skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi HN,

A few years ago, I was watching a video on David Goggins and got an idea: what if I paid someone to follow me around and make sure I followed my Schedule and To-Do list, to the letter? If I said I would run every morning, this person would make sure I did it. And so on. After looking into the research behind accountability, I became convinced that this was something I wanted to do.

Of course, hiring an actual human being, even a non-Navy SEAL, to physically follow me around is prohibitively expensive. Software apps and to-dos lists also never quite worked for me, as there is no "human element" and my MacBook doesn't care if I fail. So, I tried to make it work online (via Slack) with a friend. We were each other's accountability partners and promised to post daily updates on our progress.

Needless to say, that didn't work either. It's hard to enforce commitments with a friend, especially a close one. And relying on a single point of failure is also not ideal; when my friend stopped posting daily updates, so did I. The whole thing collapsed in less than a month.

And so, I came up with Exemplar. The idea is simple: it's a community of people that help each other accomplish their goals, all kept in line and on track by the Exemplar team (me, for now.)

I function as a guide: everyone has to do accomplish their own goals AND motivate other team members to accomplish theirs, but I hold it all together and make sure nobody has fallen behind.

HOW IT WORKS

You can read the full explanation on the site, but in short:

Each goal is on a separate channel on the Slack Workspace. For example, the #lose-weight channel is all about losing weight, the #side-projects channel is for people building side projects, the #writing channel is for writers, and so on. Right now, there are over a dozen channels, but users can suggest new ones.

When you join a channel, you must share your Goals, Deadlines, and Methods:

- Goals - What you want to accomplish

- Deadlines - When you want to accomplish it by

- Methods - What you'll do to accomplish it

Then, it's up to you. On Slack, we'll have frequent check-ins, where you're encouraged to share your progress. If you don't check-in for awhile, I'll ask you publicly in the channel - social pressure is powerful stuff.

In addition, there is an Elite plan, which is a one-on-one accountability service from the Exemplar team. I'll message you directly via Slack, WhatsApp, or email and make sure you are following your plan. You also get access to the community channels too, of course.

I've also written a FAQ:

https://exemplarhq.com/faq/

It answers questions like:

- Why is their a monthly fee?

- Why does accountability work?

- Can't I just use a friend as an accountability partner?

In the future, I hope to continue adding new features, have meet-ups, and so on. The big, long-term goal is to build a global, ambitious community of awesome people.

There is a one month free trial for the Basic plan. You can get $25 off the Elite plan with the code LAUNCH.

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Any suggestions or feedback would really be appreciated. Thanks!
I don't know a way to enforce this, but what may help is knowing that by default, you can push into the PR branch even if it is from someone else's fork: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/colla...
I do remember the flight app I used to use show me the aircraft make and model and even serial number. Hopefully they keep doing that.
Actually there are regulations about reliability, etc. You can't make grossly misleading claims, Magnuson-Moss, lemon laws, companies are routinely punished via class action suits for poor products, and can even be charged criminally for bad products. It's not all just about safety.
When "not dying" is a super low bar.

I look forward to seeing more about what is happening to the recovered people.

The other 98%
If the store was a dominant market player like Walmart, then yes, there would be antitrust concerns there too, and it would be appropriate to investigate if they were abusing their market power.

Remember, this is all about antitrust (not strictly monopoly), which is abuse of a dominant market position to stifle competition. It’s possible to have a dominant position and not abuse it, and it’s possible to not have a dominant market position and be cutthroat; antitrust is concerned with neither of those cases.

And yes, it’s good for consumers right now to get cheaper stuff; the concern is that stuff might not be so cheap in the future if Amazon is allowed to gain a 99% market share in the segments which it enters.
No one has produced any evidence. Allegations aren't evidence.
Doom 2016 and eternal have really significant mouse lag on windows. It’s really hard to get used to. It’s most noticeable if you have recently played an actually responsive FPS recently
I mean, if your argument is that we have uninformed people in America, I certainly won't disagree.

That's different from the argument that "Americans don't understand civics because they watch movies instead of reading history books" which is frankly absurd and offensive.

I'm not convinced that the number of civically-uninformed people is particularly higher in America when compared to elsewhere in the world. If you have data to that effect, please share it.

For all intents and purposes the election is done. The votes have been cast and with most of them counted, Biden has won by a wide enough margin that sporadic concerns about voter fraud is not going to change it.

Americans who are pushing back against Trump's reticence to concede are not doing so not because they believe that TV decides who is elected, but because it's a bald-faced attempt at a coup. Trump has every right to challenge the results in court, but if there was actual evidence of widespread election irregularities, it would have been presented by now.
I don't think they are shill accounts. I have a brother thermal printer that I have been using for years. Never needs ink, just special paper. I love the integrations it has like AirPrint and the lack of need for special drivers. After dealing with HP printers back in the day, its a breath of fresh air.
It's not that they weren't able to. It's that the 800k isn't worth the legal fees and the possible PR damage (Bessemer doesn't want to be known as non-founder friendly because they made a fuss over 800k).

