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Ask HN: What extensions/plugins do you have installed in VSCode and SublimeText?
Hi HN

About to setup a clean install of VSCode to complement Sublime Text, for web development.

Made me think, what extensions and plugins do you have installed in either VSCode, SublimeText or both?

Any extensions or plugins you would particularly recommend or ones to avoid?
No... Because that isn't unlimited. Period. The limit in your case is when you decide "usage crosses into abuse of the service". Which means there is no communication ahead of time to the user what behavior to avoid.

Just admit all people want is to be able to ride the gullibility of people who aren't as picky about language as the people who actually give a crap about clear communication. What businesses want to sell is a conditionally vague statistically multiplexed service level, and I'm willing to bet most don't even go out of the way to let the User know what they're overall footprint within the scope of the entire system is, which is info they'd need to manage usage patterns themselves. It's the hallmark of manipulative language.
It would be great to see a summary of the book when you click on it!
Let’s do it - I love a good intellectual conversation!

Examining what facts we have it’s very clear that the Republican Party has put forth a number of specious lawsuits with no grounds - all of which have been vehemently rejected by every court in the land - and that the goal of these lawsuits is either to overturn the legitimate election results and/or undermine people’s faith in the election.

Many or most Republican politicians know the lawsuits will fail and are on board because they know they have to keep their base riled up in Georgia to win those Senate runoff elections.

And also because Trump still has a vise-grip on the Republican base, so these politicians have made the calculation that they’d rather do what Trump wants (so they can win re-election) than reaffirm what is America’s most fundamental small-d democratic process: voting for our president, having our leader be elected by the people.

Considering how fundamental voting is to a democracy, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to call an attempt to undermine the electoral process itself seditious.

It’s not very patriotic to put the success of your own political party ahead of the good of the country. Both sides do it a lot but in this specific case it’s clearly the Republicans and it’s a pretty egregious breach of faith of our social contract. In America we expect our elected officials to respect the rules of the game, and acknowledge an electoral loss.

Do you agree that these lawsuits are un-patriotic and seditious? If not, why?

I look forward to your reasoned, cogent, and rational response so we can have a nice intellectual discussion about policy.

Please don’t share evidence or whatnot which the courts have already examined and rejected - it doesn’t seem like a very good use of time to cover old ground, unless of course you wish to disagree with the decision of the courts.

Be careful what you wish for - you just might get it! ;)

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My point, of course, is that not all of our political conflict is blind “tribal warfare” where blame can be equally distributed between the two sides. There really are some important issues where one side is wrong, and where it’s important to fight for what’s right.

That’s not to say all partisan conflict is good and necessary. But I do think the facts show that (and I don’t deny the many flaws of the Democratic Party) the Republican Party has embraced obstruction as a technique to achieve and maintain power and continues to inch closer to “If I can’t have it, well then nobody can.”

And that they’ve embraced a figure who is very comfortable with undermining democracy itself and would love to become an authoritarian leader.
Japan also has lots of people speaking japanese. Therefore, masks make people speak japanese.
Sketch on power of native apps versus Figma on power of browser apps
Take breaks and focus your eyes on something further away - for example by looking at something outside.

The app Stretchly (free, open source) can display periodic reminders to take breaks from the screen. [0] I can't recommend it enough. It worked well for my RSI too. Alternative apps are Workrave or Workpace.

[0] https://hovancik.net/stretchly/
Reading intent is hard, and I didn’t detect levity in your comment. Many of the comments here play along, acknowledging the satire (“when’s the IPO!?”). Your comment, to me, seemed to be taking the post seriously by saying op has not reached MRR yet, but that is part of the joke.

Insert link to Poe’s Law.
> A silver coin is worth its weight in silver

Which may be essentially nothing.

Native Americans (e.g., the Aztecs) liked gold because it was pretty, but did not use it as any kind of medium of exchange. By all accounts they were quite puzzled by the obsession the Spaniards had for it.

Silver and gold are useful as money because they are scarce, durable, and recognizable.

I think you'd find that producing convincing imitation U.S. bank notes or even coins is considerably more difficult than you're imagining, especially in a global collapse scenario.
> We can see that the heyday of OSv development work was about 7 years ago

Yeah, the startup who developed this ending up pivoting to a different product instead, ScyllaDB.

I think they found that while OSv is cool technology, there wasn't enough market demand to make a successful business out of it.

BEA used to have a product called JRockit Virtual Edition (JRVE). It was a thin operating system designed to only run one process, the JVM. So conceptually quite similar to this, but closed source. Then Oracle bought BEA, and then after a while (not straight away after the acquisition), Oracle killed it. Rumour has it that the Linux and Solaris teams were opposed to the idea of Oracle providing a third operating system with far less features than theirs did, which is part of why it was killed. I don't think it was ever hugely popular with customers either.

