skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel you, and I suspect that's a typical experience for someone with smarts, ambitions, and dreams but who never made it for one reason or other.

This is a feeling I know very well. This sinking feeling you get when nothing clicks into place and you struggle just to exist. Your peers' efforts often seem like glamorous rocketships taking off to great fanfare as they pass you by with ease. The self-inflicted pep talk about overcoming adversity and just sticking with it until you make it, when it's already plain to see for your friends and acquaintances that you're going nowhere. The truth is, this is normal. It may be your fault, it may be bad luck, you'll likely never know. The answer "try again, harder, try something different" seems trite and besides the point, but it's still the correct answer in my opinion. Life is an exploratory process for most people.

I think the question "why did I never..?" is the result of expectations that do not match normal human lives. Especially when comparing yourself to the likes of Elon Musk and Bill Gates, you need to realize that these are literally one-in-a-billion lives. While they may be especially gifted individuals, please do not discount the immensity of their luck and fortune.

Literally every single thing in their existence conspired to get them where they are today. When you read accounts or biographies of people like these, I invite you to pay special attention to casual references about what other celebrities they were connected to from an early age. All those weird "oh yeah, Neil Young usually dropped by our house every weekend for a jam session" moments.

However, I allege this is completely unconnected to being good at something. Being good at something is a product of effort and ability. Especially in technical and knowledge areas, there are very few gate keepers preventing you from getting good. There will probably be gatekeepers preventing you from practicing that skill, but then again, getting good is only ever the beginning of a journey.
> If you and I disagreed in a meeting, even if we had a serious argument, I'll accept that as critique. If I followed it up by convincing all our coworkers to write you emails telling you to kill yourself, that isn't criticism thats harassment.

The broader cancel culture debate, including here on HN, made me realize how few people actually understand that threats and harassment do not fall under the rubric of criticism. Similarly, many people seem to think it's only harassment if convicted in a court of law, and if the law doesn't bother to pursue cancellers then what they are doing must not be harassment. It seems that we free speech advocates are not doing a very good job of educating people about what is and isn't free speech, or at least I thought we had been doing a better job.
You are missing the durability part here, leave aside the overall operational burden. I am just saying in case the drive storing your files catches fire or... simply fails.
Consciousness is something that is directly observed. In fact, it is perhaps the most directly observed of all phenomena. The problem lies in deciding how to think about it, and how to speak of it.
Problem discovery and formulation definitely needs to be taught and practiced relative to solutions. Who'd you think has more expertise on a topic - a fellow student who can crack tough exams or one who can set challenging exam papers?

The greatest of scientists were problem finders. Once you truly grasp and formulate a problem, seeking the expertise to solve it becomes a lot easier .. even trivial in cases.

Startups are about problem finding too. Solutioning is important, but not as important as addressing the right problem.
It's a fair question. I need to better document the security features built into Fossil. Here is a quick off-the-top-of-my-head summary:

(1) Fossil is designed to run inside a minimal chroot jail. The stand-alone "fossil" binary needs its repository database file, /dev/null, and /dev/random and nothing else. It can run inside a sparse jail. So even if somebody manages to find an RCE in Fossil, the damage potential is limited. They cannot shell-out because there is no /bin/sh in the jail.

(2) Fossil processes each HTTP request in a separate process.

(3) Custom static-analysis tools run over the Fossil sources at compile-time, and abort the built if any problems are seen. The source code and docs to these tools is in the Fossil source tree.
Digital Ocean spaces has pretty straightforward pricing?

Hetzner storagebboxes/shares are great value - but no s3 api.
There has pretty much always been a way to amend commits -- the difference is in Fossil this amendment is done by writing a new journal entry (artifact) noting which commit is being amended and how, rather than modifying the commit directly.

