skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try nvi. It'll open files vim chokes on. Try Ni string esc where N > 1000000 (insert 1000000 copies). Or however high you need to go to watch vim choke and gasp and wheeze and make you think your computer hung. Then go do the same thing in nvi and watch it happen in one second.

Likewise, find the file of size that vim can't handle on your machine, then open it with nvi.

For those virtues, speed and opening large files, nvi eats vim's lunch.
> any such scheme nowadays would be a lucrative target (to say the least) for bots and mechanical Turks

But that's assuming the service would use your upvotes to change results for other users, right? Would there be any harm in limiting this personalization to the user that made it?

Now what I think would be really cool would be the ability to share your “recipes” with others, in a completely transparent way, kinda like uBlock filter lists. Google's custom search is almost that, but still too black-and-white (and, of course, still comes with all the caveats of being Google).

Outright blocking entire sites or terms is too much. I want a search engine where I can calibrate results in a much more granular way. For instance, if I'm searching for something programming-related (which I could explicitly tell the engine vs. letting it infer for me), I'd like it to do things like not ignore special characters, and official reference documentation to appear first, then maybe Stack Overflow, etc. and leave content farms at the bottom, grouped in a compact space (but not necessarily make them disappear as some of them may actually be useful). Stuff like that.
Part of this comment made me think of Albert Hirschman's 'Exit, Voice, and Loyalty' [1] - at least as I have understood the argument, comparing the 'standby passive observer' to the 'loyalty' standpoint, and the commenters as having chosen the 'exit' option. Hirschman's book is still on my reading list though, together with his 'The Passions and the Interests' - my impression of his work is mostly based on the episodes of Alphachat where they discussed his life and work [2,3,4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/d1f5d43e-9cef-41d2-a651-f59a40e47...

[3] https://www.ft.com/content/798e6641-ecf9-480e-906e-8ee756296...

[4] https://www.ft.com/content/33809fbc-c999-41c5-97f6-a5d1f33d0...
OP here.

Thanks for the great comment. As you think about your overall career, I guess I'd ask you to not think of this as merely a stupid game.

In the complete context, you're an accomplished technology professional who will continue to develop skills, talents, and capabilities throughout your career. How you put your talents to work in solving level-appropriate challenges and problems is important to your progression in your career.

So starting with the meaningful, real, achievements -- your ever-improving aptitude and problem-solving abilities, applied against problems of ever-increasing complexity and depth -- how do we best express that in a short, asynchronous format of about 300-500 words?

Inevitably, the compression of a human experience to this reduced, written, format will leave out meaningful nuance and important clarifications. But in the overall system, it's necessary for the participants involved to have some way of prioritizing the expense of time, money and attention on interviewing and recruiting specific individuals. The alternative is unworkable for everybody - we simply can't conduct full interviews of every applicant, it wouldn't be a good use of company's OR applicants' time.

So if, for the system to work better, we need to adopt this practice, then how can you best represent your true professional capabilities within a limited, constrained document such as a resume. My post suggests it is with numbers, and my observations of actual behavior with recruiters and hiring managers show that numbers are better.

A great technical resume can help get you the interview. In an interview, especially a behavioral interview, you'll be asked deeper question about that 50% reduction in API load time. If it turns out that it was just a few minutes to implement, the hiring manager will, rightly, question your technical judgment in putting that forth as one of the 2 or 3 or 4 most significant accomplishments in your career at that company.

So rather than viewing it as a game, I'd suggest starting with the real achievements you've had in your career, focus on those and how to best represent them in brief, written format. Tricks or shortcuts like mentioning a task that only took a few minutes won't work well, and leave you behind where you could be with more appropriate achievements.
I was having a friendly conversation with my boss. I tried to joke about how windows batch basically gaslit me for half an hour, because I didn't know batch variables are substituted at evaluation time, not runtime, so it basically makes it impossible to reassign a variable unless it's in a batch script file with EnableDelayedExpansion turned on. I don't think I fully communicated the joke but I learned a lot just by trying to.
My guess is that the headers would be incompatible.
Plant physiology is a branch of biology that studies this, and have developed clear and reasonable explanations. Some that don't involve having parts of animals scattered in plants.
I'm not seeing his book being panned on your Reddit link, I'm seeing ad-hom attacks on him because of his lack of credentials or some unrelated behaviour they don't like.

