skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its a good think but this increases work. The amount of detail that needs to be created continues to skyrocket. And it never "just works."
They could have used that $77B to fund fusion research, carbon capture research, build private space stations and put man on Mars, but no they wanted to make their already high share price even higher.
> Piracy is competition to bad content behavior.

No it isn't. It's a workaround. This is an 8 billion dollar deal, there would have to be an impossible amount of piracy for it to count as "competition." This is precisely the reason why government regulation here is correct, as consumers, we don't have a lever long enough to have any real impact on the core problem.

And we're just one side of the deal. These types of distribution setups are not just bad for consumers, but for actors, directors, producers and anyone who makes a living on any part of these productions.

The knee jerk responses to avoid meaningful government regulation are always baffling to me.
> Stripe isn't really a platform. It's a platform of platforms.

See? It's not a pyramid. It's an inverted funnel!
Nobody has the time to actually test everything they believe to be true, even if they knew what an appropriate test would be.
Remember that death isn't the only bad outcome: just because you survive doesn't mean you're out of the woods, unfortunately. I'm afraid "Long COVID" is a thing, for adults and children.

"Evidence from the first study of long covid in children suggests that more than half of children aged between 6 and 16 years old who contract the virus have at least one symptom lasting more than 120 days, with 42.6 per cent impaired by these symptoms during daily activities. "

There are folks that are still debilitated, almost a year after their "recovery". We don't know if/when their sequelae will disappear. Time will tell.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7927578/
I know you know the answer to this, but I'll put it in writing: sadly, yes.
This is a weird legal angle. Some amount of hampering competing products is to be expected, this is just different because it's oil. Governments need to either pass laws that make it clear how they're favoring renewables and not oil or stop caring about oil altogether. Courts ruling on production of oil violating rights to family and life is just too vague of an interpretation.
I was lurking in #ledger on Freenode, via the Matrix bridge. There was some discussion in there the other day to ask if anyone cared to move the channel to Libera. I didn't take much notice. This morning I noticed a stream of garbage telling users to move and making the channel read-only. I didn't really pay much attention to it other than to leave the channel, so I don't have the logs anymore. After reading this, I assume they got kicked off for mentioning Libera. That's totally idiotic. I've unregistered my nick and dropped the bridge. I'll wait until a Matrix bridge exists for Libera and rejoin #ledger there.
+1 to this. Having nvim as my daily driver allowed me to NOT upgrade my 4 year old macbook with the next top-of-the-line macbook, saving me an arm and a leg. Instead I just got a gaming PC with way higher specs for less than half the price and I just ssh into it now.

It's also neat to be able to code from an iPad by SSH'ing with Termius :)
Are there really no plugins for that? In Doom Emacs "cia" deletes an argument normally, which I assume is done by an evil mode plugin, so I thought there was one for Vim as well.
I don't agree that it requires a lot of configuration. Here is the "starter" configuration (~280 lines) that I made for helping debug user issues with the built-in language server client:

https://github.com/mjlbach/defaults.nvim
It's a good question. I'm very critical of my tools and I'm a 10+ year vim
user, so I've thought a lot about this.

vim's "killer feature" is its text editing language and modality. But plenty of
other editors and IDEs offer vim emulation to varying degrees of success. So
this can't be the reason to use (neo)vim-the-binary as my editor over, e.g.,
VSCode.

So for me the real advantage of vim is in its flexibility. I can make vim into
whatever I want depending on the context. Because of this, I'm able to use the
same vim in many different contexts, instead of having different tools for
different tasks. Ironically, this is kind of like the emacs culture of doing
everything inside of emacs.

For example, vim is my code editor, of course. But I also have a keybinding to
pop up my wiki and immediately start editing a note in vim. I have another
keybinding I use when I'm writing a long piece of text in a textbox (like now)
-- the binding drops me into vim, I write my text, and when I exit the contents
of the buffer are immediately copied to the clipboard for pasting into the
textbox. In each of these contexts, I have access to the same familiar
environment with all of my configuration, keybindings, etc.

