skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TBH I think I almost never look at the line numbers in vi, but the alternative isn't always holding/mashing j.

I occasionally use a count (5j to move 5 lines down, especially good for moving ~4 lines at a time), sometimes use C-u/d, C-f/b, or H/L to scroll half a page up/down, a full page up/down, or move the cursor to the Highest/Lowest line on the screen (these are good for large movement. And you can use zz to recenter the cursor on the screen after H/L). But likely the most common vertical movement I use is curly brackets/braces to move a paragraph up/down.

In CUA editors to me the nicest shortcuts are Control[+Shift]+Backspace and Control[+Shift]+Arrow because they involve the editor understanding a basic construct of human language (words). Vi takes that to the next level.
> I think the hostility these entities face today expresses a situation of them not having a tighter grip (at least a much tighter grip) on the public imagination...

The issue isn't a grip on our imaginations, it's the grip on our data (including off-site traffic thanks to ubiquitous trackers) that seems objectionable. And when it's the only way to talk to your grandma, for example, it's maddeningly difficult for a lot of people to quit
ok what happens when the president says something like

"the sky is red, dems are better off dead (marked as mistake made, replies disabled)"
What about a fleet of automated drones/machines which clean the panels by blowing air? I don't know, but it seems like physically scrubbing the panels would take more machinery (heavier), more moving parts (break down more easily), and the scrubs themselves would have to get replaced & careful not to be abrasive (not sure how much the panels "care" about it though). These "dusters" could run off the excess power too. I read somewhere else in this thread that one problem was the solar park would occasionally over-produce - maybe the fleet works whenever there is an overproduction, or after a certain amount of time has passed (we _must_ clean them now and can't wait until the next time of overproduction).
Am Unusual Route
Thankfully it's now 2020 and we've long since learned that putting "be vigilant" in the employee handbook doesn't do anything, just like "don't crash the plane" stickers on an instrument display don't do anything to stop plane crashes.

Even OSHA, the lowest common denominator, requires you to clearly delineate pedestrian travel paths. Physical separation is highly recommended. What doesn't fucking help, and hasn't since the invention of motors in 1900, is "We need to talk about how I almost negligently ran you over".
My wife and I share an office at home , she has way more team meetings than me (her being a PM) but I can zone out coding while listening to music.
If you have a Raspberry Pi (<=3B) you can load up Risc OS Pico which boots straight into BBC Basic.
Covid cases by state vs. days since masks were first required
I'm in the same boat here, was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 28 and realized pretty fast after that I had been self-medicating with massive amounts of coffee. Was up to 8-10 shots espresso a day when I was diagnosed. I was jittery and having problems sleeping, but could only focus as long as I continually ramped up on the caffeine.

Adderall has made a big difference for me- I've gradually cut the caffeine to a 2 tiny coffees a day and my focus is way better than when I was drinking latte after latte. No issues with ramping up either, it's been a couple years and I'm still on basically the same dosage of adderall.
OP, why do you have gray text on a white background? It is literally unreadable for someone that doesn't have young eyes.

Thankfully reader view in firefox cleaned it up, but otherwise it would be inaccessible.
I'm curious about the tech in some of these. Probably a mix of straight up HTML reinterpretation, probably some web assembly, feels like at least one or two are running a full win9x dist in either docker or something...
By basic I meant the sort of things I as not a fan of soccer would have heard of, like the basic rule that player's generally shouldn't touch the ball with their hands. And I (who don't really follow sports in general) would assume that sports like running would have even less change (I think they've refined rules against starting too soon?).
With an adblocker you can block items that contain a certain word here on HackerNews quite easily. Just add the following to Ublock Origins custom filters or equivalent plugin.

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! 6/9/2020 https://news.ycombinator.com

news.ycombinator.com##table.itemlist > tbody > tr.athing:has-text(/ SaaS /)

news.ycombinator.com##table.itemlist > tbody > tr.athing:has-text(/ SaaS /)+tr

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P.S. it does not work when people invent stupid new words such as micro-SaaS
The statistics work the same way that aggregate physics work. Great at working with the whole, bad at the micro-level.

