skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Fire movement is pretty harmful imho. I think it benefits the authors and podcasters much more than it helps actual people. It probably works for very specific personality types. And really shouldn't be sold to anyone and everyone.

I have friends in their 40s who retired early. And most of them are loosing their minds. It's sad and frustrating to watch. They have nothing much to focus on daily, and after a few years of it, you can see the cognitive decline compared to the rest of the peer group. Their people skills keep degenerating, from lack of constant challenges that the middle aged adult deals with at work or home. And that mounts over time, making lot of things harder and harder.

I get all the frustrations people (rightly) have with institutions, govt and corporate robot wonderland, but I have done more interesting and personally satisfying things being within those structures, than I have done anything outside them.

Financial independence is not just an emergency eject button when faced with difficult choices. It a big asset in the corporate world while competing with a cohort that is deep in debt (alimony/kids college/health expense/mortgages/golf club membership etc etc). Sooner or later everyone in any org knows who can be bought and who can't. Both kind of people have value to the org and impact on the org. People who misunderstand that, end up pushing the eject button prematurely.
Agreed.

I'm sure theres a rich history of people claiming the pyramids/great wall/stone henge couldn't have been built without X technology, when they evidently were.
They are almost certainly talking about "Meat Street"

I've been a member in the beer ones for years. Happy to answer any questions.
If you write code for companies that go out of business because A. many customers are dying because of the incautiously produced and sold products they sell or B. lawyers kick out of business before any real damage will be done,

you are not a prospective Shopify user and don't benefit from the well-maintained application architecture which benefits from the prospects of separation of concern and distributed, or more accurately, well-assigned responsibility.

Thanks and good luck maintaining your WooCommerce Hell.
Habitable type planets found around nearby small mass star
I remember feeling this in regards to some early "rapid application development" software in the 90's (Visual Basic or Borland Delphi or something).

"Look how easy it is to make a text editor!" - Drag the "text editor component" over a blank form. Look how easy it is to make a web browser! - Drag the "web browser component".

Or, maybe it was in PHP, "As an example, here's code to format an integer as Roman numerals." Oh, that sounds interesting... Expecting a cool algorithm, then discover it's (for some reason) a standard library function.
Thai also: there are 19+ vowels but they all sound only one way wherever they appear. Sometimes if I don't know how to pronounce a brand name, I'll try to find their Thai packaging and read it there.

Unfortunately they do have some loan words from Sanskrit that are irregular, and the system for writing tones is needlessly arcane (there are 3 arbitrary classes of consonants that you just have to memorise, and the tone markers change meaning depending on class)
Android has a web app you can use on your PC btw. It's alright and does the job for me.
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> a moat interrupts the view

No, it doesn't: it's just a ditch. (But it's not very effective as a defensive element if not combined with a wall).
> It doesn't follow that for something to be observed it must be part of physics.

It's the other way around. If it can be observed, it interacts with matter. If it interacts with matter, it is within the domain of physics, by definition. I don't understand why you have a problem with this.

Physicists are well aware that we do not understand all the interactions and we do keep discovering more and more interesting phenomena, such as quantum entanglement.

> All of his mechanisms select against increased complexity and diversity, so are useless to explain the origin of species as he originally claimed.

I don't know where this criticism comes from, but it sounds like a straw man. Natural selection may select against "complexity and diversity", but random mutation puts "complexity and diversity" back in the game.
I've seen a house in the united states that was built into the facing wall, from many angles the house was totally invisible.
Well, there are the Illegal Numbers [0]

The most well known is probably 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 which was a decryption key for Blu Ray discs, allowing you to get around DRM technology.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
My experience has been different.

I was going through some old papers a couple of weeks ago and found some bills. My cable ISP bill from 2002 that I found was $103/month after taxes and fees. Seventeen years later, I pay $106/month.

Back then, the only other choice I had for internet was dialup. Today my other choices include DSL, fiber, and fixed wireless. So, I have more competition now; but I don't have a lower bill.
How does F# compare to OCaml or Haskell?
Jeez they just need to learn to relax and talk to their counselor
setxkbmap -option ctrl:swap_lwin_lctl -option ctrl:swap_rwin_rctl
A Trumpist magazine extolling the virtues of Elizabeth Warren's platform? This seems to be the classical criticism of analysts that look at Trump's policies instead of painting anything he does as anathema.

