skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn’t matter if you or I don’t see that distinction, but the US government needs to make whatever distinction it chose from a policy perspective.
Hah, I would think so. I'm not really familiar with the scripting side and end up searching for solutions online.

See [0] for something to try.

[0] https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Auto_save_files_when_focus_is_lo...
On a new machine with a blank vimrc you’d probably just be piping in these commands in from the command line so it’s more convenient if they are short.
We got a pull request from someone to enable the fonts entitlement, except they couldn't test it because it costed them money to do so. You can see so yourself here: https://help.apple.com/developer-account/#/dev21218dfd6
Solar Winds Used in hack of U.S. agencies and FireEye
> The reason why I sometimes treat traffic lights as stop signs is because I'm worried the driver coming up to the light might be distracted by their phone and run right into me. As has happened to two of my friends.

This is something motorcyclists need to be hyper-aware of too. Same idea approaching yellow lights. Here’s a scenario that happens all the time: you’re coming up on a yellow. There’s a car in the intersection ahead waiting to make a left into your path. The car behind you isn’t slowing down, he either isn’t paying attention or wants to run the yellow. What do you do to stay alive?

The right answer is to act earlier to avoid that situation in the first place, but there will be times when you find yourself in a bad spot.
> Any and all cryptocurrency/blockchain must be avoided.

Care to elaborate on that statement?

If you ever hope to monetize your decentralized community, how do you hope to do that without crypto? Accept PayPal? Rely on Google for advertising revenue sharing? With the increasing willingness to enforce censorship at the payment layer, it's very dubious to create a "decentralized" community without that key piece being also decentralized.
Generally, no. I only slightly understand the problems when I start.

I need tools like a programming language which helps me think through the problems more deeply over time and automated tests which help me safely refactor as I learn more about the problems.

I think the PHP community has other priorities driven by other values, like being able to start a project and publish to the web quickly.

I think this means that I personally should not choose PHP.
This downplays the difficulty of "bothering" to understand things. Most developers work on applications of insane complexity that they couldn't ever hope to understand. Almost every change is done in some amount of ignorance of the surroundings.
On a similar note in Seneca's letter to Serenus (On the Tranquillity of Mind):

"Even in our studies, where expenditure is most worth while, its justification depends on its moderation. What is the point of having countless books and libraries whose titles the owner could scarcely read through in his whole lifetime? The mass of books burdens the student without instructing him, and it is far better to devote yourself to a few authors than to get lost among many."

I think it can be very valuable to go down the rabbit hole sometimes and study the author and read their less popular works. But of course, after a while you will get diminishing returns.
It's surprising to me that the additional risk is only worth 0.35%.
Mimicry vs. Reflexivity
How so? That was entirely the point
I find that not having highlighting to rely on forces me to write more readable code. I might turn it on if I happen to work on a hairy codebase under time constraints.

Sometimes also colors in general can get distracting and I just turn on grayscale system-wide, which also doesn’t play with syntax highlighting as text ends up being varying shades of gray with not enough contrast against the background.
Interesting! To me the best bike "lanes" are not lanes at all, they are bike paths through the Forrest, no cars allowed or even in sight. Paths like this [0]. The air is clean, it's safe and relaxing. When taking my kids to school I go over such bike paths, it's nice, I don't have to worry so much about the kids. Then we hit the road again, I'm breathing fumes, I keep telling my kids to stay at the side, tell them exactly where to brake and cross the road... We should separate cars from bikes as much as possible.

https://cobblescycling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/4-gave...
C++ did set a bad example with operator overloading.

cout << "Hello World";

What the heck is that? Shift cout by "Hello World"?

