skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My recollection from being prescribed a statin is that the doctor wanted me to see how I would "tolerate" it, and to let him know if I had any "muscle aches".

Hell, once I got past the age of 40 my muscles ache quite a bit some days. Is it coincidence or is it caused by the statin? This could be true with tiredness as well.

As far as liver damage, yeah, that's got to be either a drug interaction or by bad behaviors (heavy drinking, etc).
This was 20 years ago and the general contractor thought I was nuts to pre-install all this cabling. This all changed a year later, and network cables pre-installed became normal.
You’re close to restating why Apple Silicon exists in the first place: they didn’t want to delay upgrades but Intel couldn’t provide chips with decent specs on a dependable schedule. Back when Intel was shipping on time you’d see regular updates every year but then they stalled and that meant that there wasn’t a better part with the right thermal characteristics or other requirements. Remember when the MBPs had a lengthy delay before the maximum RAM limit went up? That was due to Intel not delivering CPUs using the next generation low-power DDR4 for, IIRC, multiple years. People would point to PCs which used DDR4 but miss that they were substantially larger and had much shorter battery life, massive batteries, or both.
> OmniFocus, Things3, iA Writer, Ulysses, Alfred App to Emacs+Org, and some more

All of these were replaced with org-mode and Emacs (and likely some other Linux features for Alfred). Doom Emacs is a good framework to explore Emacs as it supports both vim and Emacs bindings (there’s also cua-mode).

https://orgmode.org
https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
The opportunity to check Chinese economic domination was lost when the US pulled out of the TPP. The RCEP grew out it's ashes. The TPP would have institutionalized standards favorable to the US and unfavorable to China.
> Linux is now the least secure desktop OS available

[citation needed]

> limited sandboxing

seccomp? Namespaces? What exactly do you want Linux to be able to sandbox that it can't?

> no provision for checking binary signatures

Bootloaders already enforce this for the kernel, and the kernel can enforce it for its own modules. Userlands are free to enforce it for userspace programs (e.g., how Android requires APKs to be signed).
Try Becks Depression Inventar for better assesment
https://deprese.euzona.cz/en-index.php
This author appears to have a bit of an axe to grind, so take his article with a grain of salt.

From a much better researched take: https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-ocsp/

> No, macOS does not send Apple a hash of your apps each time you run them.

> You should be aware that macOS might transmit some opaque information about the developer certificate of the apps you run. This information is sent out in clear text on your network.

> You shouldn’t probably block ocsp.apple.com with Little Snitch or in your hosts file.
She was 14. I don't think we can blame her for what happened to Emmet Till.

Edit: thanks for the correction, she was 21. However, I still think the blame should fall on Till's murderers.
Scary stuff

https://i.redd.it/gzv67r948ty51.jpg
It's fun comparing Luxembourg. It is roughly the same size as the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts where I live:

https://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTMzMzUzODU.MTMxMDk2NjQ...
Is it possible that this is because the democratic party has shifted towards the Koch brothers and not the other way around?
I'm going to parallel Rob a bit here.

You've managed to build something that has brought in $120k without investing dollars into outreach. Then you've invested it into (assumably) hardware.
You've got a business with some value to it.

I don't know what you're making, but industrial is my space. If you'd like to drop me an email, I'd be happy to take a look at what you're making and give you some thoughts, potentially some introductions. Dave @ Capelin.io
Well, 2x the speed to use a lower level language doesn't sound like a bad deal to me, especially given we have a few fast, modern languages which are as ergonomic as python
but pushing the back button doesn't return the page to a previous state, it stays the same until you push it enough times to get to the previous page...
Fantastic performance as in? Quadcopters routinely reach 60km/h, and cheap racing models can go over 100km/h. I doubt any kind of heli will ever perform like that
Refusal to Begin Presidential Transition Jeopardizes Covid Vaccine Distribution
The sample included start-ups that had raised more than $500,000 and less than $3 million, and excluded biotech, energy, and material-science based startups because “the drivers of success and failure for science-based businesses are going to be different than more typical software and service companies,” according to Eisenmann.

Ah, OK, no further questions needed. If you sell software any fool can do it and waffle along until you manage to sell up to a greater fool. But if you do actual science you have to perform. That's a problem, because science that can improve society doesn't get done, the money flows to the hype men instead. Banking is indeed a cargo cult.
This Skynet?

https://blog.sia.tech/skynet-bdf0209d6d34
https://siasky.net/

Looks promising!
These measures are common sense during a pandemic and should be limited in time. In many countries (at least France and UK) all these measures are bound in time and the time mandate is regularly renewed by parliament.
This is the classic problem all technical people starting companies face.

Technical people both enjoy, and know how to build digital products. But they don't understand that a product is not a business.

A product solves a problem.

