skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can also vouch for Sumatra.

Personal anecdote: my laptop (6 years old and outdated long before it was manufactured) was thrashing with 99% ram used and disk bandwidth maxed out due to a combination of a 100-tab Chrome monster and doing pacman -Syu on my Arch Linux WSL (I think it might be fixed now, but some time ago WSL file cache would eat all your Windows ram). After accidentally clicking on a pdf document Sumatra somehow still managed to open it in roughly 100-200ms.

I think it might be the only Windows program where I've legitimately been surprised by it's speed.
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Does that card allow you to vote? Is it free to obtain? Do people know that such option exists?
>Maybe house builders and doctors can come too if there's a demand for it?

Having a large pool of house builders isn't going to suddenly solve new home supply problems or make homes affordable. That is a far more complex problem and simply having a readily available skilled labor force will not solve.
Religion was born based on primitive humans observing aliens, which were interpreted as "angels" and "demons". It's as good of an explanation as any.

Either way, we will need to make great technological leaps to develop proper demonslaying equipment.
Not a problem, Canada spent a lot of energy ensuring that original value Canadians were forcibly integrated into European values.
Hancock is clearly a kook.
I’m boring, I just use i3 or sway, like the rest of the hipsters. So, no recommendation I guess, since it is just a window manager.
I have two words for you. Tundra. City. That's right; we did it. We took the Canada you love and made it _more_ Canada. Up to _twice_ as cold as the previous generation of cities. More that _six_ times as remote. No other competitor is offering this kind of performance. I want to be clear this is a _generational_ leap over the competition. We're at least five years ahead of other major countries. And, boy, you better believe we patented it!
I am wondering how much of this is fueled by the change in the word alien from simply meaning foreign to meaning extraterrestrial and people misreading the former for the latter.

The research into foreign weapon technology is in one of those gray areas where not only does some of those activities border really close to industrial espionage against companies in potentially allied countries, or might contradict stated US State Department positions on international law it's usually classified and spoken off in hushed tones

It's very likely that an alien(as in foreign) technology evaluation program exists without there being anything extra-terrestrial about it as legalese can trail popular changes to terms by several decades. And that mentions of those in wider circles might fuel some rumors and misconceptions among those "who wants to believe".
Is that a lot? I ferment my regular wheat bread for over 24h. (Started some off this morning as it happens, will likely bake it tomorrow evening.)
One of the most notable UAP/UFO encounters ever took place in South Africa at an elementary school.
I’ve had good success with step-ca. It was easy enough to be called trivial actually!
I understand that everybody wants to be the next Notion but I would suggest moving away from the Somalian TLD trend. Zero credibility and probably prone to all kinds of blockers.
With your future prospects, where do you see yourself in 5 years?
> Well then you know which party to vote for if that's one of the most important issues for you. Or at least, which one not to vote for.

No major party that I know of have a coherent strategy to solve the housing crisis and the TFR issue. None. They all have contradicting ideas embedded in their policies. Usually it is a mix of more incentive to own property (e.g. incentives to first-buyers, incentive to construction companies, etc) while also increasing immigration to record levels, what changes is the flavour of immigrants they prioritize (different sectors of the economy, more refugees, etc).
I don’t do more work outside of my professional work.

I get away with just my phone and an iPad for everything else.
$1 of gold per phone would mean there's $5 billion interested in getting the gold back out, and if it's easier to get it out of the phones than out of the ground, it seems like a no-brainer.
Increase density. More people per room > more profit > more bubble! Cut unprofitable people, around 4% of all deaths are from euthanasia.

I really do not understand why people still can have any illusions about Canadian government after last 3 years.
I am thinking the data is correct, but perhaps revenue per available listing is misleading.
Yes. I see fewer offers coming up and at lower rates.

I also saw a few jobs of colleagues not renewed and replaced by immigrant teams supplied by a big consultancy.

If this trend continues, I'll be looking at retiring early or moving overseas.
I am not getting it.

In sharecropping (with a lot of nuances depending on the specific countries and even different regions in a same country) the landowner and the tenant were some sort of partners, both had all the interest in having a better/larger crop (or raise more cattle, etc.).

In a normal capitalistic employer/employee relationship, the employees have no particular interest in the final outcome, they are only scared of being fired if they don't meet some (often arbitrarily set) "productivity goals".
If you had used Obsidian for more than 15 minutes you would have realized there are plugins to sync the notes using git, which even works on iOS.
The key word here is "fake".

To be a realistic simulated habitat, they need to bombard them with frigid cold, radiation levels 50 times earth, no flowing water, minimal atmospheric pressure, significantly reduced sunlight and the occasional asteroid strike.

Does anyone really think you can grow crops in this?

