skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's spaceflight, rocket technology. I dont see any organization launching such massive rockets without substanial military ties. SpaceX lauches spy satalites all the time and employs lots of x-military people but i dont call it any more military than nasa (nasa is not currently handling any military projects).

If we really want to draw legal lines, the US still has selective service in place. Any American males on this flight are subject to it, giving them a small tie to the US military in that they has registered as potential recruits. They have a number and a card somewhere. The fact that someone is x-military does not mean they are never again a civilian. Being drafted doesnt mean you are soldier forever. Lots of all x-military flights have happened.
Explicit material is a violation of MasterCard and VISA policies not the banking system as a whole. You can't really process online payments without the blessings of those two companies.

This situation is not comparable. She is not being restricted by anything in the financial backbone. She absolutely can go to another payment processor and they too could choose to refuse her. Eventually she may need to build her own payment processor, which she would be able to do... It'd just be expensive and time consuming.
> It's not ethnically targeted

Citation needed.

> This is easily verifiable if you talk to anyone from China.

Is it conceivable that China is not entirely honest with its citizens about its various atrocities? If this seems far-fetched, perhaps we could examine the CCP's track record of disinformation, misinformation, and censorship campaigns against its own populace.

> Mass Birth-Prevention Strategy. China has simultaneously pursued a dual systematic strategy of forcibly sterilizing Uyghur women of childbearing age and interning Uyghur men of child-bearing years, preventing the regenerative capacity of the group and evincing an intent to biologically destroy the group as such. According to Government statistics and directives, including to “carry out family planning sterilization,” “lower fertility levels,” and ”leave no blind spots,” China is carrying out a well-documented, State-funded birth-prevention campaign targeting women of childbearing age in Uyghur-concentrated areas with mass forced sterilization, abortions, and IUD placements. China explicitly admits the purpose of these campaigns is to ensure that Uyghur women are “no longer baby-making machines.”

- https://newlinesinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Chinas-Brea...

Perhaps "the free press" who are largely citing reports by experts such as the one above, are in fact more accurate than Chinese state propaganda?

> Just like the awesome judiciary shouldn't lead to world-leading incarceration rates.

You're deflecting again.
I thought Mullvad recommends WireGuard and that your app uses OpenVPN? On Mac, WireGuard is certainly faster to connect and more stable than the Mullvad app.
That's a classic rent seeking argument, where people make money depending on how easy it is for them to sabotage something as opposed to how much they contribute.
I've read plenty on this topic. Believe me, those writers who reliably put out hits have NO problem paying their rent.
I think some features that are currently plugins could stand to be integrated into the main editor. For example, language server functionality is only available through a third-party plugin, and a year or two ago there was a couple month period where the plugin install was broken due to a dependency issue. Anyone who installed ST during that time would have been out of luck if they wanted to use progamming language plugins that required a language server.
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I didn't make the claim that there is a problem with Ubiquiti using AWS. The problem is that the conditions exist for Ubiquiti to fail with cloud authentication.

If hadn't failed with that it'd have failed in another way. Perhaps that failing wouldn't have been as bad in other cases, but we already see how their products have declined for the same reasons.
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Thanks, I have asked dang to update the link.
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Yeah, hence why the only Linux based OSes that matter on the desktop only borrow the Linux kernel, while providing an unified experience to app developers and users.
Maybe I'm just pissy from being subjected to 60 hours a week of top 40 radio for the last month at work, but I don't think any of them deserves a dime. In fact, I think they owe me something for pain and suffering.

I swear I'm not a music snob. 6 months ago when I heard this batch of songs the first time, I thought some of them were pretty catchy. Although I don't know that anyone will argue this was a great year for music. But I heard that "go out with a bang" song at least 4 times yesterday. About a week ago, I finally listened to the lyrics and started to like it a little. Then I heard it 20 more times and I'm over it.
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Maybe because, while HN is talking about The Dragon Book, the actual reference[0] refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_Compiler_Design which did not include Sethi (although there is a blurb about it in the paragraph).

[0]https://awards.acm.org/about/2020-turing
Unrelated but on Amazon is it possible to get order details if you have an order ID? You used to be able to scrape email for details but now you just get the ID itself.
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I completely understand your feelings. I also always faced quite a lot of issues with Visual Studio (not vscode) autocompletion when trying to write C++. But when it decides to work the experience is great.

Visual Studio Code on the other hand is just fantastic. I was a hardcore emacs user until I switched to VSCode as my main editor a few years ago due to the crazy good auto-completion experience.
I think the most unfortunate part is that it could be avoided if her husband had just applied the principle of innocence until guilt is proven.
I'd say a repo needs more than 150k views to get ~5k stars. I can confidently say the number of users who derive actual value from it is measured in the hundreds at least (compared to none on a viral meme site). If those views aren't generating 0.01% * $1, I can bet the house on viral meme site not generating that much, unless they happen to land very generous donors.

