skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decentralization is my goal, but I need to do things in the right order and not fight 10 battles at 1 time. here is my plan to add decentralization:

* secure revenues with the hosted offering to assure the sustainability of the project

* Grow a community

* Work on decentralization

So it's "centralized" (it's not really a social app, so it's not really a problem) right now, but the goal is (the identity part) to be federated/p2p in 1 year
Technology developed for space will benefit those living on Earth. This happened with the Apollo program and will continue with other programs.

We can and should do multiple things at once.
Not everyone trying to patent a computer-implemented invention is a patent troll. Some of those applicants are actually creating a product/service. Some of them are spending b/millions creating things that were previously not considered possible. Should they be rewarded for the effort if in fact it is determined to be possible?
> Proxying does not allow a 3rd party to track beyond the customer domain boundary.

I'm fairly sure one of us misunderstand.

I'm usure if I misread you post or if you think there is a technical limitation to prevent a tracking company from reading cookies from proxied data?

If so, do you care to explain?
emacs is Lindy. VS Code will go extinct before Emacs.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Effect)
Please. Emacs will never be popular. Emacs does not need to be popular. Making it popular will require dumbing it down to the level of VS Code. It's doing just fine as it is, please leave it alone.

Edit: I mean, it's a complex, sophisticated, hard-to-master instrument, kind of like Organ. If you feel that popularity of your instrument matters above all (which is perfectly fine) -- just get yourself a Kazoo.
Some distros have significant Emacs start-up configurations, which have an impact on start-up time. Using "-Q" skips this too. It's the case for Debian, so Ubuntu too I guess.

I used to use "jed" as a close to Emacs, light text editor to use for a quick edit from the shell. Nowadays I aliased jed to "emacs -nw -Q" (-nw: text mode, -Q: skip all configs), which subjectively starts instantaneously. And even a bare Emacs skipping the system an my configurations is very powerful. It also supports millions of colors with Konsole, so it's nice when reading code.
Is still Mac a relevant platform for gaming?

You can try run it in a virtual machine
I got tested at 3 psychiatrists, as part of tests for other neurological issues. Not just some shitty web test. All results were in the ballpark of 160. And yet, it doesn’t matter at all in my daily life. In fact, I only really mention those results for one reason: so others don’t reply with "you only disagree with using IQ as score because you’d lose".

IQ just tells you how fast you adapt to new challenges — and in a very roundabout way which isn’t really reliable. And that’s aside from the whole "if a metric becomes a target, it ceases being a useful metric" stuff.

But in the real world, persistence and discipline is what really matters for success — you can have a startup with the most intelligent people in this world, but they won’t be able to actually make any progress without persistence. In fact, they’ll likely be bored by any task you give them quite quickly, and spend their time on something else.

Persistence is key for success, not just in our capitalistic world, but in anything — be it in learning a new skill, completing university successfully, or doing a new startup from start to finish.

As Stephen Hawking already said: "People who boast about their I.Q. are losers"
I cannot recommend Spacemacs enough. I was a pretty dedicated Vim user for years but grew tired of the brittle tooling and subpar extensibility and decided to give Emacs a try. My first experience with Emacs was dreadful - the default keybinds were counter-intuitive and hard to use (no, I should not have to remap my control key to caps lock just to avoid carpal tunnel), basic features were absent yet included was a web browser, mail client, etc.

A month or two later I gave Spacemacs a try, and I've been using it ever since. Not only does it have sane defaults like evil-mode for Vim emulation, but a lot of terrific packages like Magit and Org-mode are builtin. I also use the Spacemacs docs as my first resort when I want to install something new or fiddle with settings, rather than the subpar GNU Emacs documentation which never quite tells me the exact information I'm looking for.
Supports ECC?
I've gone down this rabbit hole recently, I was using apache because it come with a lot of nice to haves beside http handling, like authorization, session and cookie modules, but I wanted to see if c and cgi were viable for modern web development and the results were fantastic. Response times of 1ms while hitting an sqlite database every. I didn't go much further with the performance testing but it could easily handle more than most of the enterprise crap I build ever needs.

C and CGI are a great simple combo. When you get down to it 99% of web development is shuffling data from sql to html and vice versa. It's so stupidly simple that the main code doesn't even hit the rough edges of c, there are almost no allocations for isntance so no memory management to worry about, everything that could possible leak memory or cause security issues is in a handful of utility functions.

