skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a pretty pesimistic presumption that AFAIK has no empirical evidence to back it up. Even without holding the threats of homelessness and starvation over people's heads, humans are highly status driven, competitive creatures. There is a lot of evidence that people will do massive amounts of work that has little to no material benefit, just for a bit of social status (or even for self satisfaction.) Otherwise, volunteerism, open source software and Indy Games couldn't be as successful as they are.

I don't doubt there are some people who would stay home and watch Netflix. I just suspect there are more people that are ground down by the daily grind and abandon their dreams.

Even if there are more unmotivated people than demotivated people, unmotivated people are low value anyway. People that lack self-motivation are never gonna be the most productive members of society so designing a system to extract work from them at the cost of wasting the time of more motivated individuals seems... backwards.
The phenomenon of self discipline is known and discussed way before modern psychology is born.

Do we all know that some people surrender quickly to physical or mental challenges, and some last longer? Our brain cries at us to stop doing challenging things, stop pushups, stop working on a hard problem. Self discipline in my definition is how you react on those brain calls. Can you shut them down for a while, or will you find an excuse to stop?

Currently I am experimenting on myself, by reflecting and talking to my brain under stress (the best exercise I found for it is the plank).

You should have a strong inner reason why you want to tolerate suffering. Kool-aid, external motivation helps, but up to some point. When I am suffering trying to keep plank it helps to clearly remind myself why I am doing that.
Seriously disturbing book. Read it many, many years ago, couldn't put it down. It's still on my shelf but I'm not sure I can bring myself to read it again.
Are any of the Sackler family going to face real consequences for this?
I think the problem was most companies ran internal data centers and were unflinching to the cost of internal bloat.

IMO for a multitude of reasons this has hidden the cost of these deoptimizations due to the virtualized abstraction.

I believe with public cloud dropping a comprehensive bill on the doorstep of these enterprises, compute will become a utility that will be optimized once again with virtualization at the heart of it all.
> As someone who's been doing sysadmin-ing things for a while... (10+ years) I don't think I've ever seen Emacs installed on any server

Chances are the Emacs-users are working on files on that server remotely via TRAMP, from their nicely and 100% personally customized Emacs-installation.

Why bother replicating all that setup on a server when you don't have to?
For one thing, nobody knows how much money he had or has, let alone "made". We do know that he inherited about $400 Million through illegal schemes. Over a few decades, invested in the stock market, or almost anything else really, he could have been a totally unskilled billionaire. What he actually did, however, was to lose billions. There is indeed no apparent way he could have "earned" even a single billion, between all his failures. And no proof he ever personally owned a billion. He certainly seems in no rush to prove otherwise.

And you don't want to get me started on what lead to his electoral win. It certainly wasn't his smarts.
Since Vim/NeoVim take a "batteries not included" approach to set up I'm just happy that we've gone from a state of "you have to use an IDE to get code aware features" to "it's hard to set up code aware features in NeoVim".

Hopefully other projects such SpaceVim or individual plugins can provide an easier path for those that want it. I think it's on NeoVim's own road map to add LSP support out of the box.

Of course it's also worth pointing out that whilst it's nice that NeoVim is learning new tricks nothing about having better CLI based tools available means that you can't still use GUI based IDEs if that suits your use case better.
Well, I speak for quite a lot in many countries in Western Europe, including myself. Based on public policies, mass protests in cities, voting patterns, on those issues (pensions, labor rights, pension age, etc), I know why're hardly some minority...
It's 5000-10000 people for the car software, connecticity, cockpit, autonomous driving, energy, mobility services, etc.

Many of them already work in the Volkswagen Group, but will be centralized working on common platforms.
Then that oil will find its way into the economy anyway.
An interesting paper on the opposite point of view. Isa 65 is discussed.

Death and the Garden: An Examination of Original Immortality, Vegetarianism, and Animal Peace in the Hebrew Bible and Mesopotamia: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0qm3n0mt
Textmate for me is the best example of "second system effect". Allan decided to rewrite everything, which killed the community.

(I also don't think SublimeText "just ripped off" TextMate and didn't add anything new. They added Windows and Linux support, for one.)
Yet caffeine disturbs my sleep and hence my work. It's almost like we are all individuals.
If private investors don’t care about valuations because their time horizon is shorter and they plan to get out and sell to the bigger fool, how is that any different than the public investor?

Either way, stock valuation doesn’t determine the viability of a company as a going concern - profitability does. Did anyone think that MS wasn’t a going concern during the decade where it’s stock stagnated? Do any of the major profitable tech companies have a business model that is more less successful based on investor sentiment during the day?
For me that approach is just dumb.
It's like "War on drugs" - you are fighting something you cannot defeat instead of trying to make a real change.

If I pirated a book, liked it and saw a message there "If you liked it, consider supporting the author in this and that way", I would probably just do that.

