skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know I'm not going to convince everyone, and I know that there are other advanced options that compete (people tell me I'm missing out because I don't use an IDE with all the auto complete stuff).

But I see a lot of people using a text editor that's basically notepad, possibly with syntax highlighting. For an occasional edit that's fine, but if you regularly spend more than an hour editing a file, you would benefit from more features.

Vim has a lot if features I don't know, so I think I'm also missing out (until I learn those features). It takes investment of time to learn an advanced tool.

I'm curious, what text editor do you use?
Looks like they opened the Issues tracker after I posted, good. Someone else already inquired about the installation procedure.
My little and short experience with Nix
So what happens if these interested parties see a lot of success and want to do even better? India and the Middle East are quite hot, it would be a nicer climate if they cooled it down by a few degrees. What would that do to North America, Europe and Asia?
What a great list, thank you for sharing.
Bill Atkinson's guest lecture in Brad Meyer's CMU 05-640 Interaction Techniques class, Spring 2019, Feb 4, 2019:

https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=...

Including polaroids of early Lisa development.
I was born in ‘83 and I think they’ve done a great job building a fantasized version of what the 80’s was or could have been. They’ve recreated a lot of tropes from movies they probably grew up watching.
And Switzerland features the most drop-dead-gorgeous hiking maps of any land I've visited. It feels like each mountain was hand-drawn and shaded by someone who knows and loves it, and you can often ID them from the ground based on the pictures. But the artistic details are still subtle enough not to interfere with the roads, trails, POIs, and text.
Sorry, but I don't get it:

>What drew me to old computers, and what still draws me to them after all these years, is the sense that people who used them new had a different faith in them: of computers as a tool for thought, as something that people could use to accomplish something new. The idea of computers as “the bicycle for the mind” felt like a lost future

Didn't we accomplish all that and some? Isn't a modern smartphone the best "bicycle of the mind" we could 've imagined in 1990s?

Sure there are disadvantages. I would love a large(cheap) eink display as much as the next guy. I'm also a big fan of retro computing. I still have my commodore 64, a 386sx,a slot1 windows 98 pc and more. I like all of them, but I would never give up my modern Ryzen PC with a nVidia 2070(yes,not newest, but pretty powerful), nvme drives and fast ram for something with less capability.

We have all this and at the same time we have single board computers and 8 bit microcontrollers where they are appropriate.

If not for the current "price gouger paradise" conditions I would say we have it the best it ever was computing wise.

The only things I miss from the past are two aspects of software development. First, it was much easier to understand "everything" about a computer back then when few tens of kB was a large program. Second, it seems programs were written to work well on current not future hardware.

Also, before Windows showed up there was an almost a decade long time period when a typical pc did everything a typical user wanted. There was little point to upgrade the hardware back then. Remember new computers sold towards the end of that time had a special button to slow them down! (hilariously named turbo). Only once graphical interfaces became a thing faster and faster PCs started selling. There is a certain comfort for a programmer to be able to make software for one machine for a decade. You can really get to know it well... Now? You can't even get one Android API to know well before they change it 180 degrees. This even starts to extend to programming languages. Despite android running a java virtual machine, java(and C) is no longer sufficient to use all features of the platform. Now, we have to switch to Kotlin to use certain concurrency features etc. I think the pace of change in this has direct impact on overall software quality we have now
Norway is a beautiful country.

Great pictures.
- The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson

Really solid cli-fi (climate-science-fiction). Tells the story of a fictional United Nations that begins to seriously take on the role of ensuring the survival of the human species.
Can you direct me to a single photo showing an underwater pier due to sea levels rising?
Algolia’s HN search in my experience regularly fails to find obvious matches which are quickly found using Google with same terms.
Who would have thought pumping hydrocarbons from under the sea, mostly for burning, would cause an atmospheric warming effect.

At least their sovereign wealth fund is now divesting from fossil fuel industries.
State laws vary but in many cases the creation of a landlocked parcel implies the right of an easement.
Official PyTorch Implementation of “Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers”
i think the rotations concept applies more to positions of power/control and this article covers social participation in science beyond that kind of scheme. the article talks about critical "free individuals" and sub-groups of society still afforded long-term focus on their scientific practice, but it's difficult to understand concretely. i'll look for better sources on this topic.
> poor on paper

How does that have anything to do with corporate income tax? CIT is paid by the legal entity, usually on the profit. After that the board decides what to do with it. Pay dividends or not, etc. And capital gains taxes are due on that. (That is it's basically a specialized personal income tax.)