Probably easier to just build an artificial environment in space or on the moon.
Honda Monkey Breaks World Record Covering 4,183 Km on Single Tank
My wife and I both struggled to really get into his work until we went to the museum. There's something about the way the museum presented Van Gogh, as a struggling misfit of perhaps questionable talent trying to make friends and looking for a popular counter-culture style, that really clicked with me. I didn't identify with Van Gogh per se, but I suddenly felt for him and his humanity and it peeled away those layers of nonsensical pop-culture that surrounds him.

I think also that I had seen very few of his paintings in person and when you see his late works, after he figured out what he was, they explode off the canvas like nothing I've ever seen before. My wife and I went home and bought a reproduction we were so moved, and then promptly decided not to hang it when it arrived as it lacks that....whatever factor it is in his real works that make them shimmer like something from another plane of spacetime.

I really recommend people who don't like van Gogh to visit that museum.
Visa and restrictions on freedom of movement are pretty new thing though. I don't think the history can be used as an argument for visa regimes. Visa regimes are also littered with atrocities, have you heard of the immigrant boar that sink last week? I'm not talking about the billionaire submarine.
Your comment is both hilarious and so true.
The common occurrence of hallucinations makes it hard for me to believe anyone will be using LLMs to produce code anywhere outside of shops who really don't care about errors. Until they fix that, code is a use case where even slight errors make the output useless.
> On the other hand, machines are faster than ever before while doing more than ever before, and apps are more flexible and change more quickly (...). A few milliseconds of UI latency will bother almost no-one.

On the forking hand (distinct from your "other _other_ hand"), the "doing more than ever before" neatly cancels out "faster than ever before", which prompts a question: how useful is whatever it is our machines are doing now? Because one thing is clear: most of that extra work is not visible to the user. The increase in software capabilities is much, much smaller - nowhere near enough to explain where all the performance goes.

We could break the extra work into several categories:

- Support for better hardware - e.g. higher-resolution screens require more RAM (somewhat compensated by GPUs), and require higher-resolution assets to maintain (not even improve on) decent clarity, which has second-order effects on storage use (partially offset by compression) and CPU use on decompression (the price of offsetting storage use), etc.

- Security features - cryptography, secure protocols, isolation, sandboxing, etc. - those all cost CPU and memory.

- "Security" features - "real-time" malware scans (bane of my existence), shady anti-virus/firewall software (i.e. almost all of it), and various other parasites living off people's fear (or need for regulatory compliance), and convincing users to pay them with money, time and compute. Not (x)or, and.

- Legitimate new features - handling more type and variety of content, more advanced algorithms, etc. Continuous auto-saving and collaborative editing are two big and perhaps underappreciated generic advancements.

- ... ???

The first four items on the list don't seem to account for all the performance loss, especially for software that doesn't do things requiring modern security, and offers the same set of features as its equivalent 10 or 20 years ago. Often less features, even.

That last point, the "dark matter" of computing, needs more detailed study. We can guess a chunk of it is developer convenience, but that's not all of it either.

WRT. developer convenience - as a developer, of course I like it, but it's really getting out of hand - at this point, whatever I buy for myself by externalizing the cost on users, I still lose because I'm also the user of development tooling, and those developers externalize on their users too...
No, it was opt-in not required by law. The system was designed to work only with images as they were being uploaded to iCloud; it didn’t work with just any images on device. The receipt used for processing was generated as part of the upload process and neither the device nor backend could independently determine any useful information without coöperating with each other.

It was a really interesting scheme that Apple clearly put a huge amount of thought into in order to maximise privacy. But people didn’t read the details and instead imagined it worked in a much simpler way, drowning out any useful conversation about what it was actually doing. The UK approach should be opposed, but I wouldn’t be opposed to the scheme Apple wanted to implement.
Thanks, this is really cool to zoom in and rotate about. I was doing something similar in the museum moving from side to side and squatting down and looking at the painting from different angles
No you don’t. However the VC model will prevent less greedy business owners from not doing vendor lock-in.
It's interesting to hear the contrast between Meta and my experience talking with ex-Googlers who complain that open-source or industry standard infrastructure is far inferior to what they were used to at Google. Why such a big chasm between the internal tool quality at Meta and Google?
The government has previously used UFOs to divert attention.

> Over half of all U.F.O. reports from the late 1950's through the 1960's were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights'' over the United States, the C.I.A. study says. ''This led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay public fears and to protect an extraordinarily sensitive national security project.

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/03/us/cia-admits-government-...
They did end their comment with a question mark - no need to get snippy :)
I think the lesson here is don’t use awk for CSV. Instead, use one of the many tools discussed in comments that knows how to handle CSV.

Some are very close to awk in spirit, like my own attempt: `pawk` (1). It will parse your csv just fine. Or tsv. Or JSON or YAML or TOML. Or Parquet, even.