Even after we drive the "R-nought" low enough that just means that on the whole the fire is 'contained' and will eventually burn out. To achieve actual eradication, which is what is required for something like this disease, a strong concerted effort to isolate and contain is required.

I am also somewhat fearful that there will be a rush towards large events and other high-risk activities that allow these 1 to 50+ mega-exposures from prolific infecters to happen.
To anyone's who's used LibreOffice recently - is it still as buggy and terribly performing as a few years ago? I remember trying to open a 10 page document with a few images and it took in excess of two minutes to open it. At that point I just decided to use LaTeX.
Build your own AK-47 from a shovel
USB is polling at 1000hz now if the devices support it, it's really not bad. On the hardware side, displays are really the part that still needs some work in terms of latency, and FreeSync and G-Sync are evidence that the problems are at least being considered. The hardware in the PC itself is pretty good.

On the software side, operating systems, desktop environments, GUI SDKs, frameworks, and so on could all take the problem a lot more seriously, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that. There are too many people involved who believe it's reasonable to pause and play a little animation before doing what the user asked for.
I love this. It reminds me of riding the London Underground, reading Wired articles in the AvantGo app on my Palm V.
It sounds like that's roughly the same rate as Scotland, so I'd assume exactly the same thing over a wide area - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/6226537/Eng...

Which makes sense really, since we're on the same tectonic plate. Geographically there's not a huge difference between Scotland and Scandinavia. They're the parts of northern Europe that were torn up by glaciers.

It does make me wonder, tongue in cheek, who's reciprocally sinking on that side though. I know a few people who'd be disturbingly proud to find out that Sweden and Finland are sinking Denmark.
200k actually, I think you made a mistake? Anyway, in some parts of the world, yes, that is "set for life".
The economic harm is generally recognized, and an EU type policy is seen as an better than most piecemeal implementations. Ironically, US consumer wages went up by adding $600 to US folks cashflow.[0]

There are two big elephants in the room to consider:

1. Ongoing health effects from Covid. Hopefully not as bad, expensive, and detrimental as polio.

2. Chance for negative mutation.

These two items alone add a lot of economic uncertainty.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2020/5/29/21274416/household-income-surg...
Is there a thermodynamic truth, and where does it break down at the quantum level?
Boeing communications boss resigns over sexist article he wrote in 1987
> Ask me about "aircrete".

Alright, what about aircrete and how can it solve all our physical problems?
Rulers, drill bits, and wrenches typically use fractions of an inch where the denominator is a power of two, but circuit board design often uses decimal fractions of an inch. The holes in a breadboard are commonly .1 inches apart.
Ok, it would be exciting to move the whole solar system to a nicer place in the galaxy. But how many years are we not going to use to evaluate the ethics and technical risks of the experiment? :)
When Will #100DaysofCode End?
Yeah, but I assume if Iran suddenly closed their airspace, it would give Iraq/US forces a pretty big signal the attack is imminent.

The US could preemptively attack Iranian bases.
Just remember to say nothing that the .Gov doesn't approve of.
Here is a script that automates your automation:

https://gist.github.com/neodigm/53bcad834a62b442dfca6694cacc...
iPhone saying port 80 not working am I zombied
I have suspicion to believe i’m being remoted since port scans come back with 21,25,53,80,443 etc error in connection
> An epidemiologist apparently setting out R-nought as the underlying basis for their modelling (or even: communicating it to the public as such) worries me.

One of the core point of the linked article is that R0 has a wide range and therefore can’t be used to draw firm conclusions about herd immunity.

> even a high school student of statistics would know to look beyond the mean and to the variance.

