skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If “serious” business led us to wars like in Ukraine, I’ll take Elon Musk’s expensive jokes any day.
Honest question, based on the bill sponsors background, his own words and the current policing situation in the US; what part of this is hyperbole? People actively defended the police officers that killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Not trying to start an argument, just interested in your view.
I’ve been looking for a replacement for my 16:10 HP zr30w with either high-dpi or high-fps (not that this is particularly either) and have been coming up high-and-dry. This looks like an alternative worth exploring instead of the garbage 16:9 flooding the market with unusable high-dpi real estate.

But it doesn’t have VESA? I’m all for the “save desk space” mantra that’s plastered all over their marketing materials, but my solution was a wall/stud-mounted gas spring fully-articulated VESA mount that I’ve used across several monitors. I definitely don’t want a desk-clamped alternative that will flatter and shake as I type vigorously on my mechanical keyboard (on anything that isn’t a solid, handcrafted wood desk that takes four people to move).
I can't really understand whether you recommend Vim itself or not, because of these sentences:

> Vim forces you to glue together lots of inefficient commands to manipulate text

> Vim’s nasty bells and whistles you need to actually be efficient at manipulating text
Yup. The tricky bit of moderation to me is dealing with well known, long term users. I find the particularly troublesome sort being people who have a good amount of contributions to their name, but a variable temper. If somebody's always a jerk that's pretty easy. The tricky bit is when it's inconsistent.

Other long term community members learn what sets this person off and avoid it, and so everything seems quiet for weeks until somebody unaware hits on just the wrong subject, and this old, seemingly respected member explodes at them.

This is problematic for a community. New people need to either learn to navigate this minefield, or decide that it's not worth it and leave. And a lot will definitely pick the second option.

I ended up banning just a few such people and I'd say things have improved greatly as a result. Yes, there's a loss in term of contribution from very skilled people, but if a single person sours the mood for several dozen, it's not a good tradeoff. And they tend to drive away other skilled people as well, who can easily leave and be welcome must anywhere else that doesn't require them to tiptoe around that one tricky person.
When I was learning vim, I decided to extend the existing vimtutor with some more programming specific tasks. You can find it at https://github.com/drodil/codetutor.vim if you are interested :)
> I will be writing in Word, or in LyX, or in RStudio, or in a text box.

You might still spend more time editing than writing, and Vim's modal approach makes editing more comfortable to me.

> Why is that worse than having a special key that goes into control mode? This is analogous to having caps lock, but no shift key.

The assumption is that modal editing is more comfortable and powerful. I can traverse the text and make modifications and replacements without holding chords between Ctrl, Alt and letter or arrow keys for long periods of time. Vim's model with text objects also makes some things easier to do than what you can accomplish with chords on editors liks VS Code.

If you spend a significant amount of time writing in all caps, you might benefit from having a Caps Lock key instead of shift.

> I don't want to do anything new. Why would I? I want to get on with my job.

Vim is something that's radically different from other text editors. If you think the learning curve is not worth it, it's up to you. It might not be; it's not like it will turn you into a better writer or programmer. But its uniqueness was enticing enough for me to give it a go, and I realised I enjoyed working with it.

> "if you try it, one day you will understand"

I don't think you should try Vim because it will magically make you a better professional. That's a fantasy some people use to justify the time investment they made to adapt to Vim. I think you should learn it if you're curious, and it's fine if you start learning and decide it's not worth your time. Have you never learnt something just for the fun of it?

PS: If you use VS Code or a JetBrains IDE, I don't recommend switching to Vim. Just do Vimtutor and go back to your regular IDE with a Vim plug-in. VS Code's is pretty good. This is the best of both worlds: you get all the powerful extensions and general IDE goodness while having Vim's Normal and Visual modes. As a bonus, you can still use the regular navigation and editing shortcuts while in Insert mode in VS Code. E.g. navigiating and selecting with Shift, Alt and Command plus arrow keys works like normal, so you don't need to switch modes for small things.
There's no legal avenue, if the license allows distribution of the code/binaries then it can be distributed anywhere.