Generally, the compiled version (base+resultant set of amendments) is displayed to the user, but the entries which modified the commit are also available to be seen.
But the progress of those 120 years completely pales in comparison to the progress during their first 70. Make it 75 and you go from rudimentary cars and the occasional glider experiments all the way to Apollo and the Concorde. After that... not much. We moved on to information I guess, far more scalable wrt natural resources.
Yep. We should glorify yesterday's slaveowners, because they built the society we benefit from. /sarc
Well I expected better from r0ml.

I'm disillusioned with the FSF and RMS too but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Recall that "Free" software began when RMS wanted to fix the software in his printer and Xerox said "No.".

Consider the "right to repair" movement? Farmers can't fix their tractors anymore due to software. That's political and industrial, and yes, educational too.

> I’m willing to support a Public Software Foundation that advocates for [a rational governance framework for software and its effects].

Great! But let's do it without excoriating the old guard? I mean, is Step One really "pick a fight with the FSF"? That's the first thing on the agenda? Apologies for the snark.

I think he's right, though, that the FSF hasn't "moved the needle" and something more is required. Dunno what that would be...
With the Ever Given stuck in the Suez, here's a story of some ships that were stuck in the Suez Canal for not weeks - but years.
Wow, what a moron.
PUBG 1.3 APK hundred rhythms download and info March 2021
How many anti-(this vax) people do you think truly understand the risk reward balance?

Anyway, younger people have started being more affected, perhaps by new strains.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/24/americas/brazil-youth-covid-1...

And the vaccine do reduce transmission, although we don't know by how much yet, so if you're younger than 40 and getting vaccinated then you're protecting folks that are vulnerable.
... "Pick your shots. Make them count. When you get to the top 10 players you will notice they tend to play the same, Stealthy , stalking, planned attacks with the right weapon for the environment. ( unless your a no scope pro ) ...

a fun read for PUBG players
Floating point implementations vary among programming languages. On the same machine and OS (win10), the equation 0.3 - 0.1 equals varying numbers depending on the calculator;

Powershell says 0.2,

calc.exe app and libreoffice calc agree with 0.2,

BC running in CYGWin also 0.2,

Python 2 and 3 answer 0.19999999999999998,

JS in Vivaldi and firefox also answer 0.19999999999999998,

But Portacle (Common Lisp) returns 0.20000002
I'm more surprised you can even pay rent in Paris & eat for <1k a month.

You have to remember peoples circumstances too - many people have families or live in very expensive areas, they can't just suddenly stop everything to live on a lower amount like an individual can.
The irony is more so the unnecessary skeuomorphism, that, inside of a machine that is a strict superset in capabilities of another, simulates the limited interface of the latter machine to make it “look and feel” as though it be an actual calculator.

Obviously, a prompt that accepts arbitrarily complicated mathematical expressions and returns a value is a far superior interface than clicking on buttons with a mouse, but skeuomorphisms in design are very common place, in spite of their lesser efficiency.
To explain the irony for OP: A computer is or has been basically a fancy calculater, so putting a program called calculator on it, seems redundant. It would make more sense to call it e.g. algebra and have other programs called geometry and so on.
The Agile Philosophy.
where has it taken the free software movement? nobody cares about Hurd or GNU these days because the ones getting the applause are FAANG, but not the thousands of small (or big) maintainers doing the actual work.

can you picture him as the head of a company like Nokia, CISCO, an insurance company, bank or literally any other thing outside the raggedy FSF? He would have not survived past day #1 because public perception matters in power.

I wouldn't applaud the FSF as an organization too much considering how well it has served the majority of people doing the legwork nor even as a "movement".
Go is also great for building performant APIs (REST or RPC).

I agree is not ideal if you want a full-blown monolith web app. In that case a typical MVC framework will save you weeks.
"Unfortunately, the VS Code Theme Studio is not optimized for mobile devices yet. If you want to check it out, please switch to a desktop device."

