skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They advertise markdown support, the ability to export markdown, and the ability to import markdown...

However, what they don't say, is that the export and import format aren't compatible and are different subsets of markdown with different features.

If I export a notion page as markdown, then re-import that same markdown document back into notion, I get something wildly different.

All I want is to not use the notion editor (which lags and sometimes crashes my browser), and to instead use my local text editor which has served me well for everything else.

Failing at that, I want to edit plain text, like I can in github comments or wikipedia pages.
Like, the fact that if I write 'foo`', and then go back and edit a backtick in before the word 'foo', it doesn't code-format it, but if I do it in the opposite order and type '`foo`', it code-formats it, makes it very clear I'm not editing text, and there is weird hidden state, which is annoying to reason about.

Just let me edit something like markdown directly, with an optional preview window somewhere, and that would _also_ be vastly better than the mess they have.
How about "I imagined generating 70k audiobooks, and you can subscribe to my website for $50/month"?
Clearly you haven't worked in any particularly big companies. The whole ship is deadweight.
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> Developers say they want "visual programming", which makes you think "oh, let's replace if and for". But nobody ever made a flow chart to read for (i in 0..10) if even?(i) print(i).

I'm not convinced by this particular example. Wouldn't a visual programming language just represent the logic here as a pipeline connecting two more atomic operations: you'd have a visual representation where you pipe the (0..10) range through a function that filters for even values, and then pipe the result to a print function.
> which means it will likely be doable to current certificates in a few years

It is extremely unlikely a modern certificate will be broken in the time horizon of a few years through a cryptography break.

All systems eventually fail, but i expect it will be several decades at the earliest before a modern certificate breaks from a crypto attack.

Keep in mind that md5 started to be warned against in 1996. It wasn't until 2012 that a malicious attack used md5's weakness. That is 16 years from warning to attack. At this stage we dont even know about any weaknesses about currently used crypto (except quantum stuff)

Rotating certificates is more about guarding against incorrectly issued and compromised certificates.
The "swimlane diagram" (I've not heard that term, before) looks a lot like the classic bus timing diagrams that I've used since the 1980s.

I tend to use the same kind of diagram, whenever I'm illustrating a linear flow (or, more often, a set of linear flows).

One of my most useful tools is OmniGraffle.
> This story is about politics, crime and a celebrity. And it is not a new phenomenon in the US, where there have already been several assassination attempts (a few successful) on politicians, including presidents. [1]

By this logic, this story also doesn't qualify, because people have sued for discrimination. It's not new.

Edit oh look someone finally posted it [1]. See, I was right and you were wrong, it is within the guidelines, oops. Read the guidelines [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40957564

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit 2: dang spells it out explicitly and agrees with me[3], he has made this story unflaggable. Please read the guidelines before making stupid comments.

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963142
Changes in Linux 6.10 by Kernel Newbies: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.10
They also forget all those times they've gotten excited in a confrontation and started to shake. Trying to be accurate is hard. Trying to do it while pumping with adrenaline changes it to basically impossible.
Shameless plug, but this is what we’re trying to do at Magic Loops[0].

We joke it’s the all-code no-code platform.

Users build simple automations (think scrapers, notifications, API endpoints) using natural language.

We break their requests into smaller tasks that are then mapped to either existing code (“Blocks”) or new code (written by AI).

Each Block then acts as a UNIX-like program, where it only concerns itself with the input/output of its operation.

We’ve found that even non-programmers can build useful automations (often ChatGPT-based like baby name recommenders), and programmers love the speed of getting something up quickly.

[0] https://magicloops.dev
Alright, I had previously been lazy but here's a proper response.

I'm confused because to me, everything you have posted backs up the idea that these things are in fact actions and not luck based.

Country of residence is not luck based, it's either pre-determined or chosen by parents.

27% self made is huge, I would have expected it to be lower.

Parental income having an effect on children's is also not an example of luck. If I work hard so that my children do well, that is not luck based.

Genes influence success, so choose good genes.

43% of marriages failing simply shows that many people don't take it as seriously as they used to due to things like no fault divorce. So choose well. Your partner, at least the type of person they are, should not be luck based. Your marriage definitely should not feel like a 4 in 10 dice roll, if it does you have really messed up.

I think you and I (really, me and most left wing media) have a different definition of luck. Luck is rolling a die and getting a number, these things are more like causative factors.

But still, there exist plenty of people who have been born into adversity and study and work hard, network and press the right buttons. That isn't luck, a lottery win is luck.

I dunno. It all just feels like a way to absolve one's self from responsibility to me. I did the washing up yesterday, so today I don't have to do it. Is today me lucky that yesterday me did it? Only in the colloquial sense.
> As a retail investor, it's good to remind myself that if I actually had the skills to invest professionally, someone would probably be paying me to do it for them.

