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You mean because they "failed" with Unity? (which was technically not a failure I'd say, just a political/funding failure)

It seems to underline the necessary financial backing. Canonical barely pulls in 100 million in earnings.

Why there isnt't billions of dollars available for Linux alone from governments worldwide for securing and improving Linux since it is currently becoming the backbone of the worldwide data processing and security infrastructure is mystifying.

Why NVidia, Nintendo, AMD, Intel, Sony, Samsung, all the Chinese handset makers, Compaq, Dell, and all of them don't provide a billion a year to linux desktop so they can have market leverage against Microsoft and/or enable them to push their hardware out to the OS for utilization by the public at large within months (as opposed to decades for Microsoft) is beyond me.

The funny thing with the M1 architecture and OSX: it highlights how the entire PC stack tying themselves to the Microsoft behemoth has them cornered. How do you move to a competitive PC ARM architecture without waiting for MS (even if it has an arm-compatible windows, let's face it it doesn't have the software support or organization behind it) to move it's bloated carcass in about 5 years to support it properly at the OS level.

Meanwhile, Linux can support an Arm arch right now with practically all the necessary software.

If someone smart was with Linux, they'd have long ago been coordinating a desktop alliance, secret or not, and selling it actively to the major powers who could fund it with chump change.

Intel makes 20 billion a quarter. AMD 4 billion. NVidia 7 billion.

And then there's the US military.

And then there's google compute, AWS, and all the other cloud wannabes besides Azure. Linux is the reason your platforms mint money. Wouldn't you like companies and people to move to cloud-based desktops?

Why the EU doesn't fund this for economic competition with american software mystifies me. Why Africa, Asia, and South America don't fund it for language support and an affordable computing ecosystem for their countries is beyond me.

I'm not a Torvalds hater, but a super-technical person leading Linux was fantastic for the first 10 years, but really the last 15 needed a different skillset.
The “good news” here is that probabilities of 6C warming are reduced from what they have been historically. If you’re paying any attention you are aware that 6C warming would be beyond catastrophic, and that many very negative effects are likely to be seen at 4C or even 2C warming. Indeed we are already seeing strong negative effects from warming despite only 1C increase over the last 75 years (2C since pre-industrial times).

So good news, the planet is less likely to be uninhabitable except in high latitudes.
> It's possible to farm animals ethically.

I believe that most artificial meat consumers would argue that it's impossible to kill and eat animals ethically. After all that's why they choose to eat the more expensive artificial meat instead of the real deal or no meat at all.
Check out https://sleepio.com. They offer a variety of strategies to help you correct your sleep over a 6 week period. It helped me increase my sleep and create better sleeping habits.

Unfortunately, it does seem limited a bit by regions; your mileage may vary.
As I understand it, it has nothing to do with "will your hardware support it", it has to do with preventing people from saving the high quality stream to disk. Hence the reason they don't allow 1080p except on certain, locked down platforms. Pretty much every device/player in existence supports 1080p at this point, Netflix just won't allow it.
Better-written sources:

Smithsonian Magazine (start at "Within a few years of the warrior’s burial" for the Minoan-Mycenaean link): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/golden-warrior-greek-...

Archaeology.org: https://www.archaeology.org/issues/352-1909/features/7900-gr...
I've never actually tried this, anyone like it? Any specific product particularly good/bad?
The best way that did work for me is do not use alarm clock.

Setup a proper sleeping place first: a) it must be dark enough (if you close your eyes, wave your hand in front of your face and can see brightness changes, then it's not dark enough);
b) it must be cold enough, and you likely need to have proper warm and heavy blanket;
c) it must be quiet enough; if you have noisy environment, you can mask it by using source of monotonous noise; I've found, that air purifier produces decent enough masking noise;
d) air inside the room must be fresh.

Then, take a break and allow yourself to sleep as much as possible without setting an alarm clock or having to worry about things to do. Your body will figure out sleep schedule automatically.
I can’t make this shit up. The dude has published many books and found people who actually believe it all…

If this startup thing doesn’t work out, maybe I’ll just start a cult. :)

Edit - The second paragraph was a bad attempt at a joke. Don’t start cults. Fuck David Icke.
Look up monoculture and what it's doing to the land. Destroying it.

Why are we subsidizing soy crops anyways? Soy is terrible for your health. It contains loads of phytoestrogen and allergens. We are reliant on exporting the crop because it's not a part of the typical american diet. It's just bad news altogether.
Apple's upcoming VR headset will be standalone and powered by an M1 chip
> An off by one error may go harmlessly unnoticed at worst, or trigger a harmless segmentation fault at best, in which case it's very easy to find and fix the silly problem

Yes, but even better if you don't write the bug to begin with. It can also fail harmfully, like failing to trigger a segfault but producing the wrong computation, resulting in sending the wrong amount of energy to the X-Ray machine, the wrong amount of money in a bank operation, firing the wrong number of missiles, etc.

