skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that mathematics is a language, where a language is a system we have for describing the world and communicating with each other.

I don't understand what argument you are making here. "Infinitesimal" is just an idea, as far as I know. Nothing real is infinitesimal.
So far, security has always let me leave my laptop inside a thin sleeve, I just put a sticker on the sleeve and send it through.
You are absolutely right.

The key for me is to reduce tech debt before I release. If I'm not dealing with tech debt, the actual programming shrinks, and I have time to deal with the other stuff.
How readable is it for someone who doesn't know much about this kind of thing?
Automatic classifiers tend to look for power above the background noise and then AM demodulate the signal around it. That demodulated signal, or video as it's called, is centered around 0 Hz and can be matched against a database of spectrum masks for various modulations, baud rates and other parameters.

No neural nets required. Just good old regression.
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I've always enjoyed cooking a lot, and, for a while, I've been thinking on how to turn all my recipes I've ever cooked into a format that's easy to share with others and maybe, inspire someone else's cooking journey!

The cover, font choices and overall layout were hashed out together in long chats with ChatGPT-4. I am happy with how it turned out!
I think you should reconsider mentioning legal action. As soon as you do, they may need to stop helping you, and might refer you to council.

Do what you can to resolve the matter, if you want to file in small claims do it, but warning/threatening them ahead of time is not helpful.
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GTD with simple .MD files on Obsidian.
Keep it simple.
Make your reviews every week.
most gamers are just mindless addicts at this point. Activision started releasing almost same game every year and they still buy that game. It even has same name (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare) as old versions without being remastered or sth. Blows my mind.
It is if the intention is to drive out competitors. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/predatory-pricing.asp
Every app that adds AI looks like this
I hate how Microsoft bribe and bully their way to success, despite all their third rate software.
Breaks searching, too.
probably will hand you a card with an email like legal@apple.com and ask you to leave?
If the advertising agency, and by extension, YouTube had not gotten so insanely aggressive with their advertising, I would not need to block them. I don't know if it's greed, hubris, or just hate, but the advertisements across the Internet are out of control.
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No you're right lets all wait for a referendum on that.
Chances are games will be added to the gamepass, meaning we get these for essentially free.
That s/he added in after I commented?
In europe, designing applications also for people who have motor control difficulties is not a matter of taste, it's an obligation.

https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1202

Just respect the law for all of them (potentially you at some point in your life).
It's also surprisingly cheap! RTL SDR kits go for about $40.
Hey hey, author of Enso (write.sonnet.io) here -- thanks for the mention! I actually wrote an article about a similar subject and shared it here yesterday:

https://untested.sonnet.io/Stream+of+Consciousness+Morning+N...
i use a combo of trello and onenote
On one hand, no scrollbars, so when you're scrolling, you have no idea how far 'down' you are... on the other, 80% of the screen is filled with useless junk, ads, sidebars, app menu bars, search bars, address bars, status bars, side panels... but not enough space for a scrollbar.
There's plenty resources on CHERI/rust

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31024127 Making Rust a Better Fit for Cheri and Other Platforms by same author

https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/rust_a_rusty_...
I will do either; it depends on what will work.

And that will only be for companies. For individuals and their personal projects, I'll respond when I have time, for free, for bug reports. (Not feature requests, obviously.) This is to build a clientele of people that might bring my software into their work. And it will reduce bugs.
By default, yes. But if you read the next paragraph:

"While mbedtls is now the default, users who have specific needs or preferences can still manually switch back to wolfssl or choose openssl."
Would you value this take on YC whatsoever if they hadn’t been it in? How would they know what it’s really like?
Are there examples of YC investments that have become successful after a pivot?
You can find well maintained applications for almost everything in either qt or gtk3. So you can select one toolkit to support. KDE might even accept your theme if you did enough work on it to make it work - and this is something that is feasible for one person. The hard part is those few exceptions, if you need one GTK3 app because KDE doesn't have a good alternative (or one qt app because GTK3 doesn't) then you have twice as much work and it is probably beyond what one person can do. Making that missing app for qt/gtk3 probably needs a large team and a few years and so is beyond you (unless you are rich and can afford to hire someone to fulfill your vision) - and there are many missing applications, not to mention existing ones which are just barely acceptable
For what it's worth, the latest ThinkPads don't have S3 as an option in the BIOS anymore.
I have three layers in my life, alongside a document silo.

On the bottom level, I use Trello with my wife. Longer term tasks are stored there, in a modified kanban-style board (multiple backlog queues, in progress, done, canceled). This is visited semi-regularly and updated. Also we plan bigger events like long travels and things involving both of us there.

