skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nix is a package manager, not a build tool. It's never been in-scope for it to figure out how to invoke a particular compiler or linker. All it can do is make it easier for you to invoke another build tool, of which there are quite a few.

I would not recommend the use of autotools in new projects, but in my experience CMake with Ninja is fine for distro maintainers to deal with — All other modern build tools I've seen are roughly the equivalent of it. If you find that it's hard to get over the hump with that, then I hate to say it but I don't think solutions will come easily elsewhere on any OS or platform. The state of things on free software operating systems is constantly improving but for now it's something you have to get used to. There are no silver bullets here.
"How much should we worry about this?"

Risk assessment.

Hands up who anticipated SARS-CoVid-2 -> covid-19? ... OK who mitigated it with a fortuitous insurance policy? ... OK who simply happened to have enough cash in the bank by accident?

Now look at the grid. Any grid.
Great roundup! I'm one of the founders of Causal — https://causal.app (#12 on the list).

We have 2 different SaaS templates built by Taylor Davidson (whose Excel template is #6 on the list):

- Starter version: https://my.causal.app/models/1269

- Advanced version: https://my.causal.app/models/162

They're not good if you need to do a bottom-up forecast based on actual deals (e.g. for high-value enterprise sales), but are hopefully useful for a more marketing-driven biz. The main differentiator vs spreadsheet models is that you can easily bake uncertainty into your assumptions. E.g. churn rate can be "2% to 6%" instead of just "4%".

We've looked at a tonne of spreadsheet models, and Taylor's (#6 on the list) is, imo, a masterclass in spreadsheet design. It's super flexible and modular — you can easily dissect it and add/remove parts without accidentally breaking the whole thing. Even if you don't need a financial model right now, I'd recommend checking it out just to see what a great spreadsheet model looks like: https://foresight.is/standard-financial-model
I feel like I am in a similar situation. One of the most beneficial things you can do before starting a self-learning activity is to develop a plan of strategy that you can follow. Whether it be a Developer Roadmap or reading a book, try to structure a learning approach around these mediums. In regards to learning, consistency and repetition will guide you to a more systematic way of working. Shane Parrish has great articles on learning at his website fs.blog . It can feel overwhelming sometimes, but you have to keep pushing and be consistent with the work you do!
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Ah, but this is the heart and soul of mathematics. Taking a theorem that is known for one setting, and seeing if it works in some other setting as well. Can you prove it, or alternatively find a counterexample?

There is a version of it that always works in "complex numbers" (or more precisely in "integer rings" inside the complex numbers), but unfortunately it requires a long technical digression to state precisely. (And, once you've developed all the language, it's trivial to prove.)

This Wikipedia page discusses it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_number_theory
> These events are likely independent & identically distributed (i.e. hard to predict for any year), and I'd call sub-1% annual chance pretty rare.

Put another way, it seems reasonable to me that "no one alive has experienced it before (and probably not their parents either)" is a decent threshold.
I mean... your example is /true/, but I’m hard pressed to think of a second one. One example isn’t a trend.
Yeah I'm sort of hesitant to enter a new career during this pandemic since a lot of companies are going under. I'd rather wait it out at my current job while I keep working on side coding projects.
Again it depends. Look at Church & Dwight, more known as the Arm & Hammer company. Their strategy of expanding all over the grocery store cleaning isle seems to have worked as they have a whole team of brands and brands at different price premiums. They have bought smaller cpg companies successfully
If I'm understanding you correctly you're referring to the eligibility criteria at the back of an Adjustment of Status petition, form I-485, which is part of the green card process.

I'm pretty sure the prostitution questions apply to men, too. The question is "Have you EVER engaged in prostitution or are you coming to the United States to engage in prostitution?" (Part 8, Question 35). Credit where due, I suppose, an (albeit small) win for gender equality.

As an aside, you should see what else they ask. That's among the least concerning question -- they ask everyone if they've committed war crimes or trafficked humans recently, or been a member of a communist or nazi party. Or committed any political assassinations (Part 8, Question 48.a).

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/i-485
How good is spam catching on those email providers? Because I'm disappointed as heck in my old Hotmail/Outlook account's spam catching, and if MS can't do it right what hope to smaller players have?
on the other hand, if you enjoy goofing off playing video games more than you enjoy doing math courses & you act on that, then reality will find you a job at McDonald's instead of a coding job. So choose what you enjoy wisely.
How can you get a master's in CS before getting a bachelor's in CS? I've got a bachelor's in mechanical but I doubt id be able to get a master's in CS with just that.
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> Saudi has been investing heavily in the US stock market. At somepoint they were holding TSLA as well, despite relying on oil for their living.