No MVC, no DTO's, no view models, no service layers, no templating, no client side javascript, just reading from and sql connection and printf'ing html to stdout. Without all the useless complications I ended up with far less code than the typical equivalent in a high level language with a framework. I'm now fairly convinced that most of the projects I've worked on would have been better off this way.
Agreed that the font change seems like a wash. At first I thought OP was trolling the reader with two identical screenshots :)

I suppose the real benefit is having a font available across all platforms. Inter appears to be a high quality typeface, and I appreciate its author for releasing it under an open license. [1] [2]

[1]: https://rsms.me/inter/#free

[2]: https://github.com/rsms/inter
You just keep saying "everyone is anti-China" over and over without clarifying what you actually mean.

Your insistence on not making a distinction between the CCP and the Chinese people makes it hard to engage in any discussion, as criticism of one is taken as criticism of the other. I have a strong feeling the CCP is depending on this mentality from it's people, playing up ethnonationalism and xenophobia to distract from any criticism towards them.

You said clearly you wish the CCP had better propaganda and communication, why? That would make them stronger, yet you claim to not be in favor of them. Do you care to clarify?
There is one, and only one strain of SARS-CoV-2
What tool do you go to the official docs for first and only Google second? I Google everything first. Am I missing out?
Your "putting" is more than 20 ingredients?

(I do get your meaning, I just found your phrasing a bit funny.)
Exactly. And once the inventor can see these examples and understand how to describe their invention in a way that mirrors these examples, abracadabra eligibility problems disappear. THis is the intended and beneficial effect. In nearly all (all?) cases, the claimed subject matter is narrower and specific to an actual novel and non obvious practical implementation of an "idea." That is the way it should be. The EFF is blowing smoke.
One of my family members sometimes creates some wordpress pages as a freelancer. He doesn't really know all these technical details behind Cookies and GDPR, but he knew he needed to do somthing.

Him: I need to install some kind of cookie banner plugin.

Me: Alright, why do you think that? Which cookies does your site place?

Him: I don't know...

This is the entire problem. He didn't knoe what his site does, and he wanted to add a cookie banner "just in case".
Autopsy Findings and Venous Thromboembolism in Patients with Covid-19
`git mv` also exists.
SO has really become a toxic place which is run by politically correct people. Just look at this corporate speak blog. I don't understand how the corona virus would impact them so hard they have to cut jobs, seems like a bullshit reason to just cut people off imo. Every company should be prepared for bad times.

I have no sympathy for the management. They have obviously done a poor job.
Thanks this is useful :)
Exactly. That’s what we are doing in production.
I’ve found that Amazon AU fulfils fairly specific niches. But it’s not a one stop shop. If I look around I can get a better deal or faster delivery from somewhere local.
Render images alone is too basic, that was already possible in XEmacs.

I really meant like Jupyter Notebooks, interactive images and data structures, that you can click on and change to your pleasure and plug into Elisp code to be called back.
The GCC community is normally very good (if blunt) at picking up duplicate bugs and linking them to the right place. https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ Is all you need. Just don’t feel bad if your bug is closed!
Hi, thanks for this message. I really appreciate it, since we generally don’t hear about “I didn’t buy because of the price” from the customers that already paid us, haha.

One thing we don’t advertise — we only bill for active users every month. So if 10 people login during a month, but 50 don’t, we only bill you for the 10. Do you think that’d help you guys?

(I’ll send you an email in the morning to get more feedback and see what kind of pricing would work for you. Thanks again for the feedback and for trying Retool!)
Discoverability shoots up really higher than Vim or any tool when you use helm's M-x.

Also there is documentaion for literally all the key bindings and all the functions. You can access the code for all the functions. Emacs is much more user friendly than Vim.
That's really cool.

How do the website generate money though?
I haven't seen any ads or paid content.
Thanks for the information! I haven't tried configuring VS Code through Nix yet. I guess I'll wait a while before doing another attempt.
From article:
"This was great. In fact, the invention of the cookie was the single most important thing we have ever added to the internet. It changed the internet from just a passive place for us to read things, to an interactive place."

There was several interactive protocols, like telnet or IRC.
Maybe that cookie implementation is one reason, why people confuse web with Internet?
I know it is not the point, but I find it funny that the "Code done with care" is worse than the "Code done under high pressure". Logging and wrapping is not "handling" an error, that is just making the exception go away.
"I have to know where to look." -> For me personally this is the hard part.
The way it was done before without cookies was including the user's session ID as a query parameter in the URL. Adding things to your cart was also done through query parameters.

It was later realized that session IDs in the URL led to lots of security problems, but it's possible we would've come up with ways to mitigate those if cookies hadn't become widespread.
please, don't drink their kool-aid.

it's fired, not furloughed.

it's to be able to not lose ability to generate profit, not "to be able to serve our customers"

it's to save 85% who we think are more worth, not "we are all in this together"
You must know a lot in order to write a slow performing program. If you just do a simple program like in the article, it will be fast, even if you do stupid things like spawning a new thread and file descriptor for each connection.

