skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have spent a lot of time writing HTML. I stood up my entire personal website in raw HTML and about 20 lines of CSS.

Frankly, I don't get the appeal. It doesn't make me feel nostalgic. Rather, I just feel the weight of old technologies slowing my writing process, preventing me from getting in a writing flow. It's really, really hard to write sentences when you have to constantly remember to close out tags. Debugging style in an HTML file is one of the most thoroughly uninteresting experiences a developer will have, in my opinion.

Markdown has been my favorite markup language for the last several years. A raw Markdown file is very human-readable, compared to the tag detritus scattered about the standard HTML file. In Markdown, there are few formatting rules that must be followed.

Additionally, HTML can be embedded in Markdown. So if one really does need custom styling, raw HTML is still available as a fallback. I do not know the extent to which the full HTML spec is supported, but anytime I've been in a bind in Markdown,

Of course, Markdown can't be published directly as a static page. One would think that this necessitates the use of complex React plug-ins - but no! A simple bash script and a handy tool called pandoc is all you need:

mdToHtml {
files=$(find blog -name "*.md")
for f in $files; do
pandoc -f markdown $f > blog/compiled/$(basename "${f%.*}").html
done
}

What about templates?

mdToHtml2() {
files=$(find blog -name "*.md")
for f in $files; do
pandoc -f markdown $f > blog/$(basename "${f%.*}").html
head=$(head -n10 templates/blogTemplate.txt) # first n = 10 lines, header up to <body>
tail=$(tail -n2 templates/blogTemplate.txt) # last n = 2 lines, </body></html>
echo $head | cat - blog/$(basename "${f%.*}").html > temp && mv temp blog/$(basename "${f%.*}").html
echo $tail >> blog/$(basename "${f%.*}").html
done
echo "Markdown files converted to HTML"
}

That script is excessively verbose, and not optimized for organization. I don't know remember why it writes to a temp file first. But it gets the job done.

To summarize:

1) Markdown to HTML conversion is dead simple.

2) Writing in markdown reduces cognitive load by a significant amount, allowing a writer to remain "in flow" much more easily.
Yes, I was kicking myself for not putting a sticker on it. I didn't mention it in the article, but I was going through security with my young child, so it was a bit of a hectic situation to begin with.
I think the charge of 'whataboutism' is often a bit of a strawman.

The argument is rarely, 'ignore Y because of X' or similar. Rather its 'if were were to apply this standard correctly, we would have other priorities'.

So here that if we were to apply the 'regulate/remove objects which change the social environment to make it less safe' standard to prioritise our concern, I'd imagine find-my-device systems wouldnt rank highly: indeed, we might find these systems make it more safe.

So, in a complex series of tradeoffs where all actions have a cost (time, effort, etc.) the claim is about where one ought pay that cost.

I think its fine to show that the standards people have lead to contradictions.
Peak UI happened with OS/2 Warp 3, but, yes. Everything went downhill after the Great Skeumorphic Rebellion of 2010.

OS X 10.0 dug too greedily, and too deep.
Well, the reason is self-evident: $40 round-trip flight to Vegas.
> ignoring the religious indoctrination

Although this is correlated with homeschooling, the movement is much larger in 2023. Also remember the alternative is state or corporate indoctrination. When I think about all the ridiculous ideas and fads I was taught in public school, maybe it wouldn't be so bad to leave childhood with some stories about Moses and Abraham instead.
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Fixed now! Thank you again.

This was the expiry date, so I'm not sure what's going on because that is in UTC and it is not that time yet: (of course I should have set up an alert for myself to do it a week ago)

Expiry Date: 2023-10-13 02:50:42+00:00 (INVALID: EXPIRED)
I’m primarily a Mac user (from the 80s until now minus a Linux break), but still think Win98SE was the best OS ever made.

The UI was flawless. Fast/responsive even on low spec PCs, cohesive design across the entire OS, logically laid out, and minimal while still giving access to everything you needed within a couple clicks.

All OSes these days are just a bloated mess.
You do need one tutor for each student, though. While students can tutor each other in some cases and while being a tutor can itself be a great learning experience, in many educational contexts one-on-one tutoring is hard to scale. Hence the persistence of large classes, and hence the continued search for technological solutions.
Ah that makes sense.

That might explain why Apple won’t deactivate it. They don’t have a way of knowing if the OP sold it to someone and “stole” it back.

If the guy who got is legit OP may want to reach back out to that guy and ask him if that’s the case the guy who had it may be able to disable it from Find My.
Thanks for checking it out! I think with a lot of good data there is some cool stuff like that you could figure out. There is a pretty busy spot, that is fun but a bit of a trek. I wanted to find out for my self when the best time to go there might be. Turns out the camera might be to low res.
I remember seeing LabVIEW ads in MacWorld magazine as a teen in the 80's. (The Mac 128k was our first family computer; it eventually got upgraded to a Mac Plus) I never had reason to use it but it was very well-known in the Mac space (which I was part of for decades).

