skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I probably read the same thing and bought some of the more recent Korean-purchased version, and it _is_ quite wonderful.

I've always hated whiteboards; when I leave something up on my chalkboard for a few days/weeks, I can still erase it. If I need more cleaning, water works. I don't need some foul smelling, expensive, concoction to clean the damn thing. (Yes, I know the "tricks" of toothpaste or drawing over the stains; the latter counts as "foul smelling, expensive", however.)

Any dust that gets on my clothes (never happens, but a common complaint), is removed with my hand easily enough.
Is that so? Compare all Dyalog primitives to some math ones:

- https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Dyalog_APL#Primitives

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols_b...

APL shows 74 symbols. I count at least 50 math symbols that seem very likely to show up in an undergraduate degree; notably, 26 symbols +-×÷|⌊⌈!~∧∨⍲⍱<≤=≥>≠∊∩∪≡≢∘ in APL are taken from math with similar meanings.

The arguments to a primitive are not context! You may as well call addition context-dependent because 1+n increments n while 2+n increments it twice. You're describing overloading, and I do really dislike the way ○ handles things (in BQN trig just goes in the •math namespace). However, I don't think it's right to put the blame on symbols, as a trig(code, argument) function could be defined to do the same thing. That is, maybe symbols encourage this design choice, but in themselves they aren't the problem.

Note "quickly" and "easily" in Perlis's quote. A language with 500 symbols would seem to me to match your description before, and I would find it hard to believe it would be quickly or easily mastered. A language with 74 symbols, many of which are related, is what makes it possible to teach APL quickly: Perlis's month would be a few a day. APL was near-mainstream in the 1980s, and I think there are better explanations for its decline since.
The free market will never fix that, because there is no profit in making it easy for you, nor in offering an unlimited return.
Yeah, but if I were a competitor, I could have taken those visitors to my website and he would have lost all of that traffic.
I have had at least 10 bulbs die on me within months, while others have lasted much longer, but the average lifespan on bulbs in our house can't be over 18 months. So I don't think people are complaining to be snobs, just noting that led bulbs don't last nearly as long as claimed. I have no idea why you needed to fall into personal attacks rather than concluding that bulbs readily available 11 years ago might be made better than those readily available now, and that most led bulbs are a lot newer than yours.
I agree that people need to eat well and do exercise, but at the same time society needs to be built in a way that makes this easy to do. I live in one of the few walkable places in the US. In some rankings it is considered the fittest place in the US. It is not a coincidence. Yes there are still overweight people here, and fit people in very un-walkable areas. But in terms of population stats better environments lead to healthier people.

At the same time I agree that for the individual they need a mindset that they can change their circumstances. The US won't be made walkable over night if ever. There is unlikely to be a ban on producing or advertising high sugary processed food. But even in such an environment you still have tons of agency over your choices.
Brilliantly, they're probably profiting further from this analysis of their "typo domain" investment.
> Gets rid of anonymous spam.

> I guess that's 98% of the problem.

No, that's 99.99% of the problem. I've never even seen "bogus projects sponsored by wealthy companies" in volumes where it would be considered "spam".

> What about abandonware?

Grandfather in old projects.

> And how do we remain open and inclusive to newbees?

Everything is still open and inclusive - anyone can publish a repo on GitHub for free. Using a reputation system or a small fee for submission is a very reasonable means of controlling access to a centralized online repository.
after a day, it's deleted off the servers.
Manager here, I can tell you sometimes the things engineers care a lot about like algorithms and the fastest/correct ways to do things are not important.

Domain knowledge is typically far more valuable. The real world of business has tons of weird legal/finanical/workflows edgecases.
I'll always hire a mid engineer with strong business domain knowledge over a very technical engineer with no strong businss domain knowledge. My firm only has one team that's an exception to this rule.
Yes, Twitter is defined by its users hating it. (This does prove some issues with monetization)
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There was a blog post about ST4 in 11/2022[1] indicating Build 4142. My current version is Build 4143 so there's been at least one other one since.

Personally, if it keeps working (and boy does ST keep working), then who cares if it's not actively developed? I know at some point it becomes a problem, like with TextMate back in the day, but we're pretty far from that.

[1] https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/2022/11
> White LEDs are optimized for full, smooth spectrums.

I thought full spectrum LEDs are future tech because I haven't seen one.
https://www.stouchlighting.com/blog/light-comparison-led-lig....

"New LEDs can last 50,000 to 100,000 hours or more. The typical lifespan for an incandescent bulb, by comparison, is 1-5% as long at best (roughly 1,200 hours)."

I've never seen more than 15000 hours from an LED bulb at best.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb

"The chart below lists values of luminous efficacy and efficiency for some general service, 120-volt, 1000-hour lifespan incandescent bulb"

I spent most of my life in incandescent bulb lighting and rarely remember changing a light bulb. LED bulbs I can remember changing multiple times in the last few years since we started using them.

