skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm just doing what I'm supposed to.

From what I've seen, this is really the thing. Having a reasonably comfortable life is just about doing what you are supposed to do. Pay attention in school and make a decent effort at learning. Be sober at least most of the time. Get a job and take it seriously. Get married and be in a position to support your children before you have children. We've understood these things for millenia and they are encoded in our religions and cultural norms.

One of my favorite quotes from Calvin Coolidge: If all the folks would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
I think the West avoided using this as propaganda against the Soviets because that would only call attention to the equally massive and more recent Bengali famine, which was engineered by the British.
Re win32 I've had not-terrible experiences with dmake.
> I think I've only ever once seen any real use of comments in a real-life codebase. It was a postgres database, where columns that contained PII were commented according to whether it was plaintext or encrypted.

~10 years ago I worked on a database frontend that stored schema metadata (version, additional type info) in database comments ;)

I've maybe seen database comments used a handful of times. But I also worked a couple years as a consultant, so saw a lot of databases...
> then your sprocket pack needs to be able to move backwards, so you can put tension on it

I am assuming that's what the poster meant by putting emphasis on his frame being a fixed gear one. Those normally have horizontal dropouts to put tension in the chain.
Copyright for Choreography: When Is Copying a Dance a Copyright Violation?
The New York Times helped a lot with that too
Sublime Merge
Yes, but to my knowledge (for whatever my knowledge is worth on the subject), any stretching of the truth were a function of time, simply forgetting exact details. A non-trivial amount of of Solzhenitsyn's anecdotes in Gulag Archipelago were given to him verbally from other prisoners, so Solzhenitsyn's burden became remembering all of the nitty gritty on top of, y'know, literally living in a Soviet prison camp.
The choices are still available; it's just hidden beneath layers and layers of commoditization. Gone are the days when we could grow our own spices. Not really: you just have to move out of the city, to a nice European suburb and you can have a garden. Gone are the days when we could forge our own knives. Again, not really. You have to move to some kind of village, where you have access to the local smithy. Let's talk about a trade-off that most people actually face: in the US, they drive in their oversized cars to a mega-super-market and shop for the week. In Paris, I go to my local bucherie for my meats, my local boulangerie for my breads, my local poissonorie for my seafood, and my local fruit and légume marché for my fruits and vegetables. I shop once every few days. It's a big deal for me. I get really high-quality food at good prices, with a personal touch. You'd lament about not having this choice in most parts of the US.

Yes, computers have reached a new level of commoditization. So much so, that many users just use a smartphone and tablet. It's a lot more convenient than sitting at a terminal and with a cherry MX keyboard. But those choices are very much available; they just aren't available to everyone. If you really wanted, you can even design your own processor die based off RISC-V designs. And yes, you can totally build your own Linux system from scratch: I'd argue that's there's a lot more choice available in this regard. Remember the days of the simplistic GNU Stow? Today, there's Nix, and you can base your entire system on it. And use XMonad, rxvt-unicode and zsh, if you so desired; they're still maintained, last I checked. I'm sure there are packages for eccentric people to design their own cursors. FreeBSD and OpenBSD exist, and are quite viable. You could even base a system on SeL4, if you're into that sort of thing.

I wholeheartedly agree that this kind of commoditization is actively harmful and stifles creativity. Cashiers and librarians are walled into their little interface; in the best case, they might figure out how to play a game of Freecell. It's sad, but this is the price we pay to put multiple little computers in everyone's hands. Choices create fragmentation, and with fragmentation, there's little incentive to keep fixing the bugs on esoteric fragments. Every choice increases the testing burden exponentially, and to avoid special-casing each combination of choices, software ends up being written for the lowest common denominator. The result is something like Linux on laptops today: the defaults are so terrible that you're forced to mess with the touchpad driver to get basic usability.
Great channel about machining stuff with mills, lathes etc. with some comedy mixed in while also being very informative.

Also I found that watching machining of all kinds of stuff is strangely relaxing to me.
Godot's 2D engine gets several improvements for upcoming 4.0
Apple's terminal environment is POSIX-like. PowerShell was always a bit of a lame duck, or Microsoft wouldn't have bothered with WSL to get real power users to stick with their platform.
There is SmileBasic for the Nintendo Switch.
Donate time and money to groups championing a few common sense things the majority of the US supports--and the rest of the world already has. Ie. mandatory paid sick leave, mandatory overtime pay, paid maternity leave, socialized disability pay, higher minimum wage floors, etc. Hell, even support for single payer healthcare hovers between 55-60% depending on the poll. These are all likely to happen within the next 10-30 years.

And you might think, but that's impossible in our current climate! This time is different! But looking at it historically, the US changes course and its public opinion shifts dramatically all the time. All it takes is a few viral news stories and some hit TV Shows and we (as a group) change our opinion.