Rich people appearing poor on paper only works if the tax system allows deducting luxury expenses. (Like mortgage payments on second, third and so on properties. Which the US tax system usually does.)
I think going gently with a metal needle might be safer? The metal contacts are springy and need a certain amount of force to bend.
The sad part is if we’re already screwed it defeats the argument of doing much of anything anyway so everyone continues doing what they were going to do anyway.
I was continuing the joke, the three-body problem being a hard problem in physics :-).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem
If there's no harm, there's no reason to curtail someone's freedom.

It's hard to support an argument that we should change the law if the harm isn't proven, and "someone directed my computer to use more CPU cycles than it otherwise would (after I voluntarily accessed their server)" isn't a story of self-evident harm.

(And that's leaving out the unsupported strong assertions that "you will eventually suffer tangible harms, loss of employment, impacted credit score, loss of medical access," which... What? Loss of employment because companies spy on me? That screams "lack of causality."

As an employed tech worker in the United States, I operate under the assumption that my employer has access to my corporate inbox. Is your assertion that I could be fired for something I say there [in which case the harm is I said something damaging to my company, not that my company knows about it] or some other mechanism?).
Variable, but a single partitioned file goes anywhere from single-digit kb to maybe a little under a meg. A query can touch just one or dozens (all lazily concatenated into a single frame).
Anyone know what CAD software was used to make these animations?
Do you judge credibility by who doesn't get silenced?
Where you have a point is that, if we were to reason metaphorically and consider that everyone was colorblind and couldn't see indigo except for me... I would probably claim that a rainbow has 7 colors and not 6.

The onus would be on me to prove it though. Just like Galileo had to prove himself.

In our case here though, I don't think that anyone is claiming that there aren't possibly conscious beings that are immaterial, or non-physical even for our definition of physical (What dreams are made of for example)

The issue is that human consciousness as we know it depends on perceptions for awareness. Self can't exist without Other(not self) hence if one is unable to gain awareness of the existence of that which is not self, one cannot gain awareness of self.

It seems to be a capability derived from the human physical structure.
And we have yet to encounter a human who never had a body. Nor do we remember what was before birth. Some people claim they remember past lives. But that still means they'd remember being a physical entity.

Last point is that interactions require a common language. Something that is purely non-physical would probably be completely orthogonal and imperceptible to us. It wouldn't even perceive us. If I define consciousness as a spectrum of interactions between physical data, it means that consciousness require a physical support. Remains to be determined though.

(not negating anyone's experience and I fully agree, not everyone is able to experience existence the same; usually, there would be measurable things if it is physical. I agree that often times, the scientific instruments might be lagging, indadequate as too crude, so I guess I understand and agree with your point as well)
Any published study comparing performance of experienced modal vs. non-modal editor users on common tasks would be interesting already. Basically, standard UX research stuff. Figuring out how to control for differences in skill etc. is literally the job of people who conduct such research.

I mean, there are studies examining how the quality of Git commits is affected by blood alcohol levels, so that doesn't seem like an overly exotic topic by comparison.
Nope. It's not binary. That's the entire point.
Are you not even bothering to go to the same lengths as amateur YouTube space photographers and sending up a phone with the balloons? Talk about half assing it.
Honestly, I think this concept applies to mobile phones for children too. A solid phone that does the basics without a camera or bloatware. Couple that with limited access to the internet and app store.

The purpose of cell phones, in this context, is to keep children safe. They fail to accomplish the task.
A few ideas come to mind. Most of them would use this as a pre-processing step to guide something valuable but a bit tricky to automate:

1. Detect meaningful redesigns in competitor sites

2. Power a more robust dynamic scraping solution

3. Summarize common layouts (in your industry, outside, ...)

4. Monitor sites known to A/B test to see which specific changes work for them, and aggregate those results across many inputs

5. Add it to your test pipeline, checking that modern browsers render your site roughly the same semantically (maybe more robust but still valuable compared with screenshot tests and whatnot)

...

In general, anything that would benefit from automating a task made easier by knowing the visual structure of a page should be a great candidate.
How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games
It reads to me like he's desperately trying to prove that his acquisition of Twitter was a good thing; that the people in charge before were Bad, and he is Good.

The fact that it has turned into such an obvious nothingburger just highlights how out of touch with reality Elon has become, and how badly he needs to feel like people like him.
The difference is human judgement.

I can forgive if once in a blue moon a person mistakes what turns out to be a minor mishap for a severe incident. But when a computer running an inacurate algorithm starts spamming the system, that's unacceptable. If it was a person initiating all those false alarms we would similarly make them stop crying wolf.

It's a lot more than dozens. 71 false alarms in the course of a weekend is a significant strain when you've only got two 911 operators. And that's just one county.
Lightning is capable of doing USB 3 speeds. The first gen iPad Pro had lightning ports and had usb 3 speeds.
I follow archeology closely. I find the common reference to “common sense” interpretations to be pretty off base.

