skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat related, but I am still recovering from the aftermath of the 2.8 to 2.9+ migration
https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/1689

It is my own fault of blindly following someone's online configuration without truly understanding each line of the setup. I spent a whole day trying to recover my customized prefix and lost in pane vs window differences. Now my .tmux.conf only has 4 lines and I am done with over-customizations. It was unnecessary emergency when I was already behind on work. I don't think I will ever migrate the rest of the config.
Well this is why I say it seems like a bit of an overreaction.

I think you're trading in your fear of dying for a far bigger problem.
> So we asked them what their wishes were

I thinked you missed that point.

> They want to be alive to see that.

No, nobody in my family wants to undergo chemo or surgery at an advanced age to see grandkids.
Semi-coherent thoughts follow.

The most horrifying thing to me from that episode was that the judges and audience understood and agreed with the MC's denouncement of optimizing for user engagement (something that never happens today /s).

It made them feel horrified, ashamed, and aware. Feelings they weren't used to feeling. Feelings they needed to feel. And they loved it.

So they packaged it up and let people cash in their merits to hear him speak again. Like what the hell? Even awareness of the system can be sold as a commodity by the system.

It makes me think of subreddits critical of proprietary software and social media, or privacy-focused Telegram users. It makes me think of TV shows I love that happen to be owned by media conglomerates: shows like Mr. Robot. Selling criticism of yourself...that's a powerful way to control dissent.

The worst part is that the people profiting from this probably don't even realize what a genius move they're making. Most of this is likely unintentional. The most powerful actors don't even know how manipulative they're being; everything runs on autopilot at an organizational and individual level. That's what happens when you optimize for a singular metric.
The article covers the basics. Once you are ready to go beyond that, I would recommend exploring customisations, which are well covered by Awesome Tmux: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tmux

The other beginner tip I would give that's not in the original article is the command:

set mouse

Doing so will toggle mouse mode. This means that there are a whole class of commands you don't have to remember as you get a feel for it. For example, highlight mode, scrolling, switching windows/panes.
so because child porn and not-child-porn are both stored and transmitted as bytestreams from a hosting company's servers, you can't actually draw a distinction between them? is that where we're landing on this one?

"Playing opera on my stereo isn't a morality question, I'm just creating vibrations in the air, and I should not have to care what interpretations of those vibrations can exist when I play it at 4am with the dial cranked to 11"

can you see how playing semantic games to try to dodge responsibility for poor behavior can be irritating even in the best of circumstances?
Zilog is a famous example of what happens when no one reins in the engineers.
This is not the fault of the software engineers. This is the fault of the PM. They talk to the design team (which is totally incompetent) to come up with a story board. This storyboard then gets dumped into the laps of software engineers - "Go program this".

Can you imagine the reaction from Steve Jobs if he was alive? Owner of this product should be fired. Instantly.

This is also a result of "soft" culture in Silicon Valley. No harsh criticism, everything is positive and good. No dictators, no one telling them the truth, everyone is sailing along in happy path land. No one can exclaim "This is shit" because someone is going to get offended.
Google also adds this meaning:

noun RARE a person who performs a duty or ceremony.

And the etymology they provide says it had that use in the early 1800's.

It also says the adjective use of the word started in computing in the 1980's. But no word on why dictionaries avoid it.

Some people argue it isn't in the dictionary because it's more like jargon. But there are a LOT of jargon words in the dictionary.

To me it is interesting that the word has come about "jargonistically" two different times, and with two completely unrelated meanings.
What specifically is wrong with relieving yourself in something that isn't a toilet? I see absolutely nothing wrong with normalising that behaviour.
As someone who grew up in a medical family, my opinion is that most medical practitioners have a horribly warped view of aging. They spend their working life tending to the worst outcomes of age and end of life care. They think this makes them experts on aging, but really they remain experts on disease.

Plenty of people enjoy life past 80. I wouldn’t draw many of conclusions from your MIL at all.
And that will be used by shrill persons to claim censorship, etc, etc.

However, I claim that the profession of certain opinions should make it impossible to make a living.

EDIT: for certain values of "profess", which I'll expand as "go around telling everyone you frequently converse with"
Venus is also high energy. There are ferocious winds. But there are no dynamic processes there. Everything is static, perpetual endless howling 200 mph winds, crushing dryness, forever, always.

Mistaking energy for dynamic is a bad mistake. Yes, we are headed towards higher energy. But whether there are any dynamics that will survive, as the extreme conditions rise, is very much the existential question.
I was hoping they had reverse engineered SimCity and were going to actually reveal some of those formulas, or at least go into more specific examples of non-obviously perverse results. Instead there's only the one example of Magnasanti. Oh well. It's a good topic.
Obviously it's not great to feel the fear of death constantly following you, wherever you go. But it's possible to not have that experience while also not (falsely) accepting death as inevitable. I know because I am neither constantly plagued by the fear of death, nor do I believe it's inevitable.

