skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"First build a radio receiver" means you don't have to pack anything like your whole civilization into the seed, unless you're in some kind of lifeboat emergency like a war or supernova. Biology is an existence proof of universal-enough constructors (and a radio is simple compared to a tree). These existing constructors may seem absurdly hyper-advanced compared to current human technology, but I think that's a prejudice. Even current computers are hyper-advanced over the ones of just a lifetime ago. It's hard to plausibly avoid that level of progress over a few lifetimes more, short of somehow stopping progress cold.
Dude's an inspiration.
I think most people consider a subscription to be something that you pay for on a recurring basis. obviously you can "subscribe" to channels on YouTube without paying anything, but I'd say this is outside the typical usage of the word. if I bought a game in 2005 and it received some patches, I wouldn't have considered myself a "subscriber" to a "service".

no idea how this lines up with the legal definition, though.
Yes, I've heart it's a one-man army project. His/their office is based on the other side of the bridge where I live. One of my small goals for SaaSHub is to be as successful as BuiltWith :)
I don't think Linux actually guarantees syscall-level compatibility, so no need to single it out, it's just like everyone else.
The pressure only matters if you feel like you want to "impress the world", whatever that means. The same way that the whole influencer rat race only really matters if you want to be an influencer. And if you do want to do those things, the question is "why?"

People don't write about ordinary lives normally because they don't get clicks and they don't grab attention. But if you're not seeking attention why does it matter?

It's partially why I enjoy the Great British Baking Show; all the bakers are otherwise perfectly ordinary people living ordinary lives, and they just bake as their hobby and the competition is relatively cheerful. Compare that to most American reality shows where all the people do is live and breathe being a master chef literally every second of their lives and everything is extremely stressful.
List plain text (from https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-...)

“The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power,” by Shoshana Zuboff
“The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company,” by William Dalrymple
“Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee,” by Casey Cep
“Girl, Woman, Other,” by Bernardine Evaristo (Booker Prize winner)
“The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 to the Present,” by David Treuer
“How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy,” by Jenny Odell
“Lost Children Archive,” by Valeria Luiselli
“Lot: Stories,” by Bryan Washington
“Normal People,” by Sally Rooney
“The Orphan Master’s Son,” by Adam Johnson
“The Yellow House,” by Sarah M. Broom (National Book Award winner, nonfiction)
“Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland,” by Patrick Radden Keefe
“Solitary,” by Albert Woodfox
“The Topeka School,” by Ben Lerner
“Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion,” by Jia Tolentino
“Trust Exercise,” by Susan Choi (National Book Award winner, fiction)
“We Live in Water: Stories,” by Jess Walter
Skimming the article, and in particular after reading "Oldenburg's characteristics", I feel it misses what I'd guess would be the core characteristic of a third place: choice. Home and work are places where you have to be[0]. The "third place" is somewhere you choose to be.

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[0] - Not technically, but the costs of not being there are generally too high to give one any realistic choice in the matter.
That's fair. I agree. Some of Trumps most powerful political enemies are what some people would consider "right". Ryan, Mitt, (formally) McCain... the list is long. I find the conventional l/r distinction worse than useless; to the point of deliberately obfuscating intent.

Studying YT through the conventional l/r window is not going to yield useful results.
The developer lie most have been hoodwinked to believe: "Given how difficult it is to develop safely in C++..."

No. That is high level language propaganda and simply not true.
Thanks for that. I enjoyed reading that so I rummaged around the net and found that Public Opinion is available from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/publicopinion00lippgoog?ref=ol#pa...
> I generate vast amounts of code, in relatively short time

But is it good code?

And I don't mean your code personally, but more in general. I've known people who are able to focus alright but then what they produce -be it code or anything else- is rather mediocre. I knew this person that would get on his workbench, and spend the whole morning in a flash, not noticing anything around him. He has a fairly large collection of rather unimaginative pieces in wood.

