skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The core idea here is the subject of “The Goal” by Eli Goldratt. It’s a short novel and presents the case very clearly, although in terms for a factory not a software shop or a grocery store checkout line. It’s a great read, I recommend it.

Since it’s a business book, perhaps easier to sell to management than a blog post?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)
at what point does a goldrush become a shovelrush?
The connection is encryption, and having all of these services paid for and therefore have better support. I really like protonpass so I was happy to see that I already pay for it
Sorry. I intentionally chose an internal codename that was ambiguous, generic, and hard to Google, just in case the name leaked before we were ready to go public. It was never supposed to be the public name, it was just another part of the Steam Play umbrella. But, in the end I guess it stuck. Oh well!
Same as it ever was.

Growing up as a southern evangelical before the internet, I can promise you that there has never been a modern world without filter bubbles.

The concept of "fake news" is not new, either. There has been general distrust of opposing ideas and institutions for as long as I've been alive.

And there's an entire publishing and media ecosystem for every single ideology you can imagine: 700 Club, Abeka, etc. Again, this all predates the internet. It's not going anywhere.

The danger isn't strictly censorship or filter bubbles. It's not having a choice or control over your own destiny. These decisions need to be first class and conscious.

Also, a sure fire way to rile up the "other team" is to say you're going to soften, limit, or block their world view. The brain has so many defenses against this. It's not the way to change minds.

If you want to win people over, you have to do the hard, almost individual work, of respecting them and sharing how you feel. That's a hard, uphill battle because you're attempting to create a new slope in a steep gradient to get them to see your perspective. Angering, making fun, or disrespecting is just flying headfirst into that mountain. It might make you feel good, but it undoes any progress anyone else has made.
The S&P 500 is a list of the largest and most profitable public companies. It's hard to do better than the most successful businesses. Most other indices and hedge funds don't outperform the S&P 500. Most private equity shops don't. Most real estate investors don't. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that venture capital doesn't.

Most startups don't get big. How many startups founded in the past decade have become hugely profitable? It's not that many. A handful out of the 500k or so funded startups. Meanwhile the S&P keeps chugging along at 8% annually.
This sounds similar to windsurfing, tinkering with your board, sail size, fin size, etc. is a big part of the sport.

Yet, at the Olympics, the gear is the same for everyone.

Btw, I can't remember where, but I heard that, in the old editions of the Tour de France not all gears were allowed, shifters for example weren't allowed even though they were available to amateurs.
A bit surprised to see there is no mention of Liquibase, Flyway or others. Not to mention there is also "https://www.dolthub.com/". This was just for git.
Sotomayor disagrees with you, as does the current President of the USA, so I dissent your interpretation
You aren't seeing this from the perspective of the Russians at all.

In the 1990s Russia was weak and was promised by NATO that the military alliance would not encroach further east. This was a bold lie just like the Minsk agreements. There has always been a persistent effort by the West to subvert Russia and make it another colony of the US and UK intelligence apparatus. Everything you are seeing is a reaction to fighting against the pressure of 40+ western nations simulateneously trying to crush it and choke it to death.

You're too focused on the little things and you aren't seeing the big picture. In the grand scheme of sovereign state operations a few thousand dead is utterly insignificant. I don't think I need to remind you of the number of casualties in all recent wars started by all sides of the conflicts in the past twenty years.
Did not know this existed!
Excel used to give you the option of using the import wizard for CSVs when you opened them. Now they've intentionally hidden that in a submenu, for some bizarre reason.

Libre Office is good enough for basic use, but Excel has a lot of great features for intermediate users. Some of the newer functions they've added in the last few years are great, I use LET with my own lambdas and the quite often. I also kinda like the Power Query/M language, but the implementation in Excel is absolutely horrible.
You can get sued by anyone for anything, but my read was that Mozilla's board intentionally wanted to avoid promoting from within because they fired Baker in order to try to change things. The first thing he was asked to do was lay off a bunch of people from the product team, and the complaint also says that Baker was removed suddenly (despite her characterizing it as voluntary) [0]. The board that just fired her can hardly be expected to follow her recommendation for who should be CEO next, and it seems that they weren't happy with the way his org was structured either.

We'll see what happens as the lawsuit unfolds, but I'd be pretty surprised if there is proof that the discrimination was health-based and not due to the fact that he was the CPO who worked with Baker during whatever it was that made them decide to fire her.

[0] From the complaint:

> The board decision to removle Ms Baker was so abrupt that they did not conduct a search for a successor, resulting in the naming of one of their own board members, Ms Chambers, as interim CEO.
Are you running the latest version? They archived their old version of the android app 14th of May this year.

https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-mail-android
Yup. The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 18th century BC) caused quite a lot of controversy when it was translated in 1870 due to its striking similarity to many parts of the Hebrew Bible (which was written MUCH later).

