skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What tools do you use for your writing?

> Writers mentioned a number of Open Source options, including Joplin, Asciidoctor and GNU groff.

This is a gobsmackingly bizarre list. Joplin is a note-taking app, Asciidoctor is a processing/publishing tool for AsciiDoc, and groff is mostly for publishing CLI docs/man pages.

Most technical writers work in either DITA XML, AsciiDoc, reStructured Text, or Markdown. Aside from using oXygen for XML, you're probably in VSCode or some other open-source plain text editor with a plugin to preview the output.

That content often lives in a git repo, or alongside code in a monorepo. It goes through a publishing tool like the DITA Open Toolkit, AsciiDoctor, Sphinx, a static site generator, etc.

Translation typically involves Gettext/Poedit at some point between a variety of frontends, though scaling that is often how tech writing teams wind up going down the DITA XML rabbit hole.

> Lauren Pritchett: "When I was writing more frequently I liked to write in Atom or something like that in Markdown, then put it in a Markdown-to-HTML converter and plop it into Drupal…"

No. No! This is nonsense. In technical docs you absolutely have to have a publishing pipeline that doesn't include a manual copy-paste step into a CMS order to scale. In technical blogs you're authoring closer to the CMS. This makes zero sense.

> I really enjoyed working with LibreOffice because of the ability to create templates, repeat processes, ebooks and cheat sheets…

There are mature and popular open-source tools to do all of those things in AsciiDoc/rST/Markdown that are easier and better at scale than LibreOffice. Even DITA and the DITA-OT can do most of this, though working with XSLTs sucks.

Notably, Pritchett's background is primarily in marketing content, whitepapers, blogging, and traditional book publishing, not product docs: https://hilgspritch.github.io/work.html

> ... (git and Markdown is) not intuitive, I much prefer Google Docs

If you're doing technical product or dev documentation work, you might be in Google Docs as a bridge with product and marketing, and maybe you legitimately prefer GDocs review tools for editing early drafts of prose.

But if you're writing documentation, then writing docs as code in the same tools and processes ships the docs alongside the implementation. If you can't become competent using git, you're going to struggle mightily in non-marketing tech writing roles.

If you're documenting software, and even if your team isn't writing docs as code, you still need to be able to understand git and fundamental concepts of it well enough to work with the product you're documenting. Your publishing pipeline is probably using a combination of git, CI, and cloud storage, and if your team doesn't have anyone on it who can understand those things then you aren't shipping docs as fast as you could be. Very few non-marketing technical writers make it these days without being competent in git.

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Also, more generally there's no disclaimer that the moderator of the talk spends a chunk of it talking up a blog that his own consulting company runs and prominently sponsors.
I cannot feel bumps in the indicated place on my P8P, even though I can see them under very bright oblique light.
> not real?

real genuine Eric S Raymond humor, yes.
Your life as you know it would disappear if electricity stopped flowing tomorrow.

Facebook is no longer the trendsetter but it still influences the daily lives of millions of people and will probably, once again, have a major impact on who the United States next president is. Facebook is highly relevant.
How much -DB one needs for complete quietness? May be it is possible to tell from a lot of experience?
tbh I'm less concerned about the order or makeup of the acronym and more concerned with the reason we discuss those acronyms and their (undue) influence over the tech world.

The structure of our markets ensures players like this will coalesce, but it's no reason to let giants of commerce dictate the terms of engagement for everyone.
Seconded, I play in several very loud metal bands and I went through this same process around 2016 and my earplugs are still going strong. I love the option of changing the filters at will. Well worth the time and money, for me.
Why not just use Phoenix/Elixir? This is no more HTML or official than elixir, and I think the bikeshedding would ensue if people decided to agree upon a syntax and add it to the HTML spec.

https://www.reddit.com/r/htmx/comments/160uuzd/whats_the_dif...
Hong Kong budgeted HK$ 948 million for a comparable TETRA network in 2001. That's $120 million nominal and $210 million adjusted for inflation. Compared to that, $500 million doesn't sound entirely unreasonable.

It's hard to find more recent numbers, because these days everyone is transitioning their government radio networks to use commercial infrastructure.
When reading posts like these, I sometimes I feel very lucky having a MacOS M1 setup that does what it's supposed to and which works almost seamlessly with external hardware. Best of luck to your venture.
He's talking about Vladimir Kramnik and this video BTW: https://youtu.be/_jk_r8FeREM

Saved you the work of the digging I had to do as someone that's not in the loop
Great advice. Most of the reasons to remake an old game vanish under inspection. Instead, make something people want, but draw from old games for inspiration.
My favorite part about Htmx - other than being very useful for 90% of all web-apps/websites since the intercooler.js days - it's just the fun of the whole "marketing" side and seeing "young" people ( aka. started their web career in the last 10 years ) royally annoyed and in disbelief how someone can build stuff without using "industry standard React" or Vue or Svelte. ( more than the framework, the way of thinking about web development ).

