skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term for these is "pop up shops". Books sound like an intriguing idea as the cap ex may be low (some shelves, plus of course the stock). It would be a way to feel out the local market as well.
I watch quite a bit of TikTok and I have never seen ANY of these.
Stripe Billing came after Stripe, by years, and it's intended for a different purpose anyways. Stripe doesn't bill me; they take a cut of what I bill my customers. That's a very different model than Stripe Billing is for.
Including most useful plugins, does it work offline without issues?
I love the boot and rats wall ornament. They deserve love and recognition, too.
This is not the case for GNU grep. It appears only some BSDs do this.
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Completely fair. Not saying twitter was in the wrong. Just acknowledging that I received a moderation action for something that was somewhat similar to "kill yourself".
What I take away from this: my savings are fucked and five to ten years of investment progress are gone.
Nice writeup. It's brought back memories of resetting bios boot passwords on even earlier laptops by shorting out two of the parallel port pins with (iirc) the right value of resistor.
Repl.it is being used at my college for the programming languages. It's nice to share code and not have to setup a programming environment, but I'll admit to at some point simply viewing the forks of an assignment as all the forks are public, and copying some of their code to get my assignment to work.

The usernames don't have to respond to a specific user on repl.it so I guess there's no violations as long as students don't use their real names.
Fine but then this is a choice and the theatre should take responsibility, and that might mean closing down... Honestly that sounds like an elitist, a bit snobbish, attitude ("we won't lower ourselves to making popular shows" sort of thing)

Here in the UK venues have very popular pantomine shows ("pantos") for children/families at Xmas. They are not serious and often slapstick comedy but they sell tickets and fill the room.
I've started to wean myself off of `fgrep`, but only because I am using `zgrep -F` as I'm often searching through logs, which may or may not be gzipped.

But this is a stupid change.
If only they made the upgrade automatic.

I use it in a container mainly, and MariaDB has an option to enable auto upgrades, but postgres requires you to manually upgrade every time.
Our current policy is to update to the N-1 release. So we're currently running v13 since v14 was the latest but will soon upgrade to v14 since v15 is now the latest.
powershell has `sls` which expands to `Select-String`
This fellow :) https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1512778314083094528?s=2...
What a wonderful project. Bookmarked for the next time I need something nice in the terminal :)

Way to go, team.
See how your site looks like on mobile with content blockers turned on.

For me the navigation bar doesn’t collapse and covers the whole screen.
Disney "influencers" are such a scourge on theme parks. Normal visitors take loads of photos and videos, often at inconvenient times, but when it comes to being in/on the attractions, they usually put their phones away and shut up.

Most rides at Disney parks have pre-shows about 3/4 of the way through the line that set up the story for the ride. Sometimes these are audiovisual, sometimes animatronic, but always with audio and almost always dark.

Likewise, most Disney rides are "dark rides" where the ride is primarily in the dark with animatronics and the scenery lit by carefully designed show lighting.

Influencers have seen these pre-shows and rides a thousand times and don't care about them. They keep there full-brightness phone up and filming for them and talk over them to their audience. It's incredibly distracting and immersion breaking.

I imagine Disney sees them as a net-positive though, as I'm sure they drive tons of ticket sales. Most influencers are travel agents who get paid by Disney, or are affiliated with a travel agency.
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I'm aware of the civil trial, but it was even clear in the criminal trial he murdered his wife.

Between the blood on everything he owned, the car chase, the domestic abuse calls etc.

He was acquitted by the jury due to racial tensions. Certainly not something to apply to any other case, it was a special exception of injustice.
Since you are getting comments saying that your experience on live isn't reflective of theirs I wanted to add that my experience is very similar.

I see the sleep streams, the disability streams, and I saw the same chinese factory fake airpod one.
I wonder how many people at Meta are like this person.
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I have a 30 minute one-way commute to the office.
should be illegal?

what kind of stuff are you people smoking, how are posts like this even real
For IIoT, there's digital twins, machine health, sensor data aggregation, and a lot more. While a lot of it can be classified as "write once, read hardly ever," it is vital for triggers, alarms, real-time failure and security alerts, and, eventually being forwarded over to analytics systems for longer-term trends.
transmitting files tied up your system for an entire night (no multitasking!) for something that took up less space than a Facebook tracking cookie. The hardware and bandwidth I'm using now would have been incomprehensible back then.

Not just HW and bandwidth, it's the software too.

File transfers were probably done via the XModem protocol, which did error checking only via a weak checksum, not even a CRC. Over a large file, the chances of corruption somewhere were dismaying.

