skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how long until my edgey, morally bankrupt idea gets banned because a few rich people decided to act as their own hired politician to do “what’s right” for us?

This is a slippery slope, we used it to silence a sitting president.. these same companies won’t hesitate to silence you
Most people's moral values don't concern text editors, or software in general.
The article is deliberately using selective quotes to paint Bram Molenaar in the worst possible light.

A common tactic among people who take over code bases in order to cruise on other people's hard work.
The so called community may not have the skills, however there are plenty of people,who can see an opportunity in such a crowd, and they do have money,skills,and resources.Also, it's very dangerous to underestimate a motivated fool.
author (plural authors)

The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.

A fair and pretty commonly used word for describing someone who wrote something. Are you also pissed off when a group of lawmakers are referred to as "the authors of a law"?
This is sort of unreasonable too hot too cold type thinking.

If you need a certain price point for a certain feature, why not expand to not limiting your search to only one manufacturer, which seems to be your binding constraint here since you’ve delayed updating 7 years, instead of expecting a manufacturer that has less than 10% of the total market share of an industry to meet you needs?
Another fun one in the early 2000s was if your organization was using Novell Groupwise, you could run any executable by renaming it nalwin32.exe

Good times playing Age of Empires and Half Life on school computers over LAN using that!
Thanks. I'll buy this. I've been frustrated about having to use my SSD everytime I want to load and audiobook on my iPhone.
As opposed the popular sport of denigrating a critique of something because the critic hasn't, or doesn't the ability to, create the thing themselves?
I don’t care that they removed the analog in favor of digital, I'm annoyed that it’s just. One. Port. Give me two lightning ports so I can use headphones and charge without resorting to a dongle and I’ll go along with it. As it is I haven’t bought a new iPhone since my 6S plus.
Just build your own internet, financial system, and government, goy.
I mostly understand this, but it doesn't go deep enough.

Sure, I don't worry about what people consciously think of me, like "Does he think I'm incompetent because of that mistake I made? Does she like the way I'm dressed?". I'm more concerned with what they're not thinking, or rather the biases they may be unconsciously harboring about myself or others. Look at this [1], from a study on the relation of criminal sentences and attractiveness:

>Physical Attractiveness had a significant influence on judges sentencing. The more unattractive the criminal, the higher the sentence. Or conversely, the more attractive the criminal, the lower the sentence. The results of three studies show a minimum increase of 119.25% and a maximum increase of 304.88%.

That's pretty disturbing to me. It what other ways am I being treated and being shaped by the unconscious biases of others? Say Jim gets promoted into management and made leader of a project instead of me, because he's a "better fit" for the role. For what reasons is he a "better fit"? Imagine if the unconscious mind could speak. It might say something like this:

"Jim was made tribe leader because of his robust musculature. His square jaw arouses me to no end - such an indicator of higher testosterone, strength, and disease resistance will serve our offspring well. Broad-shouldered Jim can probably throw a spear hard enough to pierce fifty men. A warrior of his magnitude will surely lead us to victory against our ancestral foe, the Google tribe."

Okay, that's fine, but what does that have to do with shipping a profitable software product?

"Square. Jaw."

Completely absurd. We can never completely relieve ourselves of these kinds of biases, and of politics. But I believe we can mitigate it to a meaningful degree. We can have meaningful standards and metrics for evaluating people for certain roles. Horowitz talks about this kind of politics-mitigation in at least one chapter in his book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things.

[1] The Law Project. (2021, January 16). The Law Project. Retrieved from https://www.thelawproject.com.au/insights/attractiveness-bia.... (The relevant HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24044409)
yes. it can take 2-3 years longer than you think to get there, so make it stretch.
Are powerful editors really that much of a force multiplier? My career path has pulled me from a CS degree into loosely related fields so I mostly only code as a hobby. I end up using basic editors (e.g., gedit) and reaching for grep/sed/etc when I need something fancy. Is having that power in the editor versus the command line that much of an advantage?
Platform support isn't exactly the problem.

Apple, Microsoft, and Android all support WebAuth (https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/03/19/passwordless-we..., https://webkit.org/blog/11312/meet-face-id-and-touch-id-for-..., https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-p..., https://developers.google.com/identity/fido/android/native-a...), so most (??) users are in fact covered.

eBay, for example, offers a passwordless experience using WebAuthn--so it can be done, even on a major consumer site.

The problem is really that until relying parties can trust that

1. Platforms will backup and restore key material from authenticators
2. Users will figure out how to use those backups (including if they e.g. switch from Mac to Windows)

they will have to provide some fallback. (Realistically, that means "for the foreseeable future.")

