skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pretty grating response, given how pointed it is. It's not made any better by the first sentence; it seems that you are the one confusing two different (types of) things:

> The Canvas format is MIT licensed in the same way that Markdown uses a BSD-type license.

In no sense are these two things comparable. "Markdown uses a BSD-type license" is a true statement because "Markdown", in the context where it makes sense to say this, is a Perl script—a program, licensed in a way that is not uncommon for open source programs to be licensed. Your canvas format is not a program. It's a 70-line TypeScript interface definition, going by your own link:

<https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/canva...>

To call this "open source" (let alone open source "in the same way that Markdown" is) is a very odd choice. It's less odd for anyone who recognizes that it follows a common pattern, where folks with something to sell often openwash what it is that they're selling based on the (not unfounded) perception that having it be thought of as more open than it really is tends to confer certain positive benefits. It's why Steve Jobs lied about FaceTime being an open standard, for example.

Whether or not you're giving any explicit permission to build apps, scripts, plugins, etc. is largely moot—to be frank, you don't have the power to dictate otherwise. On the other hand, if you're saying that you're aiming to steward and participate in what (you hope) turns out to be a vibrant ecosystem built on a common format, then that's cool. But say what you mean, though. Calling it an open format or an open standard would be fine; "open source", however, this is not.
I read the list and confirmed that Niggardly, which means “grudging and petty in giving or spending” or being stingy with money, is not on the list. It has absolutely not relation to the N word which is obviously why at Stanford it’s still perfectly acceptable to refer to your students and colleagues as niggards, so long as they are tight with money.
> Anyone that has hooked up a external drive to an M1 or M2 based notebook knows why: the performance of external devices dropped off a cliff with Apple’s own silicon.

This is false in my experience. I bought a Thunderbolt 3 to Dual NVMe M.2 SSD enclosure (Sabrent EC-T3DN), set up the SSDs in a RAID 0 array, and Blackmagic Disk Speed Test benchmarked that configuration at 2,500 MB/sec read and write. That's very close to the maximum real-world usable bandwidth for TB3¹.

¹ https://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2019/20190128_1352-unde...
Show HN: Headerless C programming with __INCLUDE LEVEL__
I am hoping these kinds of things are the perfect candidate for future biotech implants. Having to take ap ill everyday can be difficult to regularly remember even for the totally sane. What if we had some type of implant that could somehow recognize when someone was going through a major mental episode and then dispense some medication to help them? Or even one that simply regularly released the medication throughout the day and then periodically had to be refilled?

Seems like the side effects of a lot of these harsh meds might be tempered by a slow release vs all at once with a pill. I am not a medical professional though so I could be completely wrong here.
Am I missing something here or did you lose your heat?
https://web.archive.org/web/20221220041333/https://www.nytim...
Yes but that’s just another manipulation of an ecosystem to suit human activity. Fundamentally I remain unconvinced by most of the answers which boil down we want to reintroduce these species because it suits us from an aesthetic point of view or it fosters our own desire for a return to a state we judge more pristine or authentic. It’s basically the 19th century craze for zoo but adapted to modern taste.
> To me, it's like when people complain that "those damn unionized trash truck drivers are making $90,000 with a lot of overtime and a pension." Why is the response to try to tear them down, when the correct, to my mind, question is "why don't I have that, too?

Because if total salary income were uniformly distributed across the population, the average would be like $80,000 a year.
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Autopilot
For cash Schwab is the best, they refund all ATM fees worldwide. There is no catch, except you have to open a brokerage account, but there is no minimum deposit.
Mickey Mouse should be under copyright and Mickey Mouse should be taxed to an inch of his nasty rodent life are two separate questions and should be handled as such. A small fee should be fine (much less than the total cost of a patent, say) perhaps with a requirement to keep the work publicly available (print on demand and digital makes this relatively easy).
Her legal case:

> A sign says facial recognition is used as a security measure to ensure safety for guests and employees.

Use of facial recognition is disclosed with a reason for its purpose. They used the same technology for a different purpose without full disclosure. This is grounds for a violation, although civil. IANAL.

However, she is going about this through another route. Liquor license does not allow them to eject people from service. MSG has a civil policy they will not allow anyone (including lawyers) associated in litigation to enter their venues. Obviously both policies contradict at this point.

My opinion is no one should have any policy that allows lawyers of parties to a lawsuit to be hurt in any way.
Pycharm for sure.
This is also how I felt about Apple's anti porn stance.

You block porn apps on the app store. You block custom browsers on the app store. So the only way to consume porn is to use Safari/WebKit. That seems anti-competitive to me.
Vacant and underused land taxes in incorporated cities save wild and farm land.
What kind of lithium do you take? I have heard that the prescribed doses can be pretty sedating or brutal but there are also people advocating for very tiny doses of lithium in a different form that is similar to what is found in some natural wells. Could be completely pseudoscience but it seemed interesting
Show HN: Vectory – A collection of tools to track and compare embedding versions
Don’t tell the world, tell the people who care (or would care) about it.
Wow, what an incredible victory for NZ public health.