> code that hides things tends to be much harder to debug, when it invariably fails

In the general case, I agree. In the case of foreach loops (or maps or folds) the good thing is that they are well understood abstractions, not something your fellow coworker wrote and that you must understand from scratch. They are common idioms, just like you don't debug (under normal conditions) how a for-loop with an index works internally.
Aside from denying them the benefits of Vitamin D and sun exposure, you're basically confining residents to a petri dish of circulating virus.
> aside from first-moved advantage,

Impossible's marketing is actually the same as Beyond: "we were first to have a great replica!" No doubt the next competitor will say the same thing.
I have an easy to remember scheme I use for those annoying security questions that alleviates the need to write them down. I came up with this idea because everytime I am asked for these stupid questions I get very annoyed and my default reflex was to internally curse profusely. So I thought I would leverage this reaction.

My scheme is this, for any security question there is usually a primary noun you can key off of. So I just construct the following string: "fyour" + PRIMARY_NOUN. The "f" is spelled out to be the more profane form of fornicate but thought I would keep it clean for HN.

This allows me to always have an easy to remember answer to all security questions where I can satisfactorily express my complete disdain for them. I have had to say these out loud many times to CSR's and it usually gets a chuckle.
In my experience, people who praise work as a virtue almost universally enjoy work, or at least find it satisfying (or, more tragically, don't really enjoy it but simply don't know what else to do with their time). Could the "hard work as virtue" view, at least in part, be a post-hoc justification for how one enjoys spending life anyway?

I've experienced both sides of the coin. Until I was about 18, I had essentially never enjoyed work (for school or menial labor student jobs) and avoided it as much as possible. Learning how to program changed that for me, once I got the hang of it it felt like you can play a puzzle game and people will consider it work. From then on I worked quite hard, just because I enjoyed it.

But I remember the feeling of hating work, and I don't feel virtuous for enjoying it, I just feel lucky that I happen to enjoy work in a lucrative field.
For those confused about the difference:

A Ponzi scheme "pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors"

A pyramid scheme "recruits members via a promise of payments or services for enrolling others into the scheme, rather than supplying investments or sale of products"
A single bite makes me ill, but apparently that's not typical.
Yep, you have to learn new recipes but this is what I've done and works well. Don't really miss meat after redoing my cookbook to focus on south asian, buddhist, and other traditionally vegan or vegetarian cuisines. Dinner guests also prefer getting a freshly made curry instead of a sad frozen bean burger.
I shouldn’t need a 4k monitor to watch at a better quality than 720p. The only reason I use Edge these days is because that idiotic (and purposeful) limitation isn’t present there (for some reason).
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I tried this about a year ago but it was pretty futile. The issue is that data brokers repopulate your info every ~6-8 weeks. It's designed to be nearly impossible to keep up with.

This bothered me so much that I actually started a company to solve the problem of continuous opt-out from data brokers. I think we’re priced pretty reasonably given how important this stuff is ($99/yr).

As far as trust goes, we went through YC W21 (as RoundRobin) and I’m happy to answer any questions people have. www.crowdshield.com
You're probably thinking either Innovis or NCTUE (which does utilities and telecom stuff). Innovis makes it real easy to freeze or put a fraud alert on your report with them
She’s the most reliably wrong expert there is.

She argued India hit herd immunity right before their delta wave. And about a month ago said the pandemic was finally done. (She says this every few months)
Make it hard for others to use other browsers, then push them in to getting in to buying things they cannot afford. Very unethical and I hope there are repercussions for all this horrible behavior.
Absolute obedience to the alarm clock: when it rings (early) in the morning just jump out of the bed, when it rings (early) in the evening just stop everything and go to bed.

Waking up every day at the same time, including week-end and holidays, is the secret to excellent sleep patterns.

Good luck.
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In Discordianism, there is something called the Law of Fives[1], which says, 'all things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to 5.' There is also a memo from one founder to another quoted which says, 'I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look.'

Robert Anton Wilson has some interesting personal experiments about this in his book Prometheus Rising, where you go looking for a quarter on the ground under different personal contexts[2]. Other instances are things like the 23 enigma[3] or ancient aliens.

I took motohagiography's comment to be on this phenomenon, where the state of mind, or how you prime the mind (e.g. with images or ideas), changes what you tend to find. It can be applied in all sorts of contexts -- prime the mind with ideas like conspiracy theories, and you see them everywhere. Fnord.

