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> we shouldn't get rid of something until we have some idea of why it was put there to start with

Right, Chesterton's Fence doesn't mean we shouldn't change, but that we should understand before doing so. And we do understand, which is why there's a push for change.

> I suggest you do your own research

I did, I know. I also know that these things could be back again, and soon.

> so precious and fickle, all of it was hard fought and won over generations

“When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.

That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”

> the ideas you and your kin share will bring about the end of modern civilisation as we know it

We're already over the edge, and instead of trying to slow down our fall, we're accelerating even faster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_overshoot

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272418379_The_Traje...

> inequality, poverty, racism, xenophobia.. When in reality these are crucial underpinnings of civilisation

These aren't necessary components for a society to thrive and progress. It's crucial to differentiate between describing what has often occurred in history and prescribing what ought to be or what is ethically right for the future.

> You guys don't just want to make incremental change, you want root control over the system

> The biggest perpetuator of systemic poverty and inequality is collectivism. Its inflation. Its embedded growth obligations. Its byzantine regulations. I suggest you look into the Cantillon effect, IMF & World Bank Expolitation by Alex Gladstein etc.

Do you really believe these kinds of problems can be solved by incremental change?
Well, it's a matter of taste. But I find the latest version quite pleasant when using Krita's dark orange color scheme.

I really, really, love how much I can customise though.

I also try GNOME, Xfce, and Cinnamon every new relatively big release. And, as far as I'm concerned, really like all those projects.

I must say though, I hate how GNOME locks you in to their apps. I understand their commitment, but for instance I would appreciate if they let me choose which terminal I could launch from Nautilus.

I use KDE, but it's just a matter of preferring their development tools.
> Life is more enjoyable in a create-fail-learn loop than a consume-criticize-gloat loop.

That's beautiful. Did you make that up? Brilliant!
Its jarring for a european when you visit the US and expect the workers to be compensated a living wage from the ticket/menu price, to find everyone hustling for tips and it being a weird expected thing because their actual wage is low (despite the prices being more aspirational than the food, often.) It also promotes poor hustling behaviour, whether thats non-owner taxi drivers driving like maniacs, or servers pestering every second with dreadful weak coffee you don't want, then expecting a tip.
I was just trying to convince my friend recently: if you order at the counter and bus your own table, you don't have to tip! Even Subway shows the tip screen now, and only an insane person would tip at Subway.
IANAP, but maybe He notices and still minds His own because He's not a snitch
It's less about money and more about the mental energy required to distill such a granular view of money/value. $3 is basically the same as $10, or even $50. Even when I slept on the floor of an office building and made $10/hr I never thought like that. It is madness to me. Spend that energy thinking how to make $10 more, which is incredibly easy, far far easier than the mental energy micromanaging single dollars.
What is Web3?
The Invisible problem: why mobile text editing is worse than you think
Describes the problems with mobile text editing, why it needs to be fixed, and a prototype of an potential solution.
are you confusing inventors and entrepreneurs? Cause no way you'd consider Tesla a great entrepreneur, he died penniless and JCR Licklider same thing - great inventor and innovator yeah. Great Entrepreneur no.

Of the 3 you listed only Jobs qualifies.
Also, `>> 'some-cmd --with --args'` is code that's more likely to end up in a deployment script than in a production app. Less likely to be a project that's being edited by many people at once, served to end users, etc.

I respect and often agree with the parent's hesitation to introduce inessential dependencies, but the cost/benefit of making a shell script more comfortable to read/write is very different than that of adding a mystery brick to the foundation of your app.
That's fair. My initial reaction on just seeing the headline was "Oh, I wonder what indie dev-focused tool this guy made." It's definitely a cliche now to see someone going into the solo SaaS business and then pivoting to being an influencer or someone selling "tools" to help other solopreneurs.
> You only need a few minutes of thought to understand why electric vehicles will never be able to replace internal combustion engines as things stand today.

You only need a little thought to see that each increment of electric vehicle adoption shifts the market context and incentives away from “as things stand today” in a way which makes your claim, to the extent its true as written, irrelevant in practice.
please name some then
The US has some bunkers but unless you are some high government official or just work at the bunker, you're not getting in. Some people have their own bunkers but it's incredibly rare. Many people that live in tornado-prone areas have tornado shelters. In many parts of the US, below-grade basements are not a thing. Half of my basement is below ground but unfortunately the part that isn't, faces nearby Washington DC making it pretty useless for that.
Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fears of striking actors
It's within the realm of possibility to have it self land after an incident. They certainly can't now, but we have the technology if we wanted.

