skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is why we intend to build MLS into Google Messages and support its wide deployment across the industry by open sourcing our implementation in the Android codebase.

Weeeell…

Let's just say that this might also be a very smart move on Google's part, a classic "using Open as a weapon" strategy that sidesteps their historic issues with "yet another (cancelled) messaging app" by baking the functionality into a lower level of their platform:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/magic-cau...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/04/03/be-wary-o...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/12/open-source-as-weapon.h...

Whether this ultimately solves the "blue vs. green bubbles" issue is an open question, but I suspect they'll (eventually) at least gain some leverage by introducing an equivalent UI affordance that legitimately indicates something like more-/less-/insecure.
So you also use Whatsapp.

Maybe the 'other' people you know also just use it the same way you do, for that one international friend.

Whatsapp usage is quite prevalent in SF.
I'm excited about the language but it's impossible to google anything about it :(
> no credit was ever given to the original grad studen

Not enough credit perhaps, but this is untrue as Arduino does credit Wiring, the grad student's project. Probably worth noting that one of his thesis supervisors was one of the founders of Arduino.
Lol. Magazine started by Nixon and "the godfather of neoconservatism" has problems with someone other than the US deploying nukes (even if they're only tacnukes.)

To be sure, any deployment of any nukes is potentially destabilizing, but the linked article goes out of its way to avoid offering constructive propositions or to convey a realistic model of Pakistani motivations (or Indian, for that matter.)
I disagree that having a popular flagship federated service negates decentralization.

The point of decentralization is not to destroy the ability to centralize (see e.g. git versus SVN and then look at github).

The advantage is that federation and decentralization empower an entirely new set of use cases, archival strategies, development, and accessibility affordances that may have not been possible before. While enabling the town square & metcalfe's law that are advantageous to many people / use cases.
LeadDev London 2023
Or perhaps people just have different values than you? Perhaps they are fully aware of the cancer risk and have full agency over their decisions yet still prefer to indulge themselves?
I've seen it before and IIRC the SAT for athletes is terrible and the SAT for legacy is not that worse than average white admission. Can't find that source right now, but here is another one showing identical SAT between legacy and non-legacy. [0]

I am biased to this hypothesis probably as a legacy who also had higher test scores than the average admit, went to a shitty public school, etc. Another underdiscussed motivation for legacy admissions is that schools view it as a signal that you are more likely to attend so if they admit you they can keep their admission percentages lower.

[0]: https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-why-elite-colleges-...
Marx and Hayek Are Both Orthodox; Contemplation Is Heterodox
This status page is for WhatsApp Business API (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/cloud-api/) and not for the consumer product that most of us depend on.
But imagine the response the Higgs boson COULD have gotten by setting it in Arial instead!!!
He's just making a reference to an old reddit joke, I don't think it's a CVSS 10
They don’t need to be consumer goods. $1000 spent on clothes is the same as $1000 spent on GPUs as far as GDP is concerned. Headless businesses swapping dollars around creates plenty of GDP with few to no people involved.
If I recall correctly, randomness is a great way to get people addicted and engaged more.

In Pocker there is a clear correlation between your actions and your results. The other people are clearly better than you are and most get the hint after a while. It's also slow enough so you get some time to think

Engineered randomness (like slot machines or loot boxes) use the means of technology and presentation to dangle that bit price juuust outside your reach. They also use flashy lights and fast paced games to get you in the "zone" of gambling more and longer.
The fate of the world lies in the hands of the young and inexperienced.

Grad students, Supreme Court clerks, 19-year-old soldiers.
Why would someone would spend $100K at a small casino vs. somewhere like Caesars Palace or Bellagio? At least you will get some nice comps. Was it better odds?
Wait, Facebook's whatsapp is also end-to-end encrypted, right?
We need DOM transactions.
That program has made me realize there exists a single stylistic justification for 8 space tabs: you can fit up to six character goto labels into the indentation margins; you can put a label on any statement without adding a line.

:)
Thank you so much for this. I've been using Input for years, and the main things keeping me there were the line height and clarity at small font sizes. Your build makes Iosevka match those very, very closely. I think I've finally found my new code font. I sent a patch to fix the build for new versions of Iosevka :)
Practical Engineering did a video on the complexity of bringing a power grid back online, called "black start" (not cold start).

https://practical.engineering/blog/2022/12/5/what-is-a-black...
Let's assemble an 'expert python' curated list.
I don't think you understand how the debt works.
Epyc 7443, 256GB, 2x 1tb nvme + 2x 16TB hdd and some smaller drives, 2x 10GbE all in a 4U is living in my basement. However, that is not needed if you only want to use it for personal stuff. If you get 64GB of memory and 8-12 cores it should cover your needs more than enough. Having more than that is useful for work purposes - replicating onpremise or cloud infra and testing.
My only complaint with markdown is generally whoever is rendering it chooses terrible values for line heights. I'm not sure if this is part of the spec, but it looks terrible.