And these here were text files, which should be hugely compressible. But at this point in history, compression algorithms were still in their infancy. I don't recall encountering ARC until the late 80s. So you'd be transmitting rather more than you needed to in the first place.
> I couldn't get it to easily just output an HTML fragment.

Feel free to create a GitHub ticket for that. (That's fairly easy to support as the only blocker is vite-plugin-ssr automatically injecting script tags.)
There are options for you. The TN is complicated for founders (although possible under certain circumstances particularly if there are cofounders). But there are other options for you - that is, for a founder/owner, such as the O-1 and the E-2 investor visa.
I’ve read of people getting their Facebook accounts banned and losing their oculus store purchases. But now they use a meta account so that issue shouldn’t happen as often. Because the bans were happening because the attached Facebook account was inactive.

But you could always make a new account and play your steam games
+ hindsight bias :) but you are totally right. Also it was harder to start a tech business and thats why many people didn't do it. Folks at Hot'or'Not had to literally borrow money to finance the servers which they had to go and provision physically.

There are apps that look like its 1999 and make 30k a month. Sure its not $15m and not the next google but opportunities are there. We are just pretty bad at recognising and solving problems that are outside of our bubble and that is where the saturation is. Your local plumber on the other hand...
This makes me think of the oft repeated phrase in pop culture (i.e. movies).

"I don't want to survive... I want to live!"

I don't think any policy is or was perfect. All are an imperfect compromise attempting to balance preventing unnecessary illness and death with the rest of our needs - to produce, consume, be social, etc.

So overall I'm reasonably OK with the attempt to prevent overwhelming community transmission early on at the expense of some economic activity while buying time to get vaccines and treatments researched and distributed. It wasn't perfect, and lots of people are not happy about it, and millions of people still ended up dead. It might have been worse; maybe it could have been better.

But given what we know now, and that we have vaccines available, and a seemingly less dangerous strain dominating, it seems like strict lockdowns are all but entirely proven to no longer be the best attempt at balance and compromise for the overall well-being of the people (and the economy).
We can't bounce signals off the sun, but we can do "interplanetary radar" bouncing signals off at least the nearby planets.

Knowing those distances, the distance to the sun becomes a trigonometry problem.
Bro, you're just being difficult here.

You have choices now, whereas before you had basically one.

Yubikey offers you a hardware device specifically for this purpose. It can't be copied and it really is the definition of something you know and something you have. It has pros and cons, one of those cons being that if you want to use them you are stuck having multiple devices, one for a backup.

Don't like that con? Well, play the game a little and you have additional options coming. Such as the solutions from password managers and platforms like Apple and iOS. Add your sites in a password manager and it'll sync between devices, you basically only have to add one single thing (your password manager) and as long as you have password manager access you can sign in to those sites anywhere that your password manager is available, and where it isn't you gain the QR code passkey option that is being added.

You can mix and match this to your hearts content. Want to use a Yubikey as a backup? Add the device to your sites, stash it away where necessary. Yes, the con of having to add it to each site is still there but it is an option. Want to use all of these? Sure can. Add your iOS device, your password manager, and your Yubikey.

Want to only use one? Just add that device. But you might be foot gunning yourself without backups depending on which you use.

Stop being difficult and just use your head a little.
I don't think that's correct.

Apple's cut is taken at the time users buy TikTok coins, not at time of donation/withdrawal. You get more TikTok coins for the same amount of money on web because they don't have to give Apple/Google a cut. So once your fiat is converted to a TikTok coin it's already "clean", meaning all app cuts have been accounted for.
Love Obsidian. My main problem with it and similar markdown apps for notes is the way they store images and attachments. I find it very confusing to maintain multiple files per note and IMO the only app that nailed it is FSNotes[1] using the textbundle[2] format (with a custom implementation for encrypted notes too). I think it's elegant and future-proof.

But FSNotes is for the Apple ecosystem only and I can't tie myself to a single platform for something so important (I don't need another artificial reason to make OS switching so difficult).

I hope the textbundle feature request[3] gets some love soon. It would be great for Excalidraw files integration too[4].

[1] https://fsnot.es/
[2] http://textbundle.org/
[3] https://forum.obsidian.md/t/textbundle-support/3585
[4] https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin
It takes us a few months to upgrade, with planning, testing, co-ordinating downtime, etc. We upgrade every other year, to keep us from falling too far back.

Very excited for this year, as we'll be using logical replication to migrate, which should make this much less risky. (since the old systems are untouched).

In the past, we used pg_upgrade for in place upgrades, and even though we took snapshots before, still seemed a bit stressfull when it happened.
Who said his world is bidimensional? The movement in the world is constrained to a plane, but that doesn't means that it's bidimensional. There might be a third axis that's non accessible but visible.
I'll be honest in my experience a good idea comes from an individual who has an insight or sees a vision others can't.