Seeing "web boomers" having fun and doing their own thing and "young and serious" frontend dev professionals with a career to have acting like the typical know-it-all curmudgeon just warms my heart.
Which is most like FL Studio?
It looks like you’ve got a lot of experience but we’re a crushed ice shop and you’re mostly familiar with cubed ice - so I’m sorry it won’t be a good fit.
How has the Civ gameplay changed since the 1990s?
> overrun by onlyfxns spam

I suspect this is the bigger issue to be honest. I certainly stopped because of this. Not that I begrudge people having OF or advertising that, but please, for fuck's sake, stay on-topic, and don't spam the fuck out of things with content barely related to the sub's topic.

I also really hate the shift in language to be more personal; e.g. "would you like to [..]" / "I would like YOU to [..]" and stuff like that. It's just creepy and manipulative. Sell your pr0n pics, fine, but don't pretend we have some sort of personal relationship, because we don't.

Also imgur's NSFW purge probably didn't help.
Sure, why not. American public schools are terrible self-protecting bureaucratic monstrosities. I would be fine with scrapping their funding and reworking the whole system.
In the same vein that 'True Names' covered the last 10-20 years with AI, Anonymity, cyber crime, hacking, and virtual reality, I think 'Rainbows End' is our next 10-20 years.
That was more than 11 years ago!
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Not sure if it helps, but as someone who is a big fan of scripting languages like Python and someone who loves playing with all kinds of programming languages...I found Scala, Clojure, and Kotlin to be a much more frustrating experience than Python in a lot of ways. I wouldn't say there is enough in common.
Poor, poor Slashdot. For me it was murdered during the 2016 US elections when they welcomed infectiously click bait political shit fest that literally spread to like every story. I contributed at that point for like 12+ years? I couldn't stand the vitriol and moderation clearly didn't function, so cest la vis.
They're probably assuming, or at least their advertisers are assuming, that anyone who would trust Google for anything at this point is a potential mark.
Museum Chain Is Turning Artists into "Value Makers" for Venture Capital
How is that relevant? Houses aren't more expensive because of improved technology. They are more expensive because we chose to make them more expensive via certain developmental policies like car-dependence and suburban sprawl.
English has separate terms for "flesh" and "meat" for complicated reasons, with "meat" having a stronger food implication. But I think the story uses "meat" because it's a funnier word in that context.
Perhaps the assumption is that ARM will be more common on Windows and Linux? Or that ARM will become a requirement at some point in the future?

I'm kinda surprised that ARM isn't common yet in Windows and Linux.
Reddit screwed up in a different way.

They’ve shown they run the subs, make hire/fire decisions and have the power to supersede community manager calls.

This makes mods look more like labour, not volunteers.
The thing is, that was the desired outcome anyway. Reddit wants to get rid of the NSFW because the big money they want to attract doesn't like anything remotely fringey.

I wonder where those posters went to though. Lemmynsfw is nice but very sparse.

Ps OnlyFans spam was killing it for longer already
x64 means x86-64 in common parlance. Apple silicon would be an arm64 platform in comparison. Lots of software is compiled for both right now, but Apple is abandoning x86-64 so at some point in the future, software will stop being built for that platform (just like ppc before x86).
“Just”? It is a decent learning curve. Might as well say “why not just use React”.
We’ve still got like 12,000 nukes left worldwide - this would be the perfect time to test Project Orion in atmo!

With all that water vapor that would enter the atmosphere and increase the albedo, we’d probably solve climate change for a few generations too.
> you make it sound like these are opposing incompatible choices. why not choose both? i'd love to live in a small tight knit community. going to school and getting a good education does not prevent that. and with more options to work from home it is now even more possible than it was in the past.

Tight-knit by definition means everyone's up in everyone's business. You would know your neighbour's business intimately, as intimately as they'd know yours (think what you pooped last night as a sense of how intimate). If that strikes you as unnecessary and potentially disgusting, then tight-knit isn't for you. I came from one... and I know for a fact it isn't for me.
Presumably this was inert, otherwise I think you'd be extremely stupid to do something like this. Even over inert/historical military hardware like this people can go to jail in many parts of the world.
It's intentional - the last theing we need is newbs asking ridiculous questions.
I think systemd was developed to make a libre replacement for SMF, that supported socket-based activation and deterministic boot. Those were two of the project's original goals, but the endgoal I think was to develop this capability for open source Red Hat, SuSE and friends, get it on every distro, then use their influence at lower levels of the stack -- only one higher than the kernel itself! -- to have effective control over the open source ecosystem at a low level.

Poettering worked for Red Hat during the development of both PulseAudio and systemd. If he was not writing code they wanted, he would have worked on another project. Ergo, one can conclude those projects to be Red Hat-oriented, or sponsored at minimum.

