skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Campfires or similar events, ideally lubricated with limited amounts of alcohol, possibly a pipe or cigar depending on wind, going late into the night on evenings when nobody has anything in particular early the next morning. In the winter or smoke season, the same thing can be done indoors, but it's better outside, IMO.

It's a far wider, more interesting range of discussions at one of those events than I've found on the internet, and I'm trying to figure out ways to have them more frequently as opposed to the once or twice a month that's been standard for the past few years in my social circles.

There are some shadows of that in some Signal groups and Matrix rooms on private homeservers, but mostly those are spawning things to discuss next time we get together in person.

I don't know anyone who "posts a full range of their thoughts" online anymore, except in fairly well secured private encrypted chat locations, because of just how toxic the whole place has become.
I'm 70% done with the book. Definitely a game-changer and already one of my all-time favs. One of those books that I need to buy and own a physical copy (I usually just read ebooks)
Here's one I've come across before: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/~mtemms/Papers/neologism.pdf

edit more recent version: https://aclanthology.org/C16-1129/
I was watching "Our Flag Means Death" recently. I turned on closed captions because I don't speak pirate.
Cursive is optimized for fountain pens I believe. As long as we have pencils and ballpoint pens, using cursive is just a holdover from olden times with no actual pros compared to simpler writing methods
> It sounds like less about the refactor itself and more about the skills of the team doing the refactor. You certainly can't expect a refactor to go well if the team makes poor decisions to begin with.

This has been my biggest struggle with rewrites where I’m currently working. We have several large, messy old codebases that everyone agrees “needs a rewrite” to (1) correct for all the early assumptions in business needs that turned out wrong, (2) deal with old PHP code that is very prone to breakage with every major new PHP version released, and (3) add much needed architectural patterns specific to our needs.

I’ve seen rewrites of portions of the project work when they involve myself and one other mid-level dev who has a grasp on solid sw engineering practices, but when the rest of the (more senior) team get involved on the bigger “full rewrite”, they end up quickly making all the same mistakes that led to the previous project being the mess that it is.

Sure, it will be using fancy new PHP 8 features, and our Laravel framework will force some level of dependency injection, but the you start seeing giant God classes being injected over here, but duplicated code copy-pasted over there, all done by “senior” devs you feel you can’t question too strongly.

To that end, an open and collaborative culture in which you start the rewrite with some agreed upon principles, group code reviews and egos kept in check, are all necessary for this to work.
It is for most people though. I certainly have seen some self taught people type quickly but it's not the norm. I learned typing and do 80-100 words per minute. I have seen very few hunt and peck typists that can reach that rate. It's also not nearly as efficient. I think it should be taught in high school at least for a semester. It's only getting more useful rather than less.
I don't think cursive is necessarily faster. But I do recall studies that showing what you're talking about: that a person's developed hybrid printing (printing with personal ligatures) are just as fast if not faster than full cursive.

What cursive does appear to be useful for historically is writing for long periods without tiring. Cursive written in the older Spencerian script fashion is written with big movements of the wrist and arm along the main diagonal path with little finger movement. The wrist and arms tire less quickly than fingers. Some professions in the 1800s like had to write all day, so it was quite useful and worth the significant training costs of learning such penmanship skills. They also had to write with pens that didn't write equally well in all directions.

And of course other fancy scripts likely just signalled class status similar to being able to recite Homer (in Greek) on command.
If employees don’t own a meaningful part of the company today and pay 1-1.5% of their wages to a union, how will that give the union enough money to buy a controlling stake in the company?

Amazon’s market cap is ~$1.25T. Under the conservative (false) assumption that a union bidding for half the shares would not move the price at all, that union would have to spend ~$625B on those purchases, meaning total employee dues would be that much, implying a wage base (at 1% dues) of $62.5T, or more than 3 years of the entire US GDP.

Said differently: if employees could buy half their company for 1% (or even 10%) of their wages, there’d be no need for them to have a union negotiate their wages.
People have been saying cinema is dying since Netflix took off. It's not true and still isn't true. Movies continue to set box office records.

Covid caused a lot of smaller cinemas and chains high in debt to shut. But a lot of them are still going.

