skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use VIM to edit individual files not associated with a project. Code, notes etc. It makes me feel like a hacker from a Neal Stephenson novel, or cyperpunk film. It's fun.

If I'm working on a coding project, especially in a statically-typed language, hacker text editors are hard to justify compared to a Jetbrains IDE: The latter have a powerful understanding of the language you're using, and use it to catch errors and suggest things as you type, refactor, jump to definitions etc. I don't think there's any plugin combination for VIM, emacs etc that's on Jetbrains' level of language integration.
459 closed pull requests, 85 open pull requests. 211 contributors.

There's your payment, Marak. You didn't work alone.
What percentage of SNAP funding is spent on foodstuff with animal products in it? Over a quarter of the average American food budget is spent on meat and diary directly, with more being spent on products that contain meat and dairy. It’s safe to assume SNAP spending is similar.

https://www.valuepenguin.com/how-much-we-spend-food
The study is suspect end points. I cannot elaborate - too long. I will let the virologist PHDs weigh in here to take this point forward.

Tldr: i have a team in a top institution. There are gaps and the news is TGTBT.
Just curious, why not for LEO? If Echostar can draw patterns like this from geosync, shouldn't the same be possible with an LEO? Or are the satellites spinning/bouncing around too much?

https://rvseniormoments.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/07_ka-ba...
> Shipping labels

If you have any volume, thermal printers are worth the premium. The paper is the ink, they're lightning fast, and they never die.
open sourcing it is anti-SaaS, you cant get that MRR if you support on prem. Slingbox is in a fight for it's existence.
For git in Vim I use the fugitive plugin[1] and I find it's really good. If you find it lacking in any way you can always combine it freely with other plugins. For instance gitgutter[2] that shows diffs in the sign column, giving you an easy view of which lines have been added, removed or changed.

There are solutions for the others too. Neovim has for example support for the Language Server Protocol[3] that gives you code completion, jump to definition and the like.

The only thing with Vim/Emacs at this point is that you have to do some configuration and find some plugins to get the IDE features you want. For me personally, as I use Vim for everything, it's not that big of a deal.

[1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive

[2]: https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter

[3]: https://nathansmith.io/posts/neovim-lsp/
There are a lot of coronaviruses and all tend to become mild overtime. In 1800, Influenza killed thousands of people daily. This endured through the 19th century,

Coronaviruses also have plagued humanity in the same way, for instance look up “bovine coronavirus”
Rust is the future of humanity!
I built something slightly different when I was working at IFTTT.

The main idea was to feed the Active Record preloader with hints from the GraphQL queries.

Of course this only works well when your GraphQL schema matches your database schema (which is most cases anyway in my experience).

https://github.com/nettofarah/graphql-query-resolver

Here's a video of a talk I gave about the approach at GraphQL Europe in 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIzEZJuDpIQ
You can do these things safely, you just can't do them safely and efficiently at the same time. You could do a doubly linked list with reference counting, and it would be in safe code, it just wouldn't be classic implementation you'd be imagining, and not as efficient.
How many people would have used their tax cuts to fund a wide area packet-switching network or space program?
Are they intentionally collecting passports? If so, why?
I agree he deserves to get paid like everybody else, but not because of this work he did. Unfortunately not all societies do that, so uually the common route to get paid is to get (a) work (contract), somebody is willing to pay for.
"Shared source" was an umbrella term by Microsoft for its licenses that allows access to the source code. Among these licenses were ones that were also open-source licenses, but also ones that were not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shared_Source_Ini... lists the following licenses:

- Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) [open source]

- Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL) [open source]

- Microsoft Limited Public License (Ms-LPL) [not open source]

- Microsoft Limited Reciprocal License (Ms-LRL) [not open source]

- Microsoft Reference Source License (Ms-RSL) [not open source]

So, "shared source" was clearly not a particular license by MS.

