skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, let's be honest, the difference is getting blurrier and blurrier as "text editors" gain more features over time. And workflows, too, aren't that clear-cut... is it wrong for a "text editor" to include built-in autocomplete or git support? What about project-wide regexp search, or is that a better tool for grep? Etc.

At the end of the day, I don't care what a program is classified as, only if it can do what I need it to do. Like many here, I've used Sublime for its speed on simple edits and other editors/IDEs for more complex dev work. That's fine. But VSCode occupies that in-between space, offering a mix of performance and features.

The holy grail for me would be something like PHPStorm but with better performance. I wonder if Java has something to do with it, vs it being built as a native OS app? I don't remember Visual Studio (the full IDE, not VSCode) being this slow, ever, even on old Windows 95 machines. And even back then it was pretty feature-complete too, especially compared to VSCode if not IntelliJ.

I guess my underlying question is whether it's really impossible for an IDE to be both fast and featureful.
> When I need to open an editor QUICKLY

Do you actually ever need to open a new editor? Why not just start whatever editor you want when you boot up, and then open files in it?

You probably don't shut down and start up your web browser every time you want to open a new site, so why would you do the analogue with your text editor?
On what ? Servers were given by third parties. Staffers were volunteers. Do you mean that you brought Freenode >1m to christel?
What are the drawbacks exactly?
Fuel economy regulations are based on vehicle footprint and weight. Small trucks are small and (were, still would be if we still had them) fairly heavy for their size making them bad for compliance. A small vehicle is also going to have harder lines (less physical space for clean curves) so will have worse aerodynamics.
It seems to have been 2017 (hopefully I recall the year correctly), by transfer of legally owned/registered assets (all that comes to mind immediately that was under non-volunteer ownership is a couple of servers and a domain name or two, but maybe I'm mistaken about that). Of course, I'm not on any side of this, especially not the "inside" (wherever that may be), and I've just read some of the stuff being published by both sides.

In my estimation, the biggest potential problem for Freenode policy that I see is based on the the statements by some departing staffers that indicate the parent company may collect and monetize user data. That would be a pretty shitty outcome. I asked a current (post-split) Freenode staffer about improving privacy measures on the network, and got very encouraging responses, though. Of course, a single staffer is not exactly an ironclad indication of policy. Perhaps the only way to really know how it'll hash out is to wait and see. I plan to keep an eye on the Freenode privacy policy.
This is not true.
[https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/microsoft-corp/summary?id=D...]
A personal message that can be read and responded to by everybody.

If you want to send tptacek a personal message, their email is plainly listed in their profile. You don't need to air out your beef in the public, and all it does is lower your credibility to do so.
> Am I too old?

No, just switch if you want.

This is a ridiculous question. Stop thinking like this -- it is self-defeating. It's your life, just do it.
That commit is replacing the logo and link of the previous sponsor Private Internet Access with one for Shells instead, and looking at the Wayback Machine that previous logo and link has been there since about April 2016[1] in the same location with the same level of prominence. (The one in the top-right corner underneath the Wayback Machine's toolbar, not the "Private Internet Access" entry in the footer which seems to have disappeared with the switch to Shells.) So in reality, this isn't some shocking new intrusion of corporate logos that began in 2021 despite ex-Freenode staff succesfully spinning it that way, it's something that's been going on pretty much since he purchased Freenode Inc half a decade ago. (Actually, maybe even before he did. Not 100% sure of the exact timeline.) The only thing that's changed is which sponsor and logo exactly is featured. Apparently somehow no-one thought to check if this key, easily-verified claim is actually true until I ended up stumbling on the old PIA logo by accident when looking for the new sponsor's one.

In fact, thinking about it I seem to remember some discussion of the fact that the PIA logo had been added at the time and that it was something to do with their funding of Freenode Live, and that no-one much seemed to care back then aside from a few trolls of the sort Freenode has always attracted under all its owners.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160413123025/https://freenode....
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Sounds like a common sense reasoning about this. Are there stats to back it up? Do trucks pose a significantly greater risk to cyclists and pedestrians? I'm actually a truck owning cyclist myself.
I'd refine that slightly: marketing is telling an interesting enough story to get an enquiry, sales is telling a relevant enough story to get the action.

Communicating the complexity of the product is only part of that. It's the "so based on what you've told me about needing to replace x that takes y hours per week, this z minute process I'm walking you through will generate u more v". For simple, universal value propositions you might be able to turn that into a calculator on a product page, but a lot of value propositions involving salespeople aren't simple or universal. (Also there's the navigating large organizations bit and the outbound bit, but they aren't competing with or complimenting this product)

Ironically one of pclark's comments elsewhere about Journey's value proposition being "so meta" makes me think that's exactly the bit a good salesperson solves for you: figuring out the gap in the specific client's marketing capabilities that Journey can fill
Now that's deliberately being dense. Riding a bike means you'll eat more to fuel that effort.
Recipe for growing a programmer: take one kid, add logo and legos.
Weekly reminder that sometimes a functioning market can only be maintained via regulation.
The intelligent backup power is such an obviously good feature that I'm surprised nobody has thought of this before. Out here people will spend $5-$10k installing a generac for their home. That thing is loud and takes awhile to turn on depending on the setting.

