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Happy Birthday nnn – a fast and minimal terminal file manager
3 years ago I started looking for an efficient and reasonably featured terminal file manager for a Pi model B. I forked noice and started developing nnn on my desktop. It turned out the tool works well on the desktop too! That's how nnn https://github.com/jarun/nnn became a generic file manager.

Before nnn there were 3 popular and established file managers ranging from 25 to 10 yrs in age. All of them are great but didn't suit my preferences for visual/feature minimalism. While nnn is just 3 years in age, it is widely available and there are at least 4 nice terminal file managers which got influenced by it. And after 2 years of lone development now we have a small and efficient team!

We try to keep the tool bug-free. We have closed 317 issues so far with 0 outstanding!

The best way to celebrate the day was to make a release and we already had several features implemented.

Find v3.1 at https://github.com/jarun/nnn/releases/tag/v3.1
Keep it simple: be intentional, and practice. Get in the habit of reading long-form works on a regular cadence. You don't need to hoist Proust's In Search of Lost Time into your lap, pen in hand, ready to take notes in the margins. Just grab something interesting to you that you can engage with and be stimulated by. Play some classical or other instrumental music in the background if you prefer. If you have thoughts about the work as you're reading, jot them down and follow up with them later. The point is to make a concerted effort to tune everything else out except the work and your thoughts about it--you can stop to look around the scenery but don't ever take your foot off the gas.
I don't know about science, but the history of engineering shows that, so often, Worse is Better.
Is VPN required for home WiFi / internet use?
Are there any compelling reasons to use VPN at home since most of the services in finance/banking are already https ? If so, which are the popular services, both paid and open sources ?
> Why do consumers allow games to install these kind of kernel drivers?

They want to play the game.

> Are they aware they are giving away keys to the kindom wrt the OS/computing environment integrity just so game studios can take part in an unwinnable cat and mouse chase with cheaters?

They are aware that even if cheaters will always exist, they accept that the anti-cheating measures will stop most people from cheating. As for giving away the keys to the kingdom, everyone already accepts that from Microsoft, a company they apparently trust. Why wouldn't they accept that from another company they trust?

> Also why does Microsoft or AV products allow this without giant "you are giving away root on your box" warning signs?

Because people didn't like that, they were mocked for it, and people became numb to the requests. So they still have warning signs, they are just toned down.
Stuck at Fucking Home. I got bored and started compiling lists
Right in the beginning of readme! :) https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook#what-does-it-look-like

There is also a collection of mdbooks by other people https://github.com/softprops/awesome-mdbook

And a shameless plug, I'm using mdbook to publish my org-mode notes https://beepb00p.xyz/exobrain/
Make sure you’re disconnected while trying to read. Either a physical book or Kindle.

It helps to ritualize this disconnection by walking to a park or special reading chair.
That affordable dispatchable source is gas, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. It's never been nuclear.

Propping up intermittent is inevitably propping up gas, that's the danger of it
Appeal to authority is not not deductively valid and thus it's logical fallacy.

On the other hand very little can be learned with deductive reasoning at once. Deductive chains in debate are very short and shortcuts must be used.

Authority can be used to weigh or prioritize evidence. If you are not doing serious research into the subject, authority is one heuristic that works extremely well.

For example, when two relatively ignorant layman debate in the internet and have limited interest or effort invested to get into the truth. Finding out that something is mainstream view among authorities in the field should end the argument for the time being for the lack of more information. Unfortunately the discussion usually ends with questioning that particular field, then the progress of the society as a whole. Scientists have been wrong before so .. they can also be corrupt ...
Yeah, it shouldn't be unsolvable; my key thought is that it's actually the hard part of the story now (encryption client-side is pretty well-understood) and is under-solved. Even still, having more options in the world is better than having fewer, so I'm excited about this demo.
What the author is saying sadly also applies to his own arguments.