I thought the website would at least explain what it is and show some screenshots before trying to load.
I have to say even me (who frankly leans right and is usually against most types of government aid that is dollars only) has tacitly supported stimulus since the problem is a government created problems. To be clear - Not that Covid is created by the government but instead that government is demanding that we do something to curb it and therefore is creating a hinderance to work. That hinderance is made up unfortunately of stimulus checks.

So to have someone who is vehemently against stimulus in regular situations not putting up a resistance (and I know others like me) is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity for those who support even mildly socialist concepts to push new spending and social welfare through.

In that case, if you are someone wielding that power during a serious crisis, it’s going to be hard to let that go.

As for the masks, despite being mandatory at my gym - if there are 100 people there, only 10-20 of us are wearing a mask. Disappointing but even if there are laws to mandate it, are police really going to run around and enforce it?
'Double mutant': What are the risks of India's new Covid-19 variant
I don't need to even read this to know from the title that it's a FUD piece.
only I'm not a yank
I wouldn't say it's a lost art, but perhaps declining in ubiquity. I'm an SRE; CLI wizardry is part and parcel of the job. jq is especially helpful/powerful for various services that output JSON.
RMS own words and actions have done far more harm to any "good reputation" he might have had, way before anyone on HN... posted links to those words and actions.
Maybe "public trust in science" SHOULD be undermined? I mean, I can definitely understand the appeal of "but my priest / pastor / president / doctor / scientist said that...", but I think it leads to a bad result overall.

Man, I am SO BORED today.
Dark Forest theory: https://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2021/02/heres-...

Imagine you are alone walking through a dark forest. You hear a noise. Is it your inclination to be friendly to anyone or anything you happen to stumble across while exploring the unknown?

I bet many of us sometimes think that, some advanced civilization is playing SIMs iRL :)

For the Trekkies (such as myself), we may be part of a bet of four Qs, each one started a 'SIM' game in each quadrant of our galaxy. The first one to find someone else, wins! Plot twist, one of the Qs made the Borgs.
> Big investors shun Deliveroo over workers' rights

It's more likely over Deliveroo fines which are coming. Italy demands €773M in fines for unpaid social security contributions. Italy won't be the only country.
> Android incorporates a patched GPLv2 Linux kernel.

This has nothing to do with "So we have broad adoption of GPL software". Android (AOSP) is Apache. We don't have "broad adoption of GPL software". This scenario doesn't exist.

If the software of the TV is GPLv2, you must have access to the source code (even with Apache this can happen to some extent). The TV manufacturer must give you the source code of the software running on the TV (with GPLv3 they should also guarantee that you can re-flash your devices). This of course is an ideal world, and it's the freedom FSF searches for.

This way, you (or someone else) can audit the source code and check for spywares. You might be able to rebuild and reflash the software.

Unfortunately not everything is open source. On Linux you have (for example) NVIDIA drivers that are closed source. You can put a spyware in there, even if Linux is GPLv2.

EDIT: btw, you first asked "What’s the next step?". I believe the next step is to raise awareness of the rights one has over GPLvX software and to be able to truly enforce those rights. Like if you ask Samsung for the source code of your TV and they don't give it to you, you can (like) go to the nearest police station and press charges.
Why AR and VR aren’t living up to their promise for the web just yet
Are AR and VR overhyped trends or untapped creative sources for web designers?
I was so curious to see if the website would have a shopping cart, and what would happen if I added one or two EUV lithography machines to it...
One mans spaghetti is another mans elegant architecture. Though sometimes it is spaghetti.

Having read the code and lots of other MS code. It is in pretty typical MS style. Though a bit undercommented for the random few modules I looked at. I am sure there are probably a few bits in there that are hairy. But I think I will skip that code review today.

Do not mistake someone else's "style" for "ugly". It is an easy trap to fall into.
OMG, I read 藩, cold: "han" feudal domain. I did stare at it for a second or three, but got it. I added it to my vocabulary maybe a year-and-a-half ago?

