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> Because navigating text with emacs gives me the emacs pinky,

I had RSI issues early in my career (not Emacs related), and learned some tricks that come handy with Emacs.

Your keyboard has two control keys. Use both of them. In particular, use the "opposite" one. If you want to press C-c, use the right Control key with your right hand. If you want to press C-l, use the left control key with your left hand. This way you're distributing the work with both hands and are not twisting your hands into weird shapes trying to get both buttons with one hand.

And also: Once you do this, no reason to insist on using your pinky to hit Control. I often use my thumb as well.

I never got the Emacs pinky.
Having a proof-of-human system for crypto which avoids storage of biometric data and allows pseudonymous wallets would be a massive win that would change literally everything about what's being developed right now. It's a pretty big and important problem.
How would "intelligent" fungi have any bearing on the stoned ape theory? The former seems neither necessary nor sufficient for the latter.
I worked on AT&T web stuff many years ago. "Layers upon layers of legacy goo" was accurate, probably still is.
And here it is: 'wealthy nations will need to contribute financial aid to low-income countries, to address inequities in vulnerability to climate change and to accelerate the clean-energy transition in a way that benefits all'

In other words, TPTB employing as a facade the big global institutions under their control to sprinkle some fake respectability on their plan to enforce drastically reduced living standards on the middle classes, as part of their simulacrum of global communism that will enable the ultra-rich to maintain their hegemony in perpetuity, whilst reducing all others to cattle in their technocratic global slave system. Quelle suprise
All of my non-professional work systems are OpenBSD and I will tell you that BSD init is a friggin breeze.

Sadly that ship has sailed, but it's finally 10-12 years later that there are some niceties to systemd that make it worth it to me (systemd-resolved in particular).
Don’t you feel bad about enabling and perpetuating this sort of anti consumer behavior?
How long can a Twitter edit button take to develop, test, implement and rollout? Twitter claims to have been working on this since last year and it’s now April so they’ve already been working on this for 3+ months. It’s hard to understand how such a simple feature can take so long to implement for a company like Twitter which has 7,500 staff. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TWTR/twitter/numbe...

A feature like this has three main variables to figure out and any functional PM or company should be able to answer these questions and test the preferred options with users in a few weeks at most.

1) period of time a Tweet is editable for: a few mins or forever? As Tweets are retweeted by others and embeddable, making them editable for only a few minutes after they’re first posted seems like the best approach as users who are retweeting don’t want a Tweet to be able to be edited to have a very different meaning.

2) is the Tweet ‘live’ and able to be retweeted while it’s editable or is it only live after the Tweet is no longer able to be edited? I prefer the latter approach as it makes the implementation a lot easier and essentially maintains Twitter as it currently works.

3) how to indicate a Tweet has been edited - adding an “edit history” link to Tweets only if they’ve been edited and linking these to a page showing the edit history of the page URL in simple coloured diffs seems to answer this question.
The goalposts are definitely being moved. But tastes adapt accordingly.

I suspect trends in design will move towards those areas that AI struggles with (assuming there are any left!)
In Germany, one reason why there are so many delays is that the local governments allow everyone to block building renewals sources, so you have smaller European countries that already bypassed Germany in renewals adoption, while courts keep busy discussing where Windmills are allowed to be placed.
Last I was on AT&T (~6 months ago) it was a total crapshoot if I could log into my account without some layer erroring out.

I had about a 50% success rate of just frickin' logging in.
> From the users' point of view does it matter if a section is a 'nav' or a 'div' which has CSS-class 'nav' assigned to it?

Yes.

There are people that use devices that rely on these accessibility options to differentiate nuances in the content that might otherwise be obvious when rendered in a standard browser: text only browsers, screen readers to name just a couple.
This is mind blowing. I was not expecting the sketch style images to actually look like sketches. Style transfer based sketches never look like sketches.

This and the current AI generated art scene makes it looks like that artwork is now a "solved" problem. See AI generated art on twitter etc.

There is a strong relation between the prompt and the generated images but just like GPT-3, it fails to fully understand what was being asked. If you take the prompt out of the equation and see the generated artwork on its own, its upto your interpretation just like any artwork.
They don't appear to literally be claiming that this is a language, a less click-baity title would be 'Calcium wave communication in networks of fungi mycelium'. This is not a newly discovered phenomenon - we've known that fungi use calcium derived electrical potentials to signal the mass to do things for a long time. There's no evidence this is any more complex than hormonal communication in plants, just a different media.
Something i started doing which has been invaluable has been getting a therapist. Being a founder is freaking painful at times, working on yourself is a lot more than getting good at sales, taxes, technical skills...developing leadership skills and being great at it requires an upgrade not just to your IQ but your EQ. I've got a long way to go, but i feel this has been the largest improvement to me that i've ever managed to make.

