skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author is right about VS Code becoming the incumbent solution for text editors ... but for the wrong reasons. As he demonstrates, extensions have largely completed their evolutionary cycle with VS Code playing a heroic role in the final act. And he is also right about the benefits of having of a Very Large Corporation collaborating with the open source community.

But instead of asking yourself what will be your daily driver in 10-15 years, ask what you would recommend to a highschool student today? Hint: it won't be EMACS.

For me what makes VS Code sing is its vision of collaboration:

* Git is a first-class citizen.

* Live Share provides real collaboration for distributed workers where you can authenticate with someone else through your GitHub accounts. That sounds pretty good for the COVID era but it will become the norm for remote development. The documentation even has a HOWTO for running a technical interview! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/use/...

Having said that, the Live Share authentication procedure needs some serious sandpapering of its rough edges! And I would really like to see other authentication providers for Live Share beyond GitHub and Microsoft accounts.
Are Emoji Cross Platform? Do They Look the Same on Mac vs. PC?
I’ve previously read this study (and at least one follow on study) and what they said jibes with my recollection. I’ll see if I can find the exact citation

Edit: I believe this is it:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w7322
I recently came across a site called all sides.com, it shows news articles from the far left, left, center, right, and far right. Its rather interesting to just compare the headlines, let alone the articles.
Exactly what it sounds like - dildos at a distance.
i wonder who would [over]play whom here. Exclusive for GPT-3 probably doesn't automatically mean GPT-4,5,... yet who is defining when GPT-3++ will be called GPT-4... And speaking about any possible future lawyer tussles here - at some point the GPT-N will be pretty good at generating lawyer briefs - i mean not necessarily good briefs, just good enough to swamp any litigation into oblivion making a court battle effectively into a bot battle (not that current corporate court battles are far from that :).
I used this but had to stop using it as occasionally Firefox would require a restart for some reason or another and when in that state any paused tabs would lose their state if you clicked on them. Lost to much important state and it had to go.
I think it's for a more leisurely read. Not everybody consumes technical updates in such depth as those websites offer.

There are plenty of Linux online magazines, not just those two, and they do just fine. It's never a bad thing to have more Linux-related content, different opinions, and to see things from new angles.
Yes, we block access to the website from known VPNs/ Tor/ proxies/ cloud
This is such a hugely undervalued feature, and no other editors seem to provide anything remotely close. I found it particularly useful for the COVID work from home - I yeeted my work laptop into a corner and just SSH into it to continue working with the ergonomics of my home desktop machine.
NYC is probably worth more as a largely uninhabited speculative asset, a collector's item if you will. There will still be jobs for people to keep it in mint condition.
Has anyone here used (or are familiar with relevant cases of using) .NET for developing startup products, including MVPs? With some exceptions, I'm seeing .NET as predominantly an enterprise-focused technology. Strategizing about development of my MVP (B2B enterprise platform), as a CTO, I'm torn between a) Python and its great ecosystem (I plan to use FastAPI instead of more traditional Flask and Django), b) C# and .NET ecosystem and - to a lesser degree, for the reasons explained below - c) Julia and its emerging ecosystem.

As much as I'm excited about Julia, I think that both the language and the ecosystem have not yet reached enough maturity and critical mass of developers as well as comprehensive and stable general-purpose libraries and tools to be a safe choice for a startup, which is already a highly risky venture. I have to reduce risks, not add ones.

Between Python and .NET ecosystems, I'm more familiar with the former and, under equal conditions, would choose it over .NET. Additional argument in favor of this decision is that most of advanced ML/AI development is focused on Python high-level interfaces (and ML/AI is certainly a significant part of my future platform's value proposition). However, based on my research and recent .NET experience, I recognize its advantages versus the Python stack in some areas, including native type system support (though pydantic might be good enough for the Python stack; plus, it is used by FastAPI), rich set of native APIs, much better performance, much better support for domain-driven design (DDD), WebAssembly support, and, finally, much better support for developing multi-tenant applications. The last item is especially important in my case, since multi-tenancy and other relevant features (e.g., auditability) are strict requirements and Python ecosystem pales in comparison with .NET in this regard (the only decent project that I ran across is django-tenants, but a) it would force me to use Django and b) it only supports PostgreSQL schema-based multi-tenancy approach).

