skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't particularly like vscode. It's heavy and slow and janky, particularly on older laptops. I don't like being sucked back into the Microsoft ecosystem after spending years getting away from it. But ultimately, I want to just get on with my job, and my job is not Lua Developer or Neovim Plugin Expert.

I've personally been test driving JetBrains Fleet and have to say that it's pretty okay for most of my lightweight dev needs: https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/

It's still a bit early for it and it doesn't have the same ecosystem that VSC has, but it'll probably be even better in 1-5 years and is decent already.

For most of the more heavy work I just use JetBrains IDEs, but that's very clearly a no go for the less capable devices like my netbook.

For even lighter options, on Windows there is Notepad++, which has been okay although not an IDE.

There's also CudaText, which feels quirky but has decent language support: https://cudatext.github.io/

Maybe even something like Geany is worth a look, depending on your needs: https://www.geany.org/
"Like when one of the parties is under severe censorship."

What if the censor hijacks DNS queries. This is also done outside the realm of censorship, e.g., hotel wifi networks.
I laugh while rolling my eyes whenever I read on Reddit that "Europe" has "good transit" so doesn't need cars. Such geniuses will, of course, never ever actually have to tell a rural Irishman or Spaniard or Frenchman that there is no need for the truck he owns for the farm and the sedan his family uses every day. Or the German or Italian who ackshually has no need for the automobile he uses to commute into Frankfurt or Milan every day.
These people follow different rules. Famously, Steve Jobs used a rule that allows a car to be driven without a license plate if it is newer than 6 months, and he just got a new one every 6 months to never have license plates.
Of course the British know. Submarine and Wales is just two tube stops from Elephant and Castle.
I wonder how it offers bi-directional communication?

Do mobile devices have to have small light bulb (like infrared) to support bi-drectional communication? It would be too big for modern smartphone though.
Spacemacs defaults to fd, I don't think I ever accidentally left insert mode with that.

Happy vscode user these days. If I find myself fiddling with an editor it's a huge red flag to me that I hate what I'm working on.
This can be a pleasant community if you follow the guidelines and avoid this sort of name-calling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think a missing letter in such a short words is a common typo. It stands out.

You got eg. prin1 in Clisp which should be hard to distinguish in some fonts.
The positive impact Let's Encrypt has had on Internet security and reliability cannot be understated.
I'm not being pissy about it, I'm explaining why this approach doesn't click for me. I'm not sure why, after being told that this type of explanation doesn't work for me and being told exactly why, you are surprised when I say that again. I'll try and help explain why in more detail.

The point is that for me the key bit of information is yet again missing from your explanation.

> Picture, in your mind or maybe draw on paper, 20 brightly lit doors in a row where 19 are labeled L and one is labeled W. Out of those 20 doors, one door gets randomly selected. It's almost certainly going to be an L. After choosing it, the lights go out above 18 of the other L doors so only the W door, and the L door you probably chose, remained lit.

It's extremely important the reasoning behind why the 18 other doors are picked is highlighted.

The game show deal or no deal has basically this, but with 20 or 25 or something boxes. At the end they get to switch - and it doesn't make a difference. It wouldn't make a difference if the host opened the boxes or the contestants. It wouldn't make a difference if the host opened them and knew what was inside.

What would make a difference is if the host opens the boxes while deliberately avoiding opening the jackpot.

Lets reframe deal or no deal in a way that highlights the key part for me:

There are 25 boxes with sums from 1p to £1M in them. Nobody knows what's in them. You pick one randomly, and the others are placed in a pile. You now get to choose one of two things:

1. Keep the box you chose randomly

2. Take the highest value box out of the pile of 24

What if there were 24 boxes worth nothing and one with £1M in, does your strategy change?

What if there were 23 boxes with nothing and one with £1M in, does your strategy change?

What if there were just three boxes?
Of course. Every freedom can be exploited.
This reads so much like that macho programmer who wrote everything in assembler from a few decades ago.

I will keep using Sublime Text. No need to suffer needlessly.
This looks like real life Airwolf
Whilst casting isnt for me... this website definitely is. One helluva error page too... "END OF THE INTERNET"

http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/error.html
Over 50% of Young Danes Have Streamed or Downloaded Content Illegally
Do you blog anywhere? Your perspective feels very lucid
The other thing is that at 1024x768 a 300px image isn't actually that small. On a 16" screen it would have been something like 5" diagonally.
In the 90s, early 2000's, there was a resurgence of the SID music scene that may not be widely acknowledged. During this time, new SID editors/players and techniques were developed, introducing a fresh sonic landscape with previously unheard sounds coming from the SID chip. Here's a few of my favorites from this era:

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/C/Carlos_Breez...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/F/Fanta/Bombs_...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/J/Jeff/Svend_D...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/M/Mitch_and_Da...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/M/Mitch_and_Da...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/P/Peet/Harvy.s...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/T/Taki/Reynbow...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/F/Fanta/Challe...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/D/Dr_Voice/Sit...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/J/Jeff/Rectumo...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/M/Mitch_and_Da...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/B/Blues_Muz/Sp...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/D/DRAX/KickAss...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/T/Tjelta_Geir/...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/G/Greg/Magyar_...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/D/Dr_Voice/Yea...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/B/Behdad_Arman...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/D/DaFunk/Art_o...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/T/The_Syndrom/...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/B/Bakewell_Dwa...