Having your EV plugged in and just "work" when there's a power outage is stupid simple and absolutely worth it.
The mail server was working when the whole staff team resigned.

What happened after then will have entirely been within the control of the freenode management, their administration, and their sponsors.

Every ex-freenode staffer I have talked to has been exceptionally cautious about damaging the data and systems they tended for literal decades, and to my knowledge none were disrupted.

I think here, you have to look to Andrew, ask what his transition plan was, and what he thought would happen when he started throwing lawyer's letters at the head of a functioning and healthy team of sysadmins and staff members who were happy to continue the job they'd been doing for years, for the community, indefinitely..
Odd to see pm for lang-a written in lang-b.

Esbuild comes to mind ?
Glad you found it revealing!

The thing with download numbers is there's a lag - unless people binge the show in two days (it happened before), they are probably going to listen to it episode by episode over a longer period, which makes downloads tricky to attribute to source.

You get the option to choose which sites you want the ads to appear on. I picked all that supported my preferred format (as mentioned in the article).

You can definitely target according to gender and sexual orientation, so you can play with the copy that way!
I thought this book was helpful
https://www.refactoringui.com/book
I bought at $30k, but unsure if it's going further down. My money is on it going up.
more like they bribe potentially competent founders with a high salary and “perks”, which effectively raises the opportunity cost of making a competing startup.

in this hypothesis most people working for google are actually not needed, but employed there primarily to waste their time
There should be a regressive tax rate tied to gas mileage, with exceptions for people/companies that can prove they need to use the vehicles.
In my area, I rarely see pickup trucks actually used as work trucks.
OverTheWire: Bandit
Me, for home and property renovations.

Oh, the hill is starting to give way. Cool, build a retaining wall (including getting the base rock to fill it). Oh, we ran out of firewood this winter. Cool, build a bigger wood shed (BTW, firewood is a lot cheaper if you pick it up yourself). Oh, the siding on the house is rotting. Cool, grab some plywood, tar paper, and siding and fix it myself. Oh, the weeds on the property have overgrown again? Rip them all out and haul them to the dumps.

I've saved probably tens of thousands of dollars including the price of my truck by doing these things in-house instead of hiring. All thanks to my truck.

When you don't have one, you don't do these things (because hiring people is expensive). But once you get one, it opens a completely different world of "wow I can do this myself." I found rentals don't cover that gap. I resisted getting a truck for so long, but once I got one I kicked myself for not doing it sooner.
HIPAA doesn't prevent you from talking about your own medical procedures. This is just a voluntary badge you can put on your profile.
Amusingly enough a "step van" - the technical name for the type of thing a UPS truck - is often a much better truck for the average construction worker (the type who brings a truckload of tools to a job site) - as you can get into the truck and find things without having to unload the entire pickup.

A friend started construction and bought a Tacoma new because he saw everyone else using one - and it had to go in for a repair and during that time the dealer lent him a van, and at that point he had serious regrets about buying the truck.

But then again visit most construction sites and you'll see one or two company trucks full of tools, a delivery semi or two, and acres of pickup trucks with nothing in the bed.
Question (ROT 13 for spoilers):

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This is true. The physics outside could be anything and we're unlikely to understand it.

There's a chance us humans are simulating our past for some unknown reason - in which case one would expect the laws to be similar.

It's also not unreasonable to think that there will be many similarities between the laws of the simulation and the outside reality because they'd have what they know to draw on for inspiration.
Unit testing Logo involves a mock turtle.

I'll be here all week, thank you.
I’m glad I have a local Honda dealer. It’s the cheapest oil change in the area. They have a full service kitchen that makes killer breakfasts while you wait. Their sales team is no pressure. I’m extremely happy with them.

I guess my point is that one size doesn’t fit all. That said, I do hate going to the typical car dealer.
> The $20 is for the first 75 minutes. I guess I'm wrong, but I couldn't imagine a use-case where you're only going to need the truck for 75 minutes.

The idea is that you drive the truck home, unload it, then drive the truck back to the store and return it. If you live less than 30 minutes away from the Home Depot then it is completely reasonable amount of time.

Example: 30 mins driving home + 15 mins unloading + 30 mins driving back = 75 minute rental.

