skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why not have a system closer to food stamps but for healthcare? i.e. the government will cover costs for the poor up to some amount.

We have exactly that. It's called Medicare + Medicaid. The govt fixes the price for what doctors/hospitals can charge on these plans and that's why doctors/hospitals absolutely hate Medicare + Medicaid.

For Native Indians, we also have the Indian Health Services.

For veterans, we have the VA.

That said, you nor I would really enjoy being on a Medicare + Medicaid system.

Having the govt. set rates, getting out of the way and leaving who and how that price gets paid provides the ultimate flexibility and value.
Yeah, I know, I'm terrible. I don't know jack about this stuff. I should just stop now while I'm behind. Clearly.
So you always get downvoted to hell whenever you post this and you've decided everyone else is the problem? Can you even understand how you sound? I cringed with sympathetic embarrassment just from from reading this. Seriously, rethink your life choices man.

This coming from someone who has literally never written a line of python in his life.
Yes, the ban may not be perfect, but as a Canadian, I can say unequivocally: I don't need perfect to be the enemy of good. There's no reason to possess these weapons any more than there's a reason to possess nuclear warheads.

The next bill can ban more, fix the bugs, etc, but the flag has been planted: there's no room for those weapons in Canada.

A huge number of people have wanted to ban weapons like these since Ecole Polytechnique [1] -- and probably much further back. We've been lucky to have few enough such mass murders to remember many by name, and it also makes them horrifying enough that we're not going to sit back and pray the crime away. The Liberal Party (currently in power) ran on banning these weapons. Then they banned the weapons. They did the job they were elected to do.

I don't think that's a good example tbh.

[edit] Let's be super clear when you say "pushed through by a minority government during a pandemic" -- you're seeming to imply that the minority is somehow strong-arming the majority. That's the exact opposite of how that works in the Canadian parliamentary democratic system. A minority government is in a very weak position and can be removed at any time. If this was at all controversial the next confidence motion would be swiftly defeated and the government would fall. A minority government wouldn't do something like this without absolute confidence.

Unlike a majority government a minority government must rule by consensus or face immediate removal. I think they normally don’t even make it past the 3 year mark.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/École_Polytechnique_massacre
I think the biggest difference has been increased discoverability.

The point of NM et al. was that they currated what you could not obtain yourself (outside of a private buyer's agent and/or flight to NYC).

With the internet... suddenly manufacturers could efficiently sell direct to consumer. Or at worse, via something like Huckberry that has far lower overhead.

The value proposition of brick and mortar curration evaporated, and the only thing that kept them going was generational intertia and loyalty. And the problem with an aging customer base is eventually they age... terminally.

Financial games and leverage may have exacerbated things, but you can only shrink for so long.
Love how @naval answered like 600 times
true, a picasso is just acrylic on canvass but it's not acrylic on canvass mass produced in a factory.

If Miuccia Prada herself sewed together a tshirt and painstakingly put on the rhinestones with much thought, then no one would be questioning the price.
Workflow on midsized personal project with editor that I'm comfortable with and have customized over the majority of time I've been programming: work.

Look, obviously VS Code has emacs beat in the vast majority usability features. Emacs works for a lot of what I work on. For the things it doesn't work for, I use the tool that works better.

I have lots of personal qualms with emacs, but to declare it "maximally unsuitable," is overkill.
Hm. I take your point, but I'm not sure the analogy works.

Maybe better: "Old" (pick a date) cars had a manual transmission. Compared to automatic transmissions, you might consider that user hostile. But back then no one knew what they were missing and got along just fine.

Nowadays, some people still like manual transmissions! Not everyone, but some folks still buy them. Some even claim they're better than automatics! "They're cheaper, easier to maintain!" Are they user-hostile? I guess it depends on who the user is.

(Airbags seem like a strict improvement, sure. But part of that comes from them not being part of the "interface" of the car -- we don't interact with them, we don't form preferences about them, gain familiarity with them, etc. Perhaps they correspond better to multi-cored CPUs, multithreading, or high-res color displays (features emacs has kept with the times on, more or less). It's much harder to come up with similar strict improvements in the UI world.)
Only if you don't plan to leverage any parts of the underlying operating system. Once you start utilizing Linux Services, you may leak data beyond home directories.
There's not a single social network that has begun to require phone verification because of the risk of "toxicity or hate speech". It's all to fight spam and to better track user activity (and, if we're being charitable to them, perhaps to stymie deliberate propaganda/fake news).
> Sidewalk really pushed the technology angle way too hard, and it was a clear overstep– most of it wasn't necessary for any sort of quality of life improvements, but many of the ideas like wooden 'skyscrapers' and de-prioritizing roads were exciting, now lost.

These ideas are not lost.

