skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>some of us don't have time to play games?

Be honest how productive are you? You probably waste more time during your workday than you do work. Not every day, you might even have very productive weeks, but think over a year how many hours you "waste" on taking breaks to read HackerNews or Reddit or make a Tweet or whatever.

You could spend that time fixing issues with your editor and that would lead to improved workflow when you get back to work.

And in my mind you should use your work time to improve yourself and your tools. From the day I started I decide that I wanted to be the best at what I do and I can't get there if I just do the work. So every day from the day I started working I've taken 30-60 minutes per day from my actual working time to improve. Be it learning something new or configuring my tools (editor, terminal, operating system, browser, whatever). And no employer has complained about my output nor should they since they are getting better output for the same investment.
How can you jam a laser from a satellite to a drone, if it is one way? With the sensor on top of the drone, e.G. a Predator? Wouldn't you need something flying higher than the drone?
There's an interesting link between K-129 and the current 'boom' around deep sea mining: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian

The cover-story to build the Glomar Explorer to recover K-129 was that Howard Hughes thought that it was economically feasible to mine manganese nodules from the deep sea. A lot of engineering research started that year (1974) that now, 2023, bears fruit in several large companies trying to mine the ocean floor with approvals to start probably happening this year: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02290-5

Without the cover-story and Howard Hughes I wonder how many researchers would have ever looked at deep sea mining.
I agree. As a PHP dev it seems to me that the JS world is stuck on reinventing every kind of wheel for every kind of project.

From what my view as an outsider, it seems that there just isn't as much conglomeration around big projects as there is in PHP/Ruby/etc, or there are many more projects and there haven't been a "sacred few" as winners yet outside of frontend frameworks.

In PHP, I can reliably stick myself in a Laravel/Symfony/Wordpress camp and the framework will either have most of what I need, or the ecosystem will have packages for it that get the job done. In JS, the projects that accomplish the same either don't have much publicity or there's some other blocker.

In other words, where is Wordpress.js? Solve an entire problem for an end user, not just a fellow developer who can operate a terminal.
Same sentiment here. After 2 decades of development and having been through phases such as Gentoo, Vim+plugins, and other deep dive hobbies, I enjoyed the time spent, but now I just want something that works out of the box. I've found IntelliJ/GoLand with Vim bindings to work well for me. That Vim muscle memory is something I'll never get over.
> Greatest thing about bikes, and this still applies to ebikes, is that you actually experience and participate in the city you live in. You learn the small roads, you see other people and they see you, you spot tiny businesses and interesting parks.

Too bad you can't do that with cars or as a pedestrian /s
> these days

How far back are you counting as these days? I'd the entire recording industry has always been about attaching an image to songs.
https://github.com/rixed/junkie
The first time I created a checklist in a Trello card, and then completed it … the whole list does this shimmer when you tick the last checkbox. It’s just delightful.
Very few people know that electric vehicles had already been built well over 120 years ago! Attempts to re-establish them were always suppressed by different industries several times, but this time, it seems inevitable.
You can have it both ways! Use neovim to handle key presses in VSCode, keep all the benefits of a text editor that (mostly) Just Works.

- https://github.com/vscode-neovim/vscode-neovim
An aside thought: the days of soldiers riding horses into battle is currently considered to be an outdated mode of warfare. It seems quaint to even consider that one day warriors on horseback may again be the prominent warring force on our planet. And yet here we're are packed with nukes, as if we couldn't make it all happen.
There’s no separate parking laws for Kei cars, just relaxed legal processes and taxes. You still can’t park overnight on streets.
> The chainsaw with ready made attachments is way easier to get going, but in return you have to carry the chainsaw with you and if there are any problems with the tool itself you probably aren't going to be able to fix or modify it yourself.

This is where your analogy breaks down for me. The "chainsaw" (VSCode) is absolutely perfect for the tasks I'm using it for. When I write Python code, the Python extension gives me exactly what I want. That's because the environment it creates has been fine-tuned based on feedback from thousands of users with similar requirements to my own. There's no need for me to modify anything, any more than I modify my car or my trousers. It's simply ready for me to do professional work, and whenever I have special requirements, I know that I will find an extension that caters to them also. I don't need or want to reinvent a wheel that has been invented hundreds of times already, and polished to perfection through more man-hours than I could ever hope to invest myself.
https://archive.is/8lPPc
It still saves you on cost and space to host backup airstrips in case your country enter at war if you can share part of it with civil use.
We're all different. Personally I can't do pen and paper.

Writing with a pen makes my hand hurt, and I can't hyperlink to other information that I'll need when addressing a task or easily delegate some task to my partner, especially when travelling.