Now in order to make it slow you must know enough stuff to introduce complexity to the program. To make a slow program you probably have to learn about frameworks, php, micro services, cloud databases, etc.
Agreed. There is no point in searching the docs if google takes me to the right place instantly. It's just more efficient.
The which-key feature (whos you key bindings by pressing the first key) of doom and spacemacs is great for discoverability but would be infinitely better if they also had a key binding instant search.
The US can’t even figure out healthcare. How do we expect to facilitate paying everyone vast sums of cash when we can’t even coordinate a public option for healthcare due a variety of reasons? The stimulus check nonsense around covid is a prime example. So many people got screwed because they didn’t have a bank account or were exempt from paying taxes.

Those structural issues aren’t present in most European countries due to the expanded social safety nets. The US needs to implement a lot of infrastructure between the government and the citizenry to facilitate and distribute a program like UBI effectively.

I’m an American who wants a ubi, but we’re not ready structurally to handle it in the current political climate of any foreseeable political future in the next decade, IMO.
"While the patent office does need to follow the law including the judgements of US federal courts, they were not bound by _Alice_ and so more or less can ignore it."

That is just wrong. The USPTO must MUST follow ALice. This cannot be disputed. Alice is the law.
The expression "all but" means "almost but not quite".
Is this a real email? Do you have a reference? Google didn't turn anything up.
On executive control, goal-directed cognition, self-awareness and deliberation
I think most emacs user are overestimating the gain they are having by mastering art of emacs. Sure, it sounds useful to copy every 5th character in all lines that fits a certain regular expression but how many times you actually need it on your active development time and how much time you lose by doing that manually or using more traditional tools?

The coding is mostly typing and debugging. Visual studio (most ides really) is good enough at that. And to be honest emacs/vim complicates the typing part.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sa...
DriftPHP: Quick Start
Not if you must have a lawyer admitted to the State Bar with a three year JD to pay off. Paralegals can do 99% of the work and have a lawyer review it, sign off on it and be liable for documentation but everything but a lawyer or representing yourself in court is illegal in the US.

No bicycles, motor bikes or Hondas. If you can’t afford a Mercedes you can walk.
4D Toys: how objects bounce and roll in 4D – paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2020
I might remember wrong, mind you... "but".

A long while ago, browsers were compliant, in that they only allowed first-party cookies by default, and users had to opt-in (by going into the browser's settings) to allow third party cookies to work.

This was difficult to do for most, but not many sites were unusable without third party cookies enabled, and there weren't that many sites to begin with, so it was "fine": not many users even touched that setting if they weren't affected.

Once there were more sites in total, and once more of them were nigh unusable without third party cookies enabled... there was a problem. A big one. Users had to be told how to configure their user-agent to make the site work. Instructions had to be provided for all common browsers. It was a mess.

User-agents could've solved this by making the UI/UX better: the user could have an easy-to-use interface to enable third-party cookies per-session, per-site, per-something...

... but instead they ended up implementing the easiest way out, and browsers (no longer user-agents now...) started defaulting to third party cookies being allowed by default.

I guess using something like lynx, today, gets one a glimpse into how it was, and how it could have been.
that looks awesome. I think this area is ready for a great new application. I am not sure how it could be monetized or what it would even do.
Sure, but if you mv and git add without making any additional changes and then immediately commit, it'll also get picked up as a move 100% of the time.
I followed this in the press.

Mostly, wealthy Americans just applied for (and received) NZ passports and maybe bought a house "just in case."

You can look at aerial photos of the few airports in NZ to see if their private jets are still parked there.

Because until fairly recently small houses sold for $50,000 in NZ, and obviously foreign money would jack those prices up, the NZ govt. started talking about making their passports harder to obtain.

They also currently require a "travel document" from Americans, to reciprocate for US entry policy:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/americans-wi...
I agree commiting to something silly whilst your mind constantly sees a better answer can lead to eventual breakup. Companies dont succeed by getting 100% buy in to bad decisions. People who see the writing on the wall frequently leave, leaving committed people to their Titanic or hindenburg.

Buy in resolves people with wrong ideas trying to steer into the iceberg, and loses the benefit of disagreement overcoming resistance and inertia towards bad goals.
Very plausible reasons indeed, but is it probably the same for many other companies? Just wondering if a chain reaction has already started.
Presumably people whose use case would require frequent charging in places other than their home (or work) don't buy electric cars, so there's probably some selection bias here.
Macs tend to lack decent GPUs, and Apple’s approach to backwards compatibility/industry standards (removing 32bit support and with it half of the Mac Steam library, and deprecating OpenGL) is hardly encouraging people to support the platform when it comes to anything gaming-related.
Reclaiming Information and Communication Technologies for Development
VSCode is quite restrictive in how it can be extended actually.

