skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sometimes seems like a lot of the Vim, ew crowd think that the sole reason for using Vim is gaining some kind of god-like ability to physically pump out and manipulate characters. Sure, maybe that's possible. For me, it's about being efficient with my keystrokes. Standard shortcuts (Ctrl+_) are pretty unpleasant for my hands - saying this having already mapped CAPS_LOCK to LEFT_CONTROL (and LEFT_CONTROL to ENTER). I like running commands using sequences of letters - it just feels physically easier to me than sequences of multi-key-presses (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+T). That Vim has other smarts around that is just a perk.

Editing text using Vim, once you've built the muscle memory, really feels super natural and effortless. I really hate reaching for the mouse; it just irks me in a way that's hard to describe. Similarly, editing code without Vim feels tedious in a similar way. Imagine scrolling a long article by pressing the down arrow over and over, or clicking the down button at the bottom of the scroll bar.

Another complaint I see is that remembering the commands is too hard an ask. I moved from QWERTY to Workman at the same time that I was learning Vim and it was interesting because I learned that I -- and probably most people, but I'm speculating -- don't associate commands or actions with letters after they're initially learned. It's all muscle memory, just particular movements of select fingers. The Vim stuff you use day-in-day-out just sticks in your brain and you don't think about anymore than you think about which fingers to activate to type words.

Of course, some people probably just prefer to edit text like they do in almost all other text-editing contexts. They can already edit text; without some kind of perceived extra value, there's no motivation to change, or seemingly even try to understand an alternative. For me, it's the pleasure of feeling efficient and doing dev pain-free.
And of course asking military experts about things like if wars can be won and how is often questionable as well. Experts are often experts because they are interested in those topics, and that itself is a bias. You probably don't turn into a general because you a pacifist.

So there is already a certain selection bias in who would even become an expert and why.
The other counters on the page are updating after each refresh. I think only the ICMP counter is broken. The IP address points to a Norway provider. I do not think there is a CDN, elsewise the counters would be frozen.
I've recently tried sending money using different cryptos - Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDC - this was the slowest, most expensive, and overly complicated funds transfer I've ever done! During the same week, I transferred money via Wise and Revolut - from one currency to another, etc. Of course, that latter beats any crypto! Not to mention that with regular wires you're charged a fixed fee - even if you send millions, the cost is the same, unlike with crypto, which ended up being a huge percentage trying different means to minimize the cost. To be honest, the only wonderful thing crypto offers is the ability to sign stuff with your wallet right in the browser - nothing else in the crypto world makes any sense! Everything else is just an elaborate pyramid or daylight robbery scheme and nothing more!
God forbid someone stops using a product because it’s no longer nice to use. No no no, every commercial interaction must be driven by a deep political alignment strategy.
Apple’s vision framework is actually very good, so effective on-device extraction is really just a few lines of code on iPhone(all Apple device tbh).
Magic :)

No, for the VT340 they devised a set of escape sequences for encoding bitmaps called Sixels; each character encodes a vertical stripe of six pixels. They used it both for displaying graphics and printing. They also did a vector graphics system called ReGIS a few years earlier.
Wouldn’t there also be a particularly rich seam of rock with a high concentration of various minerals that we use?
On the tools: I have gone the route of using the libraries (e.g Kaffy for Phoenix, ActiveAdmin for Rails) and later building a central shared backoffice from scratch that any team can contribute to. In the former you are always wasting time fighting the library to get what you want, in the latter it has the advantage of being language/framework agnostic but it's too costly for smaller teams.

More recently i've used tools such as Retool (there are many alternatives), it has been ideal and allows for non engineers to build there own tools with a little bit of SQL knowledge.
Depends on what you mean by "good". C/C++ tooling is certainly more plentiful, better-supported, and available on more platforms, than Rust at this point. That's somewhat natural, considering how much older the ecosystem is.
I've recently gained access to Netflix through my girlfriend. I really don't get why it's so popular though.

It seems to be an awful lot of filler, and it's not even as if the search or the descriptions are any good.

Maybe I'm spoilt having access to BBC iPlayer?
I think whatever tax you pay in writing typescript (which, as someone reasonably experienced with it, I believe is none or exceptionally minimal) you easily get back from improved efficiencies of not requiring memorizing the entire shape of your application, looking up in seperate documentation, or a run/inspect/write-code just to see what things are.

I think that typescript's type refinement is extremley useful to know whether you've covered all the cases for the types of data as it flows through your system.
I learn songs all the time, and it has the opposite effect for me - when I've learned something new it often pounds around in my head when I'm in bed and keeps me awake
Can't we have the EU force them to provide an API and thus interoperability with competitors?