I could probably wrangle VSCode into doing each of these things, but it would
be clunky. Vim owes much of its flexibility to its lightweight terminal
interface. I wouldn't want to open VSCode every time I want to write a quick
note, for instance.
Valve have too much employee direction to participate in the race to the bottom that is modern video games.

But, to your point-- everyone got out of the AAA game development business. We've had one Elder Scrolls and one GTA for ten years now. All of those insane articles dramatizing Bioshock: Infinite as the last AAA title were true. It's like the Waterworld of games, the last big effects movie before everything became cheap CGI.

Games are lootboxes, middling cartoony style, addiction mechanics with some social stuff lightly sprinkled on top now.

Sidenote: Making TF3 would be especially weird because Valve basically popularized all of those trends.

That's just the format now. Even CDPR and other companies clinging to the old formula are just coasting on past momentum, with the cracks starting to show.
You can’t skip live without a time machine.
You can disable the audio and replace the video.
Alternatively, you start the game 22 minutes / hour late.
It’s all about trade-offs but attention is being under-valued imho.
Track Billions of Items in a Warehouse
Have you ever wonder what happens inside of an Amazon warehouse?
As a software engineer, supply chain has many technical challenges like running large catalogs and inventories.
California's housing crisis is getting worse. So is anti-housing denialism
>What's the mechanism you're concerned about?

What do you mean?

We can't know what the long term side effects of drugs are until we have long term data.

Even with long term data showing significant negative side effects of drugs, we often dont understand the "mechanism"
All modern IDEs have vim bindings.
That's not normally an MVP game, which needs to be the minimum viable product. Of course, this is targeted to the audience. If your audience is a gameworld of blocks, that might work :-).

As many others have pointed out, a vertical slice is the term that applies to this vertical of making games. So, even the terms are audience specific - MVP for owners and Vertical Slice for staff.
It could be argued that CO2 emitting fuels have propelled most world advancement we account to pulling countries into prosperity.

It is necessary for any trade of goods with other countries for instance. Think ships for a minute, huge fuel consumers. Without them you wouldn't even have the computer you are reading this on.

The course is to change culture so it collectively seeks alternative fuels not damn the corporation that has done the very thing we have asked them to do.
When I saw payment links had launched my first thought was, "Wow I bet there are a lot of little guys that have built or are building similar products on top of stripe"

As far as "being a mouse" goes, I think payment links has to be the absolute lowest hanging fruit.

It will be interesting to see how much Stripe backs into Shopify's offering - all their hosted checkout pages and customer portals start to overlap with other hosted retail solutions and it still aligns with their mission to increase the GDP of the internet.
Damn this looks cool. I always want this kind of flexibility. I'm using both Jetbrain products and VS right now, and one pain point is that it's difficult to define new short-key combinations and assign a key to it.
Adam Savage did an interview with one of the prop masters of the show, and he brought up the "privacy" issue and agreed that it sucks. But if they used "realistic" pads, he said 1) they would have to move the camera around in awkward ways so that we could see what the characters were seeing on their screens, and 2) most of what we (the audience) would see would be the black/gray backs of these pads with nothing interesting on them.

So it was an intentional choice for convenience and visual effect, rather than an attempt at "realism". Sounds like they totally agree with your statement, though.
I have no idea if/how relevant this is but I read this really interesting article[1] yesterday about naked mole rat aging and how they’re being researched to identify possible anti-aging interventions for humans. It’s not exactly a science-heavy article, though, if that’s what you’re looking for.

