skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No indication of windowless dorms at Munger's alma mater while he attended, the University of Michigan (someone correct me if I'm getting this wrong), so my only guess is that Charlie became self-righteous about younger generations finding themselves more immersed in tech than the world around them.

...and removes windows to force people outside, thinking somehow that'll solve the problem?

It only shows that everyone who's sharp in one way is utterly clueless in another. My guess is that people will end up spending more time depressed (e.g via SAD) as a consequence of getting no exposure to nature and daylight in their own rooms while cramming as opposed to making themselves go outside, as Charlie intended.

I wonder if these outcomes will be measurable once a generation of students has made it through?
You want lines, so that you may have multiple statements in your lambda. They've given you multiple statements, but using the semicolon instead.

I appreciate that won't work well for all use cases, but it'd eliminate a lot of the pain with the current lambda implementation.

For whatever reason, the Python community declared multiline lambdas as non-pythonic and this project aims to remain pythonic, so they went with semicolons instead.

I'm not a Python developer myself, but if that was the only thing holding you back, then perhaps that reason is now slightly reduced?
> So seems that they probably won't have issues with that it might harm Matrix, as they are a direct competitor.

I was not aware of the Grid project, but they seem to make good points. Matrix is developed by a restricted group of people with a startup vibe and some cringy/questionable actions:

- spitting on other protocols (or not even acknowledging their existence) without a technical reasoning (Matrix could have been a "simple" decentralized room extension of XMPP or any other established protocol) ; which takes us to the situation where Matrix has the exact same selling points which XMPP had 20 years ago... and keeps on reinventing the wheel

- pushing for a broken state resolution algorithm (decentralized consensus) without a formal analysis, which means it's now reached its 5th or 6th version and Matrix clients are all incompatible with one another (because only Element implements them all) and once they have been upgraded rooms cannot be downgraded so in many places only Element can chat

- requiring a web rendering engine for certain extensions (eg. Video chat) ; HTTP is a decent foundation for a protocol, but why is a Jitsi <iframe> considered a decent extension mechanism? it will just harm security/privacy (through potential XSS) and make it near-impossible for clients to be implemented without a Chrome-based engine, reinforcing Google's monopoly on the web

- putting all of their $$$$ into a single web client with very bad performance, not caring for other platforms; beyond clients, investing in bridging with useless platforms like Microsoft Teams (though i did not find the code for that) while neglecting interop with open protocols like IRC/XMPP (relations with IRC/XMPP people are notoriously not very good though i hope it will improve over time)

All in all, i'm very glad matrix exists because they have popularized bridging and they do care for UX concerns like Spaces. But claiming people who forked the project because of political and technical disagreements are biased because they are a "competitor" is itself a very biased position based on the idea that only one true protocol must remain and others are heretics trying to undermine our technical purity (for their economic gain).

I wish we could have people from different protocols sitting across the table and working on interop so we can stop arguing about which network is best.
It is well-known that neglect during early infancy has a strong life-long negative effect. The argument that one doesn't remember much from before age 5 doesn't impede early infancy having a huge effect on emotional and physical development. If cradling would have a net-positive effect on children, evolution would probably have spread the practice world-wide.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702123/
[1] https://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/06/neglect
> The CEO is not good

According to what? FB has had a tremendous growth.
> This is a logic fallacy, but I don't know the name of it. "We all agree that all students can't have a penthouse. So why do you care if we stuff them in windowless rooms?"

False dichotomy
I don’t think many critics of FB draw a bright line between FB and TikTok/Twitter. These are questions of degrees and specific variations, but from what I’ve seen much of the criticism is at the fundamental mechanics which are more or less shared across the services.
And of course everybody in this depressing catacomb will wear the face-erasing mask.

It would make a great sci fi movie.
Thanks for making DevUtils available through Setapp.

Do you plan to add the M1 version to Setapp? Seems to be missing for me.
Who are you suggesting to build houses for rent then? The government? I would love some examples of where that actually went well.
> The issue is that 4500 students will also have to pay for it

It seems they will pay less for it.
By improving your human psychology knowledge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
Sure. Why not. A poor, struggling university -- with only $161 BILLION in their endowment -- probably can't make ends meet without $200M "donations," with specious strings attached, like this one.
We are the certainly the most invasive species that has appeared in a very long time, but our uniqueness is only a matter of how fast we spread and how aggressively we reshape ecosystems.
I think I would be more productive with VS Code too.

But productivity isn't my only goal.

I want to give back to the community: Emacs is introspectable enough that it allows me to easily contribute.

I want to explore a different UI paradigm, which blurs the line between user and developer.

