skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Evil or vanilla Emacs keybindings for beginners?
While I have found Vim keybindings faster and more intuitive than the default keybindings in Emacs, I was wondering if using Evil mode would backfire down the line. I have heard that some default keybindings don't work when Evil is installed and that some packages don't play nicely with Evil mode. Do you use vanilla, Evil, or some other set of keybindings in your Emacs config and why?
Here's another implementation of what's described above, it forks on each invocation of readline to provide undo for interactive interpreters. https://github.com/thomasballinger/rlundo
Except my PC doesn't wake up the neighborhood.
Thanks for the Reconcilee link. Very interesting.

At first I thought why didn't Otakar (my friend, who's heart is really Czech and who went through immense suffering and pain about not being able to go home) apply for that status?

After reading the article it's totally clear that that would have never been an option for him.
For their content that they pay for, yes, but for 'letters to the editor' and the like that random people send in? My understanding is that no, they're not liable for those things. Well, not legally liable anyway, the court of public opinion is a different matter.
> Why even go to a site like HN if your goal is purely to make money?

Yet this site seems to be hosted by a company whose goal is purely about making money by investing in companies they find which are likely to give huge returns. i.e A VC fund.

So rewriting it in Rust for the sake of Rust is irrelevant to them and doesn't give any advantage whatsoever and won't get their attention.
I really have to decide if the customizability of my Android phone is worth losing my location / private data.

I love Tasker, love automating boring repetitive work and other tasks out of my day. But is that worth losing all my privacy? Can't say...
Note this works only if the audience actually does the homework in advance. I heard Amazon has people do the reading at the start of the meeting?
The first amendment (emphasis is my understanding of the part most relevant):

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

State governments can’t contravene the constitution either, so this applies to the state of Florida too.
Will have to read the rest of your post later, but you're wrong. Thinking you're right it's a common misconception.

Anyway, how is everyone?
It's a wedge issue for the GOP that fits a narrative about tech companies being biased against them. They don't necessarily have to win -- in fact, in some cases it may be advantageous to lose, so they can keep on with the persecution angle.
Tooling is really the chicken/egg problem of ecosystems. Good tools come from the best devs, who have a higher chance of existing in big, active ecosystems. But most devs won’t join an ecosystem if it doesn’t have good tooling, so how can it become big and active?

An ecosystem needs its early adopters to be excellent devs, so the early community has a high concentration of them and therefore greater probability of developing good tools that will attract a wider audience.

That’s why I wouldn’t give up quite yet on unikernels. There are a lot of really smart people working on them. What the unikernel ecosystem needs is a “killer app” to demonstrate a flagship use case. I used to think Fly.io could do that, but they seem to have settled on Firecracker (as has Amazon, tbf).

Whatever happened to the team behind the unikernel company acquired by Docker?
LinkedIn influences are an upgrade over LinkedIn Groups, such that groups are overrun with spam from recruiters. Which is to say LinkedIn Influences are not as bad as some alternatives.
> if the speaker is good

Some do good jobs.

Others just read the bullet points.

On the other hand, the bullet points require at least a bit of organization, unlike the stream of consciousness drivel that too many "planning documents" seem to exhibit.
Can somebody shed some details on why manufacturers are prohibited from selling their vehicles directly to Texan consumers?
I've been enjoying watching Neil's hacks a lot. Incredibly creative ways of messing with Mac display and libraries. I encourage folks to scroll through his Twitter gifs for some great hacks.

Edit: I don't even know if they're all real or are just effects but either way they are all incredibly creative.
You can be not okay with that AND not okay with this law.
My audience is not curmudgeons who require I use their quote convention that doesn't actually do anything, because they're unlikely to learn anything from anyone anyways, since they're nitpicking symbology.
I don’t know nearly enough about the process to challenge your point, but I want to point out that just because something smells bad or produces acid in huge quantities doesn’t mean it’s permanently bad for the environment like unsequestered carbon emissions.
Yeah, this would garner so much incredibly negative PR, talk about a self-own. Why would this bother me?
Why Your Doctor Is Wrong About Statins and Fat by Dr Paul Mason – PHCvcon2021
Your point is directly addressed in the essay:

> This makes one good point: responsibility for poor presentations rests with the presenter. But it is more complicated than that. PP has a distinctive, definite, well-enforced, and widely-practiced cognitive style that is contrary to serious thinking. PP actively facilitates the making of lightweight presentations.

> This essay reports evidence based on several thousand slides, 5 case studies, and extensive quantitative comparisons between PowerPoint and other methods of communicating information. The results are clear:* some methods of presentation are better than others. And PowerPoint is rarely a good method. […]

> In this question, the tool metaphor does not provide intellectual leverage. Some tools are better than others; some poor performances are the fault of the tool. Saying that the problem is with the user rather than the tool blames the victims of PP (audience, content, presenter).

