skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm definitely not in favor of fossilizing Unix, but there's a difference between avoiding fossilization and the kind of minimal, mathematical purity that we see GNU Grep trying to impose here.

I can't really see the difference. Adding a deprecation warning to stderr in a non-POSIX command 15 years after deprecation notice is among the smallest possible changes to [GNU's Not] Unix I can think of. Even then, the change is trivially silenced by deleting a single line in a shell script or two[1] and seems that some distros already do that for you[2].

Yes, this will break something for someone[3] and I might well be that someone. You truly have my sympathies. But if you want to run a system for a decade and a half without ever needing changes, stick to POSIX. You can't have your fossils and eat them too.

[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/src/egrep....
[2] https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/39340
[3] https://xkcd.com/1172/
We are slowly releasing jamie, a personal AI assistant that generates meeting summaries within seconds, to the world. It's based on GPT-3 and works across all platforms. Thoughts?
On my system, egrep and fgrep are _already_ shell scripts, just changed to add the stupid warning:

$ cat =egrep =fgrep
#!/bin/sh
cmd=${0##*/}
echo "$cmd: warning: $cmd is obsolescent; using grep -E" >&2
exec grep -E "$@"
#!/bin/sh
cmd=${0##*/}
echo "$cmd: warning: $cmd is obsolescent; using grep -F" >&2
exec grep -F "$@"

Looking at src/egrep.sh in the git repo[1], I see that before this warning was added in 2021, the last change was back in 2015. In fact, since the git repo history began in 1998, there have been a total of 4 changes to this file. Clearly the maintenance burden of these scripts is not sufficient to require the maintainers to drop them. My guess... this is being done out of some weird sense of purity over practicality. Bad call by Paul Eggert IMO[2].

1: https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=grep

2: commit a9515624709865d480e3142fd959bccd1c9372d1 added the warnings
Show HN: No Code Universal Turing Machine
Hey guys, I proved that MockMechanics is Turing complete (not a big surprise). I created the smallest universal Turing machine without using any code. Let me know what you think.
My understanding is yes, and honestly, this was my biggest sticking point with Obsidian. I'm happy to pay for software. I pay for Dynalist pro (same team for anyone who didn't know), but the separate commercial license on top of paying for sync just felt like a lot. Especially with commercial use being defined so broadly.

Fourteen days to trial just isn't enough to see whether it would be worth the cost to use for my own personal use at work. The Dynalist freemium model where I could use a smaller feature set for a longer time and then decide it was worth upgrading was just much easier.

Erica, would you consider a discount on add-on services for commercial subscribers? A 25% discount would put the price a bit closer to Dynalist pro and make it feel like I was actually getting something for the commercial subscription other than just permission to use it for work. Or maybe a discount for existing Dynalist pro subscribers?

I really love the work you all are doing, here and on Dynalist, just a bit hung up on the cost here.
Not sure about Apple but Google doesn't take fees from charitable donations.
PPP fraud is a feature, not a bug.
lets go!!!
The Greeks wrote in jest they hope that no one climbs to the top of Olympus, they would revolt upon finding there are no gods there.

To an extent those in the upper echelons of human society have always known the magical stories were bogus. But when the flock is dumber than Humperdoo himself, Humperdoo will do.
People are so used to watching billions of dollars go missing or wasted that it has become background noise.
I just can't keep up with all the note taking apps; I sometimes go through a Phase of "I need a means to organize my things", but invariably just go back to a folder with text documents. The note taking apps are fine, but they will either have a web/electron based interface that is too indirect, or their data storage is not open (like text documents), or they try and upsell you cloud storage / sync, or they offer no benefit over a plain text editor (with global search).
Lets go. Meet jamie.ai
> If worldwide carbon caps and tariffs become a thing, the oil and gas in the ground suddenly becomes nearly worthless if you can't use it.

It may be worth less, but it won't be worthless. I have a hard time seeing another fuel source for long distance aviation (although we may move to synthesized fuel in the future).