Is garden variety hedging and diversification really all that noteworthy?
The presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia was a primary motivation for Bin Laden and 9/11.
This is not accurate. [1]

When compiled on Linux for Linux, Go will use libc and natively call NSS.

When cross-compiling to Linux from another system, Go requires (mostly) CGO to be disabled and a subset of NSS will be implemented in Go. Native NSS modules will not work.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24083
If ideas do matter, saying “ideas don’t matter” is a shitty way to express it.
Most blogging services let you build and host a blog for a monthly fee.

But they don't include the community aspect. I want to preserve the audience that Medium provides writers out of the box, meaning writers on Imprint get both a reliable place to host, but also a good place to find readers.
How is investing in oil majors or low-leveraged midstream a bad idea?

Not only do many of these companies have a good balance sheet, but they're 4-6X undervalued if you're long on the investment.

Furthermore, these companies are at price points where the dividend yield is 30-60%. You could put a percentage of your yearly salary in and retire on passive income when the market returns to normal.

Having a passive income stream is the ultimate way to pursue building a startup.

Oil will come back.
> I'll start by saying that I've worked with many self taught programmers and they were all excellent (perhaps there was a selection bias?). They also always had humorous holes in their knowledge (which they were always quick to rectify).

My guess here is that the selection bias arises because self-taught programmers that get to the point of applying for professional SWE roles have probably put significant amounts of work into learning how to program. I can actually go one better with this though: one of the better junior engineers I've worked with didn't even have a high school diploma.

Full disclosure: I am also a mostly self-taught programmer, so I may be biased here, as well. ;)
(related to the unrelated part) what if the media is corrupt? I mean, independently on current events (I really don't want to enter that here) we do live in a world where very few amoral corporations own most of the media industry.

If we (correctly) rely on the media to bring to public attentions relevant facts (both criminal and non-criminal) and keep a watchful eye on the nation who then keeps a watchful eye on the media?

is the model entirely based on always being there enough good journalist to spot the bad ones? how is this affected by the very precarious economics of current internet ads-based venture-funded media enterprises?

I just blurted too many questions... what I am trying to say is that similarly with the police there is not as easy answer in shoud-trust should-not-trust (in the US a supreme Court judge advised to "not talk to the police").

in that case I guess part of the problem is that the job of the police can be miscontrued as "arresting people". in the same way the job of a journalist can be miscontrued as "getting clicks"

overall I don't think we can pass an a priori moral judgement on that term, as essentially represent a statement that the default safety measures have failed.

(I want to reiterate that here I try not to intermingle my point with whether I believe or not that the current use is warranted, I am just trying to say that as a concept it needs to be part of an healthy democracy, the same as some distrust in electoral promises)
For those wondering, the domain tpc.int was registered before `.int` domain registrations required an established international treaty.

It was grandfathered in when this requirement was added.
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Sounds great! Any recommended book/link ?
It’s hard to believe that every nation with an airforce doesn’t already have some sort of protocol in place about what to do if you see a flying object not flying any known colors that you cannot hail on radio.

Edit: unless they all do dating back to the Cold War, and it’s “shoot first, ask questions later.”
I haven't used any of these before, but this LibrePCB talk explains why they wanted an alternative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu-h5y6tK34

Horizon docs have this explanation: https://horizon-eda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/why-another-eda...
> The collapse in crude prices and the government’s drawdown of foreign reserves is putting more pressure on the Saudi riyal. Still, prices for 12-month dollar-riyal forward contracts are well short of their all-time high reached in 2016.

> A currency devaluation would be too costly for Saudi Arabia and the better option is to adapt to the oil shock through fiscal changes, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Like many countries in the region, the Saudi currency is currently "pegged" to the US dollar. So the devaluation being discussed means abandoning the exchange rate that's been in place since 1986.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_riyal#Fixed_exchange_rat...
I've been using Kicad for the same workloads as you, and Altium + Cadence for heavier ones over the years, and I must say they hit the nail on the head here with their comments about KiCad:
https://horizon-eda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/why-another-eda...

I'll have to find a simple project to test this out on though, because as you say, It needs to be a huge improvement on KiCad to warrant a switch.
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The main issue is that ultra high voltage transformers are large, expensive, have long lead times (12-36 months!), and are built almost entirely in China.

You're correct though, that the entire energy industry skews old and is at risk of losing a lot of knowledge as talent retires.