I want to support a grassroots developed editor.
He's suffering from architecture dunning kruger effect.
Is the EU allowed to have a say when a US company buys another US company?
I am bit unsure on my stance on this.

US at statistical level has roughly 50% of population double dosed. That leaves other 50% none protected (we are speaking roughly no need to split hairs on this one).

You can spread covid even when vaccinated, so you can infect and potentially kill due to your choices.

You can easily make a case, wanting regular life back is a morally vague at best if not outright immoral.

But there is that little ego man inside me that whispers: those 30-50% are people who didn't isolated at the start, who fanned the fire of covid in the first place, who clamied/claim its all a hoax. And now I have to suffer more restrictions for their sake, due to their own choices? If they want their freedom so much, let me have my life back too at their cost.
The real difference (surprisingly not mentioned yet) is land for housing in cities is incredibly finite. Food, energy and consumer staples can be produced endlessly
Not if they don't want to. They can go to another university, or they can find their own accommodation.
> Or the oil extracted from whichever vegetable vegetable oil is made from.

Extra virgin olive oil, for instance is extracted only from olives and only by mechanical means. Basically, what you need is a lot of weight, that's all. No heat, no catalysts, reagents, emulsifiers etc. In theory, you could make it at home, but you'd need a certain setup like a millstone or two and a team of pack animals or half a dozen strong young men to turn it.

But that's how it's made anyway: press olives, collect oil.

Which is, I suppose, why it's considered one of the best quality oils you can get and as far as can be from ultra-processed stuff like hydrogenated vegetable fats and the like.
Are they not discoverable via the command palette? I find Emacs very helpful here, commands are always prefixed sensibly and you can do fuzzy search on them anyway. You can run 'apropos' if you're really stuck and help is built in to every function. It'll show you bindings if you don't know them and invoke a command directly etc etc. I feel like VSCode has most of this. Besides, they're your key bindings anyway, I think it's worth investing in whatever's ergonomic for you given you'll likely spend a decade or more with an editor. One annoyance I had was that extensions were regularly changing commands and throwing away my bindings though.

I should be clear though, I am not suggesting they strip it to the bone at the expense of other users' tastes. I just hate that I can't do that _myself_ because it's not quite as low level as Emacs.
> We'll find out and Charles Munger will pay for it.

Your comment changed my mind. Thank you!
Its not mentioned at all in this article, not sure why, but in construction, every state has a building code, and specifically every state has a requirement for a window to be built inside of each sleeping room for egress fire safety. I would question how this would pass any plan review, not to mention inspection [1] [2]

[1] https://www.buildingincalifornia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014...

[2] https://up.codes/viewer/california/ibc-2018/chapter/10/means...
I'm confused when people call it simple or elegant. I wonder if the same crowd would use similar words to describe regex.
Donating with stipulations is such a weird thing to do. Either you trust the acceptor, or you find someone else to donate to. Why give money to someone if you don't trust them to use it wisely?
If you need to install a dozen plugins (helm, projectile, company/autocomplete, flycheck, whatever else) to match something that's installed by default in any modern text editor, Emacs will never be remotely popular. Even something as simple as theming doesn't work by default; each theme needs to be implemented separately for every mode. 99% of people will see how fruitless it is to try to configure it and move on. Why waste time on fiddling with configs?
Maybe college is about learning stuff and having a roomie to challenge and help you. I doubt the powers that be are worried about you wanting a long-term relationship.

Remember that people having sex while not married has only been acceptable for perhaps 50 years to society, which post-dates many colelge buildings. There might be lots of people who want to dissuade people from "illicit liasons" by pairing them up in rooms to make things harder ;-)
Well… I defend windowless dorms for some billionaires.
I interested in a future where TVs have a good as color and image quality as reality (maybe 50 years out from now).

TVs are cheaper per unit area than insulation windows, could be providing a view of exactly what a windows would with streaming cameras, but could also let you travel the world by providing votes from other locations. They would also let you up the r value of the walls easily :)
Everyone votes with their money.
There will be other options available to the students.
Students should be the ones making the choice of where to live based on the things they value.
If the project is significantly cheaper and in practice there is not so much difference, some students might graduate with equal results to others with windows but with less debt to repay given the savings in accomodation.
Henry Kissinger Writes with Worry About a Future That Will Be Brilliant
I'm happy that Emacs community doesn't have a lot of those who think that "everything should be easy" and that working hard to learn something is a waste of time by default.

Emacs is great with or without your usage of it.
I believe the argument stays true if you replace "computer" by "device".
In the US housing developers heavily lobby local government officials to overturn or grant exemptions to laws requiring the preservation or construction of communal spaces. It’s not something citizens choose. It’s corruption at the local level.
> Is one truly making a statement and helping Evilcorp by buying stock?