Here [1] is an example. The dividers underneath headers should have less top padding, so that it's visually associated with the header and not ambiguously associated with either the body or header (or neither).

[1] https://docs.github.com/assets/cb-55935/mw-1440/images/help/...
Oh dear. I see a wave of horrible AI-generated cartoon videos targeting kids coming to a YouTube near you soon…
> It is not a markup language, period.

The clue being right there in the name.
I disagree with your characterization of unionization efforts as "attacking the workplace". I think they're generally the opposite of that.

I get that management doesn't like it, because the whole point of unionization is that it's an attempt at correcting the power imbalance between workers and management. But that's a whole different thing from "attacking" anybody, let alone the workplace.
> You can always fork.

If and only if publisher shares the source.

Permissive licenses are not “viral”. Sharing the source is not mandatory.

I can take your work, evolve/improve, publish a tool, and tell that the tool contains some code of you, if I don’t forget.

You can fork this version as much as you like. If you can find the source, of course.
>> gerrymandered district maps can get struck down on the basis of racial discrimination

Under current interpretation of civil rights laws, district maps can get struck down on the basis of racial discrimination if they are not sufficiently gerrymandered.
Interesting. I gave Python training to a UK guy in the finance industry, a few years ago. He was working on a fintech side project that used gnip.
Arguably businesses are affected too if none of their customers can message anybody, including them.
There are many yardsticks by which you can measure elite status, other than salary. I respect Dennis Ritchie, but not for his salary.

If you measure status by the yardstick "Number of people in the white house you're on a first name basis with" then I am reasonably confident that NYT chief White House correspondent Peter Baker scores higher than the president of Stanford University.

None of this detracts from what Theo Baker has achieved, of course.
It’s even more than that - it’s a codification of plain text formatting conventions.

If you write a plain text document and you format it following markdown principles, you get a simple rich text version of your document for free. Your headings will be headings, your bullet points will be bullet points, and your code blocks will be code blocks.

Now, you can also ‘game’ markdown, writing the minimum possible plaintext to ‘trick’ it into making a pretty document while leaving the plain text ugly.

But in general, the idea of markdown is to start from ‘imagine I have a bunch of plain text files I’ve been formatting consistently for years. How can I make them look nice as rich text?’
> wealthy but they won’t be elite. They’ll be the guy working a mid level job (or none at all)

I think a super rich kid who can't quite get into say, Harvard, but instead goes to some other school, is not going to be unemployed or pushing paper in middle management, they're still going to work for the family firm, start a business with family money, or cross-pollinate among the other elite families.

Furthermore, if the would-be legacies can't get into Harvard and Yale, the most likely outcome I foresee is that they start to cluster at other schools (say Amherst, Tufts, BU[1]), gradually shifting the character and reputations of those schools and getting us right back where we came from.

I don't really think that is a bad thing, and think it's probably best to stop doing legacy admissions. But I think there's no way this will result in reshaping of class in our society to where the elites are usurped by a bunch of smart, diverse (merit-admitted) kids from the wrong side of the tracks. Best case it gives a boost to the best non-Ivy schools at attracting the descendants of the Harvard and Yale set, potentially to the point of altering society's definition of which schools are the most elite.

[1] forgive any errors in my choice of schools – I just googled top universities in New England and skipped over ones I know are Ivies.
It's another problem that wasn't one in a time where a single income household could maintain a nuclear family. But like most child care, it's adapted horribly and the costs have skyrocketed.

Granted, even if they were on 2 income households in the 70's, it was also a time where 10YO's were trusted to get home or even walk home unattended, so it'd only be an issue for the youngest primary students. That may still be the case in some Asian countries today, but certainly not in the US.
Is everyone forgetting the original purpose of Markdown as described by its creator?

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
You're the one you said to stop using technology invented by the government.

Then I said I would be happy to if you could name a single one in the past 30 years.

And you can't.
Very cool and congrats on the launch. Can you perhaps talk about pros/cons of using your Kubernetes operator vs 1Password Connect[1]? Seems like your operator would require writing some new CRDs where I believe 1Password Connect continues to use the existing kind: Secret. I believe it's possible to self-host Infisical server correct? Thus eliminating the external public requests and dependency on 1Password.

[1] https://developer.1password.com/docs/connect/
I think the people commenting that this isn't what markdown is for should take up their argument with the people who were saying that openbsd should rewrite all the man pages in markdown.
This is curated/guided, while the Seinfield stuff was not.
Yes; it's a kind of fear.
> I don't think people fall back to SMTP when a chat product goes away, I think they find a new centralized proprietary chat product.