When public opinion changes, policy changes follow (with a 10-20 year lag or so) since the US is a democracy. Think Marijuana legalization, Gay marriage legalization, etc. etc.

If you don't like interacting with the law making political machine, you can try to help influence the public opinion side. Create media, PR campaigns, etc. There's tons of things you can do instead of spending time/money to avoid Amazon. They are doing nothing wrong based on the rules of the game we set up for them.
I was confused why it’s hard to get a license for windows 10 on ARM. Doesn't Windows 10 already support ARM?
To see the full picture I also recommend checking this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekulakization

Rich villagers were declared as enemies of the Soviets. They were killed and deported even before 1930.

Nowadays Russia still denies it was a man-made famine. With all the evidence. Think twice before giving this country any credits for its "achievements". It's all on blood and terror.
its kind of weird to suggest that anti-socialist / anti-communist propaganda is somehow getting suppressed by some sort of socialist leftists. What an inane delusion to think socialists have that power, when in reality the west has a long tradition of making history fit their capitalist imperialist agenda by any means necessary.
>Europe has largely adopted it

I'm a European cyclist and only ever seen conventional chains.
Is it very obvious? Is it more pronounced in specific categories? I keep hearing this, and I've never gotten an obvious fake, despite a large amount of Amazon usage. But maybe I've just been using fake stuff?

That said, I almost only buy the "shipped from and sold by Amazon.com" stuff, so maybe that's why. And if it's something that has obviously similar photos from a bunch of different "brands", I hop over to AliExpress to buy it at the source for 1/10 the price.
Hold on mate... yes... you're picking on them :) I'm not saying you're crushing them with your righteous anger and to please have mercy on them, just that it's a tad odd to single out one particular trillion dollar company that is at least trying to do something in all the areas the original poster was complaining about.

And I do feel that we should focus on the biggest offenders (i.e. Google and Facebook) first, because if there's a precedent the others will get the message quite fast.
Actually, modern socialists tend to be better at it then modern conservatives. Modern conservatives are too focused on trying to use it politically in contemporary politics.
Exactly right. The rules of quantum mechanics are in their essence not much more complicated than high school algebra. It is the logical consequences of those rules that are hard to wrap your brain around.
Some of the things Apple makes are certainly "security features" and not security features, but to your main point: Apple designed their security model to be "trust us or trust nobody" and the security model most users want is "I trust me". It is eminently possible to do that without going back to the wild west of not having any security, actually, the issue is that Apple forces you to go there if you aren't happy with anything they add on macOS.
I'll tell ya what I see: no rollers. Pins rubbing (wearing) both sides of the tooth. Including the back side, which will never exert any forward longitudinal force on a chain unless it's made of magnets. I also see a highly suspect FEA diagram on the right, where teeth not even engaged still show non-zero stresses (lighter blue, not the darkest blue), indicating that the color/stress scale has been changed compared to the baseline on the left. So it's not an honest comparison. Add to that the fact that this is a 'better mousetrap' that requires you to first replace all the mice in the house, and I guess I'm a bit (to use one of Bike Snob NYC's favorite words) nonplussed.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25235490
I don't think internal hubs are amazing :)

Derailer systems only absord energy in the chain and bearings, and a well maintained system can maybe lose 1.5% of energy. Internal hub gearing can lose around 15% energy.

The shop keeper won't tell you this, he just wants to sell you a bike. If he starts talking difficult things, buyers might just go to the next shop to buy what they had already chosen.
I asked for corporations that have armed secret services that aren't accountable, while comparing a corporation VS a state. These corporations don't have anything like I asked for, or I am massively overlooking something - please send a direct link to an example of a documented kill or something else comparable to what CIA or FBI does.
I bet narcissists love that people write articles about how they can control your thoughts. It’s unavoidable though: we have to protect each other

/s
There is however a belt drive systm with a split belt. Seems to be quite new and expensive and propably come switch its own upsides and downsides.
On long distance flights weight becomes bigger problem than volume. Singapore airlines 20 hr flight has no economy at all and I presume volumes of space in cargo area.

That said seats that can fold into three level bunks could be possible, but airline has no incentive to make cheaper business class. It’s their best interest to make economy as bad as legally possible to force you into upgrade.
Same for me, but ’93, a different computer model and I borrowed a Qbasic manual from my brother who was in college
This design is specifically aimed at track cycling which is as close to vacuum conditions as you can get if you intend to run the rider on ambient oxidizer.
> trying to trick/persuade/convince (choose freely) thousands (literaly) of people to go this path, benefits tremendously ycombinator - not the persuaded founders.