Companies will also need feedstock for plastics - that use won't be affected by carbon caps at all.
What is SAG?
No, it obviously wasn't.

That England took unacceptable actions in no way justifies the Americans taking unacceptable actions.
Could you expand on how you do encryption with gocryptfs?
Very much a US thing. Perhaps the idea of green bubbles is specifically a teen thing, but what the green bubbles represent, a worse messaging experience over SMS/MMS, is an entire population thing.

Μένεις στην Ελλάδα; Ποια εφαρμογή χρησιμοποιείται περισσότερο; Viber;

Συγγνώμη για τα κακά ελληνικά μου.
I was looking for a tiny physics library for a DC homebrew project and this might be it. Thanks!
Are you implying that people have zero control over their spending?
You will also need to look at R&D spend and CapEx. Those profits are funnelled back to that. Basically it is a whole cycle, in order for fat profit margin you need to be at the leading edge in Tech, Yield and Volume. And all three of those requires R&D and CapEx. So you need Fat Profits margin to sustain it.
Yes, but I inferred from the question that this is not the kind of thing OP wanted to do. That may be a mistaken assumption on my part. It's also not the clearly best path on Windows that it is on Linux. On Windows, for example, 'emacs --daemon' leaves a command window running rather than forking into the background, and a variety of other issues.
AFAICT, there's nothing stopping the government from charging recipients with fraud even after the loan is forgiven.
AWS is also withholding infra fees, which seems fair depending on the cost of the software vs cost of underlying infra.
Amphetamine and Modafinil have also caused these types of behavior in myself but none moreso than Methylphenidate.

Everyone responds to drugs differently, for me cocaine was relatively mild in its compulsive/forced behaviors compared to methylphenidate.

Compulsion from methylphenidate nearly ruined my life, I’m lucky to have rebuilt somewhat unscathed. I still take Vyvanse every day though, and for the most part the compulsive behaviors aren’t too destructive.

It’s difficult for me to moralize about these because they really do transform so many peoples lives to allow them to function and achieve, but they can be very hazardous in a particularly sinister way.
China’s Xi Jinping Problem
In my experience, the same string can result in different moderation based on unknown factors. For example, I used to report the trans slur of the "t" word and Facebook would remove the content. Now, when I report it, the comment stays posted. Maybe it has something to do with the age of the post or the number of positive reactions to it. Maybe I reported too much and the false positives resulted in my account being banned from reporting comments. Similar behaviors on other platforms.
Unemployment is a tricky stat, which according to BLS conveniently excludes unemployed people who "haven't looked for a job in 4 weeks." And then knowing how difficult it is to pull hard information out of these poverty stricken areas, especially hidden homeless, I feel confident the whole picture is being blurred intentionally.

I live in a high poverty city with wondrously low "unemployment" but a high number of people who don't have jobs. The answer: if you can qualify for a job, yes you can get a job, but a lot of people do not qualify for anything worthwhile, so why try?
For those not already in on the joke (I wasn't) this is meme-based satire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%A1lovec_Region
> The source code of vite-plugin-ssr has no known bug

Bold claim, but I guess it depends on the definition of "known" :)
From my perspective, both sides clearly chose to undertake massive amounts of killing to get what they wanted.

In my view, neither was a good course of action.

I have room for the concept of just wars, but I don't think the American Revolution was one for either side.
Tool devs should get to decide on functionality - and then it's up to the distro maintainers to make aliases and organize well into their distros. Here it seems that the former are encroaching on the latter, for historical reasons?

By the way:

~$ bgrep
Command 'bgrep' not found, but there are 20 similar ones.

There's not many [a-z]grep's left in the alphabet, reserve yours now :-)
It’s a show of how free software partisans are often out of touch.