And this is even worse:

"Dangling reference out of memory errors are rare (maybe 1 in 10 programs?) whereas regular memory bugs like use-after-free, double free, off by one errors, etc are very common (100-1000 in every program)."

In my opinion, this is a weak statement, it does not match my experience at all, and I've been programming at a professional level for about twenty years.
In what way the "inspired by Smalltalk programming environments" makes it different than other development environments?
Engineering managers as strong peer-team
I thought ventilators were pretty much a given - a 50% or better survival rate when needed. They give treatment the time to work. If used when treatment options are exhausted, then they simply prolong life a few days (and suffering) so there's that I suppose.
Is that insane? It’s not like every stone tablet or parchment or scroll survived, many were lost. Some were lost immediately, some after a few years, some after a few centuries. Not every word on the Internet survives for long but not every word written on stone tablets lasted very long either.
What you've got there is a circular argument. You're defining "the right choice" as "the choice that was made".
Remembering the Unstoppable Freeman Dyson
Should Congress Preempt Coronavirus Liability for Businesses That Reopen?
When I played with him we enjoyed the game, so it's not clear he was playing to win. Actually, it was clear ... he was not playing to win, he was playing to have an interesting game.

I'm sure he could have played seriously and thrashed me, had he chosen.
Presenting Functions as Family-Finding Quests. The Venn-Erdos Diagram
Hi Hm I think you'd find the best commercial opportunities being an expert or trainer or Tableau or Power BI. I think you should talk to a few "Data Journalists" if you want to produce stuff like Nadieh's work - I feel like you will need a portfolio to get that kind of work.
I can second the benefits of Pomodoro for reading. I use it often for work, but I was resistant to structuring reading into chunks. But, after experimentation, I found Pomodoro helped me to maintain focus and get through books without a wandering mind.
It is elsewhere:

https://sourceforge.net/directory/?q=rust 27 programs

https://sourceforge.net/directory/?q=pascal 2268
This is quite exciting! I have started using Inkscape to draw diagrams for use with LaTeX a few years ago and I like it a lot. (There is an option to export PDF+LaTeX with allows you inline code.) For more precise stuff which requires programmatic handling (e.g. algorithm visualisations) I can just write out an initial SVG and edit that by hand afterwards. Maybe now is a good time to look into some customisation options, it seems there are lots of them with the 1.0 update.
There is no compelling reason for most people to use a VPN at home.

If you live in a repressive regime that doesn't allow you access to parts of the internet, perhaps you would want to use one. If you're using hotel / coffeeshop wifi, that would be another good use case.
Entropy increase need not be chaotic. Stars generate entropy at a very reliable rate. We also do not know what a maximum rate, and I didn't state life was anything like a maximum rate, just faster than non-life in some circumstances.
Exactly. Greenpeace even goes as far as plain lies, pretending that nuclear power is a significant source of greenhouse gas. Shame on them.
The problem is some of these debates have consequences that you would be forced to deal with (choice of language, framework, architecture etc.) and needless pedantry can be a huge blocker to adopting a better solution to the requirement at hand. At that point, either you can "exit" the debate and deal with the choices, or you can "exit" the situation in search of better co-workers. Both of them have real costs to you (which are not your doing).

I don't know what kind of life skills would help there. If you have any thoughts, I am all ears.
It is also an interesting way to represent Canonical Signed Digits (where each digit can be 0, 1 or -1).
> out of sight and mind of the user

Which can be sometimes dangerous as more and more crypto is designed to be set-and-forget. It leaves the windows open for bad actors to exploit such simplicity and introduce backdoors when no-one was looking. Vigilance in managing keys (and integrity of the cryptosystem) is still required.
I know what you're talking about and consciously trying to read books again basically repaired my severely atrophied attention span.

There was a period where I sheepishly don't even think I read a single article on HN. Just the title and then straight to the comments.

Retraining myself to be able to sit down and read a book apparently exercised the same muscle that lets me click into internet articles and read the whole thing. I just noticed that after I had a daily book habit for a couple months, I magically was reading articles again at some point.

