skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
France has had a million parties. Romania, too. Italy, same. If there's a will, there's a way. Most of the time there's no will.
> The sole thing propping up TikTok in the US - which is already beginning to fade - is the popularity of young people cloning mediocre dance routines. There is only so far for that one trick pony to go, it becomes increasingly boring with time.

for the first 15 minutes, sure.

once TikTok starts to understand what kind of content you're interested in (and it does this quite quickly), this problem disappears. i can't remember the last time i saw content like that.

it's almost like the difference between YouTube signed out vs signed in.
To be honest, I'm not working with my favorite PT. The benefits, in my mind, come from:
1. something is better than nothing
2. the sense of mindfulness. it seems that a lot of PT is getting the right exercises to do for whatever ails you. as a runner, I generally know what I need to work on but my PT has helped refine my list of things. By getting a shorter, focused list, I can think of my PT almost like a coach rather than trying to come up with my own workout plans.

In terms of insurance, I have a pretty standard high-deductible health plan and an HSA. I pay out of my HSA (and more recently out of pocket, since depleting the HSA) up to my deductible.

I want to run my marathon in the fall and I think of it so far like paying $X to be able to make it to that start line. I've told myself that I'm willing to do what it takes in terms of finances, training, and general suffering to make sure I can toe the start line.
Richard Feynman had a similar story about speaking Portuguese, coming up with a longish word because he couldn't remember the common one, and impressing his hostess.

But is "labyrinth" from a romance language? It appears in Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon with the remark that it is a foreign word.
You do realize the Chinese government is not just content with keeping to itself and has repeatedly trying to impose [0] its [1] values [2] on the west too, right? You could argue the west has been doing the same with China, but I'd say the Chinese government has been pretty effective at keeping the "good bits" of westernization and tossing out anything that clashes with its ideology.

Sinophobia should be completely out of the question, I agree, and some people will be blinded by rage and that's truly unfortunate as I, too, want Asian hatred to stop, but people should be rightfully upset with the CCP. The treatment towards Uyghurs has been appalling, and so the rest of the world is taking notice. Any programs that supposedly exist to help them will be seen as whitewashing. It's within our rights to condemn such treatment... for now.

[0] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/australian-publis...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/05/china-hollywood...

[2] https://www.aspi.org.au/opinion/chinas-influence-our-campuse...
I'm not sure that in the present day of massive teams and > $100 million budgets that there's much room for new celebrity game developers to emerge on that scale. Pretty much every gamer knows who he is.

Now, even the biggest breakthrough indie game with a 5 person dev team wouldn't become a household name. These days it's the studios themselves that get most of the credit. Which may only be fair: When there's 100+ people on a project, it's such a group effort that singling out a handful doesn't really represent the achievement.
I used to feel the same way, and still do about how good they are relative to my previous choice from 2005-2019 (wired Etymotic passive isolating buds). I bought them on day 1.

But I'm on my third pair of replacement buds now and still experiencing issues. They no longer have the random squeaking issue that the first two pairs had, but still have issues with Bluetooth connectivity, failing to connect 10-20% of the time, dropping their BT connection during Zoom calls, etc. I'm sure some of this had to do with BT itself, but I was hoping that I'd see no pairing issues at all due to the W1 chip.

I still use them all the time, and I presume I'd have way fewer issues if I used them with a single device. I'd actually buy a second pair if I only had a Mac and iPhone, but with work + personal Macs, iPhone, iPad, and HTPC Mac Mini I'd still be dealing with issues on most of my devices.
> The only way free/libre/“open-source”1 software can be a sustainable endeavour is to change what “sustainable” means. In an ideal world, housing and food would be decommodified and people could work on software projects for the love of it and place it in the commons for others to enjoy the use of.

This is purely the problem of “other than capitalism”. We don’t need 1000 people getting paid via socialism to work on skins for a game. The advantage of pay is that it can be used to persuade people to work on things they are much less interested in. How many of you like your jobs but would probably do other things if not for your good pay? Pretty much everyone!
Related .plan update:

http://fabiensanglard.net/fd_proxy/doom3/pdfs/johnc-plan_200...
If they invested the money in a 401k instead, the social security taxes would still go to current retirees by bidding up inflated asset prices. Building more cars in 1990 does not cause there to be more total nursing care in 2020, all your proposal does is change how retiree income is distributed.
You do not in fact need that. It can work, of course. Financial traders and salespeople, for example, often work in situations with strong extrinsic motivation.

But I've spent years in both startup and non-profit contexts, and I think intrinsic motivation is much more powerful, especially for work that requires creativity. The best people I've worked with, even in startup contexts, weren't focused on the money. They liked making things and solving problems.