Logically, I think the main thing is there is typically a reason a pilot is ejecting. As the saying goes, a pilot does not eject from a good airplane. The assumption there being if the plane could be landed, it would have been landed by its pilot. If the pilot ejected, it's because they're was something gravely wrong, and therefore is not of great value to put a lot of effort into doing fancy tricks in a about to crash airplane.
That’s what C++20 modules are designed for?
Remote coworkers generally don’t care about you to the same extent. It can be generally difficult building social bonds remotely, and there’s mountains of evidence that shows the veneer of internet communication doesn’t actually fulfill them.

That’s not to say it’s impossible, of course, but just much harder. Your professional social network is much smaller remotely. You have to work with someone remotely for months to form the same relationship you could have in an afternoon in-person.

Hybrid work is a good compromise.

Losing my job wouldn’t put my social life at risk - as work relationships don’t and shouldn’t fill that role for me. Again, you seem to be conflating personal and professional relationships.
Why wouldn’t they be sent, after the system is in place? Think of the children that can be harmed by a deadly virus. Of course it’s a case of emergency to get everyone vaccinated. Have you ever seen the government be reasonable with a public resource?
This is no solution.

There was a time when Chrome started to be bundled with every freeware out there. Most of the people where I did IT-Support ended up using chrome at some point. They didn't even realize when or how they changed a browser. Some didn't even know what a browser IS. They just open "the internet".

I had installed Firefox with proper protection before that.
If a company is charging me a service or recovery fee that is a percentage of my bill, I am taking it out of the tip. If they want to use that money to pay the expense that is their employees, they can make it part of the cost of the food, just like everything else. It's not like I pay a separate lease fee or food inspection fee or menu printing fee or electrical hookup fee or whatever.

Paying your employees a decent wage is part of running a business. It's disgusting when bosses pull tricks like this to try to lay the blame on their employees.
Speaking about Youtube, AFAIK most of the content creators make far more money from influencer marking rather than youtube itself.

The "subscription-based websites" model is for sure a thing in a lot of areas (eg. Kagi search engine) but it's only for niches, most of the people want and will be on "free" websites.
475 ‘Unreliable AI-Generated News’ Websites
> While Citizen Lab did not allege that Vodafone was complicit in the attack, Marczak said that the “easiest” way to install PacketLogic on the Vodafone network would be with Vodafone’s cooperation.

Vodafone Egypt already does packet sniffing to block all VPN traffic, even for more guarded protocols such as WireGuard. So yes, this is not a stretch. (source: Myself, an Egyptian)
These comments are so full of people who think she is wrong because they have different opinions.
> Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was a keen spiritualist, even consulted a medium to attempt to solve the mystery of her disappearance.

This bit was the most surprising part of the article for me, given the themes of science and materialism in Sherlock Holmes books. Looking a bit into it, Doyle really seems to have been into Spiritualism for some bizarre reason [0].

[0] https://arthurconandoyle.co.uk/spiritualist
If the US wanted to get rid of tips, state or federal government could simply make tipping a crime - akin to bribery. There are a lot of parallels between tipping and bribery anyway. "I'll give you a nice big juicy tip, especially if you push my food order to the front of the queue!"

Make both accepting and giving a tip illegal. And give rewards to either side for reporting the other.
> If you open the file in an editor that supports conflict handling, a popup appears asking which version to keep. Editors like Textifier, Xcode, or Obsidian, lacking conflict handling, leave iCloud to decide which version to store on your disk and in your backup.

I would like to argue this is at least partly the fault of app developers, for adding iCloud support without the conflict handling mechanism.

However, why does Xcode, Apple's own in-house app, not support conflict handling?! Apple's own software should be setting the standard for third-party developers. If they don't handle version conflicts, of course no one else will either.
The Matching Problem in Dating
I think it's important to increase our range on our knowledge. You aren't always going to have an expert's opinion to evaluate every piece of information coming at you, and there's only so much that an authoritative source can do for you.

Now, making videos on topics outside of your expertise? That's a dangerous minefield, but there are ways to approach it.

For example, there's whole youtube channels to taking on challenges and learning new stuff.
Hardly.

The people you refer to are questionably American at all, the only thing keeping them here is their citizenship. The people you speak of also go around saying Trump was elected for a second term and Biden stole the election, hasn't violated the 14th Amendment, is subject of a witch hunt, and the people sent to murder Congress and the Vice President are heroes and not literal terrorists.

At some point you just have to accept they're the new Confederacy and they're here to undo 100 years of progress.

Good news, though, they're, at the very most, a quarter of the US population, and I believe that to be a significant overestimation. Enough to cause havoc and destruction in every city in America if someone blew a dog whistle hard enough, but not enough to win. They'd get their chapter in the history books as a participation trophy, nothing more.
It's multithreaded with multiversion concurrency control over shared state. Each command invocation is a new thread, in a new transaction, and the database attempts to resolve any shared state conflicts at commit time.