I’m not sure if you’re responding to the linked article, but the article does a good job of emphasizing exactly that point. The R0 and her immunity calculations aren’t strict values or hard cutoffs. They are very situation dependent and will change over time depending on circumstances and behavior.

It’s also important to keep in mind that the current average R0 numbers are measured during the middle of widespread social distancing and similar countermeasures. If people start reducing their precautions under the assumption that herd immunity will protect them, the infection rate might increase again.
The Constitution is THE Supreme Law of the land. It literally is the ‘bible’ in how America is to be governed. The difference is that The Constitution has mechanisms within itself for change. This is the opposite of dangerous. It is the reason slavery was abolished, women have the vote, etc. It is a living document and it serves the people.
The 11-15 Tonnes come from the study that you referenced page is disputing?

There is a persistent narrative in Germany that diesel cars are better for the environment, and your comment is playing into that. This narrative is wrong and damaging.

Why are you doing this?
A new community for aspiring engineers and devs
Hi,

I decided to start a community that focuses on encouraging and providing valuable resources for people on their tech journey in coding. It's fairly new, so currently there is only a few hundred followers built, but if you know anyone or would pass it along to someone that might be interested in it, let me know! I think it is time we all started being more welcoming and positive for juniors and those who aspire to hold a software position someday. We all started somewhere!
Thanks! That brought a huge smile to my face. I was a total Palm nerd back in the late 90's; I remember buying a gigantic clip-on cellular modem for one to get email on it.
The Glassmaker Who Sparked Astrophysics
> people who don't have much free time: people with responsibilities to look after young children or otherwise care for family

Maybe that's the entire purpose. You don't want to hire people with small kids, because they won't do much of an overtime. But asking people at an interview whether they have kids, and firing them after they say yes, that's legally dangerous. So instead you ask them if they spend a lot of time doing their hobbies, and fire them if they say no. Perfectly legal.

More cynically, if this becomes the norm, even the people who don't enjoy programming in their free time will start coding their "hobby" projects for github, just to be able to get a job. Is that a bad thing (for the employer)? No, that's actually a good thing: it demonstrates willingness to spend your free time doing what the employer requires of you, even before they start paying you. Now that's a model employee!
> NYC made masks law on April 15. Germany somewhere around a week later.

And you left off that NYC's cases dropped the entire time those mask policies were in effect. We didn't isolate for it as the lockdown was in place, but there's at the very least a positive correlation, and the lack of spike from the protests supports that too. I don't see why you jump to defeatism from that evidence.

You're assuming people in most of the US paid attention to the laws and advisories. In Florida for example, mask usage was incredibly low and has caused the spike there. Same for Texas. We don't know if masks would stop the initial jump because we didn't use them. All evidence from other countries points to the conclusion that they do help in a meaningful way.

If you're saying you don't believe the American populace is capable of following instructions, you might be right, but if we actually enforced and practiced mask policies, it very much appears it would make a meaningful difference.
Related:

https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid

If you jump down to the Sweden section, you can see that Sweden reached zero excess mortality in the last part of June.

Excess mortality is a much better measure of than just looking at 'covid deaths' (whatever those are). It can show whether or not what a government counts as covid deaths or not are accounting for all of the unexpected deaths or not. It can also account for the fact that practically any decision made by the government to fight covid may have unintended consequences (more suicides due to isolation from lockdown).
First we assumed that since it was a coronavirus the summer wouldn't be a problem. Now we assume that if we just hurry up and infect everyone we can reach herd immunity. That is another assumption, it isn't yet clear if infection with the COVID-19 virus makes a person immune to future infection. It might be true, but the most certain among us don’t seem to be the smartest.
Honestly, you've just described about 95% of gemini exactly. It's TLS required (even 1.2+), line-based parsing with text/gemini content, it's actually even simpler to parse than XML, since it's line-based (just peek at first 3 characters, you know the line type from that). It doesn't use CSS or JS at all, styling is totally up to the client.