To say that death isn't inevitable isn't the same as saying it's particularly likely that any of us will evade it, but the chance is not literally zero, and by my own estimates, I say it's non-negligible.

It's pretty uncontroversial to say that life extension technology is possible. There are times in the past when people didn't live as long as they now do. Finding more effective cancer/Alzheimer's/heart disease treatments is life extension. It's within the realm of possibilities that life extension tech will advance enough to let us live for some centuries. Cryonics (freezing yourself after death) is also something that could possibly work. It's possible that in the future, we'll figure out ways to successfully thaw and revive people who undergo cryonics.

Neither of these are immortality, exactly. For that you would need some sort of mind-state backup system or "consciousness uploading." That tech might not be available for a long time, but life extension/cryonics could hold many people over until it's available. Many people believe that it's either impossible, or that it wouldn't "be you" when you were restored from a backup. I think that these positions are wrong, but regardless, anyone who takes such a position has to allow that there's some possibility that they're wrong, and in fact such tech is possible and would work as intended. The theories of personal identity argued in Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit are relevant here.

I think it's important that we don't accept death as inevitable, because if people don't hold out hope of conquering death, then it's less likely that we'll conquer it in time.

I never struggled with an intrusive fear of death, so I don't have detailed suggestions for how to overcome it. But facing up to the fact that you are probably going to die, and introspecting into what specifically makes you so afraid, then taking measures to address it — that sort of thing — will probably help.

Measures that might help, depending on the nature of one's fear:

- Starting a mindfulness meditation practice to learn to notice when you fear death, and learn to dismiss the fear

- Seeking psychotherapy with a similar goal

- Study philosophy. It's possible that your intrusive fear of death stems from contradictory beliefs you hold, and you just haven't noticed the contradiction.

- Registering for cryonics, so that you know that you have done something to fight back against death (this might well increase your fear of death, beware)

- Switch careers to work on life extension technology. When vikings raid your village, you will be afraid. But the nature of your fear will depend on whether you decide to cower in fear or take up arms and fight back. Maybe you prefer the fear felt by someone fighting back.

But remember that death is horrible, and it's right and proper to fear it, as long as the fear isn't too intrusive.
I think it’s pretty wild that people are worried about the addition of a coding pattern to a language. What a thing to stress about. Nobody’s taking your Python away from you. I promise everything’s gonna be ok.
Now that's a good question I will have to look into.
This seems like telling a depressed person "I'm sorry you're depressed when there's so much to be happy or content with." And then proceeding to list all the things you are happy or content with. And then concluding with "Don't be depressed."
Thanks for laying this out here like this.
Perhaps the state (or the city) can have some sort of program like tax relief for low-income landlords who were affected by this.
Immortality would be horrible.

Our brains aren't big enough to hold an eternity of memories, so you would forget who you were to make room for what you'll become. What's the point of immortality without continuity? That's a living death.

And forget about actually cheating death. Imagine if somehow you survived long enough to witness the heat death of the universe. Stuck on some Dyson sphere around a white dwarf for billions of years as the entire universe fades to black and all the things you used to do become impossible because there isn't enough energy to do them. And in the end you still get sucked into a black hole like everyone else, wondering if you are the last living thing in the universe.

Nah I'll just die when the sun still shines.
It's been a while since I played, but I'm pretty sure if you've filled all of your higher education jobs, the sims with education will start to fill into the lower education positions. Or perhaps I just sucked at the game and always had sims who my education system didn't reach....
Blockbuster's Advantage? Quantum Computers
Can you withdraw your money? Presumably not, since that wouldn’t make for a very interesting market. So you’re still trusting the company with control over your money. The fact that there’s no direct incentive for the company to outright steal your money (unless they’re on the other side of every bet, lol) ought to make them even easier to trust!
I almost agree everything said in the article. "Death with Dignity"
I met a guy in a Starbucks in Palm Springs... He was working at a casino gaming company that was like making a Diablo clone or something. Like you'd pay to play and could play with your friends and get a pay out somehow. Sounded cool actually.
Discussed at the time:

The antidepressant effect of sleep deprivation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16557500 - March 2018 (155 comments)
A rather painful reading experience. The author needs to learn how to edit their thoughts and use punctuation/grammar properly.
Stock options are offered to people who are ready, willing and able to work harder or smarter in response to potential ownership. These are INDIVIDUAL contributions.

When a direct relationship exists between the parties, this is a possibility. When there is a third party dictating what happens, this is much less realistic.
The federal estate tax exemption amount is $11.7 million for individuals. Life insurance payments are not treated as taxable income, beneficiaries do not pay income tax on them.
I know exactly how you feel. If I really contemplate death -- not the act of dying, but of being dead, the infinite nothing, it takes my breath away. I strongly, strongly recommend you avoid thinking such thoughts at 2 AM, by the way.

