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A lot of good features in nnn. Unfortunately, for me, the huge deal breaker is the (sorry, but I have to say it) terrible choices for one of the most important hotkey-functionality combinations.

I am not talking about some rarely used keys/functions, but the problem lies at the very core of the experience: the simple hjkl, vim-style navigation.

You see, as in vim, k/j ('up'/'down') obviously move up/down in the list of dirs/files. h ('left') moves up the directory hierarchy ('Parent dir' as nnn's help aptly describes the function.) Of course, now l ('right') moves down the directory hierarchy: IF you are sitting with the highlight on a DIRECTORY entry, obviously if moves down into that directory.

But here is the kicker: what if you have as your current highlight something OTHER than a directory, that is a FILE ?

It OPENS the file.
(The open operation is done through xdg-open, so whatever that is configured to recognize)
If xdg-open is not configured defensively, in the case when the file is executable it runs the program.
Or if the file has some associated program, it is launched with the file as an argument. (this was happening even on my machine, and I have a relatively conservative xdg-open config)
At the minimum it launches an editor, opening the file in read/WRITE.
In nnn's help, listed among the keys activating this 'Open file/enter dir' is the <Return> key, in addition to the usual move right keys (so 'l' and right arrow). A clear expression that in the authors intention those keys have equivalent functionality.

So imagine you're browsing around the file system as fast as your fingers and eyes allow (after, that's the beauty of the fast text/ncurses interfaces, yes?). You just want to examine stuff, look at files, poke into configurations, maybe for a archive you just downloaded. Archive that might or might not have executable stuff and/or potentially harmful things. You've located the dir path you want to go into, you dive in and before you realize you need to hit the brakes on that 'l' key, you end up moveing RIGHT on SOMETHING (it happened so fast you're not even sure what it was), and that SOMETHING was executed/loaded, now some application is opened, and on top of that you were continuing to type so that application receives your keys and does who-knows-what (well, depending on what was launched).

WTF ???
The first time it happened, I could not believe such a UI design decision: mixing NAVIGATION and OPEN operations on the SAME KEY. OPEN is a sensitive, potentially disruptive operation: there SHOULD be some minimal friction provided in the interface before one is allowed to proceed.

It moved this nnn from potentially one my favorite tools, into a totally love/hate relationship. Yes, "love" because indeed it does some things well. But the mistake of this RIGHT/OPEN snafu is enough to more than cancel any other qualities.
This is interesting. I'll have a look. It reminds me of my platform to find underrated content, also based on a point system (check out 5 links to submit yours. After 50 clicks, your content is archived). It's https://exposure.cards, if you're curious. Not sure if Twitter is against these kinds of platforms though?
Maybe he ran out of scrap to push with :(. Also: no guard on the saw, blunt as can be and standing to the side instead of in front of the blade. Accident waiting to happen.

It gets worse around 25:45.
You can make a DFF from NAND gates, though it's pretty obvious the simulator they wrote for the class can't perform that emulation. I was a little put off from the class when they tried to explain why they didn't want to cover them "because they were too complicated". It's pretty obvious to anyone who understands them that they're not significantly more complicated than the rest of the material. I gave up on the class right there, thinking the instructors and the rest of the class would be a lot of the same BS. I'm glad I got over it and completed the rest of the class as it was pretty fun.
Even if the majority of people choose the max they can afford, it doesn't follow that individuals can't freely choose cheaper houses for themselves.
One key thing she mentioned is the growth rate — you can have a fully mature 18 meter bamboo tree in as little as three years. I’m addition to it being both strong & flexible.

And, IIRC, bamboo tend to grow in dense groups— seems like growing bamboo for building material would be a good use of space.
The funny thing about this article is that it says political tribes are the reason for American division.

Then the NYT editors choose to award cogent comment status to a list of comments blaming it all on the GOP.

