skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've considered if a discussion site like this would work solely based on the headline without actually needing TFA. Often it feels like people who comment just want to share their point of view about a particular topic rather than the article itself. Many people read the comments first (or exclusively).

Perhaps Dang could get analytics on how many people viewed the comments and how many people clicked through to the article to answer your question.
Thank you for posting this and giving me a reason to reread my all time favorite greentext: https://i.imgur.com/WLzeQMj.png
Your mother is so fat she can be both to your left and right side simultaneously.
Simply is not depth, but breadth.

Write truly, not simply.

“The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before; and not too damned much after.”

- Ernest Hemingway, Death In The Afternoon
UBI removes massive amounts of gov't bureaucracy in the bloated and disjointed safety net programs in the US and the bloated gov't salaries of the people running them.

It's actually a small gov't conservatives dream.
A lot of European long-distance train stations are named like "Bigcity Neighborhoodname" or "Bigcity Suburbname". If you want to go downtown you really have to get used to booking (and watching for!) Bigcity Central/Centraal/Centrale/Sentral/Hbf/HB/H, or you can go very awry all over Europe...

In Frankfurt, Germany, you also have to be additionally careful if a station is signed as Frankfurt(Main), because there (Main) indicates the major city on the River Main, as distinct from the other Frankfurt on the River Oder (along the border with Poland). For example,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_(Main)_S%C3%BCd_stat...

is definitely not the main station of Frankfurt(Main). :-)
10 years from now cyberterrorism companies with government clearance will be selling machine learning models trained on these logs of previous criminals. Sad.
In the 90s I used both editors interchangeably depending on the task (I had started with plain vi before vim). I was only grasping the surface of Emacs back then: I typically used it for editing plain text, emails, or scientific papers, but not as an OS or lisp system. I wrote code in either vim or Emacs without a clear preference, and sometimes I got annoyed at the extra milliseconds latency of starting emacsclient compared to starting vi. Once the majority of my terminals and shells were within emacs, I started favoring it. Once I realized that I strongly prefer to have several dozens, even hundreds of dumb terminal buffers with infinite history instead of proper terminals that can use curses but lack the complete past history, I switched to 95% Emacs, and I started keeping emacs sessions open for months at a time. Then I read the manual again, learned some elisp, added a couple convenience functions, and got totally hooked. Nowadays I may use vim once every couple of months, but the vast majority of my working time is within Emacs. Recently, I've started exploring ways to include part of web browsing in emacs, and I started wondering if most of my daily compute needs could be satisfied within Emacs. I guess that until I have a reasonable emacs interface on my phone, I will still spend some computer time outside of Emacs, but be warned that once you enter the Emacs cult, there is no easy way to exit.
You're right[0], though you won't get much recognition on HN.

[0] https://t.co/9UuceYD2Xj?amp=1
I live in London Ontario, right by the Thames. Got hassled at customs in Netherlands being asked why my Canadian passport was issued from England. People always say they can't hear the accent when I say I'm from London (besides that time at customs they were accusing my lisp of sounding a bit English)

There's also a Paris Ontario
This seems... wrong? The driver is not the car and vice versa.
What’s the point of having a server that is “non cloud” but remotely managed? Sounds like it is a cloud server, hosted in a substandard colo
Not really. Evil's vim emulation are quite impressive, and it's doing its best to make the bindings available everywhere in Emacs. However, the behavior of each keys in different buffers are somewhat less consistent than with Vim, which is inevitable because Emacs buffers are used more like an UI for elisp applications. I think the benefits far outweigh the minor inconsistencies though.
House prices in Europe are generally incredibly overrated (especially if you compare value/rent ratio with property in the USAs), I think it's partially explained by some cultural reasons, by the economic crisis of 2008 (for a long time buying a house has consistently been a great move) and lack of real estate housing (which is half lack of space, half government manipulating the market through various initiatives and regulations).

More recently, pent-up demands after a covid induced slow down, temporary government incentives, increased risk of currency devaluation, markets, gold (heck, even cryptocurrencies) at all time highs.

Once the economic damage of the pandemic is factored in, small businesses die and the middle class start being taxed even more, I'd expect the market to react negatively as people with money flee.

Probably at some point after lockdowns are over (if they will be over at some point) and governments start taxing real estate purchases again (some countries reduced taxation to push the housing market up).
25 years using the thing, and I'm always learning something new about Emacs. Thanks for the tip!
A python script to visit random scraped form directory websites or just having it request invaild pages if you want the logging to be least compressable.
He’s too respected at this point for anyone to correct him or give effective feedback..
> How many lines of vimscript have you written? [...] How many times have you opened the source code of some vim plugin you are using and tried to modify what it does?