Also, at that time, Microsoft tried to establish this term (by its Shared Source Initiative) for the general concept of "source code is available, but the license is not necessarily open source".

In the linked Wikipedia article, one can read on this:

"However, former OSI president Michael Tiemann considers the phrase 'Shared Source' itself to be a marketing term created by Microsoft. He argues that it is 'an insurgent term that distracts and dilutes the Open Source message by using similar-sounding terms and offering similar-sounding promises'."
Classic webcrap is near-stateless, with state in the database only. That way, any server in the farm can handle the next client request. Games have a consistent world to maintain in memory. Sometimes a really big consistent world.
But then you have to live in Puerto Rico.

Even with the possibility of traveling all the time as long as you aren't on the mainland for 6 months, Puerto Rico is just not attractive enough.

Everyone I know that was trying to take advantage of Act 60 (previously Act 20 and Act 22) all left when the COVID pandemic started. It was just too clear that the infrastructure was too poor.
That's awesome! I totally agree that in certain cases a passive approach can be better, however given you can write off advertising as a business expense certain projects can benefit substantially from relatively small targeted ad campaigns. Granted, as a developer it's been incredibly tough to learn how to advertise and write effectively for marketing.
? RNA is pretty ephemeral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_(biology)
> Hopefully, with McDonald’s scale and with their vertical integration they can make affordable, tasty, and comparably healthy veggie burgers a reality.

McDonald's hasn't even made tasty meat burgers a reality, so that's asking a bit much.

OTOH, I supect McDonald's will continue to harvest as much of a premium as the market will bear from anyone with special dietary preferences that they cater to, including vegetarians, regardless of underlying food costs. Now, if there is lots of competition in serving vegetarian fast-food, then there will be pressure to bring the price down to the extent costs support it.
Thx Robin!
Exactly. I don’t think those who comment understand that IRS will tax Schmidt anyways, and he also is already avoiding taxes as much as he can.
I'm using Emacs since 10+ but the one thing that never worked for me is window switching with more than two windows. Do you use C-x o to switch between multiple windows or what do you use?

That's what I currently use to switch quickly:

(use-package ace-window
:defer t
:init (key-chord-define-global "ii" #'ace-window)
:config
(setf aw-scope 'frame))
PFsense that's whats running on my Net6501.
I thought I was going to hate this article, but I was pleasantly surprised. It’s very logical and practical.

Yes, most of the multi-country issues could be resolved (obviously, there are plenty of multinationals that do), but there is a not insignificant amount of money, effort, politics, and coordination involved with most of them.

I’m looking forward to using this with coworkers who keep insisting that in-person is better because they work with people who are shit at communication.
It's not necessarily about taxes, the marginal utility of money is basically 0 at his level. I'm guessing he just wants a guarantee of being able to get into the EU in case the political polarization in the US boils over. I certainly would, if I were him, especially given the steady drumbeat of demonization of the rich in the media.
The first tip I got from an older fellow computer nerd at the first company I worked at was: When customer asks for printer, suggest brother for laser and canon or epson for inkjet. So far I'm very happy I listened. The Brothers just work so never got so far as to try the canons. And I got no support calls about the printers either.
> whenever people describe their reasons for using them in lists like this, I see nothing that I would consider an advantage over my current setup, and then just forget about the whole thing.

TBF, you've just described exactly how us emacs and vim users feel every time someone says "why aren't you using shiny new editor X? It has feature Y!"
I really want one of these because I the pen and paper process (wholeheartedly agree with the authors statements)

Is it worth it? Is it better than just having a whiteboard next to me? I feel like most the time I use the whiteboard it is temporary things that kick me off before moving to Visio or JIRA. The price tag seems so high for its single use. But, still itching to buy it.
Great to hear this worked out! In general the offices of your local representative do try to resolve issues - it is their job, and it is good PR.

