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There are successful products who are in this space - scrivener, for example. None of the things you talk about what authors needs are in the realm of app space, they're business problems.

The question is what did your app offer that scrivener didn't? What does this app offer that scrivener doesn't? I can't even tell if this Lunette is a web app or has an installable version, subscription, etc.

The problems you're talking about - marketing, front cover, typesetting - those don't really matter until you have at least a draft written, and probably not even then. A writing focused word processor isn't supposed to solve those problems, and once you have a manuscript the issues are solved by hiring an experienced editor (except the marketing which not everyone can do).

The writing part of the app is where people will spend the overwhelming majority of their time, and intruding on it trying to convert them to buying your other services is likely to chase them to scrivener or some other competitor. You're just trying to solve writing unrelated problems with an app that is marketed towards new writers that dont have those problems in front of them, and everyone with money can solve it without you.
It will depend on if partisan media can successfully associate it with a political attack on the other side.
This! Unironically, this.

The tragedy of the author of the post is that they expected that the product of their work would be treated like art, but it turned out their boss had different vision.

Nothing of value have been lost, because the artistic value of author's work has never been actually appreciated in the first place - but they tricked themselves into thinking it has (because of paycheck I guess).
I think you can work only a little bit of highly visible overtime and get most of the benefits without all the hours.

If you’re known never to work overtime, the few times you do (without complaining) it’ll highlight your efforts.
2500 points. Wow. I haven't seen upvotes like this... ever.

Unmentioned so far- I was watching the University of Utah's 50th Anniversary of CS sessions[1], and- apologies I forget who- someone mentioned that it was Carver Mead who largely promoted "Moore's Law" as an idea. Just some random trivia, to highlight how such a strong piece of identity around such a more dynamic & wide-ranging man came about.

Hopefully not the "Douglas Engelbart: creator of the mouse" identity.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUFp6sjKbkE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY

He has a github model to go along which you can train.
The closest to PC's as we know them now (in that they actually ran MS-DOS) would have been Apricot's range of machines.

The Apricot PC ('83), Apricot PC Xi ('84), and Apricot XEN ('85).

I actually used the XEN at the time, since a relative had one.

However these were not IBM compatible, in that they used different support chips, and had different memory maps.

The Apricot XEN-i ('86) actually was IBM PC compatible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricot_Computers
> I find when doing software dev, I need to take frequent breaks to let my mind rest

I've found this too, but I don't usually track the breaks as work (unless at least somewhat related to one of the things I'm working on, or that we have in the backlog, like reading an article about a type of query we are going to need to use, etc.)

Are you tracking these breaks as part of your 80 hours in the 2 week period?
Japan sizes in centimeters, precision to 0.5 cm. I always look for this.
You also need to worry about the review the host will leave you. I won an Airbnb dispute but the host left a toxic review that means no host will every accept me again.

Plus they got my negative review of them removed on the grounds that one sentence accused them of something the Airbnb terms state isn't their responsibility. (Editing isn't allowed).
Not everyone works for massive tech companies. If you work for a FAANG or MANTA or whatever it is, then sure, you're probably viewed as another cog in the machine.
We are talking about banning china owned TikTok in the USA, which would be like banning US owned Facebook in china. So ya, maybe you have a point?
They aren’t allowed to publish them.

And they do use denial and remark codes to indicate the services don’t justify the diagnosis.

https://x12.org/codes/claim-adjustment-reason-codes

https://x12.org/codes/remittance-advice-remark-codes
What happens when the RSS feed domain is taken down? What happens when the torrent runs out of seeders?

It's not the books and PDFs that are being updated, it's the collection that needs to be updated.

A blockchain is far easier to manage and far more censorship resistant.
It doesn't really matter if it's hard or not, you will simply just keep running in to problems like this without such a policy.
> I would start a webtorrent+ipfs+i2p site

Libgen?
If they aren't PCs, and aren't correctly called microcomputers, what are these?
Khan Academy claims that doing their test prep is associated with a 115-point increase. Fortunately, their test prep is free, and is usable by anyone with access to a computer/phone/library.

I don't know about the SAT prep specifically, but much of their content is also downloadable for offline use, which is pretty cool.
People also had children before vaccines were invented. That doesn’t mean it’s okay not to vaccinate your kids.
This is hilarious in part because I see it in myself.
I think you'll find that people aren't programs, and that learning to write prose without graph data structures and algorithms will make you a better communicator, and is worth the exercise on its own even without conducting experiments on expression.