It's almost like there's a conspiracy to convince consumers incandescent lighting didn't last long which is odd given the following:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light#:~:text=The%2....

"The Centennial Light is the world's longest-lasting light bulb, burning since 1901, and almost never turned off."
It feels weird to me to see this kind of comment on HN. I’m sure somewhere out there on the internet there are people complaining that computers suck because they bought a few cheap computers and didn’t have a good experience, so they’re assuming all computers are bad.

Without any sort of detail about what brand or what it was used for and why it was a bad experience, it’s really not adding anything to the conversation. It’s just a blanket judgement on a technology that has a great deal of variation and options and uses.
Yeah, I'm not keen. But I'm old, and it wouldn't be so bad. I'm mainly about not killing all the children.
The API's the thing that makes Twitter tolerably-usable to heavy users—the ones who draw eyeballs to the site so the ads are worth more than $0.00—right?

If so, not wanting to maintain it would probably count as incompetent, yes.
That is most likely grift. There's no reason the basket should cost that much to make.
> As a currently happy Sublime user, my issue is that there has been almost radio silence on the project. My license is up soon and I am seriously considering not renewing if there is not any movement on _any_ development soon.

So, you are a happy user but you also want active development. What are you looking for, precisely, that needs to be developed?

I've been a Sublime Text user since ST 1, and I've used it as my only editor for years. ST4 added nice things like automatic theme switching, but for everything else it's feature-complete for me. Is there something you're missing?
> If family is more important then your paycheck, why dont you resign?

It is.

> Why should someone without a family invest more at work just because you consider work a secondary thing?

This is a weird take.

Do you get mad at your coworkers when they take time off?
Or -- hear me out -- support the small business trying to make a living selling a good product at a reasonable price rather than insisting it be open-sourced, stripped for parts by the big-tech machine and inevitably left for dead.
If you want nice things that engineers spent thousands of hours researching, designing, and tuning, you can do the research to find those brands and pay extra for them.

Most people don’t want to pay the premium and don’t value the benefits that come with that premium.
It’s also sign (IMO) of the rapid growth in the field.

When there is a severe shortage of warm bodies and things go up and to the right, a lot of ‘less important’ expectations get overlooked.

When it does that for a long time, people sometimes forget why the original expectations were even there in the first place. Then, when it’s no longer up and to the right, we have to figure it all out again or it falls apart.

Do it enough time and it gets embedded in official professional standards, etc.

That said, I’ve certainly run across many Engineers (with the ring type) that do plenty of unprofessional things. They just figure out how to do them passive aggressively or sidestep what would run afoul of the official standards. But it’s the same thing.
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Snap language by SAP (snap.berkeley.edu) would be a better stepping stone rather than directly going to industrial languages. It's got first-class functions, first-class lists, object-oriented programming, APL-style vector operations which are very handy for media processing, machine learning etc, continuations, ability to make HTTP calls etc - while keeping the same playful environment as scratch.

Features like this enable serious study of computer science possible with Snap: https://emu-online.de/ComputerScienceWithSnap_2.pdf

There's even a variation for 3D geometries: beetleblocks.com

Scratch is immensely popular but with lack of reporter blocks and lack of first-class lists, it encourages many bad programming habits (global state, no datas tructures like stack/queue/tree/graph etc. The one advantage it has over SnapLang is that it has better performance for building intensive games etc.
Not sure how old you are but this already happened in the 80's. We also got an entire generation of "Steve Jobs was a successful asshole, ergo asshole => success" MBAs
Duolingo expands into co-branded reality TV productions
I hate to admit that I spent an absurd amount of time (around 6-7 minutes) trying to figure out the typo of the word "testimonial" before reading the article.

The typo isn't a typo rather than a wrong/another TLD. OP's website used ".to" TLD and they bought an ".io" TLD.
Block the metrics system from accessing PII like IP addresses or usernames.
Screenshots! The first thing most people want when evaluating an operating system for a personal device is a screenshot. A picture is worth a thousand words, and in the case of a screenshot, you can choose what’s in it to visually communicate key features. I’ve been digging around the site for several minutes and I have yet to find a single one.
So forcing huge ads on everyone isn't paying the bills. Take note Google.
AI Browse Plugins: The Ultimate AdBlocker or an Economical Time Bomb?
For those who write content or have anything living off of ad revenue... some interesting points on why Google is so stressed but also how content creators(non video or maybe all content in the near future) or any freemium or free news, info, educational website living off of an attention based economy might be in trouble pretty soon.
Yes they can be super human at X. What people fear is something that is generally superhuman.
That's as fatalistic as it is false. Why do you have to be hyper vigilant? I live in surroundings where physical activity is the norm rather than the exception. True. BUT. While suburbanites are often couch to car and back, you can drive to a gym, a park to go biking, a hiking spot, a climbing wall, thousands of other things. A tennis court, an indoor pool, a kayaking spot. You can take lessons with a group, you can do a little something in your home. You can take yoga classes.

