skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't appreciate your ad-hominem attacks. I'm not the "activist" you accused me of being, or the conspiracy theorist/covert "right winger" you're trying to paint me as. I clarify my position here [0].

>Saying that nobody can disagree with you unless they are mentally unwell, and then calling someone who disagreed with you an example of "what's wrong with the US" is very odd behavior. It doesn't seem like the way someone operating in good faith would behave.

I don't see how I acted in bad faith. However, it appears that your comment is an odd interpretation of the additional remarks I added to my original comment. Perhaps my command of english isn't as good as I thought (I'm not in the anglosphere), or perhaps, you're the one acting in bad faith and giving a convoluted take on my remarks. Regardless, allow me to clarify; "Feggal" replied to my original comment, accusing me of being a "transphobe" and claims that he's going to tattle to Dang for my alleged transgressions. The additional remark I added to my original comment was meant to extend the original points I made about how a particular group of ideologically motivated people are contaminating the conversation, and how "Feggal"'s ad-hominem reply is an example of that. I hope this clarifies things.

Lastly, I'm not interested in entertaining any more ad-hominem attacks. For anyone reading this thread, allow me to point you to this investigative feature by the British Medical Journal (BMJ)[1], one of the most reputable journals in medicine alongside The Lancet. You figure out the discrepancy in claims between the BMJ and that of the medical associations and activist organisations in the US, and decide which of the both is the conspiratorial one.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36684221

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj.p382
I was surprised how well it is working.

It's probably a less than 6 hour flight for 2/3 or 3/4 of the world population.
In 2008 the world did nothing to stop Russia from invading Georgia. In 2014 the world did next to nothing to stop Russia’s expansion into Ukraine. Even in 2022 the West waited for a while before supplying Ukraine with heavy equipment.
Russia is not pulling mothballed T-34s, they don’t have them aside from museum exhibits. Given enough time they can fix their command and manufacturing problems. Contrary to the popular belief Russia learns and is getting better at war as we speak. In 2022 the whole front collapsed, now they can keep holding against Ukrainians armed with western tanks and cruise missiles.

Russia will have a generation raised during this war and war propaganda. Right now Russians sabotage the war by inaction and evasion because not that many people actually want to actively participate. That will change over time if the new generation is indoctrinated. This can’t be allowed to happen.

If it was Germany on Russian border and without NATO article 5 instead of Ukraine, Berlin would have been taken in 3 days, no amount of modern manufacturing will save you from not having a standing army with proper equipment.
> And I think terminal support is one of the things that holds Emacs back. Think about it - why do you even need a terminal if you’re already using Emacs?

Because I'm doing non-trivial (but probably not extensive) work on a server that does not have windowing.

Tramp is a hassle for some use cases, especially if you use SSH FIDO to authenticate; either you need set up the session somewhere and use SSH channel multiplexing from a session you established previously, and some protected environments limit the number of channels per SSH connection (often, to one).

Handling a text terminal emulator is a lower common denominator for sure than elisp to fulfill those functions.

I'd also like to point out that emacs has been praised by those with issues with their eyesight for its textual interface working with screen readers far better in practice. Other applications inevitably break their accessibility far more often, because their programming model makes it more expensive to do and keep in good order.

I don't mean to suggest this is how "text editors oughta be," but it's good at least one editor is this way, in regard to its relationship to UI elements and text.
Open YouTube links directly in the mobile app, increase their engagement easily!
I've tried a couple of self-hosted solutions to accompany my use of Google Photos in case Google ever decides to pull a stunt with Photos.

Nextcloud was basic, but serviceable. I liked that it handled docs, contact sync, etc. The sync was clumsy and I found updates frequently broke the system.

I just tried PhotoPrism with my ~75GB photo directory. The classification is.. decent and all run locally. It took around a full 24 hours to index and classify my photos, which it did reasonably well. Google Photos' classifications is miles better to be sure, but PhotoPrism was easy to set up and works pretty well.

I no longer expose any of my services outside my local network (besides Wireguard) so I'm hoping to find a Photosync system that will only upload when on my home wifi and charging. Any suggestions there?
I have hard time seeing how this book & Ukr.war can be compared. In some abstract sense, probably there is a connection, but since the book was published, warfare completely changed. Tanks, Jets, AA weapons, electronic warfare and let's not forget drones.
You absolutely do collect identifying personal information, which is why I gave up and deleted the app.

It’s not anonymous when you know where I live, my birthday, and gender. There is only one person that matches those three data points.
Fairphone is not FOSS though… I don’t think their angle is “we are FOSS”, they are open to proprietary blobs as long as the hardware is ethically sourced. (From what I get, their definition of “ethical” doesn’t include FOSS.)
I think it's misguided to think of Emacs having moved away from the TUI paradigm at all. I have lived in Emacs for two years and have never even considered scrolling with my mouse. My hand never touches the mouse.