But Microsoft's store is a private marketplace (despite costing nothing in dollars to use/view). They can make whatever rules they want for the software they distribute or allow to be distributed there. First amendment, etc. doesn't apply. If Microsoft decided only software with unicorns and bunny rabbits could be distributed on their store, they are pefectly within their rights to mandate and enforce it.
Depends very heavily on the task and the string implementation involved, but my prior is that you should always bet on regex for anything more complex than "ForEach chr in str: doSomething(chr)".

Modern regex implementations are their own language interpreters/compilers, they implement their own string data strutures, they compile your regex into specialized bytecode (different from the hosting language), they have tons of special cases checks for fast paths (e.g. capturing groups make regexes much much more complicated than they need to be, a regex without capturing has the option to run signficantly faster).

A random search just found out this 2016 SO question[1] where a compiled regex was faster than string.contains (!). Regex is just insanely optimized. It reminds me of C++, ugly and badly/un designed, but it can go fast.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2962670/regex-ismatch-vs...
Monitoring tiny web services
I love this book. It is by far the most fun I've had with chemicals, and very humorously written.
You are probably correct, My main monitor is a cheap Ultrawide.
However even if I used a 27 4K display, 15" with 1080p is almost the same sharpness as 27 4K.

Its why I don't really see a need for higher than 1080p on mobile phones, can you even see the difference?
Is editorconfig any use there? It definitely makes life easier on projects where the contributors have a mix of tools.

https://editorconfig.org/
me personally? a linguist, probably. I love languages and have a knack for them. interestingly, I always got perfect scores on verbal aptitude tests but did significantly worse on math.

I've also discovered my passion for math, finally, even though I'm not supposed to be good at it. graph theory, topology, abstract algebra etc. but I'm not sure I would have gotten there since I believed I was bad at it growing up.
> Let’s not forget the all the blather from Twitter board and leadership how their fiduciary duty was to not sell to Musk at this price.

Is there a source for this? I certainly didn't see it. They considered rejecting the offer, and quickly passed a poison pill provision, but that was about preventing buying the company on the open market instead of making a deal like this. The offer was initially only a very short note, and Twitter decided to sell within 3 days of financing being lined up.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000119312...
Purity is nice and clear to reason about. But when you want the last drop of performance, having a place to overwrite memory as you invoke a SIMD algorithm or cast and do bitwise stuff is invaluable from a performance point of view, whether we like it or not.
2XL – ‘70s toy that faked AI with an 8-track [video]
YEs, the argument that Twitter is knowingly withholding information that would prove Mush right about them defrauding shareholders in regards to actual DAU's.

There is no other reason they wouldn't be forthcoming with the full data set to the guy buying it. It's not a stretch to think they're hiding something for a reason.
Not yet, but next week my wife and I will move from Estonia to Toronto.

Why? Because I’m American and can’t stand being treated like a second class citizen in a country that is rampantly xenophobic.
What a bullshit. By this account Paint.NET also can't ask for money in the MS Store because it is also software that is otherwise generally available for free.
Anyone else take notice at "Local meteorologist Jan Null"? I wonder how much trouble Null runs into when dealing with computers. https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/
Yeah, not advocating for big wide screens, either. A 17x17 square display would be pretty sweet. You can achieve this by setting the right mode on a 27-inch widescreen, because they are 17 inches tall.
Two items at once? Scan and put one in the weight checking section. Is that hard?

ID check? Buying cough medicine? Booze. It's law. Lol

Stop confusing the system dude!
It’s actually a bit different. It’s more expected value:

Cost of settling is X

Potential cost of losing is Y

Risk of losing is Z

If X < Z*Y, then you settle; often a trial continues until Z and Y are sufficiently known, then X is offered to the opposing party.