Recently, in a new team of programmers a fair number of them seem to be able to focus quite well. And they do produce "vast amounts of code" and it is some of the worst code I've ever seen. In fact, the fact itself that they are vast amounts seems like a detriment. They are proud that the project is some 5-6MLOCs big, but after some months of going through it about 25% of that, should just be trashed.

So yeah, focus is nice, but... being able to produce a lot doesn't necessarily mean you're producing anything particularly interesting, useful or good.

P.S. And, again, I don't mean you personally.
i think coinmarketcap was solo or one person
I do not see a good reason why one should not be able to sell the game more expensive than the purchase price. Say when the title becomes unavailable from the original source or was obtained as part of a bundle.
Wish there was something similar to Elm, but designed with backend/networking/generality in mind, like Go. Take the Haskell core language without all the lang extensions, and accompany it with a solid stdlib. I want an FP ecosystem that's not rooted in research. Can have a more simplistic type system, etc. Basically a functional Go. Maybe an effect system, idk.
The 'proof' shown that aspera is 200x faster shows an ETA of 2:15 compared to 00:09. First of all, this is 15x faster, not 200.

I tried downloading the file using axel -n 32, and it took 1:28, which is only 9x slower. Curious though, when it started out with all threads running it was transferring data at 29594.2KB/s and hit 50% after only a few seconds, but by the end with only a few threads left running it was only doing 5625.8KB/s.

It looks like the performance varies a lot, possibly due to multiple interfaces or wan links being used.. or issues with their server.

Using axel -n 64 over http I was able to fetch it in 50s, which is only 5x slower, and most of that time was spent from 98 to 100% as the last few connections finally finished.

A smarter client that more aggressively re-fetched chunks being downloaded over slow connections would likely match the same performance.
Says someone who has never actually tried to do that. You can statically link with Musl. But you can't really statically link with Glibc.
Yes, that's what I meant, sorry.
With proper incentives. Every day I'm featuring 4 projects (2 over the weekend) on the SaaS Tribune (homepage). These projects are usually selected 3 weeks in advance. During that period, product owners are reminded that their software will be higher in the list if they have more reviews.
Also that opens a possibility to sell the crap you accidentally bought but refund window closed before you realized that. Many games are promoted as a blockbuster revolution, while being the same old grinders with new textures, or worse. You wait for a plot/ideas that are not there and then oops, you played for three hours, no refund.

In this case, it is a solution stretched to a separate problem, but who cares.
Microsoft did that research. Well, they didn't propose to kill anybody's mother but the test participants used their real bank credentials and Microsoft tested different behaviours in IE to see what would deter users from giving these credentials to a bogus site having accepted a task to log in and perform some basic operation.

Nothing.

Nothing deterred the users. Warning dialogs were clicked past, obvious problems or mismatched information was ignored. The only way to stop users from giving their credentials to bad guys was what I call Brick Wall UX. The browser has to stubbornly refuse to let you do it. Unable to complete their task the user at last gives up.

This is a teachable moment. Your users are probably not going to be smarter, better informed or more cautious at least on average than in this test.
Isn't D dead practically? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21902953
Babies and children might not be able to argument at the moment, but they are capable of argumentation.

This is the "shifting sands" technique that was previously mentioned.

Counterexamples are simple to find: a baby with a terminal disease, a mature person in a vegetative state.

Animals, on the other hand, can't argument at all, therefore are not capable of holding negative property rights.

So you say. And yet animal cruelty rules are a good counterexample.

Bear in mind that positive rights can't be reasoned without failing at Hume's razor, for the simple reason one can't have rights over other people's property.

Of course they can. Building code rights are a good example. Appealing to Hume's razor is another example of the technique on that site - it makes it sound like something is factual whereas actually it is completely non-obvious that it applies at all.
This is great. Anything that may only be "owned" by one person at a time should categorically be able to be resold. Licenses too. If you're a proponent for capitalism (which I guess all publisher decision-makers are), then let the market work. The profit motive will solve all problems.
Hmm. You’re right that does complicate things. In that case I can’t think of any obvious solution. Perhaps in hypothetical situations just a use random pronoun generator.

