skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I regularly go on and off caffeine, it's far more enjoyable that way. When I never take a break the tolerance completely kills the high, and I treat caffeine mostly as a recreational drug but also as a tool to Get Shit Done when that mode is especially required.

A pro-tip I've stumbled across that seems to work really well is to always supplement with Lions Mane. It has two notable effects combined with caffeine:

1. it takes the edge off high doses, I can consume 200+% the amount I normally would before getting really jittery and short-tempered.

2. it seemingly eliminates any withdrawal effects except for the pronounced lower activity level/motivation of the first day, and of course less active bowels. No headaches or any of that hangover-like shit, none.

It feels like Lions Mane is a sort of caffeine antidote while still permitting the desirable effects to occur. The combination has made caffeine a much more attractive tool in my life, which I will employ and discard at will without ever thinking about headaches etc. YMMV
Maybe top/down instead of left/right would solve the users expectation problem.
Hmm, so if you undress your wife and then dress a younger female with same clothes and keep her as wife. Is it still the same wife? You just replaced the fleshy bits...
And on top of what you say, even based on the numbers from the parent we are comparing a 99.986% to a 99.997% chance of being ok. Either way not something worth worrying about, tiny risks.

I am sure you can draw similar differences in risk of boarding a boeing plane vs an airbus plane (because so few events contribute to deaths and boeing had a few crashes recently). The reality is that either is a risk too small to worry about and it would be absurd to insist on one over the other.

Understanding statistics isn’t just about computing things, it is also about looking at the numbers.
http://websdr.org/ You can listen to various amateur radio bands around the world.
Evidence that the human eye is able to detect and respond to blur within minutes
I agree with prior comments about the article (not great). But I love LA, and will indulge a bit.

For me, the most amusing feature of LA is how quickly results and tools escalate from trivial and obvious to surprising and hard. LA is often introduced as slick notation to express systems of linear equations. Gaussian elimination and matrix inverses (when they exist) are natural evolutions of this, but not what I consider surprising.

Matrix multiplication is an elementary next step, but it is not at all clear why one would multiply matrices. My first real mathematical surprise (I was in jr high at the time) is a result of matrix multiplication: there is a matrix A of real values that satisfies A @ A = -I. (The matrix is [[0,1],[-1,0]]). I was aware of complex numbers, but until that moment, I didn't know you could get "minus identity" without first artificially introducing the idea of "square root of -1". But this shows one can construct "square root of -1" without introducing anything like that.

When one gets to determinants, characteristic polynomials, eigenstructure, fixed subspaces, projection operators, SVD, orthogonal transformations, and so-on, the work really begins. That determinants are multiplicative is really wonderful, but not at all obvious. SVD in full generality was only shown in 1936 and modern algorithms emerged in the 1950's to compute it [1].

Finally, check out the LDU decomposition of the Walsh matrix [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_value_decomposition#H...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walsh_matrix
80 billion is a smaller percentage of the EU’s ~17.9 trillion USD GDP than the UK’s ~3.3 trillion USD GDP. Though as I make that 2.4% of the UK’s GDP (and 0.45% of the EU’s) I’m not sure where the other commenter got the number and percentage from.

The EU is likely to find it easier to get useful trade deals as it has more recent experience of writing trade deals, partly because it does that for its members, and partly because the UK government doesn’t trust British people who worked for the EU to get that experience.

The UK also has limited room for getting significant alterations to the terms of imports to the UK in any trade deals, because every deal that contradicts EU rules represents another thing that has to be checked for with NI—GB trade.

That said, the UK appears to be very good at getting a large quantity of trade deals, by the cunning method of giving the counter-party whatever they ask for at negligible cost, so the British negotiators can get themselves another headline with the words “trade deal” in it.
If Windows, Office, LinkedIn, GitHub, Skype and Chat are any indication, the telemetry situation will worsen severely over time.
True. It’s at least 5 times a year.
> a JIT compiler simply doesn’t have time for expensive optimizations

That is a common misconception, which might apply to some JIT compilers. For example, OpenJDK does not only need to compile only the hot methods, but even then it employs tiered compilation, where more powerful optimisations are made over time, and so the JIT can take as much time as needed (it runs concurrently with the already-compiled program) and has more profiling information than available to an AOT compiler. I.e. the same optimisation might be much quicker for a JIT than for an AOT compiler because the JIT doesn't need to do as deep an analysis of the program.

The advantage AOT compilers have over JITs is that they don't require warmup and they don't consume resources at runtime, but JITs have a greater potential for optimisation, and AOT compilers generally require more low-level information from the programmer to produce good code. There are various projects for caching JIT output and get something that's close to the best of both worlds.