Don't discount the knowledge you have from being deep into an industry. The higher quality of the CUDA toolkit compared to other SIMD languages, combined with it's increasing relevance in compute (gaming, followed by blockchain, followed by ML, followed by GPT) would have made this an NVDA an easy pick for anyone (of the increasing number of people) that worked in parallel computing from 2006-2023.

Sometimes you can see a company is positioning itself for a great long term position before the entire wallstreet herd takes notice. That's when you add a single stock as part of your diverse portfolio. I keep up to 5% of my stock portfolio as these single stock picks, judged entirely on the product the company sells.
Strange acquisition. Sounds like the company is not profitable, and basically the product is a cloud audit type of thing that Cloud vendors already provide anyway. 23 Billion? Really?

Plus there is a lawsuit going on...

"‘Wholesale copying’: Israel’s Orca Security sues rival Wiz for patent infringement" - https://www.timesofisrael.com/wholesale-copying-israels-orca...

"Wiz vs. Orca: Delaware court sets stage for high-stakes IP showdown" - https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ryjc8dgnr
A rock that might hold the oldest form of complex life on Earth
At 12% ABV, a serving size is 5oz.[0] There's 23.5oz in a FourLoco.

IMPORTANT EDIT: Apparently these labeling changes were made specifically due to a lawsuit against FourLoco.[1] So you're totally right, a serving was 1 can, despite having almost 5 drinks worth of booze.

[0] https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/overview-a...

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2013/02/...
Jason Cohen talks about annual prepay in https://youtu.be/otbnC2zE2rw about bootstrapping or self-funding your startup. Excellent talk that includes many other valuable opinions.
I take your resource curse and raise you a Prebisch-Singer hypothesis

> Prebisch–Singer hypothesis argues that the price of primary commodities declines relative to the price of manufactured goods over the long term, which causes the terms of trade of primary-product-based economies to deteriorate. As of 2013, recent statistical studies have given support for the idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prebisch%E2%80%93Singer_hypoth...

Derived demand (copper) is likely to be more price sensitive than demand for the end good (AI services) over the long run due to substitution that can occur in factor inputs. Meaning Prebisch-Singer's true again.
Those people predominantly drive EVs...
Writing is based on speech, which is one-dimensional. Most programming is actually already highly two-dimensional thanks to its heavy line orientation.

But most visual programming isn't trying to be a kind of "2D orthography" for language, it is trying to be a "picture" of a physical mechanism.
It does seem remarkably unusual.

Hence, the remark.
I'm a European in my late forties and have been a freelancer for the last five years but I find it harder and harder to motivate myself to continue working. What really takes all joy out of working as a software engineer these days for me are the endless Scrum ceremonies almost all companies in my area have embraced.

In the old days (say until ~7-8 yrs ago) I didn't have to attend very many meetings but of those I had to go to most were useful/necessary. These days I could probably count the useful meetings I attend in a year on one hand but the amount of Scrum-worship-meetings per week requires two hands.

The same amount of actual work I could do in a week in the old days would now take several months because it needs to be planned in detail. And no, not any technical detail, but rather discussions on how to divide it into stories but without doing any proper technical analysis and then straight ahead to story point guesstimates, yay! Then after a brief period of actual coding it's stuck in code review for weeks because no one will look at a PR unless prodded with a stick.

While I do think that code reviews can some times be beneficial, most of the time they are (in my experience unfortunately) pretty useless. Most comments (and I have to admit I'm guilty to this as well) are more bike-shedding than bug-preventing. Complex bugs are rarely found in code-reviews in my experience.

While these are my experiences during the last 7-8 years or so, it's more or less the same on all the half a dozen companies (or so) I've worked for during that period (which is also a very big reason why I've worked on half a dozen companies in that period).
When I was in Germany, sure they exist, but they are rundown and crappy outside of city centers.
That's a good point. Functional programming is a much more appropriate foundation for visual coding. Not only because of functional operators in your example, but immutability and purity also makes things simpler when represented visually.

Circuit modeling (like in Max/MSP, Reaktor, Pd) is something that also works way better visually than imperative programming.
I am no expert on the FR, but that article as a long list of causes, only one of which is "Increasing inequality led to more social conflict." and that's all it says about that.