The real risk is squirrels and trees though. Flora and fauna do not play well with transmission equipment.
It's not only about the US need for Saudi oil.

It's about controlling the access to oil of friends and foes. Can't be the global hegemon without controlling that access.

And it's also about keeping oil being billed in US dollars. That's why the US can print as much money as they want (well, almost).
> refusing to recognize Taiwan

So it wouldn't be political if they did recognise Taiwan? No one on Earth besides a few Caribbean islands recognises the ROC and yet somehow the WHO has no credibility for doing the same.

Very much making the GP's point for them without even realising here.

Mugagbe is a perfect illustration of that. They were trying to tackle non-communicable diseases in Zimbabwe, getting him on board and giving him a meaningless title was their plan. Instead of seeing it as a boon for the poor in the country, people decided to make it political and demanded he not get the worthless honor. Either outcome had absolutely zero effect on the people screaming the loudest about it.

Put the politics aside for a moment and ask yourself the question: Would health outcomes for the poorest Zimbabweans be better or worse if Mugabe had kept the title?
Directly after the line you quote, the author continues:

> Bullshit.

> Ideas matter a lot, and if yours is a shitty one, for you, at that time, with the resources you have, it will almost certainly fail.

I think your interpretation of the author's interpretation is flawed.
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the first two metal gears are available in English in the HD collection version of MGS3 (PS3, XBox360 or PS Vita).

The first metal gear available on the NES has not much to do with the real first metal gear game, Hideo Kojima was not really involved in that adaptation for the NES, so it isn't considered canon or anything.

If I had to pick a platform for the full experience, that'd be the PS3 and the Legacy Collection bundle, which also includes MGS4 (physical BDD) and MGS1 as a digital download, I'm not sure if it's still available, but when it was, it was a great bundle.
What are the distinctions?
Aren’t those social aspects part of their merits? A big part of why systemd won widespread adoption was by stepping up – the number of people working on the others wasn’t enough to be more competitive. I lost track of the number of Upstart bugs we avoided by switching to systemd, and that had the backing of one of the most popular Linux distributions.
I'm one of the founders of Causal (#12 on the list) — this is one of the key things we've tried to address in a couple of ways:

1. Ranges vs point estimates: instead of assumptions being fixed values (e.g. my 'Growth Rate' is 10%), you can define ranges like '5% to 15%', and we run thousands of simulations to figure out the actual range of plausible outcomes. We also make it trivial to set up different discrete scenarios.

2. Interactive dashboards where you can tweak assumptions: if you think an assumption is too ambitious/unrealistic, you can actually just go in and change it yourself to see what happens. These changes don't get saved to the model, and there's no chance of accidentally breaking anything.

Here's an example: https://my.causal.app/models/1269
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It was so long ago. If I were to haphazardly venture to guess, likely something around assuming the network is reliable, scheduling retries, caching or cache invalidation.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-...

"... the federal government is quietly seizing orders, leaving medical providers across the country in the dark about where the material is going and how they can get what they need to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Hospital and clinic officials in seven states described the seizures in interviews over the past week." [Emphasis added]

Is that enough of a trend for you?
Transformers are safe unless they are connected to cross country wires, which act as giant antennas, collecting energy from an EMP or a solar flare.
I would argue that the 10 years after 08' have also lacked responsibility.

I think the secondary effects of the covid shutdown are going to highlight some very poor decisions. Mainly rallying the economy, rather than making it more robust. I'm interested in seeing what happens with housing specifically.
1- Ask your self, what is the most interesting mini-project that you want to start working on.
2- Review/ study the smallest amount of materials that lead you to start working on it.
3- Work on your project if there is something popping out repeat step 2.
Some rough edges? Kicad has a lot of rough edges, and some of the biggest have to do with footprint libraries & sharing, which is the key piece of momentum in this space. Meanwhile, that's something horizon does very, very well. I could see horizon overtaking kicad.
I spent a considerable amount of time in Second Life ... 15 years ago. The place was teeming with users that had left Star Wars Galaxies and were happy with the social interaction in SL.

So maybe the early version of Star Wars had the best balance between social and gaming elements? I ask because I never played it so I cannot judge, but looks like it originally catered for a larger group of differentiser types.

Edit: I forgot that the full name was SW Galaxies...
A bit more self-centered, is there a way to protect consumer devices from something this? I'm primarily thinking external hard drives with pictures/video we wouldn't want to lose. Maybe a faraday-cage-box of some sort we could buy to just store a spare external in?
Maybe at large companies, but startups in SF will hire you as mid-level if you have some good projects and interview well.
Maybe convert it in a a future post.

