skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need a plan to succeed, you just need to know that what you are doing is good. A normal general AI strategy is to try to increase the number of future options, it doesn't really plan it just makes choices which gives it more choices in the near future.

For humans it can be things like going to college, getting a computer science degree opens a lot of door so it is good even if you don't plan to do anything specific. Similarly as a company founder you can just try to do things opening doors, like Google focused on making a great search engine because they believed that having the best search engine would make all other aspects of the company easy.

You could say that focusing on areas which will give you more options in the future is a plan, but I don't think that most people see it that way. For example when you ask a kid why they go to college and they answer "I don't know what I want to do, I'll just study something interesting and see where it leads" you'd typically not say they have a plan. Yet many of them still go on to get valuable degrees and succeed in getting a much better job than the average person.
Sort of a subtle dig here -- What I mean is game engines _of this type_ where they have a whole IDE and everything tend to be so insular that even if they are open source, it tends to be hard to use parts of it without buying into the whole ecosystem. Maybe this is the nature of the beast when it comes to large game engines, I've just always dreamed of something modular that lets me pick what I want to use, and godot wasn't it either
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There's a catch for a moth fur farm startup though (plush might work better):

> The acoustic cloak works between 20kHz and 160kHz
Bazel’s Python integration quality is a level down from its Java, Go, and C++ integrations. It’s getting better though.
You are right. I would like to believe that it was part of westworld set tho’..

Because..2020 being what it is..this would probably be the year aliens might want to drop by and I hope they’d do better than that menhir with sharp edges. (Channeling asterix and obelix)
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I did noticed the slow load times, but honestly a small cost to pay. I wouldn't be surprised if most of it is related to loading and warming up webassembly.
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I was 2 months into my first job in the US when I worked out that my manager used "How are you?" as a greeting, no different from "Hello". No answer was actually expected.

It felt odd not to answer a question asked of me, but I'm used to it now.
Oh wait, I’m still using Adium. I had no idea it was no more. Admittedly, we only use it at home, over bonjour. My wife and I use it to exchange interesting links and the occasional file. It shows its age, but still works (most of the time) for this purpose.
I guess we all imagined that multi-billion dollar advertising industry then...
> I bought the camera used recently and didn’t update the exif date in the camera. I uploaded it on Wikipedia and I’m cool with it without copyright. The image is for the people. Patrickamackie2 (talk) 05:39, 28 November 2020 (UTC)patrickamackie

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Utah_monolit...?
The Bazel and JS story is in its infancy. Things will get better once certain big companies have time to adopt and mature into it.
Sure, a couple of examples of tasks that ended up lapsing on beeminder (certainly plus points for beeminder for allowing me to see my behavior in charts!)

https://www.beeminder.com/lambdaloop/mustdo
- doing 1 admin task per day (slowed down after 3 months, stopped after 6 months)

https://www.beeminder.com/lambdaloop/anki
- reviewing some number of anki cards each day (lapsed after ~2 months, recovered but lapsed after 2 months again and stopped)

(goal was private when archived, but yah similar trajectory)
- doing weekly reviews (lapsed after ~5 months)
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Nice write up. Seems like a good way to spend lock down. One $20 sale shows how hard it is to make money out of your side projects. That said looking at the side projects I'm guessing making money wasn't your of only objective. Makes me want to finish my daily Psalm and Proverbs reader app.
FWIW, The Salt Lake Tribune is a non-profit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21446317

I dislike tracking on the web as much as the next HN reader, but I can also understand how a small/cash-strapped local newspaper would be hard pressed to spend literally any time or resources making sure that they are compliant with regulations in countries on the other side of the planet.
Here's a clip of him voicing Vader, before it was replaced by James Earl Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSm9DDxQv8E

I do feel for him... it must be so difficult to live your life having played such an iconic role, yet to be so overshadowed (and, if stories are to be believed, without warning).
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When I first installed Growl I remember literally thinking "wow, this is really cool!"

... Being a tech geek means my nostalgia memories are 'weird' by normal standards.

Super happy now thinking about the time I first installed Growl
I remember something similar to this back in the late 90s/early 2000s, cool modern version!
I disagree but only because I have a lower bar in mind for success. Success to me doesn't mean being a multi-millionaire or at the top of your field of interest. To me, a comfortable middle-class life is quite good (and I'm used to it). From that perspective, a cushy upper middle-class life -- the life of most people in software -- is quite a success.
I still think the right to be seen before a judge is integral to the justice system. Automating it to the point where judges are simply rubber-stamping decisions ignores the gravity of legal proceedings and their effect on people's lives.
Based on their statements about Microsoft, I think OP's very eager to fix things, but rather clueless about what needs fixing and how to do it :-)
This actually simply isn't true. Firstly, pkgconfig works perfectly well on MacOS and always has. It sounds like you more have issues with Xcode than you do with anything else. I've not heard of a commonly used package requiring any sort of patches to get it to compile on MacOS. MacOS is a first class citizen of the open source world and things generally work perfectly for it.

