skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My previous job we had an amazing product owner. He never caved to customers demands. He always listened to them and deciphered what they actually wanted. He took 1 customers demands and figured out what everybody wanted. And every time we released a feature we got great feedback and praise.

I remember one customer said “wow this so much better than what we asked for!”

When he left it was all down hill. Because the product owners just wanted to pad their resume. Pump out features. And pretend like they cared about the product but ultimately the product got worse. To the point they started adding old features back in that they had removed thinking they knew better.
i used to try to create obsidian workflows, but i found them very challenging to keep up. i used to think i wanted configuration for my note taking so I could capture all the ways I wanted to interact with the information i stored. Even though i initially rejected it, i have ended up embracing logseq and it’s seemingly odd way of working. I have grown to love the daily journal being front and center as I find it removes mental overhead when it comes to figuring out what to take notes about. I just put everything in there! I don’t think, i just take notes. When i store information, i write some contextual information to help me retrieve it the next time i look for it. When i search and can’t find it right away, i add more context to the note to help me find it faster next time. I think it works for me because i don’t like the pressure of writing a structured note, but when I do take the time to write, it’s because i am excited about it and I end up streaming my consciousness in an almost blog like post (as I am doing now, i love writing about note taking). I work at an OSS company so fortunately all my notes I publish online: https://breadchris.com and i find it so freaking liberating to be able to share my haphazard ideas with others lol.

having spent a decent amount of time looking at this stuff, my biggest recommendation is to try things out for a bit, and find habits that stick. I found a way to make note taking addicting, and other people i’ve got on the band wagon have found it addicting as well so I think logseq is a worthwhile thing to try out. I haven’t put it together yet, but I would like to put together the workflow (more like a mindset, less workflow) that I follow.

Good luck to those looking for a way that works for them for taking notes! I would love to hear about what people have tried, I have a lot of ideas to share.
The US Healthcare system is shamelessly intertwined with the state to limit supply and extract rent.

Try to open a hospital and you will run into certificate of need laws who's primary objective flys in the face of supply and demand:

> A primary objective of state CON laws is to control health care costs by avoiding unnecessary expansion or duplicative services within an area.

Or simply try becoming a doctor in America; also known as assuming half a million dollars in debt and 8 years of college education and another 4 years of 'residency' a program where you work yourself to the bone for peanuts. All this courtesy of the professional organizations getting in bed with the state to limit competition and enrich themselves.

Let's not even discuss the pharma industry :).

Any discussion of bettering healthcare in the US that doesn't take on the rot at the core of the system is dead on arrival. Switching to a public solution tomorrow would just further enrich the cronies at the cost of the general public - and health outcomes would be largely unchanged.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/con-certificate-of-need...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/why-does-t...
To rephrase the question, it’s obvious, probably to the OP, that layoffs cut immediate costs. But I think they’re really asking do they help the company.

Long term does company A that tends to layoff frequently vs company B that tends to avoid layoffs and cut costs some other way - is there a difference in medium and long term performance?
I read the article on Schopenhauer and Marcus Aurelius. Pretty amusing I have to admit, but a lot seems to be lost in the process. That is to say, you could come away with some wrong impressions of the subjects covered. At least as far as I understand them.
I had a patch rejected after being told "patches welcome", for lacking detailed user testing or not matching any official user stories or something (which is BS, the rationale was just as good as anything), only for the person who rejected it to later implement the same feature just because it "feels" better. Years later after they forgot of course, otherwise they would have kept the feature unimplemented out of stubborn spite.

I feel pretty salty about it. Don't say patches welcome if they're not, and don't apply selective burdens of evidence in favour of including a particular change.

Some of them have huge egos and are stubborn as anything. If something wasn't their idea originally it can be a real uphill battle regardless of how sensible it is. Convince them it was their idea and suddenly the gates are open.
Udemy Business is overpriced for sure, but nice alternative to Pluralsight
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No thanks - I think I’ll stick with my three hour power shower at maximum heat.
Though the Camus entry is essentially on point, it glosses over so many more interesting and worthwhile insights from him.

As a fun way to get people to see the value of philosophy I think it’s great, but I’d hope they would then learn more and see the nuances these great thinkers brought to these topics eventually.