It's so hard to imagine ever implementing reforms like these in the US. The political resistance would be insurmountable ("individual freedom," etc). It's a good thing the anti-smoking policies from 1960s proved durable -- they'd be impossible to enact today.
> The only way to find out who owns these works is to get sued for pirating them.

Basically "old time radio" too.
Password truncated at [login|reset] but not vice versa.
Going to say my own https://github.com/boyter/scc/ which I have used to turn down projects of "Oh we just need to do X"

It allows me to evaluate the code-base quickly and see where potential issues are, and find hidden complexity in the code. I have said no a lot due to it. The only reason it exists was because I got caught out from another project, which wasted months of my time.

Otherwise IntelliJ and the JetBrains IDE's in general.
As a web dev I made two browser games with no framework (for one I used the Matter.js physics engine) and it was a good experience. The browser has great built in apis like the Canvas element so it isn't completely "from scratch", but you'll still get a great sense for the basics of making a game loop etc from the ground up and you can use your previous experience.

I've also played around with Unity a bit but haven't released anything or finished any project. If I wanted to transition to full time game dev I would probably start learning Unreal or Godot as an engine for major projects... or focus on making browser games, maybe with a JS game engine like Melon or Phaser, or continue to roll my own JS games. The big engines like Unity can compile to web but it's a subpar experience and I wouldn't use it if my main target was in browser.

Web devs like us will have some advantages in already being exposed to some of the networking and stuff related to multiplayer, auth, leaderboards, etc.
Zack, I just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to articulate your thoughts. Your view is different, yet coherent. Printed up your comment for further study. Please write a little more if possible.
As people hook themselves up to more AI assistants and health monitoring applications I'm not sure if that will always remain true. Our telemetry devices may start to pick up on these things before we even do.
I don't know if those suits would succeed. If Congress gives someone a benefit and then gets rid of it, then you can't sue the government to force them to keep giving it to you.
What is meant by 'routing'?
Text Blaze (YC W21) has saved me about 50 hours over the past 18 months. They reduce repetitive typing across websites. For example if you have a common format for bugs you're filing, or LinkedIn messages or emails that you're sending, you can use Text Blaze to write most of the text for you. If you've used Superhuman snippets, this is similar but more powerful, and it works across the entire web instead of just email.

Time savings screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/KjFhWRH (Disclosure: I liked the product so much that my fund ended up investing.)

Website: http://blaze.today/

Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-blaze/idgadac...
"making sure that creators had a limited time where they could exclusively profit" sounds like "protection of profit" to me.
> Preferring a loved one to suffer, indefinitely, in order to spare your feelings... is the very definition of selfish.

If by this you mean "don't blow your brains out", then, yes, i agree, and i wonder if you're misreading me somehow in a way that suggests that I think you ought to be able to without interruption.

Otherwise, i'm having a hard time making heads or tails of what you're saying here.
IMO It is not only the possible form of intelligence at the personal level that counts, but also the aggregate "intelligence" of all humans. This is more easily imagined. To put this crudely, have you ever thought (maybe after an encounter with some person), how better our society would be without all the "backward" (no offences) elements?

An ET civilization will certainly judge us at that "aggregate level" (However that comes about)
When Itchy & Scratchy teamed up for the war effort [0]? Documents on Prescott Bush, grandfather of Bush Jr, who happily sold steel to the Nazis and created the current Bush family pile [1]?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vhL6QsPGac

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworl...
I disliked Metropolis quite a lot. Maybe it was influential and was probably a gamechanger at a time. But is it good in any way from today's point of view? I'm not talking about effects or scenography which could not technically be better at that era. I'm talking about acting and script which look abysmal to me. I would probably not have this kind of opinion but it's often on some kind of top list and my expectations were high. Maybe I'm missing something? Or is it just touted for historical significance?

It's not that I have a problem with old movies. Casablanca came out only 15 years after Metropolis and is perfect in every way I care about.
https://archive.ph/kzGPf
Is the start of the golden age of comic books enough? I'm honestly not convinced.
> Since you asked for it, my advise is to live well under your means, save aggressively, set goals, and never stop learning. If you want to challenge yourself, look into a concept called "early retirement." Good luck.

Ah yes, glamorizing the hustle. You'll surely make it if you just "work hard enough," wink wink. Working a 9-5 career is (and has been) a net negative ROI for at least 2 decades, if not more. To be completely honest, this is why I'm on HN: doing your own startup is one of the few relatively low risk gambles one can take.