Yes you need to spend a bit of work to find out what dependencies you need, but the configure scripts will tell you that when they fail.

> Homebrew is the perfect glue between the traditional Unix world and the somewhat unexpected Unix environment that macOS is providing these days (mostly a consequence of Xcode wanting to be a self-contained .app and /usr being read-only while still honoring the tradition of leaving /usr/local alone for you as a user)

On Mac packages have always naturally installed into /usr/local and not /usr.
This is a unnecessarily harsh response. Those credentials are great for you, but I'm not sure they add too much to the conversation.
> Anyone who has had to help elderly relatives should know the value of computers that works like an appliance and can't easily be screwed up.

The problem is they are still having trouble but I cannot help them as often as I used to.
Her immune system is getting plenty of work. She’s just not getting the viruses that are really good at evading the immune system. What doesn’t kill you does not necessarily make you stronger. She’ll get them when she’s a little older and her immune system is a little stronger and she’ll be fine.
I view it as more like developing country capitalism.

I remember a BBC description several years ago about what the internet was like in the middle east and India. It was awash with annoying ads and privacy violation but people didn't seem to care, presumably since it was all they knew and so much better than going without. With technology changing extremely-fast now, it is the wild west here too. Once AI is a commodity every can profit from, including on the defense side in finding you content without needed to give your data away, it will probably settle down again.
My nine year old isn't responsible enough to care for a derailleur (let alone park his bike instead of throwing it on the ground), but he can bike to school just fine with his internal hub and 15 % energy loss.
Homebrew never was a package manager until recently. It was in the name, it was designed for building packages from source on your local machine.
How does ethics framework help? In every country, almost all politicians and bureaucrats engage in lawful yet unethical acts.
Better answer: have backups. Fancy filesystems may save you if you use their features properly, but are also hell to do deep data recovery on when something does go wrong. And they are also buggier simply by being more complex.
The problem is that IT departments are really good at coming up with excuses why they need to lock everything down (eg. because of GDPR compliance), so the usual result is that employees just use web apps instead of more secure local apps that they can't install, or just use their personal devices instead.
Did you ever set larger goals? What was the purpose of doing those things? Did it build towards something? What were the milestones you were measuring or overarching purpose?

I would probably die of boredom and give up too after a while if it was "Some seemingly pointless small task repeated daily with no larger goal to work towards as a means to measure when I had done enough or keep me motivated and clear why I should continue to do this."
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When do people think the 16" with a M chip will be available?

I'm honestly for the first time in a decade a bit excited about an upcoming computer, pretty great.

Still running on a 2014 MBP that honestly is still great so can wait a bit.
> alias mv='mv -i'

While --interactive mode is certainly useful, a better option for this problem that I don't see mentioned often is the --no-clobber option:

-n, --no-clobber
do not overwrite an existing file

I often add --no-clobber to scripts to make automated file movement safer. An alternate "safe mv" alias can be useful, e.g.:

alias smv='mv --no-clobber'

(I don't recommend changing the behavior of normal 'mv' directly; getting used to assuming 'mv' means the safer 'mv --no-clobber' can be dangerous when you use use a different computer without your custom environment)
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Can you elaborate?

I see how it prevents some features, not how it introduces complexity.

From cited link:

> Even without this header, it is possible (unlike in Gopher) for clients to distinguish between a Gemini transaction which has completed successfully and one which has dropped out mid-transfer due to a network fault or malicious attack via the presence or absence of a TLS Shutdown message.
I make games on Roblox. When a user spends $1 in your game, you get to keep about $0.25 of it ($0.70 if you spend the funds to buy other stuff on Roblox).

Basically 1/4 is the Apple/Google cut, 1/4 is Roblox profit, 1/4 is what they say is used to run servers etc.

This is not a complaint. I’m a big fan of the platform and think they provide huge value to developers. Just thought some might find the economics of it interesting.
I think that `20 GOTO 10` is the single best line of code to start programming with. It yields lots of thrill learning that you can repeat whatever you want.
definitely deserves the black bar, thank you HN mods!
Bitcode is the bitstream file format used to encode the LLVM IR. LLVM IR itself is architecture independent (unless the code uses inline assembly, which is architecture specific): https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html

clang compilers (or other LLVM based language/compiler frontends) generate the LLVM IR, apply optimisation passes and run the LLVM IR through the architecture specific backend that transforms the LLVM IR into the underlying hardware ISA (or into a target ISA when cross-compiling). The original meaning of LLVM was «Low Level Virtual Machine». It is a widespread approach found in many cross-platform / portable compilers, e.g. GNU has RTL.