Why so negative

It can be fun for the founders also if the startup fails, and not always anything to regret

And good for society in general with more innovation, eg YC's request for startups page: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/

Many things there are really good for this planet
You are right. Perhaps he meant if it can be used with the Rohloff system or not.

It can be used with the Rohloff system. But, I think you need a compatible chain ring since they are talking about a new tooth design requirements. The Rohloff system has the chain ring attached to the hub gear. So you presumably have to change that chain ring yourself.
Thanks for lending more context to my questions.

You're right — it is helpful to know what happened. It's tragic to hear of Tony's death, and it's even more disquieting to speculate about the causes. Arson/murder paints the event in a very different light from a mechanical malfunction or, god forbid, suicide. And, as you mentioned, fire deaths are exceedingly rare, so the whole matter is cloaked in mystery.

I'm pretty shocked to hear of Tony's passing, as I was also very moved by his ethos and writings. That he died in a fire is all the more shocking — a death from cancer or something similar would be easier to accept. Perhaps this is because cancer and serious illness feels almost inevitable, and this doesn't.
I also find the idea that “if you teach kids bad procedural programming, they’ll form bad habits and struggle with modern languages” to be specious.

I grew up with BASIC (Q and TI), then learned a small amount of MATLAB as a physics student. When I took a class in Scheme later in college, I was blown away by how its syntactical constructs prevented me from making the kinds of errors that plagued my imperative/procedural programs - at the cost of some cognitive overhead.

Cutting my teeth with GOTO didn’t make me resistant to structured (or functional) programming, it gave me perspective on why it’s often necessary.
Apple doesn't let you run software Apple hasn't approved on most Apple devices (Phones and Ipads). On the remaining devices Apple doesn't let you run software Apple has blacklisted.

Apple won't approve software that uses non-apple-approved services, like payment providers. Apple won't approve software that dares to inform users of these limitations. Apple won't approve third party browsers. Apple demands payment in order for them to approve software. Etc.

Apple apparently has been silently and without permission or an off switch sending the name of the developer of literally every app you launch to Apple. This is far more invasive than anything I've heard of Google or Microsoft doing - not that I'm a fan of their telemetry either. Microsoft in particular also gives you tools to examine what they're sending in detail: https://www.howtogeek.com/348699/how-to-see-what-data-window...

On Apple devices which allow power user options (the minority of devices), they are still limited. For example Apple was (is?) making their own traffic bypass Little Snitch.

Apple generally seems to remove functionality in the name of "design" and "safety" as far as I can see... I'm not sure how you think they're generally adding functionality.
Can we retire this already? I have been hearing it for ten years at least.
Or will it stick around like the "year of the Linux desktop"?
Out of curiosity, how long is the term on the lease?
Honestly it's pretty strange that assignment has a directionality.
Back in the early days of GPS, I recognized that you could either navigate yourself or follow directions (whether from a machine or a person). I at any rate find that I don't really have the mental capacity to simultaneously follow instructions and think too deeply about whether this instruction seems to make sense or not. I assume this is at the root of people doing dumb things because the GPS told them to.

If I didn't have a GPS in an unfamiliar area, I'd have a map. And if it were a remote area, I'd have both in any case. Although when traveling in normal times I do tend to depend on having my phone or at least access to a computer, the further I get from my home area, the more I try to have backups--including paper-based ones. But I expect that is increasingly uncommon.
A key word here is “governance”.

I searched for “rust programming language governance”, and immediately found https://www.rust-lang.org/governance. Nice and clear description of how it all works, how changes are made and who makes decisions, making it very clear that Rust is its own thing and not the property of or beholden to any one company, and that it’s very deliberately an open project, not merely open source.

I searched for “go programming language governance”, “golang governance” and a few other things, but I can’t find anything at all. When I look through their website, it’s Google this Google that, supported by Google, in order to contribute you must accept Google’s contributor license agreement, that kind of thing. I’ve found mention of “Go maintainers” in about two locations, as being those that can approve changes, but I can’t find any mention of who they might be (search terms included “{go programming language,golang} {maintainers,core team}”). Go is absolutely a Google open source project, as they say in a few places.

I imagine Go is a good deal more open to non-Google contributions than Swift is to non-Apple contributions, but it’s still very firmly Google controlling Go, setting its direction, and managing the project, in a way that was never the case for Rust.
Maybe you were a kid then, but selling home PCs back in the 80s and 90s was derided by adults as a cash grab.

They were business tools! Omgurd! You’re just trying to get kids addicted to media!

It’s pretty fascinating being older and watching these arguments repeat themselves.

In case you haven’t noticed, political life is all about ownership. You’re sold disposable garbage on a cadence by people that own the machines that make it.

Your agency was sold to suppliers. Computing as a system of doing has matured.
I did that using emacs 25 years ago, and it wasn't even a new feature at the time.