Of course, sitting down with a book is the whole challenge in the first place. But at least you're away from the laptop and you have a fighting chance.
This reminds me of times I've left thorough comments on HN, only to have a single point of it debated. As if picking at that single point defeats all others. Seems to happen a lot to others I've noticed. I wonder if this has a name...
I have this dream where Linus Torvalds would just release his work under MIT/BSD/ISC/public domain...
I was President of the Liverpool Mathematical Society for a year, and maintain a connection. I only knew Conway when I was at Cambridge, 1983 to 1987, and at the time didn't know of his connection with Liverpool.
For anything beyond the most basic document, use Acsiidoc rather than Markdown.

I prefer to use the Asciidoctor toolchain, but it's compatible with Acsiidoc.
FAQ Off: An Open Source Project to Defeat Harassment Mobs
Love it. I'm going to share this with my coworkers.
I really hate this statement. You're asserting that because the project doesn't have somebody in a dedicated role they have bugs, unspecified issues, and subjective "problems". Not only is it a logical fallacy, it asserts nebulous "faults" that can't be addressed because they're so ill defined.

None of what you're asserting is true of Inkscape. I've been using it for 10 years and while the UI/UX isn't familiar, there's nothing wrong with it. It isn't chock full of bugs or "edge case" (whatever the hell that means) and like all UI/UX it has rough edges AND that's no different from any other sufficiently complex Application.

Does it follow Adobe's UI/UX paradigm? No. Is that bad? No. If you started out using an Adobe competitor in the 90s then you might be familiar with alternatives, that's where I started and I can't stand the UI/UX in Adobe products to this day.
+1! Thank you!

Been using FreeBSD for 20 years. If one's reason for using FreeBSD is that they dislike GNU/Linux, then something's very wrong from the start.
Sounds interesting. They appear to link to NYT, WSJ, The New Yorker. However, the interface is in Dutch, no English option. Are they offering full access, or just insipid subset?

I tried to create account, but the prompts soon became incomprehensible.
America almost had a Constitutional crisis over whether making people who don't have health insurance pay more taxes is allowed. I don't think the Fed will have the authority to mandate purchase of a particular class of phone when another class does the job just as well.
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A quick fix I found for this is to use a text-to-speech plugin for chrome (any text to speech service is fine).

I'm a huge podcast and audiobook fan and found that I couldn't stop skimming when trying to read online. This approach helps me to actually stick to reading the words on the screen without distraction.

By hearing AND reading, I find I'm able to retain the information better and I break the cycle of constantly rereading the first sentence of a large paragraph.
Unless you disabled Windows Updates, your systems are probably broken if you haven't had to reboot the laptops.
I don't think this is a "fear" or a "feeling" thing. Accidents do have a non-negligible probability. Then it can kill people, can make land completely unhabitable. I don't have an _unsubstantiated_ "bad feeling", "fear" or "panic" about it, because accidents pose a real, even proven problem.

Furthermore, there might come a time when the knowledge about radioactivity is diminished so far that people call it a "believe" thing. And then it will cause even further problems.
Congrats!

Can anyone explain what led them to choose this release as 1.0, as opposed to any of the others from the past decade and a half?

Just curious if they always had a goal of meeting a certain featureset, level of reliability, cross-platform quality, etc., and now they did.

Or if it's pretty arbitrary, or something else.

Since there's no explanation on the page, and I can't find anything recent in their News section.
whether its $100 or $100m - why do you get to decide what's right for someone else to have sitting in a bank account?

Why is your decision that "$1m is enough for anyone" (or whatever your arbitrary amount is) the correct one? Why not 100k? or 10m? (arbitrary numbers I know you haven't stated as such)

"You're a public servant" What does his personal finances have to do with his public service?

as long as he's not making his money from his service (IE: Kick backs, sweet deals for family, etc)?

Nothing.

