skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a data point is not a conclusion

the person you replied to said that

since it has to be said, with you, that means nobody here is saying that popular anecdotes prove anything

your entire argument is based on a failure to communicate
please don't
Feel like it's just a dude trying to release a cool app - he's probably not gonna spend money on a lawyer to write a TOS
The Last of Us Day 2020
>if you're enlightened then you want to spread it -- but this is the exact opposite of enlightenment, so the author has it 100% backwards.

I have to disagree there. Many people who achieve benefits through enlightenment want to spread it to as many people as possible, so that others can receive help in achieving their own enlightenement.
I know how to use Google Scholar etc; I was hoping for specific suggestions.
So now there are basically no dynamically typed languages left. There's Scheme, JavaScript, what else? All languages nowadays are converging to TypeScript/Rust. It's kind of sad.
A substantial portion of university graduates do not, in fact, need a job right away. Gap years are common. And with small income you can get by (ramen profitable).

Obviously there’s privilege there. But it’s not top 1% or anything.
The distinctive sound of a walkie talkie chirp is also a good sound to play, had it as my message alert on my phone - the number of people who suddenly think your a cop and get spooked.

Though any music works best as shows somebody in and most burglars don't want anybody there as then it becomes a robbery and those sentences are higher. So playing music good and your choice is pretty excellent in the psychological factor upon the burglars.
> this is the origin of the phrase be generous in what you accept and specific about what you return

That definitely needs citation, as Postel's law seems to have come from TCP RFCs.
Preventing break-ins isn't the point of security cameras. Their purpose is reacting to break-ins. Maybe you can give the police a picture of the burglar's face. Or their license plate or car make/model/color. You can see what they took, so you don't leave something off your insurance claim because you hadn't yet noticed it was missing. Your dog can't do any of these things, and a camera is a much smaller commitment than a pet.
"...as long as the stock market works." If the stock market truly works, it will reflect the underlying economy and its prospects. Right now, it is being propped up by the Fed (and other actors, like SoftBank), and does not reflect the underlying economy or its future prospects (at least as projected by most economists). That cannot be sustained indefinitely.

But your general point is probably correct, based on the experience of the Great Recession. This study concluded that while all households lost about the same percentage of wealth, the wealthier households recovered more quickly: https://irle.berkeley.edu/files/2015/The-Rich-Got-Richer.pdf. The Economic Policy Institute concluded similarly that the bottom 80% was hit harder than the top 20% (https://www.epi.org/press/news_from_epi_th_great_recession_e...).
I love writing throwaway code in Python. It is really great for that and there is something about Python and the hassle you have to go through to write safe, well-structured code that makes you wanna say screw it and hack it in there.
My thoughts:

- RBS: meh... might get more useful in the future (in 2-5 years maybe).

- Ractor: Wohooo! I'm writing a DAG library where I was thinking of implementing something like this, good to know I can use it and get real parallelism on top.

- Scheduler: :shrug: don't know about this one, might be relevant with future concurrent ruby code, any ideas?

- Rightward assignment: it's a bit awkward but I see the use case, just wish we had the pipe operator too like in Elixir.

- Endless method: this one is cute, I love it!

- Find pattern: oh boy, code reviews are going to be interesting now!

- Hash#except: yes, definitely a welcome one.

- Memory view: if this helps with numpy style gems it will be great!

- `send(:"do_#{ meth }", ...)`: don't do meth kids! (it's a joke!)... seems like a reasonable feature.

- `order of backtrace had been reversed`: good! it was confusing...

- Promote default gems to bundled gems (rexml): I like this one, if only nokogiri was a stdlib gem or part of core, imagine how much time would be saved instead of having to compile it every time in a `bundle install`.

- `Promote stdlib to default gems`: what does this mean? Do I now have to add `gem "securerandom"` to Gemfiles instead of having it by default and just needing to require it?

- Mjit improvements: can't wait to try it!

Overall, I'm delighted!
It'll be totally normal to find the Amazon drone scanning my bookshelves, toy shelves, pantry shelves.

I wonder to what extent Amazon (or whoever) scans for other identifiable devices on the subnet.
The thesis of this article can be encapsulated in a single psilocybin trip, during which you will feel as if the secrets of the entire universe have been revealed, and after which you are utterly powerless to reveal them.
RBS is optional.
Jan Willem van der Wetering "A Glimpse of Nothingness"

Would there ever be a time, I thought while I brushed my teeth, when meditation is an accepted general activity?

"Where is Father?"
"Father is meditating."
"Oh."

Father is meditating. He often does. The children meditate too when they have a chance. And Mother. And the neighbors. They are all disciples of the master of the neighborhood. There will be new classes, new ranks. When you want to be a member of the government you have to have solved a certain number of koans, otherwise your insight will not be sufficient to be able to help rule the country. The prime minister is a wise old fellow with a bald shaven head. He doesn't want anything. He has no possessions except what he needs for his daily simple routine. He is a high priest who nearly always wears the same clothes.

