skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't there a big move to tearing down [0] statues [1] because the classical liberals [2] were considered monsters from a different era? Classical liberalism does really poorly under the current progressive zeitgeist and would likely and ironically be labelled "racist white man logic". The strongest thing protecting the classic liberal thinkers from being tarred and feathered is nobody knows who they are.

I don't think the alt right can be said to have "claimed" it as much as the left is rejecting it and there is no other home in a 2-faction classification.

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/17/statue-removed-fran... Note the name Voltaire

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson#Memorials_and... Note the name Jefferson.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism#Notable_t... Note the names Jefferson, Voltaire.
> Separately there's a good argument that keeping the company alive is better for those affected because it can fun ongoing liabilities.

There's a better solution: the government pays all the fines and then nationalizes the company until the profits have paid back everything owed plus reasonable interest. Then, it's sold off. The original owners get nothing.

That way, there's also an incentive for current shareholders to pressure their management to behave ethically - clearly, there's a massive lack of such in the current framework.
I love this blog series that just goes on and on. Keep up the good work!

One thing I'm thinking about: I grew up writing 6502 assembly on the VIC20 and C64. We hated the 8086 back then, as kids do with hardware. When growing up I saw that we were partly right. The 6502 performed very well compared to the IBM PC on practical tasks. But the 6502 is a dirt simple, while the 8086 is surprisingly complex. Was the PC slow due to 8088 and not 8086?

I can of course just Google it or check the op code table. But always fun to talk about old technology :)
> Having less money translates into having a smaller house or a car,

It is more like no house and no car. Prices of cars increased with 50 % .
Upcoming APKTool 2.8.0
Why would fragmentation imply you can't have a GUI? You would just pick one toolkit and depend on it being there (unless you statically link it). Setting it up correctly is then the job of the user or distributors.
For the curious, it is pronounced "Kay" as in "okay" and not kii as in "key".
The Swiss system works well. It at least isn't in crisis like many of the others.
It's actually the only thing that worked for me. I have a natural skill at deconstructing complex things, and my hunch is this the main reason I never enjoyed todo lists, even though if a task is extremely complex I have to break it down in a written format to offload the overhead, but I usually use mindmaps instead of todo lists because of their "non-linear" characteristics.

I do believe calendar worked better for me because I'm not operating over "tasks" but over "time blocks". This way I'm more efficient, and I'm progressively getting better at estimating how much time I need to allocate for a specific task. It's a broader perspective than the atomic "task" and it feels more intuitive to me to operate at this layer. HBR has a great article that discusses some of the things I said (https://hbr.org/2012/01/to-do-lists-dont-work).
Dude Common Lisp 100%!

Don't fret if you think you're mediocre. I myself have been trying to get through On Lisp since 2008. Then, after that, Let over Lambda. Not better, but v strong book, i can tell the guy while not the best at humblebragging has so much cool stuff there.

ANSI Common Lisp n that's plenty to not be mediocre! I did get through the whole thing in 2009, what a great book!
https://archive.li/2023.07.13-183756/https://www.nytimes.com...
No I don't; European leaders have either been negligent, corrupt or coerced and I don't blame Americans for sinking their teeth into Europe.

But my parents come from Poland and I live in Australia (which has also been effectively been made into a vassal state) and I despair at being put under American rule. I thought Europe had sufficient strength given its population, economy and history to push back and at least remain independent, but it appears not.
Thanks, must read my sources more carefully! Still second lowest in G7 though.
there is a somewhat hacky way to accept just a word, to my understanding, since copilot.vim allows you to access the raw text that's being suggested. try out the snippet in the linked comment:

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/12426#discussi...
As a European, I can still believe this is true (maybe this is some kind of coping mechanism), but at the same time, I got the impression, that overall healthcare, education, safety nets are getting worse as time goes by, so I don't know how long it will stay an advantage.

At some point, you need to have the mean to finance these services, so stagnating GDP is not that good.
Now that lsp is a first class citizen in neovim is very usable with little modification.

It will never be a ctrl+p install away from feature X system though. You do have to put some effort in.
https://img.ifunny.co/images/4053eb689b6bc2d1d8635dfe53c7acd...
So how come J&J just paid a dividend? Shouldn't that money be being given to claimant's?
You are not alone! I never experience positive feelings when crossing an item off a to-do list. It feels like a slow creeping death to me.

Walling oneself into a tomb - exactly.
https://archive.is/7QMu7

Previous discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36689463

It's hard to forget that hair.
I think it's kind of great that this can still happen in a country as modern as Japan. We truly lost a lot of freedom due to the tyranny of fresh starts literally being impossible.
I've read this comment (or variations of it) so many times I am starting to wonder if it's a joke that I'm missing. Or simply propaganda.