Objectively, I know it won't hurt any more than before I was born, and it won't really be infinite nothing because to experience that I'd have to have consciousness, which I won't have. But it really is difficult for me to really grasp the concept of my own non-existence.

On a related note, sometimes I feel pangs of great sorrow when I look out on the world and realize I will one day not be able to experience this. Looking off into the hills, at the trees, the mountains, nature -- is so strikingly beautiful, that I can't imagine being deprived of it. Not exactly a rational fear, since again you can't feel the deprivation if you don't exist. But it strikes at odd times, just like grief for my dad, or my brothers, and in some ways it feels like shades of the same feeling.

Sorry I've got nothing witty to say, but you are definitely not the only person to have such thoughts. I hope you find a way to keep them from tormenting you too much. I've mostly managed to cure the 2AM habit of staring into the abyss, which is a step in the right direction.
> I'm suspicious of these Norwegians, and their peace prize process.

Any particular reason, or just a general suspicion of people from Norway?
I actually trialed their "stand-in" service before it got discontinued. Having an AI to do difficult conversations on my behalf is really helpful. It's a shame that what could've been a silver bullet for remotely-employed introverts got abused by spammers.

I wouldn't mind if it kept running ad-supported, commenting on websites like HN after I die, as long as it doesn't diverge from my actual preferences. Preferences like Honey-Os, the best cereal out there. Start your day with Honey-Os, now available at Costco!
IANAL but I don't think that's what a typical corporate charter actually requires. It's just an opinion some people have about what companies should do.
“Overly complex, therefore insecure”
Has to be the most incorrect understanding I’ve ever seen in computing...
And I’ve seen people talking to their mice...
Why not simply work at a company?
A long time ago I used to play World of Warcraft for days at a time taking naps every 30 minutes or so every 4 hours. Needless to say I was tired as hell.

Interestingly though, my mood was excellent - and not from playing the game. It was almost as if the fact I had been awake for so long itself is what made me happy.
Very cool! What file format did you find easiest to work with? I've been doing some work on skeletal animations and the most common format I've come across is BVH [0], but that only captures animation and bone hierarchy.

[0] https://research.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Courses/cs-838-1999/Je...
I agree, general anesthesia feels like the closest thing we can experience. It's a little startling to go under, only to instantly wake up a few hours later and realize you just lost those few hours without even a trace. When you're asleep at night, you don't lose the sense of time, but under general anesthetic it's completely gone.

But I totally understand your point about how maybe it's just the amnesia part, maybe you do experience time, you just don't remember. I had the same kind of experience when I had a endoscopy, and I know that I had to be semi-conscious to participate in the procedure, but the time was completely lost to me and seemed instant, just like a general.
Neuromancer, by William Gibson, is to cyberpunk what Superman was to the superhero comic genre. The entire trilogy is gold.
Show HN: A Symbolic Barcode System
How long before they start sneaking not so obvious ads if they do not do it already?
Let's make it a little easier by talking about a slow code project instead of a movement. I think that could look something like Jon Blow's development of the Jai programming language, which is in closed beta after being developed for several years already. He's emphasizing the joy of programming.

He also has millions of dollars, thus, years to devote.

We might exploit this example to say about a slow code movement "people in the slow code movement would recognize at the start of a slow code project that they will be working in relative secrecy for several years".
Please use caution when relying on this website as an unbiased source of information.

The ABC is Australia’s state media outlet. They rely almost entirely on our (conservative) government for funding.

While they do some good investigative reporting on domestic issues, their coverage of anything involving China is insanely hawkish and they rely heavily on untrustworthy sources including lobbyists for the military industrial complex.
I would never use the pre-installed software on a device, always replace it with a bare-bones install of a generic Linux/BSD distro and add any packages really needed.
Consumerism won't defeat Georgia's Jim Crow
Why the sarcastic quotes around “security reasons”?
Mom and pop need same defaults. An argument can be made that disabling it is a same default.
How would you get out of depression?
Despite the article's title, its subtitle qualifies it as a possible treatment for severe depression.

Ideally under supervision, at that. Near the very end:

>In the case of wake therapy, Benedetti cautions that it isn’t something people should try to administer to themselves at home. Particularly for anyone who has bipolar disorder, there’s a risk of it triggering a switch into mania – although in his experience, the risk is smaller than that posed by taking antidepressants. Keeping yourself awake overnight is also difficult, and some patients temporarily slip back into depression or enter a mixed mood state, which can be dangerous. “I want to be there to speak about it to them when it happens,” Benedetti says. Mixed states often precede suicide attempts.

