skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are some examples of goals you set and couldn't follow through on? I think specific examples might help get better answers.
I'm surprised that the lost file was simple continuous area on the raw device, and would've expected the pieces to be intermingled with data from other files.

Maybe if the disk is being filled for the first time, space for the file is allocated in one go (as opposed to gradually appending to the end of the file), and there's a large enough unfragmented area of free space, and the disk isn't very busy, the file would be allocated like this on the device. But I sure wouldn't count on it.

Not sure about the flv format, and how it recovers from errors, but in the worst case it might look like the correct file but might have pieces from other videos mixed in.
yes, and it's clearly something rms regrets:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...

If rms had a sane way of reading e-mail, things might be different :).
> Agencies like ... that does "clandestine" operations shouldn't even exist in the first place

If one day they have all disappeared, it just means they hid themselves from you, and fooled you completely.
Who died?
You don't need even a static generator really, even just

cat header.html page1.html footer.html > build/page1.html

would work
Gotta educate yourself. No one else can do it for you. 5 secs of google search led me to the following site. Although, few months ago, I also read a similar statement here on HN that COVID does not spread from surface to surface but it's not completely ruled out.

> Droplets can also land on surfaces and objects and be transferred by touch. A person may get COVID-19 by touching the surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or eyes. * Spread from touching surfaces is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads. *

Source - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html#Spread
The biggest hurdle for kids to work hard at is school, ADHD makes that way more challenging/impossible. If the parents expects their kid to work hard at school they will be gravely disappointed with their ADHD kid.

> For instance, is it the case that it is prohibitively difficult for people with ADHD to work hard in the skilled trades? That isn't how I usually think of it, but perhaps I'm wrong.

If it isn't interesting/exciting they wont work hard at it without medication. Think of ADHD as people with more of a cat personality while normal humans are more like dogs. Cats gets distracted easily but hyper focus when they find something fun, while dogs can be taught to behave. Cats don't act that way because they hate you, they are just wired differently than dogs. Same with ADHD people.

Another point about ADHD is that they can work hard at school etc with medication, it isn't an unfixable problem. I grew up never studying, everyone being angry that I didn't do the work I should, teachers being disappointed etc. Then I got a diagnose as an adult and got medication and then suddenly I could work as hard as everyone else and life became 100 times easier. So I went from smart and lazy to smart and hard working, suddenly working hard to learn to code, practice algorithms, get into Google etc became possible while before medication I didn't even believe I could hold a job. So to me ADHD is 100% real, there is no way it can't be.

However it might be a bit over diagnosed, I don't support giving kids pills to stay quiet in a classroom. It isn't like not studying in high school or early college hurt me at all (Except that parents and teachers got angry of course, avoiding that would be the main reason to study harder...).
> Going to try this in 2021. Thanks for the idea.

Why not start right now? There is nothing magical in January the first. Next 5 minutes is perfect time for a new blog post, for example.
The natural next question is whether or not nations are necessary. To me they look like a stepping stone from kingdoms to ???
Festive Tech Calendar 2020
This is a topic I loathe, and I will not search for and provide any of the photographic evidence even if they've been published on many tabloids as they're absolutely sickening, not to mention possibly illegal on some jurisdictions.

There's no one who's willing to initiate court proceedings about these matters (it's particularly hard on countries like Cuba), so if the existing public evidence is not enough for you, then nothing will be, so there's no further discussion to be had as it's unlikely any further developments will occur now that he's died.
NIST Sensor Experts Invent Supercool Mini-Thermometer
Ask HN: Co-workers paid more. What to do?
Hi all,

I am in early 40's. Individual contributor in tech role. Recently I got to know, there is a huge discrepancy in the compensation. A lot of co-workers ( including juniors) are getting paid more than I do. I am not getting promoted too. My performance has been very good. I have always got high ratings. But I never discussed compensation related things with my manager. Only those who make noise are getting rewarded.

I can say, I am financially independent. Even if I get a promotion, it wont make any significant difference to my net worth. But others (many undeserving ones) making more than me hurts me. How do I handle this situation?
Exactly. It gives me the shivers every time an Apple fanboy tells me something along the lines of "But Apple is just the best, you don't need to modify it"
There are plenty of people who work that hard, doing what today is defined an 'essential' job, and yet, get nowhere.