As I move through the document, I already have the location of the cursor origin saved in a register and can jump there, or any of several other locations with a single keypress.

I've always considered the mouse & menu system to be an emergency backup for beginners who have hit a wall. They will probably never be first class citizens.

What editor do you use?
Wayback failed to load the subtweets but archive.is has a copy but it seems to stop after around 10 subtweets. The threader link that was posted has it all though.

https://archive.is/Y72Gu
UCLA professor refuses to cover for Dan Ariely in issue of data provenance
Funnily enough, I can still understand your message without white space, it is just harder to parse. Doesn't that undercut your statement?
Being an Emacs guy, I can recommend weblorg - I guess most people haven't heard about org-mode indeed, but it's one of the biggest reasons I stuck to Emacs, worth a look.

Got curious what this guy uses for the site, but couldn't find a public repo for it with a few minutes of digging. Mostly you couldn't really tell what static site generator someone uses unless it's one that supports themes, and they use one of the popular ones.
tall big structures, nice looking hotel at the edge of the palm, but nothing feels organic and everything is safe, very safe, primarily because workers and poor can't afford to live there so they live in the another emirate.

Tbh the old town is nothing impressive either, plus i don't think you meet locals there

What is meaningful about this?
The things you do name are unquestionably going to be massive issues, and yet these don't get nearly the airtime of the incredibly speculative 'AI will kill all humans if we don't do something drastic'.
Printers definitely are super annoying, and I don't want to discount the catharsis as a factor in why this would be satisfying, but one point I don't see made yet is that independent of their ability to induce frustration, they're just full of "crunchy" bits that would give really nice feedback to being smashed. I think smashing things that are too soft would be unsatisfying, but obviously if something is too hard it would be potentially too difficult to smash effectively; printers seem like they'd be right in the sweet spot of just-hard-enough-to-smash, and the presence of all of the small moving parts provides some nice low-hanging fruit in the early stages before you fully break through the outer shell. Some comments here also talk about smashing cars, and I think they're similarly "crunchy" in a way that would be super satisfying.

tl;dr it's not just that printers are awful, but that they're crunchy
I was guessing that the oddly beautiful 17” Apple CRT Studio Display [1] from 2000 might have been a CRT that used a digital signal cable because it had the short-lived Apple Display Connector, but apparently ADC carried analog too.

[1] https://everymac.com/monitors/apple/studio_cinema/specs/appl...
But public schools have no shareholders, no profit motive. Competition doesn't incentivize any behavior in this case. There is no one who is incentivized to grow the school system and out compete other entities like in the for profit shareholder model.
http://www.retroforth.org/ seems to work just fine
> At least they're trying, rest of the world has not build meaningfully either in quite a long time.

Some of the rest of the world builds meaningful societies/economies. Ones that won't explode into civil war the moment that the firehose of oil is tapped out.

I understand that parts of the Middle East are trying to do that as well, but it's not clear what the effort results in.
I recently switched DisplayPort connecting my laptop to the monitor for USB-C, didn't see any difference, except now I get video (4kx60hz, max for my monitor), audio, can connect mouse and keyboard directly to the monitor, and the cable is thinner and lighter. Am I missing on something?
> > And I think terminal support is one of the things that holds Emacs back. Think about it - why do you even need a terminal if you’re already using Emacs?

> Because I'm doing non-trivial (but probably not extensive) work on a server that does not have windowing.

Indeed, of the ~7 machines I work on regularly, 5 of them are via ssh and need no GUI. `emacs -nw` is so much quicker and efficient than having to deal with an X server (or equivalent). And the GUI provides me with really no benefit.
I use one, so I can confirm they work extremely well, subject to some caveats:

* The total cable length is important, both between the host / KVM and the KVM / monitor, as well as any daisy chained displays you have. I had to use certified cables to get everything working reliably with my setup.

* There's a weird interaction with BIOS power on. The boot display drivers I have freak out if they aren't the active display and fail. I solve this by switching the KVM before I turn the computer on. After everything is booted into an OS, it works fine to switch.

* Power supply quality is important. I had some issues before I made sure the power supply was reliable.

KVM switches are just inherently difficult little devices. I haven't had issues since I got it working though.
Amazingly enough, I think this is a bit of it. Some powerful enough people at Google became concerned about implications, including around "hallucinations", "poisoning", etc., and decided to put this sort of research on something of a backburner - justified, in part, by a lack of some obvious easy interfacing of this with search (scaling, hallucinations, etc.).

Of course, the 'wonderful' thing about humans / "independent agents with survival drives in competitive game-theoretic type scenarios" is: if enough people / "agents" have access / opportunity, someone WILL "push the button".

It's just delicious ... the same kinds of patterns over and over - "oh, we should really do something about X / nobody should have power like X, ... but, there's no stopping it, ... oh well".

