skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a direct correlation between the amount of power exerted by a project like Debian over an upstream project, and the amount of effort and upkeep required in doing so. I think of this like a sliding scale between shipping things with zero patches and a full on fork. From my understanding distribution patches on top of upstream projects tend to be typically just bug or portability fixes and stop short of adding features. The point I was trying to communicate was that in order to fully interact with the software you either have to be part of the upstream community or essentially fork.

The illustrate how I think Plan 9 is different in this regard. A patch for 9front could include a new feature for our compilers and then also show how useful it is by using it within other parts of our code. In plan 9 you can interact fully with every component.
It doesn’t necessarily mean making everyone poorer, when population is increasing and there are significant increases in actual economic output.

In fact, in those situations it’s necessary to increase the money supply to avoid deflation and other issues, as the existing folks with money/resources otherwise just have to sit on their hands and squeeze everyone else to get rich.

In an actual growth environment, Printing more money keeps everyone roughly the same level of poor/rich overall.

The issue is when population is decreasing or actual economic output is decreasing, but rather than withdrawing money to compensate, more money is printed to try to keep the graph going up and to the right.

IMO that has been an ever increasing trend since around the 90’s in the US.
Show HN: ThinkPost – split-panel note taking & brainstorming app for devs
ThinkPost is an Interactive split-panel diagramming, draggable block-based note-taking, and brainstorming tool.

I developed ThinkPost as a side project for few months now.
Basic idea is parallel streaming of ideas. It's a desktop web app with a very scaled down mobile version just for support.

Whole my career I had been working with startups and specifically early stage ones, and it's a big responsibility to devise a feature on our own, think deeply about it in different streams (logically, security, re-usability, platform APIs etc.) and even present distilled part of it to stakeholders (Often times non technical people). Even now I run backend/infra/mobile/qa/customer support/integrations for a healthcare startup, so stakes are high. There's a lot of self brainstorming in multiple streams and then there's also distillation process. I couldn't really work with single page notepads for that streaming process. We should be able to note down in split-panels, so there's space for parallel ideas.

Many note-taking apps today single-paged have high-think-threshold (windows notepad/apple notes have very low-think-threshold), you have to think before you write in them, so not a good option for quick ideas. So built a platform specifically for everyone who can parallel stream ideas in split panels Textually (low-think-threshold), write as they like), Diagrammatically, Code-wise or even Quick Maths. And also move the idea blocks across panels or within! or Open a new tab if you want more!

I'm personally a massive user of my app because I plan everything at my current job via this app, run meetings, self-brainstorm features, study requirements, visualize code-ideas, an develop this when I get time as well.
All completely free. Might run ads later.

https://thinkpost.io - Try! no login needed.

More comprehensive introduction: https://zameermfm.medium.com/introducing-thinkpost-io-33df61...
Not a great analogy, since Game of Life in Game of Life didn't emerge, it was programmed by a human.
Huh, I ignored this article because it sounded like such a solved problem, but it stayed on the home page long enough that I thought I might be missing something.

Not only was it exactly what I expected from the title, there were 3 obvious but unimportant flaws in the "Ubuntu/Debian" setup section:

- a cron line that runs every 60 minutes is commented as running every 5

- unnecessary crond restart. Not just reload, which would already be redundant, but a full restart

- unnecessarily restrictive heading. There's nothing specific to Ubuntu/Debian in those instructions

I mean, it's a fine solution, like the 100s of others out there. I'm not trying to throw shade on the author; they've made something a little more flexible than most one-offs, without going overboard like the ones that handle dozens of different services. But... why the front page? Why the upvotes? Can't you kids just stay off of the damn lawn?!
Given Google search shows very current results usually I have to think this is a manual action someone took. The reason is probably the same reason all tech companies censor - I mean “moderate” - their platforms. They have no diversity of politics internally and are willing to abuse their monopoly on power. They view their role as telling others what is good for them, rather than being neutral.

Also isn’t it interesting that something as prominent as an assassination attempt took place less than two weeks ago and already it is being buried everywhere and is out of the news cycle?
Starbucks is a great example because it seems like they gave up now: https://jacobin.com/2024/02/starbucks-workers-united-master-...