And I don't think it's just my experience. McConnell's Rapid Development has data from surveys of developers; they were much more motivated by things like responsibility and challenge than they were by cash.
Yes, the Apple Watch was a fantastic purchase. I started noticing how much (or little) I was active some days. I started walking regularly the day after I got my watch, and it's been a slow build up since then. Obviously it wont' do the work for you, but it's a great tool if you're ready to get started.
Among the reasons I threw the book at you.
Blood Bath in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin
Or even better, just use angstrom, which is 1/10 of a nanometer. So you go from 1nm to 9Å. Plus it sounds cool and scientific and it's actually not (total) marketing bullshit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angstrom
Hmm no mention of Majorca yet on this fascinating page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measu...
Isn't transport by plane just cheaper to provide than rail? You don't need to maintain railway lines, bridges, tunnels, points, overhead power lines, signalling or intermediate stations. Routing congestion is reduced because planes can move in 3D. There is no rolling resistance and air friction is reduced due to flying high-up where the air is thin. Airports are built away from city centres, where land is cheap. The natural monopolies of rail-track providers are avoided. I think it would be amazing if train travel was as cheap as air travel.
OSX is a different abstraction layer from processor architecture. Until recently Mac hardware was x86 and all the deployment targets were x86. A VM could take care of all the other differences.
I found this reddit thread regarding running injury prevention and how foam-rolling and stretching may not be as beneficial as might seem interesting [0]. I also enjoy foam-rolling as it tends to alleviate soreness the day after a run/workout, but after seeing this I'm looking more into the evidence behind it.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/running/comments/nghttt/the_low_han...
> If you gave europeans those 25% as an extra net pay, there would be a lot more new cars on the road, a bit more savings/investments, and a lot more problems when people get old. "Smart" people would save and invest, and have better "pensions" than they'd have in the current system, and "stupid" people would work until 85yo, and die of hunger.

Part of the problem with giving everyone more money and expecting them to invest it is that it frees up that money for competition for things like better schools (housing in better school districts, private school tuition). You can sacrifice your retirement to give your kids a serious advantage. Tons of people do this, in part because once some start doing it, everyone has to a little or their lives actually get worse than if the money were taken out for retirement before they ever saw it. Then there's the "keeping up with the Joneses" effect which is very hard to entirely resist when the spending-norms for your income-peers are set by people who aren't putting away enough for retirement.
I wonder whether there is a curve of profitability that peaks in the middle and then goes down in both directions. We all know that most startups struggle to make a profit because they might not command premium rates and are growing. On the other hand, I can't imagine the crazy overheads of large corporates who can only make so much money because their prices are high.

I once heard (a long time ago) about a company who had paid $15K for a custom carpet that was used for one trade show over a week and then thrown away.
I have some sort of accent (I moved to the U.S at 10 after living in Germany for 4 years, Denmark in 6), but when I am in America, most Americans (maybe 99.9999% of them) think I'm from the U.S - although generally from some other part of the U.S than the one they're from.

I did have the experience of one guy thinking I was from Germany after 20 years in the U.S (hence the 99.+ percentile) but he was quite the outlier.

However when Americans meet me in Europe they immediately identify me as having a non-American accent, which really messes with all my European friends since they think of me as being essentially American.

So this disability thing seems quite context dependent.
Getting a repeatable build, every time
What part of finance uses this language? Is it in widespread use, or is like Goldman Sachs' proprietary language (I forget the name)
I love the idea of a hybrid with diesel generator for when I'm out in the bush. But I also want to note I've never owned an ICE vehicle that could go 500 miles on a tank.
Can agree the Sony 1000X-M3 is fantastic - the most comfortable earphones I've ever had and sound great. And yes, critical part of home office with kids and other noises.
macOS sandboxing does exactly that. The Mac App Store enforces sandboxing. What you are asking for is applying the App Store model from iOS to macOS.
My roommate changed all our bulbs to Philips Hue. The connectivity was really nice at first but they are so dim! It completely changed the mood of the flat at night.

I'd advise people to check their current bulbs and make sure the lumen rating is the same before replacing them, if I recall correctly most connected bulbs are around 1000-1200 lumens, and top out at 1600.
> unless you’re linking to a product page / review / other page that offers you a direct means of solving a problem

Embedded in this answer seems to be the mindset that only buying things will solve problems.

Don't get me wrong -- I'm not a consumerist luddite, I use my credit card points like any good and proper citizen -- but when your mindset is "all problems can be solved by buying more shit", well, that's a pretty lonely existence.

Google's gotta make money, and helping people buy useful shit is a fine way of doing it, but just don't fall into the mindset trap that everything solution in life is just a Google Pay away.
well yeah there's less crucial core stuff to pioneer these days
> That's interesting. I'm a portuguese language native, and I can relate, but not because we talk like this in portuguese:

The chap in question was from Portugal. If I understand correctly from your website, you're from Brazil, right? Is there any difference between how that word would be used in Brazilian vs European Portuguese?
I'd follow a Twitter alt dedicated to ELI5-style summaries of John Carmack tweets.
There's a really fascinating guide for English writing which is all about this: how the best writers in English have used the cultural connotations of Germanic and Latinate words for effect. When to using one or the other, but also playing them off each other, or using the tension between them, and so on.

