skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's my concern too, Apple only makes it easy to export as PDFs. There is a third party tool that can export to markdown[1].

I wanted to point out as well that notes works really well in the browser these days. Good enough to use it on windows, not sure about android though.

[1]http://falcon.star-lord.me/exporter/
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Only thanks to heavy moderation.
I think the cautionary tale here is not to do what Twitter did: prevent links to competing products, blocking open access, etc.

Don't you find it ironic that you are proposing we do on HN exactly what Twitter did, which is probably why you suggest not linking to Twitter?
Controversial opinion time: I don't think the Django docs are very good. I just find them hard to navigate, to the extent that rather than look for something as a howto or a reference, I'll go to the tutorial, because I already know it fairly well and I can find an example and probably a jumping-off point into the right section. It's often not obvious how to move around the site to find what you need, at all.

I don't think this is the fault of the 4doc model, but I do think it's evidence that it's not all you need.

As a case in point, all 4doc sites I've interacted with, as far as I can remember, have had documentation for how to use the documentation. That seems weird to me.
Elaborate conclusion and consequence please? (:
Protecting PostgreSQL with Adaptive Rate Limiting
"TE changes were nonrandom in two ways. Firstly, the same DNA element could insert repeatedly at new target sites; and, secondly, TE mobility and mutagenic activity was activated by specific organismal stress conditions."

Neither of those things proves that changes are nonrandom. I have not found a single example of nonrandom mutation in the article, just learned about new ways DNA might mutate in living organisms.
Agreed. I also get flummoxed whenever I try to talk about this stuff.

Further, I've only recently appreciated that our modern folk understanding of right to privacy has eclipsed its twin, the right to personal autonomy.

The development of the doctrine regarding the tort of "invasion of privacy" was largely spurred by the Warren and Brandeis article, "The Right to Privacy". In it, they explain why they wrote the article in its introduction: "Political, social, and economic changes entail the recognition of new rights, and the common law, in its eternal youth, grows to meet the demands of society". ...

They then clarify their goals: "It is our purpose to consider whether the existing law affords a principle which can properly be invoked to protect the privacy of the individual; and, if it does, what the nature and extent of such protection is".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_laws_of_the_United_Sta...

Brandeis & Warren were motivated by the evils of "yellow journalism", the social media of its day.

"The U.S Constitution safeguards the rights of Americans to privacy and personal autonomy. Although the Constitution does not explicitly provide for such rights, the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution protect these rights, specifically in the areas of marriage, procreation, abortion, private consensual homosexual activity, and medical treatment."

https://www.justia.com/constitutional-law/docs/privacy-right...

I love the EU's notion of consent wrt privacy (h/t @sschueller). Will definitely learn more about their system. My hunch is consent is akin to respecting another's autonomy.
Yes.

OpenSCAD Graph Editor is done with an earlier version and runs on Mac OS, Windows, and Linux:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor
SFIA also comes in podcast form, not just video.
Confidential Kubernetes
Symfony was the worst. Holy shit dude.
I still have to deal with a legacy Symfony project, which needs to be rewritten because of their... I don't even know what to call it.

That stof guy was one of the worst.
Inconsistencies, incompatibility. But the dogma was strong.

Indeed they wanted to be the Java of PHP.
And so inefficient. Imagine duplicating all variables of a request context for dogmas sake. So you can later do Request->getVar() from their own copy.
It shows a basic not understanding of the language.
This was my impetus to finally close my account and delete my data.

I was holding on to it because Notion's import sucks and would only import a few notes at a time, so I had to do a lot of different imports to get all the notes in all the notebooks, and I wouldn't be surprised if I still missed a few. (I have lots of notes — virtually everything I wanted to remember and keep forever, I put in Evernote.)

I'm a bit sad because Notion is a fundamentally different product and sucks on mobile. It has all the features I'm used to from Evernote, and notes with attached images imported well. I had a lot of notes with a scanned document attached and a brief explanation of what the document was, so that was vital for me.

RIP Evernote. It was an amazing tool, and it served me well for over a decade.
Is HN “free?” How heavy of a hand do the mods have here? (I genuinely don’t know the answer to that question.)
I agree that the fates of social networks can develop and evolve intrinsically over time, and that there's maybe too much effort placed on advocating for their use with an immediate horizon as the goal.

However, it's pretty clear that network effects matter in social networks and other forms of IT. In some sense this is precisely why some people feel burned at the moment, in part.

In that regard, I don't really blame people for selling a social network or manipulating uptake, even if I don't like the network itself. It's how these things proceed in part.