This relegates WebAuthn, unfortunately, to a "neat trick"--eBay's "passwordless option"--and not a security guarantee. (Phishers can always downgrade the user to passwords or similar.)

What's needed in the interregnum is probably a way to make that fallback option more secure by, at minimum, conveying to users that it's not _normal_--so that phishing attempts targeting that phishable backup are less likely to succeed.

Unfortunately this requires a lot of good UX design and unilateral action on part of the relying parties, which I think is tough.
I don't understand why "rationalization" is necessary. Of course any app store platform is going to have some minimum standards, it's both right and sensible that they be allowed to have such.

You can disagree with some of Apple's policies (I think their policy on emulators is dumb), but to me the solution would just be to allow other app stores so consumers can choose.
I think Tim Cook is sidestepping for PR purposes. We should not discuss the issue in his terms.

The question is not if this particular speech is protected or not, because it does not apply to Apple at all.

The only question is if Apple has right. It has.
Sounds like you want a podcast app. Pocket Casts can do all these things. (Cloud upload needs a Plus subscription, though. But you could also self-host your own RSS feed with your files.)
Except you are locked out of the stock market you cannot have an IPO like the big firms all did start up and, oh, you want to compete with facebook? ABC news reports that you cant because they are backed by the CIA.
For the reasons listed in the article and more, Yubikeys and similar devices aren’t likely to ever be popular.

To give future security devices along the same vain a better chance at gaining popularity and being widely adopted (which will hopefully bringing us a more stable, less stressful society), the designs of these new devices must solve or workaround the issues the author describes.

It’s really annoying when individuals such as yourself respond so very negatively and unconstructively while others are trying to discuss the issues with existing designs — an act necessary for us (collectively) to develop new designs.

The author may not provide strong evidence for their claims, but neither do you provide strong evidence (or extensive reasoning) for yours. The net gain here is negligible, expect for showing that contrary opinions exist, but that’s not particularly helpful as for every opinion held it is inevitable that someone holds the polar opposite.

I’m not a moderator, but I ask you to please try to better further the discussion with future comments.
I am old enough to have used NCSA Navigator and read the Manifesto for Cyberspace and all that net-hippy stuff (and believed it).

Cyberspace in the 90s was wide open prairie, a place to settle and built new cultures and civilizations. I was too young to realize that nothing starts from scratch; just like the pioneers that fled poverty and persecution to colonize the prairie, we built cyberspace on the culture we believed in: free market, free speech, growth above all. American libertarian in other words.

The descendants of the French or Russian revolutions will happily tell you that that shit don't work. After you've settled that wide open prairie, you need to lay down rules and regulations, a polity. And what we (collectively) have found out that this ends up meaning well-regulated markets and well-regulated speech, enforced by democratically elected (and audited) authorities. Liberal democracies in other words, with bureaucracies and police and courts, not John Galt.

So, 'no' to the TFA, we shouldn't restart Tech. We should evolve it, past the Pioneer stage into a proper polity and civilization. Regulate Big Tech, control it. We already have paradigms of what we consider appropriate: we can tell our friends whatever we want (free speech in private communication) but we cannot go on TV or on a newspaper and libel because those media have liability. Why should a tweet that 20 people read have the same restrictions as a tweet to 20M? why can't we pick reasonable rules that police the latter? escalated liability based on reach that Twitter (for example) would be liable for?

Will that kill the margins of Twitter and YouTube and Facebook? absolutely, but so what? They are monopolies at a massive scale that our society is already dependent on, like we are on TV, or newspapers or the power grid. They can be fat and rich, just not more powerful than all news publishers in the history of humanity. Combined.
Not true. If a startup could access debt but future uncertainty about its cash flows (say between series A and Series B) combined with the cash pay requirements for such cash flow (likely 18%) make the debt vs equity calculation not as straight forward as it seems.
You know Tim that every argument against Parler can also be applied to Twitter, right?
Every private platform has some standards, this is hardly anything new.

Do you think Blizzard banning WoW idiots yelling racial slurs is abrogating their right to free speech too?
RPG MO
The other big one is libro.fm, which I also think has the nicest website, for whatever that's worth. There's also Google Play, but they always seem to be more expensive.

I've been using a combination of these three sites (libro.fm, downpour.com, audiobooksnow.com) for many years now. Although I do occasionally need to hop back over to Audible for one of their exclusives, but not often.

