skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know how I first encountered vi... it was probably 1994 or 1995... (Wiki looks like maybe 1994 was first intel release, so that tracks) - and I had only used Linux up to that point and had never really used an editor other than pico (now nano, which was the editor for the pine email client!).

I thought playing with Solaris would be "cool" so I installed it and couldn't get it on my network because I needed to edit the /etc/resolv.conf to add host resolution, but there was no pico editor!

I ended up digging into manual pages to figure out how to use vim, and over the course of getting the system set up I got pretty comfortable with a lot of the patterns vim let me make faster, they are mostly things I might run in a shell like grep or awk, but I can do it without shelling out, so that was a bonus.

edited: now that I think of it, I bet I was not using vim, just vi - so the relevance to this article might not be quite on.
Try a remote screening first so the doctor or at least someone with an actual medical background can have a chance to tell you a technical opinion whether you can wait more or not. Men usually underestimate health issues so don't count on your "probably" from your post being nothing really, but please don't expose yourself out of pure fear just yet. If the remote screening tells your odds of needing an on site visit are over 50% then plan accordingly, then be paranoid with self-care/clothing/hygiene and good luck.
I don't see it as a bottleneck, but focus. Not searching for the mouse or something or stretching fingers to Edit with Meta Alt Control and Shift etc. but fingers where they feel comfortable efficiently browsing the files.
This is certainly CBS Viacom flexing their influence. Youtube TV without CBS and their sports coverage is dead in the water. That gives them leverage to force feed the other Viacom junk. Even the official blog post announcing the changes sounded like more of a resignation.

Unfortunate. Too much money for me and I won't be continuing my subscription.
> "water at the level of the heating elements gets hotter and hotter and the water away from it gets cold."

Eh? How come that temperature differential doesn't cause convection? The colder water being more dense and sinking down, the warmer water being less dense and rising up.

If the heating elements aren't at the bottom, specifically for this reason, how come they aren't?
My entire discussion has been around the assumption that there's some very specific WebApp that needs to communicate to a server (likely over HTTP too), and that I like RPC and verbs in my API.

What you seem to be stating is that there's more to that on the web and that HTTP has a reason to exist. I agree. It makes sense for the language of the browser itself to be basic CRUD-type calls to servers (which is what HTTP is)

But for a specific RPC interface for a specific WebApp client, trying to meld THAT API into HTTP (the goal of REST) is awkward as all hell and that IS what everyone's using it for.
YouTube is not the content producer, rather strikes deals with content producers. The reality is there is consolidation in the media world, with a few mega corporations managing most channels. They typically bundle a few channels together for vMVPDs/MVPDs, for leverage - “you want channel X, you must also get channel Y.”

Source: I head a Product organization at a mega media org.
It's pretty simple, China doesn't allow western companies access to its markets reciprocally. This isn't controversial or esoteric information. It's a well known fact.
Does more choice make software development easier?
So the implication is what - people created this to get stars on GitHub? I expect it's more likely people just used GitHub because it's an easy way to compile and host content. As for the new accounts, it makes sense that the audience of potential contributors to this would be larger than the audience of people who already have a GitHub account.
edit: "a matter of preference and consensus"
I had the same question after reading the email from Youtube this afternoon, looking at Verizon's offerings they have monthly tiers at $50, $70, and $90. Ignoring any first time user bundles, incentives, etc. I don't know what the overlap between the base tier and Youtube TV's base offerings is, but it's for sure covered by the middle tier.

I was happy with Youtube TV at its initial $40 price, lukewarm with the first price jump, and now I'm really questioning it at $65. I travel quite a bit so the on-demand capability is valuable but that's starting to be a stretch.
Ahh yes. Good old "hate": It can be applied to anyone on the outs with the good-ones.
And even better his concept of building anti-fragile systems. We can model things, predict things, etc - but in the end everything is more complex than we can know so as to appear random. We can’t predict what will happen but we can build systems that are anti-fragile, or robust at the minimum.
The only relevant question here is, "which benefits society more?"

The ip serves the author by paying his rent

The ip serves society by informing and empowering its members.
“1. The current political economy is based on a false idea of material abundance. We call it pseudo-abundance. It is based on a commitment to permanent growth, the infinite accumulation of capital and debt-driven dynamics through compound interest. This is unsustainable, of course, because infinite growth is logically and physically impossible in any physically constrained, finite system.

2. The current political economy is based on a false idea of “immaterial scarcity.” It believes that an exaggerated set of intellectual property monopolies—for copyrights, trademarks and patents—should restrain the sharing of scientific, social and economic innovations. Hence the system discourages human cooperation, excludes many people from benefiting from innovation and slows the collective learning of humanity. In an age of grave global challenges, the political economy keeps many practical alternatives sequestered behind private firewalls or unfunded if they cannot generate adequate profits. 14

These structural contradictions have always made for reduced efficiency and irrationality. But in recent decades they have resulted in increasingly chronic crisis tendencies, which amount to a terminal crisis of capitalism as a system.”

