skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HTML is (1) a lot more painful and verbose to write and (2) impossible to decipher in source mode. Markdown fixes both these problems.
Ha, that’s funny, I didn’t even notice.
The Electron runs extra slowly in MODE 1 as the video system needs 100% of the RAM bandwidth to form the display. The CPU essentially ends up paused during the visible portion of each scan line, so the effective speed is probably more like 0.6 MHz.
> Don't get me wrong, I wish every Incel the best. But at least to me this is a case of "I can't help you before you get serious about helping yourself" and that involves searching for your own faults, being self-critical and self-aware. The problem isn't that incels are not shown the door, the problem is they won't walk through it — and they can only walk through it themselves.

I think it is a spectrum.

If one only searches for mistakes one has made or is making based on external feedback, it basically means, that one lets others (society, social group of people around the person) decide how one is going to live and behave. Some people just stick to their principles and when these go against what others expect, it does not necessarily mean, that they made a mistake. It just means, that they don't match with those other people. There does not necessarily have to be something wrong. Such principles can also self-exclude people from other groups of people.

For example: lets say one person is a non-smoker. They won't be around smokers much.

Or another one: Don't like dancing? Well, that person will likely not be with a partner, who is into dancing.

Many preferences and principles (or the lack of those) make a person and steer a person to have or not have contact with other groups of people. It can happen, that there are very few persons of other sex around them.

So I guess a balance of listening to external feedback and ones own convictions is probably key to be well liked by fellow human beings and yet not become externally controlled.
You should consider disclosing your affiliation to the project in your posts on this thread.
That error message is very poor.

Check your keyboard and mouse? I don't even know what you mean by that.

This computer has no input devices? Well that is simply false. The user is currently using an input device when they see this message.

Here's a better message:

"Warning!

Disabling Bluetooth will disconnect your wireless keyboard and wireless mouse. You will need to use a wired keyboard and wired mouse to re-enable Bluetooth.

Are you sure you want to disable Bluetooth?

Cancel. Disable Bluetooth.
"

There should probably be a hardware button or switch to enable Bluetooth.
I’m not sure what you get with the Oura sub, but I would expect to get some form of ‘value’ in the form of services or analytics. Otherwise I’m just paying perpetual instalments for a device I thought I paid for.

Software app subs are one thing, but hardware is something else, IMO.
I've recently been contracted to do some open-source work in the Rust ecosystem, and this article feels like a warning from my future self to me. I'll make sure to heed it.

> “it won’t get done if i don’t do it” and “i need to review everything or stuff will slip through” is exactly the mindset of my own burnout from rust.

I've already caught myself getting into this mindset a few times.

For one particular issue, I got a bit mad because it felt like I was the only one trying to move a critical issue forward, and other people were treating it as a distant priority. In that case, what helped was moving away from the issue for a few days, and seeing other people pick up speed and make progress on it in the meantime. Having supportive colleagues is super helpful.

I don't know how much this will be a problem in the coming year. I'm hoping we can strike a healthy balance.
Ask HN: What online tool/software would you create to make $1000 per month?
DWORD ?
People bought the iPhone when there were no apps available.

And devs complained that there's no SDK, and Apple told them they can make web-based apps, and they didn't like that.

Now the have an SDK, and they complain they can't create nice enough web-based apps.
Usually it's for better
Try explaining this to the climate people...
zoxide is great - in fact I tend to just alias cd to zoxide in my bashrc
It's amazing to me that people in this thread still don't understand free markets. You are free to use Android, or Amazon phone. Or Graphene. Or one of the many others.
Voting with your wallet just means that those who have the most money are “most correct.”

Sorry but that’s not a society I want to continue living in.

There needs to be strict regulations and maybe apple needs to be broken up. Owning the hardware and App Store has already shown have abusive they can be. They need to divest or spin off one of them into a new company or we can pressure politicians to do this for us.
When did it become normal for most Americans to rely on loans for major expenses
Unfortunately, people who take ownership and accountability are often the same people that take pride in their work, which means they aren’t emotionally detached. As long as you're emotionally attached to your work, burnout is a real risk whether you get paid or not.

Ironically, the solution from my perspective is the opposite of most advice. It’s not for everyone to become drudging zombies apathetic about their work and just kicking the can, it’s that more people take pride, ownership, and accountability in all aspects of their lives.