So like I said, you've basically just described gemini :)
But the fuel was charged from another source in fuel cells too. You don't mine hydrogen. The energy carrier point remains. The primary energy will be from gas, oil, coal, nuclear, hydro, solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, or tidal.
Tinder Date Is Thirsty For Zoom Backgrounds
Two people meet on Tinder then go on a Zoom date during the pandemic. One of them really likes virtual backgrounds (sketch comedy)
> Well, one thing's for sure - the USA will reach herd immunity more quickly than the rest of the world at the current rate

I know that the US has one of the higher per-capita infection rates (though not the highest in the world), but we’re not even close to herd immunity.

Less than 1% of the US population is confirmed to have contracted the virus, while even generous herd immunity estimates require 60% of the population to have developed immunity.
https://webamp.org/ this really took me back! Even the equalizer works, and the magnetic window stickiness!
I think you've misunderstood what the experts are attempting to do. They're not trying to get 0 covid deaths at the expense of all else.

COVID can easily overwhelm the hospital system all by itself. We saw that in Italy and China... and hospital systems in several parts of the US are already near capacity. Once they're overwhelmed, there will be no room left in the hospitals, and they'll have to do one of two things: Start sending covid patients home, which will increase the covid death rate and/or start refusing patients with other injuries/diseases.. which will increase the deaths in those cases.

The restrictions are all about preventing the hospitals from being overwhelmed, and causing more people to die than currently. It just seems like they're so focused on covid, because it spreads so rapidly that it can overwhelm hospitals in a very short period of time.

Unfortunately with the numbers in Texas, Florida, and elsewhere... and with how long it takes for restrictions to have an effect... it's very likely we'll see what an overwhelmed hospital system looks like very soon.
Sure, but the total system loss for hydrogen is much higher, so unless renewable electricity becomes free, batteries win on tco.
they have a horrible documentation though.

Even after downloading tinc via homebrew and port, the "tinc" directory and its associated files don't exist in the system.
For where precision matters, 100% agree. For people like me who just want something halfway tasty but also quickly, the convenience of volumetric scoops is compelling.
I like it. Thanks for sharing
I mainly use fossil these days, with git as a secondary option. One of the main reasons I went with fossil is due to it being built on top of SQLite and being able to query against the database, as well as extend it for customized project management.

Interesting stuff. When time permits, I'll have to check out how this implementation for git differs from fossil.
Tinc 1.1 is actually fairly easy to set up - it's only a couple of commands for defining the name of the network, getting a link nodes can use to join etc. The only problem is that it's technically not a full release, so most distros don't carry it. Compiling isn't difficult (a simple ./configure && make && sudo make install), but it could be better. My only major issue with Tinc is lack of any central authority making it really niche - revoking keys seems to involve deleting them on each connected machine. Not fun.

From what I can tell ZeroTier seems nice as long as you're okay with using ZeroTier's servers for things (a curious trend I've noticed - so called decentralised services will always be great until you want to have fully independent servers). Sure, you can find github issues telling it's possible to set up your own planets, but the software seems somewhat complex and there's no documentation for it, and moons (what is with this lame terminology anyway?) will ping ZeroTier by default.
An iOS, iPadOS, and macOS reference manual for ARM assembly instructions
And the screen refreshed every time you did something as it loaded a new page. Just because it’s abused doesn’t mean JS doesn’t have uses.
I'm glad to see they have a whole section for 2Advanced. My programming tutor at college told us not to worry about the internet, treating it as a fad. I learnt html (and css) using View Source. And in my world of "my god, the things you can do if you collapse table borders", I spent hours clicking around 2Advanced witchcraft.
Yes they're there! They're just not in /etc on a Mac - this is because you can't write there anymore in the latest macOS. Apple has locked that down a lot even before Catalina (system integrity protection)

I think they're under /usr/local/opt or something.. This is a homebrew thing, nothing to do with tinc really. I'm not on my Mac now so I can't check, but they're definitely somewhere.
If you're going to clean things via physical automation, you could probably work out the energy cost involved ~reasonably well over time.
article actually uses one of his tweets as an example -- twitter already blocks comments on ones they judge to be over the line.

