skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the last year or so I've been using GitHub gists to record notes on various procedures in markdown to fill in the gaps between projects that have their own repos and markdown doc. Most of my casual notes get jotted down in Google Keep, but if they're involved enough I either put them in a markdown file on Drive or in a Google doc.

Over the years I've tried a bunch of different proprietary notetaking apps, including OneNote and Evernote. Migrating off those is always a pain, and I've got the ugly conversion scripts to prove it (each of which became useless thereafter with some change by the publisher). I started out 30 years ago with paper notebooks, that I'd still be on now but for the siren's song of searchability offered by electronic systems.

While the OP's prose is fine, I can't say I identify with most of his points. Notetaking for me has always been a way to record and organize information for future reference, not a means of procrastination. Same for technical documentation. But maybe that's because I've always been a tech at heart, and not an artist.
we (activists) actually ask social media platforms to suspend the account and publicize it. to avoid the activist being tortured to extract passwords. twitter is doing the right thing
I did not know this. It is fine, then. Also another comment mentions blocking access to DMs, which makes sense.

I was unable to edit my top-level comment, otherwise I would have added an explanation. Thanks.
Yes, that is a possibility. But we only charge $59 per year, so there is not much room for extra costs.
It’s hard to take this seriously when it doesn’t explore the why. Skimping on MacBooks is a pretty niche use case for cloud development.

Imo security drives this decision, and being able
Work remotely is the benefit.
> African wars have pretty much ended

Cameroon [1] and Ethiopia [2] are in the midst of civil wars. The DRC [3] is close to one. Burkina Faso just had a coup [4]. Zimbabwe had one in 2017, Chad arguably in April [5]. (Guinea Bissau tried and failed to join the club.)

Africa is a big continent. But its geopolitical situation remains uniquely unstable.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglophone_Crisis

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigray_War

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamwina_Nsapu_rebellion

[4] https://www.axios.com/2022/10/03/burkina-faso-coup-russia-fl...

[5] https://news.yahoo.com/military-takeovers-rise-africa-113155...
> Even M1 macs (I have one and love it), while powerful, just can’t hold a candle to a workstation class machine

Not really true. My M1 Pro is performance-wise very close to my previous desktop based Ryzen 5900X, but:
1. It doesn't take space on or below my desk
2. Auxiliary screen it provides is useful
3. I can unplug it any time and continue working from anywhere with the same performance, without having to sync up the development environment.

Before M1 Macs I would concur, but right now the major reason to pick desktop is Linux availability (which is a subject to change with Asahi), not performance.
I use seafile (similar to syncthing) and it allows to browse your data libraries without requiring a local copy for these cases
Do Not Fight the Last War

- Robert Greene.
Yes, I stand corrected. I can't edit my top-level comment, otherwise I would have added an explanation.
You can disable unknown callers? Which countries support this?

I’m Australia, some government agencies hide caller ID, it’s incredibly frustrating.
For many, danger is their thing.
I think I found a good remote dev environment recently - basically "just use Mutagen to sync files to a server close to you". That keeps the source of truth (code files) local but outsources the compute.

I started working at Fly.io ~4mo ago and quickly realized I could setup a nice remote dev environment since there are regions close to me (super low latency).

I setup a VM to run SSH to sync/forward ports. It turn off when I'm not using it (after a configured timeout, it sniffs for SSH connections and exits if there are none - which stops the VM), and uses Mutagen to sync files. The source of truth is my local files, so my local IDE's work great (they're working against the local file system).

I wrapped it up in a little tool I'm calling Vessel https://github.com/Vessel-App/vessel-cli, which talks to Fly's "Machines API"
UC Berkeley to push for diversity without considering race, gender in admissions
Global supply or global mineable resources?
We're specifically talking WhatsApp, there's no moderation in private messaging.
I have a fast laptop and solid desktop...

But I frequently use vscode+ssh+tmux on the desktop when working from home.

Then the powerful laptop just has to run chrome.. which to be fair, it barely does without crashing :)
Mastodon Users and Twitter Usage Poll
Makes me miss SunRay... it just worked
> Presumably there is some effort to make musk sign an even more iron clad deal

Why would anyone trust a piece of paper with Musk's signature on it after the months of tantrum he just pulled over this acquisition?

The deal is already ironclad as it is. That didn't stop the tantrum. The only thing that's holding leeway over Musk right now is this court case.
Makes sense. Offer to close "pending the receipt" is not good enough. Musk has made so many quick reversals that there is no trust left.