Though in that case, if it used carelessly in a negative context, it might not have a good outcome and someone might still be offended.
> Even with console cartridges what you buy is not the hardware but a license to use a copyrighted material

And I'm pretty sure that's why copying your own games/movies was decided legal here (as long as you don't share them), because the publisher themselves made it so the physical media is not the product.
> Also hard copies gets destroyed over time while a steam key last forever.

Technically, the steam key evaporates when you die. Accounts aren't supposed to be inheritable.

This will change, but Steam is too new for it to be a live issue now.
> I've never understood why it seems meaningful that an automatic can get a tiny bit better mileage.

It used to be an argument for stick shifts, that they had better mileage. When I got my license 7 years ago, that "fact" was part of the course. Eco-driving is a mandatory part of both the written test and the practical test, so the "correct" answer if you wanted to pass the test was that you should prefer a stick shift over an automatic, because of fuel economy. Also, if you do your practical test with an automatic, you get a mark on your license saying you are not allowed to drive manuals.

These days, it's factually wrong, so driving students get told wrong things, and spend time learning and doing useless bullshit, and get told to buy the wrong type of car. That pissed me off like no other.

> The reason to drive a stick is to drive.

I agree. That's an honest argument for stick shift. The feeling of driving one. Even though a modern automatic will accelerate faster than you can ever do driving a stick shift. Because everything you can do, a machine can do better...
As a Go developer, templates seems like a good idea more and more each day.
What's that, Frank McSherry? For horizontally scaled systems, we should ask what the Configuration that Outperforms a Single Thread is?

https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/06/05/scalability-but-at-what-...
Wow, 62 is young for someone to pass these days. Makes me think hard / start to question how much of my income I'm socking away in index funds / being frugal :/
Please don't use code blocks for quoting text. Due to side-scrolling, it's difficult to read in narrow windows, particularly on mobile devices.
>It would be nice if it had NFC for payments though.

I find this interesting. I mean, sure, when I'm buying online, having a unified wallet is really, really nice and saves me a lot of effort punching in my credit card with each site I buy from, but in person, I don't see how a phone or watch is more convenient than a credit card; I'm carrying backup cash and ID at a minimum already, so adding a credit card to the mix doesn't really lighten my load. (for that matter, the other day I found myself without a wallet but with cash and my cellphone. I ended up in a bar that took credit cards but not mobile payments or cash. It was awkward.)

What use do you find for a nfc payments solution?
I second this, the latest mac minis are little beasts.
Why would I ever go the "legal" route?

Sure. I've had some excellent homegrown weed. Most parts of the US don't have access to this though. Even in the Bay Area there are places where the homegrown stuff is pretty low quality. If I go to a dispensary I can get a much greater selection, is consistent quality, and isn't grown in some destructive "farm" in a state park. The dispensary I go to takes online orders and has them ready in 10 minutes.

I'm mostly into edibles these days. It was a bit disappointing when California capped the max THC per package (100 mg) -- but upside is pretty awesome. I can get a consistent product that's been tested to be a certain potency and free of pesticides and whatnot.
You should download: quasar.dev

or

the ionic.io framework
No, that's not correct. Provincial and federal power are both derived equally and in parallel from the Crown. One is not subordinate to the other.
And the company can simply disavow by saying “no, we actually care SO MUCH about safety!”
It’s quieter, it’s also a high-tech “stone”.
Use upx

https://upx.github.io/
At least in these benchmarks that phoronix run time-to-time,
(so they at least can be compared to their older self) LLVM, in its Clang incarnation, is finally getting some parity in execution times with GCC

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gcc-clan...