Many of them would love to be gifted a franchise that brings into their wallet, inflation-adjusted, ~200,000K in profit a year.
It got the DNA sample it came for
Not being overweight is nowadays a prime status marker, so you can absolutely show it off! Once you start shaving off 4g at a time, it's probably time to switch to gear though.
Brexit surely played a huge role, given Corbyn's near victory in 2017. If there was a flaw to Labour's 2019 Brexit "agnosticism" policy, it was that it was not pro-Brexit enough -- Starmer's former Brexit-hostility (such as his "6 tests for Brexit") is gone, and he will probably use the whip to vote for almost any negotiated deal. I only hope there is a deal.
I learned qbasic (my first programming langauge!) in middle school in 1999/2000. I guess our school district's shitty budget that resulted in seriously outdated computers did have some benefits.
Picking the right pricing model for your Micro-SaaS
Tony Hsieh. founder of Zappos.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/28/us/tony-hsieh-zappos-dies/ind...
> The narrative of doing something for the greater good should be treated as a lie until the burden of evidence is so high that you are forced to accept that it was indeed good.

An obvious impossible standard, more than that you can’t really know if an action was right or wrong without an oracle to tell you what would have happened if different forces had been made.
Tony Hsieh. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25235490
From one elder statesmen to another- it’s not us. The industry as a whole has lost a lot of the excitement and novelty it evoked in the 80s, early 90s and (after a somewhat down period in the mid 90s) the late 90s to mid 2000s.

In a way, Pangaea has split. Massively profitable giants have emerged as the foundations of the industry have hardened. The industry is mature, but the amount of truly exciting work has dwindled. Microsoft at it’s peak never felt as well-entrenched as today’s tech giants.

I briefly came out of retirement a few years ago to work on a blockchain-related company, which presented an energy akin to the Macintosh or Java, but ultimately it was clear that the industry as a whole has shifted priorities by so much - beyond the point of no return- for better or for worse.
I spent today hacking on it! Trying to get all the Homestuck movies to work. The codebase seems pretty accessible so far. Fixed one bug where it couldn't render shapes with >65535 vertices. It's really rewarding watching movies light up as you fix things.
Whoever installed it should have poured concrete in it if they wanted to make removal or theft difficult. BLM could have removed even then, albeit with a crane or front loader and a heavy truck.
Not only that, but it's a choice for "lowest-common-denominator" users, not power users. So they will by definition make a trade off in lower real-world functionality in return for ease of basic use or other things. Like the cooking example in the article. Another example would be to replace your steering wheel without your consent with some stupid new gui and removing the option to put the steering wheel back. It works great for people who don't really know how to drive and would never be able to drive at highway speeds. Of course it does severely limit the places and speeds you can drive in your car now.

Oh and of course it causes your car to crash constantly now.
I somehow like both Apple and my ten+ years old XFCE installations (until they removed menu configurability in 4.6). It's not appleness of apple itself that is sad, but the fact that everyone jumped that boat of "knowing what's better for you" and then started to push it over the limit of sanity. Commercial effort is understandable, they do private business at least, but even free/open software catched that disease.
Yes that's correct, you need to dilute it to something like 80% to be most effective.
Sweet giant plants and firestorms that cover the planet making more coal for future generations.
Now if only they had ladders to climb out of bathtubs, they'd be unstoppable.
Why not retire in a developing country? The living expense is much lower, the weather is fair and more than often you can have access to a beach. Health care is not necessary bad, either.
If you don’t get scammed, with $1M you can live comfortably in the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia and many Caribbean islands. The return on stocks and bonds investment in the emerging markets are often much higher in comparison to the US, too.
If The Salt Lake Tribune sells subscriptions on their website, I think they're actually violating EU law again, geoblocking is illegal...
I have used Growl for a very long time, and went to lengths to keep it as part of my environment. I'm surprised they held on for as long as they did as it seemed the exact thing that Apple has been trying to torpedo for the last decade, "consistent UI" and all.
Dave Prowse: Darth Vader actor dies aged 85
He's the author of the Caddy web server.
If you have the context of being a geeky Mac user about 10 years ago you likely would. Growl was an open source notification system that many apps supported. Like it said in the article, in 2012 macOS started shipping their own. So the usefulness and popularity dropped.

I feel like many of these kinds (especially non-corporate) of blog posts are informal and assume by reading you know what it is. I'm not sure how HN could address this. But I always greatly appreciate when blog posts provide and obvious and quick link to their product page.

https://growl.github.io/growl/
You hit the nail on the head saying that some computers are not "for you" anymore.

When I am on Windows or Mac, both of which I loved for a long time, and still do in certain versions, I feel like I never know what's coming next.

One moment you like me, next time you don't. One day you want to be the quiet nerdy kid who's always got my back, that's really nice. But the next day you want to please everyone, rearrange all my shit, and gossip about me to all your MLM friends.

One moment you want to be predictable, dependable, usable. Then the next day you want to interrupt my work while you do your hair.

And I get it, you're trying to figure yourself out, you've got bills to pay, that's totally fine. However, I just won't be able to spend as much time with you anymore, because I'm trying to get some work done. It's not you, it's me.

Maybe we can still hang out sometimes? I'll make some space for you in a VM.
Show HN: Hastscript-like library to create HTML strings
> Hope HN management will set a black bar in his honor.