The cost of egrep and fgrep is just two symbolic links. Some people though would rather talk about ‘libre’ and ‘free as in speech’ and ‘free as in beer’ than talk at all about the user experience. And they wonder why most people just run windows or macOS, but they’ll never understand.
It's wild. The Fed brought interest rates down to zero and created a massive asset bubbled fueled by cheap debt. Now they're cranking up interest rates to pop they bubble they created, and we're supposed to applaud them for carefully maintaining "stable prices". All they've done is put us through an economic rollercoaster where most of us ended poorer in the end.
I'm entirely unhappy about the whole PPP situation, but I think the reason why it's taken up less space in public debates is because ostensibly it was to compensate businesses for being forced to close. Student loans had no equivalent government mandate to have people take them on.

I would prefer the counterfactual where nobody was forced to close (any longer than maybe the first couple of weeks) and therefore nobody got helicopter money; but since that isn't what happened, the next best thing would be aggressive prosecution of fraud. One can dream.
This seems like clear defamation. Facebook told lies about their users to other organizations which resulted in financial losses. Of course, IANAL, but it's super fucked.
> (I'm definitely not in favor of fossilizing Unix, but there's a difference between avoiding fossilization and the kind of minimal, mathematical purity that we see GNU Grep trying to impose here.

I'm not sure this can be reconciled with "printing a deprecation warning is a breaking change".
> We're supply side constrained.

What does this even mean? If there were no supply-side constraint, prices would dive toward zero like some post-scarcity Star Trek society. There is always a supply side constraint; when you dump a bunch of demand in on top of that, of course prices will go up.
It's a failure in that COVID will never be zero. The policy is pushing on a string, there will be lockdowns forever if the policy remains in place.
The increase cost of goods and service is not the cause of inflation, it is the definition of inflation. The cause is increased supply of money along with velocity of money.
Can someone point to a book that gives a good overview of the wage stagnation that started in the 70s (in the US), with the decline of unions and those jobs being sent outside of the country?
>These companies don't care about banning people because it's more profitable not to

That's why they banned (and continue to ban) Donald Trump, one of the most notorious Twitter users of all time (who singlehandedly kept CNN in business).

>This week I reported someone on Twitter for telling me to kill myself ("Kill yourself" was their exact words). Twitter said they found this "Doesn't violate our rules".

Sounds reasonable, no? Just saying "Kill yourself", which is a colloquialism for "f@uck off" or "get bent", shouldn't result in a banning in my opinion. If, in fact, the person was trying to convince you to do so, that's evil, and is a totally different story.
haha, thank-you for trying to help, but ALL of the examples you used are nothing that I'm familiar with.

So I'm thinking that this is a _ME_ problem and not necessarily a 'Product Description' problem.

After installing it, and typing in a few things I notice that it's similar to ZIM (another desktop wiki app) on the surface.

I also appreciate that you corrected my misuse of "markup" when I should have said markdown without making me feel like an idiot.
When I was in college in DC during the financial crisis, friends and I were at a bar and some guy comes in and pays the whole bar's tabs. Shouted "TARP MONEY!" and leaves. Pretty sure that guy was doing some fraud, but he was nice enough to share so I guess that's something.

It's hard to make a program like that quick enough to be effective without allowing fraud so I get the free for all style distribution. But especially with programs like TARP/PPP where the recipients are generally _already wealthy_ and the payments are relatively large, I'd like to see some after-the-fact scrutiny where people who commit fraud are punished, otherwise it reinforces the impression that money buys impunity.
They have record profits because individuals are spending/buying more.

The only thing that stops companies from charging more is individuals unwilling or unable to pay the higher price.
I’ll admit that A) and B) are ultimately really simple things that most people should be able to manage. However I’ve come to learn that most people are not nearly as comfortable using computers as we would think. They use computers very narrowly and are hesitant to break them.
I think the point was "why would you HQ your startup in one of the most expensive/sophisticated markets in the country in the first place?". There are some business plans where that might make sense, but for the majority the risk of incurring this level of liability shouldn't be worth it.
Tried Obsidian, wanted to save a note that had an url in the title, can't do that, not able to have special characters in titles(am on Linux btw where there's little limitations on what chars you can use in file names).