On the day to day level, I use Pagico. Pagico is a personal "project management" application which can track multiple projects and store data about them. Work life and personal life has different spaces, and I can mix them together in Pagico to handle tasks in both places.

The biggest advantage of Pagico is its "Dashboard" views, which allow me to divide tasks into days and "forecast" my week, and anticipate crunches and deadlines before things become too problematic. Of course Murphy finds a way, but seeing what's coming goes a long way.

On the shortest term (minutes to hours), I use pen and paper. I always have an affinity to writing, so taking notes, writing sub tasks, etc. allows me to work with a lower mental load. This notebooks are scanned and shredded when they are full.

All important documents are stored in Evernote, shared with my wife.

This is the third or fourth iteration of my personal system, last revamped during the pandemic, in 2020. Before that I had a bullet-like journal I started before bullet-journalling craze, and overgrown it.

Please feel free to ask any further questions.
His fame came from essays about running Software businesses, harping on the importance of hiring only the top talent, he offered how they wrote a bugtracker on an in-house language built on VBScript as an example of the feats such savants can accomplish.
The devil's in the details.

There's an enormous difference between "I'm going to use a dev-friendly way to manage and swap out all the different configurations that I might want to plug into the app while I'm testing it, but still plug them in using the same mechanism", which is basically what you get with dotenv files, and, "I'm going to configure with environment variables in production and JSON files in development," which is another thing I often see people doing.
Sure, if you're made of money.

Not everyone is.
Funny, because I get the impression that users of Windows and Android systems are treated as renters. They're certainly not treated as owners, because the devices and OS continuously give the OS and software more control over the device than they give the end user.

Sure, Android has improved lots, mostly because of comparisons with iOS, but who can forget that it used to be the case that you literally couldn't install and run certain apps without agreeing to ALL of the apps' demands? What if someone doesn't want to give Facebook access to your microphone and location?

The fact that you can't uninstall Edge or even have links reliably open in your browser of choice just shows how Microsoft thinks of you, and it's only getting worse, with the extra steps you have to take to even just have a local account. They'll phase that out eventually.

Sorry, but most people, myself included, want and are happy to use a "walled garden" device, particularly if it means I don't have to deal with spyware and apps trying to steal all the data they can.
Man what do you want to call the forced removal of an ethnic group from a geographic area so they can be replaced by another one? Ethnic cleansing has been the accepted term for this for a couple generations but I'm flexible on nomenclature here as long as we agree that the forced removal happened.

If we don't agree that it did then we literally cannot have a conversation across this boundary on this subject. I also don't see how you can adequately explain the current situation in the region when you deny this part of its history but that's your problem I guess.
Like its 2015
Seems like it's just a matter of the stats you want, goals you have and compromise you are willing to make, as usual.

Per the article itself, Y combinators is actually a good deal if your objectives and theirs align.

If they don't, don's sign up.

Also the sky is blue.
You also took a bigger risk, either in your own money to support your product to profitability or in missed opportunity from a steady pay check (although the latter is also true to varying extents in VC backed companies)

Although I am curious _how much_ risk did you take, could you elaborate?
> I've being developing my own micro-cloud for the last ten years - There I've wrote my own email client, password manager, finance book, OTP, movies, music, notes, calendar, backup... and a lot of other micro apps

…

> My problem with org-mode, Obsidian, etc is that they are attention black holes, you focus all of your time installing plugins and configuring your workspace that by the time you're done with that you don't really feel like doing the real work

Seems so contradictory ha!
This is common on sites like YouTube as well. Try to scroll through your front page without your mouse accidentally hitting random videos and causing them to auto play. It drives me insane. The best spot for the mouse that I've found is a small maybe 20px area between the menu bar and the leftmost video. Other than that, you're autoplaying something.

I agree with everything you said as well. Huge complaints from me over time. What if a Chrome window has fallen to the background behind another window and I want to grab it? Oops switched tabs because I can't get my mouse to stop in that little 10px area up top. Oof.
Formal usability testing is still practiced in enterprise, military, and professional products.

From what I've seen from colleagues in the consumer space they've predominantly switched to A/B testing and statistical clickstream/log analyses, though large companies sometimes still do run lab studies for important decisions and to rationalize the giant one-way mirror they installed.
While this hilights a real problem and what seems like a reasonable solution -- the more I am exposed to it, the more I just feel like automatic transitive dependency pulls of 3rd party packages, from the Internet, is just... not a good idea for many use cases.

Crates.io, NPM, Maven repository, etc are a wild west. That's fine for OSS developers and hobbyists. I think it's crazy for a business.

Honestly, if I were starting a commercial project from scratch, I'd dispense with it all and "vendor" packages like Google does: they go in your (probably mono) repository as tagged, versioned, maintained-by-you, directories. Perhaps as a git submodule, perhaps as a fork. But not pulled from the Internet.

