skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emacs is more like a car from a Mad Max film than it is an F1 racer: each instance of Emacs has been so heavily modified (often in haphazard, kitbash fashion) that it's only ever supposed to be driven by one person: its owner.
Understand Django: Command Your App
If you're open to including Twitch channels, Stephen Wolfram's is amazing. He discusses (and makes) software, talks physics, math, biology... And he also runs his company while live streaming.
Yeah, exactly. For example, evil-mode is still miles better than VSCode Vim plugins just because it works everywhere. Any buffer that my Emacs opens I can still use my Vim shortcuts (so it doesn't change that I open a text, a binary, file manager, a fuzzy search or PDF). Compared to this, on VSCode I basically need to explicitly say "make vim commands do this in this context" for everything I need.
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Helm is a little heavy-weight. Ivy is lighter, but also does a lot of NIH stuff it doesn't need to. I personally like selectrum, (https://github.com/raxod502/selectrum) because it provides the features of Ivy and quite a bit of extensibility, while still only using the built-in extension points in emacs (completing-read-function, etc.). I do wish the emacs developers would bless something and include and configure it by default, though.
They might also grew up and regret spending so much time on computers
I agree that M-x customize is not horrible at what it does.

On reflection, what inspired me to chime in on this thread is amazement that there exists at least one person who is enthusiastic about the fact that Emacs has thousands of customizable settings. (M-x customize exists solely to make persistent and ephemeral changes to those settings.)
Yeah, what the fuck was that?
If you need external inspiration to do something that's usually a bad sign. If you need it to start a business that's a recipe for disaster.

I tend to agree with Elon Musk, he said:
"If you need inspiring words, don't do it." [0]

[0] https://www.facebook.com/drivelinebaseball/videos/if-you-nee...
Yes except modern progressives are divided into pro-capital liberals and anti-capitalist leftists. Curtis attacks modern American liberal ideology.
Sonatype Lifecycle is designed to analyze a built package and figure out what's inside it, specifically when there aren't manifest files to tell you what's -supposed- to be there. It can obviously do a lot more, but the analysis is designed to solve the exact problem you're describing.

https://blog.sonatype.com/mapping-the-javascript-genome-for-...
Sweat of the Brow Doctrine
Absolutely - and for quite a long time (I work mainly property).

There's not much (if any) appetite to completely rebuild 3rd-party geophysical vendor models. Those folks have 20+ years of work behind them and a different talent base (e.g. different types of scientists building the base models).

But we do focus on all the other stuff. Making data input easier/more accurate. Same thing re: output. Also the vast majority of our capital and group-level risk work happens in-house - R, Python, etc.
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Flash of Genius[0], "The story focuses on Robert Kearns and his legal battle against the Ford Motor Company after they developed an intermittent windshield wiper based on ideas the inventor had patented."

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_Genius_(film)
Ah, but Javascript is a profoundly terrible language to do anything in, while Lisp is a joy to write in.

Being a Lisp machine is core to the value of Emacs. Emacs-without-Lisp is just another editor.
Yeah, something has to give, I have the exact problem you have. Currently my weekday sleep suffers. There is no right way to do it, but you have to acknowledge the trade offs and make your decision knowing the impacts. So many people want to have their cake abs eat it, and usually get the worst outcome.
In my house in the Netherlands, we feed a family of four each day and buy food an hour or two before we cook it precisely because we can't handle the mental overhead of planning food more than 24 hours in advance. ;-)