Also, the whole silo thing reminds me of the old telephony days. We got over that, so what is the problem now?
What is wrong with build tools?
Thanks for mentioning Jummbox, I was just looking for something like that! Though I'll start with Beepbox since it looks even more constrained.
Sharing your experience is fine. Rebutting someone saying “this saves me time”, much less in a comment where they’re thanking someone for something they help make, is a bit ridiculous.
The Drax report they link to (which has some nice photos of the Star Wars set from the recent Andor series) suggests when you net off the avoided support payments, that you save between 1/3 and 2/3 thirds of the cost when you curtail wind, rather than pay twice for it:

https://www.drax.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Drax-LCP-Ren...
Why are people jumping to a ridiculous conclusion about the API being removed, especially because it's literally in the middle of the night in California? Like why assume the much more reasonable opinion that it's simply an outage.
Didn't America do the same in Iraq? In fact, the first thing America did there was to destroy civilian infrastructure.
> given the company's performance after the iPod launch they would never second guess him

This is the point though. It only lasts as long as the stockholders have confidence in the leadership. If the stockholders start to worry about the future performance of the stock, they can replace everyone, including the CEO and board of directors.

Cook was a known, safe choice to the stockholders. Whereas if Jobs had chosen some kind of maverick or outsider as his successor, the stockholders would be very worried about that.
Yes both of those franchises are failing, and if they aren't meeting their KPIs then they should have the franchise stripped.

Some of that is infrastructure (the cancellation of platform 15/16 at Piccadilly means the new Ordsall chord is basically useless, but they tried to use it anyway), I don't know enough about TPE to fairly attribute it, but with AWC it's franchise operation -- especially staff availability. Some of that is also government interference.

Why the left think a tory government would be any better running services than the train operators is anyones guess. When you dig down to it they seem to want more tax subsidies to big businesses (the ones who pay the £400 first class peak time returns on Manchester-London) and high income commuters (the ones with 50% discounts via season tickets who cause peak problems in the same way peak is a problem on the electric grid, and who typically earn far more than the average UK person who commutes via bus or van/car)

Fortunately the franchise system means many lines have significant competition, and you can choose based on journey time, price, and reliability.

Where privitisation does have its weakness is the financing of rolling stock.
Twitter should've announced this, giving developers time to switch.
Guide: How to Switch from FlatCore CMS to SwiftyEdit
I think the original selling point was that if you were doing new construction, and had budgeted for a "premium" roof (slate for example) then for a small percentage extra you could have solar integrated into them. And you wouldn't be hiding your "premium" roof.

Again, not something for the mass market, but more for the market that would put up slate or terracotta roofs.
Looks like it's all based on Drawille, which is python.

https://github.com/asciimoo/drawille
Wow, that's really versatile! Thanks for sharing! `json2nt` seems like a great alternative to `jq .` for pretty printing.
Thanks! Looks promising, will give it a try :)
Those are two separate problems that you are mixing up.

Nothing about liquid or direct democracy is about electronic voting.

Here in Switzerland some cantons literally do direct democracy by hand raising to decide on government issues.

Both direct and liquid democracy can be conducted with paper.
It can be designed for, but it wasn't designed for when current UK nukes were built; they were intended to replace baseline coal plant.
I think this is a bit too simplistic of a way to look at it. Having sone debt is not necessarily bad, even outside of enormous purchases such as a house or car.

First, c'mon, people don't (directly) finance sandwiches. Have you ever seen a sandwich shop accept Klarna? If you're talking about a credit card that's something but that's not what this article is talking about, which is BNPL.

Second, in general it's not as black and white as either having or not having the money right now. If you have enough regular income to afford something over time and the interest rate is low/0%, it may make sense to spread the payments out over time rather than all at once. For example if you wanted to buy a €5K camera and maybe you don't have the money all at once but can afford to make 12 payments, what's inherently wrong about doing so?
Well the 3.5" shouldn't be called a floppy disk. Or it could, since the disk inside is itself floppy, as opposed to a hard drive platter. but...
I guess this comes down to personal preference. For me, this is mixing the interface with the implementation. You shouldn't need to know how something works to be able to use it, for me, that's the real overhead. Maybe this works on a small scale, but what if the source code changes?

That being said, I do like inspecting the source from time to understand it better, or make up for missing documentation. Sometimes though, with this being JS, I wish that I could unsee the things that I've seen, code that production depends upon, deep within the dependency tree.

I agree with the idea of fluency when writing without types, but for me it's not about how fast you can write code. Code for me is a lot of rereading and understanding what the hell you wrote just a few days ago, I find typed code easier to get back into and it's faster to find things that broke in parts of the codebase that you're less familiar with when you change something.
Do you remember July 08,2022 when Rogers Communications went down for about 19 hours and services like 911 and Interac a payment service almost all Canadians use was interrupted? I guess it can happen to even the most critical of services.
What is the point here?

