skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These aren't actual books. It's a competition open to all to submit what would be the worst opening lines in an imaginary bad novel:

"Founded in 1982 at San Jose State University in California, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges entrants to compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels."
Archived: https://archive.vn/2aHBl
Desiring any sort of consistency whatsoever is not "whataboutism".

If leftists didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards.
Even the regular surgical masks come in many different qualities. I was used to the grocery store variety and always struggled with fogging glasses, but when I was in hospital earlier this year (appendicitis), the masks they gave out fit much better around the nose, and my glasses didn't fog up at all.
Just move to a state where abortion is allowed and it isn't a problem, so it isn't like the healthcare issue at all.
My graph of null pointer exceptions per second would disagree with you. It's something so common that "NPE" is a common term used when using Java.

But maybe you're saying that the decision was good, but that they failed to actually do it?
Commercial airplanes don't have doors that go like this, unfortunately.
VSCode's out-of-the-box configuration is better suited for the most common modern development contexts (probably?) and its customization, add-on and overall UIs are definitely more aligned with modern conventions, more readily accessible and more exploration-friendly.

But VSCode is also less responsive, more resource heavy and ultimately less flexible or extensible. Vim and emacs have more of a learning curve, and their configuration is more fiddly, but the biggest hurdle is probably that the interfaces they use for this predate modern GUI conventions. Notably the "search by keyword, click install, done" workflow for adding extensions is definitely standard behavior in emacs (and vim too, I assume).

Configuration fiddling aside - and that shouldn't be a daily activity - "Vim and Emacs cannot compare to VSCode when it comes to productivity" is a claim that does not hold up to scrutiny. In the hands of an expert user, emacs (and again, I assume vim too) is definitely more capable and productive than VSCode. I'm fairly confident this could be demonstrated objectively. They just _do more_ and can be made to do it _exactly the way you want_ them to. The learning curve for vi/vim and emacs represents an investment, but one that can pay off handsomely.

The topic of this thread is actually a perfect example of one of the major advantages of these "classic" editors. Atom - and countless editors that have come before - has been sunset. And it will eventually happen to VSCode too. Your Atom customization skills (and mine) are wasted. Now we need to pick up a new editor and climb a new learning curve. But vim or emacs mastery is a skill you'll literally be able to use for the rest of your career.

It's absolutely valid to decide that learning how to use these esoteric tools well is not worth the effort to you personally, but there _is_ a reason these tools have been around for nearly half a century.
5x limit per manufacturer, maybe 3rd party for the additional?
I somewhat agree with you, if we're defining 'political reasons' as 'not liking violent interference in presidential elections'.

They did bend their own rules. But not because they are all card carrying Democrats. They did it because they couldn't stand having the person that very obviously instigated Jan 6th on the platform anymore.

It took a mob (following, supporting, assembled, and whipped up by Trump) storming the capital building to get them to boot Trump. I don't see how you get from there to 'political differences'. If that was the case he would have been gone much sooner.

Problem was that he didn't do it (entirely) by tweet. So they found an excuse. That much is true.
I know the feeling only too well. Rest assured it passes, just like rain passes. And, like trying to make it stop raining, trying to feel different doesn't do anything.

There's plenty of good advice in this thread. Take in but be wary of falling into the trap of "If I just 2x my salary, then I'll really be happy." (Or buy a house, or get married, or get a job at google or whatever) It's best to focus on the now as much as you can, because in 5 years time you'll find that you're living in "now", not in some magical 5 year future time.

Find your happiness in what you are doing now, whatever that is. By all means make improvements, but aim for small and immediate over long term and big overarching goals.
Is glymphatic cleaning related to knowledge retention?
Pick up a hobby project. Anything you like, don't tie it with money or earnings. Just something that will give you joy and let you stop thinking about everyone and everything else. If you won't like it, find another one and try again in a few months.

You have access to the largest library in history of the universe, university majors are nothing compared to that.

After focusing on it for some time you can share it with the world (for example Show HN), describe the process.
Musk is free to do what he wants. And everyone is just as free to criticize him for his behaviour.

You are presenting these two things as if they were mutually exclusive. They are not.
> Putting your face under a light bulb might cause other issues.

Radiate it from the inside, at some invisible wave legth that doesn't reflect too much?
The problem is that because he owns a jet, any passenger on it is at risk. That’s why his son was accosted by a crazy stalker.