The higher you go the simpler you become. Only the common people are rich, they still want to have property. The more impressive your residence the lower your place in society.

Perhaps the prime minister owns a mansion, but it is a gift from the people. He lives there to please his subjects but his bedroom will be a small bare room with white walls and his mattress will be thin and hard.

He will get up at 3 a.m. and the ministers will visit him one by one for sanzen. The state will be very rich. The bridges, roads, public buildings, airports, waterworks and national parks will be of the highest quality and well looked after. Nature will be nature again and full of wild life, but the wild animals will be tame.
what do you mean? you can certainly use vanilla javascript if you really want, same with ruby. its not like types are forced down your throat
The current instrumentation is already pretty stunning, I think particularly to someone with a background in experimental physics.
I could be wrong, but I don’t think these are emacs keybindings: although, the Cocoa text input system definitely is heavily influenced by emacs, both in design and in this sort of detail.

The emacs-derived keybindings use Control on macOS, the Mac ones use Command
I'm still very curious whether all these 50/60s space mega-plans could've. Could Orion have got hundreds on tons to Mars with the technology of it's time?

It's easy to be forgetful of what you could do analog electronics and with/out even primitive computers (The specs of some hand-made Tektronix equipment going back half a century are still well beyond what's in the hands on the hobbyist today) - some things require computers but some things are only made more efficient by them
Not if you install the right modpacks!
Chrome JSON viewer with JSON path
Glaxnimate 0.1.0 Released
> If you want home security that can reach all parts of your home, and provide alerts when someone breaks in, get a dog.

Also don't get a Lab because he'll just lick the hands of the burgler.
No I’m not absolutely sure. I’d love to learn how I might be wrong. But I feel pretty good about the idea.

Do you have any concrete theories of how a human can _fully_ understand the entire universe?
If you interested in seeing how the 3x3 initiative* has come along, here are the benchmarks so far: https://github.com/mame/optcarrot#readme

Personally, I am very excited for this release.

* Matz's goal to get Ruby 3 to be 3x faster than Ruby 2.

--

@sosodev Thanks for the updated info!
using X-ray generator and knowing the chip layout one can probably target specific registers/memory cells
Your first quote reminded me of this from Bruce Lee:

> Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
The economic risks of slashing local government jobs
I wonder why everyone is downplaying the moral and technical hazard of having a single entity controlling all the issuance and payments in a country? At least right now if some bank sucks I can take my money elsewhere.
As an Emacs newbie (less than one year of usage) I could not disagree more. I disagree with basically everything you just said. If somebody wants notepad++, they should just use that instead of trying to turn Emacs into something it never was.

As an olive branch: Perhaps Emacs could prompt the user on first run what sort of control scheme they want. Emacs standard, Evil mode, or some notepad clone could be modes that ship with Emacs by default (evil already does.)

(I chose evil, because I came from vim. Maybe this is why Emacs was so easy for me to pick up. But by the same token, Vim is arcane compared to Notepad style editors but is quite popular, so I outright reject the hypothesis that Emacs has lower numbers because it's arcane. Rather, I think it has a marketting ''problem'' relative to Vim.)
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Emacs' very-hard-to-fix issue is that it's based on a grid of characters. This means it will never be able to do many nice IDE things.
They may not rely directly on consumers, but they almost certainly rely indirectly on consumers. People are very bad about reasoning about feedback loops, especially so when there are delays in the loop.
The article is unfortunately paywalled so I couldn't read it. That ratio is indeed more sensical and interesting. But I think it still misses two points.

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.

Second, the differences in purchasing power. What does the average income (or the top income for that matter) actually get you in different countries.
Useful perhaps for diagnosing how the criminal gained access, but not really useful at all beyond that.
This Joy Christian guy is really a stain on the science ecosystem. He makes wild claims over and over again in slightly different ways that have been mathematically proven impossible in general. Whenever one claim gets analyzed carefully someone finds a trivial flaw. Yet somehow he still gets attention.
> And if you cannot trust the police, it is already too late.

No. Life went on in the USSR, despite the police being manifestly untrustworthy. Life goes on in the US and UK, despite the police being manifestly untrustworthy (albeit to a lesser degree). You still have to make choices and decide how to live, even when you live in one of the authoritarian regimes that form the majority of the history of human societies.
I'm not underestimating anything because I'm not suggesting producing a formal model of arbitrary, nontrivial systems. My critical point is: Design your system before committing any code to the end result [0]. Formal methods and models are one tool in your designer's kit.