In this case, Y could have bankrupted the company (hundreds of billions in real damages). So, even if risk (Z) was 10-20%, $10B is a deal.
thank you so much for sharing! i think knowledge graphs, knowledge bases and so-called "digital gardens" - compilations of knowledge like these are incredibly powerful in sharing masses of knowledge and information with each other in an async way, and provide a great value to ourselves in solidifying that wisdom in our own brain. bookmarked!

(now my mind is just wandering, but some way to "aggregate" knowledge bases... maybe kind of like RSS but with full-text search and more hierarchical, with tags and multiple layers of navigation... that would be cool!)
From a user perspective I feel like it's barely changed over the years (at least in terms of concepts and number of buttons, etc). I don't feel like I'm having to re-learn or keep up with anything at all. I can't speak to the underlying codebase complexity, but to be honest it's not really my problem
What I am describing above is just the current method. The one which is currently implemented in most x86 UEFI hardware save for apparently this one Lenovo laptop and some other "miscarriaged" hardware.

You do not even need to imagine "what I am proposing" because I am not proposing anything whatsoever: the MS UEFI CA signs non-MS operating systems.

MS just needs to not relent on its promises.
> Yet, they choose not to do so and allowed their enemies to develop nuclear weapons on their own

The US was the only nuclear power in the world from 1945 to 1949. My argument is, if the US had acted like any of the historical (and much more brutal) great powers such as Mongolians, Romans, Assyrians, Persians, etc, they would have used this to eliminate geopolitical enemies such as the Soviet Union. My argument is the US represents a fairly significant change to how great political powers operate - which is nothing like the Mongolians as the previous commenter suggests.
Brunnian Link
> Fruits etc can easily ferment

Replace “alcohol” with “alcohol from fermented fruit”

> The material world explanation has zero edge cases it's completely self consistent.

The explanation of how consciousness arises from material world? Indulge me.
This is a cyberpunk future.

I'm overall a fan of Musk, but this is too far. There simply must be rule of law for the United States to remain a dynamic society.
It appears that commercial sources are already available.

https://mybacteriophage.net/

Anyone with an aggressive bacteriological infection should be aware of and consider phage therapy when beginning treatment.

It is also important to pre-treat the selected phage in a concentrated solution of the pathogen to allow time for adaptation prior to injection.
The Perpignan-Lyon has been postponed by the French government. When they complete it, the connection with Barcelona will see much more railway traffic.
vim-visual-multi works well.

https://github.com/mg979/vim-visual-multi

I do wish it was built in (like in vis) though

https://github.com/martanne/vis
Totally agree, and I use VSCodium, not normal VSCode.
I don’t know about terminals but having live reload on multiple monitors is a god send for frontend developer productivity. You’re experimenting most of the time.
not only down but now down for 20 hours. Catastrophic failure
Won't be there for a while yet. However, I want to be in a point in my career where I can move from doing to teaching. Bestow upon the next generation the lessons that I will have accumulated by then.
Glad you found it useful :)

> I have an internal library of one-liners and bash scripts but I should publish these

That's a great idea. Bash scripts are sort-of like regex to me (I have to recall them whenever I need them and then I forget them later) and bash scripts samples can really be useful. Looking forward to your Show HN.
I didn't even realize it was CNN
> Presumably, if NTRU Prime doesn’t make NIST’s final, official list of winners, OpenSSH will quickly include one or all of the ultimate winners as well.

I believe they'll have to start on it now, or hopefully they have already started on including others. NIST have already announced some finalists. Kyber, Dilithium, Falcon and Sphincs+.