I also agree with the author that it's ok if a community is small. I've come to the opinion that sometimes having a smaller community can be a good thing.

On the other hand, some platforms — the web, email — are pretty dominant, and we've lacked an open social network platform that solves the problem of putting content distribution directly in the hands of content producers. Part of what Mastodon, Bluesky, and Lemmy are trying to do is be that platform.

I also think it's normal for developers to want to make as many users of their products happy. So to the extent they make lots of users happy, they're happier?
Oh I see, it has weird independent block file semantics (weird because they aren't reused, unless they are?). That's interesting, although potentially problematic, with the whole "I'll just keep adding files, unless I remember to cleanup, which could cause problems" thing

If you can't handle 30 seconds of data loss you should probably be using a real database. I could be wrong but I don't remember this guaranteeing every transaction synchronously committed to remote storage?

There's a lot of caveats around block store restrictions, multi client access, etc. It looks a lot more complicated than it's probably worth. I'll grant you in some cases it's probably useful, but I also can't see a case where a regular database wouldn't be more ideal.
Why would ‘shared’ mean ‘public’? And in most password hashing contexts the salt and hash are not ‘public’ either.
Sega had plenty of great games. In fact, despite being a Nintendo household growing up, I'm actually quite impressed in hindsight by the degree to which Sega as a 1st party made games to scratch every conceivable itch you might have as a gamer.

32/64-bit Nintendo really didn't make games of every genre. They made the games they wanted to make, and if you wanted a Sports game, or a Fighter, or a JRPG, they expected third parties to fill in that gap. It didn't always work (the N64, had, what? Like 4 RPGs across the entire console lifespan?).

In contrast, if you had a Sega Saturn, you had nearly every genre covered by a direct 1st-party game. There's something commendable about that--that you can feel like Sega would take care of you if you bought the system. I can see why it generated a certain level of passion among Sega fans while we in the Nintendo households were resigned to, "Yeah, if we want more RPGs other than Paper Mario or Ogre Battle 64, we're gonna buy a PlayStation.'
Britain and EU agree draft Horizon deal
Isn’t the whole argument in this thread that the government meddled in the economy by printing tons of money that then was used for questionable investments? How is that “free market”?

IME 80% of criticisms of “free market” is actually a criticism of government policy (and then the same critics think that more of those policies are called for!)
Roughly how much would the founders net
Pull the plug is meant literally. As in, turn off the power to the AI. Carbon based fuels let alone cocaine don't have off switches. The situation just isn't analogous at all.
Web -2.0: The Public Web
I’ve been recently trying to unpack an imperfect idea of trying to publicly fund social media (and how to generally improve the internet).
We were harder to get offended, not more innocent.
Is this comment supposed to... mean anything?
https://ishanmahapatra.com/

This should be a little different from everyone else's pretty technical blogs :).

I write in fits and starts (and just by looking at it right now, it's been a minute since I wrote on there, but I have a few half written posts that I should just throw up there), and mostly have been writing about my struggles with productivity and making indie films.
Part of their advertising IS their hardware. It's definitely good, but it's almost mostly fashion.
It works fine, even w/larger data. The data is stored on a bind-mount volume on the host; not in the container.
> Sega had plenty of great games.

Not the ones kids wanted most.
So, a winner of the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance [1] not included. Not what I'd call "encyclopedic."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_in_Line_(song)
This goes beyond the President using his “bully pulpit” to urge a social action. From the article:

>Several of the messages came from Rob Flaherty, former deputy assistant to the president and director of digital strategy, who criticized Facebook over its handling of COVID misinformation.

>Doughty said that one Flaherty message in February 2021 accused Facebook "of causing 'political violence' by failing to censor false COVID-19 claims." Flaherty also wrote in a July 2021 email to Facebook, "Are you guys fucking serious? I want an answer on what happened here and I want it today."

>A February 2021 message in which Flaherty asked Twitter to remove a parody account related to Hunter Biden's daughter said, "Cannot stress the degree to which this needs to be resolved immediately. Please remove this account immediately."

In my opinion there is a big difference between the President saying in a speech that social media should do something versus what is revealed here.
Downvoted because that guy steals other people's code without their permission.
Oh that's interesting. Occasionally I use the Firefox inspector to view an image directly. I don't have the eyes of a 20 year old anymore and Instagram doesn't have a full screen button or any other way to enlarge an image.

Maybe they're picking up on that somehow and getting ornery about it.

IG was an app before they were a website and they have never embraced the open architecture of the web, nor been entirely comfortable with the browser as a user agent.

