skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say this as an avid emacs user: Emacs has a real problem in that it's very powerful but the, let's say, spiritual leader of the project (Stallman) is so wildly divorced from the real world because of his personal choices that he really has no idea what makes a compelling UX vs what makes a complete mess of arcane incantations. On top of that, the documentation is only suitable as a reference for someone who already knows emacs, so it's hard to learn.

To wit: Again I really really like Emacs as a piece of software, and I've been using it for like 10 years now. Maybe 3 or 4 of those years I've been using it reasonably seriously and even I find my eyes glaze over because of how dense and unapproachable the documentation is.

On top of that, being a political project, Stallman actively resists certain improvements to Emacs that would for example make it work better on my Mac, because my Mac is nonfree and Stallman would rather have an objectively poorer piece of software than one that "encourages" using MacOS.

And of course the other senior people in the Emacs project don't want to go against Stallman, so emacs is doomed to being a mediocre niche text editor with unrealized potential to become a household name.

If someone wrote an open source clone of Emacs that adopted some sane defaults, modern UI conventions, and dropped all the political BS it could be so much better.

Alas I don't have the skill nor the time to attempt such a thing.

Edit: hey how about a substantive reply rather than drive-by downvotes?
Is it possible to make a demo that runs in the browser?
I remember when I first joined Robinhood, the free share of stock I got was in $CHK. I believe they pulled out of trading a year or so ago?
Even if everybody here agrees with "fuck this guy" sentiment, I do not see VISA as an accountable institution which should regulate or enforce anything related to morals.
They sound like "Social Text" style bullshit really. Tons of fashionable ideological buzzwords and their own arcane cant for cant's sake, deliberate unpleasability in terms of vast complaints, and having no remotely concrete plans. They shame them for supposed inadequacy of donations and involvement but what would the donations actually be used /towards/ and how would they help the recipients? They already ignore the "boring" answers like scholarships and outreach initatives as not radical enough.

To be frank the actors come across as either insane narcissists or acting in cynical bad faith. They get to feel good about it and/or gain influence but actually helping anybody? They are doing their adversary's work for them while lauding themselves for it!
> Allyship for POC doesn't imply bias against white people.

Sure, in theory. In practice, bias against whites exists, some of it catalyzed by woke ideology. (By woke logic) White-presenting people are really the only ones with standing to speak to such bias in their own lives.

> Well, anyone that isn't in a white hood, anyway.

Ah yes, the IRL downvote: call someone a racist / Nazi / fascist / Klansman.
My first exposure to Unix was RiscBSD, which was netbsd/arm26 running on a RISC PC. Installed from a pile of floppies downloaded at school. Eventually I got an old Elonex 386 that I could install Slackware on, and with a bit of coax I had a 10base2 home network and was being amazed at the concept of running X clients remotely.
You just need to scream at the resonant frequency of the glass to make it shatter. You can teach yourself how to do it
The market system is an epic hack, it does fantastic stuff but it is merely a hack. We won't be able to do everything outside its scope. It is a really large scope but not large enough.
love that everyone is expecting some sort of impartiality from advertising companies and data miners

policy isn’t the problem, it’s the platform itself
Yes, I like that article :-)
The bars may be disappearing but Jazz itself is alive and well in Japan. I heard it everywhere in Kyoto & Tokyo. I'm not sure why this is but it's a lot more pleasant than the top 40 stuff you hear playing everywhere in the US.
A Woman Who Warned of WeWork’s Downfall Tells Her Story
> In contexts other than the modern USA, there are other dominant elites which no doubt would exhibit the same effects when challenged; there's nothing innately White about White fragility, it's only circumstantially White.

However, I hardly ever hear about other dominant elites being challenged this way (with the occasional exception when Palestine is brought up), so your hypothetical phrasing is largely accurate, as far as I'm aware.
Her most recent racist post was 2016, at age 18 or 19 and she held a senior position at the company. The author of this piece doesn’t seem to be super intellectually honest, in addition to his Godwin’s law-breaking.
The USSR won the Great Patriotic War. It had some help from Allies, people in Russia are aware of it.