Being BFF with Peter Thiel is a black mark, I'll give you that.
Also, even if I would spend 100% of my time in a terminal, iTerm offers such a better experience than Linux terminals (that’s just my personal experience, I used various Linux distributions for ~6 years)
There are alternatives for those of us not obsessed with the Apple universe. Android supports Android Messages which can be read/responded to from the browser/an app. iCloud may be substituted with any number of offerings, some will keep files on the cloud and sync as needed to preserve space. If you are invested in the Apple ecosystem, you're out of luck.
If you want realtime, there's JACK. PA is intended to replace/supplement ALSA, it has features like network transparency, per app volume control, EQ, virtual outputs etc. Not every SW has to have every feature, but PA has useful features ALSA doesn't.
Bidirectional Typing
Fantastic example of how to structure a real life (ish) application with functional programming. I don't know any F#, but I can see how to apply this to imperative languages and make them easier to debug
The full text of the passage about the seeds:

> Last year, a Chinese national who was a research professor at Kansas State University was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for stealing valuable American rice seeds — a trade secret — that can be used to treat gastrointestinal disease, antibiotic-associated diarrhea, hepatic disease, osteoporosis and inflammatory bowel disease.

So yes, this was prosecuted under trade secret and economic espionage law.
None of this matters as long as we have high speed access to an infinite supply of cat pictures.
The idealist in me hopes that no american will cast a vote on a FreeBSD/RISC-V or any other voting machine in 5 years.
It's also sometimes possible to get some small contract work with the employer you are leaving, so long as you don't burn any bridges. ( At least in software dev. There are frequently systems no one else knows how to maintain etc. )
It might not be a very appealing idea, but a few weeks work of this type a year can go a long way to offset loss of savings.
Thanks,

>Battles on social media?

just to be clear: I meant that social media was where _I_ encountered the battles that are _fought_ in the streets.

>So the answer to your question is that they are people who hope that their freedom doesn't have to be backed by violence.

I think my question is more practical (maybe too naive?): are these a fixed group of people that do this full-time: how do they eat, pay for housing in the meantime, get their gear?
If tiling is what you are after, was Spectacle not a good enough solution on OSX?

I use a QMK-based keyboard (although I am sure you can achieve similar levels of functionality with Karabiner) where choosing my window placement is a 2-key macro.
I assume the Amazon and it's tributaries wash most of it away.
But climate change alarmism sells so well.
Archimedes was Greek, the Romans killed him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes
Please tell me there are videos of this cross examination somewhere
That was a hard headline to parse. First “Quantum air” when there is already Qantas. And then “buys Bye’s”. Eek!
I use iTerm2 when I'm on MacOS, but I basically use it like I use a Linux terminal. I just don't need so many features from the terminal itself... I do need Unicode, with RTL, and colors, and a nice scrollback buffer.

For example, I don't use tabs in the terminal. I usually open a new window and use the WM from outside the terminal, or use tmux inside the terminal. Tabs in the terminal itself are not that useful in my workflow.

My current favorite Linux terminal is kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/), and before that I used rxvt-unicode.
Here are instructions for running clojure directly: JVM, Clojure.jar and nothing else:

https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started#_other_ways_to_ru...

You can also use boot, or if you’re using clojurescript, there are other non-leiningen options too. But really, leiningen is easy — you only need to know where in the project file to put dependencies (if you’ve ever used any other build tool, you can do this) and then run `lein repl` or `lein run` or `lein test` and to package a jar: `lein uberjar`. You don’t need to know anything else to get started.

Cursive is free for non-commercial use. If you just want a simple editor to get started, check out Nightcode or Nightlight.

https://sekao.net/nightcode/

https://sekao.net/nightlight/
The problem is that the business owner already uses Facebook to do marketing, as it's much more effective than just a website.
That gets your hand away from home row.

I have gone the other way. One of the thumb-buttons on my Ergodox EZ is"Super + C" makro. The other is "Super + V".

One-thumb copy/paste.
Douglas Adams was right–knowledge without understanding is meaningless
Leaking whether somebody is in a public group isn't "cracking telegram". Clickbait journalism.

Imho the very idea of using phone numbers as a public identifier isn't adequate, and allowing any information on whether somebody with phone number X uses the service, in what groups they are, or when they were last online to be seen without their consent is just wrong.
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Exactly. Another example of the same thing: how quickly did your parents go bonkers after the last of your siblings moved out?

Now make this happen like 30 years early. There's a lot to be said for having a job but not needing it. It gives you the chance to look up from just waiting for payday and view your position in your org in much greater detail, because you can afford to take a few chances.
Building the physical infrastructure for all those suburbians to live in the cities would also have a carbon impact.

In practical terms, in five years or so it's not going to be hard to get people to buy electric cars instead of gasoline, but it will still be practically impossible to get them to give up their houses, back yards, and cars to go live in the city.
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When developing for Windows we paid for windows, windows server, msaccess, mssql, and when we needed a third party component/module we paid for that too, even when all it did was to put an email in the pickup folder. Developing for Linux and with the Node.JS ecosystem is quite a different experience.
I like this video by Tom Scott explaining why electronic voting is a terrible idea. https://youtu.be/w3_0x6oaDmI
That board actually looks pretty good too!