NTRU Prime was a third round candidate but didn't make it to the finals. It isn't a fourth round candidate either.

https://csrc.nist.gov/News/2022/pqc-candidates-to-be-standar...
The line is drawn at damaging equipment. This is just jamming. Radio jamming isn’t an act of war. Doing it in the visible spectrum doesn’t magically make it one.
In a nutshell, it works but antibiotics work better (until they don't, eh?), so phage therapy was largely eclipsed in the West. However:

> Isolated from Western advances in antibiotic production in the 1940s, Russian scientists continued to develop already successful phage therapy to treat the wounds of soldiers in field hospitals. During World War II, the Soviet Union used bacteriophages to treat many soldiers infected with various bacterial diseases e.g. dysentery and gangrene.[28] Russian researchers continued to develop and to refine their treatments and to publish their research and results. However, due to the scientific barriers of the Cold War, this knowledge was not translated and did not proliferate across the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_bacteriophage (for fun, or maybe horror? The oceans are grey goo.)
> A man (or woman, or gender fluid person)

Or "a person".
Fake clicks and bot accounts are two distinct things in my opinion. Bot accounts are bad, fake clicks are much much worse.
Africa Eye: Racism for Sale
Suing to close the deal can be a way to get leverage for the eventual settlement.
Interesting. Do you believe these communication in electronic form are more or less exhausting then in person?
> but all he needs to have defense standing might be a single one of the millions of accounts Twitter has claimed is an active monetizable user to be shown to be a bot

There’s some good discussion in the article (whose author has a law degree) about why that’s not the case.
I have heard it's catching up with C#, but the implementation in that link where you have a person model and you have to write a function just to get/set a string turns me away.

That said, there's actually some interesting stuff in that link. The ability to assign an anonymous class to an interface is super fascinating.

But if I'm starting new, My understanding is that Kotlin is superior in almost every way.
The objectives were curiosity (understanding how it works) and finding the missing pin so we can power up the module. The reverse-engineering isn't good enough to build a new one, e.g. I didn't figure out the capacitor values.

I don't think the silicone had any other purpose than keeping the components in place.
If you use Spotify, I'd recommend searching for "Opera Explained" by David Timson.

A number of popular operas are in the series, and Timson is excellent at giving a colourful bio of the composer, plot synopsis, and excerpts plus discussion of the famous arias.

You'll find famous operas from Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Rossini, Strauss, and even operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan. Very well made, and highly recommended.
Starmer called it "...sinking ship fleeing the rat"
Twitter feeds are pretty public, albeit expensive to buy the firehose. Nonetheless, shouldn't a handful of motivated hackers be able to answer the bot question??
Nice guide, but I've bitter experience with guides vs support.

Edit: sure enough. Several little gotchas and obscure commands even with the top-line distro, fedora.

From the crowd sourced setup guide (https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Fedora+36+Installation+on+th...)

> If you are seeing high suspend power drain, set "nvme.noacpi=1" in your kernel parameters. In Fedora, you can do this by running the following command: sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="nvme.noacpi=1"

> sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="module_blacklist=hid_sensor_hub"

Yeah, no. This is not what I would consider supporting Linux. Are there more gotchas? Who knows? Nobody's checking until its released!
This type of rhetoric isn’t helpful, except to companies and manufacturers looking to minimize the attention around specific products with known carcinogenic properties.
> I always gripe about Python not having built-in array type

from array import array

it’s right there.

> Numpy doesn't distinguish "vector of vector" from "matrix"

numpy.matrix

though to be fair, it’s on its way out.
There may be a sampling bias from okcupid, for both demographics, since iirc okcupid is more about dating than it is hookups.
Happened to me. My doctor as a kid would just prescribed antibiotic for everything thing,no matter what. How can there be such bad doctors.
Who cares if it’s cheap and tiring, it’s the truth. When it was missing generica, saying so was also called a “cheap shot”.

There’s plenty of proposals of thing that can be improved in this thread alone. Not every post has to contain them to be valid criticism. Sure it could have more but that doesn’t warrant personal attacks.
This is part of the reason I'd be all right to move to something that relies on the JDK. I had heard this before when people were talking about how c sharp has gone open source.
Cheaper versions on amazon and you can get em quicker

HDMI: https://www.amazon.com/VCE-Supported-Degree-Female-Adapter/d...