I don’t think devs realize that a 1099 costs you money.
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The sentence is: "Without execution, an idea worth nothing".
Often said to someone that refuse to unveil his idea.
Being paid more for productivity would imply the opposite about wealthy people, in my mind.
That's one of the reasons why I bring it up. If we don't stand against this dilution of a powerful term, it will be co-opted - which is exactly what people who want to destroy the trust of the press for their own personal and political ends want to do.
Yep, sorry Star War Galaxies ... I mentioned it too.
Wouldn't this only be detectable to a guest that's aware it's being virtualized (that is, a paravirtualized one?)
Not sure if you seek advice on self-development (programming skills) or general college/university studying advice. Very similar set of challenges either way IMO:

Take Dr. Barbara Oakley's (free) learning how to learn course - I graduated 20 years ago (MSc) and found this very refreshing and insightful. Good interviews, too. https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

Cal Newport's book is full of studying/organization advice. Bottom line: Attack the hard stuff early on. Go hard, go deep. If you get organized and build a foundation in each course early on, then you won't have to catch up and cram in all-nighters later.
https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2009/03/09/the-straight-a-me...
But we've also developed distributed abilities with quite boggling amounts of specialization.

If you chucked one random human on a desert island, they'd probably die. Chuck a dozen, they have a better chance of survival. Chuck a thousand, you might have a civilization.

Conversely if you say chucked 2 or 100 rabbits on an island - end result is probably going to be an island full of rabbits.
It is 1999 and Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have started appearing with disturbing regularity in the night skies. Reports of violent human abductions and horrific experimentation struck terror into the hearts of millions. The mass public hysteria has only served to expose Earth's impotence against a vastly superior technology.

Many countries initially attempted to deal independently with the aliens. In August 1998, Japan established an anti-alien combat force; the Kiryu-Kai. Equipped with Japanese-made fighter aircraft, the Kiryu-Kai certainly looked like a powerful force. However, after 5 months of expensive operations they had yet to intercept their first UFO. The lesson was clear: this was a worldwide problem which could not be dealt with by individual countries.

On December 11, 1998, representatives from the worlds most economically powerful countries gathered secretly in Geneva. After much debate, the decision was made to establish a covert independent body to combat, investigate and defeat the alien threat. This organization would be equipped with the world's finest pilots, soldiers, scientists and engineers, working together as one multi-national force. This organization was named the Extraterrestrial Combat Unit."
Different things work for different people, but I'll give you my two cents. I got through college entirely through self study.

What works for me is reading a textbook and re-writing out any concept in the textbook in my own words until I understand it. Afterwards I do practice problems or a project to ensure I'm not lying to myself about my understanding.

If I can, I only do one topic until I'm sure I've solidified my knowledge to a sufficient degree that I won't forget it when I shift my main focus to something else.

Lastly but most importantly is be ok with failure. When you fail to learn something, take a break and then come back approaching it from an entirely different angle.
The "right" attitude? Why is your attitude necessarily the right one?

HN is an anomaly in my experience; people outside the tech world mostly hate their jobs and put in juuuust enough effort to not get fired.

Millennials (and younger) have largely abandoned capitalism. The only way to win a game that's stacked against you is to not play. Shit's gonna get real weird in the next couple decades.
It’s more nuanced than that. As Gov Pritzker made public, states are having to bid against one another for PPE and driving up prices significantly because it’s every man (or woman) for themselves. He publicly castigated the federal government for not centralizing the acquisition of resources (which isn’t the same as footing the bill as they can allocate the materials (acquired at whatever better cost they can negotiate as a single buyer then) to states based off of population or need, ands charge them for them if they like.
sphere is about the worst design - cube, cylinder, cone or pyramid would be far superior
I want to add some clarification for everyone in the "normal" boat, because I think I learn in the same way as parent:

Specifically what "enjoy" is being attributed to... which is _not_ the end result, but the _process_. You can't pick this up front, you have to just play and throw things away like you don't care (and you really don't care), just keep trying things until it feels enjoyable. I suspect people get stuck running uphill because they focus on end results rather than the process. In the most extremely obvious case, if you ask most kids what they want to be when the grow up (the end result) they predictably say astronaut or some lofty, hard to attain but awesome sounding end result, even though they have absolutely no idea if they would enjoy the process of becoming and being an astronaut.

... Focus on the process, i.e play, and care about nothing other than interest and enjoyment, you cannot pick the precise end result, you can only roll the marble along the most effective path to an unspecified "good" result.