Having gone through burnout and a lot of therapy, my conclusion was that my burnout (and I think others too) was caused by being a caring decent person in an uncaring world. There are far too many people who surround all of us who are apathetic and/or incompetent, yet are entrenched, and being “forced” to carry their burden has an amplified effect on the misery we feel when doing that work. When you work with a team that only has accountable, competent, engaged people it becomes energizing rather than draining.

Realistically even if I am entirely correct above, this isn’t a solution. This is just a confirmation that in my experience the old adage “hell is other people” is true and the primary driver of burnout.
> Have you found F# jobs more abundant than Rust jobs?

Absolutely not. Haha. F# jobs are non-existent. I only meant that from a language point of view.
How do you know it is wrong? To be definitely wrong, wouldn't you need another more accurate model to compare to it, to disprove it?
I have found that many things are learnable, but they have to be taught in a way that you can understand. Most teachers only know one or two ways to explain something. Additionally, they just don't have the time to tailor materials to people. I get really skeptical when people say they can't learn things or have trouble with something. People start acting like you need to be a genius to understand how a comma works or know algebra. I would feel bad as a teacher if I could not explain to an 18 year old how a comma works. Its not that the student is bad, the teacher is bad.

The more time I have spent trying to teach things to people, I think its mostly a failure of the teacher to be able to explain things in a way that people can understand.

You listen to them explain what they are having trouble with, and it seems like they just had bad/incomplete information which makes the process 10x harder. Many people are only really going to learn things if you explain it in X terms, where X is something they really like and think about all the time.

Edit:

I see complaining about dumb/bad students like comedians complaining that the crowd is bad and does not like their jokes. Maybe you just need better jokes, because there are comedians that can get that crowd to laugh.
You are right. These days the lower layers are explored in greater detail. There was a noticeable shift over the last decade or so in mainstream security research. HW security has always been a subject of study, but there is renewed interest in microarchitectural attacks since the late 2010's, when speculative execution was shown vulnerable.
Thats why i think that AI/LLMs etc. are a gamechanger: Not because they can generate text (which is impressive by itself) but because they are very very good in translating human wishes into computer interfaces.

Hi robot, here is my kitchen. Here are dishes etc.
Audiobooks are just expensive in general. A song of Ice and Fire is $39 in Audible on android (well it's on sale now for $27). Sadly $20-40 is a fairly normal price for a audiobook.
Ah yes. Property is theft. So I'm allowed to take your car because you're trying to restrict me from using something I have easy access to once I break your window. No harm has come to you, has it?

Unfortunately, we live in a world governed by laws and society. For 300 years copyright has been the law of the land (in varying degrees). It was bought about, in part, because people feel that someone mis-using their property is undesirable.

You cannot tell people that their feels are invalid. Lots of these artists feel aggrieved that their art is being misused. They think the law has been broken and a social contract has been violated. What argument do you have against that other than "you're wrong to feel that way"?
In my area there are two grocery chains across the street from one another.

One has a self checkout that lets you bag your items however you want, has a wireless scanner for scanning at your convenience, and just has one polite attendant monitoring to help with issues or enter birthdate for alcohol.

The other has one that screams at you about unidentified items in the bagging area if you so much as look in its direction, and cameras jammed in your face with a screen wrapped in white LEDs to make it obvious you're being recorded.

Guess where I prefer to shop :-)
This is a despicable attitude.
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With BSON I am guaranteed that, for example, in Java, when I do `Document d = BSON.fromBytes()`, then `BigDecimal amount = d.getDecimal128('amount')` is non-lossy. `amount` is typed; `double amount = d.getDouble('double')` is an error.
Again, it's not a failure of JSON[B]/postgres. It's what happens when the data carrier (JSON) is just a string with a small inferred type suite. How many times have we run into issues when `{"v": 1.3}` works and `{"v": 1.0}` works but `{"v":1}` gets turned into an `int` by accident?
obsidian is awesome.

I'll go ahead and do a shameless plug for an alternative built with similar philosophy around privacy & data ownership aimed at developers https://acreom.com
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Those few actors would have had to wait until it spread somewhere they have visibility in to before they could start a weeks-long sequencing process. It might have only added a month or two, but that's a lot of lives saved.

