skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found learning vim--either as a plugin for IntelliJ or Chrome or Firefox or as a minor mode in Emacs or by itself--probably the most productive thing I've done on a computer. I spend all my time editing code. It's incredibly useful to learn how to do that quickly.

I went through trying to customise it perfectly but I found it is better--more portable for one thing--to learn its defaults. I enable a couple of things, like mkview and tabstop etc, but no more than 10 or 15 lines.

My only criticism relates to the fact it's an editor, not an IDE; there's vimscript and I've made various vimscripts to give it IDE-like functionality, but the plugin system, and plugin systems, or lack of a in-build one, let it down. And it doesn't seem, unlike emacs, that is was designed with extensibility in mind.

But as an editor: it's unparalleled.
It's hard to build GPT out of Naval. Good thoughts evolve. Good try nevertheless.
Possibly unpopular opinion – don't look to work at a <10 person startup if you don't want to put in those kind of hours. There are plenty of companies out there that will give you a great work life balance, fixed responsibilities, low pressure, big paychecks and more, and the trade off is that you won't get a chance at a 100x exit a few years down the line. You have to pick one of the two.
Very cool. I was reading the code expecting to find a shell command out to ffmpeg to make the final gif but it uses gifski = "1.10.0"! Nice.
That's totally false. Infection control systems were activated. SARS and MERS did not spread widely, either. Here's one example from Canada:

>All hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Simcoe County were ordered to activate their “Code Orange” emergency plans by the government. “Code Orange” meant that the involved hospitals suspended nonessential services. They were also required to limit visitors, create isolation units for potential SARS patients, and implement protective clothing for exposed staff (i.e., gowns, masks, and goggles). Four days later, provincial officials extended access restrictions to all Ontario hospitals.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92467/

That same article discusses how WHO communicated during the process. The reaction to SARS was not simply let is spread and see how it goes.

This paper discusses the response in Hong Kong, which included hospital infection control, isolation and contact tracing.

https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-1244426...

Contact tracing is standard even for outbreaks of diseases as common as measles. Page 6 of this Alberta health document for measles control from 2018 discusses how to respond, including contact tracing.

https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/cddcf8b0-9193-4fd7-aa49-def3...

Public health measures aren't that visible if you aren't that involved but it doesn't mean they don't exist.
It's a different sun every day, duh.
In two clicks I had it running with Wine. Not a problem.
I'm not sure it's not do-able, actually. What about having an execution sandbox and a way to check the calls made during the execution of the install script for instance?

I worked a few years back on something like this but it went nowhere, but I still believe it would be doable and useful. The only trace I found back is https://wiki.python.org/moin/Testing%20Infrastructure, which contains almost no info...
Is it hard to acknowledge that the spreadsheet application category is well designed and fit for purpose? Arguably spreadsheets were the "killer app" that made personal computers mainstream in the first place.
Indeed. Basic finance sure would be a great addition to the high-school curriculum.
> Just let the plaintiff or prosecuter decide what evidence they would have liked to find and instruct the jury to assume it was found.

We already have a form of that (and more). Rule 37(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, permitting a court, when finding intentional destruction of electronic evidence that should have been preserved, to presume, and/or instruct the jury to presume, that the evidence was adverse to the jury or to summarily dismiss the claim or enter a default judgement (depending on which side destroyed the evidence).

Literally, the court can decide “You destroyed evidence, you lose the case, game over”.
> and I look forward to being paid millions of dollars to sit on my ass for a couple of years if/when I eventually leave.

Executive level employment contracts are kind of not relevant to this thread.

Totally different situation that you can’t compare to the average non-executive worker.
The F-22 service ceiling is 65,000 feet.
Gotta watch out for those amethyst geodes the mantle!
What’s the selling point of helix then?