Cinemas are pivoting more to the luxury experience rather than just being the place you watch new movies. So they will get bigger screens, better projectors, better audio, etc. It's already started near me.
I was thinking was using pine in a unix shell account at university in 2002 and I have the fondest memories! That was an awesome client
The code is open source here so im not sure why the export costs $
https://github.com/qrohlf/trianglify
You have identified the key issue: what does "safety" mean? Can it be misused? Yes. So we know it means _something_. Does it have a meaningful opposite? 'Danger?' Means imminent threat. Does 'safety' mean 'no imminent threat?' What does imminent mean? NOW. So what is a threat when it's not physical? If you offend my feelings, as I have done to so many by merely challenging bad thinking, then does that mean you 'threaten' me? Should I treat that the same as violence? No. Now invert the argument. That is why 'safety' leads to acts of aggression. I spotted that in OP's language patterns and wanted to coax it out, so people could see the totalitarian thinking behind a supposedly mild mannered hacker.

This is why trigger warning idiots consider any novelty a fight or flight worthy risk. And the fact that a thread can be labeled 'philosophy' without commanding any actual, technical, philosophic conversation, is demonstrative of what happens when we let sentiment bullies dominate our discourse.
Quit and get a better job. I'm seriously.

Reading this my first thought was, "I hope you're getting well paid. I would triple my fees going in to this scenario."

Then you come to "HQ has no real understanding ... budget is really tight."

Life's too short. If you can do this job at all you can do it for someone who doesn't have their head up their fundament. Failure seems inevitable, but you don't have to be the captain of that sinking ship. Let it fail without you. I mean, this isn't the sole company keeping alive the small home town you grew up in? This isn't your family business that's been handed down for generations?
The apple reminder app(s) work surprisingly well for many cases:

* macbook: at a desk or whenever/wherever it is accessible

* iphone: quick note pretty much anywhere like train ride

* apple watch: running, in the pool, during sauna session or in the gym weightlifting

* siri: while driving car or riding bike

These all end into a single inbox.

Unfortunately this requires full buy-in into the apple eco-system.
I will add myself to the others suggesting you to look for another job.

1) A rewrite from scratch is almost always a bad idea, especially if the business side is doing just fine. By the way, when you want to sell a rewrite, you don't sell a rewrite, you sell an investment in a new product (with a new team) and a migration path; it's a different mindset, and you have to show business value in the new product (still ends up failing most of the time, but it has a better chance of getting approved).

2) You never ever try to change people (or yourself) directly. It's doomed to failure. You change the environment, then the environment changes the people (if the changes are slow and inertia is working for you, otherwise people just leave).

Since probably it would be too hard to change the environment by yourself and given that your team seems fine with the status quo, my advice it to just manage things as they are while you look for another job. Otherwise my bet is that your life will be miserable.
Kudos to you for successfully delivering in a similar situation. That said, I think your advice is a bit cavalier. The industry is littered with the carcasses of failed rewrites. The fact that you have done it in one context does not mean that this team can pull it off in another.

I'll also say there's a lot of semantics at play here. What is a "rewrite", what is a "test" vs a "document", what is "functional"? I read your main point being that one should avoid sunk-cost fallacy and find the right places to cut bait and write off unsalvageable pieces. The art of major tech debt cleanup is how big of pieces can you bite off without overwhelming the team or breaking the product.
There is no new potential for abuse here. All the much feared and ballyhooed capabilities already exist.

The process of denying someone access to their account in a bank will follow the existing trajectory.
Pushing 50, and don't really watch tv any more, but in my 20s and 30s I would regularly watch tv with captions on and sound off. Made it a lot easier to tune out ads.
The ones that care do.
Ha, whoops -- this is a very HN moment (and I'm glad for it).
Well, I’m old and not a parent so I assume I’m pretty much invisible to most young folk. Unless they are asking me a question or engaged in a specific conversation I guess. No big deal, as my concerns aren’t their concerns, and how I socialized is more social (or at least in person) than how they do.

But don’t seek the boomers short as do nothings. Four dead in ohio and all that, and the various riots of 68 were the young. And you can thank this age cohort for the networked device in your hand and the connecting software.

Did we make mistakes, yeah, but at least we didn’t make Facebook.
> because filming it allegedly violates dignity of POWs

It wasn’t just about their dignity, but the fact that this was a likely breach of the Geneva convention.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/ukraine-s-videos-of-cryi...
talk about a useless skill these days. That said I have 4 analog clocks on the wall as decorations for Austin, NYC, London, and Tokyo like the old newsrooms. Yes they are all set to the atomic standard via RF
Adam mentions in the book that his solution is fully analog. He has notebooks with project lists and daily lists and he manually re-writes tasks when he wants to copy them over.