Would love to hear your opinions and thoughts on the above. Thank you in advance!
Edge isn't IE. At all. It's a fully modern browser that does everything Chrome does, and them some.

I need to use a Chrome-based browser for work (too many web app devs write crap code that only runs on Chrome), and I'm working on the prep right now to switch to Edge because it's just better. Not as good as Firefox, mind you, but Edge is now quite usable after years of being a joke. (Although I still think the never-really finished IE11 on Win8.1 offered a glimpse of the best touch/pen browser experience ever, one I'm still waiting for again.)

Credit to MS where it's due, though - they finally built a really good browser. Pity it took them decades. Glad they're making it available on Linux, too, just like they did VSCode. The more the merrier...
Yes. And Gatsby has taken it to the extreme.
At the very least, you need a replacement that's technically better, works well cross-platform, has a layman-acceptable UI, and supports 99.999%+ of all the use cases PDFs currently supports. It also has to convert old PDFs into the new format.

Then, you have to worry about market share and acceptance.
He mentioned "in a VM", so I'm guessing he's running the actual visual studio on a windows VM (guest OS), in his mac (host OS).
> Stop buying the crap and you'll stop seeing the crap.

basically i agree with this sentiment, but if you take into account modern marketing and sales tactics, its a lot easier said than done... marketers really know how peoples brains work and the "buttons" to push to get more sales of "crap"

the other side is, when a vast majority of people are squeezed for money, they usually go for "cheap"... so especially i notice in the us, people are very price-sensitive; many times, but not always cheap == crap...
Anyone else feel like this idea of commercializing GPT-3 is bound to go nowhere as the research community figures out how to replicate the same capabilities in smaller cheaper open models within a few months or even a year? Not to mention, what commercial applications actually require the model to be so few-shot? (see eg this recent paper that achieves similar results with a bit more data https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.07118.pdf)
Here are some of our favorite users:

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That might just come down to the usual differences between Python and Ruby. A Python programmer would likely appreciate an explicit call to `subprocess.run`.

Some equivalent Python 3.7+ would be

import subprocess
listing = subprocess.run(("ls", "-oh"), capture_output=True, encoding="utf-8")
print(listing.stdout)
print(listing.returncode)

As an experienced Ruby programmer I imagine the code you provided looks like a no-brainer. To a Ruby neophyte the backticks, $? sigil, and .to_i method don't strike me as intuitive (but maybe they would be do someone else). We may just have to disagree about the nicety of syntax.

As cle mentioned[1], the strongest criteria is

> what would the majority of people on the team prefer to use?

and I'd agree that ultimately that's what makes the most sense.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24558989
If Flash was rendered natively in the browser, sandboxed and across different browsers, and with high enough performance/low enough battery impact, it would have stayed.

There were efforts similar to PDF.js to run Flash content using JS but they were never able to tick all those boxes.
Sourceforge and Slashdot were bought out 4 years ago: https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut... - to my knowledge they've not done anything shady since.
That might explain some things... I had an Indian colleague once who used to tell "Sikh jokes" that he claimed were his cultural equivalent of "Blond jokes".
> After some digging, I realized that just 10% of the population pays about 71-72% of the taxes.

Keep in mind you're talking about a local municipality which is going to receive a large chunk of its revenue from property taxes, fees, sales tax etc. From https://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/understandingthebudget....

