skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like an actual policy that prevents people from accumulating (or at the very least, leveraging) $1b in wealth. But I won't let the complexity of said policy affect my opinion about the ethics of accumulating so much wealth. Those are completely independent topics.

There are logistical issues with illiquid assets. Everybody knows this. This is not, in my opinion, an interesting concern.

One way to help solve it is to call billionaires shitheads whenever possible.
Win the lottery and become a 10x dev and maybe he'll dream about it.
They will make the market:

> ...the company has quietly been laying the groundwork to become a standalone market maker,

> One way to reduce its reliance on PFOF is for Robinhood to actually match its own order flow instead of selling it to other brokers, company executives said. They even hinted during the roadshow meetings with investors that they too will be looking at getting into the business…

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/robinhood-ipo-twist-busi...
Kotaku has been quite critical of the use of AI-generated art in commercial projects. They argue that AI art is going to destroy the livelihoods of human artists. It seems that the video game industry is quite willing to replace artist with algorithm (treating them quite poorly to begin with).

I fear that it is not just a question of treating right or wrong but also of convenience. I cannot draw a tree to save my live, but I can have great fun with StableDiffusion. The sense of creation and wonder is just to nice to pass on.
Not even at his funeral can poor Atom be at rest, so many comments torturing or ignoring it while praising the killer.

I, for one, salute you dear Atom. You have been a worthy contribution to the community. Thanks you for all you have done.

RIP
I never really see the need to do that remapping. By default in a Linux terminal Ctrl-Shift-v is paste and Ctrl-Shift-c is copy.

On macOS there's an extra set of keys so Cmd-v is paste and Cmd-c is copy.

I think I committed that to muscle memory so long ago that I never really think about it unless someone asks.

Not sure about Windows as I haven't used it professionally since 2006 but I'd guess it's the same as Linux.
Lives were traditionally a loss leader for album sales for the majority of artists (to get their name out). Some big names with big followings that charge a premium do make profitable tours, but those are the exception.
Author of the post here: I've written a follow-up that addresses some of the rebuttals made in these comments: https://jesseduffield.com/Unless-Responses/

If I've neglected to address your specific criticism I'm happy to do so here
GitLab team member here. Thanks for your feedback.

You can learn more about the Remote Development direction in [0], follow iterations in [1] and read about the steps to integrated the client-only VS Code as new Web IDE into the GitLab DevSecOps platform [2]. I'd encourage you to try the Web IDE Beta next week on Dec 19, and add thoughts, ideas and feedback into this issue [3]. Thanks!

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/direction/create/editor/remote_deve...

[1] https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/7419

[2] https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/7683

[3] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/385787
You've basically described signal/WhatsApp groups.

I'd be keen on any kind of social network that is end to end encrypted, decentralized and puts the user in control but the more centralized and the more you (the person running it) can see or potentially change what goes on inside it the less interested I am.

IMHO social networking needs some heavy disambiguation, too. Speaking candidly to my friends and publishing stuff to the world are two entirely distinct use cases that shouldn't really fall under the same umbrella but on, say, Facebook it does.
I think of long-established cities. You may have buildings of several different eras sitting next to one another, each with different ideas of electricity, water and sewage, connected to standard interfaces and coexisting.
I don't see any reason to deny the man solely based on his name that is not just overt racism.
It feels in this case that a lot of fish were killed for no reason at all. I am surprised at how much this annoys me.
Thanks! I was looking for this to respond with, as pg's words here are part of the reason I use the site this way.
You can if you print them out first.
I have a setup that I maintain and I pop back to it every six months or so. There are probably three classes of things that end up turning me off.

1) VSCode is very UI heavy and doesn’t allow consistent keyboard and text navigation. I want my text editor to be text-based, and it slows me down to have different types of windows (some of which seem impossible to hide permanently) with inconsistent forms of navigation.

2) The terminal window is its own thing, even if you open it in an editor window, which is then ignored by anything that interacts with the terminal. This is more what I want but is very limited and immature:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jeffgran...

The lack of an infrastructure like Emacs comint mode also means there’s no good text-based database mode either. I want the same navigation, search and editing functions in every single window I have to interact with.

3) Where analogues to Emacs modes exist, they are universally less featureful, often because of fundamental limitations of the VSCode extension API. REPLs do less and offer less programmability. Edamagit is a fine and welcome effort but not as good as Magit.

If people want an editor with a little bit of auto completion and some squiggly lines to tell them they’ve typed something wrong VSCode is great. I have many mostly happy VSCode users within my organisation. But I think every individual programmer, like every team, should have a regular little retrospectives with themselves. What work did I do today, what would have made it flow better? In every case, I can build that in Emacs, but it’s much more friction in VSCode. This is partly immaturity and partly the APIs not offering as much. Long term I’m rooting for VSCode because it’s snappy and has undeniable market share. But it’s never quite been there for me yet.
Huh. You mean the bank running the mainframe has moved database to a cluster of other systems? What does the mainframe run then? Business logic / applications in COBOL or ABAP or whatever?
For pure curiosity, could you give us some examples of what happen with your wife? Thx
Linus tech tips has done a few videos on his smart home (z-wave) and he does not seem overly happy with it..

