skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't get to sea-lion me

Was this really necessary? You point would be just as strong without it, and the degree of hostility would go down.
There's a quantum tic-tac-toe variant which makes some practical compromises to make the game playable and scoreable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tic-tac-toe
Why not local-by-default? And have a global keyword instead?
Will this be enough to trigger the Google captcha punishment on every site I go to? I already run into that more than I'd like.
If the article is worthless the issue isn't with the author who has written it and posted it.

The issue is with HNers who have promoted it and highlighted it.
I find most people that complain about Firefox dev tools other than just not knowing where the cheese is stored often just need slight tweaks to their sourcemaps. That problem is self-reinforcing because so many developers only test in Chrome that some of the biggest tools in the ecosystem (webpack, for a big for instance) default to sourcemaps that only work in Chrome, when they could just easily produce sourcemaps that work in both.
It's still a thing. For example with cgit.
They are comparing it to Reels, which also shows you content primarily not on your social graph.
It doesn't look like they A/B tested. More likely just switched to it 100%
It's closer to the sound of a metronome, which is pretty fitting and likely where the name originated.
This relative percentage stuff is silly.
Not all browsers.
If you work with embedded linux, nano is almost never there.
I didn't submit this, but it makes me wonder if emacs and vim will go the way of the dinosaur without new hackers seeing articles like this. The internet (and our industry) has a short memory, so if we're not seeing occasional articles evangelizing these technologies then they're actively losing mind-share, which would be sad.
> It did one thing and it did it well.

Except it didn't, the photo quality on Instagram is really bad because of compression and it is not possible to share actual good pictures because of that.
>>When It’s ‘Just’ an API Server: Rails has less to offer an API server that speaks JSON over the wire. A lot of its HTTP security doesn’t matter for that case (e.g. SQL injection safeguards, XSS prevention.)

I disagree on the SQL injection part, Api calls can contain user input which in turn can be used to perform SQL injection, I am not sure what the difference between a website and an api server is in regard to this concern.
The average Axios reader does not use TikTok and the average Axios reporter probably doesn't either.
I tend to push back against the “OMG how can you be out of contact with people?” take. That said, these days I’d find it hard to justify not carrying a satellite device (especially if I were solo) in something approaching deep wilderness.
in all honest, is important to learn basic vim because is avaliable everywhere and there's a nearly 100% chance that at least vi will be in a random remote server you ssh into and needs to edit a quick config file.

That said, after use it extensive in the past, unless your editing code in a potato, for more complex work, I don't see a reason to learn advanced commands. You will be more productive with a modern text editor.
I think the shocking thing is that even though Dalits are just 1% of the Indian population in the U.S. that other Indians still seek them out as victims here.

One detail I'd lean on is that South Asians are not just "engineers and coders" but in many companies play a big role in management. This is in contrast to East Asians which face more of a "bamboo ceiling". (e.g. a black or white person who goes to Harvard has a golden ticket; an east asian has a ticket to get into medical school)
i think mostly we want to be as reproducible as possible is because a non reproducible build means there might be new bugs in it that werent there previously (when using the same source). for example a dependency might have been updated and might now be incompatible. it happens. its not malicious, but its annoying. this usually gives a lot of 'works on my machine' discussion, which is a rather frustrating and unhelpful situation.
:term is new with Vim 8 I believe.

The Vim author was against adding :term but their hand was forced by the success of neovim from what I understand.
I seem to remember reading something about a year ago about uBlock Origin being a security concern (like harvesting user data or something). Am I misremembering?
> It’s relatively rare and production is naturally very limited (in contrast to e.g. diamonds that can be produced from carbon)

What about the gold-rich asteroids we can mine?

> It has a special tax-free status in some legislations.

This is a non-starter for me, someone can lobby the government to undo this easily

> It can hardly be destroyed (you can easily loose your bitcoin when your hard disk dies)

You can literally lose gold, just like how you can "loose" your bitcoin (who stores bitcoin on their hard-drive now anyway, it's 2020, there are paper wallets too, in fact, I can literally memorize 12 words)

> it’s beautiful and you can use it for jewelry and art

Sorry, I don't wear jewelry.
> so it's possible to get a picture of how many users perceive your app to be slow.

No, it isn't. That's "Recognizing Survivorship Bias 201".
The economics are changing though. An idealized stock market return is (used to be) 11.8%/year. This interest, compounded, doubles your position every 7 years. Once solar has a break even period of less than 7 years, the investment in solar beats a rosy, idealized stock market. When the payoff period drops to 4 years, you'd be an idiot _not_to do solar, because you're looking at an investment returning numbers in the credit card interest rate range.