We don't really make lists.
Right, but that's a feature and not a bug. You really don't want the state to be able to execute people without someone feeling morally culpable for it.
Toward whom?
Yes
It's turning into reddit ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
OK, but What Should We Do About Facebook? I Asked the Experts
I just posted that song to my daughter's playlist yesterday or the day before, after not thinking about it for maybe a decade or longer. I really thought that HN was suddenly collaborating with Google to present "relevant" items.
IMHO executions should be open to the public. The people ultimately responsible for these deaths are the people who voted for [politicians who support] the death penalty. They should be able to see what their votes have wrought.
Expressivity is independent of specification. You can specify the same language in multiple ways and some are more readable than others
I made a fork, of Firefox, just to remove Pocket. That part was easy-ish. Maintaining it is difficult, cause code changes a lot. Building FF doesn't take long (Gentoo, 8 cores, 64G RAM). I wish I knew more about code so I could fix the rendering issues. I'd love to see FF the core of some apps, like Chromium. I tried that with Servo but, I don't know enough (and it keeps freezing up)
If a person commits a crime they must face some kind of societal intervention. When that intervention is punishment the goal is to make an example of that person. The purpose of punishment is to disincentivize certain crimes.

Jail is a weird mix of punishment and intervention. Prisoners are isolated so that they can’t commit more crimes and given free food and medical. But they are exposed to brutal violence.

I would like for jail to be reformed. Take the violence out of it by physically separating the inmates. And only put people in jail for violent crime, crimes where it’s necessary to keep them away.

If a person in jail murders another inmate, isn’t that kind of stupid to add more jail time? You’re going to give the guy 100 years when he’s already serving life? This is insanity. It makes prison an unusual and cruel form of punishment because it makes jail a very violent place where people kill on a whim and face literally little to no punishment. The good intentioned liberals are creating hell on earth. If a person murders a fellow prisoner then they should be put to a humane death at once. Everything is on camera in jail, there won’t be any question about what happened or who did it.

The death penalty is something where it saves a lot of money for the tax payer. please don’t link to those liberal articles that say otherwise, it’s propaganda — without endless appeals and other bullshit it is infinitely cheaper. Serving time in a proper jail, not the nightmare jails that we have now, is a gift. Society says “we will pay to house you so that you can live out your life even though you’re too dangerous to be a free man.” So the question is when is it appropriate to execute instead? The answer is when it is necessary (ie jail killing) or when the crime must be heavily disincentivized. The latter is a matter of opinion but everyone could agree on some basic set of things like the murder of children. If there is any room for doubt in their conviction then execution should not be used.

Humane execution is possible. The drugs they use now is like the rest of the justice system: broken, poorly thought out. Hypoxia is cheap, reliable and humane. If I had a terminal illness it’s what I would choose. Combined with the option for sedative and anxiolytic drugs, it’s full proof.

In the us our healthcare system is corrupt and terrible as well as many other things. But the state of our jails is truly a stain on our country.
Author of Mozilla telemetry here. You can accomplish this with official firefox by blacklisting incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org domain, per https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=telemetry.moz...
> That was not was I was trying to say

Maybe, but maybe it should be what you should say? I'm consciously trying to nudge you into this direction.

> Statements like "energy is usually cleaner at 1pm than at 7pm because of solar power" absolutely hold true.

Sure. But is using more energy at those times also cleaner? I provided for a logic argument that it is only if there's surplus green energy at that time, i.e. if the need doesn't have to be satisfied by increasing use of non green energy sources during those times. After which you led me to the term of "marginal carbon intensity" which seems to express exactly this, which I'm happy with, so I said then that's the only number that matters, and if you don't have that number then currently you can't draw conclusion about the whole being greener through the shifting.

There's an argument to be made that one should move loads to 1pm since then the country could increase build out of solar energy, since there will be users of the surplus (instead of it needing storage to absorb, or left unused, or being used by more dubious consumers)! That would again be a good argument for the future, and I agree with it. But that's an argument I haven't seen you make--maybe you should.

> The goal should not be to buy more hardware and data centers are barely ever used at full capacity

Iff data centers are normally lesser used during times where the marginal carbon intensity is low, then yes, cool, no new hardware needs to be bought.