And what you see in the White House tweeter is a lie.
Very much from the non technical side of C P Snows two nations its a very English take with its distain for "professional".

Proper chaps are amateurs haven forfend that we listen to actual scientists - you can see this in Boris Johnson and cummings.

And you can see proper literatures disdain for "Genre" on display here.
Is this a simulation of some theoretical 8-bit CPU, or is it a simulation of a real, existing 8-bit CPU?

For what it's worth, there are many existing C-code emulations of actual 1970s 8-bit CPUs on the Net. (6800, 8080, Z80, 6502, etc, etc, etc.) Studying those may assist you in managing to get past the tricky bits.

In my own Z80 emulation work, I have leaned heavily on 'Yaze' and 'Dasm', with a few extra features and debugging of my own.
Kafkatrap. Good to know this term.

These people are insane. How is it that first gen Indian or Asian immigrants do so much better than blacks? Is it all explained by systemic racism? Lol. Ridiculous.
FORTRAN
In the effort to find something the plant is actually useful for, a high school classmate's science project was to see how much ethanol you could get out of it. Turned out - not much.

But he did find that goats will eat it -- if there isn't anything tastier around.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529260 chapter 9.2.3

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596805838 chapter 2

http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920028468 chapter 5
Pretty cool, but the format looks like literally every other news site now right? (title + image + read more)

To me, the best thing about HN and Reddit is being able to efficiently skim through many article titles at once, without judging; writing style or image quality.
Layoffs at NPM after Microsoft acquisition; including all 4 black engineers
For those interested, check out the work of Doug Tallamy, an entemologist at the University of Maryland. His basic thesis is that insects drive ecological health and that invasive species that don't have thousands of years of coevolution with native insect populations provide ecological dead zones that are equivalant to concrete.

http://www.bringingnaturehome.net

My opinion based on his work and others is that kudzu and others dramatically reduce biodiversity and upsetting ecological balances that took thousands of years to create. It's wonderful that pests show up to consume kudzu (like the bug referenced in the article), but it's not the same as a native species occupying the same niche that provides forage, pollen, seeds, habitat, and other necessities that make native insect populations thrive, which in turn supports larger fauna like birds, mammals, etc.
Ask HN: Resources for learning about licensing and copyright?
Recently I had the chance to read https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-license.html , as well as look into Creative Commons CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ ). I've started looking through and reading into the CC licenses as well as FOSS licenses; but do you know of any resources that would help me along in interpreting?
Yeah, this was my thought. Silicon Valley as a whole wasn't captivated by this. Just the people that are usually caught up in "exclusive social apps" (whatever that is) making this less of a deal than it's made out to be.
This has San Francisco written all over it.
Sad.... I know a lot of jobs are at stack but why can’t we just let these industries die?
IMHO it's a bit cheeky to use exp2 from the standard library. It's likely got all the same math exp does. Fortunately, if you know that your exponent is an integer, there's a constant time version. It's 5 instructions: add, and, shift, mov, ret.

https://godbolt.org/z/KNyoVd
Yet Nintendo had resisted a significant online component in their games and platforms for two generations of consoles.
> Is this an accurate summary or is it mistaken?

From a very quick look at the preview on Google Books, I'd say it's deeply inaccurate when it comes to the central message of the book.

> He describes its worldview as one where all white people are inescapably racist by due being born white in this place and time, and that there is nothing we can do about it because it is part of our psyche.