To my untrained eye the specs seem superior (higher SNR & sensitivity).

Respeaker appealed to me due to it being fairly mainstream. I've learned not to stray too far from the pack on SBC things. Community support & info falls off a cliff
Tell me more as I want to grok the dynamic typists viewpoint as I’m sure I’ll learn something. So are you doing type check assertions at runtime and throwing errors? Or are we talking about something else?

What I like most about static typing is tooling support for refactoring and how much easier it can be to change a name or significantly change internal apis and jig stuff around with confidence.
The standard deviation combined with a large population means any automated system targeting the populace is ethically bound to increase the number of nines it must put in to ensure quality. This means having the necessary checks, balances, redundancies. 23 out of 320000 is still too many.

Abstraction - in this case the govt wanting to offload the logistics of exams - requires the govt to retain sufficient visibility and checks into the process. I believe the education board isn't that naive to not do that.

The issue is that in India, graduation can mean the difference between poverty and at least a modest livelihood. Sometime ago I read an article where the journalist argued that that motivation for going to college in the US isn't high 'cos you can have a middle class living without a degree. In India, and perhaps in China too, that doesn't happen.

The eye to see potential in people and invest in them instead of using metrics like exam marks would go a long way. As another poster noted, the new India isn't that naive to think that marks are the end all, but for many it continues to play a significant role in their aspirations. The more examples of independence that get publicised, the more our young will be inspired.

Edit: fixed total number.
The Dysfunctional Trillion-Dollar U.S. Fighter-Jet Program
Tinkering with GUI is not just about looks. It's also about workflow. So unless you mean that doesn't interest you either I'm not sure you stopped reading at the right point.

PS: I'm not telling you what you should or shouldn't read. Just trying to understand what you meant.
> It’s worth the cost of a Mac!

Have used a Mac before for work, and run Arch with Sway for home and work now. The only thing worth the cost of a Mac is having money to spend on a Mac and feeling like that it is best for you. If you use i3 or Sway on Linux and like it, you'll likely never want to go back. Especially with an Arch-based distro with the AUR.
We cannot rely on devices always cutting communication when something goes in between. Do you trust all Chinese manufacturers to correctly implement such features? If 5g was a 5mW laser beam that would cut out on interference, would you trust it always working?

Mm waves may not be harmful to humans but there are some studies that show retinal damage in mice at certain frequencies. Until at least some studies on humans have been done we should not all jump into this like nothing can go wrong and it's guaranteed safe because communication is cut automatically on interference.
Were China and Japan really as peaceful as is sometimes stated? Just looking at a timeline of Chinese historical events (and probably by no means exhaustive) I see rebellions and invasions and peasant army uprisings for thousands of years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Chinese_history
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People Get Paid to Travel
> Consider a simple work like “back”: kids sound out buh-ah-kuh which is a completely crazy version of the real word.

It doesn't sound the same but there's a clear pathway from "buh-ah-kuh" to "buahkuh" to "back", and it's one you can follow from arbitrary words.

Sesame Street was teaching kids to sound out words like this back in the 80s. Has everyone in the U.S. education system forgotten these guys? https://youtu.be/chHz3bo3f1U
https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html

One way they can achieve that pricing is by using consumer drives, instead of enterprise drives. See https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...
According to the article the ruling was that reasonable suspicion is required for a manual search for digital contraband.
What counselor? Schools in villages are lucky to have rooms that don't leak in rains. Though things have improved a lot over last couple of decades, dedicated counselor is in super expensive .01% schools.
Something really amazing for Android is scrcpy. Mirror your phone right onto your Desktop at speeds fast enough to play games.
It is a fascinating subject. ICE cars also used to separate platform and body. Coach builders might have been completely separate ones from the rolling chassis makers. Monocoque construction made that harder.

Engines might have been one cylinder side valve arrangements. Electric starters only came around after 1910 or so. Compression ratios and temperatures were low. Cars only had a few gears.

Closer to a pull start lawn mower technologically than a Tesla.
One of the major things I missed (and eventually brought me back to MacOS) were things like maximising a window means it becomes its own virtual desktop, and the touchpad gestures that would let you move between them. I tried a lot of hacks to replicate those features effectively but never came close, and it ultimately pushed me back to Macs.
Thanks for engaging directly with the community!
What was it like to be an executioner in the Middle Ages?
> the idea that having multiple strategies can kill your ability to read sounds fishy.