Of course, benchmarks, yada yada, but at least is some sort of comparison axis where the improvement over the years is clear.
p.s. another very successful one-person business should be levels.io. The person behind "Remote OK" & "Nomad List".
Your country has a welfare net. For the third world countries usually children are the welfare net. It's not that hard to understand.
driving around in a hotboxed car

Speaking of things that don't raise an eyebrow in San Francisco.
Whenever there's an article here on Hacker News about self-driving cars, do you just... skip over them? Your eyes glaze over, and you're not seeing that part of the technological landscape? What do you think all the computer vision tech is doing in self-driving cars?
I wonder how will aria2 stack up if you use it instead of wget?

https://aria2.github.io/
"the computer industry is more fashionable than the women's fashion industry" - Stallman
Criteria for Ideas Worth Pursuing
Genetic variation in mussels allows them to adapt to climate change
I keep telling myself that this is the year I'm going to really learn F#; it has a lot of the nice parts of Haskell, but is a little more on the pragmatic end, and has access to the whole .NET world.

The problem I run into frequently on my abortive attempts is that when things get harder, it's too easy to just drop back and smash something out in C#.
I have one system I target where, bizarrely, persistent storage is the bottleneck, not volatile memory or startup speed. In this one case, UPX makes a whole lot of sense.
> Police like guards all over, waiting rooms that feel like air locks with doors between the waiting area and the inside. Metal detectors and wands. Cash only with an ATM with yet another line, then a line to the counter

Living in Portland, OR that experience is wild to me. All of the shops I’ve been to don’t have any guards, just an employee during the required ID check.

Wish I didn’t have to use an ATM though.
Yeah, I have been in McDonalds in European countries that would rival US fast casual restaurants. Order at a counter or automated kiosk, have a seat and food is delivered. The stores are also very clean.
What about digital movies? Or eBooks? Can you resell those after you've watched them?

Not arguing for either side here, just saying digital goods can be a bit more complicated than you're making them out to be.

First sale doctrine made sense when part of the cost of an item was the physical product itself, but with digital products, there's a near-zero production/distribution cost, so you're really only paying for the right to consume the media (book, movie, game, music, etc)

So in that case, what exactly are you reselling at that point?
> The canadian constitution lists certain powers the provinces have and certain powers the federal gov has, with basically anything unmentioned being federal.

That's interesting. It's pretty much the opposite according to the US Constitution, which delegates certain specific powers to the feds, anything else is (supposedly) up to the states. In practice, though, that's been ignored quite a bit in the last century.
I've had the Fossil hybrid HR for a few weeks now and you pretty much summarized all my thoughts, so I can't do anything but agree.

Could add that after the last update I was able to finally add a battery indicator to my watchface. So I had only todays date on my current watchface and when I tried adding the battery indicator the app forced me to enable location services to continue.

So I went in, enabled location services, added the battery indicator, went back in and disabled location services. Lo and behold, the battery indicator worked fine.

I don't get this obsession with location services unless they have some ulterior motive. It was equally hard to setup a fixed location in the weather app, easy to miss.

I was so happy with the Pebble Time until about a month ago when the battery quickly started deteriorating. I really miss that smartwatch. To me it's of the utmost importance to not need charging every single day and still be able to read notifications. In regards to the Apple Watch, I don't see any reason to have a high resolution image on my watch. It's a practical device.

It's sad that no one picked up the torch after Pebble.

Largely I'm happy with the Fossil HR because it's so practical. I'm sure a software update will bring me my Signal and Pushover notifications that I'm missing, in time.
Ben Tossell of Makerpad. He made about $200k in the past year from a site that teaches others how to build interactive sites and apps without writing code.

Lynne Tye of Key Values. She made about $400k in 2019 from a site that connects software engineers with companies that that share their intangible values, e.g. diverse team, good for parents, fast or slow-paced, etc.