I prefer tools that get out of my way — and I think Trello is great for this — for me personally, a good electronic TODO list gives me fewer problems than strictly pen and paper would.
> a stressfully large quantity of small tasks to do on a deadline

This is like the ideal use-case for lists and list apps. The list has an endpoint, you can stack tasks up then knock them down. Your progress through the project is actually hill-shaped[1], not "Sisyphus pushing the rock up the hill"-shaped.

[1]: https://basecamp.com/shapeup/3.4-chapter-13#work-is-like-a-h...
Copilot has native NeoVim support

I don't know what kind of GPT you want in your editor. A colleague of mine attached the llama model to his vim, but that doesn't seem too useful to me.
The description looks cool. It's macos only though for now.
Wouldn't the spin off and it's executives installed specifically for this maneuver have to initiate the lawsuit to pay unfunded liabilities?

Isn't the alternative of directly attacking j&js resources made fantastically harder and more uncertain? The net effect of which is to make claimants more likely to choose the safe path of accepting the figure chosen by the guilty party rather than letting judge or jury directly decide.
Pretty sure "controversy" killed biological weapons and most use of nuclear (thankfully).

They're even trying to get rid of certain cluster munitions.
They weren't capping the total payouts in damages. The bankruptcy filing itself said that parent company would cover the cost to ensure everyone gets the money. Bankruptcy was a process to ensure every victim gets equal amount.

The term for this process is misleading, and the mental image is very much of a company which is getting out of paying their victims. In this case, filing for bankruptcy created fairness among victims, they did not have to be first or fifth to get the right damages, every victim was treated equal.

> That is, LTL — the box where J&J put its talc claims — could draw at least $61.5 billion from J&J to pay off those claims. The point here, the bankruptcy court concluded, was not to keep J&J from having to pay talc claims; the entire value of J&J’s consumer business was still on the line for those claims. The point, rather, was to deal with those claims in an organized and efficient way, to treat all the claimants fairly.

The only reason the court quashed it was because it wanted J&J to fight the individual or class action lawsuits, and it was too early for bankruptcy.
Thank you for putting a brief description of the product at the top of the post. There are often posts on HN for new versions of software that I haven't heard of. I click on them out of curiosity only to find a post that only talks about the new version. I have to go looking to find out what the product/project actually is. (And often the post is on a blog that doesn't have a link back to the main product/project site!)
Green energy tycoon to launch UK’s first electric airline
Dale Vince’s Ecojet plane will run on kerosene-based fuel in 2024 to enable quick start to project.
The high-level language I want is JS. For mid-level, something like C++ but with Rust's automatic typing and way fewer unnecessary features.
What are "we" if we're not biological? What is there to separate from the biological substrate into "pure compute" substrate?
I can’t help but think it must be about protecting the aircraft rather than protecting the surface, as in ukraine roads are commonly built out of reinforced concrete slabs, and somewhat less commonly, but still frequently, they are built to take the weight of tanks, and are wide and straight enough to accommodate even large aircraft - there’s a strip of highway north of Mariupol that was originally built to accommodate strategic bombers.

The other thing that they would do is to even out the surface - decades of frost heave has left said concrete slabs pretty uneven, even in a car, never mind a jet, landing.
a colleague of mine answered the same question with: "jetbrains products reek of java"

which i translated to "cluttered ui" and "not responsive".
Do all doctors need that much or is it just the homogenizing effect of licensing? You could argue that programmers need many years of schooling and apprenticeship to become useful if you set the bar of utility at the same place Google used to, but in reality most people can be useful way before that. Also self-learning makes a big difference but isn't recognized by the medical licensing system.
Reminded me of this story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba%E2%80%93Kongsberg_scan...

Toshiba wasn't allowed to export a 9-axis (C)NC-machine to the Soviet union, because it could (and would) be used to create ultra-silent submarine props, in the 80s.

Asianometry video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaRyqAVIkwI
I'm guessing this is semi-automated, as the game is not behind a paywall for me, and the archive doesn't seem to work for it, as it would for normal FT stories.
What’s the story on the actual research? Is it legit? I find it hard to believe talc causes cancer. Apparently the research is on asbestos-containing talc, and J&J claims their talc never contained asbestos? What am I missing?
Since the decoder is implemented in a PLA-style matrix, you don't save any space by omitting transistors. So that's not a motivation.

Random thing: chip transistor counts usually count "transistor sites" rather than physical transistors, so the omitted transistors still show up in the transistor counts.
I think the US fears losing an F-35 like they lost a F-117.
I really think this is the best way to use it for many people. You need something more complex? It's ok to bundle vim with any of great IDE's out there.

I learned how to change colorscheme more than 20 years ago because my CRT monitor made it impossible to read comments on default themes. I use same command today on my local terminals, bastions accessible via web or remote sessions ... for basically the same reason.