- Kevin Carson, Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century
Lua is older than Javascript so if anything it is Javascript which took inspiration from Lua.
I was able to get this going, but it took awhile as I use a non-standard working mode.

All of the docs I have read assume that you are logged in locally on the system, but if you are not (like me) then things fall apart.

I am running a Windows 10 desktop, and then SSH into my local Linux box from Windows. Both systems are sitting next to me and I can press the Yubikey easily.

My local Linux system is running Fedora 32 and I did the following to enable a user connected via SSH to use the Yubikey.

Created a user group for yubikey users, which in reality only has me in it.

Created a /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/99-pcsc-yubikey.rules file which gives smartcard access to the 'yubikey' group. Without this then 'ykman list' would not work.

Created a /etc/udev/rules.d/99-yubikey.rules to give access to the 'yubikey' group. I used /lib/udev/rules.d/69-yubikey.rules as the starting point for my file. I had to add my two Yubikeys USB IDs (lsusb to see them) as they weren't present.

Made sure to log out and back in to have the 'yubikey' group be active for my user. I vaguely remember a command that would do it, but I forgot it.

After all of that I got it to work :)
Yes I hear that as well. IMHO most of the time is thinking but when I want to move stuff from my brain to my screen I prefer maximum bandwidth and not having to consciously think about it. To each their own I guess.
>I imagine google thinks apple's glasses are coming soon and they take that seriously enough to want to be prepared to compete.

Like the half-hearted, and ultimately abandoned attempts they did for ultra-portables, wearables, tablets, etc? They even seem to lose interest in Android...

I wonder why they even bother...
If it is something serious, how fast is it going to be? Is it something that will cause you significant issues in five years, or in a few months?

If you have, say, a 1% chance that the thing you have is fatal, well, you have a 1% chance of dying from Covid... if you get it. You aren't 100% certain to get it if you go to the doctor, though. In fact, it's probably in the single digits that you'll get it from a doctor's visit. (All numbers made up on the spot - I have no actual data.)

In fact, if your thing has some time urgency to it, maybe going now is the answer. My personal impression is that Texas isn't going to get better for a long time. Six months? Two years? It's not going to get better, and it may get worse.

Note well: I am not a doctor, and this is not medical advice. I'm just some random nobody on the internet, shooting my mouth off.
I hear good things about https://kakoune.org/. But I have 20 years of muscle memory for vi keybindings, and they're well-established enough that you can even use them in other editors like VSCode. So I'm wary of training my fingers to do something else that only works in one editor.
Not quite. Elon's strategies involve finding product/market fit in the short term for technologies that will be critical in the long term. But the companies themselves are on a knifes edge of survival. For example, if a meteor struck tomorrow, neither Tesla or SpaceX would have any advantage over their competitors. And if anything, because he runs his companies so close to the edge, his companies are uniquely susceptible to external catastrophic events.
I used to use a spreadsheet in all my forensic reports. The ability to instantly sort between timeline and specific subjects or groups of subjects was extremely useful. Even during an investigations, you could coax out some connections and relevant details you might not notice in any other way.

Since I don't really do any math or accounting, I suppose spreadsheets are a type of flat-file database.
Vi (and ed) are the only text editors required to be included in the POSIX spec. A base Unix (and most Linux) installs will have some version of vi or vim installed by default.

If I'm working on someone else's box this pretty much guarantees I can edit files with my basic vi knowledge without having to install a different editor.
That's $1.5Bn/year in revenue for a 3-year-old product that just rebroadcasts content. How is that "nothing"?
Not the OP but I used openresty (fork of nginx) to cache POST requests to Redis.

It’s lightning fast.

16,000+ requests per second served from the cache.
Thanks, this is something else I have always wondered about.

Quick quack suggests 400-800 trees per acre is possible. That actually seems pretty sustainable in a forested area.
Something I've come to rediscover is how good vi/vim is on a slow network connection. Our sharp networking team route me from London to Sydney so I can remote back to my London PC.

Seeing what you type several seconds after you typed it is reminiscent of the 90s and dial up connections.

Having familiar vi keybindings in so many applications these days has been a productivity saver.
All of vi is specified by POSIX, but vi is only a subset of vim.
elvis was great! The simple monocrhome color schemes were beautiful, and it had a snappiness (even on a 486 back then) that I'm still missing nowadays.
There are those who lack an internal monologue. People with a lack of critical thinking skills may be overrepresented by this group without an equivalent tool to analyze abstract concepts.
> Greenpeace didn’t save the whales, switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did

According to [1]: The depletion of some whale species to near extinction led to the banning of whaling in many countries by 1969, and to a worldwide cessation of whaling as an industry in the late 1980s.