I've noticed these ideas can get refined and filtered by group discussion and can go from good to great, but for me at least personally I don't feel like I can come up with good thought out ideas without spending extra time to think through them and understand them.
> Daycare

Beyond helping to fund daycare for the parents' sake, we should recognize that early childhood education workers are often paid less than a living wage and finding workers is very challenging. The government should fund living wages as well as subsidies for the parents.

Early childhood education is important for child development, and investing in that is investing in the economy.
> Anecdotally, the only framework-based projects I've signed on to ended up incurring more onboarding time because I had to learn the framework, how the framework does things, and then how the team does things in the framework. All of this "how" is a step before "why", of which, every step eventually needs to be repeated over the course of my tenure in order to be successful.

This is one of the most interesting replies, thank you.

The pitch for a lot of tools—be they frameworks, libraries, languages, &c.—is that if they’re popular, you get to hire people who arrive already knowing the basics of how things are done.

The reality is that popularity waxes and wanes, so when people are evaluating a tool’s fitness for purpose, they sometimes have to read tea leaves to decide if it’ll pay off or not.

A company making several such wrong bets in a row often has a trail of poorly supported ancient technologies lurking around. They still work—Joel Spolsky famously said that code doesn’t rust—but it’s aggravating to onboard, there are few productivity advantages, and sometimes the same thing is done three different ways because the company made two “wrong” bets before making the bet they currently think is “right.”

Would things be better had they just done their own thing and stuck to it? Possibly, I tried above NOT to make a claim that a popular framework is either the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do.

But it is good to read your comment pointing out that sometimes, a popular framework isn’t popular enough to harvest the benefits for people onboarding.
Having used virtual desktops (self-hosted in colo) in an enterprise environment before, I don't think individuals are the target market for this. It was a great way to enable remote work from any device while still controlling our data and keeping it within our network. Not to mention, we had a wide variety of users and needs and it was a way to deliver high performance without breaking the bank because we could pool hardware resources. Network performance was insane because everything was in the same cage and hooked up to 40 gig switches. It was just display protocol going over WAN connections, and as long as you had relatively low latency the performance was good. DR/BC planning also became much easier. Support, maintenance, deployment, desktop refreshes, governance, etc. We were spending about $300 per thin client and would run them through multiple desktop refreshes until they died. Then pull a replacement out of inventory and the user is back up and running in a few minutes.

All the typical stuff you have to deal with in an enterprise environment was just much less of a headache and lower cost overall with the virtual desktops. So up front, we spent more per desktop, but we made up for it pretty much everywhere else. And we were able to move faster than any other setup I've seen and we did it with a relatively small team.

I could think of a few use cases where these Ubuntu desktops would work well. Data science teams, anything involving big data, development teams working on heavy applications with a lot of moving parts that won't scale down to a laptop dev/test environment very well.
I can't comment on how YC would view such an application.
Very true. Golden handcuffs is an option, but you can also just liberate yourself from financial stress and help the people around you who need it. Not everyone is chasing a BMW or bragging rights.
Great recommendations! I definitely agree with running the app without too many plugins at first, especially if you're new to using wikilinks.

I wrote Minimal theme. BTW, I led the redesign of Obsidian 1.0 so I brought a lot of those ideas into the core app. We've also made a big push around using more native components. I'm still improving Minimal, but hopefully the "out of the box" experience feels a lot more native.
You’re right. I didn’t consider the AppStore.

From the article, a $103 donation ended up as a balance of $33 in the TikTok account. If we assume TikTok has not negotiated a better rate (doubtful), then the math looks like:

Donation: $106

After App Store 30%: $74.20

After TikTok: $33

Which puts the TikTok commission at a (still egregious IMO) 55%
This is a simple but important point. It's easy to overindex on the idea that a declining stock price means something is wrong with the specific company. But you look at stocks across the board (there is literally an ETF for pretty much every investable country now) and you can see that most stocks across the board are declining at the moment.
A single datapoint doesn't confirm or refute the presence of bias; your anecode doesn't contrast anything I've written in my comment about the definition of bias. If the organization consistently chose a black woman over an equally qualified white man, that would likely indicate bias.

What is "literally hired"; does your organization figuratively hire most of the time, except for the surprising odd time when it is, wow, literal?
To give credit where credit is due this was not just a Microsoft contribution. The four mentioned contributors were all from different companies: Microsoft, Dalibo, Greenplum and EnterpriseDB. Microsoft employs some of the core contributors of PostgreSQL, but many patches come out of cross company collaboration.
Mathematical Statistics with Application by Mendenhall Scheaffer Wackerly. Works for me, at least #1 #2 criteria are satisfied, critery #3 is satisfied only for numerical tasks.
Referring to "TARP/PPP" is misleading, IMO.

