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But here's the question: If Emacs defaulted to CUA, how many of those people would get to see Emacs's goodness? CUA alone doesn't get you there. To do most of the things that make Emacs stand out involves a fair amount of learning (and possibly customizing).

You have to put in some amount of effort before you get its benefits. While I certainly don't mind making simple things easier (e.g. CUA mode), I also see that doing so will not help new users much beyond doing very basic editing.[1] There are a fair number of stairs to climb to get to the point of being useful, and superficial stuff like CUA, etc simply eliminate perhaps 5% of the steps. Don't expect this change to make a big difference in retention.

As a corollary: If someone is not willing to learn how to enable CUA mode in the config file, then it is highly unlikely they will ever learn to use the features that make Emacs salient.

[1] I know, because my first decade of Emacs use was like this. I got past CUA mode, but otherwise used it for very basic editing. I always installed an IDE to do "real" work. It's only after one of my favorite IDEs died did I decide I really should just learn to use Emacs properly, and invested a week's worth of effort to be proficient in it. That week made all the difference.
isn't that bandai namco's fault?
This system would make the execution of helicopter money policies trivial. Good or bad?
Not the same, we expect the problems you mention. There are just some laws of nature that we get used to dealing with. Tech has the tendency to produce random problems. The one we have all dealt with is, everything was working fine and then suddenly stopped. You call tech support and after an hour of troubleshooting it with them we get, the, "We've never seen this before. It must be caused by one of your other SUCKEE tech toys." Ahhhhhhhhhh...
Bit suspicious these comments.

edit: also, this already was just posted and killed? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24587791
> Tread doesn't do anything for traction and just makes you bury your tires faster.

Large textured tread is primarily about mud. When the size of the "lug" is large enough, it ejects the mud up & back, leaving the tread free to grip again. Without these, in the mud your tires become big smooth balloons with no grip.

Big tires are primarily about climbing obstacles. Loose sand rarely is a tall obstacle ;-)

One advantage large tires can have in the sand is that when you air them down, the surface area gets much larger, and that can keep you "afloat" on top of the sand better.
Being a liquidity provider is not free so we’re back to some guy claiming “my friend made half a million! rewards are vast for the brave!” and the question “but on what investment?”

I believe it’s more than fair to request specifics since we can’t know whether poster’s solvency depends on a token appreciating in value—after all, if it does, what’s a better way to maintain token value than promise millions on a public forum?
Well I did say it's 'not there yet' and it is 'being implemented' so of course it is not yet usable as of now. Your same point could be said about Dart C/C++ FFI, Rust async-await, etc.

The parent comment I replied to said: "...I cannot find any documentation at all relating to C++ interop." and this some kind of "documentation" that is related to 'C++ interop'.
When I looked at his example more closely, the numbers didn't make sense to me either.

I always assumed he had calculated them correctly, but looks like his projection of $2.7MM ARR in 12 months might be a typo ($625k starting ARR with 15% annual growth is $3.3M, his figure is 20% less. Maybe he accidentally calculated Gross Margin run rate).

Here's a similar example illustrating the difference between 12 month and 6 month payback at different growth rates. The cells highlighted in yellow are inputs, so you can change the numbers and see how the capital requirements will change for the year.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-kaIW6uvvMBER1efk8Yz...
I just realized why I have a lot of christmas memories of me sitting around with family while reading hacker news comments in a thread about a ruby release.

Never noticed it's always released on December 25th.
Swift ships with an extremely polished, well designed standard library out-of-the-box. You can use it with a simple "import Swift"…wait, you don't even need to do that, because it's available by default.
> Okay, so how much time does it take to make a steel sword with modern techniques and machines to do all the work mentioned?

A random Cold Steel longsword was about five hundred bucks, after a quick search.

Figuring 100% markup and the rest labor averaging $15/hr, about 17 hours of labor.

That's an extremely lazy calculation, but it has to be in the right ballpark.
"Some of the ideas found in these distributions may well merit inclusion in Emacs, but that does not happen."

1. Which ideas are they referring to exactly? Can't upstream something if you don't know what they want...

2. How do you even get approved to send code to FSF owned projects? I read somewhere you need to send a copy of your employment contract for them to determine you can assign copyright to them. But what are the exact steps? Who do you email? How do you exactly encrypt the file? What are the acceptance/rejection criteria? No seriously, somebody please make a beginners tutorial about this, I have no idea how to start.

3. Upstream Emacs releases once a couple of years or more, with no predictable schedule, can't blame anybody for wanting to stay away from upstream and have their setup under their control. But then again, I know of a worse offender...

So... what should my next steps be?
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That has nothing to do with Section 230 protection. Nor am I aware of any large Internet site that has ever pretended to be a public square (beyond Reddit, who announced the change).

