skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a whole lot of ??? in that edit in place.

For me, it usually goes like: <click> okay, check that I'm really editing. Crap, I'm not, I started a drag. <click> Okay, got lucky and it looks like I'm really in edit mode. Type a character. Oh crap, some of it I wanted to keep was selected, and now it's gone. Hit escape. Try again. <click> Crap, dragged it again. <click> Okay, editing. Carefully click again to clear the default selection. Carefully click again to put the cursor where I want to edit. Carefully type in the new name. Hit enter. Whew.

What could be easier?
GitPlus: Lab extension to create GitHub commits and pull requests
Agreed - problem for me, as an engineer, is that I do like building those things that are outside my core competency so I can gain a wider variety of knowledge and experience.

Definitely not worth it from a business perspective, but has resulted in some interesting toy/hobby projects!
Correction:

I think COMMUTING to office work should become the norm. >> I think working from home should become the norm.

Cutting down commuting will cut so much carbon foot print and also generally have a happier population.
Maybe people in rural areas can pay for the value they're receiving?
Anyone have experience with https://www.chromaticqa.com/

Seems like a great solution
If you find SIMH, look for a "software" folder nearby, which contains several operating systems. Some of them,
like Unix, may be tricky to install unless you have an installer's guide. BitSavers.org is a good site for documentation and several items of system software.
It’s shifting the complexity from development to operations ( or “gluing shit” as a sibling has pithily observed.

I’ve found this to be common in places with lower engineering skills. The “engineers” are mortally afraid of building anything novel for fear of failure; the COTS approach can get many clever folks pretty far in their career.
> The universal theory of our business is a living collection of concepts, designed to accurately model non-virtual concerns in virtual space.

Isn't this ontology?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology

> ontology often deals with questions concerning what entities exist or may be said to exist and how such entities may be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.

I've always thought of software as a reflection of its author's understanding of reality. The more the we learn, the better we can express that reality in the form of software.
Why is mail important? Are people sending letter? Or is that they're getting packages delivered? If it's packages they can have it delivered and actually pay the cost instead of asking other people to subsidize their lifestyle.
Are there any plans to add more interactive features, or is the expected use more static? e.g.

- Tabs
- Variants (like language selection)

If it already has these, awesome!
My guess is you’ll see loan programs for auto and houses. A car price collapse will be devastating to jobs.
Isolating the ‘Tech’ from EdTech: Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning
Who is everyone? Sure, local gyms and recreational centers may temporarily cut advertising via YouTube workout channels, but I would imagine other types of advertising increasing for online stuff like mobile games.

Also if you want true income on YouTube, your best bet is affiliate marketing and sponsorships. Many YouTube personalities have already moved to this model -- they seamlessly integrate paid sponsorships and links into their content by working directly with the sponsors. Not only does this render ad-blockers obsolete, but it cuts the middleman (YouTube) out of the equation. It also vastly improves engagement, click-through rate, purchase rate, etc.
> 4chan's /g board

No freaking clue what you are talking about.

> copy-pasta (sic)

That's just insulting I'm writing from my own personal experience and trying to explain my arguments.

> professionally for 15 years

So a relative newbie, eh? I might have expected as much.

> I am actually very very cynical.

Understatement. You are not however good at learning or listening. Or debate.

Maybe the reason you keep hearing the same arguments is that there is merit to them. Maybe your viewpoint isn't universal and a large number of other people see things a different way. Maybe the reason you aren't convinced is because you don't take the time to listen and understand what others are saying. I understood your points, I accept some of them, for example bash isn't any good for managing SQL databases. You've offered nothing but insults false assumptions and general negativity and that "you don't like it".
I don't need to win, I just want the truth to win. In other words, I'd consider it a win if I, you or anyone else learns something new.

