skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same thing. My side-projects would end up making me anxious, and I'd resent them -- whether they were code or volunteering or what. But then I just kinda left my job -- my ordinary life -- downscaled to the point that I didn't need my apartment, and started living in a hammock tent in my city's equivalent of Central Park during the summer. My side-projects (or at least my appetite for them) are right-sized, it was my distraction of a job that needed downsizing, and I had the privilege and luck to do that. Now I'm figuring out that my side-project has given me skills and experience that essentially no one else has, because I've spent 3-4 years focussed intensely on something that capital mostly says shouldn't have been getting any attention (it mostly doesn't). I think I can wrangle that into an ordinary-ish life again, but we'll see...

Anyhow, just wanted to provide a counterpoint to "side-projects are making me miserable" when there's likely a hidden 3rd factor: the other thing you need to work/do to subsidize the life you currently fit into.

Best of luck! I'm excited for your side-projects <3 (or rather, whatever it is that makes you happy, but I hope you don't stop experimenting with what that might be!)
I have no idea how to get a random PDF onto my kindle. Getting a book there is easy though.

You can find and buy one on the device itself, or find and buy one on Amazon and it'll magically show up on the device. It literally is just clicking a single button.

I can't even imagine a way you could remove any steps from the process if you were designing it from scratch.
So instead of having one person and one coffee machine, we now have one person, one coffee machine and a robot arm.

The future truly is now.
In my experience, most vending machines produce far inferior drinks to most coffee shops. If they could match the quality I would happily get my drinks from them, whether they're in a coffee shop or not.
tarsnap's target audience is sysadmins and other UNIXy gurus. My grandma and my dad, who would benifit most from a secure sync mechanism would probably be unable to use it.

Also, I'm not sure how you can use tarsnap at good cost for p2p sync.

[0] https://www.tarsnap.com/
Are you me? I literally have been through this recently, the first 80% went smooth, but when it comes to polish/css, it sure felt like taking forever to cross the line.
Thanks for the cssreference link, looks like a gem.
Haven't played Dwarf Fortress, but if it's anything like having sharp needles pushed into your brain, then yep, that kind of fun.
This.

I keep making the point every time it gets raised in a "the robots are coming for our jobs" thread, but we had the technology to vend fast food to people putting coins in slots before we had McDonalds etc, whose laser focus on margins proved the business case for counter staff and killed off most of the Automats. Needless to say, the perception of a pleasant coffee shop offering good service worth paying extra for and superior quality coffee is more intrinsically linked to its staff than the fast food industry.

In terms of theatrics and novelty this super-expensive machine is a massive improvement on the vending machine and can probably justify a $3 coffee instead of a $1 coffee, but it isn't going to kill the traditional coffee shop either, because the novelty is directly proportional to how rare they are....
White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots
Accountability is what separates a software engineer from a programmer
From what I hear most devs aren’t allowed to check out code locally (unless they do mobile development) and instead use a web ide.
Having two monitors at different distances/angles is what has worked for me after almost a year of pomodoro'ing with no better results & slightly blurry eyes at the end of a work day.

Also look at monitors by moving your eyes & not your entire head, just like pilots.

Finally drink lots of water every hour. The pee breaks will help with sedentary lifestyle problems, improve circulation, give your eyelids a break & act as a breather between work bouts.
I can't say I agree with the first two. You can make money, good money in fact, as a romance self-published author. You can also make excellent money as a digital artist drawing for niche audiences (furries are well known for dropping a ton of money on 'fursona' stuff). Patreon remains alive and well, also.
Charged with what specifically under what precedent? The USA is (supposedly) a nation of law. If Zuck broke an existing law with precedent for those kind of terms then that would make sense. If you are simply angry at legislators for not protecting you with adequate law, your issue is not with Zuck. You are simply angry at him. If you simply want him "made an example of", I hope you think of the repercussions to legal framework of the nation.
I come from JVM as well.

https://play.golang.org/p/kbmrIvoQBXs

If you want true streams and don't mind the performance hit, you can certainly design a library to implement those semantics on top of Go channel types.
I made a gist from the base64 patch for easier reading: https://gist.github.com/localhostdotdev/f07d7ba7ae6cac4ea1c8...
It strikes me as unlikely that the military is taking the attitude "it's OK if our planes fall out of the sky during normal operation, because we have ejection seats".
It's impressive that people will suffer the agony of trying to read a book in PDF form for the sake of getting it for free.

