skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m pretty sure our system is like this.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/08/30/our-...
So, someone who nurses a relative in need 24x7 is "not contributing"?

Those carers are often entirely dependent on safety nets.

That is far from lazy! It's an exhausting thing to do.
Big discussion of the same article (but on a different site) three months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23582070
> then you trigger whatever command you need

how do you do see? How do you get to the list of commands? How do you search for a command? How do you remember a shortcut if you run a command manually?

I've been using emacs for quite some time and I still get stuck there.
Thank you for understanding. I believe in HN as much for cross questioning as for showing empathy.
I don’t wish to do a point-by-point rebuttal as you’re entitled to your view — just that it misses the perspective of a large fraction users. As for me, I’m fairly happy using Emacs Doom.

> While I agree that a convenient way to download things from MELPA would be nice, I hardly see not having it as a barrier. Most people new to, say, Visual Studio don't start with "How do I download plugins".

I think this statement is untethered from reality, and matches approximately zero people I know. Almost everyone using a text editor is using it for purposes which would definitely be helped by task-specific enhancements (plugins which are typically much easier to get in other editors/IDEs)

> I did not have access to an expert. I simply read a book on it [...] given that the only reason I began using Emacs is that the other option people led me to (vi) was even harder to do basic text editing.

Yes, and the fact of the matter is that today people have many editor options which are very powerful and also have a much friendlier learning curve.
Try Linpack. It's probably the most stressful of anything I've ever seen, and also a very realistic workload (solving linear equations) --- machines used for scientific computing are doing that all the time. It will stress both the CPU and RAM.

(Many overclockers hate it and think it's "too extreme" because it causes their otherwise "stable" overclocks to instantly fail. I love it because it shows how an unstable system will sometimes effectively calculate 1+1=3. I don't consider a system stable unless it can pass a full day of Linpack without a single error.)
I thought: "how honestly refreshing, how could they have posted this", and then I saw this:

> I (along with many of our former team) was let go almost a year ago, and the fact that I still have access to this Kickstarter account (which I clearly shouldn't) is another good example of the incompetence I am talking about.

> So, in the interest of being on the right side of history, bringing some closure, and since I feel I have a moral imperative, I figured I'll post an update.

This is pretty amazing, fascinating reading!
I tried using it from two different mobile browsers, it did pair up, but the video didn't work.
And diaspora is general too.

Chinese diaspora, African diaspora, etc
This is largely true because States refuse to fund education equitably, allowing local public school funding to fluctuate wildly with local wealth.
The Trauma Floor – The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
You claim zero. But the article links to the following studies: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768351, https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S11..., https://n.neurology.org/content/early/2020/08/10/WNL.0000000..., https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3026, and https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6930e1.htm?s_cid=mm.... Google also turns up https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02598-6.

That doesn't seem like "zero" to me.

Furthermore note that the result wouldn't be surprising. Long-term followup on SARS finds that 15 years after being infected, 4.6% still had visible lesions in the lungs and 38% had reduced diffusion capacity. Given that, the claim that a significant minority (eg > 5%) of people with COVID-19 should still have significant symptoms after several months seems quite plausible.
The type of an underlying variable at runtime may be different than what the typescript type declares. Practically, this would probably be due to either poor, incorrect, out-of-sync, or incomplete type definitions.

A poor example, but this compiles without error and crashes at runtime:

let x: string = "foo";
(x as any) = 1;
x.substr(0);

Now, technically, you can do this sort of thing in most, if not all, languages, but this happens organically more often with typescript due to many libraries being written for plain javascript and being looser on their types, or type definitions getting out of sync with the libraries they are written for.
I know I fell into it because I originally learnt UNIX on shitty XENIX servers which were basically AT&T SVR4 on x86. The internet and Linux weren't around then.

Later on I had to work with a number of different versions of different UNIX platforms on a daily basis (Tru64, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX) as well as multiple varieties of Linux, and vi was a common denominator on all of them.
I'm not sure I understand the commercial license correctly:

> Our default license includes:
> 100% Royalty-Free

So, I just have to pay for the initial license, but I don't have to pay recurring fees or fees based on how many users pay for my final product?

> Commercial Synchronization

???

> All Media

I can use the sounds in Videos, Games, Audio Books, anything?

> Worldwide

Ok.