A business has a steady stream of customers actively searching to fix that problem (a market) and a set of reliable channels for converting these leads into customers (distribution).

If you're not in a reliable market and have no reliable distribution within that market...you have a product, not a business.

A good way to figure out if you'll enjoy being an entrepreneur is to start building an audience first (namely an email list built through social and blog content). It's all of the vital marketing/sales work and talking to customers you'll need, without burning all your savings on 6 months of product development that might be wasted.

If you don't enjoy building the audience of customers, selling to them, and talking to them, you won't enjoy being an entrepreneur.
> turning the planet into a hollow cinder

There is disagreement about the magnitude of things, but this is hyperboloic.

> for naked protection of wealth

An opinion on their motives.

> accrued in an unjust system

There's so much that can be discussed there. But simple, name one system that isn't unjust in some way. You can optimize for advancement though capitalism, or you can optimize for equality though communism, or some variation thereof. If you optimize too much for capitalism, the lower class are left out, if you optimize too much for communism, after a while everyone is lower than the lower class in what capitalism would result in. Different people will view the right balance differently, so "just" has no meaning here.

> it's either a naughty word ascribing malice or one ascribing stupidity

Or a bit of humility in assuming that you don't know every single thing there is to know about economics, sociology, political theory, and the motives of other individuals.

To be clear, I probably have similar views and beliefs to you on all these topics, but where we differ is in my willingness to put my views forth as fact and condemn others on limited evidence, public relations pieces put out by them and others, and my views on soft sciences that are still very much being worked on and in flux. Thinking someone else is an asshole is not an excuse for adopting bad behavior youself.
Off-topic but this seemed off to me:

> paid 1200 euros in cash like I was buying half a kilo of heroin

and luckily, the UN has some nice historical data on this [1]. Looks like the EU averaged 50 euros per gram or so. You’d have only gotten 25 grams :).

[1] https://dataunodc.un.org/drugs/heroin_and_cocaine_prices_in_...
Singapore open-sourced their app, and Australia basically took the code and used it.

Haven't really heard much about the app any more. Now it's all QR codes. I don't think the apps work that well with Apple's bluetooth permissions...
I wonder what case fatality ratio / infectivity combo it would take for people with this take on liberty to agree that sometimes societies should give up liberty. I am not sure there is one, I feel like we have a death cult in charge of our country. I wonder how many are dead because you have to die on a mask/gathering hill?

I feel like I shouldn’t have to explain it but when people take risks, like that large wedding that infected dozens of people, it later kills people who didn’t even attend.

doesn’t personal freedom end when the effects aren’t personal?
You could have just looked at a globe!
I have a prescription for a 50,000 once a week.
I was highly skeptical about it. But nerve pain and migraines have reduced noticeably on it.
You mean the white working class. And no one in their right mind thinks that the Republican party is less corporatist than the Democratic party. With the CARES Act, the Trump administration fought to keep secret which businesses received money. Come to find out, multinational and conglomerate entities like Ruth Chris' Steakhouse received funds.
You're reversing cause and effect here.

Previous countries didn't lose their preeminent places in the world because their currency stopped being the world reserve. Their currencies stopped being the world reserve because the countries lost their preeminent places.
I don't disagree with your comment, and it's not too harsh. I was just thinking that there are some easy things he can work on, perhaps to get him back in the groove, and start rolling to improve the product so it's marketable.
> The lights in my office come on when I walk in if it's dark, and when I unlock my computer it shoots a message out over a MQTT broker which my automation takes as "someone is occupying this space now" and leaves them on. When I lock my computer, two minutes later if no motion is sensed it'll turn them off.

What did you do to send the message when the computer locks/unlocks? This is an exact use case I could make use of
If it is safe 99.98% of the time, 0.01% you get Onagawa, and 0.01% you get Fukushima, the new data point does not make the whole picture look safer.

We are talking about a system that is mostly safe, but with a non-negligible probability of a catastrophic accident.
NIPH (Norwegian Institute of Public Health) has contracted Netcompany, the team behind the danish contact tracing app), to build it. https://www.fhi.no/en/news/2020/netcompany-to-develop-app-fo... So they won’t be starting quite from scratch.
Yeah, the app is broken in that respect (at least in FF, which is all I checked in), but it does eventually work. I guess whether that breaks the back button or not is somewhat dependent on your view of what it does and how it should work.
There is a vast diversity of differences in these countries, from gdp to population density and cost of living. Every time my Australian government has signed "free trade" agreements it has meant massive sector decline in different clusters of industry, ranging from steel production to primary industry (food and veggies).

Eg. My family's orchard no longer grows oranges, nor kiwi fruit, nor other exotic fruit due to "free trade". The local supermarket chains (coles and woolworths) both decimated these industries by forcing farmers to suddenly sell at Asian market cost. My whole area used to be renowned for oranges... But there are all but a small handful of tiny orchards now.

