skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pandoc is amazing. I'm an architect so I use a lot of InDesign. But of course it's not good for intensively editing the text itself, it's a presentation tool. Everyone I know just uses Word and copies and pastes. The poor souls.

I learned LaTeX late in life for a few reasons:
- I publish in journals that all have different layout requirements, so reformatting to submit to more than one is a big pain.
- Using a non-WSYIWYG editor enforces clarity. It's a lot easier to see each sentence as a whole. If a sentence is longer than a single line in VSCode it should probably be more than one sentence.
- The features of an IDE allow you to see each line (sentence) in one place, and move things around more flexibly with the IDE shortcuts. You can easily rearrange the flow of a text. And of course you can make inline comments without having to clean them up before sending the doc somewhere.
- I don't have to care about things like image placement and anchoring in the text until output. This is an area that WYSIWYG editors like Word are particularly painful.

There are other reasons like equations and notations, but that's enough for now. All that said here's my workflow:

I write LaTeX in VSCode (soon switching to vim). Then, I can use Pandoc to convert to Word if I need to (it's still where most of the templates come from in the discipline). This is also helpful in working with collaborators in my area since they typically won't know LaTeX.

Here's where it gets fun - I write LaTex, then use Pandoc to output directly to .icml (InDesign Markup). These link directly in my InDesign document, and so I can edit text where it's better and more clear to edit (IDE), then seamlessly get it into the environment where I have maximum layout control. I haven't gotten to do this so many times that I need to write a script to automate conversion as part of my tex build, but I probably will soon for fun.

Pandoc just works so well, allowing me to concentrate on making good content and not having to sweat all the annoying file conversion details. Thank you to the developers and maintainers.
1 and 3. The quiet detente at Google is product won't be too ambitious if engineering doesn't go out of its way to do anything:

90% of the time product lays out a minimal rushed vision, engineering huffs and puffs that it might be impossible, then people work about 20-30 hours a week complaining that the designers didn't tell them exactly what to do and the teams they need to integrate with won't help, and you deliver 80-90% of the original minimal "vision" and slap eachother on the back.

And that was _before_:
A) spent 18 months firing people, while some managers took advantage of that situation to punch down.
B) they nuked the performance review system, 80% are exactly the same with their Significant Impact, another 10-15% have scarlet letters, and 5-10% get rewards.

Any deviation from that and someone perceives you as being on their turf and finds a way to punch down.

And good luck getting management to care, just like the real world, no one wants to get within 100 feet of trouble.

Then you're faced with the invitation to appeal to a VP, a coin flip where you have to guess at if they're going to back you, and even if they do, facing the fact you nuked your career anyway because you broke omerta.
It's all a tradeoff as there are only so many hours in the day.

I was an IT industry analyst for about a decade and basically brought that background to an internal vendor role.

On the one hand, the company I was with valued a broader perspective. On the other hand, get too broad and you risk getting into shallower trade press takes where some writers have heard various terms and memes but don't have any real deeper understanding of most things.

So it ends up being about developing legitimate expertise on certain related topics while having some conversational familiarity with others--and maybe just admitting you don't have more than a very surface understanding of still others.
You'll notice and remember what annoys you. The articles confirming your world view aren't noteworthy. I'm curious what media you consume. I stumpled on an opinion piece just the other day with "red flags to identify a Republican", I may be biased but it seems those kinds of pieces are always from one side of the political spectrum.

Likewise I've never seen "if you vote for democrats swipe left" on Tinder, but the opposite is extremely common.
> Boycotting things is useless virtue signalling of the woke disease.

I didn't realize HN served multiple alternate realities. Over here where I'm looking from, by far the largest boycotts of the last 8 years have been from conservatives who were upset by events like trans people being featured in ads and the existence of gay people in movies/tv shows.
I feel like ex-Buzzfeed-guy Ben Smith’s Semafor is trying riffs on that theme in a couple of ways. In their big reported pieces they seem to like to packaging together mixed forms of reporting, coupling straight-reported factual summaries with editorial “views,” prognostications, other organizations’ reporting, and forward-looking timelines.

The effect is pleasantly like the sort of dense, brief topic subscriptions you mention, in a weirdly retrospective kind of sense. The best way I can think to describe the effect is that it feels like having subscribed to the story’s notifications a year or two ago, before I knew I’d be interested in it.

They use a similar technique in their “Signals” products. I’m not sure how they’d describe those, but they seem aimed less at hard reporting and more at delivering context and background by threading together paragraph-sized summaries of mainly other institutions’ reporting.
Yeah and Valheim's multiplayer (at least for our group) kind of sidesteps the "grind" issues because we each tend to like different aspects.

I'll happily chop trees and mine all day, others like farming/animal husbandry, building, cooking, foraging, etc. All of us like exploring, boating, fighting bosses together. And we're all happy to craft/upgrade/repair our stuff.
I fully expect AI to be huge in the future, and only get bigger.