If you ever illegally downloaded a game you know that often there are messages like this from pirating groups and I believe that's the right thing to do - if you liked it, support it.
Thats exactly what I was finding...totally surprised.

Learned something new.
"Iran want to defend it's interests" : well arguably bringing your country to the brink of economic collapse due to American sanctions isn't in Iran's best interests. We will see what the new American president (could be still Trump btw) is gonna do.
Are mere users still not allowed to interface with JS from Elm? I lost all interest when that came down.
While I'd generally agree it seems like a silly point to argue in this specific case - of course missing data in the UI is much preferable to the entire app becoming unusable!

Funny coincidence, by the way. I haven't been on Instagram this past month because the app instantly crashes on launch. On iOS though, and I doubt I've got anyone after me.
vnoremap <C-X> "+ygvd
They are jews so I doubt it.
The company is going bankrupt, so the effective "fine" to the shareholders is 100% of their equity. That's the point - "limited liability" just means it can't be more than 100% of equity.
Military Drones Are Changing Warfare
> set clipboard+=unnamedplus

TIL. This goes into my vimrc right now.
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I don't know, how many cars do they have on the road? Must be at least 50 million or so. So 10,000 coders for 50 million users. And these users are, you know, driving cars around, so its kindof important to get the software right.

This sounds like a smart move by VW. Essentially Tesla are showing the way forwards here, being the first automaker to take software seriously.
:closes HN tab:
See https://langserver.org/#implementations-client
I found the parts where he describes his inner fights very valuable. It raised my awareness of those fights in my brain under discomfort / suffering. I am trying to both reflect on and fight those thoughts.
Which wouldn't be a problem if sugar was still scarce. It's the abundance of food and distractions which messes us up.
prefer renoise, it's cheap and super easy to work with :D. Never actually liked the workflow of ableton (personal flavour i suppose), its audio engine is fairly decent, but imho for 500ish euros it costs to get the suite it's a bit expensive for what u get.

Cubase has a much superior audio and processing engine like Logic Pro for mac users, and is in a similar pricing range. It has less quality built-in dps etc. ,but most DAWs lack on that.

Renoise for like 50 euros is super cheap in comparison, and most dps it has have awesome performance and quality.

That being said, ableton does offer a better 'live' environment for live/performance based things.

on workflows, bitwig is really the innovator, as it combines workflows from different daws like cubase and ableton and lets the user itself choose its work-flow instead of forcing it upon the user.
Yes, same feeling. If anything is wrong with Volkswagen, it is not their OS.

Reminds me of when Renault bought VAZ, the first thing VAZ did with new money was to boast of making "the first Russian car with a computer."

Them adding a computer to a car that falls apart as you drive just made Lada a shitty car with a computer, from a plainly shitty car.
It matches my experience much better than the « self-motivation » theory. If you have self-motivation, it’s because you are in the correct chemistry, brainwise. Maybe you are loved, maybe you eat well, maybe you live in a building that has proper O2 venting. But being able to motivate yourself for work and sports and friends is the result.

When one says « Motivate yourself and all will be better! », they are just saying that they are in a fortunate situation and they don’t see why others wouldn’t be. It’s similar to a rich man telling a poor man: « Spend and you will be rich, that’s what I do all the time! » No, you are not « able to go through tough times because of the strength of character» but because you are still well despite temporarily being disappointed.

Example:
> Self discipline in my definition is how you react on those brain calls. Can you shut them down for a while, or will you find an excuse to stop?

Ok, this guy is healthy. Probably loved, probably has expectations for the future, he probably has reasons to work hard, because he gains hard when he works hard.

> Currently I am experimenting on myself,

« Currently I am feeling good, so I can spend this extraordinary energy into something that will make me even healthier »

> by reflecting and talking to my brain under stress

I assure you this is not how the brain works. Basically he has hope for the future, so he can sell hope to his brain.

It is extremely important for the future of USA, because USA is currently experimenting a « Boy Crisis » (from the title of the book) where men can’t get motivation, and they spiral into drugs. Particularly in the mid-west, but it’s a trend in the whole Western world. That’s why some experts are screaming at the dangerosity of having anti-white-male policies in pretty much all areas (work, NGOs, etc), it’s because, I don’t know whether this is the root cause, but at least it increases and compounds the problem.

And finally, that’s why a psy is also able to evaluate what your remaining resources are, and use those to make yourself start a project where you will receive more love and hope (or exchange more love), but that is entirely different from the « be more motivated so you have more energy » advice.
> what are you looking for in a mentor? a fellow developer, a manager, a promoter?

I don't know - if I knew what I needed to do, I wouldn't be asking for advice. I'm hoping that's what an auction can decide. Whoever thinks they can benefit me the most would offer the highest price.
Which countries have banned pesticides used in suicide?
Is it equally inexplicable why able-bodied 8-10 year old children are not allowed to work in factories like in the past?