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/M/Merken_Vince...

I had to restrain myself from posting more, but I believe these examples will give you an idea. The C64 demoscene is still very much alive, by the way, with great SID tunes being released even today.
You're not the only one, but my configuration is the opposite of yours.

These are the three lines I always use on any vim install.

let loaded_matchparen = 1

syntax off

map ; :

The first two lines are crucial, because I find rainbow colored text and flashing punctuation extremely distracting. If you find monochrome code unreadable, then that's a problem with your formatting style that you can easily fix.

The last line is really handy for not having to hold down shift so much.
LBRY Is Dead
The team has a GitHub repo:

https://github.com/WolframResearch/Arrival-Movie-Live-Coding
The same reason Nixon had to take the U.S off the gold standard in 1971 - the government printed more dollars than it had gold to back. Just because you have a gold standard won't stop politicians from printing cash when they need it.

The only way to stop politicians meddling with money is to denationalize it and eliminate legal tender laws.
The point of a comment system is to discuss the content of an article. This is what I did. The likelihood of me going there either way is pretty small.
This is outright silly - russia is structurally incapable of sustaining many sectors of economy. Russian businessmen are routinely forced to flee the country or tortured in prison.

The first thing anyone in Russia does, if they’ve made money, is they buy real estate in Europe.

The vassal-ish relationship would not be functional, it would not work for Russians themselves. Nor is there are reason to believe Russia would dominate that relationship.
Super interesting. What's life like over there for you? Are you planning on moving away at some point?
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What if part of the appeal of kei trucks is the price? I think the niche these vehicles are filling for some is that they're small _and_ cheap. Maybe a fully street legal version can't match kei truck pricing, but $50k also isn't it.
Could be their moral compass has been warped by Russian propagandists who find the death of civilians in the Ukraine ‘SMO’ to be a cause of great celebration.
Curious how they need a 10 day outage on the outbound payment side, but not the inbound payment side which must be significantly more complex!
I'm saying that when it's used with a gender attached it is in reference to doing some specific things that attracts other partners. Also, the thing is not mutually exclusive, you can be a good person and a good man/woman (good person with potential to attract partners you are interested in).

Just to be clear, my talk is abstract, I'm not referring to my personal behavior.

That being said, when I do a nice thing for somebody else's sake with 0 expectations in return, I know my body will provide me with a warm feeling that will probably make me smile, thinking the other person felt good about it. I can't help but think that this is the reason why I would do that, so I feel selfish either way
Webdevs can always say those aren't their target audience.
No doubt I'll be downloaded into oblivion, but it's a massive money making venture for lawyers, similar to "silicone breast implants cause cancer" back in the 90's (which turned out to be false).

The FDA did test randomly test a bunch of talc products and the "FDA found “sub-trace” levels, or no greater than 0.00002%, of chrysotile asbestos contamination in a bottle purchased from an online retailer."

That's 0.2 parts per million, or 200 nanograms in a gram, or 200 micrograms in a kilogram of powder in one sample.

Add on top:

- the FDA tested a number of products and most had zero asbestos (it's a trace contaminant not usually found in talc used for humans)

- the amount of talc that might be suspended in the air when using the products is measured in milligrams (so now we're getting into picograms of asbestos)

- J&J was sued for causing ovarian cancer, there isn't even a scientific link to ovarian cancer for asbestos.

The link to cancer is tenuous as best, but the lawyers smelled blood and could piece together enough of a story to get jury to find J&J guilty based on a "more likely than not" threshold.

In the end the winners in all this are the lawyers.

Look at the studies that were used as evidence, here is a link to the full paper.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9847157/pdf/129...

"Exposure data was obtained by sworn testimony of the mesothelioma patients in all cases, and/or from family members who had direct knowledge of the individual’s use of cosmetic talc and, if present, other sources of asbestos exposure."

That's it. The patient's and family member's word. No testing of samples for asbestos contamination, no review of their home to see if there was asbestos. Just a sworn statement.
The question is rather if there's sufficient evolutionary pressure to rule this out.

It led to a handful of people dancing till they die, ok, but maybe only in a dense urban setting which wasn't an issue before. Maybe that gene conferred other benefits, like more stamina.

