skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dot files are valuable to me, and I have struggled with a number of different systems for managing them across devices. I feel less attached to the terminal emulator itself, and switch peridocially as different programs interact weirdly with different terminals. Especially on WSL.

Secure effective syncing would give me the valuable thing, while still having the freedom to bounce around terminals.

For context, I currently use termius on ipad, but use termux on android and flavor of the week on desktop, currently WSLtty. I have used the pro version of termius in the past, but do not currently.
Carmakers (GM and Fiat for now) are buying ZEV credits from Tesla (about $2 billion planned so far) to avoid the penalties.
This is not snark: You can self publish to your heart's content via blog.

I've actually been interviewed by a paper (and misquoted and misgendered in the article they published) due to my blogging, and I was homeless at the time. I also was interviewed by a college student who wrote a piece about me and was asked to write a paid piece with a byline because of my blogs.

I've actually been interviewed at least three other times without it being published because people find my story hard to believe. Years ago, I was quoted in a book.

I'm not even making any kind of effort to get that kind of attention. In fact, I actually spent a lot of years trying to figure out how to deflect attention while finding my voice.

I imagine if you were making a concerted effort to figure out how to get taken seriously, you could get a lot more legitimate media attention than I've ever gotten, assuming your work is solid and the writing is good.
What’s unhinged is this extended infancy we’ve created for teenagers.
My main usecase that I use Termius for is that I read mail in mutt on my self hosted mail server. I’ve been hosting my own mail for many years now. Having access to my mail server from my iPhone is nice.

Thank you for making Termius and for the effort that you have put into it thus far.
I agree, the article puts really heavy emphasis on the nuclear family which I find questionable.

Long term cohabitation is dismissed because it is not marriage.

The idea that historically people (especially women) where UNHAPPILY stuck together because of societal norms is dismissed.

Attributing the cause of the decline of marriage and all the negative effects to the pill strikes me a especially strange. The alternative of forcing people into a family they didn't want because of an unexpected pregnancy doesn't seem better for people's mental well-being.

While they are brought up, the article seems to downplay the decline of the community institutions like the church as you mention. It also seems to downplay economic forces like 24 hour work culture and stagnating wages.

I think there's some truth and good ideas in the article, but I find some of the choices strange.
The last time (~6 months ago) I was on one of their article pages (via direct link in a new tab, not via their homepage), the uBO icon immediately showed something like 50 or 60 elements blocked.

That value rose every other second as I scrolled, so yeah...
Happy standard notes user. I wish each app was native mind you, but for a single dev project that would be insane
I agree, it was fake news articles on Facebook that spread false information but it took desperately ignorant people to believe it for the consequent chaos to ensue. So while deepfake videos are scary, I think what we have to really worry about is the deep ignorance of the voters.
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that racism doesn't exist in most of America? Or that race is more then a social construct in most of America?
Progressive Types [pdf]
Legal expenses insurance is a thing. I live in germany, they are very common here.
Slightly different but related thought: what if inside of each black hole singularity is another universe? The stuff it collects ends up in this other universe. Which would mean our universe is just "inside" the black hole of another.

Then perhaps the accelerating expansion of spacetime we detect here has something to do with the accelerating accumulation of mass of our "parent" black hole.
This piece would be better without all the preemptive self-congratulations.
While your plan could conceptually make sense, in the US, as soon as anything out of "ordinary" shows up on a scan you have to do everything you can possibly do or be sued out of existence for malpractice. If you follow the recommendations not to test, then you're doing what's expected of you. As soon as you test and see anything then fail to act, you're at huge financial risk.
> I wonder why you claim it has performance issues

It's true, I haven't tried it. Perhaps this solo dev has succeeded where large teams with more resources have failed.

> I'm still awaiting your link to a superior native alternative

Sorry; I thought you wanted one that I'd written. I've used SimpleNote for years. It's got dozens of clients, many of them native; I use NValt, Resoph Notes, and the official iOS client. It supports markdown. It doesn't support plugins, but you didn't want that until just now.