I'm really glad I went Zigbee as its been almost completely pain free even with third party non cloud software.

I can't fault it but I do worry about future security updates should something be discovered in Zigbees stack.
According to a german news report [1], it could be due to material fatigue.

[1] https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2022/12/berlin-karl-li...
If that's the case, why not just use some existing shared notebook software instead?
It's a good question, and I suspect he doesn't spend as much time on SpaceX as he used to.

However, he did found SpaceX 20 years ago in 2002. And their first successful launch was in 2008, 14 years ago.

It's entirely likely he puts less effort and impact into the daily running of SpaceX now, however I don't believe his last 6 months running Twitter invalidate his last 20 years running SpaceX.
Awesome starting prompts for chatgpt.
So, basically, northern EU will "import" the H2 generated in the south of EU.
Such an interesting moment to be alive

Note: obviously, southern Europe will dedicate mostly all the sun/wind generated electricity to create H2 for the rest of EU but their citizens won't understand the implications until the energy prices grow exponentially for them... nice.
Oracle has a much more effective sales team than PostgreSQL. A few basketball tickets to the right managers makes all the difference.
Musk effectively does not run SpaceX, for good reason, despite his entitlements.
While there may be reasons to pick Oracle for greenfield projects in 2022, I suspect most of the business comes from companies which have been on Oracle for a very long time and have huge amounts of critical data in it. Oracle has likely calibrated their pricing so that it's always slightly cheaper to stay on Oracle than to move elsewhere.
My plane is not trackable without using non-public data
That's a real shame only a few fish survived. It's fortunate only two people hurt. That looks nasty from the picture. Maybe next time less brittle acrylic. Off the top of my head a 14 m high tower of water - there would have been approx 20 psi at the bottom of the tank.
A large part of the workforce makes a living maintaining and extending systems, not building them. In fact, I call that success.
Nope. I worked for a company who paid another company to send large amounts of attack traffic to our network. We were a DDoS mitigation provider. It's very hard to test without real world traffic.
I appreciate that perspective. Launching quickly and no input latency are probably my base demands from a text editor. Not sufficient, but necessary. I may need to give Sublime a closer look.

FWIW you _can_ get emacs to launch as quickly as, say, vi, and to respond to input as quickly as just typing in the terminal (but in my experience the default GUI doesn't have noticeable input latency):

* `emacs -nw` will launch emacs in a terminal rather than a OS-native GUI window. This has surprisingly little impact on the interface or usability, but it does make cosmetic tweaks like font-rendering more difficult.

* `emacs --daemon` will start an "emacs server" process running in the background, and `emacsclient` will connect a UI instance to it (so you don't need to re-process all your .emacs stuff each time)

That said you can probably introduce a lot of input latency by hooking a slow method to the keypress event, but that applies to Atom and VSCode as well as emacs. But all three of them seem to do OK suggesting auto-completions of one kind or another, which must be handled on keydown or similar, so maybe that's not as critical as I assume.

I usually have a text editor open all the time anyway (recently Atom, lately VSCode) so the time-to-launch isn't that big of a deal in practice (and isn't _that_ large to begin with) but I am disproportionately, irrationally annoyed every time I need to wait for the editor to start.
And I find it pretty easy to argue that but instead plenty of people try to argue to them referring to examples that they don't intend. Essentially arguing past em with neither party achieving anything.
Like some people plainly believe for example china with it's loads of billionaires is a communist country and this is what these advocates want locally.
Of course option 3 but make "&" required.
And ":is(aside) &" is ugly, should be just "aside &". Yes, it starts with letter, but it's the only way to be not ugly.
There's an engineering angle here that I think a lot of us probably find interesting?
For some reason I've always remembered that Concorde electrically heated its windows using a laminated layer of gold:

https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-fuselage-windows
Are you on Windows? Notepad++ in case
I think large-scale engineering failures in other disciplines are always of interest here.
@fallingknife 'Cities grow organically and not in a planned fashion'.