Having said that, compilers aren't all developed on the same schedule, and different ones might prioritise different optimisations.
Isn’t it fundamentally an artifact of scarcity? What if with technological advances in automation and energy sources humanity were approaching a world without it?
Y combinator in obfuscated C [1][2]

[1] https://www.ioccc.org/2014/wiedijk/prog.c

[2] https://www.ioccc.org/2014/wiedijk/hint.html
For "sacrificing flexibility" read "deliberately making the software harder to use".

The slur filter isn't so much an issue in itself as a red flag -- it makes me wonder what other stunts are they likely to pull.
The response is by axial length, which makes this article interesting. It is published in 2020
I've been at one small tech company, one large fintech company with insane redtape and one mechanical engineering company. Of all the three, only the mechanical company was slightly religious about using our ticket tracker to figure out what I was doing. Maybe because I was the only developer there for a while.

I wish I could have worked at a place where scrum means something, or where PR reviews actually did what they're supposed to. I'm tired of always being the one who has to teach others.
I admire how someone passionate about a subject can provide in-depth explanation of _how_ that thing works. But to me, I still have absolutely no idea _why_ or _when_ I would need to apply this (even after reading the original post[0]). A motivating practical example would go a long way as an introduction before getting into the nitty-gritty details.

[0] https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/some-notes-on-the-y-combi...
Excepting “could of” the spellings per se are all correct, they just mean something different than their alternative. How do you read text when you don't know what the words mean any more?
Or fork off.
> No, I wouldn’t take an adult believing in Santa Claus seriously.

Why not?
> Any typical household would probably not emit more than one unwanted computer a year,

Without trying to look it up, I suspect corporate desktop computers in the time period (IBM PC/XT/PS2, Compaq luggable, AT&T 6300) were a very significant part of the waste stream, and I think most of those just went directly to landfills, with only a few "2nd lives" when sold to employees.
There's also the issue of signing in or applying a licence file on a system owned by someone else. In some environments this simply isn't allowed.
> Take the Jetbrains IDEs. I don't mean to offend any VSC fans out there but the Jetbrains IDEs are simply better and more mature in every single way.

- Worse performance

- Worse plugin ecosystem

- No LSP support

Also, their stance on supporting other ecosystems. While I completely understand their standpoint as a business, I prefer VSCode team's approach to this.

https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/po...

https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/official-support-for-visual...

> Why are so many resistant so other people earning a living particularly when the payoff (ie time-saved) is so easily quantifiable?

Is it, though?
I have jetbrains license but i still use vim almost 80% of the time for the reasons you mentioned.
Is dopamine playing a role? Like social media use on top of less sunlight? Some of the genetics linked to myopia involve dopamine:

https://www.revieweducationgroup.com/ce/how-environment-and-...

"Some of the loci identified include those involved in dopamine and light processing. These genetic findings provide further support for mechanisms of myopia development involving light exposure, defocus and contrast.

Despite these important findings informing potential genetic locations and mechanisms of myopia development, these studies have identified less than 5% of the variation in refractive error due to genetic variants.42 Clearly, the dramatic rise in myopia cannot be due to genetics alone, but is likely due to a combination of both genetic susceptibility and increased environmental triggers."
> Apple is a minority player in this market.

In the phone market?

Maybe by units. Certainly not by revenue. Either way, they have a monopoly on "iPhone apps" and their distribution. You can argue whether that's a market in itself. But lawyers and regulators can make an argument too.
i must be homeless then
Why Is a Baker’s Dozen 13?
Ranking popular subreddits by the negativity/hostility of its comments
Really amazing! Also, please make a cool adventure game :)
Honestly, if you want to talk about relative risk, I'm surprised you don't have that information already - especially given the implications your making. Of course there are always other conditions and diseases, this absolutely is reflected in the available data. Feel free to bring up specifics once you've retrieved and analysed them at your leasure. Happy to discuss them once you have.
The point is not really to just run the old software, which as you say is much easier in an emulator.

There's an element of 'antique' in the allure; A genuine Queen Anne-era writing desk has something that an MDF reproduction doesn't, almost a physical connection to the past.
Flashbacks?

> Does this affect existing features?
>
> No, the introduction of GitLens+ has no impact on existing GitLens features, so you won't lose access to any of the GitLens features you know and love. In fact, we are heavily investing in enhancing and expanding the GitLens feature set. Creating an account simply gives you access to a subset of new features that will enable you to get even more out of Git in VS Code!

