skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There may be a power struggle between marketers and some bad actors, but most users are not bad actors and simply don't want to be spammed.
Lowercase w resets (each) selection to end of selection, skips any whitespace, and selects to next word boundary, so www or 3w will select third word counting from cursor. Uppercase W extends selection over any whitespace and then to next word boundary, so WWW or 3W will select from cursor to third end of word. (Most other movements are also in lowercase resetting / uppercase extending pairs.) Thus with length-1 (that is, initial-state) selection you can do wwwd or 3wd to delete third word and preserve whitespace, wWWd or w2Wd to delete three words but preserve whitespace, WWWd or 3Wd to delete three words and any whitespace between cursor and start of first word.

That is, counts work, it’s the movements that are slightly different. See manual §3.4–6[1].

[1]: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune#34-movement
I think this is missing the point, that there is no risk for the individual to denying COVID or vaccinations (or a round earth) because as a society we have decided not to deny medical treatment, punish lowering heard immunity (except when we do, i.e. longexisting vaccination mandates) and deny flight tickets for this virtue signaling respectively. I don't agree with GP that we should, but your point is weirdly defensive of anti-vax beliefs as well: the beliefs (not the people) are not worth engaging with, just like the ramblings of GPT1 aren't worth pondering as oracles for the purpose of stock price picking, there's nothing there to learn (engaging with the people is different)
Nothing says "CEO" like offering up the firing of ~3 dozen employees to try and cover up his own misdeeds.
Google page experience report for desktop is now available in search console
I wish more municipalities would mandate tighter homes with good ventilation. Recently when searching for a new home it was so dishearting to see brand new developments where the homes had standard insulation, bad orientation for things like solar and passive heating and giant fossil fuel based heating systems instead of heat pumps. I decided to instead go the oppostie direction and buy a 1960’s split level that I am modernizing.

It’s been quite a challenge to retrofit, we really need to be building to a higher standard for new stock. While renewable energy is all the rage this rarely gets a mention.
> In a production environment one would probably deploy using something like Fargate, Kubernetes or Fly.io.

Docker swarm mode is pretty good and terribly easy to get up and running in no time.

I have a few small personal projects hosted on Herzner on a couple of Docker swarm mode deployments with 100% uptime in the past two years, and all it took to get that infra up and running is installing Docker on a bare Linux node.

The only downside I'm aware is that inter-node traffic speeds can be relatively low.
>The profit difference between a well-isolated passive building and one that merely meets the minimal standards, is often very small, so why bother building a passive building?

People making decisions about which contractor to use (both for public and private projects) are often mandated to choose the absolute cheapest bidder, sometimes with the ability of choosing a different one if they file mountains of paperwork explaining why.
Casinos are deemed acceptable and gamblers are (somewhat) protected instead. Instead of avoiding the bad situation, it makes it less bad. It’s just a different risk management strategy; prohibition would not be ideal either.
Will Web3 break the Y Combinator business model?
>It is my understanding that he's from Hong Kong, and is not Taiwanese.

Thanks for pointing that out, you're indeed correct that he's a Hong Konger. I've edited my comment.
Security seems to be the main reason SBOMS are being discussed at the moment. But, I found them invaluable when doing diligence paperwork for large custom enterprise contracts and fundraising: often these contracts want a list of all software components and their licenses.

FWIW, we used a hacky and mostly accurate tool[1] to put bill of material JSON files in many of our projects for this purpose.

[1]: https://github.com/coreos/license-bill-of-materials
Depends on your climate and the heat differential between inside and outside. Triple glazing is effectively double the R-value of double glazing, so in a cold climate yeah..
I think category theory involves mapping mathematical problems from different math domains. For example looking to solve questions like “what problems or equations From topology are similar to problems solved by number theory? And what is the underlying language?”. Could be of interest
The two sites I start my day with: hacker news and arxiv.
I've seen it, and to be honest I've only seen it in the ranks to the exec team rather than the tech team in both FAANG and startups.

