skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes that makes sense.

> define a metadata endpoint that maybe returns a JSON schema

We could use an OpenAPI spec[0], which many REST services expose as a JSON endpoint. I think that could work: develop a generic "OpenAPI" FDW, which you can connect like this:

create server example_api
foreign data wrapper example_api_wrapper
options (
open_api_url 'https://api.example.com/'
);

Then we'd map:

GET -> SELECT (which would map selected columns into a table)
POST -> INSERT
PATCH -> UPDATE
DELETE -> DELETE

[0] OpenAPI: https://swagger.io/specification/
And obvious trait of all those is too much postmodernism. Instead of trying to lay out a story about human beings, books start name-dropping or being smart from the line 1. Trying to claim too much context that they don't own but obviously going to exploit.
“The map is not the territory”… until the map is the territory?
worked on control & modelling software for some of these PtX plants. Pretty neat stuff, although I got the impression there are quite a few already running
> Here's some facts... The diver guy launched a public attack on Musk at a time when kids needed help. Everyone was focused on helping the kids, but this diver decided to get some attention by insulting Musk out of the blue, in a CNN interview.

My guess is that both the diver and Musk desperately wanted to help the kids. The divers attack on musk (I believe attack is too strong a word, but sticking with your terminology) was likely motivated by the view that Musk was making things worse, not better, with impractical ideas. From what I've read of the case, musk's submarine was indeed not practical - for this requirement.

However, whatever the divers motivation, responding by falsely accusing someone of being a paedophile is vicious, uncalled for and indicative of being a giant douche. Apologizing and then unapologising - and doubling down on the false smears of someone way below him on the ladder - is more of the same.
That's probably true for everything about how he runs Twitter. It's his personal platform now, and not a public town square anymore. He makes up the rules to suit himself, and he'll enforce them the way he wants.
Surprise, surprise, emacs was there before you: run one daemon, open as many windows as you'd like.
Martin Fowler reporting inability to share links to the mastodon server where his account - which is Thoughtworks https://toot.thoughtworks.com/@mfowler/109521459300275541
Mods desperately trying to avoid becoming Reddit.

The change is inevitable though, the quality and variation of comments are in line with Reddit already.
Did you ever ask for honest feedback on the rejected applications? It could give you some useful insight in what is turning people off.

Speaking from my own experience, I know many employers would prefer to decrease the amount of remote working, because it is difficult to check if people are actually doing their job and it hampers creative synergy on the workfloor.

Is working remotely a hard demand in your application? Did you try any job listings close to where you live?
it's both!
Composers are not really affected by this. Sound engineers are.

It is impossible to create smooth filter sweeps with regular CCs without further smoothing on the receiving end, because the human ear can differentiate between many more than 128 frequencies.
Dolbear's law (using crickets as thermometers)
Sorry but we don't need to discuss every little shitty thing that happens three times per day just because you missed the thread with hundreds of replies when it was on the frontpage.
I scrolled down and still saw and npm command. I just check out whenever I see NPM. I really should learn how to use that thing.
> Was this the reason for slow death of Sanskrit as a living language?

To use a software analogy, liturgical languages like Classical Sanskrit (and Latin and Greek, etc) got "forked" from their messy spoken source language and then "refactored".

I don't think that their formalization necessarily caused their death as spoken languages any more than the natural processes by which spoken languages change over time.

Some of those processes are internal to the language, and some are caused by the influence of other languages in the region (i.e. Dravidian for Sanskrit, Etruscan for Latin, and Minoan for Greek).

> Too codified and "pure"?

I'd say that since learning it came to require studying it (since it stopped being learned "naturally" as a primary language), it just wasn't accessible to most people. Broad accessibility was after all a non-goal of the codified language.

And while it was codified grammatically, it was certainly not "pure" from that point on. Even after its grammatical codification, Classical Sanskrit admitted a lot of lexical influence from other languages, which allowed it to become the lingua franca of scholarship, statecraft, and literature (not just religion as we tend to think today) across the Subcontinent.