Similar controversies erupted over the stories of Osiris (c. 25th century BC).

By the 10th century BC, almost all of the story themes that we ascribe to more modern authorship had already been written.
you need to deal with a lot of edge cases, have a look in your saved URLs.

Also add an option for people to view the target of a URL before they click it, such as adding a + to the end.

But also understand that URL shorteners are considered unsafe due to the lack of transparency on the target.
> If they wanted to give me money, their email shouldn't have set off Gmail's spam filter... they could have also converted their scamcoin themsevles and donated to my patreon.

False positives in spam filters notwithstanding, the gist of your view is reasonable and many have asked why "just contribute to my Patreon if I have one" isn't done. A brief consideration of the mechanism/logistics reveals that this approach wouldn't scale to hundreds of thousands of contributors in unknown jurisdictions.

The point, after all, is long term sustainability in automating payments to opensource contributors into perpetuity. It can't and shouldn't be assumed that there will always be people on hand to do the paperwork as opposed to having systems interact with established APIs.

That said, if Patreon/Github accept cryptocurrencies, you'll soon receive airdrops that way, as normal donations. Stripe Payment links will be used in a similar way in time.

The other major problem is legal: distributing dollars globally is not a simple process and would expose many contributors to regulatory burdens that have been documented extensively elsewhere. (e.g. in the simplest case, requiring each recipient to file a W-8BEN or something similar.)

Again: the point is to pay opensource contributors in an automatic, scalable, "uncensorable" way, for their entire lifetimes. The focus thus far has been on building "smart contracts" that do this. It's an experiment and only time will tell as we see who benefits, who doesn't, and who opts out altogether.

> they could have also converted their scamcoin themsevles

Perhaps. But the point is to pay you in the currency of their network, as distinct from US dollars, because the companies/DAOs believe in the value of their network and asset.

Just as public companies often do with the shares they issue, these blockchains also provide reliable liquidity (in this case, in the form of permissionless liquidity pools) for their "scamcoin" that you can use to convert your holdings to USD or any other currency. Alternatively, you could use a U.S. regulated exchange like Coinbase.

But don't feel that you're being forced to accept payment. There are many who have refused, on principal, to claim various airdrops over the past several years. They don't need or want the money and that's fine. But there are many others for whom payment for their free code is proving useful. All I'm pointing out is that this effort is underway in order to find out how to make opensource sustainable.
Sony discontinues production of select Blu-ray and optical recording discs
> It could have been stopped diplomatically

no - you have no idea what you're talking about
search for VVX post invasion speech on YT - it's about an hour long - in full
- the insanity is clearly on display there
soooo, purely topographically, Chile is the Hoboken of Sud America?
I expected that snap to be a lot more satisfying than it actually was.
Missing Caldav support is really painful. I've had to spin up my own Caldav container (Radicale) and leave Proton Calendar behind, but I'm still unable to send calendar event notifications from any calendar app on mobile, only from thunderbird.
Nah, data engineers tend to specialize in moving data from point A to point B.
DBAs tend to specialize in managing data in point A or point B.

Some people cultivate aspects of both skillsets of course and data engineers often end up doing DBA functions in point B (where analytical data is stored) while DBAs manage point A (OLTP source systems)
Does Proton support calendar delegation yet? (Same for Fastmail. Supporting assistants would open up their market.)
Given what existing models can do right now, that moment might come sooner than you think.
I'm not an expert but I have seen Titanic (1997) and I would think a floating bridge is most vulnerable to sinking.
Glorify not the psychopathic adherence to "number go up at all costs" of the finance sector; grim authrnticity or not. The love of Mammon above all else is still as much the root of evil today as it's been in the past; and even more so as it's easier than ever to get those electrons shluffing around to extract "value at scale" in contexts we'd never have dreamed of such things being necessary or proper before.

It is no accident that cell phone infrastructure infiltrates the world faster than fresh potable water systems or roads. One of these is useful primarily to the user in proximity. One, is most useful to the remote investor.
Google docs’ value is the network effects. Everyone has a Google account, so GDocs is like a universal collaboration tool. Does not seem like there’s a huge space for something like this, it’s going to be a huge pain every time I want to share a doc with someone. Seems like it would be way better to try and distinguish their already successful products by continuing to improve their feature set. For example: their email search bar is hot garbage. Give me the perfect email and calendar client and I’ll be subscriber forever, but I definitely don’t want to pay for an ecosystem of half-finished Google knockoffs
[dupe]

Announcement post: https://proton.me/blog/docs-proton-drive

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40864549)
When someone can pardon you of the crime immediately after you do it, it doesn’t really matter much, especially is you are 100% dedicated to the cause.
I've evaluated Proton multiple times over the years as a replacement for my existing solution, though each time it feels a bit off. I don't quite know why, but there's too much going on and, from what I understand, much of it is still half-baked or too inconvenient to use.
You ever wonder if your life's purpose is simply to serve as a warning sign for others?
> The executive is already 90% filled with people who not only are one party, but share a particular, distinctive ideology

Polls suggest not.[1]

> (Remember this happened before Trump did anything. It was based purely on federal workers’ moral objections to Trump’s stance on immigration.)

