skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me it was a gradual...it took many years to put the pieces in place. I wanted to get a pension from my IT job...meaning I had to stay 13 years. I knew I was leaving at about 10 years. But it is good to have a safety net or two, so I stuck it out. It still felt really quick once I jumped ship and started my own massage therapy biz. It felt good to finally make the leap, but it also felt good to have a plan. I saw many people at that time taking crazy chances (early 2000's) and they got clobbered by 2008. So I'd say figure out your strengths and weaknesses before you so your own thing. Be honest, because your new career depends on you.
It's possible/probable they read a lot more than they reported on. I've read a lot of books, and have held onto very few that were worth regularly revisiting. Too, if you find a great teacher, talking with them can be worth many, many books.
The way I see it, he's rephrasing the sentence to describe the "set" of things the Eula doesn't explicitly preclude the possibility of.
Never used Google Reader but I use newsboat[1] for my RSS feeds. You could also check out theoldreader[2].

1: https://newsboat.org/

2: https://www.theoldreader.com/
> pare down the static website generator I have so it's more dumb and fast. Make it more close to plain HTML

Once you wrap your head around it, this is what Hugo feels like! Maybe it’s because I don’t work with different static site generators often but it was a bit tough to get right at first
I use Habinator app and it's working for me.
How much revenue wouldn't they have if they weren't using those services?

It is really easy to say "that's extortion" but I personally would take the extra revenue over not having it at all.
They better not start recording music
There are some who came close, though Amazon is in a league of its own. Sears Roebuck, in its day, aalong with Montgomery Wards (which long had a bad reputation with both sellers and customers), K-Mart, Walmart, and before them the railroads and AT&T.

There are a few grocery chains with national reach (and they've been further consolidating), but none controls major markets (rural regions are often another story).

Amazon is World - China.
Any reason the data couldn't be carved out with photorec[0]? It even has flv built in, but even if it didn't, creating new types isn't hard. This type of datacarving seems exactly what that software was designed for, and it does so quickly with a wizard.

The taking of the 500K bytes for the has does seem like a smart way to differentiate between the undeleted files and the deleted ones, I'll keep that in mind if I am ever in such a crazy situation and it would be helpful.

[0] https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec#How_PhotoRec_works
Innovation can be good, scamming other people into spending money on things that don't work, not so much. There's a whole lot of the latter masquerading as the former. There's also a whole lot of user/customer/community hostile innovation, like the entire advertising industry.
This list is much more compelling, seeing that the article has devolved the comment section into shouting "fallacy!" to each other, while not recognising the irony is that they're also committing a fallacy (fallacy fallacy, or fallacy dropping as the lw list names) themselves.
I am indeed! Thanks for the kind words Paul!

If anyone is interested Webamp is open source and can be found here: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp
Dark mode has big issues with use generated content. you make a logo, diagram, or screenshot for your README, you can't make it dark/light compatible.
I still use HardwareGrowler all the time with Growl, and it is super useful for unobtrusive notifications about usb connects, IP address changes, battery levels, etc.

Here's to hoping for a future for HardwareGrowler still.
> I'll answer with my own hypothetical. If I write a program that dynamically links a library performing the same GPL'd fluid sim calculations, it is presumably forced to be GPL, because it links to it. What if someone comes along and runs the program but at runtime uses LD_PRELOAD to override the dynamic linker, linking it to an alternative library that presents the same interface. Is the program still required to be GPL?

I've never believed that linking made your code necessarily GPL in the first place. I don't care what the FSF says, they're not exactly unbiased.

> I think you are specifically responding to my "does not work without" interpretation overly literally. Clearly if the program is written for and tested against a specific interface of a GPL'd program, it is intended to work with that program.

> On the other hand if it's written to call into some kind of standard interface, it no longer requires that GPL program specifically, but could work with any program implementing that interface.

Well that's basically how the standard already works. If your code is using a specialized enough interface, sharing data structures you got from the GPL code, then it's derivative of the GPL code and needs to follow the GPL.

So while "process boundary" is an inexact tool, your suggestion of "does not work without" doesn't seem significantly better to me.
> if you are from rich family

Yes, rich people have it easier. There is no path for your life to be better by complaining that life is unfair. You could vaporize all the rich people, and it still wouldn't make your life any better (and would likely make it worse).

