skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emacs will never be a GUI-only editor, it was designed for a terminal and that is still a use case that many people take advantage of.

Don't worry though - if you don't like Emacs you can use any of a number of other editors.
> ...assuming the word has only one usage -- which it does not.

To me it sounds like propaganda against information sharing, by coining negative words, like "piracy":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#%22Pira...
Gnome Notes has similar behavior: Whenever you use Ctrl + BS, the note you are currently writing it gets put into the trash, even though you just wanted to delete a word quickly. You can recover the note so it's not the worst possible behavior, but it still sucks.
This one is my absolute favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ickzGMtREFk

It's the most perfectly creepy thing you could teach a raven.
So "Great Democracy" is how they are going to wrap this, huh. "This" being helicopter money AKA digital dollars AKA direct fiscal injection into private Americans' bank accounts.

Been a long time coming.

Who is The Great Democracy Initiative, and where does their funding come from?
>> should not be allowed to mess with systems that can literally end their life by exploding in their pockets!

> This is non-sense fearmongering.

I was referring to "Root access"; not the ability to install Fortnite. There's a difference.

People have the ability to install Fortnite. Do it through the Apple App Store.
What an odd feeling-- to see somebody discussing an illicit business and putting a subscription model to it. A sign of the times, I guess...
The drones that are capable of launching those missiles are huge, and require airstrips to operate - we're not talking quadcopters here. Consider that e.g. Reaper - which can carry at most 2 such missiles - has a wingspan of 15 meters, and weighs a ton. Any such thing trying to cross the border would be quickly detected and shot down, same as any other warplane.

There is a different issue with small off-the-shelf quadcopters that are turned into "assassin drones" by adding a small shaped charge sufficient to kill the target if they manage to get close enough to detonate it point blank. But that's also something the Secret Service can handle fine, once they realized that it was a viable attack vector.
I would love something like “Emacs’s Neovim”. Guile should be enough. Keep packages out of the global namespace. Get rid of Elisp and all its differences. Let me use C-Z/X/C/V for undo/cut/copy/paste (or maybe C-Shift-C is fine?)

Keep org-mode, web-mode, etc :-)
religion is a belief. religion also fosters community. i worry that if the state starts poking its nose into everything, we'd lose community.

religion and state should never be bed fellows.

i think its already happening. it scares me more than anything else.
How is Facebook different from Twitter or Reddit? I personally think Reddit is extremely dangerous because on the surface many subreddits appear lighthearted, but are actually gateways to extreme views.

/r/ActualPublicFreakouts promises some snarky laughs but is pushing the viewpoint that black people are inherently violent. And that is being heavily pushed by Reddit via the popular posts view.
Writing, speaking, community building are the obvious ones
You don’t even need to fork it. Just have write a .emacs file that new users can copy to their home directory that sets all of that stuff up.
Stuff like CSS filters is generally going to be down to lack of GPU acceleration or video driver shenanigans, though some obscure filters still run on the CPU. If you run a filter on the entire page for example (some addons do this) it pessimizes rendering in a bad, noticeable way.
Sorry for unrelated question: Paul (@pg) is not very active on HN, unlike Twitter. Why?
Mitigating 2FA abuse by bad actors
If you're going to be so pedantic as to say that linux doesn't offer a C interface, then you also have to acknowledge that linux is not an operating system.

If linux is not an operating system, what is? Gnu/linux is a very popular operating system offering a c interface, as is android linux. I do not know of any linuxoid operating systems not offering a c interface.
He is referring to marginal time for both cases.
Steady decline of Covid-19 cases across Africa
Question: will the nonblocking scheduler start to make Ruby concurrency competitive with e.g. Node.js and Go? Currently Ruby mostly uses heavyweight threading mechanisms that cause trouble for I/O-bound microservices.
This is why I invest more time Fuzzing [1] than writing software models or formal specifications.

Google’s gofuzz [2] and dvyukov’s go-fuzz [3] libraries have been instrumental for my success every time I embark on a journey to write a complex system with concurrency in its heart. The list of bugs I have found in my co-workers programs was so big we decided to spend a month configuring the fuzzing tests and our continuous integration environment to do it automatically. Code quality increased by an order of magnitude and we are now more confident about the code we ship to production.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzing

[2] https://github.com/google/gofuzz

[3] https://github.com/dvyukov/go-fuzz
Thank you for clarifying this for me. In that case, the rexml gem situation sounds like a demotion...
I'm RRMS, year three on Ocrevus. I wish your wife well. MS is a cruel disease.
Those might make more sense, but even if my MacBook had Insert & Del keys, I doubt I could Ctrl- them with one hand.
I also know what really sounds like a COVID long-hauler personally. She's in her 30s, in shape, ran long races as recently as last year, worked as a dev at a healthcare startup and is in the final stages of applying to med school as a returning student.