Philosophical writing is often practically diametric to bro speak but hopefully that doesn’t mean most interested readers wouldn’t delve deeper.
Sounds like the perfect structure to end up with an utterly dysfunctional company ruled by the Peter Principle.
You literally said it's x3 the homelessness. Also, there is a world of difference between being a real SF homeless in the streets; and being B&Bed temporarily by the government in Edinburgh.
This is brilliant. Thanks for this, I'm going to be looking around to see what I can steal and improve mine. I have crashed Obsidian so many times when I tried to load up everything. Here is my most current implementation;

- Vault (Home / Personal) is about everything for our family, and I. This is a folder inside Dropbox. So, we have everything there. Suddenly at a hospital, and the wife said, bring out the first list of vaccinations when our kid was born -- bam, I got it. :-)

- Vault (Work) is the Google Drive Folder that I have everything about our Company. These days, most of my work is just writing, and more writing. They are good archives and I don't have to re-say or say a little with the writings as a backup for async reference for anyone.

- Vault (dev folder) is usually shared by Sublime Text and Obsidian. These days, I'm left with just writing more and more in MarkDown either as content, documentation, or more contents that gets converted to other outputs.

To maintain sanity, I have very few must-have plugins and the current vaults are all on "Minimal" themes with different color schemes making it easy for me to just toggle my Vaults. I once tried to maintain a common ".obsidian" folder and symlink to it but that was a bad idea - the vaults are better off mostly being unique with shared preferences.

For the notes management I have PARA[0] at the root and everything inside them, with few rules broken to make it easier for sharing, especially with the work content.

0. PARA (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive) - here is an article with details - https://fortelabs.com/blog/para/
W3C's XML (and also semantic web stuff) is an excellent example of what not to do as standardization body. XML may be important for enterprises, but what was achieved for the web except a decade-long meta discussing, resulting into HTML taken away (or back if you will) by browser vendors after years of stagnation?

There was zero need for XML; recall XML is just a proper subset of SGML by its original developers, which was used to specify HTML until version 4. And even today, SGML is the only game in town to parse HTML (including version 5, up to minor trivialities) based on an international standard, whereas Hickson's/WHATWG's procedural parsing spec has become unmaintainable and isn't covered by a test suite, precisely because it doesn't follow a formal model, but started from a prose description of what an SGML parser does but lost track. Not a great outcome for a markup language used daily by billions of people; especially since HTML the markup language hasn't really changed for a very long time, whereas everything around it (CSS, JS) had to change drastically to make up for HTML's stagnation and first W3C's, then WHATWG's fuckups.
Having used acrylic for various projects... It's a hard to use material.

It loves to crack - especially around drill holes and sharp corners, even when not much external load is applied due to internal stresses.
> require the person that claims to own a wallet to sign a challenge you provide with the public key

That takes care of the assets ... now the liabilities
Chinese pro-democracy student on hunger strike at Apple HQ
repetition is a fundamental part of good music.
> When data proved his idea was wrong, he would say words to the effect of "I don't care, because I still believe I'm right from an ideological background".

I cannot imagine commercial software in any form where that is not the prevailing sentiment. I have heard of developers who actually measure things in the capacity of their corporate employment but in 20 years of doing this work I have only seen it once.

As such I don’t even bother mentioning performance or correctness at work (across all my employers) where evidence is so hastily discarded and inconvenient conclusions are a suicide pill.
Hmm, could wash trading have played some part in the apparent success of Donald Trump's "digital trading cards"?

https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2022/12/16/trump-nft-collectio...
Oh, please indulge me on why? How much are you aware of his actual work compared to what you are told of it? And his projects don’t reflect on the nature of his ability to do other things. One must be careful to generalize an assumption over cohorts. If an individual has different political views than you, they aren’t suddenly more dumb. This is a hard thing for our species to work through at the moment.

I encourage you to look deeper into Eric Weinstein and less the memetic construct encapsulating a particular ideology and agenda through symbolic word.
I find it somewhat ironic given current GNOME that when I was choosing between GNOME 2 or KDE 3 back in the day, GNOME 2 won as bits wouldn't float off my screen...
Nvidia Shield TV users will lose access to GameStream starting in 2023
Is this common? I’ve never done this and the only indication I’ve seen are all the people at the gym in Jan/feb.

If ‘general malaise’ is common, I’d cut back n the annual goal setting, which sounds stressful.
But that doesn't require you to check the browser. You can force the same behaviour in every case, as you did with .blur() Neither feature detection nor user agent string matter here.
Yeah so remember don’t shower for nine minutes while the glass factory down the road offsets your entire towns carbon footprint for its lifespan in a single day.

If you want to eat the bugs, do it; but on behalf of everyone who wants to take a bath, it’s not our problem. These countries have fission, they refuse to use it, and their interest groups guilt trip you into 19th century standards of living.

Luh-mao, is all I have to say to that.
It doesn't really matter _why_ the dolphin doesn't believe algebra is possible, their subjective experience of being unable to imagine something is all it takes. The dolphin doesn't think it's a scientific or technological limitation, they just don't think it's possible.

