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I agree that VS Code is easier to edit code in, but Emacs is easier to program and extend. Ease of use simply isn't why people use Emacs and I think that at this point it would be hard for it to ever compete with VS Code on that front.

VS Code is like the Java of text editors. It relies on a universally understood and accepted model of editing text (non-modal, leveraging the mouse heavily), one that is familiar to all users, even those who might prefer a more idiosyncratic and keyboard-driven interface. This is analogous to how Java facilitates a certain style of OO programming that is familiar to the vast majority of programmers, even those that may prefer and see value in other, less popular / accessible modes of programming.

By comparison Emacs would of course be the Lisp of text editors. One could try and make Lisp as accessible and nailed down as Java, after all its extreme customisability lends itself to that, but at that point you'd just be writing a poor man's Java instead of Lisp.

This is not to say that Emacs can't or shouldn't be made easier to use, just that I don't think its survival depends on it catching up to editors like VS Code which I perceive as being for a different purpose altogether. I do, however, somewhat suspect that the crucial difficulty of Emacs comes from its messiness, from the huge number of people writing interesting extensions in it, and how they don't always quite play nicely with each other without a bit of glue code.

I'd love to be wrong about that, though, and one day get the best of both worlds.
It's a bit like people that want to disrupt the bodega or the breakfast juice or a one drop of blood full test for all diseases. You can pitch it as loud as you want, when you have a shitty product it will not make it better.
I get the impression that the job market is very saturated right now.

I'm on a private slack group for a tech recruiter company; it's well-discussed that the platform is seeing less hires due to the pandemic.
Probably the result of some early attempt at either sorting or removing duplicates
oh my yes. The oil that comes in the engine of a vehicle is a good proxy for how carefully it was built. It collects everything that wasn't cleaned off, and every burr and bad surface creates more gunk during the factory run-in. Even if the first oil is replaced -as it should be, if its dirty- there's still left over gunk that will end up in later oil.

FortNine had the oil of a bunch of motorcycle brands analyzed. Aprilla and Ducati are two of the most expensive motorcycle brands- they make extreme performance luxury machines. They don't even make entry or mid-level bikes. They're both intensely race-focused. Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GAUo8eUXeU

Spoiler: Aprilla did 20x worse than the next-best, Ducati did 50x worse. They were an order of magnitude worse in every size of particle inclusion. Harley Davidson has possibly the worst reputation of any non-chinese motorcycle manufacturer and the best Ducati or Aprilla could do was to come within a 5x worse margin.

Like... oof. Americans make the biggest, Germans make the lightest, Italians make the prettiest. Only the Swede makes the quickest.
I don't know about elsewhere, but the deer population in Pennsylvania has become quite absurd.

You probably don't need a lot of mice with so many of the 4 foot tall rats known as white tailed deer running around.
vi and emacs were released in the same year.

The fact that vi iMproved became the dominant implementation isn't particularly relevant here.
Writing "demo" scene is like writing "web" site: come on, this has been around since the 80s. We literally have a post on the front page about demoscene being a recognised cultural heritage now.
1 liner change by set -o vi and you can live in a better world.
Didn't he specifically address this, in the section where he brought up "salami slicing"?
Do they reproduce that or do they leave to a better place once they got the experience?
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Neat approach. I like how you are trying to simplify the problem.
The BlackBerry Classic from 2014 worked this way too. It had an optical trackpad that controlled the focus, except in the browser where it was an actual pointer.
So is not the same thing as Emacs from the aspect the TFA describes, which is what the grandparent implied...
I thought your drawing was a joke, but I just realized you are trying to diagram a rollback of the chain or something.

The problem is, that is not at all how it worked, or how the block chain works.

If what I think you are trying to show happened, then all the transactions for all the other users that happened around the same time of the DAO hack would have also been rolled back. That most definitely did not happen.
"How Bill Gates finished off the competition" by implementing functionality that didn't make it in to the commercial release?

Something appears to be missing between the history and the conclusion. However the competition was finished off, it wasn't by code that was never used.
I’d argue you’re going to be more valuable if you bring your mindset and experience to a team that is small enough to influence and that doesn’t yet have good CI in place. But if you want to find engineering teams that brag on good equipment and processes, I’d suggest sifting through StackOverflow careers.
Diagrams for Penrose Tiles
But the headline is "How Bill Gates finished off the competition". How is it possible to finish off the competition by deploying code that is never even executed once?
Thank you for making that. There are are articles that mention how we forgot the octal connection to the x86 isa. Your ascii art table is just a really clean way of visualizing it.
No, incels need to realize they are an extreme outlier and not part of some broader trend. Blaming women, or tinder, or other externalities is a cop out. Go out and talk to people, in the real world. if you're identifying with this garbage, you're on a very dangerous path, seriously, get help.
Well, a mathematics degree is one of the highest income earners for a reason so its usefulness is beyond dispute. I personally have life and artistic goals which take priority of my time over math but I’m willing to allow mathematics (together with high-level scientific understanding) a place in my life as a tertiary goal or drive. We are all a little too hard on ourselves to get everything done before we turn 30 or 40 as though it were some kind of deadline and then why bother, right?