That's not the idea. The idea is that not understanding the basic building blocks of your language can kill your ability to read. I find it mind-boggling that this is at all controversial.
F# started as Ocaml for .Net and then added all sorts of pragmatic language constructs. I'm not an expert - F# AFAIK misses some of the higher level type theoretic stuff, but you can write 'basic' Ocaml that would be isomorphic with F#.

The key high level features that F# inherits from Ocaml is a succint syntax due to type inference and 'if it compiles it's bug free' development.
What's annoying with Ctrl+Shift+C is that it's not the same as other applications, where it's Ctrl+C.

On Mac it's Command+C everywhere.
Because the paper ballot system is audited live by all participating entities. The box that you put your ballot into is watched continuously by a member of your political party, by one state official and by a member of the at least one opposing party. Once the votes are in, then the two party people watch while the state official's team counts all votes and writes down the total. At this point they can take a picture of the final tally and send to party membership.

To mess with the election, you have to turn all three persons mentioned above, who all have conflicting interests [1]. And then do this for a significant fraction of the voting centers in one constituency to change the overall result. It's almost impossible to do this to any appreciable degree.

What more, explaining the above to regular people is as easy as repeating the above paragraph to them. As long as people trust that their party member's are not double crossing them, they will trust the process.

[1] the person of the opposing party might have ethics, so it's not given that they will just agree to blatant vote manipulation.
People discussing stuff and having those daily inconsequential political debates is what shapes society and culture.

I do understand the practicality of the advice, and I've implemented it in the past, but so just nobody fool themselves it's not far from meaning "You might be happier if you detach yourself from society". Not so dramatically, but it's like becoming a guest and partaking in cooperation but not culture.
I don't think meaningful work has to be necessarily something with crap pay and the workload of a donkey in the first world war.

The key is the word "meaningful". I know a lot of people (and I used to be one), who would shift from job to job and leave when things weren't right any more. But this typically seems to involve taking what you are as a person as given, preferring instead to simply try and change one's circumstances to match that.

It's much easier to find meaning in your work if you're prepared to allow what you are as a person be up for negotiation somewhat, in addition to wanting to exercise a degree of control over your working circumstances.

A reflection of this is pretty easy to see in the way some people frame their decision-making when deciding whether to get a new job or not. They ask themselves "is this really what I'll want?", as opposed to "is this what the person I'll be after a few years of this will want?" or "will this turn me into a person I want?". By unconsciously taking one's self-image as fixed in that way, it becomes harder to find meaning in work and as a bonus also makes it somewhat more likely that you'll make the wrong decision because your potential future mental state isn't accounted for.

Not saying you do this at all, but that there are a lot of shades of grey between being an intern and having to do what your bosses say slavishly. And a lot of them are only really visible when you look inward at yourself rather than outward at your environment.

I've got a job at the moment that's great because of this - it's not perfect, but being able to work on what I am at the same time as shaping what this job is makes the job of finding a happy means of existence drastically easier.
I think the problem is the vague use of the word "developer."

Some people develop programming languages. For them, a GUI-less environment may be ideal.

I do web development. So I need the GUI, not just for testing, but for dealing with image and video assets that come in from the art department, or creating mockups, or presentations, or maps, etc.

It's still "development," but unsuited for a 100% command line experience.

As is often the case, it's easy for someone in one field of "development" to forget that it's a broad category of experiences.
I'm pretty sure you can bind a key to do exactly that in i3.
Thanks, looks pretty nice. I primarily just miss a few specific features, like shortcut to switch modis, ssh modi, and I had one for chromium to search and go to my open tab on any screen, as well as an emoji selector with search and integrated color emoji font. Unfortunately I don't see this providing those features, and it has a lot more dependencies.
I did not find the comment patronizing. Assuming bad intent on the part of other commentators is ALSO not in the HN spirit.
Spectacle doesn't even come close to i3.

The biggest deal breaker is that you can't programmatically move a window to a new workspace (I think?); and that you can't disable the animations for switching workspaces (biggest problem).
I went down an electric-flight youtube rabbit hole a couple months ago and was genuinely shocked at how far things have already developed. If anyone else is curious, check out this set of presentations from the 2018 "sustainable aviation foundation" symposium:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHtqxcrPbJkSwI-ozYr1AiQ/vid...

The 2019 symposium is coming up in october: https://www.sasymposium.com/

Also Uber just had its "elevate summit" on its flight plans (all electric):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmVTG4mAK7nyJ7pu7pTd_...

Basically, any question you have, someone has devoted the last few years of their career to and given a 45 minute presentation on.
If fungus or aerobic bacteria eat it, then the Amazon doesn't produce surplus oxygen from it. Eating involves recombining the carbon with oxygen into CO2.

The biomass of the Amazon is not, for the most part, sinking into very salty water.
How about giving kids books instead of a stupid app? Talking about damaging kids...