The ultimate goal is communication, not experiments.
I love proxmox but there’s a reason it’s rarely used in enterprise production…
Could be worth a try. I didn't find the first half as boring as you did, but I did find the second part more fun.
I was looking for that (tail recursion) and it seems the story and feature request goes back years ago and still hasn't been added. Somewhere someone wrote that the issue is with LLVM but can't the tail call be transformed to an iteration before that?
Strace is great but it only shows syscalls. the section of code calling the stat will have to be found.

stat returns 0 on successful completion.
If it works for you, you should totally do this. Though I'd suspect it doesn't work for most people in the long-term, because the title/scene/prestige starts distracting from the process and work.

“I don’t believe in titles, I believe in work.” — Virgil Abloh

Also! Paul Graham on keeping your identity small: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
In what situations do you miss goto the most, when implementing a VM?
People are already generating entire apps with AI in minutes. Software engineering as a profession is finished. We are all now slaves to Roko’s Basilisk.
A quote from a book about an artisan who has fell into an error.
Yes, it basically makes it useless, as far as I can tell. I don't know what the proper fix is, because timedatectl was broken.
It reminds me a bit of David Chapman's view that language usage is often ad-hoc improvisation:

> We use words as tools to get things done; and to get things done, we improvise, making use of whatever materials are ready to hand. If you want to whack a piece of sheet metal to bend it, and don’t know or care what the “right” tool is (if there even is one), you might take a quick look around the garage, grab a large screwdriver at the “wrong” end, and hit the target with its hard rubber handle. A hand tool may have one or two standard uses; some less common but pretty obvious ones; and unusual, creative ones. But these are not clearly distinct categories of usage.

> Words go the same way. Almost any word can be used to mean almost anything, in some context. You could play this as a challenge game… How about “The eggplant is a straw hat, and the spinach is yelling about politics”?

> We’re in the kitchen of a vegetarian restaurant. A table’s entrees are ready, and the server who took the order is explaining to the one who will deliver the meal which diner gets which dish. One customer’s flamboyant straw hat is a salient, unambiguously identifying feature; you can see it all the way across the room. The other probably needs to turn up a hearing aid; you can hear their opinions about cultural appropriation all the way across the room.

https://metarationality.com/purpose-of-meaning
I act egoistically, my religion only informs me of what is in my interest. If I will not ultimately be held to account for it, then I see no reason to be concerned outside of potential worldly consequences to myself.
Vehicle fuel regulations seem pretty solid to me.

It's not like a whole airline can get away with not reporting how much fuel they buy, and a carbon tax would apply to all their fuels.

Many taxes are complicated and flawed, but this kind is already good to go.
The author is also losing out on a lot of opportunities to improve themselves and aim for a higher standard.
Hopefully this does end up happening. One of the reasons I personally don’t mind Apple’s 30% IAP take is because going through Apple guarantees I won’t need to deal with any dark patterns—cancelling is one or two clicks in the settings app, I get email notifications a few days before each billing cycle happens, and if something does go wrong then Apple’s customer support is generally very helpful. 30% is a big price increase, but the peace of mind is wonderful.

I’ve been burned a lot of times in the past by businesses that make it extremely hard to cancel, and cracking down on this kind of behavior seems like a no brainer to me personally.
As someone not versed in Virtual Machine development, is goto so important? What do you gain by using it?
What makes KA the best for SAT prep? It is free for everyone, assuming you have a phone/computer (which most kids do, either personally or through school)
> All else being held equal, if the company acquires $1 million in its bank account, the legal value of your shares goes up or down proportionally to your shares. The fact that nonphysical things (like IP) can also influence the market price of a company's shares is completely beside this point.

No, it's the whole point. Things that are nonphysical can have value. Value doesn't have to be based on physical assets.

> There's something fundamentally different about Bitcoin than stocks here. This distinction is what I understand to be what we call the notion of a "security", and what makes Bitcoin not-a-security, but more like a currency.

Plenty of things are securities without being stocks. You can securitize pretty much anything.

Bitcoins are not like stocks. I've never claimed they were.
Yeah I personally found the second half of the book much more interesting! My strategy was to read the first half of the book casually, but then actually implement the second half (in Rust, like the article here).
I think it's an opportunity for companies to sell to the consumer their perfect friend.

People will fullfil their social desires more easily and so their mental health will improve along with productivity for society.
The upside is that you can use the "Cloud ate my homework" excuse when you don't finish your work in time.

Would be nice though if somebody finally created an application that let you write plain text files locally on your computer. It could be called Text Manipulator or Text Arranger or something like that.
I think some forms of logic can navigate this problem space, but not the intuitive kind that our heuristics run on, which is what people who operate on a scientific materialist metaphysical framework cannot avoid using (until they learn how, that is).

A more intuitive way for programmers to come at it may be this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop
Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018,

2018?
1- Nature article is about need for innovation in governance, not a slapfight about water rights.

2a- wrt Nestlé vs almonds, two wrongs don't make a right.