Is there any actual panning of his book by someone who read his book, in your link? Or anyone who engaged in good faith - e.g. it's a book about his experiences of problem behaviour patterns that hurt others?
I've put lots of little coding solutions, links to my videos and articles on my website [1], and have sent this to potential employers in the past for web dev jobs. It definitely helped accelerate things, and on 3 occasions I didn't have to do their take home test since my GitHub was enough. I don't have an up to date CV and my LinkedIn is empty.

I've also heard of potential colleagues giving positive sentiment to the hiring manager/boss: "oh that guy, I'm subscribed to his mailing list, he's good".

I've received a good number of offers, and one thing I've started to wonder: are interviewers thinking I'm a great dev because all these little side projects supposedly make me a better web developer? Or are they hoping I'll increase exposure to their brand since I already do talks and write articles?

I hope it's not the former, all the time I spend writing, doing talks etc. it's taking time away (with the exception of software-based side projects) from me learning about the art of software engineering.

[1] https://umaar.com
I recently bought the Alexa enabled Amazon microwave. I just say “Alexa, microwave at power level 5 for five minutes”, and it starts right up. Of course the first time I tried saying “Alexa, microwave at 50% power for five minutes” but Alexa helpfully said “you have to select a power level between 1 and 10”, so the UX was easy to grok and I haven’t messed it up after the first try.
Now this is 'hacker' news!
I’ll just say it: it’s pretty fucked up that a "chief architect of Obamacare" (as described in TFA) has this opinion, imo. Seems sus and anti-commensurate with the stated goal of making healthcare easily accessible
Most of the money being thrown at Linux is to make it better on a server. The laptop/desktop market is dominated by Microsoft, with Apple a distant second.
Then I'm interested to know when, what's the number of years, should we drop backwards compatibility for a certain version of interface, if ever. I'm sure there're still a lot of punch card programs and today no new system support it. Also there's always a option to not use the new technology that dropped backwards compatibility, which is why many people still buy second hand game consoles and casette players. I love them, but I accept the fact that they're no longer backward compatible with new devices.
>One thing I found is how bad ddg is at removing conspiracy theories and other misinformation.

In all kinds of regimes, from dictatorships to western democracies, all kinds of valid (and sometimes proven in court, or historically, later) stories have been officially called "conspiracy theories" and/or misinformation.

And inversely, in all kinds of regimes, from dictatorships to western democracies, all kinds of bogus state propaganda has been officially called "the truth".

I'd rather not have a search engine decide for me...
Do we all agree with that? I feel like I'd probably still keep 6 months of cash on hand if I were Jeff Bezos... But presumably that's one of the many reasons I'm not.
Question: Why are you doing this for free? Are people coming back for advice?

Those silly numbers are a complete showstopper form me but may actually work with some folks i would not want to work for.
My mother is about to turn 89. She's active and enjoys life, and she makes a real difference to the people around her. She supports them, encourages them, and provides wisdom and a sympathetic ear.

The world is better for her being in it.
> Meanwhile with arm, you have constant instruction size (other than thumb, but that’s more straightforward than variable size),

That's only for 32-bit ARM; for 64-bit ARM, the instruction size is always constant (there's no Thumb/Thumb2/ThumbEE/etc). It won't surprise me at all if Apple's new ARM processor is 64-bit only (being 64-bit only is allowed for ARM, unlike x86), which means that not only the decoder does not have to worry about the 2-byte instructions from Thumb, but also the decoder does not have to worry about the older 32-bit ARM instructions (including the quirky ones like LDM/STM).

That would also explains why Apple can have wide decoders while their competitors can't: these competitors want to keep compatibility with 32-bit ARM, while Apple doesn't care.
So it's gonna be another too big to fail thing again.
I am part of a quite active community on matrix.

Basically a split off of a subcommunity of a discord of a reddit community. (Specifically moving politics away from the community discord)

So, it is possible to move people over, but it only really works in terms of batches of people and basically as a island of people, rather than integrated into the wider community.
>What tests have you done to confirm that you're actually any good at this?

That's where the "decide on my own" part comes from. I don't need to pass your tests or arbitrary criteria.

The most important point in having a democracy and citizens worthy of the name, is that you don't delegate this sorting out the wheat from the chaff to some third party that "knows better".
Microwave a family sized frozen lasagna or defrosting a whole chicken are the only things that come to mind.
... on Ubuntu with pre-built repos.