> Nearly all the evidence of the essay suggests that there is inherent defect in PowerPoint, unless one advances the entertaining alternative hypothesis that nearly all PP users are lightweights and nearly all users of other methods are not. This is not the case; PP has inherent defect.
Despite the seemingly altruistic reason for wanting my email, I'm not willing to do so.

Perhaps you could make the download button still work without that requirement?
The new iMac is arguably thinner (I believe it's thinner than the max depth of the "bulb" in the old model), and is regularly described as "ultra-thin" in articles in the press. It's basically a bigger (incredibly thin) iPad Pro with a stand and macOS. I don't see it as a design departure at all, rather a strong continuation. I have no complaint with that either.
Taiwan's digital minister, Audrey Tang, built an open government platform
Web browsers do a lot of sandboxing to prevent outside tampering by other applications. Your secured content is encrypted by HTTPS between the server and your browser... but extensions sit inside the browser sandbox, often with full access to your decrypted web traffic.

If most of your secure information is handled via web browsers, as is usually the case today, extensions are drastically more risky than arbitrary software, because of the privileged place in the stack they operate.
The tech groups have become the public square. They haven’t realized what that means yet.
"There's nothing wrong with people reading your correspondence (and archiving it forever and running algorithms on it)! If you say othetwise you're blinded by ideology!"

Conform, citizen!
5 years prison for attending Tiananmen Massacre vigil, 1 year for publicizing it
But for some online content - substack, clubhouse, snapchat - that is there idea. Just sayin that not all online content should be linked in together.
At least where I live, many start earning some salary from academic contribution of some minor sort during the bachelor's trajectory, typically by assisting in lessons to lower classes, most art to do so during master's, and Ph.D. students are employed by the institute that promotes them and earn a full salary for their research.

The real issue isn't that, the real issue to me is quite a few research fields are purely taking part in œconomy and entertainment, and essentially funded of sponsorships generate by spectacular news reports and nothing more.

A very large quantity of scientific research is purely infotainment and doesn't actually generate knowledge that is used for anything but merely interesting to read, which is what could cause the replication crisis to go unnoticed for so long among other things: no one found out, as no one was using it in any way that relied upon it's veracity, and many even made up data for decades and went unnoticed.

I recently read a paper that studied some social parts of the acquisition of language in Japanese, — quite interesting to read, and as usual it was quite spectacular because the findings went against the established ideas, but this knowledge merely exists to be “fascinating” and it won't ever be used for anything that assumes it's veracity, and as a consequence the data could have been pulled from the æther and no one would ever find out and replication will surely never occur,and even if it would, it would be too late as some years would have passed and the original auctor can always argue that these social matters changed within the interval.
Nothing that out of the ordinary, but I'm happy with an IKEA bed frame, locally-made mattress, and long (> 2m) fluffy down duvet and pillow.

I have to say starched (is there a better name?) sheets and covers are awesome! So clean-feeling!
You can also take the course programming languages from the University of Washington on Coursera. The 3 courses use standard ML, racket and ruby to teach concepts a learned programmer should know.
There is a PR to add initial support for real time collaboration in JupyterLite: https://github.com/jtpio/jupyterlite/pull/109

This reuses almost all the RTC work done upstream in JupyterLab itself.

And since this is implemented as a regular JupyterLab plugin, folks will then be able to swap it for something else and implement their own if they want to, as a federated extension.
I think this would now be illegal in California...but enforcement would be tough.
Yeah that one is blocked as well.
Good point. Although memory encryption is much more useful if applied at the CPU rather than the memory controler (which would need a way to turn encryption off for DMA regions, since the memory controller doesn't know the key), there's no actual reason why you couldn't do it in the memory controller, if you trust all the hardware with DMA access, or (more plausibly) trust the memory controller to limit that access properly.
Vodafone opens a new research center in Malaga, Spain
AFAICS none of your points addresses the problem posed by your parent commentor: someone accidentally sent a lot of money to the wrong account/wallet and wants it back, even if the receiver is uncooperative.
What about when you have two Tesla cars on autopilot coming at each other?

Does anyone really believe the cheap VGA webcams Tesla is slapping on their car for their "autopilot solution" can probably be blinded by even the slightest hint of a high beam?
That's very interesting. Clouds!
I wish there was a discussion possibility, where we could ask real questions, scientific and technical, about the images and findings we see. Similar to hn, but with jpl.
For example what instruments have they used to determine compositions. How do they know when it is water ice (water as in H2O, or just a liquid?) or CO2.
Yes. Many wannabe entrepreneurs come here hoping to gain "street cred" and get their "insightful" comments and projects noticed by YC, hoping to parlay that into funding or hoping a launch on HN will do for them what it did for others (like Dropbox.) Believe it or not Hacker News is serious business, there's a reason the staff is so guarded about releasing any code or hints about their algorithm that could be gamed.
> S230 doesn't magically make companies "immune from everything" like a lot of people seem to think

However, some companies do think that Section 230 shields them from all liability for their interactive computer services, and lower-level courts seem to agree with them[1].