Zero, thank god. I have enough work to do at work. I don't need to make a hobby out of my editor.
To answer your question: 1 hour of downtime after 40 years is 5.5 "nines": 99.9997% availability.
Super key mapping is removed during the install, if it is bound to anything, and ought to be the only system level key that is undone to prevent triggering of any menus. If you uninstall Kinto then it restores the keybinding, beyond that all remappings are non-permanent to the system level OS/distro.
For me, this is one of those things where the distributions have different skew. I think the median example of less simple writing is indeed worse than the median example of simple writing, but that the graphs cross at some point to the right of that, such that better examples of less simple writing are better than better examples of simple writing, and great examples of less simple writing are much better than great examples of simple writing. (I recognize that this is all subjective, but this is how I think about it.)

The genre also matters a lot. For sure I think simple writing is the better choice for Graham's topics, but I think it's much more open for fictional writing, and that some kinds of non fiction essays also benefit from less simplicity (again, keeping in mind the distribution effect discussed above).

For instance, one of my favorite essays is David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water". It is not simple, but it is much more effective than an essay using simple language to make the point that we often don't realize the things that we are immersed in. But I come across examples of this by good writers who do not usually use simple language who I believe are usually more compelling than writers like Graham.
Sure, but humans are a relatively known entity. They exist with a level of variance that is not too extreme, and you can more or less, in a general way, predict their behavior to a tolerable risk level. We've seen billions of humans, we know what to expect of them. We might not understand how other humans work internally, but we understand their actionspace.

For AI models, that isn't really the case. We don't know how each individual model will act in the real world, and certainly not after having spent millions of hours training against itself or in a simulated environment. And as these models get more and more powerful, this growing uncertainty is something that I believe is worrisome.
https://www.uscis.gov/i-90

$540 total fee "if your card is lost or stolen."
We'd probably need to explore definitions, because I'm pretty much meaning: "having an identity distinct from non-members of the group".
Molten salt/thorium reactor news
While there was plenty of overspec in the AT design, it was built around a CPU rated by the vendor for 6MHz operation. You don't want the support headaches when some local reseller cracks the case, swaps in faster crystal, and things mostly work. There were aftermarket speedup circuits which you could turn on after the POST check completed; I recall one with a knob offering like 8 different speeds.
Faster Inverse BWT
I've only used it from the command line, so I don't know. For my needs, the ability to use multiple threads for decompression was its killer feature.
Everything the media didn't tell you about the death of George Floyd
lol - or to do a kiss remapping that involves xmodmap or setxkbmap that still doesn't solve the problem either and then you are expected to individually remap whatever terminal you use per the terminal app preference settings or dot files that you ought to keep with you everywhere you go.
So, city pop is somewhat personal to me here. Like others I discovered it through youtube, and ended up going on a deep, deep rabbit hole journey. I'm talking about albums like Tatsuro Yamashita's FOR YOU, and Come Along. and Toshiki Kadomatsu's After 5 Clash, City Shore, Sea Is A Lady, and Sea Breeze. Of course, there is the iconic Plastic Love by Mariya Takeuchi. [0]

My curiosity was initially piqued by the energetic and expressive bass lines (compared to e.g. modern pop). Tetsuo Sakurai (of Casiopea) and Tomohito Aoki (who played on After 5 Clash) are/were phenomenal players and their tracks still inspire me. I also started studying guitar, which lead to me discovering Issei Noro (of Casiopea) and Masayoshi Takanaka. The musicianship on a lot of these albums is fantastic, particularly the bass players. There are so many tracks like Airport Lady that are inspiring, if intimidating.

I have discovered so many good albums here that I can't list them all. For the curious, I have a lot saved to my wantlist on discogs [2], and a youtube playlist of mixes/albums. [3] Note that for the YT playlist, some of the albums are ones I intend to listen to later. I love Takanaka's album covers as he always looks so happy. [6]

Takanaka's Rainbow Goblins [1] may be one of my favorite live albums, ever. His performance directly inspired me to get into guitar as well. Check out the slap bass intro to Asayake from Casiopea's 1985 concert. [5] I liked these so much that I purchased them on laserdisc via Japanese ebay and am working to find a high quality laserdisc player to rip them properly.

It's been months and I keep on discovering new albums, most of which get uploaded by Xerf Xpec [4]. It can definitely be hit or miss, with some albums sounding very cheesy.

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So naturally people have to write "articles" like this that somehow paint a revitalization of a genre/time period by another culture/generation as somehow bad. It's political drivel that benefits no one. I was born in '96. My bad for not being born in Japan in the '70s.