Because of fruit fly, the other owners, including my family, had to destroy the trees. So, there's no chance of ever returning the property to it's former orchard status.

A secondary effect of "free trade" is that the above mentioned supermarkets started buying the land of the farmers they'd driven to the wall, and put in "manager farmers" who do not look after the land near as much as a family owned property does. Eg. Excessive use of pesticides, ignoring noxious weeds (a cost saving), use of temporary & often overseas workers. All profits that used to go to local industries (eg hardware stores & other shops) are now sent out from centralised warehouses.

To compound the problem, these "free trade" partners now also purchase the land, so even the profits now go overseas. China is now a very large landowner of Australia, and have long term 99yr leases on the ports of Melbourne and Darwin.

So, personally, I'm not a fan of anything "free trade".
I don't know but my brother has a secure electronic voting company with open source software https//nvotes.com
I think if you trying trying to sniff out a shortage of generosity, you might find enough in your own reply as well as in the parent.

The way I read the reply is that almost all small businesses fail, almost all startups fail. There is absolutely nothing unique to "indy hacking" in the original post that doesn't apply in general to the small business/independent contractor world, and if you spend any time talking to one of these people, they will have plenty of similar stories. Thus the "well, what did you expect" tone of some of the replies that you seem to take offense to.

The best course of action for low risk tolerance people who don't want to do everything themselves is to find a big company to work for with stable employment that is focused on their core passion, rather than forcing them to deal with customer support, billing, tax issues, HR issues, VISA issues, facilities maintenance, infrastructure, sales, working capital management, and all the other stuff you have to handle on your own if you are running a 1 man shop (or even a small business).

All of the above should be absolutely obvious -- why do you think these big companies have tens of thousands of employees and have dozens of non-developer full time staff for every developer? If you want to do everything yourself, you will need to take on the responsibilities of all these other people.

None of this will ever change, either.

Btw, this was the topic of a nice essay by Joel Spolsky called "The Developer Abstraction Layer". The original author of the post basically lived out the parable in Joel's story. You might want to take a look:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/04/11/the-development-ab...

Interestingly enough, the theme of Joel's story is that developers take this abstraction layer for granted, and thus end up being shocked when it turns out really hard for the indy developer, who is missing this layer, to do everything for themselves.
I looked a bit at what Charles Koch has been saying recently, and this doesn't look like a change of opinion; it looks like a change of tactics. He's de-emphasizing the partisan tug-o-war stuff, which looks less promising now than it did during (for example) the early days of the Tea Party, and focusing on the less fought-over parts. It's a reasonable approach if he wants to get things done, but not the about-face the headline suggests.
Trump's pivotal point was Super Tuesday where the Republican moderate vote was split between 8 choices: he was able to build an insurmountable lead.

Much like marijuana legislation finally passing now, i think it will take the previous generation to die off before we start seeing more democratic progressive candidates like AOC. Bernie's numbers were Yuge and dominating with people under 40. Give it another decade or so: if gen Z shares values with gen X and Millenials, which is yet to be seen, i think the AOC type candidates will make inroads in many places in the Democratic party.
My two cents

1. If money is very pressing, you should save up enough until it isn't. Spending all your saving is obviously going to induce a lot of stress.

Better yet - spend other peoples money. That means raising money, but you'd be surprised how many angle investors or startup programs there are out there, that are willing to seed you with (relatively small amounts of) money. The catch here is that they typically want a very solid business and marketing plan, and will probably turn down typical cookie-cutter ideas (marketplace, social network, etc.).

2. Yes, it's hard to do when bootstrapping yourself,but hire people to do the marketing and sales. These things can and will make or break early startups and businesses.

Let's take he music venue analogy:

Imagine that you want to build the best concert venue in town. You've poured your hard-owned money into it, along with blood, sweat and tears.

Finally the venue is finished - but there's a problem: No one knows about it.

You figure it will pretty much sell itself, and hire in some artists to perform there - but have done zero advertisement or marketing. Concert comes and goes, but no-one showed up - because no-one knew about the concert. Bands and artists still want their money, same goes with utilities and what not.

Point is - if you can't do the sales or marketing yourself, you need to hire someone to do it for you. You're just throwing money into a black hole and getting nothing in return, because potential clients don't even know you exist. If you can't afford someone - anyone - to do that for you, then you probably don't have enough funds to begin with.

edit: It just seems like your biggest troubles stems from the fact that you (seemingly, or due to anxiety) hate sales and marketing yourself, and that your product/segment may have been quite a tough to succeed in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro#Technical_specific...

You can see how this is one of the things that changed yearly for the last 5 years. Exactly every year.