I haven’t used it and only heard of it last week, but the extension’s page you linked to seems decent enough for me to try it out.
Funny you say that because I'm British and only hear and say "near-sightedness". I certainly wouldn't be offended by "short-sighted" but instead confused because it has dual meanings.
Haven't female murderers been treated about the same? I think it's more just people's fascinations with the motivations and feelings behind murder than some misogynistic stuff. To make that claim, you really would have to compare apples to apples. In ballads about female murderers, are the subjects treated differently? I can't really think of all that many, but in ones about Lizzie Borden, I don't recall any difference in focus or tone from the ones about male killers.
3.2 Proof of Stability

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Proof: Left as an exercise
Yeah. It was on a record called The World's Funniest Computer Songs. Some others are pretty good too. Seems to be on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAuyUHpLzsI
Facebook/Meta are huge contributors to open source, so I'm not sure what your comment is supposed to mean.
You mean having a bank account?
There was an excellent episode of In the Heat of the Night in 1991 called "Sweet Sweet Blues", which was a murder-mystery about a murder ballad. The crime happened 40 years earlier, and they solved it by tracking down the composer of the song.

The answer to the question "whodunnit" was a lyric in the song that the composer had kept out of all performances since soon after the crime. It's awesome how they work the music and performance into the act - a really fun episode!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0610671/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet%2C_Sweet_Blues
> How “unique” is your tool’s output? Output should look as similar to other common utilities as possible, to reduce the learning curve. Keep it boring.

I actually disagree with this. When skimming through long logs looking for errors I find it really useful that output from different tools look different at a glance. It helps me narrow down into where I'm looking for.
> What I find truly bizarre is how many software engineers, who are aware of how much they earn and how long it really takes to make software, are so resistant to paying anything for tools that make their job easier and faster. It blows my mind.

We're not resistant to paying, we're resistant to rent-seeking. I would, and have, happily buy a piece of software I use regularly.

What I will not do is a pay a monthly fee in perpetuity for a piece of software that I cannot truly own, where features I need can be removed on a whim and where I am prohibited from adding features I want. I also find the massive amount of tracking and general disregard for privacy appalling, but that's a missive for another day.

The subscription model that's become predominant is a nightmare and is increasingly user-hostile. Why is it so surprising that a lot of folks don't like it?

So in summary, I will gladly pay for software when:

1. I can pay up front an actually own it

2. I can see the source code and modify it

3. It does not track or otherwise monitor me

None of these things are a big ask.
It is talking about visual snow when the eyes are open. I have this condition and I can tell you it is very noticeable. Also migraine and tinnitus. However, it is quite distinct from migraine's visual aura which looks like a reflection or a light corona and tends to go away after a few moments, whereas visual snow is visible 24/7 and looks exactly like the images in the wikipedia article suggest.

I think floaters and such in the eye are more common also in the general population as a temporary phenomenon.
I love the crafting interpreters book, https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters
that didnt' apply to stocks.
Now wonder if Chinese children must spend more time buried in books because their writing system is more time-demanding to learn (~4000 logograms vs. a few dozens letters in languages with alphabetic writing systems).
> If anything, it just creates burnout and resentment in the parents.

That's something I find myself reminding my partner of from time to time: whatever we do, it must be bearable for us for some time, possibly long. So let's not make a habit of burning ouraelves up; sometimes we need to do less so we can do more.
I get your point. They do have a horrible track record, but there are some good therapists. The trouble is finding the good ones, especially when you have a budget that prohibits spending fees on multiple therapists until you find the right one. Word of mouth references are probably the best way to go, but you have to know the right questions to ask.
I don’t think we can get rid of locks on our doors (metaphorically and literally) right away, but I do think we should invest more effort into making them obsolete (by raising general well-being, ensuring psychological security; treating people as trustworthy is a factor, since we are primed to behave the way we are perceived) than into making more and more sophisticated locks all around us.
There’s a Rework commercial running now [1] that shows a person with a wall of computers as decor and I kind of love it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNWnz2rpUf4
If you're intending to repeatedly go back on and take breaks from caffeine, give Lions Mane supplements a try. I can get them from the local VONS like any other vitamin, often 2 for 1. It's been a game-changer WRT mitigating caffeine withdrawal effects, and also takes the edge off the high esp. with high doses. No other negative effects observed, actually it seemed like a pointless placebo until playing with caffeine use simultaneously.
Where's the benefit of federation for link aggregators? If reddit.com/r/programming and HN would also implement the ActivityPub protocol, wouldn't that turn all participating aggregators into one because all submissions and comments are shared? How can a community maintain its identity in the Fediverse?
(assuming income growth matches inflation, and 2% real return on investments)

https://www.bankrate.com/retirement/retirement-plan-calculat...
The thing that bothers me the most about the resistance to pay for anything is that you're not spreading the love to your fellow devs/creators.

I know HN has grown so this may not be as true as before, but we're a community of builders! We should all understand the time and effort put into each of these projects. You'll tip a delivery person but won't support the people spending thousands of hours building the tools that makes your life tangibly better?

</rant>
> Our culture is to praise in public, and criticize in private.

he says whilst criticizing his employees on Twitter
I have nearly no fingerprints. I remember how Japan's customs officers were incredulous.