[0] This statement should be qualified with: Especially if it's at all novel to you, your team, your organization, or the world. And the amount of time to spend varies based on its true novelty. A team that's made hundreds of RoR sites can churn a new one out in a week with minimal upfront design effort. A team that's making the next RoR should probably spend more time thinking about what that means before making, or committing code to, it.
Probably most kids from the 50s on think Dad spent too much time on his career. As does Dad. Now, a working BA tech couple can be grossing $400k in their mid 20s.

That should be workable for kids. It wont be suburb comfortable, it will have lots of regrets, but the kids will get over it.
> Unless there is another foundation with a browser promoting a free and open internet, my vote will always remain with them.

And therein lies the problem. No matter how bad Mozcorp is at doing what mozilla.org was supposed to be about, then as long as it exists, it will always manage to be a black hole swallowing up any enthusiasm and effort that might otherwise be put to good use.
I’m just getting started learning Geometric Algrebra. Out of curiosity, is that specific error listed anywhere?

I’d like to look at it.
How to Build DeFi Asset Management Services?
On point #2, as a relatively new parent of only 2 years, I've both gotten a new appreciation of parents as well as understanding of why some families are at a disadvantage. To be quite honest, even as a software engineer who works from home and is not currently overworking (haven't been overworking ever since I became a parent), there's still a lot to do to care for a child. That is to say, I work just 8 hours a day, with zero time wasted on commute, and even during work hours I get a lot of opportunities to help out my spouse with cleaning up the child, putting away dishes and toys, cooking, etc.

I can't even begin to imagine what life is like for parents who both work 12+ hours a day just to put food on the table and pay rent, which is the case for a lot of low income children. Is it any wonder that the parental component of these families is mostly missing (through no fault of their own)?

In this sense, I feel like the problem is even bigger than schools/education. It's that, plus the fact that parents are working way over time just to make ends meet.
Better question: how are they at all relevant? The health and safety regulations are proscriptive: you must not harm consumers. On the other hand, product features are creative expression. It would be like the government telling you that your novel must include at least three references to other writers' works.
It won't be optional in Ruby 4, most likely.
> Emacs is in that disastrous stage of a product's life where the geezers destroy their own community by refusing to adapt to new expected behavior

It doesn't look like your an Emacs user. As another commenter pointed out (as did the article indirectly), Emacs has more users than ever. It's definitely growing - not dwindling. As an Emacs user, the last decade has shown an immense growth in capabilities via MELPA packages. The number of sites with tips on improving Emacs flows has also gone up exponentially.

Not only is it not dying, it's thriving.

> They were standard when Ronald Reagan was president.

For a whole other definition of standard. A lot of the popular DOS applications from Reagan/Bush's time did not use these keybindings. Ctrl-Ins and Shift-Ins were the norm. Ctrl-C for quitting was the norm.

(I'm not against CUA bindings by default - merely pointing out a misconception you have).

> But for everyone else, Emacs is a small part of a much larger ecosystem (MacOS, Linux, Windows) with which it is increasingly incompatible and archaic.

Actually, Emacs is pretty good at interacting with the wider ecosystems. It can communicate and interact with other processes, etc. I can, for example, link to a message in MS Outlook and have it open up in my TODO list in Emacs.
A lot of things are different without being better.

Before ctrl-x/Ctrl-v became the standard for Cut/paste, it was Ctrl-del/Ctrl-insert in many dos and early Windows editors - which makes a lot more mnemonic sense.

It’s better to standardize on something, but that something isn’t necessarily better and is often worse.
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Careful Testing Reveals USB Cable Duds (2018)
All I see that gp believed is what seem like easily verifiable facts. When was the domain registered? When was the company founded? Are either of those incorrect?
I find that lsp-mode works pretty well most of the time. If you look at the commit history, the project is very active. It's also pretty easy to set up.
42.9 GB of Microsoft Source Code Ms-Dos 3.3 to Windows XP Is Out There
Browsers being able to download ftp protocol links is a really useful function.

Security it an odd reason to me to remove this feature as anonymous ftp doesn’t really have much of an issue.
I don’t know. I read the whole article and it seems the suggestions boil down to emacs needing to be more “modern” by defaulting to dark mode, making color theming easier, changing right click behavior, the menus, and changing the shortcuts. And the author of the article would like the development process to be more “modern.”

Emacs is one of the most successful text editors of all time if not the most successful. It is widely used for a staggering array of tasks.

It is over 40 years old.

When I see a highly successful 40+ year old piece of software, my first instinct isn’t to ask what the people behind it can learn from me but what I can learn from them.

I’m not saying the editor can not be improved. But I think the bar is much higher than this. It’s not an insult to say something like emacs is not “modern.” Of course it’s not. And changing the colors? The shortcuts that have worked for decades? Please.