I firmly believe the profit motive in the software world is what leads to dark patterns, user-hostile design, and other maladies we face in the modern software world. Their obligation to seek profit over all other things leads to compromised values, leading to compromised software.
Derived from the word "grammar" for me.
Irish Author Paul Lynch Wins Booker Prize for 'Prophet Song'
"“I was trying to see into the modern chaos,” Lynch told the Booker website. “The unrest in Western democracies. The problem of Syria — the implosion of an entire nation, the scale of its refugee crisis and the West’s indifference. … I wanted to deepen the reader's immersion to such a degree that by the end of the book, they would not just know, but feel this problem for themselves.”"
Maliciousness like wanting to open a window at a given location? That's seriously bad behavior and I hope the offenders will be stopped promptly and prosecuted. I didn't think evil like this existed in the world.
Stop relying on local property taxes to fund the schools. That’s a US thing that isn’t replicated in most other well-off countries.

The closest thing Germany has to US-style annually-billed property tax is Grundsteuer, and for homeowners, it’s low triple digits at most. It pays for neighborhood streets, sidewalks, storm drains, and (I think) the fire department. We do pay a pretty hefty transfer tax when we buy property - I think it was about 5% of the purchase price, but that’s a one-time thing.

Schools are funded out of general revenues, mostly personal and corporate income taxes, assessed nationally. Each state has its own school system, with differing structures and standards.
It's amusing to me with how poor the state of javascript and FE software development is, a group of people commenting on htmx negatively. It seems to really boil down to the fact that non-JS people don't want to write JS, and JS people dislike that.

Look at your average JS frontend and you'll find stuff way worse than the things you're complaining about wrt htmx. Live and let live, as they say.
I live in Australia. Here, there are no school districts, and local government has nothing to do with public schools - they are all state-run and funded out of the state government budget. The state government does rely in part on property taxes, but also has other revenue sources, so abolishing property tax wouldn’t have any direct impact on education funding here. I don’t see any inherent reason why a US state couldn’t adopt the same public education model.
I think a lot of commentary on this problem doesn't fully account for the historical conditions that allowed for such a rapid increase in material prosperity for the average person in the 20th century (especially in the US), and the historical conditions leading to its partial reversal.

The population was expanding so rapidly, and enough actual investment (in terms of value delivered in the form of usable roads, not $) was made in infrastructure, that a young family could acquire a home without having to buy from existing homeowners. Because of suburbanization and very high demand, massive amounts of new housing was built on inexpensive land.

Retirements were generally funded with pensions, and there was still a general societal expectation that you'd take care of your parents when they became old. This was more practically workable as most women became homemakers or only worked part-time once they had children. Medicine was not as advanced as it is now, so people weren't kept alive in poor health for as long as they are now, and there weren't as many uber-expensive treatments necessitating people to save up large amounts in case they needed them for care later. With way more working adults per retired adult than now, and with retirements more funded via cashflow (of children's jobs or from a company's revenue) rather than ROI like they are now, there was a lot less pressure to extract value out of businesses.

And on top of all that, Asia (except Japan) was basically undeveloped, and Europe (and Japan) was destroyed - the rest of the world almost non-factors economically. There was very little pressure to lower wages due to international competition.

There are no simple or obvious fixes to these problems. Promoting housing construction could help a lot, but besides that, we don't have a ton of options. The "pie" of existing assets will always grow unless it's destroyed (in war mostly), so it will always be harder and harder to earn your way into a decent slice. As technology improves international competition will only become more of a factor in price, not less. And there is no "solution" to the increased number of retirees per worker, or more advanced medical care costing more, that isn't horrific. But on the bright side it doesn't seem like these problems will get that much worse than they are now.
I believe it's pretty clear that htmx (and Phoenix) exist (at least in part) because people specifically _do not_ want to use Javascript.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117465/downpayment-home...

2019: 15,737

2023: 28,000 +56%

Adding in the downpayment is more interesting to me because that is also a factor of having savings.

When I lived in SF, I had a good high paying job, but I didn't have the $200-250k downpayment. I couldn't even get a shitty house in the avenues. I spent a year looking for a place and finally gave up.
I’m 100% in favor of recouping the money via other taxes. My motivation for being against property tax on primary residences is my belief that if you own a single family home free and clear, no one should be able to take it away from you simply because you don’t have any money.
What is software development? (a guide for non-technical folks)
It has been far from a stalemate. Reddit has won this battle, but the war is not over.

Saying that as someone been dedicating full-time since September to a project to help people migrate from Reddit to Lemmy [0], the truth is that there is simply no alternative yet for all the niche communities that are established there.

About a month ago, I posted here [1] about my project to try to make it easier to sign up and automatically discover/subscribe the Lemmy communities [2], but I wasn't expecting to have such a long tail of communities that need to be mapped out. The ~150 users that signed up to alien.top led to a discovery of about 6000 different subreddits.