The good news, however, is you don't have to be born rich to become rich in a free market country. Lots of people do it - 85% of American millionaires are self-made. There's even a book about it and how ordinary people become wealthy - "The Millionaire Next Door".
A Byzantine failure in the real world 11/27/2020
It still can be detected if you have two identical compilers with and without the backdoor. So we should collect all versions.
Hanging sheets of foam-backed mass-loaded vinyl might help. But maybe not practical :)
I recently put together a museum of ~68k Winamp skins if you want to feel that nostalgia a bit more: https://skins.webamp.org/
The teacher there is not what most people imagine it to be. And like, obviously Aristotele could not benefit from cheap printing.
I think that is a difficult question to answer as so much has changed but there is value to being listed on the app store just as is there is value on having your product on a birck and motors shelf.
Lol, Jordan, it's almost like all anybody has to do to summon you is say "winamp.js".
Someone can spin it as "A gaming platform that takes 50% platform fee complains about app platforms taking 25% platform fee".
Misinformation is a problem orders of magnitude more dire than the worst 10% of purveys of lies being forced to leave youtube and facebook and promote their crap on bitchute and gab. The real degree of censorship is minimal and liable to remain such. You don't understand how societies process information in the context of our increasingly balkanized asylum.

Allowing the lunatics to spread their message via effective platforms that are designed to promote your brand of bullshit to the people most likely to be vulnerable to it does NOT stop it from festering it actually maximizes the spread of the cancer. If it spreads fast enough you wont have a society to inform anymore because fascists only believe in free speech when its their speech if they gain enough power they will quickly take yours from you.
There's no Jailbreak needed for installing apps and alternate app stores. Just a permission change to install F-Droid, Amazon App Store or something else. Another permission change in developer settings lets you unlock the boot loader and install alternate ROMs like Lineage and get root. A few of the cheaper phones sold by carriers as part of pre-paid plans and such might not be able to unlock the boot loader, but you're still free to sideload any apps you want.

I wish there were more big name apps that would get on F-Droid or one of the alternative app stores on Android. The more competition there is, the better for developers and users.
Being timid is strongly connected to your upbringing, your upbringing is strongly connected to culture and culture is strongly connected to race.

Sure, saying "X are too timid" is a stereotype, but pointing out at a diversity seminar that you should be extra observant around X because they tend to not speak up for themselves is just good advice. Many cultures value being quiet and doing your job a lot more than others, and those values get passed down by parents for at least a few generations after immigrating. If that group doesn't have a good support structure (no BLM equivalent), that only adds to the fear of speaking out.

If you're a manager that gets many complaints from group Y but very few from group X, knowing that might lead you to do some more investigating and discover group X is being treated even worse, they're just not reporting it. Using a heuristing to optimise your search given imperfect information, if you will.
Is there a benefit if you

a) can't verify that the software made available to you is what is running on the machine you use and every single one being used?

b) can't compile it yourself before use?
Brilliant write up. Thank you for posting this. It makes me want to do a fire drill to see if I can use the same tools and techniques.

The remote-control magic sysrq trick is also fantastic.
He wasn't gifted anything.

The article is loosely worded but what happened was that first he invested 3 months of his time (while holding other jobs to support himself) into Winchell's training program.

Winchell is a franchise of donut shops. I don't know what the deal was back then, but today "Winchell's has a franchise fee of up to $0, with a total initial investment range of $3,400 to $44,700"

https://www.franchisegrade.com/franchises/winchell-s

His first donut shop was a Winchell franchise. A franchise is not a gift. He had to work hard, make the business profitable and pay back portion of the profits back to Winchell.

He became rich by extremely hard work, saving all his profits and re-investing them into opening more donut shops.
If I could play Roblox on Android with a direct APK and bypass Google Play, and another 25% of my money went directly to the Roblox developer I'd do it in a heartbeat. But with Apple I don't even get that choice.
When they can be used as drop-in replacement to play actual flash content on websites.

Which may be possible to do as a browser extension..

ruffle does have a web version but it requires the website owner to explicitly include it.
I have left jobs because of culture but not before trying my best to improve it. If the culture is structurally harmful though it depends on top down change not bottom up.
We should be addicted to taxes. Control mechanisms often reveal where we truly want to go.
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It’s us. I was the same, now when I have a fresh Mac (like at work) I like to grab my dot files, my ssh keys, and remove a few items from the dock and I’m good to go. I don’t even do the last that much since I mostly launch from Spotlight.
You’re right, but Growl did much more than the notifications in classic MacOS. Also, Apple took their sweet time to get their notification system for OS X.
I wonder how all comments supporting Israel here are greyed out.

Like there’s no chance Iran or specific scientists could actually planning any evil.
Imagine having well paid customers.
Thanks for insights
> but you can't do this on Apple's phones.

You can a couple of different ways if you are a power user, but its a bit more work than most are willing to put into it…
Haha, this is so true. I started from "how the heck do I setup a Jekyll blog". Now I'm thinking to move to Hugo. Haven't written anything of substance yet.
Cool story bro. Completely unrelated to the comment you replied though as that was not the point they made, but since you’re in a sharing mode, I’m interested to hear:

1 – Who paid for your education in your native country?

2 – With how much student debt did you arrive in the US?