It's been repeated a couple times in this thread, but VC make money by 10x-100x their original investment. They invested 800k expecting to make back 8M-80M. Anything less than that isn't worth the additional time, especially for a seed stage investment where they might have 50-60 of these per year.

I think, for anyone trying to start a company and take VC funding to understand how the VC business model works. A VC incentives are much different than a founder's much of the time. In this case, the best case for the VC is for the founder to continue working on the company.
I'm not sure it's that these people are "gods" living with unimaginable amounts of money but it might just be an exaggerated form of flexing.

That could explain why the comments are often out of touch with the post at hand - their goal isn't to provide insight with that comment, but more to show off.
Both JetBrains and the Scala center have invested in the tooling experience in the past 2-3 years, you should give it a try again!

And I don't think I've encountered implicit conversions that often in the ecosystem.
I'm referring to the trite overused cliches that often fill these sorts of blog posts.

https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2013/02/27/our-incredibl...

See also the recent example of https://www.slingbox.com/discontinued, which makes this funny pair of claims:

Q: Why is Slingbox being discontinued?

A: We’ve had to make room for new innovative products so that we can continue to serve our customers in the best way possible.

Q: Will Slingbox be releasing any new products?

A: No.
There are good reasons to hide the implementation details in documentation. The primary being it’s easier to keep the documentation up to date, our primary topic here. Many languages even publish class interfaces but not necessarily implementation details.

That said, a couple of example code snippets on using the interface wouldn’t hurt.
Python's getting there! I recently went on a tear of going through "elpa-*" packages in Debian and setting them up, and one was elpy, which now gets closer to SLIME's C-x C-e.
Looks like with Visual Studio installation this should work? - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/offline-book-refre...
Teams does not allow users to place themselves in breakout rooms. Webex does not allow Linux users to grant control of their screens.

When you use these platforms all the time, you find these little issues. Generally speaking, Zoom does it best, despite their problems.
Insightful comparison of the real-word workload performance of two top streaming platforms #apachepulsar #apachekafka
... the presenter mentioned that more than six months of downtime would have a significant impact on the quality of their their overall data

Worse than that, the article mentions this telescope is one of the few that can emit radar and is used to track nearby asteroids.

That function will need replacing too.
Where I shop we have self-checkout. I haven't had a face to face conversation since the first London lockdown started, mid-March. I remain unconvinced that covid warrants such a gargantuan response, based on countless factors eg Sweden, Sage/Fergusson modelling blunders, UK stats authority highlighting governments incorrect data on eve of lockdown, etc, etc, it just goes on, but have very much enjoyed not having to commute to the office. Social life however couldn't be more dead.
The other day someone referenced this post by an Apple engineer:

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/663858

Why in the world is this a random undiscoverable post in the (terribly designed) developer discussion forums rather than a Technical Note in the documentation? It would have been a TN in the past. In fact that same engineer wrote a number of old Apple TNs.

It's clear even to some within Apple that there's a need for more and better documentation, but some pointy haired boss in upper management seems to think the current situation is fine.
Yep, and you’ll find that kind of posturing everywhere, just like the personality that tends to do it.

The scale of it carries some pretty great comedy, though.
Rick and Morty style Interdimensional Cable with real videos from YouTube
In short: Math.

To elaborate:

Sure, your computer has to know all the numbers and instructions it executes. But that doesn't require your computer or you to understand what those numbers or instructions mean.

The meaning can be guarded by encryption. For example, if you are given a ROT13 encrypted text, you could uppercase all the letters without understanding the message. You perform an operation on the ciphertext without being able to decipher it, and the result (once decrypted) is exactly the same as if the operation had been applied to the plaintext. This is what fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is about.

Going further, you can also have the effect of the instructions themselves be "hidden" by encryption. As a very simple example, imagine a programming language where all you can do is multiply numbers with constants (and there are different "instructions" for multiplying with different numbers). Your unencrypted program might be "multiply by 3, then multiply by 5, then multiply by 2". In encrypted form, this might become "multiply by 21, then multiply by 35, then multiply by 14" - that is, every factor is itself multiplied by seven, leading to different instructions. Someone running this encrypted program on (possibly homomorphically encrypted) data will not be able to figure out your original program (unless they know the "key" - that every factor was multiplied by seven). But when you get back the result, all you need to do is divide it by 7x7x7 to get back the output of the original program. And all the "difficult" computations (the actual instructions) have been performed on somebody else's machine without them knowing your original program (or your plaintext data, if the entire thing is also fully homomorphic).

