skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? Each and everyone of our suppliers have a dedicate address their notification are sent to. Those automatically goes into the service desk as a ticket and is read by the service desk team, which can either correct billing information if required, or escalate to the correct team if action is require or there's any doubt about the content of the email.

If you have 20.000 engineers (or even 200) you have a functional service desk and I assure you that no individual engineers email is given as the email for vendors to contact. Even for large contract where you have a preferred contact on each end, there's an escalation path.
> I tried to orient what would be an affordable, future-safe alternative, but I haven't found any.

I think it would be OneNote. But if you really wand to future proof your data, I think nothing beats using Obsidian on top of a bunch of folders in a cloud drive.

I am all-in on Apple and I replaced Evernote with iCloud Drive, Notebooks.app, Obsidian and EagleFiler all pointing to the same "vault" folder. While on mobile I just use the regular Files app to browse the iCloud Drive. It's much less convenient than just using Evernote, and that's exactly Evernote's greatness.
Thanks (:
In general the burden of proof is upon the person who assert a claim not predicated on facts understood in common by all or at least most credible participants in a discussion.

If we all accept foo no proof is required for foo

If all reasonable (in the judgement of the particular discussion forum) parties in a discussion about foo would accept foo dissenters may be entertained or ignored.
It doesn’t seem that crazy to focus on the application of PFAS that sprays it by the truckload directly into the open environment in liquid form when the other applications you cite are solid materials that seem unlikely to end up contaminating water supplies in any significant way.
The problem is, X is terrible. It's janky as hell, screen tearing is everywhere unless you're running extremely particular driver + hardware + X configurations, the screen locker doesn't even engage if you have a context menu open, vital things like compositing are hacked on in janky ways.

For some people, Wayland isn't there yet. For a whole lot of other people, Wayland is already better than X. Are distro developers supposed to ignore that and keep pushing X, despite it being the worse option for most of their users? Isn't it enough to provide X as an option for people who need something Wayland doesn't do yet?

Plus, Wayland is getting better, X isn't.
They stuck their prices up massively in 2019. Put me off having a fun blog. Still not EUR400/year though.
https://www.theonion.com/yamaha-ceo-pleased-with-current-pro...

"Yamaha CEO Pleased With Current Production Of Jet Skis, Alto Saxophones, Snowmobiles, Power Generators, Scooters, Golf Carts"
Do they really? A lot of it is snake oil.
I said nothing about accepting any risk. You read far more into my comment than I ever intended.
fishing is another topic we did not talk about passwords vs. passkeys

we talked about whether a public key is actually a similar secret than a well managed (hashed) password

well it is not up to you to decide what terms are normal
the language, concepts evolve

if you want to understan things better than you do know, sometimes you go 1-2 levels deeper and think for yourself

a public key has a security strength, lets say 128 bit
a computer intensive hashed strong password can level this
if you generate unique very strong passwords for each site with your pass manager and(!) they hash it well, it can be compared to giving a public key to the site

in this sense your argument which you just copy from other people is false

a good argument would be that a public key that we give the sites has 100% strong security and the password will not travel from the client to the server, whereas plenty of domain service provider implement security bad so you have to rely on them

in addition, computer intensive hashing on the server is more electricity and cpu|memory usage

please try to talk about the actual topic and dont try to derail the conversation like it was about whether passkeys are better or not... hiding behind something you declare normal is also bad practice...

just debate the only thing I said: actually, you do give a kind of well guarded secret to the server and it is not like a public key should be advertised

I do think it is a very intersting thought

and, of course, if a password comes from a weak domain, you can hash minutes, it will never be as strong as a public key
Directly executing code generated by ChatGPT on your own system.

What could possibly go wrong.
I was looking for something exactly like this just yesterday !
The principal difference is that rust constrains aliasing somewhat more than c. The practical differences currently are more relevant to compilers than cpus, since architectures do not provide a way for programs to provide aliasing information to the cpu, and so cpus do their alias analysis dynamically, in a way that works as well for rust as for c. But one can imagine an architecture which allowed programs to supply aliasing information statically. This would be relevant for both c and rust, just somewhat more so for rust.
I’ve worked at companies that aren’t even in the tech sector with less than 10 people and brownouts were SOP.

This is just regular old incompetence/negligence/greed.
I think this misses an initial step: Your goal.
I'm not very experienced with all the different types of gym equipment and what you use them for.

I'd love to see recommendations if my goal would be to build up some muscle and lose weight, and why this would be recommended.

Then this would be very useful for me
Post-modernismn and nostalgia are large factors. Overall I think the idea largely is that instead of considering the media just an imperfect vessel to carry the artwork, it is instead made into part of the artwork itself.

In visual arts I think there is longer tradition of playing with the imperfections of the media instead of trying to hide them.

