't know. I fly United, primarily in First/Business. I regularly see disgusting seats, seatback pockets, empty wrappers, dust, sticky trays. I really don't think price or class of service has anything to do with it.
How much equity do each one of you have?
> Nobody at the time gave a hoot about "unsafe memory accesses".

No, that was much of the point. Memory leaks, pointer overruns, use after free bugs were a huge time sink. In addition to portability, industry wanted a language without these problems.
Other things:

- tankless water heater

- if you want motorized blinds, have wiring go right to the window frame. You can do a battery otherwise, but you’ll have to recharge it every month.

- solar cells and battery pack

- home automation system (if you’re into that kind of thing)

- timer switches on bathroom fans

- bathroom fan in your laundry room

- hidden safe that’s built in (eg in wall or in floor)
No. YIMBY has the better plan. We need more housing appropriate to the needs of our people.

Money can't buy you what isn't being built.
I’d probably have just kept on walking and not contributed shittiness to the situation.

I don’t like junkies and tweakers but I’m not gonna use them or punch down on them. You do you though, I could care less.
We had a ton of formal modeling classes back in college, but about the only two concepts that stuck with me and still being used when we need to document something are the UML sequence diagrams and a somewhat less known IDEF0 activity diagrams - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEF0
Being part of YIMBY Action is one of the most rewarding, and also fun things that I have done in recent years. It feels like a really good cause, and is starting to get some wins. For instance here in Oregon, we got HB2001, which legalizes up to 4-plexes by right in all our larger cities.
These advocacy groups have written and passed many bills improving land use in the state and continue to do so.

Check out the legislation page: http://cayimby.org/2021-legislation/
> The simplest thing you can do is chase returns.

> Maybe you do that by looking at assets that have yielded large returns over the past N days.

So what is the performance of a technical analysis trading bot using such a simple algorithm for making buy and sell decisions? I don't trust myself to trade with discipline like that but I would totally trust software to do it for me.

I've observed that technical analysis is great when the price is simply oscillating. Plenty of money to be made in that back and forth... The problem is at any moment something can screw up the pattern. Maybe someone comes and places places a massive order worth hundreds of millions and the unexpected change in price wipes out any profits. A bot can probably close the position before it's too late but I'm only human.
The same way the internet, email, bittorrent and even cryptocurrencies are?
Are people believing lies suckers? A lot of people do it and testify that they do make that much and more right? Truck drivers make a similar amount after two weeks training, roughnecks make more with almost no training. Perhaps research an asking questions on some programming forum might help but what critical thinking is missing here?
Also Rust semantics is more amenable to formal verification. This might have major implications in 5-10 years time.
Are you aware that land use authority is delegated to cities by the state and can be un-delegated if the state so chooses? What are you going to do, secede from California? Good luck.
The API is where type hints should absolutely be mandatory for any serious project in my opinion, and my company has adopted this stance for all new code being written.

Even then, I still fully type all of my code because it lets me write fewer tests.
There are zero consequences for elected officials that knowingly and willfully violate laws that constrain municipal actions.

I've seen enough willfully block affordable housing in violation of law that I've looked several times.

NIMBYs also encourage these sorts of lawsuits, because even if they know they will lose, these projects are 1) so close to not making sense that an affordable housing developer literally can not afford to fight for legal rights, and 2) there's a big fear that fighting the city legally will make all further building attempts by an affordable housing developer even more difficult and likely to fail.

I have zero empathy or sympathy for my NIMBY neighbors that have been displacing so many people in my community after several years of trying to fight for affordable housing. People that are otherwise "nice" behave in the most amoral ways when it comes to excluding people from their neighborhoods. It's been very eye opening for me in a sad way.
Just to clarify, the event has already taken place? Is that correct?

You said the business partners were supposed to attend, but none of them did.

I think this is probably a good opportunity to sit down with your co-founder and discuss what went wrong.

Rather than just accuse them of wasteful spending, create a learning experience for them (or you).

The type of questions you'll want to ask is

1) Why did they think it was a valuable way to spend company money?

2) What sort of result did they expect? If partners were supposed to attend, did they expect an increase in revenue from the event? If not, why are they spending money on partners/

3) What would they do differently next time?

4) Is there a way they could have reached the same goals without spending the money at all? How can they be more creative, etc?

Perhaps the CEO had a master plan that didn't work out (unlikely), perhaps they just wanted to blow off steam. Maybe they heard it's what other companies did, and therefore thought it was a sign of what they should be doing.

I wouldn't attack them, but make sure they understand that you believe this was not a good use of company funds, and that as a result of these actions, you now must do X, Y, Z in order to get back the money that was spent (how much more sale, how much more advertising, which leads to more hiring, etc).

Paint the picture in clear detail of what the event cost beyond the dollars spent and time lost. For every $100 they spent on the event, the company needs to earn $240 (or whatever your margins are after tax, etc etc).

This way you can make it clear that the next time they attempt to do something like this, that they understand the cost isn't the $$$ going out, it's the cost of getting those $$$ back in!

Also make it clear that there are limits to how much they should be spending without discussing it with you. I assume they wouldn't make a major hire without consulting you, so why would it be OK to spend a huge chunk of revenue.

There are probably some notices you may want to write down about the event to keep just in case of future litigation, etc. But you'll want to speak to somebody with legal experience about that...and do the legal thing after the discussion.
Decomp.me
Yeah it is, and once people grow they stop making that quality content in favor of the churn
The city is flouting the law. Not "flaunting" as the SF Standard reporter puts it in the video.