I find it absurd how many people are against automated license plate readers (even privately owned ones) but simultaneously welcome the complete lack of privacy for aircraft. If someone replied, “Just use a taxi/Uber/Lyft.” in response to ALPRs they’d be downvoted into obscurity, and rightly so. But change the transport mechanism and suddenly it’s fair. The hypocrisy could not be more obvious.
This is a contest where contestants intentionally set out to write the worst opening sentence possible.
Clearly true. I, like so many others, are just having whiplash over how sudden and brazen it all is.
Seems pretty clear from context they meant "financial" or perhaps "related to money", I don't think we have to put them on the spot for it.

I imagine this is part of the meta-point you're making across the thread that people on HN talk out of their hat about finance (I plead guilty) but I feel like your comment about Money Stuff/"truth searching" was enough, and that asking people to defend their misuse of terminology is punching down.
> Starting to think there might be some national security issues with one guy being the nominal linchpin of the US space program, satellite internet, and global public messaging infrastructure.

Which is why there are rumors and calls floating around that the US government should seize control over Starlink and SpaceX, e.g. [1], for national security issues.

The entire debate perfectly shows why neither complete government control over such programs nor complete private control is good - Boeing/ULA were milking the government for cash and acted as pork distributers for decades while showing not much progress, and Starlink's actions in Ukraine show the dangers that independent actors can wield over US foreign policy.

[1] https://fee.org/articles/former-bush-speechwriter-says-feds-...
Wow this really exemplifies American urban planning.

If only Americans could fathom infill density and public transit as the solution to scaling population centers.

While it's tempting to blame NIMBYism for this, I think it's a more general reflection of America's backwards relationship with urban development.

Hopefully we'll see a cultural reversion back to sanity with respect to urban planning in my lifetime. It would be so lovely to achieve the same convenience and economic potential properly designed cities have enjoyed for decades.
Thanks, yes I should have looked more thoroughly.
Banning all links to Mastodon? That's just censoring the competition. Lots of people have been leaving Twitter for Mastodon, so silencing that might be a welcome side effect of widely overshooting his elonjet ban.
Well, you've got the performant code part down. Now for the part which may seem harder: the somewhat harsh reality is other people won't like what you've done until they can understand what you've created.

Duck DB's landing page has a lot of great lessons about how to pitch your idea so that it will land well. For one, notice that it is much more concrete than Didgets':

"DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP database management system" vs. "A WHOLE NEW WAY TO MANAGE ALL KINDS OF DATA: Beta testers wanted"

Any creator will like their idea because they can see the novel value. But other people probably aren't as interested that it's new. They want to know what it is in the most concrete terms possible.

One other thing: is anything stopping you from putting the results you showcase in your videos into a table on the homepage?
Ah yes, all those people just disappeared into the aether.

Literally a matter of, "well if I don't see any of it, it doesn't exist." Like the idiots who oppose dense urban development because of "the environment".
People at Tesla and SpaceX have achieved great things, not Musk.

All he's demonstrating is that CEO pay and comp should never have got as high as it has and taxes on rich people needs to go way higher, they are just going to waste it any way.
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
20 bytes per rule. While not a fan of the syntax[1], there’s the advantage when reading of seeing that rules are explicitly nested versus doing string parsing of rule definitions.

[1] In particular the significant space char difference between &. And & .
The difference is mainly that the number I linked is "after taxes and transfers".

Also surely 2019 is not the peak of the business cycle? Feb 2020 is.

Peak-to-now real income is up for bottom 50% of households since then (https://realtimeinequality.org/?id=income&incomeend=09012022...) but flat for the rest due to inflation.
And what makes it even funnier is that they all sound like they could be from a real Dan Brown novel.
They weren't. From what I understand, some of them merely linked to the already banned @Elonjet account on Twitter. They didn't link to his location by even the loosest interpretation.
What is the significance of the word “billionaire” in that sentence? Is it worse to be a hypocrite if you’re a billionaire? Do you think it’s unethical to be a billionaire?
> As long as vaccine side effects cause less deaths and less harm than the virus, vaccination is still the way to go.

No.

This is the wrong criteria to judge by. Right now it takes ~30,000 injections to prevent one hospitalization from COVID, according to recent studies.

So the real criteria is, if there are severe side effects in more than 1/30k they should be pulled.

In Pfizer's own RCT more people died in the vaccinated cohort. They had ~4x the amount of cardiac arrest. There was no proven effect on all-cause mortality from the start. Anyone paying attention and not blindly listening to politicians and the sycophantic media knew this long ago.
Q: Hello, Oracle support? I'm seeing this bug after your latest update...

A: Ah, yes, we are already offering a fix for that bug.

Q: Great! How can I get it?

A: It's in our new upgraded product, Oracle same-as-yesterday(TM). And we are offering it to our trusted existing customers - free of charge.

Q: Free of charge? That's quite generous of you, how unusual.