Maybe it's like a lot of disease which don't seem to have benefits but still affect a much larger part of the population.
Eh? Did you read it?

Note the article is a summary of the research, not the research itself.
You're right. Microsoft can not withstand _any_ cyber onslaught.
After 20 years of "improved security" they still don't get it right.
But as long as the management loves Microsoft, i guess we are stuck with it.
Yeah, doesn't really work for me either - even when I knew that I'd be much happier after completing the task (e.g., cleaning my room), but nope. I'd just sit there, staring at what I had to do, unable to do it. Then I started reading about ADHD and executive dysfunction and it started to explain a lot - at least for me, the task has to be relatively enjoyable in and of itself for me to do it. The prospect of a reward afterwards doesn't change that and doesn't motivate me to do it. Now I take medication and it's made a noticeable difference to how difficult it is to do unenjoyable tasks.
Is their desire to change it not evidence that they don't accept it? What they want is a real solution rather than to simply complain about the problem while doing nothing (which is closer to acceptance).
You're a bit mistaken. Austrians are basically anti-statists who believe in limited government and non-intervention in the market - even to the point of opposing legal tender laws.
You write as if I'm foaming at the mouth typing this. I'm using the comments section to comment about something. I think it's dumb and I won't think about it ever again.

In any case it's not actually phone-free, just a publicity stunt.
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1.Decentralized and dual-layer encryption for enhanced data security.
2.AI-optimized self-building and structured data storage for seamless scalability.
3.An AI data aggregation suite, integrating APIs from a growing list of contributors.

Which of these game-changing features has you absolutely thrilled?
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Russia tries its best to lure civilians into using the war supply routes to Crimea. They serve as a human shield of a kind. How do you like the idea of using large landing ships to shuttle tourists to Crimea? [0] Note this was before the latest attack on the bridge.

0. https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2023/07/northern-...
Stack Overflow Architecture
Taiping Rebellion
This is really cool. I'd like to read more about this approach. Are there also non-military applications or hobby drone designs?
Four years ago I managed to use it on a plane to read mails over SSH in a terminal. It was so slow I had the impression to be in a spaceship to another planet...
How it plays with the idea of not passing responsibility to the user? User can request window width too.
Special forces notoriously rode horses early in the invasion of Afghanistan.

Delivering force and logistics to the desired location, in a way you can support, is the end goal.

In most of the industrialized world, there are better options. But there's a fair bit of the planet where animal transport is still optimal: hard to beat the fuel requirements.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/10/18/...
They're setting their priorities straight.
The point is that telemetry is Microsoft's data.

Some people still don't underestand what "cloud" means from a data perspective.
(Look, we encrypt your data. With our key :)) )
the one web3 thing i thought was good..
This is some new definition of the word "need" that I am unaware of. Methinks a liquidity problem is the true culprit.
The algorithm knows better: https://youtu.be/IMVSZ7ybK0s

Anyway these are some channels I'm following lately:
https://youtube.com/@Nighthawkinlight
https://youtube.com/@thethoughtemporium
https://youtube.com/@ButWhySci
> If you are a vim newbie, it takes a lot of time to figure out...

The horror!
Quantum Country does a good job of explaining the fundamentals like “what is a Hadamard gate”! Highly recommended: https://quantum.country/
Dunno if it would work in SF but in London I have an old rusty bike, left outside with a D lock and not many problems - there are always more saleable looking bikes if the thieves are at it.
"Standard" doesn't really help you much. To stay with thru-axles, yes, most rear thru axles are a standard size of 12mm. But they may have a M12x1, M12x1.5 or M12x2 thread. The length of the threaded part depends on the frame. The total length depends on the frame.

Another problem is that every manufacturer has their own standard, eg. Shimano has 24mm hollowtech bottom bracket axles, whereas SRAM has 30mm axles, and they come in a million different sizes (threaded BSA, threaded italian, 68mm wide or 73mm wide, press fit external or internal).

In any case, a bike shop will rarely have the part in stock, because there are so many of them.

Sometimes it's even worse, when a manufacturer just updates their "standard" every few years, eg. the Shimano i-Spec standard for mounting shifter levers has 4 incompatible variants.
the bindings are by far the best thing about Vim
I still use, to this day, XSLT on my website:

1/ To transform its Atom feed to pretty-looking HTML, if you access it from a browser: https://paul.fragara.com/feed.xml

2/ Similarly, to embed the feed dynamically on the homepage, using JavaScript XSLTProcessor (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XSLTProcess...)

This works on all major browsers (and even on IE!)
The XSL sheet is here: https://gitlab.com/PaulCapron/paul.fragara.com/-/blob/master...