2b- One effort to fight one injustice does not in any way reflect any position whatsoever on other injustices. Perhaps the Nestlé fraças is an opening salvo in a larger war; low hanging fruit to establish precedence for future battles.

3- California Water Resource Board addressed a sternly worded memo to Nestlé, asking them to please stop using 25x more water than they're entitled to. I'm certain that if almond growers did the same they'd also receive a sternly worded memo.

4- A keen observer may wonder if hurtful memos are sufficient for curtailing abuses. Perhaps bigger sticks are required. For some bluesky thinking on that topic, please read the Nature article referenced in point no 1.
Caloric deficits don't CAUSE weight loss, they merely report them. The deficit/surplus is an accounting identity. Of course somebody who lost fat had calories leave his body - that's literally what that means. It's tautological.

What it is not: instructive in how to persistently cause more calories to leave the body than to come in.
because it's a purely domain-verified LetsEncrypt certificate vs the EV company-paperwork-verified cert for github.com
best I came up with by myself is four chars: "rot0". It literally does rot 0 "encryption" of the secret.
> A New open-source Flan 20B with UL2

I think I know how all the non-programmers who read HN feel now.
Yeah, I completely agree. Sorry, I should have made this clarification that I am talking about software mega-corps.
So... several years out for use in the US assuming it passes clinical trials?
Could be like boost libs.

They make the claim that it’s about pushing them into the standard library but some of those libs have been in there forever.
I could get behind this prediction just because it feels like you could take literally any political affiliation and still end up pushing for it.
A good set of resources if you wanna check out some other ones, been reviewing some myself.
https://github.com/currentslab/awesome-vector-search

I was surprised to see Elastic actually has ok support for some of this stuff, though it appears slower for most of the tasks.
Needs to be retitled.

Internet Archive has been ruled against... for acting exactly like a physical library. Offering a single copy of a book at a time for a period of borrowing. Their intent is to be a widely accessible library.
Well I’ve been punched in the face. Never had it as a bucket item!
That is sick. I'm sorry.

I remember that town hall.

I know people at evicore. Some of them even seem to take pleasure in the fact that patients and doctors call them EvilCore.

They're very convinced that evicore delivers superior outcome at lower cost.

I quit Cigna late last year. Couldn't take the place anymore.
It's worth noting that the new mitigations discussed in the talk are only available in -current. They'll be in the next release though (which should be coming in the next few months).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1966800 looks like a potentially related Ubuntu bug, although the underlying bug is in systemd. The commit that fixed it was in 2021: https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/commit/a8b66ca9af8...

The Ubuntu bug is from 2022.

Curious that proxmox is hit in 2023. Proxmox must happen to have a particular systemd timer event setup by default that triggers this.
> Ironically this is the sort of developer that HN says can't get FAANG jobs because they lack the credentials and connections.

That's correct. As the reddit post noted, there is no benefit to coming to Google's attention via Code Jam. They'll give you an interview that way, but they'll also give an interview to anyone else who wants one.

And the approach you take to Code Jam is actually harmful to your performance in Google's hiring interviews, to the degree that the recruiter who contacts you based on your Code Jam record gives you a specific warning that Code Jam people tend to have a common set of problems (in terms of how their interviews are rated) and you shouldn't treat the interview as being similar to participating in Code Jam.
“Could” seems to cover a very wide range of probabilities. The tricky question is, is there a probability > 0.0 that is consistent with “could not”. If not, then “could” does not really impart much information.
>"Let's create a nuisance for everyone so that billionaires can save 20% time in the air"

This is how I read it too. I've lived near an air show (jets) location and I've lived near shuttle booms, both are annoying AF. The shuttle booms would make you jump out of your skin every time like we were being shelled and that occurred at 60,000 feet and there were two of them because of how large the shuttle was. Everyone would be annoyed by the air show because they'd practice for a week before the show. If I was on a call, I'd have to say, "gimme 20 seconds, a plane is going overhead." You'd have to pause the TV or radio or conversation because you couldn't hear anything. No thanks.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/120274main_FS-016-DF...

In all fairness to the billionaires (God knows how persecuted they are /s), it would be a lot faster than 20%. Probably 2-3x or more, depending on how fast they were allowed to go. You only pass the sonic boom threshold once.
So his whole complaint is that covid tests used in the trial were done at a single central lab?

I mean, yeah? Reduce variables?
There's a winner-take-all dynamic at play, though.

The better CUDA is, the more things get built on top of it.

The more things get built on top of CUDA, the better the CUDA ecosystem of tooling, frameworks, etc. gets.

The better the CUDA ecosystem is, the better CUDA is. GOTO 1.

