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This is supposed to be a minimal, stand-alone dev kit. VS Code is large, wants you to download half the internet, brings in lots of dependences (a browser, a language runtime, graphics libraries etc.).

Git wasn't on the menu because it included perl, which is orders of magnitude smaller than VSCode's dependencies.

So of the somewhat popular crowd, vim seems like a good fit, and the project creator uses it regularly, if I remember his blog correctly.

Not sure what the current equivalent of a small, dependency-free native Windows editor would be. Notepad++ is popular, but has the scintilla engine as a requirement and seems to require Visual Studio for building, not make. Guess the same is true for a lot of other candidates.
How do you define "law"? Do you mean statements about the fundamental nature of physical reality, like the laws of motion or the laws of thermodynamics, or do you also include rules of thumb like Moore's Law?
"Watching highly-effective programmers navigate, explain, and modify code can be a career-changing experience."

Not to diminish what Antirez has done (he's awesome) but watching him code looks quite regular. I can not spot any "career changing experience" here.

Frankly when I want some info I very much prefer reading. Watching back and force moving cursor is not really much fun.
Just to be clear, it's the Corporation that makes Firefox, not the Foundation. There aren't many ways to give the Corporation money. Paying for a service, like the VPN or Pocket Premium, is all I can think of.
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> Harvard used to take nude pictures of entering freshmen

Every time I think I have seen the most bonkers thing that the US has to offer someone trumps it.

Did no one refuse? Was it a male only institution and they wanted to make absolutely sure that no women got in? If so why the photographs? Surely a discreet examination would do?

Regardless of the 'reason' it is astonishingly weird.
There's a big difference between not caring and making a tradeoff. You can care about A and B but decide B is more important than A. But if you don't care about A, then there's no tradeoff, you just choose B no matter what.

The question is, why do we make consumers make that tradeoff? Why are we shipping junk at all? There shouldn't be a reliability tradeoff. All products should be reliable. It ought to be a bare minimum standard.
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Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I was making a general comment about "solutions" being offered while completely ignoring the entire resource, energy and CO2 generation chain required to actually deploy the solution. A silly example of this is using huge "air filters" in every city...which some have actually proposed.

I need to go learn more about silicate weathering, don't know enough.

> thermodynamics and kinetics, in the context of chemical reactions

I regret not having paid more attention in university during chemistry class. Paid lots of attention during multiple years of physics (it was more interesting to me at the time).

Wait a minute...isn't chemistry just applied physics? :)

In general terms, I think we need to take this perspective on the problem:

1- We can't fix it on a human time scale (let's define that as a number between 100 and 1000 years)

2- We need to free-up our scientists (and fund them) to start thinking about and working on this implications and the solutions we will actually need

3- We need to start working on having to live with the reality of more intense weather events

4- We need to start working on mitigating effects for food supplies and other essentials

5- We need to be super careful about the potential for unintended consequences. I always think about what happened in places like Australia, New Zealand and others when we dared to think we could exercise control:

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/health/17iht-17isla.20237...

When compared with trying to produce a planetary scale effect, these ecosystems are but a rounding error. This is what worries me the most. We can't "fix" something on an island and we have the hubris to think we can actually "fix" the planet and not kill everyone on it as part of the process.

This, BTW, is why I tend to be a proponent of learning to live with it while cleaning-up our act to the extent possible without being so arrogant as to think we can do anything about it on a human time scale.

5- We violently remove politics from this. I do not mean this in terms of physical violence, I am using the term to mean "faster than fast". In other words: Go sit in the corner while the intelligent adults in the room have a conversation.

This isn't a simple problem and we need to be exceedingly careful not to be led by the nose by political and other forces into something that could destroy more life on this planet than we can possibly imagine.
People who are in a startup-centric forum shouldn't complain on inequality i believe. What is a startup? A scheme to milk future generations of Americans for cash that will let them be immune from the failure of this system in the future.

We are all riding a horse we know won't be around for much longer. Most startups exploit the shiny object factor, gullibility, poor education and plain stupidity of people who shouldn't have had any money to buy stuff in the first place - and they soon will not have - but above all they exploit the pyramid of debt as trillions upon trillions of valuations and exits that the founders cash out are the printed money that doesn't really exist. When it will be time to pay it back, it's better to be as far as possible...
It's the continuation of the previous mistreatment:

https://www.lawyersforassange.org/en/open-letter.html
Yes, because screeching “the science is settled” is how we advance science :p Scientific progress hasn’t always been simple or blessed by societal norms. Heck just go look up the history around plate tectonics - and that is fairly recent!

Sunlight is always the best disinfectant. Censorship never works. Indeed, it gives BS the mystical aura of “taboo” - “well if they are trying to suppress it, it must be for a reason”.