Edit: Just checked Homebrew analytics. >10k recorded installs in the past year (low single digit number of releases during that period, no major publicity event). I don't have readily available analytics for other installation channels on macOS, or analytics for Linux and Windows which are pretty fractured. Point is the user base is sizable.
I used Sublime Text 3 through college and drifted between tools the past few years of my professional life, variously trying JetBrains' IDEs, VSCode, and some others. For Go, GoLand was nice, if heavyweight; for Python, VSCode had a fantastic plug-and-play experience, though it was hard to shake the feeling of using a web app, albeit a snappy one.

The Sublime Text 4 dev builds pulled me enthusiastically back to Sublime full-time, and I'm excited that it's close to release. It's been carefully modernized and is a joy to use. In particular, writing Go in Sublime with LSP (gopls) and Sublime's Go Build System plugin essentially makes it an IDE for me, but still as snappy as, well, Sublime. That's a hard combination to beat. I suspect Sublime's approach of "do one thing well" (text editing) is especially well-suited for a language like Go, which has such an excellent selection of first-party tools. Sublime's approach lets those tools shine rather than hiding them away.

It's hard to name all of the features that feel fast. Some are little, like scrolling; many are bigger, like starting up the editor, switching projects, and searching for symbols, all of which are instantaneous. Even the dev builds have been remarkably stable; the result of the care taken is that the whole application feels crafted. It's a quality that HN (rightly!) laments is lacking in much modern software.

There are caveats; in particular, to get gopls to work, I recall having to search around a plugin's GitHub issues to find a solution for some problem with my $PATH. Not everyone will want this upfront learning investment. For me, the tradeoff was worth it. Having gotten familiar with the Sublime console and just a bit of how its plugin system works, there are no longer any parts of my editor I'm scared of and consider a black box.

Finally, I am happy that I paid for Sublime; I own my copy. The VSCode community seems vibrant and sustainable, but when trying it, I couldn't shake the feeling that I was living in Microsoft's world. They've shepherded it well so far, and it would seem they have incentive to continue. But despite being OSS, I never felt it was mine. One modicum of validation to that feeling: Microsoft recently (last year?) switched to a closed-source model for the Python language server that made the VSCode python experience so great for me. So overall, the transaction with Sublime HQ felt clearer to me. I paid them money for a great editor, rather than using an editor for free in exchange for goodwill or developer mindshare. That is a transaction I'd make again.
I have no dog in this fight and am not even really a fan but always thought Gaga was a legit artist. Do have any proof she's not?
I think the market segmentation is that more savvy users would bypass Mozilla and sub directly with Mullvad.
Solar is not really a long term solution for two reasons:

control (storage)

density

Unless we can solve these it is going to be hard to run energy systems without significant amount of base power plants (likely nuclear)
Another Apple reviewer that doesn't fully understand their own guidelines and rules..
From software development to software assembly
For decades, the launch codes were codes consisting of all zeroes.
I didn't know this but this so scandalous. I don't even understand what's funny about going through a potentially species-ending war.
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Why don't actors just make a movie without a script? They're just words on paper.

Why doesn't an orchestra just start jamming, with no score or sheet music? It's just notes on paper.

Why don't construction workers show up on a jobsite and start hammering without waiting for plans? It's just lines on paper.

Why don't...you get the idea.
Energy density is a b*tch.
I think regardless of how good a metric stars are, it's still more likely to receive donations than a meme site about a recent event.

I can't remember ever hearing someone talk about how successful their donation button was. I can remember plenty of people describing how few people ever click it, though...
Damned personality cults.
I am agree with this. No person should be forced for to serve any customer. I am however concern about the concept that some person cannot transact busines over internet because of it. Some digital curency official from Fed would make a reduction in this.
what's the added value compared to just using mullvad?

seems like a way for mozilla to gain shares without much effort? kinda disappointing
Who are you responding to?
Lars has admitted multiple times he was wrong to lash out when they did. Go look up interviews yourself. Metallica have fully embraced digital platforms.
Lady Gaga has chops and is a real artist. This is a video of her performing an original composition in college:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM51qOpwcIM
How often do you do this per month?

How many webpages do you read per month?

Now divide one by the other.
It was more like free beer source code did it.
It's not just RMS, they call for the removal of the entire FSF board.
Ooh, these are nice. I love using a proportional font for coding.