You're telling me how it's not possible and I've just told you why it is. The majority of people struggling with inactivity are suffering from a motivational problem or an educational problem.
I hope they trained it on the insane ChatGPT conversations. Maybe it could be the very start of generated data ruining the ability to train these models on massive amounts of genuine human-created data. Hopefully the models will stagnate or regress because they're just training on older models' output.
I don't entirely get this. By adding a dependency to a project, doesn't that already establish a web of trust? I.e. if you trust the dev who made library X, you trust they have good reason to trust library Y that X depends on, etc.

Is this just about being more explicit about review?
Absolutely! The faux-recessed lights made it a ton easier to do air-sealing, which is now essential to pass mandatory blower-door tests.
It also have funny interactions with expired certs, I remember some obscure OSS app page being inacessible via browser because:

* author forgot to renew the cert like, day before

* author also set up HSTS and both browsers said "nope, we won't even let you add exception for this one".
etoys for squeak, which is somewhat similar to scratch (and supposedly influenced its development) has the ability to switch between blocks and the smalltalk code that the blocks generate. so you can basically look under the hood (and also change the smalltalk code)
I’m not familiar with this space. Is a Revell kit for a top secret plane that hadn’t even been designed something that happened/happens commonly?

The author says the motivating incident was the U2 shoot down in 1960 which was the motivating incident for the engineer to start designing it. How would the author be playing with it then?

Misdirect about the kid part to enhance the story? Maybe they had the kit later in life and retrofitted it into a “destiny” theme?
Jeez it just gives me chills how the print style looks so dramatically aged but the Zion canyon walls look as fresh as ever. Such a special place for so many.. will leave it at that!
"pop" where I grew up in the midwest, but now that I'm in/near Atlanta, it's mostly "coke" regardless of variety.
Has the acyclic unbounded case been ruled out?
Amazing how people who would never hurt a child seem to have no problem with building things that kill all the children.
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Every other sentence made me think “citation needed.”
> My current version is Build 4143 so there's been at least one other one since.

According to [0], the latest dev build was released in March 2023. So...quite recently.

[0]: https://www.sublimetext.com/dev
Also incredible most of the titanium came from the USSR but through indirect routes and suppliers with the Soviets being unaware.
> When it comes to making money, the SublimeText developers can offer the core version of SublimeText for free, while they can sell a pro version with more advanced features targeted towards more advanced users and developers.

Sublime has been known for years for its generous trialware, where a countless number of users just click past the popup suggesting buying. Such users have already decided they want all the features of Sublime just for free and the devs have allowed for that without restriction. The suggested scenario would ironically make the available free version worse.

Plus there has already been a healthy plugin community for Sublime. I wouldn't doubt it might receive a boost from being open source but if we contrast with Atom editor, which recently officially EoL'd and was open source, it didn't make it a superior experience to Sublime ime, despite how much functionality the community was eager to replicate.

Which isn't to say I would be against them going open source, just that I don't feel the reasoning is persuasive in the article.
Absolutely, and there is too much horrifying probability behind that. Procedural reform to where that kind of thing isn't as likely or possible would be nice. I've chuckled a few times wondering how well they would all do if they had to use github issues.
> I had to do some text editing and was in need of a text editor that was better than Notepad, and with muscle memory

This embarrassing post could've been avoided if he'd use Vim.
Curious which OS are you using for development, since Sublime provides official versions[1] for macOS, Windows and Linux.

[1] https://www.sublimetext.com/download
Yes, it asks if telemetry can be enabled.

Here is how it looks:
https://cln.sh/rCmVtVhZ
Hang around on HN and you would see more and more entitled articles and comments. Entitled comments come up so regularly on so many topics.
Aside from the quality issues with that first batch, they've been great.
You could ask that question about every consumer product since the 90s.
I truly believe one of the biggest dangers of AI in our not so distant future will be the reaction to a lot of the LLM spam introducing an internet realID issued by governments to keep track of Real People and the internet will become divided into a walled/non-anonymous garden and a hellscape of GPT content on the other side. I hope i'm wrong but it's one of those roads to hell that can get paved with good intentions.
We also don't know of any civilizations, or even peoples on Earth, that survived after discovering the philosopher's stone and being punished by God for their vanity.

Putting physics research on hold to account for such a risk seems a bit silly though, and should definitely be classified as "speculative".

Point being, the Kardashev scale is sci-fi, not science, and any worry about it is the very definition of speculative.
> I've never seen more than 15000 hours from an LED bulb at best.