Outside of that, of course you could just ignore the need for more hardware and argue that you only shift so little load that it is insignificant compared to the reserve. But that would not be a plan for serious changes, just free riding? Maybe it's the same thinking that leads you (and others, you cite Google in the paper) used to argue that "at 1pm the mix is cleaner, hence use energy at that time": if the amount of load shift is very small, you are tempted to argue that the mix doesn't change, hence the shift is beneficial. But again, this is just ignoring an effect, since evidently if you shift a lot then that won't be true any more. I'm sure it's tempting to argue away the effect, but that's what greenwashing tries to do in general, and may be what makes a lot of people in this discussion angry. So better distinguish it from greenwashing as well as you can.

P.S.: just using up the reserve might of course be fine if moving away the shifted jobs again in case there's high non-shiftable demand coming up works quickly enough. (But it will be interesting to know how much that would be.) I don't really want to tear down your research, and some kind of simulation package to find out how much potential there is (and under what assumptions for the future etc.) would surely be cool. And I guess I've reached the point where I have to read the rest of the paper :)
Sneakers and Pirates of Silicon Valley
> I'm Emotional

> Update: my wife is decimating the Egyptian bread.

Partnership in a sentence if I've ever heard it.
It sounds like you know very little about either F1 cars or Emacs. Emacs is more like an older Toyota pickup truck – been around for a long time, ubiquitous, flexible, can carry a load, simple, there's an abundance of spare parts, and there's no problem with it that a good mechanic cannot fix – most problems can be fixed even by improvisation in the field.
> 2) The first time you load many common filetypes (like Java for example), a box pops up saying "Do you want me to install a nice set of standard Java plugins?"

Spacemacs also does this, and it's a big part of why I stuck around long enough to discover some of the plugins that make the Emacs world really special, like Org mode and Magit.

I'm still no Emacs hacker, but I know enough to get by, and that a good starter kit can make me productive in Emacs in just a few minutes.
Is pointing out conflict of interest and hominem?
Congrats on the launch. Unrelated to the actual software, are any of you actual Jiu-Jitsu grapplers? If not, why'd you go with the name Jitsu?
Webcam Test [Web Utility]
I'm absolutely with you on this. In fact, when I heard about the servo team and the CEO's salary, I stopped using Firefox. Now I mostly use qutebrowser (and Vivaldi for stuff I need more security).

I will start using Firefox when it leaves Mozilla and I'd pay a subscription for it. For me, the ideal situation is a lean team (hopefully only the devs, because I'm not paying any useless middle or high level managers a penny) start developing it for a fee. Just the browser will do, no password managers, no vpns, no nonsense. I already pay for subscriptions for those.

I've seen many here on hacker news expressing willingness to pay and the only reason that they don't is because they don't want to pay for other Mozilla nonsense but Mozilla doesn't want to open a direct channel for the community to support the Firefox team. I find this outrageous. Clearly, they are using Firefox, its very talented devs and the image of their noble fight for a private internet to fill the pockets of executives who don't know shit about engineering or the ethos of opensource software.
I recently looked at the changes they make to the default preferences and so many are nothing to do with privacy, and some of those that are also reduce the user's safety (e.g. disabling Google Safebrowsing). I'd advise any prospective users to comb over the changes very carefully before using it.
JavaScript is a compiled language, at least when executed by V8. Angular-CLI is probably slow because of the data structures used.
since each node is a replica, 100s of replica nodes would be wasteful. for scaling say something like 100s of "shards" where each shard is a raft cluster of 3-5 nodes is more appropriate.
Yes, a lot of landlords do leave the house empty. Maybe not for the hell of it, but if it is empty you don't risk getting a bad tenant.

Even with good tenants, a tenant means you have more responsibility w.r.t repairs/maintenance costs etc.