[1] http://www.principiadiscordia.com/book/23.php

[2] https://nevalalee.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/looking-for-quart...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_Enigma
Did a legendary trout ride the rails from California to Missouri?
> I would switch all my beef consumption to impossible if the cost were significantly lower.

Is the cost significantly lower in non-subsidized markets like Netherlands, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Norway? Or do Impossible and Beyond charge more in those markets?
Why Omicron and not Nu?
I have just tried. For `cat pipe` I get zero results related to `cat |`. On first 5 pages only cats, I didnt try to go beyond.

I dare you, remove all google cookies, logout (like - dont use chrome*) and try again. I think you will get to the same results as I did.

And regarding google spying on me - I will rather not use it at all. Even without the searx, there are viable alternatives like qwant.com.

As I have said, I believe the results are based on your queries from past (AI based) and if you are not using the google spyware ecosystem, the results are horrible.
Well GDP is not the only measure of human development, for example child mortality has more than halved since the 1990s
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DYN.MORT?locations=Z...

I'd call that a sucess story.
I'm assuming they used ops SSN. They may have been trying to write bad checks or launder money through the account
My Year of Not Buying Books (2019)
This means there will be PS4/Nvidia 1070 level graphics performance in a standalone headset. That means Half Life Alyx will run on this thing...

Meta should be scared. Qualcomm has no hope of matching the M1, plus the tight integration of hardware and software that Apple has always been best at.
Or, you know, Xi..
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> Also, waking up early has been almost a challenge for me, and I can't say how many opportunities I've missed because of that.

Do you mean you missed so many opportunities that you lost count or that you're not sure if you missed any?

Unless you have a good reason to believe otherwise, I don't see why you'd miss any opportunities due to not waking early.
I agree with you in principle, however calling it "identity theft" is to be discouraged.

Assuming this is to take out fraudulent loans, the 'theft' is occurring from the bank, not OP. Calling this "identity theft" is an attempt to put the onus of blame on OP for the failure of corporations to protect personal information and combat fraud. My point is that OP needs to strongly push back against this.

This is for the bank to fix, and OP should put a legal claim into the bank (aka bill them!) both for their time and any financial losses they suffer due to the banks negligence.

Regards email vs snail mail; a recipient cannot claim registered snail mail was not received, unlike the case with email. This is a reason legal departments use registered snail mail :-)
That's totally fair. Perhaps for people such as myself, who grew up in a time where the fringe of society pretty much stayed that way, the publicity that anyone can get today can create a simulation of normalcy.
I recall a similar experience when I first went vegetarian a decade plus ago. It only lasts a week or two.
How was "Omicron" chosen as the name of this variant?
RSS is definitely doable but I don't know what would need to be formatted because Rabbet only contains short text. I think it would necessary to link to the user's page to show all their pages for it to be a linkblog. I'm also planning to open source it.
A few things...

- Morning sunlight, I go for a 15 min walk right after breakfast, apparently the natural light helps reset your bodyclock (bright light triggers natural morning hormones like cortisol)

- Regularity. This is key. Try and get up at the same time every day. I have an alarm every weekday for 7:30am (it's off on weekends, but I usually get up at the same time anyway). And I have an alarm at 10pm, to remind me to get ready for bed. I used to hate alarms, but regularity will help your body and sleep-patterns in the long run. Alarms are really the only way to achieve this.

- Bedtime routine. I do a simple 10-minute breath meditation when I go to bed. I find it helps clear my head and get to sleep quicker.
Hence, my issue with the "infinitely configurable" idea: once you add plugins to the mix, it feels like responsibility for the end user experience falls on no one, so the users end up shouldering that, and, worse, sometimes develop a Stockholm Syndrome for it.

For example, to me, it is _insane_ that in 2021 async prompts are not a completely solved problem. The shell should provide a mechanism to do so easily, rather than duct-taping thin veneers over syscalls via a scripting language.
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If you talk to actual vegetarians and vegans, you'll find that there are more reasons than just ethics. It's a very diverse group of people.
Can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs, y'know? I'd like to believe that people will stop using Windows now, but I think at best they might just lose some market share over the next 5 years.
Look for hidden mold. For some people, inability to sleep at night is a reaction to mold in the home.
The main thing that sorted out my sleep routine was fixing how I wake up. In the end that helped me fall asleep in the evenings.

I have one of those Lumie wake up light and radio alarm clocks. From about half an hour before the set time it gets progressively brighter. Them at the set time the radio comes on (BBC Radio 4 in my case). Then a few minutes later my echo alarm goes off, by which time I'm already awake, woken gently by the light and sound.

You could go the IoT route and have you main room light slowly brighten and play podcasts or radio streams.