As an aside, anyone know of proportional fonts with coding ligatures (or a way to generate them/create a mash-up)?
exactly. I have even seen a video where they found one on a test kit that you push all the way thru your nose.
It's been decades since I was in high school but I really hope these videos, or something similarly realistic and mind-bending, is in the modern biology curriculum. Learning about Darwin, Mendel, Watson and Crick and the experiments they did to develop an understanding of biology was informative, but it wasn't compelling to me. These and the work of Drew Berry and WEHI are just amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/user/WEHImovies/videos
There is a recent version of gimp on flathub. Available for arm, arm64, x86_64 and, sometime ago also, x86. I tried on my raspi2 (old raspbian version), my rock-pi4 (armbian, arm64), my raspi 3 (raspbian), an old 32 bits x86 and 3 x86_64 (different ubuntu versions each). A single command, 4 different archs, 7 different machines, 7 different distros, the same gimp version all working. This was simply not possible before.
There are lots of complications. What was her risk of contracting covid * her risk of dying, given an infection? Was she healthy or did she have an underlying, serious condition ? It's just not as simple as your post makes out. This young woman would almost certainly be alive if she hadn't got the vaccine.
What we see is the opposite. Money gratituiously thrown at things like Uber and AirBnB destroys any profitability in those market segments and affect business models and profitability in related market segments.
> ExpressVPN is HK/CCP owned

Thank you for this callout. Had no idea.

Comparing VPN services, I’ve found ExpressVPN to be highly rated. The aforementioned callout means ExpressVPN may not be the best service for me.

In lieu of specific technical criteria regarding VPN services, who are the go-to (aka “top of mind” or “A list”) providers that privacy conscious, technically adroit (e.g. web dev with some sysadmin knowledge but little networking knowhow) users prefer?

In other words, I’m looking for VPN recommendations but no longer trust my own Google-fu (advert rabbit hole) to discern what is a “good” choice.
> The job is to produce software that effectively helps users within bounds of the law. The government says they have to spy on their users, so it isn't like Microsoft can do otherwise.

You must be trolling me.

The article as written is completely different than the article as written plus something like what I quoted from you pasted at the bottom.
Mullvad allows you to use any Wireguard public key you want on your account, you can just use the standard client, generate your own keys, and do your own config.

Not an employee I just like the service.
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Alfred Aho is the "a" in awk[0] (Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan being "w" and "k").

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK
I went looking on Ebay but couldn't find anything in Canada, do you mind sharing the brand or keyword?
Including graphics programming experience of GNU/Linux 20 years ago.
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I’m not holding my breath. Troy is a consultant. If they sent him that much free gear, what, he’s gonna backpedal and say “I’m removing everything UBNT out of my network”? Definitely not. “That’s a bad look” is a understatement for the giant cluster that this is.
The best product doesn’t always win, and product is not a longterm competitive advantage.

I have trouble swallowing this one. He decided to compete on product, but instead spent more of their limited resources on other things.

We started burning money on ads and hiring sales people

In order to stay competitive, we had underinvested in our engineering team due to cash constraints and stretched them across mobile, desktop, and web.

We started to get an endless stream of bug reports from our customers.

Our clients were unreliable and had syncing issues

This smells to me like neglected product and over-stretched developers. Chasing new features instead of building solid foundations by selecting the most important ones and getting them right first.

As a customer, as soon as I see something like "sync issues" that's a dealbreaker. If I can't trust your product to keep my data safe, I'll stop using it.

It does look like they eventually figured that out:

We had to hit pause and spend years — literally years — rewriting all of our clients

But by then the competition had decisively out-producted them:

One day recently, I looked at Asana and it slapped me in the face:

It’s better.
The original Dragon Book (sometimes referred to as the "Green Dragon Book") was written by Aho and Ullman.
If you put them in a simulator they probably wouldn't know the difference.
> supporters of the movement were not cancelled simply by association.

What you are saying is the equal to claiming that no black people were fired or otherwise hurt in situations not directly related to protests because they were taking part of the movement.

I'm sorry, but that is simply laughable as not only was that common, it was also fairly common for the Klan to lynch black people that was part of it. There is indeed a difference between cancel culture now and then and that difference is that it was STRONGER then. By a lot.
- This is an issue due to large corporations owning many radio stations across the US.

- This is an issue due to music labels being unable or unwilling to take risks.

- Regardless if you like the music or not, people need to be fairly paid for their work. Musicians/Labels should not be strong-arming/bullying songwriters into taking credit for their work (and thus receiving royalties for work they did not do).

2020 was a great year for music, but not if you only listen to the radio...
Absolutely. If a developer can only cash in on a big-number new version, that incentivizes holding back features to sell the new version. It just does.

I understand the frustration with subscription pricing, but it's a business model that actually aligns my incentives with the developer's. I want an up-to-date product and they want ongoing revenue for their ongoing work.
This parallels my entire experience with comp-sci and "group" projects.
There is a rule of thumb in SaaS that you should eventually reach annual revenue equal to the amount of capital invested. Flow reached $3M ARR on $10M invested, which is a really poor outcome.