SIMD is highly optimized at this point, with sustainable two instructions per clock throughput. It's hard to imagine scalar getting anywhere near even at 4 inst/clk rates.
Ha. If I got paired with some loser by a manager that pulled this, I'd make sure that said loser got the job.
That comment was only a bit facetious - doing well targeted advertisements toward those smaller or more insular internet communities can really pay off well.
Do people ever type all this obscura in any reality? Seems a bit ridiculous to me.
This is so obviously false. Counterexample: Robusta Coffee.
Demystifying Open Source Licensing
Picky Eater? Turn “ew” into “more please ” [video]
I first encountered a diagram of algebraic structures at the end of Jeevanjee's second chapter, "Vector Spaces", which elegantly summarizes the high-level differences in structure between sets, vector spaces, and inner product spaces.
I've attempted to augment this map along two dimensions: a structure dimension that aims to measure the number of attributes an algebraic object has, and a specificity dimension that measures the number of constraints placed on each attribute.

This is aimed primarily at mathematical physics, and is intended as a quick reference -- it's obviously incomplete and isn't a substitute for Hungerford, Lang, or [insert favorite algebra book].

I hope you find it as helpful as I did in making it!
Does anyone have any tips for the "micro" lulls? I'm a professional programmer of 5 years. Back in December I was floating high, feeling so empowered and at the top of my powers. Now I feel just meh. Opening an IDE, writing tests, etc, all feel like a drag.
Precisely. The success that the original Million Dollar Homepage enjoyed was almost entirely because it was a novelty in a number of ways -- the World Wide Web was new to the public, web advertising was new, web pages with organically created content were new...

Nowadays, it takes a lot more to get that kind of attention. I don't think it'd be possible without some kind of groundbreaking new technology -- well beyond anything that's on display here.
Perforce. The more I learned of it, the worse it got. Take the worst parts of CVS and Subversion, and then toss them in the bin, because they're too good to be in Perforce.
I would take covid and the associated possibility of death over bed bugs.
Using Go 1.14 modules with local packages
The body of the letter starts out with the author offering his sympathy to car dealerships, saying his heart goes out to them. Well, my heart does not go out to them. They have spent the better part of the last decade refusing to innovate, and in fact have spent millions on lobbyists to keep their vaunted position as the government-mandated middle men between manufacturers and customers. Every time I have had the misfortune to spend a day (because that’s how long it takes to do anything with them) at a dealership I’ve left wanting to take a shower.

If they all go under because of this I’ll consider it a brilliant upside.
I do that all the time. It's not particularly obscure: your shell was designed to help you do stuff like this.
Probably wouldn't be able to see it with current fabrication technologies and historic transistor counts.
If this is the case, you should be thinking about your own job. There are very few companies that can stay afloat without new customers. And even fewer SaaS companies as churn is amplified during a downturn.

Do you know what the CFO is telling their lieutenants about now? Cut all superfluous spending and reduce monthly expenses. That means your sales people are going to be getting calls from their clients asking for a fee reduction or a contract revision. Very few SaaS companies are critical or defensible.
Programs will arrive, but they will be woefully inadequate, defaults will occur regardless. Agree with the outcome.
I was pleasntly surprised and happy to see that I could use this service or Cloudflare on the latest version of Android natively by just typing in a URL into the settings rather than having to install a 3rd party app!
I love it! I wish I could have some of those difficult projects. I've sadly been wearing down my curiosity and idealism in favor of pragmatism and economy for the last few years.

How do you find work where this quality of code is valued? I can produce an entire machine in a couple hundred hours of work that will make my client money for a decade until the product line is cancelled and the machine and the time and money I put into it is depreciated. In that couple hundred hours, there's some time for problem modeling and architecture considerations at the start, and usually at least one or two really hard problems where nothing off-the-shelf will work and you have to "make yourself one" that might take a few days each, but the vast majority of the time is just taking in business logic, translating it to code, and testing/documenting.

