skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m torn by the idea of replacing vimscript with lua. I honestly enjoy both languages (vimscript is not as bad as its reputation!) but they each shine in different use-cases. Lua is more ergonomic for writing programs/plugins, but vimscript is more ergonomic for interactive use (and maybe config files, more below).

For non-vimmers, a good analogy is the shell: would you want to replace sh with a more robust language like lua? Few people seem to enjoy writing larger programs in sh, and are quick to jump to perl/python/ruby once a script crosses some complexity threshold. However, I doubt many people would want to give up sh for interactive use. Mainly[0] due to omitting “cruft” like parens/quotes/commas, and also pipe syntax. Minimal example:

ls -laht | grep foo

is nicer than

grep(ls(‘laht’), ‘foo’)

especially when you’re doing thousands of commands of varying complexity every day.

Vimscript is similar, again mainly due to omitting “cruft” like parens/quotes/commas, and also some specific sugar. Minimal examples:

iabbr cosnt const

is nicer than

iabbr(‘cosnt’, ‘const’)

and

s/foo/bar/g

is nicer than

sub(‘foo’, ‘bar’, ‘g’)

especially when you’re doing hundreds (thousands?) of commands of varying complexity every day.

Besides setting options, the vast majority of the “meat” of my config file boils down to these types of commands, and is thus much more readable with the cruft omitted, even though I only have to type it once.

This could probably be addressed with some light syntax sugar on top of lua, and I think I remember seeing some comments from the Neovim folks about this very thing, but I’m not able to find anything concrete at the moment. Does anyone know where this stands?

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[0] Of course, another issue (for both shell-scripting and vim) is the huge amount of tools built on top of the existing language, which we may be remiss to abandon. For shells, it’s probably practically impossible. For vim, I suspect it is possible, though it would be painful enough to merit a long hard think.
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Replacing the sleeps with calls to "tmux capture-pane" to parse the responses would be closer to expect.
2010 was not the beginning of a new decade. It was the last year of its decade. Ditto 2020.

There was no year zero.
Why the quantum internet should be built in space
More accessible seems seems like an good argument, but I disagree that more popular is a disruption as the option already existed.

Anyway, I was looking to get an online masters in 2000 and there where several to choose from. On the other hand Coursera was founded in 2012 so I fail to see the disruption. Better marketing?
Standard in every car I've owned in Canada. Never needed it.
So that would mean I, as a foreigner, will have to do a little work to import it instead. That won't stop a lot of technically literate people.
Sure. Thank you for the explanation!
consumers need to care as well, and that is/was the issue for privacy or ethical behavior.
I hope we got passed that point, but it sure takes a damn long time.
- Someone will invent a decentralized/anonymous way to convert fiat currency to Crypto without KYC and Monero will be the unstoppable currency for all illegal/tax evasion activities
"When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money."

-- popular quote of unclear but probably native American origin in the 70s: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/20/last-tree-cut/
Living in Eastern Europe right now. It's +6 Celsius for the last week. Earth hasn't frozen yet, so if any snow falls it melts in a few hours.

In comparison, when I was growing up here in the 90s; we had solid -30 Celsius winters for several months.

You had to prepare opposed to nowadays, where buying a winter jacket comes down to preference. Cold or not cold...

But climate change is a hoax, right?
In my opinion, there are many companies that “move fast and break things”. It happens on the early days.

Once they grow big, they can’t afford to move quick. And breaking things seems dangerous.

So it does works. But depending on the stage the company at
What's the Low Hanging Fruit Here?
> The emails sent by your $5 VPS wouldn't stand a chance of actually being delivered to people's Gmail or Outlook mailboxes.

The emails sent from my $5 VPS arrives in Gmail's priority box :)
They stand the same chance, just setup dkim and spf as any of the hundred guides will tell you how to.

Debate it on vendor lock in, reliability and out sourcing sysops, not on having to maybe manually set up some DNS records.
I think what they're going for is a "But X" variant where this time X is post-quantum cryptography.