> Unlimited Usage by 1-User

I can sell unlimited copies of my final product for any amout, but I have to work on that product alone, at least the parts that use that sounds? So this "1-User" refers to the person who works on the product, not person(s) who will use this product, correct?
Yeah, I figured as much, but this kind of vitriol has been leveled at them for so long that whether it's this particular blog post is irrelevant. People have it out for this person.

This blog post is also literally a personal attack, which is against the site guidelines, for what it's worth. (It targets one specific person, which is partly why it's so upsetting. Don't people have better things to do than to write defamatory posts about someone posting clapping emojis? Go build something!)
Microsoft had a secret Windows XP theme that made it look like a Mac
You cherry picked the worst of democracy and didn't mention the worst of dictators. North Korea, Zimbabwe, Uganda under Amin.

"I prefer a team of government which has proved it has a true vision"

And how is this team formed - lottery, nepotism ?, military take over ?
A better title would be "Most news articles on science are wrong, false...", and this article perpetuates that trend. I cannot fathom an expert in any field seeing one study and concluding "Well, I guess that's then end of that". They all know that getting the study published is a pretty low bar, and is only the beginning of the process, if that process is to be continued at all.

Yes, news stories latch on to the newest study all of the time, but that's not science, it's just one journalist sensationalizing one study. You will not see scientists in any field grab the newspaper to see what the latest findings in their fields are. They read the actual studies, and discuss with other experts in the field to determine if the findings are actually interesting or not.
thanks, that worked, I was down the auctex rabbit hole, and got stuck on a 'cannot load file... cdlatex' or some such...

C-c C-x C-l worked out of box!

Weird, once I have C-cxl'ed a fragment to rendered latex, and the C-cc'ed back to monospace, I am no longer able to insert superscript and subscript symbols, and it complains about cdlatex-superscript or cdlatex-sub-superscript...
Oh no. Don't you want to be the customer and not the product by paying for a service you use?
I'm in the middle of developing killginx, which will perform some of these attacks, so I'll just link them here when I'm done. You're definitely wrong about Stripe being invulnerable to this sort of thing, and half wrong about the other things. Up-to-date Firefox and Chrome are not the only things that autofill or negotiate http connections.
Aren't there GCP regions in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City? Interesting that those DCs don't seem to be on this public list.
They can request additional compute time through the browser's standard permission request system.
I disable all sorts of features on Wikipedia (and MediaWiki sites in general; why can't it support a cookie to automatically change these settings, so that you (the end user) can copy your preferences between MediaWiki instances merely by copying a cookie?), and would want to disable some others as well, such as the custom widgets and most animations. I do want some of the features that use JavaScript, but not all of them. The browser should have a better way for the user to adjust individual scripts.
no he was correct
cdlatex likely is very useful if you plan to edit a lot of formulae. org has its own org-cdlatex minor mode (also needs effort to set up).
I doubt they have had 20 years of using to it though.
Hot damn is this the most concise description of how I feel.

I’ve always described it as “the design team justifying their own existence after the job is done.”

Let software get stable and boring.
Using 2019 numbers (because 2020 isn’t really representative of mass gatherings), your point about school shootings seems to be correct.

However I’d argue that a much more relevant and helpful suggestion than “might as wel not drive or ride bikes” would be: you’re better off taking your kid’s out of America.

If your country has more mass shootings than days in the year, and someone is still trying to tell you that it isn’t a problem, that person likely has an agenda they aren’t telling you about.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
> Strong morals are sometime a privilege :)

In your example it has nothing to do with morals but everything to do with enforcement. If there was a traffic cop standing at the start of the one way street almost no one would have entered wrong way.
> The JRE is entertainment in the same sense that Last Week Tonight is entertainment. Yes, it is intended to be entertaining, but it also tries to sell itself as being informative.

Informative isn't the same thing as factual. And you have to be an absolute moron to take anything John Oliver says seriously. But I don't think HBO should ban him. Funny how nobody is demanding John Oliver to be banned and yet, he involves himself in american politics and he's from britain. But even still, I don't think he should be banned.

> As a second point, Joe Rogan is now effectively an employee (or contractor if you prefer) of Spotify. Spotify is paying him a lot of money to run his show on the Spotify platform.

Spotify is selling a product ( JRE ) on their platform. Doesn't make the product an employee of spotify. But maybe I'm wrong. But that makes it even worse since spotify employees are threatening a fellow employee.
> Can someone remind me how it comes to pass that there are people in the scientific community who believe we are the only "intelligent" life form?

Because the universe is 15+ bilions of years old.

