skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RMS hadn't been involved with any technical contribution or project level decision making for a while. I would say people like Eli Zaretskii are far more important. While there is no shortage of people willing to hack on elisp, I get the feeling that people who can hack on the C core, and possessing deep knowledge of core subsystems is slowly dwindling.

But I do think Emacs will be fine. I don't think VSCode is an existential threat to Emacs in the same way Toyota is not a threat to Lamborghini. VSCode boasts impressive numbers, but it does so by consolidating in a target demography that was never a stronghold for Emacs to begin with - partly due to some level of indifference on its part. On the other hand, there are things Emacs is uniquely suited for, and for that reason it will continue to attract a particular type. I think in terms of absolute numbers Emacs userbase is still increasing, and I think falling numbers in terms of total percentage doesn't mean much for its survival.
I don't remember if it has a name, but the theory is that there's more of an evolutionary advantage to remembering and avoiding bad things, because one significant enough bad event takes you out of the gene pool.
I'm curious about the viability of that 4% draw-down scheme. Does it hold up in a high-inflation, high-interest economy?
Oh, I have the SysAdmin style of humor because you either laugh or cry. I've sold software and experienced that fun angle to customers. My favorite is still the customer who got confused and blamed me for another vendor's software. It was an interesting e-mail chain. Being a SysAdmin for a number of years has lead to me seeing some of the worst in people.

I used to think these people are mentally ill or sociopaths too, but I think I have come to a much simpler explanation. Steve Jobs was correct about computers being a bicycle for the mind, but I think we need to look at the negative part of that statement too. Computers just emphasis what is already there and a cost of the strengthening / speed is the removal of societal filters.

We grow up learning a bunch of societal filters that we use to take our raw thoughts and make them acceptable to the world around us. Most people get this right. At our hearts, most of us are good people and don't want to cause harm.

Sadly, most people don't really write e-mail, tweets, or posts to another person. They write it to some image in their head where the basic societal filters are no longer operating. Communication is dehumanized and you get the raw person. Sadly, many of our fellow humans are not very pleasant without those learned filters. In fact, they are rather primitive scum. Add to that the voices that say you don't have to be nice or even be humane to "them" for some value of "them" that is not "us" or "me". I really wish there were some fix, but I guess its AH from here on out.
My memory is fuzzy here, but wasn't it the case that even with training, you only had a window of a few seconds to disengage the MCAS before the aircraft became unrecoverable? If you waited too long, it cranked the jackscrew to its extreme position, and there was no way to un-crank it with the MCAS disabled (i.e. MCAS had exclusive control over it). That seems like an unacceptably fragile failure mode to me.
They're all millionaires, because they did an internship, were hired onto a full time role, and then rented an apartment that is rent controlled that was below their means and saved aggressively.

Unfortunarely, absent the same level of income I cannot make those choices, even with perfect or near perfect information.

Or they live with their family, who are loving and supportive, but also encourage them to go out a bit so their housemates have privacy, so they'd run into someone like me at Red Rock or whatever.

I don't think folks understand that the bay has a lot of rental protections not present in other places. (Eg someone can't just suddenly decide not renew a lease, etc)

HN folks focus in a bit too much on rent control, I found a blog detailing some of the other protections (though it's quite obviously an ad for a particular firm):

https://www.tobenerlaw.com/san-francisco-just-cause-eviction...
Privacy measures do not equate to ‘illegal activity’. We all have something to hide, but the Internet makes that hard to achieve. Masking an IP should have been a standard from the outset as part of the Internet’s original design, but it wasn’t. As for Protonmail, it’s perfectly fine if someone uses this for registrations. I don’t attach my legal name email address to any services because of breaches etc Plus Protonmail has encrypted inboxes as opposed to Gmail which is harvested and part of Prism or whatever the NSA calls it now.
The former. They were a single-income household at the time, so it was a big decision. But they sensed that it was their only chance to get wealthy, so they went for it. I really respect that.

It's unfortunate it didn't work out, but that's life. They regretted leaving their job and ended up losing the family house, but they recovered after a time. They're now in a job they like renting a house they like.

The molds were the heart and soul of the project, since they were the only irreplaceable component. They ended up throwing those into a dumpster. As a final twist, a family friend happened to be working at the trash center and spotted the molds as they were coming through. So even when they were trying to get rid of it like it was a monkey's paw, it still didn't go out without being noticed one last time.

One of ya'll should try your hand at it. As with programming, the problems are tough but solvable (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31667798) and as far as I know there's still nothing like it on the market, with plenty of demand.

At one point they were selling multiple color varieties, and people would buy all three colors. I asked if there was any other difference, and he said nope, just color added via dye. So there's a real opportunity for an enterprising sculptor that happens to be reading this.