It looks like they did that just because they can.
Just in case, here's a free sharrow SVG : https://github.com/laem/velolibre/blob/master/coronapiste.sv...
Car drivers seem to violate traffic laws at least as often as bicyclists. And that's just speed limits.
I would type "8j8j8j8jjj". I type "8j" (and "8k") a lot.
It seems that for this to work, existing directories can't be renamed. However with time the initial structure might turn out (or become) not optimal. In general I like the idea but not having a way to rotate the structure is a significant downside to me.
Have fun staying poor
John le Carré has died
I'm always skeptical of these "nation state" claims, it seems like an easy way out of any tough question about the security of these systems.

"No, no, you don't understand, it's not that our systems are insecure, it's that the attackers where highly sophisticated and had the resources of a nation state, otherwise it would never have worked out".

I suppose "we think it could be done by a group of two or three teenagers with decent knowledge of wget" doesn't have the same ring to it.
On the second last stretch of road before my home we have the "bike lane at the side of the road". On garbage day you'll find some of the homeowners view it as "garbage lane". Not that many, though...I think some of my fellow cyclists "relocate" garbage cans in the bike lane to the other side of the road, or well down it. There are a few houses where the homeowners really don't have that many options (bottom of a steep driveway) and those ones at least make an effort to minimally encroach.

Illegally parked vehicles don't last long around here ;)
I beg your pardon? ( not a native speaker )
Nowadays, you can get yourself sentenced for murder for a traffic accident: https://m.dw.com/en/berlin-car-race-death-top-german-court-p...
I think it has more to do with diet and such than anything else. Healthy people can look at monitors every hour every day without experiencing any eye strain.

For example spiking your blood sugar causes inflammations around your body, and when that happens in your eyes it hurts and they get blurry so it feels like you are strained. To avoid that eat better and exercise regularly. If you already do those things and are in good shape you can start searching for other fixes.
I agree completely. I am completely willing to spend real money on an iOS app that is as intuitive and powerful as a TI-89 but it just doesn’t seem to exist.
There's a problem with links to attachments, like this:

https://https//static.gurlic.com/post-attachment/75971640500...

From this page: https://gurlic.com/software/post/332791159409606661
I set F12 to toggle line numbers off/on. Very quick and handy.

:nmap <F12> :set invnumber<CR>
The concept of identifying information being sufficient for identity theft is so weird for me as a EU citizen.

Can't we please finally separate identification from authorization in US?
A cyclist absolutely can get badly injured when running red, arguably more likely than a car driver.
It does turn the cogs. If I'm understanding you, then your criticism isn't that I'm doing it wrong (I am lowering the base in relation the the ruleset) it's that I don't have struct enough rulesets, right? I need to break them down further?
It seems to me that the price is the ONLY case that can be made for Bitcoin. "It has never traded down over a 5 year span" etc.
I get there is policy to like, particularly regarding the Middle East. I mostly disagree with Trump on policy, but even if he ticked every policy box for me, I can't imagine wanting to end rule of law and just have an imperial president.

Our political institutions like elections, the courts, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Reserve are built mostly on norms that took decades and sometime centuries to build up. He seems ready to throw them all out.
Here is the certificate for POSIX 3 UNIX compliance for Big Sur on Apple Silicon.

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3668.htm
I'm not the author, but I guess everyone who runs an instance can monetize it their way, just like email providers - some use ads, some charge money, etc.
Someone should throw the sqlite database up with Datasette, probably some very interesting faceted search that could be had here
Arm releases SVE2 and TME for A-profile architecture
I live in New York, where the speed limits on highways vary from 50 mph in NYC to 65 in the rural areas. My car is governed at 110 mph. Why? There is no reasonable scenario where that is smart to discover.

Microsoft has billions of users. The security needs of the US Department of Justice are not the same as my mom’s real estate office.

When you use 3rd party IdP, for example, how does Azure MFA know what the app is?

The configuration described was not out of the can. Somebody decided to make it the way it was.
I guess I don't see a lot of situations where I use systems so casually that I don't have config options set. Even when I was managing a bunch of systems I would push out the same config on them all.
Technology, Wisdom, and Human Progress
Tell us about your agency.

What have you worked on? How did you find your clients or customers or projects?