Considering the speed at which we have evolved technologically, assuming life developed on earth in a perfectly average way (i.e. we are not special), and given that our solar system didn't appear particularily early, there should be a lot of much older civilizations (and thus much more advanced) around, even within our galaxy. Thus, the fact that we are unable to detect any signal from even a single other civilization is quite puzzling, we should be inundated by those signals.

P.S: I don't know if many people in the scientific community really believe that we are the only ones out there, more so that intelligent life forms could be extremely rare.
I don't understand why Emacs needs customisation to be useful. If it's not useful without customisation, why not ship a default 'customisation' that makes it at least somewhat useful to start with.
If the US had a stronger labor movement like Europe, then the 1% would have less money and would pay a smaller share of taxes, while the middle class would have more income and pay more tax.
The thing is, I do not really hate tech, if UNIX, and UNIX alone (no GUI), is considered "tech". Most of the programs in the freely available open-source UNIX OS I use do NOT need to be updated. They just keep working and are quite reliable (at least compared to their GUI alternatives).

I do sometimes wish that there could be alternative (not "replacement") ways to do things we use "tech" to do today, where the alternatives only required UNIX (no GUI). This way if we get frustrated with a graphical UI, and myriad "updates", we can just do these things the "old-fashioned way", with comparatively smaller, simpler, command line UNIX programs.

To me, the people who would be very opposed to this idea are not users, they are developers. Having been raised on computers in the 1980's I can attest that computer users never cared about "UI" or "UX", they just did what they needed to do to use the computer. It is developers, especially contemporarary, who are actually care about "UI" and "UX", not computer users. In fact, some of them are passionate about these aspects of using a computer.
Maybe it's been fixed , but when I tired Rocket last year I couldn't get it to really work.

I would like Flutter to take over since it combines the best of Java /C# ( types) with the best of JavaScript/ Python ( dynamic variables which can be any type ).
My microwave will run for a split second if you hit the start button. I suspect it’s running the software to operate where the time variable is 0 seconds. That there’s no guard against 0 so it just runs until the counter part of the code runs.

I’ve microwaved a burrito by mashing the start button hundreds of times.
Might be useful to add 'diaspora' too, since it can be used for any group of people who share a common origin:

"A diaspora (/daɪˈæspərə/) is a scattered population whose origin lies in a separate geographic locale. Historically, the word diaspora was used to refer to the involuntary mass dispersion of a population from its indigenous territories, in particular the dispersion of Jews."
Is it even possible to access about:config on Android? In the new Daylight Firefox, I just get an error page.

There are a whole lot of other options I'd like to set...
> "VS code is rapidly taking over it's niche"

For comparison of numbers and growth rate: VS Code was new in April 2015, had a claimed 2.6 Million active monthly users in Nov 2017[1], became the most popular editor in StackOverflow's user survey in 2018[2] with 34% of respondants and again in 2019 with 50% of respondants, to a claimed 11 million users in 2020[3]. Its codebase has been forked 16,000 times[4].

In 5 years, VS Code has gained more users than the population of Switzerland, than the population of London, than Uber has drivers. I'm not suggesting Emacs ought to chase maximum popularity, but if there was any feeling that "the editor / IDE market was saturated" or "there was no demand for editors", that doesn't seem accurate.

[1] https://vscode-eastus.azurewebsites.net/blogs/2017/11/16/con... - (VS Code has telemetry built in, so Microsoft has some accurate idea of numbers, even if they still have the incentive to hype them up a bit).

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code#Reception

[3] https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2020/06/09/go-extension

[4] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
Enlightenment doesn't guide action and opinions. Enlightenment prevents the ego from getting involved with action and opinions.
I use those functions too, although there are accesskeys for those commands, so the side bar is not needed. That is also the case for editing, talk pages, history, etc; there are accesskeys for those too. So, all of the commands can be hidden, in order to make more room for the article text instead.
If the Joe Rogan Experience isn't a news program, then why do Joe and his guests make so many factual claims (a number of which turn out to be incorrect).

At a certain point, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it's fair to call it a duck. And the JRE certainly tries to present itself as factual and not a complete parody.
Yes! Exactly!
Discussion of the author's original article, "The Disinvitation", which he references in the current article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24455505
I logged into Mailchimp yesterday and found that they moved the header navigation to the left side.

Instead of the previous menu option words like Campaigns or Audience there were icons signifying each that I had to hover over to figure out what they might mean. Then when I went to my Reports the css breakpoints seemed to be wonky making that screen hard to read and use.