(I don't know much else and I do ML nowadays, so good luck! But feel free to DM for advice I guess. https://www.smooth-on.com/product-line/dragon-skin/ was part of the materials they used, but apparently it was too rigid for the skin. It was for internal support.)
That's interesting - that Ctrl+X behaves differently. It shouldn't right?

But you have found that it helps?
It would certainly be a darkgrayhat move to do such a thing. It would be effective at deprecating SSNs as identifiers but would cause a lot of pain and suffering for a lot of people in the interim.
My Google Home mini (first gen I believe) has actually become atrocious at recognizing anything while it worked very well in the first years. Sometimes it still works well after rebooting but not always
Just made an account to reply, I usually lurk.
I was born in 2000, and I think my experience is going to vastly differ from GenZ kids born even a couple of years after me (say > ~2003). When I was growing up Facebook was new, people would be surprised if I (as a kid) didn't have facebook or if my parents didn't have one. My parents didn't let me have one anyway. I spent time playing flash games, googling "how to hack with cmd" (didn't learn anything). Long story short I spent a lot of time on the internet (and Minecraft, but no modding). In 8th grade someone introduced me to Python and I picked up programming fast. I also read a lot of books as a kid. I think not having access to the super centralized internet we have today helped (tiktok, instagram, etc). I think having those probably limits creativity in the sense that it stops your mind from wandering. Not sure I really answered your question lol.
We Don't Throw People Away
It’s a spreadsheet world and we’re just living in it ;)
They probably are causally related, just not to each other.

High operating cost/productivity = layoffs + back to office.
is Multibrush related to your project?
I agree it doesn’t feel right. But complexity, like life, does emerge even though the 2nd law holds. It is a matter of scale. Entropy does not mean everything becomes disordered. And now I defer to the physicists, because as an engineer I am going out of my lane…
Yes. I've dealt with all of it. Don't be emotionally invested in your work and enjoy the comp and work life balance.
This is an unnecessarily reductionist interpretation.

“Don’t clean and bandage the gaping wound because it’ll just keep bleeding”

The point isn’t to stop going after criminals, the point is that just going after criminals is as pointless in the long run as just dressing a wound that actually requires a different solution - stitches.

Given limited resources, addressing the root of the problem would be more valuable than continuing to go after the symptoms.

Since I doubt the same agency would be part of a real solution, it probably becomes a conversation about where funding is directed.
I worked at a BigCo after a bunch of small ones, and got totally stressed about the friction as well. Took me a couple years away from the experience to realize that slow processes can be a great thing in their own right because it gives you a lot of time to think about your own interests in and outside of coding.
SEC Considers Routing Equity Trades into Competitive Auctions
You need Leviathan to prevent the ambitious few from taking control, without itself becoming the means for them to take control.
It's utterly life-changing instead of editing locally and using scp/sftp/unison to sync to the server. The "special daemon" is entirely transparent, the only requirement is ssh.

We're also talking about a dev box here, are we not?
Minor lightbulb went off in my head: you might be interested in slide 17 here, from a presentation on Shape Dynamics [0]

tldr:

(Shannon) entropy [1]: expected description length of a state of a system

(Shape) complexity [0]: a 'clumped-ness' metric: clump sizes / inter-clump separations

information: not sure anyone ever really resolved this in a satisfying way :^) [2]

[0] https://philphys.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/Barbour-Saig_Su...

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/606722/how-do-di...

[2] https://monoskop.org/images/2/2f/Shannon_Claude_E_1956_The_B...
Groups under a certain size (Dunbar * ?) can be managed socially with personal reputation and shame and shunning and all that.

The state comes from living and working in larger groups than can bring managed socially.
It doesn't sit well with me that law enforcement can just seize domains like that.

In situations like these, is there anything you can do to reduce risk of your domain name being seized? Does it help to register them on ccTLDs of countries that won't care? like .ru? How have The Pirate Bay clones managed to be so resilient?
Ask yourself the bigger question; what do you want out of life? Do you want to grind code for 80 hours a week and deal with 24/7 on-call rotations? Or do you want to put in your 40 hours, collect your RSUs, and live happily ever after? There is more to life than work, and #BigCos make it far easier to enjoy that.
People complain a lot about MS Access, but a easy-to-use relational database is actually a very necessary tool. It's too bad that Microsoft hasn't figured out how to make it easy to make an access-like system in Excel itself.
> perhaps similar to similar patterns within protestant christianity

Dead on. Once you eschew centralized authority, the group fracturing as everybody discovers their own slightly different version of truth seems inevitable.
Also it’s talking about Anarchism as a political ideology, not how “anarchy” is used colloquially.

E.g. It’s NOT about “There was anarchy in the mall today as shoppers demolished the stores and injured eachother fighting over Black Friday deals.”
> The people throwing themselves into demanding jobs and chasing promotions to maximize their salary aren’t doing it just to put food on the table.