The breakdown is:

29% Property Tax
17% State Grants
13% Personal Income Tax
10% Federal Grants
8% General Sales Tax
8% Fees and Fines (Non-Tax)
7% Business Income Tax
4% RE Taxes
4% Other Taxes

Some of these will hit the wealthy more than others (eg: Biz and Personal Income Taxes) but revenues aren't going to drop by 71-72%. I know in America taxes are super taboo but there's also nothing wrong with raising taxes on the rest of the city to cover any gap.
That would work, if the last measure taken was immediately prior to admission.

Alas, university doesn't work that way: students continue to be measured throughout their tenure, and those measures are an important component of the next phase of their life, be it work or further education.

The evidence is unequivocal: lowering the admissions standards for some section of the student body, results in those students doing poorly relative to students who were subject to the full standards.

This shouldn't be surprising, and no, it doesn't seem to matter why the standards were lowered, affirmative action, legacy preference, or otherwise.
LOL. Well, Microsoft's "Lists" are Sharepoint Lists underneath. Sharepoint Lists are pretty old, so your comment about Perl/CGI.. well, you're not far off!

I have it too at my workplace, and other than a coat of paint on Sharepoint Lists, I concur, it is not amazing.

I guess I brought it up because it shows Microsoft being driven to do something, but much like Google, falling short of the target. Still, before AirTable and similar things, the giants were generally ignoring this area.
One of my favorite games and I picked the name as an homage to my favorite game where you play a hacker. And to be fair, I didn't think that Shodan would become as big as it has when I first launched the website.
FusionTables 2.0
Just because we want a technology to exist doesn't mean it's ever going to.

Regulation deals with the here-and-now.
This is a faliure of Keynesian economics. The moment the government had the privilege to spend beyond its means was the moment it ditched savings and high interest rates. Now that were actually in a crisis it caused us to have even less savings and more debt than without a federal reserve.
I've not heard that before, NVMe SSDS are block devices, not file devices. So why would sequential writes care if it was one file or many? Maybe you are misunderstanding queue depth for large vs small files.
Moral Machine – What moral decisions should driverless cars make?
A new wave of student surveillance is being driven by Covid-19
> should be called WSL for DOS

Windows subsystem for linux for DOS. Sounds right
Seems like everybody mentions GitLens as an example of a good VSCode extension, but I really wish more people knew about Git Graph [0]. It feels like having an embedded mini git kraken into vscode, beautiful graphs and all, and without any noticeable overhead.

[0] - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mhutchie...
Debian actually goes out of their way to patch those checks out in their PDF-related packages as part of their stance against DRM, like this example with "pdftk":

https://sources.debian.org/patches/pdftk/2.02-4/drm_fix/
They sell notebooks and other items on that very same site, if you scroll down a bit more.
There obvious propaganda spin. Will you not agree.
"Cultural Genocide". Some of these horror were singing the national anthem and learning mandarin. How can jihadists be reintegrated into society without the ability to find jobs without knowing the national language.

You if dare have such strong opinion at least look at the debunking material. Grayzone Editor dug deep into Zenz background. The fact he associated with right wing group with an objective to paint communism as the "real holocaust".

And before you say conspiracy theory look at this posts OP post history - a ocean of anti-china posts. Also the reuters reporter same thing. How many times in history has US used false pretenses to go to war?

[Edit] I did not realize hacknews has become xenophobic propaganda channel. Mods please do something. These posts have no place here
Not really. Google hired LLVM and Swift dude for ML stuff. LLVM and Swift dude decided that although Google already had some LLVM, it still needed more Swift, and for ML specifically. This must have struck probably the majority of people in ML who are not him as slightly bizarre (notable exception: Jeremy Howard). Now he's left. I would be truly amazed if Swift for ML goes anywhere.
Sounds like the main function here is to create concepts at the correct level of abstraction, a bit like an API.
Not to be that guy, but emacs has had this for years via tramp.
Of course text editing is a "solved problem," just use a #2 pencil.