In that sense, it was very much "alive", but maybe wasn't used for things like buying milk at the market.
>With VSCode, you type the name of any programming language in the extension search, click "Install", and you have a world-class development environment

Very minor feature. It is not usefull unless you are constantly hunting for new languages.

>Not to mention that VSCode has countless other productivity boosters built in which would require plugin hunting or fiddling with configuration files for Vim and Emacs.

This is only true if you are comparing default vim/emacs to VSCode, which would be quite unfair. Compare it to some vim/emacs distributions and list the differences.
HN downranks threads with many comments, that is the main thing. Think of each comment as a downvote and it makes more sense why those quickly disappears from the frontpage.
In order to pay for a "reader", I actually need it to be a "writer" too. If I enjoy a post/article etc and want to comment on it, I'll have to open the actual website/app anyway. That is sufficient friction for me to instead choose directly going to multiple sources for both reading and writing.

Whoever can present me a cross-platform app that lets me add sources, bookmark stuff AND comment, has my money.
this thread sure has a lot of clairvoyants. you cant predict chaos only sit back and enjoy the spectacle. for real though its been pretty funny watching the left now use the same complaints the right did when twitter wasnt owned by elon musk. its a private company and he can allow or disallow who he wants on his platform and honestly everyone on twitter could use a 7 day suspension, preferably a 21 day suspension to help kick the addiction a lot of people seem to have.
You seem to be implying that VSCode is "better" than Emacs or Vim, as cars are better than horses, but other than having wider adoption atm, I'm not sure it's "better" in any meaningful way.
I really enjoy watching elon’s billionaire tandian fan club rush onto twitter to defend him. cyan Bannister, Mike Solana, Garry Tan, most of the YC crowd, etc. If I hadn’t met all of these clowns I would assume they were all bots

It’s like being at a donkey show, but instead of the girl sucking the donkey, the vip row is doing it
The selling point of Electron is that it is cross platform, but that does come at a cost. The cost is essentially running a separate instance of Chrome for every application you run that is built with it. The runtime overhead for that is significant. It is a tradeoff that works for some applications, but there are a huge number of applications for which it makes them resource-sucking pigs that do not provide value significant enough to justify the resources they consume.
Aside from the needless labeling, thank you for the references. I will take a look. However, count me initially skeptical of some of the claims. I simply have not seen any data that would corroborate what seems to be the thesis of More From Less. Even if "more from less" is true, doing so at scale is still more. But I will read more. I do note the following quote from a review of More From Less:

> In a positive note, the author is very clear that market fundamentalism - letting capitalism run amok - is emphatically NOT an answer to the environmental crises, and that we need a strong state to regulate and control the private interests, repair market failures and price the externalities. ... That said, I've already noticed that many proponents of this book haven't noticed these caveats, and instead claim that McAfee suggests unbridled capitalism is "the" answer.

And to be clear, I am not opposed to environmentalism and acting on climate change. In fact it's quite the opposite. I do what I can with composting, recycling, native plant restoration and conservation on my property, and my donations. However, I am indeed quite cynical when VCs suddenly want to ride the green wave, and I don't see much of a coherent plan in the post here aside from a shotgun approach to simply making money through investments of a "hot" area.
Having to hedge basic humanity with a "while I'm not a fan" gets tiring. I think your comment is thoughtful and useful and not enabling as is.
> but a way to expose display on a headless system

... RDP?
You are basically just saying, in a long winded way, that it’s ok for straight women to be attracted to straight men holding babies, but it’s not ok for gay men to be attracted to gay men holding babies. It’s a strikingly clear case of homophobia. One could more easily believe that it was unintentional on your part if you hadn’t written your third paragraph trying to justify it with back-of-an-envelope evo psych.

> and why express it out loud when you're supposed to look like you give a damn about CSAM?