I understand that you are in tech and are happy with your position, but consider the lives of millions who are unemployed, or those who can't afford to turn their AC on or fix their car when it breaks down. Not to mention how much prices have increased.
I know nothing about this project devs, but I made a framebuffer/driver for my old EGA monitor out of an ARM Cortex-M7 devboard, some SRAM pulled out of old 486 boards (cache memory they were) and a level converter.

It did not go as far as being worthy enough to be published, but it worked.

It is not particularly superhuman, me not having any degrees or related work, just some years playing with electronics as a hobby, then taking old IBM EGA manual and designing the thing in a couple of evenings.

It's not rocket science :) However nowadays even rocket science isn't.

Everything is pretty simple, especially if you throw sufficiently large FPGAs on the problem.
Do those places use GitHub? Anything on GitHub has been given to Microsoft.
I find chatGPT 4 quite usefull for this, even if he may does some mistake, it can generate little examples and explain all lines
What you are describing is called choice.
List of Privatizations by Country
The Feeling of Power [pdf]
By Isaac Asimov
"TIL about software X" posts do very well on this site.
And I thought I was going insane when I tried vim. No wonder the thing felt horrible to use, it literally doesn't work with my pc?!?
I'd rather see J&J go out of business entirely.
Are travel routers worth it?
Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov were firends of a sort.

Heinlein even had a role in the promotion of Asimov getting him a leg up in the industry.
How does a great software development team structure look like?

When structuring teams it’s important to note that every organization is different.

You need to structure teams in a way that they will best fit to support the business.

The other way around does not work - business will not adapt to the structure of the teams.

You can expect to find:
- An answer to whether you should split teams by ownership or function.
- Different structure of the teams with my opinion on them.
- What structure works/worked best for me.

What structure and seperation of teams works for you?
This seems like a very philosophical discussion. I'm not sure what you want here. Do you want me to explain reading the news? You take in new information, and if it disagrees with your prior knowledge, then you make a judgement call on what the truth probably is. We don't understand global politics from first principles.
That's kinda my point — in the court of public opinion, nuclear is unable to win.

This does actually matter despite the deaths from coal etc. being massively higher by the same measures.
This Statamic blog post has (at least some) insights: https://statamic.com/blog/statamic-at-spiegel-scale-2

> So how does SPIEGEL do it?

> Curious about how SPIEGEL’s stack works? Here’s their high level approach, keeping in mind this is running on v2. Upgrading to v3 streamlines even more of their stack.

> A huge flat file content store organized with each entry inside its own subdirectory (you can’t have more than 10k files inside a single directory, an operating system limitation)

> The content store is using a cloud storage solution.

> Statamic’s control panel pushes entries into the content store, and then into an ElasticSearch instance via message queue.

> ElasticSearch runs as a content API with blazing fast response times and is consumed by the control panel and front-end

> The front-end is built in Go.

> User accounts are connected with an Office 365 Active Directory integration with OAuth.
It's not harder, it just requires different type of fitness. For example, there is a very good and highly effective, although intensive, way to learn to speak Dutch - Delftse Methode. There they focus on building speaking skills by, surprise-surprise, a lot of speaking, training and remembering standard situations. I think, there may be similar methods for other languages.
the back-cover blurb of Let over Lambda is worth reading.
Close but no cigar.

The real reason is because everything is small in Japan due to a lack of absolute space. Remember, the place is a god damn island nation with mountains for its interior.

Roads are narrow, particularly in the countryside and especially if we're talking about roads crisscrossing between farms and rice paddies. Normal sized cars quite literally don't fit, much less normal sized trucks.

Consequently, out in the towns and cities you see far more normal sized cars because the roads are wider.
I'm not talking about person to person payment methods though. The existing ones we have are mostly used for daily payouts for eg Uber drivers.
What I meant was that the humor of these comics did not appeal to me, but maybe that could change if I read more of it.
I moved from Ubuntu to OpenSUSE tumbleweed recently and I must say it is lovely. The OS is still the Linux I learned when running slackware (with some modern extras that I have learned to live with) while still giving me most of the polish of Ubuntu.

Some things were of course strange. Having to type the disk encryption password twice being standard behaviour is pretty strange, and not getting to set the keyboard layout properly on install is always a bummer (I use Swedish Dvorak). Ubuntu is the only distro so far that gets this right in the installer.

It was an easy fix in SUSE though.
> Only difference is that because vim has been open-source for decade, there are many many more plugins

No, the main difference is in the quality of plugins, not in how many there are.

For example, Rust-Analyzer provides an official VSCode extension, which is professionally maintained by members of the Rust core team. The extension is part of the Rust-Analyzer project itself, and can be installed with a single click, at which point it just works.