If you find pure math interesting then give yourself the slack to learn it long term. Think of it like a rock garden which you tend to over the years.
It’s either false or people are really, really good at hiding it. I worked at a huge company that exists on that platform, and while people there were not that happy or that nice, they weren’t generally the totally antisocial pricks you read on there. I always wondered who of the people I interacted with IRL were actually on Blind posting things, it didn’t seem possible it could be any of them.
The prefix = subtraction convention came late in the history of Roman numerals. I think it might even postdate the introduction of Arabic numerals, but I can't say for sure since I'm going from memory here. If I were less lazy, I'd look at wikipedia which doubtless can give a more definitive answer.
VSCode will likely get you to 80% productivity compared to Emacs pretty fast. The question how easy is to get from 80% to 100%. It is like a prototype vs. polished code: you can create something that provides 80% of the result over a weekend and then spend 2 years polishing it, to get remaining desired functionality.

For example, I'm sure VSCode does git but does it as well as Magit? Everyday things can be done on muscle memory, most other things are much more discoverable than I've seen in any git interface (using other git interfaces is like walking in a office with your eyes closed vs open with magit). http://emacsrocks.com/e17.html

I'm sure VSCode does notes too but does it as well as Org mode? Org mode for me is an extension of my brain: it is a working memory that supports executing whatever task I do, it helps organize/automate tasks, it helps focus, etc. For people with ADHD like symptoms, I expect a life changing experience thanks to Org mode -- while other people should just become more productive in it.

Every keystroke is a programmable command in Emacs. VSCode is close. I expect parity for programming modes. Most Emacs interactions are likely less pointy-n-clicky compared to VSCode: somehow pressing keychords steals my focus less than doing actions with a mouse for everyday things freeing the conscious brain to work on the task at hand. Emacs provides a unified interface for me e.g., searching/filtering lists https://writequit.org/denver-emacs/presentations/2017-04-11-...

Emacs doesn't do web browsing very well. I have to survive with Vimium. Does VSCode perform better here?

VSCode is much more popular today. Emacs is GPL -- I expect it to be there in 20 years too. I won't trust Microsoft long term.
Dog.
Fixing chronic shoulder pain. My resting heart rate at night dropped by about 15 points in the week after an intense therapy session.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=TPAIulBkJps for more video game bathroom trivia
I want to go back to school, and if I do, it will probably end up doing CS because it’s about the only “useful” degree accessible to working professionals, but if I had a choice, I’d probably pick a mathematics degree given how widely applicable the learned concepts can be.
Looks neat if you're a vim/emacs type of person.
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This was probably my biggest gripe with my mech eng degree. Every minute you spent grinding through a difficult topic until you understood it, was a minute that you needed to be studying for another exam or working on a project. In the end I came out with a pretty decent GPA, but a serious case of impostor syndrome as I never really felt like I had absorbed most of the material. Of course engineering is a demanding field, but I've often wondered if students would benefit from having five classes per term.
Having long dealt with chronic pain in various areas I can sympathize. PT is fantastic for this and reducing the pain is an incredible QOL improvement.
Just because you can afford it doesn't mean it makes sense.
Why do you seek this? Are you single? If you are, it could be as simple as not having a significant other.

You know, the majority of people lived with a small sphere of friends since grade school. Your typical junior high kid doesn’t have that many friends, and they cope with it and many cope with that for almost 20+ years.

Were you a popular kid in high school? You’ll just have to learn coping mechanisms if things have changed, but many many people deal with a small sphere of connections just fine since childhood (and some literally deal with none).

If the kids can do it, you can do it.
Try being the drive by looking solely at the display. It’s a complete joke. If that screen represents the totality of the car’s perception of the world it’s simply never going to work. Look at the cars in the right lane, they’re fucking all over the place. Seeming changing lanes into each other constantly. It’s like it’s not even calibrated or something. WTF??

Then try making the left turn decision solely based on that screen. Good luck. Things don’t appear until they’re way closer than what is plainly obvious using vision.
please be careful

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/homewood-al/bertr...
Getting a pet seems so awesome. I'm worried about the commitment it brings to the dog itself, and the place. I lose the ability to "sell everything and travel".
Part of the demo is running on the page, I believe. It's the chat widget in the lower-right corner, you can talk to the team directly!
Wife gave birth to a healthy child.
Note that over $137,700 you stop paying that 15.3% self employment tax. So you never really pay that maximum combined rate.
You have created 2 scenarios with very small actions spaces. Most games have enormous action spaces, so you can't easily compute a probability.