The reality is that both SF & London grew organically as port cities. There is no reason new cities can't grow organically around the new reality of people living and working anywhere. Access to airports and major road arteries are the only limitations...
It handles the torrent of banking transactions. Generally money movements, interest rates and such.
The thing is it successfully had work put in so that it’s a standard. “They did a thing that basically no one succeeded in doing” is, imo, proof of something.
Because SPARC is kind of home turf for Oracle. POWER is enemy territory ;)
Got any citations... that sounds like a fascinating thing to read about.
Binance Proof-of-Reserves Auditor Mazars Pauses All Work for Crypto Clients
What is your basis that the CEO/CTO/chairman of the board does not run the company? I am curious how you come to this unusual conclusion.
HN is already a "social" network, albeit with a limited set of features. But that "limitation" is what makes the site so engaging (a strong set of moderation rules also help of course). I'm building "Create your very own HN site yourself" - (https://hn.plus) if anyone is interested - I guess you will be able to follow the HN model yourself with it.
Let me give you a better approach to create water easily. Grow trees and let nature work as expected. Profit
I see. I guess you are right. The endless Samsara of people with a MBA and their churn to keep plates spinning.
I personally have no particular feelings either way about GCC; I don't write code any more, and when I did, I barely used compilers or xNix to do it.

All I am doing is responding to @catiopatio's comment: that apparently it was good _enough_ to inhibit competitors for a decade and a half.

The economics of FOSS are not yet well understood (and FWIW, I think @catiopatio is totally wrong about the GPL). There were lots and lots of compilers in the proprietary space, and aggressive competition was the norm.

The headhunting of Anders Hejlsberg from Borland to Microsoft shifted the entire competitive market of programming languages for _decades_, but FOSS people don't tend to notice such things.

(He developed Delphi. Without him, Borland floundered and died. With him, MS grafted a compiler onto VB, making a vastly successful product, and then abandoned it, and came up with .NET and C# instead, muddying the waters in ways that still shape the industry.)
> 14-metre-high tank

> 10-minute elevator ride through the tank

That's 1.4 meters per minute, or ~2.3 centimeters per second. The aquarium and the fish in it must have been marvelous to watch, because otherwise even imagining being stuck in an elevator moving at this pace feels terrifyingly boring to think about.
> For days on end [Sherlock Holmes] would lie upon the sofa in the sitting-room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night. On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some orange website, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion.
Spotify officially began selling enterprise software today
The Donkey Generation
It is a generic interface which also helps with many capabilities, including proper refactoring, formatting, and the like. Since VSCode does so much through it, basically all nontrivial interaction with the code base can also be used in other editors.

A far cry from the days of sublime text’s regex-based autocomplete
I helped my friend set this up back in the day so he could have WoW running on one computer and the wiki open on the other. IIRC he didn't have enough RAM on his main computer so running FireFox in the background tanked his FPS.
It’s not for new development but ERPs which require it. Oracle also makes a bunch of ERP platforms.
You may expand to DB2, IMS etc. The question as usual IT is not everything. It is everything to us. But not to business.

For new business.

But most big business started long time ago. If it makes business sense to migrate they would. Business sense.

Of course in some it does make sense but it did not. USA tax ?
OK, so how would that work, for an attacker? If an attacker wanted to impersonate foo.com, and the .com registry does not allow homoglyphs, what could an attacker actually do?
> If it's not part of the SOP, then no, you wont have those things

Isn't this "adversarial" as well? Why would you withhold that information just because the SOP don't make you provide it? What will happen then is that eventually the service will break, nobody will know how to fix it, and they will come and ask you.

If you're no longer there, the service will be decommissioned and all your work will have been in vain. I don't see a net benefit for any of this.
On deep truths: a review of the concept of harmony in the universe:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240587262...
That headline and the site itself sure remind me of this other program called Napster. Is this the fourth turning of software? :)
Good clarification. Perhaps it would be better then to build these at smaller scales (as they suggest on their website) ;)

In the video this example is chosen to compare it with the area requirements of conventional pumped hydro as well as to show what magnitude of energy storage would be necessary to compensate for fluctuating solar/wind production.
> Compatibility. We use more than one operating system and you probably do, too. Windows, OSX, Linux, FreeBSD... Barrier should "just work". We will also have our eye on Wayland when the time comes.

Wow that sounds handy indeed.
Unfortunately it still requires a Wi-Fi adapter:

It is important to note that Miracast over Infrastructure is not a replacement for standard Miracast. Instead, the functionality is complementary, and provides an advantage to users who are part of the enterprise network.

Discovery requests to identify Miracast receivers can only occur through the Wi-Fi adapter. Once the receivers have been identified, Windows 10 can then attempt the connection to the network.
Background story seems to be that a portion of Gitea maintainers formed a for-profit company, and transferred all the trademarks to it, going against former promises made, and blowing up their own community as a consequence. They go over the now-traditional "companies are using our free software without paying us" discourse here: https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/open-source-sustainment-and-th...

> we’re planning on establishing a fund to be able to provide support to contributors who not only contribute features, but also bug fixes, performance enhancements, and important refactors.

Sounds like any other for-profit company building commercial software. What stopped them from doing that while keeping the original OSS software copyrights intact?