That raises another interesting topic, the US DoJ is becoming increasingly aggressive about applying the Americans with Disabilities Act toward websites. I wonder how well IG complies with the relevant standards like WCAG. Probably not well. We have noticed that any website which implements a lot of anti-user features tends to be extra bad in terms of accessibility for the disabled. I wonder if we will at some point see a Big Tech like Meta start to come under fire from the US government because their user-hostile features are also hostile toward the disabled and/or this results in them skirting ADA compliance.
Lee Valley Tools has really excellent products and their stores are like museums, but you may have have bought into their brand too much. Their stuff isvery high quality, and very high quality is what a luxury good is. It's like flying first class and then treating it as necessary because it's an absurd affront to your humanity to tolerate how poorly everyone is treated. "First class isn't extravagent, it's basic dignity!" goes the reasoning. Personally, I could never afford cheap things either, but often one must.

Some companies have figured out that they can just sell cheap symbols that impress the sort of people who are impressed by that sort of thing, and they use a similar formula where the essential activity is getting attention or going to nighclubs and parties, but yes, your parents collected slightly more rarefied luxury products.
The tweet is currently viewable while logged out. Have you tried?
It's very heavy in terms of tone, less in content. Definitely workable for nazis if they're careful. You can advocate eugenics and genocide-lite if you're polite and abstract enough.

You're more likely to get in trouble for calling someone a nazi than you are for promoting nazi policies, as long as you don't use any slurs.
You can't even begin to imagine how hillariously bad it is.

https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1676668138866311169

(And for non logged in users, continuation: https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1676668144499281940 and https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1676668146663538688)

~30 requests to load this, totaling at ~5.5 Mb.

18 of those requests, accounting for 4 Mb, is just JavaScript.

How many divs does it take them to center 1 word? Glad you asked! About 13. How many CSS classes? About 90.

Yes, 90 distinct CSS classes. 13 nested divs. To center one word
The analogy is good but I don’t think the name is very apt. It seems that we are just increasing the price of something not making the quality worse. Often that leads to higher quality—why do people prefer Disneyland to cheaper parks?
What’s the difference between that and downloading and running an installer?
HN, for example.

HN isn't really a 'platform'. The reach for a post on HN is tiny. There needs to be a critical mass of people before something can really be called a platform.

And HN posts are moderated, both by the mod team using their tools, and by the users using flagging and votes. It's quite far from being 'free'. You can say anything you want in theory by it won't remain visible for very long.
Chill it's been in development for like 6 months and they wanted it to scale to 10M users. I'm sure a web interface is on the roadmap.
Every time in the last 5 years that I drive by Evernote Building on the 101 - I was shocked it was still in business. With Apple Notes chipping away at its core, and stiff competition from Notion - how long could it survive?
How exactly? That's quite an unfounded overreaction and exaggeration as typically found here on HN. Close to conspiracy level. Surely you meant Meta who actually profited from an actual genocide [0].

But other than that, finally there is a real alternative to Twitter but again owned by Meta. It just means the town-hall and outrage will move to on large social network linked to Instagram and Meta.

It will degrade into a Nazi hellscape anyway. Just like Facebook once did.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-...
You are able to use your existing instagram account. insta also puts a temporary badge on your profile with your sign-up number
It's geek code in the cloud!

https://web.archive.org/web/20090220181018/http://geekcode.c...
Done, or accomplished?
Joplin does, and it works rather well. I have been planning on migrating my notes since the acquisition, but wanted to see what their next move was.

Joplin seems like the best at handling my mix of text notes, PDF files, and images at the moment. If it doesn't work out, though, at least I have my data in a more open form.
Could you disable the favicon changing all the time? It's crazy annoying
It seems like you can generate links, but they don't do anything for people who don't have the app (except direct you to install the app). I haven't fiddled with it to see if they've implemented something to make the content visible to search engines. (Which presumably would mean I could see it too with some effort.) But I haven't seen such a thing yet.

Edit: Someone kindly pointed out that you can see the content in the browser without an account from following a direct link. (You just can't have the app installed or it will open that and drop you on the login page.) This makes me a lot happier with the product!
Senior Director here, I moved into people management from being a frontend developer (and still occasionally pop into that role, project depending...)

I worry about your motivation for being a manager. I got into this role because I started to find people more interesting than programming. I enjoy shaping their career growth, resolving interpersonal problems, building culture, and even the 1:1s and retros. It has felt like an evolution of programming in a way; people are highly unpredictable, which results in a greater occurrence of unique challenges. I found with programming (especially frontend) that after a while the problems reveal a repetitive pattern.