She's been down for 5-6 months now with recurring symptoms like fatigue and shortness of breath. She's had a very extensive health workup to exclude a number of possibilities (thyroid disorder? CMV?), but is now basically resigned to living with what amounts to moderate asthma and exercise intolerance.
This is an obvious trojan horse for totalitarian central planning. Easier to enact negative interest rate policy when everyone is holding an account at the Fed and no one can take out their money since cash is either banned or made severely inaccessible (like in some EU countries).

In my opinion private banks are perfectly fine, the problem isn't the idea of independent banks, the problem is government and central banks subsidising losers by bail-outs and the "lender of last resort" mandate while also enacting enormous regulatory barriers that make it impossible for new banks/financial institutions to compete with incumbents.
It's really hard to convince ZH detractors. A naive perusal of the site is definitely packed with of, at its most charitable interpretation, a bunch of gobbledegook, and at its least charitable, pure propaganda. But between the lines there is a lot of truth, and importantly, many facts and analysis that you will never find in any mainstream sources, neither NYT nor Fox News nor the Atlantic nor whatever else. It takes real critical thought and an open mind to pull the value out of it - and it is there. I read it every day.
I agree with you on getting rid of the Fed. Borrow money from future generations to print today's money. Totally not ever going to be a problem, I plomise. ;)
> The central argument is that while there is undeniably an "importance gap" between the two, we ought to apply the same principles because the gap is ephemeral.

That's the argument you are trying to make this comment thread about. It has nothing to do with my objection to equating smartphones with consoles today (which I should remind, you is the comment you replied to). I only suggested that: "we need to recognize [the societal importance of smartphones] and frame our discussions accordingly." Equating smartphones with consoles diminishes their significance for the purpose of framing an argument in a certain way. It's just not helpful.

You're saying that my take somehow violates some universally "consistent first principle" because the current state is ephemeral. Yet, I made no claims about what one should think in the future. I described how it is now, and articulated that the trend is likely to continue. You seem to agree with my take on the current state and the trend right?

Then, you went off on a tangent and said the following:

>some of us enjoy the freedom to use a tightly controlled operating system for our own convenience

>the desire to break that up [is] a violation of our original choice.

>You might have a good point to make if consumers originally expected to have some level of control over their Apple phones, but people explicitly signed up for the opposite of that

>You might also have a good point to make here if there was no alternative in the market,

>are equally accessible on both platforms, and switching between the two is fairly straightforward

Whoa. You're arguing like 5 or 6 different point I never tried to make. It's like you saw the word "iPhone" and immediately went into super defensive mode. That's... uh.. shall we say, concerning.

What I did say was in support of (most of) what you've said above "One can certainly argue that because of all that, the app ecosystem should be tightly controlled. That's fair."

It's actually funny because despite what you've assumed, I'm actually an Apple user and developer. I've exclusively used their phones and computers for over a decade. I love them. In my living room (where I'm sitting right now), there are over $10k worth of Apple products. Yet somehow you keep assuming that I'm anti-Apple. And you're relentlessly countering arguments I never made. Stop it.

Please.. for the love of everything, re-read my comments now that you know I'm an avid Apple user. Note especially that I've pointed out (at least twice) that my comments are about the entire market and have nothing to do with individual manufacturers. I genuinely don't know how to make it any clearer than:

>My comment was not about a particular company, nor was it advocating for any specific policy.

>I wasn't advocating for, or against, Apple or any other company. My comment applied to the entire smartphone market, and how it was different from the entire console market.

So, what are you arguing? When you reply, try not to use the phrase "(universal) first principle". Your use of that phrase to describe an opinion comes across as condescending and arrogant.
That's fair. And if there's a market for this kind of license, then it will catch on. And if it does, then so be it. I doubt it's a license I'd use, but I don't begrudge these guys any success they have.
It really depends on your business model.

If customers are worth, say, $50 MRR, you really don't have time to worry about fighting for them. There are people in all organizations who are against change, even if the change is easy and helpful.

There are lots of things to learn here, though. Are salons a great target market? If you're operating for 2 weeks, and you're so un-sticky that they can just drop you, are you really providing enough value? If you think you are, why didn't they perceive that value?

Another thing to figure out is whether you really were too early-stage for them. Did it just make them anxious to invest time into a product that might go under? Did they feel they weren't supported well enough, there were too many bugs, or the UX wasn't polished?