If the property is appreciating at 10-30% yoy, why take the risk of renting it?
Where is job and salary noted? I don't think it is, just taxes paid. At least that's what I understand ratsit has (never ACTUALLY looked at it though).
Fantastic soundtrack, as usual for Mr. Curtis

https://open.spotify.com/user/alexwizard/playlist/0ioEeDoT30...
Pentagon: China's nuclear arsenal growing much faster than expected
Is https://meltano.com/ a more general version of this ?

i am wondering how this compares to it?
(I am Christian Landgren, cofounder of the project)

You are right, the city believes they have ownership of the data, mainly because they fail to understand that they aren’t showing data in an app, but rather publishing data in an API. In Swedish law, once you have released data from a government, the receiver have the right to do whatever they want with the that data (as long as it isn’t violating any other laws).

The city in this case is responsible to check that the data is safe to share publicly and once they have- the data is not theirs. This is regulated in the constitutional law regulating free speech which goes back to year 1766.

This means that they can’t really apply the same logic as a private company can when publishing data in their api. A private company can still keep license over what can be done with the data they publish. A city can not do that because of these constitutional laws.
Problem is that you end up spending so much time working against the framework when the framework is too opinionated.

I prefer a framework that tries to get out of the way. It just gives you what is needed to structure your code, so that everybody can find their way around the codebase, and then lets you get on about the actual concrete implementation that you need. Angular instead has sooo many opinions about how you should do everything. So much boilerplate, so much runtime, and so much accidental complexity everywhere.

For this reason I prefer Svelte these days.
https://kit.svelte.dev/

It doesn't have opinions about things it doesn't have to. It's fast and minimal and lends itself to a clear common code structure. This is what a framework should do.
We all have our favorite stacks. I think at the end of the day you want to use Rust, which is fine. It is new and interesting. I'm getting into it as well. You just need a way to rationalize it in the institutional setting.
The recommended way to do this now seems to be:

(when display-graphics-p
(global-unset-key (kbd "C-z")))

Also, though this works with Emacs running as a server, I find it better to just quit emacsclient instead of learning to do something different depending on what environment it is running.
I watched a video explaining monads where the presenter explained that simple meant small…

So yeah, I think they would call regex simple as well.

It honestly never occurred to me before watching that video that someone could mean small when they say simple. I have always understood simple to mean “easy to understand” or “low complexity”.
Biden administration pushes back vaccine deadline for federal contractors
> Still, you have better college sports teams I guess...

I've heard these are actually normally a net income source, not an expenditure!
A lot of my side projects end up being:

“I want to learn how to do X, but I have no idea what that’s going to take.”

And I end up just coding a logical step and if I don’t know what to do go research it, realize I did something wrong 3 steps ago and then either revert or abandon depending on my current motivation.

I’ve tried before to create a “game plan” before but most of the time there’s so much that I don’t know that I don’t know that it’s either impossible to make that plan or once I do, that plan ends up being wrong anyways.

As such it always feels like I’m doing side projects wrong. But since they’re more learning endeavors more than actually trying to launch a product maybe that’s fine?
I think it's time to start testing tests. The first test will be metrics how often tests are changed when the things they test are changed. If it's close at all to 1 to 1 then the test fails.
Cash For Clunkers was a brilliant idea given the economy, the one in free fall that W left Obama. BTW, it was overwhelming opposed by Republicans. That's because McConnell wanted Obama to be a one term president.

Everyone wanted Gadaffi gone, even Putin. Hence the UN resolutions. It was funny that Gingrich was calling for intervention ... until the next day.

Complaining that W and Obama are on good terms? Wow.
this page will access your webcam [with your permission] so cover it up if your shy, and you can "benchmark" or test your webcam
Agreed about plugins. The main nice thing about VSCode is that it installs and reasonably-configures needed plugins as needed (though Spacemacs does this, too).
That’s true, but it isn’t a claim I made.
> Which speaks to the “may very well harm them”.