Personally if there are people peddling actual whackadoodle stuff I’d rather it be in the open so I can act appropriately.

And I think that’s the core problem - everyone is concerned about everything but “I”. For some reason our society seems to be pivoting from focusing on individual responsibility to wanting to police everyone but themselves. This is the path to destruction/tyranny.

The same people who (rightly) derided the moral majority busybodies from the 80’s now think they have the moral majority to do the same. It never ceases to amaze me.
I know a product that can do more damage with an accidental backspace: the iMessage app for MacOS (Messages).

If you're any sort of power user, you likely know that you can backspace by the word instead of the by the character, using Ctrl + BS on Linux or Cmd + BS on Mac.

In the Messages app, the shorcut to delete your _entire chat history_ is also Cmd + BS, and it works even if your caret is in the text box. So if you type five words and then Cmd + BS six times, you will be prompted to delete your entire chat history.

I do this almost every day. So far I've never compulsively hit return but I am dreading the day it happens.
Mildly related, but domestic rats make really great pets, especially if you live in an apartment. They're a lot less work to take care of than a cat/dog, but also startlingly intelligent, curious, and social.

- very little odor compared to 'musky' animals like ferrets, especially if you get females.

- smart enough and social enough to recognize their owners, explore around, learn tricks. They can even be leash trained (although I wouldn't recommend taking them outside).

- if you get them from a reputable breeder that screens for aggression, they're incredibly gentle, which makes them a lot safer around kids than a typical cat would be.

There are a few downsides, the biggest one being that they only live 2-5 years, and they do require some research and prep. It's really easy to be irresponsible and give them a miserable life, which stinks for any pocket pet, but especially for rats because they're so intelligent.

But if you want a social, 'interactive' pet but are worried that you wouldn't be able to handle a dog, I'm hard-pressed to come up with another animal I would recommend more.
I did not say that jvm historically hasn't gotten a lot of resources, but any innovation done there has been common knowledge for compiler developers for ages.

V8 gets to benefit from all that research, while simultaneously having far more resources (now as well as for the past many years) to apply it, as well as do more of their own.
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In the past some parts accessible abroad were blocked in the UK (BBC Future for example)!
My kid sees more ads now that he watches YouTube on his Switch but between 2 and 3 and I don't think he saw a single ad. We don't have cable (just streaming) and I always have browser ad blocking enabled. Even on mobile devices, I greatly dislike apps that have ads.
HN copied reddit.

> "[Graham] wanted to make Hacker News a place to recreate the way Reddit felt in the good old days, when most of its community was made up of hackers." [0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-evolution-of-hacker-ne...
H/2 Push is poorly designed and completely ignores browser cache strategies. The Link header with early hints is a lot more useful because it lets browser decide if it wants to download the asset or not.
It seems the Mozilla foundation don't use donations for Firefox development though:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/a98gmi/donations_t...
Yes. Because this has historical significance.

And what goes on the front page depends on the HN readership. You can choose to not vote for this story.
A tool to help reduce churn with iOS subscriptions
A cult of personality. https://mobile.twitter.com/MJB_SF/status/1298113027737231360
You’re thinking of happiness as a binary, but the surveys you list describe it as a scale. Most people in Bangladesh don’t meet many of the criteria in OP’s list, particularly income security. (They can feed themselves but that’s about it, and that’s not guaranteed.) So why do they rate themselves a 4.5 out of 10 on global surveys instead of 0? Because family and faith is an important source of happiness. Having kids and being able to feed them (which is a condition short of “income security” as postulated by OP, and is one that even most people in Bangladesh achieve) and participating in your religious community produces a certain baseline level of happiness. Those people would be happier if they also had income security and a fulfilling job. I agree with you on that. But their families and faith are a main source of what happiness they do have. Omitting those things from the list therefore overlooks a huge swath of the human condition.
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I get what you are saying. I want to argue that for me it was not the case.

I'm no stranger to being sick. I had my first MS attack at 12, and at 38 I'd be a wreck if I'd let those things affect me significantly. When we (my wife and daughter demonstrated symptoms 2 days after me) got sick we might have been stressed out by it all, but it quickly faded. It was certainly gone a month later once the insomnia hit me.

The fatigue I experienced I can confidently describe as just as bad as MS-fatigue would affect me in my initial decade of illness.

The accompanying brain fog and extreme mental exhaustion (even if the body would still be able to perform the mind would not) is not something I've never experienced except for with MS and with COVID.

Due to medication (Gilenya) and having moved to the tropics, my MS fatigue is near non-existant. The COVID fatigue was an unwelcome old friend that came to visit. But with my experience with it from earlier I know how to deal with it (Don't expect too much of yourself. Don't get upset when you can't do the things you want to do. Rest.)
You will likely find out when you are about to get married.
I also never knew my caste till my profile was created on matrimony sites and lo and behold, my parents finally told me what caste I was.

