skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, I felt this was important and just hand waved away in the article.
No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
His are the only books where I've laughed out aloud when reading! Yes, I've not read many english comedy books.
This is the classic one I think. (And not saying it's better or anything :))
The EU, the US, and the UK are now campaigning against encryption. Have we lost this war?
For what it's worth, my "you" upthread was meant to be rhetorical, to refer to the batshit Twitter thread, but I can see how it would have been taken as personal. I mean, I still think we should all be able to quickly and decisively agree that the thread was, well, batshit. But I wasn't trying to confront anyone commenting on HN.
That's not how git works.
I haven’t tested with another app that might have notifications ( I’m only running AltStore and Unc0ver ).

AltStore does send regular notifications reminding you if the certificate is about to expire, so that shouldn’t be a problem.

I have been using this since it was launched on a free developer account. Prior to this I used the same account with Cydia Impactor too. I personally never got revoked

I don’t understand your last point, the AltStore app can be updated through the app itself. Also, there was a feature preview for Patreon subscribers which allowed the user to add repositories to the AltStore app. I haven’t tested this feature but I believe it would be able to tell when an update has come for the apps.
Don't force motivation on you. It won't work that way. If you reached FIRE, it is best time to enjoy every moment.
Motivation will come eventually.

Mostly because of insecurities we keep telling ourselves to work hard else you will be left behind. Truth is, even you become successful (in traditional sense), you will not take anything with you after death. Once you take away idea of staying motivated, you will start doing whatever you like. You can find happiness in simple things like waking up in morning, driking a glass of water or cup of coffee.

See how Feyman tackeled burn out. (Burn out doesn't mean working hard and not getting results. It is a successive feeling of not adding any value to your life)

https://www.mymoneyblog.com/richard-feynman-fighting-burnout...

This video might help you. Please watch till end.

https://youtu.be/7sH41GWY0CU?t=71
Great story! Really interesting experience!
I spent quite a bit of time with vimwiki Saturday and today. I really like it. I already stored most of my digital notes in plaintext files so this is a really nice migration path for me. Thanks a lot for the advice!
The hovering headphones are amazing. You know the Reverb 2 uses the exact same ones as the Index, right?

You can dislike them, but you are very much in the minority on that.
You meant, there are people who do have whiteboards at home? ;-)

Earlier I used to have a massive one in the bedroom, because my brain starts kicking in its last ounce of ideas and gotchas just as I'm falling asleep. My wife soon got rid of that and now I have it in my study room.

I love pen/paper, whiteboards, and writing.
Of course users can control their device. Control doesn't mean assembly programming, control means to decide how they want to use it. I am not a car mechanic, I won't approach my car with a tool. Still I control my car as I can drive it to any workshop of my choice to have changes done. The car manufacturer has no say in this.
If that does happen: for the record I'm stoked Biden won, and the comment was just a light hearted joke.
Why should you, as a consumer, care about internal legal issues between the manufacturer of your phone and some other company? If the manufacturer decides, for whatever reason, to remove features from the phone after you purchased it, I think it is reasonable for the transaction to be reversed, i.e. refund me the full amount for the phone and I will return the phone.
> Maybe it will be another media figure: Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan, both men with talent and followings.

This is where I had to stop reading. I love the Joe Rogan Experience podcasts, and the guy is obviously not going to be running for office. My take? The old media is afraid of the new media, and it writes hit pieces like this in order to try to cut down the competition.

It also attempts to associate a right-winger like Carlson with a left-winger like Rogan, which amounts to a smear on Rogan. That is utterly distasteful, and it has got to stop. (https://theintercept.com/2020/09/22/as-joe-rogans-platform-g...)
It's faster than a boat and cheaper than a plane, so you use it where you need a very fast boat or a very cheap (per payload) plane.

Unfortunately, it's also more expensive and complex than a boat, and can't fly over rough seas and weather like a plane.
You know, if you had been following 538, none of this was either mysterious or unexpected.

The challenge is that the vote counting got behind. Specifically in most places it got behind in major cities. Which voted more D than R, even among mail-in ballots (which already lean more D than R than in person voting in most states - Arizona being a notable exception).

As soon as you correct for where the ballots are from rather than guessing that it is all rural, the discrepancy disappears. But that's inconvenient for a disinformation campaign so gets lost.
Are the Quests really bricked if the Facebook account is shut down? Can you not do a factory reset and start over with a new account?
I imagine it would suck rather a lot to lose your game library every time Facebook's auto-ban trips on your otherwise unused account.
Facebook is honestly pretty good at detecting second accounts and won't let you make a new one if you already have a banned one

You'll also lose a lot of online progress and any purchases
People also appreciate the steam store.