Yet when I was much younger (I am 65) I had well formed fingerprints.
A few lines above it says their mathematicians proved the theorem.
We’re doomed.
> You seem confused about a couple of points.

Well, I think I misunderstood what you meant by "underground", confused, I wouldn't say I am.

> Monetary policy is not a tool to finance government spending.

Ok, it is not officially intended to be, sure.

> Sure, it might be used for this purpose, but this is not the point of it, ...

Here's the problem. In reality, monetary policy is indeed doing exactly that. ECB is currently planning to stop buying up government bonds. Whatever technical term you use for this buying of bonds is irrelevant. Effectively this ECB policy has been supporting the growing national debt of Euro zone states.

IMO the actual situation matters more than the theoretical/proclaimed purposes/goals of policies.
Yes, the ECB can state "our goal is 2 % inflation". But that statement ought to be a lot less relevant to someone who wants to judge the current state of affairs and make decisions for the future than for example the actual number (inflation).

> Second, the underground economy has nothing to do with ecological sustainability or economic degrowth.

I read "underground" here as "shrinkage" of the economy. That was a misunderstanding on my part then.

To get to your take on this. The claim that Bitcoin would make the "inofficial" sector of the economy grow bigger/worse than it is under the current monetary system is IMO only that, a claim.

Sure, some cryptocurrencies provide working privacy. Bitcoin isn't really one of those.

I'd be confident that - were Bitcoin to become relevant as some kind of reserve currency - there would be effective measures taken, to make anonymous transactions really difficult if not impossible.
I used VScode for 2 years then bought Jetbrains for 3 years, now I'm switching back to VScode. I feel vscode is getting better plus it is open source.

Does open source matter a lot? maybe. For example, Jetbrains' Teamcity is still under investigation for Solarwinds hack which is a concern, plus I think a while ago the core developers are mostly from Russia at Jetbrains. Those combined with an improved vscode made the switch for me. I mainly use vim in practice but I do need a GUI IDE once a while.
As someone who has been using vim for 5 years and neovim for 2 years, what sort of learning material (books, videos) would you recommend to learn about vim internals and subsequently neovim internals?

I would love to contribute but I'm mostly a webdev, but I'd love to take a year or so to learn and hopefully contribute throughout the rest of my life. It's just so hard to start or learn.

The material doesn't even have to be directly related to vim, I'd like to learn more about how and why text editors work and some of the common concerns when building one.
I love how much of "smart home" stuff is so objectively stupid on the face of it. "the ability to schedule everything!" but no one lives by such a tightly defined schedule, nor wants to. "Remote control!" which is rarely needed and often overbalanced by the unauthorized access risks. "Monitoring / data generation" which no one ever wants for any good reason: see also "unauthorized access".

Anything that actually needs controls is having those removed from the consumer facing parts: What can you make your "smart TV" do vs what the manufacturer can modify? how about your "smart" phone? Anyone think the "internet enabled appliances" aren't going the same way?
I think the argument for a mandate is stronger when the prevalence of the vaccine can eliminate the virus from society and I think in that case I would support mandates. But that was never the case for covid.

Instead we have absurd covid policies. France for instance treats double jabbed but not boosted people as unvaccinated. Whatever was the short term effect expected from the booster in Dec last year, it is long gone now, and the omicron wave never translated in a meaningful increase in hospitalisations, booster or no booster. Health authorities are applying moronic policies. My patience with this absence of common sense has evaporated.
> 1 ZERC = 1$ = 1£ = 1€ = 1 BTC

lol
Toyota win Le Mans 2022 with the GR010 Hybrid – 5th consecutive win
> And the law protects Star Wars and GPL'ed code equally.

The law, maybe. But governments/courts protect them very unequally, as only one of them has people throwing money at politicians.
2008 would be too long ago for web stuff, but in Windows land, that’s plenty recent. Win32 APIs are forever.
> We no longer define our choices, we choose among the options they provide for us. Freely programmable computers are actually quite powerful and subversive which is why there are constant attempts to control them [...] Computing freedom is therefore against their agendas

Yes, exactly.
why is so damn hard for manufacturers to release sources?
It's not really a dual meaning, shortsighted in relation to thinking is a metaphor.
Now, if only someone would get xscreensaver working under Wayland.
when the effect between 10 people is small, agreed, the results aren't significant. But if there are extremely large effect differences, one can't help but raise an eyebrow, even if the n is low
A single code sample, that's probably poorly commented in my experience is hardly what I'd consider good documentation.

OTOH it's pretty easy to get help. People I know very skilled with the Windows API seems to be documentation themselves. I have seen RE guys casually bring up undocumented behavior of certain APIs off the top of their head.
It's closer to judging a fish by its ability to climb trees than it is to being "a bit stretched"