As to renewing a passport, I just always pay up for a service that takes care of it for me. Less risk. I once got a new passport and a China visa in 5 days, but it did cost $600.
As a foreigner not living in the US of A, I feel that your last paragraph outlines it perfectly. Also, a lot of the outspoken left wing is about groups and not about individuals. To mind comes: institutional racism, gender equality, white privilege, mandatory healthcare/insurance, high taxes on the rich, minimum wage
Wondery is so much bette than Gimlet, I hope they buy it and roll Wondery plus into Apple One.
My guess, ease of movement in the EU for him and his kids.

When you've got Eric Schmidt money, you probably want to have the ability to live and vacation anywhere you want, whenever you want. Otherwise you're limited to 90 days in the EU at a time as a tourist.
Cyprus is not a member of Schengen but as an EU citizen you can still go anywhere in Europe visa free, stay, work and enjoy all benefits as long as you want.
https://archive.is/dS7YE
Perhaps all the people using it value it enough that they might pay (if they had no other choice to keep it), but might not be able to maintain it.

In that situation, it's valued but it only gets maintained if someone offers to do the maintenance for pay.

If the current maintainer is stepping down from the project if they aren't paid, but willing to continue for pay, it makes sense for them to let everyone else know they are willing to continue if paid, doesn't it?
Sort of. Giving up U.S. citizenship comes with an expatriation tax [0] on all assets including foreign assets. The purpose of this tax is to deter people from renouncing citizenship and then selling off assets while avoiding paying capital gains on them.

So expatriation can protect you from paying taxes on capital gains from future assets, but it doesn't do much to protect you from capital gains on assets you currently own.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expa...
So theoretically it may be a currency, but pragmatically it is not.
It depends, usually a chromebook because all they do is email, facebook, web browse, zoom. It is someone that actually uses a computer it's one of the user friendlier versions of linux. Worst case is Win10
getting the hash right is key
Although to be fair, gold is quite volatile.
Over last 9 years - Gone from $1800 an Oz, to $1000, to over $2000

Not something I invest in, but (for example) I'd no idea it was now worth more than platinum and has been for a very long time. Nor platinum seems to be on a slide currently, as gold spikes. Aside from you explaining novel industrial uses, it appears speculative.
HPs instant ink program lets you print full page prints in full color for the same price. Costco charges $2 each for 8x10 enlargements. Given that HPs base add-on rate is $0.10/pg, there are environments where that could make sense. Kinkos and Fedex routinely charge $0.50/pg for color prints.

Sure, I wouldn't print 500 pages of B&W text on instant ink, but when printing things that require color, it's not ridiculously expensive.
Nobody is "overwhelmed" by the points in this article as there is no time frame limiting any response. Indeed, nobody has agreed to respond at all. Therefore, "Gish gallop" is not applicable here.
Because that would defeat the point of the basic research - for it to be used and it isn't exclusive to the two even though they were the most signicant users.

Governments have already have already found outsourcing their manufacturing to contractors had superior results to doing so in house. I think nuclear weapons are about the only thing which isn't privatized.

The government already has an effective equity share anyway over everybody - it is called taxes. Money being mobile has other economic benefits but comes at the cost of allowing more fringe case shenanigans.
Is it me or are you bringing up something completely unrelated there? because it baffles me why

I don't think the writer was talking about the the language somehow directly being related to a gamers experience.
He's talking about building complex game engines and the like and the benefits he thinks Rust provides there...
Hegel: An advanced static type checker for JavaScript
I know a few teachers so I asked around.

The status quo - like in the classroom - is to still just use ___________'s and whitespace on printouts. Some teachers even print the students completed work, just because "grading is easier that way" (read: they're unaware that computer based solutions for this problem exist, or they're not very computer savvy to begin with.).

Science and math classes are a different ball game. A HS chem teacher I know wants to use all the fancy modern teaching, assignment, and grading tools, but the district disallows it. Since the student's work involves drawing chemical structures, stoichiometry , and "showing your work" it's far easier to just have students print, handwrite, and scan/photograph their work than to persuade the district to buy software to perform the task. However, several students have been using iPads and drawing tablets to avoid printing and scanning, and a few overachievers use their own science/math drawing/graphing software, even LaTeX, to produce actual graphics and formatted equations.