Doesn't mean I want 50% of HN to be about AI.
I have heard that his bloated abdomen needed to be "pierced" to get him into the coffin, which no doubt released a horrible stench. But I like to think that someone had the honor of actually stabbing the King, that someone from the "bastard" line of thinking enjoyed doing so.
Wait are you claiming your still wake up feeling like shit even though you are objectively getting better sleep? Or just that you haven't been able to improve your sleep apnea symptoms (AHI count) despite treatment so you still wake up feeling like shit?

Because even if there are some outliers like yourself, I can confidently claim that most people can correlate improvements in sleep apnea symptoms and sleep quality more generally with the way the feel in the morning.
Here is an additional one for remote workers with kids - https://brajeshwar.com/2022/the-quirky-productivity-tip-for-...
Favourite part of the historiography of England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_yoke
Long overdue transparency. Sometimes these are innocuous or warranted removals, but there is also an element of protectionism at play. And that may not even be due to mod actions, but blocks of users who all flag articles to get them pushed to no mans land.

There are companies who if you submit a negative post about, within short order the post is pushed out of view of the top pages.
>it's hard to believe that HN users would be tired of LLM-related news

I know there are already a handful of comments about this line, but wow! It bears repeating: My eyebrows almost shot off the top of my head when I read this. What kinds of things does the author find easy to believe??
It is simple in theory but messy in practice

People are bad at identifying bad behavior in themselves, but they can sometimes see that same behavior when others exhibit it. Whether they can then put this together into genuine introspection and growth is another story.

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2014/01/07/yanss-podcast-015-i-...
Having watched decades of companies start and then succeed or die based on uncontrollable situations, the only thing I found is you will only succeed if you truly have a good model or product and a niche.

You can't succeed if you don't have those and if you do you'd just go for it because the impetus is there. Everything else becomes secondary. It's the same as trying to time the stock market.
Great tool, very useful. I use it to generate a color palette from a single color, then take its output and feed it into https://palettte.app to manually adjust each one.
> Have you seen european companies investing in Open source hardware?

Arduino and RepRap are poster children of open source hardware, and originated in the EU, I think.
Musk says Tesla will hold shareholder vote 'immediately' to move company's incor
> It's fascinating watching stories get dropped or auto-killed and then running stats to find out what the algorithm is trimming.

So what did you learn ??
I think it depends on a variety of factors. The given city, day of the week, popularity of the establishment, etc. Going to a great brewery in Columbus on a Wednesday is a great time. Going out to a super packed bar on a Friday night in Los Angeles is a different experience.
Let's talk then?
This already exists: visit twice in one year on a tourist visa, and don't loudly yell out your hotel window "hey immigration - I'm doing work in here!".

And that's better because not of those income or insurance criteria apply.

So just some empty "look at us we're doing something (not really)" fluff.
I did it to protect myself. Worse case they can only take whats in my company. (I build apps, but you never know when you will encounter the next ouch-hot-coffee-in-paper-cup wacko)

Keep in mind, at least in the US a "business" is nothing more than a legal and tax entity. Lotta people talking immediately about "your startup will fail!". A "startup" is only one of many ways to do business, and more and more often I find it a smoke and mirrors way of doing things.
Are you asserting that, if the title had remained "Anthony Fauchi [sic] Fesses Up" it would have remained, unflagged?

Maybe you should Submit it again with the original title, and see what happens.
Joe Rogan Gets New Spotify Deal Worth Up to $250M
I recommend people go and check the 12 month data in the link for themselves (the chart lets you click into categories and drill down into subcategories) and see if this narrative that good-looking job numbers are caused by a "bubble in construction created by the federal government" makes any sense.

For one thing, I'd be interested to know how this artificial construction bubble causes local governments and state governments to coordinate so well with the federal government in hiring so much in education.

For another thing, I'm wondering where construction "should" be absent this bubble and how it squares with what we already know about the demand for housing and electricity.

Finally, take a look at all the non-government, non-construction activity and tell me where the bubble is.
We haven't touched those stories except reduce the penalties on them (user flags mostly) and moderate them less than we normally would (per https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). I put one back on the front page last night despite this contradicting every principle HN stands for—every other principle, that is, than the first one, which is that we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is part of a story.

I posted detailed explanations in those other threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39224560

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39210947

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172045

If you (or anyone) read those explanations and still have a question that I haven't answered there, I'd like to know what it is. These practices have been in place for many years and haven't changed.
Another massive recall...

to increase the font size on some icons on their UI.

That's it. That's all there is to the recall.
Is it at all possible that some widely deployed security product has a Confluence honey pot as a standard feature?
I actually created a set of heuristics that would increase the likelihood of success for the company. However, I am occasionally frustrated by the amount of time it takes to prepare for these conditions before actually founding the company. Maybe it helps.