The City of Toronto has already approved several wooden “skyscrapers”. This idea wasn’t unique to Google by any stretch of the imagination.

De-prioritizing roads also was not unique to this Google development. In fact, just walking distance from Google’s smart-city proposal are two significantly larger developments (Portland’s and Unilever) that lean heavily on the shared streets/woonerf concept.
yeah i literally dont get why the guy brought up race, they should be bringing up shit like video game companies making their black characters white to sell to china. or how about the basic example of blizzards fumbling of the pro hong kong competition winner last year
> So unless they can maintain this type of lockdown for the next 6 months, they will see a resurgence, just as they see every year corona viruses spread starting in June.

The difference is, is that most corona viruses are present all year round, and in significant numbers.

Provided the border remains secure (easy enough on a remote island with only a few international airports), and the existing cases are allowed to burn out, with effectively zero cases remaining by the time we reach "normal", I don't see a resurgence over winter as being that likely.

As a bonus, due to lock down, our influenza numbers are also hugely down as compared to most years. Whilst this absolutely won't be eliminated, I do expect numbers through out winter to remain lower than normal because of the severe reduction in numbers at the start of winter.
I didn't claim that. I believe in investing in security. I'm a security professional.
What I wish they'd said in Alice was that you can't meet the patentability standards piecemeal. That is, I wish they'd said that you can't have an invention where the novel part isn't patentable subject matter and the patentable part isn't novel, like software + a formulaic definition of an ordinary computer.

I think that's more or less the state of affairs they wanted to get to, but they never quite worked out any comprehensible way to get to that and just kinda punted.
I didn't see you respond to my comment in this thread unless you post under two different accounts.
Gantt charts are incompatible with software development
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Gross. That isn't creativity. That is a bastardization of creativity produced from fear.
> The fact that I have a non trivial .emacs file ensures that when I switch machines, I only have to transfer a single file to enable an identical development environment.

I just want to pull this particular sentence out for emphasis in case anyone is reading the "New employee 2 workflow at company X" comment and thinking that it's even the least bit true.
Interesting, yep: https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/165022051727702/

Thank you.
> Ever since I wrote about the whole Python/Gunicorn/Gevent mess a couple of months back, people have been asking me "if not that, then what". It got me thinking about alternatives, and finally I just started writing code.

I actually want to know: then what? As a web developer who usually reaches for Django or Flask with Gunicorn because I just don't know any better, is there a better stack that doesn't face these problems? Or is this a 'call to action' for somebody to build a better web server that follows this advice?
Emacs is not an editor, is a personal travel to find and build your ultimate editor through the years, a solution that will work forever but only for you.

Yes, is the most powerful tool that ever existed, a beautiful monstrosity, no other editor will let you cherry-picking git commits, handle your agenda, export to PDF, measure the time for a cup of tea and estimate the new project costs. In some point Emacs becomes a part of yourself. Yes it will be loved and tamed only for us, the weirdos, and that is ok.

In 1996 all my friends were asking me why I installed and struggled so many hours with that thing called Linux, when Windows was so easy. "Nobody uses Linux", they told me. Well, Linux made me very good with DevOps tasks, and I finally learned what software is about when I discovered eLisp.

As many other things in this world, Emacs is not for all people.
All nighters are extreme and an unsustainable idea, I learned as much in college. But I do sometimes put in long hours (maybe for a week or two at most) to push through a project I really enjoy, solving a problem for the company that is technically fulfilling. I don't mind much as an employee that I don't own the upside, because I also don't own the downside. I get a lot of satisfaction having built a quality piece of software that the customers got real value out of. I've found the key is to not do this regularly. I view it like running. Normally, you gotta jog, that way you have the reserve strength to sprint when you really need it.

Anecdotally, the place I work for in the US doesn't expect or even want people to work all-nighters, if a project is that under-resourced, it needs to be halted or more resources need to be allocated. Under-resourced projects always fail and waste a lot of time and money. This is only the culture I've observed at my engineering dept though, FWIW.
Just an FYI, if anyone doesn't realize, any images or files you upload to Airtable, aren't protected in any way, if you happen to get the URL.

It's been like this for years, and recently confirmed it's still the case.
Infrastructure as Code, of which Terraform / Terragrunt is one tool, definitely has its place in the Kubernetes / Docker ecosystem too.

You're right that it's somewhat of an afterthought and most IaC tools are focused on native cloud infrastructure though.

Check out Pulumi, they're doing amazing work extending Terraform (utilizing terraform itself, it's open source), as well as bringing kubernetes support for major cloud provider flavours as well as managing service deployments.
directly but they sure fucked up covid compared to a lost of east asian countries.
> There is a huge value in setting deadlines because they force you to prioritize things.