Here is an example of the «Hello world» using the LLVM IR; there is nothing architecture specific about it:

------

@.str = private unnamed_addr constant [13 x i8] c"Hello World\0A\00", align 1

; Function Attrs: nounwind ssp uwtable

define i32 @main() #0 {

%1 = alloca i32, align 4

store i32 0, i32* %1

%2 = call i32 (i8*, ...)* @printf(i8* getelementptr inbounds ([13 x i8]* @.str, i32 0, i32 0))

ret i32 0

}

declare i32 @printf(i8*, ...) #1

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Seamless tranlastion of Bitcode into an Intel or ARM ISA actually works, too: https://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/blog/20190518-Translatin...

Lastly, Bitcode and Rosetta are mutually exclusive. If the app is available in Bitcode, it is run through an optimising hardware ISA backend at the download time and then runs always natively, whereas Rosetta runs existing x86 apps through the static binary translation into ARM first (what Apple refer to as AOT - ahead of the time) and likely uses JIT when the recompiled application is run.
If the majority need to search something to understand your message, that is not a communications success. I am all for telling people to look it up, but most people realistically are not going to do that.
I would suggest ublock origin instead of ublock.
Even ripping the virus apart is probably overkill. There's been pressure to remove things like triclosan (yes, it's not anti-viral) from hand soap because soap already does a good job washing off pathogens, so actually killing them doesn't help much.
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Hey Chris, for what it's worth, your software was quite a lifesaver for me in my earlier OS X days back in college. Your software had great impact on my workflow and I'll never forget it. :)
In the early days maybe. But the article was talking about 5,000 donut shops today, so that's beyond personal loans.
The rated battery life may not have, but the actual, real world experience battery life certainly has. Speaking as the user of a. 2019 MacBook Pro with the DDR4 that I use for work.

I find myself scrambling for a power supply way more often than I ever did with my 2017 15" MacBook Pro.

Even with the older battery in the 2017, with more cycles, I get a longer battery life out of it than the 2019.
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You're just regurgitating a bunch of stuff without rhyme or reason. It's very tiresome to answer such comments and frankly not worth anybody's time.

iDevices always worked like you're describing. You can get a dev cert and install whatever you like, but these devices are not general computing devices. They're a different kind of device for those that don't want to admin their phone and instead want Apple to take care of it.

You obviously didn't even read my link because there it says exactly how Apple offers a power user option which allows an older version of Little Snitch to capture that traffic.

I have a Windows machine and I've looked at how they behaved with their telemetry from the beginning. They were so secretive and malicious that it beggars belief. An EU government even had to reverse engineer their telemetry communication because they wouldn't say what's in it. You're coming after the dust has settled and draw conclusions from there.

Google... where to even begin. What a complete waste of time this was.
The black bar is for Tony Hsieh, founder of Zappos. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25235490
> In the long term, we’ll of course work on preventing this from possibly happening again. Leaving very specific solutions like alias mv='mv -i' aside..

A bare minimum first step would be to stop using mv directly and wrap it in a shell script with appropriate error checking/environment setup/etc. This will take 5 minutes to develop and immediately prevents a whole class of operator errors from happening again. It also makes for just one place to put all the logic needed, so when the process to expose a file becomes mv and something else the operator’s interface remains unchanged.
Now your are just quibbling over what ultimately is a minor difference.
> There are "significantly higher mortality rate among people who regularly sit for prolonged periods" and "long term complications of prolonged standing" [3]. What's left for us? Floating? :-)

Alternating could be the answer :) I have a DIY treadmill desk, and I try to walk for at least an hour every work day, while working. Usually I get to 1.5 hours, in 2-3 sessions. It's been great - I sleep much better than when I don't walk, and it's easier for me to keep my weight in check. I've been doing it for 3 years now. I know this isn't possible for everyone, but it was easy to setup and, in the scheme of things, some of the best money I've spent.
Notifications could also be shown in the menu bar, with marquee scrolling. No need for them to pop up in a corner.
They don't, though; firestorms are the opposite of what you want for coal generation.
Shame that I can't view аny of the pictures or videos on Instagram without an account.
he was a manager, not a franchisee

[edit: added reference]
https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-mag...
I don't see how this is possible. Will you exchange one-time pads in person? That has always been possible. Any of the modern convenient ways to establish encrypted communications certainly require trusting a third party.
I read the stories about him, but never saw that original clip before, thanks for sharing!
I also include effects of long-term use of face masks as an unknown.
Nobody's stopping you from learning to read legal documents. Regardless, I wouldn't call computer code any less impenetrable than the code of law--it'd just be more up your alley if it was the former.
Well yes but it shows how bad suicide is in Japan. If you compare it to covid it shows how bad depression is in Japan not how unimportant covid is.
What are you talking about? uBlock Origin is not tied to Chromium, and is not controlled by Google (unlike Brave which is just a fork of Chromium).