The wikipedia page also credits it with speeding the process up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#History

>> " Its genetic sequence was published on 11 January 2020, triggering an urgent international response to prepare for an outbreak and hasten the development of a preventive COVID-19 vaccine.[182][183][184]"

I haven't checked the citations, but I would expect an edit war if that were controversial.
PS Same author recently wrote this unbelievably funny essay "Taylor Swift does not exist":
https://open.substack.com/pub/samkriss/p/taylor-swift-does-n...
Reddit moderators are unpaid volunteers. They lose exactly $0 if they "strike". The stakes are extremely low in comparison to pulling apps from the App Store.

And there are only 75,000 Reddit moderators in total. That's vastly smaller than the number of App Store developers.
Super weird IMO that they refuse to release source code. Hard to trust something as important as notes to an opaque app.
sometimes you just need guidance, glad to see your humility allows for it.
I think some BIOS's do have support for bluetooth keyboards. There is a crazy thing where windows will send the bios the necessary encryption keys, so while the BIOS cannot pair with a keyboard, it can use a previously paired one.

Doubt it works with linux, and I bet it depends on using the exact right config even on windows.
RFID tags are already used for inventory management for some items/retailers. A system like this can just piggyback on the existing tags.
> with a TOS that basically says "we're not liable for anything...".

And therein lies the problem.

You may think that stating "we're not liable for anything" is an easy get out of jail free card.

The reality is that drafting LOL (Limitation Of Liability) clauses is an artform that evolves constantly inline with emerging case-law in your jurisdiction.

You see, there's this little problem of someone called a judge.

Judges tend not to like people who take the piss and draft one-sided contracts. Judges have many powers, one of which is ruling to disregard unlawful or unfair contract clauses. Shitty LOL clauses are like a red rag to a bull for a judge !

A good commercial lawyer will know how far you can take your LOL clauses without taking the piss.

At the end of the day, if you're selling SaaS, then "we're not liable for anything" is unlikely to cut it in the vast majority of jurisdictions in this world.

So that also answers your second question about why liability and indemnity insurance exists. For the stuff you can't LOL.
i saw a fascinating blog post about this the other day https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-di...
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Last time they tried that, Bill Gates flew to Munich.
Although that sounds annoying, clearly the reason for that behavior is this entire thread. If the old couple had not been zooming at the time, they would have rebooted and that would have fixed things.
If it's not driven by ROI, it can only be empathy and «do the right thing»
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Seems like you misread my post. I don't use PIDs. I just tune random functions until the forces are good enough.

PIDs sound cool though. I should try em.
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I use this Rust clone which works great, no complaints: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

Although, I don't know what the difference is, other than the language of choice.
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The original black and white screenshots in the book do not do justice to how jaw droppingly beautiful BeOS was at the time. It was like a work of art. Hanselman had a project where he crowd sourced people re-writing an old basic games book into modern python or somesuch. I wish there was a way to re-take all these old screenshot of a VM running the original BeOS from back then. That's the part of BeOS that I really have nostalgia for. The technical underpinnings were great, no doubt. The source code was almost as beautiful, and I don't even write C. But the GUI...
#2- meh, I suspect that the world is a better place with you in it, neurological disfunctions and all. Conformity isn't the endgame, society would me much poorer for it
Moving/working internationally was a dubious life decision for me (and a lot of other people I think).

While it mainly worked out in the end, there were many stretches of years on end when I stuck it out at jobs that I didn't like or had outgrown, but were difficult to move from (or start my own company) because I was on a visa and could only move to some other company that would sponsor, or move internationally.

It makes other aspects of life harder too, e.g. starting a company, buying property - sure, you can buy, but do you really want to own somewhere if you might not be allowed to live/work there in the near future? Relationships - romantic/cultural issues, and you'll leave behind all your school friends, people you grew up with. Sure, you can make new friends... but they won't be as deep, and they'll probably kind of be other misfits in the new place, like you.