I am happily married with my partner who is from another caste and we don't plan on carrying forward this caste nonsense with our children.
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Nikola shows Silicon Valley can’t stop worshipping founders
Tech industry was pretty consolidated back them with MS having an outsized sway over most of it.

There are probably companies created right now that will tower over IT in 30 years and we'll say "yeah but (that part of) industry wasn't consolidated back in '20".
Anecdotally, I can only speak from my experience getting severe pneumonia (I barely managed to avoid being hospitalized), but I think it's worth considering that since COVID is similar, and it's also similar to HACE/other high-altitude diseases (because of its huge impacts on blood oxygen levels) that much of 'long covid' is likely the long-healing process that follows those sort of diseases.

Speaking for myself, it took me about 6 months to be able to walk up steep hills or stairs without needing to pause or becoming incredibly winded. I had malingering symptoms of the disease for months afterwards. They eventually went away, but I presumed they were likely just the result of getting wrecked by pneumonia.

What i'd be really curious about...what does the recovery for folks who develop severe altitude sickness, edemas, etc look like? As I understand it's pretty brutal at the moment, but no idea of the long-term.
Their product looks like Rally but with a Material Design template.

So we get another SaaS that enables management to constantly hound engineers to break projects down into sprints, tasks, and assigning complete arbitrary point estimates so managers can stare at burndown charts and feel accomplished.
I'd like to know which video you transcribed this from. /s
Can you please point me to where that's happening? At least from a legitimate official and not crazies on Twitter?

I assume you are discussing the supreme court nominees, and the only thing that I have heard is the pretty valid complaint that one of them has made some concerning comments in the past with respect to separation of church and state.

It's OK to be religious. It is not OK to force your religion on others, especially when your religion (Catholicism) represents a minority (<20%) of the US population.
>Your life will be battered by bad, uneducated decisions that you spend most of your time trying to fix.

I feel like this type of education is the one that you get at home rather than at school. No amount of continually lowering standards, affirmative action, and pushing people through "higher" education will ever fix this.

Problem is, there is a prisoners' dilemma type situation with college. It would be best if nobody went, but nobody wants to be the one left out in case not everyone agrees to do so. So the result is that people waste more and more money on useless degrees, putting those in lower classes into more trouble by trying to better their lives(or just excluding those who won't take the risk).
wrongthink will be punished.

1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual. Want to really make the world a better place? Improve yourself and stop worrying about how wrong everyone else is.

Then again, that takes actual work and even scarier - self reflection! Oh noes! We might have to gaze into our own internal abyss?
If you enjoyed reading this, you should also check out the discussion of Part I from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24517792
Show HN: Meet a co-founder every Saturday
This thing is amusing. The one advantage it has over in place cameras is that it can try to go get a better view of the perps’ face, especially if it had a camera pointing up for hoodie wearing perps. But it’s probably not agile enough to manoeuver like that.

Maybe the annoyance is enough to chase away burglars and such —they are actively reminded they’re being recorded and it’s not as easy to de-energize and disconnect as regular home sec cams.
I'm slightly amazed that this is presenting Covid-19 as fixed, which is very far from the truth, which shows how disconnected some people are.

(I'm less surprised by the complete US focus)
Yeah, such statistics will always be skewed to some extent.

One could argue that telemetry _is_ the poll. If a user decides to disable feature-usage-tracking telemetry, and then realize they’d prefer to have a voice regarding feature selection, one possible solution would be for them to re-enable it.

If they absolutely won’t opt-in, they’re always free to email developers to tell them about their use case – a pretty powerful way to make yourself heard.
Eh, I for one hope rich people feel bad enough about inequality to start doing something about it. If "complain[ing] on inequality" gets them there, go for it!
Dominic Cummings' data law shake-up a danger to trade, says EU
It would greatly lower my shopping-anxiety if you shared the brands. Thanks!
Rather than the new, toe the line, corporate approved performers, who speak in focus group validated non controversial statements, whose lyrics are simple, and who maintain image over substance.

I've always thought Kanye is one of the last few rock stars willing to buck industry norms and speak out freely(even if it can be a little controversial at times and hurt his bottom line).

He's what I consider an artist not a performer.
Hey HN, in the spirit of solving problems with software, I’ve made a site to connect founders on a weekly basis. I built this project in a few days as I’m currently looking for a co-founder. The result: a co-founder speed dating site.

Every Saturday at 10AM PDT you get matched with other founders and talk about their startups and ideas. You only have 5 minutes to talk and then you’ll get matched with another random founder.

I’ve used Svelte for the frontend, Flask for the backend and Vonage for the video API. It’s still an early MVP but it works and I'm excited to share it with others!

