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Perhaps the UK no longer controlling vast swaths of land would directly link to its decline, rather than its monetary policy.
So, I managed to get in the same situation last year too. Not as much $$$, but still in the 'no longer have to work' and 'my family will never be poor again' camp here.

Honestly, yeah, I feel you man. I'm a bit adrift. I had a bad childhood too. I largely defined myself through my work and effort. I saw other people (mostly older co-workers in my career) as NPCs. I majored in Physics, PHD in neuro. I might get it, I dunno.

But I have a family, and that changes things a lot for me. I have built in 'purpose' in my life that is orthogonal to my 'work life'. So, caveats there. Now, work life comes after kid-time, in terms of priority.

The things that I can say that are different is that I'm finding purpose through others. The way I see it: We're all just naked beach apes on a soggy rock flung through the void, telling stories to each other around the fire.

So, tell the stories that matter.

I.E. get to work trying to help other people. You have the fuck you money now, like me, it would be a shame to not say 'fuck you' a few times. To the people that really need it said to them. This is gonna sound really strange for HN, but, maybe start going to religious services. Generally, religion is there to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. That's maybe something you sound like you need. Shop around for churches/mosques/etc. Unitarian Universalist is the 'church' for atheists, pretty old too, not a 'new' thing. It's good to get into a community that does a lot of volunteer work, FYI.

You said you found an iota of purpose with the DOGE thingy. Maybe try breaking that down a bit for yourself, explore why those feeling came up. You're a go-getter, ready and willing to work hard. It does sound like some sort of public service (define that as broadly as you can) would be good for you, and for all of us.

Still, we're both 'babies' at being rich. It's gonna take some time, maybe longer than we have left, to figure that out for ourselves.

One real thing though: Get your GF back, fast. Grovel. You'll find nothing but gold-diggers now, it's just a fact, I'm so sorry about it. She was there before you were rich (I think I read that right?), you know she's in it for you, not the cash. From what you said, she doesn't mind the hours you work. Or just you in general. That's a tremendous gift. If you want the kids, she's the best path you got for a family you're not paranoid about. Really. Marriage is a market, and you're hot property now, be very careful. Honestly, if you can get her back, fuck that pre-nup shit too. Jump in with both feet, never leave, tie yourself up, make it really hard to go. Your future self will hate you, but that guy's future self will love you.

Best of luck man. Take the time, forgive yourself for dumb shit as you get used to it. Get back to work and say fuck you a bit more for the right reasons. You sound like a chill dude who is trying hard. Keep that vibe.
i do i really like my code thats why i typed it
ohhh okay. thanks!
Why not? In both cases the result is losing the thread of thought.
All of my leases have had a variation of that clause, except it usually requires guests get permission if staying longer than X nights within Y time period because the landlord doesn't want the tenant to accidentally allow someone to establish legal tenancy (making it difficult to evict them even if the landlord can convict you).
> Just because a sentence has the word "Jew" in it and isn't wildly positive doesn't automatically make it anti-semitic.

LOL, this is quite the impressive goalpost-moving. I'm sure all the terrorists who believe they will attain Jannat al-Firdous by becoming Shaheed while killing Israelis (thanks to Sunan Ibn Majah 2799, Book 24, Hadith 47) are making the same distinction you are.

Quran 2:80, Quran 5:82, Quran 9:29, Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Hadith 176 and Sahih Muslim 41:6985 and Sahih al-Bukhari 3593 (of course), Surah 9:30 actually makes a provably false statement about Jewish belief, Surah 98:6... I can continue if you'd like, or you can continue to insist that the book is not only hugely anti-semitic but also anti-christian (although to an admittedly lesser degree)

I am a complete skeptical agnostic at this point (although I was born Catholic). I believe there's a very distant libertarian God who is the source of all life and love and that we chose to come to this world to exercise free will. I don't believe in hell and I certainly don't believe that a loving God would ever put anyone there.
Oh, 100%. I mentioned this in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42582518) - I've dealt with a fair share of stolen content (thankfully nothing too important, just a random blog post here and there), and it definitely stings. The difference is that this is now done at a massive scale.