TARP disbursed $440 billion in exchange for assets, and received back $443 billion to return those assets[0]. It made a small profit for taxpayers.

PPP is... not that.

0. https://www.thebalancemoney.com/tarp-bailout-program-3305895
Maybe it's a lot harder to show flow through the UI with just keyboard entry. The mouse pointer trailing through the frame animates how the user's attention is moving through the UI.
That’s interesting. Do they publish the history of what it costs to place a bet?

There’s quite a few variables that go into the pricing: how much you think a team will win by and the payout if you win the bet. So there can be multiple tracks for “I think my team will win by 7 points” and there might be someone willing to pay 2 to one odds on that while another is 3 to 1.

Maybe betfair sets the rate? This number has to change over time though, can purchasers of a contract sell that contract later on if the odds or payout changes dramatically?

It would also be interesting to see where the “knee” is in those bets. For example winning by at least 7 or at least 8 points in American football should have about the same odds due to the point scheme that has a touchdown plus the extra point at 7 points. Course you could also try and go for two so maybe there is a price difference. Anyway it would be interesting to examine.
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Dr Lindsey:

>Aspiration is important because UNaspirated /p t k/ can easily sound to English speakers like /b d g/. But there are some contexts in which English DISALLOWS aspiration!

A quiz to discern aspiration, or lack thereof:

https://www.englishspeechservices.com/discussed-or-disgust-u...

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I hear so many complaints about immigration. People who should have built great technology in the U.S. left because the system sucked.

What are some things someone like me, an engineer, can do to encourage the government to change the immigration process?
Ops post is a sarcastic take not a true guide (at least to my read)
I've been thinking about this problem space quite a bit, and I have 2 "stress-test" questions which I use to see how quickly it will devolve into facebook:

1) Can someone who is already famous, ex: some TV political pundit, join the network and quickly leverage the networks strengths to acquire a following. EVEN if that acquisition happens out-of-network. For example: let's say bonfire has 100 million users, it's a problem if someone famous can say "follow me on bonfire" and get 10 million followers in a week. While I understand this is a very high bar, any solutions to this problem (regardless of their implementation), will require people to know eachother personally in a non-scaleable way.

2) Can someone who is not famous, ex: a conspiracy theorist, gain a following by posting controversial/clickbait things. Ie there can be any algorithmic feedback loop of consumption (views/likes/follows) fueling viral growth.

IMHO, if the answer to either of those is yes, you are fighting a losing battle.
This is a good primer on the subject.

One of the major projects I maintain at $work is an apache module, which has given me so much grief because of the fact that it gets dynamically loaded (and then unloaded, and then reloaded)

It's been very enlightening, but there's no shortage of frustration.

One major points is that a dynamically loaded library can have undefined symbols that are found (or not!) at runtime. This can introduce a lot of trouble when trying to make a test binary. Especially in apache's case, since any of the `ap_` symbols are only compiled into the executable, and aren't available as a static or shared library.

In that situation, the only recourse that I'm aware of is to supply your own implementations of those functions that get compiled into the test binary (not the dynamic library under test, since that will create a collision when it's loaded)

Another thing to consider is that linux/elf shared libraries can be either dynamically loaded or dynamically linked. This is not true on all platforms, so it's not advisable to lean into it if portability matters.

I recommend reading the ld.so manpage[0] -- in particular it outlines many environment variables to control the runtime linker. Notably, LD_DEBUG can be a life saver.

Lastly, I'll also warn against using any global/static memory in a dynamically loaded library. It can be unloaded/reloaded, and that can create a lot of havoc, especially if a pointer to that memory gets saved somewhere that survives the unload, and then is accessible after the library gets reloaded.

libprotobuf is a major victim of these types of issues - which is why (or a major contributor) to why the libprotobuf-lite library exists.

[0] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ld.so.8.html
Couldn’t agree more. There really is something unique about being in a room with a big white board, a few tough problems to solve, and lunch on the table. I’ve done my best work in those situations and I’m looking forward to when my job looks like that again.
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Atom if you need something free.

Brackets for HTML/CSS (also free).
I think what we learn from this study is that scientists are great at showing their hypotheses to be true, no matter what they may be.
So if two groups have opposing hypotheses, both still get published, the differences only show up in the raw data, and the nuisances are then explained away in the discussion.
If it has to do with something as flimsy as behavior, you should put very little trust in the conclusions.