While you're at it, if you do anything along these lines, consider couples counselling too. Even if all is great. The closeness and generally better understanding its given my partner and I has been the greatest stress reducer I've ever found. It opens up my bandwidth to so many other things which more generally allows me to be more effective.
In that case you might enjoy this one: https://extradeadjcb.substack.com/p/3-the-electric-kool-aid-...
First autonomous X-ray-analyzing AI is cleared in the EU
Often, it screams "overly powerful product management that ignores engineering concerns".
I went to the "try online" immediately and couldn't figure out how to do anything, I even opened my console expecting an error..could pass a query param with that button that pops up some help text or something to get started.
Apologies. I don't know why you can't see the video.

Here are some links to some of the latest journals instead: https://ehtrust.org/science/top-experimental-epidemiological...
Just like you said indeed!
The target as mentioned in the article is 100%, which the FDP (libertarians) want to water down to 80%.

Given your projection, I don't wonder why
You can increase food productuon in a variety of ways, and food production responds to market incentives.

But the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and oceans is a math problem and doesn’t respond to market incentives: it is pure externality.

You could be right but it’s worth thinking about the shape of problems. Crucially, we’re already seeing the effects of global warming, including positive feedback loops.
Ever since I heard of Worldcoin, I've been thinking that's the plan...gather enough biometric data and sell it off to a larger player (likely a surveillance company), while pumping some shitcoins on the side.

Or maybe they'll monetize the database themselves...the whole thing is just creepy
Yes, I saw a chiropractor for a while and their immediate advice was to get a better chair and a standing desk, plus some stretches, because I had "grad student syndrome".
Exactly. It's a circular argument to say a law is good because it's a law. And no one has any idea of financial laws in each country

Saying that Sam Altman is a scammer
Yes - but mostly because I married a therapist.
How can users play this game to their favor?
Two book recommendations, to refresh your mind if you've been too deep in "investing in inner growth" (can be a trap).

- the Zhuangzi, translation by Burton Watson, which I've read many times. See the last two paragraphs of https://terebess.hu/english/chuangtzu.html about the useless tree

- Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa, which I haven't read except extracts, but it could be relevant to you (esp. if you're looking at spiritual growth).

But anyway, instead of buying new book... I'll speak of what I'm doing in a week.

I'll go for ten days in the countryside with my dear partner and leave the laptop at home. I'm quite productive these last months (just submitted something to Show HN today), I find I'm missing guidance on a few areas of my life, and I'm in dear need of slowing down and cutting the external noise.

Haven't taken real holidays in years.
For those interested, here is the primary energy use of Germany.
There is still a long way to get rid of coal.

https://jancovici.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/chiffres_en...
beside that, it would undermine the popularity of the support to Ukraine if the consequences from that support are too harsh to the Europeans. I'm not saying that I agree with that, but if Diesel reaches 3 euro/liter, if Gas prices are too high, people will start to demand an end of this War, even if that it means Ukraine must support some not ideal condition (i.e lost of territory)
Isn't it the case that the global temperatures are stubbornly refusing to match the (increasingly bonkers) rhetoric? Perhaps that's the reason for warmists digging their heels in even further, censoring dissent etc.
It makes a lot of sense. People returning to your pricing page are more likely to have decided to buy from you, so they're likely less price sensitive. I've seen it myself.

Not in $10 increments every refresh though, that's most likely badly coded.
Here is the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9thLHXuJs8
In the pro-Western Russian circles, until recently, there was a notion of Great Neo-Russia. A supposed liberal democracy that would arise in the same borders, after putting everyone with blood on their hands on trial. It is now shattered to pieces by the tragedy of Ukrainian people. But there aren't any secession movements either (other than Chechnia, a can of worms of its own). We have no idea what awaits us, literally anything is possible.
mushrooms are certainly not conscious. The information conveyed over the whole of the network by this mechanism is on the order of bits per hour. That particular box is a little small for consciousness to be hiding in. A fruit fly has more processing power than a fungus, by orders of magnitude.
storage in hydrogen and allow a 80% devaluation of the energy that was used. That doesn't matter because the energy would be thown away otherwise like it is today.
Quite obviously, the logical conclusion is that institutions are always wrong, no matter what.

It is obvious that digging stuff out of the ground and then burning it for 2 centuries cannot possibly have any side-effects.

It's all good, we will fallaciously reject anything inconvenient until catastrophe hits. It's worked so far, right?
Steps for estimating a cloud application's resource requirements
Like a lot of articles about power or energy as related to 'green' or renewables, this article is about electricity and not total power. Only a fraction of energy consumption is from electricity.