They can’t help themselves.
I guess the illustrator based the image on the description without ever having seen a giraffe. The description starts with "The giraffe looks like a goat...".
Stacked Borrows Implemented
The hardware wasn't all that special though, at least for the MIT/LMI/TI machines.
Thank you for this. It is on youtube and absolutely amazing.
India has viavisa even for EU citizens and i had personal interview with consul to get tourist visa, heck even Iran was easier
Where is your community located?
In my opinion, listening to her daily, Terry's interviews are different based on whether or not she likes, or appreciates the interviewee experience. This really stuck out to me during an interview with Jay Z.
They mentioned at the end about actually implementing the CPU in hardware with an FPGA. Just curious if anyone has actually tried that?
Are you taking lessons in German? Besides teaching you important skills, those are great opportunities to meet a huge variety of people in a somewhat similar situation.
Great .. get pulled over, hand your unlocked phone to a cop just like that!
Radar would be quite a lot of RF radiation!
I'm a full stack developer, so I'm pretty comfortable with the front end frameworks, but there's definitely still a place for traditional server-rendered apps.

They're super fast (HN is a good example!), and dev work is much quicker for basic stuff that doesn't involve too much complex interaction.
It’s pretty unusual that he would have survived the incident if he was cooked by microwave radiation. I’ve known this sort of thing to happen in ship repair accidents and they usually die within days.
> Ultimately your payment is determined in step 3 and has nothing to do with interest rates.

This presumes a single purchase. You've got to go 'macro economic' to see where this breaks down.

When prices start rising because of increased max loan amounts, you get things like bidding wars. Toronto has been terrible for those in the last 5 years. Both the bank and the seller win when people start paying (and borrowing) twice as much as they would have for the same house 5 years ago. Belief that home values are higher and will rise causes them to do so (bubbles, yay).

Example, personal: I bought my condo for under $600k 3.5 years ago. The neighbour is selling their nearly identical one today for just shy of $1m. (CAD$, but still insane). Interest rates are higher today than they were when I bought.

My new neighbours will pay higher amounts to both the bank and the seller. There's more to prices than just interest rates.
If you can confirm please share so I can update the program to use the default opener on OpenBSD.

I think it might be open(1): https://man.openbsd.org/file.1

same as in iOS. But i need the confirmation before making the change. Please raise an issue in the project page for the same.
Rappaport Suggests National Security Risks with Amateur Radio Violations
Someone requested me to provide evidence for my claims, but deleted? I'll post it anyway.
I'm not a detective and don't have "evidence", all I said is what I saw first hand the accounts of people doing it. It's an entire industry, I'll just keep it simple and short.

Americans genarally don't realize how much their passport worth in other parts of the world.

The key is entering America, any other thing doesn't matter, if you want to smuggle you way in through Russai-Cuba-Mexico etc, you need to pay around 70-100K or something and it's not guaranteed.

So how to legally enter America? Either through universities, medical reasons, or tourism. Like applying any for-profit American language school to "learn English", PHD and extend it endlessly.

Once you entered, you can do what you wanted, to study then go back home, or to earn money, illegal overstaying waiting for citizenship amnesty, or applying for asylum. Chinese make up the majority of asylum seekers there.

The recent hot topic of birth tourism, there are two ways, do it on a tourist visa and be possibly black-listed and visa revoked afterwards; or state your intention to the VO, you need to frame a perfect story here to convince the person that it's a medical cause, agencies will teach you to say American hospitals are better, pain-free whatever, just don't say you want that passport, but in reality all these people are there for the American passport. It's best to delete any related things on your phone such as Wechat opon entering in case evidence of visa fraud were found.

There's also a service that agencies would help you to apply for EB1-A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability), publish paid papers, acquire paid awards etc. It's said (by his former friend) this guy paid audiences to fill an entire American theater for his show to help him apply it. https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article...