I bought my current system for $45k four years ago. I only did it because the investment math worked in my case. (Yes, yes yes. It was for sure subsidized and the investment math _didn't_ work without the subsidies.) Now, however, that same system would cost me ~$20k. I checked when my coworker was looking into solar and wanted to run the numbers. The economics of solar are approaching beat-the-[idealized]-stock market investment. 4 years is a rule-of-thumb number for many businesses for investing in capital. That is, if a capital investment breaks even in 4 years, you pull the trigger. Once the economics hits 4 years for break even, you'll see a lot of CFO's start pulling the trigger, not to mention the encouragement from the marketing department for the optics.

Anyways, I think it is coming and for many of us, it is already here.
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It’s a satellite commS device. You also need a service for it to be useful.

I do find it somewhat amusing to read a comment that a device that locates me anywhere on the planet and can communicate that information via satellite costs a few hundred dollars! to be vaguely amusing.
I don't agree. I work in cloud / ssh environments all the time. My main computer is a mac and I need to copy text to and from multiple machines and the host machine. I write C++ and other languages on all the remote machines. https://micro-editor.github.io is the only viable alternative for me as its more modern and supports all the features I would expect from this distributed environment.
I learned vim properly in 1999. I was a power user back then.

Years later, I started thinking that sooner or later, a simpler, better alternative would emerge.

It's 2020, and I'm still waiting.
> 62% more effective

This is the thing that is odd to me about this article.

They increased the number of conversations, ok. But are conversations valuable? How about actual conversions (not conversations)?

If conversions remained the same, but conversations went up, it seems pointless.
He's implying if there were some serious financial disaster, digital records saying you own gold are going to mean little.
I find that the editors I use most —- TextMate and the JetBrains suite —- also have the option to use Emacs bindings. I try to maintain functional literacy with vi(m), because it tends to be more available by default, but I’ll use Emacs where possible.
The worst case scenario is that 10-15% of our population that comes down with COVID-19 over the age of 40 has some sort of permanent organ damage.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/cardiology/articlepdf/27689...
> Gold is very dense. $1M in gold is 25x 20-coin tubes of 1oz coins @$2000 per coin, which is probably around an 8" square surface area 6" tall.

Most/all Federal Reserve Banks have a "Money Museum" attached to them. They will have $1 million in one dollar bills, which is a cube approximately 3 or 4 feet on each side. They will also have $1 million in twenty dollar bills, which fits on a 2-3 foot in diameter table, stacked perhaps 12 inches high.

Lastly, they will have $1 million in one hundred dollar bills, which fits in smallish suitcase that's probably less than twice the size of your stack of gold and weigh hardly anything at all.

They are really interesting - you should definitely go to your nearest one when you can, not least for the free shredded cash they give out; you can have the most baller confetti at your next party.
The Firefox search also searches open tabs a lot. Which could be even quicker than using the mouse. There is a limit on Chromium browsers - tabs smaller than the favicon aren't really that useful.
I have been using pattern matching for web-scraping. I think it is more robust than XPath. At least more reliable to detect invalid input.

Let's look at some of the Robula test cases:

Input:

<head></head><body><h1 class="false"></h1><h1 class="false"></h1><h1 class="true"></h1><h1 class="false"></h1></body>

Task: get the true element, <h1 class="true"></h1>

XPath:

//*[@class='true']

Pattern matching:

<h1 class="true">{.}</h1>

Input:

<head></head><body><h1 class="false" title="foo"></h1><h1 class="false" title="bar"></h1><h1 class="true" title="foo"></h1><h1 class="true" title="bar"></h1></body>

Get <h1 class="true" title="foo"></h1>

XPath:

//*[@class='true' and @title='foo']

Pattern matching:

<h1 class="true" title="foo">{.}</h1>

As you see, you do not need a new syntax for attributes. Input and pattern are the same!

Input:

<h1></h1><h1></h1><h1></h1><h1></h1>

Get the third element.

XPath:

//*[3]

Pattern matching:

<h1></h1><h1></h1><h1>{.}</h1>

Input:

<head></head><body><h1></h1><h1></h1><div><h1></h1></div><h1></h1></body>

Get the h1 in the div

XPath:

//div/*

Pattern matching:

<div><h1>{.}</h1></div>

This last example is actually getting to the point of pattern matching. Because every part of the patterns must match. If the div is missing, it will report, "div not found". If the h1 is missing in the div, it will report "h1 not found". But the XPath will just report "found these elements" or "found nothing".
Thank you, this helps. To my taste, jokes get better when they make more sense. :)
Higher res imagery from Planet: https://twitter.com/planetlabs/status/1291010972983992320
IMHO the reasons in 2020 are the same of the last few years and are not changing any time soon: you don't need to leave the terminal AND it is everywhere AND (once you get used to it) it is extremely powerful and blazing fast (most "normal" people think vim users are having some sort of meltdown when they see vim users do even pretty simple stuff).