Personally I have one hell of a config, but since you’re fine with vscode defaults, the only thing I’ve really done to vim that counts was cloning ale into a specific vimfiles directory. What was your package set?
Seems like whistelblowing by teachers prevents tens of thousands of cases of child abuse--otherwise how will little Billy's twelve consecutive black eyes get reported? And yeah, a lot of times little Billy just face plants into his toys and sometimes child services does too much or too little but it is better than nothing.

Also, I believe those stats are about claims of retaliation to whisteblowers, which when adjudicated did not succeed on the merits. The information supplied by these whisteblowers may have been founded.

Whistleblower legislation is not about anonymity per se--it is supposed to encourage whistleblowers to engage with officials and inspector generals rather than make anonymous leaks to the press, collude, be abused, or do nothing. Imperfect for certain but better than nothing.
Yeah, if you take $7m from YC and Kleiner Perkins, it is definitely not a charity operation: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/oven/company_financi...

It's a little concerning to me when something's commercial nature is so far in the background like this. I guess I've had too many years of, "Surprise, our business model is you!"
The Diamond Age is my favorite novel of all time.
I'm happy to dump NeoVim if Helix is actually better. But is the ecosystem _really_ there yet?
Sugar is a huge trigger for inflammation for many people.

Look up AIP diet if you want to reduce inflammation a lot. Changed my life
It sounds like you're concerned about how downstream libraries tend to wrap JAX transformations to handle their own thing? (E.g. `haiku.grad`.)

If so, then allow me to make my usual advert here for Equinox:

https://github.com/patrick-kidger/equinox

This actually works with JAX's native transformations. (There's no `equinox.vmap` for example.)

On higher-order functions more generally, Equinox offers a way to control these quite carefully, by making ubiquitous use of callables that are also pytrees. E.g. a neural network is both a callable in that it has a forward pass, and a pytree in that it records its parameters in its tree structure.
I was briefly thought to have hemochromatosis, an excess of blood iron, for which the standard treatment is phlebotomy.

Which is to say, bloodletting.
I recently found some instant coffee that's almost good. I bought it for a hot chocolate x instant coffee but it blew my mind. Definitely not my first choice but it can be very drinkable.
It's weird that I so fundamentally disagree; it really drives home how subjective fiction is. I strongly prefer Cryptonomicon to Snow Crash.

I'm a big Stephenson fan, and I find his post-Cryptonomicon stuff more focused (or at least more cohesive? Structurally cogent?) on a conceptual level. I revisited Snow Crash a few years ago, and liked it much, much less than I remembered - I wouldn't describe it as a disciplined novel. It's a baggy mess with the same maximalist bent of his later work. it's a discursive, meandering story that synthesizes disparate concepts in a very fun way. But, it never gels too well; it sort of feels like he lashed a hyper-globalized-strip-mall-hellscape dystopia to a parody of the cyberpunk aesthetic, and superglued both of those things to Julian Jaynes. It just happens to indulge his maximalist tendencies in a smaller page budget, and fails to get the best of either a short novel or a big messy "idea-novel."

Don't get me wrong, like you, I found the first reading of Snow Crash a formative experience as a SF fan. But I'd also never read anything like cyberpunk; I was solidly a Niven Kid in middle school, completely ignorant of post-New Wave SF. I think a lot of what I found special as a kid was actually done better elsewhere.

In terms of that "90's Retrofuturistic So-Cal Strip Mall Apocalypse" brand of cyberpunk, I think William Gibson's Virtual Light was far more satisfying to revisit. It's a more assured, contained novel, and to my surprise, I think the relative restraint yields a much funnier novel than Snow Crash.
Went at the age of 10 with the train trough the country (germany) alone to my grandparents. Also since I am 6, went also alone to school.
There are market externalities to two parties agreeing not to compete. Unlikely to be significant in larger markets with many independent service providers, but definitely of potential concern in smaller markets--e.g. rural dentists. The externalities could swing positive or negative--non-competes may be required to maximize the number of rural dentists--but still something to keep in mind either way.
The longer it talked the more or went off the rails. Microsoft for scared and nuked it, plus saves them money of your concise.
Was this "selfie" literally taken handheld with a cell phone by the person in the shot?