That's not the point. The point is that when you buy EvilCorp stock, you:

1. Are part of the owners of EvilCorp, i.e. participate in decision-making in EvilCorp (at least in theory), so you are taking partial responsibility for its actions.

2. More importantly, you are providing EvilCorp with more funds to do its evil work.

The above is completely irrespective of stock prices.
It’s Time to Contemplate the End of the Crisis
Are you sure we're both talking about the AMERICAN university system here?
One of the comments:

> It was great up until the covid started, staying in an apartment with no windows and no access to other facilities within the building isn't worth it.
Yeah the story of the Batavia makes the Star Trek mirror universe empire seem like a bunch of boy scouts compared how the VOC ran things.

> Cornelisz and several of the major mutineers had both hands chopped off before being hanged.

> The remaining mutineers were taken to Batavia for trial. Five were hanged, while several others were flogged, keelhauled or dropped from the yardarm on the later voyage back home. Cornelisz' second in command, Jacop Pietersz, was broken on the wheel, the most severe punishment available at the time.

Though luck for Pelsaert because the VOC still thought that was too little too late:

> A board of inquiry decided that Pelsaert had exercised a lack of authority and was therefore partly responsible for what had happened.
He funded one of these buildings at his alma matter already. It has very good reviews.

https://www.veryapt.com/ApartmentReview-a7222-munger-graduat...
Emacs does support LSP: https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode
Specifically it lets them dillute and raise money at higher valuation, it makes the board happy with the current management and it lets them distribute employee shares at lower costs.
The toxicity I see complained about most when FB is discussed is that users the complainer dislikes are shepherded into algorithmically-generated safe spaces where they lose all connection to reality. The toxicity of Twitter is 100% organic petty conflicts.
are we all stuck in competition with each other about who is more productive and smart? the economy is the embodiment of that fact and will just extract us as much as its can forever? is it possible to build and own our life instead of being forced to labor until near the end of life? why technology improved so much but the work is never done? can individual have control of his life or we stuck in doing what the economy dedicates? is there a place on earth is not owned by anyone?
Hi, app's author here.

I have a page that compares DevUtils vs CyberChef, hope it helps :)

https://devutils.app/devutils_vs_cyberchef/
What kind of bugs (or fundamental flaws) I'm wondering? I used i3 for over a year (before switching to Mac due to work) and it worked great. I was annoyed at confirmation dialogues taking up half a screen but that's the only issue I remember ever having.
> Every advocate for making urban design more [pick one: walkable, bikeable, beautiful, lovable, inviting, human-scale] has at some point or another faced the charge of elitism.

No. That's not how that works. You're not an elitist just because you want a nice neighborhood. You're faced with charges of elitism when you advocate for this type of stuff after you've moved into a space once inhabited by low income people who were chased out by developers who artificially beautified the neighborhood thereby inflating its value overnight.

Those low income people would love to have a beautiful neighborhood too. Instead they spend most of their day toiling at shitty jobs and riding public transportation. They have so little money things like tree shaded bike paths and flower beds are a fantasy.

The real issue is no one wants to spend money making low income peoples lives better. How many beautiful housing projects have you seen vs luxury condo towers?
Personally, I think just knowing that is not real I’d enough to make me lose it if I had to live in a room like that. There’s something magical about waking up to the smell of the cool, morning air to me that I would desperately miss.
> Maybe college is about learning stuff and having a roomie to challenge and help you.

Learn with, challenge, and help you… in the bedroom?!

You don’t need to sleep and get undressed in the same room as someone to study with them.

> I doubt the powers that be are worried about you wanting a long-term relationship.

When I was at Uni they made a big deal about how many people met their future partners there.
> Workplaces, schools, academic environments definitely force the usage of some tool over another, or spending more or less time on screens.

But who's to blame?

I have the feeling that people are blaming the wrong people. Corporations are amoral entities whose mission is to maximize profit. If this doesn't bring social value or has obvious negative externalities, we should blame the politicians who set the rules, and vote for someone else.
Yeah I always thought this was a reasonably big difference with the US. What if you don't get along with your roommate? I'm all for communal living as a student, but you need some kind of space that's only yours, even if it's quite small.

Btw some of the London unis do make people share. At least one friend plus my wife were having to share. Drives people nuts, especially if the other person has some issue like snoring or excessive partying.
In architecture “entrances” is not equal to “emergency exits”. This structure has two entrances, but a dozen emergency exits (which exceeds fire code).
It's a great strength that NeoVim supports many languages, and VS Code uses Javascript.

Lisp is not widely used, and this is an impediment to Emacs' popularity.