(Disclaimer: Used to work for Oracle, but not directly on the products mentioned.)
I've been recommending Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach. Very few under 30s have heard of it. A classic of the 1970s New Left. Yet stunningly predicts the current secessionist mindset of the Alt Right. Plus ca change ;)
I get really annoyed when people needlessly go hard on duolingo. Is it perfect? No. Should you only use duolingo? Probably not. But it's still a great learning tool and I've personally gotten a lot out of it
Ask HN: Where can one find development resources for Apple’s GymKit?
The Apple Developer forum has zero relevant information and Google is filled with press release information rather than direction to development resources. How is Peloton making compatible equipment when there are seemingly no resources available?
Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache
the hard, pioneering work was done by the NIH and universities. Pharma refined it, applied it to covid and creating the distribution infrastructure
The guy who wrote lld is working on a new, faster linker here: https://github.com/rui314/mold
Fantastic choice of images and linked documents in this article. I learned as much from the linked papers and reports!
"A bit"? I've never heard that usage in modern English in my entire life. It's 100% archaic, I'd say. Any teacher or writing professor would mark that as a grammar mistake, end of story.

"A bit archaic" would be like writing "threescore years ago" -- not a normal or especially accessible way of writing, but still recognized as valid grammar.
Pawing through this github account, it appears that they've been using the name for about 10 years. I wouldn't suggest renaming the project, but the link title could be clearer if it read "C in the K Framework"
Maybe to you but for those who are uninformed it's valuable
>if your workflow is linear algebra heavy, shouldn't you be doing that on a workstation or a cluster and not your little MacBook?

Not necessarily, such math & ML inference workloads are done even done on a Raspberry pi, other ARM SBCs for numerous CV and other projects requiring edge compute.
ripgrep, and to a lesser extent, GNU grep both do. Whenever you run a query and it seems to execute very quickly, it's almost certainly because of SIMD. GNU grep will use SIMD somehow in many patterns. ripgrep uses it in even more.
I recently "kondoed" my books down to like ~2xx total volumes and once I had them all organized it only took me an hour or so to scan all of them into the LT iOS app. Very few wouldn't scan but those were mostly findable by manually searching. Having an up to date list of all my books is pretty satisfying and LT seems to have a decent reputation in the serious-about-books-online community. Even inspired me to schlep into the office to catalogue my work related collection.

Made me realize how many booksellers(especially used) put proprietary barcode stickers on top of the 'actual' barcode stickers.
An attached Intel processor for certain workflows is not unprecedented.

Macintosh Quadra 610 DOS Compatible: Technical Specifications
https://support.apple.com/kb/SP227?locale=en_US

Pictures: http://www.applefool.com/applefool/Quadra_610_%28DOS_Compati...
> The US government spends trillions on the military, what stops them from descending with a crapload of police forces into a city like this and putting an end to it?

“Military” and “police forces” are different things.

But, in either case, doing so would both start a war with and further destabilize Mexico. There's a reason the US usually does this to countries far from its own borders, separated by oceans, or both, so that the blowback when popular support collapses and the ongoing cost in blood and treasure becomes intolerable is born by people that are remote from the US (in both the target country and it's neighbors.)

Aside from those pragmatic concerns, the same considerations also have a moral dimension, though that's less consistently reflected in policy decisions.
In games, most of that kind of work is off-loaded to the GPU. In some non-games, too.
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Do you have any references to good examples of console apps built with FreePascal?
Proud boys are literal nazis?
Is that why African Americans don't trust the US medical establishment? Phase 1 is meant to select the safest dose. If Black people did not take part in Phase 1 and were only added in Phase 2, that means that folks in Phase 2 were exposed to unnecessary risk.
politics and incompetence are responsible for a large chunk of those deaths.
I'm not sure that we should give that kind of credit until we see which (if any) vaccine gets manufactured and distributed and is successful in quantity, before the virus has infected the majority of the population. I sure hope they do, but at the current rate of spread in Europe and the Americas, it is not totally implausible that they won't be able to make it in quantity until it's too late to have an impact on this pandemic.