All to say, does this interest you? Are you running towards this challenge, or away from your current role?
I’m definitely not a fan of Trump and I was also suspicious. But after reading the article, I don’t see anything objectionable with it especially with the carve outs.

But censorship pressure very much happened on “both sides”.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-tru...
I have some workflows where a SQLite database is built from data sets and then used read-only by multiple processes. I currently implement this by putting the SQLite file into S3 and copying it to the machines that need it. This will save the copy step.
Let's remember that Adam Smith was against the idea of the joint stock company, a company where the shareholders and managers are different people.

He thought that smaller, owner operated businesses would outcompete joint stock companies, primarily because the incentives between owners and managers were aligned.

Managers managing other people's money will make worse decisions over the long term than managers managing their own money.

That was his theory back in 1776, things didn't turn out that way obviously.
why not rely on the grid those few days in a year? I kind of get self sufficiency is the goal, eventually, but for now sounds cheaper to go gradually?
> Given no recession on the horizon and FED can't hike interest rates anymore infact they are going back to printing more money next year which creates more dumb money to continue playing stupid games like crypto

None of this is true. In fact, just yesterday the Fed indicated there will be at least one more hike this year.
Hey there - TitanML is these guys: https://www.titanml.co/ . I think the impressive thing isn't actually whether the model is good (although it is a good model especially when fine-tuned) - but how fast this model runs on CPU with the TitanML server compared with before.
Lamborghini's last remaining pure gas guzzlers are all spoken for
Watch thousands of lightning bolts crackle over Europe in new satellite video
A program designed to be fun while also being somewhat educational will never outcompete a game designed to be as fun as possible without regard for educational value.
That's one of the reasons TwinSpark got actions, you still need little bits of client-side interactivity.
Actually the reason that most people don't like Unity is because the goal of the company seems to be to create a million half-baked, fancy-looking ideas rather than creating a solid experience with the core engine. Even today there are still very weird and difficult to circumvent bugs that come up in almost every project, even in trivial ones. Also, the last time I used it all of the old forum threads had been partially corrupted.
The mods have a heavy hand, stuff gets loudly or silently removed all of the time. Dang seems to work full time at it, and I suspect he’s not the only one on the team doing so
Twitter is not a Nazi hellscape.
Image Upscaling Using Neural Networks
Here, now it’s available to your region: https://archive.is/H3LNT
You can link to it, what are you talking about? An example fetched from a verge article -> https://www.threads.net/t/CuVaOg1PgU4/
edit: link to pdf[1]

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/75e9f7a3-da4e-45af-...

The two big pieces that appear to be driving this coverage are, if true, the following:

"suppressing negative posts about the economy", "suppressing negative posts about President Biden" and, apparently, parodies

There are others, but you could technically claim there is some non-POTUS benefit there so it does not look self-serving.

All in all, so far it is pretty damning, but the private-public partnership has been hailed by some as the best thing since sliced bread ( I am absolutely not joking -- it was only a week since I listened to a Canadian official discussing how well it works for their organization ).

I am not a Trump supporter and I am glad, but I can't help but wonder how much of that is just laying groundwork for 2024 elections.
Try reading the rest of the Wikipedia article beyond the first paragraph. Particularly the section on ‘shared-secret pepper’ and ‘unique pepper per user’.
You also cannot delete your Threads account without deleting your IG..
It really kind of is though.
No. But I’ve pretty much always come back to storing text files, photos, and PDFs. It may not be as elegant a solution but it’s completely portable. Never got into OneNote when I used to use Windows for the same reason.
The problem i believe we are coming to is that all secular governance eventually replaces the role once taken by church and religious philosophy.

It starts to become the arbiter of moral truth and with out any real moral center it can only but fail spectacularly. The second and third political theories of racial and social idealogies more rapidly succumb to this due to a more overt desire to place the state at this moral centre. But I feel liberalism is ultimately doomed to the same fate, just more by accident.

No matter how individual everyone seems to think they are they still seem to want some sort of collective morality. Maybe because we mostly need to live some sort of relational existence and in the absence of anything else a collective morality will fill that void, but when that reality is so grounded in human will it can get quite corrupted quite quickly.
Not mine either, but I have noticed on HN that while there's plenty of deserved animus for the ills of adtech, there is little when it comes to the topic of generative AI.

We know that the lowest-hanging fruit use case for gAI will be to pollute the web further with machine-written content and clip art. It isn't to improve anyone's search results, it's to make somebody's bottom line go up, at the expense of the rest of us.

I wish more people would be upset about that. I mean we can already see what's happened to the web via SEO gaming. An even worse fate is coming once gAI really takes off.
Only existing accounts work hence I can see a huge spike in users