skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still a paying customer.

But I don't trust them and haven't since they made it difficult to export all of your notes. And, they damaged tag-based organization by changing to only list notes that are at the bottom of the tag hierarchy - not those in the middle.

And, they want to be the sole custodian my data, and I don't like a company with that attitude.

Having been involved with system design including large servers for 50 years, I don't trust the cloud. Yeah, the huge cloud providers are staffed by really smart people and it is very unlikely you'll lose your data there (although I sure wouldn't trust Google - they're nuts with their product management).

But a small staff Evernote, under pressure to please investors by somehow adding features that will let them compete in spaces already pretty full - no, I don't trust them to adequately use the cloud to keep my data secure.

I do frequent .enex backups of all my notes.

I haven't switched yet, because it's a pain. But I sure do backups frequently.

And if I see a good alternative (maybe in this thread), I'll jump on it.

As long as I don't have to do the sysadmin all the time (I'd forget - busy with other things, or I'd make some dumb mistake); and as long as it isn't a giant pain to install and build. And as long as it has clients for MacOS (including Apple ARM processors), Android and iOS... then I'll look.

Ideas sought.

The last time I did this search (2020), I didn't find one I liked.
Non-paywalled article:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/massive-peak-collaps...
Surely the guy who literally sold pardons for a few million a pop has broad respect for the role of Justice in society.
Wikipedia mentions Canada's real estate market subsidizes money laundering at the expense of raising home prices by 5%.

The solution to real estate hoarding and criminality is occupancy requirements. Another problem is hoarding properties so there is less inventory to buy, pushing potential occupants to rent from literal rent seeking corporations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_property_bubble
I've come to believe this is just the latest version of a very old (and illegal) tactic: predatory pricing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
Look Where You're Headed
Actually archive.org has a tons of interesting stuffs. I downloaded all Dragon magazines and many ADND 2e modules so that once I semi-retired I can convert some modules into computer games, given that we have an appropriate engine then (Neverwinter nights is a good one but it's going to be too old 15 years from now).
> apolitical bipartisan issue

Not when one party is dedicated to destroying the EPA and anything related to it
I used to have a lot of respect for the quiet and reserved Elon who put rockets into space and had an interesting car company. Now's he's spreading misinformation about mass shootings where children died and just being unbelievably awful and toxic. Turns out he's an absolutely horrible person all the way down. He should have just stayed quiet and built his companies.
Can you? Let's say tomorrow they reduced the amount of, I dunno, woodworking class and replaced it with more physics or maths. Those topics are pretty neutral. I'm not sure how anyone could argue it's a form of indoctrination unless you think science is itself an ideology, but clearly, the whole purpose of science is to be the opposite of that.
[Edit: sorry, I was confused here]
$420.00
https://plan.cat/
BEV lifecycle emissions are significantly lower than PHEV lifecycle emissions.

https://theicct.org/publication/ghg-benefits-incentives-ev-m...
Yes. Start with the EPA’s list of state laboratory certification programs here https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2023-03/state-cer... then find a lab from the list for your state. Then you generally just mail them a sample using their kit.
Show HN: Indiblog.page now with filterable list and random blog suggestions
indieblog.page was born more than a year ago to offer a convenient way to discover new personal blogs, one random post at a time.

It now has over 3,000 blogs with more than 40,000 posts in the last six months. You can discover one with the click of a button (StumbleUpon style) or by subscribing via RSS or Mastodon.

Today I added a filterable list so you can quickly browse what's available, if random is not your style.

And yes, the blogs mentioned in the recent "Show your personal blog" have already been added.

Previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31002171
As usual with most contrarians, their response is just that things are an ever larger conspiracy.
I'd argue that someone unwilling to choose the lesser of two evils is either not good, not wise, or not good and not wise. Sure, if you believe that your goodness, wisdom, and competence are less than that of your likely successor, even after you recruit advisors who can help you be more competent, surrender that mantle... but that's an unlikely level of humility to find in someone who needs to win a popularity contest.
Ymmv and you need to do your own research on specific chemicals of concern but I end up installing a reverse osmosis filter for tap water whoever I live now. It not 100% but from what I saw on the chemicals I was concerned about it did drastically reduce the issues.

I started doing this long ago when I lived in the Bay Area. So many super fund or near super fund sites that I was concerned about the water pollution.
I don't know. I can hope for the best, but when they killed 32-bit apps and with them a ton of classic games, I gave up on Apple.
Amazing! I was thinking just about this a few days ago, my daughter got a tons of Lego from hers uncles, of course without instructions
Possible explanation: The code for the fast inv sqrt is copy pasted everywhere and is skewing the results.
It's pretty clear that your "reasoning" is based not in any logic but almost exclusively in your "feels"...