Sleep deprivation is nothing to fuck around with. If you're emotionally unstable, it'll usually make that worse.
>It also sounds like they're trying to build generic B2C products, which I think is the complete opposite of what you should be building as a solo bootstrapper

What would be your recommendation then regarding this point? Niche b2b?
There should be a process to it and the case should be evaluated not granted by default. Renter should be unemployed and not have money in their account or something like that otherwise we end up with people saving on rent just because they’re douches and that at the expense of someone struggling to pay their mortgage. A lot of people don’t afford a whole mortgage and get a 2 unit house and rent one floor. Some cheaters have an income but manage to get the landlord to let them stay in their propery for months to years for free.

So again, this should be evaluated on a case by case basis and people who lie and cheat severely penalized so this behavior is not rewarded. Some people abuse all these laws that are supposed to help people and there is never a consequence for this abuse. Are these laws fair? I think there is room for improvement here
As someone who has worked on a game with loot boxes and analytics and all that, you are definitely underestimating the cost of doing that. Only the mega companies in the world could do that, and they aren't in gaming. The reality is is that the whales are basically subsidizing the 99% free players. It's sad, but free to play and wealth inequality has created this system. The game developers are trying to enable rich people to part with the cash that they are comfortable spending on leisure. It has a nasty side effect of baiting people who can't afford it to spend too much.
I agree with the rebbutal. We saw a few bits of the reef and some was stunningly beautiful. Other bits in comparison were heavily bleached and not looking healthy at all.

It's a collective effort from the whole world we'll need to reverse the damage.
> It's not an accident. It serves a function.

The problem is when that function becomes counterproductive by filling you with so much anxiety about death that your ability to live your life is impeded. This happens to a lot of people.

In some ways, us humans are too smart for our own good. We have the amazing ability to mentally time travel, and the ability to understand concepts like our own deaths. These higher level brain functions can clash with more fundamental drives, like the survival instinct. For many people, this conflict can become crippling.
PostGIS is the equivalent for PostgreSQL:

https://postgis.net/
To be honest I think you should go ahead and delete that account (and this, my main). Upon further reflection I think my engagement with HN has become unhealthy.
PostGIS – Spatial and Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL
Used to be phone books filled with people's phone numbers, names and addresses. In that light, this leak isn't too bad. Not great, but not that bad.

(Easy enough for me to say, I never gave FB my phone number in the first place, I've never logged into FB on my phone, and I'm not in any of these files.)
Whisker simulation gives insight into mammals’ sense of touch
I have been a big fan of GNU screen for many years. What makes Tmux better?
As a former maintainer of firewalls...
You are wrong. From beginning to end, utterly, and completely.

::Pets His firewalls lovingly::
“Don’t listen to Him, He didn’t mean it.”
I played it on the Amiga as well !
I knew a company that did this (their marketing person would constantly make accounts on Reddit, get banned, and then try again all day) and asked them about it.

They said that only the regulars who post and comment get mad, not the lurkers. It might only be the mods getting mad if posts only lasted 15 minutes or so. So in their view it didn't matter that the mods were seething with rage as that didn't get passed on to most of the community as they removed the posts. Only the mods saw it as a flood of spam.
A $5k, 75-mile used EV still offers a lot of utility and value because it will cost almost nothing to run and maintain.

No doubt you’ll be able to buy great $5k combustion cars in 2030, but ongoing fuel and maintenance means their true cost is a lot more than that! And in some parts of the world, increasingly stringent emissions controls mean that combustion cars become more expensive, or even illegal, to drive in cities.

You’re right about CHAdeMO, but anyone buying a 75 mile EV isn’t going to care too much about fast charging anyway. And by 2030, someone may have come up with a retrofit and/or adapter to make old LEAFs compatible with CCS?
It’s a sliding scale, otherwise you’d run an airgapped network and hand carry your info into and out of your home on CDs...
since I use i3 I never bothered to learn tmux. If you use i3 is there any reason to ever use tmux on your local machine?
if you are a mac user, iTerm2's native tmux integration is a game changer.
Definitely somewhat conscious, for me. Last time I went under, the nurses said they had to hold me down and wondered who Charlotte was, because I kept mentioning her while fighting.

Charlotte was a datacenter I was concerned about at work, pre anesthesia.
timeless book
It's mind boggling how absolutely unaccountable these big tech companies - especially Facebook have become. I think we hear about such massive leaks at least once a year. And nothing ever gets done to prevent this from future and even the fines if any imposed are chump change for the companies.
Hyper-realistic skin for humanoid robots is being sculpted in Russia
That might play a role, but sleep deprivation is also a trigger for hypomanic or even manic episodes in bipolar patients. There's something about sleep deprivation that alters mood in certain mental disorders.
Man, I have to catch myself all the time with this.
Yes, niche B2B seems to be the winning play from what I have seen and heard from successful indie hackers.