I'm not claiming the Macintosh was initially the best selling computer of all time, merely that it wasn't a commercial failure as claimed. There's a huge range. Selling less than C64 or Apple II doesn't make a product a failure.
Subtext of article is

"Bela Bajaria, who oversees the streaming giant’s hyper-aggressive approach to TV-making, says success is about “recognizing that people like having more.”

Where do people get sentences like -> success is about “recognizing that people like having more.”

How does it even mean anything for an average student or housewife?
On Apple devices that wouldn’t be an issue because you you can load the Twitter Web interface into a real Safari and get the markup from there for processing. Twitter can try things like CAPTCHA but this will degrade the experience for all Twitter users and you can simply delegate this CAPTCHA to your user to solve anyway.
Surely someone at Twitter has to say something official about whats going on here. There’s no way they can continue radio silence.
> a waste of energy
Not if the energy is wasted anyway (or worse, costs money to get rid of).

> a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions
Except if it is wind power.
From experience I can tell you that such a setup is very brittle and will fail the moment the one employee of that customer who knows about this is on vacation or working at a different place.

The only thing that works reliably is a proper VPN (configured for machine to machine access, not based on username/password which has the same brittleness issue) which these days is available at every customer's site.
>Those editors also let you use shortcuts without having to switch through different modes making you more efficient.

The modes are what makes editing in Vim efficient.. you don't think Vim users are out here swapping through modes looking for the one that lets them paste a line do you?
His comments on Taiwan were prompted comments in request to a question buried in some interview. He didn't rant about it. He hasn't ever mentioned it on Twitter. And how he was quoted was very different from what he actually said.
I would think so. I tried finding that article, and couldn’t, but I did find this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16837120
After the number of times I've seen AutoMapper absolutely abused and had to track down some really head-scratching bugs introduced by it, I've come to the conclusion that I'd rather just eat the pain of writing the mappings by hand.

And after the number of times I've started a job and asked about something that looked arcane, odd, and difficult to work with and gotten the reply "well we used to have this code generation tool", I've come to the conclusion that I don't wish to rely on code generation tools either because the incentives to build code generation tools and the incentives to maintain them seem to be severely misaligned such that building on a foundation of code generation tools seems to be equivalent to building on a foundation of quicksand.
I have definitely noticed that i cannot fcking resize a browser window anymore.

I’m on a large 24” display running at 1920x1200 resolution.

If I resize a browser window to make it smaller (you know, so i can multitask) now the css think’s I’m on mobile and rearranges everything as if I was on a phone.

It’s just awful.
We're not only talking about infrastructure. We're also talking about wholesale killing of civilians. And, if someone else does it, does that change what it is? Terrorism does not have an ambiguous definition.
Well, the inflation of the last year is not a secret. But this article is specifically about eggs. For the end consumer, it is of course a product that by itself is consumed only in moderate quantities, although fried eggs for breakfast is a much more common thing to have in the US than in a lot of other Western countries.

However, eggs are of course used in the preparation of a lot of other products that are regularly consumed (pasta, baked goods,...). Thus an increase in the price of eggs alone would have an effect on the price of those products too, but with eggs being only one of a number of ingredients, that would still be a moderate increase.

The raise in prices you see is across the board is due to _everything_ having become more expensive, not just an after-effect from pricier eggs.
I think you’ll find it’s actually called an arrgument
For my current job? They don't allow us to. For a company in a different country? I'm exploring this as an option these days. I don't feel great about my chances of getting a job at a serious company because the quality of my years of experience is really low (who wants to hear me talk about all the ASP.NET Web Forms apps I work on right now?). I think my best shot are "nearshore" contracting shops, so I'm trying to apply to those when I find them.
I am a strong believer that every developer on a team should know how the code works. Emphasis on HOW. You only know that if you go to the source of truth. That is how people become proficient with a skill — by doing and re-doing and re-doing things.

I disagree that it's wasted time. The time spent investigating how a piece of code works is time extremely well spent.

If the code is too difficult to understand — of course one can hind behind types.

So, yeah, to sum it up — I think types are an overhead for a well written piece of code.
I have been using TypeScript at work since 2019. Personally I am not convinced that it is worth it, broadly for the reasons you note and also because TypeScript has in practice a soft dependency on Visual Studio, and in turn other MS services such as GitHub and Axure. Adopting TypeScript can often lead to de facto vendor lock-in.

There is a good argument for using types (and also a good argument for not doing so). If the argument for wins out, then types will be included in the native js spec and the need for TypeScript will disappear. If the argument against wins, then TypeScript will also disappear.