I treasure the times I get to solve an interesting problem or can develop a system that's beautiful and accurately models the system required. But the sad truth that I'm coming to understand is that in a non-software company you can get a lot done for not a lot of money by duct-taping together purchased components and copy-pasting a simple, versatile component a couple times. I believe there are businesses where this pragmatic approach won't work - there's not much done in the space yet, the project will live long enough and evolve so it needs to support rework, and you're somewhere between Google and a one-hit wonder. But industrial automation is not one of those businesses.
A minority stake. Disney has one too. Doesn't mean Mickey Mouse is backdooring overwatch.
I'd say anyone who is a maker. Someone who creates things creatively.

There is a good chance your carpenter has a workshop at home. If you have the kind of mechanic who likes will modify your car, they probably do their own car too.
Hi snewman,

I am currently using logdna as my splunk alternative, but it's not very good.

Why should I try scalyr next, over the other alternatives ?

My main constraint is the solution should be at least half as good as splunk, and cost less than $50 a month (I generate less than 1G a day).

Your pricing seems to be reasonable. But how do you compare to splunk on features ?

Here are the other tools I am considering trying

https://www.humio.com/

https://www.sumologic.com/

https://sematext.com/logsene/

https://www.datadoghq.com/log-management/

https://logz.io/pricing/

https://www.chaossearch.io/

https://www.papertrail.com/

https://www.loggly.com/

https://www.graylog.org/products/enterprise
Anecdotally, I feel like Zipcar has been shrinking, not growing, ever since they got bought out by Avis (the #2 traditional car rental company).

On the other hand, Lyft is now trying to get into the car rentals game...
Can you call a practice "gross incompetence" if everyone is doing it? The number of people using password managers is pretty close to zero. (I've recommended it to everybody for about a decade, and so far I think I managed to convince exactly one person.)
Not yet. As others have commented, it's probably too early still.
I was going to link to this on YouTube since I remember watching it for free, but it seems they stopped providing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fN82upbGPo

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/11/youtube-full-movies-free-a...
> As users accumulate plugins, it all becomes a giant, unmaintanable monolith that ends up unable to perform even the most basic tasks

I agree that most of the time it's best to give users only one way of doing things, so that they don't get creative and go down a rabbit hole.

Nevertheless, if a product targets a specific type of user, which is expected to be knowledged about and follow certain best practices while using it, making the product more customizable can be a competitive advantage.

We can't always blame the product for being "too complex" if it's purposely designed that way so that well-read users can take the most out of it.
That's great, so bear the actual cost of your lifestyle and let the price ripple through the system. Maybe food needs to cost a tiny bit more.

Would you be for a grocery store tax that kept groceries the same price everywhere? Irregardless of shipping and land costs?

It costs a lot to run internet connectivity all over the place, if the town wanted to pay to run the cables it could, or a non-profit could, there's a wide variety of solutions. My guess is that it's just not worth the cost/maintenance for the few people that need it vs the other options. Internet may need to cost 1k per month if only a few people are using it and the cables need to be run a long distance.

Proper prices are the only way we can proper figure out how to allocate resources. If we stopped subsidizing remote farmland, maybe farmland near cities would be more viable.
Blog Post: Learning with POCs
Millenials are the new Lost Generation
Thoughts on Estimates
C has goto, as does C#. Using it is frowned upon, but it's there. I'm not familiar with the term "unstructured" in this context; does COBOL not have subroutines or something?

And I'm sure COBOL's verbosity can't hold a candle to enterprise Java.

I'm still not seeing a single big factor that sets it apart as unusable. All languages have flaws.
Another common rename is the three way:

mv file file.bak; mv file.new file

Nested {} can handle that one, cutting four 'file's down to one:

eval mv file{,{.bak\;mv\ ,.new},}

Anyone have a way to hack that to cut the two 'mv's down to one?
Almost every day.

This syntax is no more obscure than a link in markdown, for example.
I 100% agree, in fact a couple weeks ago I gave my notice despite me being insulated from the current layoffs. I had been wanting to do this for a while, and hearing the CEO giving projections of how much our revenues are going to shrink due to covid, compared to our crazy speculative company valuation, was the last nail in the coffin. They should have managed the company better and more frugally, so I vote with my feet.