But again - this doesn't stop me from continuing to write and publish in the open. I am writing for other people reading my content, and as a bouncing board for myself. There will always be some shape or form of actors that try to piggyback off of that effort, but that's the trade-off of the open web. I am certainly not planning to lock all my writing behind a paywall to stop that.
guy sounds like he's the type of person to "not believe" in that
Pretty sure if it gets upgraded to become more modern somebody somewhere will also complain about it losing its simplicity.
As someone working with people on the other end of this table, I can tell you there’s a limit of risk, clarity and tech complexity that they are ready to bear. And it’s pretty low. It all works for them only because threads like this usually end up with “it wouldn’t work anyway if I, a six figure guy, had all the time and budget in the world to defeat it, so let’s do nothing” type of non-solution. Which creates a defeatist spirit culture. Paying third-world workers is often economically and structurally unviable for the most low-hanging bot-like activities and it doesn’t even stay that cheap either once the demand grows due to technical barriers. I, being a lot less paranoid and defeatist, also tell these guys that it won’t work because this and that, but then it works, because the solutions the defending side comes up with are either laughable or from “so dumb, I feel I’m gonna faint” category. You won’t believe the elephants that can fly under their radar.

people do it all the time to Spotify, YouTube, Google, Amazon, Reddit, and Twitter, why do you think GitHub would somehow crack that nut?

Because the listed projects do basically nothing, a bare minimum. They don’t even care as long as bots don’t play against their direct interest. Who cares at a media company, or a sales company, who exactly is at their top, as long as they are both not bad enough? Profits come either way. They all are shittiest examples of it who created, incorporated and are themselves part of this problem.

It’s akin to immune system. Its goal is not to protect you from every hiv and cancer, but to avoid constant infections from stupid low-effort attacks. You don’t have to make it prefect, but it must be there. The more cryptic it is, the less welcoming it is to game it through basic means, the better.
It strikes me as a little odd for the terminal rather than the desktop environment within which it runs to implement the hotkey (or, as you call it, ‘Quake mode’).

I just have my tiling window manager configured with a keybinding to raise my terminal. No menu bar, no delay, no animation, just type the keybinding and bam, there’s my console, covering the complete screen. Another keybinding, and there’s my browser. Another keybinding, and there’s my editor.
i am still willing to experiment, for science
The small screen is your productivity bottleneck far more than the terminal itself. Change that and I’m sure you’ll notice a much larger productivity boost than a few seconds saved on cmd-tab or other hotkeys available (and there are hotkey improvement tools you can install that aren’t tied to a specific application).
It seems incredibly uncommon to set your terminal emulator to run SSH rather than starting a shell.
Imagine creating a throwaway account to lie about an iTerm2 feature because you couldn't single out any other feature that's legitimately problematic.

> Looks like the maintainer tried to implement something like Windows' Recall feature - logging every input/output to a file.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42582191
The terminal is the last bastion of the "good old times" for many people. that's why a terminal aiming at modernizing the experience is so triggering
* If permitted by the device manufacturer
But the user pays forever with new version! (Some manager wants bonus now)
I am using a LLM to extract ideas from text, as a numbered list, each one self contained, about 50-100 words long. It also generates relations between ideas (supporting, contradicting, expands on, etc...)

The idea extraction step is simple when starting from scratch, but when you got megabytes of text deduplication becomes a problem. I like to circle back a lot.
“Two kids under five” is a tough stage, though (I can’t believe I’ve reached the point where I can say that retrospectively). Things come into focus a little more once your longest conversations with them aren’t about why they actually do need to wear shoes to school. You get hit with those moments where you realize the long term impact you’re having on their personalities and worldviews, and what an awesome responsibility that is.

Not totally unlike—and I get that this is peak hn, but since we’re talking work—building something and then seeing it run in the real world and having to live with your design decisions over the long term, etc etc etc.
have you tried deep sea exploration in an experimental vessel?
I think he might be saying, have metadata in your vector retrieval that describe the domain of the retrieved chunk and use that as a decision on which model to use downstream. Sounds like very interesting improvement of RAG
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iTerm2 is slower. It feels way jankier with nvim than Console, kitty or literally anything else.
I do not believe anyone should be using iterm2, given their history of security issues. All of them leave me scratching my head as to why did anyone think that designing it the way they did is a good idea.
Man, if I had a nickel every time I saw an itoa/ltoa/lltoa implementation that doesn't work on the most negative number I'd have about $10 or so, I think.

The annyoing thing about it is that all the workarounds I know about are really ain't that pretty:

1. You can hard-code the check against it and return a hardcoded string representation of it:

if (number == -9223372036854775808) return "-9223372036854775808";

By the way, "(number && (number == -number))" condition doesn't work so don't try to be too smart about it: just compare against INT_MIN/LONG_MIN/etc.