This can be true, but only if the team is not otherwise good at prioritizing things. And although deadlines do create pressure once they get near, they often create a feeling of slack when they're still far out. They also create a feeling of slack after they pass.
Yes, we can reduce energy needs to human labor; we can also reduce human labor to energy needs. I invite you to try out the exercise. Since both are substitutes for one another to a significant degree much of the time, it's easy to get trapped into the thinking that they're always substitutes. The reality is that despite their fungibility, you tend to reach the limits at an extreme (think like a Cobb-Douglas function).

And yes, the disjunction between market value and cost is well-known. They only converge under certain market assumptions, an interesting subject of study in itself.
VIM has a text object called block that IIRC differs from filetype to filetype. I never tried but I guess you could also overwrite the ip and ap text objects for certain filetypes if you really wanted to.
My experience with scientists who work with data is that they love FORTRAN.
> The difference between pre-1970 and now, is that we've not only socially legitimized the maximization of profit, we've also all but legally mandated it.

I'm sorry, but this is just not true. If it was legally mandated, then the Costco CEO would not have been able to resist such shareholder demands. Your example proves the opposite of what you think it does.

Nothing has changed in the legal structure of corporate governance since 1970. Do you think that investors never demanded greater returns from business leaders prior to 1970?

They can still demand all they want, but the law remains clear today that corporate directors and managers have the power to run the business as they see fit, and shareholders' sole remedy for their disappointment, in the absence of outright fraud or gross negligence, is to sell their stock.

In February 2014, Tim Cook was the CEO of one of the most valuable companies in the world. At Apple's shareholder meeting, he directly told his shareholders that he does not even consider ROI in some of his decisions. Legal consequences to Apple and Tim Cook for this statement? Zero. He's still CEO. Because there is no legal mandate to maximize corporate profits.

Honestly, by buying into this myth that the law changed in the 1970s, you're lending power to a fake idea that you seem to be opposed to. There is a group of people who wish such a mandate existed, and by acting like they're right, you're kind of helping them.

Business leaders might make anti-social decisions because they feel competitive pressure to succeed in a marketplace where customers are free to choose and are price-sensitive. That's not nearly the same thing as saying that corporate governance law forces them to make such decisions. It doesn't.
I too deleted my keybase account right after reading this article.
I use vi.

Never had to install anything across thousands of servers.
That speaks to the general breadth of the emacs extension/package ecosystem, which is impressive (but somehow not as impressive as you'd like), but how many of these things did you engineer yourself? And how many these things could not be implemented in modern editors? I'm not sure any couldn't be. Most already are.

Extensibility was emacs' killer feature when its main competition was vim and vimscript - that's just not the situation anymore.
Having the troll eat itself wouldn't remove the light source. The troll didn't have a light to begin with, it can see in the dark.
No one turned into a velociraptor.

They did change sex though.
Have you used magit? How about slime? Org mode? Other editors don’t have those
Better yet, install vscode, then install either the vim or emacs plugin. The best of all worlds!
Unless that energy would otherwise be reflected back out of the atmosphere.
> I'd be very surprised to learn that I could purchase a burner phone, give you the phone number, and have you be able to tell me my address and criminal history.

OK, so even if you pay cash, there's video surveillance in the store, and surveillance (license tag, video, etc) on the route. And that's linked to the number. Then there's the number that you call from to activate the burner phone account, which may have some identity information. Plus geolocation data for that, and for the burner phone.
There are capabilities that can be misused, but I generally trust the companies with those capabilities to not misuse them.

Maybe Lenovo will include a sketchy driver, but I trust Lenovo to not use that driver to drop ransomware on my machine. In the same sense I trust Google with my location and emails. You may trust an AV company that can upload any file on your machine to not grab your tax returns and open a new credit card in your name.

Even if Lenovo starts intercepting my private web traffic or placing files on my machine there is only so much damage they can do. They are not about to frame me by dropping plans to overthrow the government in my downloads folder then blackmailing me to design more secure drivers for no pay.

There are threats I'm afraid of and a computer manufacturer, no matter how negligent, is not one of them. Is OP avoiding Intel too? Meh.
This view is obviously biased against Emacs, but I don't disagree completely with the premise.

As an Emacs user, being "immediately productive" (whatever that means) is not your topmost priority. You mold your Emacs to a workflow unique to you, notice things you are doing often, add elisp functions to change it to make those things easier, and carry them with you from job to job. As your job evolves and changes, you maintain and grow your Emacs files over decades, and borrow from someone else's workflows. In a a much better way than I can put it, Emacs users are like Igors [1]. You can be a productive individual contributor writing Clojure inside Emacs, or a productive CEO managing todos in org-mode [2] – it works equally well once you figure out how you mold your editor. VSCode "plugins" and Emacs packages are just not the same, with Emacs you can be far more flexible about changing the behavior of the plugin in specific modes or activating things given specific conditions. You revel in the effectiveness of using one of the last remaining vestiges of the Lisp Machines of Old Valyria.