You might remember "But X" patents from when they were all for the Internet. You know "It's a bookshop but Internet" or "It's paying for a magazine subscription but Internet". Some of these patents were subsequently invalidated, many made their "Inventors" plenty of money anyway.

Most of today's sensible crypto designs can be mechanically transformed into something safe for a post-quantum world by sprinkling the right post-quantum ingredients in the right places and putting a XOR somewhere.

The "great" thing about patents is that you can be vague about parts that you don't specifically claim, to the point where they aren't even invented yet, and still succeed in the application. You have to guess that the missing pieces will get discovered, doesn't matter who by, before you stop being able to incrementally file modified patents for the same "invention" and then you can collect all the money because your "invention" is essential.

So they won't even need to propose a specific post quantum algorithm anywhere, they can leave that as a black box. When something gets invented, their patent covers it being used in the obvious way.

This sort of nonsense is another reason patents should be scrapped rather than reformed.
Thank you for your detailed in depth response!

For the record it seems this seems to do some basic processing:

> The Inbox or Sent folder triggers another Lambda function that loads the raw email, converts it to a .html and .txt file, and stores it alongside the original message, while storing any attachments in the attachments.

This looks OK for me having clients do indexing and processing. From your description it seems JMAP choose a different tradeoffs and puts more services on the server side.
What's What in the World of TeX
From the same site, another oldie-but-goodie:

https://sfu-db.github.io/dbsystems/Papers/p377-codd.pdf
The Josh Madrid Daily
It's tradition indeed. Did the adult attend the college's mandatory sexual-assault prevention program before engaging in sexual activity? Were they in compliance with the college's affirmative consent policy? Were they having sex with someone who was under the influence and therefore presumptively unable to give 'affirmative' consent? Plenty of ground for lots and lots of petitions!
Iran, China and Russia are bad guys. Iran, China and Russia are worse that USA or any other country by whatever metric you would pick. Land area annexed in square kilometers or thousands of humans killed - pick any. Over any single point in time or any time period.
Synthetic Modelling of Biological Communication [pdf]
You might be directly impacted, but in terms of most countries invaded or people killed over the last say 100 years I think the US is rather ahead. Making them a bigger problem for the world even if Russia is a bigger problem for you.

Personally as an American I kind of like being part of the ‘evil’ empire. But, I can definitely understand why others might take issue with our actions.
Ask HN: How to capitalize on the fact that blockchain is going to be big?
Hi all,

First a little background about me, I am a software engineer by education and currently am leading a team of 20 passionate engineers mainly focused on cloud consulting in AWS.

Blockchain has always been a fascinating subject for me and I believe it will be just as impactful this decade as the internet was in the last.

To get in-depth knowledge of blockchain, I explored Hyperledger Fabric and got to the point where I can create a supply chain hello world application of my own.

My question is how can I capitalize on knowing the fact that blockchain is going to be huge? I have the technical resource arsenal, that too from a third world country which can create almost anything at really low cost. What sort of development should a team like me be focused on? One of my friends suggested developing terraform scripts to automate production level hyperledger fabric. What could other things me? Maybe interactive tutorials? What do you guys think?
> Assuming this works as advertised, you can go from zero to a full blown email service for organizations with thousands of people (assuming the stated AWS limits are lifted), in record time

All the hard parts of doing that are in dealing with reputation, not in setting up a mail server or or scaling it. I've run an e-mail service with ~2 million users on hardware with comparable CPU, memory and IO capacity to my current laptop in the past. Setting up the mail server was not the time consuming part.

And the reputation bit in this instance is handled by SES. If you put a regular mail server behind something like SES for outbound messages, that's simple too.

While I do see benefits to serverless, this seems to me to be a good demonstration of how it is still in a totally embryonic state when it comes to things like ease of use.
I assume the downvotes happened due to the C++ or Rust rewriting suggestion? :)
> shackles will be broken

By tying your entire email system to a single cloud provider?