Twitter has no reason to ask for a stay until the deal is closed. It's better to just keep pushing and motivate Musk to close asap.
There is a wonderful alternate timeline where this is true!
Ionos had an unreported outage today
The web hosting company IONOS (previously 1&1) had an outage today. I was woken by the call of one of my clients, saying that their website is down. I quickly discovered that all the websites I host there are unreachable. Trying to login to my account, it turns out that the official website ionos.com is unusably slow (like it takes 10 minutes for each page to load, and it doesn't load correctly). So I couldn't even contact support.

Checking their official status page and Twitter accounts, I couldn't find any mention of the incident.

After more than 2 hours, I was able to reach their customer support via phone call, and they informed me that they are having technical issues, and service will return shortly, which it did.

So my issue isn't that the outage happened. It is that they reported this issue no where. All their status pages showed no incidents, and that they are fully operational. So basically, I had to spend more than 2 hours answering angry calls from my clients, without being able to tell them what the problem is.

Their status page still shows no incidents, 6 hours after the outage.

https://www.ionos-status.com/
I would think that if food is involved, some kind of cafe experience would be needed to eat it. Otherwise, it's takeaway that's competing with quick markets (depanneurs) and grocery stores for reheating. And, to me, their coffee's not particularly good so I choose other shops when I want a cuppa.

But it's popular, and maybe it serves as a gateway drug to proper coffee drinking. Or, it will try to displace Panera as a work/eat site (their coffee's not all that good, either).
Plastic bags to vomit in.
i feel like not much has improved when working with teamviewer or anydesk over using x11-forwarding (plain and with compression) or vnc derivatives

remindes of an old document by stuart cheshire
I recently created a fake LinkedIn account, because I don't like the fact that some users are notified when I lookup their profile, and it's impossible to use LinkedIn without being logged in.

The fake profile is an ordinary tech worker, not esp. skilled in anything and with a short work experience; but it's a lot of fun to be fake... My alter ego has 50+ connections now. There are moments when it feels quite real...
> This is why massive companies like Meta and Alphabet needs to be nationalised.

Nationalised by what country? US? UK? France? Russia? Saudi Arabia? India? China?

Would we have country-specific and isolated social media and search engines?

Even in nominally free western countries, do you really want the government controlling what can be in a search engine or posted on social media?
> If you're a capable software engineer, you won't be negatively affected by affirmative action either.

Well, but maybe you will. Because if you’re not “diverse enough”, some more “diverse enough” person, maybe less qualified, will take your place.
Fun story.

At my previous company we had "Sign in with Facebook" – whatever your opinions on it are, it was probably the right thing for the company at that time.

Facebook decided to "audit" us to make sure we were doing sign in right. The tested it incorrectly, told us we were at fault and needed to fix it, and gave us 2 weeks to do so. We scrambled to figure out what the issue was, only to find after they eventually replied to our emails (all they told us up-front was "it doesn't work") that they had tried to use a sign-in only button to sign-up, similar on many websites, not at all for our flow and not something it was possible for us to do. We explained this and they dropped the audit.

2 weeks later, they audited us again, failed us again, and gave us a deadline to fix it. We replied pointing to the previous case and explaining again why it was working. We never heard back.

2 weeks later, they audited us again, failed us again, and gave us a deadline to fix it. We replied asking what the hell was happening (politely). We never heard back.

1 week later "Sign in with Facebook" stopped working with no other warning. We opened a support case, we emailed our ads account manager, we emailed our previous ads account manager as the first was on holiday, and all we got was "we're looking into it, but it looks legit, fix it".

I asked for a call and explained that the current user experience for users was that they would click "Sign in with Facebook" and see an error saying "Facebook is currently not working, please sign in another way", and that the only way we had to resolve this was to email all our Facebook auth'd users a password reset with an explanation that Facebook sign in no longer worked, and to then remove the feature from our site.

"Ah. Ok yeah let me see what I can do". It was working about 2 hours later, and we weren't audited again in the rest of the time I was at the company.
Those, who pay for innovations, specific tastk and actual art... Of course.
As someone who has just joined the workforce in the past few years, I have never understood LinkedIn. The job hunting seems like a budget version of Indeed or similar. The "social media" aspect is by far the least engaging, most spammy, useless stream of information that's possible. The recruiters on there ruin things even further, adding to the pile of spam that we already deal with. I really don't see the point of LinkedIn past declaring who you work for.
Yeah, so it’s as I said:

- some services don’t work (you already mentioned WhatsApp, there’s also others (Discord, FB Messenger) - maybe you can use them in the browser but it’s going to be a subpar experience)

- some have limited functionality (bank: works but you need to carry the physical 2FA device to log in instead of using your fingerprint; groceries: around here, the ones with websites have high order minimums and delivery fees; translating: camera translation (essential when travelling or living abroad) is only on the Google Translate app AFAIK; news: the national public broadcaster here doesn’t have a ‘breaking’ RSS feed, and apparently even the ‘all news’ feed is broken anyways)

- carrying around separate devices (camera etc.) brings us back to the original point: if you want to enjoy the niceties of modern devices, FOSS is going to be a compromise
PDF: https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=338770
He lies all the time. Ignore what he says. Look at his actions. Sending troops to Kyiv shows what he intended (even if he failed, in the end).
This article is a useful reminder that to understand what Russia will do, think less about our politics (like, how will we react to Russian action A or Russian action B) and think more about Russia's politics. Any Russian actor that has been cultivating an independent power center within Russia (e.g. Wagner) won't want to see it frittered it away in Ukraine.