This does sound more like Greenpeace (founded 1971) being the reason than switching to petroleum (no reason to expect much use for whale oil past WW2) to me. But surely Greenpeace is not the only reason.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling
How does it compare to TCL?

I understand that the fact of the matter is that Lua dominates, but I'm curious if there are technical reasons or "right thing/right time" kind of luck, after TCL's star dimmed.
In this particular example of the mother being in prison, where would the children live without these services?
Interesting URL. You don't often see a company refer to their own action as a "price hike".
It is a bit syrreal to read about low probability/high impact risks while we have a very high probability/catastrophic impact event already started.
> Then you effectively are creating a maximum punishment that could easily be ignored by some of the population.

No, just moving what the maximum punishment is from jail time to a boot on their tire. Conversely, who says jail time is enough? Why not make the maximum even worse than jail? At some point you have to have a max, just advocating that the max is reduced.

> Take speeding tickets. What if a person just decides not to pay and keep speeding? Not that they can't, but they don't. Eventually you lose your licenses. You continue to speed, getting more tickets, and now also getting tickets for driving without a license. You continue to refuse to pay the fines and continue to drive without a license. You aren't driving any differently than when you received your first ticket, so there is no increase in negligence. What option do you think the courts should have to someone who acts like this? Currently there is jail time for contempt of court, but we are taking that away.

How about a boot on their car? Seizure of their car for failure to have a license? Mandatory community service? That would prevent them from driving without a license, but not put them in jail. Wage garnishment is another one, they can keep speeding all they want

> You can try to forcefully take the money, and if they are earning a paycheck hopefully the business agrees.

The business doesn't have a say in wage garnishment.

> But what if they don't, or what if the person does not earn income in a way that the state can easily seize it?

Boot their car. Or seize it.

> You could seize their property, take their car, etc. But at that point you are still threatening prison if they physically try to stop the police. Yes, the crime is now escalated to assaulting an officer, not just speeding, but it is all because of that speeding ticket. And if they resist with enough force, they may face lethal force in return. All for a speeding ticket.

Assault is not malum prohibitum. Assaulting someone is evil in itself and depending on the facts of the case would mean jail time whether that assault stemmed from a ticket or not. Removing the possibility of someone going to jail altogether is not what I am advocating for.

> That's how our legal system is structured. Any punishment is accompanied by a risk of a harsher punishment if it isn't followed. If you ever have a punishment that is not, then you effectively have a law that can be ignored (which we see sometimes with businesses who break laws and pay fines lower than the profit they earned from breaking the law).

Not any. Most crimes have a maximum punishment. The maximum punishment for malum prohibitum crimes should be something less than prison.

As an aside, it's okay if there are edge cases where you have some rich person with no paycheck and 100 cars and loves to flaunt their ability to speed without repercussions because they can easily afford the ticket (or refuse to pay) or use one of their other cars.
The monopoly includes laws around legal tender, which of course, is government money. The government money can be used to settle any debt - this isn't true for other monies. This means that even if the legal tender is rapidly losing its purchasing power and there exists a harder money which creditors would rather receive as payment, they are forced to accept the legal tender instead.
It's the arms race itself (and the fact that we allow it to continue) that's immoral. Acting rationally within the arms race is not immoral. Our laws should address the core causes of this arms race.

People are starting to wake up to the notion of "systemic issues," but still too slow to apply what they've learned about that topic to other matters. It's a mistake to focus on the behavior of individuals in a system that's sanctioning and encouraging bad behavior.
I've been curious about something in AR for a while, and I can't seem to find the right terms to query this. Why can't ambient light be used for illumination, and an LCD + polarizer to darken each pixel? If you can approximate the illumination of each point of light going through the LCD (for example, with an outward-facing camera above each lens capturing a full-color image and interpolating it down to where it would be overlayed on top of the LCD) you would know how much you would need to darken each sub-pixel's color to compensate for the light coming in. Then it would be super low-power since there would be no backlight. Also, if you wanted "Transparent" mode you could make it fairly clear. I'm sure there's some reason this is untenable but I'm not really sure what it is - perhaps the inability to be accurate with the compensation?
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DJB: Is the security of quantum cryptography guaranteed by the laws of physics?
Everything about living on the Ice is more intense; it often feels like the station and crew is the entire world. Romantic relationships are a perpetual source of tension and conflict, and little squabbles can grow to have truly outsize effects.