It seems very practical to me. Most people live less than 30 mins from a Home Depot. In fact Home Depot has an internal goal that they want 95% of Americans to live 15 mins or less from a Home Depot store. So if you fall into 95% of Americans, then you can rent a truck for 75 mins, spend 15 mins each way driving and have 45 minutes to unload or mess around before returning the car.

Home Depot really rents the trucks with the idea that you drive to the store in your car, buy something at the store, use the truck to take it home, drive back to return the truck, and then drive your car home.
How was this money directed towards freenode? Certainly the accounts published by freenode ltd do not mention anywhere near this sum (though it is currently behind on publishing accounts).
Hostile takeover by and from whom?

It was ran by the very staff that all left. No exceptions, all of them. So who exactly where they taking it away from?

The appointed heads were appointed by all of staff, democratically, as your very PDF proves from the meeting notes. It is you who tried to force in people in a leading position that staff were disagreeing with, so if there was a hostile takeover, it was yours.

You also never owned freenode, you owned Freenode Limited. You had zero involvement with the network, that was ran by volunteers in their spare time.

Also you have not been locked out from DNS either. One of your employees insisted on enabling 2FA, and you simply haven't had a key. For ages, mind, not just for the past few weeks.

But sure, blame your mismanagement of your own company on volunteers that had nothing to do with you or your ltd.
FTC Sues Major ISP for Lying About Broadband Speeds
Read until 4, then 6, then 9am. Sleep until 3pm, stay awake until noon the next day. And 3pm the day after that.

My day shifts forward by 3 hours per day.
> The ENA driver is probably the hardest thing to port, since as far as I know there's no way to get your hands on the hardware directly, and it's very difficult to do any debugging in EC2 without having a working network.

I'm certainly not an expert on these things, but couldn't you run your target OS in a VM on a better-supported OS in ec2 (for example Linux), and pass-through a second ENA network interface to the OS you are porting.
All laws have downsides is about as interesting as "PI isn't always good. Sometimes you want to multiply by 2".
The parent comment was saying that there was too much partisanship, you are saying the way to solve this issue is by getting rid of the filibuster? Or that if the democrats got rid of the filibuster it would prove they weren't partisan? That makes no sense whatsoever, it's essentially arguing that the democrats need to be more partisan.
Without the tourist euro, they’d just get the rest of France to pay for it.

But it is a functioning capital city, most of what goes on there isn’t related to tourism.

Museums sure were empty last year when I was there.
Leaving a project when you know that it will cause their infrastructure to collapse isn’t too professional. It seems pretty fair to characterize this as partly your fault, since, y’know, you caused it by leaving.

I think both sides in this are acting bizarre. You’re talking like it’s an oath of allegiance rather than an irc server.
This is a really well thought out vehicle. 9.6kw of AC power (120 and 240) available for tools etc on work sites, 2 way power (truck can provide backup power to home), and it has a frunk (front trunk)!

As a truck owner, and a California resident, every one of these features calls out to me. I use my power tools all over the place where power isn’t readily available, PG&E shuts off my power when it’s ‘too windy’, and a drunk seems like a good place to lock up my laptop and nice tools when I’m in a restaurant in San Jose or Santana Clara (sheesh, laptop thieves suck).

Well done Ford - I think you’ve got a customer here.
The readme of TruffleRuby even states that large ruby applications take a large time to warmup and they're working on it.
I love the idea! The Journey team has a great founder-market fit too :) I am looking forward to using the product by myself.

Congrats for the launch!
Almost every major American city is also a shipping port, freight train depot, major freight airport hub, etc., etc., manufacturing is still a thing (in fact domestic manufacturing is on the rise in the last decade). Good luck feeding, clothing, sheltering, etc. the millions of inhabitants in American cities without roads that accommodate large trucks and people who do real work.
It's not, I think, so much that the idea/aesthetics of a pickup truck is offensive to people.

There are obviously many cases where a truck of some kind is exactly what you need to do some task or other.

I think it's more like there are a bunch of people who have never owned a pickup truck, and have rented trucks when they needed to "move stuff", and are suspicious of the explanation given by others about why they bought them because those explanations don't match their own life experience.

If the answer to "why did you buy a pickup truck?" was "I like to see past the other traffic, I'm worried about the safety implications of a smaller vehicle when there are so many pickup trucks on the road where I live, the infrastructure here is set up for them with wide roads and ample parking so it's not really a thing, plus I very occasionally avoid needing to rent a truck when moving lumber" then things would be less contentious.