There probably were queer Vikings, borders probably were diffuse, conquest was complicated and probably didn’t affect the lives of most people most of the time. The archeology of that is really clear.

I think academias job is to find accurate answers and that requires challenging “common sense”. If that means asking if there were queer Vikings seems like the type of consensus defying questions worth asking!

This person sounds like a revanchist, looking to go back to a past that no longer exists.
You lost me at “radical”, which makes you sound like a nut. What about this article is radical? Are they suggesting violence?
I would love a button on every content creator that says [I pirated your content and want to pay you directly].
Why Is Belarus a Genuine Space Power?
Where did this happen? Sorry but I find it hard to believe.
> Ok, so let's say I write a video game. Should my game have reasonable defaults, or should it ask you to go to your system-wide settings and setup all the bindings for my game?

Note that I specifically mentioned text. We've all agreed on how to write text, we've all agreed on how to read text, why can't we all agree on how we edit text? Text is a universal standard, games are not. Your game can have whatever keybindings it deems sane but the second I click on a textbox to enter my name I expect my keybindings to work because I'm no longer in the game's context, I'm inside a text context.

Using the user's preferences is a sane default but it's just that - a default, capable of being altered. That default might not be the most intuitive for your specific application and you can let the user know there's a better alternative but at least that default doesn't completely paralyze the user until they've taken the time to learn your specific way of doing things, as is the case with Vim.
>If you're going to be buying a laptop to leave it plugged into the mains the whole time when doing intensive tasks, then you might as well buy a workstation ?

I'd rather it plugged into the mains so I can also plug it into a nice big monitor and a large keyboard and a mouse, so I can use it like a human being and not a computer appendage.

A portable device is for BYOD. Actually working with it while on the go? I'd never do this unless it's an emergency.

[EDIT: I did not and would not have flagged parent comment. It's a bit direct but I've seen worse here.]
Might be a pun on both one of the author's name and abenomics.
12ft.io/<url> to remove the paywall
They are selling the image of a climate conscious large-scale oil exporter.
TBH; This is low-quality post. If I wanted to read about someone complaining about people and work, I'd go to a subreddit. I come here for tech news.

I would never discourage anyone from creativity, and since OP felt the need to broadcast what I would consider to be trivial matter; I decided to hint at his alternative options.

Everyone should self-host or at least find a Trusted Tech to do it for them for money or "pizza". Because if your service provider decides to close your account, (and I think we've seen enough examples this decade) you should be able to move on and get back up and running as soon as possible.

Always own your content and platform.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220610050612/http://www.always...
Michigan's Great Lakes Coastlines as well.
I don't understand your complaint. Consider this fact:

> There is less snow in the lowlands. In parts of the Oslo wildlands, the skiing season has become nearly 40 days shorter.

So we have an observable, measurable, falsifiable fact. It correlates or trends with global mean temperature changes. We have a mechanism of action. We have an arrow of causality, based on established scientific observations and experiments going back decades. I'm not sure what else you want.

You mention lack of citations, but they do have citations. For example, the browning water section clearly links to this paper [1]. That paper looks at data going back three decades and emphasizes (in the title, no less) the very arrow of causality you want.

"Correlation is not causation" is a weird, toothless complaint here. They're not plotting fedoras on the x-axis and global mean temperature on the y-axis.

I'm worried that this kind of Hacker News comment only helps climate-change deniers.

[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.estlett.6b00396
I’ve used M4 when I’ve needed to generate a large number of configuration files for different systems from a single source.

Query languages are a great target for metaprogramming but something like JooQ that works at the AST level is going to be a lot better than M4. (Recent versions of JooQ allow you to write transformations that work on that tree.)
A green power initiative on the Galapagos Islands demonstrates how the renewable energy transition will need to be supported by fossil fuels for some time to come.
No. What dinged GA is that they incorporated the annotations into the law.

Other states contract West and Lexis to annotate, but those annotations aren’t incorporated.
>freely usable by unregistered users

Why not require registration and in turn authentication? Easier to rate limit with authentication.
Who's forcing? People are just enthusiastic about vim because of the productivity bump when it clicks. I thought it was fun to learn, and didn't take long at all. I went through vimtutor, that was about it.
When it's 100 times easier to pirate content than getting it legally, you know the system is a failure.
Yes because USB C is an open source standard that anyone can freely implement…
But does VHDL work for FPGA?
Datafusion has better support for object_store api (you can just register the store and pass it s3 uris). With polars, you have to have the file on the local file system (which I’ve found to be a huge performance win, cacheing them anyway).
A bare git repo. I keep mine on a Raspberry Pi at home synced via Tailscale or Wireguard depending on device or the network I'm on.

git init --bare

Then I can sync it to multiple devices via pull or push.
Yep, I have a friend that worked in anti-trust for the French government and she gave the example of "garanteed lowest prices" — looks great on the surface but actually serves to constantly monitor the pricing landscape.
Everybody need a to do their part. Each machine running windos there costs Russia.
Is is typically the case that there are system-wide in most popular GUIs, like GNOME and KDE. It's even the case in something like i3 or sway. In a GUI environment, you get GUI-wide shortcut keys.