I can imagine the same is true for math classes, where it's a huge PITA to properly format algebra, long division tables, etc on computers without expensive proprietary software (that includes MS office!).
A good way to think of this problem is that there are two solutions:

Option A, farmers continue to receive government subsidies, or,
Option B, consumers pay the ‘real’ price for food (which factors in the cost of externalities eg climate change, no factory farms, etc)
No he wouldn’t. Cyprus allows dual citizenship.

Edit: Oh, I see, you’re responding to GP about tax advantages. Yes, as a US citizen he will still owe US tax on worldwide income. Doesn’t mean there aren’t a bunch of loopholes around unrealized gains though.
Who the hell is this piece written for? We all know HP’s printer business is shady, but this tome reads like an Ayn Rand novel (style, not philosophy). Get to the point.
Yes, these are tested 1 rep maxes.
I'm not familiar with rust or if their `unsafe` block mitigates the issue somewhat - I know that for example with memory management, you'd rather ship a game that leaks a bit of memory (since games are generally only open for a few hours at a time, not a lot of memory should be leaked) in exchange for less stutter/performance issues from the GC.
Also good for utterly wasting an enormous amount of power and contributing to global warming.
The Cyprus passport scheme has ended this month, only applications submitted before the end of October are considered. The same I believe applies to Malta which had a similar scheme.
Touché. People on HN are sometimes really flippant about the lesser discussed segments of software industry.

We had to run the hardware lab with strict quotas in the middle of the raging pandemic, because the critical equipment can't be moved. I had to personally go to office several times to use the jigs to use special test devices, I can't even imagine our remote developers in Poland/Ukraine traveling to Berlin just to work on the experimental devices.

Also a lot of people are overlooking the compliance issue. Several of the projects under TISAX need a sealed working environment where access is restricted even for the same company people. Good luck porting that compliance to a home office.
The same goes for all the other blockchains. Ethereum, EOS — all of them made fabulous promises of applications just around the corner, but nothing has materialized except shitty gambling and Ponzi schemes.

EOS alone raised over $1 billion in its year-long ICO. A startup that spent this much money and delivered so little actual utility would be out of business long ago. But these coins just keep going because end-user value was never the point, they're all about siphoning money from new suckers whenever there's a "crypto boom". The endless refrain of "maybe it's like the early Internet, you never know!" is an important part of this scam.
HP's Instant ink does solve this problem. They charge per-page, so you can automatically run self-cleaning every few days at zero cost to the consumer.
A backup plan in case the US becomes an unfriendly place for rich people?
Indeed, but that's also it's Achilles' heel at this point: it is progressing incredibly fast and most people will have a second thought about using something that might change drastically six months down the line. As I said I love rust and I'm incredibly happy to be using it on daily basis and the company has voted enough confidence in the project but if I were to start something on my own, I will most likely have this fact lurking at the back of my mind.
2. More features are part of core distribution, and they're developed by focused, professional[0] teams, so they end up being more polished[1].

--

[0] - I mean primarily the sense of "being paid for it".

[1] - Well, except for Eclipse. At least as of few years ago, default Eclipse had worse overall experience than even my worst beginner Emacs configs.
This comment is golden! Most qualms on indie hackers and similar sites could be quickly settled with this line of reasoning. Not growing fast enough? -> buy ads -> "but I don't make enough money to spend on ads" -> is it really a product then? -> etc...

It's always blown me away (as a person of average intelligence relative to many on HN) that brilliant people who can actually conjure up entire libraries, frameworks etc fall short when it comes to understanding how to convert code into $$$ or anticipating how users will see the same concepts.
I would expect that generally misinformation spreads faster. People that verify authenticity before spreading are slower because they're verifying authenticity.
> Q: What will happen to my data?

