skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comparing life biotechnological extension with natural optimization is like comparing natural human calculus with computer calculus.

The optimization of natural human calculus is not worth the time
I'm familiar with VS code and have a set up that I'm familiar with (shortcuts & settings) and I've only briefly looked at IntelliJ, so I'm not qualified to answer this question. What is the reason you're using IntelliJ rather than VS code?
> but the processes around it

Couldn't agree more.

I keep a notes vim open in i3's scratchpad. Mod+minus and it appears front and center, I make a note. I shortcut again and it's gone. I use one giant text file so everything is always searchable on hand.

I never kept notes before this setup, no matter how hard I tried. I just made it as ridiculously easy and zero-brain-required as possible. I don't even like using vim, but the setup is just too straightforward. I've become a note making machine, and I love it.
The death penalty’s biggest issue with regard to the functions of justice is in the areas which affect post-conviction, net contribution to society.
Another example: Java and C++ got disrupted by Python and Ruby, which were considered to be much simpler to read and write, but now we are seeing more static typing, for example Python with type hints and friendlier static languages like Go/Kotlin/Swift. Perhaps mirrors the shift between text editors and IDEs.
Butt at what cost!!!
Gigabyte Brix Pro: A Compact PC for Basic Computing Needs
Classic corporate psychopath. Doesn't do the work, gets you to do his work, attacks you for doing it, and probably took credit for the fix behind your back. Once we can screen these people out of positions of power through MRIs or whatever, the world will improve in a big way.
A-10 Warthog Pilots Are Using the Digital Combat Simulator Video Game to Train
The strange word families of “platypus”
Sounds similar to Ousterhout's Philosophy of Software Design!

https://www.amazon.com.au/Philosophy-Software-Design-John-Ou...

The main point is that a software developer's job is to fix stuff so you end up introducing complexity, but you will have a much easier life if you realise when you're about to introduce more complexity, and try to minimise it by thinking about your implementation choices. KISS, I guess.
First thing I needed to check that I have not woke up in alternate reality and that today is not 1 April, after I remembered that some drug addicts use similar techniques to get high.
> He certainly didn't do enough of it, right. They have traded long term prospects for short one.

This is extremely presumptuous to say the least. It assumes they didn't do enough and that you know more.
They are going for a fully mechanical automaton probe apparently, no electronics, very interesting approach. https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/space-robots/jp...
Severe lung obstruction, cases where intubation and tracheotomy are contraindicated, et cetera. It's not super common in the grand scheme of things, but then, neither are tracheotomies.
With Python you can write super simple to super complex. If you have a large project that benefits by type hinting, use type hinting.
The stone cold fact is that China has n-times engineers than USA, mostly working for the same American companies who outsourced their RnD, and engineering decades ago, and working on mostly the same things.

It strikes me every time hearing such argument from people completely oblivious to the above fact.
A previous HN article links to a paper which mentions this would be useful when there is a shortage of ventilators: https://www.cell.com/med/fulltext/S2666-6340(21)00153-7
I actually agree with this. Although I try to give the people I supervise as much freedom to come up with ideas and solutions as possible, there are some that almost always come up with outrageous ideas that will never work or they overestimate their own skills and over promise. I think that it is my responsibility to tell them that their ideas are not going to work and that's not a good idea to pursue them. It will only lead to disappointments and wasted time in the end.

That said, some of the people I manage are clearly better at dealing with the freedom to come up with solutions than others. I feel like it's often the same people over and over again that try to install barbecues everywhere. I tend to give some colleges more freedom than others, because I know from previous events (i.e. I have a bias towards them) that their ideas might not be so crazy as I think they are. But I tend to stop other colleges, that have tried to install barbecues in the office several times in the past, when they come up with ideas that I think are probably not going to work.
Makes me chuckle thinking of the next movie about future divers having tubes going into the rectum, not the mouth.
CPR is on the way to getting even more awkward...
Epic Games expert says iOS could be like macOS without security drawbacks
Java JDK 1.0 (1996)
So it’s a fancy fuzzy finder? How is it different/better than fzf? Is it more integrated but therefore less flexible (e.g. less UNIXy)?