If "yes" to any of those, that's fine! Early-stage products aren't for everyone. You'll bump into a lot of those people. Churn can be high early on as long as your acquisition cost isn't killing you. If you're spending hours acquiring and on-boarding a $50 MRR client, your business model probably doesn't work. If each is worth $500 MRR and costs you $1,000 the first month and $50 thereafter, that's a completely different situation.
They can be pretty brutal to sharks and themselves. Also on a more bizarre note they can get rather rape-y esp. on hallucinogens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prmx0lYBTko
use-package has basically solved the package management problem for me in Emacs.
That's interesting. Just take care with that. There's some epidemiological evidence that anticholenergics like clemastine may possibly contribute to dementia:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/common-anticholinergic-d...

The data suggest correlation, not necessarily causation, but at the least I'd carefully investigate the risks before taking any anticholergic in such high doses. I do understand (with my own chronic health issues) that even with the risk of dementia later on, it may still be a possibility, depending on the severity of current symptoms.
Smell is also not a terribly good argument for Plomin being wrong.
This is great. I played around with Swift three years ago and tried to use the socket APIs. In the end, it felt like I was essentially writing C just with prettier syntax. Now that we have safer languages we need safer foundational pieces too.

As a side note, the approach that Swift is taking here is exactly what I really like about the Zig programming language. The standard library nearly exclusively takes the approach of wrapping the system calls so you get nice Zig error types rather than the archaic return codes. These things go a long way in making correct usage of really essential but hard to use APIs possible.
I remember an article on HN once about medieval clothes. The reason people only usually owned one or two complete sets was that a single shirt could be the equivalent of thousands of dollars worth of labor in today's money.
Paradoxically, the way to help create solutions to the climate crisis is... the same way we got into this mess - by following the money.

Most people realize that we all need to create impactful solutions to the urgent environmental situation. An obvious reason why this isn’t the case already is because environmental and economic incentives don’t point the same way.

Author here. Let me know your thoughts on the post or the approach I'm advocating. Would love to hear contrasting opinions!
Writing, You need the ability to clearly communicate in code and within team. This get more important as you get promoted.

Inner peace (mental strength). You need to manage stress, bad code and broken business process. In most cases coding is mentally exhausting.

Ability to listen people. This cannot be overstated, It helps to align effort and value. You want to do things with the highest value with the least effort.

Introspection. You need to investigate your experiences and decisions to learn. It is about learning from own and others mistakes.

I would argue that from some point in your career coding is easy part. Other aspect get more important.
Just today I edited a file which basically consisted out of a line with almost 2 million characters, my emacs was basically unresponsive for a longer time. This amount of data shouldn't slow down a modern machine that badly.
> look into clemastine/tavegil

Thanks, I've never even heard of clemastine, and it's rare to find anything notable that doesn't require a prescription in the UK! I already take another gen 1 antihistamine at night (they are very sedating for me), so I guess could swap it for clemastine.

Now all I need to do is convince someone to give me a prescription for metformin...
Seems unlikely. Ruby is all about options.
In theory the scheduler should be similar to NodeJS and Ractor should be similar to Go if they’re both applied correctly.
37% of USA debt is held by foreigners, while it's just about 9% in Japan.
> What did they do? They took bets on unknown people and believed in them more than anyone had before. They set strong norms...

This is the essence of capitalism. The idea that you can take bold risks and be rewarded for being right.

By this definition, what we have today is not capitalism. Because today's investors and entrepreneurs are only rewarded for following the herd and being compliant under the watchful eyes of their corporate masters.

After I joined the workforce and the startup scene in 2013, capitalism was on its way out. I arrived just in time to catch a faint glimmer of it but now it's well and truly dead.

What we have now is a combination of the worst, most superficial aspects of capitalism and socialism combined into single monstrosity. Corporate surveillance socio-capitalism with theatrical democracy.
The Vimalakirti Sutra is about exactly this. Vimalakirti is a laymen householder who achieves enlightnment. Upon his passing, Buddha sends a bunch of spiritual masters and bodhisattva's to Vimalakirti's deathbed.

Vimalakirti proceeds to chastise them for how useless their 'enlightenment' is when it doesn't help anyone in the real world, and is only a self centered quest to save one's ego from suffering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimalakirti_Sutra
Doesn't pass the switch test.
Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America's Best Public High School
Ive used L-carnosine in conjunction with zinc, l-glutamine, keto+IF to repair a serious aspirin lesion in my gut and it worked great. I've read that benfotiamine can also help with myelin repair but do not have the studies handy.
You're responding to something I didn't say. GP was talking about memory usage with 500 tabs, with which Firefox will absolutely eat some RAM. Right now I have 200 and it's using 6.3gb.
C++ doesn't have a stable ABI, so if you target a C++ symbol manually like this, as soon as the compiler revs, to say, C++20, the ABI will change and you'll get a linker error.