[1]https://www.wired.com/story/long-strange-life-worlds-oldest-...
In fairness, it is impressively large.
I don't want to be flamed or start a debate about the values of one or the other, but why should someone in 2021 go through the hassle of setting up (neo)vim or any other terminal or barebones editor (looking at you emacs) when there's perfect solutions out there that work out of the box with a lot of features that neovim has. For example VSCode uses LSP "natively" and even has an excellent vi emulator you can install as an extension.
So let's imagine the streaming services operate like channels--which is to say they have some content they get created and other content that they license. Now imagine there's a common platform or at least common portal that aggregates them all and bills you for access to everything. You've now effectively recreated the cable bundle and your monthly bill is probably going to be $100-$200/month. (Maybe more if it includes something like YouTube TV.) Is that actually what you want?
James Bond on Amazon Prime with all sorts of mediocre spinoffs like "Miss Moneypenny & Q" or "The S.P.E.C.T.R.E Files".
I found that nvim had generally better performance. That was my main draw originally, despite not using many plugins I often found Vim chugging on large files with things like syntax highlighting. FZF is also significantly snappier on nvim in my experience, or at least it was when I made the switch.
> I think you're more likely to get agreement about reality using e-prime

I don’t think removing the ability to discuss easily discuss even tentative conclusions of objective reality facilitates agreement about it.

> Instead of saying the ball is blue, you say, the ball looks blue to me.

Yes, and there is a very good reason English supports both types of claims, which mean substantially different things.
Casablanca

Dead of Night

Modern times

The third man
For the context: Donald G. McNeil Jr., the author of the article, was a prominent journalist for New York Times leading their COVID-19 coverage from the beginning of the disease. He was abruptly dismissed from NYT citing his use of some questionable language while on trip to Peru [0]. I wonder what role if any his COVID coverage played in his firing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McNeil_Jr.

EDIT: wikipedia link ends in dot `.` that is stripped by the HN URL validator. If the link does not open add dot `.` at the end.
We've had a regular "bad movie night" throughout the pandemic, and there are a lot of these that are available to pirate up to about the 90s on Youtube (or occasionally dailymotion) simply because their distributors no longer care about them.
That's false equivalency. Equating a book to a single long page is just plain wrong. Long-form has always required pagination. This was true even with physical scrolls back in the day.

If you inspect the book that is linked above it is literally made up of several hundred webpages. So the reader is effectively transitioning from one webpage to another. And the history api is meant exactly for this use case!

Edit: Here's the definition. A Superbook [1] is a stack of simple webpages, just like a book.

[1] https://bubblin.io/docs/concept
Also improvements to public health information systems. It seems like there are a lot of people employed in public health in the US across the local, state and federal levels and those people are not served by good systems.

The fact that for most of the pandemic, a volunteer effort run by The Atlantic magazine was better at reporting disease statistics than the CDC is a flashing red sign.

My own county’s system seemed designed for tracing and reporting a handful of cases per week for TB outbreaks or the like and was knocked over when the COVID surges happened.
That's not my answer.
> Wrap your structs in a typedef

I tend to disagree. Unless you are providing an API for third-party use and want to make your data types opaque to callers, do not ever use typedef with structs and pointers. A declaration like "struct foo *f" tells you two things - f itself is a pointer, and the pointed-to value is not a scalar (i.e. has named members). The "_t" suffix idiom is predominantly used by the standard library for integral scalars with certain properties and semantics, e.g. pid_t, uid_t, gid_t, time_t.
Haha I'm not sure if we know each other since I know the issue you describe in this link. Regardless, I think this is a somewhat weird example since the it should not be DevOps' duty to look at and try to understand an error that stems from Ecto. And our company did face this issue, but this was largely related to the DB optimization and the Postgres instance instead of anything language-specific. If you have bad DB schemas and optimizations you're gonna face the same issue no matter in Java or Go. Saying that you've "never had a more challenging system to debug and keep running" sounds really dramatic as our Elixir apps have been running fine 99% of the time and barely even triggered any on-call incidents.
Have you checked it out recently? I overhauled the documentation twice since January. Most recently, I dramatically simplified the documentation based on user feedback, expanded the wiki pages, and created an "advanced" readme for power users.
That's reassuring to read. I opened the page, read a bit of it, pressed play on the video and scrubbed around a bit, got irritated and closed the tab. I figured if it mattered I would wait until better coverage came out.
Indeed, if you want to get the results Socrates did, by all means, follow his advice. Not all your interlocutors will be able to locate hemlock quickly, though :-)
It's funny how some of the interior decor items look like their right off Zillow.
The show is weird because the source material is kind of schlocky and the show improves it significantly. I think season 4 is so hard to watch because book 4 is a self-contained story so they couldn’t blend characters and scenarios like in the previous book. The book characters are all a little too one-dimensional and the show does an excellent job condensing them into well-rounded characters.