For Vim, you have to manually download (and update) the Rust-Analyzer binary, install a third-party plugin, configure them to work together, and hope (1) that the whole thing doesn't break when the plugin or the language server is updated, and (2) that this concoction provides a tiny fraction of the functionality that the official VSCode extension does.
I just take a look at third's source code. Looks interesting.
When bootstrapping, kernel.com is called.

OK, how did you build kernel.com?
> No doubt Polar can be a better product overall and focus on things that GitHub would never do. GitHub has a major distribution advantage though. Could see them adding something basic into GitHub Sponsors along with first-party UI that shows up on all issues.

Absolutely, I'm not saying it's not a risk. Ultimately, my stance and belief is that OSS is obviously a massive ecosystem deserving of an independent COSS pathway to support careers and small businesses to emerge from it. Creating such a long-tail economy is going to require so many different things and more will emerge once it's successful. That's how it should be. So I'm convinced there is room for many actors within this domain. Just like how Open Collective is doing a phenomenal job and solving real & hard problems within the donation & sponsorship domain even with GitHub Sponsors (often in partnership with OC).

So going back to my stance on what I think GitHub's strategy should be: Instead of expanding GitHub Sponsors themselves, I think it should become the payments layer within OSS. Offered through an API that their apps & partners can integrate with with GitHub getting revshare. Avoiding spreading themselves thin by chasing all these opportunities themselves and instead empowering more of them through a GitHub Payments API.

> Curious what you think about subscriptions versus one-time payments. Seems like Polar is going more for the latter. Would love if this was normalized and could see it leading to more money coming in overall. My concern is that subscriptions are great for predictability (company sponsors $500/mo) and without that I need to find a way to re-acquire money to pay rent every month.

Completely agree. We're going to do both. Started with one-time payments now in early alpha, but expanding into subscription is a core part of our long-term vision for all of the reasons you mentioned and more.
There are more NBA players who make $30M compared to CEOs
I have a one-line vimrc, mainly to undo the damage the change in defaults vim 8.0 brought (so I've got things like set t_BE=). I used to have to also have set noincsearch and set scrolloff=0, but something in my environment seems to been upgrade so I no longer need that in my vimrc
Michio Kaku: “Time Does Not Exist [video]
As most have already written here, this is no suprise. These devices are made to do one job. The whole IoT thing is just cause it something that was hyped. They did try to lock down the scope _a little_. E.g. they removed the incoming RX resistor so you couldn't use the console. They disabled SSH etc. But the scope is very hackable, both in terms of the mentioned unlock ability, but also in terms of accessling Linux. The fact that this is about a RCE, is 'troublesome' but also 'meh'.

I'm mostly disappointment that the author didn't do any research. While I get the cool-factor of trying to hack the firmware from scratch, a simple search would have found the author the EEVblog [0] for starters. But i admit, it is 104 pages atm. And the biggest dissapointment, an obviously shameless plug, is that this 'reversing' of the firmware, was done more then 5 years ago [1] where I wrote scripts to extract the whole firmware automatically.

There's even rumor that the entire source code has leaked onto the internet already.

I would expect some research would have made this 'discovery' less of an 'omg there's an RCE!'

[0]: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/hacking-the-rigol-mso...
[1]: https://gitlab.com/riglol/rigolee/firmware/
There’s a whole industry of “business intelligence” around this. You would be shocked as to how little visibility large companies have of their key metrics.

I work for a company that does exactly what you describe, except for enterprise clients rather than startups. It’s common to hear that the C-level executives have no visibility at all - no metrics, no dashboards etc.

Things like PowerBI and Tableau are usually what’s used to visualise, with data collected from ERPs or legions of Excel files.

The challenge is asking the right questions, collecting the data in the first place (many companies won’t know where the data is or they won’t want to spend time collecting it), making sure it’s the right data and then cleaning it up. It’s usually not a technical challenge but a “people” challenge.
My disappointment with WebGPU has been limited data type support. I wanted to write some compute stuff with it, but the limitation of not supporting a lot of integer sizes made it undesirable.

Does anyone know if the spec is likely to be revised to add more support over time?
Again, that's a much more subtle version of alignment than what the term originally was used for. It used to refer to things like the paper clip maximizer and the strawberry problem which are much worse and fundamental.
Neoliberalism doesn't exist and is just a word academics use to describe anything they don't like.
LMS - A learning management system is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, automation, and delivery of educational courses, training programs, materials or learning and development programs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system
I also don't believe that "Willpower needed to make decisions is a limited resource.", (and in the context) is one reason why todo lists are weighing one down.

The only person I currently found discussing another way of looking at willpower that completely resonated with my experience was Scott Young (https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2018/02/09/rethinking-disci...).

Excerpt:

"Needless to say, meditating requires a lot of self-discipline. But is it the kind of self-discipline that gets consumed as a resource?