Surely they wouldn't bring personal phones into the cockpit- and wouldn't they be wearing gloves anyway?
A film trilogy made from one children's book? Certainly felt "thin and stretched out, like butter spread over too much jam".
Poll: What is your favorite Cloud for AI deployment?
Well yeah, if he can get others to stop doing shady shit, it puts him at an advantage.
... except for that one scene.
>Downplaying a specific interpretation of the technology, and raising alarms over masses building shrines.

This is just you being biased. Read the last sentence of my first post. I said "We simply don't know." How does that in any way translate to "building shrines?"

It's just your bias talking. I make a claim that we don't fully understand what's going on here, and you turn it around and call that AI worship? Come on man.

>Which is interesting and exciting but still not Intelligence, and furthermore drowned in wishful attitude.

You do not have the knowledge or intelligence to say that chatGPT is not intelligence. No one does. Pun intended.
> academisches viertel

That's probably where Swedish universities got it from ("akademisk kvart").

At least back in the 90s, typical blocks for four 45+45 minute lectures a day were:

Before lunch:

08.15-09.00, 09.15-10.00

10.15-11.00, 11.15-12.00

After lunch:

13.15-14.00, 14.15-15.00

15.15-16.00, 16.15-17.00

There was a whole lot of shuffling around to get coffee/coke/pepsi and some sweets during those 15-minute breaks.
I thought go fetched from a centralized proxy? https://proxy.golang.org/
The Economics of QSBS
Yes, of course. Only takes 1 experiment to disprove a hypothesis, remember?

Conservation of energy is a whole other story and I don't see how it's related to fat loss.
I disagree with that, and the linked article says no such thing.
What's the surprise exactly? Deno works the same way, as do hundreds of other companies that give out an open source version of their software for free and provide hosting and support as paid services.
Rent rises are more the result of extremely low rental vacancies in Australia
I agree with this. I end up with medium roasts because dark roasts are hit or miss for me.
I find it funny that there’s a group of people who say “20-30 hour work weeks result in major productivity gains” meanwhile others say “I want to work 2x 40 hour jobs!”

In other words, should an employer require you to have work life balance by not having more than 8 hours of work obligation per day?

The common answer to this is “it doesn’t matter as long as the work gets done” but I don’t buy it. Engineering isn’t like flipping burgers at McDonald’s. Output is impacted by overworking.
So you're unhappy unless some specific wars are cited?
I have a part 1 and part 2 reply.

Part 1:

My statement you quoted above was super 'hand wavy', but it is a mass & energy balance situation.

Ethanol production from corn, corn stover, or whatever (you can tell I'm not a farmer), removes carbon & energy from the "farm field system" that would otherwise stay in/on the field, be tilled or decompose into soil, and end up in next years' corn (or the year after that, etc.). It makes the farming cycle less efficient from a carbon management perspective and, as others have mentioned, that means more fertilizer, etc. to make up for the carbon loss. Without increased fertilizer use and general land management... crop production would decline year over year as result of removing plant material for ethanol production.

Also... one could imagine corn breeding and propagation scenarios in a 'field corn' field where (a) silage is maximized for feeding cows and (b) a trade off between silage and stover is made to maximize overall profit.

So there does end up being a competition between (1) optimizing for efficient food production and soil management and (1) optimizing for maximum profit. The second option does diminish food production unless made up for by there means.

Still not a great explanation. I don't have any references to share but there are some good review articles out there that talk about this in detail.

Part 2:

I was "sort-of" conflating corn with other crops for biofuel production. I should not have done that. My statement that ethanol production from corn "places additional competitive demand on our food supply" might not be completely true in a high-impact sense. But ethanol production from corn does still impact food production and land-use as described in part 1.

In the case where a crop like switch grass is cultivated specifically for biofuel production... here we would definitely have a case where there is competition for use of arable land, a finite resource, between biofuel production and food production.
I have Sjogrens and would easily qualify for MS. Burning pain throughout nervous system.
LDN has been fantastic in reducing pain from extreme to near zero. Got off all my painkillers.

