skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I can offer an interesting perspective. Compared to most readers on this site, I’m likely on the younger side, I’m 20, at a university, and I’ve been programming since I was ~14.

I used VS Code for the majority of my freshman year assignments, but decided to switch to emacs during my sophomore year, mostly because I’d heard interesting things about org mode, magit, and other packages, and I had a system programming class coming up that would require me to SSH into a VM and finish assignments on the VM.

The initial muscle memory shift was scary, I repeatedly gave up on learning emacs, only to come back a couple days later and attempt it again. I started with Spacemacs/Doom Emacs, but both assumed I knew vim, and I found feature discoverability to be complicated. The fact that many packages were included made things more confusing, I tried to figure out what helm and Ivy were, and how to configure things, etc.

The only time the process really stuck for me was installing vanilla emacs, reading a couple of tutorials on how the extension system worked, and just forcing myself to use it for every assignment I had. The built in tutorial was handy but I still don’t use the navigation commands most of the time. Nowadays, I can’t get out of emacs, I read my email in it, I use org mode for everything, and have it synced to my phone, I used lsp-mode at an internship this summer where I was writing Go, I’ve got autocomplete set up, etc.

While an easier experience would help get people into emacs, I think the fact that you can really customize it in any way you want initially forces you to learn a lot more about your editor than any other editor. If I want autocomplete, I need to go figure out how to set it up, but there’s a plethora of resources. It teaches you how to be a better developer, always looking for new packages and sharpening your tools.
thanks. the video is a good summary
And to make you feel even older, today Nevermind is more than TWICE as old as London Calling was when Nevermind was released.
Thank you for the warning. Nice to know the brand name. Not going to support anything from an Israeli company.
The title is weird like that because Atlas Obscura is a clickbait site that tries to sensationalize everything.
Breadth-First Search a Walk in the Park: Chapter One
funet, sunet, sunsite/metalab, gatekeeper, rtfm, uu, lysator, winsite, cdrom.com, papa, csociety-ftp, ... what other old FTP servers am I forgetting?
Yes the decision is being appealed.
Which is meaningless for userspace apps, as Linux kernel isn't part of official Android NDK stable APIs.
I thought it was supposed to be related to the constant background noise of the mothers circulatory system during those first 10 months in the womb. That we come out with a good association with white noise from the get go.
If you had to reason about your code as a tree when writing it, I think it would quickly be cumbersome.
Remember that we're talking about the API here, not the internals of the implementation.
Good. It’s about time Europe started producing global software products. We need competition in the US and China dominated spaces.
Ak HN: Active/rising political movements or orgs around digital rights?
I am sure I am not alone being unsettled about the growth of global surveillance capitalism and its outbound channels to e.g. state-level security agencies, coupled with recent global re-emergance of authoritarian nationalism and an overall concern of humanitarian rights in the coming decades.

What causes, movements or organizations are active or growing for someone who feels like they want to contribute time and/or money to do contribute with regards to this? The Pirate Party movement seems pretty much dead and some of its pioneers are now in the European Parliament or in national parliaments either as minorities, independents or converts - either way they seem to be dying. The stakes have grown since their days of glory, though.

There's EFF of course, but only seem active in a select few places (mostly US, and some EU, most notably Germany and UK).

For someone in a country where none of these are relevant, are there any other platforms to get organized with other activists/lobbyists/volunteers/etc?
You've learnt by doing stuff. That is awesome. That's how I started (started younger, but still).

I'd suggest trying to become a little more well rounded. Take some online Comp.Sci. courses if you feel like you're missing something in that area. Or even start a degree program while you're working. The stuff you think you don't know, go and tinker with that, ideally while getting paid ;) I'm willing to bet that in the specific areas you spent 5 years on you've got a lot of relevant experience.

Presumably you've built relationships and some human credit where you are that you can cash on here.