> A: Customer data will be handled in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.

So, in other words, sold to the highest bidder in every jurisdiction where possible. What an awful non-answer.
Mr. Schmidt's career is tied even more to Stanford: Prior to Google he was working at SUN Microsystems. SUN stands for Stanford University Network.

And hey Google made money due to Internet being there. Who created the internet? Darpa and universities.
Ask HN: Does anyone give your kid(s) retro electronics?
Hi HN parents,

I'm wondering if any of you gives kids retro electronics, especially for the purpose of education.

E.g. give them Apple II/Commodore 64/ZX Spectrum for learning programming and a bit of computer arch.

What is the appropriate age for that (I'm thinking 6+)? Does game programming serve a good entry point? Do they get distracted by modern electronics (cellphone, consoles, etc.) quickly?

Thanks for sharing~~
I'm an undergrad studying biochem, and my professors have also made their exams open-notes but timed. There are more short free-response questions than previous years. Also, the questions are focused on synthesizing the material rather than recalling minutiae. I think it's a good compromise, especially since you can't rely on Ctrl+F when you have to reason beyond the material in your own words.
Uhh. The author explicitly mentions China's "digital yuan" under the section on central banking.
How Go helped save HealthCare.gov
Sheesh I'd forgotten - he's right, everyone does use that tool. He backed off on a bit but the point still remains, I'm sure he's a better engineer than half of google.

I wonder if they asked Pike and Thompson to invert a binary tree.

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...
Or, like me, your health department doesn't even bother to contact you. I had to do my own contact tracing when I tested positive.
Whether right or wrong, if the community that you are apart of is affected, then there are implications... some of which can become problems.
Which also a symptom of mass-hysteria.

I've read the UK study published from the publisher in Charlottesville and it's a case study of ~60 people (and there are 8 individual cause studies from that study) and almost all of them were either over 55, or were in high risk jobs (jobs were not mentioned for privacy). Many of the old had comorbidity.

If you read the actual papers and not the press releases on "long-covid" .. it's really small groups, and honestly, it could easily be nocebo or hysteria. It could be a real effect too (like lymes disease, where the immune system continues to overreact after the infection is gone).

It's really way too early to tell. Also, ANY virus can lead to permanent neurological damage in the elderly. It can happen for things that are minor infections for 30 year olds.
Exactly, he couldn't avoid expatriation taxes on anything he currently owns.

(https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expa...).
It's surprising Jesus din't make the point that being good is its own reward, instead of focusing on the ultimate payoff of heaven.
Leaking memory is safe in Rust. There is also no GC.
The price is good, but larger prints do cost quite a bit more. 4x6 is only $0.11 each, but 8x10 is $2.00 each.
Because the Constitution says so. It’s as simple as that. If we want that changed, we’d need a Constitutional amendment.
I remember Stripe getting bashed on HN for releasing a commercial feature that took months to develop, by someone saying they could do it "in a weekend"...
Contact tracing is working extremely well here in New South Wales. But we have very low incidence of virus in the community, sufficient to get useful early warnings when DNA analysis picks up virus in the sewage system.

So once you're down to low levels of incidence in the community, given a robust well organised system, efficient contact tracing does prevent the virus from spreading in the community unchecked.
Good news I'm sure.

Not confident how to interpret the numbers. They talk about 'mortality' reduction. Is this per year? Because cancer survivors understand its all about chances of living one year, or 5, or 10 more. Nobody cheats death forever.
This is a QAnon level conspiracy madness.
And before you replace it you just take it out, shake it a bit and put it back in again for another 200 pages. Repeat until it starts giving you missing lines on the pages. This can be going on for many cycles. I just plopped in my spare that been sitting half a year waiting for it's turn when the printer started complaining about low toner.
"If you like US then leave!"

leaves

[Surprised Pikachu Face]