The 1990 revolution peeled away from the Russian imperium a thick layer of oppressed non-Russian nationalities. A springtime for sovereignty. A new Russian internal power struggle, occurring in conjunction with the crippling of Russia's armed forces, might (just) enable the peeling away of another layer of oppressed non-Russian nationalities from the Russian imperial core. 'Twould be something to see.
Public transportation is not a complete substitute for cars. You still need roads.

Self driving has the potential to provide a middle path. Vehicles with 95% up time instead of down time.
I don't think you quite understand what is done here. It's not grants for underprivileged. Let me explain (I'll start from the basics of the situation, please don't interpret this as I am assuming you wouldn't know at least some of this.). In the US, most research funding at universities and national labs for basic sciences comes from DOE or NSF. From these grants, we pay students (phd students get paid, and don't pay tuition), postdocs, equipment etc. The NSF typically wants a broader impact statement: How does the funding of the grant affect the society in general. Stuff like: I train the next generation of scientists. Outreach to the general population (who pays it in the end via taxes after all). Maybe school programs etc. DOE traditionally was focused only on the research aspect. Now, DOE has a new requirement that one writes about DEI efforts. This doesn't mean quotas (but could, it's up to the applicant), but it requires you to reflect on and engage in programs at the university which tries to help the problem. This also includes that all students are safe. First and foremost, it forces the grantee to at least inform themselves what programs exist already.
One example: The percentage of women in physics is abysmal low, but it's still large enough that I can make some statistical observations. In my experience, female students outperform their male peers on average. This is a strong indication that the women cohort has a higher effective qualification cut-off. There are many possible reasons for that, but I want to make sure it's not for stupid/bad reasons. Because we clearly missing out on some excellent researchers there.
I am member of an admission committee. Judging the qualification of students is a very hard task, most signals are very noisy. So people build heuristics. It's absolutely possible, even likely, that these heuristics are not fair and select indirectly on race or gender.

In any case, depending how you see it, /all/ phd students survive on government grants. Because that's how the work is funded. It's not hand outs.
thanks! honestly all i use this for is personal web browsing, minecraft, stardew, and a bit of brutal doom to blow off some steam :). for me its perfect and i got it maxed out at 32GB of ram and the quad core i7.

one day i'll upgrade, maybe when all the kids are in public school and my wife has graduated law school. right now i'm paying a pre school and a law school tuition on a single income (as well as mortgage etc.). i would be excited about an amd framework laptop. i guess i will have to wait until they get their usb stuff straight though.
>> Apple runs a competitor for that too with iMessage so I’d call it a wash.

I agree, and I’m sure it’s adoption rate is increasing globally.

I’m just saying… WhatsApps global impact on an everyday basis is quite overlooked.

There are countries where people solely depend on WhatsApp to communicate externally. Todays’ green sms on an iPhone is equivalent to a WhatsApp text.

If that fallback, that Facebook controls and owns, didn’t exist or your country banned it—imagine not receiving messages from your kids because “WhatsApp is down”?

Anyways tldr; WhatsApp is cheaper than sms. The default communication for many. More affordable. More used daily as a necessity.
hardware, to an extent - but not fully developed

software - nope, it's all new, they can't do it
Ah yes! I forgot about the "pull" mechanism of kanban. This also helps identity bottlenecks and discover where more "resources" (::barf::) are needed or where re-allocation of "resources" should occur.

I need to reread the following books:

Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement.

The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management
I think what you're saying is that Taiwan should invest in a fleet of submarines that can keep their ports free from blockade.
My opinion is that it should be a crime to withhold AI technology.
Maybe the service itself will be crap once run by governments. But at least things are covered by law. things like fair hearings and proper customer support. Now you can be banned from those ecosystems just like they do in dictorial states.
That’s pretty scary having had one a few years ago I didn’t realise the risks of dying were so high. Is that for a specific case (e.g. heart stopped completely) or for all the stuff that gets lumped in there for example I was still walking around and so on despite the clot forming which probably has a more medical name but colloquially gets called the same thing.

