skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emacs is an enormous investment but every time I'm forced to use another editor or IDE I'm reminded how much it pays off. Fundamentally, all Emacs does is treat the whole world as text. Everything from that point forward is about giving you (or allowing you to build) tools to manipulate text in a way that is natural and powerful for you.

This doesn't sound particularly earth-shaking, but it really is. Think of a language like Ruby or especially Clojure, where there are a few core data structures, but many things that leverage them. This means that every time you learn part of the Ruby Array API, or a useful function to work on Clojure sequences, you get to use that _everywhere_. So all of Emacs' basic interactions (and they may seem weird to begin with but they're honestly just trying to save your wrists some pain) work everywhere. You can always trust your intuitive, spatial model of the thing you're looking at. Search backwards in a text file, find some text, select it, copy it, go back to the end and paste it. That works exactly the same in a shell. It works exactly the same in a database client. Or SSH'd into a server. Or replying to an email. Same gestures when entering commands, same gestures moving around in autocomplete popups.

Everything you learn with Emacs (and later, everything you write with elisp), has a little incremental benefit to your power and productivity manipulating text. Except everything is text, and so it all multiplies together.

For whatever reason, I've been trying VSCode on Windows the last couple of weeks, coming from an Emacs on Linux background. I cannot tell you how painful I find it, even after making a pretty good attempt to map all the keys correctly (snarky sidebar, sorry: every editor and IDE has really good Vim key bindings, but terrible Emacs support. I used to feel bad about this until I realised it was a sign that Vim people clearly didn't use Vim that much, whereas Emacs people never leave Emacs). But VSCode begins at a completely different level of abstraction to Emacs. It doesn't want to show you a text-based UI everywhere, and implement tools to manipulate text. It wants to show you windows and panels and configuration screens and extensions with their own behaviour. Everything is modal and different, some windows are special, and you can't just navigate around the same way everywhere.

So, sure, this isn't for everyone, but it's what I love about Emacs, to the point that the many regular indignities it forces on you (hangs if you're not careful about large files, abysmal performance of various things on Windows because of the overhead of starting processes, and sure, the learning curve for some people) are bearable because everything is so natural.
A simple back-of-the-envelope estimate shows that it takes an -extremely- small amount of very low-density 'invisible' matter - assuming that it's spread out over the huge 3D 'spherical' volume of a galaxy - to make up the missing mass. On the order of a few -atoms- per cc.

Given all of the unknowns about interstellar/ intergalactic matter, including the density of EMF, it's not too hard to understand why the account sheet won't balance. It's a hard and wonderful problem.
Few miscellaneous meta nitpicks:

* The article looks beautiful, but am I the only one that hates left-centered content? Wide monitors are the norm these days, and reading left centered content literally hurts my neck (need to resize manually to center the content, approximately.

* Why would someone make the effort to write such detailed analysis and conceal their identity? I just don't get what's the objective of not providing any sort of provenance... just a gripe of mine.
Diabetes, nightmares, sense of smell ...

I'm beginning to think they are simply coming up with all sorts of reasons to put as many people as possible on disability so that they can artificially lower the unemployment, implement basic income and MMT.

Needless to say this won't work too well for people who really are disabled, as the dollar they get soon becomes worthless, which is unavoidable and will happen much sooner if Biden wins and and puts AOC and other socialists in charge of the economy.
for some reason when I saw the headline I went over to check up on grc.com that guy's obsessiveness into coding everything in assembly gives me comfort
For a long time the biggest ego in the room was Steve, whose ego was behind the overarching strategy.
Great job! what is your GitHub repo? I want to play with this later
> I'm really not sure what else you're trying to achieve other than deflecting from the point that we don't have to abide by this mode of operation moving forward and trying to one-up your understanding of Imperial conflicts form the past isn't proving as effective as you think it is.