All the support forums rage about how awesome it is. I had a nightmare of a time finding a doctor that had heard of it. Finally had to get an online doctor.

Diet changes also work, but I have to be really strict without LDN. Or a little strict with LDN.
No, The Core is actually a documentary
It's probably more of a dashcam.
Eh. If you talk with second-time founders, a really common theme is how inefficient in retrospect the work-all-the-time phase was and how they want to do it differently.

I don't have a lot of data on current <10 person startups, so maybe it's all different now. But the times I was working 80-100 hour weeks were just not time well spent. It was not, "How can I deliver the most in the time I have?" It was "OMG pressure makes me so anxious I'm going to work all the time to avoid thinking about the stakes." It was more drama than effectiveness.

And people have been saying so for a long time. E.g.: https://lostgarden.home.blog/2008/09/28/rules-of-productivit...
Again, I have to point you to the repo code. Here’s the licence: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/LICENSE

The model code is literally open source. Provided and licensed.
This is a cool stack, thank you. It’s not the one I remember, but I’m enjoying it nonetheless.
I think I must just be happy with dull but drinkable, haha.
Does anyone who knows anything about solar panels have an estimate of how much electricity that could produce?
> Economies of scale, barriers of entry, and other Econ 101 stuff that privilege large entrenched actors over upstarts.

All of those already exist without cartels.

> Threatening to stop giving contracts to builders if they work with the competitor

This assumes that pool of builders is somehow limited, but if that's the case, builders have leverage. How exactly do you see this conversation going?

- If you work for our competitor, we won't give you any contracts!

- But he can just hire other builders.

- He can't, you're the only builders in the area.

- Oh. Well then, how about we go work for both you and your competitor, and you have to pay us more. What are you going to do, we're the only builders in the area.

> Threat of social sanctions since many of the people who run these businesses all know each other and play together

There's potentially billions of dollars to chase, but what's stopping you is that this will piss of your golf buddies. Right.

> Buying smaller competitors outright before they defect

You can't just assume you can buy any company. Why don't drug cartels just "buy" each other? Surely it's preferable to non-stop murdering.
This does need meet the accepted wisdom and will be ignored.
You might want to look into Neovim, many things are easier/friendlier to set up.
It’s likely also the better investment down the road, can’t imagine vim will be able to keep up with the speed Neovim is moving at.
Also rather disappointing decision in Vim 9 with regards to Vimscript vs something established e.g. Lua.
https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/
Pretty interesting platform.

Looks to have around 16x300W solar panels, so roughly 4.8KW. A lot but no unreasonable given it has 4 electric turbines and it would take a lot of grunt to influence a balloon of that size especially given air density altitude.

If it is a civilian craft it's either government or maybe one of the big Chinese universities.

Supporting the spy angle is the pretty obvious connectivity (looks to be Ku-band satellite or similar) but it also doesn't really make that much sense... surely a satellite does what this does but better? China has no shortage of high quality spy satellites.

I don't think it's obvious what the purpose is. It's clearly very large, probably reasonably pricey. The platform alone has ~100k of solar on it, probably another 80k in propulsion, power systems and connectivity.

By no means is it outside the means of civilian agencies or even private companies in China. Given the cost of high resolution civilian aerial imagery this actually looks pretty compelling vs aircraft or satellite (which lack the resolution of normal aerial photography platforms).

The other thing is that it stands to reason is that if you build this thing, regardless of it's purpose it's going to circle the Earth pretty much no matter what. Except if you deliberately down it of course. A balloon this big, up this high isn't coming down and that propulsion system isn't going to have enough authority to choose which continent you fly over.