People advocating these things lack all kinds of empathy, and are themselves seldom (ie. never) the ones forced to work in shitty jobs at 65+... If they were 65+ and had to stand up all day working to make ends meet or end homeless in the street, they'd sing a different tune. And they'd see exactly how "able-bodied" those 65+ are.

That's the second worst problem of privilege - not just having the upper hand at various situations, but not being able to get into the others' (that don't) shoes at all. You don't even have to be born into privilege for this, often the worse offenders are people who worked (and lucked/had connections/took chances others in their situation never had) themselves upwards into society, so on top of their current privilege and distance from those everyday experiences they add their contempt for the billions that did not (since if they did it, everybody could).
Limited liability only protects the capital of the shareholders, it doesn't protect the management of the company against criminal prosecution.

(In practice, however, managers are only rarely put in jail, both because it's notoriously difficult to prove white-collar crime (except in few cases, like insider trading, which are the pursued with extra vigor), and because CEOs are generally rich and well connected... but the problem there is corruption, not some inherent feature/bug of the idea of limited liability company.)
Thanks! And indeed, it's a full feature instance of Doka, I figured it might be useful for some people to do quick image editing and offering it for free feels good.

It isn't open source, I do use income from Doka to finance my other open source products (like FilePond).
> while adding nothing novel

AFAIK, Sublime is/was cross-platform? I wouldn't call that nothing novel.
Yet hear you are, procrastinating with all of us.
As a Toastmasters veteran I can say that this really is a common issue. Great job to you and the OP for realizing it.

The two extremes are too conversational and too concise. Personally my nature was to be concise and deliver information efficiently. But a piece of advice I give commonly these days is "information is the enemy of story."

If you want to evoke an action (inspire) or change an opinion (persuade) you need emotional engagement. Narratives are your more powerful emotional engagement tool, and information weakens them.
A usual advice here on HN is to check on ADHD with a good doctor. You can decide then if you want to jump on medications, but I can share that it improves the lives of many people.
Sure.

Add me and send a message here:

https://twitter.com/Yuval_Halevi

And as for proof for the reaching the Mongol Rally finish line:
https://imgur.com/a/LVz4DMv
I don't think there will ever be a way to interface js directly from elm or vise versa. Ports are the only way.
O(constant) = O(constant - 1) = O(1)

They are all the same.
I specifically build it to work well across multiple different contexts :)
funnily enough, the founder/creator of renoise was working for Ableton in the early years of renoise
But Iran also has churches and synagogues, minorities in the parlament, by far the most empowered womans movement, an actual native republican and liberal intellectual tradition, a liberal, both economic and social elite (even within the regimn) and so on.

The population is also far less 'bought in' to these rules and police has a hard time enforcing clothing regulations for example.

In terms of religous freedom and religous pluralism Iran is leaps and bounds ahead of Saudi Arabia and many of the Arab states.
Petrochemical feedstock only makes up 10-20% of oil demand, and road transportation 50%. And there are multiple different sources for those feedstocks. As I say, oil will remain an important commodity, but its days as the pre-eminent commodity, and a key driver of geopolitics, are already numbered.
The difference is that every prisoner in a private prison is an income source, so every law that creates fewer prisoners (such as drug legalization) is a loss of income. Are all public prisons run the same way? That is, are the prisons funded on a per-prisoner-per-day basis? Or do they get an overall annual budget, and then have to spend it as best they can to house the prisoners they're sent?

In the former case, harsh laws are good for them, same as the private scenario. But in the latter case -- fewer prisoners on the same budget -- more permissive laws would be an unconditional win. I don't know which way it actually works, just spelling out an unstated assumption that's being made upthread.
I really love the progress China made in very small duration. But does this article sound like promotion/propaganda ?
You mean ports and flags? It's described right in the tutorial : https://guide.elm-lang.org/interop/ports.html.
I wouldn't call it not possible. It is necessary to have the cool stuff of Elm, unfortunately (or not).

It's not rocket science tough, and it allows for clean interfaces. I wrote about it just a couple ago ago : https://lengrand.fr/a-short-introduction-to-ports-and-flags-...
i am happy theres alteast some people concerned and working for our environment instead of passing stupid laws and doing fk all.

it's not hard to make your yard or environment more friendly for the local wildlife, and its super important to do so with current conditions.

for example in my country, even in 'protected' areas, insect populations are down by as much as 85%!. Thats just because people are a bit lazy and put pavement in their backyards instead of some simple grass and flowers.

take time for your environment, not for yourself, but for the next generation of people to be able to enjoy life.

don't expect government or politics to resolve such an issue, they are only out for money and forever hampered by budget issues and childish disagreements between politicians.
JS interop has never been an issue, it's publishing JS-interop packages which is gated[0]: port module is available in applications but not packages.