I don't see why this is a good move, other than opening up a bunch of sites to liability. And it's going to make the ToS even longer so that they can make it "particular". Who wins here exactly?
Imagine trying to reach customer service.

The US had "postal banking" from 1911 to 1967, but it was all paper based.
It is what people in my biz school meant when they said it - the alternative concept of "fuck you money" meaning having so much money you can tell everyone else to "fuck off" is a peculiarly american meme, possibly even more of an east coast finance thing? I could definitely imagine the people I knew doing finance in Chicago and on wall street using it in that way
That's what makes the article noteworthy. There are a thousand articles of various quality out there telling you some variation on "dynamic languages are useful for prototyping and scripting, Rust/C/Java really shines in large codebases / when performance or reliability or security is important".

It didn't convince me, though. There were a lot of "this tool or library or feature exists in Rust", but no comparative advantage over other languages more compelling than this:

> This certainly is in part because I’m more proficient in Rust than in Python. It’s also because the Rust mental model is closer to how my brain works than the Python one.
Although most of the variation in comp for engineers is in equity, so a salary band will only do so much for you.
Microsoft didn’t create the entire product from the ground up. They created the software only. Without the software, a whole lot of hardware was obsolete. Apple creates both the hardware and the software. They are 100% at loss if the software pushes consumers away.
That is amazing. Pray-tell, what exactly do you use the terminal for?

All the control characters have pre-existing meaning, for example in bash Ctrl-C sends SIGTERM to the foreground process, while emacs uses it a prefix command, etc.

This is the crux of the problem. You _cannot_ steal the control characters if you want the terminal to be a terminal and that means you either end up with an inconsistent mess or you pick a new and neutral (say, Cmd) modifier for your UI needs. Apple got it, Microsoft didn't (because they didn't do anything Unix like). That Linux chose to imitate Microsoft is equal part historical and tragedy.
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LOL you mean this one that has a big sign out front that's been there for years and years?

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2197694,-95.8658016,3a,89.3y...
isn't the 'recognized' revenue in the example 60M not 720M?
If you have rugged off-road tires and you sort of know what you're doing (know how low you can go, can measure PSI, etc): yes.

If you have factory highway tires in your average passenger car, beware, you're pretty likely to tear a sidewall.
So IoT vendors working with local burglars? Or local cops? I guess we know Amazon certainly has done the latter... (but not to frame Ring owners, that would be an odd business model...) Having rogue IoT devices on your LAN attack other machines on it is a valid concern, though your traffic would be encrypted, and your actual workstations firewalled?
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Re civil forfeiture, I dunno if you saw this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbs_v._Indiana
Did you see there was evidence brought forward that the domain was bought in bad faith??
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That's how I think too.

There's a problem in wireless communications called multipath. When a signal is transmitted over the air, the receiver will often not receive the original signal. Instead, it will receive a lot of reflected, refracted and distorted versions of it.

So the question is: what's the best way we can combine those signals to recreate the original?

Not going into the specifics, but it turns out that to maximize information it's often necessary to listen to trash signals (one that has a lot of noise) because those might have information that good signals do not have (as many times they will be redundant).
Sure but the Fed should not be buying REITS and equity markets. I don’t think people realize how damaging it would be to the country long-term. Financial Engineering can smooth economic cycles but real forces determine LT growth rates. The Fed knows this and has been asking for fiscal support.
It's not hard to make a jammer if you're setting out to build one. The problem is when you inadvertently turn your phone into a jamming device because you tweaked some firmware settings.
Your reference to musical instruments resonates with me (I play piano) and the fact that emacs call they keyboard bindings "chords" further complements that view.

I guess the issue that is being handled here thought is that, just like the piano, the road for those actions to become unconscious is a long painful one.

When I started using Golang for work the first thing that I did was buy GoLand from jetbrains. It just works, and I'm paid for "playing piano", not for "learning how to play piano"

I wish I was able to use emacs professionally but until I'm able to dedicate (usually unpaid) time to learn it, it's just easier to use something else
Can’t be worse than dealing with Chase, BoA, or Wells if you’re not a private banking client (ie high net worth).

It’s a bit tiring to hear the government can’t do, when those social security deposits roll out without hiccup each month, and Medicare has exceptionally high satisfaction rates from the 65 and older crowd.
There’s a healthy Emacs community on Reddit (r/emacs) where you can find answers to these questions and more, if you prefer that to the Emacs mailing list (which is the definitive place for such questions).