3 – How did you get your starting capital including flights, rent money, etc?

4 – What are your rationale explaining any of the social issues in the pre-COVID America? (homelessness, foodbank, opioid, incarceration, etc...crises)

Really interested to hear your take.
You might be right in the general case, but ZFS is extremely mature and reliable; frankly I trust it more than ext4 at this point.
I still trust it to not sell my data to the highest bidder for marketing purposes and such.

The NSA and other state agents may or may not be capable of reading my emails, but I don't think they would care about anything I write/receive and for sure won't sell/publish it because of the risk of the world knowing about their possibilities. It's still opposed to my interest in privacy, but the main thing I care about is my life not being an open book on the internet for everyone to see (or even just marketers), and ProtonMail sells that to me as a business model, which I still believe in.
Merely being available on the app store doesn't meaningfully constitute marketing and there is absolutely no reason to suppose that they saved anything whatsoever.

I know little about the apple store but there is a lot of content on the play store with most of it bring drek and the search is terrible.
How to Make the Most of Hackathons?
A Portable Wii the Size of a Gameboy Color – The Wiiboy Color
While it is possible for people at large to make contributions (did so myself) a large majority of Chromium developers are paid by Google.

If you look around https://bugs.chromium.org/, you'll see that most developers have google.com email addresses.
I have a similar problem in mind, it could be an SVG served in a web browser, and then instead of frames you would have an event series of updates, kind of like MIDI does for music: turns certain notes on and off at certain times. So I could have a timestamped list of updates to apply to the SVG (move to x / y coordinate, apply this filter, append these childNodes) -- just use CSS transition to interpolate the movement from one coordinate to the next. You could stream these updates from the server at very low bandwidth.
> Believe in yourself and anything is possible

This sort of Chicken Soup for the Soul, chessy simplification is indeed not useful and not going to help people who read it gain much at all.

However, as many others have pointed out, the simple fact in this world is that, to be successful, there might be a lot of systematic forces at play, and luck might play a huge role, but those are the things that you as an individual can't control. The only thing you can do as a person is always to improve yourself and strive hard. In that sense, I don't think either "high self-esteem" or "grit" are anything negative at all. Surely they're infinitely better than the contrary which would be "low self-esteem" and "don't work hard"?

I think a more realistic and helpful formulation would be "1. Believe in yourself, but don't expect to succeed magically without great sacrifices. 2. It may well be that luck > systematic barriers > individual effort, but that's irrelevant, since your own effort is the only thing you can control". Then you would be mentally well-prepared for failures but still strive hard regardless.

I agree with a comment that in terms of thinking about public policies, it's debatable whether too strong an emphasis on bootstrapping is a good thing. But that shouldn't be confused with teaching individuals work ethics. Those two can be viewed separately. You may not succeed with strong self-belief and a lot of efforts, but you will definitely fail with an overly cynical outlook and no efforts. It's not that complicated.

Maybe what this whole discussion reveals more is that, when a huge amount of people in a country deeply doubt meritocracy or self-made success, there must be some deep, entrenched systematic problems with the country, which may well be in decline in a lot of ways (when a country is growing and a lot of opportunities are open, the ethos would be well different). But still, as mentioned above, this doesn't change much the way in which one should perceive and approach their individual behaviors when they want to succeed.

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P.S.: As a side note. The highest-rated visual novel of all time, Muv-Luv Alternative https://vndb.org/v92, explores this topic really well. And I just read this post recently, which summarized some aspects of the idea perfectly: https://www.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/comments/7mczwb/at_4...
Black holes; dad biology; Bulgarian pop collapse; poor ancestors; Covid vaccine
The Donut King of this article is not a while male but a Cambodian immigrant who lifted himself and his entire community up economically.
They’re not an American but they’re also not from “other countries”, but from one specific country. None of the 27 countries of the EU have that level of corruption or hyperinflation either. My country has an absolutely horrible reputation for business and somehow I’ve had mine for almost 9 years without much bother.
I doubt there is much “honor” among the intelligence services usually involved in this sort of thing.
> can give them root powers in a single command

On Linux. Given that businesses run Windows or macOS, at least those with an IT dept., root in a VM has little more privileges than any other user mode executable.
From the page:

> FYI: This was renamed from "Tex" to avoid confusion with TeX -- This project is now called Teex!

Maybe adjust the HN title?
> In 2018, I graduated from EPITA, a french engineering “Grande École”

Epita is not a "grande école". This term is used for public engineering schools such as Polytechnique (X), Centrale, les Mines, etc. which have very very selective entrance exams. EPITA is a private school, which is commonly seen as "pay your diploma" for people who can’t compete in the traditional elite engineering circuit.
Markups are almost always a function of cost.

BestBuy is always teetering on 'not making money' - their markups are a function of market competition.