Solving a boring problem better is a thing new technology often does.
I find myself imagining that one of the lines turns out to be more than half the file size, and picking a solution that fails to account for that possibility.
A jumped to Atom and hated it and returned to Sublime. I have used VS Code, but never made the full jump because Atom set a precedent for Electron editors.
So what if you open it in a postscript viewer instead of a PDF viewer? Because they are compatible formats except for some edge cases like security flags.
Yeah, it's a pretty common HS sport on the west coast and in states that don't freeze. Any school with a pool nearby may have a team. My HS shared the pool with three other HS teams during after-school practice.
I wouldn't have expected a detailed elucidation of the maxim "power corrupts" to be so unpopular, but, here we are.
They didn't release the frameworks for those OSs.

That's like how Catalysts runtime wasn't backported to older versions of macOS.

They could decouple those frameworks from the OS, but that adds other headaches and you eventually gotta draw the line somewhere so they tend to only add new frameworks with major OS updates.
With what money? Printing more would ensure currency debasement. You really think inflation is less than 2%?
> But in 2020, wireless ISP work great wherever they're not regulated away.

Because in CURRENT_YEAR we don't have to worry about rain fade or quirks of local terrain or unintended interference?

That's quite a big statement to make, generalized over the whole world like that.
There's not just three ways. There is alumni. There is celebrity admits. There are special achievement admits. Athletic admits. Etc...

And it probably differs from school to school -- depending on what the goal of the school is.
By analogy, one might look at the number of not-college-educated millionaire lotto winners and say that playing scratchers is the most meritocratic business you can be in.
My spouse is a professor at a large university. Her time is spent setting up virtual classrooms, online office hours (there’s more hours there), grading online, preparing/producing videos and configuring and using their many interactive tools.

If anything, I see less of her due to her workload and she works from home while I live in it.

It’s not easier than brick-n-mortar. It’s a whole new approach.
That'd probably be DoubleDisk or Stacker. https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/10401/software-spotl...
Now that I read my comment I see the issue with it.

What I meant to say is that Firefox should focus on implementing cryptographic signing over HTML then. And not a PDF viewer on the web--in that, enabling cryptographic signatures isn't tied to the format PDF per se.
So if it happens, why hide it?

Nobody is complaining about fairness or that it happens, let it happen but be open and honest about these transactions so other market participants can behave accordingly.
Tracks of the Tohorā
Arm Updates Its Neoverse Roadmap: New BFloat16, SVE Support
A solution could be to flag a post as suspicious or even fake news.

Though that will open the floodgates to all sorts of scrutiny that I think won’t help.

So a post like yours seems to be a good enough solution for the problem.
I think you missed the thrust of the post you're replying to.

Read it again.
I'm not talking about territories invaded during WW1 like France or Belgium. I'm talking about new countries emerging from the collapsing empires. The people have lived there the whole time, they just didn't have a nation state of their own. Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Greece, Armenia. The Kurds are still fighting to have their own country today. You get the picture. Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine emerged from the collapse of the Russian Empire.

All of these people didn't work towards independence by accident. There were good reasons to, depending on whose empire you lived in, the ruling group was given preferential treatment, or maybe the minorities would be penalized for using their own language. Higher education and government services would often be provided exclusively in the ruling nation's language.

>WWI was not WWII. There was nothing uniquely evil about the Central Powers.

The Armenian genocide sounds bad enough to me.

And of course these things happened even in the Entente empires, it's just easier to declare independence from an empire that just lost and can't do anything about it.
Ooh, if IntelliJ gets remote functionality I'll be very happy.
It was not anyone from within the UC System, nor anyone from within higher education.

The Auditors of the State of California wrote it. A body of auditors who are officially part of the executive branch, but wholly independent of it.

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

They are extremely professional.
Not based on cost
> What you say is conflating with something like "If USA took down NSDAP, Germans would still burn Jews, and even more of them."

But this is not true, whereas the facts I started about internal opposition Saudis face are.