Take Chess for example. Chess engines evaluate millions of scenarios for every move. They don't generate a "win probability" value though, they evaluate board positions.
A great example of Chesterton's fence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...
When my daughter is a bit older I’m going to buy her the Singapore school books for young math and pay her a salary to complete them. I don’t doubt their effectiveness.
This reminded me of Nelson's OSMIC https://xanadu.com.au/ted/OSMIC/OSMICd1m.html
It also works fine for >10 tabs.

For example, my last browsing session only became unusable (16GB RAM + 8GB swap 100% used, machine OOMing renderers, system freezing for about a minute or two at a time) after I reached about 1,081 tabs.

:(

I find it a huge pity that tab serialization never went anywhere :'( https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discar... it would basically have let you have 10,000 tabs open
If you like this kind of content, I'm really enjoying the latest season of the Tides of History podcast. He's focused on prehistory in quite a compelling way: https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/
Zapier and Retool
Wow. Is that a real measured number, or are you guessing?
Meditation practice
What are some things that the therapy session included?
This + tree style tabs works pretty well for me. It’s kind of a clunky system. I tend to end up with a _lot_ more tabs than I need but it’s nice that the hierarchy in tree tabs shows which site a new tab was opened from, even if I’m not using the original site.
Yep, in my case we wanted to make user-facing queries fast (i.e. a reports page). The extra complexity (not much; we just have to remember when to update certain values in other tables when they change) is definitely worth it since load time dropped from 30 seconds sometimes to almost instant.

Denormalizing everything is definitely a pain; keeping data in sync in mongodb (which lacks traditional joins) on a previous project was not fun; now using postgresql.
Coverage of Bay Area Anti-Asian Violence Is Missing a Key Element
In my experience this is the number one driver for infinite scroll, dropping paging simplifies a lot
Context of the game = previous events that occurred.

Don't you think it's a bit odd to be forecasting a "win probability" value without taking the events of the game into account?

> why can't it be included in the encoding of the game state?

How do you encode time series or event data into singular values?
The core of EE is Fourier analysis and BCI is no exception but you should be strong there because you've studied applied math. Most of your target books are good after your HN update, but one thing you are missing that will probably make a big difference are some books on measurement science. You'll want to get some focused both on EE and biomed/biology because they will focus on different things and both are relevant to your interests. Eventually you'll also want to touch on some non-linear and statistical control which play into the implementation of the more modern cutting edge BCIs. DSP overlaps a lot with this but still has some uniqueness you'll need to learn to put things into practice.

Just an FYI, a lot of BCI companies are running stuff like repurposed audio analyzers ala the U8903B for lab work and bench testing their designs. Parallelism is the name of the game, and analog performance requirements aren't super strict so you won't be designing custom ICs any time soon unless you want to work on the probe interfaces themselves (which are more MEMS than circuit design but need a little of both).

Something like Medical Instrumentation: Application and Design by Webster is a great place for a beginner who wants to toy with human interfacing circuits. Back it up with something like The Art of Electronics and that will get you to professional lab tech territory.
Nzyme v1.0.0: Free and Open WiFi Defense System
Cats & walking to work listening to podcasts.
Looks like nature heard them

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56466310

Dozens of people have been rescued from floodwaters, and residents in many low-lying communities of New South Wales have been ordered to leave their homes.
Serious question: Can you please explain what you mean by "we value human life"?
An Ode to Not Meditating
In all seriousness, I stopped going to lectures* and studied at my own pace. My learning isn’t linear, so there will be some topics that are easy that you can move quickly on. Other topics take more time. Sometimes you can take a detour and dive deeper kn interesting topics.

Going to lecture, sitting in lecture, waiting around, etc. provided very little information per unit time for me. I can’t learn math or anything quantitative from watching someone do it. By using lecture time as study time I was able to double the time spent learning the material.

When you get stuck, go to office hours. Or look for notes from similar courses for a different perspective.

At the start of the course look at the book and see what the prerequisite material is. Review that material during the first week when there is time.

* exceptions being courses that have a participation grade.

I tried my best to have profs that followed a textbook.
When "white supremacy" is anything right of Trotsky, math[1], acronyms[2], getting to work on time[3], objectiveness[3], etc., then yes, denouncing these things is delusional leftism.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/math-suffers-white-supremacy-accord...

[2] https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/school-renaming-SFUSD-a...

[3] https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/17/smithsonian-a...
Did a marriage course with my wife. Very helpful wish we had done it a decade earlier!
It's not really about organization, because the person producing the work isn't part of the org structure and doesn't even know they're producing the work.