It, and words that include it, are not such common words. How/why did he choose that for the example, I wonder.

For that matter, how did I add it? It was due to some recursive chasing of words in a dictionary, where some word's older meaning was being explained as relating to some feudal situations in the Edo period, and that explanation used 藩 in it. Evidently, I have reviewed it 24 times. The fact that it contains 番 ("ban", number in a series, turn, ...) helps a lot.
AstraZeneca updates US vaccine efficacy results
Regular Expression in formal language theory sense can be represented as FSM's.

Many real world string pattern matching engines (regexes) implement features that can't be expressed using regular languages. Backreferences or any context sensitive extensions are not really regal expressions in that sense.
This 'misunderstanding' is an active effort. It is curated propaganda to provide a shield for those who engage in such tactics by playing the victim.
They should at a minimum include 2x stored as transfer - untested backups aren't.
I shoot lots of timelapse on a full frame dslr RAW. I import my image sequences into after effects at full image size at 16bit color (the RAW is 14bit native). Exporting those 1:1 image size would choke on 32GB. Upping to 64GB saw the errors go away.
Yeah, that's often the case but I wanted to make a conservative claim.

Two personal examples where Julia turns out to be much much faster than Python without me having to do anything but the most naive implementation:

- order of 10 float arrays with order of 1_000_000 elements each. Broadcasting an element-wise function in Julia or just doing a for-loop in Julia is way way faster than a pandas operation like col1 * col2 + col3 etc.

- the first time I tried one of Julia's optimizers (I think Optim.jl) it took 1ms on my problem. Sci-kit took 200ms. That's crazy.
I'm not the parent comment but I used an Anki deck from Nihongo Shark. It sorted the kanji by radicals. I did this for 2-3 months before burning out, but it made learning kanji much easier since I could see the radicals that they were composed of.
It's a window that mostly uses an edit control, but, having code in Notepad, it's not just a wrapper around the edit control. Could you write Notepad in a day or two? Perhaps. But it's deceiving to say that it's just a wrapper around the edit control.
Great illustrations, how did you make them?
Isn't the issue located near the bottom right corner of sqrt? Your screenshot doesn't include that corner.
In recent months, mainstream media has reported a great deal of concern that countries are using COVID as an excuse to crack down on the political opposition. Usually the examples given are countries in the developing world already regarded as non-free. But is there really no risk that stable Western nations, too, will be tempted to misuse laws? I don’t mean yours, where laws and enforcement of them have been relatively lax, but there are certainly reasons to be worried in Europe.

France’s government was annoyed for months by the Yellow Vests protests but unable to make them go away. When it saw that instituting COVID restrictions got rid of those protests at the stroke of a pen, could this not motivate the state to maintain restrictions on gatherings for as long as possible? Elsewhere, curfews and laws against protests have benefited the governments in power, sending them to reelection, simply because opposition parties were not allowed to organize publicly and show their strength.
Mailchimp, Survey Monkey, Asana, Jira, Github, Firefox, Opera etc ... maybe we're defining things differently but there's a bunch I thought.
> We don't have TVs that record us at home

You might want to learn more about "smart" TVs.

TVs with a microphone and "always on" internet connection are already a thing being sold.

I've seen demos of cameras placed directly behind display screens. Ostensibly they're marketed for better quality selfies on phones (as if that isn't a terrifying idea). But it could just as easily be in a TV.
Just read some of history.

I don't really personally have much of an opinion either way but objectively I feel RMS was foreseeing the sort of issues ElasticSearch and co are finding.

You can decide that GPL is too restrictive and give up more of your rights over the software. And it can bring short term gain, I honestly believe ES has to contribute some of it's success to being open source, but in the long run you might find you don't like the consequences.
This is so misplaced!

> When I try to copy successful people...

That is your first mistake! Don't copy. You are not them. You are "you". You are different from them. Adapt, don't copy. You should observe successful people and adapt some of their thinking to your situation. Just copying verbatim is not going to help.