Which would not be a reason not to have made it (we would want it for the future), but it's still rather early to say how much impact this vaccine will have. There is also the possibility that some other vaccine will be able to roll out doses for 300 million people before this one has successfully made doses for 10 million. I'm not saying that's likely, but it's certainly within the plausible range of possibilities.
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Clickspring is actually manufacturing porn. Nothing else, it's just overload! Everything is perfect, shinny, well lubricated. Just amazing.
I'm glad he's back at making videos too, I had withdrawal! :-)
It's likely, as the kids say, "fake news". From the BBC:

> However, many scientists - particularly in the UK - remain highly sceptical of the effectiveness of cloud seeding. Even if it is theoretically possible, one of the problems for proponents has been to demonstrate that a rainfall or snowfall was caused by the seeding or simply occurred spontaneously.

Don't believe everything you read.
To be clear this depends on the drug. Cocaine and heroin are blood-soaked; cannabis, LSD or psychedelic mushrooms not so much. MDMA is probably somewhere in between.
Right; so we seem to agree entirely that the entropy is relative to the attacker's generator.
No it does not. Your assuming that was the leverage sought. You're also assuming that's the primary reason for avoiding government interference when there are many reasons for that. The primary possibly being that bringing the government into it would slow things down. Finally you're assuming that they didn't have a diverse trial, and you're wrong about that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25408528
I have no idea if it was good for their culture since I never worked there... but I reckon a lot of corporate software engineering jobs have the same luxury, informally. I work at a big US bank where you might not expect such freedom, but in reality there is great flexibility to do things outside of the normal day to day BAU, simply because it's not hard to deliver a sufficient amount of work in less time than you're expected to be in the office (or covid equivalent), and nobody keeps that close an eye on what you do anyway. Still, with all that freedom people don't always use it for good, they may actually just bunk off...
Watching Urbit through the lens of HN comments over the last few years has been utterly fascinating. The hatred it attracts is unmatched - no topic has reached the front page only to be brigade-downvoted off of it again so regularly.

And yet, for all the indignant posts about how it's performance art, a scam, or the ravings of a madman, it just kind of keeps on keeping on. It gets a little more stable and adds a few more features every year, like a regular old open source project.

My position on it has remained unchanged for 5+ years: I hope it succeeds because it aspires to solve a use case that I genuinely want to use, I don't care about the (ex-)founder's politics or his old blog, but seeing as the existence of the latter seems to have destroyed any chance of the former coming to fruition so I'm kind of hoping Jeff Bezos decides to build a clone (presumably, one that has much lower ambitions and elides most of the weird stuff).
What's measured is how a SIMD-optimised routine differs between AVX and NEON, under the assumption that most of the difference would come down to the difference between 256b (AVX) and 128b (NEON) SIMD. In a previous post[0], lemire confirmed that NEON was competitive with SSE (which is also 128b) comparing older µarch (Intel's Skylake versus Apple's A12).

[0] https://lemire.me/blog/2019/07/10/parsing-json-using-simd-in...
Raytracing (Ray / BVH traversal / bbox intersection, and ray primitive intersection can all be SIMD-fied fairly well (very well up to 4-wide, fairly well up to 8-wide, depending on how things are packed).
Silently install powershell modules from MSI file
I'm not assigning any moral weight to them; just observing the basic facts as they result to publishing.
Some context for a non American? Are these companies always a harm to society?
Being UNIX was never part of neither Apple or NeXT's culture, it was more a way to get a foot into the workstation market, and a question of survival in not closing doors.

Now they are way beyond that, so they can focus on what was the soul of Mac design during the System days.
Hi from the Dutch OU (not affiliated with the UK one, but similar in certain aspects).

The standard of academic staff is much like any other uni: we try to get the best we can.

Here's our department's publication page (i haven't updated it since March though): http://cs.ou.nl/publications.php

(Quality: three TACAS'20 papers this year... and most of our departement doesn't target that conf)

Our programmes are accredited by the same institution as other programmes of all other unis in NL. The accreditation committee was even impressed with the quality of our bachelor theses in comparison to other universities.

I definitely think there's room for improvement, but the Dutch OU is a serious university, and aims for a high quality of teachers and teaching materials.
“It, like the semicolon, always has been and will be.”

Not the best of examples. It hasn’t always been. Early fortran and lisp didn’t have it. Reading https://medium.com/better-programming/a-brief-history-of-the..., it seems Algol and PL/I set the trend to make it popular.

Looking at newer languages, I also get the impression it’s on the way out. Rust has them, but python, scala, go and swift try to avoid them (https://python-reference.readthedocs.io/en/latest/docs/opera...: “Avoid having multiple statements on a single line. Though the language definition allows one to use a semi-colon to delineate statements, doing so without reason makes one’s code harder to read”, https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#semicolons: “Like C, Go's formal grammar uses semicolons to terminate statements, but unlike in C, those semicolons do not appear in the source. Instead the lexer uses a simple rule to insert semicolons automatically as it scans, so the input text is mostly free of them.”, https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/TheBasics.ht...: “Unlike many other languages, Swift doesn’t require you to write a semicolon (;) after each statement in your code, although you can do so if you wish. However, semicolons are required if you want to write multiple separate statements on a single line”)
This is interesting. I put in a handful of books on my shelf that I have read and enjoyed, and the results that it returned seem to be largely: a) religion of all kinds but largely Christian apology, and b) civil rights and apartheid. Both topics I wouldn't go out of my way to read about but I might if it the book seemed particularly interesting and was well reviewed (so pretty much the point of this project).