You just dislike corps and it's undermining every thought you have on this topic.
It’s obvious why they went with python. Since Instagram was written in python and Threads is based on instagram, they’re probably using a lot of the libraries they already have for Instagram.
Yes, and if you come from a place of true scarcity (country with 30% unemployment, and zero opportunities in your field) it's easy to ditch all your values for that one job that opens the door for you. Only when you're somehow established you can start thinking about values.
It's weird that many people (even some economists) think that inflation somehow overrides the free price system [0] or the price mechanism [1]. No it's doesn't. There are no "inflation spirals" or other weird things whatsoever.

Spiral (or run-away inflation) would suggest an accelerating curve, while the price mechanism is actually closer to logarithmic, i.e. it starts fast, slows down and converges around the new equilibrium. It's basically a decentralized optimization algorithm.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_price_system

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_mechanism
Concentration is usually the biggest concern- "the dose makes the poison", so to speak.

Unfortunately, the "forever" moniker is earned because these chemicals don't readily break down. Bio-accumulation is inevitable, which makes it that much harder to determine what a "safe" level of exposure is.

Even so, I don't think the jury is out yet on what the effects of exposure to many of them even are, though several seem to influence hormone levels at least.
The companies don't have nearly enough assets to pay for clean up.

Would be more just to seize them and auction them off for enough funds to do 1-5% cleanup, but that would probably be an uphill battle politically.
Any suggestions on brand names, websites, etc. for these Japanese tools?
I've used Obsidian, Logseq, Apple Notes, and Joplin recently.

I really like Obsidian for how performant it feels for handling really long md files with outline.

But the best capturing experience is Logseq. I just record everything I do in the journal (daily) page and just tag them (tag can have hierarchy and spaces too) . I don't have to think about directory structure or which file the info should go into. Logseq sucks for handling long form md files tho, so I keep Obsidian for that.

Joplin I tried to use it until it started having sync conflicts, and the sync corruption error cannot be dismissed. Google solutions suggests exporting JEX and delete everything and re-import. I give up after that.

Apple Notes is really nice too but lack coding highlight.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616841
As we ravage the natural world, one of the thoughts that has been able to keep me from being truly depressed is the certainty that we won't extinct all life. As beautiful as our biodiverse world is, I believe it will be differently and beautifully biodiverse in a couple hundred thousand years if we mess it all up.
if an IRS employee told you that you needed to delete a social media post, you'd obviously realize they have no authority to do so, just like a BLS employee for example, and you could tell either to go stuff themselves in as polite a fashion as you prefer

in the case of a police officer, our current society is one in which
police officers can and often do immediately assault and/or shoot and/or kill you for doing or being something they don't like, regardless of whether you're right or wrong, and they can do so with little question and no internal criticism or retribution or punishment, which is an entirely different issue in and of itself

the same is obviously not true of Steve who works at the IRS. Steve would be tried for murder. So would Flaherty.
What's your conception of an opinion?

To me am opinion is a belief you have that's not based on facts.

Why do you want your government to have a belief not based on facts? Furthermore, why would you want the government to push this belief on its people?

Lastly why would you care about the opinion (remember: an opinion is a belief that isn't based on facts) of a corporation to the point that you'd defend their right to make statements that aren't factual?
I'm obviously not saying the means never make a difference in any case. I'm talking about this case.

I'm saying that using minimal means does not make an unconstitutional action acceptable; you're pointing out that using excessive means can make a constitutional action unacceptable. That's a different situation and not really a reply to my comment or this case.

To make it more relevant, can you point to a single case where a court has ruled that a constitutionally limited action was permitted simply because the means were unintrusive?

A compelling government interest, as you said, could justify the action, but what is the compelling government interest here?
This answer about Graviton was not correct: https://i.imgur.com/3D9WokF.jpg
"We will figure out the business model later"

Meaning: Once we have hooked enough users, we'll make them the product.

Free lip piercing...
At-least in my experience, OVH was the only hosting company where their network engineers spoke to me when we had a ddos problem.

Had a situation where one of my servers were getting ddosed we tried multiple providers both cloud and dedicated, but the attack was not getting stopped by anyone, the customer service was useless on most other places its either we get null routed, or hours of back and forth with customer service without any solution.

We moved our servers to OVH the customer service rep directed us to an engineer within a few minutes. I remember we had to send a few packet captures during an attack to one of their network engineers and, not only did they block the attack in a few hours, the engineer in charge explained exactly what happened was such a nice learning experience, that one interaction with them will always make me recommend them.
Boris Johnson, reconsidered as a hack comic
I still use Pug with Vue, it has perfect support and it feels just so good to write. Especially combined with Tailwind!
Bakkerij Nollen in Enschede is somewhat famous, but to be honest it’s going to be “lekker” ar most bakeries… enjoy with a cup of coffee and spread a bit of butter on it for the perfect experience
Perceivable latency isn't the only consideration. Depending on your business, compute for your proprietary workloads might be one of your biggest expenses. You could see an order of magnitude improvement to resource consumption depending on the type of workload and the language it is written in.