I read some early report on the neovim reddit where people complained that it was slower than fzf. So I did not bother looking into it more, also because no one could really explain it well.
I can understand that some art cannot be (usefully) explained; I imagine paintings, especially modern art, might end up in that category.

It's very common, however, for people to explain what's going on in a literary work such as a short story, a novel, etc. Therefore, I don't find your argument (that there's no way to ELI5 this) very convincing.

(On an unrelated note, I do like the painting you linked.)
Are FAANG companies the median for tech salaries? If that's the case most companies are doomed.

It's pretty common knowledge that FAANG pays really well. One of the big reasons people work there are for the extremely generous salaries. Everyone else is underpaying if you're comparing them to FAANG. Also by your definition, Apple and Amazon are notoriously cheap too. Really you're only comparing to Google, Facebook and Microsoft (less so).
The post is not about what this or that place or person uses or "always have used".

It's well understood that some people have "always used" IDEs, and other people have "always used" Vim/Emacs.

The post is about general trends. What kinds of tools were trending/rising at some point, what at another at so on.

In that sense, counter-examples don't negate a statistical observation. Only whether the trends described in it is right or wrong matters, not whether some or even many buck them.
> You are the exception, you know that right?

Sure, but I don't agree that touch typing is "the" technique and that it's impossible that someone else has come up with a better one independently. Touch typing is a good way to type well, but I don't think it's distinct from "typing", it's one way to type. Just like you can play the guitar even if you don't know the technique.

> - Why do you think you did slow down after the switch to touch typing?

I have no idea, the way to hit the keys just feels less convenient to me. For example, the x and c are harder to hit because my fingers don't like going there, I can't really explain it better.

> - Why did you feel the need to switch to touch typing if the skill you already had was so good?

Half because I got an ortho split keyboard and couldn't use my old technique with it, and half because everyone said touch typing is so much better.

> - Do you regret switching to touch typing? Why?

Yes, my old technique is much more comfortable and faster. I still type the "old" way on regular keyboards, but it's not such a big deal either way, since I'm usually limited by the speed of my brain rather than my hands, and I don't much mind the reduced accuracy either. I'm touch typing this on the split keyboard right now.

> - How many years did it take you to get to 120 wpm at 98%?

I've been typing that way for 20 years, so I can't really say. I definitely remember being pretty good around 4 years in, possibly long before that.

> - Is there anything you miss from your old technique (beside the higher stats)?

It just feels more comfortable, when I touch-type I feel a bit like I'm fighting the keyboard, or as if I'm wearing shoes half a size too small. With my old technique (e.g. on my laptop) I feel at home.
Is there anything you would say is a killer feature that fzf.vim[0] doesn't already provide? You get a similar UI from that, and nothing from their showcase section really jumped out at me as a must-have (though I have to admit that 95% of the time I only need :GFiles and :Buffers).

[0]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim
If the situation that core developers who happen to work at Microsoft are getting all the attention and praise regardless of their actual contributions, perhaps Python should be forked.

It is no longer and open source project, some corporate developers claim all power and attention and actively intrigue against others.

This "project" will result in 25-50% speedup at most, probably slow down some C extensions despite promises to the contrary, and then be marketed as a great success by the faithful and the press.
That's the point that got me thinking about the likelihood of a very different real story that might be going on. What if some individual or subgroup just ran away with the hoard? Some subcontractors/mid-level data henchmen could have tried to press compensation by threatening to release victim keys, and then a combination of disbelief, unwillingness to accept having gotten fooled by a peer and dreams of spy story grandeur conjuring up a fantasy about state involvement that they eventually believe themselves. Or at least like better than the alternative.