I'm pointing out that perpetual warfare is the human condition and that the world we're living in today is the most peaceful we've known in all of human history. That provides very strong and direct evidence that whatever we've been doing between 1945 and 2020 is helping.

> I'm afraid there really is no getting to people this belligerent and jingoistic about the matter, I just wonder how long you'd hold that point of view if it was you and those you care about on the front lines fighting these needless banker wars.

Don't presume to know anything about me. Leave the personal bullshit out of it. We both want the same thing. It's just that the historical record provides very direct evidence that hegemons--be they Roman, Chinese, Mongol, British, or American--can sustain longer periods of peace than any balance of power ever can.
It sounds like you no longer have Covid, which is good. I hope you're feeling well.

I worry a little though that comments by people who had coronavirus suffer from survivorship bias - the ones who died rarely log onto HN.
It's hard to filter out things like being swatted, or having stalkers move to your neighborhood, or having your name known to all of your psychiatric patients.
You are misunderstanding.

The Supreme Court held that Visa boycotting Gab (or anyone associated with Gab) is protected Political Speech. I'm pointing out the contradiction of everyone in this thread only caring about Gab's rights and not Visa's rights.
Oh!! I’ve wanted something like this but for a web camera portal between locations. If each side had a 180 degree fisheye lens, then the eye tracking could present a different virtual view from the remote location. It would look like you had a window into another room. Using 4K+ cameras, the effect should be amazing.
With a death rate among confirmed cases approaching 10% at its peak, and not enough attention in the USA being paid to safety measures, can you really blame them for sensationalizing it?
I used Vim for two years, now I use Evil on Doom Emacs. I actually find it superior to the real thing.
> It is partly a product of colonial prejudices, and it has been exacerbated by caste, regional differences and Bollywood, the nation’s film industry, which has long promoted lighter-skinned heroes.

How weasely of the NYT. Colorism exists all over the world and pre-dates British colonialism in India. (Although the British certainly leveraged that phenomenon in dividing and conquering the continent, just as it leveraged preexisting linguistic and religious differences.)
Why is it that I can have a group called 'the only good cop is a dead cop' and this doesn't violate any of Facebook's terms? It's clearly a hate group that is biased against an entire group of people. Aren't we supposed to be against bias and bigotry? Or is it accepted because it's a group that isn't liked?

I also see death threats on Twitter all the time to: white people, republicans, white people, Jewish people, and police officers. These are allowed to persist to this day.

Ice cube, for instance, had a cartoon ripped straight out of anti-semitic propaganda from the Nazi era and it was taken down after many weeks because of a 'copyright violation'.

Yet, if I even hint that I don't agree with BLM or underage trans surgery, I will get booted off of Twitter for hate speech and if I'm not anonymous, mobs of people will attempt to get me fired from my job and kicked out of society.

The system does need to be changed.

We need to start with the uber-progressive tech companies that take it upon themselves to stifle the speech of people they deem unworthy.

Nobody should be able to have this much control over the population and it's definitely going to start affecting our elections. It's so much more powerful than the handful of fake Russian ads that were purchased in an attempt to sway voters (which wouldn't have caused stadiums of people to come out to see Trump when he was running in 2016).

The reason we have Trump today is a direct result of this meddling. Trump and his team realized that all he needed to do was create the perfect sound byte and they would run with it and it would give him free advertising. He cast a net out and social networks and the media ran right into them every, single, time.

His team was also the most tech savvy. They used data mining companies to find out the best ways to get votes and played the social media game better than anyone.

Obama did almost the exact same thing in 2008. His team exploited a Facebook app that allowed them to get information on you and your friends when you installed it.

I still remember all of the tech magazines lauding his campaign as revolutionary, genius, and the the new way of political campaigns. It clearly violated Facebook's TOS and user privacy. Yet, we saw no investigations.

It's proof once again that it has more to do with politics than anything else. Progressive and liberal candidates and supporters of progressive and liberal causes can get away with murder.