Ahh, here's the book: Classical English Style, by Ward Farnsworth [1].

1: https://www.librarything.com/work/24739629
Wikimedia IRC group contacts support a move to Libera.Chat
I remember being kicked off #unix in Efnet sometime in 200x because I posted the controversial idea that work on IRC began in 1988 and I first compiled a client and got on in 1993.
I know you'll get downvoted but the last line did make me laugh.

Edit: delete some things I'm probably not qualified to comment on
> A quick search shows Irish origins actually.

I thought the British gave that phrase during colonial times.
I can also relate and my native language, Czech, is in the Slavic family. GP's friend probably used the word periphery because they knew it's common to the two languages, unlike the hypothetical Portuguese synonym. This applies to many words of Greek and Latinate origin. Their frequency is low in most languages, but they are understood in many languages. I find it sad that Brits are peer-pressured into giving up this aspect of their language due to perceived elitism. These 'elitist' words facilitate understanding across the various European languages.
> significant fraction of americans that are motivated by an antipathy for black people

And that fraction is probably bigger than you expect. Everyone thinks their side is not racist. Gun control advocates never talk about banning .22 and .25 pistols, even though that is what really kills a lot of people. But most of those people are black. Instead, gun control advocates want to go after AR-15s. It's like they don't want to win.
> I also wish we'd have stuck to a clearer separation of which modifier keys apply to the OS/desktop level, which ones are app level, and which ones are text/input level.

Oh, absolutely.

A small mercy is that software on Linux never seems to use the Windows aka super key in shortcuts. So i set up my desktop environment such that all its shortcuts use super. It means i have a completely nonstandard setup, but at least it means there are no collisions!

Apps mostly steer clear of ctrl + alt + funky key combinations (ie not letters), so you can have those for locking, rebooting, etc.

But it would be lovely if this was systematic, codified, and standardised.
Exactly the same in French, for what it's worth.
I'm not sure if anyone has ever written about the problem with the staff being less committed than the software.

It is easy for me to make some big long-lasting decision about something that gets encoded in software and then I can leave next year and everyone else has to live with that decision.

I don't know how to solve that unless you write software to be hyper-modular and able to be modified without a complete rewrite of everything. Either that or keep it simple, build it quickly and throw it away after 2 years when everything needs to change.
Former '99 GMC Safari owner here.

Watch out for (common) front axle failures & other wheel problems. Replacements are near-unobtainium now and after two times having to do so in short succession we finally put ours in the junkyard.

Miss the hell out of that van though. Drove it fully loaded across the country 10 different ways a couple dozen times. Ran that thing to dust.
> of your problems go away, and you can also pin your X.org version and manually update

> Partial upgrades are explicitly unsupported by the distro.

The problem is obvious. Sometimes you might have to pin a package version because the newer version does not work with your hardware driver, as you said, but then again Arch calls this unsupported.

I had the same problem in the past, not with Nvidia but with DisplayLink. For that reason I always leave a USB stick with a bootable Arch ISO in my Thinkpad, so that I can arch-chroot and repair the system. It happens rarely, but it happens to me and others as well.
Cool, I just ask because I have similar aspirations and never was able to pull the trigger to quit out of fear of losing income/falling behind financially.
Plane tickets to see my family for the first time in ~2 years!

Quarantine was not a lot of fun.
More RAM. I've got 20GB now (4+16) and it's just never an issue anymore no matter how much I've got open. Sure, I can fill it up if I tried but... if I'm not purposefully trying, it doesn't happen. Previously on 8GB I'd have to quit a few applications to run a big Factorio map, or my browser might run out if I didn't restart for browser updates in a few weeks.

It's one of the few nonessentials I've spent more than a few tenners on (I actually initially bought 2x16, but asshole lenovo decided it was a good idea to fixate one of the two slots to 4GB...). It was fairly cheap, not sure if that's still the case or if you need to wait another six years until prices reach 2020 levels again (iirc in 2013 you needed to wait five more years to get the same amount and speed for 2012's prices).
I think it was a bit of that, mixed with the iPhone launch and subsequent release of the App Store and third-party apps. Limiting app development and distribution exclusively to Macs through Xcode probably forced a lot of people into using them for the first time. Mac OS X also received UNIX certification around this time IIRC, I wouldn't be surprised if that compatibility pushed some more people tired of fiddling with their OS towards the "it just works" Mac.
My family emigrated in 1969. To Kentucky. Physical and mental abuse was, sadly, quite common and accepted, especially towards anyone perceived as an outsider (which I very obviously was). And unfortunately my parents were completely clueless about how to handle it because it was new to them too. It took me literally 20 years before I finally figured out how to navigate American culture, and even today I sometimes feel like a stranger in a strange land, especially watching the political trends (which, as a native German and ethnic Jew, are absolutely freakin' terrifying).
No. Realists accept reality as it is.