I don't consider that the most likely scenario, but something in the willingness to declare defeat got me into "what if" mode.
I think somehow I have overcome this tab overloadding problem on my own

I have restricted myself from browsing internet on mobile phone, so I only view them from my personal computer

I always keep a note on what I browse, regardless of how important or useless it is (except entertainment stuff to some extent)

I am using this note taking method to all my work as well, for example, searching online about security aspect of several CI/CD pipeline tools that my company use

The notes that I create are all mostly markdown files, with names to their own, so I can grep or find whenever I want, and encrypt and archive the whole folder as I want to back them up

By note taking down the links that I have viewed, sometimes with some wordings for explanation, I can keep track most of them, not all, becacuse sometimes I use namings that I couldn't recall and that's totally fine, I can still grep/find as I want anyway

I would just put down some file names so you guys can get a better idea

1. 3d-printing.md

2. asm.md

3. algorithms.md

4. browser.md

5. cybersecurity.md

6. hacking.md

7. graphics.md

8. gamedev0.md

9. reverse-engineering.md

10. storage-hard-drive.md

11. vpn-proxy.md

12. video-hardware-acceleration.md

13. game-engine.md

14. freelance-startups-business-side-hustle.md

15. fuchsia.md

16. electrical-and-computer-engineering.md

17. electronics.md

and a lot more like

300. linux/doc/linux-kernel.md

301. android/doc/android-apps.md

302. macos/doc/macos.md

303. windows/doc/windows-install.md

Edit: if you are wondering why do this at all when everything is just one google search away, well, i guess that's the whole point
It's really tempting for any author to write an article as such it is the final words and dismissed some of the findings and worst perhaps discourage future useful findings by potential researchers. I think this article falls into this demotivating category. I beg to differ, since as far as Covid-19 and heart are concerned, the jury is still out and no record has been straighten.

It is interesting to note that most of the papers cited only consider echocardiography, troponin and cardiac MRI as biomakers but not the pervasive ECG. Most of the cardiologists still stucked with the perception of rudimentary and limited accuracy provided by the venerable Pan-Tomskin (PT) based algorithm that was introduced in 1980s i.e. 40 years back. Real world accuracy of the PT algorithm for ECG analysis is probably less than 75%, that means it will only reliably detect very serious heart disease [1]. Modern ECG analysis algorithm can already detect with more than 99% accuracy, specificity and sensitivity [2].

Just a small request for the authors (any small chance they will read this comment) or any cardiologists for that matter. Please provide open ECG dataset by donating them to open physiological databases for example MIT-BIH [3]. Provide at least 1000 samples (minimum 1 hour duration) of Covid-19 patients' ECG data without previous history of heart diseases. These essential data will enable other researchers to perform modern ECG analysis. After that we will probably know whether the "Covid heart" is true or not. IMHO, it will be much more constructive than writing the posted popular science article.

[1]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319066214_The_Accur...

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_character...

[3]https://www.physionet.org/content/mitdb/1.0.0/
As long as performance isn't part of the requirements, then it is time to rewrite it into Java and C++.
Yeah (rewrite) just the hotpaths like you would with Cython. Also there is https://github.com/Pebaz/Nimporter which makes it easier.
But why? I'm sure Ebay knows the banned products will not disappear and just be sold somewhere else. And if the alternatives don't exist yet they will soon; just ask Tumblr.
Maybe read your sources before posting:

"The report concluded that Belgium had not ordered Lumumba's assassination"

And

"In 2013, the U.S. State Department admitted that President Eisenhower authorized the murder of Lumumba.

However, documents released in 2017 revealed that an American role in Lumumba's murder was only under consideration by the CIA.