"The US has huge problems" everyone/every country has huge problems in all these areas - each in different flavors. You could take 100% of money (or value, since a lot of "value" is in intangible stuff like property or stock that isn't "money") from everyone above $1m (or your arbitrary cutt-off) and guess what? We still couldn't afford "heatlhcare for all" and people will still be homeless. Money isn't the problem and it doesn't solve all problems. Just look at places like CA that are spending more and more and having worse and worst problems - the issue isn't money.

At the end of the day... his having 15k, 15m, 15b or 15t means nothing about his attitude, ego or ability to care.
> You need to write it with what python provides to stay unified.

Like TkInter, which uses tcl/tk?
I like Inkscape too. A user since many years ago. Inkscape is one of few drawing apps that tends to work like I want and expect.
> This is a month old, with a lot of finger pointing and grumbling.

And well there should be. First there was "ventilator gap" and now there's "testing gap" and "tracing gap." What do we do about these?

> What does the data say so far as of today?

That graph is not helpful. See my detailed graph comment below.

> There will be a lot of lessons learned in the months

We need answers and a plan today, not months from now.

> Political mudslinging is unlikely to help this process.

The article doesn't engage in politics or mudslinging. It does discuss early mistakes, and failure of leadership and policy.

tomohawk: Your comments are simply unhelpful rhetoric, without any logic behind your arguments.

Saying "the US is also doing pretty well" is absurd while our economy crumbles. 2% of people who get corona may die, but almost 100% of small business owners face financial ruin as the lockdown continues, and they deserve better than rhetoric.
But we can agree there's a world of difference. There isn't a massive international storage and handling agreement for coal and its waste products, and no country has ever been preemptively bombed over mining too much coal.
Not sure what's Ulysses, but you could probably set a Github action for it? This way it would be rebuilt and deployed on pushing into your git repository (hopefully it's possible to work with git from an ipad?)

https://github.com/peaceiris/actions-mdbook
Do you know which are known VPN services available for personal use ?
Realistically it depends on how invested I am in the system. If it's something that I'm using all-the-time, it absolutely makes sense for me to have a deeper understanding because that understanding could save me time and give me a better perspective on why certain aspects of the system are the way they are. If it's something I use only as an auxiliary system, I don't invest as much time in understanding the system, only what the system can do for me.

A prime example of understanding how to use the system, but not the system itself is e-commerce. There are 17+ year old kids making 100K+ a month with e-commerce, having no programming skills or a deep understanding of the web or computers. They are experts at the tools they use, but honestly are not "computer" people. We've abstracted e-commerce to the point that it's not even necessary to deeply understand the web, with tools that exist now (Shopify etc.)
Things that help me include:

- Listening to white noise such as rain sounds (e.g. rainymood.com), which seems to take up some of my brain's attention so that I can focus. It also helps with my tinnitus.

- Using a dedicated reading device with no or few other apps, such as an e-reader or very basic tablet. I use Instapaper to save articles for later reading, which brings me on to...

- Only reading when you have the time to focus, without interruptions or task switching. So no quick article reading during a restroom visit.

- Getting enough sleep, which tends to help with everything except having enough time in the day to do everything.
I love that chrome offers to translate this page from Welsh.
Avoid z-indexes whenever possible
Awesome, I hope it works.

How do you make ternary gates out of a DG403? (It’s an analog switch that would pass ternary, but the switch control inputs are binary.)

https://www.vishay.com/docs/70049/dg401.pdf
I have a naive question as I'm toying w/ a similar WebRTC project myself. Since all browsers support h264/opus, can I just reasonably ask each client to send 720p to my WebRTC peer which is really a server before I relay it? Then, can't we just use naive e2e encryption with any extra encoding/decoding? Meaning, in my TransformStream, can I just window.subtle.encrypt on the way out and window.subtle.decrypt on the way in? Is it due to the fact that the insertable streams have to remain in their video format? Pardon my ignorance. This naive approach does assume everyone can at least handle the download speeds of the group's video and the upload speed of their own.
But sometimes trying to understand something just isn't worth it.
You can require something people won't do all you want, and it doesn't get done.