Besides, it was a feudal society with nobles and peasants, with different laws attached to each. That's bound to cause resentment.
TempleOS was written by the greatest programmer who ever lived.
It’s a problem I think about more generally quite a bit. In general, the problem is optimizing efficiency of translating thought into machine code. Our thoughts move much faster than our hands. Our thoughts don’t execute linearly— able to seek to many random ideas and back without much of a sweat. I don’t think visual vs. text is going to make much of a difference, because both use the same interface device. Honestly, if you think about it that way, text based workloads are going to win every time because the keyboard is much more precise and fast than a mouse. My point is that this will always be an interface device problem, not a visual vs text (mouse vs keyboard) problem. FWIW I think KBM and text with modern tooling is incredibly efficient already, but my mind is open to some new interface device that changes everything. Not so sure that means VR, because VR is really just a pair of pointers (two mice)
The author must have just been trying to be cute, because yes, they were never referred to as energy beers. In fact, Four Loko was so popular that the brand itself suffered from genericization, where all caffeinated malt liquors were colloquially referred to as Four Loko
Congrats, fascinating work!

Q: has the GC of Nim caused any challenges?

(And if not, would you attribute that to Nim unique GC that does NOT “stop-the-world”?)

https://nim-lang.org/1.4.0/gc.html
Text doesn't use spatial abstractions.

The problem with spatializing complex relationsips becomes very apparent when one tries to lay out graphs (as in nodes-and-edges) graphically. Unless the relationships are somehow greatly restricted (e.g. a family tree), the layouts become a total mess, as the connectedness of the nodes can't be mapped to distances and the edges by necessity have to make a lot of crossings on top of each other.
> The Rust Belt experienced industrial decline starting in the 1950s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt
I don't understand how you can see videos like https://youtu.be/925wmb-4Yr4 of skid row and conclude, y'know what? American Capitalism is the best thing ever and there's no possible way theres anything wrong with it so anybody trying to say that, hey, it's not perfect, is automatically a Stalinism Communist because that's the only way there could remotely be any sort of problems with American Capitalism.

There's a housing problem everywhere and your vaunted free market hasn't been able to solve the problem, but that's okay because we can just blame the victims for wanting life, liberty, and the pursuit of their happiness in a place of their choosing, in a manner of their choosing. As if anyone in their right mind would choose to live like they do in the video linked above.
No, too inclusive.
I never really thought of that. That's a pretty interesting restriction. Although any party with access to warheads that can fly 1000+ mph probably can bypass the GPS restriction, no?
Ask HN: How do you manage files and backups as an individual?
Just ordered my first NAS(Synology 223j) and a 12TB(Refurb on Amazon )disk, and I'm not entirely sure what to do with it when it gets here.

I'd like to be more organized about this stuff, but it seems like a lot of setups I see online are for multi thousand dollar hardware, trying to replace the cloud entirely, torrenting and plex, self hosted stuff that needs regular maintenance, etc.

I think I want "Cold storage" files to live on the NAS, and get backed up from there to a 4TB external drive, and everything else to get backed up to the NAS.

Beyond that, I'm not quite sure.

I'd like automatic sync to Google Drive, since that seems to actually be a thing for Synology even though it seems to be a hassle on Linux.

I suppose I could set up the NAS to sync with SyncThing, and then from there the NAS could handle Google drive, or I could just let my phone handle the GDrive sync, so SyncThing doesn't wake up the spinning disk a bunch on the NAS.

I also want to transcode less important event footage to streamingish quality for archival, but I'm assuming just doing that on my laptop manually with Handbrake is probably still the best way?

What do you guys do? What codecs and bitrates do you use for archival transcoding? Any helpful apps you use for manually looking over and deciding what to keep?

How do you handle important vs unimportant files, and stuff that's big enough you don't want to just keep it on your laptop's disk?
> Alcohol and caffeine are not a wise combination.

Yet, what does every single person that's trying to sober up ask for or have suggested to them? Coffee.

One of my favorite movie scenes is from "Flight - 2012" with Denzel and John Goodman trying to make Denzel's character "right". I love it for that fact that they don't try to call it "sober him up", but just to get him balanced. That's all the caffeine in the coffee is trying to do, yet people insist on saying "sober up"
The new post-genomic biology
> And that's what the republicans counted on - they wanted the election process to be interrupted, which would (according to their reading) have allowed Pence to count the fake electors they provided. And who could have stopped them? The supreme court they stacked? That's the insurrection. Do you disagree with any of this? All of it is quite well documented.

Wow this is an amazing conspiracy theory.
Have you looked into how the light you get affects your sleep cycle? It's not a cure-all but definitely has a very strong effect on circadian rythm.
"I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have." --Coleman Cox
Yeah, historically AI incorporates most of modern computer science, dating back to the 1950s.
A theory of biological relativity: no privileged level of causation (2012)
Imagine trying to handle a git merge in two dimensions.
Show HN: Couldn't go to the bathroom during a movie, so I made a free app
I was watching "Longlegs" yesterday in the movie theater and couldn't find a good time for a bathroom break. So, I made a free app today that tells you the best time to step out during a movie without missing anything important. Check it out and enjoy it for free!