From what I’ve seen, folks on the mailing list do generally welcome & encourage contributions upstream (Stallman, especially) but it does sometimes take a little more effort to convince people about the value of a new feature/package, and then iterate on a solution so that it doesn’t break decades of accumulated use cases (the perils of success).
I think the whole reason software is so productive (economically speaking) is that you can leverage software written by others. Depending on your mindset, you could call that “just plumbing”, but a more positive way to describe it is “using the best tool for the job”. The person who wrote the tool you are using could also think they are “just plumbing”. There’s always layers below you and often layers above you too. Nobody wrote their own stack top to bottom other than the TempleOS guy.
I work in the industry and I agree we make remarkable progress now. And for some technologies like CAR-T and gene therapy, we’ve just started.

Your HCV example is a great one. Before the anti-virals, it was interferon. You had to take it for months and from talking to people, it makes you feel like you have the flu...for months. The label actually describes a risk of suicide. It’s a very rough drug to be on and the cure rate is <50%. And that’s if you stick with it, which many people don’t.

Today, we have regimens that are weeks in length, minimal side effects and 99% cure rates across all genotypes.

You’re talking about going from a very difficult to cure, chronic condition that can lead to liver failure or liver cancer to just being cured after 12 weeks.

It’s absolutely remarkable.
Eh, what a let down, was expecting you to write this in a form of haiku.
I can run them on a breadboard.

An exaggeration, but not a large one.
Beethoven’s 5th Symphony put the classism in classical music
If that's an occupational hazard, buy a winch and a sand anchor.
> First, the distribution of tax payers to different marginal tax rate brackets differ. That is, how many percent of US tax payers actually pay top marginal rate vs how many in Belgium do.

By definition, the the metric takes into account the median. Because the top marginal rate kicks in at 1.1x the median (in Belgium), it is the middle of the distribution bears the top marginal burden. Likewise, in the US, 9.3x the median is at the top end of the distribution.

> Second, the differences in purchasing power. What does the average income (or the top income for that matter) actually get you in different countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...

In fact, the median disposable income after adjusting for purchasing power in the US is higher than that of Belgium as well as Germany. That means that the median person in the US has a higher purchasing power AND pays much less in taxes than the median Belgian, who pays the top marginal rate (well, 1.1x the median, but that's basically the same).
>The cost of meat is more than [snip]

THIS is where you're misunderstanding- the stray dogs and cats these families eat are free; hard to find rice and beans that are cheaper than that. You're telling me to stop judging another person's compassion? The hypocrisy here absolutely reeks. Flagging my comment because a fact disagrees with your paradigm is certainly mature. I'm disengaging- I won't free you of your delusions. Good grief.
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Plenty of people also probably loved GOTO
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> Yep, they didn't even get it down to 0 and already increased our debt by 2 trillion (more than Obama)

Just FYI, the debt didn't increase as a result of the tax cut, it increased as a result of spending. The Federal government's tax revenue actually increased after the tax cut, which means that the deficit is being driven by spending increases, not tax decreases.

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/federal-receipt-a...
Exactly this - and assuming congress wants it to succeed (yikes as an assumption, but let's be charitable) - people can talk to their congressperson to increase funding if they have deficiencies. Imagine trying to get Chase to improve their customer service as a low-dollar account holder.
Because industry requires veritable results? And academia doesn't (as you point out). Easier to be a hack in an academic environment.
This sounds like the opposite of peace of mind. Instead my mind will be cluttered with decisions about whether or not to do a "look in" right now.
In theory yes; but if there is something native that uses blocking API then your thread will be still blocked.
So the AppStore goes, so Swift goes.
I completely agree. But I fear that if this happens then the companies will look for ways to produce software with less friction compared to the now-stricter software development practice in general. And it would be "let's hire Indians for peanuts" all over again.

Really not sure what's the way out of this corner that we've all collectively painted ourselves into.
How do you get that? 5 * 122 =720
Facebook promotes misinformation to a degree never before seen in the history of humanity. Optimizing for clicks is clearly detrimental to society. This is not the 2020 I envisioned back in 1999 as a naive young techie.
"He's fine. And if he's not, you'll find out when you get home."

Or alternatively, if you have a camera, you can find out immediately and come home.

I use mine to find things I've misplaced. Saved my ass the other month when I was running late for a flight but couldn't find my keys.
They may end up with _fewer_ deaths per million when all of this plays out in full over the next couple of years.
webrender is on by default for Windows 10, but Mozilla is still struggling with mac and Linux drivers, so it's still off by default there.

See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where

To check if you're using webrender, check about:support. Check the graphics>compositing section.

(Edited to correct first paragraph.)
"Superior" for sure isn't the word I'd use, almost every one of the editors and IDEs make a bunch of trade-offs that appeal to different audiences

IMHO, the barrier to entry for modification for both emacs and vim is much lower than their competition: evaluate text in a buffer, observe change to your editor

I don't know of any other tooling has that immediate feedback loop remeniscient of the old JS in HTML (or the dev tools console, as apples to apples) approachability
Because some people don't want to work or can't fit well in industry but still wants to be respected and get paid? Researchers who should often obtain "bad results" still have families to feed. Given the current perverse incentives, its totally understandable why there is a plethora of low "quality" papers.
Wechat in China perhaps?