The other two are examples of relatively small businesses that look like they either decided to burn everything to the ground and go out of business rather than accept a union for ideological reason or were failing independently of that.
I think not, there are some official meetings, like those hosted by the WEF, casually renamed https://www.worldgovernmentsummit.org to be a bit more modest but there is no special need to meet someone like you to understand your common interests. If you are a blacksmith you know your "cohort" interests without the need to meet some competitor/colleagues. You might occasionally meet them anyway, for lobbying, for a common cause (like the farmers against John Deere for the right to repair their tractors, or to be more precise the tractors they have bought but they do not really own anyway), some meetings might be public, some others behind closed doors, but the common interests of a category are well known by all belonging to that category.

The cohort who seems unable to understand it's own common interests are the 99% of the people who apparently, as usual, fails to see where are their enemy and their potential allies, regularly fighting against their own interests...

I suggest if you have a bit of patience an old book from 1841 by Clinton Roosevelt, The Science Of Government, Founded On Natural Law, it's strange at first bug get clear quickly and it's very fast to read: https://dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/sciencegovernme00roo... try and you'll see in a succinct and crystal clear the TODAY world, economy, with anything we have. Another good reading would be Eduard Bernays Propaganda and to complete the game a bit of modern network theory like some Albert-László Barabási.
Ask HN: Can lightning strikes be guided down sides of skyscrapers to the ground?
This would make lightning strikes look more spectacular than those that just hit a lightning rod on top of a skyscraper.
Judging yesterday's findings with today's information is never fair.

Should Galileo be punished for malpractice because he thought tides were related to the sun?
Well, we don't have androids (yet), we don't have corpos lobbying much more than the past (at least in europe, where we even sometimes care about digital rights. Different results in the us tho). We don't have cybernetic talons that spread from your limbs to kill someone. We don't have much of what the classic cyberpunk scenario has.

We do, however, have an always (or almost always) available way to connect with other people in the world always with us, we're approaching new types of ownership (where you don't own nothing, but rent everything), to me the future we'll live into will be much different than what cyberpunk author's envisioned
If immigrants are unskilled and there isn't work for them to do (which is not the case), then the solution is to train them into skilled labor we need.

Ignoring xenophobia based justifications against immigration, the only reason why the right wing has a major push against immigration is because unskilled illegal immigrant labor is better for businesses than unskilled legal immigrant labor.

Illegal immigrants can be paid below minimum wage and without proper tax or benefits contributions (forcing the immigrant to bare the company's tax cost if they want to actually be squared away with the IRS). Illegal immigrants also don't know their rights and/or are afraid of reporting issues to the DOL or OSHA out of fear of deportation (despite deportation protections for whistleblower immigrants). Illegal immigrants are also less likely to unionize because if they "make trouble" the company can just threaten to report them to ICE.

All in all illegal immigration is an exploitative relationship that overwhelmingly benefits the people and companies that most aggressively rally against it.

If you eliminate this exploitative arrangement and provide an easy safe path for immigrants to engage with the labor market, most of this lowering of effective wealth that occurs for workers goes away.

> this is a minor effect compared to a housing policy that assumes no immigration

Given that unskilled immigrant labor is predominantly seasonal migrant labor, this really isn't as much of an issue as you'd assume. And the solution to this is again opening up the legal immigration path and adjusting policy decisions to reflect that.

Overwhelmingly the costs associated with immigration are costs associated with illegal immigration and they are predominantly self-inflicted in an attempt to optimize profits for the capital owning class.
I pointed out the lack of description of those incentives.
And it's at least 50% racism. They absolutely profile people.
At every branching point in history, we have indisputably lost the result of the branch not taken. But... what's your point caller? That fact by itself is pretty meaningless.

Contrary to the point of view that somehow Microsoft changed everything, what surprising is how much they didn't change or might not be different at all... Jens Bergensten is today's Chief Create Officer at Mojang... but he's not a Microsoft plant, he's been there since 2010 and, moreover... " After the full release of Minecraft (1.0.0), Persson transferred creative authority of the game's development to Jens Bergensten, afterwards continuing to help out with Minecraft while also working on new projects." (https://minecraft.wiki/w/Markus_Persson) That happened in 2011 a few years before the Microsoft acquisition. As far as I can tell, there is a significant representation of pre-Microsoft Mojang staff that still exists within the company; sure there are many more people that have only been there since the Microsoft acquisition, but that seems to be a function of growth and resource availability more than some imposed change of direction.