Ultimately these these choices are all about trade-offs. Maybe python is fine for them, maybe they've built themselves into a corner. Time will tell.
A common household reverse osmosis filter would greatly reduce PFAS concentrations in drinking water in general. However, some PFAS may be small enough to slip through some RO filters, so it kind of depends.
Then you are out of luck, of course. I didn't claim it would be without drawbacks. But it's basically your only good recourse.
Many companies fail because they take on investment and then have to grow into their valuation. The fast growth creates enormous inefficiencies inside the company, because management and tech cannot keep up. This often mans that the company eventually has to shut down.
Is this typically possible? My understanding is that most VCs insist on being paid first in the case of an exit, at least to the point of getting back what they put in. Founders and employees are typically last in the line.
I can't give Django enough praise. I never thought I'd be writing Python.

I've mostly used Node, Java, and Rust, with about 12yrs experience now. Only about one year with Python and Django recently. I am so much more productive than anything else I've tried. Using anything else feels like a mistake for web apps or CRUD apis. I also use type hints.

I use Django + django-ninja + django-unicorn for dynamic UIs.

Building sidewaysdata.com with django right now! Govscent is in Django too, the ORM is nice to combine with AI stuff already in python.

I'm also following the Ash framework which looks promising.
The license thing is because it's license them or leave them no choice but to drive without a license. Makes far more sense to blame America's driving culture rather than creating complex systems of ulterior motives.
Come on, none of the people involved in this case had the power to “yank” Section 230. I feel like you don’t have a solid handle on how government actually works, which is hampering this discussion.
Being passionate about code correlates with quality - shocking
Ranking is about a hieararchy and where someone is positioned in it. Managers are positioned higher in the hiearchy so it seems fair to say they are "higher rank". Whether that translates to real power or not depends on a lot of things. I think this discussion is conflating ranking and skill and these don't often correlate.

> Managers are just doing a particular job that needs to be done, like all of the other jobs in a company.

That particular job can fire you, in most cases. Our industry lives in a bubble compared to most other industries. Here a senior programmer can have as much power as the manager that is managing them. Especially in the case of staff/principal engineers.
> but what they delivered always had "bugs" (either actual incorrect behavior, or edge cases that nobody thought of until they actually used the software)

This is why they are not only inevitable but unending.

Most real world problems are so large and messy that they do not have closed form solutions. In this context "bug" more often means a deficiency, a reflections of changing or competing and incompatible requirements, than abstract mistakes.

In this context, I've learned to appreciate the choice becomes "which bugs", because "fixing" such bugs is not necessarily a net positive, especially when the fix is not a natural fit for the design or architecture of the overarching solution. The mindless, incessant fixing of such bugs on a case-by-case basis can result in accumulation of so much complexity and LoC it becomes self perpetuating in bug fixing alone. When you are conscious of this, and have enough respect and autonomy, it's possible to decide whether it's worth this intangible cost, or whether to put it into the pile of "wont fix", this kind of decision requires cross domain collaboration. But that pile is not worthless, you can periodically revisit it and see opportunities to a fundamentally different approach that may tick more boxes (or more preferable boxes) without being ad-hock.
$30k premiums is absolute insanity.

Joint tax rate for 80k is 12% federal, so half what you’ve listed for federal. Lcol is likely Tennessee or zero/low state taxes so less than 8k for sure.

Even if huge overestimates on taxes are correct, 2k/mo is achievable. <1k/mo for mortgage and $600 for food if you’re stringent, $400/mo for other expenses. All extremely dependent on being in a very low cost of living area, but 80k is ridiculously higher than a lot of people who live at $14k or 28k/ year if one or two people work at minimum wage.

It’s extremely unlikely they’re maxing 401k as well, most people I know who making 100+ don’t do that. So more realistically 80k, minus 12k for taxes, maybe 5k for health, maybe 5k for 401k, leaves you with 58k.
I skimmed the paper, and it looks like they are looking for swearing _anywhere_ in the repos' code, not just comments.

I would be curious to see the ratio of swearing in comments vs code identifiers. I'd also be curious to see if the repos with swearing in their comments just have more comments in total. Perhaps the correlation is, "code with more comments is more likely to be higher quality".
Sure, that means someone cares.
https://archive.is/zsFHW
Interactive Mean GRE quant scores across year by country
I think the way to do it is by growing inside a niche that is sufficiently narrow that it isn't interesting for a big competitor.
I think you might be reading something that's not there. Asking the question doesn't imply an answer. And it's probably better if people can answer it rigorously rather than just repeat the claim because everyone else does.
A friend of mine is a prosecutor in a major metro and said they routinely issue tracking requests for a given license plate and that PRIVATE COMPANIES are doing 75%+ of the tracking, not state or local agencies. These private companies will sell the info to anyone who is willing to pay for it and for any reason at all. This isn't a problem confined to the abortion debate, it's a problem connected to any and all issues you might care about.
Ask HN: How do you build a MVP when there already is established competitors?
I started working on a MVP for some marketing tool a few weeks ago.