After discovering the EPUB/MOBI formats and the joy of having text dynamically scale on my phone/tablet, it's very difficult to go back trying to read an extensive document in PDF. On anything but a PC it just feels archaic.
It’s an old(ish) post (mostly showing how to build the enclosure), and the download link pointing at Bell Labs is dead. Plan9 has a new home at https://9p.io/plan9/.
I thought traditionally it was polling numbers. But maybe that was just the RNC clown car from 2016...
They have omnibar anyway, aren't they collecting data from it?
Communicating sequential processes(CSP) for Go developer in a nutshell
ArangoDB Receives $10M Series A Funding
After I got my motorbike everything changed.
My coworker went for a bicycle, everything changed....

I use to do side projects to learn more. That is what I used to say.

The reality was that change the activity I really loved for decades to another has not been easy.

Side projects has been the perfect excuse to stay on the laptop.

How do you replace a no-competitive activity where you are in control of what you do and decide what and when to do?

So what worked for me?

Find something that exists in the real world, in my case an old, unchecked desire (learn to ride), and just do it.

How long I waited? Long time, years.
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So on one hand, you just need some good open source software for that, there's enough cloud and there's no reason you wouldn't choose the cheapest one if you have everything client side encrypted and can add more redundancy. On the other hand..

> the system runs on Tahoe-LAFS

that got me very interested.
Authors need to frame the conversation better: It's a contract. You don't get to read my book unless you pay me money.

It doesn't matter that the author still has a copy or whether you think you're "stealing". None of that matters. You can do whatever you like, so long as you give money to the author before you consume their thing. That's the deal, take it or leave it.

Frame the transaction that way, and at least you won't get so many people who think they haven't done anything wrong.
It looks like you have to pay for Wire. Is that right?
For at least some part of people going to coffee shops (especially when getting coffee "on the way" somewhere) the "status" they want is "convenient, tasty coffee", which neither instant coffee nor the typical vending machine provide.
I'm in the same boat.
I could teach subversion in 1 hour and people would get it.
I can't teach git in a whole week. So in the end my students use the same 5 commands.
This is the guy whose site showed 65k after you changed your local date/time to the debate date, correct? lol
OK! Agreed on product vs process. I still don't think "ivory tower" means the same thing to you as it does to me, so be it!

When I look up "ivory tower" on google, google's supplied dictionary definition is "a state of privileged seclusion or separation from the facts and practicalities of the real world." I don't think that's how you're using it though? Which confused me. But ok!
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> You get the productivity

How do you measure this? By feelz?

Because I've been a programmer and tech lead for 15+ years, and C++ projects are always done faster than PHP ones.

PHP may be "easy", but better programmers with better tools will always win on development speed.
The way I see it, it's like the difference between people who follow a Lego manual (RimWorld), and people who are creative enough to just build awesome things without it (DF). It's 100% what you make of it.

There's an amazing channel on YouTube, called Kruggsmash, that does DF lets plays. In his current series, he initially founded a new settlement based entirely on bee agriculture and trading - no fighters. He kept the population small so they were under the notice of the local goblins, and got set building an awesome looking place with custom bee related statues, engravings and the like. Unfortunately the other dwarf settlements around him (NPC ones) die off because of the local goblin fortress, and refugees start flocking to his settlement. (SPOILERS AHEAD!) He ends up throwing a vampire goblin down the well, and stabs him with spikes which ends up bloodying the water. The dwarves that drink the water then end up turning into vampires themselves, so he now has a fortress of vampire dwarves! He also has a massive prequel to this fortress series where he plays in adventure mode as a boar man and his compatriot goblin buddy (the one now down the well...), going around stealing artefacts and building his own role-play story, with some amazing illustrations to show what's happening in through all the ASCII graphics.

Honestly, he's more than worth a watch. You get very attached to all the characters, especially the dwarves that have been there from the beginning. He's one of the few YouTubers I've ever contributed towards on patreon.
What specific charges can be filed against him? What laws have Facebook broken?

I suspect FB have broken many laws but perhaps the country simply has inadequate consumer protection.

Advocating for jail terms without specific charges is not the direction to go.
And yet in practice Go is delightfully robust. It’s not THE most robust—it’s not Rust or Haskell[^1]—but (in my experience) it’s certainly less buggy than Java and friends, C/C++, or virtually any dynamic language. It’s quite possible that copying is a liability as you claim, and that OOP, generics, and/or dynamic typing are simply greater liabilities, but I think that means you should evaluate languages on balance and not on the presence or absence of one feature or idiom.

[^1]: Rust and Haskell pay for their marginal increase in robustness with a massive decrease in productivity.
Yeah espresso machines are nuts. How has YC not yet funded a coffee machine startup to "democratize" upscale espresso?
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You say Signal has a superior user experience, but you then start talking about privacy features. Privacy features are important, but they have nothing to do with the user experience.