From [1], total energy consumption in Germany in 2021 was 3364 TWh. Total electricity consumption was 581 TWh. That's quite a difference. Electricity at around 20-30% of total energy consumption is in the ball park for developed/industrial economies.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/germany
Noam Chomsky: “We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history”
Germany hasn't build new nuclear plants for ages, even under the conservative governments that were ruling before last year.

The plants still running are very old and have become hard to maintain as they have reached EOL.

It's not like we are shutting down perfectly good new plants.

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea...
No, it's not the case.
And notably doesn't answer the GPs question how to verify the organization is honest, just how they protect the organization against user fraud.
That messaging was not incorrect, there were major food concerns across the globe that were mitigated thanks to the green revolution.

I don't think it's wise to assume the same situation will automatically happen with climate concerns.
>... "the reddit answer". Every sub has theirs, and their reasoning might be because they agree with some entirely unrelated thing

One way to stop this is sort by controversial. It allows you to see what the hivemind votes down at the top.

I also find city subreddits can be much more polarizing and needing controversial sort vs interest subreddits. The only common thing city subreddits share is geography so you get wildly different opinions which controversial sort helps with. The subreddits dedicated to an interest are much more susceptible to the reddit answer.

The other option is search for an /r/askvegas or similar -- if a city subreddit has a dedicated subreddit for questions you can usually get better answers on the asking subreddit, but they are closer to the reddit answer than a general city subreddit will give you.
> So, a folder could be expressed in terms of a page full of links.

This is basically what I do in Obsidian with the Zootelkeeper and Folder Note plugins. Every folder has a note attached to it with an autogenerated index of all the notes contained within. So for all my notes I use a hybrid of folders, indexes, and the graph view to navigate though everything. So far I'm not really needing to go more than 3 folders deep, mostly it's just 2 folders deep.
... downvotes? Weird.

There's other cool web archiving stuff out there too that's just the one I know about.
> The Russian people had already been suffering a decline in standard of living for much of the past decade. That was brutal enough.

Russia has huge inequality and poverty already. And it was moving toward more authoritarian each year. And the drop last decade is still not as bad as the drop in living standards after 1990. And what that 1990 drop brought us is current situation. The place being poor on itself does not make revolution.

The other question is, revolution toward what and by whom? Revolution by group of oligarchs amount to mafia taking charge and more of the same. Revolution "by people" requires those people to already have some organized opposition groups working on background. It is not happening currently nor has potential to happen as of now. Russian society, seems to me, is characterized by apathy way more then by revolutionary thinking.

> It requires the image of a very powerful, competent military to hold it all together.

I don't think military is key here. It is internal secret service and cops. That is what keeps Russian government in power in Russia. Those are running strong. You can spin military loss to whatever you want to, as long as internal secret service and cops are powerful when suppressing opposite opinion groups.

The Russian military being internally mess is not exactly secret in Russia. There is a reason why those who can avoid military service.

Russia, just like any other country, can be poor, strongly authoritarian and still believe own myth of superiority.
Let me guess... all of those steps involve higher taxes.
> similar “proof of legit business-hood” was not easy to determine in a timely manner

Source? I find it hard to believe.
Netflix already has ads. They just don't look like normal ads because they are product placement in Netflix created content. Which I don't mind as long as it doesn't turn the show or movie into a long commercial.
You can do all of those things with children, and then you won't be a burden on society when you're older, having no one left to care about you except the nursing home staff, and as a bonus you'll get to help continue the human race, which is always good.
She is routinely used as a "fake Russian" by the Western press, whereas she left Russia decades ago (I think) and nobody noticed.

This continues the policy of never listening to any actual Russians.
I'm not all that surprised. A friend saw a phishing email that was imitating them because they lacked a DMARC record. Sent them explicit instructions on how to fix it by adding a DMARC policy and all they did was create a p=none record that doesn't prevent direct imitation. That's definitely the first step, but eventually you need to turn it up to p=quarantine for it to do you any good and it's been a while (several weeks). Shouldn't have needed a random user to point it out in the first place.

I just don't have a tremendous amount of confidence that they take their infrastructure seriously at this point.
Well... AMD can just cite their presentation as prior art, and it will be struck down. If anything, Intel was foolish to waste money on bored lawyers.
I'm still interviewing sysadmins from banks who have legacy systems to support and Solaris is probably 10:1 over HP-UX.
Your last few sentences really hit. This is what occurred to World of Warcraft. I've been playing the re-release of Classic WoW, Season of Mastery, and I find the experience much more compelling than any common day mass multi-player online experience.
I think you are right. In the email she says the issue is "now being taken up by police and lawyers". Hopefully to no effect, but I guess she still wanted to talk to the manager.
Moving people away from disaster zones and making infrastructure more resilient would be far more realistic, not to mention cheaper, than reducing emissions or pulling CO2 from the atmosphere.