No it doesn't. That just shows that the manufacturers want to minimize their risk of being sued. Harm is shown by _studies_ looking at harm. The feds have looked at these studies and concluded that the vaccines are worth it. What do you have other than irrelevant arguments about legal liability?
> Emacs is dead, except for a relatively small group of persons who were exposed to it very early in their careers

This is false. There are plenty of new users.
https://emacssurvey.org/2020/

Emacs is not now or in the future ever going to have "mass appeal" and that's okay. It caters to a niche, intellectually curious developers who like tinkering for its own sake.

If programming is just a job to you, that's totally fine. For a lot folks, programming is like accounting, a safe path to a decent paycheck. These folks will likely use VS Code and that's OK.

Not every piece of software needs to "eat the world". Some software, like Emacs, can just be enjoyed by a community of dedicated users.
I would love to meet this mythical Emacs programmer which is blinded to its flaws, I don't think they're common.
To echo a sibling comment, I think you may be discounting the time and effort it would take to monitor every change made and the ripple effects of each change.

One of the key pieces of open source is the larger a project, the more people will be incentivized to monitor the code for malicious changes. This distributes the burden to a much much larger pool therefore minimizing the burden to single nodes across the board.

Is it perfect? No, absolutely not. Do malicious or unintentional bugs slip through? Sure. But when it comes to scaled out projects, nothing is perfect and never will be. I certainly trust a large open project with years of reputation built up and a large user base significantly more than a large closed source project or large and open with no reputation.

There are of course valid criticisms of this model but I’ve yet to see an alternative put forward that isn’t fraught with its own issues.

I do find it strange how over the past few years we’ve seen a number of people who engage in a whiplash type behavior where they see minor problems with a model so they whiplash away into a far worse model with far more serious problems.
I wonder if it's because she hasn't seen the screen as often?

We grew with mine with a screen always on (work from home). We watch animes during lunch or as background when doing boring work. We play videogames, so more exposure.

Point is, unless there is relevant content, she won't look at the screen (3 years old).

We skip all the videos for kids (we do have occasional movies), but those videos with songs made me want to smash the screen, she just turns braindead.

I wonder if all it's needed is a parent observing behavior and evolution of behavior to determine each activity's health based on a kid-by-kid basis, rather than generalizing.
I work in technical due diligence, mostly of mid stage companies getting bought by private equity, so typically revenue of a $5-100 million. (Which, by the way, is the most common exit for tech companies now by far.) Perhaps surprisingly to some, I see much more Angular than React, 3 to 4 times as much. I've been doing this job for 3 years now, and it has been very interesting to see the gap between what you read in the tech online blogosphere, etc, and what most companies that are quietly making lots of money do. Devs at small startups and big tech giants both write and talk about what they are doing, folks in the middle not so much. From what I see, it seems most mid-stage companies doing unglamorous enterprise software in Java or C# with regular dev teams of 5-20 people prefer NG. Obviously a biased sample, but perhaps interesting to some folks.
> there is no biological information stored using subatomic particles or quantum tricks

This is correct, but only because "biological information" is utter gibberish without meaningful interpretation, from you not the comment that you criticize.

The more general statement was that people's horizon seems to be severely limited (except that the comment phrased it in an acceptably ironic mood). You practically proved them right
The fact that vim-style modal editing can be implemented in other editors is huge. I use console vim frequently, but when I need to bump up to something more IDE-like (VSCode or a Jetbrains IDE), I can carry 99% of the vim functionality I use, and be up and running with a minute or two of config.
PEG doesn't have that problem.
Looking at that function, I'm not convinced that it's copyrightable in the first place. Once you know what it's supposed to do, how else would you express it?

Of course it's only appropriate to credit the author anyway, and one way to do that nicely is by following the license requirements. I just think "violation of the license" is a bit of an unnecessarily strong statement, given the triviality and the likely non-copyrightability of the code.

Your lawyer's opinion may vary.
I enjoyed 'The Bit Player' about Claude Shannon.
Also the mini series Devs.