But ultimately, trying to reason about art has its limits, not everything can be understood (or at least enjoyed) rationally.
r/MapsWithoutTasmania
It has been working for 40+ years, it does the job, everybody using the system is familiar with it, it's robust (no network required), it's exceptionally easy to service and maintain (all through-hole technology on a single, comfortably large board), and the entire unit (computer, monitor, cassette drive) is rated at just 45 W (so it's probably using less than that.) Also, it's a beautiful machine adding a bit of joy to the work life. – Why should you want to change this?
>I mean it is the supreme law of the land. So I am confident it is not fantasy. That the people only need to assert their rights, that is the fantasy.

I take your point and, as an American, I agree that's how it should be. What's more, upon further reflection, "fantasy" was probably too strong a term.

That said, there are serious issues around privacy in the US, given the legal jurisprudence around data you provide to others, especially since so many folks have their whole lives "in the cloud" (i.e., someone else's servers).

As such, I urge you to learn about and understand the Third-Party Doctrine[0].

It has a long legal history and is well established law in the US.

And it allows the government to obtain, without a warrant, any and all information you provide to a third party. That could be your cellular/email providers, your ISP, whoever stores your smart watch data, the company that hosts your menstrual period data, anyone to whom you willingly give information.

Granted, that third party could refuse and force the government to get a warrant/court order, but it's not required.

For many people that pretty much obviates most privacy protections of the Fourth Amendment.

That we have a right to "be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures," isn't at issue.

The issue is that so much of what you consider "private" data isn't private if you give it to a third party. And these days, we do that a lot by sharing our most private information with whoever hosts the app which tracks that information.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
That may be true if you see getting ahead as meaning becoming an ever more senior manager. I do agree that social and verbal skills (and political) skills are important there.

My own verbal and political skills aren't great. I am not a manager! Writing well has been good for me personally in terms of being able to organise my own thoughts better, and to be succinct in a way I can't when I speak.

I find my opinion is consulted frequently partly because I can summarise complex issues and present it in a way others can work with.
To anyone curious about the intimated interplay of entropy and life, I want to highly recommend the book:

The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity by Bobby Azarian

> When you empty a bathtub, why does a swirl form? → Because it is the most efficient way to increase entropy.

> The author argues in that life is very likely because it is the most efficient way to increase entropy in the universe.

I fear my words don't do the book justice, I found it very long, but just as illuminating, highly recommended.
If I understand right (I'm not a lawyer), something like this came up in a case about a utility for cheating in an online game, and another much older one about the copy of an app made in memory in order to run it.

For the purpose for which the software was sold and bought, the in-memory copy is legit[1]. For cheating, it's a copyright violation[0].

[0] https://www.engadget.com/2008-07-15-blizzard-wins-lawsuit-ag...

[1] http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise20.html
I've switched to Obsidian two years ago and I am 100% happy with it. All my notes and attachments are stored in iCloud, Obsidian works great on all Apple devices and even Windows. There is no browser integration AFAIK, but I might be wrong - there are tons of third-party plugins. I love the fact that all my notes are Markdown files - gives me peace of mind.
Show HN: Automated resume review with AI for hiring developers
Me and my buddy started playing with PDFs parsing and from function to function we built up an app for small business, that doesn't have dedicated HR department. The app takes PDF files and returns parsed list of candidates with recommendations. Feedback about the messaging on the landing page would be highly appreciated!
I can also recommend Obsidian's iOS app if you haven't tried it!
Obsidian app + sync
It doesn’t approach the convenience of JS dev tools.

For example, you can’t have a REPL and high-level debugger combo, you just get a very basic low-level debugger. It’s a 90s debugging experience.

You can’t even have a modern low-level debugger because you can’t control how the browser executes your WASM, unlike in a native executable where you can run a debugger and then run your code inside it.

I guess you could have a WASM based debugger that has a WASM interpreter inside, and then you run your code inside that, but my God if that’s the future then I want no part of it.
That sure is what it looks like.
Just try to compile a vi from 20 years ago on a modern computer.
I thought the early section comparing USB APIs was interesting.

The middle section comparing UNIX culture to colonialism was okay but kind of a long bow to draw and bordering on off topic.

And the ending about meritocracy and blaming straight white men just came out of nowhere and didn't fit at all. It seemed like a kind of bait-and-switch; I came for the tech talk about UNIX, and ended up sitting through the last five minutes out of politeness.

In answer to the question about "who should be excellent to whom?", the simple answer is "all of us". But to bring it back to the title of the talk, UNIX doesn't come into it. Cultural problems don't come from UNIX. UNIX is not costing us anything there.
The ThinkPad You All Wish You Had, with a Brain That’s Not Ancient
Run-of-the-mill trolling didn't make the Internet Nazi Germany. You just delete that crap and move on, otherwise the trolls win.
Very cool but it shows me workouts requiring a pull up bar when I said I don't have it (only selected body weight and dumbbell then chose biceps and back)
The full disk part is solvable, and solved, by offering SD card slots.