CIA Chief Allan Dulles had allocated $100,000 to accomplish the act, but the plan was not carried out."
That's an outlier as far as terrorism goes. And even 9/11 harmed US power only by causing it to spend trillions in Iraq.
I find the Workona browser extension works well to organise tabs into groups and then restore tabs when required.
It's not about nationalism, it's about human rights and proper behavior towards other people. If the UK can not behave themselves, I see no reason for them to not receive equal treatment, perhaps even sactions and mass deportation of their citizens.

The EU, and all the members have a responsibility first and foremost to their constituents, and their constituents are getting thrown in jails, for no fault of their own, just the vindictiveness of the Brits. There is no flame war, I am literally asking for our Governments to take action.
Over half of the US tuned it out accurately, no worries mate.

Urban areas of dense mixed unit housing accurately should have attempted the most mitigation efforts, but keeping them in poorly ventilated indoors was a fatal mistake, with anything else (such as recommending going outside but distanced every few hours while the building was ventilated) likely being impractical too.
Thanks. It was actually one of quotes that I was certain is originated from greek philosophers. Yeah it seems like it's my turn to cite something incorrectly.
>Right. The idea that Jira has been replaced made me laugh.

It shouldn't though. Jira wasn't always here, and it wont be here forever.

And what's even more important, and is the point of the post, trends don't stay the same, whether a tool still maintains its existing userbase or even increases it.

In a changing market, a tool might hold or even increase its userbase, but still end up with much smaller marketshare.

If we add qualitative considerations too, then it's also very possible a tool to remain dominant even in market share, but still lose mindshare (and eventually be dropped by the next gen of developers).

Tons of people and companies use Visual Basic too, but it's not where things are happening (or what one should study to get a job in 2021).
You can input paths with “Go To Folder” (Command+Shift+G by default) but it's a bit cumbersome.
That's to be seen. I very clearly remember when Angular first came out, that was clearly the way to move forward. People switched in droves. Then React came along and changed everything. React has also remained more popular than Angular has, but we didn't know that till years later. Some chose to remain in Angular (my old company) thinking it will blow over and we can swap to the next paradigm instead. Turned out React was flexible enough to last a while. Somehow you can perfectly see this is the React of mobile and not Angular?
The language authors did not work on large systems. If their position did hold any merit, we wouldn't have seen many people try to solve the shortcomings of their language.
Navigate Twitter without leaving keyboard!
If you know more, add there!
zstd performance is great on really old and weak CPUs, at its default compression level. I recently tested it with a whole system file tree on a 2005 vintage Pentium M single core (thinkpad x41 tablet) running a bare bones debian install, and was pleasantly surprised.
Oddly enough it also seems possible to feed people through their anus, it was a humiliation tactic used in Abu Ghraib

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/cia-report-r...
The situation used to be similar in the Philippines and Indonesia a decade ago. I worked on an application for managing real estate; mapping property to addresses was challenging as a formal address would literally state "Jl. Muhamad 123, ask at the 7/11 for Babu's house".
>I have never met anyone who stopped using IDEs once they started

Well, I, for one, used to use Eclipse and moved to Sublime. It also has to do with changing dev languages and trends over a period. 2005 might have been all about J2EE, 2015 was all about Node, etc.
I think it'd be more appropriate if the post bore a great red label: 'WARNING: EMACS!!!'
>See https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020

What is this survey supposed to show?
I'm quite surprised. I have never even heard of someone who did so I thought it was a good rhetorical point (and I think it would have been if you weren't an outlier).
Things you can’t do in Rust (and what to do instead)
I use linux and appreciate that Steam has support for it. Fact: their Linux OS is the primary reason why I use Steam.
Seems like a potentially very profitable endevour, but the name is not very apt. Profit making e-commerce companies are sort of the opposite of "moonshots" - very low risk, no technological breakthroughs needed. Or is the idea that some of them could turn into decacorns?
As long time developer on the Windows ecosystem I really don't get what happened.

I fully agree with the experience, add on top of that CLI tools for what used to be VS wizards, code instead of GUI designers, killing C++/CX replaced by C++/WinRT, which after 4 years still doesn't have VS tooling support, 5 competing GUI frameworks on Windows,....