What about "not existing" is impossible as an inherent property of nothingness?

And why do you think your ability to believe or picture something has any impact on whether it's real or true?
BASIC? Yeah, like the author and many in my generation I started with it as it came with the home computer and we kids didn't know any better. Once introduced to Pascal however, I didn't look back.

Until, I rekindled my interest in electronics more than 30 years later. Many of the affordable quality test and measurement instruments, read old ones, come with examples on how to control them via GPIB using BASIC (a variant of Rocky Mountain Basic afaiu). -hp- was big on BASIC. First their minis, then their 'calculators' and even the work stations. Those short examples in the manuals are easily translated into Python today, but sometimes I wished I had a RMB available for Linux.
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They don't. That's why people say it lies sometimes. You can't believe everything you read online.
It's absurd that people will show their sick pets more compassion than fellow human beings when animals can't even voice their opinions on the matter. If someone sound of mind chooses to die, that should be their right.
I wouldn't stretch as far as calling Musk a genius - he's someone with a lot of business acumen, and understands how to use social media effectively to get what he wants (much like Trump), and has deep connections to make his ventures successful.

SpaceX, Tesla etc would not be where they are now without all the funding Musk was able to secure and source from governments (grants, tax breaks, investments etc), and then investors - that's probably his biggest contribution.
I thought it was a new Minecraft block ;)
This was my take away as well. There is a lot of important nuance lost.

A lot of stoic philosophy taken in bite size pieces can seem totally bat shit and stupid, but if you read generations of people’s thoughts, learn to place the ideas temporally and culturally (to some degree at least), even the bizarre parts begin to make sense contextually.

Even so, anything that tries to make philosophy more accessible and interesting to people is good in my book. Reading bro Marcus Aurelius is arguably better than reading nothing at all.
Reddit is working on adopting the Matrix standard for Chats
There have also been many reports of people, mostly disabled, who are unable to work or afford rent in Ontario, who have applied to medically assisted death rather than face homelessness. This might be both brinksmanship and gamesmanship, but it's extremely distasteful that we are here as a society.
I hope your kids are not expecting high end gaming experiences and are happy with simple indie games (which usually are the better games anyways), because the SteamDeck cannot and never will replace something like an XBox.
I'm actually kind of able to pick where my taxes are going. By moving to other countries. Surely, Canada is not going to be on the list.
Exactly. Neurotic people trying to impose their rules on people to reinforce their own energy-apocalypse ideology.

Split the atom.
This is great. Since I also found the discoverability of podcasts annoying, I wrote a tool to download the Huberman Lab transcripts and convert them to an ebook: https://github.com/cmf/huberman. They still take a while to read though!
It turns out he has a Wikipedia page!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_Bob
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There's a significant cultural aspect we need to consider, too.

Many Canadians, especially older ones who grew up when Canada was still a very high-trust society, have what could be described as a reverence for authority figures. This involves a significant degree of obedience, bordering on subservience.

Medical professionals are often among the most revered authority figures to these Canadians, even to the point of being seen as infallible. There are Canadians who won't question any advice made, nor any suggestions given, by these medical professionals.

If a medical professional were to recommend euthanasia to these kind of Canadians, even if it wasn't something that they really wanted to do, I think a significant proportion would feel obliged to go along with it, as irrational as this may seem.

This attitude became quite apparent over the last three years, when many Canadians completely bought into the many obviously nonsensical, and sometimes even outright harmful, policies being pushed by medical professionals and public health officials.

At the same time, however, those three years have been a significant eye-opener for some Canadians, too. For these people, the trust they once had in the various medical professions was completely shattered.

With a larger proportion of the Canadian population no longer trusting Canada's medical professionals and health care systems, it doesn't surprise me at all that we're starting to see more questioning of policies such as this one.
Yeah, that guy has been around since forever. The only one I can think of that's been in power longer is putin.
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The things blockchain is good at don’t get attention because people who hate crypto hate on everything and people who like crypto think the things are boring, which they are.