It's too late to stop using fossil fuels. It's a forbidden fruit that has pulled hundreds of millions out of poverty and the third world countries want first world lifestyles. We are better off trying to mitigate.
Home-button is a good trick to know about but I wish there was an easy way to jump between the top and the location I came from to get back. It seems back-button does not do that on my browser at least.

Since browser's don't do it there could be a side-ribbon that had a TOP-button and then a BACK-button. I think that would be useful on sites like HN.
Genuine curiosity. What are you concerns about “solving” climate change? Like if the IPCC reports are all wrong, and all we end up with is renewable energy where do you anticipate the cost to shift?
Can the number of refreshes be set to a negative number, perhaps?
This might be computer fraud & abuse.
- mix of supply sources

- over provisioning

- geographic distribution

- biomethane

- international grid ties
We get at least a couple of these reports in the news every month. I can’t help but believe it’s to create fear. The general public by and large cannot solve this crisis - it’s down to politicians to regulate and innovators to create and push new solutions and alternatives.
> Isn't it the case that the global temperatures are stubbornly refusing to match the (increasingly bonkers) rhetoric

Correct, they are in fact worse than most calculations, in terms of absolute values and acceleration. It turns out that we are not being pessimistic and scared enough.
On Debian with the distro package, I never even thought about mouse integration. (On the Xorg interface. So much basic stuff - not emacs stuff, but really basic stuff - has been moving into DEs that I don't think the bare console is usable anymore.)

The insertion point is moved by clicking and by using the scroll wheel (now that I've thought about it, maybe I should change that second one), clicking and dragging and double click change the selection.

I normally don't use the mouse, but for moving text between windows it's nice.
>The accepted rhetoric of "We don't want to be pulled into a shooting war with Russia" translates as "We feel bad, but we'd rather Ukrainians die than risk the lives of our own citizens." I'm not saying it's completely wrongheaded, but it does undercut any rhetoric of solidarity.

That's not the reason at all. The main reason and also why airspace cannot be closed is that NATO cannot have a boots on the ground for a conflict with a major power like Russia.

Involving NATO in conflict is the ONLY reason why this war would turn nuclear. And very fast.

It would be absurdly stupid to send troops to fight on behalf of Ukrainians.

Biden and his son have investments all over Ukraine and he is just terrified of losing all of them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/politics/biden-son-ukr...

"Among those who had a stake in the outcome was Hunter Biden, Mr. Biden’s younger son, who at the time was on the board of an energy company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch who had been in the sights of the fired prosecutor general."
So which countries are meeting their carbon emission goals? Is there a scorecard or summary of approaches that are producing results?
But if you have enough time and size...

Reminds me of portia from Echopraxia by Peter Watts
I keep it very simple, just a black pen and very little decoration. I draw a horizontal line to mark the beginning of a new day and skip all the other "logs". I mostly use the symbols (note, Todo, migrated Todo, etc.)

The only fancy thing I do is my weekly plan, which also includes some KPI tracking. For this, I have a template slide that I print out on an A5 sized sticker, slap it in there and fill it out.
> If it takes an IDE to write your code, then it will likely take an IDE to read your code

I can agree with that. However, the real world is filled with random legacy projects, massive enterprise applications where a dozen developers came and went over a decade, quick-and-dirty MVPs and everything in between.

If you are paid to write well-crafted code that fits nicely within the limitations of your editor, that's great. But for the rest of us who have to deal with the realities of this industry, a helpful IDE makes it so much bearable.
That is totally outdated, here are more current numbers: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economic-Sectors-Enterpris...
NFTs: Seeing Through the Code
This comment is wonderful. As somebody who works with local politicians and community leaders professionally I really appreciate this good advice. I would add - local government, either through election, government office work, or consulting often offers (and demands) a very large breadth of topic knowledge and work.

Have you thought about strategic consulting (government or otherwise)?

I'll provide a real life example - my background education is in law, but I work professionally consulting on Emergency Management. For the entirety of COVID I have been working with my local government to stabilize our food bank network as they navigate food system supply chain issues that have caused serious suffering in our food insecure population. Prior to this I have consulted on land mobile radio systems, website design, fire fighter line of death inquires, mass vaccination, and many other areas.

Consulting offers this amazing opportunity to soft "quit" a job when a project ends, but offers continuous employment through your consulting firm. Over a career, you get to see the inside of dozens of different operations, and you always bring an outside perspective. You are hired, in part, to solve unique problems and work on hard tasks where your breadth of knowledge will be appreciated and work as an advantage for you. And, if you have a client you hate working with or for, you are always just a few months from moving on to the next one. :-)
I didn't know that there were video lectures on youtube by Richard Hamming: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30