This is my last week and I’ll be starting next week in a much more solid company with a much better compensation too, wish me luck :-)
It’s trivial to enable vim mode in most modern shells, which solves most of these issues
Thanks for the link. It turns out to be better than I expected!
Here is a thought experiment for your preference of “individual units with minimal features”: How do you take an artist’s toolbox app (Photoshop, Illustrator,
Blender, Painter, Procreate, Clip Studio, etc) and decompose it into individual units that can still be interacted with via a stylus as the primary UI?
It's sort of a battery, you just can't charge it with electricity. If you oversize the generators, you then can discharge the battery when renewable generation is low, and let it charge when renewable generation is high.
Huh... I hadn't considered it before, but Bender's brain could actually be a 6502, just being run at an insanely high clock speed. A few petahertz should be able to handle the AI involved, no?

Planck time is like 10^-43 seconds, so there's lots of room to divvy up a second for more processing power given advanced technologies...
If you want to give welfare to poor Americans give them welfare and let them pay the true price of their goods. I bet most of them would choose to keep the money and have postal service once a week, or every 2 weeks if they could keep the cash savings.
absolutely. i also haven't had a personal car for years, instead renting, scootering, biking, mass-transiting, and ride-hailing.

i'm just waiting for someone in the on-demand transportation sector to realize that the killer app for self-driving is not 100% level 5 autonomous driving, but a service that can self-drive to you from a cheap parking lot/structure and return to it after a trip.

(to be fair, i think many do realize this and are working on it already.)
Show HN: Feature-complete Rooms Chat for 10K+ users. Built with Oat++
Read in the bath tub. Read paper books. Do not bring hour phone into the bathroom with you.
Nice work. You should consider adding WebXR support. ThreeJS has a pretty good cross-platform plugin you can use.
Optimism: A Manifesto
When I was in high school I was deeply afraid of death and thought about it daily. Then a few times over that period I got sick. Not unusually, or deathly sick, but feeling like utter garbage and perhaps enough to wonder if there was a very remote chance that the illness could threaten my life. And everytime I wondered that I realized that I had no fear of death which struck me as really odd given that I would otherwise feel true terror at the thought of impending doom. This led me to the belief that fear of death is really just a biological impulse, and that pressing that mental button that says death is scary is just... not actually a reflection of your mentality but a biological response which can be dulled by physical circumstances like illness. By recognizing it wasn't really a rationally based thing, it became much easier to just not touch that biological scare button when contemplating death, and now it rarely bothers me (though it's still easy to trigger terror if I want to).

I feel I arrived at a similar place to the author but on a much less romantic path. Not sure if I would have the same experience if the illness actually felt life threatening in an active way (e.g. breathing problems like the author experiences).
Lesson #10303146 in "never listen to the haters."

Godspeed, Mr. Metropolis Builder.
There is only one true blue !

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue
no good content to contribute here other than to say: thanks much for penning this piece. hope you recover soon.
Yes, we considered both reagent and re-frame together. Around the time om.next was announced myself and a handful of others built a commercial product based on reagent, re-frame, and om.next. I only have good things to say about them, but there's a lot that they don't do and Fulcro's client-side solution is equally pleasant.
That's due to excessive regulation. Regulations benefit large incumbents, as opposed to smaller competitors/startups. The real driver of inequality is the government. Usually through excessive regulations, bailouts, and inflation. In a truly free market, prices go down, as competition is fierce. Perfect competition and pareto efficiency are concepts everyone on here should have knowledge of, if only at a surface level.
Or zig could do what every other compiler does and work by default. Why would I invest time in a user hostile language?
So he claims that he got it despite practicing all the social distancing protocols, hand-washing, etc.