The case here[1][2] has made its way to the Supreme Court[2], though.

[1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/herrick-v-grindr-why-section-230...

[2] https://www.americanbar.org/groups/diversity/women/publicati...
The problem I have with these definitions (and the accompanying theories) is that they are not practical. At best fun abstractions to wrap your head around with, at worst pretentious and misguided.

To advance the field of consciousness, I believe at the current stage we should always treat consciousness as a blackbox, and ask questions around it with practical engineering implications. Perhaps two categories of questions:

Category 1: qualia/perception

These would be human-centric questions related to experimenations with altered states of mind. Here is one for example:

Why is it that under the effect of THC, certain stimuli and actions [1] can reliably slow down the perception of time, while certain stimuli (e.g. the soft humming of the aircon) tend to normalize time perception for some individual?

[1]: e.g. start the stopwatch app, have the phone at arm's length, stare at the millisecond digit and slowly moving your phone closer to you.

What can we say about the neural activations (and subsequently, oscillations) of individuals who are able to alter the time perception more easily (even at the presence of normalizing-stimuli) and how can this ability be learnt or unlearnt?

Understanding of the above phenomenon could be used to design the calibration phrase of a BCI device so preprocessing, signal processing, etc, can be customized to deliver a smoother user experience.

Category 2: data/computation

One of the key charactistics of biological systems that invoke consciousness appears to be a cybernetics-oriented ability that involves orchestrating (often-function-specific) modules (e.g. in human brains) to accomplish (often-highly-abstracted(?)) tasks.

Perhaps we can take inspirations from mindful practises (and other consciousness-centric activities) and study the brain and how its modules work together to come up with architectures, models, etc, that (going one step above spiking neural network?) mimic the cybernetic nature of consciousness for the integration of loosely-coupled things e.g. in transfer learning, etc, as well as systems that involve a lot of feedback loops.

Perchance such biomimetics would help us to get a better idea how type (and category)-theoretical aspects of things can be introduced to engineer highly fault-torelent and energy-efficient systems that employ millions of pretrained models like GPT3 at the lower level and are constantly self-learning for general purpose tasks.
“Faraday Wax” – recreating old school high-vacuum epoxy
“Don't Believe Your Own B.S.” By Pete Flint
The problem of disintegrating paper is low-quality, acidic, "pulp" paper.

Acid-free high-rag (containing actual cotton cloth) paper is archival quality and can and does last centuries.

https://psap.library.illinois.edu/collection-id-guide/paper

Pulp paper is largely an artefact of the 19th and 20th centuries: cheaper than rag, but also far less durable. It remains in use and is suitable for ephemeral content, but materials meant for long duration are created with archival-quality paper, inks, and other treatments.
Alas this is a business-ending barrier. Despite its popularity, in the grand scheme of things, not many people have a crypto account. It's also only semi-anonymous, depending on how you fund it. It'd be nice if more businesses accepted crypto, but it isn't viable as a requirement or primary payment mechanism.
Is there something like this that renders markdown to GitHub readme-style HTML?
And F-Droid. And there’s plenty of sites to download APKs outside of the Play Store, though I don’t know how reliable they are.
There are plenty of places where it's "safe" (in the not endangering others sense) to ride at high speed and loud
In Switzerland we have very strict laws regarding just using navigation equipment or eating while driving. Yet for whatever reason cars with touch interfaces hiding important features are permitted.
Don't worry. It's just a minority of princesses complaining. This "news" was a waste of time. Non issue.
I was thinking stronger measures, e.g. you get free housing and basic utilities (with caps) if you want, and UBI for food and other basic necessities. Beyond that is up to you.
The Texas Auto Dealers Association has a remarkably strong grip on the Texas legislature.
> If you expect search functionality from them you don't get encryption.

It’s not as if the client can’t maintain an encrypted index, they just haven’t implemented it.

Also, apart from all of the important advantages of encryption, there’s always the privacy angle compared to Gmail: Google uses mail to target ads and scrape purchases, which a lot of people don’t want.
No, I was right. Not that it matters, feel free to replace latency with bandwidth. Or replace it with nothing and focus on capacity. It's a blip on my point, which is that the architecture has changed considerably to allow for progress in other areas.
Typically they will announce to the PCC (central control) that they sighted people in the tunnels. The next train that comes through the sector will roll at walking speed. If you haven't cleared out by that time and get seen, they stop all traffic on the line, and send in rail police from each side of the tunnel to find you.
Whenever people complain of "death by Powerpoint", I remember this article from Reader's Digest in the 2000s about the Carl Hayden Community Highschool Robotics Team who upstaged no less than MIT in competition.