Thinking that it's okay for an entire generation (millennials), scratch that, two generations, (also gen-Z now)—that literally can't afford housing where they work is beyond societally harmful. Birth rates will continue plummeting, among other things.

This is all happening because Obama didn't have the balls to just let the shoddy banks crash and burn, and we continued QE for around a decade to alleviate blowback from 2008. This, combined with other factors (a lax policy w.r.t. foreign investments in real estate), will screw us in the long run.
Someone submitted it and people voted on it.
https://archive.ph/TIVLP
Water literally falls from the sky, and people still sell bottles of it. So yes, sell anything.
RipGrep has been a huge time saver. I work in huge legacy code base. Lots of modules, lots of content, lots of scripts. Sometimes I can just go to parent directory with all repos and search with RipGrep if ever needed.
How do you explain it happening exactly once?

If it’s vanishingly unlikely, but space is incomprehensibly huge and time is vastly long, then it happening exactly once is extremely improbable. 0 times, believable. But those probabilities yielding 1 life event must mean 2 life events is also possible, no? Or 3? Or 100? Why so confident it’s exactly 1?
I think the prison-solution, as crappy as it is, is better than doing nothing at all. But it should certainly be possible to do better.
I remember the video the OP is looking for, too. It looks this C-SPAN video covers the material, too: https://www.c-span.org/video/?201658-1/i-destroyed-me
> First, you have a tech industry salary, which is probably at least twice as much as the median wage, if not more.

This is exactly his point. If he can't make it with what he has going for him, who can?

> You only options are to accept that and adjust your budget/income/location appropriately, or opt to rent forever, which is not at all a bad thing since owning a primary residence is never an investment. (Although there is room for nuance here that I won't get into.)

You only list two options: (1) budget better, (2) give in to renting forever. I agree that, if the above poster wants a better shot, he should do his best to budget well. However, he should also help support policies that tax the dickens out of people who own more than their primary residence and maybe 1-2 other properties. There is more at stake here than just his own situation.
What are the odds of this appearing today in HN? I was only looking yesterday about the current status of Potassco, after an entire decade. I then checked if there was anything recently written about it in HN. And behold, today there is a post.
I use RipGrep with it.
It's very important in that by positioning his foundation as the largest global health provider in the world he could easily use it for nefarious or selfish means if he desired. It's very difficult to judge the motivation for Gates Foundation work on the foundation alone (for the same reason it's tough to judge the value of a VC-based startup by it's initial pricing scheme), so it's reasonable to look at his personal conduct to understand his motivations.

I for one, am not super happy that half of the third world relies on a child rapists' friend to get their Malaria vaccines.
There was no tax! People switched to cars simply because they wanted to, not because they were forced to. Whereas there is a tax levied on ICEs in many places.
Thank you! I had no idea one could alias branch names.
Why be woke, when you can be aliased awake.
The recreation of the control room in HBO's Chernobyl drama was
impressive. Presumably it was fairly accurate/authentic - but also
it's simplicity and explicit use during shots in the drama as a filmic
device to explain the quite technically complex plot was amazing.
From the dials, meters and warning lights made it all come alive.
‘South Park’ Creators’ Deepfake Company Nabs $20M Investment
That's one reframing. Mine is simpler:

* Apple realistically needs to provide a stand, even though most users in their target market won't use it

* The target market is already small/niche

* The stand has to be relatively nice

* All in all, this means low quantity, high quality == very high cost.
Losing money by doing real business (or in the case of losing money: attempting to do real business) would be a real problem for employees doing hard work. Losing money in this case here is gamblers' money and I have no feeling for gamblers. Unfortunately some employees' salaries are paid by gamblers (mine is), so it can have nasty consequences.

Read the valuation of MariaDB earlier today in the paper paper (so before trading had started) and immediately thought: It can't be worth that much: Speculation, hype! Of course the new value determined by "the markets" is also a result of speculation. Just a different type of and less hype.
technically google can trivially duplicate this work with their own llms...

organizationally, google is a hot mess that can't even figure out how to launch a product
I've often been confused by reports like the OP that the person refuses meds then proceeds to descend into some sort of pure madness. How can that madness be better than the meds? Why do you think they prefer the madness? You seem to resist it do you know any reason why?

I've known three people one directly and two indirectly that were lunatic level if they were off meds and all refused meds consistantly.

1. Was a guy I worked in the same dept during an early job. His thing was to start telling people that government agents were in the elevator to control your mind or something and ending out emails about it and corning people to warn them. Funny thing was it was a government job so there were government agents in the elevator pretty much anytime someone was in the elevator. He resisted because he didn't like the meds.

2. My friends brother in his 30's would not take his meds and his parents had to sneak them in his food. If he missed enough doses he would eventually go raving mad into the woods and eventually be found passed out somewhere by emergency responders usually naked and injured. He resisted because he didn't like the meds.