Half-jokingly It almost feels like constantly confusing people is a trick to boost engagement temporarily while people are forced to figure things out.
C++17/20 on Visual Studio 2019 with vcpkg is a pretty nice place to be for Windows development.

Oh, unless you're developing GUI stuff. In which case, good luck. Use Qt or something, I dunno.
I'm pretty sure the number of shell users has grown exponentially in recent years. I wouldn't be surprised if most users wouldn't know them.

However, the more one uses the shell, knowing those emacs shortcuts really helps (not just Ctrl+A, but also going forward or back one word). Especially on a show connection.
Yes, it is necessary to prevent the core purpose of open source.

Which is fine, proprietary licenses are a valid option. Just don’t pretend it's almost open source. It's a source-available proprietary license designed to prevent the kind of exclusionary rent-extraction whose absence is central to the value proposition of open source.
The programs aren't doing the same things. The Ruby one seems to buffer the matches into a huge string then print. Don't know how different it would be but better to compare apples.
I've had flu, or something with symptoms like it, twice as an adult, and both times it took a whole month to get through the "really feeling awful and stuck in bed" stage.

Recovery was quick afterwards. But just being ill was much more than a 1-5 day event.
Part of the issues with Kubernetes is that it started as a Java project and then it became a Go project. If anyone started a large Go project with that mindset it would look messy no matter what you did.
This is silly.

Say my tax rate is 10%. 10 = 5+5. Is that second 5% taxing money I never see?

My health insurance premium is deducted from my paycheck. Is that money I'm taxed on but never see?

I also get some employer paid health insurance. Is that unfair that I'm NOT taxes on that despite it helping me?
Julia, Python, Racket, Ruby, Common Lisp, Erlang, Clojure, etc...

But in my opinion, dynamic typing is a terrible idea for production code.
This is just the start of research, but apparently Sicilian mob extracts 1.6B euro from the island with 80% of businesses paying, and the GDP is about 90B. So those businesses are perhaps losing 2.5% although the article makes it seem like they tend to be small or individual businesses that pay, which would increase that. Obviously very rough and I’d like to know more.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzo_(mafia)
Am I alone in saying; for some damn reason, I don't like Ruby.. I appreciate what it can do, and indeed what it does.. I just feel like I slipped in between that moment to appreciate it more. I will go and spend some time to learn it more but out of a novelty aspect.. And that makes me feel bad.
Yes, it's wonderful the community is small and technically capable.
Will it protect them from a big fat lawsuit?
That's not really surprising since regex in most languages is PCRE and not really indicative of actual interpreter performance.
> people generally tend to change when they experience the negative consequences of their action, not just willy nilly.

I think you're discounting the effect of lived experience and natural maturity that comes with age. People and their perspectives do change in their own - not just because they made a mistake that impacted them negatively.
How do we "see" objects so far away from Earth? Are we somehow fetching the light? And if yes, if it's 23 million light years way from us, is it possible that the planet no longer exist at all?
To me it violates the spirit of OSD9.
Not really, almost all new languages support macros (Julia, Nim, etc).
A Kardashev Type III civilization can just bang black holes together in a Morse code sequence. However that wouldn’t make particularly efficient use of energy or spectrum.
Wow that's exactly what I want. Thank you!
The trouble with designing a book when its author is in jail (2018)
How is that a problem? The top 1%
(0.1% and 0.01%, really) have an outsize excess income.
Hmm, how does unfinished work differ from unfinished repayment of a debt (for example a mortgage)?

In my view they both require continued ongoing maintenance to prevent negative consequences.

And they both can be intimidating and/or not feasible to “pay off” at the current time.

Just like financial debt, technical debt means accepting an ongoing burden and higher overall cost for a near term gain and avoidance of immediate lump sum payment of money/time.
Last Phase of the Desktop Wars?
Like another poster, I had this thought some time ago. What I wondered was if there is a gravitational equivalent to metamaterials (in electromagnetism, periodic structures that have specific bulk properties not otherwise achievable), that could be used to focus gravitational waves is some useful way.
I remember reading that the overall power radiated as gravitational waves by the earth orbiting the sun is in the tens of Watts, so they are probably to weak to be practical however produced.
The Earth is more than 4 billion years old so 23 million years doesn't seem like much.
I think we are talking about vastly different things on re-reading your post. I’m keying in, along with the parent, on offers being negotiated at figures like less than 5% on base salary (sometimes far less. talking 5-10k range)
Permissionless Identities (2020)