Other places have solutions which work well enough to prevent dominance. The combination of Contactless and Faster payments in the UK solves most uses cases. You can send payments to people via app instantly. I never carry cash any more. However, this requires everyone to have bank accounts and modern high availability payment/POS infrastructure.

Mpesa neatly solves the problem that many people don't have bank accounts, many places don't accept cards (let alone contactless) and there are rolling power outages. However, most people have a mobile phone and you can topup your mpesa account like normal phone credit. It's incredibly accessible.
You know you can just call the function directly, right? (Stupid warnings about MD5 being insecure aside…)
It's also on the Internet Achieve.
Thank you so much. I have rarely read someone expressing it so clearly.
Well, observing the decrease in quality and increase in frustration on HN over the years, I'd double down on my opinion any day.

The more junk on HN that has nothing to do with code, the more people complain, the worse the quality is, etc. Year after year, it's held true.

I don't hesitate to posit either that moderation decisions have severely decreased the quality of the HN experience. A a cyber-hammer as the arbiter of discussions which they possess nothing worth contributing to, saying "these loosely worded guidelines are what is right" despite dozens, probably hundreds of conversations that moderation members have had with contributing individuals about what kind of posts belong on the front page.

Anyhow thanks for the links, they were "enlightening"
Really, because of spoof "nudity"?

I mean, YT is full of actual nudity and more. So, when are they going to suspend themselves?

Unlike Apple they can't even feign not being anti-competitive.
My grandma does the same thing. She'll come out and withold the food until it sings
> "my work is what I want to do which tool can I use instead"

I can't wrap my head around this, could you explain further?
The Apple app store has a ton of shit and scams that are approved by Apple.

It doesn't have Fortnite however, since the developed correctly told people that Apple took a 30% cut of their payments.
Great question!
I personally, use pocket to be a long term storage and retrieval solution for things I really like and value. But over the course of the week i come across (almost entirely on my phone) lots of news articles , videos, and podcasts that I dont have time right away to check, and I'd like to check on the weekend. So with Remynd I simply use the "share" function to email that item to later@getremynd.com so that i dont have to worry about jotting it down. On saturday morning I get it all collected in a single email for the past week.

most of the links I dont want to store, but about 10% of them I really like and those I add to Pocket.

So really this is an alternative to texting yourself links you want to revisit, or saving them on stickies or a draft email, if that makes sense?

So really, Remynd is just a way for my to actually visit all the links I wanted to check out, rather than a way to store stuff I've checked out and value enough to store.

I've got about 22 people using it the 3 weeks and some of the "power users" ( 10+ links sent a week) say that they are emailing more stuff to themselves now because they know there is an organised way to find them later on (the weekly email). I think they're getting their weekly digest and then are able to search for emails from @remynd to trace back stuff that they want. I tend to just go through my digest in a single sitting because I only send stuff to myself that I'm serious about wanting to check out. I use it extensively for keeping up with engineering topics i like to make sure I read up on them rather than they falling through the cracks.

Hope that helps!
Ask HN: How to follow up on a non-fiction book?
I often find a book fascinating and wonder if any other author has expanded on the ideas or rebutted them, but I don't usually know how to find such writing. For example I loved Cognition in the Wild and Seeing Like a State and I want to read more about these ideas! Does anyone here have any ideas about a good way to search for "follow-ups" on certain ideas other than just sifting through Google Scholar results?
Why is that sad? Since there are a vast collection of morons who see "transactions over 10k will get flagged" and 'cleverly' say "ah-ha! I shall beat the system with 9999.00!", why wouldn't you want to spot that early and easy?
The saddest thing is its easier to just install it from WSL and use something an X server and it runs faster.
OK. I might be quoting the wrong paper, and I’m not a researcher, but I remember clearly that he found a case (14yo girl IIRC) who died during an attack, and there was no immune activity at the site of at least one of the lesions.

If I’m wrong about this then I will accept it, I don’t have an axe to grind.
> If someone is not willing to learn how to enable CUA mode in the config file, then it is highly unlikely they will ever learn to use the features that make Emacs salient.

I think that’s uncharitable. For a newbie low on confidence it’s often death by a thousand (paper) cuts: CUA mode, Surprising undo model, How to download packages, How do I enable fringes/margins, Windows-vs-frames, etc.

Each small change has a cognitive tax, and allowing users to feel psychologically comfortable and add tweaks slowly will make the learning curve much gentler.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the strongest indicator of whether someone sticks with Emacs is whether they have access to an Emacs expert with whom, or a community where, they feel comfortable being a newbie.