If you code from one machine spending time to set up IDE and then leaving it be makes sense.
But if you are more of an admin, or learn a lot and jump from host to host, from learning platform temporary environments to cloud environments, from mobile to some remote mainframe that is being decommissioned for past 7 years? You could just figure out how to change 2-3 basic options and have a predictable environment for next few decades.
That's not how human nature works. The fact that the island is set up to be 'mobile free' means there'll be a strong stigma about using your phone there. Everyone will stare, some people will give disapproving tuts, and I wouldn't be surprised if some even ask you to put the phone away. If you're really unfortunate people who feel very strongly will be quite angry about it.

You need a strong personality to ignore 'society' when practically everyone wants you to stop doing something. Social pressure is very powerful.

The island will not just be a few signs you can easily ignore. Using your phone there will be considered antisocial behavior.
I'm just so amazed!

I thought Johnson & Johnson was one of the good corporations and would accept and honour its obligations.

And that science has the truth to tell us what right or wrong, not a court.

And that the law system would deliver justice.

I'm just so amazed.
It wasn't just a sunk craft. They sunk a carrier. That's painful. Your wikipedia entry is kind of weird, since it's about Australia and there are no Dutch ships in the list for the last century or so.
Indeed, yet I switched to vscode after 10 years of vim because it is next in line to vim when powerfull editor is in question, and once you set it up you can have it 0 on-boarding everywhere else working on ANY machine you use, including browser. I use a lot of machines and I want my editor with me. Its mind blowing that you can just login in GitHubs vscode within a web browser on any repository and have your own vscode with config, hotkeys, extensions and whatnot, the same as on the desktop.

I do miss vim editing constantly, and I could never feel vim emulations as a native thing, but vscode is really awesome, particularly its keyboard centric design and sync.

Once vim has this "works everywhere and my setup installs in 1 command" I will get back to it.
I've always found the Gameboy Camera to be an interesting and novel bit of kit. During the pandemic I picked up a GBC and camera in the hopes of diving into the world of low-fi photography... But I kept putting off modding a better battery & screen into the GBC, and most the methods out there for getting the images off of the cartridge are outdated or rather cumbersome.

Matt Walsh did a neat video about using lenses to make colour pictures with the camera - https://youtu.be/FPkJaEG-C_M
> I know people who can't get around without a car with GPS navigation. They do not know the way to the shops or their friends' houses.

You can use GPS on a bicycle ... Or even as a pedestrian
Interesting. Felt more like a confusingly written multiple choice quiz than a game at points but thought provoking at least.
I always found Fairchild to come up surprisingly often in random bits of knowledge. He had his hands in and was a pioneer in aircrafts, photography, spy satellites, semiconductors and had over 70 companies (known to us) throughout his life. Just makes my conspiracy side tingle.
I used XML/XPath/XQuery in the early 2000s to define a custom binary protocol. It was so fantastic to have a single source of truth, and use transformations to generate both document (spec) and C serialization/deserialization code.

I have never experienced that again. :(
Well, it is underfunded [1]. The UK spends a lot less per capita than any other developed nation.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6326
React.js (2012)
From 1999, the linked article seems an interesting read on the intersection between 'hacker culture' and the libertarian project; dry and a little quaint.

Readers might like to compare the more journalistic (and entertaining, IMO) 2014 piece on 'San Francisco’s tech-libertarian “Reboot” conference' from sadly defunct Pando, for example:

> At first glance it makes no sense to front a rabidly anti-gay candidate like McMorris Rodgers to sell the Kochs’ and the Paul family’s scrubland libertarianism to a Bay Area audience full of hip disruptors and “anarchist” practitioners of bohemia grooming fads.

> But that’s because what Silicon Valley folks think of when they hear the word “libertarianism” actually has very little connection to what the libertarian movement actually stands for, and has stood for since the 1970s.

...

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20141118174216/http://pando.com/...
Could you explain why not? Technically speaking it's nothing special as Moodle is completely built on the LAMP stack (although WAMP is also supported, as well as PostGreSQL, Oracle, MariaDB and MS-SQL).
>You have to learn Vim's terrible, verbose, antiquated commands in depth in order to justify using Vim. If you don't use q: (q colon) and q/ (q forward slash) in Vim, for example, you probably don't know Vim well enough to justify the efficiency loss you have compared to you using a modern IDE with multiple cursors.

How is scrolling through your past commands and searches anything like having multiple cursors?

If I want to use the same command I just type `:` followed by the start of the command and press up and it automatically fills in the rest of that command and I can even go back and forward in that history. Same with searching.

Also how is any of this "efficiency loss". Whenever someone talks about efficiency loss or performance in their IDE it is usually some very niche thing that they have gotten good at, but often the house of cards crumbles when they try to do anything else.
Pretty much all EVs currently on sale have a 12 volt auxiliary battery. Many are lead acid, because they work.