A: Yes, the customer is king here at Oracle. You just need to sign the license agreement and we can deploy it right away.
World's Largest freestanding cylindrical aquarium bursts in Berlin
I agree. I wanted to present the opposite side to make sure short-term memories remembered.
This made me think of Brackets [0] made by Adobe. Which hasn't seen new commits in the past 4 months[1].

They seem to have spun-off a new project "Phoenix Code Editor" [2].

[0] https://brackets.io

[1] https://github.com/brackets-cont/brackets

[2] https://github.com/phcode-dev/phoenix
You can get an RSS feed for any account by appending .rss to the URL, i.e. https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon.rss

Not sure if that helps
Well I'm happy about open space preservation, but imo that's really tangential to facilitating urban development. A proper investment in urban density (land use) and public transport in the last 50 years would have resulted a vastly superior situation for both economic growth and improved quality of life.

But the bay is in America so that was a long shot.
We all do it already with consent, using our phones.
> it won’t stop a dedicated stalker

A "stalker" is pretty much by definition "dedicated". Otherwise it'd just be a casual observer.

But what it most important to keep remembering is that the whole discussion of elonjet account is a distraction. Sure, it's one guy posting the data for whatever motivation he has. But it doesn't matter at all, because the source raw data is public domain information available to the whole world for free on many other air traffic websites. Even if Elon were to shut off, somehow, every website in the world, the data is literally there for the taking out of the airwaves since it is being transmitted in the clear, by government mandate.

There isn't any conceivably rational argument to claim this data is private.
I hadn't read any Dan Brown, gee that's really bad! So, the sentence maybe should've been rearranged so the book starts with Square-jawed, getting right into the action.
For more on Dan Brown, see this hilarious parody:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/dont-make-fun-of-r...
Musk is not a trustworthy source of information.
I'd wager asking a bajillion followers will have more success than the police.
KasmVNC would be worth trying as that is pretty fast and low latency https://github.com/kasmtech/KasmVNC
Yes I have, care to explain?
> VSCode is the greatest productivity tool in the history of software engineering

Surely that honor goes to compilers, right (take your pick which one is the greatest)?

Sure, VSCode starts faster than Visual Studio, and has better IDE features than (pre-lsp) Emacs, but all of that dwarfs compared to the productivity increase of not writing assembly.
I don't think there's anything moderate about him anymore.
When you are spinning up lawsuits (allegedly) to sue induviduals around an indident that occured (allegedly) - it makes your case, that these induviduals were party to a crime, much stronger if you have at least a police report, statements etc of the crime in question.
> The architecture behind the chatGPT and the other AIs that are making the news won't ever improve so it can correctly write non-trivial code. There is a fundamental reason for that.

What is that?
>But not all of these were "unwanted". Many women are pressured into abortion by abusive, manipulative, cowardly, and responsibility-shirking men.

So if they didn't abort, how exactly were these children going to be raised? By homeless single mothers now that the cowardly, responsibility-shirking men have left them?

You seem to think that preventing abortion will magically turn accidental parents into good parents.

>We'll never know how many diseases would have been cured by now

We'll also never know how many people who made big contributions would have been murdered by unwanted, abused, and neglected children who grew up to become criminals.
> Arbitrariness of de-platforming, link blocking and pejorative labelling is now being directly experienced by many people on Twitter 2.0.

Twitter 1.0 was doing this all the time.
> Very minor feature.

Moreover it is supported out-of-the-box in emacs: `M-x list-packages`.

I think `:packadd` or something may be the equivalent for vim.
I honestly don't think anyone here thinks what Elon is doing is important. Most of the comments seem to find it entertaining and validating.

It's fun when you've spent years reading pro-Musk brigades on every social media platform saying that Musk is one thing, and then he's proving himself to be a different thing altogether.
It's even worse than that, listen to the politicians and economists all parroting:

- the economy needs to be kicked into gear

- we need to inspire consumer confidence to spend more

- GDP growth over anything

- employment rate needs to be high

This is systematic need for spinning money by producing garbage and then using a lot of marketing-advertising to inspire people buying that garbage. Mostly so some people can skim off a bit and get ferraris.

It's all so stupid, a much more cooperative and equitable society would mean better life for everyone (including the would be billionaires who would not need to worry about the rabble attacking them and taking away their toys) along with less pressure to the environment.

I get we are genetically wired to survive at the harsh game of life, but we have also made profoundly uncool some things like murder, rape, etc.

We need to make "being rich" or "baller lifestyle" to be uncool. But we cant because a lot of marketing relies on this to sell their garbage.
I'm 37 and I'd say this is _still_ one my largest motivators.
It’s Mozilla right? I’m not sure how much money they make off pocket but I imagine that it’s no where near as much as keeping that google money flowing.