there's also mention later about how to deal with bad actors.
Isn’t that what NeoCities aims to be (a GeoCities reboot)? Disclaimer: haven’t used it; don’t know how it works.
"... the vast majority of these smartphones don’t give users any way to switch off 2G support."
I don't think there's eternal shame to dole out. I think it's perfectly equivalent to say if you give someone lifelong trauma that the result should be lifelong consequences, including that people don't want to affiliate with you.
There is a great deal of monumental stonework off western India, in 30-100 ft of water. It snags fishermen's nets.

It should be easy to see how being forced to leave your ancestral home would transmute, in the telling over millennia, into a cataclysmic event.
Sure, but that still has nothing to do with multiple CPU cores.
That's a fairly complicated example. Let me deconstruct it:

In Rust you work a lot with types. You can write code that supports several different types but you usually have to specify which constraints these types have to fulfill. You specify these constraints between <> brackets. In this example we have 3 such constraints:

1) <'s, S: Seed, A: Copy>

2 & 3) <dyn Fn(S) -> Step<S, A> + 's>

with 2) <S, A>

with 3) <dyn Fn(S) -> Step<S, A> + 's>

Because these constraints are all part of the same struct definiton, the names in these 3 constraints refer to the same things. The names are: s, S, A

Constraints in Rust can either be lifetimes or traits (similar to interfaces in Java). Lifetimes are marked with a single quote (') followed by the name of the lifetime (in this case: 's)

Let's look at constraint number 1):

I) We declare a lifetime 's but we do not specify where it will be applied in the struct yet.

II) We declare a type constraint S. Every type that is used as S must implement the Seed trait.

III) We declare a type constraint A. Every type that is used as A must implement the Copy trait.

Before I go into constraint 2&3, I must explain that `Fn(S) -> Step<S, A> + 's>` describes the type signature of a closure. The syntax is basically `Fn(parameter-list) -> return-value`.

Constraint 2) says that the return value must be a struct `Step` with the type parameters `S` and `A`.

Constraint 3) says that the next field of the struct must be a `Box` that contains an object of unknown size (hence the `dyn`) which is a closure that takes one `S` parameter and returns a `Step` struct with the type parameters `S` and `A`. The lifetime of the closure must be `'s`.

Finally, the seed must be of type `S`.
Either that or all these users are taking advantage of LinkNYC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkNYC
!! didn't know that

how is access to the privacy prioritized?
I disagree. By not playing, you're protecting yourself from future retribution, deserved or (more commonly) not. And not being on social media - or more precisely, not posting on social media - doesn't mean you're out of touch or lacking in influence. Not by a long shot.
You have examples in most of the other Anglo countries already, you just have to be willing to learn from other countries (a long shot, I know).
> $25k USD monthly, is $300k a year.

Gross Income, for 2 partners. As I wrote, best case you get 100k per partner net after 2 years, ceteris paribus. But they are living from this business so less money for the company.

> Say, you can keep it running for 3 years. This is close to $1 million USD. This could easily pay your cost of living, while you work on the next product.

Yes but that is a truism. If your business does well for several years, you will have a cushion for your next venture.

I wrote because I wanted to write against the naive view many people in HN has about "developing countries", yes COL is lower but there is no magic place where 100k USD will set you for life. You still have to pay taxes, many goods cost the same or more than in the US, good healthare insurance is not low, etc, etc. My rule of thumb is that you need at least a mimimum 1MM to retire, no matter in which part of the world,of course if you pick London or Zurich the amount will need to be higher. This assume a family of 3, no further income, no house owned and to live a modest middle class lifestyle.
I love this. This is exactly the type of creativity that makes the Web fun!
I am interested in Backend python position and would love to have opportunity to give interview and present my abilities. Can you refer?