I had to stop reading halfway through book 5 because I couldn’t take the heavy use of cliched language and tropes. The books are a great story at the macro level, but the writing is pretty terrible, especially as the series goes on.
You can install a vi emulator that does all of that in most modern text editors or IDEs, VSCode included.
The people who actually use neovim disagree with the first and last sentences in your comment.
would be most amusing if after all this he ends up forfeiting Freenode to the British Crown (real one, not pretend one), simply because he neglected to complete his paperwork on time
I'm not that knowledgeable about that part of the world, but I think the surrounding countries are mostly either Eastern Orthodox Christian or Muslim.
"anti-windup" is usually implemented for PID controllers to avoid increasing the I part infinitely, and linear state-space controls do suffer from the same problem in naive implementations.
I'm very excited for 0.5.

For those in the know, when is it reasonably expected to be released?

I can't be alone in only wanting to port my init file to lua ONCE.
This comment is rife with the bias that asians use to oppress other minorities, mainly blacks. Interestingly this is the one thing you do not allude to at all. You paint blacks as ignorant perpetual victims, you paint all whites as bad faith actors. This is the "asian hate" that never gets called out, this is why the name Latisha Harlins is never spoken and the perpetual racism of asians toward blacks never gets called out. Unfortunately stop asian hate is only seen as stopping hate directed toward asians, it would be a much more effective strategy if asians and all people would take this to mean asians should also stop the hate the direct at others.
Businesses are there to make money for their shareholders. If the best way of doing that is to become a monopoly and squeeze customers, then that's what they'll do.

I'm not sure what the author is complaining about. Why wouldn't Stripe expand into every available niche it can reach and "nibble" customers for every cent it can?

What kind of board meeting would that be: "we've identified an opportunity here, but we've decided not to pursue it because that would be mean, or something"
> Similarly while I'm vaccinated and thus my risk of hospitalization or death from COVID 19 is effectively 0, my three year old son is not. People choosing not to vaccinate are putting him at risk, which really twists me up inside.

It appears that you understand that the vaccine doesn't make you immune to COVID but rather reduces the symptoms. Given this, you can still catch it and pass it to your child. You are probably still their most likely vector. Have you changed your habits (being more social) since receiving the vaccine? If so, is your argument that those you are now socializing with are responsible for spreading it to your son through you?
There are, but they usually rely on regex or other brittle approaches, making it difficult to write well. And currently you'll need to use different plugins for different languages (e.g., jedi for python).

Treesitter builds the AST, making it easier to create robust text objects. And it provides a unified interface for a bunch of different languages, meaning that I don't need to have 10 different plugins, one for each language, just to get access to text objects.
Something I noticed when reading the books is that the authors describe the specific type of LED lighting in every scene they introduce:

> The tunnel outside was white where it wasn’t grimy. Ten meters wide, and gently sloping up in both directions. The white LED lights didn’t pretend to mimic sunlight.

> The lights—recessed white LEDs—gave the gray walls a sterile cast.

> They drank it without talking [...] in the artificial morning of the room’s LEDs.