The end of an era.

As a "conscientious Windows objector", I've made do on Linux for the past 2 years once I finally figured out the only sane distro (NixOS). I have most of the best of everything now- Full speed gaming, almost all dev tooling, emulation, declarative configuration, ZFS on root, etc. etc.
I'm confused about it to. I suggested some possibilities in the "How did it get locked in the first place?" of the article.
Activation Lock can be removed by the person that put it there. No legitimate computer without a weird history is going to be impacted by this.
This occurred to me the other day when I was using notepad. The scroll bar isn’t awful but it’s not great. If someone had motor control problems it would be a massive source of frustration.
I recommend making it a zero-effort handoff. My experience with selling houses is that I want precisely zero to do with the buyer, and them with me.

This btw is the source of the word "turnkey". You turn the key, and it works.
The new System Settings would like to have a word about how all new UI is scrolling tablet-first UX.
I'm working on a game engine for TypeScript: https://github.com/benjaminsuch/apex-engine/tree/main
It had Big Motif Energy, IMHO.
That's great in a world where people are unable to resell devices, but the concept of "ownership" is fluid in a world where users can sell their devices. I can think of many scams that could abuse a system where anyone who presents an ID associated with a receipt can claim "ownership" of a device and bypass various security measures. Keep in mind, Apple's threat vectors range from "random phone thief" to "state level actors", with equally as varied clientele.
What a great way to be sure the power has been restored. I suppose the power being restored at 3am would suck but in most cases I would want the lights to all come back on after an outage.
There are an awful number of Macbook got bricked and there no no other way to destroyed it as scrap. Yes, it is quite intended, but irony for the company claimed that they protect the environment.

An old article, not sure the same one I read, but same problem: https://www.vice.com/en/article/akw558/apples-t2-security-ch...
Did the author try asking the UAE person to de-register the computer from their account?

Not seeing any mention of that but that seems like it would be my first step before trying to get Apple to do anything. They were willing to send it back to you, so if they really did just wipe it so that they could use it, seems like they'd probably be willing to remove the lock.
https://clippings.june07.com

Clippings is your modern-day archival tool for online classified ads... like Craigslist!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37860172
The CC part is highly conflicted. Most maintainers hate double emails, whilst some loudly insist to be CC'd, esp. the Linux kernel folks. So you need to read beforehand the preferred etiquette.
And nevertheless, the tone on mailinglists is entirely different (and mostly extremely childish and unprofessional) than on ticket trackers.
There is no way they have an exclusive on those deals. I will find them elsewhere, if I ever want to go to that place.
Ya know one of the first things I do on an XP install is to go in and disable as much of UI faffing about as I can. It takes a couple of clicks, but once you disable themes in XP you get something that looks quite a lot like Windows 2000.
That vent is for air intake.
I disagree, we should force him to use scrollbars until he gets it. Kids these days!
Hey everyone, I'm James, the writer of the linked blog post with the 3D Tetris experiment and I just today discovered this thread! Which explains the bump in traffic I had for a couple of days back in August.

One of the moderators has kindly let me jump back in to say thanks to everyone that read the blog and had a play, it was most exciting to see people talking about it and I was especially amused by everyone bagging on the unreadable font - you'll be relieved that it has been changed, as of a few weeks ago.

So, a huge thanks, you've all made my day. And if you were looking for a mobile version, here it is... https://nonzerosum.games/tetrings_mobile.html

I'm looking forward to being part of this community too.
I think the argument in the macro sense about who is more at fault between the pervert store owner taping my conversations at their store and the pervert store owner who paid money for the tape because they just had to know what I was saying is a very subjective one. I personally do blame them both equally. The actual micro case of why I'd stop shopping at Store B and not Store A is mostly just related to my personal situation.

I know corpos and governments are passively spying on me either directly or by having others do it, and honestly as long as they maintain an absolute minimum level of social decorum to not let me know about it, I don't REALLY care enough to do anything about it. Google/Youtube just couldn't be bothered to do even that much.
> I worked at Apple years ago in Apple Retail.

You haven’t said if you emailed Tim Cook to see if they take it more seriously. I’ve read anecdotes of some people getting their problems solved by writing to some top names at Apple. No guarantee that it’d work, but it’s worth a try.
I think that's true of a lot of those fields, but a counterexamples is the many electronics tinkers in the first half the 20th century that occupied that same culture that computers do now.
https://docs.rs/dotenvy/latest/dotenvy/fn.from_filename.html
> Taylor Swift is a generated personality designed by a branding and marketing company

Interesting. When did she turn from an actual person into a generated personality, and how? And why can't we get more of them on tour to lower the ticket prices?
it sounds like they're hosting it for 1 month for $12. You never know when the company will decide to delete old videos from non-subscribers.
You forgot the part where Apple could unbrick it for the legitimate owner.