How is that "hacker" news?
The NY Times had an article that the virus doesn’t really spread on surfaces:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/world/asia/covid-cleaning...
As an American cyclist who frequented SF… this gave me a good chuckle, thank you.

True story: Had a driver who swerved from the left-hand lane, across a lane of traffic, across the bike lane, and into a drive way, after I yelled at him (while rapidly braking) tell me "I didn't see you." I've got 3 reflectors (from his PoV), I'm wearing long sleeves reflective highlighter safety orange, and it's daylight…
Your [2] link is from a site that offers paid consultations for meditators in distress.. do you have a source from a site that doesn't stand to profit from those statements?
Now imagine all that opportunity, plus a much less competitive business environment and fewer regulations. That is what it was like 50 years ago in the US.
smart business idea because this is inherently lock-in the second you create any alias
On related topic, what would you consider a good value proposition? Meaning what are the things you would expect out of BlobCity for you to become a registered and loyal member?
Perhaps in verbal conversation it makes sense to define it in place, but we're on the internet. Just highlight the word and search it. I wouldn't say that in most contexts, but considering the demographic here, a lot of conversation would be bogged down if we were defining more obscure terms for each other every time they come up.

Either way, the comment is about how we don't exactly know whether fomite transmission is cause for concern, so popularizing awareness doesn't seem necessary (at least until that question is answered in the affirmative).
I had a similar Logo -> QuickBasic -> C(DJGPP)+Allegro trajectory early on. What is the modern equivalent for kids today?
What black bar? Mine is orange.
Nation states are more or less required until a post scarcity economy becomes realistic and then basically they devolve into more and more voting entities that do things everyone agrees are necessary but generally less and less interesting unless a person has a particularly strong interest in a topic. (like say building codes, traffic engineering, licensing, etc.)

Nations can’t just disappear, anarchy always transitions to tribalism to monarchy to ... etc.
calm down, since 10 years cpu speed doesn't really matter anymore, and if you aren't involved in the apple ecosystem hulahoop (or javascripting - god forbid) i think m1 is not very interesting untill it allows other oses to run on free hardware.
Above that.
This is CNN, so it's a lie on multiple levels.

We should say due to Covid lockdown. The truth allows us to address costs better.

Additional suicides 'due' to Covid lockdown in October was only ~600 deaths vs 2000 direct Covid deaths for the year.

This years suicide count in Japan is overall the same as last year at the same time.

More men are dying from Covid lockdown suicides.

This month is the first month it became about women, and only this particular month. Not when you look at yearly data.

You could argue when we see such a big jump in one month for women it means we need to start targeting them. This is 100% true. Sadly the reverse about men has not happened for the other months so if we are gender neutral about people dying it's be nice to target everyone, just a thought.

I'd speculate Japan will foretell the USA. This will keep increasing. We are just starting to hit the economic and social downfall stage. But suicide will jump back to men, and I'd guess again forgotten.

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00864/october-saw-rapi...
Minecraft and Line rider, interesting range of games there Microsoft
why does (current) number of lines of code matter
Hacker news is NOT about hacking systems.
Not my experience with LineageOS. My biggest problems with my phone with LineageOS is that I cannot use a microSD card as more internal disk space, not a problem with LineageOS itself, but a problem with Android 6 and above on my phone. The other problem is LineageOS not having an update for my phone for 2 or 3 years, as mine is an old budget phone from 2014.

On the whole I have been very happy with LineageOS as it has allowed me to continue to use my phone for years longer than I would have with the simply bad manufacturer updates that almost completely filled the internal disk space and stopped updating something like 2015 with Android 5. Less unnecessary expense, less eWaste, thumbs up.

For me, I would definitely go with a phone manufacturer that supports rooting their device and put LineageOS on it if I think I need it. I may not install it, but the option for the future is the main thing.
This is a perfect idea, thanks for the response. I've thought about doing this before, do you have any good resources to start doing research from? A quick DDG mostly brings up (edit: what appears to be) blog-spam, and I'm not sure how to sort the wheat/chafe, (e2: as I don't know much about the topic).
This is an extremely religion-skewed thread with terrible evidence.

Most of the teachings ascribed to Jesus were written by other people and redacted hundreds of years later. How many books did the actual writers of the New Testament read? Dozens or hundreds of people contributed to those writings.

Obviously a similar situation with Buddha -- "his" teachings are not always his.

There isn't much else to this thread, but there are thousands of counterpoints.

All of my greatest teachers were voracious readers, and they read both widely and deeply.

I don't know what the motivation of the thread is, other than to try to trivialize intellectualism (which I suppose is fitting for someone who thinks Jesus is responsible for the content of the New Testament).
I have built 9 products during this pandemic, and made 1 sale
> This has always been the domain of the carriers, not Apple.