If you're looking to switch jobs your new employer is likely to match or offer you a better salary. Whether your title is "senior engineer" or whatnot. Given you work in a smaller company I wouldn't be surprised if a larger tech company pays higher salaries anyways. You can always carefully test the waters there... No shame in staying with the same company though if they're happy with you and you're happy with them...

Without knowing you or any of the specifics this sounds like a success story. Stay positive!
> If an octopus can beat me at Sokoban, I don't care whether it thinks with its brain or its arms, I would like to hire it as a programmer for my startup.

You'd need to know something-- indeed, a lot-- about the entity in question in order to design tests to measure its general intelligence in the first place. Otherwise you're going to default to anthropomorphize the entity in question and misunderstand what it is you are measuring. E.g., vastly overestimating the language skills of a gorilla, or perhaps believing that ML algorithms somehow provide a higher level of objectivity than the data they were trained on:

https://www.wired.com/story/algorithms-shouldve-made-courts-...
previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24565259
I sense the need for SandwichBoard, which blocks off a Sidewalk.

I personally have no idea why anyone would want to join their device to this network, but I also have little doubt that this will be very successful for Amazon.
Are monks, philosophers, and soldiers not self-aware?
This is fantastic!

My goto for the last few years has been the Faster than light video game soundtrack.

I recently found this youtube channel which reminds me of your app:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVHOgH4XEyYx-ZEaya1XqCQ
Nope they do this to cater for the "Linux developers" that buy Apple laptops instead of helping Linux OEMs.
Hi, long time Hacker News lurker here. Trying to share and contribute more. Let me know if you have any thoughts or criticisms.
I didn't know "Sign in With Apple" existed - I wonder why?
The space of [A-Z]Ed names for editors is pretty crowded. LEd is also an old but good LaTeX editor for Windows[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEd
The Artist Who Became a Billionaire // Co-Founder of Square on Creator Lab
I loved the XP theme! It was undoubtedly very polarizing though, even to this day people argue over whether it was a beautiful step forward (as I believe) or a horrible Fischer-Price kids UI.
I admit I did not read the entire publication, but, at least at face value, this seems somewhat absurd to me. Within the past couple hundred years humans have built massive structures in cities that should last for many millions (hundreds of millions?) of years.

I mean, Manhattan may be under water in 100 million years (or, much sooner), but all those gigantic steel, concrete, plastic and glass structures aren't just going to dissolve.
There are far, far worse war crimes on the table for American forces to answer for.

Americans need to answer these questions before they consider their nationalist self-righteousness over this issue:

a) what was done to Mosul in 2015 by American forces and their allies (CJTF–OIR)?

b) what was done to Raqqa in 2017 by the same entities?
Namedtuples make PyTorch DataLoaders better
It is more than that, because Linux isn't exposed as such to userspace.
I wish HN would remove votes instead. The last hope of this not becoming Reddit V2.
Rules don't exist without consciousness assigning a value. Which is to say that consciousness arbitrarily defines truth from nothing.

Rules are not what they are because a rule doesn't have any intrinsic property outside of imagination. It's dependent entirely on consensus and memory.

Without communication, consciousness wouldn't be able to distribute rules. It'd be limited to one mind per set of rules. Communication allows imaginary network effects. Distributed protocol message passing, yay!
Ive never had any problems with any of their basic stuff, just a couple of things related to VPNs, so I still highly recommend them.
Which typically are by one of the major router brands, and do typically have mechanisms for ISP-controlled updates.
Indeed, I don't mix up Linux with UNIX.
Does the overt act not have to further the conspiracy?
Css width is probably 320px on that too. Css pixels are not screen pixels.
Hey, I feel like we share some experiences although I'm taking a slightly different path at the moment (focus on my health). I was in a somewhat similar position not that long time ago.

> My scenario is certainly not unique but I have no peers to discuss this issue with so I am reaching out to HN for stern and dispassionate advice.