The point the book seems to lay out for itself is that awareness of the nature of racial privilege and the related sensitivity is key to enabling one to doing something about it, the exact opposite of it being inescapable. From the introduction: “If, however, I understand racism as a system into which I was socialized, I can receive feedback on my problematic racial patterns as a helpful way to support my learning and growth.”
In what way are self-signed certs garbage? They're essentially the same as ssh certs.
Additionally for DIY sandwiches, banana and avocado is nicer than crème fraîche, but peanut butter and toothpaste is meaner than crème fraîche.
Middle class cant stop working for a few years and life of "property" - they are effectively working class yes even you on 250k pa.
If you asked someone two centuries ago they would tell you that you believed in magic.

How do you know reality isn't a simulation?
>Good thing that it's pretty easy

I think you're underselling the difficulty a bit considering that Japanese is in the hardest class of languages as ranked by FSI [1]. Granted this probably includes literacy as well; if you only want to learn the spoken aspects it's probably not much harder than the category III languages.

[1] https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/
I still remember Armageddon intro:
"It happen before and will happen again. It's just a question of when?"
Reminds me of stories from Haruki Murakami, which were laden with jazz references. He apparently worked at a jazz bar before writing his novels.
Just sit down and follow the tutorial that you can click in the emacs homescreen.

It is not that easy, but the effort you invest in learning emacs will pay off eventually.
It is ussually much better here to submit one of the videos instead of the channel. With one video the discussion is more specific and perhaps someone here that works in that are can make an interesting comment. With the whole channel the discussion get diluted.

Which one one of the videos is the one that you prefer? (I liked the animations in the video about mars. They start at the 4 minute mark.)
These are people who say "you don't know what it's like to be black if you're not black" and then paint a brush over "white" and make a blanket statement about their "white" lives.

Completely racist.

They don't even use statistics when looking at the issue of differential treatment by police of blacks vs whites. They just see a single traumatic video and then jump to arms, it's ridiculous.

My brother was walking with his GF one night near a protest. The guy on the loudspeaker literally called them out and called them disgusting in front of the crowd.

These people are reprehensible.
> "the hacker ethic is fundamentally anti-authoritarian"

The old guard who believed in the hacker ethic has long ago faded into irrelevance. I am sorry to say that technology is now run by the mundanes (yes, even the bulk of software developers) and the new hacker ethic seems to be "greed is good".
I could get lost in this world.

I lived in Japan for a couple of years. A Japanese friend treated me to a Jazz Bar a couple of times. It was long ago... I only remember requesting a Billie Holiday song, Stars Fell On Alabama, I think. It was the perfect antidote for the relentless energy of Tokyo’s public life.
That generalises over almost everything in real world. "Everyone is expecting done sort of impartiality from X companies" is the reason why we have many laws.
Robinhood traders: "I'll take 1000 shares please."
Divide Integers and Power Integers – Weekly Challenge
More than that, he owned a coffee shop/jazz bar.
I am not a fan of Facebook and have deleted my account. But Zuck is right in trying to avoid policing political content. It just won’t work.

Twitter’s attempts, although idealistic, are a complete failure. Some tweets that are sanctioned are far less harmful than others that aren’t. Some tweets that are allowed are outright lies. Inserting Jack and his buddies as the arbiters of truth is not going to work. And frankly, I don’t want the Twitter exec team to tell me what I should believe or see.

I understand that there is more pressure on Zuck to follow. And he may very well have to bend to the outrage of people even though it makes no sense.
I wouldn't recommend doing this directly -- there's no good polynomial that can represent the exponential function well over a wide range.

Instead, it's better to exploit the definition of IEEE754 as an exponent and a mantissa. You calculate the exponent directly (because e^x = 2^(x/ln2)), and use the Remez algorithm to find a polynomial that fits just the mantissa.
Saudi Arabia can get cheap oil, but the US hit peak cheap oil along time ago. Shale needs oil prices above $60/barrel.

Energy input is an interesting way of looking at oil. In 1930 we used 1 barrel of oil to obtain 100 more. With shale you are getting closer to spending 1 barrel of oil to get 3. https://youtu.be/WeBtdwPpTQM?t=450
> "If, however, I understand racism as a system into which I was socialized, I can receive feedback on my problematic racial patterns as a helpful way to support my learning and growth.”