> For people who are successful all the time, it is like everything always just clicks.

Because you don't see their failures. They rarely have time to talk about their failures. The motto most successful people follow is "Learn from your and other's mistakes quitely, but brag about your successes".

> People who are successful almost never fail it seems, and when they do, it is temporary.

Because "successful people" don't cry in public. They cry silently alone when no one is watching; gather themselves and start over again. You have not seen how painful it is to be successful and to maintain that success. I have seen people like these in my life.

> Elon Musk has never failed. Bill gates never failed.

Who said that?!? Have you heard of X.com? Microsoft was not an instant success. Microsoft was a software consultancy company for almost a decade before it became "Microsoft". Watch Steve Ballmer's Oxford Union speech and listen carefully when he reveals at what stage he joined Microsoft. That is never mentioned in the story you hear about Microsoft.

> They never stumble.

I don't know where you get this information from. Can you link to the source? The PR hype machine of these big companies, their job is to make the founders look good, always successful people and not failures. So don't go by the stories you read in the media about these super hero founders. It never works that way.

> Do you think it comes down to luck, genes, connections, hard work, etc. I know it is not hard work. Everyone works hard.

You missed a very important item from that list: smart work! Just hard work is not enough. It is hard+smart work, plus getting out and forming connections(they don't happen automagically, you need to cultivate it over many years!) and then comes the luck part. Genes has nothing to do with anything related to success.

> Some say you need 10,000 hours but not all hours are crated equal. It is evident some are getting way more mileage for their hours than others.

Those specific figures that come out of US writers/consultants/advisers/coaches is for click-baity reasons. Don't believe them. It all depends on context and circumstances when it comes to learning. 10,000 hours looks like is just plucked out of thin air to sell more copies of some self-help book.
It's only the letter H and R (as transcribed in romaji) that are not immediate for a French speaker but they are not difficult. Certainly much simpler than 'th' in English.
(Source: not my ears but Japanese textbooks)
Some anecdata: located in SF. I rarely order non-Prime items. But I did recently order a desk grommet mounted USB hub (not charger) that was only available from China. Originally predicted to take a month, it took slightly longer at five weeks.
OpenSSL 1.1.1k
Aviation largely reached "good enough" for general use. With phones and now video conferencing, there's very little legitimate need outside of military purposes to get somewhere faster than the speed of sound.
Most of those updates only apply to the latest. So it isn't just Android it is all the other parts too. For a few months you can only get security, but eventually they decide the only version they support is the one with whatever changed google made to the core not related to security as well.
For sure, and one of the best uses of theory out in the real world is showing someone when their design can't be handled by regular expressions because they designed a non-finite state machine.

Just a weird thing that I have more than once had to do this in my career when someone dictated something had to be done with regular expressions when the requirements were for something that regular expressions were incapable of.

Generally a fight every time.. the people dictating regular expressions as the solution are picking it as a solution because they fundamentally don't understand the difference between finite/non-finite automata, mostly because there are way too many CS degree programs that award Bachelor's degrees without teaching undergrads what the difference is between a DFA, NFA, and a turing machine.
I have never heard of anyone claiming that modern definitions of these terms should be literally projected back into the past - only that we can analyse the past with current thought on these matters, which seems completely reasonable to me.
Very US centric and very bias towards established acts with a large following.

That is not the cycle for every band. I'm sure there are plenty of bands willing to travel a few hours for a one off gig, especially in smaller countries. Bands where they may be fairly popular online but haven't done any tours as yet.
So it was intel’s fault apple could not release a laptop with more than 16gb? Then why were PC laptops available with 32GB?
Excluding the anarchist right, climate protection is exactly where a Libertarian would deploy government.
Because mercy is the opposite of justice.
Justice is giving to others what they deserve - reward for achievements, punishment for crimes.
Mercy is whthholding punishment for crimes and giving rewards for nothing.