I just wish we had true equality instead of special treatment for select groups of people.
> covid is more of a neurological disease than anything else

It seems that there are neurological complications (as well as clotting problems and kidney problems), but let's not forget that this disease primarily turns lungs into chewing gum. I don't think any neurological complication can cause a patient to self-destruct their lungs.
I have been using zim wiki. Its essentially just a basic text editor but it has a tree view for your files and supports basic syntax including check lists. I have found this suits basically all of my needs.
Justify in terms of what, exactly? At current disk prices, 114 megabytes costs less than a third of a US penny. Even at minimum wage, you'd make that in under a second.
Money orders have many advantages over checks. You don't have to wait for someone to fill them out. Since they are printed when you buy them, you don't have to worry about people filling the check out wrong. Money orders clear in a pre-determined amount of time, checks take forever. You don't have to fill out deposit slips for checks.

They're just a pain in the ass.
I agree with you, but I suspect you and the GP comment are referring to different things when you say "masks." I'm thinking of the N95 masks that are proven to offer pretty good protection from respiratory droplets. I believe the GP may be referring to either disposable surgical masks, or some sort of other mask that is not rated for any sort of specific protection.
Hibernate is optional. I'm using Quarkus with JDBI without any issues, works flawlessly.
There was a study recently on the neuroinvasiveness of SARS-CoV-2: https://twitter.com/ericsongg/status/1276683771375468546

There's also been evidence that it infects the central nervous system: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094171/

This is a scary disease. To take another example, the flu, AFAIK, is not neuroinvasive and does not cross the blood brain barrier.
My dad’s pancreas burst five years or so ago, which basically caused multiple organ failure — kidneys, liver, lungs. He was on dialysis and a ventilator for weeks, the doctors told us he had about a 20% chance of surviving.

He experienced what this article is talking about — icu psychosis.

He thought that he had been kidnapped, that he was being tortured, that I was trying to kill him and replace him. He begged me for mercy, he apologized for anything he did to me. And I was just standing there telling him he was going to be okay. He didn’t know who I was a lot of the time. It was terrifying to watch.

Eventually they put him into an induced coma when they put him on a ventilator, but even after they woke him up, it took a week for him to realize who he was and who we were and what had happened to him. He kept begging us to take him home.

Every time he woke up, we had to tell him where he was, who we were, what happened to him, what year it was what day it was.

It really took him 6 months to get anything close to who he was when he went in and he’s still not completely the same person. The light went out in some ways and never came back in again.
Show HN: PHONK, JavaScript scripting for Android devices
Vim and Emacs are not in the same category. Direct comparisons are silly and useless, like comparing Pycharm and Notepad++.
Glad to see it's getting more coverage. An elderly family member contracted COVID-19 and experienced confusion which progressed to full-on delirium and intense pain for their last several days. They didn't exhibit much respiratory trouble at all, no interventions were necessary beyond the supplemental oxygen they were on before.

I get the impression that many still think of this as simply a bad flu, and believe that a more accurate picture of the effects of the disease might help people respond a bit more sensibly.
Ten- and eleven-year-old Macs are getting security updates now. Why do you think that will change with Apple silicon?
pleasingly recursive instance of the site embedded in the site... because you're on the front page.
Revealing Dark Secrets of Bert (Analysis of BERT's Attention Heads) Explained
Just watching the House of Commons debate finer points about covid-19 is hilarious seems like they're more clueless than the public because they're scared blind over losing their positions
Fair enough. I always equated deans with management.
It’s linked in the box at the bottom of the page: https://github.com/wolfgang42/paper-hn

Patches welcome!
How many? This is a disease with millions of cases. Tell me the article has at least some numbers.