One interesting note is that there are several books on the list I absolutely would read, I just didn't know they existed or hadn't sought them out. One of Stephen Hawking's books, some American military books, a few biographies, etc.
Not sure what you mean by drop-ship it, but when Paypal tries to sell what essentially boils down to a promissory BTC-denominated note to the unsuspecting masses, it's quite likely that the regulator (e.g. the SEC) may come at some point and inquire how much of the underlying they actually own.

If they are found to be below a certain ratio of the actual BTC denominated liability, they may run into quite a bit of trouble.

As a matter of fact, if they were playing it straight they could cryptographically demonstrate actual ownership of the underlying.

They will - of course - never do that. That'd be missing out on one hell of an opportunity to play bookie in the BTC sphere.
In The Reponsible Company (by the Patagonia founder), he credits Googlers doing 20% time to do environmental work. The book is really pro-corporation though, heavily a PR piece IMO.
I think it is important to point out that this is the worst ARM computer Apple will ever ship. I am guessing that these laptops are nowhere near comparable in price.
How is it a Ponzi scheme if any photo uploaded before July 2021 will still be stored for free? In such a scheme the last N people to join lose their "investment". In this case any new user could easily upload their entire library before then and have it hosted on Google's infrastructure (theoretically) forever, for free.
Hmm, can't there be some kind of malware hiding under the Keystone name?
I think in this case it probably ends up suggesting random books that were read by your 'cluster' at different periods of their life (i.e. when they were a child) that they may not necessarily like to read now (I loved this book when I was a kid: 5 stars)
Uncanny! I was literally just going to post this here in HN ;)

timdaub, do you know if it's possible to generate the sound file in a second thread and store the blob file in a shared array buffer? Am planning to run my own experiments, but just wondering if you tried anything like what I am describing to do real time sound synthesis? Thanks ;)
Good point. Some Intel chips have had an on-package on-die?) 128MB "L4 cache" made of DRAM. That certainly sounds a lot like the M1's integrated memory.
It was relevant on mobile OSes, on Android via the ART JIT/AOT compiler and RenderScript runtime.

On iOS via the Accelerate framework.

I doubt many would bother dealing with NEON intrics directly unless in some performance critical cases, though.
The title should certainly be changed to better reflect the project, though the paper is certainly enjoyable to read
We have a form of it called fix-it-friday and I find it helps a lot with minor UX improvements and tech debt that would otherwise fall in-between the cracks.
Uh, run-time tests using C-style macros, much like assertions. Frankly, I would have been more impressed by some template/constexpr magic implementing compile-time tests.
Why do you need to compare the product to another? Why can't you put an extension cord behind a piece of sheetrock and evaluate if there is a false negative? Why can't you try it next to a known electric outlet or light switch?
that probably suggests that the trend will likely reverse, not continue. I would be bullish on the dollar now. The dollar always has a tendency of snapping back violently when few expect, like in 2014 or 2017.
Can confirm it works with 1000XM4's!
> Assuming the culture you are in has the means to reach those temperatures. A silver coin may be no more than a shiny trinket to those cultures that do not have that (level of) technology.

Silver has a slightly lower melting point than copper, so any culture that has reached a bronze age level of knowledge can handle it (or even just one with half decent pottery kilns).
I'm writing a major system using FPC/Lazarus right now, and will fund additional dev as soon I can get a reference mvp done.

No idea how many people are using this toolchain to produce real work, but I consider it to be my secret weapon. I've never seen a truly multi-platform, batteries-included dev tool that is so coherent and comprehensive. At this point, the only add I would love to see is better macro expansion beyond the simple code macros that are provided now.

At any rate, depending on your definition of success, if you want to see an example of a decades old, open source project that really does work, throw the FPC/Lazarus project in with Linux itself. I'll spend the day today writing code on both a Windows and a Linux machine for the same project, producing the same ui heavy app with hardly any differences, thanks to this toolchain that runs pretty much exactly the same in either environment.

Seeing the love and dedication put into this project by contributors is a great way to remember how cool writing software really is. All devs should at least fiddle around with FPC/Lazarus just so they know what it is.