Back then the package was called ange-ftp. It was superseded by something called efs (same author), then later by something else, which I still use occasionally.
>What's the Black Bar at the Top For?

It usually means someone I've never heard of has died.
Needing a warrant to buy something at the corner data store is a bit of a weird ask. They should instead ask that the corner data store be shut down
Elementary: one roller pushes the tooth, the other one pulls.
Do keep in mind his work is literary and political and not a work written by a historian.
Inigo doesn't know how to play. This video is awesome to watch both as a programmer and a 3D artist, cause he covers so many areas of knowledge. Amazing!
That was my feeling too. The applesauce I buy is from Trader Joe's, and it has exactly one ingredient: organic apples.

It's easy to add more sweetness if I want, for example if I mix it with unsweetened plain nonfat yogurt then I will add a bit of maple syrup too - yum!

Same for other similar products. Most fruit jams are way too sweet for my taste. The excessive sugar is probably required by law in order to be called "jam" - yuck! There are some "fruit sweetened" spreads that are sweetened with grape juice, but then the grape dominates the flavor.

We used to be able to get Kozlowski Farms fruit spreads that were sweetened with apple juice - a much better pairing for berries. I haven't seen them in a while locally though.
My Grandmother can no longer get house insurance, as she has hoarded so much stuff that it's a fire hazard and worse. She's also viciously anti-government in most ways.

A while ago she showed my our family tree. Half of it was suddenly wiped out by the Holodomor. And over the next ten years it was pruned away to almost nothing as most relatives where enslaved and then murdered in The Gulag (which most people also don't know anything about). It's not something you can really argue about with her.
Nice, I wouldn't have known without the title :)
Outcomes are a monotonic function of talent, effort, and luck. One is mildly controllable, one you can control in quantity and quality, and one is out of your hands.
You could create a swap file rather than a dedicated partition:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1M count=8192
$ mkswap /swap
$ swapon /swap
$ echo "/swap swap swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
> I don't remember anything about broken backlights being a thing? Can you point me to an article or documentation where this was widespread?

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/20/apple-sued-over-s...

> What ways has this actually impacted you?

None of Apple's mistakes have impacted me because I refuse to purchase broken hardware powering a walled garden.

> are these apps that have had any active developer attention in years?

I've got apps I run in PCem because Dosbox won't cut it. Why should I stop using software I prefer simply because someone has made something similar, wrapped in electron, running atop a hideous tower of dependencies and bloat? Hilariously, emulating a 90s PC running FreeDOS takes less memory and CPU than utilizing some modern alternatives.

> Do you mean quality control coming out of their factory? That their defect rates have gone up? Or do you mean their products are being poorly designed?

Backlight failures are both design and factory quality. The app lockout was software quality and design. The keyboard was design.
It has to though.

X = Y; // what should change?
I seems to me that the thing with self-esteem is much like with money. Happy, confident people do have self-esteem but trying to increase self-esteem doesn't mean one becomes happy and confident - much like wealthy people have money but merely giving the same amount of money to someone doesn't make that person wealthy. Wealth, like happiness and confidence, comes from another place and money, like self-esteem, is just the signal of how it shows up.
Oh, but you can see those from time to time Belgium. Largely adopted? No, not at all.
But there's nothing on this site once you do disable JavaScript. I was hoping for a 2020 take on a server-side rendered web app.
If Stephen Hawking’s dream was to become an Olympic gymnast no amount of work would have made it happen. This is the example I use when people make this claim.
What do you mean? Genrules are very good at running she'll commands (or even entire executables).

By custom rules do you mean macros, or full on custom rules?
Please predates Bazel IIRC. It just didn’t gain as much traction. Please seems considerably easier to operate, but it doesn’t enjoy Bazel’s rigorous usage (although I’ve only encountered bugs when trying to use Bazel to build Python 3 projects).
So are you protesting against any accusations of racism regardless of the specific circumstances? Otherwise why bring up something that is only relevant in general instead of this particular situation?
Ask HN: What's on Your Christmas List?
because it had a brief description, mentions the RISC-V part that I'm interested in, with a direct link to video and slides.
> if the foundation underlying those simple emergent concepts turns out to be horrible complex

That is extremely unlikely. The simplicity of the universe is not just an artifact of our best theories, it appears to be baked into the very structure of those theories. If our current theories are even in the ballpark, then there are very few places that hidden complexity could possibly hide.

Take quantum randomness, for example. It used to be thought that the apparent randomness could just be papering over our ignorance of some hidden underlying mechanism, but it turns out that we can prove that this is not the case. We can eliminate entire classes of theories based on finite observations, and one of the classes that we can eliminate (with very high probability) is theories with high Kolmogorov complexity.