Can't read it due to paywall. I'm expecting "reports" and anecdotes.
Any disease that impacts the body will show a great range of effects. If the case reports is not in the 5 or six digits we are really talking about a rare. Not many. Everything can be "many" with case numbers this high.
I wonder if that’s why they said partly.
There's a word for people who obsess about race: Racists.
Great read, thanks for posting. I had mistakenly thought this for a while too.
How to build your own .io game
This is exactly what I was thinking when they were saying they're building a new one why are you wasting all of those resources
Maybe reversing or splitting a Unicode string (with surrogate pairs) may be a problem in Java. I am not familiar with Java, so I am not sure.
You mean last quarter? Yeah
EY failed to check Wirecard bank statements for 3 years
unless you live in AZ.
You got to bring in a DNA test of your first born, social, DL, state occupancy, address, etc etc
Why Fireworks Scare Some Dogs but Not Others
All those sites would be nothing but commercial spam if they couldn't block it and charge companies to post it within a limited allotment.

Would you essentially let users choose to filter it out, but show them a garbage homepage before they do, but then also let companies pay to bypass the filter (advertisements), but block politicians from paying to bypass the filter for their advertisements?
My favorite project was the MIT silicon wafer etched jet engine. Like full jet engines the size of a pencil eraser. They also made solid rocket engines etched out of silicon.

Super interesting stuff.
A bacterial infection that was probably nowhere near as transmissible and treatable with antibiotics? Sounds way different from SARS-CoV-2.

EDIT: gee, sorry if this came off the wrong way but I really was trying to answer the question "is this any different ...?"
Tom Cruise is an exception. Short guys are rarely cast as lead. Especially in the newer generation.

In America tall = fair skinned
short = dark skinned.
> Network: Since I'm set up to send email, IRC, Mattermost, etc., directly from my org-mode tasks, it's easy to track where I am.

I'd like to know more about this because it's something I struggle with while using org-mode. I want to have some sort of bidirectional link between org mode and Github issues for my projects; new issues should arrive in my "inbox" org file, and I'd like a simple way to update the status or commentary around issues from inside org-mode.

Does anyone know of good tools for this sort of thing, or should I take the plunge and really write a lot of elisp?
For me it was learning to limit the scope of the projects, each time making it smaller until I planned projects small enough that I could finish them in under 3 months.
The land of the rent-seeking.
Omg! That’s sound terrible. Did your dad recover?
It's interesting to argue the opposite, that the power past empires had over people and their labour devalued productivity improvements, that Industrialisation required a social context in which the expense of labour justified the capital investment and risk of mechanisation.
My solution is probably bad advice, but I found effective to commit either financially or to someone so I have to do it, I put myself in a position where I don't a way out other than deliver.
After reading this, I feel like I'm missing something. I don't see much to say why it should be underappreciated
Is that why I've been able to sell Best Buy and Amazon gift cards on eBay for about face value?
It’s a skewed distribution based on age. No age group has a death rate of 10%
On the contrary… LE is unaffected by this, since from the beginning it has enforced a much shorter certificate expiry time: 90 days. Which effectively forces you to set up automated renewals. Doing that does not require the help of "large players"; you stick certbot or another tool in your crontab, or use something like Caddy or Apache mod_md to have your web server do it by itself.
What drives most of the limited backward compatibility is the amount of testing required. If you want to officially support new features on an older harder platform, you should test that they work. And fix any bugs found. And maybe some of those older machines don't have hardware for a new feature, so you have to devise a way to fail gracefully. At some point you just need to cut off the older platforms and move on. Similar reasons many web developer complained in the past about having to support old versions of Internet Explorer. No one accused anyone of 'planned obsolecense'.

BTW, the author of this article is not ignorant in these affairs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sinofsky
I'm also interested in the stories of people who have had lasting effects from COVID-19. I'm guessing that those stories also suffer from a bit of selection bias.
If you're into fusion jazz at all, two of the best bands of all time hail from Japan: Casiopea and T-square. Their influence is felt deeply in lots of 80s/90s Japanese PC and Video game soundtracks. The keyboardist for Casiopea also composed all of the station jingles for the subway in Japan, which all together make one song.