The tech teams and tech managers are usually trying to impress you about how they spent the weekend coding on a PDP-11, playing board games or mountain biking while drinking custom brand protein drinks. Generally harmless stuff like that.

The exec teams are where the sociopaths live and work, and I've seen all sorts of bro one-upmanship there. The worse types, by far, are the rugby bros. The tales these guys tell each other are always of the "here's a horrible thing I did, so don't mess with me".
Maybe not on the landing page, but there's a large button saying "Learn More about the Kakoune philosophy" that leads to this page [1] that mentions vim 5 times and vi 11 times, including:

"It first started as a reimplementation of Vim"

"A design goal of Kakoune is to beat vim at its own game, while providing a cleaner editing model"

"Up to now, I have used vi as an example for modal text editor, mostly because I expect most programmers have at least heard of it. However, I don’t believe vi and clones are the best modal text editor out there."

and so on.

1: https://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html
> Remove trollys since we can make more money selling tires, oil, and buses.

Trains and trolleys were the incumbent system before the motorcar, so this analogy is the opposite of what you're arguing.
Silicon is a post-ferrous element. There may be silicon-based life in the universe. But abundance of carbon and hydrogen, together with the superior stability of hydrocarbons relative to silanes, sort of seals the deal for everything but theoretical edge cases.
>and then a (((lady engineer))) literally proposed

Yeah, I'm not going to listen to someone who unironically uses triple parentheses. This also is a huge hint that this is actually a /pol/ troll.
Basic income is the most disgustingly cynical idea of a social policy i can think of. Liberal crowd that advocates for it, they just don't think about it, they are captively taken along for a ride just like the MAGA crowd is, just on the other side.

Basic income is a tool to make rich richer (because it means giving more money to spend to the most gullible, financially irresponsible population - poor - from which the money is easy to make provided they have it in the first place). Also, it helps the rich to pull the ladder from under them to make sure none of the middle class gets rich to compete with them - as they won't be able to save up and invest having to pay taxes to fund the UBI.
There are various Nintendo 64 codebases you can find, such as the Turok 64 source code (which was taken from a workstation sold on eBay, of all places). Generally speaking, they're written in C. I haven't encountered hand-written assembly outside the SDK. I know of a couple games that do use custom RSP microcode but those games are the exception.

The original Xbox shipped with an OS, and games ran under that OS. The OS gave itself a fixed time slice every frame. My understanding is that Microsoft was a bit quicker to move to a "normal" type of OS on their consoles, and the other vendors were a bit slower, but I think PS3 / Wii software ran under the console's OS as well, rather than the Unikernel style from the previous generation. The Xbox system software was forked from Windows 2000 (and heavily modified).

I guess it depends on what you mean by "regular user-mode applications". The PS3 runs what is believed to be a fork of FreeBSD. The Wii had system software, and new games shipped with a copy of the latest software bundled (so you would still get updates without a network connection).
Chinese leaders will still be leaders in a China without chips and if the rest of the world has no chips its not their worry. They will be less playful times with less gadgets and slower processes but no dictatorship ever worried about building walls around their borders. Actually they help the dictatorship to control the people inside.

That's not necessarily good on the long term. China was on par with Western powers until about 1500-1600 and had everything they needed. Then they grounded their fleets and turned inside. In a couple of centuries the British and everyone else came knocking at their harbors with gunships. China recovered only recently.
Shorts. How do we hide and disable all shorts
Generally Harry Potter and Star Wars (and recently Marvel movies) are the biggest culprits. There's a subreddit dedicated to making fun of the phenomenon: https://www.reddit.com/r/readanotherbook/
Well, yeah, this is exactly what I've been saying in this thread: Any realistic UBI program will be payed by taxes on middle class.
I Asked 12 Scientists: What Is the One Fact Humanity Needs to Know? (2015)
Not sure if the poster is a sensationalist or just wants proper awareness
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29975848
Pixel Distortion with Three.js
There are a lot of things in the picture, but 5G is offering big improvements in many situations and it's going to get better.