IB works by doing absolutely unreasonable amounts of work for CEOs for free, to impress them, so they'll pay even more unreasonable fees when they do want you to do something big like a merger. In the meantime the senior bankers just take off-hand comments by the CEOs, turn them into questions, make the junior staff write 100 page slide decks answering them, and send them back to the CEO, who doesn't read them but feels impressed.
Moving to a new place with a view of a river instead of a parking lot. Thought it’d quickly just feel like the new normal, but there is something calming about flowing water.
I’m against surveillance and draconian enforcement of rules. But in this case I understand Amazon. Can you blame them for wanting to make sure their drivers are not distracted and operating the trucks responsibly?

They are in a logistics business. Distracted driving causes accidents and delays. A driver for them is equal parts an employee and a liability.

Amazon gets all the heat in these topics simply because they nail to automate what has been a manual process so far.

Monitoring trucks with video and GPS is something that many companies do and have been doing for years. Maybe the debate should be around how much monitoring is too much.

Unfortunately for a company like Amazon there’s little choice here. They built a brand based on their reliability and customer service. Thousands of unmonitored truck drivers are something that could damage that trust.
In math? You could follow a standard undergraduate curriculum, such as the one used at MIT (with their OCW stuff). Or you can just pursue what topics interest you, and trace back their prereqs to make sure you've covered everything you need to know.
Leaving (~Western) Europe. The last year made it clear that I'm not compatible with its values and priorities, and I'm now going to live in places that aren't living museums.

It's freed up a lot of mental space which has been phenomenal.
In IT, changed career goals to a less demanding role, including a new team, manager, etc. Its amazing how refreshing a change like that can be.
SpaceX

StarHopper, StarShip, StarLink, 28 Falcon launches (114 total), 26 landings, caught the fairing, ...

Could never have imagined such a prolific space endeavor.
Taking the train to work (and actually working in the office again).

I need my 1 hour trek back and forth to build barriers between home and work.
My son's daycare closed permanently almost a year ago, and my wife and I had to adjust to have a 3 going on 4 year old at home with us 24/7. While it hasn't been easy, it's been a joy watching him grow over this past year, having time to bond with him (generally he favours his mom), and to have greater insight into who he is becoming as a person.

It has been a difficult time for everyone, but I honestly believe that this will be formative time not just for him, but for my wife and I, and one that we will look back upon fondly.
building good habits, i started using habitica after seeing it here
I suspect the solution is that 1) you're going to assemble the new board with a fresh set of capacitors, resetting any wear/degradation clock, and 2) modern capacitors are likely improved from the early-generation surface-mount ones in many old Macs.
You’ll be okay. It’s a commitment, but the dog can go with you anywhere. Best decision I ever made in my life.
Having infinite scroll doesn't avoid paging results from a query. Like the OP mentioned, if you have 8000 page * results/page records, you may only want to retrieve 50 records at a time to pass back to the client. In that case, you will still need a way to query for the next set / page. Infinite scroll is a UX implementation.
Making vegetable soup, and giving it to friends.
There are many places where we allow harm in order to protect freedoms.
Without a doubt:

1. My puppy. We moved out of a studio apartment with my ex in a town I didn’t know, back to my city and into a house of our own two weeks before everything shut down. In the last year we’ve bonded incredibly, and weathered the worst of the last year together in a way that would have been incredibly difficult without her. We wake up every day to snuggles and a special day’s greeting, and wind down every night squished up on the couch. I carry her to bed most nights, not because she needs carrying but because it feels so sweet to end the night that way.

2. I quit a job that was burning me out and spent 5 months building the start of a living art project which reinvigorated my creative mind and my love of the tech craft. It’s just started but I have a zillion things I plan to do with it, and it’s the first ambitious project I’ve been able to follow through on in years.
It has been achieved thanks to the heaps of cash that the entire world has thrown at China. Part of what made it work was some good ideas "some" people at the very top had, but they've reverted those decisions and the effects are starting to show (you now need contacts in the government to start new stuff, didn't use to be the case).

Of course, with time, any approach expires. The new approach is lacking. Not surprising considering the finger-picked positions.
> We trained a generative model on CIFAR-10, which we then used to generate ~6 million images. The scale of the dataset was chosen to ensure that it is “virtually infinite” from the model’s perspective, so that the model never resamples the same data.

I don't think so, Tim. They observe identical performance between cifar-10 and cifar-5m, because the generative model for cifar-5m learned to replicate the distribution that cifar-10 was sampled from. It's the same dataset.
Can you elaborate a bit further about Western Europe being a living museum?
RC filter is like fizzbuzz for EE.
Where’d you go?
psychologically i’m not convinced the wetware differentiates them. dopamine is a mechanism for motivating behavior, to increase survival outcomes. when it comes to empathy (understanding others) this is what’s key. status symbols are socially real and the social realm is just as much a threat as anything else in the environment. more, maybe!