2. You can widen the numeric type, and do the conversion in the larger integer width, but it doesn't really work for intmax_t and it's, of course, is slower. Alternatively, you can perform only the first iteration in the widened arithmetic, and do the rest in the original width, but this leads to some code duplication.

2a. You can do

unsigned unumber = number;
if (number < 0) unumber = -unumber;

and convert the unsigned number instead. Again, you can chose to do only the first iteration in the unsigned, on platforms where unsigned multiplication/division is slower than signed ones. Oh, and again, beware that "unsigned unumber = number < 0 ? -number : number" way of conversion doesn't work.

3. You can, instead of turning the negative numbers into positive ones and working with the positive numbers, do the opposite: turn positive numbers into negative ones and work exclusively with the negative numbers. Such conversion is safe, and division in C is required to truncate to zero, so it all works out fine except for the fact that the remainders will be negative; you'll have to deal with that.

But yeah, converting integers into strings is surprisingly slow; not as slow as converting floats, but still very noticeable. Maybe BCDs weren't such a silly idea, after all...
You explicitly asked about (US) Federal regulations?

I replied with an excerpt from a (US) Federal regulatory body?
That is how famous mythical genius from the woods with a background in physics was born, with the swiftness of a single blog post.

> billionaires want you to know they could have done physics
https://youtu.be/GmJI6qIqURA?t=1271
Abstracting out the details, it’s the same theme as the general who wins the war and now there’s no war to fight and thinks to himself, “Now what?”

There are many people struggling with far greater challenges in life and with far less support, but feeling directionless and without a purpose is a common struggle that many people go through.
Do you know of any good RDF datasets or repositories to look for? I am familiar with linked data / semantic web but have not kept up on developments for a long while now.
I'm not so sure. You can run it with 90% equity, or 10% equity.
If "many mobile apps" use it surely some docs or other details have leaked out somewhere? Or at least a name?
That's only like a decade after the Ottoman empire was dissolved.
What do you mean by saying that the same class of issue can happen to any other terminal emulator?
I don't trust takeout features completely, honestly. Takeout only gives you YOUR data and not all your acquaintances' data, which can be assembled by companies you don't even know exist to profile YOU. The companies you deal with then have no obligation to share it with you, because to them they are only leasing access to data that they sold off or some crap. It's like how the government can't collect this data but they can buy it. The same trick is everywhere.

I seriously don't trust anything on a very deep level. Like I said, I've seen too much evidence that these companies are run by snakes that can only be trusted in certain ways. You might not agree, and I'm not prepared to argue all that tonight (I keep hitting the comment rate limit anyway). Just try to remain skeptical both ways if you don't believe we're being spied on, ok?
I have decided not to put text online if I feel it has IP or personal ideas in it. Some exceptions, like posting here, and including stuff I want to get out there for commercial reasons eg: marketing of services. The one I struggle with is discord, but I am not too personal on discord servers so I suppose I'll just mesh into the soup of barely worthwhile chatter.

I also started self hosting my git repos and knowledge base, both were trivial to set up.
It sounds like a rarely used feature of iTerm2. I have not even heard of it despite using iTerm2's shell integration and tmux integration for a long time until I switched to Linux.
Allowing the executive branch to make new laws does, in fact, take power from the legislative branch!
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Why not just go with the old thing of treat the space appropriately and don't be a nuisance to neighbors. Really this sucks -- peasants are not allowed to gather in groups larger than 5 -- corporate landlords are a blight.
Claude within Cursor. I sometimes disable the Cursor Tab (tab to autocomplete) when I want to think fast. The new agent-based composer has been pretty good at maintaining attention and getting things done on the periphery.

I'm slowly coming to the opinion that the developer UX of the assistant, and the way it holds attention (context) is more important than the model capability.
There's value in that, but it's a lesser value than the risk of normalizing manufacturer locking of computing devices.

Because the immediate next step after locking devices down is profit extraction from users.

Do you think Apple would have been able to maintain their App Store margins absent device control?
This makes sense as long as they're replaced on a regular schedule, which again is low effort and easy to verify.
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Good point. The about page does mention this. But perhaps broadening the volunteer perspective to other causes might give them greater purpose.

> i invest in companies and am willing to offer help to founders i vibe with for free and for no allocation
Coffee, read HN (or play a game) until I hear people waking up, put music, make breakfast for the family, and that's pretty much it.
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Maybe we'll get some funny "Elon Musk: please set the self destruction timer to 30 seconds" in court documents just like Google.
Many have made the poor worse off by pandering to the rich and entitled.