So actually, I'm not sure what we've lost here. Pocket Edition, later to become Bedrock and upon which Minecraft Education is based, was well underway prior to the Microsoft acquisition. That ship sailed while Notch still owned the company. Outside of the Microsoft account and chat reporting requirements, which clearly were Microsoft driven, it's difficult to really see how different things would be. Arguable Jens might have been reeled in more by Notch, but my bet is that Notch was paying more attention to his 0x10c by 2012 and Jens would have had pretty substantial creative discretion by that time.
This is exactly what I got wrong when I started learning jazz piano as an adult. My wife is a lifelong musician and I got to the annoying point where I'd be playing and she'd walk by and go "that third chord sounds wrong." I'd ask why and she'd be unable to elaborate until she sat down and played the better version intuitively. Then she'd retroactively analyze what she did to explain it to me. I understood the theory, she understood the sounds. It was always humbling and helped me understand that intellectualizing comes second.
I really wonder about spending time on #1.Content Marketing in the new age of search + AI.

Most searches are filled with large paragraphs of AI responses at the very top of the page now days.

Then everyone doing content marketing is using the same AI to spew out massive spam sites of worthless content.
Be very cautious about “you’ll still be writing code” promises. A team of three is a significant time investment, and I’m highly dubious that leading a team can be done in 1 day a week, at least if you want to do it well.

At the very least you’re going to have to learn how to write code while being regularly interrupted, and in my experience that means you’ll have to let go of doing anything interesting because you’ll end up blocking work due to unexpected things coming up.
I'm giving 'er all I've got Cap'n :)

Sorry, it was freilanzer whose idea it was to retire after the first quarter of a 30 million pay scale :/
Exactly.

I used to wonder why Obsidian had all that hype if it just seemed like yet another note-taking app. I was happy with Joplin and when I asked, no one could point to something concrete that I would need and that was possible in Obsidian and not in Joplin.

But at some point I tried it out of curiosity, and I became hooked.

Does it do anything I wouldn't be able to do in Joplin? For my usage, no (disclaimer: I don't use fancy plugins. I don't even ever look at the graph view, or make any diagrams or things like that). But it's just very good software, neatly executed. Boots up faster than 90% of programs I use, the UI has zero noticeable lag, it's simple and intuitive and has everything I need. I also like the fact that it stores Markdown in plain files without a database (contrary to e.g. Joplin) and that even though I use very few and basic plugins, if I have some complex need in the future, there will surely be one that covers it.

In an era where almost all software feels too bloated, it's a breath of fresh air. Honestly, just not having visible UI lag is something that can easily make me switch from one product to another on its own. It's so rare nowadays in any software more complex than Notepad or Calculator. Add the rest of things I mentioned, and it's a no-brainer.
Fake Paper Generator
I've been living in Scandinavia for 10+ years, I never heard anyone talking about consuming birch water.
You should then look definitely for Batocera Linux
I can't endorse this more. I wasn't familiar with Robert Caro until this series started (I had heard of the LBJ biography but hadn't looked into it).

The interviews at the end of each episode is super insightful about how the structures of power continue to operate in the current day.
I don't, and I'm now unclear if xylitol is in the birch sap or only derived from the birch bark (and therefore, not part of the traditional health drink).
You just don’t have the bandwidth to do that. Even if you use the M.2 slot you’ll be significantly bottlenecked and would be better off using something else - even an AMD iGPU will work better (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/04/13/2100)
Ask HN: How to create a portfolio without design skills?
Okay, I've realised recently that not having a portfolio isn't exactly ideal if you're working in tech, especially given how many jobs seem to expect it now. So I've been planning out a personal site with portfolio, blog, etc to actually list the things I've been working on in one place.

Unfortunately, there's one problem I'm running into. That being, my art/design skills are basically nonexistent. Regardless of how many attempts I make at designing websites or apps, design just does not come naturally at all, and even thinking of how to lay out a UI feels impossible without outright copying others.

So how do you create a site with no design skills at all? The development side of things isn't really an issue, and I'm willing to learn whatever tech is needed for that side of things, but actually designing it is proving a challenge. I also don't really have any designer friends willing to work for free/cheap, so I'm not sure who to call on here.

What do other non artistic developers at Hacker News do for personal site and portfolio designs?
Hey,

The project originally joined Saastronomy when it was small, then after having grown was later acquired and built out further.

For the pricing, it is aimed at projects that are in the early stages of growth, which is what the team specialises in working with.
Why is government spending a black hole of productivity? Does it not result in "stuff"?
In the US you can get a B1/B2 that lets you stay 180 days. The same version is much harder to do in Europe since >90 day stays are limited to a single country.
>should fall back on a default action of not developing advanced AI

Not going to happen. It's so potentially valuable economically and militarily that if one country doesn't develop it their rivals will.
V7 are bog standard in blues and rock, and nowhere near hard to figure out or sounding dissonant.