Yes, lower frequency networks offer better coverage. It's why we see sub-1GHz 5G deployments from the 3 US carriers. These networks are offering marginal improvements (say 30% at present, but probably more in the future). As 5G standalone (rather than anchored to LTE) becomes common, they'll also offer significantly lower latency.

A lot of of 5G deployments are likely to be from 2-4GHz which is higher than most 4G deployments. However, in a lot of cities carriers are already splitting cells to get more capacity so the higher frequency doesn't matter as much as you might worry. Carriers are also working on 5G carrier aggregation which will extend 2-4GHz coverage a lot farther by allowing lower frequency signals to handle the uplink. Towers can put out more power to push their signals farther so the limitation is usually the uplink. If that's getting handled by lower frequency signals, it will effectively extend the range of 2-4GHz networks.

Yes, 5G is better. It's definitely not fully realized right now with a lot of carriers putting out very basic 5G networks partly for marketing purposes. However, 5G offers better spectral efficiency and it does offer opportunities to extend the range of higher frequency signals via carrier aggregation.
If you mean some government should fund arXiv, specifically, then I don't disagree but would guess the government's default position of "it exists without public money, and we think that's rather excellent".

If you're suggesting it as alternative for academic publishing in general, it would cost a lot more.

Arxiv isn't a "publication platform" in the sense that peer-reviewed journals are. The cost of hosting and distributing PDFs is close to zero, obviously. What does cost money is the copyediting and running the peer review process.

People think Elsevier are the worst people in the world (not entirely wrong) and taking in millions while exploiting the free labor of authors and reviewers. But it's relatively easy to quantify the value they do add: their financials are public and, last I checked, they have operating margins of about 30 %.

Let's say we could do without their marketing and billing departments and that gets us to a margin of 50 %. That's pretty good, but it isn't quite the rip-off people sometimes suggest it is. Replacing the commercial publishers with government-funded open-access journals would be a billion-dollar endeavor, not a few million for servers and a bit of software.
Previous attention attempt here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29949249
But they can always say anything is faked. They can say that my eyes distort what I see and that math can’t be trusted either.

The only way you could really prove it is to define a set of axioms that you some how convince them to agree to. And then get them to agree to logic. And then construct an experiment using those rules whereby if the Earth is round then they die. And see if they are willing to test it. And if they don’t then you win. And if they do it and die then you also win.
>differences in fertility rates will lead to Islamic demographic ascendancy

That seems mathematically sound. What am I missing?
>At least this shared identity wasn't built over unmarked graves for children like elsewhere.

It was....and not just children's graves, either.
The above link is a 404, the issue linked by 8organicbits below/(above?) doesn't mention _why_ it was removed.

But the commits made yesterday look like it was because its icon looked a tad too much like YouTube's with the red background.

https://github.com/anthonyftwang/youtube-rabbit-hole/commit/...
while it's easy to poke fun on flatties, it's uncomforting in what flat earths we mainstreamies tend to believe. Growth to name one. Or Economy. There's a lot of flat earths that glue our day to day life together. Obey. Consume.
> Meanwhile, a single branch of McDonalds consumes many multiples more energy than any PoS blockchain.

Oh yes? So all McDonald's branches together consume orders of magnitude more energy than the whole world produces?
Or that there is more than one sun. Once you are willing to throw all science out the window there are a lot of options.
It astonishes me anew every time they land one of these things on Mars with exactly zero microscopes on board.
No the difference is not simply semantics. The main difference between NIT and UBI is that your check is conditional on working.

From the article:

> De Kwaadsteniet: ‘In the condition without social security, the test participants didn’t receive a basic sum. In the benefits condition they received a basic sum, which they lost as soon as they started working. In the basic income condition they received the same basic sum but didn’t lose this when they started work.’