The article said not.

[1] https://www.govexec.com/management/2016/07/poll-clinton-open...
You might be surprised to learn that there are time zones that are not an integer number of hours different from UTC.
Interesting. In my experience, advertisement and the incentives around it have led to the most devastatingly widespread removal of value in human culture and social connections that we've seen in this generation. Huge amounts of effort wasted on harvesting attention, manipulating money away from people, isolating and fostering extremism, building a massive political divide. And centralizing wealth more and more.
The amount of human effort wasted on advertisement is staggering and shocking.

I don't think your average adult is inspired by the idea of AI generated advertisements. Probably a small bubble of people including timeshare salesmen. If advertisements were opt-in, I expect a single digit percentage of people would ever elect to see them. I don't understand how anybody can consider something like that a net good for the world.

How does non-consensually harassing people into spending money on things that don't need add value to all the world's citizens?
> "Australia kept the memory of its first peoples alive thanks to a powerful oral tradition that enabled it to be passed on," Delannoy said.

> "However in our societies, memory has changed since we switched to the written word, and we have lost this sense."

I sort of think that this is a "what's water?" thing, because a lot of our ancient prehistorical traditions and practices that continued into the historical era and beyond are so embedded with how we see how ourselves and act and behave that it's impossible for us to even notice them. There's a lot that we have looked at in ancient sites and have just known what the purpose was for because we still do the same thing now, or at least we had recorded uses for it from historical texts, it's just said to be "obvious" and not really worth commenting about how interesting it is that we preserved these oral traditions.

There's a kind of exoticism/noble savage thing going on here, I think.
Data Engineers are DBAs who are trying to hide that fact as much as possible so they have time to learn kafka on the job.
And one on the bottom, no longer floating.

(note -- was a bridge engineer in Seattle and did work on the old 520 bridge when we designed the retrofitted post-tensioning it in the late 90's. Among other tasks, I supervised a guy drilling holes in the bottom of the bridge with a concrete corer. )
For some reason I think that after Meta, Google and Apple Microsoft will yet again fall prey to EU regulation and again for good reason.

No Windows sysadmin nor Windows user in the world is waiting for "features" like this.
The biggest problem is that insiders haven't seen the factors that erode legitimacy.

I'd point to Germany's phase-out of nuclear power as an example of the kind of thing that demonstrates the incompetence of individuals and institutions. I don't think it matter so much if it was right or wrong or a good policy or a bad policy in that, stretching on for 22 years and being characterized by endless waffling, the saga could convince anyone, regardless of their views, of the incompetence of the government or rather it's inability to see beyond the next election, face up to the challenge of climate change and security.
CalDAV and CardDAV support missing is the only reason I still have a google account. I understand it's "tough" with e2ee but adding support to the bridge would be perfectly sufficient, then at least I could use local Calendar/Contact apps.
Not Apple adapters per-se, but LoRA adapters. It’s a way of fine tuning a model such that you keep the base weights unchanged but then keep a smaller set of tuned weights to help you on specific tasks.

(Edit) Apple is using them in their Apple Intelligence, hence the association. But the technique was around before.
This. Also a paying customer. My Android mail app is definitely not fully baked. At times it drains my battery trying unsuccessfully to fetch notifications. Other times it fetches a ton of notifications I had already seen.

Proton is on a good path in many ways, but these rapid launches of new apps will kill the company if they don't do it well.
Show HN: AI SaaS Code Boilerplate with pre-built apps
They're still fighting a losing battle. The business of cycling dictates that they remain ever vigilant and attempt to catch dopers and keep the sport "clean", while the science of what the atheletes are trying to do suggests they should just accept the reality and not police legal vs. illegal. It's like a drug-free body building contenst; what's the point?
Yeah. I love the productivity that comes with this stack.
its how we roll in Windows land, GUIs over command line mostly

true, you need some screenshots to teach someone a new trick

but then when they've done it once they'll remember it because GUIs really help for that kind of stuff

whereas for command line you'll have to google it every single time for the rest of your life unless its something you do regularly
Yes they (democrats) would, they’ve yet to support a coup or overthrow of the government or criminality by former or current presidents. So yeah I think they would.
Triple back quotes in MS Teams
It's now possible to use triple back quotes to create blocks in MS Teams
Its always awesome to read about finding early human tools and techniques. But, could the sticks have been 12,000 years old, but the event far less?