Is it a consultancy? Or did you develop a marketable product?

What technologies, programming languages, databases, and tech stack did you use?

Keep the information anonymous, of course, if you want to maintain your privacy.
The date is sort of arbitrary... they're up 130% since they started buying Bitcoin in August.
Yes this is true. Being a party member is just passing a test and paying the membership fee.
> riding on sidewalks and crosswalks, riding in lanes with moving cars

In one sentence you managed to point directly to the dichotomy cyclists face. Car drivers: “get out of the road it’s for cars!”, pedestrians: “get off the sidewalk it’s for pedestrians!”

In many places there just isn’t safe areas for cyclists that doesn’t end up putting them in conflict with other users of streets.

One thing that’s hard on a bicycle is to keep your cool after a collision or near miss. You end up with so much adrenaline pumping that anger often comes.

Like others on this thread have mentioned though, getting angry at people in cars is not helpful, best case they feel bad, worst case they become angry and now have a multi-ton weapon on their side.
It is generally good to try seeing things from the other person's perspective, but it is also possible that sometimes the other person is simply wrong. Just because an idea is wrong, that doesn't magically prevent millions of people from following it.
Suppose we stop assuming that. Then what? Do you have a concrete proposal or position or something to advocate? If so, what?
I go with nnoremap but yeah, this is the absolute first edit to my .vimrc
A car making a right turn is also going to be a lot more dangerous situation when there are bike lines than if the bicycles are sharing lanes with cars. I was curious about how it's handled in Copenhagen (since that is usually held up as a particularly bike friendly city), but it seems to be an issue there as well, according to this article[1]. What's interesting about this article is that it suggests that a large part of the bike safety efforts are directed at getting cyclists to adopt safe behaviors. It seems like most of the discussion in states is directed at everyone except the cyclists themselves.

[1] http://www.cycling-embassy.dk/2015/10/23/how-to-decrease-rig...
That's probably partly why certain entities try to make it so toxic. People are more controllable when they're rabid and when they're inert.
Heyoo I remember you from Reddit. Qvault is no longer a password manager, though that was a fun project. I think I've corrected the mistakes in my articles that you pointed out, if you have found anymore I'm all ears.
> The first is that MSTR can get really cheap loans because they're essentially a profitable business that can service those loans. Although I would caution that the "But it's got a track record dating back to 1989" stuff - the only reason MSTR is in this position is because it hasn't really grown in pace with the market. They're an income stock not a growth stock, and their business analytics experience tells you nothing about their investment experience.

I agree with most of what you said in general terms. However MSTR is doing this because they've got an eroding business that is in deep shit and the clowns in charge see the writing on the wall. They're not an income stock.

MSTR's sales and operating income the last few years:

2016: $512m sales, $107m operating income | 2017: $504m sales, $74m op income | 2018: $497m sales, $4m op income | 2019: $486m sales, -$1m op income | Last four quarters: $482m sales, $39m op income

The trend is more than written on the wall, it's graffiti'd all over that nice MSTR building in Tysons corner.

This Bitcoin move on their part is because they have no idea what to do with their actual business, they don't know how to deploy those financial resources to actually grow their real business. There can hardly be a worse sign for MSTR. Whatever their strategy has been, it has failed. Bitcoin is a hail mary. If I were large investor in this company, I'd be pushing for an investigation into their finances immediately. I wouldn't trust Michael Saylor one bit, he's a carnival barker that just barely survived the dotcom bubble, and his behavior back then was just as shady as this move is. The cloud era is likely threatening to destroy them as an independent business (at a minimum) and their options are very limited (unlike eg Oracle, they can't just get desperate and go on a big acquisition binge, they can't afford to really buy their way back in with a $2.6b market cap, given how expensive everything cloud is right now).
I've seen the same in discussions of many things from programming to cars.

For instance, FP vs Imperative, where a simple example (map for instance) is being shown and someone always compares it to a for loop, and then disses garbage collection. They're obviously thinking of their existing language (we know from the GC comment) and not of whatever point the OP is trying to make about composability or whatever.