I'm trying to connect to more people I can help and learn from. You can find more info here:

https://sonnet.io/posts/hi/

If any of the things mentioned in the post sound valuable to you—give me a shout! Worst case, we spend 10 minutes ranting but I am yet to see a conversation started with this post that I'd regret.

> I feel hopelessly trapped and constantly on the precipice of professional and personal catastrophe.

You describe how I felt when I reached my limit of stress, after years of burnout.

If you can, try to get some rest and be easier on yourself.

Coming from your background (having experienced and escaped poverty, being a self-taught engineer) makes it really easy for one to feel like this. Consider that you might not have the right perspective due to the stress. You might as well feel like this with decent savings in the bank, a three letter job title and a six-figure salary. Often it makes no difference.

Sometimes I envy my friends and colleagues who grew up feeling safe, because it's much easier for them to avoid making decisions driven by fear. Now, I live a fairly comfortable life, and _rationally_ I am aware of the irony of that statement, but it doesn't change how I feel.

If you're anything like me—consider speaking to a therapist. I'm not kidding, the only thing I regret is doing this so late.
You're correct, I misspoke. It doesn't affect my point though, that the prosecution can bring a case without first having won the case. I've corrected the initial comment.
There's this: https://github.com/CodeCommission/subscriptions-transport-ss...

Although it doesn't seem to be maintained anymore.
Mainly quantum simulation. The (most industrially relevant) dream is that you can do direct simulation of large, complicated molecules to better understand them. This is a place where the best understanding is that quantum computing is an exponential speed up although this is quite difficult to prove
Ah yes, cameras everywhere connected to the web. Nothing scary or dystopian about that. Amazon Sidewalk should be called Amazon Snitch.
500 years ago, people were still wonder ‘What are we?’

How little time we have on earth to contemplate.

Haunting
Background sync is designed for this.
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/12/background...
Would that be different from all the currently hyped super-fruits? Aronia, Acai, Pomegrenade, ....
It's interesting he's jumping straight to "moonshots". Not a lot of companies come out of Europe, and I don't get the impression that's due to a lack of ambitious ideas. Rather, it's really hard to start a company in Europe – the tolerance for risk just isn't there (legally or otherwise).
There were no damages as far as I know: I'm not sure what the OLGA org consisted of, but I don't believe it ended up going to court. They decided the fight was too big.

I think that the situation is like this. The music publishers' whole assertion was that, because of licensing laws around sheet music, the tabs were not so much illegitimate as inherently owned by the publishers. Regardless of who created them or how. Thus OLGA couldn't publish them without licensing them. (And OLGA couldn't afford the licenses, obviously.)

But since -- again, under the publishers' legal theory -- the tabs are owned by the publishers, they could license the tabs to whoever they liked. Such as these new leeches.

And no one has had enough interest to challenge this state of affairs. It would probably take some kind of class action, gathering up a bunch of the tab authors. And I have no idea if that fight is even feasible under existing law.
Wouldn’t glaciers grind them to dust?
I would think that self-aware would imply not just emotions, but having awareness of oneself, not just "of one's body", but like, being able to think about how one would react to something, or at least some things somewhat like that.

Wikipedia says "While consciousness is being aware of one's environment and body and lifestyle, self-awareness is the recognition of that awareness."
A) that sounds like a legend and b) low level judges are not the measure of law.
You could get the gun to prevent the conspiracy from taking place.
Surely the solution here is "put the model on BitTorrent, you cowards".

Like, okay, the model's big and unwieldy to run. But hardware's always getting better, and there are lots of research use-cases where it's okay if it takes ten minutes to page the model in and out of SSD while generating predictions. Plus, maybe we'd get some more discoveries in the field of efficiently running huge models.