> If you can detect the input lag in Visual Studio Code

I use VSCode extensively for a large Angular project on a Macbook Pro with a 4K screen. I get trivially reproducible hitching, often when autocomplete kicks in. It doesn't require superhuman senses to see. The console is also easy see lag on; just use it to edit a commit message with vim during a rebase. Character input speed is easier to notice if you've been using Sublime or Vim immediately beforehand. It's not a deal-breaker; VSC is unparalleled for Angular development. I wish it was snappier, though.
Come to Canada. Hijab's are as common as hockey sticks.
You'll never get an answer to this question from people who question google's ordering. Google has to order the content somehow. I don't think people bitching about their changes realize it is always a trade off. Some people win and some people loose.
How Overpriced Is the $6k Mac Pro? Here’s What You’d Get in a PC
They love their kids but they would have preferred that their kids never existed? That doesn't sound like love.
That is an interesting point, but this already happens on voice calls. My grandma got a call a while ago from someone claiming to be my brother. Said he needed money because he was in a South American jail or something. Luckily shes still pretty sharp, so she hung up and called my brother (he was not in South America) so the ruse was up. She was pretty shaken up though. A video call would be more convincing but only an incremental, not fundamental, difference.
With the arrival of Google, Silicon Valley lost its soul
Not quite. I can play steam games offline, I can share them with my friends/family and the most important part being - steam's platform has been reliable with top notch support since 90s while Google hasn't gotten that even in 2019.
Naval's original tweet storm is really worth reading (as is some of the discussion around it on twitter): https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936
I imagine the most above-board use for something like this would be in scripted tv and movies. Basically an enhanced form of ADR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing_(filmmaking)#ADR/post-...). Of course, I anticipate plenty of nefarious uses.

A place where I don't think it will be used much is actual facing-the-camera-talking-head content. Something we have learned from YouTubers is that audiences don't care if there are discontinuous cuts during a monologue. YouTubers don't try to pretend they did it all in one take, and will happily edit their video as if editing text. The cuts are obvious in both the audio and video. And still it works.
I felt very similar but at the age of 20 I shut myself indoors and it's been like that ever since. Everyone has long forgot about me. I turned 31 an hour ago.

I think I just got used to it. I was lucky that I inherented a small flat, although in bad condition and location. I score some freelance gigs time to time to keep myself alive. I have tried online communities or friends so to speak but I don't really get it how it's done. I didn't have a problem in real life.

I read HN always every night before I fall asleep. In 2008 or so my show HN made it to first page. I was very happy that say. Genuine happiness. I might have lacked being a human now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Nice_Up_North
Yes, I pay. Good point, though.

Although, I'm not sure my pictures would get downsized since their limits are pretty generous.

The worst is videos. My phone shoots them at 4K and they would get resized at 1080p.
I mean how is this any different than the "secure enclave" on iphones or other forms of hardware security modules. Yes a sufficiently advanced adversary with an electron microscope could possibly extract the key but it still greatly raises the bar for 99% of other would be abusers.
As an openly transgender person, I had the same thought. Specifically, in the Bay Area I can be a walking pride flag, and in fact strike up conversations with all kinds of people in all kinds of places and feel very connected. There's all kinds of community here that I haven't found other places I've lived.

In a lot of parts of the country I have to be very careful about what I say and how I present.

In a lot of other countries, my very existence is criminalized.
I'm curious under what situations you'd use Undo/Redo.

I would think that anything related to transaction records specifically should not have an "undo" feature, or if it does, it is recorded as part of the transaction.

It's a silly scenario perhaps, but I'd not want to pay someone, record the transaction, then "undo" that I had payed them.
For MMT (Long and Wonkish)
Not at launch, this is promised for 2020.

Until then you will have to buy the game and pay the subscription fee.
Race is a social construct in the same way that dog breeds are a social construct. They're fuzzy and often overlap, but they do correspond to some underlying biological reality. They're not an artificial political creation.
Stability rates vary over time. But in the context of this discussion, I meant stable relative to other social arrangements.

Thus relative to the current divorce rates, I would wager that “divorce” rates among friends and other social structures are even greater.
That's actually a great analogy there. I will say I wasn't really vouching for that line of reasoning more than exploring my own thoughts about it and that was one route my mind went. I like to do that with deeper questions from time to time. I guess that with no..."sense of time" or understanding of our beginning we have a less accurate ideal of what our ending may be. However, there is one thing we know for certain is that we do die. At least our bodies do. What happens after that though is to be disclosed. So maybe only what we do between those two points is what matters anyways? And some may view that as if we are going to die anyways, what does it matter?
The Gas Flaring Crisis in the US Oil Patch
And how to you propose this be done?

Google has to order its results somehow. How do you propose they order them?
I have a failover setup that changes Cloudflare DNS when necessary.
How long until Google realizes the same about CNN and several other tabloid sites.
It really is that easy.
I would guess that a lot of appearances can be sculpted, by hitting a vulnerable person with priors.

I have no idea how frequently this happens, or how it resolves.
I like the notion of "strong opinions, weakly held": https://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/strong_opini...

"""
Bob explained that weak opinions are problematic because people aren’t inspired to develop the best arguments possible for them, or to put forth the energy required to test them. Bob explained that it was just as important, however, to not be too attached to what you believe because, otherwise, it undermines your ability to “see” and “hear” evidence that clashes with your opinions.
"""

I think these strong opinions change when there is information to do so, and that's probably where the whole "stay focused and keep shipping" idea comes from: collect soft feedback, hard metrics, and otherwise information by providing a product-as-a-hypothesis. The more often you ship and measure, the better your direction and your alignment with what people will pay for.
> If people want to consume trash, they know where to find it.