My Korean friends also like city pop (even the ones that really dislike Japan/the Japanese government), so this article's premise doesn't make sense.

The algorithm likely recommends these albums because people, well, like it. Retro stuff is in.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUQWaQtpaKU

[1]: https://youtu.be/1MXIz_-5ZBU?t=432

[2]: https://www.discogs.com/wantlist?user=andrewzah&page=2

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSxs5PgbqSvpORXzEkBn7...

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkfmbKrdAH3_NHkbAZhWqIw

[5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6vkDc6CJeA&t=2379s

[6]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAEU9q1kLvk
Option 1: add an X extension that lets you configure which windows get to see which input events. Most clients don't actually need to see any events besides the ones they would see while in focus, so most clients don't notice.

Option 2: replace X with something entirely different -- different rendering, different input, different IPC, different organizing principles, different programming models -- and patch all downstream dependencies to use it.

If you can't see that Option 2 is clearly more work and more disruptive, I don't know what else to say to you.
and then stack those images. :)
Cool. As the pricing page clearly states, it costs $0 for everyone who doesn’t need managed enterprise support. If you are the enterprise customer, fill out the form and talk to sales. Same way every other product ever works. We all appreciate your pedantic contribution to the conversation :)
Do want ISPs to charge by the minute again? Because that's how we get there.
Sorry but I don't really understand that last part - is Portland, OR a likely place for tech conferences to take place?
lol.. I was jumping back and forth between mercury, venus, and earth everyday during my two years stay in Stockholm 6 years ago. I had no clue this thing exists!
It’s more that the former book sets a very high bar I don’t think he clears in the attempt to make the topic more accessible.
Alcohol is also a neurotoxin, especially in the amounts consumed by alcoholics. Alchohol is also quite a bit more toxic to the liver than amphetamines.

Tobacco smoke is highly toxic to every tissue in your body.

So to be logically consistent, I'm sure you also think alcohol and tobacco should be illegal, right?
How do hotkeys work on a mac? That's how they will work on everything else with Kinto. If you haven't used a mac then it will be more difficult to understand and explain because it does a lot more than just swapping a few keys around - but that is part of it.
Probably took 12 of those 14 days to just get Emacs loaded. Just saying.
Well, literally one sentence before your quote says "They saw little or no radio sources in a volume ...".
Is there a Vim speed editing contests? I'd love to watch one. And Vim vs Sublime Text too :)
Adobe Photoshop Ships on Macs with Apple Silicon
No, like an XXL bedsheet, perhaps made of dark matter, maybe 1800 thread count.
At the very least we'd still be able to detect the mass within the region based on it's effects.
"Hey, look everyone, a toddler invented commercial fusion power when actual physicists and engineers couldn't!"

It sells ads to eyeballs is all the so-called journalists and editors care about.
are you an investor as well?
Sounds about right laws are going to be way behind when it comes to this sort of thing
I saw a writing tip on Twitter the other day that said write like your parent are already dead, which is another way of saying write with less inner critic
The pandemic that won't end
vote by mail is a way simpler & proven way to make voting easier
Shhh this conference is terrible and no one should consider going. <3
Yeah, they opened up SDC, and added several "zones" as data centers as well.
That twitter account is now suspended. Would it be in relation to them tweeting about this breach..?
Same entity that’s footing the bill for 1m dollar hospital stays in the us
They are cryptokittens.
We could talk about Sven Badzak who had gone out to the shops to pick up some orange juice and was randomly killed a few weeks ago in London but no one would know what you are taking about.

We could discuss the fact she's a pretty, young white woman.

We could discuss why 99% of the world who doesn't live in London is going on about this story when there are more relevant things at home.

We could discuss how the media and politicians are already telling us how to feel, how to act, what to think when all the information isn't out.

Or just flag the story.
The Ross Ulbricht?
Why Hate?
A lot of smaller platforms I've worked with, before address validation became a standard library to pull in, would have a two character field for state if they were developed in the USA. Most things developed outside the USA tend to put no limit on it.

For Concur I think it was built on top of the limitations of the global platforms most airlines use that were designed a long time ago for mainframes that didn't have a lot of memory. (There was something about dates once...).

Working on platforms built for industries that relied so heavily on mainframes reminds me of the apocryphal story that the space shuttle was the size it was because it parts had to travel on railways that were built to a standard size that matched horse drawn wagons which were built to a standard size for two horses abreast. Or to summarise, the size of the space shuttle was determined by two horses arses...
> How is it that humans can learn to drive a car in about 20 hours of practice with very little supervision, while fully autonomous driving still eludes our best AI systems trained with thousands of hours of data from human drivers?

Wow, are these so-called ai scientists really that daft?