That is leaving aside completely how much of a lunatic the main dev of Signal is (see his extreme reluctance to release on f-droid, for example. It took ages to get an apk that you could sideload and it comes with a lot of warnings about how much of a bad boy you are for using it), which is a compelling argument to never use it in my opinion.
Talk to your local dry cleaner. They may offer this service. It may be price competitive.
This just makes me sad. I’ve only been to Italy once and maybe it was the experience as much as anything else, but I swear I’ve never had coffee as good as when I was there. Wandering into a random cafe in the morning with my family, ordering an espresso and a pastry, stupidly ordering a latte that one time for my daughter and getting a glass of milk (oh right, cafe latte)... god if it had been a robot instead of a human being ... well those morning coffees are one of my favorite memories.

> "It's also torture for the customer. Baristas get orders wrong, drink quality is wildly inconsistent, and coffee places don't keep a record of every customer's past drink order — but you can do all this with robotics."

A while back I went to one of those restaurants where you order off a touch screen and then the food gets brought out to you. You barely interact with the server. I hated it.

Maybe I’m a sentimental old fool, but when I’m going out to eat, I do not welcome our new robot overlords. :-(

p.s. And I say all this as someone who’s been called a misanthrope.

This just makes me sad.
Ask HN: How much is this outage costing Facebook?
For a lot of small businesses and e-com shops, Facebook is the main source of ad traffic. I know it's hurting their bottom line, but how much is it hurting Facebook's bottom line?
It’s a cycle — we were grappling with the same issues in 1919 and 1819, as technology and governance changed the structure of society.

The reflex action to this form of gilded age will be significant and hopefully peaceful.
There's no such thing as piracy. If your business model doesn't work in a post-physical-scarcity world, you need to change your business model.
FWIW, I've been using syncthing [0] for some years now [1] and am very pleased. Even though my data is unavailable on the cloud from any untrusted computer (like e.g. my corporate laptop), it's synced on my "fleet".

I'm not sure that PrivateStorage actually adds anything to the equation?

EDIT> The Tahoe LAFS [2] model is more that you spread your data over multiple providers. NAS at home, several VPS providers, or what have you. It feels like RAID in the network, and it allows very precise setting of redundancy policies.

So syncthing actually only runs on trusted machines, whereas PrivateStorage will be able to run on both trusted (tightly managed) and untrusted machines (like a VPS in the USA).

[0] https://syncthing.net

[1] https://try.popho.be/byeunison.html

[2] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
You assume a uniform distribution of children per dad.
If someone pirated book one and/or book two, what is the likelihood that they'll go out and buy book three? Keeping in mind that some % of people will have a conscience twinge or be earning much more than previously so will feel like they can afford the book rather than just go on over to their favorite site and download it.
There is more than enough time in the day/week/year to do what you want. You just have to avoid doing other things.

The biggest impact would be changing your desires.

One option is to really want something. You sneak away time from work/sleep to work on a project. You think of it in the shower, in a queue, on a toilet. It has top priority in your brain, above gaming, above any tv show, above any problems. It becomes an itch that you have to scratch.

If you don't desire something enough, your energy is channeled somewhere else. It's there, but in things like volunteering, random hobbies, trying to be good at a game, Tumblr. There are just many people in this whole who make it their goal to channel your energy.

The other option is to desire nothing. This is where meditation brings you. This is what you get from sickness, near death experiences, or excessive rest.

When you desire nothing, you're able to move it around at will. It's no longer a force you can't control, but a tame beast.

Most of us desire something - money, power, fame, attention, respect, knowledge. This can get complex. Many people have some kind of irrational desire as well - to look more successful than their ex, to not work in the same field as a parent, to work as few hours as possible, to see an underpaid project fail. Often born from some kind of mental scar or cultural conditioning.
This is a cost-centric view of the price, when a value-centric view may be more useful. The ebook can be downloaded and taken everywhere without having to lug and lose an extra item in your bag. The ebook can be read on multiple devices seamlessly. The ebook can be retrieved from the seller in the event you lose it.

And the content is the same, you're paying for the same work. So you are paying $2 more for a ton of increased convenience.

You can rent physical DVDs from the library for free. Yet you pay for Netflix. Such a greedy publisher, enabling us to do things more easily.
It's only a $25k arm if it doesn't need regular parts replacements, which it probably will.