Yes, at CNN.
Not sure exactly what you're linking the Wikipedia article on quantum states, but if you like it as a reference, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_state#Mixed_states. The operation of "projecting out" the E&M field in my previous comment would be realized on the density matrix as a partial trace over the electromagnetic field. You can also take the partial trace of this field of the Hamiltonian operator to see the effective dynamics of the atom when "ignoring" the E&M field. This is a fully quantum description of the state, so I stand by the statement that your claim "An atom can be described by its quantum state only if it's isolated and in that case its energy is constant." is incorrect.
You can only play them offline as long as it can check in to Steam every few days. If (once) Steam is turned off, it will no longer be able to do that.
I would rather have conflicts among editors than no conflict whatsoever, as the latter suggests that they all agree on how to bias things. Conflict is a sign of trustworthiness here.

Even a cursory glance at how wikipedia is actually structured vs how early 2000s news media and schools portrayed it will lead you to the conclusion that it's a significantly better primary source than any other encyclopedia currently available.

The sort of stuff in wikipedia that traditionally might be slightly biased (current events, very new political stuff) doesn't even appear in other encyclopedias until a decade later, so that has to be worth something as well.

The number of eyes actively vetting and checking and re-checking every change on a moderately trafficked wikipedia page probably dwarfs the total number of editorial staff for even the largest of encyclopedias. The average accuracy is just going to be higher in a situation like that, even with people occasionally defacing pages.
Full completion sounds sexual. Was that intentional?
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The video mentions that the audio was recorded separately, and shows a few other options like text-to-speech (which obviously doesn't match the voice) and some smarter voice matching audio generation (VoCo) which could pass for the original voice sent over heavily compressed, low-bandwidth video conferencing or something like that. I'm guessing that if this is used for actual disinformation, finding a voice actor/audio engineer to try and match the speech would be most effective.
To be fair, this is little different to buying a game on the PlayStation Store or Xbox Store. As soon as those go offline, you will no longer be able to download those games.

And so you'll be at the mercy of the lifespan of the hard drive. You won't be able to copy the games to another device as it won't be able to validate ownership.
This is essentially the argument I make to friends whenever someone brings up some homeopathic remedy. Most of us are not smart enough or well educated enough to really sift through this stuff and sniff out fact from fiction. Lucky for us there is a whole field of trained professionals who (hopefully) are.

At the same time though, I think it's worth remembering that the placebo effect is real and measurable so if someone claims X, Y or Z cures their headaches maybe they're not lying :-)
I like that idea. I think the world is a beautiful place, and I think also that humans can be a beautiful species at the times they come together. What is that one quote? "All that wander are not lost." I believe we can find peace with our existence and mortality and its something we have to remind ourselves of that individually it is not forever, and how it will end in general is not yet perceived.
> None of Crystal / Nim have such a structure.

That's right. Not yet.
It got dropped in rank because Google decided something else should be higher ranked. How do you propose google rank things? Don't forget people will always game whatever your ranking algorithm, so please elaborate how you'll deal with that too.
I think most people goes with DO not because it was just "affordable", it has also been around long enough and large enough to be trusted. Both OVH and Hetzner is the same as DO in this regards.

The two listed aren't really well known.
> "its good advice bt im Not sure uve had a startup before." [sic]
> And this is spot on.

Is it though? Amazon's Free tier is more than enough to run a small early/proof-of-concept startup. Even ignoring Docker etc, Elastic Beanstalk is literally set and forget platform. There's very little excuse for not running something fault tolerant and modern.

At least, that's how I've stood up the last three startups i've lead engineering at.
> Pay $50 to get somebody to listen to your story and work with you on proving your identity.

Personally, I would understand this as extortion.
The NPR planet money podcast also had an interesting episode from 2012 that recently replayed that talked about the origins of the double entry accounting scheme. Pretty interesting history that I didn’t know.

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/15/723715402/episode-407-a-mathe...
Sad day. I never used them but I always enjoyed Bryan Cantrill's postmortems and deep dives on Joyent all over the internet. Would love to see his take on this EOL announcement.