With stuff like this it can be helpful to change the hot button hand grenade word to something less emotional. So change racism to "dysfunctional family behavior" or "alcoholism" and imagine the statement is discussing recovery. Does it sound reasonable now?

I haven't read this book so I can't comment about it overall. I would say that for hot button issues like this I am inclined to reserve judgment until I read the actual book.
I personally hate this expression for the double standards it creates.

If a minority fights against violence - e.g. police brutality - they are stunning and brave.
If white people fight against violence - e.g. rioting and looting - they are fragile

Can we not accept that both of these things are worthy things to fight against, or do I have to roll my eyes so hard that I sever my optic nerve at the constant oneupmanship of "who is the most operssed?"
Gatsby is a good idea with a questionable implementation. I totally agree with the blog post. But I will say I've had lots of success with Gatsby and really like what it pulls off if you are willing to work with it. I would be really interested in a new project that learns from the mistakes Gatsby made and pushes harder on the positives, it'd be a killer framework.
India Debates Skin-Tone Bias as Beauty Companies Alter Ads
Okay, I'm curious: why did Ted Nelson set off the BS-meter in Lo and Behold?

Project Xanadu may have been the longest vaporware project in history, but Nelson himself is well-respected by many others, some of whom are near-universally respected (e.g. Alan Kay and Woz).
That's not quite true. The cost of producing shale oil has continued to fall. It started out high, but the industry breakeven price is now $48, and some producers can be profitable as low as $31.
> so emacs is doomed to being a mediocre niche text editor with unrealized potential to become a household name

Emacs is absolutely a household name, at least in the world of text editors…
In the 20-year timeframe that would be great (a decarbonized economy), but short-term, it's really important that the US doesn't depend on Saudi Arabia as a sole oil producer, and that means maintaining some level of oil pumping infrastructure

SA, Russia, and Venezuela are not the international players you want to have leverage over US foreign policy. If we let a weird unexpected market rout (like covid) wipe the shale producers out entirely, we really screw ourselves into letting SA call the shots on the world stage. Cuz you know SA and Russia are NOT going to let their pumping capacity collapse.

(To be clear I'm not arguing for a bailout to prevent banks or investors from taking haircuts on the investments — those haircuts have to happen. But "letting all the jobs go" means letting the companies dissolve, vs reorganize, and that's not a good idea, IMO).
How can you decide if something is harmful or not ?
> If someone wrote an open source clone of Emacs that adopted some sane defaults, modern UI conventions, and dropped all the political BS it could be so much better.

Worthy of mention, of course, is Spacemacs[1], which made Emacs approachable to me, someone who hadn't used much beyond Notepad++ and Eclipse before then.

[1]: https://www.spacemacs.org/
> Also, HTTP has nine verbs

http://webconcepts.info/concepts/http-method/
Why doesn't their nginx proxy /.well-known/ requests for your domain to your nginx? Then you could just use `certbot certonly --webroot --webroot-path /path/to/webroot/for/your/domain -d your.domain.name -d www.your.domain.name` once and put `certbot renew` and nginx reload in crontab weekly, and you're good to go.

If you can't use HTTP-01 and must use DNS-01 challenge, I would check whether the software that runs your host's DNS management panel has an API in addition to manual mode. If not, I would check for ability to automate HTTP requests to that tool (parse the HTML, submit the forms, basically). My hope would be that the tool is popular and someone already did the work and code exists to operate it as if it had an API.

If you can do that, you can write (or find one already written) a certbot plugin that performs the DNS challenge using your credentials to the host provided DNS settings. certbot has number of plugins for the big hosting providers: https://github.com/certbot/certbot

certbot is the most popular Let's Encrypt client, but it's not the only one. Maybe another client has support for your situation. I would maybe ask the support of your hosting provider, maybe they know something.
I mean household name in the same class as MS Office.
(1) slim != non-existent, (2) so far every higher energy level has resulted in more insight, I'm all for increasing the size another order of magnitude, if that does not result in new knowledge or insights into the fundamental nature of matter and energy then we can debate whether or not it is still useful to continue.