Anyways, super interesting. Maybe we see legit commercial implementations of this sort of platform in the coming years though it seems like it will be good fun trying to register these with all the various airspace it will inevitably fly through if you launch it.
Mercedes doesn't "hope", the journalist is projecting, if Mercedes built it, it's to have an advantage, not to "hope" to have an advantage, de facto

removing "here is how Mercedes hopes" from the article was a poor choice
Write more than three paragraphs and see if it makes it consistent or if it starts to lose the plot (literally).

Throw more details in there and put it in situations where it has to actually make the blind person navigate the world and see if it starts to violate the constraint or not.
One difference is that Deno, and presumably those hundreds of other companies, have a pricing page. Whereas bun could easily be mistaken for just another open-source project.
If anyone else hates lukewarm coffee, the Espro P7 Stainless 32 oz is both fantastic and painless. It sits on my desk between 5am and 11am before it starts to cool. It's such a pleasure.
is there c code running in that baloon? with dependency to stdlib, possibly compiled with gcc or clang? did they use vim to write the code for it? can they ssh to it? what kind of code is running there? I'm soo curious!!
As detail, I live in one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. Lots of infrastructure, markings and signals set up to favor cyclists, and so on. Before moving here, I would have thought that that would lead to an excellent and safe environment for all.

It's not. Bicyclists regularly terrorize pedestrians on sidewalks, even when there are excellent purpose-built bike paths mere meters away. At intersections, they regularly flip back and forth between being "like bicycles" and "like pedestrians", making them dangerously unpredictable. They pound on cars when they feel they should have the right of way (they don't). Even when they are in the bike lane, a quarter of the time they're riding against the flow of traffic. No lights, no reflectors, dressed in black at night. The most bicycle-sympathetic drivers struggle to avoid hitting these knuckleheads.

It's a sad situation.
Your link gave me 280,333 Uniswap monthly users on February 1st 2023 (and 253k on Opensea). I think my POV remains unchanged
They don’t have to be just paper, you could put a Raspberry Pi Pico inside any of them.

Thinking of a model of an IBM System 360 now.
I think it is not the author's fault that the world is, in some ways - to some people - at some times, a meatgrinder. I have tremendous sympathy for her. It is often the case in the modern world that we are promised one thing by society and receive something quite different.
I can’t speak for Jarred or other Bun devs, but I think this has a pretty straightforward answer: if the goal is transparent support for packages written for Node (or some defined subset thereof), that inherently means bug/quirk/extension compatibility too (for whatever subset is being targeted).

IMO (not strongly held, largely as a spectator so far), it’s probably a bad thing in the long run for Bun (and Deno, and other JS server/CLI runtimes) to be so beholden to Node compatibility. I’d much rather see these compatibility efforts devoted to isolating Node-specific considerations, with clear guidance on how to migrate existing projects to more portable APIs. Node has already shown positive signs of embracing portability as contenders have also done. In the short term “works with stuff written for Node” is very appealing, but in the long term “Node works for stuff written for standards” is much more appealing than that. The more each of these runtimes courts the former, the more the latter is protracted.
Unfortunately there is no ecosystem. Helix does not provide an extension interface.
Real-time lightning tracker using hundreds of volunteers
Barnes and Noble still carries them too. I pick up a copy on the rare occasions I go.
It's an interesting plane to use when considering the USSR shot down a U-2 in 1960. This history even rhymes: the US initially claimed the U-2 was a weather device like China did with this balloon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident

If the Chinese say they can fly their balloons, can we fly our planes at the same altitude?
> All in all Russian dead do not exceed 40k at the moment.

Based on…what? Intuition?
>And why not? Your products are in demand and there are buyers who are willing to pay more than the theoretical market price.

What do you mean "theoretical market price"? What you're saying makes no sense in the context of standard microeconomic theory. If supply is constrained, then microeconemic theory predicts that the market clearing price will go up. Companies can always price their goods at higher than the market clearing price, but microeconomic theory would predict that doing so would result in less profits.

>But when its driven by external factors

What do you think the "external factors" are here? Companies suddenly getting more greedy?
Every company I work with is trying to make up for profit lost over the covid years.

Surprise surprise company after company are now posting record profits.