Not to say that it never works out... and maybe it's interesting for 2-3 years before going back home or settling some place permanently, but it can come at a pretty big cost. If moving from some third world place to a developed place, it's probably a no-brainer, but if you're moving from one developed country to another, it's quite possibly more paperwork and inconvenience than it's worth, and for the most part I wouldn't really recommend it, I think there is a lot to be said for just doing the best you can where you are, with your network, and with citizenship/no restrictions on anything.
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> i’m not going to name names because either you know what i’m talking about…

Consider: this attitude of nod and a wink “can’t name names” strongly contributes to burnout in every community i’ve seen it in. Rust has it in absolute spades, but i’ve seen it eat other groups alive too. Maybe we can stop doing it.
I dunno, this feels like it is overemphasizing. Consider the section on cities. It shows eight skylines viewed from across water. They all have tall buildings. Two have towers that have a spherical bulge element. Some buildings are glass facades and others are concrete. In one skyline the tallest building is wide and looks like some sort of hotel. In one skyline there is a large and wide white building that looks like an arena. These don't look identical to me except that they all contain tall buildings, which isn't as much a design choice as it is an economic choice about city centers. Then the text immediately pivots to cheap stick framing and small apartment buildings outside of city centers.

The discussion of interior decorating is called "interiors all look the same" but it immediately narrows focus onto just AirBnB listings (and for what its worth, I've stayed at far more AirBnBs that don't look like this than AirBnBs that do). The author describes trying to get design inspiration and getting stuck here, but there are entire magazines still in circulation about interior decor that very much cover a wide range of styles.

There is something to the article, but I feel that selecting ten similar looking things from each category is just not super compelling. There are ten books that sprung from a trend and use "fuck" in the title with a similar cover layout that were published over a period of like seven years. That's like, a normal trend that comes and goes. There are still a bazillion books that don't use this cringey title and have totally different cover design.
The USB port on phones is kinda locked down, and without rooting your phone I don't think there is any API to emulate an arbitrary device like a keyboard/mouse.
Obsidian is my IDE for Markdown, if that makes sense.
> 50 million that is absolutely outrageous. Not even the British and North Americans(now US and Canada)native extermination had such high numbers

North America was far less populated than South America to begin with; 7-18 million vs maybe 60 million, according to the estimates quoted at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indi...
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It's ironic for you to call me "low-information consumer" and "shame me" when you don't even look further than the first Google result to Tim Sweeney's tweet.

Epic Game Store is unprofitable and losing money. There were financial documents released in Epic vs Apple about Epic Game Store becoming possibly profitable in a few years and accumulating 1 billion loss before the end of this decade.

> You dislike people who count private profit margins?

I like how you honestly believe that saying "% cut is pointless for Steam", "they have more money than they could ever spend", "they just spend whatever they want and do what they want", "they rob ... so billionaire Gabe N can enjoy the extreme excess of his valve palace" is counting profit margins.

To bring you back to reality, you're not counting profit margins, because you have no access to their financials. You're making stuff up and talking emotional nonsense like you have a personal grudge and accuse other people and companies of robbing people.

edit: can't reply to your comment below. wishing you all the best with your future trap laying for incompetent repliers
This is a nonsense post. There are plenty of shops running well without issues. The city m&s we go to is full of customers in and out at lunch times.
I have done exactly this on an iMac. Thankfully a wired mouse was in the same building. But I was shocked, reflecting on how easily I had suddenly made my computer almost totally inoperable, by accident, without a warning.
Still confused to be honest...

What does it mean that Earthstar will become a Willow protocol? Isn't it an implementation of Willow?
Just how bad is it in Gaza?
I've done exactly this, and set up a cron job to sync regularly. Still very sub-optimal imo.
They do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39027263
I really like Obsidian but the long startup time (on mobile) has stopped me from using it as a daily driver.
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I am kind of, have the same flow of thoughts. I have never worked on the project for more than 4 years. Now I have a product that I have built and live on, for the last 7 years. I don't have that much passion about this product anymore. But at the same time it allows me right now to work only 4 hours a week on average, and spend 2 months a year to build new versions of the product. I am making good Google Principal Software Total compensation.

Selling a company means I can probably get 4-6x of my annual income. But I am afraid to become that dragon on the pile of money. Draining money will be terrifying for me. And I am not good with managing money.

At the same time, I am afraid that company can slowly disappear, customers choose alternatives. And maybe 4-6 years that is how much I can get from it. But at the same time I will have opportunity to fix things, adjust my life based on the income.
But the notes are maintained as plain markdown files?

I don’t find it weird they would want to keep the source for their commercial application closed when there are so many copy-cat apps in the same space.