The software does its job, Apple does not.
If you're looking reduce class sizes by hiring more teachers, you'll get further by scrutinizing the admin headcount and salaries.
https://mindgarden.app/

Offline WYSIWYG markdown editor + publishing tool with a Notion-like UI.

You can load a local folder from your computer by clicking the "open folder" button on the splash screen. There you can create and edit new files on your machine (all from your web browser, or install as a PWA)

The publishing feature enables you to publish a folder as an API (eg. all the data from https://codefire.dev/ is served by an API I created with mindgarden. I also use MindGarden for my blog on my personal site). Admittedly the UX to do this is not straightforward yet, I'll have to improve that and/or make a video demonstrating how to do it.

Ctrl+Shift+P opens up a go-to menu to easy navigate to any file, and Ctrl+Shift+L toggles dark mode.

Definitely half-baked and needs a lot of polish (eg. not designed for mobile yet). Let me know what you think though. May or may not motivate me to actually finish this damn project.
For my house, I put in a heat pump with a decently sized storage tank and all it takes is a simple timer - it comes on at 10am and heats until the tank is at least 60 degrees C (for Legionella prevention).

This works to power it entirely from my solar almost all the time (I've only had it for a year, but I think in that time over 98% of my water heating would have been directly from my solar). Where I am, there tends to be surplus solar energy in the grid at that time anyway, so where I am at least, you don't even need anything super smart that tracks real-time energy pricing or anything. As long as you avoid the morning and evening peak, which this always does (it's finished heating usually well before 1pm, and the peak doesn't usually start until 4pm at the earliest in Winter).
The macbook should still be usable if you wipe the OS and replace it with Linux. Still, that shouldn't be necessary, considering this is a problem that Apple created.
It's arguable how relevant Asianometry stories are to the startup world - because most span many years - but they are beautifully stylized economics, management and tech stories. And totally relevant as tech history lessons. Stylized into suitable length videos.

No doubt not complete but attractive overviews.

At some point some videos might address the startup world?
These are the big brains right here, folks.
True, I can't be fucked dealing with tech debt. It's long, boring and has several layers of hell you'll only find out when starting the work.

If someone else does it yeah cool, nice. Otherwise it's too much work.
Why does anyone take a US-based seriously as a standards authority? It seems like a transparent conflict of interest.
I think this happens all the time as a form of societal procrastination.

Like in a city where homelessness is rampant, and the city government meets up and the first thing they talk about is littering ordinances or if there's enough sun/shade in the park, and then oops, all out of time to talk about homelessness - let's just put that on the agenda for next time right after we talk about changing trash pickup day.
My electric scooter was taken from the house of a friend of mine one night. We eventually got it back, because we posted notes around town with a picture of the electric scooter urging anyone who’d seen it to contact us by phone.

Anyways, as a result of that I went on AliExpress and bought a small device which is supposed to be able to be mounted on things and track their location. You put a SIM card and an SD-card in it and it will report its location.

I didn’t get around to mounting it on the electric scooter yet. But something that stood out to me when it came in the mail is that it was declared as being something else and I was like, is this because people buy this thing and they don’t want their spouse to know what they bought or something. That’s a bit creepy, considering it’s a GPS tracking device.
There is no specific commercial restriction preventing us from mixing and matching, but there is also no commercial/technical support from either party around the mixed solution. That means that if any issues come up, we have no path to resolving them, including crucially if we ran into issues during RF certifications.
> First the multiple storage-devices in your local system, later the different storage in your local network, which then grew to support remote servers like FTP, Webdav, etc.

These are not distributed file systems.

> And modern file managers have for some years now also support for cloud-storage like OneDrive or Dropbox.

OneDrive and Dropbox are not tied to any file manager.
They said VC funded. Not commercial.
Global population wasn't at the scale we have right now either. However, London had several million inhabitants in the late nineteenth century, before any cars were around.
AirTags are the only tracking device that have any kind of anti-stalking protection. Literally the only one that does anything at all.

And yet it gets all the flak.

People are stupid.
I guess I've been lucky to work for companies that don't try to squeeze their developers so much. In my career, there has usually been time available to do things "the right way" (up to reasonable constraints of course).

> You have to clarify where you find the time to do all that "above-and-beyond" stuff because it's either normal work done on normal company time, which surely doing the normal/bare minimum is not proof of not being lazy, or it's going the extra mile, which is certainly not done during normal office hours.

At every company I've worked for, I've had time for "above-and-beyond" stuff during normal office hours. That's just how low expectations are in my neck of the woods. Or maybe I'm outrageously talented and I would still excel working on some elite FAANG team... but I doubt it.
Modern design looooves wasting screen real estate on white space. Partially to look "clean" and partially as a result of avoiding any hint of skeuomorphism. Have to separate different UI elements somehow.