1. Maximize the effect of geographic arbitrage.
Regarding the macroeconomic, political, and social situations of countries regarding their GDP, GDP per capita, and the number of millionaires and billionaires gives a good idea. There are also chances that highly skilled people are also there.
Solution: Immigrate to the country and best city in this manner.

2. Maximize legal flexibility.
- Having citizenship in a country is hugely advantageous in terms of safety net, a good passport for global travel, and making business with specific industries.

3. Have a skill set and job that make you the top 5–10 percent of earners. Wait to see where salary increases change marginally.
When you start working, climbing to a high-paying job and being in the top 5–10 percent of earners in a population is significantly easier and safer than building a business. However, after some years of year-to-year increases, the salary doesn't move you in lower percentages significantly.

4. Acquisition of enough information regarding operating business.
- Having knowledge regarding the meta-information of business like legal, accounting, HR, marketing, logistics, manufacturing, etc.

5. Global Industry Wave
Riding a historical wave of technologically induced progress can increase the potential maximum of the point significantly.

6. While having the job first, MVP builds, ships, and sales have been done.

7. Having 200–250k of money to burn.
With three founders each putting similar money this is enough money to build a team of 3–4 people and keep the company alive for 12–15 months.

But as I said, these things in my own abilities take years and years, and it is really frustrating. However, I know it is logical or a good plan. I would love any feedback anyone have.
Didn't Alfred describe himself as "King of the Anglo-Saxons" rather than "King of England" - a very minor point but it reminds me of the title "King of Scots" - the Scots being incomers to what become Scotland in a similar way that the Anglo-Saxon "English" were incomers to what became England?
Yes, it is an improvement in this specific scenario, since there's limited granularity in how we can draw the districts.

If instead we had 9 population nodes we could assign to each Define district, then we might be able to draw nine 4:5 districts in favor of B, and a single 9:0 district in favor of A. In that case, A cannot recover any of the unfairness that B introduced.
Numbers include part time positions, we’ve had a decrease of full time positions which I feel is misleading.

Also accounting for multiple part time jobs vs a full time job
The Rise of POMG, Part 2: Multima
Liability for software developers and vendors. The only problem is they forgot to make an exception for free and open source software developers. It simply makes no sense for me to publish free software out there for free if that can get me sued.
moderators are not omnipresent, and some times the users are faster to react than the mods.
I'd say that there is nothing wrong with this list, but there is a bigger picture: Figure out what works for you. We are all different, and remote work gives us the flexibility to be ourselves. I tell people to talk to as many people who work remotely as they can, and take all of their advice with a grain of salt. Mix and match everything you hear, try things out, try your own ideas, and figure out your own particular flavor of remote work.
Like using a hex editor to build up a Word doc?
I still have no idea what IPv6 actually is or how it works, or how a router can be IPv4 or IPv6 only, etc.
OxyContin advertiser will pay $350M in first-ever opioid marketing settlement
If you're calling elected kings nepo-warlords I don't think calling a king elected by the ~~petty warlords~~ warrior nobility a first warlord is a stretch.
These are great. BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits book shows how to design behaviors using prompts like "when i enter the office, i do five pushups," or whatever makes you more productive...
If I'm waking up in the middle of the night choking / gasping for air (happens 1x or 2x a week at this point) is that a symptom of sleep apnea? I'll try to talk to a doc about it but I want to make sure I'm on the same page as some of you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_monarchy
The other great example as the Emperor Ashoka who regretted the suffering caused by his wars of conquest in his lifetime.
For those who want to read physical discs still for whatever reason I highly recommend the Pioneer BDR-XS07UHD. It does CD/DVD/Blu-Ray, can run off external power or over the USB-C connection at slightly slower speeds, is compact and lightweight. Yes, the reign of dongles is well upon us but the upside is that your best optical drive is no longer tied to one machine. I just keep the drive next to my movies and grab it whenever I want to watch something, ripping for future viewing.

I still have an older MacBook Pro with optical drive but: it doesn’t do Blu-Ray, it’s loud and thick, it’s a path for dust ingress, and another moving part that can fail in a laptop on the go.

If we ever get disc readers back, I hope it’s less spinning platter and more microscopic lidar where you just wave the disc in front of the holoscreen and it instantly reads whatever day it contains. Burning would be a different story I guess…
More on the actual logistics in the US: you pay $200 for registering the LLC, must do taxes each year of course, and file a biennial statement (at least for New York State LLCs) confirming if your information has stayed the same or changed.