In another context, I’ve leveraged XSLT 2.0, this time in a build process, to slightly transform (X)HTML pages before publishing (canonicalize URLs, embed JS & CSS directly in the page, etc.): https://github.com/PaulCapron/pwa2uwp/blob/master/postprod.x...
IIRC you can set the keyboard layout right at the start of the install. It should be on the same page as the license agreement.
Fake reviews: can we trust what we read online as use of AI explodes?
I speak purely and completely subjectively. No effort whatsoever at balance or perspective here.

I started to lose interest when Quake 3 came out. It had no local gameplay to speak of; if you wanted to play against anything but impossibly-quick local bots, then you needed to go online. But I was nearing 30YO by then, only a part-time hobbyist gamer, and online play was futile: I was and am so much weaker than any online gamer, I can't compete.

Spawn... splutch. Respawn, turn, move forward -- splutch. Respawn, start to turn, splutch.

Repeat for 5min, quit game.

Try a day later, repeat experience, uninstall game.

I have a PS2, and I did buy a few games for it. _The Driver_ was very impressive. It's just GTA, but down real streets I know well. DDR is fun.

But there is so much that is just more of the same, with a sky-high skill level as the base entry requirement. It's rather depressing. I used to enjoy this.

When the entire field has driven me away, no, I am not tempted to explore the niches and the edge cases.

It is a bit like being forced to do sport at school. As an severely shortsighted, overweight, very asthmatic child in an era before effective asthma drugs, sports were an exercise in ritual public humiliation for me. As a direct result, I don't just not like sport, I detest it with a burning passion. I don't even like to walk past a bar where there is a football match on: the chanting, cheering and jeering repels me.

In my 30s, effective asthma drugs came along, and I discovered that running and cycling can be fun... but never competitively, never with or against anyone else. I have been burned too deeply and the scars still hurt.

I used to like quick, easy, shoot-em-up games I could learn in 2min and just have fun blasting away. I don't want to spend weeks exploring, I don't want to build or model or construct or toil. I don't want vast immersive landscapes; I want a quick 1/2 hr diversion.

But the games industry doesn't seem to want the casual lightweights any more. Fine; then I don't want what it offers.
I've incidently just completed a headless statamic project that used Astro for the frontend. I'd recommend you check out Astro if you haven't already as dev experiece was great and generally feels a better fit for this usecase over next.
Modern chemical weapons are a better example of a thing we've banned.
I think it's not so clear a lot of times which function is called. Say you write a function that accepts your type as an argument. Cool, you compile it everything is good. Now you import a library, just so happens it also has a function that has the same name, and accepts an argument of the same parent type. Which function gets called? If you're reading the code and not intimately familiar with how imports work, all the imports in scope, and the function your coworker defined on like 5,000 in a random file you might not be sure unless you start debugging.

Pipes are fine, but methods and traits with a strong type system reduce any ambiguity there.

Doesn't mean you can't use pipes reasonably! But in Julia that seems like it could be harder to unpack.
Boston Dynamics: 40 years of development (1983 – 2023) Atlas [video]
>Yeah, I think I’d rather handle any addiction myself than go through that

Then you probably don't really know addiction. Recovered hard drug addicts can get cravings for substances for the rest of their lives. The brain doesn't let go because it knows it can get that feeling again at any time. Not relapsing is a continuous battle, although it gets easier with time.

I get that the research sounds a bit disturbing, but if it works, it would be a groundbreaking therapy for addiction and a lot of people would be able to live their lives again.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this. I'm working on an open source AI project, and I use a kanban board for two things: items I know I'm likely to forget, and items I've completed already when I enter them. I get no value from writing down reminders to do the things I know I need to do, but having a short list of important reminders (eg reproduce and resolve an edge case bug) along with a list of accomplishments has been helpful and motivational
Well I'm a buffoon guffawing at your assertion.
Using ChatGPT to inject malicious code into Open Source projects
Just a thought on a potential attack using ChatGPT.

GPT-4's coding skills are really amazing, but they also open a potential avenue for attack on Open Source projects.

SCENARIO:
Attacker scans open issues of popular open source libraries for easy to solve problems.

Using ChatGPT Premium with Web-browsing, ChatGPT may be able to come up with a solution, or at least 70 - 80% of the solution almost instantly.

The attacker can then create a Pull Request and add some malicious code to it (think of the solutions to the Underhanded C contest) which have a decent chance of being overlooked by the dev team.

WHY THIS IS DIFFERENT:
By leveraging ChatGPT with Web Browsing, attackers can increase the volume (and possibly the quality) of attacks against popular open source projects.
Seeking Feedback on New SDK Features
Calling fellow Developers!
We've got a game-changing SDK coming up with these features-

1. Decentralized and dual-layer encryption for enhanced data security.
2. AI-optimized self-building and structured data storage for seamless scalability.
3. An AI data aggregation suite, integrating APIs from a growing list of contributors.

Which of these game-changing features has you absolutely thrilled?
Share your insights and let's ignite innovation!