Trying to claw some of it back from window borders seems like it's attacking the wrong problem.
Greater uptake -> more data -> better AI

If anything is going to be based on how good the tech is, it's this.
PStow: https://github.com/luispauloml/pstow/

I use it to create symbolic links like GNU Stow but using PowerShell.
This way I can keep the same folder structure inside my dotfiles repository and use Stow on WSL, and PStow on Windows.

It creates symlinks, but it can't delete them, because it doesn't keep track of what it creates. But since I don't actually have to configure too many things, that's not really a big problem for me, because can I simply delete them manually if I need. Maybe some day I will add that functionality, maybe not.
It's not anymore. If the model is publicly accessible, its skills can be distilled by performing some API calls and recording input-output pairs. This scheme works so well it has become the main mode to prepare data for small models. Model skills leak.
As the post mentions, the de-facto official way to distribute games on linux is as a windows binary run via wine/proton. AFAIK this mainly stems from issues in how linux deals with graphics drivers - you can static link everything _except_ opengl. This is similarly an issue with containerizing graphical apps: last I read you needed to have the same version graphics libraries both on the host system and _within_ the container due to the weird linking issues.

Does anyone know if there's any efforts to improve this situation? Is there some ideological issue in linux that prevents standardizing or presenting a generic interface?

(Or more background, my details are very vague here)
> > "The other poster was like shrug there isn't any such thing as true and false anyways"

> They didn't say that.

FWIW I did basically mean that. Specifically I don’t believe in any single universal objective truth. Even for “simple” things, they can have a lot of depth if you are willing to go down the rabbit hole. The complexity is inherent if only because you can’t really separate “one simple thing” from the rest of the messy, infinitely complex universe.

Of course there’s not much to debate about the truthfulness of trivial tautologies like in the triangle case but many things are more subjective than a naive person would assume.

We can all maybe agree on a lot of obvious “truths”, but IMHO it is a kind of arrogance to assume that if three reasonable people reach agreement among themselves, then everyone else should also accept the conclusion.

And if I may comment on this as well:

> If so, that's an incoherent philosophical belief none of us need to bother engaging.

I thought the common struggle of many famous philosophers was on how to be sure that they have found and described truth. Descartes was only sure about “I think therefore I am”. Kierkegaard thought it requires a “leap of faith”, and Wittgenstein thought communications is just a language game and does not have inherent meaning. Those are just a few examples.

I don’t think any of those people would just summarily accept that truths can be easily found by everyone and doubting it is philosophically incoherent.
I have used Mint for years, but I think I will soon be switching to Ubuntu.

With the ability to disable snap auto-updates, they've seemingly gone from terrible to amazing at least in theory, and I almost have some hope that YTLD could really happen.

I like the Cinnamon UI, but GNOME seems to have become good enough and usable for us non-keyboard-driven types.

Things were looking bad on Linux for a bit. I suspect the pandemic and associated disruption led to a lot of poorly managed changes, pointless rewrites, and unnecessary breaking changes.

But between this and Pi OS Bookworm we might be finally getting back on track.
Oh wow I thought the New Teams menu was an internal dog food thing for Microsoft employees. I’m so sorry, it’s absolutely maddening. Nobody likes Teams at Microsoft either, and many hours a week are wasted complaining about it.
A good introductory book is this one:
"The Statistical Sleuth. A Course in Methods of Data Analysis" (3rd Edition) by Fred Ramsey and Daniel Schafer <http://www.statisticalsleuth.com/>.

Another good book at a more advanced level is this one:
"Regression and Other Stories" by Andrew Gelman and Jennifer Hill <http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/arm/>.

Another good book at an even more advanced level is this one:
"Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models" by Andrew Gelman and Jennifer Hill <http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/arm/>.

These books are all very polished productions. What make makes them special is that they emphasis teaching the statistical way of thinking.
Windows 3.1 for me
You're definitely not alone. I feel like I can spot someone who has been homeschooled from 100 yards away.
Screen sharing and huddles
But what if you sold it for cash? For all Apple knows that's what happened in the poster's case (he sold it, then somehow got physical access again, then wants to steal the other person's data)

I really see no way for Apple to support the use-case of someone who a) doesn't want to use Find My and b) loses their Mac where another party activates Find My and c) regains access.

You really need to be in the a+b+c situation which is quite rare.
Torrents and reasonably fast internet have both existed for decades now.
Wet erase maps online for DnD GMs and players
Because your options are Beijing or DC. We like to pretend the age of empires is past but realistically we still live in a time of where there are two major world powers and everyone gets to decide which side of the line they want to fall on, accept American hegemony or submit to Chinese control.