Maybe in the US. In Europe carriers never had any say about what functionality a mobile device offered.

All they provided was a SIM-card for that device.
Soap is the way to go--apparently it just rips viruses apart limb-from-limb. Weird image to have when washing one's hands, but kind of also reinforces the utility of doing it.
How to find the perfect niche for your blog
This PDF [0] has vg shots of several arrows. (See fig. 4) (I'm not surprised at straight shafts from 700CE. But F166 (fig. 4b) from 3980-3830calBP is birch (Table 1) - and surprisingly regular.)

"The Langfonne paper is open access and can be downloaded here:"
( t.co/zd5lwds8Wz points to ) =>

[0]https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/095968362097277...

Official website: https://secretsoftheice.com/news/2020/11/25/prehistoric-arro...
In Japan more people died from suicide last month than smallpox, so I guess the whole smallpox vaccine was a bust? Tbh I can’t wrap my head around why people keep sharing this article like it means something. Is it just math illiteracy? The question that they are clearly trying to answer is ‘is the problem worse than the cure’ but instead of measuring the change in covid deaths due to lockdown and comparing that to the change in suicides due to lockdown, they are comparing the total deaths in each category. That makes as much sense as “I’m currently 120 miles from Chicago and it’s 2:00, so dividing 120 by 2 I figure I’m going 60 mph.”
With uBlock origin you're at the whim of the changes Google pushes through to chrome/chromium to nerf it.
I can’t qualify “most”, but it’s certainly not as-path only. I’d be shocked if any significant network wasn’t using MED and local-preference. Your large networks (and NSPs and carriers) are also going to support various communities for all sorts of reasons, like redistribution of routes. The days of path pretending, deaggregation, and crossing fingers are quite a ways behind us.
Anything went but that included building your factory next to the river and dumping in the river.
And what if you are managing multiple networks for the same client? Because we are doing tools for this kind of thing and this is issue at the moment. However, this is not price that Apple are paying and they are dumping it on us to sort out.
Choose a License
Even setting a `title="RIP Tony Hsieh"` on that <td> would probably be sufficient.
pv is much smarter than you think. If instead of `cat|pv` you just use `pv filename` or even `pv <file`, it'll work out the file or block device size on its own.

If you forget to use pv and want a nice progress bar for an already executing process, use `pv -d <pid>`. That'll display progress bars for every open file. Works even for things like installers and servers, where you wouldn't be able to use a pv pipeline anyway.
It’s worth noting specific types of surveillance are
more expensive than others.

I used to be part of a team with access to data not a lot
of people could see. I limited my international travel due to it.

It’s been years so anything I could even remember is useless now: significantly less paranoia.
I would love it around my place, on the walls, no more loud neighbors would make this place paradise!
> would take quite a while

No, and definitely not when comparing with the time it takes to run load tests.
Ah commander keen :) brings back good memories.
Modern file systems try fairly hard to keep files contiguous for performance, and if recordings are always written and deleted semi sequentially, you'd expect the disk to end up fairly not fragmented. That said, two or three big fragments would be pretty common in this situation.
What about having a conversation in good faith vs nitpicking my choice of language?
Two cartridges were compulsory: Extended Basic and Tunnels of Doom. I also had the E/A and expansion box with floppies - which came in handy for loading subs on the fly in Extended Basic, as well as being a better setup than tape for ToD. It was a little awkward with the only "namespace" being line numbers, but it worked.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25242735
But it in a sense is. I am or was using linux, windows, osx, ios, android for prolonged times and yesterday I unpacked and updated my iMac'10 (job reasons) and it still kicks ass. Of course it could be more configurable and less authoritarian, but nobody sold me an alternative that feels better just out of the box. I'm a full time user of windows and android right now, if that helps with "fanboy" part. It's not that configurability lacks smoothness and fell. It just happens that best ui provider/supervisor also happens to be the most walled garden, and competition is far behind. If only a part of efforts that e.g. gnome spends on removing settings went on making gnome better looking than apple... They had a decade and became "apple minus ux/ui".
I've been carefully observing how privacy was worn down piece by piece for more than 10 years now and you come of as a bit clueless if you're putting Apple in the same bucket as Google. They're not saints, but they're playing in a different league. I don't have time to correct all your misconceptions: read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism if you truly want to understand this topic.

Also don't pretend to know what people feel just because they buy products from a company. It's ridiculous how you're claiming what I love when you don't even know me.
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/05/14/a-thing-for-men-in-...
Ask HN: Continue Watching for YouTube?
I am building an extension that gives a list of all the videos that I did not complete watching(for lectures partially watched and stuff I watched a month ago) on youtube. It is harder to search for them directly on youtube's history since this list can be soo sparse. I just wanted to know how many others would find this helpful. Does some tool already exist that I don't know of?