Yes, you can set up your own mirror or private repository, but this only solves half the problem.

Because the other half is cultural: systems like cargo or npm encourage very deep dependency chains, lots and lots of packages. It becomes exhausting and difficult to track what is doing what and who is maintaining it. It leads to bloat in build times, but also to brittleness and complexity.

Tracking dozens of semvers and dependency trees I think becomes seductive to people as a kind of exciting busywork. But it's not usually solving the core business problem. It very often creates new ones unrelated to the thing you're supposed to be thinking about: shipping a stable, working product that solves customer needs.
I think the issue is a lot of people think "I have an idea and all I need is money" versus "I have these skills and constraints what is an idea I can make work with them."
Dont't "organize" your life. Live it!

you dont't organize eating, sleeping, shtting, loving,...
Did you ever forgot to eat or hug your beloved one and organize a birthday party for your wife / children / whoever?

so why do you want to "organize" the other aspects of your life?

The only things i need to push me forward in the important aspects of my life are values*.

The values are working like a compass and pushing me fully "from self" in the right directions.

If one value is punctuality then you will find a natural way to reach this value.

If the Value is your own and it is real, then you will find various ways to reach it.

So go and look out for the real important values in your life. If you need "lists" or "organisation tricks" to reach goals, then, maybe, these goals are not your own goals.

Find them and the rest will follow :)
But it is 2023. Things like GTK on Wayland should support fractional scaling. In fact it is already supported by Wayland and is in GTK project's pipeline, but open source software obviously have limited resources. So I think it is fair that people would complain this does not work, but I also understand why it does not.

Framework delivering a HiDPI display makes it more future proof. HiDPI displays aren't just a gimmick. HiDPI displays is super helpful when you are short sighted for example as the increased font clarity from a HiDPI display will help you read small text better.

The HiDPI display on MacOS and the excellent support for fractional scaling is one of my favourite features of a MacBook and why I wouldn't consider purchasing a "Linux laptop" (e.g. Lenovo or whatever else) before they support this.

Different people, different priorities I guess.
There's an interesting design point in high wattage processors. If your bytecode interpreter fits comfortably in the L1 cache, and the bytecode is denser than machine code, and the program doesn't fit in the caches, then there's potential for interpreted bytecode to outperform native code. Quirk of really fast compute paired with moderately fast memory. I can see that working particularly well if one interpreter instance executes code for multiple processes.
Ouch. Why did I leave my petard there?

I think there is some overlap and so you are probably correct to chasten me.

The audience that I am discussing in that piece is a direct audience though. Clicking through to a blog post and reading it is a very different sort of interaction than clicking a "repost" button or clicking a "like" icon.

That post was also one of an early set of posts about the issues of trying to find content online in a sea of SEO generated bullshit. Something that I have written about quite a few times since.

My thinking on the topic has changed a bit since that post and I think that I have a) resigned myself to not being able to wind the clock back to the 00s before Google and SEO killed content discovery and b) to just posting content that I find interesting and not worrying about who reads it and what they think.
Hi, I eat my own dogfood so to speak and built an app for stream of consciousness writing: https://enso.sonnet.io

I've been using it for 4 years, every day, every morning. We also have a small, but community of users using it regularly.

Finally, weirdly enough I wrote about morning notes, processing emotions through writing here: https://untested.sonnet.io/Stream+of+Consciousness+Morning+N...
Apple Notes, syncs between phone, tablet, computer. I have a folder hierarchy there and I use checkboxes. It's not as structured as I would like but I have shortcuts to find the most commonly used documents.
I go to the store to buy a hammer. I’m a hammer user and I use the hammer.

Or I go to the store and I buy heroin. I’m a heroin user and I use the heroin.

These UIs we speak of, are they hammers, or are they heroin?

Because I’m currently looking at a high contrast screen using a mixture of Unix tools created from the late 60s to yesterday.

I’m looking at an Excel spreadsheet made by a team of lawyers that is in a UI. The lawyers themselves highlighted and handled the contrast of the document. Beyond the table itself, Excel’s menu bar is easy to read for the basic operating needs of a spreadsheet. I mean come on, the pivot table UI is clearly masterful. (If Excel was a native plaintext tabular format and you could pipe stdin/out to the GUI app? Gimme!)

However, a lot of software is basically useless these days. It’s not designed from the beginning to be productive in any shape or form.

Some stoned dance by a junkie under a highway overpass is definitely some kind of expressive art form. How much more productive is the expressive art forms promoted by TikTok, Twitter or Twitch?