Quick note about audiobooksnow.com, they do have a small number of DRM'd titles. Check for a "Downloadable" icon before buying!
I think frugality is absurd, and minimalism is what you wanna be aiming for where you are highly sensitive to the ROI of your each and every spend.

Frugality is being cheap just for the sake of not spending money. Most startups on the other hand have more incentives in maximizing their spend towards increasing and retaining their current and future cash-flow.

If we combine that with network effects, your cash-flow is technically growing relative to the exponential growth of your network / userbase / community.

Related post: https://wallstreetplayboys.com/become-a-minimalist-dont-be-f...
> But then again, most high frequency trading also runs on the JVM, so it can often be worked around.

JVM is an awesome piece of technology. And you can do robotic control systems to high-frequency trading systems with it with careful programming.

But I've seen a lot of Java code running in production suffering from latency jitters and needing continuous profiling and optimization by a small group of performance engineers while the majority of application engineers keep adding to GC load.

> For this specific use-case, I don't think there is really an alternative, except for specifically a hand-crafted system

Yes, but I think the handcrafted system doesn't need to be very complex. It can be quite simple and easy to understand and tame to your needs as your scale and complexity grows.
This is mostly my assessment also, and I don’t think it would’ve happened as fast or as (seemingly) lightly if it happened at some point during the Trump term before the election. Possibly it wouldn’t have happened at all for fear of costly reprisals from the administration.

My personal opinion is: good riddance. I believe in free speech, but I also believe in the paradox of tolerance and that something’s gotta give. While I do believe in free speech, I don’t believe that’s the same thing as everyone having a right to be listened to, or having the right to a megaphone.

I have no answers to any of the problems that come with moderating forums, I think it’s a hard (impossible perhaps?) problem to solve. But I’m also glad that hard as it may be, the places online that are worth hanging out seem to be doing a mostly pretty good job of it. (Thank you dang! <3)
> Why would having multiple options be bad?

Because this is how you end up with a Homer Car of a device.
I run neovim within vscode with neovim plugin. Relatively easy and fast to get started, takes time to reconfigure lsp and clean up shortcuts conflicts, but that is about it
My wife told me her external SSD was failing. I asked what the symptoms were and she said it was making a noise.

With all the paternal condescension I could muster I told her, SSDs don't make noise.

She said it's making a noise right now!

I listened - no it isn't!

A fracas ensued.

Later after the armistice was signed, we Googled and discovered the power supply can emit sounds in the 16Khz range when voltage is inconsistent.

And sure enough I've lost that hearing range and my wife hasn't.

I told her that's proof I didn't hear her about taking out the trash - she must've been using her 16KhZ voice!
No, I don't. So why should I sacrifice space for my battery to accommodate those who do?
The internet is open. You can peer with whomever you like, that isn’t the problem. Pickup a few million $$$, peer with equinox and you have unfettered access to the internet. Fintech, use crypto. Don’t want government, then move to Christmas Island.

It’s not impossible, thepiratebay is still accessible years after being banned. Instead of parroting 4chan memes maybe start investing in companies that align with your viewpoints
I thought this was supposed to encrypt the drive? How can you bypass the lockscreen without having the password? Is the encryption theater?
I use this for git interactions in VSCode

https://github.com/kahole/edamagit
Bummer! Especially this line:

> All of this casts very serious doubt on NASA's plans to launch its Artemis I mission—an uncrewed precursor mission to sending humans to the Moon—before the end of this year.

This outcome seems like good safety engineering: prioritize safety and control over speed.

Still, it’s a disappointing setback. I want to go to space now! And this moves the eventual realization of space tourism back incrementally further into the future... so much for my kids being Belters
He means to say OnlyFans contributes directly to the fraying of America’s moral fibers.
Likely for the same reason we rarely use lead paint anymore, or why micro plastics are a concern in bath products. Just for a couple of examples of products you don’t consume ending up in animal bodies.
This may not be exactly what you mean, but I worked for a successful startup that chose to cut certain costs in favor of others. I appreciated this practice--no excessive waste, only spending on what felt like mattered. My salary was above average for the market, with best in class health care. Those matter way more to me than pool tables and beer kegs.