Honestly the apple app store has been hot garbage since it took off. I remember when it crossed 100,000 apps. And discoverability really didn't happen and really it hasn't improved. It's a shame, really. All the developers just had to put up with what they got - which was mostly luck based.

So what you've gotten is an app store with compliant developers mostly afraid of pissing off apple.

What you don't have is competition and all the benefits it brings both developers and consumers.

Maybe look at it this way - apple makes hardware and apart from the confusion of charging 30% they really want the price of software to be zero so phone sales stay high.

the complement of hardware is software: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
I was thinking the exact same thing. Robert Oberst also claims that no professional sportsman does it because the risk to injury is too high: https://youtu.be/FWizDhYjGsc
Ok, now this is much more convincing, thank you for posting it.

I swear, it's like a significant portion of the media is designed to sow dissent and outrage in society. If the links provided were questionable looking you might think twoice, but Detroit Free Press and CBSLocal at least sound like mainstream publications to me. Although considering the quality of their stories I guess that's not saying much.

I honestly think it's highly questionable whether the unique combination of variables the USA has going on is sustainable much longer in this age, I think something's gotta give.
Reddit (the company) is slowly turning more and more evil. It's a pity because (sections of) the community are still worthwhile.
Having gone from considering weightlifting a simple set of exercises to now understanding the complexity and nuances of it, this is great advice.

I'm not sure how much value there is to just state "Build physical strength" and the main take away is to do deadlifts. I think there isn't any doubt from a health perspective that doing weightlifting has benefits for overall health but the program someone should go on is dependent on so many factors. Also, why can't it just be "Stay physically active". I would say that has further greater benefits than even weightlifting. Doing half an hour to an hour of moderate cardio activity every day or a few times a week is great.

My recommendation for someone wanting to seriously get into weight lifting is to do your research. There is definitely a lot of "bro science" out there but fortunately there is also a great set of resources out there that is firmly in the realm of solid science.

Here is some Youtube channels that are very solid on approaching weightlifting grounded in real practice and science: Jeff Nippard, mountaindog1 (John Meadows), Greg Doucette, VitruvianPhysique and Renaissance Periodization.

A good book is: https://www.amazon.ca/Science-Development-Muscle-Hypertrophy...

What I have personally found is that for me there is two primary focus points: reducing the risk of injury and keeping consistent with the program. Reducing risk of injury comes down to knowing your own limits for what exercises are comfortable and not going hard with attempting to do max reps all the time. Personally, I don't do any traditional squats and for deadlifts I use a trap bar. Being consistent is much harder. Making a schedule to be in the gym three to four times a week is really hard.

So, yeah, if you want to get started with weightlifting, spend a few hours with those Youtube channels. Picking a class of exercises as a one size fits all is definitely not the way to go.
Maybe rust in hindsight was the first language to introduce the borrow checker as an real alternative to either manual memory management or garbage collection. Maybe we will see a kick-off language based on rust that is much simpler, includes the good parts of rust and is very fast to compile.

Another thing I could imagine is an AI based garbage collector, so good that it is on par with manual memory management. In chess we have recently seen AIs (neural networks) taking over the lead and beating the strongest conventional engine (stockfish, written in C++).
HP can be as abusive as they want as long as there's no way to remotely disable your device and you can play Steam games on it.

I don't care if my HP account gets deleted.
So, not much different from people today who donate to universities, hospitals, PBS, etc in return for getting their name displayed prominently.
Scaling live streaming for millions of viewers
Do you mind if I ask who?
The only other explanation would be that NYT dataset is messed up.

Only an audit can prove this for the court.

Let's hope they audit swing states results and do similar analysis/anomaly detection.
Please don't characterise this as "facebook hating". There is that. But this is not that. This is people more than happy to open a Facebook account, getting banned after doing literally nothing with that account, and have no recourse at all.
Sure, I totally agree. But that was not my point. I was trying to convey that it's always easier to rant than to actually contribute to improving things.

Mind you, the post does not just say "dont't roll your own". It essentially says "don't use RSA no matter which implementation". And the argument for that is not very strong. It's an arbitrary selection of what could go wrong. In which libraries does it? Maybe for the major implementations this is all just cold coffee and they don't have those issues. But then I go and use one of them, and since the author just wrote a random rant, they pull the next trick out the sleeve and claim the next thing this implementation got wrong. It's easy to be in that position. It's harder to compile a complete list so that I can go and see that my framework does not violate any of those issues, so it can be trusted just as much as his favorite ECC framework. But yeah that would not just take work but would risk being criticized for being incomplete, so just easier to publish a rant instead.
I do think the iOS app ecosystem is pretty terrible. I buy Apple because the overall security and privacy is better and of course the ecosystem ties. But I have mostly given up on shopping for apps. The app store is flooded with me too games with in-app purchases and knockoffs of legit apps. To make it worse, Apple puts advertisements before actual search results when you search for an app. Innovative new apps are rare or just get drowned in the app store.
> again

What are you referring to?
Jesus Christ. What a nightmare! Glad to see you've done all the work. By the way, why did you choose to have invalid identifiers in the project README example and then say the example will work if you rename them? Surely that's better if you just renamed them.