They test for 3 scenarios, but they miss the 4th NIT scenario, in which the "basic sum" would only be granted _after_ they get a job.
This is a good comment, because it illustrates exactly what I'm talking about w/r/t predictability. If what you've written here can help you accurately predict the answers to questions you don't know, then you might be onto something.

However, there is no predictive value in any of what you've written here, so while they may be, to some, "refutations", they are not in any way useful.

If there were actually any flat earthers who cared about reason, because of the lack of predictive value (not to mention the contradictory/unprovable nature of what you've written here), they would not remain flat earthers for very long.
Why do need this instead of just adding some custom blocks to ublock origin?
I've been using this over the past few months and so far, the only thing that really bothers me is that there's no UTF-8/Unicode category selectors support in their self-rolled regex engine, citing not wanting to ship a unicode character database to keep the editor small (only mentioned on IRC, sorry). This makes writing syntax highlighting extensions a pain/difficult to maintain[1].

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[1] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/issues/4411
> You're conflating undefined behavior with spatial/temporal memory safety,

You are correct; I should have written "memory safety".

> Zig treats memory safety not as an extreme-at-all-costs but as a spectrum

Zig needs to be more forthright about this.

When I first heard about Zig, I googled "zig vs rust" and found an article on the Ziglang website addressing that very topic:

https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/

It completely fails to mention memory safety at all. That seems extremely dishonest, since memory safety is basically the "headline feature" of Rust (well, one of two or three at most). I wasted a lot of time digging through the Zig language manual ("so then how do they...") before concluding that something didn't add up. It definitely left a bad taste in my mouth.

> Rust won't protect you from all undefined behavior ... Rust has checked arithmetic off by default in safe builds

That didn't surprise me at all, nor will it surprise anybody who knows Java. Modular arithmetic is perfectly well-defined.

It's only C/C++ that picked the crazysauce option of decreeing that signed overflow is totally equivalent to scribbling all over random pieces of memory. It isn't overflow that's a security risk; it's languages that define overflow to be undefined in order to squeeze out a few piddly loop micro-optimizations. This becomes increasingly less beneficial in languages with iterators and no backward-compatible-with-C burden. Details (scroll to "Myth: overflow is undefined"):

https://huonw.github.io/blog/2016/04/myths-and-legends-about...
Yeah but what is a healthy Air Changes per Hour (ACH)?

The building regs here in the UK are a bit all over the place, I had to direct some questions to the local authority planning dept because their legislation was like a poorly written computer program and they couldnt answer the questions.

The legislation doesnt quantify the risks properly imo, at least here in the UK.
It's not as simple as that. You wouldn't make chip with less than a 100 million transistors on TSMC N5. Chips have not only maximal size, but minimal size as well. And you shouldn't forget about horrendous cost of masks. If you need a lot of very small chips for something simple you are better off using something like 28nm or older node. At the end total cost per chip is what matters for such customers, even if cost per transistor is higher. And, IIRC, cost for transistor is currently lower on N6 than on N5.
>A lot of the problems seem to be from a fundamental misunderstanding of Zig's philosophy and very basic things about how the language works. Possibly Zig needs more emphasis on those things in its documentation.

As a rank beginner, I had no problem learning these things ... they're mentioned repeatedly in material about Zig both from the project and from outside descriptions, the philosophy is the output of `zig zen` and in all the documentation, etc. The OP couldn't figure out how to print despite the Hello World program at the beginning of the Zig Reference Manual. I think most of the issues here are PEBKAC.
Interesting, didn't see this here

I shared because I thought it was an interesting take.

I know a lot of people who feel the same way, but it's not really shared opening; dialog is rarely allowed (which further enforces the feelings).

Felt HN would potentially discuss.
I respect your work a lot, still remember the days on D forums, however my experience in rewriting projects in consultancy hasn't been exactly that great.