It is in order to put food on the table. Not today but for the next 20 years after you're no longer earning an income. Also, other hobbies that cost money.

Early retirement is very expensive. Even if you reduce your expenses.

In theory, the higher your income the sooner you can get there.

Financial Independence / Early Retirement is not about having a low stress job.
Because Germans already picked Coal over Nuclear.
SSNs really should be treated as (at most) usernames and not passwords.
Tell the credit rating agencies that.
I loved and used atom for years, despite the performance.

It was just such a nice editing experience.

Also never got on the vscode train and opted for neovim instead (been using vim and bindings since 2012)
A “planned leak” with 0 demonstration of legitimacy is nothing more than creative writing on the internet.

When planned leaks like this occur for real (or black hats are trying to prove possession of data they shouldn’t have like credit card dumps) there’s almost always a small cut of the data that’s released to give legitimacy to the actor and the dump.

This looks much more like someone trying to wateringhole attack people or extort crypto influencers/funds.
Because I'm primarily on HN to seek employment, and I deleted my Amazon account after issues similar to the ones in the OP.

It is frustrating to me that if I exercise my right to "take my business elsewhere", and then, due to unemployment, have more free time to use my 1st amendment protected free expression, folks seem to seek out what I say and take offense at it, when if I had something to occupy my time I'd probably be on the internet less.

Does that help give you context? I can clarify further as needed.
You can disable building the "whole fucking C compiler suite" using WITHOUT_CLANG as documented in
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=src.conf

By the way, as an example, you can also disable IPv4 and IPv6 in the kernel, I'm not sure how to do it in Linux.
Ghost's overall initial pitch was definitely "Wordpress without the things people often dislike about Wordpress". It's definitely aiming at the same fast install/nice web UI space that made WP dominate the web for a long time.
Western Digital open to spinning out flash, hard disk businesses
Money = energy (while credit being a promise on future energy).

Cheap energy is how we've created our society. The (huge) problem we're facing is that our economy is based on the (incorrect) assessment that we will have an ever-increasing supply of energy. Barring some miracle invention/discovery (like fission, or a cheap way to produce hydrogen) it's rather the opposite, at least in terms of EROEI.

The difference between the monetary economy and the real economy is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.
It certainly is a very similar exploit, but I'm not sure if it's the exact same bug.
Paddle Acquires Profitwell for $200M
> JIT can allow customization

Yep. All the large car manufacturers, and maybe all of them large and small, have JIT supply chains. I didn't mean to imply that JIT couldn't support customization, since obviously others allow you to build custom, just that Toyota's reasons for not doing customization may be linked to their particular JIT choices. And not some other deciding factor.

It's worth noting that Toyota suffered least (or last, anyway) with COVID-related supply chain restrictions. Their JIT is a particularly fine-tuned machine. They are the inventors of it, are they not? I read somewhere that many, if not most, others' are a poor simulacrum of Toyota's, and they don't understand it really. Like the way that most people implement microservices, or big-A Agile.
As Max Planck said, science advances one funeral at a time. Each one had to wait for a previous generation to die to cement their own advance.
> when something better than USB-C is available, do I think that should be allowed instead?

what about "USB C is here to stay so why bother to worry about something that will change in a distant future, if it will change at all?"

Cui prodest?

> That’s all the more reason to not make it a de jure standard.

on the contrary

that's all the more reason to do it.

imagine if we used your mentality where we would be now

hundreds of different de facto standards for light bulb sockets, power plugs, gas pumps, road size, traffic light colors. etc etc

basically the definition of hell
I feel for these women, but the truth of the matter is that the FBI will only investigate if it is likely that something will be turned into a case by prosecutors. And the reality of the way things work in America is, if you’re rich and powerful — or connected to a rich and powerful institution — it’s likely that prosecutors (many of whom have ambitions for elected offices or private sector jobs) are not going to be very interested in pursuing a case. Remember, it’s the Federal Bureau of Investigation, not Prosecution.

The not-so-secret truth of how things work in America is, it’s still really really easy to “get away with it” if you have enough money and power. The FBI has lots of flaws, but this isn’t really their fault — you might want to reform campaign finance, or close off revolving door jobs for government employees, if you actually want to solve these problems. Since many of these issues can be solved at the state level, it’s not actually impossible if enough people cared enough. But alas, that’s not how America works in 2022.
I didn't take it as aggressive. I hope people who are curious get something out of my comment but without intimidating others, perhaps I write it as a bonus that people can ignore if it doesn't help but you are right that some people could be put off by it.
I was reading this article yesterday: 'The best 3D modelling software in 2022'

As a blender studio subscriber & hobbyist, I'm so grateful such incredible software has no barrier to entry, especially for creatives in developing countries.