1: https://github.com/jean-philippe-martin/pawk
Am I Being Priced Out of Making Music?
Some of this resonated with me, some did not. I don't think there was an insecurity I needed salve for as a motivation for writing games. Neither do I think that programming generally has been a "power trip" for me.

But like the author I came to see my writing of games as satisfying an artistic (and also a technical need) I suppose I have. Why express yourself artistically in software? Maybe because I am not as skilled at painting or music to hope to express myself in that regard.

And I think early on, perhaps still, I wrote games to make tangible the idea for a game that I would like to play. (That others might also enjoy the game should not come as a surprise.)

In fact, plenty of times when learning I can program, I have had non-programmers tell me about their own great idea for a game and ask if I could write it. I feel a little uncomfortable when they do because frankly it's difficult for me to be inspired by someone else's idea. Often, I tell them, "Why don't you teach yourself to program?" I know how dickish that sounds but in fact I am essentially telling them to take the exact path that I took myself, ha ha.

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I agree indie game writing is art.

When I first wrote shareware when I was in college any money that showed up (maybe $10 a month) went directly to buying a pizza and two cokes for my then-girlfriend and I that Friday night. It just seemed like gravy.

But when programming became a career for me, and the internet added a more realistic means to monetize software, there did come in this creeping expectation of making enough to "live on" from games. I am coming to see now that this kind of ruins it for me.

Having recently retired, I used my time to rewrite one of my early shareware games for Steam. It was fun to go back to C for the nostalgia, fun to modernize the game using a cross-platform library (SDL), fun to see 60 fps so easy....

But I sunk $1000 into the thing if you count buying a Steam Deck, paying Steam $100, and the various controllers and such I purchased (for the oft-neglected PC's I pressed into game-development service — I am normally a Mac guy but I wanted to try cross-platform). All told I have made about $570 from the game and I don't expect to make much more.

I think I'll write another game or two for Steam but, and perhaps this is a healthy mindset, I don't expect to make any money doing it. But in a way I feel I am slowly coming back to my college days and can begin to look at any sort of recompense as ... having paid for the Steam Deck at least.

I am glad the author has come around to a similar conclusion. I think it can make game-writing fun again. (I am also glad the author seems to have exorcised some childhood demons in the process — congrats.)
Ghibli movies I've found are more like entering a state of mind or emotion than following a plot. I'm not sure if that's a Ghibli thing or a Japanese thing (I haven't watched much other Japanese content). We introduced Totoro when my kid was 3.5 and it was too soon (she'd cry at the end because the cat bus was going away), but that movie along with Kiki's Delivery Service, The Secret World of Arrietty, and Ponyo have since become staples in our home.

As a parent to a daughter, I do really like the strong female leads that most of their movies have.
Honestly I don’t think the government is sufficiently competent to cover up something as big as intelligent aliens arriving on earth. That’s the most exciting news ever. There’s just no way in my mind they could keep that quiet successfully.
I agree with your point in general, but to be fair in this particular, situation, QML is very very close to existing stuff as opposed to being something completely new

Think of it as JavaScript with different Qt widgets.
Counterpoint from an American working at an academic research job in Montreal.

The gross salary is indeed very low compared to US offers--moving to DC would have increased my gross salary by >2.5x.

However, add in various public services. I pay a few hundred dollars a year total for my family's insurance and medical care and there's little danger of this suddenly changing. Childcare is literally 10x cheaper---and that's after very generous parental leave (50+ weeks). Quebec has fairly strong protections for tenants, so the rent is rising but not wildly. The city is very walkable with solid mass transit, so I can walk, bike, or bus to most places, insulating me from gas prices. Once you start trying to 'buy back' a similar quality of life in a big American city, the salary gap is smaller than you'd think.

We're interested in moving back for other reasons (closer to family, more exciting jobs, etc) but the economic case, butter aside, is not wildly compelling at non-SV salaries.
It’s a policy choice. I believe that people born in a country have a 100% right to live in that country while someone not born there does not have that same right.

We happen to call the former group “citizens” and there are other paths to citizenship in most countries, but that word is merely a shorthand for “a person with a non-revocable right to live in a country”. If you change citizen to mean something else or change non-citizen to mean that, new words will emerge to mean specifically the difference in that right and we’ll switch to using that word.

Separately, the decision of whom to extend the privilege of entry or working to non-citizens is based on whom the population (in democracies) thinks will make the country better. If you’re picking your team to compete on a global stage, why wouldn’t you allow the brightest and most educated to come join your team?

You appear to disagree on my initial premise that people born somewhere have more rights to be there than others who weren’t. I respect your right to hold your opinion. I also reserve my right to hold my opinion.
What is an original value Canadian? Do you mean:

- the primarily French and British traders with First Nations?