TBH, although this might be an unpopular opinion among vim users, I don't think vim is worth for coding beyond simple scripting, a decent setup requires way too much work which defeats one of its key points. But for everything else in editing files, nothing compares.
I'm not a gold bug, and I certainly won't buy it now at the all-time high prices.

That being said:

I have enough Krugerands and similar gold coins in a very secure safe (in ground, in concrete) so I could GTFO if I had to and go somewhere else. All 4 of my grandparents had to pack up and leave suddenly and having something small you can pawn/hock/sell is handy. (Two fled Lithuania, one fled Belarus, and one fled Gaza City in 1929 when all the Jews were suddenly expelled. The families had all been living comfortably in the respective location for hundreds of years--or thousands in the case of Gaza.)
“One extreme is to decide what you think and be impervious to new information. Another extreme is to over-privilege the last thing you learned.”

Infectious-disease epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch argues that we could all do with a little more Bayesian reasoning, especially when it comes to the many unknowns of COVID-19.
There are two solutions I’ve used:

1. Content blockers for safari are sold in the App Store. Not bad.

2. A private Pinole instance on a vps. Just set your phone to connect to it. There are turnkey docker installs of this now.

Neither are perfect / have quirks. I def recommend pinhole. I thought it would be a pain to set up, it wasn’t and it’s great.
The Apple Silicon Macs probably have the exact same hardware, but you don’t have to really “jailbreak” then I guess…
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It would have been nice if 4D only ever meant four spatial dimensions, and then we'd have (3+1)D for three spatial dimensions and a time dimension. (And (2+2)D for two spatial and two time dimensions :-))
Altair is SO fantastic. For the Python side, I maintain a gallery of community visualisations built in Altair, Plotly, Bokeh, Folium etc https://datapane.com/gallery/
I think what happened in the past with drug and doctor ads is they "red-tided" themselves in the space by making themselves known as the source of disreputable patent medicine quacks such that advertising was shameful. The public, even with the worse transparency learned that they just didn't work. Like how infomercial products are often synonymous with overpriced and/or not working.

Part of why we aren't seeing that reoccur is that while expensive there is FDA regulation and the drugs more or less work even if there may be rightful concerns about side effects. They made sure they actually work so they rake in way more money than any small time quack.

Part of the issue with any return to glory days movement is that tradition is fundamentally a cargo-culted lie via induction. Traditions never were first done because they were tradition. The hard truth is the rot has always been there.
With Bitcoin, I can at least use it for transactions online. Which is almost 100% of my method of procuring stuff now, I also work for a company that facilitates that!
Do you know what could be happening if taking vitamin D gives you severe headaches that last for days and gradually get weaker?

If you need more information, please ask away.
Or just use NextDNS: https://nextdns.io/

Not much setup or configuration needed.
I actually learned "vim" on Qt Creator's Vim mode and although I do most of my development now in "real vim" I very much agree with your post. Nearly every editor support vim keybindings which drastically reduces the different shortcuts you have to remember. Even among JetBrains products I find it helps a lot with consistency.
Scientists Spot Space Junk with Lasers in Broad Daylight
vim/vi is to linux embedded dev what a nail gun is to roofing or a Henckel knife is too cooking. Don't show at work without it.
That's a good point and thanks for doing the numbers. Maybe she just has unrealistic expectations of how much is normal to spend on advertising? It sounds like it. She should definitely be able to afford to spend more than a platform like BetterHelp, which is making a lot less per consultation than she is.
Most command-line interfaces use the readline library. To switch them to vi bindings put the following in ~/.inputrc:

set editing-mode vi
I live with in about 40 miles of Plant Vogtle and thats not really an accurate assessment. They have had to reshuffle some of the work due to COVID-19. but last I saw all of the major construction milestones on unit 3 are complete. its just down to ancillaries. Cold Hydro testing is slated to be conducted this fall and initial fuel loading by end of year. They are still on track for production to start Nov 2021 and 2022 for unit 4.

https://allongeorgia.com/georgia-business/georgia-power-anno...
I will push back on you a bit there. Most people can only cover a couple of dozen miles a day, depending on the person and the terrain. A lot of the time, they realize they are lost and will yell or try to make themselves found. Maybe a high foliage environment would be a better target for directional mics / acoustics.

I think the search and rescue efforts as they stand are pretty disruptive (helicopters, teams covering grids) so I don't think this is incrementally much worse.

The "unprepared skiiers" (or hikers, sailors) you mention are someone's child and often someone's parent. They are loved and mourned, and it's a bit easier to get lost than is generally appreciated.