Apple is leveraging it's market power on all sides i.e. consumers, suppliers, and 3rd party marketplace vendors.

The massive margins (after markup) are basically a measure of that power.
Hard work and grit are tied to millions more cases of folks being among the working poor.
> Are people, in general, supposed to know Growl is?

No, but if you don’t then the post is just not relevant to you.
Bragging rights towards who?

What person doesn't hear "Yeah, hear about that supposed alien monolith recently? Me and my mate Geoff stole it" and immadiately think "Wow, what a dickhead"?
So long as the <picture> and <source> tags and the media attribute are whitelisted, you can do this:

<picture>
<source src=screenshot-dark.png media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)">
<img src=screenshot-light.png>
</picture>

And then if the site is doing dark mode toggling by some means other than `@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)`, it can go through and rewrite the media queries in all user-generated content, e.g. to change that one to media="all" in dark mode or media="not all" in light mode.
If you’re into this genre checkout this one made by an Indie Argentinian dev https://store.steampowered.com/app/1345370/Promesa/
Military contractors don't fight for themselves, they are contracted by a government, don't they? If you think they do, I am very interested in an example (I don't know that sector).

Funding a militia is a good one, that's some government-style play.

I think the Telecom and Orange one is more of some people within the corporations hand in hand with some people within the government.
He wasn't given anything.

Winchell was (and is) a business, not a charity.

The article lacks details but Ockham's Razor dictates that the most plausible was that Winchell and he entered into a business arrangement where he was running their donut shop for a share of profits. They provided the capital, he did all the work and Winchell got a cut of his profits.

He then saved aggressively and started buying more donut shops.

Notice that Winchell had similar arrangement with many other people and presumably they didn't become millionaires.

As to luck: he trained 100+ other immigrants to successfully operate a donut shop so if an immigrant that most likely doesn't even speak English can profitably operate a donut shop, maybe luck is not such a big factor.

As for why he became a millionaire and not others - I don't see any luck there either. He followed the same formula a hundred times: open one more donut shop. He was just more ambitious, worked harder, saved more aggressively and took a bit more risk.
In my experience in Canada from several years ago, the business teams in wireless telcos don't see it as providing you internet on device x. The ip connection on a device is a gateway towards a service, and the telecoms want to be providers of services, and the differentiator from competitors is having better and different services.

In my opinion the biggest fear of those business development teams is to be treated as or thought of just as providing internet on a device. As being just the pipe is not considered a lucrative market, and open to lots of competition where the race is to the bottom on price. This is also where you get lots of the anti-competitive behaviors, like not investing the effort to make a competitors service optimal within a network, as the carriers would rather launch their own service instead of making someone elses service they don't generate revenue off of work great.

To be fair, in the older gen access technologies, all internet access isn't equal. The access network was optimized for the usage patterns of a mobile browser, in the way it scheduled and idled the radio (I'm glossing over a large number of details). So connecting a computer via tethering that behaves differently and is far more chatty on the network, is actually a much costlier device to support. The current gen techs like LTE do operate much differently, to support chatty devices and apps. With a better optimized network and devices loaded with chatty apps, this difference is probably disappearing.

So if you put yourself in the shoes of a business dev person at a wireless carrier. They'll look at this and say, well we can have a $40 plan for just internet access. Or we can have a $35 plan for just mobile browsing, since that's more efficient and allows us to be more competitive when using the phones browser, and a $15 add on for tethering for those who want it and cost the company more. There are entire teams dedicated to just figuring this stuff out.

And this leads to some of the stuff I would get thrown from time to time, like the $60k bills (no longer allowed in canada, a rule was created to prevent surprise bills, but used to be a thing) when someone bought unlimited mobile browser for $7, and thought that meant unlimited usage for their tethered computer and started torrenting all day which was pay per use.

An unlimited $7 plan only works in the context of the way a user can use a mobile browser, and that's why the carriers think they can dictate how you use the internet connection. They have departments to tailor make plans that only work if they're able to dictate how the internet is used.

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with this model, I'm just trying to explain where I believe this perspective comes from based on my experience. I've been out of the industry several years now, and my opinions are my own.
Zero. Appstore gives no exposure whatsoever to 99.99% of the apps and games it contains. Say you are a book publisher and a library buys your book and stocks it on a shelf in their basement - do you think you’ve saved anything in marketing?
You literally just made a word salad that condenses down to accusations of irrationality without pointing out why.

Are you sure you want to so blatantly expose yourself in a thread that focuses on bad faith arguments and fallacies?
Two standard deviations from the mean is an outlier.
Another famous one is called Proteus https://store.steampowered.com/app/219680/Proteus/

A recent one that many love is called A Short Hike https://store.steampowered.com/app/1055540/A_Short_Hike/