- the colonizing religiously oriented Europeans that committed genocide (forcibly removing all native children from their homes & putting them in schools where many died of neglect)?

- the over 600 current First Nations governments?

- the refugees Canada took in, from the Underground Railroad to the Kosovo genocide to today?

- post World War II Italians, draft-dodging Americans, a huge Irish influx, and before all of that Chinese immigration (which primarily built the railroads used to this day)?

Btw, what do you consider original Canadian values? Do you mean the Chinese exclusion in BC, which has lasted all the way into 1947? The genocide against First Nations people? The ongoing neglect of missing and murdered First Nations women? The significant Ukrainian population (the largest out of ukraine)? The generous refugee policy? The anti slavery stance which welcomed Underground Railroad refugees? The national railroad (from sea to shining sea) built by primarily Chinese labor?
It's a ton of action, high quality CGI, good acting, and a host of "source material" which means the MCU movies/series don't have to invest valuable time to boring worldbuilding - the material is the world.
Absolutely not. Historically, time and time again the pharmaceutical industry has proven it cannot be trusted and that regulatory oversight is required.
"I respect myself too much to stay in Canada" was an article that got a lot of traction.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/06/11/i-respect-mys...

Just remember, Canada is geographically situated near the US but their attitudes to innovation, risk taking, rewarding talent, and merit based promotion are not the same. Even if they say that it is - the reality is very different.
Why is it regrettable?
Already approaching this with Xcode, but without productivity gain.

And by productive you mean producing new problems that need solving instead of really solving anything, so that business can continue to make money?
Very much agree. I'm a Canadian that moved to the US for better career / pay. Working in finance / VC, I thought I'd be able to buy a house in Ottawa after a few years. Even making upwards of USD $150K + bonus, I can't justify buying a home there to move back. My parents purchased a home in Ottawa for ~$250K around 2011 and their neighbor recently sold their house for $1.2M.
Also, Canadian salaries are, for the most part, garbage compared to the US. My friend is programmer in the US makes almost as much as I do. Meanwhile, his brother is also a programmer for the same company but in the Canadian branch, doing similar work but his salary is closer to CAD $90K.
The whole immigration thing in Canada honestly feels like an attempt at wage supression. The local Walmart in Ottawa is now like 60% Temporary Foreign Workers working the bottom jobs for minimum wage, though I guess their visa is tied to employment so they're willing to accept some abuse.
I wonder what effect this no-job, no-worries visa will have.
It seems like there's a lot of recent interest and effort in open-source or self-hosted Notion-like/markdown-with-widgets applications and platforms. AppFlowy (https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy) comes to mind; I attended one of their monthly "town hall" meetings a few months back, and looks like they're rapidly increasing in popularity. I think there was another similar project like this on HN front page last week, IIRC.

This makes me happy, because I switched to Obsidian primarily for local-first file storage in a platform-agnostic format. I've learned to love many things about Obsidian and am writing a few plugins myself, but there are still several Notion-esq functionalities I wish I had, and I find myself handing off between Obsidian and other webapps for certain effort, like team project management.

I used to get far more excited to explore new projects like BlockSuite, and I really appreciate their documentation, but I find it hard to justify allocating time to reviewing and trying out new tools when I still have much more improve on with my Obsidian usage; this is especially true of newer projects where I'm unsure of their shelf life.

To assuage my internal conflict I remind myself that I think plaintext is fundamentally the right choice for much knowledge collection, and I'm proud to say that if the internet shut down, I'd retain a significant growing fraction of my personal data.
Here they replaced them with "reusable" plastic containers like these https://a.co/d/ekoVN0G ... and wooden cutlery
People keep complaining, but nobody goes back to using the old software (even on new machines).

Because the old software is missing 80% of the features needed today.

It's like comparing a go-kart (simple, fast, easy to use) with a car (big, slow, complex). Yet you don't see people in go-karts.
Harry Potter had phenomenally good source material such that they would have had to try really hard to mess it up.

I'll hold my breath for the TV series...

Jurassic Park had two books, from which they've now made five (or is it six? Jeez who cares by this point) movies.
That linked report says that 84% of Software Engineering Waterloo grads, from the class 2020, intended or desired to move to the US (it's unclear if they actually did -- the poll was completed June 2020).[1]

A very important detail here is that Software Engineering is a specific specialization under the Engineering faculty. This figure does not include Computer Science graduates, for example, as that is a separate and much larger department.

So, this is a poll of 87 students (out of ~107) of a very specific graduating class. To put this in perspective, the Computer Science department at Waterloo is 4,000 undergraduate students.[2]

I'm not refuting that Canadian graduates often look to the US for better employment opportunities (full disclosure: I did that), but I think we owe ourselves to look at this topic objectively.

[1] https://uw-se-2020-class-profile.github.io/profile.pdf
[2] https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/quick-facts