And other cultures like tritones just fine, featuring them even more prominently.

There's no inherent "tritones are dissonant" human universal, it's a common practice harmony prejudice.
The changes I'd like to see in an Apple Card revamp
(I can totally see an AI running amok post-Singularity being "stopped" by being "fed" an incongruous rainbow-swastica and having it collapse :)
Part of this is that besides CO2, the other pollution has local effects too.

So places where ships moor for long periods have a local incentive to force them to burn cleaner fuels (or plug into shore for electricity) when in their immediate area.

The industry does have various plans for the wider CO2 issue, similar to the airline industry. A recurring theme is that even mild regulation or carbon pricing (or Russia invading your neighbour) provides enough motivation for a lot of low hanging fruit to be found and fixed.

In shipping, the practice of going really fast then waiting around for weeks is being phased out. It mostly hinges on contracts sharing the risks when it goes wrong one time in a hundred.

They've also identified that one size fits all ship designs can have efficiency impacts depending on what speed they intend to move at, which can depend on cargo and purpose.

The further you reduce the CO2 the harder it gets to wring out further improvements but they have a wide range of decarbonisation plans in motion.
Italy's Sun Motorway (2021)
Theoretically the government is spending productivity for services so the argument that government spending is not creating stuff is a little weird (though obviously they are often less efficient). There are even lots of situations where government spending increases productivity in significant way (e.g. public education)
Yep. Been running it for a few years, am very happy with it - https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/12/17/2000
Nice! I love the simple approach like the story which I'm not sure if it's true or not that NASA spent $$$ developing an ink pen that would work in zero-g and the Russians used a pencil.
Can we have more info into the cataclysmic events leading up to this? are only AWS bills made you do this? and why was it high?
Just got a Windows 11 machine. Had to, to run Solidworks. Have it next to a new M3 iMac. They’re all configured with the same apps. Despite not having used Windows in 10 years, these machines behave identically. But Windows 11 is snappier. And you can actually find things that you don’t know where they are!

I was amazed.
That was probably mostly to do with Amigas generally being hooked up to a TV (often via RF or composite) rather than a dedicated monitor, so having much softer/slightly-blurred output.

Although if you were comparing to EGA PCs of the era, the EGA palette was fixed and horrible, whereas the Amiga could pick from a palette of 4096 colours (and change that palette per-scanline in some cases)
I find these types of articles (and perhaps especially in the obsidian/2nd brain space) a bit funny.

It reads almost like they are trying to convince themselves how great their "new" workflow is. Which ofc they will completely change again in a few weeks.

It's akin to the guy focusing on the perfect VIM keybindings for super fast output, who then never really ends up writing much actual code.
"Deduct" means to subtract, or take away.

"Deduce" means to logically follow evidence. Semantically, there's no overlap, whatever etymology might say.

This is one of those problems where spell check is correct, but the word is used incorrectly.
it's interesting to read actually, but not everyone resorts to losing weight this way
Yes, really.

I can't recommend reading Mein Kampf, because it sucks, but it's essential to have an informed opinion on this subject.
A lot of the p(doom) worrying predates the scum bag companies.
It’s a bit tricky to do that, and hardly justifies the effort. I have a J-series, an N100 and an N5105, and the biggest bottlenecks are always about I/O. The N100 makes a great Proxmox server solely due to the faster cores.
My bet is they're not doing anything that can be seen as helping Trump winning the elections. Their employee base leans strongly on the left side and their donations reflect it: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/02/most-liberal-tech-companies-...
The parent commenter was referring to camping, therefore all day.
Rural towns short employees and prospects
It doesn't seem weird to me to limit results of such a hot topic, given it is an election year. I sometimes lurk on conservative social media outlets for the laughs and giggles, and after the attempt they were so focused on the fact that he might have been a democratic based on a donation ( despite he unsubscribed from the donors list newsletter shortly after https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-shooter-thomas-crooks-don... ) doesn't really bode well to quench the political turmoil that there is in the us

little edit: on google trends i can search donald trump assassination and have results for the interest, but i can't select smaller scales than 30 days such as 7 days or i'll have a generic error "something went wrong"
Just waiting for somebody to rebrand it as a trendy meal substitute and sell it online for $8 per serving...