Culture reboot at Microsoft went a bit too far in the wrong direction.
By "fine" I mean it does what I expect it to, doesn't throw bizarre errors and hasn't crashed (so far). Could it be faster? Sure. Does it bother me? Not even the slightest. So many apps I use regularly run much slower than this.
Just listen and try to steel man what they are saying as best you can before you start to consider how it might be wrong.

Try to get onto the path of thought that led them there, but let the questions that arise naturally for you hold off as long as you can.

To be clear this is like a policy, you will fail at it but it reminds you of the prinicals that you believe in.

I learn a lot doing this in more ways than i could explain in a book, never mind a comment.
I haven't made up my mind about whether web fonts are a good or bad thing. On one had I understand the designer's desire to express themselves artistically (or even sometimes implement functionality that wouldn't be available otherwise), on the other hand I often feel more comfortable with my own font choices and am glad that Firefox lets me override most fonts with defaults.
Oh, somehow failed to see your post before writing mine. The perpetrator of the "all for myself" starting the state actor claim themselves makes even more sense! Why anger your partners when you can just point a finger elsewhere?
100% agree as a maintainer of a substantial modeling and simulation project that uses Python. We use it simply because most of the people contributing ONLY know Python. If I was to rewrite large portions of the code in another language, it would be faster but a large portion of the team wouldn’t be able to effectively contribute any longer. We pay the performance price for that accessibility. I’ve already tried and discovered that moving to a new language (like Julia) will be a non-starter: the other people don’t have the time or desire to learn another language or tool chain (they’re not computing people: they’re domain experts in their non-computational fields). Any speed improvement that lets people continue working in Python would be a great benefit to that project.
The stack monoid revisited
> Would you be saying the same ("doesn't matter") if Python was instead made 2 times slower?

I mean I guess at some point (5x, 20x, 100x) it would be unbearable, but yes.

It's nice for the tool to get better "for free" but if it's so far from becoming the right tool for certain tasks, what's the benefit?

Also it might not be "for free", I don't know what Guido is planning, but if you look at when people try to make Java or c# fast, it changes how you use the language by a lot.

So yeah it's nice for python to get faster but I won't know the difference at 2x or 0.5x, because I just don't use it for things where that matters. YMMV.
Biases in AI Systems
Would be great if the bookmark all tabs feature could capture state in that way.
command palette or command bar are terms ive seen used
The woman in the photo is his second wife, Natalia née Svetlova.
With Firefox's declining usage share (~35% => ~5% over the last decade), while unfortunate, it is easy to see why business folk will be less inclined to invest in QA here now.

But on the other hand, Firefox developers are increasingly prioritizing compatibility issues, matching Chrome's behavior in order to mitigate this phenomenon.

I've recently switched from Chrome to Firefox nightly on mobile and desktop, and I have to say, I am actually very impressed with how few issues I've run into.
Oh you mean the combination of parachutes and retrorockets pioneered by the Soviet Union with their Mars 3 lander?
I've grown into the same mentality: used to be happy just going to the gym and seeing my numbers improve, but over the years it's become too boring to continue.

So I've switched my focus to sports! I now play tennis, surf and dance on a regular basis and I love it! It's a powerful change for anyone who thinks of exercise as a drag - find activities/people you enjoy who happen to involve moving vigorously.
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Thanks for taking the effort to explain this. Regardless of whether I like the story, it's interesting to try to understand what the author was attempting to convey.
"They're only copying" was also an accusation famously leveled by Britain against the US (see Lowell[1] and The Pirates of Penzance[2]) and by the US against Japan around the turn of the 20th century. Copying complex technologies is hard and countries that are able to succeed at it usually go on to become innovative.

[1]https://www.history.com/news/industrial-revolution-spies-eur...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance#Backgr...