You guys remember couple months ago, America said they no longer accept domestic abuse as the reason for asylum?
I can't say it's definitely related, but it's a known easy way to get quick green card, you pay for a short term sham marriage, then call the police for domestic abuse, go to court, then you can divorce, not having to wait out 2 years' marriage.
AFAIK potassium is contained mostly in banana peels, so eating banana wouldn't helpful in the case.
I didn't realize that. Thanks for the note!
> And I think I'd rather get to know the neighbors over at the adjoining castle than the scum in these neighboring flats.

Don’t worry — I’m sure the scum feel pretty much the same about you.
Such a shame that hormesis is very visible in rats, yet nothing happens to humans.
Social institutions started falling down once TV appeared and was demanding of attention. You had to be around at 8pm on Tuesday to see your show.

Now with phones we have even bigger attention sinks.

End of the day, the rise of cheap entertainment and the long decline of mainline religious organizations, erosion of ethnic organizations, etc have led to a lot of social problems. There was an article a few weeks ago suggesting that even romantic relationships are having problems as people have trouble with social contact and apps have made sex on demand a thing.
Overcoming depression is a real struggle; I'm glad you're making progress.
Pet owners who force their cats to be vegan could risk breaking the law
This is weird to me because I feel like it's easier than ever to have a social life.

Looking on Facebook, Meetup, etc. I can easily find local groups that match my interests. There's a local Ruby group, gaming groups, tennis and other casual sports leagues, and so on. Social media is actually pretty cool for that when used judiciously.

My wife and I -- despite not being particularly glamorous or anything -- actually experience a fair bit of anxiety due to having more social possibilities than we could ever really say "yes" to. We've got long-time friends in the area and I meet a fair number of people that make me think, "I bet I could be pretty good friends with that person, if my slate wasn't full already...."

I think the big change from previous decades is that social interaction is more focused. It's more interest-based.

Yes, there's less of that "sit on your porch in the evening and talk to your neighbors as they walk by" and "get to know your local postal clerk on a first-name basis" kind of thing, and something good has definitely been lost there.

Perhaps the ultimate result to all of this is that all of this is that while it's easier than ever to make friends... it's also easier to fall through the cracks. There's crazy levels of social interaction out there, tailored to your interests, if you reach out and do it... but unlike the old days, it ain't gonna reach out and grab you.

I imagine that in the old days, you sat on your porch/stoop on summer evenings and your neighbors may or may not have strolled by and settled in for a beer or glass of lemonade or whatever, including Fred and Betty from down the street who also might have mentioned that they're looking for more couples to join their bowling league or some such thing.

It's sad that doesn't happen any more, but I bet there were also a lot of nights when nobody strolled by, and perhaps Fred and Betty were jerks anyway and maybe you didn't really want them to stop by. That was also a shit way to find very specific interests like a local Ruby group or a local group of transgender Civil War reenactment aficionados or whatever. So, some things have been lost, and some things gained.
There is some indication that RF can alter cellular function.

Function of Voltage Gated Calcium channels [0] (in ~human~ cells) has been shown to be altered by incident RF [1][2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage-gated_calcium_channel

[1] https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/09/...

[2] http://www.eurekaselect.com/141390

[edit] Got information wrong, not human cells, animal cells. [/edit]
This is a more measured, patient reply than I would have been capable of. Thank you for keeping the discourse civil, even in the face of obvious baiting.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18355680
Solar geoengineering could be ‘remarkably inexpensive’ – report
That's interesting. My wife had our first child this year and hasn't returned to work yet but wants to. We're both concerned there will be discrimination explaining the resume gap is due to a child.

Do you have a handy source for your stats?
The World Needs to Quit Coal. Why Is It So Hard?
that's just not truth, every Chinese is aware if difference between sichuanese/hunanese and Cantonese cuisine
"Lisp Machine emulators are widely available - so as to stop making a fool of yourself"

Thank you for proving my point, which you didn't get.

a: They were not successful, but should have been, and now it's too late.

b: If anybody cared it wouldn't be too late for success.

a: No see, somebody DID care!

b: And still no success... qed
https://nutritiondata.self.com/foods-000122000000000000000-1...