I hope this example somewhat illustrates the concept (even though it is of course flawed and entirely trivial). Just imagine significantly more and better math instead of the simple operations (e.g. multiplication as only instruction, "decryption" by division etc.) used above. And of course, you can't just slap FHE on top independently, it needs to be built into the system. But the idea is the same.
Detecting click outside a component using React hooks
> Or another, I found that syntax highlighting is neat but what is really helpful instead is to give any identifiers in functions different colors, which makes the data flow in the function much more salient and quicker to understand - including spelling mistakes. And that works in many languages.

Oh yeah, I just discovered rainbow-identifiers-mode. Pretty sweet!
well they are working with something called ".net maui" that should be released with 6
https://github.com/dotnet/maui
I am involved in developer hiring process and I see soooo many resumes with failed startups and failed side projects. Achieving any level of decent, persistent MRR and the ability to actually cash out is impressive and a major accomplishment. Nobody talks about the thousands and thousands of failures. So yes you should be very happy with $1000 MRR.
> thankfully Europe is more humane than China in dealing with riots

Watching police brutality in countries like France does not give me that impression in the slightest.
Recent printers feature 'IPP Everywhere' which are 'driverless'.

Brother's proprietary garbage driver is not needed for their older printers; there's a reverse-engineered 'brlaser' driver that you can use instead.
>hopefully IMO not sound business advice

What are your credentials? specifically related to the fact that github is moving away from master/slave terminology. Do you feel like their executive team is acting on unsound business ideology?
I don't personally believe anyone needs to actually implement GDPR unless they have a company registered in the EU.

I do believe in privacy and the general intent of GDPR, but EU laws shouldn't take effect outside their jurisdiction any more than Iranian laws or Chinese laws.
What sort of particle accelerator are you talking about? Which particle, what energy?
I've played 4v4 ranked on DE with friends without any (WINE-specific) crashes. This was about 6 months ago, so it's likely things are even more stable now.
At least Combine is fairly easy to work with since its ideas are already familiar and Rx was so well documented.
They have such a strong market presence and so much power, they don't have to care for the moment because developers will come to the platform anyway.
I was going to say the same, but you said it much nicer than I would have done.
I found Go to be a really nice replacement for C#. It has the static typing and garbage collection, but you also get a self-contained binary executing without the requirement of an external runtime environment. I also discovered that I don't miss classes at all.
Did you ever look at the Windows API documentation?
Yup I know it's a tall order / unrealistic but I'm just trying to provide context as to why documentation might be systematically underfunded (lack of causal chain proving its value). Your response is totally understandable but it also demonstrates why the situation probably won't change any time soon.
Ah - I didn't say Boeing's ability to write and test that control software was particularly good (in fact, I think their current track record says exactly the opposite.) I just hate when non-domain experts make judgements about things being 'fundamentally flawed.'

Insufficiently tested and documented? Sure. Bad UI/UX? Most definitely. Irredeemable 'because of aerodynamics' according to some private pilot that flew a 737 once in sim? Absolutely not.
Farmers are depleting the Ogallala Aquifer because the government pays them to
Good reasons why you should learn Python before 2021 – are there more?
7 good reasons why you should learn Python before 2021 – are there more?
They're great little machines. Used a few for VPN endpoints and have never had any issues. The red case is pretty funky too.
I agree with the DI for config and async push. Too much ceremony for a very simple task. Async being used by auth can certainly be frustrating if you have sync code that needs to use it at some point. Then suddenly you have to redo all sync code that calls the async method.

I’ve been experiencing the same issue with some Azure SDKs that only expose async methods rather than both async and sync. Frustrating to have to redo 8 caller functions to make a single sdk call.
I wholeheartedly agree. The documentation is sparse and 3rd party tutorials have to be recent. That's why I still hold back for adoption.

Paul Hudson has really good material but I wish I could just leave a tab open with the official documentation and be prepared for most challenges. OTOH, things like Core Audio where never really well documented.

For learning Swift I recommend https://www.swiftforgood.com, no affiliation (also there Paul Hudson wrote the chapter about SwiftUI).
Is it accurate to say that eBPF can observe data at kernel level as what wireshark does for networking?
Totally understand but really appreciate the idea!
I also have a Brother All-in-one laser printer/scanner/document feeder/duplex printer.

Everything works out of the box. Even wireless scanning, which I did not know was a thing until I got this device.

My favorite thing about Brother is they sell the same models for a few years, and then iterate on that model. It massively cuts down on manufacturing issues, number of spare parts, and being unable to web search for a problem.

Brother are the Toyota of printers. The MFC-27XX series are the Camrys.