It's really nothing glamorous.
At this point I swear publishing stories on Tesla "recalls" are hit pieces. God forbid your car gets an update that takes 15 minutes OTA
Obviously a biased source, but his brother does not thing it was suicide either. That's to say he's right. People do commit suicide in jail or prison, but it does seem weird that a high value prisoner was not properly monitored for suicide-watch. Technically he was, but the Cameras were not working and the guys watching him were very lackadaisical about it.
This 1958 NASA soldering training video still holds up pretty well (aside from the sociological aspects!).

https://youtu.be/_RXugDd0xik?si=Z9ToN_tMz0m6lHu3
Why would there be 240,000 confluence honeypots? Who would be running them? For what purpose?
Sure, but my original post was restricted to Europe and per that Lancet study, it's only maybe 3.5x more (660k cold vs. 180k hot) -- hence why the 2022 year stood out so much.

The authors of the prior study estimated 70,000 excess deaths due to heat in 2022 alone which is nearly 40% of the total for the 20 year period from 2000-2019 -- or about 8x the 'background rate' of excess heat deaths. If we are seeing warming and years like 2022 are going to be more common, that's a really, really big deal.
How do business trips work then?
Jesus, wondering if I need to get checked out. I used one of these models for over 5 years :(
I know that's fine for some countries such as the Philippines (though their tourist visa can be extended so long, it's rarely necessary) but IIRC this doesn't fly in Japan, it's 90 days per year, total, and they're very strict about it.
Since you said heuristics, I'll try to leave out my unquantifiable experiences.

I also think that the question you are asking is maybe best answered by someone with a Sales or Product background... tho I could be convinced otherwise.

-Do you have an idea?

-Can you describe the customer?

-Can you find example customers?

-Can you sell this without a demo or prototype?

-If not, which one do you need?

-Can you self-produce said demo or prototype?

-If not, can you source the talent?

-If not, yer f*cked! jk jk

Im pushing you toward validating your idea and your passion to do it! But, don't fret- here is my experiential advice:

-Form your own LLC, protect yourself.

-Dont skimp or cut corners on legal!

-Dont focus on only single solution at first, try to map your strengths and passions to a problem. That problem to a custom group.

-Goals! Just be real, set some simple quarterly/yearly goals and measure them! Seriously.

I have not personally produced a windfall startup, but I have built/consulted for many, and many founders directly... and I run my own consultancy for 20 years now. It can simply be boiled down to, Passion, Problem, Customer. You lack any 1 of the 3, it wont play out nicely.
Whoops, you're totally right. I swear I re-read that three or four times before commenting and utterly failed to parse properly.
I just got back to trying to use my resmed and I am curious. How did you get used to wearing it? I am really trying but I am not having much luck.
We need a term other than "recall" for minor software changes. The headline makes it sound like 2.2mm vehicles are going to be scheduling service appointments to fix this.
I had a position created for me once because basically someone (very) higher-up I knew wanted to hire me. I'm a little sorry I never looked for the job description that in retrospect I imagine was posted. I suspect it had some requirements or strongly preferred prereqs that very few people would have met.
Direct link to the list of IKEA products you can spell with an IPv6 address: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39209844
You can choose the routes that workbox caches, but any dynamic templates likely won't work; server-side rendering could potentially help with that, or at least help point out where it breaks.
IMHO, best way to measure IPv6 adoption would be - what percentage of your website's visitors are able to reach your IPv6-only site.

That percentage should be well above 99% for a popular website operator to even consider going IPv6-only; needless to say, in most markets, this figure is way lower, with no clear path to improving.
I do honestly wonder what the next step is for folks like me who are affected by this. Does Philips pay my future medical bills if I get sick? Or do I just get a "we're sorry"?
> certain things (e.g. anything pro-Musk) get mass flagged for emotional reasons.

Lots of Musk stuff, including positive stuff, on the front page. Yesterday there was a story about petabytes of data on the Starlink laser network, based only on Starlink PR afaict.
I've been trying to find where I read this, and I can't, so I think you're correct. Maybe I was confused by some stuff that was just Bell and Sikorsky marketing material about their attack / recon variants.

I'm thinking about the lack of an aerial escort with comparable speed and range for the Army. The Marine Corps, at least, has the F-35. It might not actually be necessary for the Army with UAS and long-range precision fires that could see the route / objective area and hit targets ahead of the Valor's arrival.
Would they make it up though? Depends on motives and it is likely he died with many people with different motives around him. Some would want to condemn his violence, but others would want to justify it as their holdings would depend on it.
> Arab normalization has been stopped in its tracks and is now made conditional on progress on a two-state solution that Israel categorically rejects;

not anymore: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-pushe...
Yeah, I can’t believe so many words are spilled in an article over such a nothing burger… well I can believe it but it’s sad.

I’m just as much of a Tesla critic as anyone I’d say but this is really a reach.
Totally agree. I have my personal stuff on one desk and the work stuff on another. When I turn one way it's all personal stuff and the other way is only work stuff. There is no overlap between personal and work devices and other equipment. Obviously it helps if you are able to have a separate room or at least a section of room for work.