The arguments about "safety" were PR nonsense when they were making them about GPT-2, and they're nonsense now. It's a robot that blends up Reddit posts in a food processor, it's barely more advanced than tapping the iPhone predict-next-word button over and over, it's not going to hack the Pentagon or take over the world. The only reason OpenAI has ever had to not publish their models -- and I am ashamed that this industry doesn't call them out more often on this -- is so that they can generate positive press coverage on launch day with unrefutable cherry-picked examples.
I'm not sure that making everyone happy is an achievable goal.

I enjoy rating and reviewing apps, and I don't mind when apps ask me to do it. So your proposed solution would make me unhappy vs. the status quo.
From the style/content of the credits, it looks like another variant of a concept that has already been posted twice here in just the past few months.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24431132

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23985825

The credits can be seen/compared here:

https://landemy.netlify.app/credits.html

https://rainbowhunt.com/credits.html
As someone currently living here in Iceland this entire incident boils my blood. As most likely those two tourists will never be fined as it would 'send the wrong message' to tourists thinking of visiting the country.

At the moment we have an entire school shut down and increased restrictions and nothing has actually changed the dynamic so that miscreants won't ruin the progress after this 3rd wave passes.
Due to this latest outbreak we're now at a daily infection risk rate of 87 or so, well above the 50 mark other countries use to determine risky countries.

The tourists should be named, shamed, fined and put back on a plane immediately.
Lol, there's a lot of variance by case type.

I used to do martech development specifically in this space. Average spend a couple years ago was ~$55/click. Targeted ad campaigns can cost a lot more or a lot less per intake depending on case type.

A lot of work was done to drive the cost of minor accident case marketing down but things like Mesothelioma would costs hundreds in targeted marketing campaigns for a single qualified case (the number is seriously dwindling).

I'm glad that I left that industry, but I still have mixed feelings about it. The environmental mass tort cases, like some of the gas leaks in California, were seriously good, rewarding work.

Having to listen to calls and optimize ads for people who were molested by priests or scoutmasters made me lose sleep for months. The final straw there was when the Church negotiated with the mass tort firms to limit cases by an extremely restrictive geography and 99% of the incoming calls became "sorry, we can't help you".
Value-based pricing is used to imply that the price of the service should be proportional to the value the customer receives from it, not the cost it took for the consultant to implement the solution.

Of course, with huge corporations, teeny improvements can be worth millions in value. So consultants working with these large corporations will usually prefer a "value-based pricing" model because if they can convince a customer that they can reap $100 million in additional savings or revenue (not unreasonable for a large company), they could easily charge, say, $40 million for it, but they would never be able to charge, say, $5000 an hour if that's what the timing worked out to be.
Quantum computers don’t have such a compelling case for optimization. Classical optimization algorithms are really good. Usually if you look hard enough you can find a sqrt(n) speed up but I don’t think these are the applications that will change the world
A phone with less than 700px width in 2020?

On a mobile device, web display pixels (logical pixels) are not the same as physical pixels.

An iPhone SE's logical width is 320px.

An iPhone 8 is 375px.

An iPhone 8 Plus is 414 px.

An iPad is 768px.

700 is more like a wap feature phone

WAP phones were closer to 180px. I know because I built local WAP news and weather sites for them. Squeezing color radar maps into 180px was... interesting.
> How many leading aerospace companies do you think are based out of the Isle of Man? It does not even have a major airport.

I don't think they're doing the work on the Isle of Mann - that's just where the company happens to be registered.
I believe it‘s rather an issue with the size of the market. It‘s just so much easier to internationalize when you are already the dominant player in the world‘s largest market, the US. Scales matter, see China.
You try them both and decide for yourself what you like.
> I am not fit the for job market as a senior engineer, and I no longer have the financial means to take a step back into a less senior role at a company with a larger engineering team.

Whatever other problems you have, this is the the one that you need to solve first. You need to learn how to manage finances - getting fired shouldn't be a catastrophe for someone in a role of lead (or senior) developer.
Our dog is definitely smart enough to try and pull a stunt like that.
"How a plan becomes policy"

https://web.archive.org/web/20160531101830/http://ogun.stanf...