No bananas on this list. For some reason they are known to contain potassium but there are much better sources.
Every scientist I know bursts with enthusiasm and excitement when there is even a hint that a well known and important result is wrong. It would literally be a bonanza for them, 99.9% of the time the excitement is misplaced, but scientists live for the 0.1% I would say that finding out that this paper is worth nothing becomes more expensive and more valuable with every citation - every time people cite work they are looking at it.
Americans pay some of the highest prices for wireless data in the world
Since bamboo is hollow could filling the bamboo with concrete be used to reinforce and increase its load bearing strength?
It's like a human in a microwave. 80 kg human * 10 W/kg = 800 watts.
I have done a fair bit of work on the various Lisp Machine emulators and don't think that asking why the software wasn't ported to something else is a stupid question.

The K-machine development was 'just porting the damn software' to a large extent.
Those who need the laptop configured as they want.

The best option used to be 'no touchpad', that's sad Lenovo removed it.
The Big Bet Against Italian Banks
I believe there is data that shows that online interactions lead to more extreme opinion. You’re seeing this now with racist groups... it’s easy to talk about this stuff and absorb the propaganda in the privacy of your own home, while in public it’s harder to speak of it or interact with the true believers.
looks 2 me ... advice s from a NaN programmer a programmer likes more machines to ppl, that s it
Thanks for expounding your position, I still disagree however.

The analysis is similar to a parking fine, if the fine is €1 but parking is €2 per hour then people will chance it.

If the fine is having your car towed and €200 then people will be damned sure not to go even a minute over their paid time.
Quit spreading right wing propaganda and talking points here. Hacker News isn’t for political discussion and you’re just making a false equivalency and repeating Fox News lines (college students all think the same!)

The right wing donors like Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson far outspend the left and have organizations like ALEC to which there is no left wing equivalent. Data is here so you don’t have to make shit up: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/richest-billionaire...

>According to Open Secrets, Republicans had a larger share of the billionaires -- and their contributions to outside spending groups -- in the 2012 election cycle. Among the top 100 donors in the Open Secrets list, 33 were billionaires, and of those, 14 gave primarily to liberal groups while 19 gave to conservative groups.

>In addition, the top 100 donors of 2012 gave 41 percent of all the money collected by outside spending groups, and of their donations, 71 percent went to conservative groups.

From: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/jun/23...

Another relevant source: https://billmoyers.com/2014/04/10/nothing-really-compares-to...

You can read Dark Money by Jane Meyer if you are actually interested in this.
Isn't humanity saved? The main character's buddy from prison is able to show up to try to save him because greatly improved the tech; he claims that mc is a hero and things are headed to being solved?
Inside the Pricey War to Influence Your Instragram Feed
Skyscraper fight club
The climate is pretty much always tropical and warm though often rainy. Those kind of open spaces work well as living areas though most people sleep in more conventional closed rooms, often with aircon for the better off. The places I was in with that kid of construction used it for restaurant / reception stuff with people sleeping in regular concrete structures.
Mother and daughter go to UFO summits.
Qi doesn't use rf or microwave to transmit power. Inductive coupling is not at all the same as what was studied afaik.
quite honestly i dont need to see more men on my twitter follow list. i already follow 2.8k people and i know it's more than a 50/50 split of men ratio of men to women, so i've gone out of my way to try and diversify my follow list by preferring to follow women, poc and non gender confirming people. you're gonna get some silly uppity people who get all upset about this kinda thing, but personally i think there's real value in preferencing groups which aren't seen as the 'default' when it comes to cultural capital. in that regard whether it was through happy coincidence or otherwise, your service seems pretty cool.
Interesting that the my image is the exact opposite.

Downtown no one talks to each other. They live in fancy apartment buildings and go out to their events.