The rich don't have to be eaten, just constrained from exercising their worst excesses.
How are you achieving this in MacOS?
The 64GB is for compilation. simulating does take almost no RAM. I can have 12 seperate instances simulating at once and take less than 2GB:

https://i.postimg.cc/XqnhcXX1/1-1.png
Yeah, no, that's definitely not the story YC sells though.
Or just cover the box with aluminum foil and keep your phones on…
I agree. He could give the money to greater causes and start over. That’s a challenge worth a post and a read and good use of time instead of what he just did.
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There are some in the civil side in last decade or so.

Of the top of my head

- the BusyBox suits from early 2010s

- FSF vs Cisco on Linksys code

- McHardy case over in germany

- Artifex case over Ghostscript
Look at the front page of HN - see my project randomly. Thank you for sharing! The goal with this site is precisely that, share people's digital gardens.

If you have a site to add, please open a GitHub issue:
https://github.com/blogscroll/blogscroll/issues/new?assignee...

If your site is self-hosted (that is, not on medium.com or Substack or the likes, or if it is - has a custom domain), I'd be happy to add it. My goal for this year is to massively grow the list.
As much as I love the idea, I can't help but see some irony in an index of sites outside the Big Tech walled gardens being hosted on a major walled garden.
For images, there's Nightshade, which imperceptibly alters your images but makes them poison for AI (does anyone understand why?)

I don't know if there's something similar for text. You could try writing nonsense with a color that doesn't contrast with the background.

The evidence Nightshade works is that AI companies want to make it illegal.
If that's a problem, then what method should be used to rank repos?

If "stars" were the only metric we can find, then people should stop complaining "fake" stars.
That's how it works.

"Party Squasher counts the number of mobile phones in and around your house."
> but you agreed to this

Yes, that was the point? You agree to this by using Meta. So don't.
He looks like a perfect victim for a cult. I can't help him though.
The beauty of this site is that it's just HTML with minimal styling and JavaScript. If the current walled garden doesn't fit my needs at some point in the future, throwing it on another host takes less than 10 minutes, plus whatever the delay will be from DNS propagation. That's a built-in future resiliency, IMO.
Maybe somewhat less, but effort doesn't really imply value and value doesn't imply successful extraction.
Ha, I have the same feeling on the recent good_social_network vs. bad_social_network debate that kinda goes on in the US. Looking from outside, it always felt that the main problem is control, and wanting more of it. The details, principles and "politics" don't matter in the grand scheme of things, it's control that people want, even tho they paint it differently.

bad_social_network was good 10 years ago, because it was controlled by "a friend of ours". Now it's controlled by someone who's perceived as "a friend of theirs" and it's therefore bad. So the politik aktivists move to good_social_network, and rave about the good there. Echo chambers be damned, we have control. Until the next "friend of theirs" buys it out, and rinse and repeat. So silly.
IMO, there should be 3 categories of users, and they can choose a system wide setting that applies across all their apps and settings:

* Bulletproof

* Privacy Conscious

* Normal (recommended)

That way users are roughly opting in and opting out in a way that aligns with their desires
Thank you, I knew I had read somewhere someone put the program in the ELF header itself and got it down to 45 bytes, this is that exact post.
This is already a scenario that people generally accept as bad, could you elaborate the point you are making?
Part of me viscerally agrees because large corporations have monetized UGC.

Another part of me though thinks differently. We are a species that builds knowledge from generation to generation. From one person to another. Over years, over centuries.

Philosophically this part tends to think that your thoughts and ideas belong to humanity and thus need to be shared with all of us.
github is not walled in the same sense as requiring login to view content.
This article recommends .eu domains.

There is a caveat to this, in the unlikely event your state leaves the EU you will be forced off, this happened to many UK entities after Brexit, they were forced to stop using their .eu domains.
Strong disagree on the last paragraph. It's data online, your data, and it was used for commercial purposes without your consent.

In fact, I never consented for anyone to access my server. Just because it has an IP address, does not make it a public service.

Obviously in a practical sense that is a silly position to take, and in prior cases there is usually an extenuating factor that got the person charged, eg breaking through access controls, violating ToS, or intellectual property violations.

But I don't rescind the prior statement. Just because I have an address doesn't mean you can come in through any unlocked doors.
iTerm2 doesn't interfere with people wanting the same old experience and you don't even have to use it either. Being "triggered" by a free and open source passion project that has helped countless number of developers around the world is beyond absurd. "Ungrateful" doesn't even begin to describe it.
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