For myself, I think that’s too cumbersome so I use vimwiki. A sibling comment mentioned org mode and I think that would be an excellent tool to implement this and imo, work better than vimwiki.
Yes, especially this senator in particular, an obvious Russia supporter[1], has absolutely no grounds to conduct a McCarthy communist hunt. He knows his base is the audience here and that they are too ignorant to see a China-Russia alignment. His party should have chosen anyone other than him to run this grandstand hearing exercise.

And yeah she was being super evasive. Between the two of them, there was no information transfer.

https://news.yahoo.com/josh-hawley-only-senator-voted-163304...
Blurd: A map that punishes you for interacting with it
The author used to be the President of Harvard.
It's way more important for kids to understand how division works and it's place within larger patterns of algebra than to practice doing some specific pen and paper long division algorithm several hundred times per semester.
Agree. RDR2 might be the most boring game I’ve ever played.
What is an italic pen? I'm aware of italic fonts (slanted letters) and italic script (the same but handwritten), but I can't find anything about a specific type of pen used for it.
It's more like the web is a model and you pay someone to curate a personal view of it for you. Instead of going to different news/social websites, it is filtered by someone and streamed directly to you.
99.999% of the time the stuff you read and write is done by keyboard or touchscreen, not pen. The remaining 0.001% of the time, chickenscratch is fine. "Cursive" is totally obsolete, get over it. When was the last time you actually sent or received a handwritten letter? Birthday / Christmas cards don't count, I mean a real bona fide handwritten letter. I bet it's been years.

The comparison to mathematics is wrong. Writing math by hand is more convenient than futzing around with LaTeX incantations, at least when solving a problem (as opposed to writing up a solution). Some people use a stylus on a tablet; but that's just the same kind of thing by digital means. The process of writing out an equation is part of the way you solve it; you cross out terms as you cancel them, you draw ad hoc arrows, little graphs, circle like terms, and so on. In that context, handwriting is not just a means of expression, it's an effective tool of thought. The day digital input matches that convenience is the day I'll abandon handwritten math; but that day has already come and gone for ordinary prose.
It's also super useful for exploring the spectrum of potential outcomes in financial projections / retirement scenarios. People are sometimes tempted to think in the simpler terms of average rates of return and not fully consider issues like sequence risk. MC can help build better intuitions around the real chances of success given a broader range of
varying market conditions.
Step 1 is make friends with intelligent people who don't think the same way you do. If you are really looking for interesting and challenging conversation this is a prerequisite. A stranger doesn't know you and when you inevitably hit a point where they begin to question your motives or your seriousness or how informed you are, they will not give you the benefit of the doubt repeatedly. Eventually a stranger will write you off.

But if you have an established friendship with someone, and have a baseline of trust and respect, then you can have those challenging discussions. But make sure you are really open to being wrong. Most people are not.

Interesting discussion between people who disagree about important issues never really existed online. As someone who has been online since the 80s, you can take my word. The internet is mostly good at matching up people who agree due to the effect I mentioned above.
> Yup. So the main places that are still teaching cursive:

While cursive is still teached at schools where I live,print letters are the ones used the most

I guess there is be a difference between the way public schools and private schools teach handwriting.

I can usually figure at by looking at someone’s handwriting whether they went to private or public school.
Really enjoyed this. The lack of additional hints and instructions made it much more enjoyable than if everything was handed to me. More of this, please!
WeChat was built in 2-3 months, approved by an email that just read it: “Do it now.”

cc: Patrick C. to add it to that fast project list
In my opinion, they're using the 1099 status in a way it was not meant to be used.

The history of the 1099 lends itself toward high-risk, high-reward employment. People who started their own businesses and accepted the risk of poor wages or failure in exchange for the chance to have a successful business.

The gig 1099 is a form of moderate-risk, low-reward employment. The risks are slightly lower because of piggybacking on a successful company, but the workers will never become independent of Uber, nor will they ever have a chance of "making it big". Their future is inexorably tangled with that of Uber/Lyft/whoever.

> Did I violate my own rights? Why don't I have the right not to make minimum wage?

The structure of our society mandates that people work. There are generally more people than jobs (as evidenced by a permanent unemployment rate). Allowing some classes of workers to work for below minimum wage can depress wages, because workers without other options will have to accept those below-minimum wages. Then there's a risk it spreads once normalized. Imagine big box stores and fast food switching to 1099's. A lot of those workers won't have the option to just work for someone else for minimum wage, because they lack the skills to switch to a new vertical. They either work for less than minimum wage, or they don't work.

The overarching idea is that it's better to take the right to work for less than minimum wage away to preserve a livable wage for people who won't have any other options.
Safety has become the battle cry of the fascist, the totalitarian, and it is the murderer of liberty.