This is lock-in on steroids. (Oh, and zero privacy)
Again, not a post about Ukraine, but, ok ...

>Technically that’s true, but it’s important to remember the protest was peaceful for couple months. Then police started the violence. People have a right of self-defense.

Violent protest is not the answer, not when they had an election coming up very soon.

> Despite Ukraine have been fighting Russian army for almost 5 years now, what you’re saying is not true:

Millions of people have fled the country to work abroad in countries like Poland and Russia, among other countries in Western Europe. The common people do not have enough money to pay their gas bills, to pay for their heating in brutal winters. Your graph displaying some growth "per capita growth", have a look at this graph showing the value of their currency

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=UAH&to=USD&view=10Y

In terms of socially, absolutely it is worse. No one can afford to buy any import goods. There are dozens of reports of mass emigration, and the people that stay now almost all own guns in fear. You can't tell me that this is socially better than how Ukraine was before the revolution.

>Not true. Ukraine is near the median, doing better than India or Philippines:

Ukraine was a developed nation. It had all the potential to be a manufacturing and tech powerhouse. It was a country filled with brilliant minds, engineers and hardworking people. Many of which have now fled the country. If you seriously want to compare Ukraine to India (where they don't have access to clean water or sanitation) and make that the bar for Ukraine then this discussion with you truly is fruitless.

>Neither of that is true. The “separatists” for the “separatists movement” were Russian military personnel or special forces. The war ain’t civil, there’re tons of factual evidence of direct Russian army involvement.

I think it's pretty clear that the Donbass separatists are backed with Russian aid. No one is disputing that. But it is not Russian Military doing the fighting, which is a difference.

It's the people of the Donbass fighting for their own rights. The people on the front lines are people of the Donbass. USA sends military personnel to train the Ukrainian Army, and Russia probably trains people of the Donbass as well. At the end of the day it's the people of the Donbass on the front lines fighting for their rights.

This tit for tat argument needs to end. Seriously, people in Ukraine are so much worse off today than they were before the revolution.
This actually is a granted patent. Claim 1 seems quite specific and detailed to me, although I’m no crypto expert. Is everything in the claims well known?
Mom: If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you, too?

ML Algorithm: yes!!
After surrendering all your data to a cloud provider?
That is the point, to delay the adversary from gaining access to completed technology. An example is foreign adversaries purchasing PS3s with Linux to quickly access cheap computing power.

Whether frameworks are at risk is limited to the wording of the ban and then the final determination comes from a judge hearing the case. The chilling effects are real and its possible framework development may very well be hampered due to the unknowns you have pointed out in your post
I run my own email server, with no spam filter, and inspect where every spam comes from. I get a lot of spam from random shitty providers, but none from major VPS providers (Scaleway, Hetzner, Linode, Digital Ocean, ...) with the exception of OVH.

I do however get spam from Amazon SES a couple of times a month.
You call it an issue. We call it a revenue stream.
The costs vs. outcomes analysis across health care systems suggest that your personal lifetime expected return on investment (likelihood * (value/cost)) of a universal health care system with a single large national risk pool will be higher than your lifetime ROI in the current US system.

You are probably underestimating your own unknown non-lifestyle associated risk, along with the risks your offspring represent.

It also costs a lot to detect and judge risk factors, manage individual risk pools, assure compliance, etc. You save a lot of money by simply not bothering to risk-qualify eligibility and this offsets the costs associated with carrying lifestyle risks in a single large pool.
There is this tedX talk. I forgot the name. Someone made an app that connects people with polar opposite views. They meet in person and talk. Many times, they Gain respect for other person’s view point, and many people changed their opinion too.

We all live in our bubbles, me included. If we took 5 mins to look from opposite side, we’d have less conflicts.