Delete, good bye, auf wiedersehen!
Yes. A fake doesn't always mean "defective", it can mean a forgery, inauthentic source or unprotected chain. A "fake Rolex" for example, might be a perfectly fine functional watch, but if it's not actually from Rolex, it's a fake. Or A "fake License" can be one where you lied or tricked the government into giving you one (valid document, valid source, inauthentic chain of procedure)

Here, the fake claim isn't the brand name, it's the product itself. He's selling a thing that looks exactly like a land survey, that's being used as if it's a land survey, but actually isn't. His measurements may be right (they probably aren't, this guy is mostly just scraping and reselling Google Maps, including literal screenshots from his browser, I sure hope he's paying the licensing fees to do that legally). But even if his measurements were per-millimeter accurate, it wouldn't change the problem. He's selling things that are intended to be used like land surveys, but aren't.

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If I bought a printer, and I printed off some money, and it's a perfect reproduction (identical size, identical weight, identical materials, identical to any other dollar), is it a fake dollar? If I put on my website that these fake dollars are "not intended to replace real US currency", but don't actually mark that anywhere on the dollars themselves, am I good to go?

If I actually want to be in the "fake money" business ethically (say as a prop for plays and movies, or as a toy for kids), would it not be reasonable to require me to declare it as such? (Like fake money usually does, right on each bill? See https://propmoviemoney.com/collections/full-print-prop-money - 'Motion Picture Use Only' - as an example)
Well, if "Please dont kill yourself" triggered the "kill yourself" algorithm, that might be a problem too.
I’m not an addict but I have suffered from restless leg syndrome in the past, to the severity you describe. Every time you’re on the cusp of sleep, there’s this tickle that travels up your leg to your lower back. But it’s this weird, disembodied tickle. There’s nothing to scratch or press or wrap or anything to alleviate. So you’re now wide awake because of this tickling sensation.

This was ~2016 for me. I read somewhere that restless leg is related to signals in your nervous system, which needs electrolytes to work optimally, and that taking a magnesium supplement would help. I bought some magnesium at Walgreens and took them for about a month. I think I’ve only experienced restless leg once or twice since 2016.

FYI, I hope this helps.
TikTok livestreams are a bizarre experience that doesn't get fully conveyed by this article. Scrolling through TikTok it will start showing you live streams every once in a while, and they tend to fall in to patterns like:

* baby with a giant deformed head in some kind of medical setting, unable to tell if that baby is real -- if it is, then it's not a good situation for that baby

* people who outwardly have disabilities of some sort, but it also looks like how you'd act as having a severe disability if you're a con-artist (like constantly shaking, or very slurred speech, I still can't whether these are legit or not)

* people with these vibrating bowls of sand with crystals in them, and they take crystals out of the bowl every once in a while to show you

* a teenager building a house of cards, and when they get a certain sticker, they have to destroy the house of cards and start building it again. they are pretending to cry while doing this, and begging you not to give them that sticker

\* there was also a variation where it was a kid deleting games off their PlayStation when they got a certain sticker

* people pretending to sleep, and if you donate different kinds of stickers, it plays different loud sounds or trigger lights to "wake" them

* people freestyle rapping on the spot, but it's more like
melodic rambling to the same backing track, so you don't really have to rhyme, you just have to rap in a way that sounds like it rhymes or makes sense

* and my favourite: some workers in what seems to be a Chinese factory assembling something like AirPods. they take the airpods, they take the case, they put the airpods in the case, and they throw the whole thing on to the completed pile

I came across one last night that I hadn't seen before and was kind of cool. It was a livestream of a woman filling a washing machine with different detergents, and like, way too much detergents for a load, way too much, and then eventually she turned the machine on.