It is a bit whimsical, though, so I understand marking Tokyo Tower by its Unicode emoji (what a thing to be in Unicode) for amusement.
I read it as f* up.
Shiva’s coding practices are hardcore. Every 36 minutes the git repo is reset.
Having a nice view to look at while working through problems works wonders - couldn't do the "no window" thing
If your interested in this and in the area of Nijmegen (the Netherlands) I can recommend going to muZIEum (https://muzieum.nl/).

They have (among things) an indoor recreation of various day to day scenario's (a home, a supermarket, a street, etc.) in a pitch black environment. You go in there with a group under guidance of someone who is blind (or strongly visually impaired) and try to make sense of these situations. It's a really interesting experience.
Well at least now we know there will be a plan in 2 months, as opposed going into the 'worst of the pandemic' knowing there would continue to be no plan in 2 months.
Essential oils in concentrations that are germicidal are definitely not safe around people for prolonged exposure.
Reminds me of this classic Goodfellas scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGAmPRxV48
DIY Roller Coaster
Thx orta! :)
Debugging incidents in Google's distributed systems
This sounds like the flip side of Postel's law.

"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

And here we have a hero cutting through japanese red tape like Ikiru
> Thus spake the Master. It’s time for you to leave.

Saying this to self often helps when making a career move, or an important decision in life, etc. Or when you are refactoring your code.

The Master is the universe. Life is a trip visiting from Temples to Temples.

We practice Programming because we are Disciples.
>More and more people are moving away from Apple altogether as the ecosystem has become an inescapable walled garden.

No they aren't. Apple's market share for the Mac has been steady for a number of years now.

You shouldn't confuse a few vocal people whinging on HN/Reddit with what's happening in the real world.
It's actually really sad that someone who has easily generated millions of dollars of value with their work gets nothing for it. Yeah yeah, it's open source, but it still sucks. I'm assuming they can't be compensated easily due to legal reasons?
Thank you for informing me about that. Still, the main problem with our elections IMO is the ease with which misinformation spreads online via social media. Dumping the EC does nothing to address that and it feels like a scapegoat. Like how we were diverted from caring about net neutrality and Comcast etc. to caring about FAANG monopolies.
If Windows was open source this could be fixed. This is why I switched to NetBSD. At the office, Windows may be necessary to use, but outside of work, it can be avoided. (Sort of, I recently noticed a Windows BSOD on a kiosk inside a McDonalds.)
The tragic thing is that those Western countries likely used to be on the same or even better level a few decades ago as Scandinavia and Central Europe today, but they are no more.

By the way, I wouldn't necessarily mention South-Eastern Europe in the same sentence as Central Europe; the Balkans have quite a tradition of being a hotbed of conflict.

And let's not just reduce safety to murders. There is the petty crime too, which I hear is becoming widespread in some problematic areas of big cities in Western Europe. There are social tensions, there are protests with occasional deaths and property damage, there is the radicalization of politics which may lead to all sorts of "interesting" things down the line. There is the "reasonable" restrictions on freedom of speech to counter the former, and yeah, it seems we are now talking about restricting privacy in the name of war on terror, which guarantees further increase in tensions and may enable a slide into totalitarianism in the future.

Remember that when Stalin started, he didn't intend to kill millions of people for fun, he just wanted social justice. The terror "happened" along the way.
That would be like telling HN to not post 3 paged hate letters on Google under a bug report that fits the general narrative without even reading it.
The cases where ad hominem is not a red flag are rare.
Juicesync: Parallelized Rsync for Cloud Storage
One one hand I agree. But my experience is that an okay password manager makes the process of logging into things, creating new accounts, updating passwords, etc. so streamlined that it rarely bothers me anymore.
I'm curious what the motivation was for doing this now after supporting faker.js for 8+ years.

Also, isn't faker.js a completed project? What is there to maintain?
Personally I believe it’s about individualism vs the collective.

Here in Sweden we’ve seen a horrible development regarding gun violence - easy to chalk up to “immigration” and “soft laws” but in my mind it’s a lot deeper - interesting enough this is at the same time we have a record amount of dollar millionaires in the country.

We used to work as a collective but our economic policies are turning more and more neoliberal and thus individual. This exacerbates the issue of creating a new “class” of citizens already left partly out of the loop of riches.