You can see this reflected in this great video of the worldwide blender community from last years blender conference https://youtu.be/uEjmbsiflMU?list=PLa1F2ddGya_8Wzpajwu1EtiS8...

Autodesk Maya $4590 per year
Zbrush $895
Houdini $4495 per year
Cinema 4D $3495
3ds Max $1700 per year
Modo $1596
Lightwave $995

https://www.creativebloq.com/features/best-3d-modelling-soft...
Valid points. It's an uphill battle, but still winnable over the long run. A big part of it is maintaining an extremely high level of scientific rigor and professionalism.

Take the NSF for example. (Pardon a US-centric example.) If you have a record showing that a particular PI has published 10 provably false/fraudulent papers, is the NSF really going to keep funding that person? At some point, the desire to avoid embarrassment and save their own skin may drive the NSF to de-risk by not funding the flagrant frauds.

Imagine if this were a world-class research institute, supported morally and with funding by people like Bill Gates and Elon Musk. Imagine if those people recognize that we can advance science and global progress much farther and faster if we tackle the epidemic of garbage research in academia (which I'd say is over 60%). Imagine running TV ads that say: "No, we are not right-wing nutjobs. There really IS a plague of garbage research."

(In fact, right-wing sponsors should be totally ruled out. As well as clearly left-wing sponsors. We want basically nonpolitical people who are basically trusted, like, again, Bill and/or Melinda Gates, Elon Musk, and so on. So, no Peter Thiel, which is unfortunate, because it would be right up his alley.)

But then you're publishing papers that try to replicate studies and specifically calling out specific frauds and getting their funding taken away, and more broadly arguing for funding agencies and academic departments to stop tolerating the culture of fraud and shoddy work. And you're calling out the worst offenders (in terms of academic departments and funding agencies) and calling on their political sponsors (like Congressmen) to cut their funding if they don't clean it up.

There may be areas of science where the foundation doesn't go, like climate change (maybe race?), because they are too heated. That's OK. It doesn't have to cover everything.

Part of the reason academia is really broken is, people aren't rewarded for proving that results can't be replicated. We need to find a way to incentivize that. The scientific process does not work without it. Also, academia doesn't allow people to just say, "This idea is wrong."

Academia is composed of a million little old-boys-club silos. You don't get into any of these clubs if you are not going to play ball. De facto, you cannot criticize your peers, if you are in academia.

For instance, the NSF has grant-award panels that are composed of researchers in the niche. So if you criticize your peers you literally cannot get NSF funding. Because your funding is literally gated by your "peers" as in "peer review." But if you were gonna be that way, you wouldn't have gotten a tenure-track job in the first place, because tenured professors only want people in the club to become their "peers" and sit on those committees.

I'm concerned I may be kind of overstating my case, but it's hard for me to know exactly how widespread the worst-case version of the problem is. Certainly what I'm describing can and does happen.
You think because you don't see them, that the ambitious few aren't already in control. They have been, for millennia, I think. They were the kings and popes, but now they are whoever owns the banks and governance infrastructure - and I'm not talking about shareholders! The reality we perceive is not unfolding naturally - it is planned and you can read about it.
For homomorphic encryption in general I wrote this blog post to make the idea accessible:

http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2013/05/i-added-your-numbe...
Oh, certainly, I didn't mean to imply that there would be no implementation difficulties -- just that if you're willing to download the entire dataset, the privacy aspect is trivially solved, without requiring any fancy cryptography.
Obsidian developers here! (https://obsidian.md/)

The new editor in Obsidian was made possible by CodeMirror 6, and it has been powering both the Live Preview mode (like Typora) and the source mode in Obsidian ever since.

It can be a bit overwhelming to get into first, but as we experimented more with it, we found it to be extremely extensible and powerful. It's also highly performant for large documents. Another major reason we chose CM 6 is that it's also one of the only code editors that work decently on mobile.

While developing the new editor, Marijn was also amazingly responsive in investigating and fixing all the big and little things we ran into, even relatively niche issues like IME input bugs.

If you find CM 6 useful, consider what you can to support the project! Funding link is here: https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/fund/
Dwarf Fortress has always been a brilliant lesson in UX.

It answers the question: what if you had a great product, but the user experience was the worst possible choice in every single way, but all functionality still existed and worked?

It turns out some people will still use the product.

I'm excited to see what happens when the UX is also reasonable.
Yeah almost an anti pattern.
> Who wants to build genuinely useful and intelligent systems anyway?

I do :) We need all the intelligence we can squeeze in this historical phase (where, among the rest, some conditions enabled an influent propagation of the opposite).

And: I will never be able to read the whole of even just my personal library. I dream of a "son" with the ability to do it... :)