In the beginning was the plan.
And then came the assumptions.
And the assumptions were without form.
And the plan was without substance.
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Thank you for this clarification, I appreciate understanding where you are coming from.

I'm wondering if the ethical compromises you feel/felt ever inspired you to try something to avoid them.

For example, one of the people I knew at Sun was pretty depressed about the sort of crap that went on in tech companies. Her response was to create a company that she felt aligned with her views of ethics. Took her a long time to get to "Raman profitability" but that work was offset by the benefit of knowing that the place where she worked didn't subscribe to the kinds of ethical compromises that make people uncomfortable.

I agree that this sort of advice is less actionable during a crisis, whether it is a pandemic or the Great Recession. Just like it is never helpful to tell someone in a car crash that if they had been wearing a seat belt they wouldn't currently be on the way to the emergency room. That said, large unlikely stresses to the system, like the pandemic, tend to "light up" areas of risk[1]. It is why in operations at a tech company you will stage mock outages (with real equipment failures) to be able to "see" whether or not your mitigation processes work and where they can be improved.

I still think it is always good advice to learn from adverse circumstances, regardless or origin, to create additional resiliency in your life. That's how I started figuring out what to put in my "go" back in my car[2]. Looking at disasters that hit the Bay Area and asking myself the question, "Okay, when this hits and I'm in my car somewhere, what will I want to have?"

[1] Using the pandemic as an example, the pathetic capacity for the US to manufacture PPE was not widely understood (visible) until the pandemic.

[2] https://github.com/ChuckM/CarEarthquakePrep
I have recently switched from dark to light as well in my editor and I have noticed it is easier to read darker text over a light background as well. You, or at least I, notice this as well when I turn off Trueq.io's dark mode on the pages with more text like the 'about' page.

You are being down voted, but not countered, so it seems like people are being emotional about this for some reason. Ah well, to each his own.
Brain-eating amoeba may be in Houston-area tap water, health officials warn
Lessons learnt after spending 4 months building an iOS App
Yeah, I’m not an a11y person (nor a UI or even 2d graphics person).

What about the “zoom under my cursor” type things? That seems much harder (though not impossible) if your interface to clients is “just draw directly”. Though thinking about it, it’s actually probably what macOS does: as a post process, take your frame buffer and then magnify the stuff in a region of interest and re-render that on top.

You’re winning me over :).

Edit: I assume your metadata solution is “if someone asks, the text under this region of interest says < string >”.
That would be truly impressive, given how OCaml has global type inference IIRC!
>The reason for an order of magnitude spread in CFR is because Iceland is testing everyone (hence approximating the actual fatality rate, IFR) whereas every other country is testing different groups.

We're not actually testing everyone here, it's a common repeated trope from international news but testing is readily available to all who want to and we test all inbound arrivals via the single airport (now we do, didn't before). They can either self quarantine for 14 days after that or get another test in 4-5 days.
Thanks, in my case that directory didn't exist until I lookup how to properly start ssh-agent under windows
Even on desktop I always have two windows open side-by-side. Normally it's VS Code and Chrome, so I can reference documentation while coding, or take Markdown notes while reading. Most websites seem not to be designed for this use case, which is a shame since the solution is usually setting min-width to a smaller value.
Please use Covid.is for Iceland, there's a section in english.
It’s interesting to hear that you can scale your income at a firm like this very deterministically, by adjusting how hard you work. I wonder how people at the firm chose their input/output balance, given the lack of a pay ceiling like most others in society face. Did many practice discipline to reserve time for personal pursuits, health, and family? Or did they go as hard as they could? Is it different by age?
Literary possesed by daemons.
Nikola founder bought truck designs from third party
Related (IMO a somewhat better explanation of why): https://smallstep.com/blog/use-ssh-certificates/ (note: you can also use Hashicorp Vault for the same)