A sea rescue is a different ball of wax than a forest rescue, and I was freely mixing both situations. In the sea setting, Plant Labs or a aerial drone like a predator (like commercializing existing military tech, eg, GPS) is more appropriate, perhaps.

The biggest obstacle here is staging these for use and being available in a timely manner, on the order of hours.
I got this alert and have never installed any Twitter app.
> The question I'm pondering is, is the value of gold/silver skyrocketing, or is the real tangible value of the USD crashing?

A strong decline in the value of USD would be reflected in the prices of all commodities and their is no general commodity price inflation at the moment; the gold and silver price increases are an outlier. The price of gold and silver is increasing because the demand for gold and silver is increasing.
Isn't that exactly how the price is going up though?
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This is the kind of thing that only Hacker News users would care about.
At 10m resolution and ~5day revisit time, it might be possible to optimize for satellite detection. Smoke is relatively easy to spot in satellite imagery. This may be one's best bet. It's also important to note that fires (anything hot really) is also easily detectable. 30-40m high burning SOS letters would be an interesting strategy.

One of the things to keep in mind is that for Sentinel-2 the mean local solar time at the descending node is 10:30am. That may also help optimize at which time any specific attempts are made.
And the modern web-based incarnation Sandspiel, which was extremely popular on HN a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696291
We choose to go to the moon!
yeah the claim that Rails is somehow "too much" for an API-only application smuggles in a lot of assumptions about what you might be using instead (and how good your team is at designing their own patchwork of libraries and how desirable that is).
dang that's... a good point actually.
A few hundred dollars to be able to get help in a potentially life threatening situation sounds fantastically cheap to me. That's the difference between cost plus pricing versus value pricing.
I see this issue a lot with social media, everyone wants to have share buttons and so on, but few step back and think about if that even makes sense and if their customers even want to engage with them in that way.

There's a perceived need for a Facebook page or Twitter, but how much value does it really add to either party. Especially in commerce where conversion correlates with speed, is it really worth paying that performance cost? As an example, last week I removed a bunch of integrations for a client that were adding no value and adding roughly 1.5s to First Contentful Paint.

Though as a strategy, it sometimes pays off to hurt your competitors by focusing them on features that are useless or cost them money.
Then you’re in the same place as if you didn’t have one and you’re hopefully not making yourself utterly dependent on them.
Agreed. I rarely use Twitter anymore, but when I do, I use the mobile site, and it's awful in my experience. My phone is about 1.5 years old, but I don't think a website should struggle to load on a somewhat old phone.
If what intelligence is is unclear, than how can one reasonably attempt to speculate what having more of it actually means?
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This is the start up I work at, we're growing and I think we have something unique!

site: https://blerp.com/

We also have a Twitch Extension and a Discord bot.
This isn't a deliberate choice though on their part, is it? Isn't it just a consequence of everyone depending on readline and readline using emacs-style key bindings?
See this just isn't true. Durability is a physical property and in this area, like many others, LeBron is just on a totally different level than pretty much everyone else. The number of minutes he has played + the low amount of offseason he has (consistent deep playoff runs) + the physicality of his game + the few injuries he has sustained strongly suggests that he has a rare durability.

I really think you are underestimating how special LeBron is, how obvious it has been since he was in middle school, and how much it says about his physical gifts that he has played such heavy minutes for so long. We still talk about high school prospects being the next LeBron James because he was obviously a once in a generation talent (Zion being the only prospect since LeBron that has equalled his hype). Also LeBron has not really had good luck in his life. He had talent that transcended his terrible situation.
https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/Ruleset-recipes
Yes. That's an argument against libertarianism, not an argument that libertarianism must include mandatory unions.
Pihole or NextDNS. The latter is nice because you can quickly toggle it on or off in the event that adblocking breaks something.
So the only conceivable reason people invest or create financial instruments is greed?
I'm often getting some form of "you're rate limited", "not allowed to perform this action" etc. until I hard-reload the full page.

Given that others have reported it, and it's been there for a long time, I suspect Twitter at the very least intentionally doesn't put too much resources behind the web site to force people to use the app.

Of course, if a service really wants to push an app onto me, it's clear that the app gives them some real benefits, and its usually the kind that aren't a benefit for me (more tracking, better ways to push ads, more "engagement" notifications, ...). So the harder something wants to push an app, the clearer it is that I never, ever want their app to touch my device.
You're right, the benefits of a great debugger are so overwhelming that putting up with crummy key bindings is worth it. There have been many times where I've been plowing away in some $IDE, then swap over to vim to do some text munging operation in the file like converting some tool output into coded constants, and then swapping back into $IDE to continue the build cycle. It's right there, and it's so good at what it does.
I genuinely had no idea and surprised that caste discrimination is a thing in silicon valley companies, have readers here experienced this? I would have imagined that people got better things to occupy their minds with when there's work to be done.