To some degree, examples are to blame. They often aren't good and don't show, to the actual audience, what the author intended. In my FP example, you need something that can't get stuck in a syntax-level debate and is complex enough for the benefits to show through. Like doing something that would take a 50-level deep stack of for loops in an unnested fashion.

It gives you more respect for great teachers who can pull examples out of the air that both illustrate and refuse to misdirect.

Can you (because I certainly can't) write a good post or blog about the minimum useful deep learning project that can't be done equivalently via any other methods?
Good example, I'd forgotten about that.

On second thought I was mistaken about the example I gave. If someone says You can have tea OR coffee they're really expressing a NAND. You can have at most one out of the two options. Unlike with XOR, you're permitted to have neither.

To express XOR, you'd need to say You must have tea or coffee.
This is a bad way to look at the numbers. In urban areas, cycles are on average below median income, and drivers are above to far above median income. Yes, there are poor americans, they are by and large not driving cars in urban areas, wealthy folks are on balance driving cars, and the poor people are riding bikes. Laws that shift monetary risk from bicyclists to cars are progressive policy.
Thanks. Should be fixed now.
I’m a cyclist and driver too, and I always get annoyed when cyclists always blame the cars. Most cyclist don’t follow the laws and then yell at you for their fault. I stopped my bike at a stop sign, the dude behind me wasn’t prepared for it and hit me with his bike. He then yelled at me for stopping. Honestly, both drivers and cyclists are rude and selfish on the road.
> "Complex" and "complicated" are synonyms as far as I can tell.

No. Complex is the opposite of simple. Complicated is the opposite of easy.

Simple and easy aren’t synonyms - see the talk by Rich Hickey linked in a sibling comment.
I've tried Obsidian, but after getting used to the inline workflow of Typora I just can't use anything else, even if I'd love to have the graph feature that Obsidian provides.
Usually this sort of thing is grassroots and ooorly funded - but just imagine what the enormous financial resources of the self-driving car industry could do - by increasing the costs and deadly perception of human car driving in every city that say Uber operates in,
the likelihood of those jurisdictions approving even stage 4 cars on the road will increase.

Just hire the same lawyers that the tobacco industry was paying.

I should send someone a memo

Having said this, (as a daily commute cyclist pre covid) the issue is lack of delegated infrastructure- and I think that applies not just for mixed human drivers and human cyclists but (as much as it disappoints) we will likely need separate roads for self driving cars and human (cars / bikes / pedestrians).

Self driving seems a really hard problem now we are past the "california highway" level. To be safe at night or in rain or in Italian backstreets or Mumbai rush hour seems behind reach.

So we can use infrastructure to reduce the need for better AI. But that gets expensive. We can probably avoid building a second road network - but we need compromises.

Separated bike lanes will help this - those great wide Dutch streets with pedestrian bike car and the tram lanes come to mind - main roads where the central lanes are for automated use only.

The cost will be enormous (and blows most business models out the water) but we may win elsewhere - reclaiming some of the streets back as living areas, migrating deliveries off trucks and into smaller slower delivery vehicles designed to trundle down thinner streets.

Either way i look forward to a future of slower vehicles a d bike paths
The consensus amongst the three English teachers I asked was that it should be "or else" or "otherwise" and that it's probably ungrammatical, although none of them could explain why. The one who is also an actor said "it works as a line" and she wouldn't think twice about it in a script or as written dialog. Interesting one though!
John Le Carré has died
You're echoing my comment: abstraction can be very useful, but you have to take care.

Also, it's pointless to claim that transformations on an abstraction can reduce complexity, but abstractions themselves can not. Abstractions are required for that reduction in complexity.
Another approach to the swap file thing:

view foo # opens read-only, no swap file
vi foo # opens read-write

Another benefit of this habit is, if you know you're not going to want to modify a file, you can protect yourself against errors like accidentally changing something and then absentmindedly saving the file.
Thank you buttscicles (hard saying that with a straight face) for OP'ing this thread and to Joe Alcorn for the amazing original article.