At first, that answer seemed obvious to me: the longer a meditation session went on, the more willpower I’d need to resist the urge to quit and go do something else. My back and legs would hurt, so I’d want to change my posture. I’d want to daydream about something else, engage in a little mental theatre imagining this scenario or that one. Yet—according to the technique—whenever this happens you’re to remind yourself you’re here to work and shift your focus back onto something happening right now.

As the days wore on, however, I started to notice something about my own self-discipline that seemed to contradict the resource metaphor. Sitting still and doing meditation was hard, but it was hard to the degree to which I was somewhere else. If my attention was fully focused on what I was doing, and not on, say, thinking to myself about how long this will last and when I’ll be free, the act got a lot easier. The longer attention was paid to the meditation without these interruptions, the easier it got.

This suggests a very different model of willpower, one based on attention and mental habit patterns, instead of a consumable resource."
AFAIK this does work but it’s a limited workaround. Make in general just does not support file names with spaces well.

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?712

That being said… In projects I just avoid filenames with spaces in general
>So is stockpiling resources that other people need.

Owning property is not immoral. Stealing and coveting your neighbor's property are sin and very immoral.

>Who's going to stop me?

Any authority we've democratically elected to uphold that task. Probably the police, in many cases. Or me with a weapon of course, seeing as you're bigger than me in this hypothetical. In reality, you are not bigger than me.

>That's the violence that a "free" market, and your vision of meritocracy, requires.

Yes, societies require laws that are ultimately enforced through the use of physical violence and restriction of freedom if it comes to that. Mostly to stop people from doing immoral things at the cost of other people.

Insider trading is a tough nut to crack, since it could be seen as just another tool to reach a more efficient market. Envy comes very naturally to humans, and if someone makes more profits than you in the marketplace, it's very easy to call it unfair and get mad about it. Then you're looking at the definition of "fairness" - in my opinion it's fair that anyone can pursue the kind of information that will help them make better sales in the market. Deceiving or lying to other people are different topics entirely, but the term "insider trading" doesn't entail those things.

>markets aren't physical laws of the universe, they're human constructs that are defined, regulated and policed by governments

I don't really understand your point here. Yes, our society runs on top of some underlying systems that we've agreed upon. Freely trading your labor and property go all the way back to the beginning of our evolution, and for good enough reason - it's the best system we've ever come up with and used.
Though it depends on the particulars of your house and garden, there are ancient techniques -- "rediscovered" by modern permaculture -- that are effective here. Plant dense, deciduous shrubs and trees along the southern side of the house, especially in front of windows. The shade and the evaporative cooling provided by them should help to keep the house cooler in summer, whilst still allowing sun to heat the house during winter.

It's not as effective as air conditioning, but it's more sustainable, certainly.
Just think about having to post this comment every time Americans ask why you don't have ice water, air conditioning or clothes dryers, and why you have half their purchasing power and are buried in cookie banners.

Btw, the main reason people think European food tastes better than US is because we enrich our flour with extra nutrients. You just don't like the taste of iron.
Thats not actually the issue with talc.

The talc itself is not believed to be the carcinagen, but the talc is contaminated with asbestos. Interal documents show that J&J knew about the contamination since 1971. Asbestos was known to be carcinegic at this point and the first bans of asbestos use in construction began rolling out in 1972.

They knew and hid the health risks, just like a cigarette company.
It is a good movie. But I feel the story it is based (from Ted Chiang) is superior. Some of the nuances in the story deals with (seeing life as a whole, inadequacy in conveying whole gamut of emotions, concepts in our day to day communication etc,) doesn't come out that well in the movie.
Someone couldn’t be bothered to watch the video…
Good old PHP —- still making the front page in 2023.
Completely agree. I've run into this many times too and having talked with a lot of companies, I know the same is true for a lot of them. As Polar removes the friction here, it will hopefully accelerate our ability to sponsor such efforts
If you want to ditch m$ but still enjoy vscode, just use open source vscodium: https://vscodium.com/
You might want to give nvim's Lua API a try. They took the opportunity to fix a lot of the semantic issues with vimscript
The IP of the website is owned by pair networks
I think you can use it in the browser's inspector.
Hm dubious article. Fails to mention that while west europeans are indeed getting poorer east europeans are getting richer. Confused folks might say that east europe is becoming richer thanks to eu funding and i will remind them that that comes at the heavy price of having sold entire industries to said benefactors - whom often underpay despite colossal profits, essentially making development more … challenging. Nonetheless decades of hard work seems to pay off for the “cheap labour”.

I would suggest that europeans try and work together in some sort of union of cooperation and mutual respect. If there was such a union then certainly the whole continent might fare better. Just a thought.
How did asbestos end up in the talc?