And, the "rules" really are subtly, many levels down, in place, to make it apparently impossible to not get trapped, one way or another.

(Anyway... [Cartman voice] Screw you guys, I'm going to my other planet...)
Downvotes not necessary. This is a legitimate question. And the answer is, yes, leaving it up is better than taking it down. Not losing face publicly is their most primal urge. Americans are far more pragmatic and willing to admit a failure. This whole face-saving thing might as well be a culture from another planet if you were raised in America.
Could be both tbh. There are definitely ways in which Linux is better - no ads (cough Microsoft) or artificial restrictions (e.g. recording desktop audio cough Apple).

But in the most important ways - software availability and reliability - it is much worse.
> Speaking of terminals, Emacs can actually run in a terminal! You can start it with emacs -nw and it will happily transform your terminal into Emacs.

I love how this is written, as if there wasn't a time that running emacs in the terminal was the only way to run emacs.
Can you explain why this is beneficial? I have a mac laptop and pc desktop at home that i switch between depending on whatever I need to do. By triggering a disconnect, it means all my mac windows that are on the main monitor will zip back over to the laptop so they're still reachable if i need to access them with the trackpad and integrated keyboard. When I switch the kvm back to mac all those windows jump back to the main monitor.
PS Sharp? Is that a new language?
I love it when HN galaxy brains talk about stuff they clearly know nothing about.
My pandemic hobby was dabbling in electronics building synthesizer modules.

You can learn a whole lot about electricity by working on small low voltage projects like that without any risk of harm to yourself.
Using window functions to aggregate across relations
If you just "tried it", I doubt you'd seen even one percent of what they can do. I've been using IDEA for years and still learn new tricks every few days. The performance is atrocious, the well known bugs (like constantly losing caches) have been there for years, but I suffer through it because of the functionality.
I had a similar issue. I had read How to Take Smart Notes. This discussed the slip box method. I was recording ideas in Obsidian. But I was not reviewing them.

Fast forward another year, I saw a mention of a book called Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte. I bought it and read it in 3 sittings.

The concept was that you are only capturing what resonates with you. Stuff that is actionable for your projects.

The structure of your folders helps with this. So current projects are easy to locate. You can keep working on them.

He suggests in a bonus chapter on tagging to just use the search mechanism of your app. He gives some other useful ways tags can be used.

Fast forward to today, I am actively reviewing my notes and improving them each time I touch them to make them more useful.
LOL. The HP archive was just pieces of regular paper.

As for old, delicate stuff in the Vatican library - the librarians could simply sort out the stuff and give the not-so-delicate ones to the untrained photographers. The librarian can also turn the pages while the photographer can snap the pictures.

> greasy fingers

Check that they washed their hands.

> got sold to the black market.

Hire a security guard. The Vatican already has them.

These ripostes border on the absurd. Besides, look what your fears resulted in - the HP archives are ash now.
i'm pretty sure that not once ever have i heard a kid say their favorite color is beige. from kid's, i'd expect everything to be bright colors.
Nice! Synthesizing fuel is something I think about whenever I study power generation. Ideally, the synthesized fuel doesn't require cryogenic storage to store large quantities. The less energy that storage requires the better for fuel ubiquity. I dream of a fuel generating device that is utilized to dump excess generated power. Currently off grid power generation dumps load as heat. The heat is often used to heat water or a room but occasionally dumped in atmosphere.

Methane synthesis is the first step in a whole chain of high energy synthesis. The two most important economically are longer hydrocarbons (ethane, propane) and ethylene which is the base for poly-ethylene plastics.

But, for synthesis the electricity has to be essentially free to be economical. These chemical pathways require a lot of energy. I would probably use methanogens to create methane from organic waste then use excess electricity for higher order synthesis.
Whatever you save in avoiding having to write "sum = add(l, r)" is not worth allowing programmers to bitshift file handles[1], divide file path objects[2], or subscript objects to launch a process[3].

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/cout

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html

[3] https://pypi.org/project/plumbum/
That really says it. No public info about what the problem is, though.

Here's the designer's LinkedIn.[1]

[1] https://ae.linkedin.com/in/darren-brooke-88299130
>Ditching terminal support and replacing emacs TUIs with GUIs would not be progress

Graphical debuggers are one of the most important tools developers have gotten in the last few decades compared to the TUI and command line era. There exist packages like dap-mode for emacs which do an admirable job in simulating more graphical workflows, but they are limited by the capacities that Emacs has.

If you want to put Emacs on the same footing with modern IDEs I don't think you get around to at some point getting it to a modern GUI system.
As a dev, I've never quit a job because I didn't like the software I had to use. But if I'm evaluating whether or not to take a position somewhere, the use of certain software is certainly a mark in the minus column.
With an increasingly unstable and untrustworthy CEO at the helm, it makes me worry that SpaceX will eventually morph into RocketGate.
> I don't even know [how] you're drawing these conclusions from what I'm saying.