The internet was supposed to bring people together. Instead we are all in some echo chamber or the other. Companies like Facebook profit handsomely from it too
Create cross-platform app templates just in seconds – neu
I mean I live in Eastern Europe too, Hungary and it's -7c now. No snow but everything is frozen. I don't think our local experiences are a good indicator.

>we had solid -30 Celsius winters for several months

I'm curious, do you have any data source about that? -30c for several months sounds really extreme
See also:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nucle...
How could Stripe Atlas even require SSNs? Wasn't the whole point of that service giving access to the U.S. market for people from other countries?
I'm not a lawyer, but making something and selling or publishing it constitutes a public disclosure, and invalidates anybody's attempt (including your own) to patent it after the fact. Somebody can't come along and patent your product.

Now if you're working on an invention in your basement, and haven't disclosed it yet, someone else can take the same idea to the patent office.
Brainless method I use to check the panel:

case $1 in
""|-b|-E|-S|-t)
tmux capturep $@ --;
tmux showb $@ --;
exec tmux dele --;
esac

Also there is a "-N repeat count" option for send-keys in newer versions of tmux.
> 1. Someone else maintains the software running these services, including OS upgrades, security upgrades and patches, uptime monitoring, etc.

This is the standard marketing phrase echoed to promote serverless. By experience, I don't think is valid. Packages like unattended-upgrades automates all this stuff.

Also, not being able to verify what the software is doing is scary and looks like a 10 steps backwards to me.

> 2. Since every logical component is an independent service, each scaling independently, any one single component is unlikely to become a bottle-neck while scaling. In traditional monolithic servers, you'll have to have contingency plans if you beat storage/network/CPU/RAM limits

Except when it comes with a bottle-neck by default. Running mail servers requires rather little resource.

> 3. The closest thing to this is to break up a monolithic email server into microservices and deploy them as independently scalable containers, which is a considerable engineering effort.

Why in earth? Have you seen the postfix architecture?

> Assuming this works as advertised, you can go from zero to a full blown email service for organizations with thousands of people (assuming the stated AWS limits are lifted), in record time.

I'm pretty sure one can have a up and running mail server while the "cloudformation" thingy will still be running :)
I'm curious to learn about your adventures in value based pricing.

I've worked as an independent consultant for 3 years and have priced by the hour, and using value based fixed prices...the latter with mixed results.

I love Jonathan Stark's Ditching Hourly podcast... And I must recommend the 2bobs podcast with a shout out to Blair Enns on value based pricing and David C. Baker on expertise advice business.
All those limits are removed within hours and are one time support ticket requests. AWS doesn't want every account to be instantly usable as a spam account if someone is compromised.

I think the more significant annoyance would be the lack of IMAP/POP, I don't see how that is addressed.
Maybe that tells us something about how complicated handling permissions on AWS might be?
I own one of these, and someday when it finally works with my wireless carrier I might find out if it's as nice as they say. Standby time appears to be ~3 days with no use, but I have not measured it rigorously. It does have wifi and bluetooth sonic suppose they could add hotspot capability.
The GUI is specifically mentioned for training (tagging) of positive/false-positives that the ML then incorporates.

If you think about tagging it is something you need a GUI for unless you are lucky enough to have pre-tagged samples.

Eg: the famous Silicon Valley hotdog AI. You either need to have a GUI to allow users to select hot dogs and not hot dogs in a bunch of images, or you need a bunch of images already tagged.
How did you get from

> The average worker hasn't seen a real pay [rise] in 40 years

to

> So basically, improvements in productivity are only benefitting people in areas where productivity has improved?

?

Worker productivity has increased enormously in the last decades.
Why would you ask me for data when you can look that up for yourself?

I speak from experience.
Claim 1 seems quite specific and detailed. What’s trivial about it?
When will incentives ever be aligned with one's own long term interests?