And no, the default install is never that hard, not even on FreeBSD. But then, on it's own, Matrix is just yet another chat system, which I really don't need - what I would need are the bridges. And setting up the bridges are horrible.
This is not really the case. Most Intel servers run linux, Intel has nearly complete control over linux in a practical sense. They can put developers in it and update the OS and unless its a very user hostile feature it will go into the mainline kernel and be everywhere. The same goes for compiler and so on.

Intel could easily open up their boot and make the store there much better.

The don't quite have the vertical control of Apple, but to say they are fundamentally hindered by their legacy is quite questionable.

The fucked up improving their manufacturing.
The state not collecting in the transaction is a benefit for both parties, because you can buy/sell at a lower price.

Price discrimination means you can sell at a lower price to customers who might will not buy otherwise.

There is no price obfuscation.
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I know nothing about this field, nor its criticisms. Can anyone point me to some good reading that describes the detailed strategy and nuances that led to wars being won or lost? Things like not planning for muddy terrain contributing to a battle being lost -- that sort of thing. I don't know if this is what the author is for or against, but it's definitely something I'd be interested in reading.
There are two threads (heh) of work on threading in Matrix - one is label-based threading like Zulip: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2326, which is implemented today in Synapse but isn't exposed by any(?) clients. The other is full HN/Reddit/Twitter/FB style threading, as per https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2836/files, which has been implemented at https://github.com/matrix-org/cerulean and if successful will get fast-tracked into Element. Quite what the UX will be is unclear, but it's unlikely to be Slack/MM/Gitter-style.
Most likely, if you're posting on HN, you're probably at least OK at critical thinking
Why does that seem very unlikely? It seems to me that the right way to think about that is that the likelihood is simply unknowable either way.
I should have written that originally they were elected by state legislatures. Appointed is the wrong word. The important point though is that voters now choose their senators directly. That's a trend toward greater democracy.
They read the headline and all of the article except for the starting paragraph.
So you're in the camp of "we'll do without silicon fabrication plants entirely, thank you very much", because I can pretty much guarantee you that the liability that creating the initial versions of this technology would have ensured insufficient capital to proceed.

As another comments notes, corporate limited liability is not just, or even primarily, about liability towards your business partners. Build a factory, pollute the water, and without limited liability, you are ruined (which some would argue is the way things ought to be).
The one where you arent trained to just shoot people until they stop moving/gun runs out of bullets.
No, it's like saying I want the search engine ranking by relevance and quality of search terms and matches.

If I search "we never landed on the moon" I want to see results about those theories, not see them censored because the search engine "knows better".
Mine has a knob rather than numeric pad, but also that 'start with default 30s' button. So I hit 'start' then spin the knob, no multiple press or beep required.
Well, the question is how much of the output they get :-)

Though actually note that the classic Mancur Olson result is "the exploitation of the strong by the weak". That is, the person who has the largest share of output contributes disproportionately much to the public good.

Simple proof: write individual i's marginal benefit from the company's total effort X as

s_i f(X) - x_i

where s_i is i's share of the output f(X), and x_i is i's own effort.
Taking everyone else's effort as given, i will equate marginal benefit of own effort to marginal cost, so that total effort solves

s_i f'(X) = 1

equivalently

f'(X) = 1/s_i

Now suppose the person with the largest share satisfies the above. Then everyone with a smaller share must have

f'(X) < 1/s_i

and therefore, if they are contributing more than the minimum possible, they have an incentive to reduce their contribution. So, this extreme version has that only the largest "shareholder" does any work. (A more realistic model has a convex cost of effort, so smaller shareholders do something, but they still contribute less than their output share.)
> which clearly has spread to you as well

How do you know this?
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Those are two very different things. The OP article talks about introducing air bubbles into the stream along the hull, the articles you linked talk about cavitation bubbles, i.e. water that vaporizes when the pressure locally drops. The latter collapse spectacularly and do indeed damage to surfaces. The former don't.

[edit: clarified which articles I mean]
Are these easier than magnetrons to I/Q modulate for the ultimate wifi experience?
I wish it were causal. I eat a ton of Sriracha.
IMHO the problem with Matrix is federation. I think adoption would be far better if there was just a single, open source, global, decentralized Matrix network. Users don't want to have to run their own servers and have to figure out which network of servers to join. If a user downloads a client app to their phone they expect to be able to then connect to THE network.