However, when people speak about Emacs customizability, they are referring to a deeper level of customizability than most programs (even NeoVim/VS Code), in which its innards and UI are all subject to modification, at runtime, within the beast itself. This isn't necessarily a good thing, but it happens to be my preference at least.
Hi again, I see.
Before I respond, could I ask you to please re-post that image without my colleague's name in it? And could you also edit your above comment so that my colleague's name is no longer in it. Unfortunately, some of our coworkers have been harassed in the past after their names were published online. So we try to prevent this from happening. Thanks in advance for doing that. I really appreciate it.

Okay my response - Again, I think there is a bit of a cultural misunderstanding going on here. I would say most Germans understand that they are responsible for verifying their identity and using their legal name when making important purchases or doing something else official. Here, names that do not match are often a sign that the account is fake. We find hundreds of fake accounts every week. Fake accounts are very closely linked with criminal behavior, people who otherwise abuse our products, and people who do not follow our ToS. Clearly, we do not want to attract customers with fake accounts to our company. So if we find an account that seems fake, it does not make sense for us to expend extra time and energy to write to that customer and ask them if they made a mistake when they entered their name on their customer account. That would dramatically increase the likelihood that spammers and scammers would get accounts and abuse our services. It would not only hurt our customers (because it would hurt our the trustworthiness of our IPs, etc.), but it would also lead to a massive increase in abuse and to victims affected by that abuse.
So, I agree that the tone from my colleague could be better here. And I will talk to him about that. And, again, for that, we are sorry. But the basic content of what he wrote is sound in my opinion. --Katie
Maybe helm (https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/) should be installed and preconfigured by default.

This solves a lot of the shortcomings of vanilla emacs.
Sure, it's not as simple as having one isolated reason, but would you expect the same outcome if you replaced the iPad by books and leave everything else the same? I'm having a hard time imagining this. Yes, it's multiple factors coming together, but nothing beats the destructive impact of too much TV/smartphone/tablet on little kids, except maybe severe abuse or actual drugs.
So all that was needed, was a hack to load it ?
And all species are invasive, given half a chance.
> the least innovative

While I'm not a Facebook fan, there are some counterpoints:

- they have singlehandedly saved the VR industry by going all in on cordless / standalone VR which has increased the accessible market by at least an order of magnitude.

- almost the entire world are using React and Pytorch as de facto standards / defaults now

I don't know how you would measure these against outputs from other tech companies but it is clear to me that a bunch of innovation is happening inside Facebook (whether you like it or not of course is another thing).
screens will never replace windows
Indeed! However, some things have changed since XMPP initially came out. For example, Message Archive Management (and equivalents in the PubSub/MIX specs) has been introduced so that messages can be stored reliably, reducing the need for presence. Multi-client usage has also grown, especially with mobile computers ("smartphones") with Internet access everywhere. Then, we now know and have proof that metadata leaks are used to actually harm people and that presence information can be used to establish correlations between several identities.

To be clear, I'm not arguing against presence being supported on a protocol level. However, i believe the protocol and clients/servers should support the usecase where presence information should not be leaked: that people see a message when i send it is fine, but that they know when my computer is online/offline, or when i'm "away" is way too much metadata leak for a privacy-conscious usecase.

My favorite way to deal with that would be to have a "private browsing" mode on IM clients. So that you could turn on/off privacy settings globally with a single switch. I'm guessing a lot of people would choose the "private" mode if prompted for it on first run. I know i would :)
Maybe for you, lots of us go for lunch with colleagues, play sports or boardgames and so that tends to happen on a schedule. At least we did until we all started working from home.
Asbestos lung?
> Emacs has [...] no autocomplete, and doesn't show available functions

My impression is that you are not familiar with Emacs.
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The role of investors in the economy is ultimately to finance new development. ===> False. The role of investors is to make money.

If you build more, rents will go down. ===> In theory True. In practice self builds lower the pricing. The barriers set by bureaucracy for the sake of bureaucracy are the problem and they cause property prices to go up. EDIT: Restrictions set by bureaucracy is what creates artificial scarcity(think diamonds market)

"They provide valuable liquidity to the market" ===> False. It's long term value storage and/or speculation.
The same properties would be bought by new families if they were closer to a realistic price. You'd get the same if not more cash movement if it would be affordable. By affordable I mean: A young couple with minimum wage should be able to pay it off in 10-15 years with no problems. Not in 35-50.

As a sidenote(IMHO): Ideally, property ownership should be limited to 1/+18 year old to prevent/reduce speculations. Maybe 2 if we're talking about adding a holiday home(yeah. I know it's a strech).
Companies should not be alowed to own residential properties unless they are a developer. In that case, they can own the newly developed properties for up to ?5? years.
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