Also, this may work for simple C++ methods, but once you cross over into vtable territory, you're going to be in a world of hurt.

Also as far as interoperability, I just don't see a smooth path forward between Swift and C++. Philosophically, much of the C++ code you write ends up compiling away or building specialized generated code at compile time. Anything written in C++17 and newer will also have a lot of constexpr code that generates immutable results baked into the final output.

I'd say, wrap your C++ in a simple C API and expose that to Swift (same would apply to Go/Rust or any other language honestly).
I'm not super concerned about history injection other than when blindly clicking the back button. I've used history injection in a legitimate use case requested by users (think master/detail when linking directly to a detail view; back goes back to the master list). I'm not sure how to unobtrusively notify of malicious history injection (like news sites) without downgrading legitimate uses.

Hopefully the answer isn't another permissions request :)
I'm not even a "geezer" of which you speak for but the fact that emacs does not have the standard copy-paste, cut, save, etc key-bindings by default is what makes it so powerful. The reason the community is the way it is is presumably because the learning curve makes the people who give up easily left out. The only fact I personally "hate" emacs is only that i don't have the time to learn lisp & customize the editor to the full extent myself, but that's not really a strong argument against emacs.(As resources about customizing emacs are not that hard to find, and the lisp/emacs-lisp community is not 'harsh')

Just because everyone has some "standard"-deemed features does not mean emacs should have it aswell.Are you complaining about these things with vim aswell? A lot of people use emacs because of performance reasons, customization opportunities and more or less because emacs is de facto almost an operating system.
> the police gave me a case number to satisfy my insurance claim

This is the purpose of the visit - to verify that it was a real break-in and not someone scamming their insurance company. Catching the thief is nowhere on their priorities.
The horse is out of the barn there.

Many forms of credit are basically government lons anyway. The current model of thousands of retail and commercial banks isn’t sustainable. Most bank business could be done at a post office or gas station counter. They exist as a sales funnel.
Not according to some very well-paid lawyers, so I guess no.
> Swift can interface with C++? I've just done some googling but I cannot find any documentation at all relating to C++ interop.

It is not there yet but it is actually being implemented on a native level. A quick Google gave me this. [0] [1] [2]

The approach is first-party than what you get with Rust's third-party crates and tools like bindgen, cxx, etc. Swift's C-interop approach is built-in and much more seamless and automated than bindgen's toggles and switches and creating them by hand in with cgo in Golang.

[0] https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/CppInteroper...

[1] https://github.com/apple/swift/pulls?q=label%3A%22C%2B%2B+In...

[2] https://forums.swift.org/t/manifesto-interoperability-betwee...
Peter Watts Blindsight has some interesting commentary upon this in the form of a science-fiction story and some extensive notes [1]. It arguably is feasible to manifest sufficient behaviors to "pass", but the behaviors are not deeply introspected like you noticed. We suspect our subconscious already does a ton of heavy lifting without that introspection, so some of the theses Watts popularizes from the book's bibliography are interesting in that light.

[1] https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm#Notes
Exactly. One possible fix would be that you don't actually get to see a downvote arrow on anything unless you reply to it first.

Separately, I've had thoughtfully written responses flagged for what is presumably disagreement. So may be the "flag" button needs a dropdown and the downvote button not showing up until you reply would be a good combination solution.
> I think legislating allowing more freedom on personal general computing devices would be a good thing with many benefits to society as I've enumerated already.

This seems on the surface to be the libertarian position, but imho it's subtly authoritarian - you weren't able to convince most people to use the freely available unlocked hardware you're advocating for, so instead you'd like to use the full force of the law to make all product designers create what you want them to create. If the benefits of unlocked hardware were so evident, surely the consumers would already be reaping the rewards on the unlocked hardware they can buy right now?
> presume to be able to use company equipment

I think this is the central point. You can do all those things, but are you entitled to use company equipment to do so?

The term spying becomes less clear-cut in that context too. It's spying if I get your personal private communication, but monitoring one's own internal network would not normally be considered spying.
Marriage is not about religion, or personal happiness. Marriage is all about "producing" new, physically and mentally healthy, well socially adjusted, future tax payers. Now, since marriage gives you privileges, such as tax breaks( which are supposed to help you raise the future members of the society) it is obvious that the state wants to have some control on who do they give those privileges to, through marriage validation.
If this was true, "zombie companies" wouldn't be a term bandied around as much lately.
What can you not do with a grid of characters exactly?
If such a tool existed while my parents were still alive and I was taking care of them, I would have bought it in a heartbeat. Eldercare givers are often housebound for years, because something as simple as going to the grocery store or the pharmacy becomes an ordeal, especially if the parent in question is suffering from Alzheimer's or the like.