For context when I had mine at 39 I was swimming so swam on for another thirty minutes at a reduced pace, got changed, walked home, lay down for a bit before getting my wife to drive me to the hospital. Ended up with a stent put in. Got lucky I guess from being reasonably fit as there was no visible damage to the heart on an ultrasound.
But standard programs like Stockfish won’t tell you how strong a move was. They’ll just tell you how much it changes the evaluation.

E.g. if you initiate a queen trade in a straightforward position, on the next move I have to take back my queen; any other move will show a gigantic evaluation drop by the engine. But that doesn’t mean it’s a particular strong move — even an absolute beginner will play it. Thus it’s of no value for determining whether the person who played it is cheating.

It’s entirely possible that chess.com has access to more sophisticated software that can estimate the strength of players (they sort of allude to this with their “strength score” metric) but AFAIK it’s not publicly available and not clear how it works, or whether it can evaluate individual moves as opposed to the game as a whole.
I think his drawings are great, though the big kicker is that he draws them without reference and without sketching or erasing.

He is almost like a human printer, drawing one character or object to completion before moving on to the next.

I particularly like his dragon hunter

jpeg: https://www.liberdistri.com/359-thickbox_default/dragon-hunt...

video: https://youtu.be/uNtmdB6N5Qo
Last time I checked, free access to education, care and protection against many abuses where provided by governmental organisms.

"government are better than any corporation" (or its reverse) means nothing if you don’t provide some specific topics and possible metrics to evaluate them.

Also, not all government and corporations behaves in the very same way.
There's also hardball. Cease scratching my back and I'll cease scratching yours. The US has already demonstrated an ability to act unilaterally and a willingness to disengage with the world.
maybe @dang can help with this. it's an urgent situation
They provide webshops for 60€/year and a .be or .nl domain costs 15€/year, so 25% of that. That's a lot.
I couldn't agree more. I've been working on CRDTs the last few years, and there's a huge opportunity here if we can reinvent the concept of the filesystem. Ideally, we'd replace files with CRDT-backed objects in the operating system. Then instead of fread / fwrite commands (which wastefully overwrite the entire file), applications could express semantic changes which get saved in a log.

Those changes can be transparently replicated between applications, between devices and between users. We'd get better performance on-device, and automatic, transparent device-to-device replication. And we could trivially enable realtime collaborative editing between users. Better still, if it happened at the OS level, we could make it work in every application on the system.

Right now "linux on the desktop" is slowly and inevitably dying in the face of cloud services. How would OpenOffice even compete with Google Docs? Do opensource application authors need to run their own web servers? (And if so, who pays for that?). If we replaced the filesystem with CRDTs, openoffice (and every other program on the desktop which edits "documents") could have best-in-class collaboration features, right there out of the box.

There's an opportunity here to build a really amazing computing system.
Seems like another trick to postpone / lower the price to me..

> on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein and pending receipt of the proceeds of the debt financing contemplated thereby

So if the financing terms cannot be met, the deal is off. Perhaps some terms are about revenue, users, value of the collateral (TSLA perhaps?). Heck, maybe Elon found one of his Billy friends to short TSLA termporarily, which would cause the collateral to be not enough.

Tricks I tell you
In a similar boat right now. Really enjoy Nim -- and have the freedom to use any language I want at work -- but can't in good conscious develop tools in Nim that have to live beyond my time at the company without at least one other Nim user on the team or a global consensus that we should use Nim.

I'm trying to think back to when we all started moving from Perl to Python and it's been so long I can't even remember what that looked like and if it was senior developers driving that or just a subconscious decision and happened "magically".
>Do you need an educated labor force to assemble iPhone?

Yes you do.

"Low-skill" workers with basic education (reading, writing, counting, some understanding of some scientific concepts) will simply perform better.

And you still need engineers and other high-skill workers to supervise, maintain, perform quality control, improve methods etc..

The thing is China (at least until quite recently) had a huge quantity of those and at a rather low price.
It should be a win for twitter, although Elon has done some great stuff, a person like him shouldn't be allowed to just tweet random stuff like that then cancel. isn't that manipulating the market as well? I feel bad for the twitter employee and stakeholder at the same time tbh. One day out of nowhere a billionaire just talk some random stuff about buying twitter, plunging the stocks, then cancels, then drama..
Made something exactly like this 2 years ago when i was learning Go.
https://github.com/prdpx7/go-fileserver
Any Python script (or library) can run system calls.

In a language like D you could just execute the same system calls in the executable that was compiled. The assumption that you compile something and then not run it doesn't make this any safer, does it?
The data is right there, it's on an exponential cost decrease. Very weird to be pointed directly at the data and deny that it says exactly what it says.

You say that "nobody likes to be proven wrong" but I in fact do like to be proven wrong. The "nobody" appears to only apply to yourself.
Which tv is this?