Blockchain isn’t good for some society disrupting change of finance… it’s a specialized accounting book. Very few people are excited by ledgers really, and the thing you can do with these new fancy ledgers have a lot to do with mostly mutually trusting businesses keeping track of balances between a small group. This is not exciting, will not change the world, but might make some details of finance folks and the people who write software for them a little easier.
I'm the author of osxphotos. Glad you found it useful!
Annecdotally, as an ambivert, my experience with chat apps (versus physical life) results in even more social anxiety. The amount of criticism on Slack is higher than I experience in physical life. When you see a person, you can pick up on queues that they are being sarcastic or recognize their individual speech pattern as something to minimize. Text looks far more uniform in terms of interpreting emotion/personality. Even when I post on HN, I’m not sure if some comment I tried to write in a measured way will be harshly criticized. When I say something similar in person, the hearer has a moment pause before saying something adversarial because they can see my face and humanize me.
As I wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34035123, I also wrote a tool to access them. I'm pretty sure there are English transcripts which are manually generated, not just the YouTube generated ones. I've always found them to be high quality, enough to make a book out of.
The NHS is the largest employer in Europe. 1.7 million employees for 141,000 beds. I believe it is fundamentally irreformable, but clearly it needs reform.
I don’t understand how people get convinced that the McMansions look good. Don’t they see they look like a bunch of Siamese twin tiny houses? Who’s fault is that? Why do architects offer this crap? Why do we inflict this ugliness upon ourselves?
> there expertise, there experience, and there thoughts because

their*

I do not believe you worked where you say solely from this.
You might not feel exploited, and maybe you personally weren’t. But collectively you and your coworkers were, or at the very least, you and your coworkers were used to enable exploitation of other workers—within Google, or through Google’s third parties. The only way a shareholder of Google can make money off of Google without contributing any work is by exploiting people that do the work. In the context of distributing the wealth a company creates, who gets what is a zero sum game. And if shareholders are making money without working for it, it must be through exploitation. And given the power dynamics at play. It is the workers that are exploited. If not Google’s own workers, then the workers of the companies that are Google’s paying customers.
This is true for every note-taking app with an export functionality. And it really isn't good enough.

The entire reason you use Obsidian or Notion or Anytype or Capacities.io or Logseq, or anything more powerful than a set of markdown files in the first place, is that you care about the relationships between the notes and the rich functionality that comes with them - sorting, search, linking, reminders, etc. None of this is easily exportable into another app. The series of markdown files that make up Obsidian is not a substitute for the Obsidian software, nor are the relationships easily rebuilt in another app.
I don't think it's a Fresnel lens. Fresnel lenses have rather obvious rings and have poor optical qualities for most applications besides light sources, cheap slide projectors, and magnifying glasses.

Here, the "lens-within-a-lens" effect that you see is because, generally speaking, myopia lenses shrink the image. But this lens is so extreme that the image is shrunk into a small bubble in the middle. The ring-like structures around this bubble are due to internal reflections within the lens.
Pixel phones have it and I love it
What's the data source?
Feature detection doesn't work well for some bugs either.

How do you feature detect a crash bug? Or a leak? If you run the code that crashes, you've crashed the page and can't then run alternative code.
Hmmm! Please don't discourage them. I actually feel I should write a lot and just put it out. What I have learnt the most are from other people, comparing them, "stealing" from them and modifying them. There should be more opinions, and ideas.

I like it when people feel good about what they do, spend a few minutes each weekend and then in months or even years, they publish it. Or just publish as you go on. I also like "work-in-progress" in the wild.
Could you point to the stats for the other 3,000? This is an interesting case. It shows the categories of health issues that seek assisted suicide.
They’re not as popular in the US but (I assume without looking) are the largest brand elsewhere.

Also, the expensive brand Hu I got at Whole Foods is on the lead list and the Ghirardelli at cheaper stores isn’t. Whoops.
I do the same exact thing. It seems too useful to waste on only my favorite things.
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I note that this requires DNSSEC, which isn't very popular here on HN.
That's just an argument for why it should be open source from the beginning: let bugs be spotted early and be sure the designs are as secure as we can make them before somebody gets saddled with one in their skin for life. Security through obscurity is not the answer.
Just wait to see what happens when rent Covid backpayment and student loan repayments resume. Will be brutal.
Money is already digital, it’s not backed by gold or paper ledger, it’s stored digitally and used digitally on a daily basis.

Crypto currency is decentralised digital currency.
Tangential question; but I just found out about gwern's page and I'm amazed at the amount of content and a lot of it looks very interesting, does anyone know any more personal websites similar to this one? I'm sure there were at least a couple but I can't find them.
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"The Scorched-Earth Legal Strategy Corporations Are Using to Silence Their Critics"
Debugging is a skill that is rapidly evaporating. The ability to debug like this is the secret to success in the hardware/physical realm. I’m just surprised it was resistors freaking out under cold temps and not the motor/gear configuration shrinking due to temps. You don’t often hear of electronics changing behavior in colder temps, but mechanical for sure.
That’s pretty cool
I guess that depends on your definition of “world.” For me, that would be a planet, not a moon.