There is reason for despair, that competition to survive the day to day - everyone needs to get through their week, month and year - will always detract from the larger concerns about long term sustainability of our civilization and prosperity.
I don't understand, what's the point of writing such an article? It doesn't seem to add any value, it might even contribute negative value with spreading cynism and pessimism.

A lot of things have been tried in education, and although some of them were probably just people trying to make a quick buck, I believe that most of them did it to genuinely improve something for others.
There is a huge difference between a hidden cam and industrial-grade studio shooting. I don’t think gp meant or knew anything about your case. If it is dumb, subj is orders of magnitude dumber, to the extent that it seems simply unbelievable and suspicious. Also, you say “18 year olds do dumb things” and then shame gp for “thinking she's an idiot”. It seems you’re overreacting and taking it personal when it doesn’t even relate. We skeptics have a right of voice too.
USA killed more people that Russia/USSR over last 100 years? USA annexed more territories than Russia/USSR over last 100 years? Please tell me you are kidding. China is indisputable leader in killing civilians EVER in human history and also quite happy to annex nearby territories. Iran - about the same. If you want to glorify objectively worse entities just for the sake of hating on USA (justified or not) - feel free to do so, I have never seem USA haters to change their opinions.
I can’t tell what your point is. I’m agreeing that managed hosting is the next evolution.

But Lambda is more than just for APIs. But if you’re worried about the “lock in” boogeyman for APIs, there are small packages for every language that lambda supports that allows you to run your standard Node/Express, C#/WebAPI, Python/Django/Flask API, etc on lambda just by changing the entry point.

Right now I’m deploying a Node/Express app to both lambda and Fargate (Serverless Docker) withoit any code changes.
Simple question, but the answer is really complicated. The caselaw on Section 101 (patent-eligible subject matter) is extremely hard to make sense of.
Intel buys Israeli AI chip startup Habana for $2B
> Getting people drunk in another city/state (?) and coercing them to do something else is rape territory

The "other state" part would make it human trafficking too. Being transported to a different city might also be enough, it depends on how the laws are worded.
On Not Giving Due Credit
Weather still isn't climate and while the abstract states their model detect climate change within a very small time-frame (a day), it still requires global data to do so.

I'm sure the converse is true too and that models should be able to detect climate change locally within a large time-frame.
I'd like to hear more about dangers of including programming in early stages. Can you comment or link to something about it?
cgi-bin didn’t have any type of process isolation.

Also, it didn’t tie in to other none web based events.
That’s absurd. US is almost 30% of the world GDP and growing as a proportion. It is Iran that can’t afford war.

Iranian military power is weakest its been and getting weaker, it is no match in any sense for US military power. The US is not going to occupy Iran but it can put them into the dark ages in matters of hours and probably eliminate most of their military.

An Iranian terrorist general constantly plotting cowardly attacks against innocents well deserved assassination by drone outside of his own country.
Ah, I was scratching my head reading through it thinking about how unlikely it must be for something to have all of those properties. But if they were tailor made for a single product that makes sense.
The less pessimistic interpretation is that it's like having someone else be your devops department. Unlike what people like to think, most people running traditional VMs and containers end up doing just as much devops as on a dedicated server (while doing consulting, I'd typically get more hours at higher rates out of people insisting on AWS, because getting an AWS setup right is a lot of work), so serveless is appealing as a way of making more of the devops stuff someone elses problem.

I get your feeling - I like to be able to ssh in as well, but then I see people I've worked for, and realise that to most of them having ssh access does no good, because they don't know how to troubleshoot over an ssh connection, and they don't want to have to know.

To them, losing that flexibility doesn't really matter, because they weren't doing it anyway.
I “feel” the same way about the east coast of the US, but I know that is super unscientific - comparing impressions as an adult to childhood memories, but I really don’t recall 70 degree days being routine. Now I live in the upper midwest, I learned in some class that the upper Midwest of the US was one of the few places on Earth not warming on average (actually anomalously cold) but this winter is like one of the “old” east coast winters, I just stepped out in my shorts and flip-flops