'Safe' is as vulnerable to scrutiny as 'Game' or 'Good.'
Honestly such an odd take. The games are all plenty immersive
"One researcher famous for his extensive use of [Zettelkasten] was the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998). Starting in 1952–1953, Luhmann built up a Zettelkasten of some 90,000 index cards for his research, and credited it for enabling his extraordinarily prolific writing (including over 70 books and 400 scholarly articles)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten
One word: quit.

Any experience you gain from improving this situation won’t benefit you in a future job change. The team will resent you for rocking the boat and implying their code sucks. Management won’t care and will fight anything that puts revenue at risk (rightfully so).
I shoupd have been more precise: I didn't read the books before, I knew they would be my Christmas gift. So I started with the Hobbit on, if memory serves well, on Dec. 23rd. Was finished in time for the unpacking of the triology on 24th. And was through, for go one, with all three books before going to see the first movie. I never read as many pages in as little time before or after. And I totally loved it!
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This digital dollar or digital euro is something that nobody asked for and nobody wants.

Digital dollars are what most people use every day --- credit and debit cards. When was the last time you paid with actual paper cash?

The only difference with a CBDC in place will be faster processing and lower costs due to realtime interbank transfers that are currently only available from 8AM until 5 PM on weekdays --- weekends and holidays excluded.
Par for the course with question titles. Betteridge's law of headlines says: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."[1]. That rule, however, doesn't apply to "why?" questions because they are not yes/no constructions.

Nevertheless, there's an aspect of Betteridge's law at work here. Running a story that doesn't really have anything to it yet needing to meet production targets – in the old days, column-inches to fill, today, space to place ads. Reporters are required to produce a certain number of articles of a certain length per week. An honest headline would just say, in effect, that after looking into it, the reporter didn't find an answer. An honest headline might be OK in newsprint. Online, the drive for "engagement" requires a headline that will lure readers in, and thus sell ads.

tl;dr money.
Break? That's just a failure condition as per rules, working as intended
What would Claude Shannon do?
What new project?
A lot depends on penmanship. My grandmother was taught old school, and her cursive was so precise it looked like a font. Like she didn't use a ruler but everything she wrote till the day she died looked like she did.

Myself I've lost the ability to write cursive. Obviously I could get it back with a little practice but I see zero point in doing so. I barely even write anything vs type these days.
Eh if you read old historic stuff you get to see it in context. they clearly chopped these out from old manuscripts. When you stumble your way through a few paragraphs it comes pretty quickly as you get used to someone's writing. Not sure how our poor elementary school teachers read our reports in the lower grade levels though. :)
Cursive isn't sufficient to read it; you also have to be aware of the long S to know why we don't call the body "Congrefs," and we haven't taught long-s for over a century.
When I hit "generate" on my M1 Air with the default options, it just sits saying "initializing...0%" forever. Gave it five minutes, still nothing. Tried twice, same thing.

Is it... doing anything? Do I just need to wait 10 minutes? 20?
How can the budget be tight when the code generates $20 million a year of revenue?
You could point a gun at a person (on street, clerk, etc), and it would trigger a fear response of running, or shitting out some algorithmically decided amount of money.
> Rust doesn't help with implementing low level primitives like this

A charitable reading of the parent comment might be that Rust already implements these particular low-level primitives, so that by using Rust, you are not using the problematic glibc pthread code. See https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/06/30/Rust-1.62.0.html#thinn... for the relevant announcement: "Previously, Mutex, Condvar, and RwLock were backed by the pthreads library on Linux. [...] Rust's standard library now ships with a raw futex-based implementation of these locks on Linux, [...]"
I suspect we’ll start to see things we wouldn’t expect. Kids are growing up with phones and tablets, so keyboards are debatable, even though they’re commonplace. Consider asking a kid to tell time with an analog clock sometime.
Today I Learned. Thank you.
Basically, yes! Since the fundamental functionality is powered by my (free) open-source library, trianglify.io is a time-saving tool for those who want a quick GUI instead of having to download and learn the npm library.

It's part of a series of experiments that I've run on monetizing open source, which you can read about in the article I wrote a while back here: https://medium.com/@qrohlf/i-sell-triangles-on-the-internet-...

That said, right-click > save as image is supposed to be disabled on that particular DOM element, but I'm guessing you probably have an extension or user-script that re-enables it. Which is fine, you're probably not the target audience for this! Trianglify.io is mostly used by designers working on professional projects for whom $8 to save 20-30min of tedious work in Illustrator is a very good value proposition.