As long as the code is open source, then there is always an out to create a new network, but why do that before it is actually necessary? (Basically federation is just a form of premature optimization) Communication networks should be like git repos. We should all be working in the same repo, but if sh*t hits the fan, then fork it and carry on with business.
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They're not too good to be true. it's just the people making those kinds of returns aren't taking retail investment.

For example in crypto, market makers are commonly making 100% return. You haven't heard of these firms and they aren't interested in your money.

Market makers usually do quite well for themselves, but are capacity constrained: they can earn stellar returns on tens of millions of capital, but maybe not hundreds of millions or billions. You probably haven't heard of most of these firms and they would prefer to keep it that way.

of course if you want a public example, look at RenTec. They are unique in generating eye popping returns with such a large amount of capital. This is extremely uncommon. However generating comparable returns on 500-1000x less capital is significantly more common. These returns often don't compound tho, as they are severely capacity constrained.
Ways to generically flavour and improve food.

Sugar, fat, salt, msg, chilli.

While we refuse to use MSG, and are not sure about salt, chilli will make you healthier.

Not as much as this article claims. But it is good for you.
That would require that people are actively interested in being educated. And to be honest most people aren't even in school, much less when they're grown up.

To make it worse, antivaxxers explicitly mistrust science and only trust the blogs and "mama groups" and other crap. How is anything the government, scientists, the media, anyone supposed to overcome that mistrust?
Have you.. actually tried steaming something?
Will this guy take his own medicine once he has reached 75 years? Or is it only the peons who have their healthcare rationed, but not the patricians?
Does not make any sense. It is like saying you're part-time gay because you only suck dick on Fridays.
It's always amazing to me how bad a lot of consumer UI is. Consider the microwave has a fan. If you are in the room you can hear the fan go off. Why beep right away. Why not wait 10-30 seconds. And then there are the ones that beep every 30 seconds of no one opens the door, forever.

There are things like my Prius HVAC. Yesterday afternoon it was 80 degrees. And I had the air on. Tonight it's 45 degrees. When I turn the car on it blows cold air at me. Even though it knows it's 45 degrees out. Dumb.
Putting something last on a search result of thousands is basically the same as removing it entirely. Hell, even putting it on the second page is basically equivalent to not returning it at all.
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One of the first things you might notice in some of the job ads for those firms: instead of "Compensation: competitive salary, 0.0x% equity," you'll start seeing phrases like "extremely high compensation." Then you'll start really feeling like you're not in Kansas.

In this vein, the tech industry screws its employees as far as their share of revenue-per-employee goes. Apple makes 10x per employee what Jane St. does, and I doubt the small firms achieve the difference.
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> Except we have: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix. We have people working on it full time, and hopefully going to evolve into hybrid P2P/Client-Server eventually as per that blog post.

Gosh sorry I remember seeing that post, but for some reason I thought it was more of a concept without anything shipped yet. I should do a better job of reading.

Exciting!!
That's nice, but it would be awesome to be able to synchronize plain text files using rclone/syncthing - without using dedicated server.
Spot on. In theory, it is a fantastic idea to send mental health professionals, without any guns or self defense tools, or any bodyguards (police) to an ambiguous high-intensity crisis situation that seems like it involves psychological distress. In reality, when those professionals come face-to-face with, for example, someone high off of bath salts or PCP, they might have to abandon the scene due to the imminent threat to their lives, which then results in both the drug user and random passerby being placed into harms way due to the government not sending a full complement of healthcare + police professionals to the scene.
Maybe but I won’t give it credit for existing until it lands in public hands. You can buy tiger lake laptops off literal shelves, today.
Instapots have a bunch of ridges where the lid clicks into place.

Not easy to clean. :( Not impossible, but if anything gets caked on there, rather annoying.

Also the lid gets scummy, not hard to wipe off, but there are enough snooks and crannies that it is a bit irritating.
I tried Kaitai struct, won't recommend it.

The yaml based language is awful to use.
It doesn't support bit level reading, so you can't do unaligned bit reading, used often in networks packets.
> But what happens when it's China?

What happens is US companies quickly capitulate and start appeasing the chinese authorities! They still get access to the american market if they sacrifice core western and american values like freedom of speech and privacy but they lose the growing chinese market if they refuse to do so. It's an easy decision for them.
This is how I feel about a healthy majority of flat UI design today (and almost the every example of neumorphism or widget with animations).

Eye candy happens when UI designers make something for a slide show demo and neither the designer or PM uses the UI while they iterate. Which is part and parcel to many areas of development today.