- https://youtu.be/S0Xm1PWb07o

- https://youtu.be/4DCWEJzsrJo

- https://youtu.be/wBD1_mrRUIk
Should politicians campaigning on the basis "homosexuality is wrong" be allowed to do so, especially when using that line to enflame religious groups, with the sole purpose of securing votes?

And if in power, should they then be allowed to reintroduce the ridiculing and eventual persecution of homosexuals, on the initial grounds of free speech?
Thank you!

One nit. On mobile I have to scroll left and right to read the titles. Otherwise, I love it
Discussion on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/hhonq4/d_y...
This is not from the COVID virus, it's from the sedation.

It happens a LOT with sedated patients, and no one tells them about it first. It can leave some patients with severe PTSD because the same sedation that causes it also blocks them from communicating about it.

See: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/nightmares-after-t... or just search for "sedation hallucinations".
Definitely true, having a Filipino father-in-law and traveled there for a couple weeks.
He “recovered” but he’s not the same person he was when he went in. He had reduced brain oxygen for a long enough time to do brain damage.
VC or Bootstrapped? The Correct Choice Will Make or Break Your Startup
Yeah, got it in late February, long since recovered. It was 4 days of feeling very shit and a month of feeling groggy.
I'm convinced that implementing so-called "free speech" sites in public doesn't work. Real free speech happens in closed networks, invite only. The only downside is those take more time to grow.
Why is that weaselly? The Hindi word for white/Caucasian is gora, "fair-skinned", and to this day many markers of high class/status in India are inherited directly from their erstwhile British rulers: speaking "proper" English, dressing in formal Western clothing, etc. Why would skin color not be one?

For clarity, I'm not claiming the British created colorism, my point is just that a century of rule by them will certainly have reinforced the link between light skin and high class.
In the postwar period this nearly became the case for all cheese in the U.K. It seemed the country was moving towards having a few varieties of highly processed, bland cheese (predominantly “cheddar”). I suppose non-bland cheeses were either to be thought of as unmodern or imported from France. Somehow a few farmhouse cheeses continued to be made and eventually became more popular. I think it is only in relatively recent decades that the variety of available cheese has shot up.

I’m not really sure why things happened this way. Maybe it was cheaper or an effect of rationing. Unlike the US, I don’t think the U.K. ever banned making cheese with raw milk so perhaps it was a trend in consumer habits rather than one encouraged by the government or industry.
The death rate is misleading since the worst rate was in places with poor testing near the breakout of the pandemic. Those who do die, die quicker than recoveries take to be confirmed.

The more info we get, the more it looks like the real death rate is 1-2%.
There is a feedback loop here. They help fund existing ideas, get more people/companies involved, raise awareness on certain problems, and motivate more participants to do relevant research.

So do they "invent"? ...well that's a semantic argument. The point is they absolutely help make things happen.
Where did I call anyone a klansman? I'm saying you can bring up the oppressed minority populations without putting anyone else down, with the explicit exception of people who are punished by society for their hateful ideology.

> bias against whites exists

Not in any meaningful way, especially when compared to the experience of POC in America.

> some of it catalyzed by woke ideology.

Sometimes racists lose their jobs. That's not racism against white people.

> White-presenting people are really the only ones with standing to speak to such bias in their own lives.

I'm white. We don't experience meaningful bias. Trying to claim so is just attempting to appropriate victimhood from actual victims, and detracts from anti-racist movements.

Another paragraph before someone angrily hits reply and says "BUT WHITE PEOPLE IN TRAILER PARKS! BUT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION!" I said meaningful bias. I've experienced racial discomfort. Doesn't change the fact that no matter what angle you take, my life would've been harder if I'd been born black.
> is more of a neurological disease

The NYT is sensationalizing, this isn't from COVID itself, it's from the sedation.

From the same newspaper: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/nightmares-after-t...