If someone thinks emacs will be more successful with these cosmetic changes they are welcome to fork it since this is one of the earliest open source programs. Code talks, a bunch of people opining on a mailing list is pretty worthless in comparison.
Should we assume the purchasers have perfect information? I know what to expect with Apple products, but I don't know many who can really put apple's walled-garden policy into words.

It seems like a fairly easy regulation to make it possible to not need to worry about this when buying a phone or computer. You should be able to repair it, you should be able to run what you want on it.
They can. Maybe releases would be every 6 months but it's possible.

Look at the following browsers:
Otter Browser
Min
Qutebrowser
Links
Basalisk
Surf
Bromite (only has 7 contributers)

It is possible. Of course it's possible. Just depends if that situation were ever to occur, whether people would become passionate about that project
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This really doesn't seem that complicated.

(1) Either we aim to make Emacs popular or we don't.

Personally, I don't think we should bother: I suggest we make it a razor-sharp tool for people prepared to learn some lisp. I also suggest we open up the development experience to allow contributions and code review via PRs.

But lots of people want to make it popular. So fine, we do that. Then there's no argument at all for keeping the defaults
like a bunch of male lisp programmers over the age of 50 want. Because every single one of them has an emacs init file they've been tending to for decades and they know how to make the relevant changes to override the defaults.

So if we are making it popular there should be no time whatsoever given to RMS saying that some keybinding from the early 80s is objectively better.
Yeah, I guess it's as close as you can get, even though people come here for tours of facebook or google.

You can usually tell who the investors are and who the founders are at Red Rock or Coupa. The one leaning back is the investor, usually.
At one airport in the US, I learned about how this is accomplished with what sounds like a shotgun. Apparently this is a propane cannon[1] and there are a wide variety of such "scarecrow" devices.

I would guess crows prefer hunter-gatherers over horticulture/agriculture societies of humans! A weird twist.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_scarer#Propane_cannons
There's a huge """secret""" Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa that appears to be in the finishing phases of completion. I talked yesterday to a union worker who is moving to Des Moines to work on a new Microsoft data center there tonight, it appears that work is drying up at this data center here and a lot of the travelling blue collar folk are leaving this area.

I wonder if this data center coming apparently partially online is a part of the problem?

Also, after this he is likely to work on an Amazon fulfillment center next year - impressed by all the (albeit temporary) blue collar jobs created by FAANG at the moment!
Is there a jurisdiction where the cops actually care to track down burglars? The clearance rate is something like <20% in the US and I suspect many of those were luck based (ie: the caught the burglar for something else and found stolen property).
That README isn’t up to date. The benchmark has seen significant performance improvements since then.

https://benchmark-driver.github.io/benchmarks/optcarrot/comm...
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Thank you, they were all good answers, but this one gets at why I was confused on the matter.
> My personal experience is that you definitely take an impact in your promotion/raise/advancement when you follow your principles an speak truth to power.

I have very much experienced this and have navigated options ranging from "if they don't care, I don't care" to "I don't care if I lose my job, I have to speak-up".

Like you, I can't say any of this resulted in direct firing. In one case I am pretty sure the consequence was that my consulting contract was not renewed, costing me hundreds of thousands of dollars. The irony of that particular case is that the CEO held regular all-hands meetings during which he explicitly said he wanted people to bring up issues and that he actually wanted to promote and appreciated that level of honesty.

What I brought-up cost them millions of dollars and was going to cost millions yet. In fact, the group managers I was working with were lying to the CEO. The operational costs after deployment of the ill-conceived design would have been in the tens of millions of dollars and untold delays. Well, the rest is billion-dollar-corporation history (in more ways than I can describe on a public forum).
Here's an article on the founder: https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/michigan/2020/09/...

It provides a way for you to stand out which could get you the interview.
Many of his ideas were ill-conceived:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign
From the link above, how did they calculate the 7.8M CAC with a 12 month payback period? I assume it is based on the data below, but how did the number end up to 7.8M:

"Let’s take a hypothetical example of a SaaS company at $625k in ARR, growing at 15% per month. The company has 25 customers each paying $25,000 and operates with an 80% gross margin. The company bills monthly."
I don't know if I entirely agree with this, but I do think that at the very least Rust is much better for this sort of development then some would have you think.

It's strict, yes, but most of that strictness helps with eliminating the types of errors that make your app break over and over again at runtime. Unit tests can help bridge the gap, but who wants to write unit tests for throwaway scripts?

When you get to know Rust, it does seem to have plenty of little bits of polish to help you get things going fast. Most of the stuff that the compiler/borrow checker complains about is either easy to fix even if by throwing around clones that might not be the best performing, or represents real issues that are better to think about now than trip over halfway through some processing run.
Actually, as the parent comment didn't say "per year", and the App Store was opened in 2008, "trillions" (as an aggregate) doesn't seem like an exaggeration at all.