Meanwhile company X will just slot in cookie cutter developer 1 and ask them to use VSCode because they are eager to get the developer to be "productive" on Day 1 for some reason. You would think that giving an employee a week for setting up and tuning their workflow should be totally normal if you want them be there for several years and be maximally productive over time. More power to them I guess.

[1] https://chrisdone.com/posts/emacs-users-are-like-igor/

[2] https://www.fugue.co/blog/2015-11-11-guide-to-emacs.html
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Now that is a comment living up to a username...
Been using the Emerson Sensi (actually made by White Rogers) for a couple of years and love it.
> In a few years, VS Code has achieved better out of the box functionality for working professionals than emacs has in 40 years.

That's not as clever as you seem to think it is. Emacs was created for a different world. Of course new tools have an easier time in the world for which they were created and with no legacy baggage.
That role does exist. In lower-wage countries with outsourcing.

In the US and other high wage countries, most developers are hired because of the need for maximum velocity at all costs or having them available to discuss things directly with non-technical stakeholders. Neither of these roles fit well into spending 20 hours a week knocking out bugs and well specced features.
Honestly, I think that's what makes working at a large "web-scale" company so attractive to me. When you're running at that sort of scale you can't afford to be as apathetic about performance so there's a lot more engineering effort put into efficiency, because it makes financial sense to do so. OTOH, in a lot of enterprise type companies, you can be nothing more than a "feature monkey".
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Yup. That's been the mantra for now.
I just visited that site.

The concerning thing is the site isn't spam and offers a political view with photos/videos of real moments that may reflect poorly on joe .

To censor that is crossing the line into censoring valid political speech.
Url changed from https://jalopnik.com/researcher-discovers-that-old-tesla-med..., which points to this.
There has to be a way to apply some kind of scaling to this kind of defense..
It's been literally 40 years since I touched FORTRAN but I can totally see why they'd like it. Does what they need without getting in the way.
In the ‘90s (?), LucasArts and Sierra both developed VMs for graphical adventure games (SCUMM and AGI); you can look into languages targetting those.

Inform is a more modern language for text adventures.

Ink is an open-source embeddable language for dialog trees and story puzzles. You’ll need to bring your own game engine, but there’s a Unity3d plugin to help.
>And what's more they've been effective in influencing what happens in parliament!

It's actually not that different in practice There are a large range on views in both parties, but you put on the Democratic or Republican label in order to build a majority coalition. This is sort of like how the Westminster parliamentary system works: labor forms a government with the greens. Labor has more seats by far is and is mostly in charge, but the greens get some government positions and a little influence on the agenda of state.

As a recent example of this here Bernie Sanders was not at all a Democratic party member but "joined" with them to try and get enough support.
> Was this grudge instilled in children?

Oddly enough, probably yes. The military is a family business, something like 80% of servicemembers have a family member who served. So grandpa bitches about that time back in 1944 when he had to pay for donuts, and you make sure all your buddies know about it.
uvicorn with quart in python 3.7 handle a 800-1000 req/s in gke :) porting flask to quart take a 2 months of work
Where is Fry's acting as an anchor tenant? All of the stores I've seen were freestanding. Often in light industrial areas, not a whole lot of people are going to Fry's and then stop by at the bus upfitter, cause it's right there and they might as well get a commute vehicle for the whole office.
I'm not familiar with emacs. Does that mean that you don't need to install any supporting software like indexers, linters, syntax highlighters, etc? Does the emacs file contain all that or tell it how to download all the plugins?

If you could just copy one file and get all that, that's pretty cool.
> There are tons of legal myths out there, such as, non-competes can't be enforced

At the risk of going off-topic: would you happen to have more reading on this?
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Both of my grandfathers retired SMSgts and I have two veteran flag cases above the monitor where this was typed.

According to my late paternal grandparents, who went through WWII, Korea, and Vietnam on active duty (and arguably the wives did as well), the American Red Cross had not-so-nice aspects to it that didn't get much press.

Perhaps national governments should support apolitical, non-religious volunteer nonprofits more, but I can also understand the need for nonprofits to survive (which may often entail charging small fees). Charging people for doughnuts who don't make much money to begin with, are first-responders, active-duty military, or individuals who just went through a disaster seems kind of uncool where I come from.

It's difficult to say how good they are today without first-hand and multiple accounts of experience. The available data shows they presently spend 3.5% ($104m) on admin and 6% ($177m) on fundraising. https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar...

As an example, Feeding America, although they pay their CEO 16% more ($100k+), is a mostly better charity on paper.