If TypeScript really floats your boat then by all means use it, but treat it for what it is- a hairy dependency that only a minority of developers love or need.
Thank you, I appreciate it
The HP Dev One is what you're thinking of: https://hpdevone.com/ - it's a well reviewed developer laptop that comes w/ Pop!_OS preloaded and is very reasonably price - Ryzen 5850U (Zen3) - basically a rejiggered EliteBook 845 G8 w/ full Linux support (System76 has a repo w/ hardware support that can be used for fan speed and additional battery info: https://github.com/pop-os/hp-vendor). It's US-only and uses a SureView display (but has a 30-day return policy), so worth checking out for anyone in the market I think...
Sure, but eggs are still very affordable.

That said, meat is also one of the cheapest foods you can buy in many cases, usually quite a bit cheaper than fresh fruits and vegetable.
The equipment costs (eg: converter stations) for an HVDC link are more expensive, but by running under the sea you save on a lot of other costs (ie: civil engineering, land acquisition, etc).

Building any new transmission line through densely-populated England is extremely expensive. Even if you can secure the necessary land and wayleaves, nobody wants them running near their house and spoiling the views, so significant segments have to run underground in tunnels, greatly increasing costs.

Besides, the UK is not that small when linking England and Scotland. The proposed Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) is 440 km long: there are many existing HVDC connections much shorter than that around the world!
It's the person who initiates the contact (not the one who is on vacation):

> forces employees to pay $1,200 if they contact people who are on a break
More complexity and friction.
Ive been waiting for a new JavaScript framework
If your job requires reporting hours you work, you have to report those hours accurately. This doesn't seem to be "got distracted by the internet for 30-40 minutes a day" but rather it's long term consistent non-work - something she actually admits (she explicitly said she recorded hours she knew she should not have been)

In some other cases there can be a transitive issue: plenty of companies/industries bill by the hour, so need to be able to track how many hours each employee has worked on each job. One of those employees over-reporting hours worked would presumably open the employer to legal action for over charging. Accounting is one of those industries.

So in those cases it's not necessarily a matter she reported X hours, she gets paid X*$Y. Just that the accurate recording of hours is important for other legal reasons.
You are absolutely right. Building pylons through much of England means dealing with highly organized NIMBYism - from people who care a lot about their local 'environment' but very little about catastrophic floods or fires in other countries, and highly opportunistic landowners who can name their price for use of their land.
Good lord people... Why is everyone jumping to "this is the end of the Twitter API" when in reality it's late at night in California and is much more likely a simple outage. Everyone needs to cool their jets. I don't understand the hyperbole. Every new thing that happens at Twitter is a new "this is the end of Twitter" even though it never is.
A number of third-party apps lost access to Twitter without prior notice
> Does this show that current markets are working?

Depends on your definition of working. It wasn’t explicitly stated, but I think it’s implied that natural gas is bad, or at least, less desirable than renewable only.

I think something missing from the article’s analysis is that solar power can be, in a lossy manner, sent (north) eastwards in the US. If California is close to producing a surplus of solar power, then why not send it to seattle/Arizona. Northwards accounts for unbalanced solar load, and eastwards lets excess daytime Cali sunlight fuel the post-sun evening boom towards the east.

California has a unique opportunity to pioneer a lot of renewable energy tech. The (on average) rich population can afford higher costs, to buy at-home solar and battery packs. The geography and climate means plenty of renewable energy. The localization of energy production and storage could make the grid resilient, and distribute costs so there’s no government mega projects to politically grapple with. Unfortunately a lot of that won’t translate well to the rest of the Us, especially the Northern regions with much less generous weather. Unless California can find a way to export their energy, the rest of the US won’t benefit nearly as much.
I think it's more that these libraries are sometimes used in projects that aren't already using a build tool.
I think ,it's not technology that's real problem ,it's that loss of ethics in domain of knowledge ,since industrial and scientific revolution ,we put more emphasis on reductionism and objectification ,even human are being objectified ,this disease of over rationalism plaguing to every domains of knowledge ,I think it's always been constant battle of rationalism vs romantics .
> I agree the TypeScript compiler's error messages are confusing but you should have see the types of stack traces JavaScript produces.

Non-transpiled js produces fairly sane and useful stack traces. Its just a shame that non-transpiled js is so rare these days.
Thank you. Now please ban it from planet earth.
Because organizations don't have power, people do. And peoples individual power is always limited by making their actions depended on the consent of other people. And then those other people require consent of even more people and so on.
StEnSea – Stored Energy in the Sea
Tangential to the authors point, but it’s funny to note many new SQL databases(e.g CockroachDB, TiDB, MyRocks) are written on top of RocksDB, a “NoSQL” key value store.