Tesla have transitioned their auxiliary batteries from lead acid to lithium. Their OEM battery is 6.9 Ah, because memes.
I'm Ruby developer, and tried multiple times to switch to vscode or one of these heavy IDE like plugins. All the time I'm back to my simple setup which is basically vim + fzf(powered by ripgrep). CTRL+P I run fzf to find files, CTRL+F to scan files content.
It's so fast, that every time I'm doing the test switch to another tool, I'm missing this speed and get back to it. Some time ago I wrote an article for company that I used to work for, describing my workflow: https://thecodest.co/blog/rails-development-with-tmux-vim-fz... you can check it for more details.
> It's the fact that the driver license fee is paid at renewal, which isn't yearly in any US state

That's your quibble?

When doing the bookkeeping on revenue flowing in against cost going out it's a simple matter to look at licence fees per annum, axle taxes per annumn, fuel taxes per annum Vs road program costs per annum.

These can be broken down to monthly or per quarter, etc.

Here we have licences that can be paid for three months, or six months, or twelve months or for three years, even so the public data from the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development (the federal department that oversees all the road related revenue (multiple sources), plans and funds road upkeep and extensions) talks about licence numbers per year.
"The fact is the big tech companies make next to nothing on news."

Perhaps these so-called "tech" companies need the traffic generated by people reading and sharing news stories. It makes no sense for "Google News" to exist if it makes next to nothing. It would be "irrational".

Google and Facebook keep track of every user navigation to a news story. The links are not direct. Of course this is for purely non-commercial purposes. Data collected is not used for commercial purposes. Yeah right.

https://www.newsmediaalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06...

If it isn't valuable to Google to intermediate peoples' access to online news, then why doesn't Google stop doing it.

IMO, the issue is not that content producers such as news organsations are asking too much, it's that they are asking at all. The so-called "tech" company "business model" only works if the company does not have to pay anyone for content. If every producer whose content is being used by these companies to support and generate revenue from advertising services suddenly starts demanding payment, no matter how small, these "Big Tech" companies and their Golden Goose are cooked.
> They also don't have intellectual property.

You say it like it's a bad thing?

How quaint.
I think it is fair to test the ability of a large manufacturer to sell computer through the phone. Many people do not know what they need to accomplish their work so asking the seller to sell them an appropriate product is not outlandish.

For example I wanted to buy a sewing machine but didn't know anything about them though I knew what I wanted to do with it. So I went to a nearby shop and asked the seller what they recommended and actually ended up with an appropriate product. Maybe for computer related stuff this is not the good way to do it anymore idk.
It's incredible how that chip still holds up well today, and people are still using it to create music. There was a particular tune I wanted to link to, but can't find it unfortunately.
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>and this makes me more knowledgable than military leaders and qualified to dictate the direction of military procurement.
How would you know who is qualified for what?
The way I see it if Zed fails I just go back to VSCode and I’m no worse off than before. The nice thing about Zed is that it’s batteries included so it really isn’t hard at all to pick up. I did in maybe 15 minutes tops, seriously.
Tech has been given the benefit of the doubt since its literal humble beginnings. This modesty and DIY quaintness is exactly what people latched on to, you could see the nerdy kids who rented out a garage in SV, where many famous companies began.

Once we had some established businesses in the valley, the next generation that brought its own quaintness entered with the rockstar, ninja, 10x programmer who spends all their free time coding. Open source software started to converge within businesses and their interest, with the face of tech becoming a new type of humble, scrappy programmer who also is altruistic. Tech benefited greatly. The dark side here is that with large salaries for IC roles came strict performance requirements and constant churn of folks looking for new hotness. Many burnt out as many more were entering the new gold rush.

Nowadays, most SE’s don’t carry a hacker mindset and those with curiosity are stamped out to make way for strict worker bees. Companies are hiring people straight out of college and they just don’t have the drive to do anything besides the bare minimum so companies are just raising the bar for the minimum and paying less because they’re not bringing the same value as new hires from 10-15 years ago did who had curiosity built into their work styles.

SEs are now being given minimal context and big issues are finding their way to production for many companies. These SEs don’t seem to care to get a bigger picture. Users blame larger companies for spying because all data is being sent to a random server instead of being processed locally, claiming it’s a just a big cabal conspiring to steal data, when it’s often just horrific incompetence at all stages and the fact that nobody has a clear picture on what exactly this is doing - a reality I find even more terrifying.

While this is not the complete cause of tech distrust, the companies I’ve been at who lack a systemic hacker-culture mindset have been miserable to work out, distrusted by its users, and sometimes outright despised (yet begrudgingly used). I have turned down jobs when I cannot find the curious itch that I’ve come to expect from all teams in a company.

Where have all the hackers gone? Are we just stuck with this enshitified version of the tech industry?
How do you do 2FA? Bank wire confirmations?

Never need Google Maps?
No whatsapp and messenger to talk to friends and family?

I'd love to be smartphone free but fail to see how I could do without those uses