Sure on paper we drive 20-40 hours "practicing" then hit the roads, but we've been back-seat driving and driving via video games or TV since the day we're born.

While a 2-year old doesn't know the intricacies of driving my 3-year old can definitely yell hey dad the lights red slow down.

Full-immersive life experience. Perhaps ai's need to be put into a real-world "birth" simulation (perhaps we already are this experiment) to learn as they grow.

The problem I see is the narrowness, if you're training on a narrow subset then you're gonna get narrow results. I don't know the best way of doing it but you need to start thinking of an ai's "brain" like that of a child's and how it absorbs things - the human brain is remarkable sure, but I don't doubt it's duplicatable in silicon.
Laundromat-type commercial/industrial waste or residential laundry water?

I would think products for industrial, commercial, and residential micro plastics removal would be more useful than for a specific problem, but also that waste treatment plants and water runoff must scrub their outputs of environmental contaminants before discharging them into waterways.
I don’t know if masks are that effective. They’ve been ubiquitous here in SoCal for months and yet we’ve had some of the highest infection rates in the country. I suppose if everyone were using N95 masks that probably would have worked.
Don’t try brush it off as a few 80 year olds. Over half a million people have needlessly died in the states. How’s the mental well being of those half a million families, how’s the mental well being of the millions more who were sick and thought they were going to die.
> Rust does not have subtyping. (except for lifetimes)

This is frequently claimed but AFAICS it's no longer true post-impl trait. (I guess the counterargument is that impl trait is not a first-class type?). In any case, "Liskov-substitutable for" instead of "a subtype of" carries my point.

> The point is, we don't actually have an existence proof that this is possible, and a lot of evidence to the contrary. It may be possible, but it's not a simple "just do x."

I mean you could say the same for any feature not currently present in Rust - I appreciate that there's more to it but what I've followed of the discussions really didn't feel like there were clear blockers so much as a lack of interest. If there's genuinely a question mark about the possibility, would making an working implementation (that makes a lot of arbitrary choices about syntax, efficiency etc.) advance the conversation?
At this scale, Voyager 1 would be in Tromsø, Norway. Truly, it has departed the solar system!
its been pretty accurate for the two dozen i used it for and or with here on the east coast
> The basic idea of Wayland is that it is a simplification and streamlining of a display server protocol. The work of designing that core protocol is already done and doesn't need to be done again, the original developer likely did it because they found it interesting or useful to work on in some way.

The mere existence of Wayland does not justify removing X11. I'm not trying to say that the X.org and fd.o developers shouldn't do as they please; I'm saying that I'll keep X11 until I see a compelling reason to drop it for Wayland.

> The situation isn't that much better in X, the window manager and desktop environment can break clients in other subtle ways that have nothing to do with the X server. There's no guarantee that graphical programs would always work if your setup does something strange.

I'll have to take your word for it, since I have literally never seen this happen (been using Linux as my daily driver since 2006 and have used dozens of WMs and all the major DEs). I agree that something inconsequential like the visual appearance of widgets or some such might not be consistent with the overall WM or DE theme, but X11 programs in general can run on a bare X server.

The only kind of non-trivial breakage I could imagine happening is accessibility features malfunctioning due to the absence of a particular DE, but I don't know to what extent this is the DE's fault, the program's fault, or the toolkit's fault.
And perhaps during the time your friend had that job, it was the sole country the beer was good and varied enough to make that worth it.
“I think what happens to most people who work at Facebook—and definitely has been my story—is that there’s no boundary between Facebook and me,” he says. “It’s extremely personal.”
The parent commenter is correct, and you (despite your username) and the article are not. If you read the paper it notes a dip in radio sources, not a complete absence of them. An entirely empty void a billion light years across is essentially too improbable to exist. “Voids” are just areas with fewer galaxies, relatively, not places with a none of them. In fact, the Milky Way (and the entire Local Supercluster) itself is in a void called the “KBC Void”.
Tobacco kills roughly ten times more people than opioids.

Alcohol kills about twice as many people as opioids.

So yeah, definitely a whole different ballpark.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...

https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-death...

https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html
Very few individual humans can act in a way that affects hundreds of millions of people, computers can do that in a nanosecond.
I saw a guy in SF yelling "shut the fuck up" at his own reflection.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote simply. He did this to create a feeling of being a lost child in a lost world (Billy Pilgrim, Slaughterhouse 5 for example.)

On the other hand, arguable the greatest sentence in the English language, the opening paragraph from Moby Dick is not written simply, yet Melville makes it flow.

"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodologically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball... I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me."

Vonnegut and Melville were great writers. Paul Graham is a great programmer turned businessman who likes to dabble at writing.