That is abundantly clear. Here it is in a nutshell: *if* you accept that "culture is important," *then* you cannot have "race-blind hiring/whatever policies," *because* you have already accepted that one culture values hard work more than another culture.

When you reject that "culture is important," then you can hire individuals based on their merits, instead of the opinions you have about their culture. Making decisions about individuals based on opinions you have about their culture is the definition of racism.
All I know about that is I tried to migrate my Mojang account to Microsoft - when Microsoft started "unifying logins" - and I still haven't heard back from them. So my experience has been negative. Hopefully they don't try to migrate Battle.net accounts in the future.
> As a consequence of this there are some rivers, lakes and beaches in England + Wales that are now unsafe but which weren't before they were privatised.

Carefully chosen words, someone has done their research!

Thats what happens when new standards come into force and improve upon the old standards.

https://environment.data.gov.uk/portalstg/home/item.html?id=...

"The purpose of this dataset is to present a summary of bathing water compliance in England between 1988 and 2014 against the old bathing water directive (76/160/EEC), which was repealed on the 31/12/2014"

However I'm not against better standards, but I am against some of the "engineered" methods used to gain those standards....

https://www.ciwem.org/the-environment/how-should-water-and-e....

As I was saying, some things are engineered....
The Colonel’s Bequest – Case Cracked (2020)
You’ve moved beyond this specific acquisition and are now talking in generalities. I don’t agree with your post; however, I would note that the situation at issue here in the Microsoft case is actually very similar to your hypothetical. Activision is the food producer. Sony is the grocery chain. Microsoft is also a grocery chain, one that is losing to Sony and is trying to buy Activision in order to compete.

The solution isn’t to sanction Sony because it’s not clear that Sony has done anything illegal to obtain its market position. It’s not illegal to have a monopoly. The solution is to let competition arise from the market and increase consumer choice either by driving down prices or providing more options for consumers. In the market for grocery stores, Microsoft buying Activision is anti-monopolist and pro-competition.
Microsoft wins U.S. court nod to buy Activision in loss for FTC
I don't doubt your experience at all: I just extremely rarely see functional approach applied to larger scale projects, and as we mostly work on legacy projects throughout our careers, I find it more likely that people have not seen it than otherwise.

TBH, I've seen only two large projects completely following those patterns in my slightly shorter (than yours) 17 years of professional career (on top of a few years of active free software contribution): at my company, I am looking to introduce those patterns for new projects, but none of the existing stuff is doing that.

Basically, you get extreme benefits once you follow the pattern fully: smaller codebases are relatively easier to keep that way, but the benefits are not as pronounced either.

Anyway, my apologies if you see my previous message as a knock on your experience: I only consider myself lucky to have seen this applied on a complex project integrating many components (external and internal but from other teams) and with heavy development, and I really wish everybody gets to experience it once too :)

Again, you possibly did, which is wonderful! It's also ok if that didn't make you as much of a fan as me :)
Imagine you could duplicate yourself 100 times. Do your odds improve?
> One of the last straws for me was that when scrolling down, the cursor moved to stay on the screen.

I mean, to each their own, but saying this like it's bad is just baffling to me.
I think it shows how little the average HN user actually looks at the content that gets posted.
Dadroit JSON Generator
Of course they will get ‘fixed’ over enough time. Neighborhoods change. What is now the bougie upper east side used to be squalid tenements. However if all those bougie kids end up in a charter instead, don’t be surprised when performance doesn’t budge much. Its basically hollywood accounting, the schools overall aren’t any better or worse, you merely concentrate the worst performers in one area to ostensibly improve stats in another. You don’t need a for profit charter system to do that if that is the goal.
I'm very happy with the Jetbrains tools, and have been happy for years. The other tools aren't slow for me, only CLion with Rust.
Try HTTP/2. You don't need /3.
If I understand this correctly, it's RDMA for GPU/accelerator memory.
Fair point! We'll fix this. In the meantime, the graphs show latency distributions, so the X axis is time (in milliseconds) and the Y axis is a simple count.
piracy doesn't always preserve the right thing: this explains about how a cracked version of The Colonel's Bequest has become so prevalent that "[n]early half of the Let's Play videos on youtube are infected with broken randomness",
because "copy protection crack destroys all randomness in the entire game!"
Coframe creates a feedback loop between user activity and the LLM which generates better and better content for your website or app, constantly improving it over time.
This was recommended to me by Google today too I'll take it as a sign and try it out.
Some tools are good for some jobs. Other tools are good for other jobs. There's no "war".
The FUSE BPF Filesystem
Companies using RHEL or SUSE and paying for support usually don't switch. This is one of the rare moments where SUSE has a real chance to expand their market share in this space.