I was doing the work of curation and creating alternative communities by hand, but I realized that was going to be an endless task. This is why I started working on a crowdsourced solution [3], which I launched last Friday

[0]: https://github.com/mushroomlabs/fediverser

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38007028

[2]: https://portal.alien.top/

[3]: https://fediverser.network
In that case Reddit should die.

Reddit’s decision changed it previous equation with mods, and redefined the limits of power.

Reddit, since inception, had never made specific hire fire decisions for mods, especially for purely monetary reasons.

This makes it less volunteer moderation, and purely unpaid labor.

NB: I would add return on investment to your cabinet of villains.
Huh, this was a classic question asked at my University to final-year Engineering students on the "welcome back/fun day" (also build a bridge out of straws).

The guesstimated answers needed to consider how many ships and how much fuel would be required to tow it, losses due to melting, and storage/use once it arrives at it's "destination".
I concur with this. I've spoken with friends at Reddit who tell me that overall post volume is basically back up to normal, but my participation was mostly in smaller subs. Some of them got killed for lack of moderators, some are basically dead because people left and didn't come back, and a couple that are at similar levels of traffic seem to have had a lot of the good posters leave and be replaced by a bunch of shitposters, self promotion, and bots. That said, sounds to me like the conclusion Reddit will take from this is that everything's fine.
There's several third party tips for those with different materials. I use Crystal.
i am sorry for your experience. i can relate to a degree. my first thought when reading "given to be taken care of by various family members" was: at least you had family members who cared for you (as in showed you loving care). i didn't even have that. (except for my grandmother who was to far away to see her more than once a year) on the other hand i didn't develop a feeling of abandonment and i came out of the experience with extreme independence and strong self confidence. my brother wasn't so lucky.

however on second reading i had to realize that i can't judge the quality of care that you did get. likely it may have been worse than anything i had to go through. again, i am sorry for that.

the common point though is that we both had something missing when growing up. for me it took decades to understand what what missing and more importantly how that affected me.

but most importantly, neither your nor my experience have anything to do with the experience described in the article. the key difference is that while the children in the article have many caregivers, and possibly spend a lot of time away from their parents, they didn't get any feeling of abandonment from them.

your experience is something entirely different, and rejecting the living arrangements described in the article is the wrong conclusion. that your parents abandoned you had nothing to do with the community you were in. that community didn't make them do that.

my parents couldn't show love because of the experience they had growing up during and right after the second world war, having to flee approaching armies and then living in a destroyed city giving them an experience that is hard to imagine.

in my case, living closer to grandparents and cousins would have made a big difference. i was able to make up for the shortfall by finding a loving and caring partner. my brother needed therapy.
Reddit died with the mobile clients.
It was about photos of minors at the beach. CNN ran a story about it and that event was when Reddit started to get much more hands-on about acceptable content.

Gotta say though.... if you make a fresh instagram or tiktok account that same material will be suggested to you while you are in the wide suggestion phase. Kids love taking pics at the beach, which is just one of many reasons not to start a UGC website.
It's probably under the glass, so you can't feel it
Not to be disrespectful but this is a fairly ridiculous take lol. That is not a ton of running to be honest - there are weekend warrior 5K-10K guys in their 40s and 50s who run 50-70 miles per week and you'd have to really be stretching your brain to try to argue that they're not healthy. As with anything, you have to be gradual in conditioning yourself to run that much, but that amount of running is certainly sustainable. I will grant that it's easy to overdo it when first starting running and hurt yourself, but that's a somewhat different topic.

I personally like to take one rest day, but it's not necessary if you adjust the intensity throughout the week to account for never having a full rest day.
Significantly. Hexes, districts, no unit stacking, resource stockpiles, religion, loyalty. Just some of the new concepts and mechanics in more recent civ games that 1, 2 or 3 didn't have.
Yes, my goodness, you have so many upvotes. That's why your karma is sky-high and your comments are towards the bottom of every thread.

But I know a lost cause when I see one, and you live by comparison. Wish you the best with that.
I'm currently in the process of setting up pipewire in an audio engineering setting. Currently in the process of latency tuning, hovering around 9ms right now, would love to cut that in half.

I'm using ardour (after the creator recommended I try it in another HN thread) on Debian with a realtime kernel for a 16 in by 8 out interface for eventual use as a FOH mixing console.

After lots of tweaking, I haven't seen much improvement over the default pipewire-jack config, but I've only recently started tackling realtime priorities and modifying pipewire metadata for interfaces.
Has anyone tried running SQLite on this?
The worst thing as a non-smoker was being in the row of seats immediately in front of the smoking section at the back of the plane. There was a curtain divider but it did little to contain the clouds of smoke coming from behind.
What is a "Bayesian bias"?