It's a wild show that you don't ask for, it gets thrust on you every once in a while when scrolling. The whole game is to give viewers a reason to use stickers on the show, which gives the streamer money (and TikTok like 70% of it).
IRS advises that improperly forgiven Paycheck Protection Program loans are taxable

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-advises-that-improperly-for...
Still lower than what actual charities pocket when taking expenses, wages, etc into account.
I've been wanting to play with your software for a while, and I happened to have a moment this time, so I loaded it on my Android phone.

If the bracket notation is a commonality among note taking systems like this one, then I may just be too much of an outsider to jump in easily to this app. But I, as someone who was interested in using the app enough to press every button I could see, couldn't figure out how to link notes until I exhausted my possibilities in the app, looked at your Web page, scrolled through the comments here and finally found someone linking to the page I needed. I knew that linking is the main feature, but I couldn't find it.

Filtering out dumb users like me may be a design decision, but if not, I would encourage something upon app installation that offers to tell new users how to link notes, even if it's just a link to a YouTube video ("new to Obsidian? Watch this 1 (2?) minute video to get you started.")
I can't fathom the cognitive dissonance of Signal community leaders actually suggesting their Android users to migrate to Google Messages. We're going from a best-in-class privacy app to an app best known for it's vendor's data hoarding. All because they think we should have the same sub-par SMS UX that iOS users are subjected to...
Adding to this, while the software is proprietary the community mods/plugins/packages ecosystem is very healthy and easy to use. https://packagecontrol.io/
Was it a mistake to drop interest rates to 0 and give out free money to business owners during a pandemic? I think monetary and fiscal policy overreacted to the pandemic, but we'll never hear from anyone in power that it was a mistake. I don't think our government leaders have learned anything.
KYS has traditionally been a one way ticket to a twitter ban for sure.

With the impending Musk acquisition, perhaps the staff have lost their zeal and are preparing for more "free speech", as violent language and calls to violence online is often labeled.
While one can think of every problem as a snowflake situation never encountered by anyone before, outside of its core business domain an organization (particularly a non-technical one) rarely faces truly unique challenges. Most of the time one can also decompose the solution into a number of well-known problems that had been solved before.

For example, in an overall solution for some snowflake business challenge you may see components such as an order taking system, a customer support center, a CRM, an ERP—and on another level patterns like a statically rendered site, an SPA, a “classic” content-driven site, and so on. In my opinion, being blind to these opportunities and intent on putting the entire solution together without any delegation of control flow smells of lazy architectural thinking and/or job security. The exact decomposition would depend on business specifics, foreseeable future evolution of the business, team capabilities and other factors, but as a result you’d be able to radically lighten the implementation and indeed maintenance burden with a strategic use of frameworks or even lightly customized CMS.
GNU Grep: "Am I so out of touch? No, it's the users who are wrong"
That $3tn is needed desperately, and spending on infrastructure is far less inflationary, especially in a supply crunch.
There are plugins and extensibility that can be added as well.

https://github.com/search?q=obsidian
> Congressional action is a major cause of this, spending trillions.

And the Fed enabling the Federal government to do so very cheaply, by purchasing a large amount of the newly created Treasuries.
Fraud aside, which is a problem, the "forgiveness" of the loans was the plan all along so it's not as if businesses were expected to pay them back.

The program was really a bailout so businesses could maintain their payrolls when everything was shutdown. Instead of writing the checks directly, the government decided to frame it as a loan that would be forgiven if businesses stayed in business and spent it on their payrolls. This was a good strategy for the government, because it would have been pretty tough to enforce otherwise.

So the loan forgiveness was by _design_ and the point of the program was to keep businesses alive when the governments themselves were (for perhaps good reason) making it impossible for them to operate. It's not really "forgiveness" in the sense of, say, the college loan forgiveness program.
> it burns a chunk of trust if you've demonstrated will to walk away.

I still don't understand this advice. As someone who has done this a few times at the same company, I have not witnessed it. Usually the whole point of an outside offer is to convince someone outside your management chain what you're worth (HR). At that point, the question isn't about loyalty, it's about the value of the work to the company on the whole (does your org even need an expensive engineer).