In the Suburbs, neighbors have BBQs, block parties. I knew all the people around the house when I lived in the suburbs. The Garys next door with their bull dog and their daughter Diane living in a detached apartment above the garage. The Alberas with a farm in their backyard. The Kumbs with their kids Gary and Janice and a pool. The Ryans who mister Ryan would always ask me to rub his back and his daughters Kim and Nannet were both my babysitter at one point or another. The Caldwells with their 5 kids Brian, John, Wendy and 2 too small for me to have played with. The Bargayos with Leah and Laura. I can name at least 7 more families.

Since that time living in apartments in cities I've never made friends with a single neighbor.

For most of my life that's been the stereotype. There are plenty of movies about people knowing each other in an ET/Spielberg movie style suburban neighborhood vs the cold hearted city.
The reason your city is so bad is in large epart because the families move away to suburbs.
In the burbs, you still get disturbances like constant lawnmowers and leaf blowers, at least in lawn-crazy USA.
I find it strange that I have friends, but I'm always feel alone. I live in a huge city, work has good people that are genuine friends outside of work, but I always feel alone. Everyone talks about meetups and conferences, but I find them to be extremely superficial interactions.

I also only ever see people outside work for social purposes about once a month or two. I've tried going out more, but nothing really ever happens.

I don't get being social/
20 years and one day ago AOL started buying Netscape, which was already in the process of open sourcing their core product. Since Mozilla depended on that, Netscape's acquisition triggered some uncertainty for Mozilla.

This wiki-page links to some background of what that meant for them.
BBC Radio Program – A Brief History of Mathematics
An what happens when someone violates those principles, especially if the violator is the minister or otherwise powerful?
It is very similar to having no support at all, since any language supports calling any other language by way of manually written bridges and wrappers – so if that's "support" then the set of languages without such support is empty.
Sounds like you're doing some great things!

> I have no idea what causes this divide. Have humans always felt like this?

I don't know for sure but I feel very strongly that the answer is "yes."

If I'm correct... for the life of me, I cannot decide whether that's a comforting thought or not! Is it?

I make friends pretty easily but it's tough to really make those deeper connections. It takes years.

Do you ever hike with others? As I get older I feel like team sports and physical stuff like hiking with friends really brings me closer to them. Something about the shared challenge, I guess? Do you feel that way?
Not everyone is mortgaged - quite a lot of the price rises are driven by foreign capital flight. A few places have figured this out and decided to tax it: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-20/british-c...
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> Suburbs are structurally lonely

I think it's a factor, but not a major one. Look at Tokyo, for example, which is probably very close to an ideal urban living arrangement in terms of density/comfort. Yet Japan also has a huge problem with "loneliness epidemic", from hikikomori to kodokushi.

I think the biggest factor is what grandpa Marx identified hundred and fifty years ago: human alienation is an intrinsic feature of capitalism itself.

There's tons of literature on this, e.g. see links below, but many people seem to be afraid to even read the arguments, let alone engage.

https://socialistworker.org/2003-2/467/467_09_Alienation.php

https://isreview.org/issue/74/capitalism-and-alienation
Making everyone miserable is not the kind of diversity and inclusion we want. It's only acceptable in the sense of "if I'm a miserable out group, the happy in group don't deserve to be happy", which is maybe fairness but not a good goal state.
D&I means forming good relations across boundaries, not arbitrary relations.
It’s really blowing my mind both that people seem to have never asked this question, or can’t imagine it going well. I find it extremely easy to ask strangers in a friendly, casual way and get interesting responses. Sometimes people don’t know where to start, so it’s good to have some suggestions (say, asking about music they like or books or art or whatever).
She just needed bananas¹.

¹ A blood panel and potassium supplements
Because the US is so high absolutely. Should it get an award just because natural gas got cheaper than coal?
There would be the issue of cost when replicating the thickness of bamboo as well, I'd imagine?