Also curious to see their plan to pay out all the developers working on the OSS that underpins Gitea itself. The list is pretty long.
ZX81 Goes Nuclear – Game for Controlling a Nuclear Power Plant [video]
Microsoft Product Terms – Azure can no longer be used to mine crypto
The only car I’ve ever owned with a heated windscreen was a Ford Focus. It worked a treat and was still really useful even after some of the conductors corroded and stopped working.
https://github.com/dolphinsmalltalk/Dolphin Dolphin had a 'view composer' but obviously it's a bit pining for the fjords.
Taking notes for productivity – Effective Programmer
I'd like to share with you the first article from my new series about productivity, we'll talk about taking notes:
- why it's a good idea to do it
- how we could benefit from it
- how personally I take notes
OT: I find myself more and more closing pages that use bad font, text color, or layout choices. I could use Reader mode, but like with paywalls that protect nothing of value, choose to simply not read them. My life is not diminished in doing so.
They are fictional. But fear not, somebody will auto generate novels from those prompts with chatgpt sometime next week.
Plenty of houses in the UK in older buildings where it would be great in windows.
That only affects those domains who exist in those registries, on those TLDs. If my domain has a TLD managed by a registry which disallows homoglyphs, my domain is safe from impersonation.
I try not to use preprocessors or bundlers/build tools for simple stuff so the addition of features like this to the base CSS language is something I look forward to.
Considering there was a hotel lobby under the aquarium, it's actually a miracle that only 2 people were hurt. Too bad for the fish though.

Also, there's a sentiment of "how could this happen, it was only upgraded two years ago?!" in all the articles I have read so far - maybe it happened precisely because of that? But let's see what the investigation will reveal...
Fascinating. Would you name the ISP(s), if I may ask?
I had a friend working as a project manager for company using oracle, i asked him the same question, he said they looked into it - if they could get rid of 100m bill they would be happy to use anything else but some functionality was not really there.
> Perhaps that's the real issue here.

I don't see how it could be, that seems like an entirely separate issue.
Actually I’m pretty sure a lawsuit with Nintendo’s game boy drm (where you needed to have the logo in memory to boot) went to court and it was ruled that if working with the system required copying the copyrighted text then it’s fair use (US, long time ago and in a different but similar concept)
Google isn't launching a ChatGPT competitor, it has greater 'reputational risk'
Better than lentils, beans? Hard to believe.
>Since you bothered that much, why not kindly share the proof with us?

3/5:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33916379

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33366810

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31163090

>I cannot believe you without seeing the material that allowed to make you this conclusion.

You misunderstand something. I make no conclusion. "Based on that" refers to the thread linked. It is you making an implication. It is you that is supposed to be providing proof that those are the same people.

>If you don't answer, I'm afraid I might think that you weren't being truthful.

What's up with that? Is this an interrogation and wasn't aware of? But considering you knew they're 3, will call this dishonest.
It's unfortunate because all I want is a notepad with syntax highlighting and Atom with most packages disabled offered that.

I don't need code complete, or a terminal, or extensions, or anything else VScode offers. I suppose now is a good time to write my own notepad :/
First time I'm grateful a sarcastic comment was suffixed with a `/s`.
People used to use x2x for this: https://github.com/dottedmag/x2x
This days I'm starting to believe things I never thought could be happening before...
When the sun rises on the moon, it’s just the sun versus you and whatever protection you can wear. There’s no atmosphere to coddle you.
Because of this monopoly - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica
Non-native english speaker here Why are these openings bad?
I hope web standards decisions are never made starting from the assumption that there's a build tool.
> "... the ban only appears to impact mastodon.social and not any other Mastodon instance, ..."

This turns out not to be the case. It's looking like nearly all, if not actually all, Mastodon instances, including mine.
It was manufactured in 2004 by a US company, "International Concept Management": https://icm-corp.com/

(side note: what a weird name for an aquarium manufacturing and design company)
There was no drama as far as I recall, just complaints that he wasn't agile enough or something like that. The different project is Gogs https://gogs.io/ and its author is Joe Chen ('unknwon').
True, of course. :)
It took a long time, but GitHub has finally (thankfully) shipped privacy settings that allow you to disable the way it broadcasts/publicizes your every move on your profile page. Does Codeberg or Gitea allow this yet? (They really should have been the first to do so...)

It would be nice to also disable the public listing of repositories for your profile page and to control it for organizations, too. (Not talking about private repos. Instead: these should be ordinary repos that remain accessible to anyone who has the link, but they are simply not aggregated into a single unified list that's available to anyone who clicks over to the "Repositories" tab. Think of them like unlisted YouTube videos, except they are all unlisted by default, rather than having to specifically designate each one as being unlisted—although that would work, too, it's just not the way it should be implemented.)