Fairphone has this (and so do some other phones). It works.
Perhaps a case where after removing the unused parameter and updating all the call sites, none of the calls resolve to the original function anymore.
Am I seeing the past in a nostalgic light or were DVD 480p considerably better than YouTube 480p?

I feel like streaming services compress their streams so hard that the resolution indicators become meaningless.
Why? Shared/managed hosting solutions (read: not a VPS) are almost universally running cPanel, Plesk, or Webmin. I guess it was more well known in the days before AWS, when that was how almost all webhosting ran lol
Not really. You just end up paying more and more money for equipment that delivers what it promises but the relative improvement becomes harder and harder to discern because you begin to approach the limits of the upper end of audio fidelity.
Yes! I agree, it'd also be nice if the "select equipment you want to use" instead was "select what you have available".

I'm a noob. I have some stuff. Show me what I can do with it!
VC-funded companies are unprofitable by design. You build something very novel and then you spend a lot of time figuring out how it should work and growing it. Amazon, Google, Microsoft – all raised venture funding because that's what they were doing.

Still, many of those companies try to become cashflow positive (especially right now). Which means they earn more than they spent, but they invest a lot in their expansion (and as soon as they stop it they could show instant profit).

Ultimately, a very small share of companies ever raise VC funding.

It's completely OK to bootstrap your project, focus on the revenue and profitability from day one. But it's also difficult, especially you're building some kind of a SaaS product in a competitive space. Not everyone can be Basecamp (which started a long time ago and built an enormous marketing operation to get "free" leads).
According to [1], about 15% of recycled PET bottles were used to make new bottles, and those aren't necessarily food/drink bottles.

I suspect the quality of collected bottles is a significant factor. Here in Denmark bottles collected as part of the deposit scheme can be recycled into new food containers, but other waste generally cannot.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PET_bottle_recycling
>People want to move windows between their screens.

Yes, you use he fact x is a network server and run each screen as a separate client.
It's so annoying how any press around twitter makes it sound like Elon had 44 bills lying around to personally buy the company for himself. He may have put himself in charge with that money, but whose money was it again?
Our ancestors didn’t destroy biodiversity? I think the extinct mega-fauna of prehistory disagree with you. Ironically enough, their remains probably make up the gasoline in your car.
this makes even less sense than vinyl records, other than nostalgia :)
Rare Antique Fractal Vise [Restoration] - Hand Tool Rescue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBeOgGt_oWU
anecdotally I can support that `python -m x.py` is a better way to go than `python x.py`. Somewhere I found the tip that writing `python3.9 -m pip install $pkg` is a more reliable way to run `pip` for a specific version.

It should not be so complicated.
> With Spotify, for example, I have no idea, as a consumer, if I listen to a lot of small acts, how much of the money I pay every month to Spotify actually gets into the pockets of those acts

You can assume it is pretty much a rounding error what they get.
Their building on US 101 near Redwood City lost the Evernote elephant sign some time back.
Sorry. Who is "they" or "them" ?
So basically a law that governs both the government and the private market? That sounds like a recipe for disaster to me but I'm no lawyer.
Hey, I do the same but using Jekyll instead of Hugo, using S3 and CloudFront, I have only been charged 0.00 so far but why do you say that the pricing would get out of hand? Isn’t CloudFront there to cache the results so that the pricing would not get out of hand?

This is my blog post about how I set up my blog: https://blog.burakcankus.com/2023/04/23/getting-a-blog-runni...
I so much agree with this article! I always had the same thinking about investment, Mostly the part where you don't control your company (or control it way less).

And I would have kept it the same until we discussed with my co-founder about https://getfernand.com

The reason that makes us consider VC funding would be for the network and the exposure.

It would help us get in touch with other (big) founders with a broad reach and help us grow more. That would be a legitimate reason for us to get a (small) round.

(We are already profitable so we don't need the money for the money. But we need to find a VC firm that is not too manipulative in its investments. That might be the tricker part).
Maybe you would.

But nowadays, it would probably be an agile disaster with two or three layers of managers and sales people, maybe even on different firms, if done by best practice, between you and the customer. Forget talking to the operators.

KISS is a beauty of the past.

There is no way the simple and straightforward text based solution would be made. It is more likely it would be a bloated mess with clouds or what not.
I haven't really used .NET for GUIs since 2012, but throwing together GUI apps was pretty damn easy the last time I did it. With the added bonus of being able to choose between the various .NET languages

I wrote some industrial PLC GUIs using VB.net, and it very much felt like a more "serious" version of the old VB6 stuff.
I fail to see if some people hate musk so much that they fail to even recognize the most obvious joke. I don’t understand how anyone can read that tweet other than a way for musk to say « this whole dick measuring contest between meta and twitter is ridiculous »
This is correct. For small and medium funds, a single successful portfolio company can return their entire fund with some multiple on top of this. The reason you invest in 30-40 companies instead of one is because you don't know which one it'll be.