I have definitely seen many venture backed companies that never reach this benchmark. That’s just life.

But at $3M ARR, there is not much hope for recovering their $10M, let alone $900K ARR...
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"Natural selection" in that it's a hodgepodge of varying quality tools, with no specific input and output structure (aside from stream of text/bytes), idiosyncratic flags (different between them for the same features), no coordination on various features/decisions, that let professional programmers hapilly work like it's 1979 and we've reached some global maxima.
Why not? :)

If you aim to be a sysadmin, knowing the ins and outs of how email works is a pretty invaluable skill to have, and running your own mail server is a surefire way to accomplish that. Plus, it usually forces you to get your bearings around servers in general. Being independent of bigger players like Google and Microsoft is a nice bonus.

I've been running mine for about a decade now. It's gone through a couple iterations, but the current one uses OpenSMTPd and Dovecot on OpenBSD, and hosts a quick tutorial[1] on how to set itself up (mostly so that I can remember what I did if I ever need to rebuild it again, but I figure it doesn't hurt to share my steps with other folks, too).

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[1]: https://mail.yellowapple.us
> pixels, they are unambiguous units that are consistent across all digital media

The size of a pixel and the DPI can vary by a lot. This is how we got in this mess in the first place.

> As a user I do this all the time in browsers, in video games, and even in display settings.

How do you zoom a whole video game? Isn't that rather inconvenient in that it's shrunk your effective field of view?
There's one killer feature of Sublime that I can't find anywhere else (on Linux at least) and it's the reason I still use it:

Upon closing it persist even unsaved tabs, and those tabs are named after the first line of text. I find this incredibly helpful when juggling multiple snippets of code/logs, without having to think about saving or worrying about accidentally closing the window.
Intellij Idea and Zim offer something similar, but they are clunky in comparison.

Anyone know another text editor that offers this functionality and run on Linux?
methinks thou hast a ginormous horse to sit upon!
Try looking up how many whistleblowers are out there that you've never heard of.
> I switched to another editor and it's slower, but fast enough.

I never understand the desire to switch. An editor is a tool, and I keep multiple tools. I use VSCode, Sublime and various JetBrains products and often have all 3 going at the same time. They all have strengths and weaknesses.
This video was not a rush job, but purposefully shows off a couple of visually-focused changes as a teaser for our upcoming major release.

None of these changes could actually be implemented as plugins - they all are much deeper architecturally than you may be aware, and the implementations open up a number of features for packages along the way.

In terms of our development pace, we did large releases in 2017, 2018, 2019 and have put out over 50 builds in the past year leading up to ST4. We have addressed over 600 issues on the GitHub tracker during the current dev cycle.

We do work differently than open source software, but we've got some upcoming changes with ST4 that will shorten our release cycles moving forward.

Open sourcing Sublime Text isn't a rational thing, as there is no massive tech company who would be donating the primary engineering resources for the project.
I'm not an IP lawyer, but I have a handful of patents. As a patent lawyer explained to me, the list of inventors on a patent should be strictly based on whether somebody actually invented something or not. It's not like an academic paper, where everybody on the team gets to be an "author."

In my view the same thing should apply to songwriting. The current standard is, you wrote a song if you wrote the melody or the words. Sometimes those are two different people.

If you added value in other ways, add your name to some other contract specifying distribution of proceeds.

The songwriting is extremely valuable, otherwise just write your own damn songs.

As an aside, "inherent value" is a mushy concept that seems to defy any meaningful description.
Hi! No, our app uses WireGuard by default.

https://mullvad.net/en/help/wireguard-macos-app/
I really like(d) Sublime and used it till somewhat recently. If there was semi-public development going on, it wasn't very discoverable.

Just tried the LSP plugin before reading your comment. Wanted to use it for Go development, but it can't even do basic autocomplete or suggestions. Actually, I can't even tell if it's running. The VSCode PLS gets stuck sometimes, but 99+% of the time it works great.

Even so, damn, Sublime Text is fast. I really do wish they catch up in other aspects.
I wish we had a ban on Chinese products in that sectors altogether (also Chinese owned) and had incentives to start the production of parts in the country.
I am sick and tired of thinking that even by using networks (which is unavoidable) I will be supporting genocide, forced labour, child labour and other draconian measures Chinese government comes up with.
Mmh It should value it, but I’m not so sure that it does beyond a fairly low threshold. People dont like buying cheap things that break easily; once you are out of the worst options bag... I’ll keep it anecdotal and say that I haven't seen anyone ponder relative durability of different brands, ever. Even on professional review articles. Where is the discussion of surface vs. Ipad duranbility?
Few other packages are as fundamental