There's still ticks and time limits, but they're there to impose time / resource limits, not used to control access to shared state.

Tick-based time-slicing to the database is one reason why LambdaMOO (and its offshoots like toaststunt, etc.) has intrinsic scalability limits. (In the 90s, LambdaMOO-the-actual-MOO used to lag like a son of a bitch under load...)

(This is not to say the actual impl of MVCC I have right now is ideal. It's a work in progress. I just defer to RocksDB's conflict resolution, and it is built on assumptions of "single writer, multiple readers" at its foundation, which isn't ideal for what I'm doing... )
The system APIs should not silently delete important data when the apps haven't implemented the feature.

This is an iCloud bug, not an Xcode one.
“People are rewarded in public for what they practice for years in private.” — Tony Robbins

Whenever I heard about a success story, especially, when the hero is an indie hacker, the above quote hits my brain.

I would assume that nobody here would disagree that zero to $45K/mo in 2 years is a jaw-dropping number but once you read the full story with all behind-the-scenes challenges, blood, sweet and tears you quickly realize that this is a lot of work multiplied by some coefficient of uncertainty.

I’ve discovered and been following Tony for about a year now on Twitter and on IndieHackers and must say I was inspired by him.

If ONLY he posted this on HN himself and was here for an AMA

Best of luck..
> In 2003, the coprolite broke into three pieces after being dropped
I recently upgraded from 60 Hz to 160 Hz monitors and just regular mouse movement/scrolling/etc. is so much smoother. Is it necessary? No, but I won't willingly go back to 60 Hz, let alone 30 Hz.
Newlands Corner sits at the top of a pretty steep hill by UK countryside standards, so it's not that unlikely that a 1920s car would have struggled around there. I just cycled up that hill earlier today and it wasn't fun. There are a few photos around [0] from the original incident.

However, the whole thing is fairly universally assumed to have been a publicity stunt. This is a fairly well known story locally. Here's a local tabloid [1] with a few original newspaper articles, and a sprinkling of sensationalism for good measure.

[0]: https://www.prints-online.com/agatha-christies-abandoned-mot...
[1]: https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/nostalgia/agatha-christies-...
Gold’s Deadly Truth: Much Is Mined with Mercury
https://archive.ph/c53xr
> Defense in depth can be seen as adding multiple hatchways, but there's still always going to be something inside the innermost one.

And even if you're not in the innermost area, an attack might exist entirely in the space between two hatchways and not breach any.
Like Node.js, but using Lua as the execution engine
- "it does not consist of a simple copy/paste or paraphrase of the NASA source,"

It is exactly that and it copies it (and the other sources) extensively. It only makes very superficial word changes—enough to throw off exact string matches; not nearly enough to create a passable pretense of "I wrote this".

- "The NASA study is properly cited as one of the references at the bottom of the article."

It's not properly cited because the text they're lifting isn't in quote marks or a quotation block or anything like that–isn't in any syntactic way attributed to the person who wrote it. There's nothing saying "I didn't write this part; I'm quoting this from someone else's work". (It's not sufficient disclosure to just include a link to the lifted text in "references". Most people won't look at the cited references, let alone read all of them in their entirety—as would be required to figure out what text's being lifted from where. It's the author's burden to disclose all that).

I respectfully disagree with your disagreement. This is straight plagiarism: it's in my view a pretty typical and low-effort example of it.

- "and the format is HTML rather than PDF, which greatly reduces already substantial frictions for HN members"

The problem isn't that they're re-publishing parts of someone else's text, but that they're pretending that they wrote it.
As a former college student who carried a backpack stuffed with textbooks and a laptop sometimes for miles around campus, I didn't notice any difference between when my thermos (carried in backpack side pocket) was empty vs when it was full, and that's 20 floz of liquid which is roughly equivalent in weight to the glass containers I use for food prep.

When people complain about how soft modern society it, it's this crap that they're talking about. "Oh I already carry around 30 lbs of stuff, 31 will break my back!". If you're carrying around so much that 1 lb will literally make the difference between injured and not injured, you need to seriously re-think your system. Possibly save up for a better backpack, possibly learn how to carry weight and do some exercises to strengthen your back, possibly re-arrange your schedule so you aren't carrying as much weight at one time.

And I'm serious about the back strengthening, people (including myself) ruck-march with 20-40 lb packs for exercise, and our backs aren't falling apart. Lifting and carrying weight with good form is great for your back, and strengthens it to the point where you can even use bad form for limited time and avoid injury.
That was my point. Sorry it wasn’t clear.
My main beef with iCloud: They haven't implemented an iOS or web version of TextEdit, which is what I use for taking notes.
> Original LambdaMOO had a global interpreter lock and only one user was mutating the world at a time, in their given tick slice. Not gonna scale.