At least get your timelines straight. He was an academic at the time and not working for twitter.
Twitter is Musk now. Since he wants 100% of the credit he deserves 100% of the blame, even if it was mostly other people’s money.

He reminds me of Trump circa 1992.
After 8 Years, Double Fine's Hack 'N' Slash Secret Room Has Finally Been Cracked
>Let this sink in

$44B down the drain... down the plug hole... down the gurgler... down the 'S' bend... flushed

Twitter down the disposal... down the insinkerator...
You mean based on 3 people. Ok.

Btw thank you so much for checking. Since you bothered that much, why not kindly share the proof with us?

Because you see I have this little problem: I cannot believe you without seeing the material that allowed to make you this conclusion.

If you don't answer, I'm afraid I might think that you weren't being truthful.
> Git devs have never stated any intention “to record what the development of a project should have looked like had there been no mistakes.”

Is that quote talking about the development of git, the VCS itself, or about what people use git for; are your "Git devs" the people who develop git, or those who use it to develop other software?

As I understand it, some git workflows (that is, workflows using git) are heavy into rewriting history and eliminating branches (or never starting them in the first place) and stuff, but the developers of git never foresaw or mandated that. So my own answer to my question above would be ~"The statement is about both: The developers of git never said that you must use git to straighten out and prettify the history "of a project." Am I reading you correctly in that this is what you too are saying?

Because if you are, then I agree: Sounds like Dr Hipp is exaggerating a little, trying to imply that one particular kind of workflow were (almost) mandatory in git. Creates a bit of a strawman, because that kind of workflow is easier to argue against than arguing against a product that allows that kind of workflow and other kinds.
This isn't even true on virtually any macOS terminal, which use Command-C (just like a web browser). The problem isn't the terminal, it is the operating system.
OMG, and thank god he can't run for POTUS.
The world does not revolve around Elon Musk.

And it says Hacker News in the title, not Twitter/Elon News. In fact if I would not see anything about Elon Musk or Twitter for a week then it would make me supremely happy.
While yes, Apple claiming they are different helped launch John Hodgman's career.
Sounds like it could be optimized to run 10x faster on a single thread. ~7MB/s is not that fast
what will nesting do to the cascade rules - I suppose that

.foo {
& .bar {
color: blue;
}
}

will have the same precedence rules as

.foo .bar {
color: blue;
}

in which case it is probably best to avoid the usage in most cases.

Given CSS variables, container queries and various other developments nesting seems like a bad way to organize your CSS.

on edit: to clarify my experience with sass is that people nest overly much, creating very complicated precedence situation that then later they can't figure out why their bar class is blue.
> Publicly torturing yourself this way is not healthy.

This isn't very nice of me, but realizing that this is what Elmo is doing to himself makes me gleeful. Cry, billionaire baby, cry..!
I am not sure that python is a shining example for library management. Cargo seems well designed. And the package size is more a cultural thing.
Quebec’s Great Maple Syrup Heist (2016)
> I think the question that's not answered clearly is: why can Sass parse it, but browsers can't?

I'm tired but here goes…

Parsing the proposed syntax isn't the real problem; it's parsing plus executing the selectors. Long story short: CSS is programming language that uses a JIT compiler to render CSS.

Sass doesn't run anything; it just transforms one text format into another text format; it's the browser runs the CSS.

Compared to what's required for CSS to run inside of a browser, interface with HTML, JavaScript and SVG (for starters), the Sass parser is trivial in comparison.

> Does this all just boil down to "we don't want to have the work of rewritting the CSS parser"?

Seriously, that's a non-starter for a code base the size and complexity of a browser engine. Not to mention it could mean throwing away years of work on these browser engines.

It's way too late for that… Chrome already has option 3 implemented; to rewrite something would delay this by… a few months? Maybe a year?

Think about it: should Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Igalia rewrite code that's already running successfully for billions of users to accommodate whiney developers, many of whom are going to keep using Sass anyway, no matter what they do?

I doubt any of us, if we were leading these teams, would think rewriting major portions of the browser engines makes any kind of sense at this point.