I've found maybe two or three competitors, and I realize that they just have so many features that I don't have and that I'll realistically never have the time to make them in the next few months.

I'm already trying to do just ONE thing well, and they seem to do it so much better, on top of X other things.

At what point do you decide that it's good enough to actually ship?

Can price and simplicity be enough of a selling point?(and in my case it's "simple" because there just isn't enough features for it to be complex lol)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
I became a manager through the developer route, 6 years now since I started as an IC, spent 2 years doing that then got promoted to senior dev and then had a choice to become a manager after 3 years of being senior, then I took it.

It's rare to be a manager that can also code but it is possible.
The Dreamcast wasn't competing against the Playstation 1, the Sega Saturn was. And price and game library aside it had the hardware to back it up. You can see this in gameplay videos of, say, Nights into Dreams or Tomb Raider.

If anything the Dreamcast was competing against the PS2 and Gamecube (despite coming out at an awkward time significantly earlier than the competition)
Got to admit that when I first glanced at the title I briefly thought it was about an _extremely ill-conceived_ genre-shift TV reboot.
One clever trick I’ve seen is where before the text the goes out of the context window, it gets summarized by the llm and then that smaller summary is put into the context window and is continuously updated. It also reminds me how human memory works too.
I have read many of his books, including Dhalgren, which is a complex and dense book that does not make for easy reading. I recommended the ones that were more "hard science fiction" that were full of interesting ideas. The protagonist in Triton is not really a hero but Delany's world building is very thought provoking.
Working well on crappy toy devices = working shittily on actual computers

Smart watches should have taken off, so everything could have been made post stamp-sized to work well on them and become completely unusable on a screen larger than your hand.
Imo, it's because swearing indicates frustration, and frustration indicates effort.
Now that's some out-of-the-box thinking.
Ah,you were the one that gave the "Refining ZFS compression" talk, isn't it? Thanks for all your work! Works great and it's pretty interesting.

I bought a super cheap QAT card with the idea of doing hardware accelerated gzip compression on ZFS (just for playing with it), but seems like the drivers are kind of a mess, and not being a developer who could debug it, maybe I should stay with the easy and fast zstd with early abort :P :) Less headaches .
More Arthur.

Many NeXT machines have had their hostnames after Hitchhiker characters. My favourite name been “zaphod”.
Is This Best Chocolate?
I am always amazed how thin the biosphere is - 3km down in the water , 3 up in the air - so roughly 1/1000 of the radius of the earth. And the vast majority of the biomass could probably be found in couple of hundred meters close to water level.
The problem with your policy proposals is that you are assuming an economy in a vacuum. Neoclassical economic models represent a frictionless economy where everything is perfect. The are the equivalent of an upper bound for a converging series. When people tell themselves that the real economy is already hitting the upper bound automatically (this is an unfounded assumption, if you go this far then almost all conclusions are in your assumption to begin with), then absolutely nothing can be done to improve it so we should get rid of all that pointless nonsense.

If the real world does not live up to this idealized image, then some policies may have surprisingly positive effects and getting rid of them actually ends up making everything worse.
You're asking the wrong question...

If I want to the public library and the fire extinguishers didn't work the fire marshal would put a lock on the door. If the shelves fell over and smashed the patrons they'd be sued out of existence. Just because something is 'public' and/or a 'library' doesn't mean there isn't a necessity of upkeep to ensure it's not a danger to others.
That's why it tripped me up, they didn't ask a question. I just mundanely said "Ok" to their statement and it was understood as an intention to buy
Also, AFAIK they don't add iron shavings to it
> To me am opinion is a belief you have that's not based on facts.

> Why do you want your government to have a belief not based on facts?

There's some kind of fallacy at work here, you're establishing what your personal definition of something is then arguing with OP while taking your personal belief as fact.

"Opinions are not based on facts" definitely isn't a universally accepted definition of an opinion. An opinion doesn't have to be based on facts but it's not precluded from it.
"La Zona Blanca" ad [1] mentioned in the article is funny. But I do agree with the note "When did we decide on Hare Krishna cult members?" There must be better ways to spend the ad money OR may be Sega marketing was using Hare Krishna members as purple cows [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-XXTobhao4
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Purple-Cow-New-Transform-Remarkable/d...
It's on the official Vitess roadmap, though you do have to search on this page for it https://vitess.io/docs/resources/roadmap/
Sneak 100 as they say. Reminds me of Crosby’s parking monologue.