Any feedback appreciated! Thanks for checking it out :)
Wheres your evidence that Italy has more multigenerational households than Sweden? Do you have a citation? That's scientifically unsubstantiated and almost like you made it up on the spot based on anecdotal information.

Also, you're cherry picking again to suit your narrative. Sweden is part of Europe and should be compared as such.

It's disingenuous to keep promoting this demon-ization of Sweden narrative with unsubstantiated, and cherry picked comments.

Sweden did the right thing. Other countries did not. It's that simple.
People knew how to make steel from coal for centuries, but it made drastically inferior steel.

So why did they switch to coal? It's been explained to me that the only reason people finally switched to coal was desperation - there were no usable wood reserves left at the time in Northern Britain. And people were desperate enough for iron that they would use the bad stuff.

Eventually they figured out how to adapt the chemistry to compensate for the sulfur being added, and you suddenly had cheap, plentiful metal that you could use to launch an industrial revolution.

But I have to imagine, for the people at the time, how dystopian it must have all seemed. You have literally run out of trees, and the market is being flooded with cheap but low quality metal.
Not really. It's a mixture here.

Some startups take cash and turn it into useful things that benefit future generations. Things like medical breakthroughs for example.

Without that cash, those useful things will not be created, they will just live in someone's head as an unfulfilled dream.

Some use it to make things that make people happy, like games. Don't discount the benefit to future generations of having things that make life happier.

And don't discount the goodness of people being able to work on their dreams, either. It's not just rich people that get to play the startup work-on-my-dream game. Poorer people do as well, admittedly with less chances at it, but it happens often enough to count.

Some even have benefitting others, the less well off, be an explicit goal of their startup. Heck, some even invest their time and money into non-profits for such benefit to others. (I did that.)

And some startups are bootstrapped by people's own personal money that they earned doing a regular job. Imagine that.
The director of the NIH feels these anecdotal reports are credible, along with doctors in France, Hong Kong, and Italy (as the article mentions).

So I don't mean to be rude about it but what exactly is your expertise that lends credence to your theory that all these doctors opinions (who have directly treated COVID-19 and SARS patients) should be dismissed due to your theory of Americans being fat and sedentary?

Frankly, on the surface your comments sounds like the typically dismissive HN attitude that's been persistent on this site (and the engineering sphere in general) since the on-set.
TLA: It's the thing I wish I know but haven't got a chance to learn.
Hacking into My Computer After Getting Locked Out
My manager had to buy new headphones as when she is WFH she used airpods and iphone to connect to calls and the irpods constantly cycled leaving garbage audio whenever she tried to speak.

I'm using a BT Jabra headset, with noise cancelling I got for about the same cost, 16+ hours of battery, easy pairing and super useful phone app, great ANC, and solid audio quality, at least to a non-audiophile. My biggest complaint is the closed back design leaves my ears a bit irritated after 4+ hours of use. Not an airpods competitor but for the cost I am way happier.
I like them principally because I can actually see what they did rather than them writing what they think they did in an article.. this is a common problem with documentation where if you follow it to the letter, there's still some other thing they failed to mention.

Articles are much better once you're up to speed and knowledgeable about a space, but I find videos ideal to set the scene when I'm totally new to something so I can mimic their actual activity in getting things going.
Twitter lets you register with just an email address, but will require a phone number to continue to use the account almost immediately upon actually using it.

US phone numbers are easily available for under $1/month from various services, and you don't need the number for a whole month. They're cheaper if you're willing to do some more legwork.

Requiring a phone number reduces casual abuse, and increases costs for abusers, but is only really effective if the abuser's gains are in the same neighborhood as the costs, in which case they'll move to somewhere they can gain more or spend less.
Pretty much. When I hear someone call their project a "startup" instead of a "business" I assume they're trying to scam the world.
Red Sludge – Periodic Table of Videos (2010)
The Ugly Truth About Text Shadowing in Android
TBH I'm not sure I'd ever heard of "describe" -- I'd always used rev-parse to get a commit ID. But now that I'm trying it, it gives me a branch/tag name rather than a commit ID (either bare "git describe" or with the other arguments mentioned above). So...not really sure?
5% downpayment for $140k home is $7k.

This is one quarter of an average wedding expenditure in the US [1]

[1] https://www.weddingstats.org/average-cost-of-a-wedding/
> This is 80's stuff, I'm pretty sure todays' slot machines are tamper proof to the point that trying this is totally pointless, and even back then hardening against this was common.

They are. Source: I own a modern-ish computer based slot machine and tried my fair share of tricks against it.
Advancing Instance-Level Recognition Research
I find this drone concept interesting. I can't wait for the footage of this product interacting with house cats.
Makes me wish there was a Data / spot consciousness swap episode.
Gravity Causes Homogeneity of the Universe