...after they told their "friends" (i.e. other users of the failed app) via email about that hot new app that is totally going to be the place to be. That is what I mean with "SMTP abides", it is there and will be there while the centralised proprietary churn comes and goes. SMTP is easy to set up, compatibility is close to guaranteed - Google's attempts to turn Ee-mail into Gee-mail have failed, Microsoft never managed to extend/extinguish it - and it runs on just about every piece of hardware known to mankind. Upkeep is simple as well, the spam problem has been solved a long time ago, email generally "just works".

It can even work as a chat server by using something like Delta Chat [1] if you're turned off by the "old school" user agents.

[1] https://delta.chat/en/
The distant future. Like five years.
Self-aware (or a simulation thereof) AGI with self-directed motivation and the ability to self modify is barely a half step from ASI. And AGI could happen in the coming year. Five if you wanna be pessimistic. Never if you’re extraordinarily pessimistic but that’s looking unlikely. If it’s possible it’s possible now.

This isn’t the Yellowstone super volcano that might blow in the next billion years.

People who talk like this are idiotic at best.

Granted, the other concerns are real too but the accusation that the concern of existential risk is being used to hide the other known problems is dangerous in the extreme.
Here are a few Markdown documents I've typeset into PDF:

* https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf

* https://pdfhost.io/v/4FeAGGasj_SepiSolar_Highlevel_Software_...

* https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdow...

My text editor, KeenWrite[1] (see tutorials[3] for details), converts from Markdown to XHTML. The XHTML is then typeset using the ConTeXt typesetting software to create a PDF. The PDF is stylized using a theme[2].

What Markdown is missing, in particular flexmark-java, is a standard CommonMark extension for cross-references and citations[4].

[1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

[2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/tree/main/exa...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...

[4]: https://talk.commonmark.org/t/cross-references-and-citations...
Are you talking about March 2020? That is pretty amazing!
For sure. I'd call it an excellent bad markup language. I use LogSeq daily and as a practical matter I much prefer Markdown to, say, Evernote's WYSIWYG approach, which was more of a pain to use and left me with notes so broken that they are impossible to fix. Or to this author's theoretically better system HTML, because it's more of a pain to write. Basically Markdown cares about formatting about as much as I do, which is barely.

I'll note this tension has a long history in CS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

And I think it has a lot to do with a very particular notion of good, which is something like "conceptually pleasing to someone who has mastered the space".
It is, but for B2C messaging, there is a solution hosted by Meta that terminates the encryption at the gateway level (i.e. Meta can see the message content).

The alternative to that is the on-premise solution.
This looks very promising. Excited to see how Twenty develops over the next years!

I think they key is to nail the data model and make sure replicating stuff from people's products and matching it with outside conversations (email, phone etc..) works smoothly
The oxygen countdown frenzy was misguided sensationalism and clickbait. That was at best an estimate, but humans love a countdown.

The timing of the announcement was based on a recovery vessel arriving at the site and very quickly finding the wreckage.

The fact that they happened to be close together is coincidence unless you can provide strong evidence otherwise.
There are obviously benefits, and there are also downsides. But is it worth it? The most competitive companiese don't seem to think so, and I'm tired of people pretending that they know better.
Thanks for sharing! We had a slightly different cost/benefit analysis for our use case with fairly straightforward APIs but know that might not be the same for everyone.
So, how are airlines losing money with skipping part of the flights? Passengers already paid the whole amount. Shouldn't airlines consider reviewing their pricing then?
Hi, can I ask what books were missing? The more examples we have, the more we can update our bots to make sure these books get either imported or fixed within our search engine.

I completely understand wanting to use a service that has the books you're looking for and would also completely understand if it's too much work to type up the examples. If you'd rather not do so publicly, happy to receive your email at <mek@archive.org> and do what I can to help. Thank you!
> So you also use Whatsapp.

Of course, as I said.

> Maybe the 'other' people you know also just use it the same way you do

I'm confused about what you're responding to here. What other people? I didn't mention anyone else. That one friend happens to be the only person I know who uses it. Or at least the only person I know who has asked me to use it.

I didn't assert that nobody else uses it. In fact, I was providing an example that not everyone has abandoned it.
Taking more care with your diet could possibly extend you life.
https://www.elle.com/beauty/makeup-skin-care/tips/a2471/suga...
Why not? On-premise and autonomous/decentralized are two completely different aspects.
For technical documentation? Sure, I see how the alternatives make more sense. But for more general use, like formatting shorter posts on forums and social media? Markdown seems quite adequate there, and dealing with any of the listed recommendations would be unbearable for many users. I’m not sure if the article was written for a very specific audience or expected to be read in a given context, or if the author overgeneralises their conclusion to all applications that a markup may have. (In the former case, it just doesn’t work as a standalone piece, in my opinion, so I don’t see much that could be said about it here.)