I’ve previously seen (abandoned) attempts to convert the Erlang runtime directly into a MOO runtime. Each command being a concurrent actor-process would make a lot of sense to me. (Though a semantics where all commands are MVCC against the at-inception world-state and will rollback or retry on conflict, kind of moots having any kind the advantage of a runtime based on message-passing, since you’re not going to be passing messages between separate concurrent “sessions.”)
At least there's one positive thing: they've got "Yes" on the left. :)
> That prices were falling prior to deregulation and did not fall even faster after deregulation proves that deregulation wasn’t a factor

No, this on its own doesn’t prove anything.
> Weight -- electric car vs electric bike

Adoption of each isn't exclusive of the other, so that's irrelevant.

> Distance -- electric cars promote building places inefficiently

No, they don't, as a replacement for ICE vehicles. If anything, they promote building things more efficiently.

> Drop the constraint of needing cars, and you can make much better solutions

Replacing some share of ICE cars with electric cars does not require active maintenance of a constraint of needing cars. Reconfiguring cities to not need cars is a slower process than replacing what cars are used, so there is a role for the latter even if the former is the main long-term solution (and even if it is and reduces the scope of pervasiveness of the need for cars, it is unlikely to replace all need.)
> Why is this the case?

In a sentence: because doing FOSS is just a way for some people to enhance their careers.

Anything not related to the code is extraneous to that.

Running a mailing list (for example) isn't resume-stuffing material for someone who isn't a sysadmin.

A popular, well-known FOSS project enhances your career better than one that is unpopular and obscure. From that perspective, that forum system is best which facilitates popularity.

Then there is the youth factor. I think that mostly older developers care about this issue. Younger developers who didn't live through the Unix wars and the rise of GNU/Linux and all that are deaf to the issues. They take an Internet full of wall-gardened social networks to be the norm; it's what they were already born into. Asking the kids not to gather in some Discord group is like asking kids of yesteryear not to hang around at the mall. (The mall is proprietary, so what?)
We just bought a bunch of new lids for our glass containers. They are very inexpensive.
It sounds like she upset you by challenging views that you hold emotionally rather than rationally.
Show HN: Minecraft Stored on Paper
Its literally just "Minecraft" stored on paper. I learned alot about compression and data storage, retrieval and conversion.
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Glad I could help! Proton is awesome.

For non-Steam games, I do the same thing, either with Steam (by adding a non-steam game installer, and using proton to install it), or by using Lutris (https://lutris.net/). I generally use Lutris with my GoG library.
GF is working for a startup doing a game. They were using git and dumped it because it just cannot deal. Also the content people found it annoying without providing any value what so ever.
Same here, on multiple occasions.
Probably very unscientific of me but I'm sort of thinking that rucola (arugula) may be more prone to slug hitchhiking than other greens?
That's in part why I tend to favor watercress, not without its share of nasty parasite risks [1] but have so far never found slugs in it.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/fasciola/index.html
Here are some of the principles I like to apply -> https://minimal.app/design

Generally my formula is about cultivating a healthy value set, becoming increasingly clear minded, and trying to do things that are worthwhile. I know that's vague, but those are the abstract principles that work in different circumstances. I've led many different lives within my life – rock climbing full time, building software – and those are the guiding themes that have most consistently offered the greatest results.

(Write to me directly if you'd like me to flush out in more concrete detail, including how money and service factor in, how to avoid traps, what I currently struggle with, etc.)
The article mentions "Strangers on a Train" which I've never seen or read but I've had a number of really interesting encounters from train talk. It's a natural place to end up in a scenario where you could chat with someone for a decently long time if you both choose to do so. A takeaway I always remind myself is that you never know what's right next to you.

Last month someone asked me which track the train leaves from. I answered and that turned into chatting with someone from Lebanon visiting the US who was nearing the completion of their PhD in theoretical physics mixed with quantum computing. Out of no where a 90 minute conversation ensued around programming, life in different countries and a bunch of other assorted topics.
Does anybody know a good forum for discussing AI agent design? I have a bunch of questions, but too specific for the general LLM application communities.
Always make offline backups, including for dropbox too. Storing things in the cloud is never as safe as assumed.
Hi, original author here. Maybe I wrote it a bit misleading. The thing is: It's independent of the editor. Even if you use an editor that _does_ support conflict handling you can lose the content.

Just assume you write something, save, close the editor and never open it again. iCloud might replace the content of that file and there is no way for you to know.

The only way to prevent losing your data is setting up a Git repository or open _every important file_ regularly in an editor that supports conflict handling.
> was able to interview what may well be the last two speakers of Kwadi.

So much of the past has disappeared or is in the process of disappearing.