A silly example (from the US program several years ago) - we had summer-season emergency response drills be completely derailed because the leads of the two main groups were a couple and had squabbled the night before - one had their people simply not show up. Never mind that these two people's main roles were exactly to be in charge, one was completely unqualified for that role, discipline/replacement would be relatively easy for either, and everyone knew what was going on.

So, I can see why the rules would stipulate that the leader can't become romantically involved with a crew member over winter. But of course rules like that have no teeth, so it's really up to the integrity and ability of the leader.
2M paying subscribers is 1B+ USD annual revenue — nothing to sneeze at!
The initial conclusion your parent presents is the exact ruling in Dowling v. United States.

>Interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The infringer of a copyright does not assume physical control over the copyright nor wholly deprive its owner of its use. Infringement implicates a more complex set of property interests than does run-of-the-mill theft, conversion, or fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States_(1985...

.....

I do think grouping all IP into a bucket muddies the conversation. Trademark infringement, where one assumes the name of another product, possibly selling a counterfeit is closer to theft. It involves defrauding the consumer, and displaces a legitimate sale with a copy.

Copying a product, and selling it or giving it away free is one type of problem, but assuming someone elses trademark to mislead is a different magnitude of problem.
Or this one (I'm on android): Tapping the "cast" button to send to a Chromecast while in the middle of a show causes a random jump. On a good day, it would start playing at the beginning of the show, on a bad one it would jump to an entirely different network.

I assume my experience was unique somehow because it's too egregious of a bug to ignore (it basically gave me a choice of ditch the Chromecast or ditch YoutubeTV, in the end I did both), but I was using an android phone and a gen 3 chromecast so I can't imagine why this only affected me. Never got fixed in the ~1 year I had the service.
You do, however, sound anything but virtuous doing that. Cool and bohemian, sure - but most people strive, ultimately, to be accepted as part of society, not live outside of it.

And, tbf, I don't know if my theory is in any way applicable. But it's certainly more plausible than "the liminal space right after sleep" and other quite esoteric models.

The article as-is is assuming humans without ulterior motives. That often doesn't hold in practice. (This is in general a problem with studies relying on self-reported data - how much is truth vs. wishful thinking)

Ultimately, any decent writer understands that the purpose of an interview is to project an image, not to deliver truthful statements about mundane details. Thompson's image requires him to not be a lark. (It was likely shaped by the fact that he really isn't one, but it's a self-reinforcing cycle)

So if you are interested in finding out more, I'd suggest that it pays to focus on writers where their stated behavior contradicts their public image.
Dupe. This is being discussed on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23693407
Multiprocessing for the Impoverished (1994)
YouTube TV's value proposition includes DVR and, if you're in your home area, the ability to fast forward through commercials for DVR'd content.

The tricky part I'm noticing is how traditional providers are bundling. Mediacom provides internet, cable, and phone service in the Midwest. My parents got a better total price for the same service by bundling it all together. When I look at pricing, the marginal cost of basic cable TV would be a few extra dollars per month.

I'm definitely switching away from YouTube TV, but need to decide if I should go with basic cable (which won't have everything my household desires) or Hulu.
Disappointed the article went straight from punch cards to video terminals without mentioning teletypes.

> Having that thing show up on computers in those days was pretty tricky, and some considered it a resource hog.

Well in the 60's and 70's, you didn't necessarily even have a display, you might be using a physical teletype. `ed` is built for that.

Even when you had a display, it could be slow. The VT05 from 1970, only went up to 2400 baud. And if you were using a modem back then I think you were definitely most likely connected at 300 baud or below.
You say it as if it is a fact, what are you basing it on? There are so many examples of start up companies where most of the team were engineers and they created very popular and successful products. It might be even the opposite, many times product people are not necessary really, a middle man between customer facing people and engineering that nobody really needs.
I honestly hope tape drives drop in price. I'd love to be able to shelf a lot of data at home.
This is of interest to me, but the Electron thing worries me. I already commit a lot of memory to Electron clients (VSCode, Discord, Slack, etc.). Adding another one, even if it replaces Slack, makes me a little concerned for memory economy.
yeah "The study is limited to 500 participants simultaneously, meaning that at most 500 people are allowed to watch Puffer at a time."
It's interesting to read her experience but I can't get past a few things.

> Because I was leading the expedition, I couldn’t have any physical contact with anyone else—zero. There were no handshakes, no flirting, and no hugs.

No handshakes? This behavior is so far outside the norm it's hard to believe her experience is in any way relevant to the general populace when it likely reflects her bizarrely anti-social approach to leadership. Apparently she gives lectures on leadership now? That is terrifying.

Also, as an avid alpinist, this is absolutely not the kind of person you want to be in a dangerous environment with, let alone be subordinate to. She refused to touch people and had apparently only seen the snow once before arriving in Antarctica.
Are Facebook's holographic VR glasses viable? One expert's deep dive