[1]: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-nesting/
Oracle requires a lot of maintenance and is terribly buggy. And the documentation is not always complete.

Postgresql, on the other hand, is dead simple to manage.

It's my dream to move all my Oracle databases to Postgresql.
> I wonder how many garbage collectors, file abstractions, JITs, databases, schedulers, GUI engines, indexers and so on are running on my machine

I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then one day …
Forward by David Tibet! Wow.
You can't stop the signal, but you can slowly dampen it

Of course Musk could have simply flown commercial and bypassed the entire "problem".
Indeed. San Francisco is meant to be a preserve for the upper middle class. Development can happen somewhere poor people are allowed, like Texas, or the inland desert areas of California no one with money wants to live in, that look like Nevada.
I have never, in my life, used an electron program that isn't irritatingly slow on my main computer. Yes, it's not something you'd probably call a fast computer (4th gen i3, 4GB ram), but this same computer doesn't drop a frame in equivalent native programs. Most of the time the CPU is almost idle.

I have nothing intrinsic against electron, and I'll take everything back if I see these "natural fits" actually fit.
Forgejo
Thanks for BOFH. Whole series is genius!
They’ve been planning replacing most of the buildings at McMurdo for a new design:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/09/the-new-...
The new submissions are about Musk banning journalists that he claims to have doxxed him, i.e. shared links to the flight tracker for his jet. However, some journalists have already come out and said they never shared the link. So it does seem worthy of discussion beyond the general change in Twitter policy.
The GP comment points out that it doesn’t even have direct legal relevance, which is their point. The response about being a private company is related to that, not the question of legality vs. morality, even if it perhaps (by responding to the First Amendment claim) implicitly offer some non-zero value to legality.
The consensus is that it’s millions of lives, not merely thousands.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19-vaccines-saved-estimated...
Reminds me of my favorite line of his horse shit:

<random wealthy sycophant> You should sue BLM and Anti-Fa for tortuous interference and forcing the advertisers to flee.

Mosque: lawyers are already on it.

elon believrs in free speech as much as peter thiel does. Free for me, not for thee.
Signalling has to improve. Like/Upvote/Follower counts need to get broken down more so people dont get addicted to random numbers.

For example Slashdot comments dont just show upvote count. The comments get tagged as Offtopic ,Flamebait,Troll,Redundant,Insightful,Interesting,Informative,Funny,Overrated,Underrated etc

This is much more useful signalling not just to the poster but to the whole chimp troupe. That kind of stuff needs to catch on and be experimented with on the bigger Networks.
Sounds like yet another strike against Google regarding privacy.
How is that not official comms? It's literally sanctioned and arranged by the C-suite.

Regardless, this isn't what I was referring to by leaks upthread.
Archaeologists say find near Stonehenge is ancient goldsmith’s toolkit
Reminds me of last 30 minutes of the film Cremaster 3, in which a man scales the inside of the Guggenheim, rock-climbing style, stopping on each floor to confront some sort a challenge from a group (line dancers, hardcore punk bands, a famous sculptor) as an abstract retelling of a Masonic origin myth.
That's pretty neat! Is it packaged up into a library somewhere or is it proprietary?
I'm seeing a lot of Musk posts, but they're mostly negative. I'm just saying, I visit dozens of online aggregators, and I've yet to come across one that is "balanced". It's almost impossible at this point. The polarization is real.
I don't know when exactly "DevOps" became a new role equivalent in every way to the old "Ops"? My original understanding of the term was that developers did their own operations
that seems like a personal problem.

there's a body of proof that it does, both theoretically and practically, and it's been around long enough now that we know about the long term effects.
Packaging has been increasingly improving, and I would dare to say that it is currently in a very good shape. The key problem is that of "blind scientists and an elephant": the term "packaging" means different things to different people, and details depend on specific circumstances. And Python has some quite specific details that are not present in many other languages, which adds to the complexity.