Atom is much better, and feels closer to Emacs in terms of allowing you to extend and modify almost every part of it.

That said, Emacs is just the king. Not only can you really just change absolutely everything, it is really easy to modify it all at run-time on the fly, which even in Atoms isn't quite so.

I had settled on Atom for a while, but the slow performance and high memory use made me switch to Emacs.
Yup, all TC articles fail to open with uMatrix installed here too.
Yes, in the XEmacs case it is the case, not necessarily when you're using it like VIM

(There are gui versions of VIM as well but it feels weird)
They are also kinda buying a social graph of mostly IT and security professionals, sprinkled with some journalists (and not the kind that usually does the "10 things" articles) and general tinfoil hats.

My tinfoil hat tells me this information could be somewhat valuable to their Chinese overlords...
Firefox mode for Emacs would make me never leave emacs for anything else.

Multi threaded Emacs would be very nice as well.
Did IRC or telnet became the backbone for the entire online economy like the www with cookies became?
I think it is equally important to remember that those people were hired by other people who ultimately were hired by the people at the very top who set an example for the corporate culture they want to create. Companies being made up of people is no excuse for them doing these incredibly dumb, stupid and toxic things. That's what policies, mission statements and guidelines are for.
Implying that censorship is only used to suppress malicious or illegal activity.
> Are you telling me you've surveyed every person on the plane to know for absolute sure nobody paid the same price?

I read it some years ago in an article about airline operations management and how they optimized their fares, which varied constantly through the day and the days of the week. Then there are all the various discounts people can get, frequent flyer prices, rebooking fees, etc. It's all based on heavy use of statistics, which is a more complex version of A/B testing.

> I never said airlines are stupid

You suggested they often make bad forecasts, implying they didn't know what they were doing.

But you may believe whatever you like.
> "Don't know why this is necessary"

Ok so the other replies here clarify why — but really it'd have been nice if there was at least some consistent interface between all the OAuth / OIDC providers, so one wouldn't need to learn new interfaces all the time.

... And, worse, now I need to take screenshots and document all these different interfaces, for an open source project I'm building, whose users might want to register OIDC client apps too. :- /
Also, the trains would charge monopoly prices if no long-haul trucks. You can read about that in any US history book.

And if I'm shipping something in the form-factor of a parade float, I'd want to load it once on a truck, not on a truck and then a train.
Hybris & Curiosity => Vim => Emacs => Evil Emacs => Spacemacs => Evil Emacs => Org-mode videos on Youtube => Silent Despair => VS Code + Vim keys (w/o Ctrl*) => Peace of mind.
The article features some very good advice, regardless of how you actually host the site, that should be followed by many other sites around the web...

It basically boils down to the old KISS principle "keep-it-stupid-simple".
From a business perspective it would be a bad idea. If you have three revenue streams (Advertising, Enterprise communication product, hiring product/marketplace), of which two are doing very well and one is not doing well (hiring) you need to continue investing in what is working and stop burning money on what is not working. Otherwise you will lose your competitive edge in the areas that are working well.

In the end, the responsibility of the CEO is not to give every employee the best life possible but to ensure the long-term success and survival of the company. If this is ensured, it also means job security for everyone not laid off!
(I'm Australian, and very much pro-NZ except for when a cricket match is being played).

NZ has 7.3% of UK's population.

Auckland has about 1/4 the population density of London's.

NZ's airports have have approx 7% the number of annual passenger movements as UK, and that's before you count the significant numbers of travellers who enter the UK by road or rail.

When the virus started to spread internationally, NZ and Australia were in summer and early autumn, whereas London in recent months has had the same cool winter/early spring conditions that Wuhan, Milan, Madrid, Korea and northern US have had when their outbreaks were most severe.

I agree NZ and Australia have done well to contain our outbreaks.

But we've been aided by infinitely more favourable conditions than the UK and US.
Not too long. I also began using Emacs with spacemacs, but it was buggy and slow. Then I just started with a completely pristine Emacs configuration and just added through use-package:

- evil for vi emulation

- general/which-key so I could define spacemacs-like
bindings that start with SPC.

- ivy for quick search of buffers, files, etc

Then I added things on a by-need basis. I would say that the most important additions were magit for Git, projectile for quickly switching between project files, and some Rust packages.

This is now my emacs configuration:

https://github.com/danieldk/nix-home/blob/master/cfg/emacs.n...

Rust configuration:

https://github.com/danieldk/nix-home/blob/master/cfg/rust.ni...

(Sorry for posting Nix files, but it's pretty close to what it would look like in a regular init.el.)
Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels (1997)