You can start a timer that updates even when your phone is locked. See current movies playing in theaters. I’ve added stuff by hand, so please don’t scream if it’s not 100% right.

Feedback welcome!
> those able to decode the still-military-only encrypted signals

How? I was under the impression that military-only signal was encrypted. And if someone breaks that encrpytion, blame should go to the poor handling of encryption rather than the person breaking it? Analogy : if you leave a classified document on the train and a passenger reads it, whose fault is it?
An aisle over the other direction has micro brew IPAs with even higher ABV
I think it is better described as C with metaprogramming frendliness
Ask HN: Bookmarking apps (like raindrop.io) but encrypted with offline storage?
I've been using raindrop.io for a long time and have loved every second of it. But their cloud stuff isn't E2E encrypted, and I'm worried about my privacy. I'd love to hear if anyone knows of any apps similar to Raindrop that are:

* E2E encrypted
* support tagging and foldering
* save an "offline" copy of any pages I bookmark

I know I can download local copies or use a cloud service like MEGA, but they don't retain links to their point of origin, and I have NEVER been able to figure out a good way to keep them organized with metadata, especially since some things (like a folder with pages of a comic book, for example) can only be saved as directories, which don't support custom metadata on like 90% of OSes in existence.
The topology needs to be information bearing. Weights of 0.0001 are likely spurious and if other weights are so relatively big they can effectively make the other fan in weights spurious as well.
Spoilers. :-(
“The whole world adopted that” … I think only 30% of the worlds internet accessible compute is in the cloud. Hyperbole much? lol.
1.4.0 is a very outdated docs version (Nim is at 2.0 currently, and 2.0 release brought ORC as default with ARC as an option), you should refer to the updated https://nim-lang.org/docs/mm.html and also https://nim-lang.org/docs/destructors.html
yep, chimpanzees are an example. we were one specie 7 mln year ago. so, it started long before humans separated from animals.
Are those just implementation details?
It's the same company that keeps getting breached over and over. Do this really surprises you?
I posted here the steps I'm following when looking for a job:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36494126

And I would say I am pretty successful.
For years the official peso/dollar ratio has been smaller than the unofficial one. So exporters get like a 30% cut, and exporters of soy get an additional 30% cut.

The government sells dollars at the cheap price only to importers, but they have to fill a lot of paperwork and have a lot of restrictions (to avoid too many imports, and to avoid frauds of fake imports). The government used to sell the cheap dollar to people, but only a small amount per month. Since a year, that changed and it has an ad hoc tax, so it's not longer cheap.

(A lot of the rules change each month, so some info is simplified and/or outdated. They changed a lot during the last year of the previos president and also during the 6 month of the current president.)

If you have some time and popcorn, here is a list of possible values of the dollar https://www.ambito.com/contenidos/dolar.html/1000 depending of how you want to buy/sell it.

Anyway, during last year we had deficit so we were burning the reserves. Now the deficit was stopped and the "problem" is that the government has too many dollars and has to sell them.

(And the main problem is how to cut the deficit and inflation without killing local consumption.)
Correction: I exercised the options that I had and have shares of the company now.

Thank you for the comment!
> Visual languages trade named links for global wiring

Existing visual programming langs can definitely do "named links". A lot support named function-like blocks which are another form of avoiding wires.

> which is very cluttered for serious problem solving

This clutter is also problematic in textual programming, and is the reason abstractions and programming structures are used. Perhaps the hint here is that we need better ways of representing abstraction in visual programming.
I would argue Australia suffers from a lite version of the resource curse. There's undue control over politicians and resulting political resistance to invest in things that would diversify economic complexity or go against mining interests. Norway however is a strong counter example.
I have just launched my Django tutorial: https://django.pythonassets.com/

This is the material which I've been using for a couple of years when teaching Django. Since I'm no longer working as a teacher, I decided to update it and make it available online. I think it's a valuable resource for those learning web development for the first time, or switching from other languages.
The British History podcast as a fun listen and spends a lot of time on the time from end of Roman control up to the Norman invasion. Aethelstan gets as much coverage as possible.

https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com/
Maybe irrelevant for security flaws, but the point is that externalities can easily exceed market capitalisation. Trading while insolvent is illegal, but that is hard to judge with liabilities. Examples are Johnson&Johnson (public) and Purdue Pharma (private).
I used their software when I was a Windows user. Simple GUI, and functional.

This is similar but for Mac.

https://objective-see.org/tools.html
Isn't "visual programming" exactly what a whole lot of 3D artists do every single day?

Whenever I watch people using Blender it sure looks like a whole lot of visual programming to me.