[0] formerly behind a review queue / review process to add to native-whitelist, now limited to two specific "core" organisations
> are you basically thinking of a similar thing to BowieBonds?

I wasn't aware of them before, but yes. I guess I could publish tax returns each year, and then pay the mentor(s) their percentage of total income on a monthly or annual basis.
Loved the reference to xkcd)
Initially I rendered the image preview with CSS 3D transforms, while super fast on Safari, it turned out this wasn't as performant on Chrome when viewing on a retina display (weird right?). So I switched to WebGL, which sits closer (closest?) to the hardware and therefor yields better results. It's now super fast, it can animate filter transitions at 60FPS.

SVGs currently don't support hardware acceleration, so that's why I went with CSS transforms for other parts of the UI. The only things rendered with SVG at the moment are the markup, the UI icons, and the rotation control.
Ha, OP meant directly? Well AFAIK that is simply not possible, to keep the purity of Elm programs. All has to go through the Elm architecture. Or am I mistaken?
My grandfather was awarded an OBE for his service during WW2, entertaining the troops all over the ME during various stages of battle .. he had some stories of his piano saving him from schrapnel on more than a few occasions, and eventually wrote a book about his experience .. if you're a Kiwi or an Aussie, you can read his book in the National Library:

https://www.amazon.com/WHISTLE-Story-Concert-Party-Vaughan/d...

One thing that always struck me as significant was that his troupe (the "Kiwi Concert Party") was considered a real morale booster and very much respected by every service member it encountered ... I think the idea that a concert could be put on in the most remote places, in the middle of dire battle circumstances, was very inspiring to a lot of the troops.

His adventures always brought to mind the old "Goons" radio show, mixed with a bit of "Dads Army". I was happy to have had piano lessons from the ol' man, anyway ..

EDIT: found some nice ol' video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU2jKPfvIqY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PA7dE1Fk3g

Classic:

https://teara.govt.nz/en/music/10195/kiwi-concert-party
I think this is a result of automotive technical progress slowing down. And I don't mean that in a bad way.

For the past 100 years, we have been developing better and better cars, with both breakthroughs and incremental improvements in the drivetrain, safety, comfort, reliability, etc.

Now though, cars are consolidating. Most car companies only have a handful of 'platforms' on which they build various models. For example: Volvo currently only produces 3 models of combustion engines. We have reached a point where numerous subsystems are just 'good enough' and require little more R&D.

During the past 20 years or so, the software had to keep up with all the new tech coming out in the automotive world. Now that development of automotive hardware is slowing down, it is time to focus on the software for the long run.

Tesla has been doing this for a while now. Their electric drivetrain is at point where there is more for them to gain in software than improvement of the hardware. For other car manufactures it is a bit harder to accept that, as they have been developing hardware technology for a long time.

Edit: fixed my wrong example about Volvo, thanks to C1sc0cat
Because Vim modes usually don't support more than a handful of basic features, let alone plugins and custom keybindings.

Vim also starts up without any noticable delay and can be used for every text file, no matter in what context.
Great article.

So, it appears that this "drone" attack was actually an attack by an ultra-advanced cruise missile. A missile with higher range than the limits of the INF treaty (from which the US has pulled recently).

According to this article, the distance between northern Yemen and the attacked facility is more than 1250 km. For comparison this is roughly the distance between New York and Chicago, or between Paris and Rome.
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Good point. I should have added:

4) When the fine is larger than the company's worth, collect it from the shareholders.
Yes, I wasn't trying to say it's only possible to use with coc.vim, and neither was I trying to say that LSP is unique to coc.vim. But I would not recommend Deoplete.
Don't worry they will eventually find the WMDs.
Why is everyone using the term APR? It's not compound interest. If I take 2 or 3 or 5 years to pay back, I don't get charged more. The cost of the loan is fixed at 10% of the principal, regardless of how long you take to pay it back. There's no compounding, so using the term APR makes it sound nefarious when it isn't.
In my opinion, none of those things should be contingent on being paid. At least at a minimum level, it should be possible to eat nutritious food, have homely and comfortable shelter, fresh water, warmth, clothing, medical care, everything you need to survive and thrive, just because you're human and society is not barbaric.

Then when you work it would be because you want to expand beyond that minimum, or because it's a thing that you want to do, for personal reasons, to serve the community, etc.
They seem to be shifting more into energy in general, so grids, storage, charging, and energy production.
Regarding Kahneman, keep in mind that in the following years there has been a lot of doubt - including by Kahneman himself - about the scientific validity of the evidence.

See also:

https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-...

https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...
I hate to be that guy, but the himilayas aren't a pole. There can be only two
We should be. We should also be going after the distributors who were shipping millions of pills a year to small towns with a population of 6000. This is not an either/or situation, there is plenty of blame to go around.