Cryptographic theory breaks down at the UX layer. If you try to improve security by cycling passwords too frequently, users start writing them on sticky notes tacked to their monitors. If you require users to keep their private keys in their own possession, users lose their private keys, get angry when you can't reconstitute those keys for them, and go use a service that can offer that feature.

I think there's a reason the entire ecosystem has moved in the direction of trusted actors who could, in theory, exploit that trust to know everything they can about the signal passing through their trusted zone (with those who trust nobody still operating independently as a fringe minority).
So I could point out that you started your comment with “You’re”. This statement is 100% correct and it’s pedantic. I bet you can’t argue that(but it’s moot! what has it to do!? Whatever the context!)

I agree with you, the problem is not being able to synchronize with the goal or hierarchical chain of logic behind original statements, leading to remarks that are irrelevant, and I think it’s merely considered “pedantry” here by the looks of it.
I've toyed with scripts from my NLP research, but nothing to this extent. Kudos.

The webpage looks clean. The ratios of graphic elements to their scale is pleasant. The two-tone color palette is pleasant. The line length in the main screen (~140 c/l) is a bit much for my taste.

As far as the Try now, I'm not sure how these relate to each other. Maybe a video demo walk-through taking one technology, such as the digital watch (which we are all familiar) and walking it through the site?

As a "Try now" user, until I can throw in any random data and see it propagate through your product, I won't realize what you've accomplished.
"Storage" is a big word. Methods of storage are not interchangeable with one another.

Think about food storage: your shelf doesn't have the same properties as your fridge, which is not the same as your freezer, which is not the same as jars in your basement. It's the same for batteries: they're good for very short periodicity, but fail at anything beyond the week. So you can't store your energy from the summer to use it during the winter, for instance.

Your point of view is one of a cornucopian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopian), hoping that it is fine to wait for better days because "surely" progress will arrive. The situation is that we don't have some time to think and wait for innovation, we're already a number of decades late. Why wait for something that might or might not happen, in 5, 10, or 50 years, instead of doing what already works today ?
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When I started freelancing, I did extremely cheap jobs because I didn't have experience and didn't know better. I did what you are currently doing, I went online to find answers. And the answer is, there are no fixed rate. The rate you are seeing, is perfectly reasonable for someone who charges this rate.

At some point, my fee was $40 an hour. I freelanced through a 3rd party who found gigs for me, and took their cuts. One day, I found out that they charged these companies $100 in some cases, while I was still only getting $40.

If that's how much I was worth, then it would be perfectly reasonable for me to charge just as much.

If you want more details, here is the full story: https://idiallo.com/blog/how-much-do-you-charge-for-your-wor...
If they hook into Matrix's E2EE key management stuff, then they'll benefit from the huge amount of work we've put into letting individual users transparently self-manage their keys - c.f. https://youtu.be/APVp-20ATLk?t=6355 for a demo from last Wednesday. This stuff is due to ship in Matrix/Riot in the coming week.

That said, agreed that it's a massive and (up to now?) unsolved problem for how to get mainstream users to manage their keys sensibly. Keybase could have gone there, but ended up being poweruser-only. It'll be interesting to see if we've solved it in Riot.
I wanted to provide you feedback as well as alert others reading these comments. Your site doesn’t list anything other than Transferwise for transfers from India to USA, even though options like InstaRem and others exist. Based on this, I’m not sure how comprehensive your service is to compare providers for cross border transfers. I see you have InstaRem and others for some other currency combinations (including the inverse, sending money from USA to India).
Please correct me if I am wrong: you can simulate a function built out of binary gates with encrypted data, but you cannot simulate a state machine over encrypted inputs? Since the webpage says "arbitrary circuit", so it can have loops, so it can be stateful, right? Is this somehow fundamental restriction or just not solved yet?