There is no evidence at this point in time that we know all there is to be known at the next level energetic collisions. The whole idea that we are at the end of the line for particle accelerators smacks of huge hubris: we know all there is to be known. A similar sentiment pervaded the physics discipline about a hundred years ago and look where we've gone since then.
I'd venture that it's not among rank-and-file software developers, though.
None of these links are specs or reference implementations of what a perfect REST API is. If there is no such thing, then there is no such thing as a REST API. You linked to non normative content, thus opinions.

So please link to the REST specification if it exists or the reference implementation of REST.
Cheers guys!
The author seems to focus a lot on having 64 bit versions of the editors.

I'm wondering what's the downside of using a 32 bits in the case of a console text editor? I doubt that it's because you could theoretically need to load 4GB+ text files in memory.

Is there a good reason to want a 64 bit version of an editor to the point of excluding it if there isn't one?
That calculator is a hack in the most positive and brilliant sense of the word. Crazy constraints required crazy solutions. Amazing!
It's more like suggesting mustard as an alternative to ketchup, in the context of a culture where ketchup is a more commonly used condiment.
All of the above, really.
At the risk of worsening your analysis paralysis, another good option is LOVE2D, https://love2d.org/
To me, the existence of spacemacs and doom and others are an indictment of Emacs' poor out of the box experience.
Curious if there are any obvious reasons for the total value to rise from 3bn/q to 7bn/q only to stabilize around 5bn in 2010?
Let's face it. Crispr was evolved by bacterial cells in the grip of a phage virus invader. It had to act with enormous speed to try to get ahead of the virus's high speed reproduction machinery and spread the word to successor generations - if any. Fidelity was sacrificed to make an RNA threshing machine and even then it lost more often than it won against the phage. The winners trapped those palindromically patterned bits and lived to breed another day - maybe.
Do you have a source for this where I could read more? I'm continually fascinated by the downward pressure on oil production break-even prices.
Visa and MasterCard in particular are hugely profitable businesses. There is no way that payment processing will be nationalized in the USA.

Big corporations still prefer their customers pay with checks or ACH, because it costs about 1.25% minimum per transaction for Level 1 merchants. The US government clears checks, and it costs nothing per transaction.
> Democratic Party leaders, pioneers of the costless gesture, have already embraced this performative race politics as a useful tool for disciplining apostates like Bernie Sanders. Bernie took off in presidential politics as a hard-charging crusader against a Wall Street-fattened political establishment, and exited four years later a self-flagellating, defeated old white man who seemed to regret not apologizing more for his third house. Clad in kente cloth scarves, the Democrats who crushed him will burn up CSPAN with homilies on privilege even as they reassure donors they’ll stay away from Medicare for All or the carried interest tax break.

It's useful to keep in mind what's actually happening to people like Taibbi, Greenwald etc. For years, they've been trying to lead the class-war faction of the left - for them race was irrelevant and distracted from the actual problems, for which they had a ready made solution. These solutions, M4A, etc, didn't have to deal with race. But, this faction lost. There's not conspiracy, people just didn't want what Bernie, Taibbi, et all were selling, that's all.

The faction that did win does in fact talk about race and now Taibbi is out in the cold. But it's alright, this isn't the French Resolution, no one is coming for his head. He's just gonna have to take a back seat and wield less power. He'll be fine.
On Twitter you follow people, on a site like Reddit you subscribe to subreddits.

Switching between accounts on Twitter means your follows/followers are lost, switching accounts on Reddit doesn't lose you anything (unless you're subscrived to private subreddits or are a moderator for a subreddit)