Jesus, why does everyone these days automatically assumes that everyone else is using Chrome or Chromium? It's almost as crazy as calling Windows a "PC".
Alright, but most news here are about computers or technology. This guy apparently was a shoe commerce middleman. I don't understand why he's so famous around here, I've never heard about him.
how do you know it is for him?
I suppose each of the habits that I tried to build generally improved my life, but I'm not sure that I've setup clear milestones to work towards. That's something that has worked well in personal projects, so I'll give it a shot for habits as well! Thank you for the feedback!

It's hard to answer about overarching purpose. The habits I highlighted each help towards some purpose (organizing my life, learning languages), but only form some portion of that goal.
It's been up since yesterday, before Dave Prowse died.
As someone who has spent his childhood in one of these, I would download a VR version of this in no time. Could be a "fun" way to keep nostalgia in check :)
They did have a say, before iPhone and Android happened, devices have been branded, sim-locked, locked down etc by the carriers. I think they mostly stopped doing that in recent years.
Well that answers my question about some moths are so furry. Selection at work!
FWIW, we could also make such winter happen, with a press of a button (or a wrong tweet by the right person).
Winchells bought out their franchisees in 1971, at least 4 years before he did the training course and started running a winchells store. So it was a job, not a franchise

https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-mag...
Yeah @xupybd, I'm grateful though, many lessons along the way, some needs to be re-learned, too.

By the way, My favorite is Psalm 23. Have you read that? Also Psalms and Proverbs contains so many wisdoms, especially for business and personal life.
I agree with this, most of peoples problems comes from poor choices earlier in life. Like when I say that it isn't hard for poor people to get a good job as long as they are smart people go "But what if you are poor, have 4 kids, no house and have to work two jobs, huh, what would you do?????". Well, every person starts out young with no debt and no kids and at least 12 years of free schooling. That takes you really far if you are in the top 1% of intelligence. If you are worse off than that then you spent your life making it worse instead of better.
There is a glut of hand sanitizer nobody wants. It isn't as useful as plain alcohol.
Chains stretch, thus any sprocket system will inevitably end up concentrating the load on the last link or two of contact.

There are systems that actually could produce less friction, however they can't handle ANY contamination, thus ruling them out.

Your best bet is to look elsewhere. I would try reducing the contact friction as the links engage. To do this, I would recommend using BAM coatings on the chain and sprockets. It has lower friction than Teflon, AND is almost as hard as diamond.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_magnesium_boride
The story is beyond unreal - one of the most fascinating documentaries I've ever seen, especially the Washington lobbying with a briefcase full of cash for a famous politician.

Most people think of the UN as helpful, but they were the blood enemies of Albanians and other smaller ethnic groups during the Balkans conflicts. Why? Because the UN would turn a blind eye to armed groups who promised not to shoot UN peacekeepers, since Western European governments cannot tolerate casualties. The US military had to step in, and eventually ended the conflicts.

The 50 cal was likely hidden in a barn somewhere, and the UN couldn't find it, so had to reduce helicopter flights. The snipers were trained in the US.
Sorry to hear that. I tried to use a top-of-the-line 2019 MacBook Pro for some development while on the road and it doesn’t come close to a desktop, even when it’s augmented with external monitors, etc.

“Compared to the desktop (sitting), tablet and laptop use resulted in increased neck flexion (mean difference tablet 16.92°, 95% CI 12.79-21.04; laptop 10.92, 7.86-13.97, P < 0.001) and shoulder elevation (right; tablet 10.29, 5.27-15.11; laptop 7.36, 3.72-11.01, P < 0.001).”

“These findings suggest that using a tablet or laptop may increase neck flexion, potentially increasing posture strain.”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30373975/

And it is on-topic enough for both the link and the OP.
that doesn't prove it is for Tony Hsieh
Nobody actually knows, but I remember Apple saying something like a 2 year transition (which includes new Intel products). So if you're not in a rush that's likely the longest you'll wait.
One way to overcome this is 'regret minimization'. For example: "I will regret not trying this or not giving it my all"

This way even if you fail, you still come out on top as you should have less regret having tried and failed than if you never tried.
All the visual effects software I use have light and dark modes.
And for a slightly more comedic take there is Snatch Wars.

https://youtu.be/vskHXtPuvBk
So, with Nix (and probably Guix), one can configure the live CD the same way they'd configure a real installation

Hm I don't get what this means... Is there a demo or documentation somewhere?

I have rebuilt a Debian chroot inside Debian (which I think is pretty much the same process as building an ISO). It's a big shell script that downloads a more-or-less fixed list of .deb files, installs them, and does some fixups.