On a side note, the text only glosses over TeXinfo, calling it officially dead based on an e-mail from 9 years ago, while it’s had many new releases since; I’m not sure what to make of that. Would anyone have more insight into that?
This article about async in Python helped me understand it pretty well, since it explains them in terms of coroutines, which are very intuitive for me: https://mleue.com/posts/yield-to-async-await/

Another thing that helps me get it is comparing it to the continuation passing style, where you never return from a function, you just take an argument that's basically a function pointer bound to an environment, and at the end of the function, instead of returning, you call your input function, giving it another function and environment as input, repeating the cycle. It's very similar to the transformation of callbacks within callbacks within callbacks pattern in JavaScript to the async/await pattern.
I'm pretty sure you could have expressed your opinion without resorting to insults.
London's Pigeons Through the Years
Median (not average) PPP income is highest in the US. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

While it’s true our income inequality is larger, the fact still remains that the median American makes more money than the median European (or any other comparable region).

Ask yourself: Is it better for everyone to be richer and have high inequality? Or is it better for everyone to be poorer but more equal?

EDIT: Switzerland is a good point. They are a prosperous and highly educated society! It’s just tough to compare in my mind because the US or EU is hundreds of times larger.
It does support a cloud-based sync tied to either your GitHub account and/or Microsoft account.

If you prefer a more traditional git-based dotfiles sync, github.dev and GitHub Code Spaces will also look for a public or private repo under your account called dotfiles.

I don't think vscode.dev has a way to provide a dotfiles repo, though, and I think it only supports the cloud sync. (vscode.dev is the other web hosted VS Code like github.dev but for other generic things like its Theme Playground and a subset of github.dev functionality for Azure Repos missing things like PR review support because there is no equivalent extension to GitHub Issues and Pull Requests for Azure Repos.)
It's also a fine response to people promoting antisemitism.

He can say whatever he'd like now! We have video of what he did say. You can disagree that what he said was antisemitic on its own terms, but I don't think at this point you can reasonably demand people avoid the opposite conclusion. The ship has sailed on this debate.
Akka was indeed inspired by Erlang. For a modern take, there's Apache Pekko (incubating), a fork of Akka 2.6.x https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko
I remember a lot of pushback in Japan about geothermal power and the impact it would have on hot springs in general. I wonder if this drilling method would affect their concerns?
To add on, can't you generally embed html where needed?
Why is that insane? He worked for 5 minutes only. Most people don't get paid over and over for working just once.

And in any case it would be easy enough to create a hybrid likeness that combines a few people, with the final result looking like none of them, if you have an issue with the image of someone being used.
Like Wilkins’ Real Character, a priori languages attempt to decompose the elements of thought into distinct atomic units and build up larger linguistic constructs from those simpler units.

A posteriori languages like Esperanto take a very different approach: rather than starting from scratch with a set of basic concepts, they attempt to pave over the unnecessary grammatical quirks and complications of natural language to create something which is simple and easier to learn.

Mini’s goal is to fully realize both of these visions: to have, at once, a set of linguistic primitives which can be combined to discuss any topic, while ensuring that those primitives are themselves borrowed as directly from natural languages as possible.

https://minilanguage.medium.com/mini-the-minimal-language-3f...

Yeah, I don't get it. In Esperanto you don't use particles, but you change the endings of the words, according to their roles in the sentence. How is Mini fundamentally different?
> Eventually settled on using ms instead of OneNote

This name is too short to Google, and Google thinks I am referring to Microsoft, or even OneNote, when I search for it. Do you have a link to this “ms” tool from the 1970s?
I think your open source story is weak. Your narrative is we shatter build vs buy. CRM in today's day and age is mostly buy decision. If you want custom analytics or workflows, you would hook up various point-solutions like segment, hightouch and various business automation tools.

Also, it is not very clear which market segment you are going after. If it is midmarket then my narrative is kind of what happens there. In early stage you have low ticket size problem. In enterprise, you have hubspot, salesforce and various other tools.

Building a salesforce knock off does not make sense. As you said, `The startup world is littered with ghosts of so-called "Salesforce killers"`, there must be a reason why. Most likely , it is the fact that there is no market for salesforce killers.

I think your pricing is off. It is $30 per user per month, Post 50 users, your platform is more expensive than hubspot's CRM suite which includes everything.
https://www.icloud.com/
Tree tag :p