In the early days I had an electro mechanical alarm clock that did the job of the echo. I put it the other side of the room so I had to get up to turn it off.

For getting to sleep I realised I needed something to distract my brain so I have a speaker pillow. I plug my phone in and listen to podcasts. I use podcasts that are kind of interesting but which I don't care if I fall asleep to. It's enough to giv my brain something to keep it a little busy without actually being stimulating enoug to keep me awake.

The other thing is to stick to your routine most of the time.

However it's also entirely possible that you are naturally a night owl. Chronotypes are a well established idea.
I think that ship eventually left harbor. :( Scanning their charts, July and August spiked heavy.
>What makes for a project's success then?

I've seen a few factors play an important role:

(a) dev's persistence - many projects come with grandiose goals, go some of the way, but the dev loses interest after 1 year or so and abandons them.

(b) good marketing - many project are good and maintained well, but just don't market themselves nicely. A nice landing page, examples, documentation, screenshots, and even some superficial stuff like a nice logo and icon, all play quite a role in the success of one FOSS over another. It's not enough to welcome users/contributors, you also need to make yourself known well.

(c) solving a unique need (this is not necessary - e.g. you can be "just another editor" and do well - but it's a big bonus if you have that.

>I ask because I don't know how long I've really been on "the scene" myself and I do truly still feel there's something special about projects like Alacritty and Rust.

About Rust yes. It has proven itself, shipped code in major companies, got books, wide adoption, even interest from Microsoft, Facebook, and others.

Allacrity, I'm not so sure. A lot of big early claims, but still nothing special to write home about.

It's also that Rust solved a real problem (memory safe, close to the metal, modern language), whereas Allacrity is just one of many terminals.

And nobody really thought "what I need is a secure terminal" - as if terminals are a big security issue. A faster terminal sure, but there are several plenty fast terminals, with GPU support and everything.
I've gotten in the habit of reading for 30min-1hr before bed recently and It's been helping a lot, especially when I'm not in a good place mentally. It adds a nice buffer between whatever I was doing in the evening and bedtime. When I don't read I tend to end up lying awake in bed for an hour or two, ruminating on whatever the stressor of the day was (or worse, picking up my phone again to distract myself). Reading gives my mind something else to focus on while I wind down, and I usually find myself starting to drift off naturally after 30-45m.
According to the article the in-game economy relies on recruiting new investors/players in order to use the new investor/player funds to pay out returns/rewards to current players. How is that not a Ponzi scheme?
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I was mostly quoting it to reference it's context. The full quote (by Stewart Brand) is:

“On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life.

On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

So you have these two fighting against each other.”

So yes, NFTs are absolutely one of the myriad of (stupid) ways we're trying to grapple with this conflict as a society.
There was a whole HN thread about this[1]. I suggest you read the top comment, there's definitely more than what you probably think.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254588
Like most things, just do it and you'll get used to it. The satisfaction might be due to culturally being raise in a place that eats meat.

> I would literally pay double not to cause an animal to suffer ever again.

Think of it this way. It's not about _you_ it's about the _animals_ suffering. It's a selfless thing to do and fairly simple. Most foods are not animals they're plants! It gets easier.
My issue was snoozing my alarm for hours which contributed both to poor quality sleep and being late to start work.

The solution was an alarm clock that makes you get out of bed and cannot be snoozed. I use Alarmy [0] and have to go downstairs and take a picture of our house thermostat every morning before it can be turned off. I'm sure there are similar apps also.

It was a horrible first fortnight, but after that it's honestly been the best thing I've done for myself in a long time. Getting up at a consistent time every day has had so many benefits.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alarmy-morning-alarm-clock/id1...
note that the Higgs is not responsible for all mass as is understood by a layperson. The Higgs field gives mass to subatomic particles but it doesn't translate directly into the mass of objects as we know them.

The mass of the three quarks (one up quark and two down quarks) making up a neutron is only about 1% of the mass of a neutron. The rest of the mass comes from strong nuclear force interactions via gluons which are themselves massless.
It’s certainly not as ironic as getting COVID after getting the vaccine. Now THAT’S ironic
The hate should be directed at SQL builder part of most ORMs. Which gets complicated pretty quickly, and it's like learning a new language when SQL works usually much better.

If you write your SQL, and some tool, like code generation, then maps it to object, you are golden. It's the part you'd have to write anyway. However if the code generation goes bust (like gets abandoned like most hobby mappers), you should make sure you can take the code and continue like you never used the generator in the first place.

It looks like the authors suggestion SQLC is pretty close to that. It seems to generate a lot of code though, so it might be an issue if you don't want to maintain SQLC, test it out in here: https://play.sqlc.dev/