But you're right -- lots and lots of folks will be motivated to compete.
You would need to better underline why this is a webapp. You say you needed a better word processor, but mention products like Medium (blogging platform) and Google Docs (an online word processor). Why not Typora, Obsidian, Zettlr? These are complex word processor apps that also focus minimalism. I don't know if you considered these when starting to develop, but if so, some comparison would be apt to why your app is an alternative (eg. "it's one click away").
As a non-expert in the field I was hesitant at the time to disagree with the legions of experts who last year denounced Lemoine and his claims. I know enough to know, though, of the AI effect <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect>, a longstanding tradition/bad habit of advances being dismissed by those in the field itself as "not real AI". Anyone, expert or not, in 1950, 1960, or even 1970 who was told that before the turn of the century a computer would defeat the world chess champion would conclude that said feat must have come as part of a breakthrough in AGI. Same if told that by 2015 many people would have in their homes, and carry around in their pockets, devices that can respond to spoken queries on a variety of topics.

To put another way, I was hesitant to be as self-assuredly certain about how to define consciousness, intelligence, and sentience—and what it takes for them to emerge—as the experts who denounced Lemoine. The recent GPT breakthroughs have made me more so.

I found this recent Sabine Hossenfelder video interesting. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP5zGh2fui0>
this is a crappy headline.

by trying to put some age limit on things, they're forcing absolutely everyone to give up their identity to the government / sites.
Any 5 year data you can point to?
They called themselves PCs at the time. The term existed before IBM-PC became a defacto standard.
It also gives a fresh space to develop democratic systems that aren't dominated by previous parties to the extent that there is barely a functioning democracy. Existing systems are ridiculously compromised.
I've been teaching a class the lasts few weeks with a dozen people who have never programmed before using that book. It's going well.
IANAL, but even if we assume the act of backing up a DVD to hard drive is legal, it's not clear to me how one could legally use the resulting copy without somehow circumventing CSS.

And with only narrow exceptions that probably don't apply here, this act of circumvention violates 17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(1)(A)[1] unless the copyright owner has authorized the process (as they do with licensed playback devices and software).

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
By more popular people, such as Joe Rogan, who has had him on several times and seems to be a "good friend."
Just responding to some of your points - sorry if this comes off as abrasive.

> a few members of my team would get up at 2pm to get coffee and chat about work and life

If I stopped programming arbitrarily at 2:00pm when my hours are 9:00am-5:00pm I expect to be let go (unless I'm taking this as my lunch period). Especially to socialize over coffee. As a production-level IC I just can't do that ethically, and perhaps this is a personal fault... but I'm paid to keep my nose down and develop software solutions, not to socialize with colleagues. If we need to meet over work it's best to get that on the calendar so there's some expectation of formality - not in some adhoc social hour/afternoon.

> People who say "I don't have friends at work" with pride are completely foreign to me.

I don't say it with "pride," but I have 100% learned to put distance between my personal and professional lives. Example: every time I have had to deal with suicide scares it's always been a professional relationship/colleague of sorts. It's been three times now, and for some reason I seem like a trustable enough person that people put this on me. I hate it.

Then, there's people who I have thought were close friends who completely ghosted me after moving to a different company - who knows, maybe it's me. But I've heard lots of people express similar frustrations and it's just pushed me to consider every work friendship a "work friendship." I have more equitable and consistent relationships when I make friends outside of my profession, I invest my time and energy there.

Finally there's the emotional investment. When it comes to employment I am not part of a "family," and I'd really appreciate that sort of language to stop. Right now. I am selling my time and labor to a business to solve problems and fulfill operational duties that they require of me. At any point, employer or employee can terminate that relationship because "at will." This is surely not a "family," and I personally believe it is not an ideal spot to sink your social energy. I've seen people have their careers pulled from underneath them after over-investing socially into the company - they do not do well. I'm not here to emotionally invest during my 9-5, I'm here for business. Unless it's a requirement of the job (sales, vendors, talent aq, etc.) I am not putting myself out there socially/emotionally.

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Sorry to share some anecdotes but I think there are very valid reasons to put distance between your work relationships and your personal ones, purposefully erecting a buffer. I think it's very valid if someone wants to keep their work relationships just that: work relationships.
Or use better written software that does work.
Honestly the only thing that really needs to be said:

https://nso.group/@qwertyoruiop/110086216898968720
I feel like it is a universally constant thing for some subset of people to want their government to “force those other people to do what I think they should be doing”.

The only the US does relatively well is to provide mechanisms to reverse course when these things happen. Which is also why a lot of changes end up in gridlock.

Which I suspect will happen soon in this case.
I tried to sign up but the only option is to sign in with Google which I don't want to do. Can I not just give you my email address?
Perhaps the messaging “for the greater good” and political maneuvering around Covid was a bad idea.
I think Writing Editor sounds about right.
I'd be curious to see what comes out if you ask to "write volume three of The Kingkiller Chronicle"
unless someone's pointing a laser at it and wiggling it around