If we take care of each other in a better way as a collective there’s a chance to turn things around. It’s all about increasing the chance of a good outcome per individual. This is the secret to a lot of the success in northern Europe - if you’re born here chances are great that you’ll get an education and that you live a long and healthy life.

Regarding crime and violence specifically I’ve read a lot about the “group violence intervention” program and a lot of it is about cooperation and taking care of people in a humane way.

Here’s David Kennedy speaking in Sweden where this has been worked successfully:

https://youtu.be/wu00H7eeWVM

In short - don’t be to afraid of taxes, and vote in a manner where money can be spent more wisely. Funneling tax money to havens by way of “entrepreneurs” seems less well spent... problem is that when such a system is set it will want to be conserved - looking at the US and it’s kinda dark over here as well.

All I can do is try to mold my children into caring human beings hoping to influence culture that way.
We use Teams only for video calls/conferences. Everything else is handled via Slack.
I wouldn't say this is a request. It's a death threat for the app.
Certainly his right; his project (though it has a very permissive license), his time. It sounds like he's tired of working on it, and he requires sponsorship to make it worthwhile. Let's say he doesn't, and the project is forked. This begs an interesting question: does he own the npm name? "faker" has mindshare, not just in JS; if he's unwilling to work on it, would it make sense for the NPM organization to reassign the name to whatever the active fork is?
We do. Even though the world has become safer and more prosperous it is still dangerous to our health and sanity. That doesn't mean we should avoid all risk.

What you are more talking about is the Politicians overstate the chance of dangers and they do it on the most evocative of topics (ex: terrorism, CP, etc).

A high danger we're in is from the potential for our governments to entrench their own powers and encourage potential future totalitarianism for small benefits here and now.
Thx j-pb! I read about the problem with working on folders in a couple of reviews, but never ran into it myself. Could you contact me at support@kaleidoscope.app so we can go into more details? Cheers, Christopher
That's exactly what I do.

And it turns out the standard library has a lot of depth to it, even on not-really-python-friendly platforms like macos.

I have a standard sort of "template" program that uses argparse and just fill it in.

It's nice to be able to iterate over a list of files without worrying about files with spaces in the name. I read and write json and csv files and use curses to colorize output.

You can do all these things in a shell script, but they tend to get messy.
Here's a philosophical question: why are SSH apps okay but a properly sandboxed local shell not?
He got exposure. If he wanted money he should've got a job or started an agency. This is childish and why would anybody give him a 6 figure contract for "maintaining" faker.js?
How do you pay with privacy if you get an Android phone? On an Android phone, you get to choose which SMS app you use, which means neither Apple nor anyone else sees who you are messaging in order to check if you're messaging an iMessage user. You get to install apps on your device without telling anybody. You get to develop apps for your own device without giving your banking details to anybody. You can find your location without sending your location to Apple or anybody else. None of those are possible on iOS. Freedom and privacy go hand in hsnd.
I am guessing it's the usual, either money or time problems.
Could also be burnout I suppose.
He ought to keep the name, however there should be some way to keep track of the public forks via something that is github oriented. Maybe something in DHT like IPFS. It maybe something npm/yarn can work out.
They won't be compensated easily due to cheapness reasons. Anything legal is just an excuse (assuming Marak isn't on some terrorist blacklist or something).
When I have a lot of systems stuff combined with some algorithmic stuff, I'll often write out the latter in a python script and incorporate it into the bash script. Overall seems to work quite well, you can even put it in the same file to assist distribution
Basic patterns in how adaptive systems fail
Wasn't this originally on orf.at? That is the web site of the national Austrian news network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORF_(broadcaster)
It is illegal to record phone calls in California without obtaining consent from all parties. If you ask Apple for consent, they will hang up.

If you record the conversation without consent and shame them on the Internet, you can be sure Apple will sue. It is one the most litigious companies in our industry.
> When a FANG like google hires an H1-B employee, their average salary is $143,373. When Tata or Cognizant hires an H1-B employee, their average salary is $86,453. If we take the number of H-1B visas sponsored per year at Tata and Cognizant and compare their average salaries to their FANG counterparts it suggests a short changing of $2 billion per year.

$2B is nothing to sneeze. But Cognizant made $16.7B last year; TCS made over $22B. My claim is that these companies make their revenues by selling the services of their outsourced teams located at low-cost locations. They hire H-1Bs to serve that business model.

There are H-1B wage abusers, but those are smaller staffing companies who individually have a small number of H-1Bs, but collectively own a big chunk of it.

(For this analysis, I am ignoring the fact that American citizens employed at companies that outsource to Cognizant or TCS pay significantly lower than FANG companies)