Lots of people asking how they had human fat... you poke someone's wound with a hot stick, there is probably fat on it after. So they may have been using cauterization.

They may also have been cooking small animals while trying to avoid the light, smell, and smoke plume a larger fire creates. Which would attract predators.
Ask HN: Software/methods to structure time for side projects
Hi,

I am sure many of you have several side projects you wish to devote time to.

Sometimes I feel myself unable to "optimally" plan and allocate time and resources between projects.

When it comes to software, I feel maybe Jira is a bit heavy, and Trello for example is a bit lightweight?

Is there anyone who wants to share any experiences regarding software or methodologies to organize/plan "optimally"?
This is worthy goal, but it's approaching "perfect is the enemy of good" territory. By the numbers, in order to get broad adoption and power in the market, they should not focused on being the accessible browser. They need to nail making it a viable option for the greatest number of people at the lowest cost (which, at this point, is measured in time.) It needs to work as well as Chrome at operating web tech.
There are so many things sites need to protect against these days it’s making independent self hosting quite annoying. As bots get better at hiding, only companies with huge scale like Cloudflare would be able to identify and block them. DDOS/bot providers are unintentionally creating a monopoly
A Flight Against Time (2019)
Then just keep UTC when it is? (ie allow its prime meridian to shift away from Greenwich) Adjust all the timezones by half an hour in a few millennia. It’s really both fine and up to our grand-grand-grand-grand-etc-children to decide.

Really, this is a non-problem.
If you have 700+ resumes after initial HR filtering then your HR filter is horrific.
Atlantis was man-made, but Richat is not, seems like the biggest argument against it.
I think are hedging bets that Trump is likely to win and become a dictator.
We put the Ukrainian nationalists in power in 2014 and gave them a life purpose to hate Russia. The Russians lost their cool and invaded in 2022. They expected a quick resolution but we did not let the Ukrainians accept a truce on their terms.

Now the Ukrainians are disintegrating. We will never give them any billions of dollars to fix their country. We will dump them and it is Russia's problem now.

We are erasing any information that we instigated the 2014 events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
Mplayer ?
What's the distinction? What about taking something when you have a cold, or nutritional supplements? It seems weird to draw an arbitrary line between things that make a body perform by stimulating natural production vs directly using synthetics.
Weak isolation levels allowed to steal BTC using plain SQL
I disagree, I don't see how a model that is trained with multimodality (input and output) and that can explore the environment will acquire creativity, I can see being more creative, but that suddenly these specific characteristics should make the model creative instead of emulating seems odd. I also disagree with "not transformative enough", they are very transformative.
(2016) https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-core-1-...
Surprise surprise... bytespider is at the top of the list.
They survived 12000 years doing something that did not in fact heal anybody.
Microsoft closes all physical shops in mainland China
Selling shovels is a way to make money, but definitely not at venture scale.
Isn't that the same with I-Beam as well?
Meanwhile, the iPhone app is still so unreliable, I wouldn't sign up for Protonmail again today if I wasn't already in it.

Pity, because on desktop - and, when it works, on mobile, it works great. I really like the company.

Switching email addresses has so much friction - maybe I should keep a notebook of everyone who has my address so I can let them know of my new address.
The worst is when a big issue is taking too long, some higher up wants it broken out into smaller tasks so they can be closed independently/faster. Eventually the issue becomes a fractal of issues assigned to multiple people and progress comes to a halt.

Sometimes things take time, and can't be delegated.
It is interesting to watch them try to grow so quickly. At some point they'll need to turn more profit to hold all this scale up. We'll see if they can stick to the privacy claims or start to sell out.
I know almost nothing about this stuff, but what I know about Apple adapters I learned from this page:

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple...

> Our foundation models are fine-tuned for users’ everyday activities, and can dynamically specialize themselves on-the-fly for the task at hand. We utilize adapters, small neural network modules that can be plugged into various layers of the pre-trained model, to fine-tune our models for specific tasks. For our models we adapt the attention matrices, the attention projection matrix, and the fully connected layers in the point-wise feedforward networks for a suitable set of the decoding layers of the transformer architecture.
Usually I have 3 side projects on my mind, 2 of them I am really making progress on, the other is more aspirational.

I have tried using GitHub issues but found that, unlike work, I don't really end up maintaining it. Sometimes I write up a manifesto as a text document, I do a lot of printing out lists and crossing items out.