> The lights were cheap LEDs tinted a false pink that was supposed to flatter the complexion but instead made everyone look like undercooked beef.
Netherlands is actually one of the most attractive countries to have HQ in, due to low tax rates. Sure, if they look around they could find something similar but the bad publicity from this would be really huge IMO.
:entropy has entered the chat:
"The US has never recognised any court that could try them ( like the ICC) and have veto powers in the UN, so they can go about committing war crimes with impunity."

They don't have to recognize the court in order to be tried in the court, in absentia if need be.

It's interesting that despite the power to try alleged US war criminals, the ICC has chosen not to.
Ask HN: What are some non-coding roles that a developer can easily switch to?
I'm curious what are some easy career pivots as a developer looking to stop coding, whether it's a different function in tech or a completely different industry/role?
Yes, that VPN. I don't have any hard info, links and such, but after reading a number of discussions on HN and actually debating with Andrew a bit about it back in 2019, I ended up dropping them because I no longer had faith in their trustworthiness.

From what I remember of it, PIA hired Mark Karpeles as their CTO. Mark has a somewhat sordid history, and was involved with Kape (KAPE maybe?), which has a history with malware and privacy violations. The whole thing was murky, but I got the impression that Andrew was really dodgey about it, kept spewing canned PR statements about how Mark is a "really great guy" and how they were all so excited, and I believe the company actually changed hands. This is completely heresay on my part, I never did any real research, just got some bad impressions about the whole thing and switched to Mullvad.

Actually, did dig up a relevant link:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21679682
The test looks fascinating. It sounds exactly what is needed.

I am just wondering about my capability to interpret it correctly within the context of my son's symptoms. I wouldn't want to wrongly diagnose him.
In many ways, Capitalism is fueled by greed.
Nope, they nuked a local user group's channel simply for having Libera in the topic.
It is in a sense something of a research kernel. The reason to not use Linux is that it’s 30 years old and crufted up with things like multiple users, processes running as the user that started them, and POSIX.

Linux also doesn’t have a stable kernel interface for drivers, which is probably a huge pain when dealing with supporting a device for many years. Either you don’t update the OS on the devices, or you have to modify all of your drivers every time you update the OS.
This Was Steve Jobs's Most Important Observation When He Returned to Apple
Eh, no. Libera.chat is doing it well.
I meant for you. How much time are you spending on them regularly and what's your total annual expenditure?
Did you hear that? All the other oil companies just cheered! What a great day when a huge competitor is taken down by the very government it supports.

( sarcasm intended )

The other opportunity was to find a way to work with Shell to change the world. They are a huge power. Not make room for the others listed above to fill the void.
I still use both, with a shared vimrc. The biggest advantage of neovim for me is support for the clipboard in Wayland.[1] There are workarounds for vim (vim-fakeclip[2] is the best I found) but they have many limitations which can be frustrating.

[1]: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/5157

[2]: https://github.com/kana/vim-fakeclip
Do you find your brain can actually work that way? My issue with all of these relative jump points, repeat this N times, etc of VIM is by the time I’ve calculated in my mind what the command should be I’d have already done it with just standard navigation/mark/yank/repeat. But perhaps you have galaxy brain ;)
Yes, my argument is for running your own server. The matrix.org wouldn't be able to do anything to the gentoo.org server. If you choose to use the matrix.org homeserver, then the risks are identical to IRC.
Heesch Numbers of Unmarked Polyforms
Edward Snowden Hails Court Ruling Acknowledging Devastation of Mass Surveillance
Also worth noting about cooling predictions was that the models that predicted cooling still predicted warming from greenhouse gases.

They predicted net cooling because smog and other particulate emissions were also rising, and those have a cooling effect. They were assuming that smog levels would continue to rise faster than greenhouse gas levels, and so the cooling effect would beat the warming effect.

Around that time people get serious in the US and much of the rest of the world about air quality, and smog not only stopped increasing in many places actually decreased significantly.