With the LED bulbs at our home (many of which have failed!), the problem is always the inverter. They just start flickering wildly and inconsistently one day, which is never pleasant, and they need to be replaced. It's frustrating because when the LEDs have stable power, they can produce just as much brightness as before, but their integrated power-conversion circuitry sucks in reliability.
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Hello European, US guy here.

> The EU forbid terribly inefficient light around a decade ago.

So did we. Very few incandescent bulbs are on the market here since they were basically banned a decade ago. There are some niche options, you could still find expensive halogens, but that's it.
I am waiting for a smartphone without actual physical camera, that generates all pictures using AI.
I think he did want to buy it, but then later thought that decision through a bit, or had it thought through for him, and realized his mistake. You're giving him too much credit.
Why should you be able to opt out? I can’t think of any valid reason.
I love that my son enjoys scratch, but I wish there was some way to have parental controls on the social aspects of it! I am a little uncomfortable with the fact that random users have messaged my son and there really isn't anything I can do besides periodically logging in myself
He overpaid and that was already well known before he even took the reigns.
Yes, without either taking the API down or publishing a disclaimer that it's deprecated.
I don’t think he’s completely full of shit, just mostly. I personally find a whole bunch of good behaviors naturally occur and I feel mentally more healthy if I’m forced to go to the office. I get up earlier, go to bed earlier, feel a stronger sense of work/life disconnection, and have a better sense of the passage of time. I’ve worked remote for years and have tried to replicate this, but it’s never the same. But I’m not a parent, so that changes the trade off quite a bit
AND This damn kid WORKS FROM HOME every darn day and doesnt even let me know on Slack!
ChatGPT is passing with flying colors all the traditional tests we used to test for intelligence. We can of course keep moving the goal post for a while, but probably only for a couple more years.
Sounds like someone living in their own bubble.
The only thing that can balance AI-man is AI-woman
Thanks for linking this. I love SublimeText but I also have to augment it with https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/ sometimes. Always on the lookout for something that can do both.

010 editor is currently by far the best text editor I've used for >1GB files. Other than that I just use ST.
Also went through this a few years ago. Instead of being able to end my work day at a reasonable time, I made up for the "inefficiency" by working all sorts of hours.

The tradeoff is being away from the people I love for 8-10 hours a day, and even just being present in a baby's/toddler's life is huge. I'd still stay home again.

I recommend finding a nearby coworking space. Spend 2-4 hours of the house if the chaos is too much.
[WIRED Opinion]

> (US) Law enforcement (agencies) already buys up data from brokers. The Department of Homeland Security...purchased cell phone location data on millions of Americans... The Federal Bureau of Investigation has also been purchasing cell phone location data... These practices circumvent democratic accountability: Agencies buy the information without warrants, and in doing so may bypass prohibitions on companies handing data directly to law enforcement.

> Plus, the data may not even be accurate.
This is an argument in bad faith but at this point I have zero trust in corporations and feel like you can generally count on them to do shitty things if they can benefit from it so I can be easily swayed by little proof at this point.
Hard, absolutely. But again people who don't do hard things.. I can only be dismissive. I've done hard things much of my life and that meant suffering for a time. Those who avoid hard things get what they deserve.
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I saw the same thing (very happy long-time ST user) in VS Code _years ago_. Maybe the parent has that sort of perspective?
Album sales have become an increasingly obsolete metric for popularity during the last 20 or so of those 40 years.
How could it be if they don't have MS deep pockets to pay developers and integrate the IDE into their products?
You've copy/pasted a couple of lines from various studies, seemingly without any rhyme or reason. I'm trying to figure out what you're trying to say, but you're not exactly making it easy.

EDIT: I know the stupid "Dihydrogen Monoxide" trick. Just because scary chemical words are used in a paper doesn't mean anything. You're gonna have to make an actual point and argument if you want to convince me of anything.

Hint: What does BPA do, and why are you scared of it? In your own words, supported by the quotes you chose above.
> VSC is free and the Rust integration was very pain free

I switched from VSCode to Sublime Text. While Rust Analyzer has best support in VSC it works more than ok in Sublime Text.

I had no problem paying for Sublime Text (and Sublime Merge). My mbp has enough battery and RAM but there is no reason for VSC to be that hungry.
“Base”? What base? Nobody voted for him, he just has a lot of money. Do people have to like him too?
I still think my analysis holds. Why did he want leverage over the board? For the grievance-based reason I pointed to. He didn't want to follow through with it, but once forced, why would he not continue to act based on that driver and similar petty impulsiveness we now know he experiences?

It's true though that if it loses a bucket of money and he never wanted it in the first place he might not consider it as successful as I'm guessing. We can't know his mind, but thinking of it in this way explains a lot of his behavior around twitter that is difficult or impossible to explain from a pure financial standpoint, so I'm going to stick with it for now.
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