Without going into all the available solutions for all possible cases, here's a list of use cases that Python packaging needs to cover:

- dependency management and packaging:
- abstract for libraries, concrete for applications [0]
- pure Python dependencies
- dependencies with binaries included
- packaging format: sdist, wheel, conda
- library repositories: public (PyPI), private, mirrors etc
- installing the Python executable
- multiple Python executables
- management of (multiple) virtual environments

Multiple standards have been adopted to deal with many of those cases, but many existing projects still haven't been updated and still need to be supported. Although we currently don't have a single tool that will cover every single possible use case, things are slowly but surely moving in the right direction.

[0] https://caremad.io/posts/2013/07/setup-vs-requirement/
Anything built on elecyron should be archived asap
5% of Tesla 2021 Q1 revenue was generated from selling emission credits, 1% from trading Bitcoin, for a total of 6% generated from not selling cars / energy products / etc.

So yes, the vast majority of revenue generators (and therefore value generators) for Tesla (at least in Q1 2021, as per the article you linked) are the things I listed in my first comment.

You were seemingly thinking about what was generating profit, which is generally not how value is calculated, otherwise my (profitable) two-man company would be more valuable than Twitter. But given that you explicitly said "how it generates revenue" at the end of your comment I'm actually a bit confused as to your position.
Lessons Not Worth Learning
> I’m sure he thinks the goals are good for everyone, including himself

This is exactly why democracy is so important. Humans are fallible. Power eventually corrupts everyone. Power should be distributed. I am not happy about de facto town squares being owned by powerful people. For this exact reason. Democrats were very happy with the status quo when their opponents were being censored. "It's a private business." I wonder if they will remain so idealistic.
Even links to small Mastodon instances are blocked now on Twitter
If there's anything that the tech industry History taught us, is that it's a rise and fall of empires speed-run.

Everything is transitory and there's no recipe for eternal success.
I think there's something perverse about the very concept of having a personal plane. Perhaps that's the real issue here.
I've been pondering this for a while, and while of course you are right, the explanation is right there I'm not fully satisfied with that. Even though the word arose due to a misunderstanding it then took on a life on its own (however brief). If she used it as a mince for "fucking", and the people listening to her understood it as a mince for "fucking", isn't that what it meant in that moment?
OpenVPN

No, seriously.
If you look for dirt, and want dirt, you'll find dirt.

"Hey everyone, read what his ex wife said"... is nothing but encouraging others to look for dirt as you have done. Nothing to do with the current topic about twitter bans. Similar to what cheap tabloid reporting does.
Well, since Fossil stores its stuff in an SQLite database, I'd assume that if you know SQL and the password to your Fossil repo, you can delete and alter history...?

After all, SQL consists not only of the SELECT command; it has DELETE and INSERT too.
I appreciate SectorLISP, but it is in a completely different ballpark. Last time I checked (and this is a while ago), it was dynamically scoped and not tail-recursive, i.e. programs will overflow the stack when running long enough. See this discussion on Reddit for details:

https://old.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/rkxh3v/lisp_with_gc_i...

Unfortunately the discussion ended suddenly back then.

The long story is: you cannot have tail recursion and dynamic scoping without running into all kinds of funny issues related to the upward and downward FUNARG problem. This is discussed in detail in my book, LISP From Nothing (http://t3x.org/lfn/)

Without tail recursion in the core of the implementation (in the case of SectorLISP in the assembly language part), you cannot have it in the high-level part (LISP in LISP), either, because the interpreter interpreting the LISP in LISP will eventually overflow the stack.

KiloLISP is lexically scoped and tail-recursive.
Both Sublime Text and Merge are great and well worth the price for me :)
I enjoyed the presentation of the material and the interactivity. Lean looks interesting. My only feedback was that I didn’t get a good sense of what I would know at the completion of the course. Making that clearer might drive up the signup rate
I didn't try during beta because I was convinced VSCode would never take off. Boy was I wrong :D