I hope to never buy another printer brand again.
> And if they want to get really aggressive, feds could revise the $7,500 electric car tax credit to extend subsidies to bike and e-bike purchases

That would be huge.

E-Bikes are great for urban environments where you brake, stop and restart frequently. They also lower the fitness threshold for folks who want to start biking to work.
> and always looking at dates on Medium posts

While I'm not an iOS dev I have seen a trend where people have stopped putting in dates of their coding tutorials.
The founder walked away with the ability to buy one nice house or two crummy ones in Silicon Valley outright. The outrage!
The gpl doesnt protect ideas, it only protects code. I agree that there is rampant theft going on in open source. You should keep your work closed source and figure out a way to prevent others from stealing your work from you before making it open source
When I worked at Apple in the mid 90's, DTS had to hire someone to go around to every engineering team to collect what they had change so we could write a tech overview of an OS release, otherwise no one would have known what changed. But then was when Apple was going out of business.
I had different opinion than guy who joined the Go team in 2019 (Ian Lance Taylor). I was banned from their github repo, my AdSense sites were removed from Google's index, my AdSense CPC dropped by 2/3. My github account was "flagged" aka disabled from being seen in public. I was on github for 7 years. I received nonsensical "not in accordance to policies" messages from AdSense all of a sudden when that happened aka the whole sites were being flagged as not following policies.

And all that because I wanted a font that you can easier read than the stupid roboto font.

Go may be open source, but you're not part of it.
It belongs to Google and anyone disagreeing with them they will actively attack you.

I still use Go and every time I use it I'm reminded of their bullying and power tripping.

My sites are still off Google's index btw and any new sites receive the "no content" response and are rejected, despite there being content.

You made an enemy that day. You always meet twice in life. I'll pay that back to you.
So buy the deluxe edition of IntelliJ and you will get the same workflow for most modern programming languages.
> I don't get this. That is normal in any modern editor. What is so special about this?

So other editors have finally caught up with emacs? Nice to know. Last time I tried opening different languages in "advanced" IDEs, it was plain black lettering on white background.
This article simply does not pass the sniff test.
I've had a similar experience with Jonathan. He's one of the most founder-friendly people in the VC industry.
You can't. Don't trust, but verify. If a company or individual needs strong privacy, they should verify any encryption claims.

This would mean using only libre/open source software like Jitsu or Linphone, as one could verify the code or higher experts to verify the code.
Yeah, with kprobes.
Authentication is in the request pipeline, so it makes sense that it's async if you're talking to some sort of storage engine. We're using the async APIs to pull user/client app information from our database. Why would we want that to be synchronous?
SEAD is nothing new. Doesnt mean it is always effective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppression_of_Enemy_Air_Defen...
Maybe, since you admit your English language skills could use some work, you should give up on linguistic pedantry and find a new hobby.
By the end of the year 2021!
I have built more than one consultancy successfully and the core sales/marketing methods were networking, referrals and brand exposure. Cold calling can work, but the numbers are just 99.99% against you. Direct marketing and ads is a way we experimented but found that they were more a way to promote things we did to gain exposure then to get new work. Consultancy can be a weird/hard thing to start. When you start you have no clients so nothing to point to and the thing you need to get new clients is a success to point to generally. Chicken/egg. Hence this is where the networking comes into play, or past employers etc. Get out, meet people (digitally is fine) and use existing clients as springboards.

My general rule was when you close a deal, setup a quick schedule to deliver 3-4 things as fast as possible but with as much quality as possible, then immediately ask for recommendations/referrals to other clients. Push this until you get a few referrals/names etc but don't be a pain point -- even if they just say well Jim over at Widget corp is starting a new project, that's good enough. The key is if you wait till a project is done (or accept that excuse from a client) the chances drastically go down that you'll get a referral for a variety of reasons. You can nail a project and get new work from the client and then they don't want to refer you because they are trying to lock you up for themselves, or they worry if you expand their project will suffer etc. It can be a success paradox when you are small and starting. Of course, small clients aren't as likely to do that so those you can sometimes wait till near the end and get some referrals. But either way, it is so important to get public statements (things you can advertise) and referrals during the contract and as early as possible.

Social media is good for running ads for exposure, but it won't pull in clients generally, at least not at a cost worth paying. So networking and referrals are the best. Referrals can be from existing clients but also from friends, past associates etc that you pay for the referral.

Marketing for consulting is about exposing company/yourself online, use blog posts, guest posts, forums, speaking engagements etc. Then use social media and ads to expose your blog, speaking engagements etc, this gets you exposure, branding and then everything becomes easier.
Do you mean the same regulatory organizations that have reduced the US airline fatality rate by 50x over the last 50 years to the point where it's now over 100x safer per mile to fly than to drive?

I mean the FAA certainly has some flaws, but it's important to keep things in perspective.