In one part of the contest, the teams had to discuss their design. One of the judges asked the Carl Hayden team why they had no Powerpoint slides.

"Powerpoint is what you use when you don't know what to say," answered one of them without skipping a beat.

Ballsy, of course, but the subtext of the story was that the team really had their hands full as they tried to punch above their weight class. They knew what they were doing but there was no shortage of opportunities for them to improvise and the presentation was one such instance.

I was in high school when I read the piece and that's the line that stuck with me. Since then I always made sure I know my material, slideshow or no slideshow.
Excellent writeup, thank you!

Does anyone know if the system is still as accessible as it was in 2012? I know that at least in northern France and Belgium this type of exploration has become a lot more difficult due to more cameras and more police/security awareness.
Their service is so useful to me. But man, I can't deny their customer interactions can be problematic (as evidenced.)

Is it that the developers 100% defer to a marketing rep without in-depth knowledge? Something else?
As a car motorbiker and cyclist...silent objects coming up on me are scary. Very scary.
Thankfully the last few tesle that came 'close' were so much more loud than I was expecting, I was pleasantly surprised.
Silence may be golden, but also may be not.
BLM has made UK race relations worse
As an ex-Android user who switched to an iPhone because of privacy concerns, I’d still like sources and hopefully proof for these claims.

The more I think about it, the more I suspect trusting another big tech company with my privacy with no material proof other than their word might have been foolish.
This is classic sunken cost fallacy, the reason to stick with a platform shouldn't be it has the most bandaids covering deep, deep, problems and all the investment that has gone into bandaids can't be given up.
Mystery of the vanishing piano – David Berglas
This is why I self-host. I'm not trying to hide from the government, as I know they don't care about me. Sure, in principle I don't want them snooping me, but it's not a concern. I self-host because I don't want companies snooping all my data.
Until something breaks and you need to SSH into the server from your tablet which you can do anyhow.
> I’m sure thousands of such deficiencies exist but that’s never what you hear about.

Maybe as a side-effect of telemetry, the usability of PowerPoint and Excel unceasingly improves, to the point that it's impossible to compete with the former.
The Clock Radio and Its Moment in Consumer Technology
So Florida lawmakers implemented a rule that allows someone to sue if they think a social media platform is inconsistently applying their content rules and, without even the slightest hint of irony, have implemented this new rule... inconsistently?

Do as I say, not as I do, I suppose.
Can I ask why it's free? Seems like a great tool but I don't see any obvious monetization (which raises privacy concerns)
Kubernetes Deployment Antipatterns – part 3
(From the Nicholls section)

> Heinlein saw the novel as an opportunity to launch frontal assaults on "the two biggest, fattest sacred cows" of Western society, "monotheism and monogamy."

I've loved Heinlein's books for decades, and I think his "Crazy Years" prediction is playing right now, not quite as he depicted it, but the gist is there.

But on this, I've come to think he was barking up the wrong tree.
Maybe you could also display that information when you show a captcha. "We've observed x login attempts from your IP in the last y days."

Usually you wouldn't want to make it easy for botnet owners to find out they've been caught, but since displaying the captcha already reveals that, having an explanation might help regular users who got a low-reputation IP assigned.
You do, but the goal here isn't to write the way you speak, it's to force a different engagement with your own writing than you would get otherwise. This page from the UNC writing center gives a better explanation: https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/reading-aloud/

I try to follow this advice for important emails, and it helps a lot.
Hippo Signaling Pathway (Biology)
Apple ][s have pretty much dumb framebuffer graphics and plenty of games were written for those. Fairly sure the ZX Spectrum didn't have much in the way of dedicated graphics hardware either.
The idea of non-OEM dealerships supposedly was originally to increase competition by preventing OEMs from competing with dealers to run them out of business, though it was likely way oversold since 100 years ago there were far more OEMs than there are now.

Today, when it's trivial to price compare online between different offerings from different OEMs, the entire structure of dealership laws exists to keep the large donations from those businesses flowing to politicians. I watched an online video of a Texas committee meeting with the public, and lobbyists, considering allowing such direct sales. The thing that jumped out to me was the political grandstanding about how dealerships donate "so much money to little league baseball teams, etc.", with no mention of their own significant reception of such monies, and with no discussion that removing the middleman of dealerships would mean less money extracted from the buyer to pay for all those shiny showrooms, meaning such money could be donated directly by consumers to their favorite organizations. But the most remarkable thing to me was watching the politicians greet the automobile dealers lobbyist with some pleasure by name when she got up to talk and mentioning how often they saw her.
Same for me, worse, I search for something in English and it shows me results in the local language. And if you think that SEO destroyed the English internet, try it in Spanish, there is literally nothing there, pure FB and Pinterest.