You're confusing realism with presentism, or perfectionism (in the sense that the present is "perfect" and fully developed).

Realism is neither.

Optimism is the rejection of unwanted, unpleasent, or inconvenient truths.
Naim Uniti Atom streamer/amp combo. Great sound, good looking, good app. Removed a lot of clutter from my living room.

Philips Hue, been using them for more than two years but finally bought like 14 of them for all around the house and can’t imagine living without them.

Biggest impact is an height adjustable desk. Got 4 heavy duty legs and rigged an IKEA top plate for a 3m long, 1.2m corner desk which has both my workstation and electronics (oscilloscope etc). I spend most my day standing and it changed my life.

Fox Flexair shorts. Got them for mountain biking but they were so comfortable that I have a few and practically live in them.
As previous posters have pointed out, Apple is not a third party.

"The company was founded in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd and structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and VLSI Technology."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Ltd.#Founding

More details about ARM licensing:

"Finally at the top of the pyramid is an ARM architecture license. Marvell, Apple and Qualcomm are some examples of the 15 companies that have this license."

https://www.anandtech.com/show/7112/the-arm-diaries-part-1-h...
TikTok is the evolution of Vine just like Facebook was the evolution of MySpace.
It is very important to know your audience in English. Speaking at the right level of the socio-economic audience will allow you to mingle freely with people in all walks of life as a peer instead of an outsider. Also if you think Latinate words are received more favorably the reaction you get from people when speaking restored classical Latin pronunciation is incredible.
> Not "some". It is literally lakhs of families every year. And if you look at the data of total number of JEE candidates from Bihar, that is actually a very significant percentage.

Across all the coaching centres in Kota, you have about ~ 150K students annually, so about 1.5 lakhs in total from all states. Even if the overwhelming majority were Bihari, it doesn't generalize. That's tells us more about the network effect operating in Bihar rather than something about dedicated students in general. That's a lot of kids for a tiny town like Kota, but a drop in the ocean when dealing with the scale of the JEE.

> the very fact that so many people from the poorest, most backward part of the country look at this exam as an instrument to better their lives should tell you something.

Yes, that the exam needs reform. The fact that so many students who 'succeed' at the exams benefited from enrolling in coaching classes suggests that the exam needs to be reformulated to eliminate that variable. It's not the only thing in the education system that needs reform, but it is one among many. If as you suggest serious students benefit from the community of other like minded kids, then self organizing study groups can happen and still save 25K/month.

According to me, the goal of the JEE is to identify ~ 10K kids with the right combination of aptitude & dedication, in a manner that's not blind to their wide ranging social & economic backgrounds. Attending a coaching centre is a signal for their family's desire, but I think we can find much better signals for aptitude & dedication.
My favorite is "why is no one ever whelmed?". I've seen this many times in popular culture over the years. People get overwhelmed and underwhelmed but no one ever seems to just get whelmed, even though it's really the same thing as overwhelmed.
You did still want on premise at the beginning, while going through the earlier phases of startup development. For example you need source code control, build servers, bug tracking, test setups, file servers, as well as developer workstations.
It's got to be my Apple Watch (S5). Since I bought it the gamification of closing the rings and monthly challenges has definitely improved my physical health. It also keeps sending those nudges during the day to stand or to go out and finish the rings etc. Which I feel are helpful in reminding me not to keep sitting for longer and move around. I definitely would like folks to try an Apple Watch to track and improve their fitness.
$30 for the cold brew machine seem reasonable, but I’ve been pouring coffee in plastic bottles to make my cold brew. $0, I don’t even filter it as it just deposits at the bottom, but I don’t know whether the machine is somehow better.
Yes with Pythonista, among others
http://omz-software.com/pythonista/
And even more details:

https://www.kline.sh/

See discussion on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27207440
Can the kobo's be rooted easily/at all? If not, can you sideload apps or books?
As someone who has been working in this area as a don't show don't tell fashion, i have the feeling this would be unprecedented in the sheer amount of size this apply
iPad Pro 12.9” 2020 model, and moving completely to #iPadOnly way. Do not own any other device, and ditched my MBP after buying iPad. Do not miss anything as a designer/developer and I’m happy as hell now. :-)
What brand ear plugs do you recommend? I bought some just last week on amazon (some foam ones from Howard Leight) and it was a toss-up which were good and which were bad according to the reviews and descriptions.