For example: 1) no free lunches or snacks (though there was always lots of free food around from leftover meetings with customers); 2) "swag" for employees once per year, one item, thoughtfully chosen and good quality. This resulted in everyone getting really EXCITED about it and rallying around it; 3) a Bevi machine (effectively a bubble water fountain) instead of coolers of free drinks.
Another issue not mentioned by the author is what happens if the Yubikey is lost or breaks. The story around this type of event is sort of ignored and not understood properly. AFAIK it's not possible to duplicate a key (by design), meaning that the user will have to update all their websites' 2FA (hopefully there is a recovery method available).
https://3dp.rocks/lithophane/
I'm tired of people using the word "asshole" as if it were a coherent concept in serious discussion of social behavior. "Asshole" is just an immature term of abuse. It doesn't mean anything specific enough to construct a theory around.
Others also ask you to put in only some characters of your password, which is even more troubling because at best they hash them in various configurations when you change password, at worst - they keep it in plaintext.
Executives don't want to be blamed for bad shit. That's obviously priority #1.

They also don't want to actually have been responsible for bad shit. They're still human, and have human interests.

(This is the point where someone jumps in to loudly point out every bad thing Google/Apple/FB/etc has ever done)
Our text editor is a tool, there’s no fundamental value in a tool vs the other, they do not possess life. They’re tools like a fork is a tool.

I wonder what of the things you use in the day to day you analyze so deeply, your microwave ? The forks you buy?

Might be an interesting exercise of thought but for something that I use to make money, I will use the best tool available for the job, thank you very much.
Kurzgesagt has a ten minute video on the subject:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtOGPJ0URM
>The so called community may not have the skills, however there are plenty of people,who can see an opportunity in such a crowd, and they do have money,skills,and resources.

And I hope they do. Show everyone that Big Tech doesn't have nearly the power we all seem to think they do. But don't cry foul when you get kicked from a ready-made platform and are forced to go your own way.
It would be Apple's obligation as a trademark holder to try and stop it, however.

The word may be too generic, but the intent seems specifically to confuse.
If you look at their suit against Amazon, linked in the article but here too:
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664...

Parler notes 3 times AWS complained about specific messages and Parler removed all of them within 24 hours each time, some within a few hours and each time AWS noted they were satisfied.

"Parler had no moderation!" and "Parler wouldn't moderate!" are clearly untrue. If the complaint is "not enough moderation" that could be legit.

Regardless of your feeling on Parler, we NEED our legal system, contracts, and contract enforcement to be based on facts.
What Happens When a God Challenges the Status Quo?
I like mapping jk (and kj) to escape. For lefties I imagine df (and fd) would be more convenient. Both sequences are unlikely to appear in any words. They're on the home keys, so least effort to move your hands.
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key
Interesting, I’ll check it out, thanks.
When you realize that even if by some miracle we find a way to travel at really fast speeds we will never explore 99.99999% of the universe is mind boggling.

This video by Kurzgesagt explains it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL4yYHdDSWs
Conor sold U2F Zero's for less than 10 dollars (years ago) and has a kick starter now to fund his new Solo keys:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/conorpatrick/solo-the-f...

https://u2fzero.com/

I have a few U2F Zeros and they have been working fine for years. These are simple devices. You don't need to overpay for them.

Edit: Conor was building the U2F Zero tokens for $2.26 USD per unit. Read more here:

https://www.conorpp.com/u2f-zero-year-in-review/
Interesting but I doubt it. Vaanaras do not appear prominently in any of epics/puranas following Ramayana. Only Hanuman is present in Mahabharata and he is clearly living a solitary life when he meets Bheem.

By no means expert, so happy to be proven wrong.
QAnon is pretty weird, but the idea that Russia was secretly manipulating every aspect of American society was also pretty bizarre, I mean looking in from the outside across the pond in Europe. There wasn't really any evidence for either idea but the Russia conspiracy ate the Democrats - if anything, far worse than QAnon has eaten the Republicans. Indeed given the demographics of HN I'm guessing someone will reply to this post and claim that "The 2016 election was rigged by the Russians" or "Russians controlled Trump" etc was all totally true and not a bizarre conspiracy theory at all. The descent of US political parties into fantastical theorising is a general trend.
Same here in regards to Magit. I've tried seriously using Emacs (Spacemacs) for a year or two, but something always doesn't work as intended, code completion and static analysis is extremely hard to configure, especially you have some non-standard project setups. Then switched to a mix of vim for simple stuff or clion/pycharm in vim mode for rust/cpp/python... BUT, subjectively, Magit is the best git client ever created; Magit in evil-mode easily beats all of the 20+ git clients I've used. So I keep emacs/spacemacs on every machine now solely to be able to use magit.
Noob question: Is Sublime text still a good text-editor in 2021? Did it just loose momentum or not being open-source is insurmountable? I still think its speed and usability are not easy to match.