I haven't shared this yet -- it's more for the community, but I've tried to address various questions from the community and distill answers + resources for Open Library here:

https://blog.openlibrary.org/2020/12/13/importing-your-goodr...

Tried my best to include others players in the space (wikidata, inventaire, bookbrainz, worldcat, bookwyrm) who are doing great work and pay respects to readng, storygraph and other innovative services which are breaking onto the scene.
Our Literary Drought
I would bet on China, not Israel. Nation-states calculate risk/reward. With Jonathan Pollard, the reward was huge: getting your own nukes. Hacking the treasury? Not sure what Israel would gain from that; the costs of being perceived to attack a friend would be relatively higher. Whereas China has obvious reasons to want to know what US economic policymakers are thinking, and has little to lose in terms of reputation.
Because there are many factors which go in to decisions and a particular negative feature might be outweighed by other concerns?

Also, pedantic point, I think you were looking for the phrase en masse, of french origin. See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/en_masse
Why on earth would it be illegal to use a dash cam for your own protection?
You need to use it.

I’d suggest taking any task that you would do in excel, and do it on the command line.
Dumb fedoralord attempt at humor, disregard.
A list of “famous” apps written in Delphi or Lazarus:

https://jonlennartaasenden.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/famous-s...
>"“communism in the raw”

that is such a strange accusation
What if you're actually the asshole here? Dipshit.
Recognised that GitHub username straight away. That author also made "datamaps": https://github.com/ericfischer/datamaps

I remember over 5 years ago, they helped me me visualise 1 billion "Shazam's" (where I was working at the time) onto map tiles. Glad to see they are still supporting developers!
Of course they do. But they are certainly playing on the mind of the average consumer who thinks they are buying more access than they are.

We don't accept that from "door buster" deals in papers. Curious why we fully accept it from cell providers.
> If it is in someone else's dialect, they can feel free to say it, but my experience is that it is rare.

Agreed. And this is the reason why use of 'else' in programming languages might not have had to be invented, right?
>So if literally every known billionaire in the world decided to convert $1 billion of their assets to BTC

Not what I said.

The reason I mentioned the number of billionaires in the world was to point out the magnitude of money sloshing around in the existing financial system and that it would take much less than nation states giving up on their currency for BTC to do (yet another) 10x.

>its price isn't dictated by two dudes swapping one BTC at an absurd multiple of what everyone else is willing to sell for either.

I guess making a point by pushing it to the limit isn't something that is going to work here, so let me rephrase: the fact that Bezos's net worth is calculated by multiplying the number of AMZN shares he owns by the current price of the share is a completely unrealistic way of doing things.

Were he to actually convert all of his AMZN shares to cold hard cash, he would be left with a small fraction of what he currently weighs.

In the same fashion, the BTC market very much sensitive to liquidity: a very large portion of coins were acquired when the price was much lower, and the actual market depth of BTCUSD is - I suspect - rather shallow and it certainly wouldn't take "every known billionaire ..." to move it up 10x.
I say this as someone who commutes by bike whenever possible -- there are some real assholes riding on the paths. It turns out that riding a bike does not change who you are, fundamentally. If those cyclists owned diesel pickups, they'd be coal-rolling with the best of them.

I used to cross a bridge to get to work. There was a shared pedestrian/cycle pathway, about 6 feet wide, with cycles yielding to pedestrians. I remember walking across that one time with my family, including my daughter who was about 3. This one jerk rang no bell and blew past my entire family, about a foot away, at 20+ MPH. I didn't even hear him coming from behind.

3 year olds are prone to random movements. If she had moved by a foot or two at exactly the wrong time, it would have been a very bad situation.

On the plus side, the cyclist behind the asshole (who properly rang his bell and passed us) stopped at the end of the bridge to apologize for the first guy.