3. My brother in laws brother was paralyzed and brain damaged from a car wreck. Yet when off meds he would run off in his wheelchair into dangerous traffic or be found passed out(and injured) from exhaustion of crawling because he went somewhere a wheelchair couldn't go and just crawled for miles. Again he didn't like the drugs.
When are lawyers considered with fairness?

I'm not sure I see what's unfair here. They were notified. If they wanted to negotiate around it, they could have done ahead of time. They're lawyers. They should know to read material they're sent.
My impression is that the incentives leading to "next-quarter-itis" are primarily executive compensation and investor's own timelines (influenced by long term cap gains only requiring one year).

Keeping companies private just limits who can own them and doesn't help.
Umm.. I’ve seen quite a few look like a caveman with a head bulge.
I’ve found Wallaby (https://wallabyjs.com/) to be a great addition to my tool chain over the last year.

It is an automated test runner for JS / TS code with a great integration with ides. It has made writing tests and refactoring so much more productive.
I just shifted from Logseq to Obsidian over the last couple of weeks. One of my reasons for doing so is that while Logseq does technically store your notes as local markdown files, there's so much added on top of that, that I can't really open my notes folder in Typora/[markdown editor of choice] and have a smooth experience reading my notes. The underlying format might be open, but there was still lock-in. Obsidian seems much better for that - there'll always be a tradeoff between features and portability, but I do prefer Obsidian's balance.

I wrote a very rough Python script to help me move my graph over to Obsidian - if anyone else is in the same boat, feel free to try it out https://github.com/NishantTharani/LogSeqToObsidian
Sorry, my bad. I forgot to the "just". You don't have to just be smart and hardworking.
How could you do this all this time, me not noticing?!
THIS is the interconnected mapping for humans i had in my spare room of braincells, that were still alive at that time.

It is okay because living in a sim brings peace to the NPCs. How can one or a group progress so smooth an idea.

Just one thing: how fast this app starts is a less of a blink.

Speechless. Congrats and i step down on my knees for this.

When Sony says: it's not a game -then this is: not a app in the ordinary way. Needs no praise or downvote. This is something completly different.

'Got to remind myself: breathe in - and breathe out.
Ash HN: Any viable alternative device to a smartphone on the market today?
I would like to not have to use a phone, for security, privacy, and attention-economy reasons.

Is there anything I can buy that let's me live a life outside the wallet gardens of ios and android stores? it could be a phone designed for privacy if such a thing exists, or a tablet running linux with a sim card. I'm in Germany in case that matters.
"I bet with some practice, a ghostwriter could probably churn out a Hardy Boys book in a couple of days."

AI written pulp
I've used it with Goland (Jetbrains) and VSCode. I'm a ST customer... will give their plugin a try out of curiosity.

Update: installed it and it seemed to work fine out of the box.
I read somewhere that they end up costing as much as an IPO for some arcane reasons. Maybe that's not actually the case?
Or, beyond 28 years, if the work is not released to the public domain, have an annual copyright tax based upon a "fair market" assessment of the property. To keep assessment real, perhaps let there be an auction starting at 2x the taxed value.
A reminder : still using "race" like it's still the 18th century (up to the 1950s?) and like it's still a valid scientific concept effectively makes the US government a promoter of racism :

https://www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?I...

The postmodern term is "ethnicity" (which does get mentioned in your article), with the understanding that it's overwhelmingly about culture, and while genetics do matter in very specific cases (like for lactose tolerance), typically they matter very little, and your ethnicity is something that you can change (though it gets ever harder after your teenage years).

P.S.: I really don't know enough about "caste" and its history to comment on that, though the ancestry issue doesn't look good.

(One thing that has been bugging me for a while is how the number of our ancestors grows exponentially with each generation - at least before inbreeding starts to dominate - which seems like any of those ancestry-based discriminations are just arbitrarily stopping at some convenient for them point/in complete coverage, and can basically make up excuses about discriminating against you or not. But I guess that I shouldn't be surprised about it when totalitarian regimes do it : the fear of the arbitrary is a powerful weapon they have, and so it's likely on purpose !)
Copyright should be life of the author/s full stop.
> This is a specific person who is a lawyer for a firm which is actively working against MSG

Has there been allegations that the firm or its partners/employees have acted maliciously with respect to MSG, or are they just representing a client within the standard scope of practice for the legal profession?
As a low-level employee, my noise-cancelling headset helps me way more when it comes to concentration than any how-to book on “deep work” could.
20% of the cost of the device for a stand is probably typical in actuality-- just it's usually bundled.

If it seems ridiculous, don't buy it-- most of us would be using a monitor arm for a monitor like this.

It has a nice 4 bar linkage, bearings, etc. It's intrinsically not cheap and is made in extraordinarily low quantities.
If AI is the author then what?
Very light for toptal