There’s clearly a scale at play. I’m as big fan of Twitch as much as I’m a big fan of the Buffalo Bills. I’ve always appreciated the sociological aspects of sports. To add some context to my definition of productivity, I would say that group sporting events are overall productive from a sociological perspective, be it IPL cricket or Fortnite tournaments.

TikTok is clearly and quite obviously towards the junkie dance scale of things.

From an experiential position there was not much of a difference between my observations of a woman filming herself doing a weird little dance on the sidewalk while completely oblivious to the rest of the world and the junky on the next block doing a weird little dance on the sidewalk while completely oblivious to the rest of the world. This basic object-level assessment of the actions that we and others experience with our physical bodies is core to the very notion of “meaning”. The “meaning” is just the stoned dance.

I know of no junkies famous for only being junkies but there are definitely TikTokers famous for only being TikTokers so don’t confuse this for some strict equivalence.

I’m just trying to establish a kind of framework for discussing the relationship between productive UI and productive software tools.
What I don't understand with this article is why it should be beneficial for YC to make you dig deep rather than everywhere. The digging analogy basically says that you can push founders in a way that the probability of ANY success decreases, but the overall average return increases. What push mechanism is that supposed to be? Fixation on an idea? And how will it increase return?
"The key for me is to reduce tech debt before I release. If I'm not dealing with tech debt, the actual programming shrinks, and I have time to deal with the other stuff."

This seems like everyone's dream and nobody's reality. Good luck.
Fair, but there's no ETA and the author is fairly upbeat in his write up, and his system is barely even usable.
By most measures https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11 seems to be doing alright. But given the trajectory I’m not sure the anecdote holds.
There's nothing wrong with my posting history, nor are your personal attacks acceptable or relevant to this thread.
https://gotime.mcodes.org

I wrote it to try to help figure out when to leave for the airport (or wherever) and that whole backwards time math routine. I envisioned some maps integration but this is where progress stopped. I use it occasionally.
It is something quite different.

Compact Calendar is continuous and Thumb Calendar is many months at the same time in single place.

What makes them similar is their focus on being printed.
I think we often miss the marketing part and take a lot of focus in the technology stack. A good part of the need for funding is linked to the marketing part. You can make hundreds of technology copycats of existing unicorns but surely cannot market themselves as the did.
So.. write down your values? That could be your only note.
The insight that worked for me is that it isn’t about the tools. Rather, it’s about having a solid plan, or methodology, that works for you, which can be implemented using whichever tools are convenient. Many folks, including me at one point, hop from one tool to another, looking for one that “feels right” and which will magically fix and organize your life.. or make you want to do that. Ain’t no such thing. But once you figure out the methodology, the rest slides into place.

Here[1] is the methodology that works for me. It enables long and short term planning and organization in accordance with my changing priorities and values.

[1]: https://sagar.se/blog/a-task-management-model/
Microsoft has the tools to manage these subscriptions in a business, they work pretty smoothly even for a small org. There's no reason for you to continue to do that other than just inertia of the way you've done it in the past.

Microsoft makes the tools you want available, you're just not using it and acting like it's Microsoft's fault.

I don't get mad at the knife maker when I cut myself cooking.
It depends on what companies have interest in. Below is a list of the ideas I have.

* A build system that is also a package manager like Nix, but usable by mere mortals. Also, it will have an easy way to restrict what builds can do. This one is almost done (well, usable for early adopters, not done); my HN annoucement should be in about three months.

* A VCS that, like Fossil, is self-contained with a bug tracker and everything. It will be able to handle binary assets and HUGE files. It will also be easy-to-use. (I'm going to be testing it on my non-technical wife without telling her how. Once she can use it naturally, I'll probably have a good model.)
Microsoft To Do for short stuff, Google Keep for long-form stuff, and Google Calendar for events. That's all I need really, and they're free.
Even the ones that did have one may not have had a teacher who really knew the material. My highschool would recruit a math teacher and have them take the computer programming course the summer before our classes would begin. They were always happy to discover a couple students already knew enough material to help the other students.
Thanks! But it's not ready yet. My HN announcement will be in about three months.
Pass some law that says the money has to go to some federal cybersecurity fund or something to pay for cleaning up the mess.
I swear they actually are actively trying to make the "Control Panel" / system settings experience worse with each iteration for sure. 90% of 10 and 11's system settings feel like they just took the original Control Panel screen and hid it, exposed 2-3 of the least valuable options, and displayed them in a weird solid-colored screen. To me the only way to adjust most windows settings is to find the "Advanced settings" link in the solid-colored window that will bring up the original control panels.
As a former employer for a YC funded company that was shut down against the founder's wishes, forced to via the investor board; I can say that this article does not universally wrongly characterize the YC experience.

We had another year of runway in the bank and solid growth. ZIRP ended and the board nuked us from orbit.
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