Robert James Gabriel of Helperbird. He struggled a lot with dyslexia growing up, and even had a teacher tell him he should give up and drop out of school. Luckily another teacher encouraged him to learn to code, and he's been quite prolific since. Helperbird is a browser extension that helps others with learning disabilities browse the web easier. Robert recently brought on a co-founder, but he'd grown the app to a "comfortable five figures a month" in revenue.

Plenty more on https://www.IndieHackers.com sharing their stories via interviews and on the podcast, and also posting about hitting revenue goals and other milestones here: https://www.indiehackers.com/milestones
California is booming, but Californians are unhappy
Head of Growth of Reflectly explains how they’re adding 20-30k new users per day
I wouldn’t call that jank. I call it the text you’re trying to read disappears just as your eyes focus on it. I found it literally unreadable.
At least for me, there are two related issues: spending time in preparation for something I tell myself I should do but actually don't and the stuff I am saving in preparation for things I don't actually do overwhelming the stuff that I would actually use if I could find it easily. You can still bookmark and save emails just do so in a way that takes very little time and doesn't get in the way of what you actually use.

With email is when it gets to be too much I go through and deal with everything I must reply to right now and save all the rest in a new folder that I can refer to if necessary (this occasionally happens). I started doing this by telling myself that I would look through them if I got the chance, but that never happens.

With bookmarking and such the trick is to avoid letting the things you are most likely never actually going to look at get in the way of accessing the things you have read and want to be able to refer to quickly or are likely to be of particular use to refer to in the not too distant future (e.g. something related to a particular project you are working on). If you think organizing in a particular way might be helpful, try it but if you don't actually use it go to the lowest effort option (e.g. add an unsorted bookmark). Sometimes unsorted bookmarks can still be useful to find an article you remember looking at, although I often find it isn't possible in a reasonable amount of time so I've found the trick if I remember seeing an article I now want to read is to try a few quick searches of bookmarks but stop fairly quickly if I don't find it.

I also find it helpful to completely stop reading HN (and other stuff that isn't immediately useful) for a month or two now and then to get a better feel for how much time it takes and what I get out of it.
I'm in a similar boat. I use an e-reader for reading on the train when I have one hand available, but it doesn't at all replace physical books. Physical books are a more delightful product.
I semi-seriously think the entire modern shape of the cloud is a result of Ruby being really slow.

Back when people were writing their backend business apps in C++, COBOL, Java, etc, if there was ever a performance problem, you could usually just get a slightly bigger machine and grow your thread pools a bit. But once the web took off and Ruby exploded onto it, you couldn't do that, because it's an order of magnitude slower, and doesn't really do multithreading. But, as long as you follow twelve-factor discipline, it scales horizontally like a champ. So, we took to horizontal scaling over multiple VMs (and caching things in Redis instead of local memory or Hazelcast or whatever), and that's been the unquestioned way to do scaling ever since.
I run a one-person company [1] whose tech makes reading on screen easier/faster/more accessible. The B2C tools (iOS app and browser plugin) bring in 5 figures, but in 2019 the IP licensing took off.

We have large educational clients that are integrating the tech because of its benefit for students (especially those with ADHD and dyslexia). IP licensing is great because it means I don't need to spend time building the integrations myself, and I don't have any costs attached to the licensing deals, so it's pretty much all profit. In 2020 the IP licensing will greatly exceed the B2C revenue, and we may even make the B2C tools free at that point.

1: www.beelinereader.com
> platforms without a stable syscall ABI and a very strong push for dynamic linking (…so macOS)

That's an even better description of Windows. The macOS system call table isn't officially stable, but it's at least slow to change. The Windows equivalent has been known to change from service pack to service pack.
You're right, that's totally unnecessary. I'm sorry.

Not a great holiday season, solitude and painful realisations for Christmas. Delete or cut into my posts if that makes sense to you, I can't edit them anymore.

I'll go watch the Grinch and be quiet.