I wonder if the people bashing this M1 were bashing intel c2d when it came out.
The world doesn't need more VC-inflated payment platform middlemen taking a cut either Gary :p Other than the Patreon spruik, good vid.
I just want to point out one thing, for the record.

I'm sorry "Stop Monday Morning Quarterbacking (MMQ)" isn't directed at you per se, but the general direction of whoever is reading my comment.

MMQ is, unfortunately, practiced widely in many prediction/retrospection circles like startups, finance, economics, politics.

I'm speaking from a the point of view of scientific rigor, or at least quantitative data analysis. No one does that when it comes to opining about the cause-and-effect of an event in the past. If you're "the winner", anything you say about why you won, would be taken as gospel. "Winner is always right". Rigorous analysis is very hard, and costly, and to what end? Just so you could say "my reasoning is based on analysis"? That's a very boring thing to say. Unless rigorous-analysis finds utility in applications like decision-making for future startups, and is shown to work over and over again (maybe we'll need AI for that), no one is going to bother with it.
I've done A-list visual effects work since the 90s, and I can say that film for motion picture production[1] varies widely in it's grain density and size. This variation is amplified by the fact that DPs often "push" or "pull" the stock which means they treat it as if it was a different ISO speed than labeled (exposure and lab processing change to compensate). In practical application digital elements nearly always have to be reduced in effective resolution to match film plates when composited.

Of course under laboratory conditions using larger negative size (like 65mm), Velvia or some other extraordinary film stock you can of course produce extremely high resolution individual frames, but as we know from a lifetime of movies this is neither practical nor necessary. Though a great source of religious wars.

However, there is a reason why film's "lower resolution" still produces superior resolving power...

Every single frame of film has a different randomized set of sample points.

This in combination with human persistence of vision[2] and our ability to see pattern but discard noise means that a static shot on film is significantly more resolved in our minds after only a few frames than the equivalent shot recorded by color filter array[3]. It's not just perceptual, temporal sampling truly produces a more accurate representation of the image content over time.

This is a fascinating quality of film that can give you the sense of graininess and low quality while still producing superior image detail in your mind, but as soon as you stop the projector and evaluate the film image by image the effect is lost. You might be left wondering where did all that detail go?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motion_picture_film_st...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_of_vision

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_filter_array
None of these reasons have anything to do with user experience -- no wonder none of these reasons have earned Linux any market share outside of picky developers.
Linux updates dont force themselves on my machine and brick it once it reboots.
People are totally cut off from modern society without some kind of phone or computer. I’m not sure you can say they are not a basic human need.
Strangely I stumbled across an article today on the online Encyclopedia Brittanica which didn’t have an equivalent on Wikipedia. I wonder if anyone has ever done a comparison to find all the article on one but not the other.
Without a counterpoint providing an opposing view, how are we supposed to take your comment seriously?
What is definitely natural for humans (and other animals, apparently) is xenophobia in a broader sense, meaning preference for in-group - however defined - over the out-group. The exact definitions are cultural and situational - racism is one example of that - but the point remains that human societies will tend to discriminate naturally, and you need to make a constant conscious effort to restrain them.
> there's no shame in not being suited for starting a company.

There is around here (on Hacker News). If you don't run a company, the entrepreneurs around here don't believe you deserve anything more than a "competitive" salary and a job.
I am wondering, are globes rare where you live? They do not suffer from any distortion. Changing maps does not help, there is a theorem that no faithful planar map of a sphere exists, the video is a bit short on this.
Don't listen to these mindless code golfers. Your experiment does indeed prove your point imho.
Which carrier?
Australia then proceeded to bury its use. No references to it any of the updates, for months, never a question until a recent test when they asked if we have the app installed.

That they couldn't make it work on iPhone, to have it run in the background, was probably what sealed it. No such issues on Android.
Thanks for the compliment! Yes, I was asked several times that day what I was doing. My explanation was "I'm just taking photos". Lame, but it works if you show a little smile.
I know quite a lot of folks here are fed up with moves away from native apps and towards Electron-wrapped web apps (and often for totally valid reasons) but it's been a godsend for making Linux a usable daily driver OS. IMO if you're doing eg web dev work in a GSuite / Slack / Figma / etc organization, it's never been a better time to try desktop Linux!
The low voltage in the house is completely separated. The wall outlets are widely spaced. It even comes into the house in a different location and a different trench.
In this day of ubiquitous 3D acceleration, I think any digital map that lets you zoom out more than a hundred miles or so should be an accurate 3D projection.

Students should be primarily shown a globe. A physical one, if possible!

In fact, paper maps in study books showing a large part of the world should also be accurate 3D projections.
Mind telling us how to disable auto updating in snaps (or for a specific snap)? You've just solved a huge issue for the ubuntu community