DisplayPort: https://www.amazon.com/Displayport-Converter-BolAAzuL-Connec...
Proving a negative is trivial.
Mars Colonization Will Never Happen
I still have the first SSD I ever bought years and years ago. It's still fine. Zero issues. Never had an SSD die.

Spinning rust? Last one I bought I have connected to my desktop mounted in read only mode because it's severely fucked up.
its a great monitor if your productivity standards are high and your visual quality standards are low
That's because Apple does palm rejection correctly. Probably the best in the industry when it comes to any form of touch input.
Maybe this is a good reason a single human being shouldn't be so fucking rich.

If enough money makes you untouchable by the law, then our system is simply broken.
This previous HN post, which refers to Monsanto's astroturfing efforts, relates.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17043836
in order to read your reply to my comment, i had to :

- click on my user name

- click on comments

- search/scroll to this thread and see your reply

I don't get notified of comment replies like on reddit. there is no slack/email page of DMs/PMs.
Whoever came up with lite version at CNN should get standing ovation.
Who needs this strange operation anyways? Deprecate the whole method and call it a day
You don’t prove a product is safe. You fail to prove it isn’t.
One of the most rewarding things for me in my stints as a engineering manager has been providing a (hopefully) positive influence on my reports lives through listening and empathy and giving advice, then seeing them get through tough times (work related or not) or grow as people. It has helped me grow too.

Based on that, I think being a therapist or psychiatrist might have been a good choice for me.

I dual majored EE and CS and like EE more than programming, so EE seems like a natural fallback, but I was nowhere near as good at electronics compared to software.
I also wonder what the effect is of effectively a much richer/convenient overall population, and the ability to reach what is basically the top in the Maslows hierarchy of needs (self actualization) and how it maybe that many more people write about their mental states. The amount of coaches has boomed in the last decade!
Debian 11.4 Released
The Apollo hardware is a mixture of various technologies. Some pieces (like the Apollo Guidance Computer and the LVDC) used printed circuit boards. But point-to-point wiring was also very common. So PCBs existed but weren't dominant.
Which specification details you see as bad?
> How about we also include how MS infiltrated the education system with hidden incentives and essentially forced training in a non-free user hostile operating system to multiple genrations of people?

When was the last time you used Windows? Microsoft employees a small army of user experience designers to ensure it’s a great experience. It’s not perfect, but I can do everything I need to do using the GUI.

This isn’t a case of learning how to do the same thing differently. The GUI is objectively better for most consumer use cases. Linux, for better and worse, relies more heavily on CLI.
Never heard of nerd neck til now. Every single piece of ergonomic advice on using monitors that I have encountered has recommended that the top of your monitor be level with your eyes so you look down (slightly) rather than up.
I don’t pay attention to updates mostly. Occasionally I’ll read the release notes, but I come from the era of writing code in a text editor and VSC makes that less painful for me. I’d say unless you’re tracking a feature being developed, don’t worry about it and get back to coding.
What's really neat about this result is that they're probing a link between the band structure of materials and superconductivity. So while no, this isn't at room temperature, stacked graphenes provide a controllable family of metamaterials that can be probed to learn more precisely the conditions for superconductivity. If hot* superconductors exist, we'll have a better chance at finding them if we understand how superconductivity works.

* we don't need "room temperature" superconductors for room temperature operation. Superconductors have a shared budget[1] of temperature, current and magnetic field -- if we want these so-called superconductors to actually carry current at room temperature, room temperature isn't enough!

[1] http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Solids/scbc2.html...
been on my mind a lot lately, too.
Show me an example of that where the payment was over $1bn.
> the Linux desktop is RC Cola, and MacOS is Genuine Coke Cola

It all depends on how you want to use the computer and what are your daily driver apps.

Gnome Shell and KDE are wonderfully polished and work great also with multiple monitors out of the box, XFCE is pretty fast and functional.

About your wife that can't use it? Mine is using Manjaro+KDE since years and never had problems, the switch from then-Windows 7 world was pretty no-brainer. It all burns down on how you approach a new system.