Bryan, are you around?
Honest question now, you say you're a casual gamer, do you have a pc with a video card? With a gigabit connection, updates are really a non-issue. I can't see why people with even moderate gaming rigs ($150 gpu) would bother with this service? Is 4k really that big of a deal?
"You and your parent" definitely confused me for a second!
Could it be something even more low-tech? Kind of like those faint yellow dots that all printers must print. Maybe a distinct pattern of pixel coloration that a person wouldn’t even be aware of unless they were looking for it.
Joyent's value proposition was killed (for the most part) by the experience of using their public interface. It would've taken a great deal of bravery to try that and decide a local install would be better. The node thing also did a lot of damage - Joyent wrote a lot of the SmartOS/Triton command line tools in node so they were slow as hell. Triton itself is a very non-trivial install although quite probably less so than a complete k8s rig.

There are also some really subtle Linux compatibility problems. For instance: IIRC a SmartOS malloc will not fail. Ever. But it might not return either. There's a really complicated mark/sweep type virtual memory thing and the documentation is good, for the nasty node stuff, and kinda terrible otherwise.

Finally, and with no lack of irony, you just can't run SmartOS on the cloud. For a start it needs to do its first boot off a CD and subsequent boots off a USB drive-type-arrangement. The hard part is that most cloud providers run a butchered Linux kernel and not a fully generalised VM - and on vultr at least, while they run a proper VM, for some reason the processors don't "come up".

I've not looked at all this stuff for at least a year so it may have changed. Either which way I believe the majority of the community is now on OmniOS - which I always got on better with anyway.
Yeah, that's a concern I have with paying $60 for a game on there. But I'm pretty interested in the $10/mo with accompanying handful of free games. If they shut down the service in that scenario it doesn't bother me, since I'm getting my money's worth each month.
Maybe Walmart can stop its health insurance scheme with this and those people can do work elsewhere. There are plenty of customer service jobs.
I think it's not anything wrong with you per se, nor have I read the book, but I think it's because like the author says, dealing with people on an individual basis requires personal sacrifice. Particularly, emotional sacrifice. Allowing people to get a cold without letting it bother you. Making compromises and being forced to do things you don't want, while not being able to do what you want, on a daily micro level.

Whereas tasks that show your love for humanity are more detached from actual individuals. Curing cancer requires you to interact with lab equipment and microorganisms more than humans. Sure your opportunity costs here may be playing video games or traveling, but they are less emotional costs and more material costs.

Paying emotional tolls is difficult, and from my experience, many people are simply incapable of paying them. I mean, they are or may be capable, but they would have to change the way they act or behave, and they are not willing to do so. I think there's a genetic component to it.
> they can be quite reliably be credited to being the company that made it happen originally

This is false, as someone who was actually there can attest. Node.js couldn't even run on Solaris when Joyent finally got involved, and Node.js technically and in terms of growth had already taken off thanks to Ryan Dahl.

Source: I'm the guy that ported Node.js to Solaris, and I have nothing to do with Joyent, then or now.
No, you can simply have memory mapped ring buffers between processes and all of the stuff not required for the specific application cut away. You don't need to have any more context switches that way.

No need to have a traditional socket API while still being able to do access it from multiple applications.

I have no interest to create such beast, but I'd be truly shocked if it couldn't at least beat a generic kernel based stack.

It'll lose some performance compared to the single application approach, but there might still be a niche for this kind of way.

Sure, you'll need to copy memory, but the data should be almost always in L3 cache anyways.
Wait what, Baldur's Gate 3? And DOOM Eternal at 4K/60, they must be pretty confident about the latency... OK, I have to admit it's a pretty compelling alternative to upgrading my aging computer. I'll still wait for the reviews / Digital Foundry analysis, but I'm interested.
I don't mean to pry, but I'm kinda curious. What do you mean by function well in society? Some people with down syndrome can still live a semi-normal life and be employed, are you saying your son is worse than that? Can he talk to people? Can he drive?
A search engine has to rank the results somehow. Given you cannot fit all results in one page, how do you propose they be ranked? Who will be the winners and the losers? Please include how you'll handle your algorithm getting gamed by every single person on the planet.
I cannot speak for all churches and I do not have data (though I would love to see a source for the correlation you mention in drug problems/abuse/suicide).

What I can offer is an anecdote: the church my grandparents went to was the center of their social life. The church had donuts and coffee after service in the basement. The whole community would stay and chat. It may have only been for an hour or so, but it allowed for people to get to know their neighbors and would lead to other things. They would organize fundraising and volunteering activities for the community.

Obviously this is just an anecdote, but I don't think it's an anomaly.

I personally am not very religious, and would not consider attending a church even for all these things. I agree that churches often push ideas that are harmful, but I think saying they never served the purpose of creating community is untrue.
Some do.. there are better nursing homes out there.
When I click on the link, I get a 404. That's not the usual response to the hug of death. Anyone have an alternate link?
I’ve spend 10 minutes on this and still have no clue what it actually does. Seems to be focussed on beginners with very trivial and general tips on Git and terminal commands.
And don't forget health-care ...