I've seen this from the inside, I liked the company a lot but I'd never suspect it'd become the most obvious success for us.
I have been using Wordpress auto updates for many years now, works great. Once in a while I have to also `docker compose pull` to update the PHP version (~once a year?)
Hosting up to date Wordpress instance requires no effort. And Wordpress has a really nice editor.
There's no code in ESL so no Python version is necessary.
Love the site, and the workflow.

As a non native speaker I understand you’re trying to keep the instructions brief but I have to read them multiple times to understand what to do.

You could add some physiotherapy exercises with a stick as well.
Life: Inevitable or fluke? by Nick Lane
https://nick-lane.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Lane-New-Sc...
I see thanks for the insight.
I'd actually be interested to know more/get at that sweet sweet code!
From recent threads, the top contenders for self-hosted are:

- https://github.com/laurent22/joplin

- https://github.com/logseq/logseq

- https://github.com/zadam/trilium

There is also https://github.com/foambubble/foam mentioned, which I haven't looked properly at yet.

For managed/hosted, those all have some variety of options for that. Also https://obsidian.md/, https://www.notion.so/notes, https://roamresearch.com, and OneNote.
I would be a lot more worried about runway incursions.. You know, like the 7 that have happened so far this year in the US..
Doesn't change the fact that the README is sufficient to see the tool doesn't do what I stated.

It's a workflow problem, things are done the wrong way around.
Except it did. The internet is a far more racist place today because humor is an incredibly effective tool to reach people.
I was at Middlesex Poly in the late 80s / early 90s doing an AI degree. I'm pretty sure one of the things we used was the EXSYS expert system shell running on VAX/VMS (because that's where I first came across the name). We didn't use it much though because the AI group had a bunch of early Macs that everyone preferred.
In truth, it is more a ad personam argument. You are not contributing anything substantial to the debate, you are just attacking dumpster_fire with no other argument than "in my experience".
I've seen it myself. Casual Geographic does this a lot: https://m.youtube.com/@mndiaye_97

The thing is, the phrase has an origin in a parody of censorship. In one episode of Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Man teams up with Deadpool. Deadpool, being fourth-wall-savvy and well aware that he is in an animated kids' show, talks rather frankly about his plans to "un-alive" the criminal they are pursuing. To which Spider-Man responds "Un-alive... you mean KILL him?!"

Mr. Pool was applying standards and practices to his own speech that were common on 80s and 90s animated programs, in which characters obviously wielding rifles would assiduously avoid talking about killing or death. And now people are using his neologism to avoid being punished on a video platform ostensibly for adults primarily.
pollution and pollution
Strongly agree. For me the mark of a useful framework is that is reduces the complexity of the task you are trying to do. If it increases the complexity of the task, it isn't the right tool for the job! Choosing the right level of abstraction is the most important part of software engineering.

If all you need is HTTP routing, then Flask is great, but every time I tried to use it for the kinds of things Django is great at (databasing, templating, forms), I had to effectively roll my own crappy version of Django. (Something something every sufficiently large C++ program has a poorly implemented version of LISP embedded into it.)

I saw this dramatically demonstrated by an enormous Flask installation that would have greatly benefited from a little imposed structure. I bounced hard from that gig after being shown the code because it was going to be a massive pain to understand the poorly designed abstractions. But it wasn't even the maintainer's fault - it was pretty good code but it had only been designed by one person, both the abstractions and the business logic. And the abstractions were leaky simply because abstractions are difficult to design.

The framework allows you to completely offload the architectural decisions underneath the framework to many person-years worth of design, bug squashing, and security fixes. How do I add headers to a request? Django has one opinionated way. Where do I put my database models? models.py and if you put them there you don't have to do any connection fiddling.

The ideal of a framework is that if you release attachment to how things you don't actually care about anyway are done, you get thousands of free high quality lines of code.

I learned a lot from Sandi Metz about the costs of "The Wrong Abstraction" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZh5LMaSmE
when I moved from Python to NodeJS years ago the way that `require( './path/to/file.js' );` works was a total revelation. There are still arguments being mafe about NodeJS's `require` rules being too complicated (e.g. using optionally implicit extensions) but even with that, NodeJS's `require()` method is hands down superior to Python's `import` statement.
I like that Zoom allows to provide a developer email so as a developer, I only receive emails about API changes. I've never missed an email from them.
Borland stuff are great for getting things done and are also what I'm considering if ever I will have time for recreational retro-programming. But for an article, C++ with WinApi would give more to talk about.