On the command-line, there is no GUI. Yet there are still a number of system-wide shortcuts, but things are a little different, because you are interacting with text. And often, you're only interacting with one program at a time. In most places, ^C, ^D, ^I, and ^Z work the same way. In Bash and other shells and programs that use readline, several Emacs-style shortcuts also work the same, notably ^A, ^E, and ^K.

There are probably others, but you'll notice that few of them have anything to do with copy and paste, because that is often meaningless between programs without a GUI to show multiple programs at once, in which case the GUI, not the CLI, would implement something. There just aren't that many needs for more shortcuts when you have only one program in front of you.
these were called jack of all trades?
I think we are supposed to forget about Lisa, so that the origin story of the Macintosh will seem more impressive.
What would it take to turn more offices into housing?
Unfortunately it seems unlikely with the labour party being strongly dependent on support from unions that are disappointingly obsessed with keeping(and growing) oil industry jobs at any cost.

And the conservatives want to do their hydrogen greenwashing nonsense of course. Then the 2 biggest parties after those are populist climate deniers(FRP) and populist luddites(SP).
There is not a single Android phone I'm aware of that has a feature like iPhone's "detected crash to automated 911", could you provide an example?
Actually Gboard does this (Google's Android keyboard app). I've been using that forever. I can't stand typing letter by letter on a touchscreen.
// add fix for snowstorm here
> this really is just a bunch of correlations without good citations

I only noticed the translucent "source" buttons after reading for 10 minutes or so. Maybe you missed them as well? Haven't looked at any of the sources myself though.

Example: https://imgur.com/a/nAkDvg2
Making Entrepreneurship Work for You
2022 will be warmest year on record in UK, says Met Office
Beware of this so-called wildcard person, as they are almost always a "tactical tornado"[1]:

> Almost every software development organization has at least one developer who takes tactical programming to the extreme: a tactical tornado. The tactical tornado is a prolific programmer who pumps out code far faster than others but works in a totally tactical fashion. When it comes to implementing a quick feature, nobody gets it done faster than the tactical tornado. In some organizations, management treats tactical tornadoes as heroes. However, tactical tornadoes leave behind a wake of destruction. They are rarely considered heroes by the engineers who must work with their code in the future. Typically, other engineers must clean up the messes left behind by the tactical tornado, which makes it appear that those engineers (who are the real heroes) are making slower progress than the tactical tornado.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Software-Design-John-Ouste...
Right. So that's moving the control of the binding from the app to the system settings. The problem is that it makes it harder for the app to have sane defaults.

Even for the obvious example of the text editor, where "everybody wants Ctrl+P to paste", where I precisely don't want that in vim and emacs.

That's what I meant by "preference": it is your preference to have apps honor your system-wide settings, but it is my preference to let the app developers choose their bindings themselves (instead of reusing something I defined system-wide for different apps). Because the app developer knows their app better. If I don't like it, I can customize it or just not use it. "Don't use vim if you want it to behave like Word", in some sense. Both are great, but different. And that's fine.
training them to be friendly and positive even in difficult situations

Without having any insight into how Southwest runs things I'd venture to guess that their gate agents and cabin crew have a lot more discretion than their peers at, for example, United. That kind of leeway makes the job much, much easier. United essentially handcuffed their staff leaving few options for dealing with an overbooked flight but to escalate to police involvement.

That's what happened with Dr. Dao in any case. Not long after that shit show, I booked a transcon on American. Turns out it was overbooked, and they were desperate to get people off the plane. The gate agents basically asked how much money it would take to get people to volunteer to take another flight. They got their volunteers, everyone went home happy because American empowered their staff to resolve problems.
> Their ground will also start to disappear as sea levels rise. So there are up sides and down sides for them.

Norway has barely any land affected by a sea rise of a few feet.

For the global view, you need to consider that Canada and Siberia will become much more habitable.
You just described a plugin for a text editor.
why is it in english lol
Thanks, going through the slides, I haven't noticed the linked paper. It's worth noting though that the part I quoted is still a part of TFA, and does still embody the issue I mentioned.

EDIT: I see now. The "source" button they've used for citations doesn't work correctly for me in Safari and Chrome (it scrolls way up, and only if you scroll back down will it start showing the footnotes). It's also only in Norwegian.