> US must stop supporting Sauds, end of the story.

This would make the world a worse place and lead to a lot of death and suffering, compared to the future where US would still support them. How can you justify such a thing?
> because they're familiar with JS and have never heard of or touched Ruby

I used Jekyll on a couple of project and never had to touch Ruby, but Eleventy is a better option for JS devs.
> Even in the US, people casually either slip in sentences or assume castes and speak as such.

What kinds of things do they say, or how does their speaking change once they learn? I'm totally outside of this culture but have been studying caste discrimination and its history lately and have been trying to learn all I can about it.
And IIRC it's available on the windows store. It probably has msi as well.
It was not written by anyone in academia. It was written by the Auditors of the State of California.
As Schools Go Remote, Finding ‘Lost’ Students Gets Harder
Free for use images from Studio Ghibli movies
Water polo requires a pool, which is expensive. Baseball requires a large field, also expensive. I believe basketball is so popular in part because of the (relatively) low equipment/space cost.
From 20:34 CEST the connection between servers and from outside to some of them are down
No, it doesn't. I'm running a fairly new Windows install and I didn't see Edge since I unpinned it from the task bar. I'm using Firefox as my default browser.
Leave it alone!
That's an excellent point. I'd be perfectly fine with eliminating both legacy admissions and athletic scholarships at public universities.

It reminds me of the Lori Loughlin case, where she was arrested not because bribing a university to admit your child is unfair to other applicants and sullies the ideal of an academic meritocracy, but because she didn't follow the university's established process for bribery. (Matt Levine expounds on this with his usual hilarity at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-13/you-ha...)
They were extremely conservative in their counting. It wasn't enough to have suspicious circumstances, they had to be able to prove it.

The real number is likely much, much higher, and they say so.
Denver and San Francisco must be the whole country.

I wonder where 25 other bigger US metros fit in.
I will second this, I use coc.nvim for Typescript projects and it works great. coc + NERDTree + fugitive + a good theme like gruvbox and you're gtg.
I switched from Atom to VS Code after a long time as I always disliked the way VS Code looks but at some point you have to admit that Atom is abandonware (Microsoft isn't going to develop two text editors) and VS Code is way more lightweight than Atom ever ways.
Seems wasteful to me to increase military spending beyond even what the Pentagon has asked for and then when we are hit with the worst economic downturn in our lifetimes to just go "oopsy daisy, you really should have considered that you wouldn't really get any help from us".

Doesn't the federal government owe at least that much to people??
Alternatively:

Low service state makes cities and towns who want to be high service pay their own way.

Yeah the quote is pretty bad if you're on the business end of his proposed policies but whether or not those policies are good or bad totally depends on your ideology.
Cities will be scrambling for basic maintenance, infrastructure improvements will be off the table.
Does VSCode have something similar to emacs’s spacemacs, doom or prelude?
The original sin was the establishment of a central banking system.
Okay, perhaps my wording was off. Yes, they're Win32 controls in that sense, but many (most?) of the newer controls are no longer mere wrappers around something that exists in Win32, but rather implement all functionality in managed code, both behavior and drawing.
Sikorsky Cypher
I never expected that kind of response from HN ;)

Just kidding. I do think it's a very fair concern for people to have. Google has that reputation. But honestly, many things on HN are from startups that may go away. And it isn't just Google. I was a huge fan of Apple's Aperture, for example, and they let that die on the vine.

For us, we think there is a real need for this kind of product. And we hope the one we built works well for our users. The team is really invested in the product. We plan to do all we can to make it successful.
> My college fucking put the caste next to people's names on notice boards for things like seating arrangements for an exam. How the fuck is a person's caste relevant?

I have seen far less serious things related to caste dragged on media for days. I think this is illegal, and I am sure I heard in the news there is a law against marking someone's caste. Also there is law where you can be selective about disclosing caste and won't have to disclose it if you don't want the benefit. Any proof you have for this?