Has anyone calculated what are the probabilities of infection in an area with an active infection cluster while practicing social-distancing and other hygiene measures?
If you're looking for a young guy working in cobol in the y2k vicinity, that was me (19 at the time). not only I added 2 more digits to some microfocus app, I also saved the world :) My first professional gig was with cobol, and it was almost cool.
> We would have done it already, no?

No, lots of countries had a problem with water pollution, including the US (Tom Lehrer wrote a satire song in '65 on that issue[1]), and then they implemented measures to improve it. India can and will do the same, I'm sure.

[1] https://youtu.be/nz_-KNNl-no?t=18
They didn't cause it but could have stopped it (via HIBP or such) which I grant isn't very damning).
Cinematic Literature: books in films and TV shows
laughs in Lotus Notes
Universal Screening for SARS-CoV-2 in Women Admitted for Delivery
3D Photography Using Context-Aware Layered Depth Inpainting
Mom loves us. (If she wanted to remove us we would be gone.)

I've come to believe that humans are meant to serve primarily as gardeners. Once we consciously understand ecology we can enhance ecosystems (Permaculture and other forms of applied ecology) and increase the rate of growth of biomass.

We may well also be destined to bring life to a lifeless Universe.
(E.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project )
Ouch! imagine trying to re-write your gui for this, I cant even think how I would adapt one of my business programs to vertical orientation, except for maybe turning the screen by 90degrees.
Man, what a gorgeous photo! And the coyote story is really nice.
How to Render a Song as an Image
Ask HN: The “Big Papers” of AI?
Hi HN,

I'm surveying the papers (including lectures and blog posts) that pushed the ball forward or expanded ways of thinking about artificial intelligence since Turing's Intelligent Machines paper in 1948.

What papers have greatly informed your thinking about AI? Which do you regard as instrumental to advancing the field?

Thank you!
A New Theory of Everything - Geometric Unity Lecture (Video)
> Funnily enough the "trick" with this kind of fund is to be able to survive good times

That's the trick to every fund. Whether bull or bear or neutral. It's weathering the storm.

If you are a small growth fund during a recession, you're ability to hold onto your investors/capital determines whether your fund survives or not. It's the same going the other direction.

Those able to weather the storm win big later on and look like geniuses. Those who cannot, lose and fold and look like fools.
Will solar geonengineering become essential to correcting global warming?
That is wild. I have never got anything and I have used it all my life. Is Denver's system that unclean?
Also, one extra nice thing about using NextDNS via DoH (as you would with Firefox) is that now everything except the fact you're talking to NextDNS is concealed from eavesdroppers even if you do have custom config.

If you use other methods, NextDNS needs to figure out which custom config is yours, and there's no way to hide that from an eavesdropper (at least not yet). For example with DoT the customisation is hidden as a server name, and travels plaintext in SNI during TLS connection.

But with DoH that indication is in the URL path component, which is just more encrypted data in DoH and so an eavesdropper can no more discover which (if any) customisation you use than they can discover my Hacker News password when I log in here.
The main issue with more car ownership, at least in the US, is financing. People cannot afford to take on new auto loans.

Even before this subprime auto loans were a bubble starting to burst: https://wolfstreet.com/2020/02/11/subprime-auto-loans-explod...
Maybe they should (prices collapse). People are getting into 7 and 8 year loans. That's just not a good place to be when they depreciate so quickly.
Taxes, my friend. Taxes.
Thanks for reaching out. It really depends on what you're looking for, and I don't want to hijack this thread with a long discussion, so feel free to reach out at https://scalyr.com/contact. If you're focused on the power of the query language, then Splunk is the undisputed leader, but we are relatively strong as well; see https://app.scalyr.com/help/power-queries. This iteration of our query language was launched last year and was a lot of fun to build -- the team allowed me to write a fair amount of the code. :-)

You can find a more general overview at https://scalyr.com/product.
Still not 100% sure what this all means, but this podcast helped me understand spinners. I feel like there is an entire area of physics that I have never heard of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg93Dm-vYc8 (Weinstein and Penrose)