In my opinion, in order for robots to be mass profitable they either need to be faster, better or run longer. This machine seems to do none of those things. Novelty factor only has value whilst it's novel.
GE Warns of Falling Profits, $2B Cash Burn in 2019
> We don't look at a dead person and claim their life was bullshit, because they died, do we?

So every company has a fixed lifetime like human beings, because its law of nature. :D
Right click -> Open in private window
Because patterns replace thinking in too many corners of our world
"Hawking" can also refer to the sale of goods, usually in a kind of bazaar-like fashion
No, the actual commands you need to use are "git log", copy the commit ID, and then paste it to "git show <PASTE_COMMIT_ID_HERE>". Of course you can use shortcuts, but those are entirely optional.

For a single-person, single-branch workflow, git is extremely easy. It gets really complicated when doing something more, until you stop seeing git as a VCS tool, but rather as a tool to manipulate the data structure used to do the VCS. But that's a completely different, unrelated topic to this thread.
But it's only 9s after the 762nd digit?
This reminded me of @cperciva's PiHex [1] project from way back in the day...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiHex
> Is VR dying on the vine?

No VR is heavily used in architecture, healthcare industry and other professions.

VR as a mass market however is not doing that great right now, because it's not yielding the results the entertainment industry hoped, which leads to less investment and so on... it's a vicious circle.

Ultimately someone will get it right. Apple, maybe.
Cool. Thanks. For me, the study materials , curriculum is not the hindrance. Being among like minded individuals, getting internships is the problem. If you think about it every education institution which develops into a brand has 1 key thing. Great, ambitious students and matching support. That's what I want. To be part of respectable group of individuals.
Now, I know this might not fit the DNA of Lambda School, but, i think a new service where students submitted an application along with their work, projects and the site listed these students ( with very strict vetting to identify unique students, with their unique skillset mentioned) and partnered with companies for internships ONLY (no jobs )in the beginning. As the validation of the students skillset would start to take place in 1-2 years, the brand would gain recognition like Lambda. A small upfront application fee would be charged.
The UI of DF is same as the UI of the 40-year-old Roguelike games. Hence retro. And hence unknown to 99%+ of gamers.
I find working towards wins (new users or customers) helps to replenish my excitement and enthusiasm for my project, so I aim for those.

Otherwise, I just end up grinding until my mind eventually says enough and I'll just have to stop for a few days. I've considered whether a more balanced schedule could help but have currently settled on the opinion that while we may be looking for the right approach, there isn't one, only trade-offs. You either neglect progress on your project or neglect your personal life. You just have to decide how important each of those are in your life, then prioritise accordingly and accept the trade-offs.
Ask HN: How do you choose a new library for your project?
What do you rely on? Your intuition? Docs? Examples? GitHub? Search engine? History? Blogs? Do you have any process in place?
"The idea of humans making coffee for 10 hours a day is as crazy in 2018 as a tollbooth collector sitting in a metal box on a freeway," Calacanis told CNBC.

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Ah, bless his heart, he's doing people a favor by freeing them from not having a job.
There is a proof linked from the Wikipedia article: https://www.davidhbailey.com/dhbpapers/digits.pdf
She calls it PDF but maybe she just means any ebook format.

Also PDF can be text (instead of scanned pictures, etc) and can easily be converted to any other text format, from EPUB to TXT.
Takoma Park, Maryland, has or had a "tool library" in the basement of the regular library, from which locals could borrow tools. I haven't lived in Takoma Park now for many years, and don't know whether the tool library still operates.
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To turn that around, one could argue the ebook has a lower value since it is easily pirated. It is competing with a version of itself that costs $0.00 and a few minutes of web searching.
How does this compare with:

https://get.google.com/trips/
> Telegram, on the other hand, has been absolutely reliable, both in regular and secure chats. Never a lost message, never a delayed message.

> Same for Whatsapp.

what's disturbing to me (from a relatively naive perspective -- I'm familiar with terms like PSTN and MVNO and the general system, but I havn't worked in telecom): you've described what would be exactly how a nation state would kill a superior and more secure messaging app. Compel telcos to drop/delay GCM of websocket/GCM push notifications for a small minority of device IDs, so that the userbase rotted away...
time for me to make a tarsnap gui ?? XD
There's gonum: https://www.gonum.org/

However, I endorse the view that Go in its current form is a poor choice for that task, and that even after generics are added to Go, that will merely make it an at-best-average choice for that task, and personally, if that's my primary goal, I'd want to choose something excellent at that task. The design decisions made in Go tend to cut actively against heavily mathematical usage. For instance, I agree that no operator overloading is the right choice for a systems language, but it's a terrible choice for a math language.
https://bellard.org/pi/pi_bin.pdf
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