Well, it was great for the money we got out of it, even though it set back the client for all the issues that came out of the process until they could proceed with the same velocity as before the rewrite took place.

Hence why I usually don't see the value in rewrites of any sort, and advocate for new language adoption to always go the clean room path.

So any tier 2+ platform for Ruby now needs to wait for Rust/Zig support before considering joining the YJIT effort, maybe a compromise the Ruby team is happy with given their replies, but it does have an impact nonetheless.
Personally I was always fascinated by the diet of the indigenous far north. I so want to try mousefood!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousefood
Get yourself a FLIR (the phone attached ones are not that expensive) and check for yourself. It is a great tool.
> Except that modern chipmaking is so complicated that even one company can't contain all the specialized knowledge.

(And capital intensive). But then again, these words could have been said about wannabe private rocket companies (SpaceX) or squeezing inside car market (Tesla), that actually turned out to be possible. So I wonder if any startup/billionaire will start to serve some niche chip market, be it capital intensive, but with some clever tactics...

Falcon 1 vs currently flying F9 rocket and potential Starship is a huge difference after all.
Interesting, didn't see this here

I shared because I thought it was an interesting take.

I know a lot of people who feel the same way, but it's not really shared opening; dialog is rarely allowed: flagged, derided, etc (which further enforces the feelings).

Felt HN would potentially discuss.
Exactly. And then in their own way, some more… stupid than others, they try to recreate their own science from observation. That they’re stuck with phenomenology is no surprise - that’s more or less how all human beings have seen the world before the 1600s. Just meaning, if you look around, the world appears flat! It’s a natural default, rather than a conspiracy theory.

So if all that’s true, then who are we fooling: the real issue is the lack of ability to educate. You can blame stupidity and give up but that’s not a path forward.

To me the strangest bit is the idea that scientists are the authorities? What!? I wish!
Past related threads:

What you could steal from the Kakoune code editor, and get away with - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24685267 - Oct 2020 (94 comments)

Kakoune – A Modal Text Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19313794 - March 2019 (58 comments)

Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781780 - Aug 2018 (45 comments)

Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13165919 - Dec 2016 (327 comments)

Kakoune: a better code editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13152499 - Dec 2016 (2 comments)

Kakoune – An experiment for a better code editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10484653 - Oct 2015 (34 comments)

Mawww's experiment for a better code editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9764028 - June 2015 (15 comments)
All excellent questions, and add in hdcp to the mix as a further unknown too.
I'd love to see them try this in Sweden :)
They shouldn't have, a lot went wrong here.
> part of me thinks this is just the most complicated way to say hello to someone

I'm not sure why all the web3 talk is about crypto and not interesting projects like this, but with decentralisation comes complexity.
This is gold! Thank you.

Link for the lazy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKtxx9TnH76SRC7ZbOu2N...
I'd say to say "Yeah, this was a long time ago"... but this could probably still happen.
By 'true replication', do you mean no replication lag or something else?
Whoops, somebody put wrong info on the US amazon page[1] I had skimmed.

"The DSC-U20 offers a fixed-focus 5mm f2.8 lens"

Of course if I had read a bit more, it does mention autofocus in the next sentence. So anyway, that's not why it's fast then. Sorry for the misdirection.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Sony-DSCU20-Cyber-shot-Digital-Camera...
really? just 5 years or so earlier the sentiment among the majority of game developers that I spoke to was something like "today, real games are written in assembly, and toys are written in C, though that's changing."

for a long time, the only way to get performance out of code was to write the most-used bits in assembly. even today there are some things, just a few, which still need to be in assembly if you really want to squeeze out all the performance that you can. most people just make a tradeoff elsewhere to get the performance, rather than using assembly.

just 25 years ago the game industry was filled with people extremely knowledgeable in assembly. yet today it is viewed as a black art. sad.