Of course, one can then proceed to the question of if there's a double-standard on why the question doesn't get asked to owners of sports cars with speed and handling limits that are of no relevance to public roads.
The ‘so what’ is maybe they should be given back to the people they were originally built for.
I wasn't reading it correctly, it does work for characters > 127. For pure ASCII you wouldn't even need t1
I took a bet on Sublime Merge with some amount of skepticism and boy it has paid off. After two years of using it, git sort of makes sense now.
They're called step vans and available anywhere commercial trucks are sold: https://www.comvoy.com/bodytypes/Step-Van

You can find used ones in running condition relatively cheap.
Sounds like it was a blessing in disguise. Who knows what you would have encountered had you been hired under that CTO.
Consumer Reports is known for being biased against Tesla, so take their information with a grain of salt.
Does ST support LSP? Or are these auto-complete improvements bespoke?
> A lot of people just want to move stuff

I suspect most people with big trucks rarely use them for moving stuff. Not to say they never do, but from my observations owning a big truck has a lot more to do with signaling a certain status to others who value big trucks.
In practice, most FE jobs consist of a designer that produces mocks in Figma or InDesign or similar, then you as the engineer take those mocks and make JS+CSS out of it.

As for what the designers do, it's mostly copying ideas from popular apps and tweaking it to appease the product people, who are requesting changes to appease leadership.
Hugh Howey gives shout-outs to so many good TV shows I tamped down my initial “why bother when the books are so good” reaction. He says Ted Lasso was the best show to come out during the pandemic, and though I don’t think I watch much TV, I did watch TL and was ready to watch it again, which I rarely feel.
My now-feeling is: I like that art exists, and good luck to this team! As resources are treated more dearly we’ll have to adjust how we make art. We creative, ingenious humans will find a way to tell our stories.
Interesting since this coincides with a different issue I am facing. I had an employee move to California (we are a single-site business on the east coast) and everything was fine during covid. Now I'm being told that there are concerns about California's employment laws since they are out of sync with the laws in our state and might require HR to do some additional work and the organization to incur added expenses. Currently, we are awaiting a decision from HR. Our mitigation plan centers around moving this person from employee to contractor. It might be the only option for us - the employee has plenty of other opportunities.
Yup! paper covers / paper bedding, and the expert handling of midwives. Pretty simple and straight-forward!

P.S. also enemas were used in the past... but fortunately, interventions such as this, or pubic hair shaving are no longer ordered for women during labor and birth!
Facebook's latest AI can learn speech without human transcriptions
Except now they have to actually give you some reason why it's not the top. Without the listing the common reason I would hear about my salary request was 'not budgeted'. Well if 180k is listed, not budgeted doesn't fly. They either need to explain why I didn't get the max in a way that makes sense, or I move on.

Is it perfect for employees? No, but it's much better than no information. Also, keep in mind they will not just throw some crazy high number on their either because then they have to explain it to existing employees.
I've always been this way as well. This isn't considered normal behavior/thinking?
It is very amusing, but also admirable. I sometimes wonder if there isn’t a national security component to it as well.
> Everybody needs culture

And therefore, all the cinemas, concerts, theatres, museums etc. are closed. For more than a year. Uhm.
They're basically custom-designed to kill pedestrians and bikers if you're not paying attention for one.
If you'd like some talking points to help you start this conversation with your HR team, here's an article I wrote:

https://dtrejo.com/why-share-salary
> Uber sells self-driving unit

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/07/uber-sells-self-driving-un...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25337553
Not sure if it matches your use case or not, but I use sshfs with Sublime Text and it's just as good as local editing.
Sounds like you found this trick: https://www.fastcompany.com/3023078/how-dali-einstein-and-ar...
>> motors may outlast the plastics in the dashboards.

Go to any automotive recycling facility. The cylinders are fine. IC engines regularly outlast dashboards. Modern cars get recycled when their electrical systems fail in a manner that is more expensive to fix than the car is worth. Those electrical systems (alternators, rectifiers, engine control systems) are not very much different than those in electric cars.

Take a look at any tesla teardown. The difference in part number/complexity between them and an IC car are superficial at best. They even have similar liquid coolant loops, with pumps that seem to fail more often than nearly identical pumps on IC cars.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90209541/meet-the-renegade-whos-...
Where was this 6 years ago when I needed it! Nicely done.
freenode didn't use 1m in the whole 20 years it existed.

Infrastructure: all sponsored
Staffers: all volunteers
Development: all FOSS
Third party services like GitHub: all sponsored

so what exactly would it have used > 1m on, please?
In any of your travels have you ever heard of email?? Thomas' email address is clearly listed in his profile. Airing this beef like this has killed any credibility you have. Be better?
Thanks, that's quite a compliment. I sometimes think about writing a book/books about things I do. Unsurprisingly as an amateur self-archivist, I also document a lot about my life and my process so it would certainly be possible. What would make such an essay worth reading or a book worth buying, in distinction from the other self-help books already out there?
Wild that Apple/Google take a larger cut than Twitter. That's some mighty impressive rent seeking.