That being said, I imagine every bit counts for Mozilla. Anybody have any idea how big their user base is?

https://uk.pcmag.com/suites/128195/mozilla-signs-lucrative-3...
This seems like a big drama without the complexity that would justify it.

Essentially, Twitter should have a clear and consistent moderation policy. Musk should not be able to arbitrarily change that policy, or certainly not when the situation directly concerns him. So you publish a policy and then it gets regularly reviewed, and that’s it.

Tbf, it seems that pre-Musk Twitter was also fairly arbitrary, it’s just now it’s for his benefit rather than the murky hidden incentives of the previous regime. They do seem to have set precedent by responding to arbitrary pressures.
Wrote some NES map editors using Atom at one point. Was kind of a pain. I didn't use it much after that.

I don't use VSCode but it just feels like this started an era of Electron-based everything that slowly consumes all of our machine's resources.
> Hmm, yes, that's why nobody can go to InfoWars anymore, right? They're banned from Facebook and YouTube, so I guess it's impossible to hear anything they have to say.

The thing is, deplatforming works. Banning far-right actors has drastically reduced the reach of their messages [1]. Personally, I see this as a Good Thing, simply because of the potential that spreading hate has to escalate to actual, real-world violence, from murders like in Charlottesville to an outright attempt at instigating a coup.

At every sudo prompt, we get the warning "With great power comes great responsibility" - for good reasons. It's the same with running a social network connecting literally billions of people... those operating them have great power by the sheer market size of their platforms, and a huge responsibility for just how much of the bad side of humanity can be empowered by them. Whatsapp, for example, was directly linked to dozens of murders and severe injuries after lies and propaganda led to lynch mobs [2][3][4].

[1] https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/06/deplatforming-works-this-n...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings

[3] https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/news/chilling-whatsapp-chil...

[4] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-61794986
When I sniff it on you local network I can probably guess your username (helped by the 3 byte hash, to confirm),
and with my 2TB rainbow table your password is known in 0.5 seconds.

It DOES hurt.
So why exactly & would be required before element selectors? Syntax parsing rules can be different for nested blocks. It's not a breaking change.
I assume that the random trace generator produce structured output and not random garbage that's rejected most of the time, right?
... and in the process omitting the required OpenStreetMap attribution.

I cannot find any contact information on the website to tell them, though :-/
Yes, it’s not.

It’s just free.

What people mean when they say “I can’t believe how good this is” is:

“I can’t believe how good this is for something I got for free”

That’s not engineering excellence. It’s just engineering; being given away as a loss leader.

Vscode is good and well maintained, but that’s because a lot of money is being spent making it so.

Enjoy it; there’s no harm in taking money people are giving away. …just don’t presume they’re either a) doing it for love, or b) going to keep doing it indefinitely.
Really? Jack Dorsey 2015 said it and many times after [1].

Twitter only censored the oldest continually published newspaper in America during an election about the Hunter Biden laptop.

[1] https://twitter.com/jack/status/651003891153108997
It's why it's so fascinating.
My personal answer to this is "adapt". I shifted my thinking of games as experiences, with a limited time offer. Like a ticket to a theme park, or to the movies. Let's pay for it now, make good memories, connect with each other in the context, and properly let it go, when the time comes. And remember when buying, that the button might say "buy", but you effectively license, or rent. The time will come when they will change the experience, and that'll be it. So make the most of it while you can.
> People at Tesla and SpaceX have achieved great things, not Musk

You can’t be serious. So Musk can’t take any credit for what those companies have achieved?

By that logic, he should also be blameless for any problems at Twitter.
Sublime Text is a fantastic editor. In my opinion it deserves more popularity.
Why did Elon enter this shit storm?

He’s going to be spending all day every day arguing about controversies like this when he could have been building out much more interesting and significant companies, or simply
enjoying his money.
> As long as luxottica has a monopoly on glass for glasses (is that the correct english word? Is it lens?)

"Monopoly" is not the correct word. At least in a global sense - they are more dominant in some places.
For the record, I do not have a Tesla, a reusable rocket, or a flamethrower.

I just think people do good and bad things and I try not to pick sides.
Dunno, just getting VSCode to run and debug a project requires manually editing cryptic config files which is what almost any IDE does much better...
I hate separate infrastructure teams with a passion for this reason.

Far too frequently you end up in a situation where someone makes an environment change and blows everything up because they have no understanding of the services they're stewarding.

If you want me to take responsibility, my team should be managing the service end to end.

I feel really strongly against this division of responsibility in software teams. It too often leads to holding up progress and hostile interactions due to each team pursuing their own priorities.
> VSCode is the greatest productivity tool in the history of software engineering

Really?